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1 Kings 8:22-61

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Stephen M. Crotts

... Paul and Barnabas. They sent their best! We should do no less. I recall Michael Murray, a bright young freshman at Duke University. He hardly missed a service in ... Patrick, "He found Ireland all heathen. He left it all Christian." Voluntarily Coming So, according to our text, "Men will hear of your great name." And how shall this be? As we go willingly or unwillingly to the nations. Yet this is not all! For there is still a third way good news spreads, and that is as others voluntarily come to us. First Kings ...

2. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... Patrick was, you're likely to hear that he was an Irishman who chased the snakes out of Ireland. The real Saint Patrick was not Irish. He was born in Roman Britain to a middle-class family about A.D. 390. As a teenager, Irish raiders attacked his home. Patrick was captured and sold to an Irish king ... The Mount (Nashville, TN: Abington, 1988); Jan Lambrecht, S.J., The Sermon On The Mount (Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1985); Robert A. Guelich, The Sermon On The Mount (Waco, TX: Word, 1982); and for a ...

3. How to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... and told him to pay up. And when the fellow did not, he had him thrown into prison. When the king heard about this, he called this unforgiving man in again. “Here I forgave your debt,” he exclaimed with rage, “ ... ://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/the-foundation-of-forgiveness-where-forgiveness-begins-michael-luke-sermon-on-forgiveness-for-others-122581.asp. 2. Guideposts. 3. ... . http://www.calvincrc.org/sermons/2002/matthew18.html. 7. Patrick D. Odum, Heartlight.org 8/11/09. Cited by Jeff Strite, http:// ...

4. God's Timing or Our Timing -The Tension of Time

James 4:13-17

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Eric Ritz

... E'' train." Even God has a timing problem in the Big Apple! Or does God? Patrick Morley writes, "God always has provided enough time to accomplish God''s plan." What ... is why George Herbert, the Anglican priest and poet, once wrote, "Teach me, my God and King, in all things Thee to see, and what I do in anything, to do it unto ... conclude by sharing a portion of a prayer written by the French Catholic priest, Father Michael Quoist: I went out, Lord. Men were coming and going, walking and running. Everything ...

5. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

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James Merritt

... you what I call Merritt's methods of money management. They are all based on the counsel of a king who saw everything he touched turned to gold. There are basically four simple rules I have followed from the ... kids a successful father. [1] The Atlanta Journal, September 2, 1996, 813. [2] Patrick Morley, The Man in the Mirror (Brentwood, Tennessee: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., ... September 1990, 1-6. 10 In Other Words, May/June, 1994. 11 Michael Wolff, Where We Stand: Can America Make It in a Global Race ...

6. In the Cross of Christ We Glory

Mark 8:31--9:1

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Michael Milton

Patrick Morley has said that the turning point in our lives is when we stop seeking the God we want and start seeking the God who is. Peter would come face-to-face with the God who is. This would be a turning point in the life of the disciples. And he began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes and be killed, and after three days rise again. And he said this plainly. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. But ...

7. A Time To Remember - Memorial Day

Revelation 7:9-17

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King Duncan

Memory is a tricky thing. Particularly as we get older. You may know the story about three women who were talking. The first said, "Sometimes I go to the refrigerator and forget what I need by the time I get there." The second woman said, "When I go upstairs, I can't remember whether I'm going up for something or I'm on my way back down." The third woman said, "I'm lucky, I guess (knocking on wood), I don't have that problem. Oh, there's someone at the door." One of our older comedians says he can always ...

8. Giving Back to Caesar

Matthew 22:15-22

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King Duncan

Late one night in Washington, D.C. a mugger wearing a ski mask jumped into the path of a well‑dressed man and stuck a gun in his ribs. “Give me your money!” he demanded. Indignant, the affluent man replied, “You can’t do this to me . . . I’m a US Congressman!” “In that case,” replied the robber, “give me back MY money!” (1) Ah, the “Infernal Revenue Service”--in one form or another, they have always been with us. You know the story. The Pharisees were concerned about Jesus’ growing popularity. They ...

9. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

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King Duncan

Do you like stories of buried treasure? Here’s one that you may not have heard. According to a legend from the Wild West, back in the 1870s, notorious outlaw Jesse James and his gang stole millions of dollars worth of gold bullion from a Mexican general. The men proceeded to bury their treasure somewhere in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. Rumor had it that Jesse had scratched a secretly-coded map on an old bucket and left it as a marker. One source says that after Jesse’s death, his brother Frank James ...

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