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1. Chickens with Eyeglasses
2 Corinthians 12:1-10
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King Duncan
... (1) What a nice response. No wonder the Bible lifts up humility as a cardinal virtue and pride as a deadly vice. Robert C. Roberts tells about a friend of his, a psychologist, who once did an experiment in which he put eyeglasses on chickens. The glasses ... to prayer that he had never experienced before in his life, even after his back had healed. (4) Certainly during that time, Ben Patterson prayed that God would heal him. But what he didn’t foresee was how God would use his time of disability to help ...
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King Duncan
... the world's people, rich or poor, young or old, deserving or undeserving. Nobody is too insignificant to be beyond His concern. Pastor Robert Shannon has made an interesting observation about people in Ghana, Africa. Many people in Ghana are very devout. "They express it in the ... youngster's patience was tried. "I told you, Granddad, once you know about the umbrella that's all you need to know." Patterson said, "But what are you going to tell the folks who come to church the next week?" Jamie said, "I'm going ...
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James Merritt
... story is humorous, and yet we are living in a society that is hungering for honesty in their leadership. James Patterson and Peter Kim wrote a fascinating book called, The Second American Revolution. They interviewed over 1,000 Americans and asked ... be dishonest. I was reading about a book the other day called The Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations. Lehigh University Economist, Robert Thornton, came up with some clever ways to recommend people you work with that you would like to get rid of. ...
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Eric Ritz
... United States as well." It was said that Ingersoll's funeral service was one of the most depressing events in history. Once Robert Ingersoll held a Bible in his hand and declared, "In 15 years, I will have this book in the morgue." Fifteen years ... This was done to give the people an anchor. It was done to provide a "centering" focus for the people. Dr. Eugene H. Patterson, pastor of Christ Our King Church in Bel Air, Maryland, shares an important insight concerning the power of worship: "Failure to worship ...
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King Duncan
... What map did you bring with you? All of us are familiar with maps, but we may not associate them with Easter. Before British actor Robert Morley died, he requested that his credit cards be buried with him. After his funeral, the LONDON TIMES was filled with letters from people ... the meaning of life. An enemy becomes a welcome friend. The stone has been rolled away. 1. Ward Patterson in Eileen H. Wilmoth, 365 DEVOTIONS, (Cincinati, Ohio: The Standard Publishing Company, 1993). 2. Colonel John R. Alexander, ...
6. Designer Religion
Matthew 23:1-39
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King Duncan
American Humorist Robert Benchley was leaving an elegant tavern one evening. As usual he had a little too much liquid refreshment and was a little tipsy. He found himself face to face with a uniformed man whom he took to be the doorman. “ ... , the easier it is to forget one’s self and to center one’s life in others. 1. Contributed. Source unknown. 2. Lagos Egri, The Art of Dramatic Writing (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960). 3. Fable attributed to Doug Patterson, Clergy Journal, March 1986, page 10.
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Robert G. Tuttle
In the overcrowded conditions of our modern world loneliness has possessed us: "He’s a real Nowhere Man, Sitting in his Nowhere Land, Making all his Nowhere Plans for nobody." Such emptiness, such frustration, such loneliness depresses us. What’s to be done about it? This feeling of hopelessness has been around a long time. The ancient writer of Psalm 22 cried out: Dear God, right now I feel like a worm, not a person. I feel so used by other people. And to make it worse, I feel resented by the very same ...
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