Don’t Keep It In The Kitchen!
A man whose wife was sick, decided to do the cooking … He did quite well at it until, one day, he became very ambitious. He thought he would bake […]
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Worship
Is Your Heart In It?
A life insurance salesman visited a woman who had been recently widowed. For thirty five years her late husband had sacrificed much in order to maintain a substantial life insurance
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My Name Is Joy!
The great patriarch, Abraham, spent much of his life in the desert. One day he saw a stranger walking in the distance and he called out, inviting the traveler to
It’s Your Move
An older couple was driving down the road on a Sunday afternoon. He was driving; she was leaning against the door on the passenger’s side. They caught up to a
The Power To Resist
On the dashboards of those small “Volkswagen-type airplanes, there is a safety device usually referred to as a “Stall Warning Indicator.” The owner of such a plane has described the
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They Didn’t Understand
In today’s Gospel Lesson, Jesus dispatches seventy-two of the disciples to precede Him into the villages He planned to visit, and to prepare the people for His coming. Their mission
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I Am Counting On Them
Through encounter group sessions, people try to experience something that happened long before the coming of modern psychology and group dynamics. In our Gospel Lesson, a group of fishermen on
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Burning With Desire
As a worshipping community of Christ we come under the empowering influence of the Holy Spirit. In the first chapter of the Book of Acts, Jesus says to the disciples,
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Why Doesn’t It Happen?
In one of comedian Woody Allen’s routines, he receives a telephone call from a man who says, “We want you to make a Smirnoff Vodka ad for a magazine.” Woody
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At Arms Length
Not everyone who exposes himself to the teachings of Christ responds positively. Some choose to keep Christ at arm’s length. They are unwilling to pay the price of total dedication.
A Risky Business
Sometimes Jesus is called “The Second Moses.” The idea is that, while the first law came from God through Moses, the more perfect law has been given to us by
A Great Tradition
Several years ago, “Time” magazine ran a cover story entitled “Modern Saints.” And there were several impressive things about the persons described in the article. The most obvious, of course,
A Good Word For Jesus
In this, our act of community worship, God has gathered us together to experience the immediacy of His presence. This means drawing closer to God, as a Church-as a People.
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Gathering/scattering
After he had lectured his son for five minutes on the evils of smoking, a concerned father said to his 15-year-old son, “If you ever decide to smoke I want
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It’s Beautiful
A religious cynic once said: God made man on the last day of creation. When he realized what He had done, He took off and went into hiding. The search
The Best Translation
In an old comedy routine, a famous film actor receives a telephone call from an advertising agency executive who says, “We want you to pose for a Gilby’s Gin billboard.”
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No ‘half-and-half’ God
“Those whose allegiance is divided are odious,” the Psalmist wrote (Ps. 119:113). Or, as another translation puts it, “I Hate those ‘half-and-half’ people.” These words reflect the fervent anger of
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If I Have Not Love
“I don’t want the city to come into my Church and I don’t want my Church to come into the city,” wrote a woman to her pastor… I want to
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The Choice Is Ours
There are people all over this land who, earlier today, were faced with what they considered to be a hard choice: “Should I go or should I not go to
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Look! They’re Moving!
A confirmed bachelor and a married man were talking to each other about the pros and cons of family life. At one point in the conversation, the married man asked:
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