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Luke 2:8-14

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Dean Feldmeyer

... . Walgreens has, according to the Houston Chronicle decided to put the word “Christmas” in front of the words “tree ornaments” in their ads and flyers. And Christmas is winning the war, because, a few years ago, when Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee insisted on calling the big Blue Spruce in the Statehouse a “holiday tree,” in honor of the religious tolerance upon which the state was founded in 1636, Representative Doreen Costa erected a Christmas tree, that’s right, a Christmas tree ...

2. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

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Leonard Mann

... of Christ, now facing death because he was. And suddenly, and so very unexpectedly, it came over me that all the problems which chafed and burdened me were swallowed up in a glorious victory. There I saw in the light of this vast, sweeping perception of ... fact: we do not always have to be what we are. God gives the ability to become. This is a truth with many facets. Lincoln was a child of poverty, of a humble family, in the American backwoods, but he could become the stalwart statesman who saved the American ...

3. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

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Daniel J. Estes

... me into the mud. Job feels as though his life is ebbing away (30:16) as he endures constant pain (30:17) that strangles or chafes him (30:18). What is most painful is that in addition to his human oppressors, God also seems to be fighting against him. Job feels that ... to those in need. In this generosity, he mirrors Job. History: Abraham Lincoln was criticized for selecting Edwin Stanton, one of his political rivals, to be in his cabinet. Lincoln explained that the best way to defeat an enemy is to turn ...

4. The Way, The Truth, And The Life Style

John 14:5-14

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Thomas Long

... were a rock star or a matinee idol. It supplied such fascinating facts as this man's "role model" (Abraham Lincoln), his "latest book read" (something by Robert Ludlum), his "drink of choice" (Corona beer, with lime), his "prime leisure ... a peasant. But such a fearsome choice, this young man admitted, was out of his reach. People in his situation, he observed, could stand the chafing between one's soul and one's life style more easily than they could face the awesome choice. In one of the scenes in Herb ...

5. Emancipation Proclamation

John 8:31-41

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... words that Jesus used when, fifteen centuries ahead of Martin Luther, nineteen centuries ahead of Abraham Lincoln, he issued the emancipation proclamation: "If you continue in my word, then you are truly my ... their history, too. And even at this moment they could not forget that they were being watched by foreigners who occupied their land and that they chafed in their enslavement. But surely they had never lost identity as children of their father Abraham, and "walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars ...

6. A Fool’s Tools

Matthew 25:14-30

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... special privilege to high status. The responsible five-talent person faces a very demanding work situation. Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chavez, and those championing the cause of the exploited American Indians are ... Bobby Kennedy didn’t know he would leave at forty-two. George Gershwin didn’t realize his writing pen would close at thirty-eight. And Roger Chafee, junior member of the Grissom-White space crew didn’t know he would leave at thirty-one. We don’t know when we’ll be ...

7. Friday

John 18:1-11

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David & Marian Plant

It doesn’t matter how many times I read, listen to, or watch a biography of Abraham Lincoln I am always surprised and newly saddened that he’s shot and dies. I have no idea why. I ... my Catholic friend had to maintain all afternoon, restricted to only the long Catholic masses playing solemnly on local channels, the rule of “no playing.” I chafed at three-hour long Protestant services, even if different preachers and choirs shifted in and out. Over the years, as local church pastor and then as simply ...

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