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John 6:60-71

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King Duncan

... hard, dirty, perhaps even dangerous work that needs to be done? Who’s willing to bell the cat? An African‑American woman named Joyce Riley tells how she and her neighbors decided it was time to bell the cat. Nineteen young men had died within one year ... already done for us. He is our Master, our Lord, the inspiration of our lives, the example for our well-doing. To paraphrase William Barclay, suppose we play golf. Suppose our game is just ordinary. Then suppose we are present at the Masters and we see ...

2. A Reason For All To Be Thankful

Romans 8:28-39

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Bill Bouknight

... have occasional problems with thanksgiving. A little girl named Joyce wrote the following letter to God: "Dear God, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. Love, Joyce." Despite all that, there are some causes for thanksgiving ... reflections of its truth. First, Romans 8:28 Means That God Is At Work In Everything I like the way the Scottish scholar William Barclay translated this verse: "We know that God intermingles all things for good for those who love him..." Here is one of ...

3. Sermons in Stones

Psalm 19:1-14

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David E. Leininger

... there? You can, you know. Or in the towering trees or fragrant flora or starry nights. At this time of year, words of Joyce Rupp come to mind. Listen: One winter morning, I awake to see the magnificent lines of frost stretching across my windowpanes. They seemed to ... 28-30 4. Clara Null, Christian Reader, Mar/April, 1996, p. 50 5. Peter J. Gomes, The Good Book, (New York: William Morrow, 1996), p. 321 6. "Lessons from Arabella," http://www.homileticsonline.com, 10/3/99 7. John Buchanan, "Doxology," http://www ...

4. Sermons In Stones

Psalm 19:1-14

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David E. Leininger

... you find them there? You can, you know. Or in the towering trees or fragrant flora or starry nights. Words of Joyce Rupp come to mind. Listen: One winter morning, I awake to see the magnificent lines of frost stretching across my ... God. But, my child, don't you know that God is the same everywhere?" "Yes," the boy answered, "but I'm not."[5] 1. Joyce Rupp in Praying Our Goodbyes, cited in Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life (New York: Simon & Schuster ...

5. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... impels All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things.... -- Lines Composed A Few Lines Above Tintern Abbey William Blake experienced it when he wrote, To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower ... it is our own child or grandchild. The world's first birth ever is the birth of your own child. Except maybe in the case of little Joyce in her letter to God, where she said, "Dear God: Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy." Or possibly ...

6. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... . For a Jewish feast, wine was essential. Wine was the symbol of joy. "Without wine," the rabbis said, "there is no joy." William Barclay comments, "It was not that the people were drunken, but in the East wine was an essential. Drunkenness was in fact a ... ? Because if we would only bring Christ into our marriages, we would have better marriages! A few years back psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers was quoted as saying that for about half of all American couples, marriage is a "quiet hell." Many other marriages ...

7. Lessons From a Hurricane

Jeremiah 17:5-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... God's music in my heart while the storm passes over! Amen. 1. Couples Devotional Bible NIV (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing Company, 2000), p. 821. 2. David M. Edwards, Encountering God (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2008), p. 13. 3. Joyce Williams, compiler, Quiet Moments for Ministry Wives (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 2006), pp. 161-165. 4. Albert M. Wells Jr., compiler, Inspiriting Quotations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988), p. 87. 5. Jan Karon, A Continual Feast (New ...

8. Welcoming Jesus

Mark 9:33-37

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David E. Leininger

... if you did, then I'm going to fix my brother! * Darla • Dear GOD, Thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy. * Joyce • Dear GOD, My brother is a rat. You should give him a tail. Ha ha. * Danny • Dear GOD, Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so ... , 1966) and (New York: Essandess Special Editions, 1967) 2. Matthew 18:3, Mark 10:15, Luke 18:17 3. William Schwein, "Preaching on the Lessons," Clergy Journal, July 1997, p. 43 4. John and Sylvia Ronsvalle, Behind the Stained ...

9. Inviting Christ Brings Joy

John 2:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... would only bring Christ into our marriages, we would have better marriages! A few years back psychologist Dr. Joyce Brothers was quoted as saying that for about half of all American couples, marriage is a "quiet hell." Many ... , even anonymous brides and bridegrooms in an out-of-the-way peasant village located somewhere (where, we are not sure) in the Galilee. As William Barclay put it in his commentary on this passage: "...whenever Jesus comes into our lives there enters a quality which is like turning water ...

10. The World According to Paul

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... even traitor. There is an anonymous poem that I think accurately describes the church in all times and places, with due apologies to Joyce Kilmer and his poem, "Trees." It is called "The Perfect Church."5 I think that I shall never see I think that I shall ... showed photographs of Thessalonica, which abound on the internet. 4. John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1989), p. 13. 5. Anonymous, "The Perfect Church," http://www.joyfulministry.com/perfect.doc [accessed ...

11. A Child of God

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Ronald Love

... nonconformity, they renounce the traditions provided by Christendom, thereby denying parishioners of the important faith sustaining components of liturgies, creeds, and hymns — heritage. It is sad that Joyce Meyer can walk the corridors of these congregations, but doors are barred to the great theologians of our age, such as William Temple and Harry Emerson Fosdick. Noble Perry published his book titled Overwhelmed, a pop- psychology blueprint to overcome stress. Yet he concludes with a very stressful ...

12. I know You by Name

Exodus 33:12-23

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Jon L. Joyce

YET THOU HAST SAID, ‘I KNOW YOU BY NAME.’ How often in Holy Scripture the promise of personhood is carried out by Almighty God. As for instance, when he speaks through Isaiah in the first verse of the 34th Chapter: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by name, and you are mine." Or as that promise is fulfilled in the New Testament in John 10:3: "He calleth his own sheep by name." Think of the wonder of it that the individual human being is known to Almighty God by name. The deepest desire ...

13. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

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Jon L. Joyce

"HE HAS RISEN" It was a solid, staid, old parish to which I was called just after the war, one that needed a bit of waking up here and there, and on our first Easter, we arranged to have the Sunrise Service begin with a fanfare by a quartet of trumpets sounding forth from the balcony. Well, the trumpeters were quite enthusiastic, and I must admit, quite loud; and, quite frankly, the innovation was not received with unanimous approval. In fact, one elderly lady in the congregation was quite vocal about it. ...

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