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How to Get Dialed into God’s Plan for Your Life
Introduction
In the summer of 1994, I had a most unusual job. I served as an assistant at a funeral home in northeast Tennessee.
My responsibilities were ...
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An Event That Changes Everything
Introduction
Philippians is Paul's final letter to a church. He writes it from his imprisonment in Rome. In Philippians 2:6-11, we listened to St. ...
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Me and My Big Mouth
Introduction
“Pad kid poured curd pulled cod." Researchers from MIT say this is the world's most difficult tongue twister. Have a go. If ...
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The King Liked to Listen
Introduction
The king liked to listen to him. So did most people.
"Repent. Stop what you're doing. You know it's wrong, so stop it. Make a ...
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Heart Murmur
In our lesson from Matthew 25 today, Jesus tells us a parable that is likely to be a bit disturbing to most of us if we really examine our lives in light ...
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Coming to Grips with the Authority of Christ
From the editor
Donald Sunukjian is a master at making a text come alive for a congregation, carefully and memorably pointing out all the details that ...
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Growing Up
Introduction
When I was in kindergarten, we used to play a game based on a hit TV show called Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. My teacher, Mrs. Floaten, ...
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Avoiding Foolishness
Introduction
In the early 1980s a very wealthy Swiss couple started acting like mutual fools. It all began when the husband cancelled a vacation. The wife ...
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Guide
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The story behind the sermon (from John Ortberg)
I have grown to love the theme of God's guidance. This is a chance to ...
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Life on Wings
Introduction
The biblical image of the kind of life Christians are called to live is, "The way of an eagle in the air." I have lots of experience with ...
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Managing Your Relationships
Introduction:
When Jerry Seinfeld began his comedy show (you may have heard of it; it was called Seinfeld), he paid one of his New York buddies what he ...
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From Here To Eternity: Getting Your Spiritual Life in Order
I changed long distance carriers a few weeks ago. I've never considered choosing a long distance carrier a particularly sentimental decision—basically ...
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From Here to Eternity: Getting Your Spiritual Life in Order
I changed long distance carriers a few weeks ago. I've never considered choosing a long distance carrier a particularly sentimental decision—basically ...
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Silence and Solitude
Several years ago I came back from vacation feeling, not refreshed and renewed, but distracted, disenfranchised, and alienated. I came home feeling that, ...
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How to Listen to a Sermon
I want to talk this morning about preaching and what preaching is all about. My fantasy about what congregations think preaching is goes something like ...
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Listening to the Dark
Elijah is on the run, running for his life. He's on the run not because he's been a horrible failure, but because he's been an outstanding success.
You ...
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