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Matthew 3:1-12

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King Duncan

... . Has that happened in your life? Have you consciously prayed, "Come into my heart, Lord Jesus, be born in me today?" Jeannie Williams clung fiercely to her last shreds of sanity and dignity amidst the chaotic mass of holiday shoppers milling about. Christmas was fast ... those who will open their hearts to the indwelling Christ. We can be truly prepared for Christmas. 1. "Mars & Venus Go Shopping," by Melissa Dribben, Good Housekeeping, December 1997, p.108. 2. Richards, Lawrence O., The 365Day Devotional ...

2. Marks Of A Champion

1 Timothy 6:3-10

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King Duncan

... s face it. Men, for the most part, talk about sports. Surely you've read Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. Men talk about sports; women talk about relationships. At least, that's what the experts say. The Apostle Paul was a man ... it in him. 1. Floyd Flake and Donna Marie Williams, The Way of the Bootstrapper (Harper San Francisco, 1999), p. 63. 2. U.S.Andersen, Success Cybernetics (West Nyack: Parker Publishing Co. 1966). 3. Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks, Living by the Book (Chicago: Moody ...

3. Climbing the Right Ladder

Genesis 28:10-19a

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J. Howard Olds

... but not very compelling tennis.” The problem with the sisters playing each other is that they don’t hate each other. Venus, who lost to Serena, was asked if this would come between them in the years to come. “Not at all! Ten ... retired from tennis, but we will still be sisters.” Sometimes I wonder if history would be different if Isaac’s boys had been more like the Williams sisters? It was Jacob’s ladder all right. He had been climbing it since he was born. It is a ladder of greed. It is a ladder ...

4. Chosen For Good News

John 15:1-17

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... statue his genius had produced and, embracing it, kissed its cold lips. But he was loving a lifeless thing. Finally, he asked Venus, the goddess of love, to give him a living woman as beautifuil as the one he had carved. That night, when he ... more than servanthood. He offers friendship. With his coming into the world we have the privilege of being selected by him as his friends. William Barclay writes in his commentary: “The idea of being a friend of God has also a background. Abraham was the friend of God ( ...

5. God Stood Up

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James Bjorge

... Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth ..." (John 1:1, 14). He did not descend from the sky full grown, as Venus is said to have appeared out of the sea. His life began as your life began ... as a fertilized egg and then an embryo within his ... Justice and mercy mingled together cannot allow it. Yet when you stop to think about it, angry people have changed the world. William Channing, a New England preacher of years ago, said: "Ordinarily I weigh 120 pounds but when I am angry I weigh a ...

6. RIDE ON! RIDE ON!

Matthew 21:18-22

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John W. Rilling

... not thus rooted in history. They "went away" because they never really came to earth in the first place. Mercury, Neptune, and Venus and all the rest were only metaphors, forces of nature personified. So we can understand that these gods passed from the human ... , Kate, Jesus is a back number." Is he? On Palm Sunday in the year he was enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple broadcast to the British people and its armed forces what Palm Sunday means. The cathedral was sandbagged to protect it from ...

7. Cut Your Losses!

Mark 9:42-50

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King Duncan

... equipment malfunction caused by a capacitor. The part of the equipment that failed cost $1.00. $1.00! The space probe MARINER I, bound for Venus, headed off course and had to be destroyed at a cost of $18.5 million. The rocket had responded erratically because an anonymous flight ... Books, Inc., 1975), p.32. 3. Robert B. Cialdini, INFLUENCE (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1984), pp. 185- 186. 4. Daniel R. Butler, Leland Gregory and Alan Ray (Nashville: Rutledge Hill Press, 1995), pp. 120-121.

8. Lust

Galatians 5:16-26

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David E. Leininger

... see it not as freedom but as license. Perhaps Shakespeare was right on the mark in comparing lust and love in his poem "Venus and Adonis": Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But lust's effect is tempest after sun; Love's gentle spring doth always ... a part of our sexuality. If nothing else told us, from that alone we should know that sex is not to be trifled with. William Temple, the Archbishop of Canterbury, wrote, "It is to be recognized that sex is holy as well as wholesome ... Anyone who has once ...

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