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Luke 11:1-13, Psalm 138:1-8, Genesis 18:16-33, 2 Kings 5:1-27, Colossians 2:6-23

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George Bass

... We Get What We Want if We Pray in Christ's Name?", the late, great British preacher, Leslie Weatherhead, examines John 14:13, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." He says: "That sentence certainly sounds like what businessmen ... again. Jesus made an even more tenuous prophecy - that he would be put to death and rise again on the third day. That happened, too. And we can bank on the prophecy and promise that he will come again, even praying, "Come Lord" and he will! Colossians 2:6-15 (E, L, C); 1:12-14 (RC ...

2. The Magic Formula

John 14:5-14, Luke 11:1-13

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George Bass

... What We Want if We Pray in Christ's Name?", the late, great British preacher, Leslie Weatherhead, examines John 14:13, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do." He says: "That sentence certainly sounds like what businessmen call 'a firm offer,' an explicit promise. If we are to bank on the 'promises of Holy Scripture,' then surely we can bank on that." He adds a personal story: "I remember, as a boy of 15, banking on it. I wanted to pass an examination. I had had a religious upbringing. I read ...

3. Where Do Sins Go?

2 Samuel 12:1-31

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Edward Chinn

... troops later entered that devastated city, they saw the shadow of a person who had been sitting on the steps of a bank, the shadow of a soldier unbuttoning his shirt, the shadow of a painter caught in the act of dipping his brush. There ... bearing on his own heart the consequences of our sins. "The Cross is a translation into history of an eternal fact," wrote the late Leslie Weatherhead. In one of his books, Dr. Weatherhead recalled a night when his ship sailed past the island of Stromboli, off the coast ...

4. No Plastic Easter

John 20:19-23

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King Duncan

... that a computer geek's casket allows the user the capability to reboot. The second interesting item that I ran across is found in Leslie Flynn's book, The Sustaining Power of Hope. Flynn tells about a young man in the metropolitan New York area who took a step ... song left many teary-eyed. Daughter Laura Cash joined her father in singing, "Farside Banks of Jordan." The chorus goes like this: And I'll be waiting on the far side banks of Jordan. I'll be waiting drawing pictures in the sand. And when I see ...

5. Opposite the Treasury

Mark 12:41-44

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Donald B. Strobe

... . Under this plan, we make our pledge to the church, inform the bank, and through electronic transfer of funds, each week or month, the proper amount is deducted from our bank accounts. Well, you should hear the people holler! People objected, saying that such ... GIANT, N. Y.: Harper & Row, 1971, p. 93) Jesus knew that money is power. That great Methodist preacher of Great Britain, Leslie Weatherhead, once told of visiting in a London slum and seeing a young girl desperately ill with tuberculosis. But she had ...

6. Marked For Death

Genesis 3:1-24

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George Bass

... regions of northeastern Pennsylvania; it was his task to remove the ashes from the coal-burning furnace and dump them over a bank at the rear of their home. He would be covered with ashes when the wind was blowing. Bob Hughes, writing about the “ashes ... live and the strength necessary to face the difficulties of life, particularly death. The late and great British preacher, Dr. Leslie Weatherhead, relates an experience that he has when he attended a lecture by a brilliant scientist at Cambridge. The man ...

7. Coping with Fear, Worry, and Anxiety

Matthew 6:25-34

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Robert G. Tuttle

... things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" It seems that we expect the worst, and we get it. Leslie Weatherhead, famous English preacher of the closing generation, once shared a helpful insight into the structure of fear. He observed that when ... worry moves beyond normal concern, it becomes debilitating and even destructive to health. As a young minister I was sent to the "Outer Banks" of North Carolina. I had seven churches up and down the coast. We lived in the house at Kitty Hawk where the ...

8. How Can I Know God's Will?

Acts 1:12-26

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King Duncan

... board either the Alton Belle or the River Queen riverboats to indulge in her new passion. Soon she had emptied the family bank account and pawned her wedding ring. She was still gambling when the house payment was 17 months behind. “The day they ... at some venture previously in their lives. They learned some things about themselves from that failure that made them successful later. Leslie Weatherhead was one of the great preachers of the twentieth century, but sometimes thing did not turn out as he hoped ...

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