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Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... red blood cells. Plan B paid off; Lance returned to the top of the cycling world, winning a total of five Tour de France competitions. (3) World champions don't simply materialize out of the air. Hard work is involved, dedication to a demanding discipline. I' ... Samuel and the prophets. If he had been writing a century later, he would have included Peter, Paul, Barnabas, both Marys--Mary, the Mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene--and a host of others who ran the race before us and are now in the stands cheering ...

2. Too Much to Let Go

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Marie de Medicis, the Italian-born wife of King Henri IV of France, became the regent for their son Louis after her husband's death in 1610. In later years her relationship with Louis soured and they lived in a state of ongoing hostility. Marie also felt a deep sense of betrayal when Cardinal Richelieu, whom she had helped in his rise to political power, deserted her and went over to her son's side. While on her deathbed Marie was visited by Fabio Chigi, who was papal nuncio of France. Marie vowed to ...

3. Choices

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... endure cancer in order to become an unmotivated couch potato? Lance soon returned to his training. This past spring, he won his third Tour de France championship. (7) In our choices lies our destiny. Who we are ten years from now will be decided by the choices we make today ... (Lancaster, PA: Starburst Publishers, 1999), pp.155-156. 5. Tommy Barnett. Adventure Yourself (Lake Mary, FL: Creation House, 2000), p. 126. 6. David L. McKenna. The Communicator's Commentary: Mark, edited by Lloyd J. Ogilvie (Waco, TX: Word ...

4. Is There Life After Christmas?

Luke 2:21-40, Isaiah 12:1-6

Sermon

Erskine White

... we try to serve? How often we end up like a character named Mathilde in Guy de Maupassant’s story, The Necklace - the story of a woman who was married to an ordinary ... borrowed that night was itself an imitation, made only of paste. It was barely worth 500 francs, not the 36,000 they had slaved so long to repay. Of course, there is a ... not let us linger too long in Bethlehem, with its holy mystery and humble majesty, but as with Mary and Joseph so long ago, remind us that life goes on and send us on our way. Do ...

5. Saturday: The Week Of The Cross: Lazarus, Come Forth

John 11:1-7, 17-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... passage. John 11:1-7, 17-19, 30-44 (NRSV) [1] Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. [2] Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill. [3] So ... four daughters on the S.S. Ville de Havre sailing from New York to France. He fully expected to leave on another ship to join them in about three or four days. On the evening of November 22, 1873, the Ville de Havre was suddenly struck by an iron ...

6. Are We Offering the Right Cup?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... which way to turn. How like so many of us. There is a story by Guy de Maupassant titled “The Necklace.” The Necklace is a tale of a young woman named Mathilde who ... cost had been fake and that the necklace she had lost cost less than 500 francs, a fraction of the cost of the replacement necklace. All those sacrifices had been a tragic ... me give you an example. Catherine Marshall once told about a couple named Mary and Harold Brinig. Mary and Harold moved to Chicago many years ago. They had no friends in ...

7. You are Anointed

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... perhaps one of the world’s greatest perfumers, Bertrand Duchaufour, did in 2002 for the perfume company Comme des Garçons. He went to southeastern France, and the Avignon Cathedral, where he captured the smell of the centuries-old sanctuary in a unisex ... at Bethany Just Before His Betrayal (Matthew 26:6-16; Mark 14:3-11) John’s Witness to Jesus’ Anointing at Bethany by Mary Six Days Before the Passover (12:1-11) The Fragrance of Christ (2 Corinthians 2:12-17) Image Exegesis: The Fragrance of Faith / ...

8. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... , even writing to the pope to exhort him to return to Rome from France and address problems: “Respond to the Holy Spirit, who is calling you! I ... . Paul’s greetings to women in the churches of Rome (Priscilla [Prisca], Mary [Miriam], Junia,6 Tryphena and Tryphosa [sisters?], Persis, Rufus’s mother, and ... description of how the Word of God operates on us when we know it. Quote: Michel de Montaigne. A highly influential Renaissance essayist, Montaigne (1533–92) wrote, “To hunt after truth is properly our ...

9. The Fruit of One's Doing

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... An art exhibit that has traveled the country is titled “Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman.” Mary Cassatt was an American artist who worked principally in the last century in France as an impressionist painter closely associated with Degas. In her ... in the Lord,” writes the prophet. Left to our own resources and relying on ourselves will always make us come up short. Tom De Haven penned a novel about the cartoonists in the era of the Great Depression. Titled Derby Dugan’s Depression Funnies, the story relates ...

10. Building a Nation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... also perfect. One day a neighbor told her she was going to have a baby, so little Mary marched home and demanded to know why she couldn't have a little baby too. Her mother ... out of the history and heritage of a Jewish woman named Emma Lazarus. When France was about to present America with a statue called "Liberty Enlightening the World," and ... East Lansing, Michigan, for much of the material in this message. 3. Anthony de Mello, TAKING FLIGHT (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1990), p ...

11. The Sheep And The Goats

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Brett Blair

... we would have responded.” That is precisely the point. If the Bethlehem innkeeper had known that Mary was carrying within her womb the long awaited Messiah, no doubt he would have made room for ... Italy. He had only one object in view to get the support of the Emperor of France for a business project in Algeria. But the Emperor, Napoleon III, was busy driving the Austrians ... his writings was a book: A Memory of Solferino (Un Souvenir de Solferino), printed in Geneva in October 1862. This famous book, mailed ...

12. Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... recently, more than a century late the literary event of the year in France. Verne's book, by the way, is amazing stuff. Verne projected 100 years ... Michelangelo. He conceded that the sculpture of the dead Jesus held in the arms of the mourning Mary was an artistic masterpiece. Yet somehow, this deceased Jesus remained alien to him, as did the ... . Cox News Service 2. "The Turning Point," EBONY, May 1996, pp. 84-86. 3. Claudia De Lys, WHAT'S SO LUCKY ABOUT A FOUR-LEAF CLOVER? (New York: Bell Publishing Company, ...

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