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Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

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Derl G. Keefer

... love stamped all over us. III. A Call To Holiness Is A Call To All People A quarter of a century ago, author Keith Drury, from the Wesleyan Church, wrote a book titled, Holiness For Ordinary People. What a great title! Often we think that holiness ... over which is draped a towel - not the lush, plush kind of towel we buy for our guest bathroom, but a dirty old rag, wet with the sweat and dirt of men's feet. - Norman Schouten[6] Just a year before the death of A.W. Tozer, he was asked to speak at a conference ...

2. A Father Pleased With His Son

Mark 1:9-13

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King Duncan

... good. No wonder he pleased his Father. Humility, acceptance. And commitment. No one ever measured up to his Father's dream for him like Jesus. Even agonizing in the garden with sweat falling from his brow like the great drops of blood, he prayed, "Not my will but thine be done." I suppose there are parents who think that they are doing ... I am well pleased." 1. In an interview with George Plimpton. 2. Source unknown. 3. Cited in Keith Miller and Bruce Larson, THE PASSIONATE PEOPLE (Waco: Word Books, 1979.

3. Was Jesus the First Buster?

Matthew 21:23-32

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Leonard Sweet

... .] You can tell what values each generation upholds by what they say "No" to. Boosters have a saying: "No sweat." There is no generation that worked harder than this one. Boomers have a saying: "No problem." There is no ... fashioned to look like a clerical collar: "The new evening clothes walk the line between preacher man and night stalker" (141). - The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is asked whether he read any of Marianne Faithful's books, and he admits he has, while paying her the highest compliment for her ...

4. Will I Really Live Forever?

John 11:18-27, 39-45

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J. Howard Olds

... reproduce and finally die. What philosophers call “mind” and “soul” can be reduced to physical brain power, reasons Keith Augustus in a paper entitled, “The Case Against Immortality.” John Hospers says, “The body seems to be ... must be viewed in the light of eternity. It transforms the way I see the world. Immortality keeps hope alive. David Clayton Thomas, with Blood, Sweat and Tears, sang years ago, “I know there ain’t no heaven but I pray there ain’t no hell.” In that kind of world ...

5. Are You Giving Up Chocolate for Valentine's Day?

Luke 4:1-13

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King Duncan

... just as the Hebrews did. Ours are not gods of clay and stone. Our gods are gods of money and power, pride and position. Keith Emerson, an Episcopal priest in Hudson, Ohio tells about a friend of his, a priest, who invested some money in the stock market. ... me; yet not my will, but yours be done” . . . “And being in anguish,” Luke writes, “he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground” (22:42-44). So this is where we begin our Lenten pilgrimage--with Christ ...

6. Desperate Times Call For...

Matthew 15:21-28

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King Duncan

... he loves us. He shared our weakness, our questions, our pain. Remember that the night before his arrest Jesus prayed so desperately that he sweated drops of blood. Jesus understands what it is to be desperate. He didn’t come to wave a magic wand and take away ... for help or not, she would still worship him because he is Lord, and because she could count on his mercy. Dr. Keith Brantly served as a medical missionary in Liberia, West Africa. In 2014, an epidemic of the Ebola virus swept through Liberia. Over ...

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