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King Duncan
... to cancer. The analogy of a pressure cooker is a valid one. You cannot sit on that steam forever without it seeking an outlet. It's sad to say but blowing off steam is healthier than holding it in. As one author notes, John L. Lewis, the labor leader who spilled out his anger for F.D. Roosevelt in no uncertain terms, lived vigorously to the age of eightynine. But Roosevelt, who more often smiled than expressed anger, died at sixtythree of cardiovascular disease. Harry Truman, known for his colorful ...
2. Lent 2
John 3:1-21, Genesis 12:1-8, Romans 4:1-25
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Russell F. Anderson
... by anything that we have done but by the grace of God. Epistle: Romans 4:1-5, 13-17 (C, L); Romans 4:1-5 (6-12) 13-17 (E) Paul points out that Abraham was accepted by God as ... only to the Jews but to all those who, like Abraham, trust in God and obey his promptings. Gospel: John 3:1-17 Nicodemus, a member of the Sanhedrin, comes to Jesus at night, so as not to be ... that their relationship must be so brief. Joy dies and Lewis is plunged into despair and doubt. He used to teach concerning the meaning of pain and ...
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King Duncan
... for Jesus' disciples. Go with me to the top of a mountain. Jesus is there as are his three most trusted disciples: Peter, James and John. As usual Mark doesn't give us details about what happened on the mountain. Did they have a time of prayer? Did Jesus lead them ... . 3. Dennis and Barbara Rainey, MOMENTS TOGETHER FOR COUPLES (Ventura, California: Regal Books, 1995). 4. "C. S. Lewis on Holiness," by Jerry L. Walls, GOOD NEWS, May/June 1995, p. 30. 5. Roy B. Zuck, DEVOTIONS FOR KINDRED SPIRITS (Wheaton ...
4. Proper 21
Matthew 21:23-27, Matthew 21:28-32, Exodus 17:1-7, Ezekiel 18:1-32, Philippians 2:1-11
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Russell F. Anderson
... 4-9 (RC) -- "Lord, make me know your ways ..." (v. 6). Psalm 25:1-14 (E); Psalm 25:1-9 (L) -- "To you, O Lord, I lift up my soul ..." (v. 1). Prayer Of The Day O Lord, you know our ... perspective and quite another to have to struggle with them in our personal experience. When Lewis' wife of only months died, he had to struggle with the gut feeling that her ... the methods you think up to hide them." (La Rouchefoucauld, a French moralist) In John Steinbeck's epic novel, East Of Eden, Adam Trask is left to raise his ...
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Eric Ritz
... share an illustration here. In C. S. Lewis''s masterpiece work, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA, the lion is the Christ figure. C. S. Lewis depicts the lion in the book as ... greatness and genius of America." And listen to this story of Dr. William L. Self, a distinguished Southern Baptist pastor in Atlanta, Georgia, who shared an ... we worship and adore him. Then we live out this quality of life and share it with others. John Wesley was absolutely correct when he wrote, "We must love God before we can be holy at all ...
Understanding Series
Michael S. Moore
... letter #286, line 36). Ilmlk is also the name of a scribe at Ugarit (J. C. L. Gibson, Canaanite Myths and Legends [Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1977], p. 102, line 60). On Kilion ... and western cultures in “Corporate Personality,” ABD 1:1156. T. Lewis carefully researches the use of il? (“gods”) for “the deceased” ... in Reading Between Texts: Intertextuality and the Hebrew Bible (ed. D. N. Fewell; Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox, 1992), pp. 77–88. Your God my God: Mesha, king of Moab, refers to the ...
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Elaine M. Ward
... Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name" (John 20:31). We have those stories. It is all a matter of believing them. C. S. Lewis wrote such a story about Christ as the lion Aslan in the world of Narnia and when Lucy, human, ... his only Son ..." Amen. 1. C. S. Lewis, The Lion, The Witch, And The Wardrobe (New York: Macmillan, 1950). 2. Madeleine L'Engle (New York: Dell Publishing, 1962). 3. C. S. Lewis, The Silver Chair (New York: Macmillian, 1953), p. 159.
