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Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you know, Anita Bryant was a self-appointed crusader against gay rights a few years ago. Then she went through a divorce, and acquired a drug habit, and was hospitalized for a long time. And today, she's not the same person she was back then. This is what Sydney Harris wrote: He said, "Now that her world has come unstuck, and she is beginning to reglue it, I feel free to point out that she is a better person than when she was so busy being a 'good person.' Sometimes we have to fall from grace to know what ...

2. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

3. Grieve Not The Holy Spirit

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... who went to a newsstand with Sydney Harris to buy a paper one spring day. Powell greeted the newsman very courteously, but Harris' surprise, the man behind the magazines grunted in a gruff way, shoved a paper at Harris and then very discourteously slapped his ... treat you so rudely?" "Yes, I'm afraid he does," replied Powell. "And are you always so polite and friendly to him?" asked Harris. "Well, yes, I certainly try to be," Powell responded. "But why keep trying to be polite and pleasant to him when he keeps ...

4. Acquaintances Or Friends?

2 Samuel 16:15--17:29

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... does not mean we cannot have differences of opinion with a friend. On the contrary, it is only with a friend that you can have a worthwhile debate. It is the mutual covenant of acceptance, love, and trust that frees us for genuine exchange. Sydney Harris, who for many years wrote a daily column for the Chicago Daily News, was right on the button when he commented one day: "Strangers can only be polite; it requires friends to quarrel. When strangers have an argument about politics, religion, or art, they ...

5. The Real Meaning of Christmas

Luke 2:22-40

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The late columnist, Sydney Harris, put his finger on the real meaning of Christmas when he wrote that the real meaning can be summed up in two sentences from Jesus' lips: "If anyone says 'I love God' and hates his neighbor, he is a liar." John 4:20 and "Inasmuch as you did it to ...

6. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Imagine a DC10 preparing to land; it is filled with preschoolage children. Some of the children sleep; others play and laugh; still others cry out for harried flight attendants' attention. But just before landing, something goes wrong, and the plane plummets to the ground, killing all aboard. "Ten minutes latereven before emergency ... Master. What's yours? 1. Tom Peterson, "Child Survival," THE CHRISTIAN CENTURY, July 18, 1987. 2. Joseph Donkers, CREATION AND HUMAN DYNAMISM, 1985. 3. Sydney H. Schanberg

7. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

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King Duncan

... machine?" he asked. "It depends," she replied. "What does it say on your shirt?" He yelled back, "University of Michigan." How many times have you heard the expression, "What we have here is a failure to communicate"? Pollster Sydney J. Harris once said something I thought was interesting. He said, "The two words "亙nformation' and "歪ommunication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through." Maybe that is the ...

8. Titles, Credentials, or Resurrection Power

Philippians 3:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... . There was a young man, who claimed to be an atheist, who came to speak with the famous preacher of yesteryear, Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick of Riverside Church, New York City. "Dr. Fosdick, I listened to your sermons, and I just don''t believe them. ... Apostle Paul did not want the Philippians to exchange one form of legalism for another one. It would be like a prisoner in Sydney, Australia, that I heard about recently. It seems that a certain prisoner managed to escape from the facility. He hid in a delivery ...

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.