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1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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David E. Leininger

... more than today's whole offering, he said with a grin). In contrast, go down to number 50 on the scoring list, John Huston, and find his average is 71.16 strokes per round. Only about one-and-a-half strokes per eighteen holes played separate #1 from #50. But John Huston's earnings this year are $227,417. Doing just a little bit better, has earned Fred almost $650,000 more than John.(2) This afternoon, someone is going to be handed a check for $324,000 - first prize in the GGCC. Second prize, probably ...

2. Time for the Offering

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... to consider who we are and whose we are. May God's gracious Spirit guide us in our search. Amen. 1. Dorothee Soelle and Luise Schottroff, Jesus of Nazareth (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2002), pp. 33-34. 2. Jacques Ellul quote from an unknown source. I first encountered it on a bulletin cover series of the Presbyterian Church USA. 3. Huston Smith, Why Religion Matters (San Francisco: Harper Collins, 2001), p. 51. 4. From a sermon preached by Mark Gray at Oakhurst in August 1995.

3. The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... satisfaction of God’s people is pictured as a messianic banquet (cf. Isa. 25:6; Rev. 2:17). God will satisfy them fully! Huston Smith (a well-known writer in the area of world religions) once observed that we can never get enough of what we really do ... Lord was “clean hands and a pure heart” (Ps. 24:3–4). The reward for complete and inward integrity is to see God. John writes that “no one has ever seen God” (1:18), and Paul supplies the reason: it is because he “lives in unapproachable light ...

4. Some Things We Can Do, God Can't

2 Timothy 2:13

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King Duncan

... . Once he tried to instruct his secretary to call Charlton Heston for rehearsal. He shouted, "Get me ” uh ” Charleston Huston; er, uh ” Charleton Hudson. You know: Chester Moses." But the funniest thing Harbach ever said, according to Steve Allen ... male friends in a motel room. If we can no longer believe in the mother-child relationship, what can we believe in? Dr. John Haynes, president of the Academy of Family Mediation, works with families going through divorce. Dr. Haynes said that he has had to ...

5. Eyes on the Prize

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... , it is the women, despite Paul's omitting them from the list of witnesses in 1 Corinthians 15) were captured by the power of death. In John's account, Mary Magdalene cannot recognize the risen Jesus even though he is standing right in front of her, talking to her. She thinks that he ... one of those captives (and who isn't?), I would suggest reading Huston Smith's book, Why Religion Matters (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 2001). 2. For more information, see Juan Williams, Eyes on the Prize (New York: Viking Penguin ...

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