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1. A Man Who Would Be God

Luke 4:14-30, Luke 9:28-36, Luke 3:21-38

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Richard A. Jensen

... ! Breathtaking! Exciting! How good it was to be home again. He found China much to his liking except for one thing -- one thing that he had not expected to find. He thought the great Chairman Mao Tse-tung was dead and gone. Not so. It seemed like he ran into the image of the Chairman at every turn. Tom knew that Chairman Mao had written The Little Red Book as a kind of "bible" of his thoughts. Tom assumed that The Little Red Book was a thing of the past, tucked away with memories of the Chairman. But ...

2. The Incredibility of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... The radiant glory of God shines in the face of Jesus Christ.” Incredible! God’s ultimate revelation in Jesus. We call it incarnation. Let me put it in contrast. There are a few men in the twentieth century who seem as immortal as Mao Tse Tung. Chairman Mao became the incarnation of a movement, a system of thought, and a revolution that impacted nine hundred million people – that was the population of China back then. He lived to be 83 and was China’s leader for over three decades. It was difficult ...

3. Catholic

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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William G. Carter

... . The whole thing bubbles up if you just give it some time. That’s the promise of God’s dominion, what Christ calls “the kingdom.” It bubbles up, it grows. It rises in secret and the whole thing is a mystery. Consider the history of Christianity in China. In 1949, Mao Tse-tung came to power and threw out all the Christian missionaries. He set up a secular state and outlawed any Christian activity. During the Cultural Revolution, all religious life was officially banned in China. After ...

4. Pleased To Reconcile

Luke 23:26-43

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... worship was forbidden, we now discover in this era when the walls of repression are falling that the church was not only alive but growing, and is now stronger than it ever was in those lands. Many people in those lands refused to confess Mao Tse-Tung or Stalin or Brezhnev as king, preferring to confess Jesus as king instead, sometimes at great personal cost. Somehow, that historical development -- the universal reign of One who died as a subversive criminal at the town dump of Jerusalem nearly 2,000 years ...

5. The Global Effect of a Galilean Peasant

Luke 23:26-43

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Larry R. Kalajainen

6. As The World Turns

Matthew 4:12-17

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King Duncan

... known as the Black Panthers. But today, Eldredge Cleaver is also a follower of Jesus. In his book, SOUL ON FIRE, Cleaver tells about his conversion. He speaks of a vision: "I saw all my former heroes paraded before my eyes--Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, passing in review--each one appearing for a moment of time, and then dropping out of sight, like fallen heroes. Finally, at the end of the procession, in dazzling, shimmering light, the image of Jesus Christ appeared." Our theme ...

7. Don't Be Afraid Of The Light

John 8:12

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James Merritt

... share the light, the light just passed right through them. Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy, was raised in the home of a minister. Joseph Stalin, the communist dictator who murdered at least 20 million of his countrymen, at one time, studied for the priesthood. Mao Tse-tung, the brutal Chinese ruler, was raised under missionary teaching. What are you going to do with this light called Jesus Christ? Will you absorb that light and let it become a part of you and then reflect that light to others or let it ...

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