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Romans 13:8-14

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Maurice A. Fetty

... events. And God is not too particular whom he works through, whether it be the enemy Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar or Cyrus, or whether it be through Moses or David or even Yasir Arafat or Itzhak Rabin. Could not God be working through Warren Christopher and Richard Holbrooke in negotiating the Bosnian peace accord, or through President Bill Clinton endorsing and encouraging peace in Northern Ireland? Does God leave us alone and afraid in a world we never made at the end of a long, evolutionary spiral ...

2. Advice from a Billionaire

Mark 12:28-34

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King Duncan

... available to us. There is a second thing that must be said from this text: the kingdom has something to do with unconditional love. Warren Buffet is pretty smart for a billionaire. With our finite minds there is not a whole lot we can say about the kingdom of God ... kingdom here and now by faith in Jesus Christ, and by allowing his love to flow through us to the world. When Christopher Columbus was sailing his perilous journey to another world, he saw floating on the sea leaves and branches. That told him he ...

3. Preparing for the King

Luke 3:1-6

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King Duncan

... and I receive the Lord’s own anointed unless we repent? A few years back, a man named Frank Warren handed out 3,000 self-addressed stamped postcards to random people on the street. Warren asked the recipients to write their deepest secrets on these postcards. He warned them not to sign the postcards. ... few would. He reached out to the man who killed him.” by Christopher Hann. Photos by Bill Cardoni, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. September 2011, http://www.drew.edu/news/2016/04/21/uncommon-bond.

4. A Religion that Shows

Haggai 1:1-15

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David E. Leininger

... a bit disheveled as the day wore on. One little girl, who normally wore a St. Christopher medallion under her clothing (remember, this is back in the days before St. Christopher got demoted), became just active enough to have it pop out from its place of concealment ... ago, they were named Small Church of the Year in the Synod of South Atlantic. Quite frankly, here at First Presbyterian in Warren, we are not faced with a challenge as visible as that one in Liberty Hill. But the challenges are there none the ...

5. One Shock after Another

Luke 3:1-20

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David E. Leininger

... nonetheless. How about the families of Christopher Santora and José Guadalupé, two firefighters from New York's Engine Company 54 who lost their lives at the World Trade Center? This week they learned that Christopher's body was buried in an ... efforts of ancient Babylon. Straight new roads, not those old roads that are content to follow the terrain. It is the difference in going from Warren to Buffalo up Route 60 to I-90 instead of going all the way up Route 62. For the ancients, this was a theological ...

6. Tell It Again, Daddy

Mark 13:24-37

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David E. Leininger

... But just because some folks do it badly is no excuse for us not to do it at all. Church consultant Christopher Schwartz who is the founder of the Institute for Natural Church Development has called attention to the powerful evangelistic witness ... again...and again and again and again. People have been doing that, and that is why this church - First Presbyterian Church of Warren, Pennsylvania - is one of only fifteen percent of American congregations that has grown in the past five years.(6) Yes, the Advent ...

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