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2 Samuel 11:1-27

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James Merritt

... much more does God see and know all that we do? Things would be all right if the Lord didn't see them, but the Lord always sees them. Dan Rather interviewed Bill Clinton after his Presidency and asked him why he got involved with Monica Lewinsky. Do you know what his answer was? "Just because I could." Clinton went on to say, "I think that is the most morally indefensible reason anybody could have for doing anything…when you do something just because you could."[[4]] David could have sought forgiveness ...

2. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... quiet moment, you would realize that were they all obeyed, this would be a splendid world. Crime would stop - no murders, no theft. Husbands and wives would not have to worry about the faithfulness of the other (and we never would have heard of Monica Lewinsky). Lying and gossiping would all stop. Parents would not have to be concerned about disobedient children or how they would be supported in their old age. And the churches would be jammed because God would be preeminent in all our lives. But that quiet ...

3. The Ten Commandments #7: No Adultery

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... a married woman and any man who was not her husband. A married man was guilty of adultery only in the case of having an affair with a married woman - nobody seemed to care if he slept with a prostitute. If it were a young, single Monica Lewinsky type, and actual sexual intercourse occurred (not just the fooling around that the Starr report so graphically chronicles), the man would have to marry the girl with no divorce ever allowed, a "life sentence" for both.(1) It would not matter that the fellow might be ...

4. The Ten Commandments #9: No False Witness

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... , then "Travelgate" then "filegate," now finally, "zippergate." There has been a LOT of testimony - $44-million worth. Lies have been told, some under oath, some not. The impeachment hearings are focusing on whether or not the President perjured himself about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky. Did he lie under oath? That is the issue. No question, we dislike perjury. People who swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth but then lie give us a queasy feeling. We might want to say ...

5. Spin-masters Need Not Apply

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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King Duncan

... there is a second lesson we can learn here. THE GOSPEL IS TRUE; IT DOES NOT NEED TO BE REDEFINED. The Good news of Christ does not need to be reshaped to fit the spirit of the times. In the sad saga of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, more was at stake than the reputations of a president, his young lover and even the nation. What was at stake was an attempt to redefine the traditional Judeo/Christian ethic concerning sexual behavior. There has been a growing consensus among some of our intellectual elite ...

6. The Ultimate Thirst Quencher (Alternate Addition to the "I Am" series: Living water)

John 7:25-44

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Eric Ritz

... is cluttered with those who have thirsted for the wrong thing. Do the names of Hitler and Stalin ring any bells? Did not former President Bill Clinton thirst after the wrong things when he forever stained his presidency with his affair with Monica Lewinsky? Is not the problem in Northern Ireland between Protestants and Catholics--and in the Holy Lands between the Jews and Palestinians--the result of a misguided thirst? Think of the death, destruction and hatred that have resulted from the thirst for power ...

7. The World’s Favorite Scripture

Matthew 7:1-6

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James Merritt

... , no one likes fault finding critics. But there has been a backlash in this country against any type of criticism of any type of immoral behavior, no matter how bad it may be. Jonathan Alter, a writer for Newsweek magazine said concerning the Bill Clinton / Monica Lewinski episode: "This whole episode may eventually teach us more about the public's character than Clinton's. We live in the province of Papa-Don't- Preach where it is fine to be intolerant of trivial sins like smoking in public, but awkward to ...

8. Come, Holy Spirit, Come

Psalm 104:24-34

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J. Howard Olds

... these dust balls become living beings. May I ask you today. What has knocked the wind out of you lately? What has knocked the breath out of you recently? Hillary Clinton announced to the world this week that when her husband confessed to his affair with Monica Lewinski she could hardly breathe. She started gulping for air, began crying and yelling at Bill, wanting to wring his neck (maybe she should have, I don't know) but broken relationships can do that to you. They take the breath out of you. You gulp ...

9. From Lust to Love

1 Corinthians 13: 1

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J. Howard Olds

... did admit to Playboy Magazine that he had lusted for women in his heart from time to time. Born-again Jimmy Carter has never been able to live that statement down. Jay Leno and David Letterman continue to use the sexual games of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinski as fodder for late night comedy shows. It just won't go away. Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger is not likely to apologize anytime soon for a long-standing reputation of groping women. We make a joke out of it. It is just the American way ...

10. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

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James Merritt

... to truly ask for forgiveness of sin. We don’t even know how to apologize properly anymore. I don’t mean this in anyway politically, but I read something recently that just fascinated me. Many of us can remember when President Clinton had to go through the Monica Lewinski scandal. At first he said he had not engaged in any sexual activity with her and then in August of 1998 he was forced to admit that he indeed had done so. He went on television and gave a 5-minute speech, supposedly to confess the whole ...

11. Practicing What We Preach

Matthew 23:1-12

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Albert G. Butzer III

... for doing so. However, we have since learned that during that same time, Spitzer himself was hiring the services of a $1,000 per hour prostitute. Dennis Hastert has been in the news lately. During President Clinton’s tawdry extramarital affair with Monica Lewinsky, Congressman Hastert voted to impeach Clinton. Later as Speaker of the House, he twice tried to get the House to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage. But now, some young men have accused Hastert of sexually abusing them when ...

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