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Luke 9:28-36

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King Duncan

... complained, the waitress reported. They were just so happy to be in America. She knew that their determined attitude and hard work would spell success for their restaurant. (5) We admire people like that, don't we? The longer the night, the brighter success shines in ... he leaned over and asked, "Why do they keep calling Mary by the name of 'Margaret'?" "Oh," this young woman replied, "Because that was her name, Margaret. Never Mary. No one called her 'Mary, '" she whispered. She wondered why this person ...

2. The Good Life

Luke 6:17-26

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R.T. France

... to” set out respectively the way to be embraced and the way to be avoided, and the following “for” clauses spell out what is to be the outcome of those choices. These are the reasons why it is worthwhile to be a disciple, despite ... Hopevale, was captured by Japanese troops late in 1943, and Erle and the other missionaries were executed. Hymn: “So Send I You,” by Margaret Clarkson. Seen by many as one of the greatest missionary hymns of the twentieth century, this beautiful and moving piece was written out ...

3. Standing Up To Death

Romans 6:1-14, Psalm 90:1-17

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Robert Noblett

... notwithstanding, were intended to come to a point of zenith and then decline. This naturalness is conveyed, I think, in a bit of dialogue from Margaret Craven's book I Heard the Owl Call My Name. It is the story of a young vicar, serving the Indians of the Northwest, who ... obvious. The New Testament suggests there is an obviousness about the death of the inner person. And the sixth chapter of Romans spells the reality of this death right out. A few sample lines will make this clear - "Do you not know that all ...

4. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

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Leonard Mann

... and drawings by a wonderful Catholic sister named Berta Hummel and verses by an equally wonderful Viennese lady named Margarete Seemann? Directed to children mostly, the volume gives us this little verse: Carry your candle with care, my child! ... Macy, the wonderful lady who, as the teacher of Helen Keller, liberated this deaf and blind child from the prison of her darkness, once spelled out this message in her pupil’s hand: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, ...

5. Freedom's Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

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Wayne Brouwer

... freedom, is total freedom, freedom from any restraints, what they hope for? You know it's not! Freedom from all restraints would spell disaster. It would mean the end of all promises. It would mean the end of the economic system. What is money, ... his arms, and he sobs out blessings on her head. When she tells her neighbor later of that night, she says, "It's a pity, Margaret, that you don't know Gaelic! That's the best of all languages for loving. There are fifty words for `darling,' and my father could ...

6. When Others Serve Your Head on a Platter

Mark 6:14-29

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Leonard Sweet

... talk, especially when spoken from the wrong side of a jail cell. John was brazenly calling Herod on the carpet, specifically spelling out his sins. It left Herod both mesmerized and murderous. Living behind bars John had to know that his words were ... treatment of them. He showed compassion, even to his enemies, even to those who would betray him. In the 1970s, anthropologist Margaret Mead was on the Board of Trustees of Colgate Rochester/Bexley Hall, Crozer Divinity School, the seminary where Martin Luther ...

7. Riddles and Metaphors

Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63, Ezekiel 17:1-24

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Steven Tuell

... . 149). 16:36 Because you poured out your wealth. The Heb. word rendered “your wealth” in the NIV is spelled the same as the word for “bronze” (nekhoshet), and is so rendered in the LXX. Evidently in an attempt to ... prompts, and enables Israel’s response. Because of your humiliation. Jerusalem’s silence likely relates to another dimension of shame in ancient Israel. Margaret Odell identifies in the Pss. a ritual of complaint, in which the psalmist bases his appeal to God for deliverance on God’s ...

8. God Subjugates Judah under Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

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Ronald W. Pierce

... Bel (Belteshazzar), Nabu (Abed-Nego), and Aku (Meshachand Shadrach). However, it is likely the writer deliberately corrupts their spellings in protest.9 Theological Insights Daniel 1:1–7 reveals the person and work of God in three ways ... terms. Illustrating the Text God is on his throne and in control of this world. Hymn: “O Father, You Are Sovereign,” by Edith Margaret Clarkson. Hymn writing was Clarkson’s first love, from her publication of Let’s Listen to Music in 1947 until her passing in ...

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