... his readers: "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." The United State's most read columnist, Thomas Friedman, likes to tell a story he got from Johns Hopkins University's foreign policy professor Michael Mandelbaum (in his book The Ideas That Conquered the World). A young girl is eating dinner at a friend's house. Her friend's mother asks if she likes brussels sprouts. "Yes, of course," the girl replied. "I like brussels sprouts." After the dinner, though ...
2. Enough for Action?
Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26
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Leonard Sweet
The United State's most read columnist, Thomas Friedman, likes to tell a story he got from Johns Hopkins University's foreign policy professor Michael Mandelbaum (in his book The Ideas That Conquered the World). A young girl is eating dinner at a friend's house. Her friend's mother asks if she likes brussels sprouts. "Yes, of course," the girl replied. "I like brussels sprouts." After the dinner, though, the mother notices that the brussels ...
... fear and worry; be still, know that this is the God of Abraham and Christ Jesus. This is the God of refuge and strength. Thanks be to this God who is in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world. Amen and Amen. 1. Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011). 2. Tom Troeger, Preaching While the Church Is Under Reconstruction (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1999), pp. 11-13 (paraphrased ...
