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1. Love Your Enemies--It Will Drive Them Crazy

Luke 6:27-36

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Richard A. Wing

... that moment when they lift up their eyes and see their brother? There is an exchange and the very last line is the most important. Joseph looks upon them with the eyes of forgiveness and says, "You intended what you did to me as something that would create evil, but ... that particular faith tradition would have more influence on the daily activities of its people. The second was Sir Isaac Newton. His influence would have to do with our worldview and how we see things differently in the world. But the third ...

2. Star Miracle

Matthew 2:1-12, Isaiah 60:1-22, Ephesians 3:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... directed to name the child "Jesus." He is a man who refrains from sexual relations until Mary gives birth to Jesus. The focus is on Joseph rather than on Mary. 3. Related Passages Joshua 10:12-14 - The sun and moon stand still. 2 Kings 20:8-11 - The sun goes ... 1900 stars on the famed sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard. The new star was placed near the stars of Julie Andrews and Wayne Newton. The new star was evangelist Billy Graham, who has preached the gospel to more than 100 million people around the world. ...

3. Where Can We Find Wisdom?

Proverbs 2:1-22

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Edward Chinn

... the world. Nowhere is "the Communion of Saints" more evident than in the sharing of ideas between generations. Listen again to Sir Isaac Newton in a letter he wrote to Robert Hooke on February 5, 1675: "If I have seen further (than you and Descartes) it is ... the wisdom of the Divine Gardener, our Lord Jesus Christ! When Mary Magdalene first saw the risen Christ in the garden of Joseph of Arimathea, she thought he was the gardener. Maybe that title is closer to the truth than we have realized. "Christ," wrote ...

4. Welcome To The Mountain. Now Go Home

Exodus 24:1-18

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King Duncan

... ? Even the most callous of unbelievers would trade all he or she owns for such an experience. At the end of World War I, there was a great Jubilee Service in London's Royal Albert Hall. Sitting on the platform were various dignitaries and famous people. Joseph Fort Newton, an American clergyman, was sitting next to George Bernard Shaw. During the service, the audience rose and sang Isaac Watt's hymn, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past." After they finished, Shaw, moved by the chorus of thousands, leaned over to ...

5. A Patriot · Dysmas

Mt 27:38 · Mk 15:27 · Lk 23:32

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... indicate otherwise. III There is a familiarity to Dysmas' petition that suggests childhood days of running in and out of Joseph's carpenter shop after the typical fashion of boys sharing an adolescent fellowship. Others might salute the Galilean as "Teacher ... :54 KJV) It was a cry of commitment evoked by Dysmas' dying declaration and profoundly significant to Jesus' cause. For as J. Newton Davies reminds us, the centurion "is the first fruits of that great band of Gentiles who gladly owe allegiance to the Son ...

6. It Is Good News!

1 John 4:7-21

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James McCormick

... the more I grow in my experience of the gospel, the more I see the divine wisdom in God’s acting as He did. When God decided to reveal Himself in human flesh, and when all had been prepared, He did not come as a giant, as Joseph Fort Newton has said, “stalking up and down the earth, terrifying the little folk out of their wits.” Instead He decided to reach out to us as “a little child, and let earthborn creatures hold Him in their arms.” Or, as Paul Scherer expressed it so beautifully, “God just ...

7. Identity Crisis

Genesis 32:1-21, Genesis 32:22-32, Genesis 33:1-20

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Lori Wagner

... This is the story of God’s amazing grace. It’s Jacob’s story. And it’s our story. [Optional ending: John Newton, the author of the hymn we know and love so well, was the “ultimate blasphemer.” A slave trader, John claimed to ... , Rachel, and the two maidservants. And he put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children behind, and Rachel and Joseph last. Then he crossed over before them and bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother. But Esau ...

8. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

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James Angell

... faith: Loren Eiseley, Thomas Merton, Halford Luccock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Frederick Buechner, Walter Brueggemann, C. S. Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. C. Read, Joseph Ford Newton, Ernest Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, John Henry Jouette, Ernest Gordon, and Abraham Heschel. I wish these lists included the Afro-American preachers (whom we know are among the best preachers in the world), women clergy (they ...

9. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... in moral life and very unattractive and rigid in lifestyle. Because he lacked winsomeness and understanding; because he failed to think things through with his growing son, he lost his son. He had character without beauty. Overtones! The continuing "hum" was not appealing. Joseph Fort Newton once told of a young lady - lonely, desperate, in a large city, seeking a faith to live by. Someone told her of a family which went to a church every Sunday and had family prayer every day. She sought the secret of this ...

10. For Those in Church: Joy and Service

Matthew 23:1-39

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... the world, as did the Pharisee, "Look how good I am;" but rather, "Look what a wonderful God I have!" Any religion which encourages pride and showing off and self-righteousness is not true Christianity! Jesus did not teach us that kind of Christianity. Joseph Fort Newton, in a commentary on modern times, wrote, "When a man loses faith in God, he worships humanity; when faith in humanity fails, he worships science, as so many are trying to do today. When faith in science fails, man worships himself, and at ...

11. Light of the World

John 1:1-18

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William G. Carter

... adults to dress up as shepherds and ushers to play the part of wise men. They recruited a young pregnant couple to take the role of Joseph and Mary. What about the baby Jesus? They could have gotten a real baby for the part, but it was always safer to hide a 100 ... does that mean? You can sit in physics class and learn a lot of things about light. Ask Stephen Hawking, who holds the Newton chair at Cambridge. He will tell you that light is the ultimate constant in the universe, that it always travels at 186,000 ...

12. The Bridge Builder

Luke 6:27-36

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King Duncan

... . Members of the guild wore clothing that carried a picture of two things: a cross and a bridge. The guild was called "fratres pontifices," the bridge-building brothers. And that is who we who follow Jesus are called to be. An Episcopal priest, Dr. Joseph Fort Newton, once commented: "People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges." (6) Human nature says, "Do it to the other guy before he can do it to you." But Christ says, "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you . . . " That kind ...

13. Waiting for Godot?

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Fredrick R. Harm

... evaluation of man, even the best among us, but an authentic one since the Evaluator is God himself. Small wonder, then, that John Newton wrote: "Amazing grace how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." But it is amazing grace, and because it is, our ... us to the end." Does our faith sometimes waver? Of course it does, frail vessels that we are. But so did the ancient Joseph waver in his confidence when he found himself down in that pit where his jealous brothers imprisoned him before they sold him into ...

14. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

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Fredrick R. Harm

... walks with us. "For us there is one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things are, and through whom we exist" (v. 6). John Newton's most familiar hymn is "Amazing Grace." Another of his hymns, though less familiar, is one of my favorites. One there is above all ... something when Christ shares it. On the birth certificate signed at Bethlehem was your name along with that of Jesus, son of Joseph of Nazareth! Doesn't this add a new dimension to your Friend's word, "And remember I am with you always, to the ...

15. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... divine love? There is a story from the fourth century desert monks of Egypt. It goes like this: “Abba Lot came to Abba Joseph and said: ‘Father, according as I am able, I keep my little rule, and my little fast, my prayer, meditation and contemplative silence; ... God car, and if he wants to stink it up, so be it. I treated Craig like an honored guest. We called the Sheriff in Newton Texas to try to locate the wife he was separated from after Hurricane Katrina. He didn’t have to ask; I gave. He didn’t ...

16. What Can Christians Learn From Jews?

Genesis 12:1-3

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J. Howard Olds

... a piece of clay and shaped it into his own image and breathed into it the breath of life. We became human beings. Before Newton discovered the law of gravity, before Darwin developed the theory of evolution, before the modern world introduced us to quantum physics, Moses let us ... s own creation created in his image. B. We share the same roots of faith. Jesus was a Jew. Mary and Joseph followed Jewish traditions. Jesus preached from the Old Testament and chose Jewish disciples. As Paul liked to say, “I am ...

17. The Little Things

Luke 14:25-35

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Joseph Fort Newton

It is folly to think that because I am only one and can do very little, and that what I do counts for little, I need not do anything. As if a soldier should say that, since he is only one man, he might as well knock off and go to the movies. It would mean that the battle would be lost. All of us are ready to do some big spectacular thing to go into the spotlight. But it is the tireless doing of obscure, unknown things, the endless hidden fidelities and goodnesses, that really count. That things are as well ...

Not what we have, but what we use, not what we see, but what we choose - these are the things that mar or bless human happiness.

Joseph Fort Newton

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