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King Duncan
... his church held their annual Easter Sunrise service. It was also one of Powell’s favorite places to walk their dog, Jesse. A little girl, who happened to be mentally handicapped, lived in a house below the airport, and she used to see Powell walking the dog ... can lose. And what I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!” (4) Leonard wasn’t exactly experiencing the kingdom of God, but he was awake and aware of how precious life is. In the same way, Jesus ...
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King Duncan
... , “My pastor is going to hell? May I ask why?” The man said, “His hair is too long.” The deacon thought he’d have a little fun with this guy, so he asked, “And how long should his hair be?” The man said, “About like mine.” (1) Isn’t that a ... southern California, there is a desert region called Imperial Valley. Sometime in the 1980s, a man named Leonard Knight moved to Imperial Valley. Leonard was a welder and handyman from Vermont. He was also a veteran of the Korean War. Sometime ...
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James Merritt
... . I read about a first grade teacher who told her class "If you need to go to the bathroom I want you to raise your hand." A little boy asked, "How will that help?" So often we face a situation where we don't like our options, and yet we know what God demands of us ... wants you to do, then God will keep His part to work it out for your good and for His glory. Sir Leonard Wood was once invited to visit the King of France. It was such a pleasant experience for the king that he invited his honored guest to return ...
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Bill Bouknight
... whisper something, and we would have to repeat it back--things like 'The sky is blue' or 'Do you have new shoes?' As I waited and listened, she spoke seven words that God must have given her, seven words that changed my life. Mrs. Leonard said, in a whisper, 'I wish you were my little girl."' God whispers to every person deformed by sin, to every reject and loser, even to shepherds and people like you and me: "I wish you were my daughter" or "I wish you were my son." Have you heard God whisper your name ...
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Mike Ripski
... discovered that if I did not press my hand as tightly upon my ears as I was instructed to do, I could pass the test. “Mrs. Leonard gave the test to everyone in the class, and finally it was my turn. I knew from past years that as we stood at the door ... for those words which God must have put into her mouth, those seven words which changed my life. Mrs. Leonard said, in her whisper, ‘I wish you were my little girl.’” (Homiletics, May 8, 1994, p. 25) A few Sundays ago we heard Jesus refer to himself as ...
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Harold Warlick
... pay to rescue an individual from his own self-destructive tendencies. Unbeknown to Dr. Cronin, it was destined to turn out that way for little Paul. The Adams family was a loving family. It had been that way from the beginning. The secret of their nature was finally revealed ... had plans for Paul Piotrastanalsis. So too, does God still have plans for you and for me. 1. Leonard Griffith, Ephesians: A Positive Affirmation (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1975), p. 15. 2. Fred Anderson, “Discovering Your Destiny,” ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... ninth, no score, basses loaded." I tell you that story to lighten you a bit, to receive a story about another great musician, Leonard Bernstein who died a couple of years ago. Not long before his death he said, "I fully confess that nothing exist in this life ... been asking her to go with her to her Baptist church to worship on Sunday morning. She knew that they had worship in the little Methodist church only twice a month and so she wanted her friend to go with her on an off Sunday, so this friend decided ...
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... awhile it does. Just the other day, while reading to keep ahead of my Wednesday morning study group, I stumbled upon Leonard Sweet telling me that physicists are currently dismantling every boundary that separates us from the universe, meaning that we are ... we always do. So forget he's here and open your books to page 132." But they won't "forget he's here." And very little will "go on like it always does." Because his presence will have changed everything, don't you see? I suppose he could observe the class ...
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King Duncan
... over him. Then, he looked around and realized that he had destroyed nearly half an acre of corn to kill one little mouse that couldn't have eaten more than three stalks in an entire season. The old Greek, Aristotle, once said, "Anyone ... lightweight, and cheap, it's nauseating," says Haslim. It may be that over the next several years, hundreds of lives will be saved because Leonard Haslim got angry watching the 6 o'clock news. (4) Is there something making you angry? I am not talking about shooting somebody's ...
10. Thorns of Grace
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
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King Duncan
... on a rose, but a shaft of wood sharpened at one end to be used in battle to impale someone. “This is not a minor little oops, look what happened to me. This is a stake to be driven through someone. How do we know that? Back in the first century, sharpened ... that, can’t you? It’s very difficult for us to relate to someone who is encapsulated in smug self-satisfaction. Leonard Bernstein was the first conductor born and educated in the United States to receive worldwide acclaim. He was also a highly ...
11. Come and See
John 1:43-51
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David E. Leininger
... is still the place for people to come to find the friendship of Jesus. Once I heard of a Sunday school teacher who had a little lad in her class who had no right hand. She was exceedingly sensitive about any activities that she would schedule for the youngsters so as not ... said to him, “Come and see.” And that invitation, that friendship, changed his life. Amen. 1. Socrates, Quoted in Leonard Griffith, The Eternal Legacy from an Upper Room, (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), p. 137. 2. Quoted by C. Thomas ...
12. Past / Future
Mark 1:35-39, Mark 1:29-34
Drama
Robert F. Crowley
... you have the corrected printout on my desk by noon? LEO: What? MOMMA: You just think you know everything. Well, you don't know anything, little mister smarty pants. POPPA: You're just stupid! I knew you couldn't do it right. I knew I couldn't trust you to do ... t ask me for anything. That's all you do is whine for things. Do you think money grows on trees? MOMMA: What's wrong with Leonard? He doesn't do well in school. He doesn't play sports. He just mopes around the house all day. Can't you do something with ...
13. Words From a Father
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John Trent
... to cover her good ear. She knew that teachers would often say things like, "The sky is blue," or "What color are your shoes?" But not on that day. Surely, God put seven words in Mrs. Leonard's mouth that changed Mary's life forever. When the "Whisper test" came, Mary heard the words: "I wish you were my little girl." Dads, I wish there was some way that I could communicate to you the incredible blessing which affirming words impart to children. I wish, too, that you could sit in my office, when I counsel ...
