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Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... resulted from a runaway hubcap. It seems that a woman trying to retrieve her runaway hubcap veered across three lanes of traffic, causing cars in each lane to collide. Finally, a truck driver, attempting to avoid the tie-up, ran his rig up a steep ... about it. There is a miraculous outcome to that story – Nathan is seeing well – but that is not the point. When we were going through that awful experience – receiving that news – that Nathan might go through life nearly blind – expressions of love and ...

2. Tradition Can Be Changed

Luke 2:41-52

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Cynthia Cowen

... the lights around it, and watered it daily. The women unpacked the ornaments and decorated it — taking roads down memory lane. "Here's Baby's First Christmas. You were so cute, Elsa." "Look! Here's Grandpa's Swedish horse." "Careful! That snowflake is ... been abruptly interrupted with the disappearance of their son. Nathan's parents found him safe under a coat rack right away. Jesus' parents found him safe in the temple court three days later. Nathan's mother scolded her son, and Jesus' mother scolded ...

3. The Knot: Frayed (Part 2)

1 Peter 3:1-7

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James Merritt

... for. Help me to understand my wife - her feelings, her moods, her needs.” The genie thought for a moment and then said, “How many lanes do you want on that bridge?” Men, the good news is with God all things are possible. It is imperative that we ask ... than your wife. Now, that is not always the case. A little boy named, Nathan, heard his dad telling his next door neighbor about a recent argument that he had with Nathan’s mother. Nathan’s dad said, “I let her know exactly where I stood and I told ...

4. When Life Seems Out Of Control

2 Samuel 18:1-18

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Timothy J. Smith

... we need someone else to point out what we ourselves cannot see. We are too close to examine our lives objectively. Like Nathan, this wise woman told David a parable. Again David was in the center of the parable and again David did not realize ... how it all started," David explained. "I was hooked in the adventure and the cash. I began to live in the fast lane." David attended all-night parties and bought himself "expensive clothes, antique cars, a waterfront house and a sailboat." David recalls bragging to ...

5. The Spin Zone

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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James Merritt

... picture of how one drop of sin can turn into a tidal wave of misery? For twenty years, David had been driving in the fast lane on the freeway called sexual pleasure. One night, he decided to take the exit marked, "Adultery", but instead he took the off ramp of "Murder ... next chapter and listen to what David finally said to his good friend, Nathan, who confronted him with the sin. "Then David said to Nathan, 'I have sinned against the LORD' And Nathan said to David, 'The LORD also has taken away your sin; you ...

6. Simon

Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... a runaway hubcap. It seems that a woman, trying to retrieve her runaway hubcap, veered across three lanes of traffic, causing cars in each lane, to collide. Finally, a truck driver, attempting to avoid the tie-up, ran his rig up the ... family has been overwhelmed with the concern and the caring this congregation and people everywhere expressed when they learned about our grandson Nathan’s birth defect – an undeveloped optic nerve. The most moving expressions of love and prayer have come from folks who have ...

7. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

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Lori Wagner

... www.designbuildsite.com. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text The Parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:25-37) Minor Text Nathan’s Parable of the Wealthy Sheep Thief (2 Samuel 12:1-9) Isaiah’s Parable of the Sorry Vineyard (Isaiah 5:1-7 ... this to his master. Then the owner of the house became angry and said to his slave, ‘Go out at once into the streets and lanes of the town and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind, and the lame.’ And the slave said, ‘Sir, what you ordered has been ...

8. God, The Good Ally

Exodus 20:1-17

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Ken Lentz

... the community, and for loving those who would become Israel's neighbors. King David later would be chastised by the prophet Nathan because he took for himself another man's wife. Even today, Iraqis invaded in their home by American soldiers searching for ... But there are still the cell phones that ring at the movies, the car driver behind that won't allow time for the car in the lane to her right to move in front of her, and the clerk at the checkout counter who regards the buyer as though she were a robot ...

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