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Matthew 9:1-8

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Carroll Gunkel

... is no cancer in my spirit. The Lord has seen to that."13 Having met the Master over and over again, he died as he had lived, with courage, "steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord ...", knowing that his "labor (was) not in vain ..."14 Thomas Dooley died on January 18, 1961, at the age of thirty-four. On that day he once more met the Master, but not before he had shown us what a life committed to Jesus Christ could be and could do. 1. James Monahan, editor, Before I Sleep, (New York ...

2. Let Christ Speak The Word

Luke 7:1-10

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... you seeking to deepen our understanding of the ways in which you are present and working in our lives to heal us of our afflictions. May we in these moments receive the gift of wisdom. In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. You may be familiar with the life story of Thomas Dooley, the Christian military doctor who devoted his life to serving sick and dying people living in Vietnam and Laos in the 1950s. When he died of cancer in 1961, the world considered his death a tragedy, which indeed it was. One of Tom ...

3. With What Shall I Come?

Micah 6:1-8

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James Bjorge

... the following things in yourself and place them all on God’s altar: not interrupting when another is speaking; listening with interest and attention; saying thank you - pardon me - forgive me; being chivalrous to a lady; being sensitive to all around you. Dr. Thomas Dooley in this third book, "The Night They Burned the Mountain," gave his credo as to his ministering to the Vietnamese even after he had developed cancer: "This kind of medicine is my salvation, my hold on life. It is my means of expression ...

4. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Raymond Gibson

... Calvin and John Wesley and William Booth. I say "the communion of the saints," and I think of Dwight Moody and Tom Dooley and John XXIII and Gipsy Smith and countless millions of plain Christian people, whose memory is known only to God - and I ... we can say, even as did Job, "I know that my Redeemer liveth" (Job 20:25). We must confess in joy and awe, even as did Thomas, "My Lord and my God!" (John 20:28). When Horace Bushnell, the great Christian pastor-theologian, was a student at Yale, he claimed to be an ...

5. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

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King Duncan

... you take off the old patch of sin and put on the new patch of the Spirit of God? 1. Elaine Rivera, "License to drink," July 31, 2000, 47. HOMILETICS JULY 2001, p. 28. 2. Richard Exley, Deliver me (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998), p. 169. 3. Patrick O'dooley, Flight Plan for Living (New York: Mastermedia Limited), 1992. 4. Cited in Howard Hendricks, Gen. Ed., A Life of Integrity (Sisters, Oregon: Multnomah Books, 1997). 5. This information was found on the Internet. It is attributed to Adam Khan ...

6. People of Influence

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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King Duncan

... are you leaving your footprints? Are you determined to make a difference? What is your passion? How do you feel about other people? Answer these questions and you are on the path to becoming a person of influence. 1. James L. Garlow, The Twenty-One Irrefutable Laws of Leadership (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2004). 2. http://www.christianstudy.com/data/nt/habit_number_four.txt. Rev. Tom Dooley, 2 Peter 1:1-10. 3. My Daily Dose of Inspiration. 4. (New York: Doubleday, 2004).

7. Fit for God

Psalm 24:1-10

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King Duncan

... June 2002: "UMass Researcher Finds Most People Lie in Everyday Conversations." Cited in Mark D. Roberts, Dare to be True, Living in the Freedom of Complete Honesty (Waterbrook Press, 2003). 5. Kenman Wong, "Finding True North," Life@Work2, no. 5 (September/ October 1999): 48. Cited in Stephen R. Graves and Thomas G. Addington, The Fourth Frontier: Exploring the New World of Work (Nashville, Word Publishing, 2000). 6. Rev. Tom ...

8. A List of Murphy's Laws

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... parts aren't. Shanahan's Law: The length of the is the square of the number of people present. Brennan's Law: Paper is always strongest at the perforations. Dooley's Law: If something happens to you, it has previously happened to all your friends. Never hire a plumber who wears rubber boots or an electrician with scorched eyebrows. Ashley Cooper Thomas's Rules of the Game: a) No matter how well you do something, someone won't like it. b) No matter how trivial the assignment, it is always possible ...

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