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Luke 7:11-17

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Arley K. Fadness

... a young man, a rich man, politically ambitious, and a talented man, fell to the bottom. He ran for the US Senate in 1982 and lost. Soon thereafter his marriage to Alida Rockfeller collapsed, and he endured a bout with alcoholism. One day, Mark Dayton found himself in the balcony of Westminster Church in Mineapolis. He found himself there in the balcony often struggling to find a sense of God. He bounced back and forth between the poles of desolation to consolation, and then that insightful day he found ...

2. Only the Neighbors’ Kid

John 6:25-59

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Donald B. Strobe

... is Joseph’s son. Nor does he say that Joseph was a carpenter. Did you catch that? Two other Gospels call Joseph a carpenter: Mark 6:3 and Matthew 13:55, but Luke and John do not. In fact, the word which we usually translate “carpenter” may better be ... own little town, missed seeing the miracle growing up in their midst. “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Or out of Dayton, Ohio? On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright kept their home-made airplane in the air for less than a minute ...

3. Holy Monday

Matthew 21:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... . Only those with guilty consciences fled before His righteous wrath. Those who needed Him stayed. Ultimately, I have a problem with the Dayton priest’s angry Christ. He sounds more like the Ayatollah than the Christ of the Gospels, to me. I like formality myself, ... it was that He blazed forth in righteous indignation: “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer!’” Mark completes the quotation from Isaiah 56:7: “My house shall be called a house of prayer for all people!” Rich or ...

4. The Ascension Announces a Triumph

Acts 1:1-11

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Barbara Brokhoff

... looks like, its glory is dimmed by the brightness of the One who sits upon it. Christ is there as our Savior and Redeemer. The marks of our redemption are upon him, and we shall know him by his nail-pierced hands. And he also reigns as our high priest, ... seconds. This was a moment that changed history. In their excitement, they immediately sent a telegram to their sister back in Dayton, Ohio. It read: "Sustained flight today for 59 seconds. Hope to be home by Christmas." Their sister was so excited ...

5. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... upon him, and said, "I will -- I will heal you -- be clean". And immediately the fellow was made well. The second story that is told begins in Mark chapter 2. It is the story of the lame man who was lowered through the ceiling into the presence of Jesus in order that he might be ... to a third fact of Scripture: Jesus had dinner with sinners. My friend, Len Sweet, President of United Seminary in Dayton, tells of an unforgettable experience he had at an Amy Grant concert at Kings Island in Cincinnati. It was in ...

6. John the Stall Cleaner

Mark 1:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... you actually have an unusually clean house to live in, at least for a while. Tim Forbess, senior pastor of First United Methodist in Dayton, Ohio, got to thinking about how and what kind of preparations had to be made for that first Christmas, and realized there is ... is Advent approaching. Today’s gospel text is the prologue to the earliest of the written gospels: The Gospel of mark. The focus of this prologue is on preparation. God’s preparation of the world, God’s preparation of the people, involves ...

7. John 1:(1-9) 10-18

John 1:(1-9) 10-18

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Leonard Sweet

... hymn recorded in the colloquial Aramaic. (Thanks to Dr. Laurence Welborn, Professor of New Testament, United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio.) If indeed this is the case, the work of the redactors can be appreciated all the more ... three Gospels take pains early on to locate Jesus firmly within a specific human history (Matthew and Luke with their birth narratives, Mark with his reference to Isaiah), John alone opens by looking beyond Jesus' humanity to his eternal presence. Another theme articulated in ...

8. It's Not a Snuggie Love

Mark 15:1-15, Mark 11:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... with getting Jesus out to Golgotha. Mark’s text notes that this Simon was “the father of Alexander and Rufus” — a detail that seems to suggest that those sons were known to the Christian community that Mark is addressing. If so, it would ... worse, we need to cross-over to Wall Street. We need to cross-over to Darfur and Myanmar, and we need to cross-over to Dayton and Minneapolis. We need to cross-over and embrace our pasts. We need to cross-over and embrace a new and yet unknown future. “You ...

9. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

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James Merritt

... is not only much to earn, but there is much to learn. In fact, the entire Bible has much to say about money. Howard Dayton, the founder of Crown Ministries has counted about five hundred verses in the Bible on prayer, but over 2,350 on how to handle money ... to walk with God, you will never teach him a more important life lesson than how to handle money. I am well within the mark when I say that well over ninety percent of Americans do not have a clue on how to manage money. Like nitroglycerin, handling money ...

10. Used Tombstones

John 20:1-18

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Leonard Sweet

... life using the old images of death. Dr. Paul Stuckey, the wonderful new senior minister at GraceUnitedMethodistChurch in Dayton, Ohio, tells the story of an eye-catching ad in a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, newspaper's classified section. ... no-deposit, no-return items. Without investing and depositing our souls in things of lasting value, the essence of the divine image, the mark of divinity, is all but gone. Those souls cut off from resurrection joy become candidates for new tombstones, heavy gray markers of our ...

11. Romans 8:1-11

Romans 8:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... of sinful flesh." Concerned with maintaining Christ's essential sinlessness, many scholars minimize the point Paul makes. But homoiomati implies more than just some artificial resemblance. University of Dayton scholar Vincent P. Branick forces us to take Paul seriously when he states: The sense of the word in Romans 8:3 ... by no means marks a distinction or a difference between Christ and sinful flesh. If Christ comes en homoiomati of sinful flesh, he comes as the full expression of sinful flesh. He ...

12. Operation Omega

Mark 10:35-45

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Leonard Sweet

... wants to be “First.” And if they can’t be first, most abandon being numbered altogether. There is a church in Dayton, Ohio, founded and pastored by the Rev. Dr. Daryl Ward, that has taken a step out of that traditional line up. ... secret to being last is the three letter word “all.” For mortals it is impossible, but not for God: “for God all things are possible” (Mark 10:27). If you are Christ’s, “all things are yours” (1 Corinthians 3:21). God wants to do in your life “above all that we ...

13. The Three Kings

Matthew 2:1-12

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King Duncan

... Geoff Thomas tells about an amusing event that occurred sometime back at Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee. A gifted preacher, Al Martin was preaching in the main auditorium of the college ... the light of his love. 1. As told in Brian S Borgman, My Heart for Thy Cause, (Mentor, Fearn, 2002). http://www.alfredplacechurch.org.uk/index.php/sermons/mark/chapter-1/121-28-a-new-authority/. 2. (Brentwood, TN: Integrity Publishers, 2003), p. 2. 3. Ott, John, Health and Light (Columbus, OH: Ariel Press, 1973, 1976). ...

14. Journey To The Cross IV: Jesus and Judas

Mark 14:43-52

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James W. Moore

Rev. James W. Moore, pastor of St Luke’s in Houston Texas tells the following story. A young lawyer called me one morning to ask a favor. He wanted me to visit one of his clients… who was at that moment behind bars. He was in jail awaiting trial for armed robbery. When the lawyer said the prisoner’s name, I recognized it immediately. There had been quite a bit of discussion and information about him in the newspapers and on television. He was from somewhere out west. He had been arrested for robbery. He ...

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