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Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... -known literature, dissertations and theses, and much more. Preachers and teachers of this generation could learn much from Dr. Criswell’s faithfulness to the gospel. Illustrating the Text False teaching is an ever-present reality. Quote: George Orwell. In his unpublished preface to Animal Farm (1945) Orwell wrote, At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that, or the ...

2. Tying Up A Strong Man

Mark 3:20-30, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18, Mark 3:31-35, Psalm 138:1-8

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William E. Keeney

... the child's welfare at heart. The child becomes a pawn in the antagonisms of the parents. The issue is not what is best for the child but who wins the battle between the parents. What is the true parent? 5. Casting Out Demons. The novel by George Orwell, 1984, proposed that the future society would have as slogans: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH, SLAVERY IS FREEDOM and WAR IS PEACE. Twisting of falsehood, slavery and war into goods are samples of Satan casting out demons. But can demons be used to cast out demons?

3. The Eighth Son

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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... . We live in a world where the race seems to go to the fleet of foot. The gold medals of wealth and fame are handed out to few. It seems as if the big and powerful rule the roost. It seems as if the prophecy of Big Brother in George Orwell’s 1984 is true, and perhaps the symbol of our age should be a warrior smashing in the face of a weak child. In a globe of Davids and Goliaths, the Goliaths usually grab the gold. The Kremlinites crush the Afghans. The rich get the Ritz and the poor get ...

4. A Father’s Friend

2 Samuel 9:1-13

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... recently presented a resume on a sampling of commencement speeches given to our graduating seniors. A theme common in many of these speeches is about the dangers we face in a big, impersonal society which treats people as things and things as people. George Orwell’s Big Brother relished treating people as numbers whose names were not important. Sometimes we treat Dad as if he were a machine; a machine we crank and dollar bills fall into our hands with the ease of a bank money machine user; a machine ...

5. Thanks for the Memories

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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Eric Ritz

... ? What is the "Middle C" missing in the Christian Church? It is the "Centrality of Christ." Father Henri Nouwen wrote, "The strategy of the principalities and powers is to disconnect us, to cut us off from the memory of God." Do you remember that in George Orwell''s provocative book, 1984, the first thing to be sacrificed for the new world order and system is the history of the past? Only when you can convince a people they are strangers in an alien land can you then re-educate them, because they have ...

6. What's Your Status Symbol?

Acts 10:23b-48

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Leonard Sweet

... the hermit is posturing somewhere" (61). If every subculture has its status symbols, here are the supposed status symbols of certain subcultures. For Manhattan parents, status is a kid who curls up with the classics, a ten-year-old who takes George Orwell's 1984 on vacation and actually reads it. · For retirement-villagers, status is a still valid driver's license. · For long haul truckers, status is millions of miles without a scratch. · For frequent fliers, status is The Platinum Club. · For Hollywood ...

7. The Ultimate Identity Thief

Galatians 3:15-25

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Leonard Sweet

... into a movie where the big secret on a horribly over-populated future Earth (set in 2022) was this: the most popular processed food stuff in this urban jungle, soylent green, was made out of dead people!!! And what about 1984 (1949)? Remember George Orwell's scary glimpse into a future where Big Brother listened to, recorded, photographed, knew all about what everyone was doing. Or what about all the popular sixties spy movies, which sang cool tunes about the government "giving you a number, and taking away ...

8. A Shepherd's Love

John 10:1-21

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King Duncan

... say, “I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me just as the Father knows me and I know the Father . . .” One of the most disturbing and influential books of the last century was a futuristic novel by George Orwell titled, 1984. Some of you undoubtedly were required to read 1984 in school. In this novel everyone is under complete surveillance by the authorities, mainly by video screens. Watching over this totalitarian state was an enigmatic dictator called Big Brother. The people are ...

9. The Good News about Marriage

Mark 10:1-12

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King Duncan

... “be found wearing a corset’’ when attending church. In Bowman, North Dakota, no man who is single can marry the girl of his dreams until he proves his manhood by presenting his future father‑in‑law with six blackbirds or three crows he shot on a Sunday. In Orwell, Vermont, it is illegal for a single person to be seen riding an ugly horse to church. I know, ladies, it is easier to find a good-looking horse than it is to find a good-looking man, but that’s what the law says. This tongue-in-cheek ...

10. Does Truth Matter?

John 18:33-37

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Brett Blair

George Orwell wrote in Time and Tide, 6 April 1940: "Reading Mr. Malcolm Muggeridge's brilliant and depressing book, The Thirties, I thought of a rather cruel trick I once played on a wasp. He was sucking jam on my plate, and I cut him in half. He paid no attention, merely ...

11. “God Looks Down from Heaven . . . to See If There Are Any Who Understand”

Psalm 53:1-6

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C. Hassell Bullock

... God’s work is perceptible only to those who believe. Quote: As the Iron Curtain was crumbling in 1989, the Manchester Guardian carried an editorial about the fall of the Iron Curtain and the collapse of communism. The article observed that George Orwell, in his book Nineteen Eighty-Four, forgot the Christian message and the power of Christ to overturn kingdoms and dethrone rulers and upset the systems of philosophers and politicians. The editorialist wrote: He forgot the power of Christ the King. Stalin ...

12. Free Indeed!

John 8:31-36

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April Yamasaki

"War is Peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength." In George Orwell's novel, 1984, these slogans are used to control the thoughts of the people. While their country was at war, the people were deceived into thinking it was peace. While they were kept subservient, they thought they were free. While they remained ignorant of what was really going on in ...

All animals are equal – but some animals are more equal than others.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.