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Ron Lavin
... God is written in our hearts and that all people are called to obey it (Romans 2:15). "When a culture ignores the moral law," C. S. Lewis said, "such spiritual concepts of the Old and New Testaments as atonement and redemption make little sense. Without a law to transgress and a Law-maker to ... it be said of us, that like Peter and John, we are people who have been with Jesus. 1. Ron Lavin, The Great I Am (Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Co., 1995). 2. As quoted by Armand Michael, Jr. in The Question of God (New York: Free ...
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King Duncan
... in the Holy Land. Three years later he wrote a Christmas poem that reflected how much he was touched. Lewis Redner, the church organist, composed a melody to accompany Brooks’ poem. The result was a beloved Christmas carol that begins ... hope of the world; he is the hope of each of us gathered here this day. Just a few years ago a devoted pastor named Ron Mehl lost his twenty-three year long struggle with leukemia. He began his battle with this dread disease only seven years into a remarkable ministry ...
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King Duncan
... .” And that’s true. Without Mary’s obedience to God, the Christmas story would be quite different. “Obedience,” wrote C. S. Lewis, “is the key to all doors.” I read recently about another remarkable young woman named Maria Dyer. Maria was born in 1837 ... gift of Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen. 1. From the Internet. Author unknown. 2. C. S. Lewis, Yours, Jack: Spiritual Direction from C. S. Lewis (New York: HarperCollins, 2008), 152. 3. Source: The Jubilee Story of the China Inland Mission, Marshall ...
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King Duncan
... be a valuable lesson to him and will lead him to genuine repentance. And now, O Father, wilt thou send another rattlesnake to bite Ron, and another to bite Little John, and another really big one to bite the old man. For years we have done everything we know ... we see foolishness take a toll on our bodies, our relationships, our reputations, on our witness to others. The late humorist Lewis Grizzard once said that thinking about God’s final judgment over our lives scared the “you-know-what” out of him ...
Teach the Text
Ronald W. Pierce
... false wisdom is especially dangerous in those with influence. Culture: The modern Scientology movement began with L. Ron Hubbard’s self-help book Dianetics in 1952. Its beliefs, which include spiritual beings caught in human ... . God equips us for the contexts he calls us to. Children’s Book: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis. In Lewis’s book, siblings Peter, Susan, and Lucy receive unexpected gifts when Father Christmas appears in their adventure. Though they are unaware of the ...
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King Duncan
... in their own mold. Jesus WAS a great teacher although he admitted that everything he taught may be found in the Jewish Law. C. S. Lewis in his book GOD IN THE DOCK decries the idea that Jesus was special simply because of his teachings. He writes, "We may note in ... living embodiment of that Grace. And ultimately it cost him his life. In his book, BECOMING A WHOLE PERSON IN A BROKEN WORLD, Ron Lee Davis tells about a young woman named Marie who was admitted to a mental hospital in Europe. She was in a ...
7. Come Home For New Year's
Jeremiah 30:1--31:40
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King Duncan
... go home again. "Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back." 1. J.R. Miller, THE 901 BEST JOKES (Nashville, Tn. 1991). 2. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. 3. Lewis R. Timberlake, IT'S ALWAYS TOO SOON TO QUIT (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1988). 4. M. Hirsh Goldbert, THE BOOK OF LIES (New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1990), pp. 4445. 5. Stephen Friedman, CITY MOVES (New York: McGrawHill Publishing Co., 1989 ...
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Leonard Sweet
... , for life or death. Psychologist James Hillman talks of a "blue fire" within us that haunts and hounds us. Canadian theologian Ron Rolheiser, a member of a religious congregation called the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate, refers to a "holy longing" within each ... to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water." C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity, rev. and enl. ed. [New York: MacMillan, 1960], 137.) Conclusion: Do you burn? Julia "Butterfly" Hill so burned for an ...
9. Why?
Job 3:11-12, 16, 20, 23
Sermon
James Merritt
... away from God; it should force you to turn to God. Indeed that is always one purpose of evil. It not only challenges your faith, it changes your focus. C. S. Lewis once said, "God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world ... Zacharias, Cries of the Heart, pp.66-67. 3 Cited by Ron Dunn, When Heaven is Silent, p. 67. 4 Ibid., p. 68. 5 Ibid., pp. 22-23. 6 Cited by Alister McGraff, Intellectuals Don't Need God, p, 104.
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James Merritt
... open and shut case with overwhelming evidence that pointed to O. J. Simpson as the murder of Nichole Brown, his ex-wife, and Ron Goldman. When Judge Itto's clerk, Deidra Robertson read the jury's verdict of, "Not guilty" Nichole's mother looked up and said ... . It reminds us of just how dependant upon God we really are and it forces us to focus on God. That is why C. S. Lewis called suffering and pain, "God's megaphone". Here is what he said, "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience ...
11. Look At Your Fixations!
Deuteronomy 26:1-15
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Carl Jech
... into the mainstream. To look at our destructive fixations or at our "bad memories" can be extremely beneficial for us. L. Ron Hubbard's Scientology/Dianetics religion is based upon clearing the soul (or "Thetan" as he calls it) of "engrams" (bad memories ... usually from very early on. Mozart and Mendelssohn composed and performed music even when they were very small children. Bobby Lewis, the acting teacher who has taught such people as Henry ("the Fonz") Winkler, Meryl Streep, Karl Malden, Katherine Hepburn ...
12. Ashes for Remembering
Joel 2:1-2, 12-17
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Ron Lavin
In our Judeo-Christian heritage, ashes are for mourning — a symbol of loss, weeping — a signal of deep emotion, repentance — a sign of needed change and sincerity — a desire to be conformed to the image of God. But mostly, ashes are for remembering. Henri Nouwen, the Roman Catholic writer, tells us that from a biblical point of view remembering means more than recalling an event or person. Remembering means participation and actualizing former events and people.1 By remembering, we enter into the past. ...
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