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Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Seated on a dirty pad beside the walkway were two small children, a boy and girl, ages about 5 and 7. Obviously, they had been placed there by a guardian to beg. Their little hands were open and turned upwards as their brown eyes scanned the passers-by. Nellie stopped and spoke with them. She knew that the parents could be alcoholics or simply unemployed. Then this woman who earns $200 per month decided that if a risk was to be taken, it must be on the side of compassion. She placed some money in the hands ...

2. See My Hands and Feet

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... new life there. Yet such a conviction is at the heart of our faith. There is another beautiful love story. It concerns the love of Paul Tournier, one of the world's most beloved and respected Christian doctors, for his wife Nelly. In one of his books, Tournier describes how he and Nelly were able to talk about death after her first serious bout with coronary thrombosis while they were in Greece. She knew how gravely ill she was and that a second attack could leave her severely handicapped or could even be ...

3. Zechariah I: Stuck Like a Dope With a Thing Called Hope

Zechariah 9:14-17

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John E. Harnish

... a song of radiant hope and calls the people to live into God's vision for the future. Writing to a people who had just come out of 70 years as prisoners of Babylon, Zechariah now calls them to be "Prisoners of Hope." So for me in Advent, Nellie Forbush and Zechariah dance together... Stuck like a dope with a thing called hope, and I can't get it out of my heart. Rejoice greatly, daughters of Zion Shout aloud, O daughters of Jerusalem Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope And their joyful dance has ...

4. Moving At The Speed Of Light: Nazareth: Family Ties

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... we to discourage another when one has heard a call of God? Focus on Christ! And belong to him, says Paul. Clergyman/songwriter Benjamin Hanby wrote the children's Christmas song, "Up On The Housetop"; the hymn, "Who Is He In Yonder Stall?"; and "Darling Nelly Gray," the pre-Civil War ballad which swept the nation advancing anti-slavery values. He was called the "Uncle Tom's Cabin" of song. And it is not surprising that Ben would turn his attention to anti-slavery concerns, because his father, William Hanby ...

5. Ludwig Nommensen Missionary To The Bataks

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

... a man who talks about his faith; where there are two there is a prayer meeting; where there are three you find a church -- and with four a choir. The little congregation of 20 Bataks in New York City supports this saying.” Bibliography Nellie DeWaard, Pioneer in Sumatra, London: China Inland Mission, 1962. Paul B. Pedersen, Batak Blood and Protestant Soul, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Win. Berdinans, 1970. Ph. Lumban Tobig, The Structure of the Toba-Batak Belief in the High God, Translated by C. A. Eijken and ...

6. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... , lack of understanding, lack of patience." It is a matter of overtones; a matter of sensitivity; a matter of inner beauty or inner ugliness. We need the grace of Christ. William Essex, in the novel, My Son, My Son, had failed to show love to his wife, Nellie. She had died young, partly due to his thoughtlessness. Essex was heard to mutter to himself as he left the grave: "I might have been a worse man, and a better husband."3 And so might we all. We are so unaware of that awkward thoughtlessness that ...

7. What Would It Take?

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , TO HELP US GET OUR PRIORITIES IN ORDER. In 1963, Texas Governor John Connally was injured in the assassination attack on President John F. Kennedy. Connally says that the experience profoundly changed his life. In a newspaper interview, Connally explained, "As far as Nellie (his wife) and I are concerned, I think the more lasting impression it made on us was that it inevitably brought into sharper focus what's really important in life. And we have since that time tried to act and conduct ourselves in ...

8. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

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King Duncan

... condition--that she would be ready a half-hour ahead of time. If she was not ready on time, we agreed I would tear up the tickets. "When I got to her home about 20 minutes before time, her mother met me at the door and sadly shook her head, `Nellie will never be ready in time. She just came in.' I walked the floor and I watched the clock as the minutes dragged by and I got more and more furious. Finally, when the half-hour was up, I flung myself in a chair by the table and picked up ...

9. Outrageous Love

John 13:1-15

Sermon

Shirley Gupton Lynn

... : Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!" John 13:9 Early one April a retired Kansas farm couple were rescued from their car where they had been trapped by snowdrifts for thirteen days. Orville and Nellie Obendorf said they survived the ordeal with the aid of prayer, blankets, one copy of Good Housekeeping Magazine, and two boxes of Girl Scout cookies – peanut butter and mint. The sturdy couple, shaken but unharmed, were finally spotted by a local farmer clearing a ...

10. Like a Waving Flag

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the midst of that dream, reality breaks in. The next three lines are “and then it goes back, and then it goes back, and then it goes back.” In March of 2010, some Canadian artists like Justin Bieber and Drake, Avril Lavigne, Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Offishall, Nelly Furtado, and more, got together and recorded this song as a relief effort for Haiti. It is the Canadian version of the Michael Jackson “We are the World,” though it is becoming a global anthem that is inspiring our kids to raise the flag of ...

11. Team Work Is Essential

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A guy drives into a ditch, but luckily, a farmer is there to help. He hitches his horse, Buddy, up to the car and yells, "Pull, Nellie, pull!" Buddy doesn't move. "Pull, Buster, pull!" Buddy doesn't budge. "Pull,Coco, pull!" Nothing. Then the farmer says, "Pull, Buddy, pull!" And the horse drags the car out of the ditch. Curious, the motorist asks the farmer why he kept calling his horse by the wrong name. "Buddy' ...

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

Nellie McClung

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

Nellie McClung

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

Nellie McClung

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