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Acts 19:1-7

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Mark Trotter

... that God not only grants me life in the first place, in creation, and gives me life over again repeatedly, but God is always with me, empowering me to live the kind of life God wants me to live. There is a wonderful testimony to this in the writings of Reynolds Price, the North Carolina novelist, and professor at Duke. He wrote the special Christmas issue for Time Magazine last December. They asked him to write the story of Jesus using the latest archaeological and literary evidence, and his own imagination ...

2. A Taste Of Life

Mark 14:12-26

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William G. Carter

... we often take such a little piece of bread and sip a tiny cup. We have only a taste of what it means to belong to Christ. It is never the whole experience, but simply a taste. And a taste of life is enough to sustain us. In 1984, novelist Reynolds Price discovered he had a malignant tumor in his spine. There came a point in his illness when he felt the need to reconnect with his Methodist roots. Since he was staying with a cousin at the time, he asked her to contact her minister and request the sacrament of ...

3. When Storms Hit Home

Mark 4:35-41

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King Duncan

... Crosswalk.com August 9, 2019. https://www.crosswalk.com/family/marriage/divorce-and-remarriage/5-things-people-don-t-know-about-the-pain-of-divorce.html. 6. Dr. Thomas Long (http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/long_4603.htm). 7. [Reynolds Price, Letter to a Man On Fire (New York: Scribner, 1999), 25.] Cited by The Rev. Dr. Lewis Galloway, https://day1.org/weekly-broadcast/5d9b820ef71918cdf20031a6/does_jesus_care. 8. Glenn Scrivener in sallysjourney. 9. “Arkansas woman texted father's number every day ...

4. Like Cupped Hands

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... but was at the complete disposal of the male head of the family." (2) This capricious attitude left women in a vulnerable state. JESUS SEEMS TO BE SAYING THAT THERE IS NO REASON FOR DIVORCE--an answer that satisfied neither side. The novelist Reynolds Price finds this to be the most striking aspect of Mark's gospel. He writes, "Especially imposing is his absolute forbidding of divorce on any grounds." (3) Jesus' ultimate statement on marriage is: "Therefore what God has joined together, let no one put ...

5. Is the Doctor in Today?

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... and with faith and tell him all about your troubles. Like Jairus, your faith might be tested because it seems like he’s somehow delayed. But delay is not denial. Delay is not rejection. God is no respecter of persons. All are important to Jesus. Reynolds Price, the writer and professor of English at Duke, has recently written a book on the gospels. When asked in a television interview what attracted him to Jesus, he said, “The striking thing to me about Jesus is that he showed compassion to all he met ...

6. Behold, the One Who Betrays Me Is With Me

Luke 22:14-34

Sermon

Will Willimon

... good. But scratch below the surface and you will find a darkness and a depth of betrayal unfathomable. I for one am glad that Judas was there that night. If he had not been, how could I be here tonight? Last year about this time, when writer Reynolds Price read from his Gospel of Mark, after his reading - and you know how Mark treats the disciples, as complete dolts and buffoons - this graduate student comes up to me on the way out and asks, “Did they ever get the point?” “What do you mean," I asked ...

7. Let Us Make A Name For Ourselves

Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41

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Richard A. Jensen

... 're going to find yourself so unhappy after you're No. 1," he was quoted as saying. "There's only one way to go. You can't stay there, so you're going to drop eventually, and you have to prepare yourself for that." 71 Mr. Reynolds paid a steep price for falling from his No. 1 ranking. Being god, he discovered, was very hard on his body. "I was tired, depressed, hyperventilating, fainting all the time," he said in the interview. There were rumors at the time that he was dying from AIDS. His friends quickly ...

8. Generic Christians Or Disciples?

Matthew 16:21-28

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King Duncan

... . It did not take him long to discover how costly this decision would be. He told his pastor of a very real dilemma he was now facing. "I have been engaged in price-fixing with some of my supposed competitors," he said. He went on to tell his pastor about rigging bids and how he and his friends profited from this scheme. "We have been ... Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1993), pp. 101-102. 5. "Can We Learn the Mystery of Crossing Over to Love?" Barbara Reynolds. USA TODAY, February 26, 1993, p. 13A.

9. Entitlements

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to deserve victory?" asks Pitino. "According to Churchill, victory comes only to those who work long and hard, who are willing to pay the price in blood, sweat, and tears. Hard work is also the basic building block of every kind of achievement: Without it, everything else is ... 1992). 2. Bruce Larson, The Communicator's Commentary: Luke (Dallas: Word, Inc., 1983), 236-237. 3. Rick Pitino and Bill Reynolds Success Is a Choice : Ten Steps to Overachieving in Business and Life, 1997. 4. Leonard R.N. Ashley, The ...

10. Easter In November

Luke 20:27-40

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King Duncan

... kingdom of this world--not of the next. "The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, the kingdom of God is like a pearl of great price, the kingdom of God is like yeast which a woman put in bread, the kingdom of God is within you, you are not far from the kingdom ... . Roger Lowenstein, Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist, found in Thoughts of Chairman Buffett, compiled by Simon Reynolds (New York: HarperBusiness, 1998). 5. The Comedian Who Choked to . . . by the Editors of Fortean Times, Cader Books ...

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