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1. Destructive Anger

Matthew 5:21-26

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Adrian Dieleman

... of 1894, the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play a routine baseball game. But what happened that day was anything but routine. A bit of a legend has developed around the game which may not be entirely accurate. It goes like this: The Orioles' John McGraw got into a fight with the Boston third baseman. Within minutes all the players from both teams had joined in the brawl. The warfare quickly spread to the grandstands. Among the fans the conflict went from bad to worse. Someone set fire to the stands ...

2. A Time to Get Angry

John 2:13-22

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King Duncan

... , the Baltimore Orioles came to Boston to play the Boston Beaneaters. Yes, that is what they were called back then--the Boston Beaneaters. The game heated up when Boston third baseman Tommy “Foghorn” Tucker slid into third base and the legendary third baseman John McGraw of the Orioles kicked Tucker in the face. Within minutes all the players from both teams had joined in the brawl. The warfare quickly spread to the grandstands. Among the fans the conflict went from bad to worse. Someone set fire to the ...

3. Choices

Mark 1:9-13

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King Duncan

... had to make a significant choice. Jesus had just received the "seal of approval," if you will, for his ministry. He had been baptized by John in the River Jordan; at the moment of baptism, a dove had descended from heaven and the voice of God had announced "This is ... Carjacker Targets Van With Judo Club" by Kate Berry. Copyright 2002, The Associated Press. 2. "The Crossroads of You" by Phillip C. McGraw, Ph.D., O, The Oprah Magazine, Jan. 2002, p.30. 3. Contributed by Jon B. Cox, Reader's Digest, June 2002, p ...

4. The Dirty Baseball Era

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Staff

... remembers John Joseph McGraw primarily as the famed and ferocious longtime manager of the New York Giants. But as unrelenting as McGraw was as a manager during the first three decades of the 20th century, he had been even more unrelenting as a player in the 1890s. It was an era of dirty baseball, and the Baltimore Orioles delighted in being the dirtiest. The most pugnacious Oriole was McGraw, who played third base "the toughest of the toughs and an abomination of the diamond," one sportswriter said. McGraw ...

5. Belt Evidence

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Michael P. Green

In addition to being one of the most successful baseball manager of his day, John J. McGraw may have been responsible for there being a third-base umpire. Long before he became a famous manager of the New York Giants, as a young third baseman with the old Baltimore Orioles the intensely competitive McGraw had a habit of hooking his finger in the belt of a base runner who was tagging up to score after a long fly ball. This trick usually slowed the runner enough so that he was thrown out at home plate. ...

6. Panic Room

John 20:19-23

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King Duncan

... bedroom at random to sleep in to ensure that no one knew exactly where he was located. Dr. Phillip McGraw, popularly known as Dr. Phil on his daily talk show, helps people get their lives together. Our everyday choices, ... he do? He said to them, “Peace be with you!” And he showed them his hands and side. He wanted them to know it was really him. John tells us that “the disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.” Here’s the importance of his showing them his hands and his side. The greatest ...

7. The Riches Of God

Romans 11:33-36

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King Duncan

... . Nothing shows us the patience of God like His willingness to allow us to make our own decisions. Left to our own devices, we can be pretty destructive. Yet He grants us that freedom. Many years ago the legendary manager of the New York Giants, John J. McGraw, found himself with a teenage ballplayer on his team. This young man had a great natural ability to hit, but with a completely unorthodox batting style: He lifted his front foot in the air before hitting the ball. Since this lad had no professional ...

8. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

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Ron Love

... through the bellows of the church organ, the two sang a duet accompanied by guitar. It was during the Civil War that John Freeman Young, a priest serving Trinity Episcopal Church on Wall Street in New York City, wrote the English translation for the hymn ... The couple has a family rule that they will never spend more than three consecutive days apart from their three children. Tim McGraw expressed what it is like being a parent with these words, “We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows ...

9. Held Hostage

John 18:28-40

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King Duncan

... It was going along pretty well," Miss Mitchell said, "until somebody sent me a new book called JOHN BROWN'S BODY, by Stephen Vincent Benet. When I finished reading that magnificent Civil War epic," Ms. Mitchell declared, "I burst into ... on the outside looking in. Let him be the king of your life today. 1. Dr. Julius Segal, WINNING LIFE'S TOUGHEST BATTLES (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1986), pp. 12-13. 2. Ken Kettlewell, EMPHASIS March/April 2000, p. 4. 3. Max Anders, JESUS (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995 ...

10. Jesus Out of Character

Mark 7:24-30

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Donald B. Strobe

... Nor has Charles Schulz of “Peanuts” cartoon fame ever forgotten that the yearbook staff rejected his every cartoon. Movie actress Ali McGraw confesses she doesn’t forget the fact that she never had one date in all of high school. Henry Kissinger is ... an excellent job. I give him an “A” for courage. Bill began his sermon on our text with some lines from a once-popular song by John Denver: So live and let live, Let this be our motto, And let the sleeping dogs lie. Here’s to the dogs of Toledo, Ohio; ...

11. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... empty church. One candle in a ruined city. But while it shown, there seemed hope for the world." (A. J. Cronin, Adventures in Two Worlds, McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, London, Ontario, 1952, pp. 294-296). We can always choose. We can choose not only what we do in ... for...redemption...if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience." (Romans 8: 18-25 RSV). "St. John, exiled on the Isle of Patmos, dreamed of the fulfillment of God's creative purpose when he wrote, 'I saw a new heaven ...

12. Our Search for Intimacy - The "Father" God

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Harold Warlick

... grad myself, I realized that Ryan O’Neal little resembled the average Crimson hockey player. And suffice it to say that Ali McGraw has little affinity with the Radcliffe coed! Yet I came; I wept; I was moved. Our world needs a Love Story every ... much of what we call friendship or intimacy is based on common hatreds. Our logic tells us that if John Doe hates Bob Smith and I hate Bob Smith, it follows that John Doe is my intimate friend. This is not true in relationships between men and women, and it is not ...

13. What We Have Is A Communication Problem

Luke 9:28-36

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King Duncan

... humanity didn't get it. So God went one step farther. In an act of supreme communication, God invaded space and time in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. John put it this way, "The Word became flesh and dwelled among us." Christ is the Word of God made human. That is always the best way to make ... Crawford-Mason, QUALITY OR ELSE, (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991). 3. John C. Maxwell, BE A PEOPLE PERSON, (USA: Victor Books, 1989). 4. (New York: The Viking Press, 1979). 5. Dr. Julius Segal, WINNING ...

14. Strength's Weakness

John 20:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

... disciples, Thomas was not singled out as an example of "doubt" because he possessed a watered-down commitment or a frail faith. In John 11:16, it is Thomas who loyally if bluntly declares his willingness to follow Jesus back to Bethany and Lazarus' tomb, even though ... price per pound much lower than anyone thought possible. (See Michael Robert, New Product Strategy Pure & Simple [New York: McGraw, 1995] and Matthew Schifrin, "Last Legs," Forbes, 154 [12 September 1994], 150-58) What is your greatest strength? ...

15. Hope from a Stump

Isaiah 11:1-16

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King Duncan

... them. This poor man flew into a rage, switched their legs, tore the catalog to bits, and sat down in his yard and wept. John Jewell tells about a young woman named Virginia, 19 years old and pregnant when she went to live with her 15th set of foster ... the ruins of his time. Where God is, hope never dies. 1. Julius Segal, Winning Life’s Toughest Battles (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986), p. 66. 2. http://day1.org/2385-not_much_but_enough_for_me. 3. Cited in Willard Aldrich, When God Was Taken Captive, (Multnomah ...

16. Inside Out

James 5:7-10

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Charley Reeb

... do you want to reveal to others (Ben Decker and Kelly Decker, Communicate to Influence: How to Inspire Your Audience to Action (New York: McGraw Hill, 2015), ch. 5, Kindle)? That pastor was right. Life has a way of revealing what’s on the inside of us. Sooner or later ... this: Love each other as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends” (John 15:12-13 NIV). Now, most of us are not going to be called to die for another, but all of us are called to ...

17. The Terrible Burden Of Judging Others

Romans 14:1--15:13

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King Duncan

... , loving, accepting man who ever lived. 1. Isaac Asimov, ASIMOV LAUGHS AGAIN, (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1993), p. 135. 2. "St. Bashen's." Cited in John C. Maxwell, BE A PEOPLE PERSON. 3. Ron Lee Davis with James D. Denney MISTREATED (Portland, Multnomah, 1989). 4. Lilly Walters, SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL SPEAKERS, (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993). 5. Hardy Denham. Contributed. Source unknown. 6. Myron Cohen, THE MYRON COHEN JOKE BOOK, (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1978), pp. 152-153 ...

18. Grand Opening

Matthew 2:1-12

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Robert J. Elder

... the main torch; it is a vehicle for the flame, a transport, bringing the fire from Greece to the Olympics. It is, in a way, a John the Baptist torch, not being the light itself, but bearing witness to the light that is to come. Naturally, the time comes when the opening ... to William Norman Ewer, British journalist (1885-1976). 2. Leo Rosten, (1908-1997), The Joys of Yiddish (New York: Mcgraw-Hill, 1968). 3. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/291.html. 4. http://www.lightfootcycles.com/historical. ...

19. Waiting for a Savior

Mark 13:32-37

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King Duncan

... to answer the cries of his children for peace and justice and the end of all suffering and pain. 1. Steve Barry, “Life in these United States,” Reader’s Digest, Oct. 1992, p. 82. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley. 2. Leo Rosten, The Joys of Yinglish (New York: McGraw Hill Publishing Company, 1992). 3. http://www.firstcongmadison.org/sites/firstcongmadison.org/files/uploads/sermons/ pdf/srm112810_0.pdf. 4. Martin C. Singley, III, http://www.tellicochurch.org/Year%20B%20Sermons/ 021224.html. 5. I had the ...

20. The Two Ultimate Questions of Life

Luke 10:25-37

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King Duncan

... meant that he was not only existing but that he was truly alive through Jesus Christ. Jesus promised, “I have come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10, RSV). To find Christ is to become ALIVE, with capital letters both in this world and the world to come. So many people live such dreary lives. Country singing star Tim McGraw has an interesting twist on this idea. He has a song titled, “Live Like You Were Dying.” The song tells the story of a man in his forties who is ...

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