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Mark 6:7-13

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Charles R. Leary

... do but wait and hope the girls would mature beyond this level of behavior. In the meantime, he should get on with his life “shake the dust from his feet” and go on. Tough advice, but there are occasions when such advice must be heeded. Teenager Ryan White and his family shook the dust off their feet as they left the little community in Indiana. The sixteen-year-old was rejected at his hometown school over the issue of AIDS. A widowed lady went into extended grief over the death of her husband. Every ...

2. I Have Seen the Lord

John 20:1-18

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King Duncan

... desperation she stooped and allowed herself one last look inside the burial vault. Imagine her dismay when she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain. They said to her, “Woman, why are you weeping?” She said to them, “Because ... could understand the needs of the community. In 1970, Leo Ryan was named chair of the state’s commission to reform prisons. In order to understand the actual conditions inside the prisons, Leo Ryan asked to be admitted to Folsom State Prison, at the ...

3. Zophar’s Final Words for Job

Job 20:1-29

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Daniel J. Estes

... the final speech by Zophar, and it is apparent that he is resolutely fixed in his position. Zophar views life in black-and-white terms as he presents an extreme form of retribution theology. Looking only at the negative side of the equation, Zophar insists that God ... governors of Illinois (representing both political parties) have been tried for some kind of political manipulation (George Ryan and Rod Blagojevich). George Ryan was sent to jail, even having to stay there while his wife was dying of cancer. Rod ...

4. Are You Under Arrest?

Heb 5:11-13; 10:39

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Robert Noblett

... making - the prison of sin, the prison of illusion, the prison of despair. "A Lady Named Olive" is a modern parable written by Pat Ryan, and it is really the story of a jailbreak. A lady named Olive owned two shopping bags full of words. One bag was plain ... her with other people. Words like share and care, grow and touch and listen and love and yes. Olive’s other shopping bag was white with a big shoe printed on the sides of it. This bag carried words to keep people away. Words like no and ignore and ...

5. Will God Be With Us?

Exodus 33:12-23

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... ) And maybe it’s a good thing Presidents never get alone time. When they are alone, strange things can happen. According to one White House story, early in the days of President Jimmy Carter’s administration, he was using a restroom near the Oval Office and pressed ... /en/Articles/12-Fast-Facts-About-the-Secret-Service. 2. “5 Slapstick Stories from the Secret Service” by Ryan Menezes, Cracked.com, January 10, 2023. https://www.cracked.com/article_36538_5-slapstick-stories-from-the-secret-service.html. ...

6. Security: Deeply Personal

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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... with Christ and with his fellow man." In the classic Introduction to Christian Worship by James F. White, there is further acknowledgment: "The eucharist is the most characteristic structure of Christian worship. It is also ... have been living in the King’s castle all along, at times insensitive to our privileged place. Christian unity views that castle much as Thomas Ryan in Tales of Christian Unity, with a great house all on one level and rooms situated around a common dining room with one table. The ...

7. A Time of Transition

Joshua 5:9-12

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King Duncan

... about a rookie umpire who stood behind the plate at his first game. Legendary fastball pitcher Nolan Ryan was on the mound. The second pitch of the game was so fast that the umpire didn ... Old Man of the Mountain in New Hampshire. The Old Man of the Mountain was, until recently, a 40-foot tall natural outcropping of granite ledges in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, which looked like the profile of an old man. Two hundred years ago Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a famous story about it: “The Great Stone ...

8. A Circle for Dorothy

Ephesians 2:11-22, Ephesians 2:1-10

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John E. Harnish

... the presence of God and the circle of God's people, we name them as part of the family: Ethan, Katherine, Peter, God loves you. Ryan, Dylan, Tyler, Leonie, you are a part of this family. Dorothy, you are my child, my own. Grace means God seeks us, and when God ... was. It was a little cottage down by the lake, with petunias and day lilies on the bank down to the lake, rocks painted white with two metal chairs and a cast iron deer grazing in the front yard. He says the Krugers became very big in his imagination ...

9. Building God’s Kingdom: The Christian Challenge

Romans 10:8-13

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Richard Gribble

... that border the northeast regions of the Indian Ocean. Thousands of people, tourists on vacation lying on the pristine white sand beaches in the area, local fisherman and their families plying their trade, children playing in coastal areas, trains ... message of Jesus. Proponents of the Social Gospel in the Progressive Era, people like Walter Rauschenbusch, Washington Gladden, and John Ryan, and, more recently, in the 1990s college students across the country had it right when they collectively asked, "What ...

10. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

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King Duncan

... are afraid of the dark” she explained. “Sorry,” came the answer. “Only two batteries to a family. However. if you have relatives living with you, you can have two more for each one.” The woman just stood there paralyzed, feeling helpless when Ryan Abel, who is white, piped up. “I’m a relative,” he said. “So am I,” announced a young Chinese girl nearby. The Red Cross worker handed the woman six batteries with a smile. (2) When Jesus was preparing his disciples for the time when he would ...

11. Our Father...

Luke 11:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... there are shades of grey, why do so many churches insist that God the Father can only see in black and white? In today’s gospel text what kind of God image does Jesus hold up to his disciples when they beg him ... provider of daily bread, love, forgiveness, and mercy? In her study of the images of God grown men and women harbor, mental health nurse Juanita Ryan has found fearful, primal pictures populating people’s minds. “God is waiting around the next corner with a club to punish me.” “God has ...

12. We're On the Move Now!

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Ronald Love

... Lisa Beardsley-Hardy, the denomination’s director of education, said, “It’s almost an embarrassment to be celebrating 150 years.” Michael Ryan, a vice-president, said, “In one kind of way it really is a sad event.” Paul expected the immediate return ... was time for everyone to return to Selma. The black participants, most unable to drive, were in need of transportation. White brothers and sisters from across the nation, Freedom Riders they were called, came to carry them home. One volunteer was ...

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