... these three was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robber?" 1. The Jokesmith. 2. Information gleaned from Neal Fisher's The Parables of Jesus, pp. 83-84. 3. Christopher L. Coppernoll. Soul 2 Soul (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1998), pp. 125-127. 4. C. Edward Bowen, Emphasis, July/August 2000, p. 18. 5. Charles Kuralt with Peter Freundlich. American Moments (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), pp. 74-75. Frank Lyman is pastor of the University United Methodist Church of East Lansing, MI.
2. A Dangerous Gift
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Dr. Gilbert W. Bowen
Arthur Gordon tells of a 4th of July when he found himself listening to a short patriotic address: “The speaker talked of our heritage of freedom, how precious it is, and how jealously we ought to guard it. We applauded when he was through. Suddenly as the applause died away, a voice spoke from the crowd: ‘Why don’t you tell them the whole truth?’ Startled we looked around. The words had come from a young man in a tweed jacket with untidy hair and angry eyes. He might have been a college student, poet, ...
