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1. "American Express Traveler’s Cheques ..."

Luke 24:13-35

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Peter Rudowski

Parables - short stories - are very effective ways to communicate ideas. Again and again we read in the Scriptures parables which are used to communicate God’s message to us. Jesus is a master at the short story. He tells us that the kingdom of God is like a father who had a son leave home with his inheritance. The son is welcomed home after a disastrous journey. Or, the kingdom of God is like a w...

2. "At Beneficial You’re Good for More"

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Peter Rudowski

The day of Thanksgiving has come and gone. The football games have been played. The turkey has been devoured. We have had leftovers for several days now, and, at least for the moment, life has returned to some sense of normalcy. Yet in the back of our minds, we know what is yet to come. For many of us Thanksgiving is the beginning of the Christmas season. Thanksgiving is the time when we begin to ...

3. "I Was Hoping for a Longines"

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Peter Rudowski

Christmas is a time for giving gifts and Christmas is a time for receiving gifts. If you doubt that Christmas is for gift-giving, ask some children what they have been doing for the last three or four days and they’ll tell you they have been trying to guess what Santa Claus is going to bring them. Did Santa Claus hear their requests? They may have searched the closets, they may go look under the b...

4. "It’s Time to Send Christmas Cards"

2 Samuel 7:1-17

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Peter Rudowski

By now I would suspect that all of us have received a good number of Christmas cards. They come with regularity in these last days before the great holidays. All of us have a traditional way of dealing with those Christmas cards. In our family we put the cards in a decorative bowl. The cards are there for us to go through whenever we want. There are other traditions as well. As I visit in your hom...

5. "Lite Beer by Miller"

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

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Peter Rudowski

I am sure that all of us at one time or another have witnessed verbal battles between other people. I am sure that we have seen the people whom we love draw lines between themselves and others as they proclaim their position. We may have seen these battles as children as we watched our parents fight. Or, we who are parents have witnessed the verbal battles between our children which seem to go on ...

6. "Preference by L’oreal"

Lk 17:11-19 · Mt 6:25-33 · Jn 6:25-35

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Peter Rudowski

There is an ad on television about hair coloring. It’s called "Preference" by L’oreal. At the beginning of that ad, you see a very beautiful young lady. There is a face on the screen. Then you get a close-up of the hair, and it is beautiful. The hair is bouncy and in control. There are no split ends. The young woman is very, very happy as she shows you what this hair coloring can do. After about t...

7. Reach Out and Touch Someone

Acts 2:1-13

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Peter Rudowski

I doubt there is a person in this sanctuary who doesn’t know the AT&T ad which says, "Reach out and touch someone." Cincinnati Bell plays it for us all the time. It is on the television and on our car radios. We are bound to run into it at one of the commercial breaks. If we do not watch television or listen to the radio but we go to the ballgame, there it is on the big scoreboard in centerfield b...

8. "Two Men in White Suits"

Matthew 25:31-46

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Peter Rudowski

This morning’s Gospel lesson is a very difficult one for me. The lesson is a story or a saying concerning the coming of the end - the judgment. Jesus is laying out before his disciples what will happen when he comes for the second time. He tells us the questions that are going to be asked of each of us: "Did you feed the hungry, clothe the naked, did you visit the sick, did you make the stranger w...

9. "When E. F. Hutton Talks"

Jeremiah 26:1-24

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Peter Rudowski

There are a number of ways that the financial community calls upon us to check and reexamine our investments. How secure are we for the future, they ask. Are we getting the best return for our dollars or are there other ways to invest of which we are not even aware? No investment plan is right for everyone; therefore, we should seek an expert to help us. Magazines, television, and newspapers conti...

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