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Am I Willing To Stay (The Good Samaritan 3 of 4)
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Luke 10:34,35 The Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn, where he took care of him. The next day he handed the innkeeper two silver coins... It was told to me so long ago that I don't remember a...
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How Am I Serving? (The Good Samaritan 2 of 4)
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Then a despised Samaritan came along, and when he saw the man, he felt compassion for him. Going over to him, the Samaritan soothed his wounds with olive oil and wine and bandaged them. Then he put the man on his own donkey and took him to an inn Every now and then a tragedy comes along of such proportions t...
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What Am I Seeing (Good Samaritan 1 of 4)
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A Jewish man was traveling from Jerusalem down to Jericho, and he was attacked by bandits. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him up, and left him for dead beside the road. By chance a priest came along and saw the man lying there, he crossed over to the other side of the road and pa...
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Leaving Dad Behind
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Matthew 4:22 They immediately followed him, leaving the boat and their father behind. Ever wonder what Zebedee was thinking? Heres this poor guy, probably in his 40s, which at that time was pretty old, doing his best to run a business and raise his kids. James and John were his retirement plan. Then,...
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What Motivates My Actions
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Mark 11:11So Jesus came to Jerusalem and went into the Temple. After looking around carefully at everything, he left because it was late in the afternoon. Then he returned to Bethany with his disciples. The Triumphal Entry. Palm Sunday. At least once a year Ive heard a sermon on this momentous even...
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The Renouncers
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The early Aryans who would be the conquerors of India were a very religious people. Their religion was a progressive one. Literally. Every morning they would create an altar to the east of their tents before dawn. As the sun broke the horizon their sacrifices, with the attendant rituals, would be mad...
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This Beautiful Mess
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Israel had been whipped. Assyria came in and literally tore apart the nation. Anyone and everyone of wealth and influence, along with a good percentage of the rest of the surviving population was carried away into exile. We are not sure exactly how much of the population did survive but it was probabl...
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Alert And Oriented Times 1 (God just makes sense)
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God just makes sense. No, Im not saying I can truly understand who He is, or why He does the things He does. My mind isnt even close to really grasping how great He is and I would never presume to know His mind. Im saying that the idea of God makes sense. Maybe its just the way my brain is wired. I simply cant com...
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Alert and Oriented Times 0 (Not Enough)
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Not enough. If I were going to explain why God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah in two words, that would be it. Not enough. Two entire cities destroyed. Fire and brimstone ravished an area doing such damage that to this day the area is still barren. All because of those two words not enough. But I get ahead of...
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Alert And Oriented
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Halloween night seventeen years ago brought the apex of a storm in the North Atlantic a storm that has become immortalized. But it is unjust to call it simply a storm. It was really a Noreaster that swallowed up a forming hurricane. So, not just *a* storm, it was *the* storm the perfect storm. The drama t...
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Living A Spirit Filled Life (4)
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Lying on my back on a picnic table in the middle of Rec park is a great way for me to spend an early afternoon on my day off. The thick straight trunks of autumn trees shoot up all around me. Above, or should I say straight ahead, the sky may be a bleak grey, but there is an abundance or red and maroon leafy silho...
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Living A Spirit Filled Life (3)
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An amazing thing happens to almost every Bible College student somewhere early in their senior year. The understood meaning of the often used phrase, Gods will seems to shift. Up to that point those words are most often used in conjunction with euphemisms like Ring By Spring or the MRS degree (Marrie...
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Living A Spirit Filled Life (2)
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I cant do it. I got a couple sentences into this one and I just had to stop. Delete. And start over. But I just cant. To be honest, I knew this one was going to give me trouble back when I was first looking at doing this Sunday afternoon. All day long I have been thinking over what I would say and how I would bring...
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Living A Spirit Filled Life (1)
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I remember sitting in his office pouring my heart out. Id recently come out of a brief, abortive attempt at a relationship. The manner in which she broke it off, along with basically ending some of her closest friendships made me worried for her and if me letting her go had been the right thing. More than...
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How I Can Live In A World Full Of Evil - Plugged In
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I say I watch football games on Sunday afternoons, but that is not entirely accurate. In reality Ive got a book in front of me that I will be reading as I listen to the game. When the crowd and the announcers get excited I will look up and watch that play as they show it on replay. If everything gets quiet I wil...
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How I Can Live In A World Full Of Evil - Truth
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My mind tended to wander during Pastor Brandon's sermon yesterday and this and the next two are a product of his outline and my ADD... Compared to many other cities in the US, Binghamton is not a bad place to live. Per capita were actually below the national averages in every category of violent crime an...
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How I Can Live In A World Full Of Evil - Submit
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You know, I used to be weird. Anytime I was going somewhere Ive never been before I would do my best to get good directions before heading out. Worse than that, if at any point I wasnt absolutely certain I was on the right track, I would stop at the next gas station I saw and ask directions. Thats right. I wou...
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