... you, but when it comes to my sins and failures and doubts and yes, even when it comes to the very end of the world, I'm hanging on to the loving gospel mercy of God. Not some smelly, red cow. Amen. 1. Information for this sermon was found in Lawrence Wright's, "Letter from Jerusalem Forcing the End," The New Yorker, July 20, 1998, http://www.lawrencewright.com/art-jerusalem.html.
... cut much finer and deeper, and it is the word of God. The finest cut of anything ever made by any knife was reported in June 1983 at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California. A special optical turning machine sliced a human hair 3,000 times lengthwise. Now that indeed is cutting it thin! But the word of God ... , "Five Gospels, No Christ" (The Jesus Seminar), Christianity Today, April 25, 1994. 6 Rusty Wright and Linda Raney Wright, Secrets of Successful Humor, pp. 45-46. 7 Kent Hughes, Hebrews, p. 121.
... moves me. They will respond.” This thing about not being accepted in one’s hometown is a perennial phenomenon. The Wright Brothers workshop in Dayton, Ohio, was restored in 1988. Years ago, no one believed that they would ever get their flying ... future, not the past, went to North Carolina, where they would not be treated as the local boys, to test their dream. I have been a Lawrence Welk fan. As a child, Welk knew music was his calling. In his teens, he bought an accordion, but he had to work four years ...
... a businessman whom he admires whose motto is `anything worth doing is worth doing poorly.' "The logic is impeccable," says Peters. He points out that the plane the Wright Brothers flew at Kitty Hawk was nothing to write home about. Alexander Graham Bell's first telephone was not exactly up to Bell Lab standards. Yet if ... . James Dent, W. Va., GAZETTE cited in READER'S DIGEST, September, 1990, p. 134. 2. S. Lawrence Johnson, THE PIG'S BROTHER AND OTHER CHILDREN'S SERMONS, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1970).