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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
Adam Hamilton / Pastor
Preaching
Effective
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You are not indispensable to your church, but you are indispensable to your family.
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Indispensable
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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Everything Happens For A Reason
Evil
Happens
Ifs
Act
Ultimately
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical.
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Bible
Critical
Learning To Read
Light
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God's role in superintending our world and our lives is neither absentee landlord nor micromanager.
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Landlord
Our Lives
Our World
Neither
Nor
Role
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My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.
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Aim
Prepared
Series
Teaching
Preach
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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Kindness
And Love
Bible
Justice
Calls
Indiscriminately
Neighbors
To Love
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God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
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Free Will
Remove
Seldom
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While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.
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Compelled
Evil
Feelings
Millions
Misuse
Use
Respond
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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Acknowledge
Believe
Christian
Moments
Our Lives
God Believe Moment
Christians
God Moment Believe
Publicly
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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Genesis
Stories
Earliest
Readers
Themselves
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I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
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Teacher
Administrators
Hero
Public School
School
School Teachers
Heroes
Teachers
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I love the Bible. I read it every day. I spend 10 hours a week studying it. It has affected my life in profound ways. I am inspired when I read it.
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Bible
Profound
Study
Way
Life Love I Am
Studying
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Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.
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Forgiveness
Jesus
Heal
Sick
Vision
Witness
Love God Work
Represent
Sacrificial
Ways
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As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible, and carry their faith into every part of their lives.
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Bible
Deep Desire
Desire
Pastor
People
Praying
Pray
God Faith People
Carry
Encourage
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As I've taught our congregation, within the Christian faith the question of homosexuality is not a question of biblical authority, but biblical interpretation.
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Biblical
Christian
Taught
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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Teacher
Believe
School
Neutral
Teachers
Endorse
Good Thing
Inhibit
Intended
Neither
Public Schools
Schools
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Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.
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Great Value
Ministry
Surface
Pray
Again
Forefront
Frequent
Our People
Simplistic
Sounds
Value
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Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.
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Believe
Disappointment
Pain
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We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
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Broken
Capable
Great Love
Heart
Illness
Immune
Pain
Bodies
Experiencing
Hearts
Wonderfully
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I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
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Bible
Congregation
Pastor
Policy
Public Policy
Teach
Textbooks
Week
Handbook
Manufacturer
Neither
Nor
Preach
Textbook
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The senseless killing of 20 children and their teachers and principal at Sandy Hook Elementary School was not part of God's grand plan. It was a thwarting of God's plan. It was the misuse of human freedom.
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Elementary School
Hook
Human Freedom
Misuse
Principal
Sandy
Teachers
Elementary
Grand
Senseless
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When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
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Sermons
Timely
Concerns
Scriptures
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God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of light coming into the darkness, of a Savior to show us the way, of light overcoming the darkness, of God's work to save the world.
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Christmas
Smile
Darkness
Heart
Humanity
Influence
Light
Overcoming
Save The World
God Work Humanity
Show
Coming
Save
Seeks
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Many Christians do not believe God sends tornadoes. But they do believe that God walks with His children through the storms, that He sends His people to help after the storms, and that with and through God, there is always hope.
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Walks
Christians
Sends
Storms
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations mental illness clouds our judgment.
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Atheist
Clouds
Struggle
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I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.
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Ability
Agree
Clouds
Each Day
Evil
Good And Evil
Human Beings
Illness
Judgment
Mental Illness
Struggle
Wake Up
Within
Age-Old
Atheists
Beings
Choose
Facing
Mental
Suspect
Wake
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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Conviction
Preacher
Significant
Life God Time
Drawn
Offered
Spoken
Text
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I think anger is a normal response to something horrible that someone has done, another human being has done, and to rob people of life, and that's actually healthy to have, to feel that. At some point you have to figure out, 'How do I let that go?'
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Anger
Horrible
Response
Life Done People
Life Anger People
Rob
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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Camps
Divided
Opposite
Center
Wars
Historically
Methodist
Stood
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We live on a planet that is amazing, beautiful, and full of wonder but not protected from powerful destructive forces of nature. We are capable of doing wonderful and selfless things but also self-absorbed and harmful things. This is the world we live in.