8. By Whose Standards?
1 Corinthians 4:1-5
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John N. Brittain
... of God in the synagogues of the Jews; and they also had John as their helper [huperetes]." And Paul recounting his own conversion experience in ... L'Arche community in Toronto, L'Arche Daybreak. L'Arche ("the ark" in French) is a community for persons with significant handicapping conditions. He wrote many of his most popular books while living in L ... felt all his creative powers slipping away.2 With the death of C. S. Lewis on the same day President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, much of the English-speaking ...
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King Duncan
... . That’s the kind of church I hope we are trying to be. I like something that Ronald L. Nickelson once wrote. “What is the quickest way to identify a great city?” he asked. “Almost everyone knows ... application occurs all the time in football. According to Michael Lewis’ book from a few years ago The Blind Side, which was later turned ... the world this is what it means to live like Jesus. 1. Uncle John’s Funniest Ever Bathroom Reader (Bathroom Readers’ Institute). 2. Fred B. Craddock, Craddock ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... what we preach. Great hymns are cancelled by the platitudes of cheap grace or our preaching is made ludicrous by love ditties. (David L. McKenna, “What a Time to Be Alive”) That’s the reason it’s so important that we have a Music Ministry that aims ... and immobilize us. When Charles Williams died, C. S. Lewis said, “What death did to him was nothing compared to what he did to the idea of death.” Lewis knew he was saying something similar to what John quoted Jesus as saying, “I am the Light of the ...
11. Aha! An Epiphany!
Matthew 3:13-17
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King Duncan
... in the nation to hold the position of Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. As a surgeon he was chosen to separate several sets of ... it the beauty and grandeur of creation that first evoked that realization? Roy L. Smith tells about an aged and scholarly minister with a flair for astronomy ... week our theme was “adopted” adopted to be God’s own child children of the King. C.S. Lewis, the great British writer, was fearful of giving in to the demands of God, but finally there came ...
Understanding Series
James R. Edwards
... , ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done’ ” (C. S. Lewis, Great Divorce, p. 72). The seeking of self or the seeking of God can, of course, describe a religious person ... works occur in Ps. 62:12; Prov. 24:12; Isa. 3:10f.; Jer 17:10; Hos. 12:2; Matt. 7:21; John 5:28ff.; 2 Cor. 5:10; Gal. 6:7–9; 1 Pet. 1:17; Rev. 2:23. 2:12–16 Not ... , Critique of Practical Reason, trans. L. Beck (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., The Liberal Arts Press, 1956), bk. 2, ch ...
13. A Portion of Thyself
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21
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Wayne Brouwer
... get and not to deprive ourselves of anything for the sake of others. John Bright, a British politician of the nineteenth century, was walking down a street one ... He that serves God for money will serve the devil for better wages!” (Sir Roger L’Estrange). He is right! That is exactly Jesus’ point. “Are you aware?” he asks us ... indeed?” asked Jesus. If that’s what it’s all about, why indeed? In C. S. Lewis’ sermon The Weight of Glory, he talked about the idea of rewards in the Christian faith. ...
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King Duncan
... place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers of love. . . is Hell." In his own eloquent way, Lewis is saying to us that, where there is no love, there is no happiness. Jesus says to his disciples, "These things have ... his disciples. 1. Mavis Chaplin. "The Perfect Card." GUIDEPOSTS. May 1993, pp. 2-5. 2. Robert L. Short. SHORT MEDITATIONS ON THE BIBLE AND PEANUTS. (Westminster/John Knox Press Louisville, Ky. 1990), p. 14. 3. Charles R. Swindoll. LIVING ON THE RAGGED EDGE. (Dallas ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... Lewis' book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, in which the children ask about Aslan the lion. If you've never read the wonderful stories of Narnia, Aslan is the Christ figure in Lewis' ... them from the blame or guilt of sin through forgiveness. And all three apply. First, in John 3:17 Jesus says, "God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the ... and be a means of bringing glory to God. A man once tried to kill Samuel L. Brengle by throwing a brick at his head. Brengle survived the attack, but had a ...
16. Live Spelled Backward
Matthew 26:14-27:66
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Robert Leslie Holmes
... see, in fact, that happened repeatedly while Jesus walked among us. E-V-I-L! Scott Peck used to tell the story of how he, a highly regarded scholar ... doing. I read of him asking, "Have I not chosen twelve and one of you is a devil?" (John 6:70). Why would heaven's darling and earth's Savior bring into the ranks of the disciples ... place of action today is within the church. In his The Screwtape Letters,[3] C.S. Lewis has the devil Screwtape instruct his nephew, Wormwood, the apprentice demon, that if he really ...
