... just like us.' My grandfather said, 'No, they are not; they will shoot us.' That made me sad. (signed) Love Allison." Maybe Allison sensed that most people in most neighborhoods are more inclined to help than to hurt, but her culture was trying ... be about the love of Jesus." But on that following Sunday, another pastor in another large city stood in his pulpit. His name was Martin Luther King, Sr. If anyone had a right to anger or despair or revenge, it was he. But Dr. King, Sr. declared, "The night is never ...
... God is in our experience. There is no point in pretending friends, when you've come into the presence of God. That's the reason Martin Luther says that the primary requirement of prayer is to be honest. So we simply name God as God is in our experience. And that's ... God, will you please tell me where babies come from. I hope you do a better job than my daddy did". And little Allison wrote, "Dear God, the people in the next apartment fight all the time. You ought to only let good friends get married". Children ...
... they are treated as equals and full partners. We all know the difference between an innocent glance and the leer of lust. Martin Luther quipped, “You may not keep the birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from making nests in your hair.” ... Exposure Has Lasting Effects,” AFA Journal, April 21, 2006. 11. For a summary of modern exegetical insights, see Dale Allison, The Sermon on the Mount (New York: Crossroads, 1999), 58ff; Charles Talbert, Reading the Sermon on the Mount (Columbia, SC ...
... hunger. And if ever you eat without first bowing your head, you simply do not understand your world and who sustains it. I like what Martin Luther wrote in answer to the question, What is meant by daily bread? “Everything that belongs to the support and wants of the body, such as meat, ... ; Barry Callen, Discerning the Divine (Louisville, KY: WJK, 2004), 50-57. 14. Quoted in Dale C. Allison, The Sermon On The Mount (New York: Herder & Herder, 1999), 125. 15. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 6:5-15.
... take a timid life, empower it with His spirit, and make that life a blessing to other people. That is called salvation. Martin Luther once said, “I have held many things in my hands and have lost them all. But, whatever I have placed in God's ... those days at home. Then I became a Christian. I knew a real transformation had taken place in my life when five months after my conversion, Allison came to her mother and said, “Mommy, I want God to do for me what He did for Daddy sometime ago." That is the kind ...