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Amazing
Capable
Destructive
Powerful
Protected
Self Absorbed
Selfless
Wonder
Also
Full
Forces
Harmful
Planet
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Everything doesn't happen for a reason, if by this we mean evil is a part of God's plan. But God does ensure that evil will not prevail and that light will always, ultimately, overcome the darkness. If we follow God's lead, our work is to push back the darkness.
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God Work Always
Overcome
Ensure
Prevail
Push
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When people ask me if I'm liberal or conservative, I say, 'Yeah.' I'm both of them. To be a liberal means to be open-minded and generous and open to new ideas. And to be conservative means to hold onto things that are important, things that shouldn't be cast aside.
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Conservative
Generous
Important Things
New Ideas
Open Minded
Yeah
Me Important People
Me People New
Aside
Cast
Hold
Liberal
Onto
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One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.
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Evaluate
Preacher
Sermons
God Me Will
Stretch
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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Destroying
Earthquakes
Shadow
Comforts
Neighbors
Sending
Valley
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Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.
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Faith
Compelled
Tragedy
God Faith Hope
God Hope Strength
Face
Believers
Side
Final Word
Word
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Learning to read the Bible in the light of the times in which it was written is critical. Reading it uncritically, without understanding the cultural and historical setting of the text, leaves us forced to accept scientific and sociological norms of the ancient Near East from 3,000 years ago.
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Ancient
Bible
Critical
East
Historical
Setting
Sociological
Cultural
Forced
Leaves
Near
Norms
Scientific
Text
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Husband, when you tell your wife to go for counseling alone (because you think going to see a counselor is a sign you have failed) is like having a car you love overheat and deciding it's not manly to take it to the mechanic. You can keep on driving it but eventually you will ruin the engine.
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Love
Marriage
Husband
Thinking
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Some Christians see the biblical teaching on homosexuality as reflecting the culture and times in which the Bible was written and not reflecting God's eternal perspective on homosexual people. Others believe these scriptures represent God's timeless will for how human beings practice intimacy.
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Bible
Eternal
Homosexual
Homosexuality
Human Beings
Intimacy
Perspective
Practice
Reflecting
Timeless
Beings
Christians
Represent
Scriptures
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The story of Noah, like other stories in the first 11 chapters of Genesis, are archetypal. Noah's story tells us that human beings have an inherent tendency towards violence both towards their fellow human beings and towards the creation itself. The story tells us that this violence grieves God.
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Chapters
Creation
Genesis
Human Beings
Inherent
Stories
Violence
Archetypal
Beings
Fellow
Fellow Human Beings
Towards
Grieves
Noah
Tendency
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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Healthy
Particular
Accept
Be True
Christians
Consequently
Examine
Faiths
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I am a follower of Jesus Christ. The Bible is my primary way of knowing Him and what it means to follow Him. And I am a pastor, and I teach and preach the Bible to my congregation every week. But the Bible is not a manufacturer's handbook. Neither is it a science textbook nor a guidebook for public policy.
Adam Hamilton / Pastor
Jesus
Bible
Christ
Congregation
Jesus Christ
Pastor
Policy
Public Policy
Teach
Follow
Handbook
Manufacturer
Neither
Nor
Preach
Primary
Textbook
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
Adam Hamilton / Pastor
Religion
History
Science
Care
Church
Growing Up
Math
Parent
Public School
Reading
School
Sunday
Sunday School
Teach
Wanted
Youth
History Science Religion
Job
Also
Did
Public
Group
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Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life.
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Angry
Collision
Driven
Earth
Japan
Movement
Our Planet
Plates
Process
Temperature
Tsunami
Act
Why
Did
Could
Creates
Internal
Occur
Planet
Regulate
Result
Sustain
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We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in schools.' God never left the schools. God is still at work through the hundreds of thousands of gifted teachers and administrators, committed parents, and passionate volunteers who seek to help give our children 'a future with hope.'
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Administrators
Committed
Gifted
Passionate
Teachers
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Seek
Mandatory
Prayers
Schools
Thousands
Volunteers
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