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1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... human history and too vivid a witness to human depravity for us to begin at any other point but our fallen nature. Kim’s conflict with her professor and the fact that they’re both right makes what we’re talking about today crucially ... be uprooted and cast away, though there’s a great segment of the church that preaches that kind of depressing gospel. These are not wild tears foreign to the harvest of the healthy personality. Jesus is not at war with our human nature. Now that’s good news. Put ...

2. The Only One Who Is Number One

Exodus 20:1-3

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James Merritt

... not stand, planes would not fly, computers would not even compute. When "anything goes" everything goes." We are living today in a world where "anything goes." James Patterson and Peter Kim wrote a groundbreaking work entitled, The Day America Told the Truth. Under a chapter entitled, "A new moral authority in America: you're it!" they said this: It's the wild, wild West all over again in America, but it's wilder and woollier this time. You are the law in this country. Who says so? You do pardner...there is ...

3. Pressing on Toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... primarily of his coming martyrdom, although Ignatius (To the Ephesians 3:1) uses a synonymous term as he contemplates exposure to the wild beasts in the arena: “I have not yet been perfected [apērtismai] in Jesus Christ,” he says; but he welcomes the ... Damascus Road and Paul’s Doctrine of Justification and Reconciliation,” in R. Banks, ed., Reconciliation and Hope, pp. 90–103; S. Kim, The Origin of Paul’s Gospel. 3:13 There is a variant reading “not” (ou) for not … yet (oupō). Even though ...

4. Gambling On God

Acts 1:12-26

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King Duncan

... selection. In their defense we might make two important observations. First of all, both candidates met the qualifications. They were not taking a wild risk in the matter or the manner of their selection. And second, they had a great trust in God. They believed that God ... South Korea. It figured prominently in the battles of the Korean War; hence, the appropriate name, Heartbreak Ridge. Dr. Billy Kim, a South Korean pastor, tells a story about a battle that took place one night on this ridge. The North ...

5. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

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Donald B. Strobe

... good people to suffer so. Twenty years ago there came out of Korea a classic little book titled “The Martyred” by Richard E. Kim (New York: George Braziller, 1964) In it the agnostic Captain Lee comes to know Mr. Shin, a Christian pastor, in the midst of the ... Church titled: “The Importance of Doubting Your Doubts” taking his cue from G.K. Chesterton, who once spoke of his “first wild doubts of doubt.” Fosdick said that one comes into true faith only after getting to the point where one begins ...

6. Worry and Wonder

Matthew 6:24-34

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Susan R. Andrews

... . All the while, in news that is truly terrifying, North Korea has nuclear warheads that can reach the shores of California. And Kim Jong-il has restarted North Korea's plutonium producing reactor. A friend that I met in Louisville this past weekend told me ... . The word is "look, study, scrutinize" the patterns of nature around you. Look and learn. The lilies he refers to are generic wild flowers, bright poppies that flourish and dazzle for just one day and then are thrown into the oven as fuel for the ...

7. Faithful Fathers Fortify Families

Deuteronomy 6:1-15

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James Merritt

... 'll be earning your own living and going your own way. But I want to give you a final word of advice. "Don't go wild with your new freedom. For example, don't start hanging out in those topless bars that you read about." The boy said, "Why not?" He ... only faithful fathers can fortify the family. 1 Taken from Warren Wiersbe's Preaching and Teaching with Imagination, p. 237. 2 Peter Kim, The Second American Revolution, p. 26. 3 Stu Webber, Tender Warrior, p. 132. 4 Cited by Steve Farrar, Point Man, p. 11. 5 ...

8. How to Hug

Romans 13:8-14

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King Duncan

... like “Do not commit adultery . . . Do not murder . . . Do not steal . . . Do not covet” will never be obsolete. Authors James Patterson and Peter Kim woke many people up a few years back with their book, The Day America Told the Truth. This was a study of attitudes in ... that they join the Officers’ Club. Being a member of the Officers’ Club would require them to attend some wild and rather permissive weekend dances. So these young soldiers refused the invitation. They believed that dancing was wrong ...

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