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Bill Bouknight
... it sort of made the office…well, you may not understand; It kind of smoothed the wrinkle that you’d gathered overnight, And the meanest little rabbit or the big boss, stern and sad, Sort of somehow got the habit that the Good Morning fellow had. He used to lighten ... God in a deliberate ecstasy of worship…If we hoard our blessings, they will turn to spiritual dry rot." (1) Leonard Sweet, former seminary dean, says that there is a generational difference concerning worship. He says that when an over-forty ...
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Leonard Mann
... It isn’t just tomorrow, that we should know him only as a hope. But it’s now. This is the time of our visitation. A little while ago, writing in The Upper Room, a lady named Hazel Hughes told a story which has meant much to me. While a student, she had ... shame. And when I read that school-days story, I thought how many times my Lord Christ may have occasion to say to me, "Leonard Mann, I have been looking at you all morning, and you haven’t looked at me once." All morning? Yes, perhaps, and maybe longer ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... is danger in the dark, but God's Word has told me that I'm all right so long as I don't lose sight of the light." (Leonard I. Sweet, "Bibelot", 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3-6). Amy Grant was making herself available to be the Word of God that comes to us wherever we are ... other rather often and cultivate our brother- love. Lloyd was always a tenderhearted person -- always concerned about others. He was a little man, and on the surface had the appearance of being cocky and a bit arrogant. But, inside, he was really ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... is danger in the dark, but God's Word has told me that I'm all right so long as I don't lose sight of the light." (Leonard I. Sweet, "Bibelot", 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3-6). Amy Grant was making herself available to be the Word of God that comes to us wherever we are ... other rather often and cultivate our brother- love. Lloyd was always a tenderhearted person -- always concerned about others. He was a little man, and on the surface had the appearance of being cocky and a bit arrogant. But, inside, he was really ...
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John A. Stroman
... period of the church, reminded us that things in and of themselves are not evil. Bombs are not evil. American technology is not evil. Leonard Sweet, in his book The Lion's Pride, is absolutely right when he says, "Evil comes from what one does with what one has." ... on the possibilities of nonviolence, or on the potential power in Christ-like living, when we have given it such little chance. The sayings of Jesus are parabolic, situational, metaphorical, and dramatic. They should disturb us, awaken us to new ...
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Leonard Mann
... word equals the person, stands for him as his equivalent. This is so very true that I can say, "I am Leonard Mann." Who am I? What am I? This I am: Leonard Mann. The word assigned to denote an individual person is always the only total representation of him. When you say that ... much of the world. It is uttered in times of prayer and heard amid notes of highest praise; it is lisped by little children just learning to speak, and it is murmured with the last breath of people who are dying. And when people who ...
20. Hypocrites
Matthew 6:1-4
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King Duncan
... His father had always been deeply concerned about the plight of African-American farmers, most of whom were sharecroppers. Their situation was little better than slavery. They lived on someone else’s land. During the winter, they had to borrow from the landowner to ... for his anger and disgust? Jesus would have felt the same way. People who say one thing and act another way. Dr. Leonard Sweet, in his book, Carpe Mañana, tells of receiving a call from a highly placed woman executive in Manhattan. She wanted ...
21. Prison Break
Matthew 28:1-10
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Leonard Sweet
... night. He is the patron saint of pregnant women and captives (especially prisoners of war). His feast day is November 6. See “St. Leonard of Noblac,” Butler’s Lives of the Saints, ed. Herbert Thurston and Donald Attwater (New York: P. J. Kennedy’s Sons, 1956 ... Armed with a diagram and a clipboard, Catherine would get into a shabby old raincoat, much too long for her, and put on a little round wool hat and proceed to the director’s chair placed at the edge of the plot. There she would sit, hour after ...
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Leonard Sweet
... Christmas story is a homecoming because it strikes all four chords, the sacred chords of home. You all have heard the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah,” which currently you can find in 200 different recordings, although the most famous are those by Bon ... the end of time? This week’s gospel text is taken from the chapter in Mark which is often referred to as “The Little Apocalypse.” The first part of the chapter has Jesus responding to the disciples’ discussion question about how they will be able to ...
23. Not So With You
Mark 10:35-45
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Leonard Sweet
... have any battle-scars from our mission sorties in the world? Tell me your scar stories. In the words of Canadian composer and lyricist Leonard Cohen, “Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secret to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made ... to using God’s name, Jesus merely states that these seating arrangements have been entrusted to other hands. It is little wonder that the audacity of the request made by James and John, and Jesus’ response to their rude request, causes ...
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King Duncan
... tell everybody, we’ve got to remind them, we’ve got to remind them how good it is.” “How good was is, Leonard?” the doctor asks. Leonard picks up a newspaper: “Read the newspaper. See what they say, all bad, it’s all bad. People have forgotten what life is ... know I’m gonna have a merry Christmas.” And then he said, “Hope you get there too!” Pastor Walton was a little confused. He said, “Excuse me?” And the young man said, “Home—home for Christmas. I hope you get there too.” And ...
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Siegfried S. Johnson
... of the church. We need constantly to be reminded to connect what we are doing to the larger scope, the larger mission of the church. Supersize your vision and you will SUPERSIZE your giving. 1. From the sermon, "When Too Much Can Be Too Little," by Dr. Leonard Sweet, HOMILETICS, Volume 9, No. 4. 2. From the article "Pondering Life's Imponderables: End of infinity, Bill Gates's Wealth," by Lee Gomes, in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, November 3, 1997. 3. This description is from the article, "Three Shekels for the ...
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