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Mark 2:18-22

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Eric Ritz

... is our experience of the living God. As someone has said, "Faith is a day-by-day process in which GOD will show us what to do moment-by-moment." Sometimes we need to let go of the past in order to claim the present and the future. William Easum in his book Dancing with Dinosaurs tells about a woman who owned the finest winery in all the land. "Everything about the winery was superb. The fertile land yielded some of the finest grapes to be found. The large wooden vats that nurtured the crushed grapes until ...

2. Clean Hearts And Dirty Hands

Mark 7:1-23

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King Duncan

... that the church does not encourage designated giving. Two years and several thousand new couples in the area later, the church continues to decline and grow older, and the few young couples that had once been members moved on to a more friendly environment. William Easum writes, "A report came to me from the defeated pastor that the church leadership was convinced that they had done the right thing by refusing to spend the money to move the nursery and pay a sitter. After all, the young couples weren't ...

3. Family Tree

Genesis 3:1-7

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Bill Mosley

... for their actions and the consequences of their actions. Look at the last verse in today's reading: "Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons." William Easum says (in Dancing with Dinosaurs) we're living in a crack in history between the time the church dominated our society and its values and the time when the society will be hostile to the church and religion. I wonder how Adam characterized his ...

4. We Can't Afford It

John 6:1-15

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David G. Mullen

William Easum is a church leader who's dedicated his life work to helping churches thrive and engage in real mission. He thinks we ought to deal with things that get in the way of fullness of God and mission, he wrote a book called "Sacred Cows Make Gourmet Burgers". The title ...

5. When Bullies Take Hold

Luke 19:45-48; Mark 11:15-19

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Brian Stoffregen

Sometime ago, I received an article by William Easum entitled, "On Not Being Nice for the Sake of the Gospel." He begins by writing: Throughout my consulting ministry, I have seen a disturbing pattern: Most established churches are held hostage by bullies. Some individual or small group of individuals usually opposes the church's making any radical change, even ...

6. Saved (Again)!

Exodus 14:19-31

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Arley K. Fadness

... unnerved by the memory of it that he even found it difficult to concentrate enough to read his Bible.4 Vicki Pankratz was saved! And to be "saved" from sin, death, and the power of the devil is the ultimate. Thanks be to God. 1. William M. Easum and Doug Murren, article "A Culture of Fear," Net Results, July/August, 2003, p. 22. 2. Ibid., p. 22. 3. Martin Buber, Moses: The Revelation And The Covenant (New York: Harper & Row, 1958), p. 75. 4. Metro Lutheran article, "Member of Richfield's Woodlake Lutheran ...

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