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“The Pitfalls and Perils of Being a PK” Mark 4:35-41 “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.” ~ Yoda “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.” ~ Plato “He who has overcome his fears is truly free.” ~ Aristotle ______________________________________________________________________________________________ A couple years back when we...
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“Explaining the Unexplainable: The Kingdom of God 101” Mark 4:26-34 “The good deeds you do now are the treasures for the future.” ~ Philippine proverb “Give good and get good.” ~ Estonian proverb “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ______________________________________________________________________________________ “The Kingdom of God is like…” We’re going to be hearing that opening phrase a lot in the...
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“Taking Leave of Our Senses” Mark 3:20-35 “The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time.” ~ Douglas Wood “If the only prayer you said was ‘Thank you’, that would be enough.” ~ Meister Eckhart “Got no checkbooks, got no banks. Still I’d like to express my thanks. I’ve got the sun in the morning and the moon at night.” ~Irving Berlin It was the Episcopal bishop Gene Robinson who once made a rather humbling observation....
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“On Being Jesus” John 3:1-17 “God so loved the world that he gave his son to that world, that those who put their confidence in him would not lead a miserable, failing existence, but have eternal life, which is the kind of life God has.” ~ Dallas Willard “It isn’t sacrifice if you love what you’re doing.” ~ Mia Hamm For the baseball fans in the crowd today, the name Jim Palmer should sound familiar. In his 19 year career with the Baltimore Orioles, Palmer made quite a name...
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“The Heart of the Matter, the Letter of the Law, & the Spirit of Truth” John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15 “When you strip it of everything else, Pentecost stands for power and life. That’s what came into the church when the Holy Spirit came down on the day of Pentecost.” ~ David Wilkerson “I used to tell young preachers, in order to preach, you’ve got to have the power of God on your life. Now I tell them, in order to tie your shoes you’ve got to have the power of God on your...
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