Dr. Harold McNabb

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Luke 16:1-13

When I was a boy of about ten, there was a television show I loved to watch. It starred Phil Silvers and was about a lovable rascal called Sgt. Bilko. He was a motor pool sergeant who along with some of his cohorts was always looking for the big score. He lived by his wits, his charm and fast talking to get him out of the trouble he always got himself and his friends into.
The morality of the 1950's never allowed him to profit from his shenanigans, but you always hoped he might some day.

Read more: Make Hay While the Sun Shines

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Luke 15:1-10

In this week's news a fifteen year old Calgary Alberta girl gave birth in her bedroom while her siblings watched TV. She put the baby in a trash bag at the curb. No one, including her mother had suspected that she was pregnant, and I suppose being immature and fearful she just wanted to dispose of the child. So it, along with the bloody towels, went into a plastic trash bag and set outside for pickup the next day. Fortunately a woman out walking her dog heard the infant's cries from inside the garbage bag and rescued the baby and took it to a neighbour's home to call 911. The mother was also located and taken to hospital and for a brief time, mother and child were reunited. "She grabbed the child's hand and held it, and realized there was a human life there", said Det. Rene Lafreniere.1

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delftwareA few years ago, my family visited the city of Delft, outside Amsterdam. That is the center of fine Delft pottery with its trademark blue and white pattern.
We took the tour of the ceramic factory there. We were gathered into a room where a woman gave us a demonstration on the potting wheel. She took a lump of clay and started the wheel spinning. She began working the clay with her hands and as if by magic, it began to take one form after another as she talked. First it was a low round bowl, then a tall slender rose vase, then a Grecian urn then a lump again, and back into another bowl. It was incredible. It seemed there was some magical life in the clay itself, but of course it was the skillful hands of a master potter at work.

Read more: Psychoceramics: God Loves Cracked Pots

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For those of you I haven't told, my grandson says he saw an angel in our worship one Sunday.
Micah is almost 3 and his parents have raised him to know that Jesus loves him, and I guess he also knows about angels too. Apparently he does because he told his mom that he saw an angel in our worship.
Some might say, "how imaginative."
A more cynical person might say, "clever boy...he knows how to get on his mom's good side." His mom of course is my daughter.
My response is like the baseball fan after a good call from the home plate umpire..."good eyes there, ump!"
Except in my case it's "way to go, Micah!  I've always thought as much."
I do believe that angels worship unseen alongside us.

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The Olympic Games are on!
This time from Greece, the home of Mt. Olympus and the home of the games themselves.
Can you imagine what a thrill and honor it would be to carry your nation's colors in the processional around the stadium.

The glamor events are the one hundred meter sprint and the four by one hundred relay along with a few other events. But the event that to my mind typifies the Olympics is the marathon.
Twenty six miles of pain and fortitude.
It's a great analogy for life.
Life has moments of incredible adrenaline for the emergency or the big moment, but life is not so much a sprint as it is a long distance run.. I think this is what Paul had in mind when he writes in Philipians:
 holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain

And I think this is what is meant in Hebrews:
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Read more: This is What Faith Does

  1. Then We'll Die Walking
  2. Living Faith in a Flip Flop World
  3. Get Your Prayers Out of Neutral
  4. Give Us Ears

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