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Matthew 6:25-34

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King Duncan

... cancer can be dealt with confidently with faith in the love of God. It depends what you have on the inside more than what is confronting you on the outside. Some of you know the name Tug McGraw. Today Tug is better known as the father of country star Tim McGraw. But old-timers remember when Tug McGraw was a relief pitcher the New York Mets. Tug is remembered for coining the motto, “Ya Gotta Believe,” during the Mets’ run for the 1973 World Series. He is also renowned as the star reliever who pitched ...

2. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

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Ron Love

... and Faith Hill, were married in 1996. They have three daughters, Gracie, Maggie, and Audrey. The couple has a family rule that they will never spend more than three consecutive days apart from their three children. Tim McGraw expressed what it is like being a parent with these words, “We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.” On this first Sunday after Christmas Day, it is ...

3. Living on the Easter Side of Life

Colossians 3:1-4

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J. Howard Olds

... living. Paul says go ahead and get your dying over with so you are free to live. Die to yourself so you can be brought to life in Christ. Spiritual transformation begins with death. There are some things we learn by facing death that is difficult to learn anywhere else. Tim McGraw called me the other day. One of our members told him I love his song, “Live Like You're Dying", so he called me. I'm not used to talking to stars and I was stunned that he had just called me up to talk about it. When I finally ...

4. Esther: The Problem of Opportunity

Esther 4:11-17

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J. Howard Olds

... something in life? It's not about us; it's about the Kingdom of God on earth. II. IT'S NOT ABOUT CONVENIENCE; IT'S ABOUT OPPORTUNITY. Who knows but that you have come to the Kingdom, for such a time as this? Many of you know my affection for Tim McGraw's song, “Live Like You Are Dying." I try to do that every day! I love Tom Wilson's cartoon when Ziggy says, “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may not come. That's why we call today the Present." Why not live a carpe diem kind of life? If there is ...

5. When There’s Nothing Left To Do But Mourn

Jeremiah 8:18—9:1

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Chrysanne Timm

... , life as we know it is turned upside down. There is research to conduct about traditional and alternative treatments. There are specialists with whom to consult. Sometimes there are changes in lifestyle and in priorities to be considered, as Tim McGraw sang in his 2004 hit, "Live Like You Were Dying." I have watched this process in many parishioners over the years. Quite often everyone, including the person with the terminal diagnosis, is amazed when they outlive their prognosis by months and ...

6. The Two Ultimate Questions of Life

Luke 10:25-37

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King Duncan

... . Jesus promised, “I have come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly” (John 10:10, RSV). To find Christ is to become ALIVE, with capital letters both in this world and the world to come. So many people live such dreary lives. Country singing star Tim McGraw has an interesting twist on this idea. He has a song titled, “Live Like You Were Dying.” The song tells the story of a man in his forties who is told by his doctor that he has a very short time to live. And so this man changes ...

7. He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:7-14

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King Duncan

... of the present showed him the happy but terribly poor family of Tiny Tim, a disabled child that Scrooge had refused to help. The ghost of Christmas future showed him Tiny Tim's grave, along with Scrooge's own grave--which was neglected and unremembered. ... God with us. And if you have Immanuel, you can handle everything else that comes your way. 1. (Contemporary Books/ McGraw-Hill). Cited in Reader's Digest, December 2003, p. 169. 2. George Stephanopoulos, "Unforgettable Holiday Memories," Reader's Digest, ...

8. Murphy's Law and Messiah's Law

Luke 8:26-39

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Leonard Sweet

... chief cause of problems is solutions." CBS News, 29 December 1970. (quoted in Thomas L. Martin, Jr., Malice in Blunderland [New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973], 23.) We in the church have a version of Murphy's Law. It goes like this: "No good deed ... would get out, he was able to go back to work. He realized that he would never produce the whole tree, the whole glory of God. -Tim Keller, "Why We Need Artists," in It Was Good Making Art to the Glory of God, ed. Ned Bustard (Baltimore, MD: Square Halo Books, 2000), 87 ...

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