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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Romans 14:1-12 - <strong>"Make a 119 Call"</strong> by Leonard Sweet</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span><span>The full text of the following sermon is available at </span><a style="COLOR: #000000" shape="rect">www.Sermons.com</a><span>.</span></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Romans 14 the sermon titled "Make a 119 Call" by Leonard Sweet<font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif"> </font></font> </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span> "God hath not promised</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Skies ever blue,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Flower-strewn pathways</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>All our lives through;</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>God hath not promised</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Skies without rain,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Joy without sorrow,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Peace without pain.</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>"But God hath promised</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Strength for the day,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Rest for the labor,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Light for the way,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Grace for the trials,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Help from above,</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Unfailing sympathy,</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>When
I went to seminary, we were required to learn "active listening"
skills. One required exercise was to interview another student and draw
out of them a conflict story of a family member. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>My
interviewee, "Bob," talked about conflicts with his Dad. They were as
different as chalk and cheese. Bob was Triple A: athletics, academics,
arts. What's more, he was the "life-of-the-party" kind of guy. "Bob's"
dad had dropped out of high school, worked a series of hands-on,
bent-back jobs throughout his life, and had many physical problems. He
was quiet and rarely showed his emotions - positive or negative. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>But
despite their differences, Bob and his Dad always watched a weekly
football game together on the saggy old family room couch. And at some
point during the game, Bob's Dad would reach over and hold his son's
hand for a few moments, squeezing it a couple of times and then
releasing it. Those football games were Bob's Dad's way of communicating
the love he had for his son, the love he could not express with words.</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>Today
is the 10th anniversary of 9/11. It is also the first day of official
NFL Sunday afternoon football. I confess to you this morning that I am
not up to the task of giving you words that will address the horror and
heritage of 9/11 in any way that is consoling or convincing. But as we
struggle to find images and stories that might reveal the depth of our
emotions on this tenth anniversary of that day of infamy, believe it or
not we can connect with some of those feelings by holding hands and
watching a football game. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>The first four televised games of the 2011 NFL season were specifically chosen to commemorate the events of 9/11. </span></div>
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1 p.m. there is a game between Pittsburgh and Baltimore - midway
between those two cities is Shanksville, PA, the site of the crash of
flight 93, which the terrorists had destined for the White House. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>*Later
in the afternoon there is a game between the New York Giants and the
Washington Redskins, played only a few miles from the site of the
Pentagon plane crash/attack. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>*This
afternoon there is also a game between Carolina and Arizona, which will
feature ceremonies honoring Pat Tillmon, the Cardinals player who left a
lucrative pro-football career to join the military after the 9/11
attacks and who was killed in action in Iraq. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><span>*Finally
the Dallas Cowboys will play the New York Jets just across the Hudson
River in full view of where the Twin Towers fell...</span></div>
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