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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 <span>- <strong>"Creeds or Deeds"</strong></span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px">James 1:17-27 <span>- <strong>"</strong></span><strong>Be a Night Light"</strong><span> by Leonard Sweet</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>Mark 7 <font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">- </font></font>the sermon title "Creeds or Deeds" </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>Rev. David Chadwell
posed a rather interesting question: Which would you prefer for a
next-door neighbor: a person of excellent habits or a person with a good
heart? Which would you prefer for a good friend: a person of excellent
habits, or a person with a good heart? Which would you prefer for a
husband or a wife: a person of excellent habits, or a person with a good
heart? Which would you prefer for a child: a child with excellent
habits, or a child with a good heart? </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>It is wonderful to
have a neighbor who conscientiously cares for his property while
respecting your property. It is wonderful to have a friend who always
treats you with consideration. It is wonderful to be married to a
husband who always is thoughtful and courteous, or to a wife who always
is gracious in her comments and deeds. It is wonderful to have a son or
daughter who shows respect and uses good manners. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>As wonderful as
those situations are, none of them compare to having a neighbor, a
friend, a husband, a wife, a son, or a daughter with a good heart. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>When you discuss
good behavior, you are discussing the quality of a person's
self-control. When you discuss a good heart, you are discussing the
quality of the person. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>This is the focus of today's Scripture...</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>James 1 <font size="4"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">- </font></font>the sermon titled "Be a Night Light" by Leonard Sweet </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>How many of you had "night lights" as a kid? Can you remember your "night light?" Do any of you still have your "night light?"</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>What is it about the night that cuts us all down to size? Whatever you felt in the day</span><span>--</span><span>loneliness, lostness, despair</span><span>-</span><span>is magnified in the nigh</span><span>t. Thank God for "night lights" </span><span>-</span><span>those calming, gleaming points of brightness in darkened rooms that helped muzzle monsters and banish the bodysnatchers. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>All you kids present</span><span>-</span><span>I'm
going to let you in on a little secret. Adults still use "night
lights." Only we rationalize them as guidance systems to the bathroom,
or emergency lighting systems. Basically though, we are all still afraid
of the dark. </span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>Fear of the dark
isn't just some childish weakness. It is a genetically ingrained
reaction, programmed into our earliest ancestors who struggled to stay
alive when the nocturnal predators came out to hunt. Children might fear
imaginary monsters, but there are enough real life things that go bump
in the night to encourage us to keep a dark-defying light on throughout
the wee, small hours...</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>Melting Mountains of Ice</span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span> </span></div>
<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>William Lloyd
Garrison was the greatest abolitionist this country has ever known. He
was a publisher of a newspaper called the Liberator, an antislavery
publication. Garrison was an angry man, angry with indignation caused by
the unbelievably inhumane treatment many of the slaves experienced. He
hated slavery with everything that was in him. One day one of his best
friends, Samuel May, tried to calm him down. He said to Garrison, "Oh,
my friend, try to moderate your indignation and keep more cool. Why, you
are all on fire." Garrison replied, "Brother May, I have need to be all
on fire, for I have mountains of ice around me to melt." Well, the only
way any of us can melt mountains of ice is to be on fire. <br>
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only way Christ can use any of us is when we are driven by a great
passion, when we feel or hear his voice within our heart showing us a
great cause that needs to be championed. Nothing is accomplished in this
world by people who have no passion. That's one reason we need God in
our hearts as well as on our lips. <br>
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King Duncan, Collected Sermons, <a __removedlink__1934591553__href="http://www.Sermons.com" target="_blank">www.Sermons.com</a></span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>Lip Service</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>According to the
story, Queen Victoria was once at a diplomatic reception in London. The
guest of honor was an African chieftain. All went well during the meal
until, at the end, finger bowls were served. The guest of honor had
never seen a British finger bowl, and no one had thought to brief him
beforehand about its purpose. So he took the finger bowl in his two
hands, lifted it to his mouth, and drank its contents--down to the very
last drop!</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>For an instant there was breathless silence among the British upper crust and then they began to whisper to one another.</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>All that stopped in
the next instant as the Queen, Victoria, silently took her finger bowl
in her two hands, lifted it, and drank its contents! A moment later 500
surprised British ladies and gentlemen simultaneously drank the contents
of their own fingerbowls.</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>It was "against the
rules" to drink from a fingerbowl, but on that particular evening
Victoria changed the rules---because she was, after all, the Queen. It
is "against the rules" not to wash your hands before you eat and on that
the Pharisees called the hand of the disciples who follow Jesus. But
Jesus recognizes their hypocrisy and he quotes from Isaiah, "These
people honor me with their lips but their hearts are far from me."</span></div>
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<div style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px"><span>Brett Blair, <a __removedlink__1934591553__href="http://www.eSermons.com" target="_blank">www.eSermons.com</a>. Thanks to Winfield Casey Jones for this story.</span></div>
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