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1. Today Can Be the First Day of Your New Life!

Matthew 2:13-23

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King Duncan

... in the darkest times, God was there, just as God is with us in our difficult times. Life was hard for Mary and Joseph, but they were not alone. God was with them. And that is the meaning of faith‑‑not that the ... surrenders. When that happens, the hunters can take the elephant and chain it to a little iron stake in the ground. The elephant will never attempt to pull away because it still ... . Herbert Fensterheim and Jean Baer, Running Scared! (New York: Rawson Associates Publishers, Inc.). 4. Robert Schuller, Living Positively One ...

2. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... of them. First, they practiced discipline, at the heart of which was prayer. Sister Marie Bonaventura was living a relaxed life as a nun in Rome. After much encouragement, she ... He studied videotapes of his performance: blasting 300-yd. drives, hitting crisp iron shots right at the pins, draining putts from everywhere. And he ... , and accomplishments will far exceed our normal potential and capacity as commonly perceived. Jean-Pierre de Caussade addressed the issue in this fashion: Those who have gauged the ...

3. Life on the Rock

Matthew 7:24-29

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James Merritt

... how she needed to dry out and give up alcohol, as she was drinking her third Bloody Mary, I realized I was looking at someone whose life was built on shifting sand, not on ... in a major championship in the history of golf. A Frenchman by the name of Jean Van deVelde was 6 strokes and 480 yards away from golf immortality winning the British ... here's where it gets both funny and tragic. The book says hit an iron, a relatively short iron; just keep it straight in the fairway, and short of this Marshy Creek. But ...

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John R. Bodo

... not blame him for having deserted Jesus: that they had all done. Ironically, Judas was the only one who had the courage and the ... than to march shoulder to shoulder with long-haired young men and thin-lipped girls in jeans carrying placards, while our friends look away in embarrassment and the people on the sidelines ... all words and no action. He did not suggest that no one should be cooking dinner or that Mary should never be expected to help Martha in the kitchen. He did suggest, I am certain, that Martha ...

5. About Those Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

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King Duncan

... Jean Rodenbough tells about a friend of hers whose brother and his family drove to Thomasville, North Carolina just before Christmas. They made this long trip because their cousins and aunts and uncles lived there. Their family was getting together for a Christmas season celebration. As they passed by the Episcopal Church where a manger scene was in the yard, her friend’s 5-year-old nephew asked about the meaning of the manger scene. “That is Mary ... world’s true villains. Ironically, however, the Roman ...

6. The Bloodline of Christ

John 20:19-23

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Leonard Sweet

... old photos, wedding announcements, and birth certificates cluttering up a drawer or trunk somewhere. Ironically it is those who do NOT know their heritage, their family stories, who often ... red eggs at Easter. The other being an even earlier legend in which Mary Magdalene managed to procure an appointment with Caesar after Jesus’ resurrection. When she ... Tomb; Nun Strikes Back.” Instead, I just stood like an American tourist in my jeans and Nike’s, hardly believing what I saw. Who would do such a thing? ...

7. Eliphaz

Job 4:1-5:27

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Daniel J. Estes

... who are blessed by Yahweh in Psalm 84:11 (84:12 MT). What makes Eliphaz’s question ironic is that these very descriptions have been used of Job in 1:8 and 2:3, when ... (1813–97), could be quoted in this context. The music was composed by Jean Sibelius, from his symphonic poem Finlandia. The Scripture reference of this hymn is found ... the needy is echoed in the Song of Hannah (1 Sam. 2:1–10), the Magnificat of Mary (Luke 1:46–55), and Jesus’s beatitudes in Matthew 5:3–12. Eliphaz’s statement ...

8. Zophar Rejects Job’s Complaints

Job 11:1-20

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Daniel J. Estes

... silence. Zophar, then, attempts to shame Job into accepting what the friends have alleged about him. Ironically, in the third cycle of speeches, it is Zophar who is reduced to silence and who ... , who throughout the novel relentlessly hunts down the poignant central character Jean Valjean. In Javert’s obsession with duty at the expense of ... Bible characters who suffered for being righteous or obedient (Abel, Jeremiah, Stephen, Mary, etc.). In each case you cite, describe first how society perceived that ...

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