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Luke 16:19-31
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Leonard Sweet
... , while the other head is in the sand and dirt, so enmeshed in the grind and grime of eking out a living in a service economy that they can't lift up their heads for hope or help or anything much else beyond survival. Robert Reich, a liberal economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, portrays a more unnerving scenario. In his book The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism (New York: Knopf, 1991) he argues that America's economic and political elites have "seceded" from ...
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Eric Ritz
... three weeks of watching football on television, we have seen for the Buffalo-Bills the importance of having a capable second-string quarterback in Frank Reich to take the place of Jim Kelly. He did an outstanding job in my opinion. I can only imagine how hard it was after ... life. They will be sadly disappointed." (2) Are you like that? Or are you like Timothy? Are you like Dr. Robert McQuilkin? Are you willing to be a servant even when it means playing second violin? If not, you are not a pilgrim, which ...
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King Duncan
... had several broken bones, including a broken back, a concussion, and other injuries. None of his injuries were life threatening. Robert told his mom from his hospital room not to worry, that he was okay. (1) I don't know if I would ... some changes which bring significant good into our lives. And we thank God for them. We can see changes in history--the fall of the Third Reich, for example, or of the Soviet Union, or even Saddam Hussein--that we could say, "This was from God." Sometimes we can look back at ...
4. Blinding Specks
Matthew 7:1-6
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Herchel H. Sheets
... talking one night. The man has experienced failure in marriage, and the woman has been through the horrors of the Third Reich in Germany. Miller gives us not only their conversation, but some of their secret thoughts as well. The man says to ... more attention to the why, and not just to the what, of others’ faults and wrongs, we might be more sympathetic toward them. Robert Burns wrote: Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is ...
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King Duncan
... of his day. He could have spread circles of influence that would still be rippling to this daybut he turned away. Robert Schuller once asked Coretta Scott King where she got the dream that kept her going. Mrs. King responded, "It was while I ... expecting it to be of any interest to anyone but scholars. To make a long story short, THE RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH by William Shirer made publishing history. It sold out of its first printing on the first day. Critics praised the writing. Foreign sales were ...
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Wallace H. Kirby
... and the suffering and the destruction. Helmut Thielicke reports the same experience: (As) ... terrible as those (latter days of Third Reich under Allied bombings) were, times when we were surrounded by bizarre ruins and daily expected our own death, we often ... 1653 was not a good time for religion in England. Destruction and apathy about the faith and the church were widespread. But Sir Robert Shirley saw beyond the evil and chaos - he founded a church. And on a plaque in that church is this tribute to this ...
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King Duncan
... . Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” 1. Rev. Eldon Reich, http://www.aberdeenmethodist.info/Reichsermons/thanksgiving2007.pdf. 2. http://www.lectionarysermons.com/june_18_00.htm. 3. Rev. Robert W. Bohl, Day 1 http://day1.org/851-what_has_religion_done_for_you. 4. George E. Vandeman, I Met A Miracle (Nashville: Southern Publishing Association, 1971). 5. The Reverend Phillip W. Martin, Jr., http://eman ...
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Robert B. Chisholm Jr.
Big Idea: The Lord expects his chosen servants to promote righteousness and to find hope in his faithful promises. Understanding the Text This poem is titled “the last words of David” (v. 1). It begins with a divine oracle that the Lord’s Spirit has spoken through David (vv. 2–4). This is followed by David’s response, which reflects on God’s covenantal commitment to him (vv. 5–7). The reference to David as the Lord’s “anointed” (v. 1) links this poem with the one that immediately precedes it (cf. 2 Sam. 22 ...
9. No Greater Love
John 13:1-17, 31b-35
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Robert Leslie Holmes
"When Jesus Christ calls a man, he bids him, 'Come and die!' " Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and theologian wrote that sentence in his cell on April 9, 1945. He was within hours of the hangman's rope being placed around his neck in the Flossenburg concentration camp in Nazi Germany. Son of a leading authority on psychology, neurology, and a university professor, as a young man Dietrich had turned away from the life of prestige and privilege that would naturally befall him in order to pursue his ...
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