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Hebrews 12:1-2, 12-17

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Leonard Sweet

... and drink, where we live, who we love, what we throw away - all have literally become matters of life and death. An enduringly popular early TV game show was called "Truth or Consequences." A selected contestant was first interviewed by the show host (Ralph Edwards, Jack Bailey or Bob Barker), then asked to answer a nonsense riddle. If the contestant failed to answer the riddle (few ever could) before Beulah the Buzzer sounded, he or she had to pay the consequences. This usually meant performing some silly ...

2. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... to him. He says, “Oh! Father!” “Is that you Ralph?” “Just out for a walk, I didn’t know it was you Father. I thought you were a tree or something.” So they walk along together. So, Ralph says, “Have you heard the one about the Norwegian, Father ... ease of conscience, the assurance of God’s good pleasure and eternal life will affect any price. Many years ago, King Edward II and his Queen Alexandra were out walking on the moors some distance from their summer palace at Windsor. Suddenly, the ...

3. Victorious, but Not Unscarred

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

... remember the famous exchange between Thoreau and his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson. “Henry, what are you doing in there?” asked Emerson when he strolled by the jail one day. “Ralph, what are you doing out there?” replied Thoreau. The ... if on that day when we see him face to face, he will examine us for scars too. 1. http://reuters.com. 2. Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2008), pp. 255-256. 3. James S. Hewett, ed., Illustrations Unlimited, p. 165 ...

4. The Lonesome George Church

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

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Leonard Sweet

... .” –as quoted in Lorraine Kisly, The Prayer of Fire: Experiencing the Lord’s Prayer (Brewster, Mass.: Paraclete Press, 2004), 50. Ralph Winter (US Center for World Mission) said some years ago: "Jesus didn't call us to plant churches, He called us ... life looks when you hold it up to the light of the gospel of the God whose nature is to love of all humankind. --Edward Schillebeeckx, For the Sake of the Gospel (New York: Crossroad, 1992), 28 as quoted in Brennan Manning, Abba’s Child: The Cry of the ...

5. Success: Ultimate and Unlimited

Revelation 7:9-17

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... is evident is the work of the Holy Spirit, continually enabling Christ’s Body to be One. J. Ralph Shotwell, in his book, Unity Without Uniformity, says: "The postdenominational community Church movement is not hostile to ... in his Epistle: "For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice." (3:16) The great Puritan divine, Jonathan Edwards, has gone down in history in far too many books as being the author of the sermon, "Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God ...

6. Religion and Politics

Isaiah 1:1-31

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David E. Leininger

... George W. Bush, but polls now indicate that this year they are likely to vote in large numbers for John Kerry and Ralph Nader. This may constitute one of the most dramatic changes of heart on the part of any major voting bloc ever.(4) ... legislators elected U.S. senators, and the next year, on the sixth ballot, and after changing his vote, Marsh cast the deciding vote for Edward Hannegan as senator from the state of Indiana. In 1846, when the U.S. Senate was sharply divided over whether to declare war ...

7. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

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King Duncan

... IT MEANS, FIRST OF ALL, DON'T SHUT THE DOOR PREMATURELY ON THE POSSIBILITY OF A FAVORABLE OUTCOME. In 1912, at the second Indianapolis 500, Ralph DePalma took the lead after only two laps. For more than 6 hours he not only kept the lead but increased the distance between himself ... speech. But he eventually regained it and then moved to a farm near Corinth, Vermont. There he met a writer named Edward Ziegler. Ziegler went to see Jackson for some help with several personal problems. He was a fan of Jackson, had ...

8. A Portion of Thyself

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Wayne Brouwer

... as peaceful and as prosperous as the days of Antonius Pious (138-161 AD), who ruled Rome in the second century. Edward Gibbon, in his magnificent treatise The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, said that the times of Antonius Pious were ... deposit from God to be shared in his name as others call for it? Will you share? “Do you care?” That most of all says Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.” Is that the gift you give ...

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