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1. The Grace Question: Are You A Teacher...and Yet Do Not Understand?

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... Slowly, she unfolded the paper and a quarter fell out. Spreading the paper out in front of her, she found a note written on it in Richard's 7-year-old scrawl. "I done it for love." Love is a matter of grace. It's always gift. And we could go on ... that this was the first time that anyone had ever asked her to dance in her whole life." (Norman Neaves, quoted by Donald Shelby, "Eureka", July 29, 1990. That's a picture of it -- grace. All grace. Can you imagine how that young woman felt? Unattractive, crippled ...

2. The Grace Question: “Are You a Teacher…and Yet Do Not Understand These Things?”

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , she found a wad of paper inside. Slowly, she unfolded the paper and a quarter fell out. Spreading the paper out in front of her, she found a note written on it in Richard’s 7-year-old scrawl. “I done it for love.” Love is a matter of grace. It’s always a gift. The most important things that are ours are ours because of grace ... happened. Can you imagine how she felt? If so, then you are beginning to understand grace. 1. Donald Shelby, “Rescue”, August 12, 1990 2. Norman Neaves, quoted by Donald ...

3. The Lord's Prayer: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the gospel of our Savior Jesus Christ who died for our sins." [1] Now, consider this scene from one of Shakespeare''s plays, Richard III. Remember the scene in which Lady Anne, the widow of Edward, Prince of Wales, follows the open coffin of her father-in- ... of forgiveness to us. If hatred is the driving force in our lives, we will waste ourselves going over the wrong bridge. Donald Shelby, in Ernest Gordon''s THROUGH THE VALLEY OF KWAI, describes what he and his fellow prisoners of war went through as they ...

4. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

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Maxie Dunnam

... saddle our dreams and accept the fact that some of them will not come true, that certain ambitions will not be met.” (Donald Shelby, “Wanting our Cake When the Party’s Over”) So, we need to stay awake, because we never know when something’s important is ... ourselves in family, in love, in ministry, because we never know when something important is going to be taken from us. Richard Sewall, Professor of English at Yale, shared a word in a Convocation Address at Williams College, which I would like to ...

5. The Testimony of a Tax Collector

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... reaching out to. Some lonely young person. Some fatherless child. Some economically challenged family. Who know what will come out of it? Maybe some day they will have a gospel attributed to them as well. 1. SALES UPBEAT, June 24, 1993, p. 5. 2. Reuters. 3. "Clippings," compiled by Barry Shelby, WORLD PRESS REVIEW, December 1995, p. 39. 4. The Associated Press. 5. Much of this information is based on a sermon by Dr ...

6. The Lord's Prayer: Deliver us from Evil

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... should never waste time debating EVIL, but instead determine ways to out-think and out-work the crafty powers of EVIL. H. Richard Niebuhr, who had great insights into the human condition, said, "We have made Christian faith the story of how a God without wrath ... , just make the response that God and the Holy Bible instruct us to make. I close with a story told by Donald Shelby, a distinguished colleague in Santa Monica, who clipped this incident from a column by Penelope McMillian in the May 8, 1992, edition ...

7. When Life Seems to Be Going in the Wrong Direction

Philippians 1:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... Yes, please keep on dreaming even when your dreams have been shattered, broken, or temporarily put on hold by the roadblocks of life. Remember the words from Oscar Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers, who penned these famous words: Climb every mountain, search high and low, Follow every by-way, every path you know, Climb every mountain, ford every stream, Follow every ... 44. 2. Thanks to Zelma Pattillo, found in July-August, 1990 edition of Preaching, page 33. 3. Thanks to Donald J. Shelby for this illustration.

8. God Has No Grandchildren

John 3:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... to His word, we simply turn to Him and accept his grace and let the Spirit blow where it will to refresh our spirits, to give us life. 1. Story quoted by Don Shelby in “Datelines for Decision,” March 1987 2. Clarence Jordan, “Metamorphosis”, Jubilee, The Upper Room, 1976, p. 38 3. Rev. Clovis G. Chappell, D.D., More Sermons on Biblical Characters, Richard R. Smith, Inc. New York, 1930, pp. 54-55 4. Andrew Watterson Blackwood, This Year of Our Lord, The Westminster Press, Philadelphia, pp. 96-97

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