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John 6:25-59

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Donald B. Strobe

... of it. I find it fascinating that the author of the Fourth gospel does not seem to deny that Jesus was the natural son of Joseph while at the same time affirming that He was and is the Son of God. One solution to the problem might be to recall that ... surrounded by steadfast love, may be established in the faith, and confirmed and strengthened in the way that leads to life eternal. Pulitzer prize-winning poet Robert P. Tristram Coffin once wrote about his experience of sitting in the back pew of a church and ...

2. What the Lord Does Best

Exodus 1:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... they were all dead, as forthright as it could be stated. I’ve just started reading this past week, Russell Baker’s Pulitzer Prize winning story of his growing up in the United States, and I recommend it to you. While we in our modern day ... point of all that, the point of all that is that we need to get a perspective on who we are and what we’re about. Joseph died and all his brothers, and all that generation. Death is inevitable. Hardly a month passes by that I don’t have a serious conversation with ...

3. Angels

Psalm 91:1-16

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David E. Leininger

... have raised this question time and again, and I have never heard an answer that satisfies me. Tony Kushner wrote a Pulitzer prize- and Tony award-winning Broadway play called Angels in America - it is about a divine messenger who ministers to a ... found in your dreams. This has great Biblical precedent - In the Old Testament, Abimelech, Jacob, Laban, Joseph, the Egyptian Pharaoh, Gideon, Solomon. In the New Testament, Joseph, the Wise Men, the wife of Pontius Pilate, to name a few. Analyze your dreams and ...

4. No Sooner Said Than Done!

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... get the story told. Moreover, we are getting tired of words upon words that are rhetoric and nothing else. Shortly before his death, Chief Joseph, the last free chief of the Nez Perce Indians, said, "I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done. Good words do not ... newspapers and magazines may not be the truth. In 1981 the prestigious newspaper, The Washington Post, had to return a Pulitzer Prize when it discovered that the prize-winning story, Jimmy’s World, was a hoax. The writer, Janet Cooke, made up ...

5. A Person Approved by Christ

John 1:43-51

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George Bass

... saying to Bartholomew, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." But the record says that he simply responded to Bartholomew’s question with "Come and see." And he did, apparently hearing Jesus’ remark, since ... to hear and find in a recruit for ministry. "Building a Team" is the title of a chapter in Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Soul of a New Machine. Kidder’s narrative of the planning for and building of a new ...

6. Saving The Best Till Last

John 2:1-11

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Brett Blair

... and a nation for close to 2000 years. Think of all the things they been through: The beginnings in Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Joseph and the hundreds of years of slavery in Egypt. Moses and the Exodus. The wandering in the wilderness and the giving of the ... the world’s great revivals. He takes a young frail and frightened girl by the name of Teresa, and transforms her into a Pulitzer Prize of Peace by the name of Mother Teresa. He takes that which is ordinary and transforms it. Everyone else serves the ...

7. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

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King Duncan

... . There have been a host of films recently in which angels have figured prominently. In Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize winning Broadway play, Angels In America, a divine messenger ministers to a man with AIDS. In Publishers Weekly ... he needed. Now he had only the ruby and the magnificent pearl to offer the newborn king. Artaban finally reached Bethlehem only to find Joseph and Mary and the baby had already gone. Another mother and another baby boy had taken up residence there. Suddenly, to the door came ...

8. More Power to You!

Romans 1:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... last five Heisman trophy winners. 3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America contest. 4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer prize. 5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress. 6. Name the last decade's worth of World Series ... choice for king. · Rahab: the woman of ill-repute whose reputation for loyalty still stands tall. · Joseph: the spoiled, useless little brother who fed his people throughout a death-dealing drought. · Jeremiah: the craziest ...

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