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Donald B. Strobe
... good time so he can put a stop to it! What was it that H.L. Mencken called Puritanism? "The haunting feeling that somebody, somewhere, might be enjoying himself?" Jesus would ... ground and transforming it into the pungent juice of the grape. C.S. Lewis argued that the God who through the natural order can turn water, ... gallons of wine! Certainly more than any imaginable wedding party could possible use! Can it be that John is trying to tell us again that through Jesus Christ God provides us with far more than ...
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Arley K. Fadness
... you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit" (John 3:5). We are very thirsty creatures. Our thirsts are many and varied. We thirst for true ... from addictions and chronic sins; we thirst for God and for that which is eternal. Sinclair Lewis, in one of his books, draws a picture of a respectable businessman who decides to "live ... , how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." Steven L. McKinley, pastor of House and Prayer Lutheran Church, Richfield, Minnesota, writes ...
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King Duncan
... an atoning sacrifice. (6) So the tax collector’s prayer is, “God, be the atoning sacrifice for me, a sinner.” In C.S. Lewis’ fantasy story The Great Divorce, a busload of people from Hell are driven to the gates of Heaven and offered admission, but with one ... Dunnam, Collected Sermons, www.Sermons.com. 3. Rodney L. Cooper, Holman New Testament Commentary - Mark: 2 (Kindle Edition). 4. Fred B. Craddock, The Collected Sermons of Fred B. Craddock (Westminster: John Knox Press, 2011). 5. From What Good Is ...
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
... And, of course, this command to love God is only possible in God’s love. "We love because he first loved us" (1 John 4:19). All religion begins here - loving our God totally - a complete commitment to him - with our energy, our cash, our self, ... self, God, and neighbor. He would put more teeth in that and said the only way we can show we love ... God is by loving others. Lewis L. Austin, in This I Believe, wrote: "Our maker gave us two hands. One to hold onto him and one to reach out to his people. If ...
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... now reversed. 14:47  struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. In John 18:10 we learn that the person who does this is Simon Peter. Mark dramatically pictures ... , Roman soldiers, and bystanders shows that the authorities are treating Jesus as a common l?st?s, an armed bandit or resistance fighter. Jesus is denying that there is ... obstructing justice, his friend Thomas Phillips gave him a copy of C. S. Lewis’s book Mere Christianity. After reading the book, Colson was converted to Christ ...
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King Duncan
... would be better off with a new spouse or a different set of circumstances. John Micofsky was confident his life would be greatly improved once he ridded himself of ... word I would use." (2) Do you get the feeling sometimes that life is not fair? C. S. Lewis felt that the feeling of unfairness within each of us is a signpost pointing to God. For example ... for and coaching the Davis Cup team, and getting a free scholarship to U.C.L.A. ” all kinds of good things. You could also ask about this, Why me?' Sometimes ...
23. You Feed Them!
Matthew 14:13-21
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King Duncan
... milk. Millions have been spent on research." (1) In one of his writings, C. S. Lewis says that in the feeding of the 5,000 Jesus simply short-circuited something ... as Bill Gates or Warren Buffet or the descendants of Sam Walton, the Walmart founder. Billionaire H.L. Hunt, in an interview with Mike Wallace, once said, "I would starve to death with an income ... multiply? 1. God's Forever Feast (Discovery House Publishers). 2. John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb, Great American Anecdotes (New York: William Morrow ...
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R.T. France
... fearless witness in the face of fierce opposition. Church History: John Wesley. Fox’s Book of Martyrs reports the persistent witness ... Wolf’s-Bane. And whatever happens, never forget to wipe your sword.”3 Quote: D. L. Moody, “The Second Coming of Christ.” “The moment a man realizes that Jesus Christ ... , who, at His coming, will take him into His blessed kingdom.”4 Quote: Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis. “I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till ...
Teach the Text
C. Hassell Bullock
... of my foes.Three imperatives form this request: “come near” (qrb), “rescue” (g’l), and “deliver” (pdh). In social life, the verb “rescue” meant to “redeem” one ... and his will is established (“Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done”). In Revelation 11:15 John announces the time when the church and the kingdom become synonymous, the time when the will of ... , White tells the story about his visit to the pub where C. S. Lewis and his friends used to meet to discuss their latest works. While he ...
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