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Carlyle Fielding Stewart
In the world we appear to be in a hurry to go nowhere and be on time. In the church we sometimes appear to be going in myriad directions in slow motion and with no sense of urgency. There are some things in life that require our immediate and exigent attention, and it is important that we are on time in the things of God. God is always on time with us. There is an adage in the African American com...
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David J. Kalas
It's a poignant scene: the gathering place of mourners. In our culture, that scene is usually played out in a funeral home, a chapel, a sanctuary, or at the graveside. In that day, how­ever, it most often took place in the home of the deceased. And the body was there, too, similar to our visitations with open caskets; though without some of the cosmetic advantages. So it is that the grieving...
3. Dorcas
Acts 9:36-43
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David E. Leininger
Women have always been uniquely important in the life of the church, whether or not men want to admit it. It started with Mary. Women were accorded special status during Jesus' ministry; in fact, it was probably women who were major financial supporters of the itinerant rabbi and his friends. Women were the first witnesses to the resurrection. This is not a feminist statement but a factual stateme...
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Rodney Thomas Smothe
Miracles don't really happen anymore, do they? Our text today would certainly suggest that miracles were once common in the religious community. Today, when we hear people use the word miracles we become suspicious and doubt creeps in. Our text today not only addresses the subject of miracles, but suggests that many miracles take place in the ordinary events of our daily lives. Our text today wou...
5. Need a Lift?
Acts 9:36-43
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Charley Reeb
Journalist Bob Garfield researched health articles in The Washington Post, USA Today, and The New York Times. His research showed that, according to so-called experts, 59 million Americans have heart disease 53 million suffer migraines 25 million people have osteoporosis 16 million struggle with obesity 3 million have cancer 12 million have severe disorders such as brain disease.[1] The results ar...
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Douglas J. Deuel
I have always liked the children's story Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. In the story a little boy named Alexander has an absolutely rotten day. The story relates all of the traumatic experiences Alexander faces: waking up with gum in his hair, finding no prize in his box of cereal, having no dessert at lunch, going to the dentist and having a cavity, having lima beans...
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Elizabeth Achtemeier
A number of subsidiary themes emerge in this reading from Acts, and we probably should take note of them, although they do not form the main thrust of the text. We have here a brief story of a Hebrew woman given the Aramaic name of Tabitha, which means "gazelle," or called Dorcas in the Greek. This is the only mention that we have of Dorcas in the scripture, but over the centuries, her reputation...
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Frank Ramirez
A church in Pennsylvania reported the death of one of their members recently. Though this woman and her husband, who had died a few years before, had been immensely wealthy, people spoke not of their wealth, although they were very generous, but of what this woman did. They talked about the cookies she would bake for church functions, the in-home visiting she did, the leadership she provided for ...
9. Dorcas, Dinah, or Delilah (Who are You?)
Genesis 34:1-31, Judges 16:1-22, Acts 9:32-43
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Lori Wagner
Names are fun. We all like to play with names. We get excited about naming our babies. We give each other nicknames. We call each other names –sometimes for fun, sometimes not in the best spirit! We give our children ancestral names, biblical names, and sometimes, off-the-wall names! We name our animals according to what they look like, or what they mean to us. Names are identity markers. They re...
10. A Caring Woman
Acts 9:36-43
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King Duncan
Good morning, and Happy Mother’s Day to all our mothers and grandmothers and mother-figures in the congregation this morning. Parents, both mom and dads have the hardest job in the world, and this world would be in a horrible shape without their love and sacrifice and perseverance. Of course it is not easy to be a Mom. In a TikTok video, a woman named Nicole DeRoy explains one of the challenges o...
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