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Jeremiah 18:1-11
Yahweh says to Jeremiah, "Go down to the potter's house," and so he does, and sees a familiar sight, a person sitting at the horizontal wheel, hands cupped around the spinning pot he forms, clay oozing between his fingers. The clay changes shape on its way to be fired and to become synthetic stone. For thousands of years potters played a major role in everyday life. The potter was a chief artisan in every village. Potters made the pots and pans of antiquity, plus helping with bricks, roof tiles, drain pipes, bee hives, writing materials, kilns, and ovens....
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Mary Austin
Hating Enough to Love Completely
Luke 14:25-33
This text goes against all that we understand about family, and about the connections in life which sustain us and make our lives meaningful. Who can hear Jesus' call to "hate" the people we, usually, love most, and not wonder what kind of faith he's inviting us into. The instruction to carry our cross is familiar, if watered down, but the call to hate the people closest to our hearts is puzzling. Of course, in most families, there are stressful periods, times of disagreement, and places where emotions run high and we feel rage and contempt for each other. In other families, the burdens of abuse, addiction and mental illness sever ties and create anger and grief. But even in the most loving families, Jesus' call to "hate" the people we love may be good news....
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Bearing The Cross
You've seen the ads. The car is red, sleek, and sexy. We know it's sexy because of the bikini draped over the hood with a blond babe barely in it. Same for the Harley. Great-looking motorcycle. An even greater-looking leggy bimbo who's ready to shift, if not strip, your gears. Using sex to sell products is old news. We've come to expect it. Even furniture ads often feature a long-haired beauty whose "come hither" look has been honed to perfection....
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Wayne Brouwer
Forfeiting to Win
Our youngest daughter was born in Nigeria while I was teaching at the Reformed Theological College in Mkar. Because the Nigerian government does not automatically grant citizenship to all who are born on its soil, Kaitlyn was truly a person without a country in her earliest days. Until I could process her existence with the United States consulate in Kaduna she had no official identity, no traveling permissions, and no rights in society outside of our home. We took a picture of her at five days old, sleeping in my hands, and this became the photograph used on her passport for the first ten years of her life. The snapshot may have become outdated quickly as she grew through the stages of childhood, but the passport to which it was affixed declared that she belonged to the United States of America. She had rights....
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Larry Winebrenner
Of Pots and Potters
The passage in Jeremiah that compares the LORD to the potter and Israel to clay has struck a responsive chord in the hearts of contemporary folk. The rousing hymn, "Have Thine Own way Lord, declares," "Thou art the Potter, I am the clay." In another hymn, "Take my Life and Let it Be Consecrated" includes the words, "take me, mold me," an obvious reference to Jeremiah's potter experience. Most folk, however have little actual knowledge of pottery making. Even modern potters may be ignorant of what Jeremiah's potter faced. So often modern potters buy the clay and have wheels that are pedal driven, if not mechanically turned....
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Janice Scott
How Much, In The Cold Light Of Day?
The evangelist Billy Graham was away from home a great deal when he was in his heyday of large evangelical rallies. He tells the story of waking up one morning to be confronted by his young son, who asked, "Mummy, who's that man in bed with you?" He had been away from home so much, his own son didn't recognise him. Christianity is free. All God's good gifts are free and are freely available to anyone, but Christian commitment does have a price. It has an individual cost...
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Leah Thompson
Going Away
Object: an airplane ticket
How many of you have ever gone on a long trip? (allow answers) Where did you go? (allow answers) When we go on long trips, we have to leave our homes behind. Sometimes we have to leave our friends or family behind. How did it make you feel to leave behind people you care about? (allow answers) Sometimes when we are separated from people we love, we spend our time moping and wishing we weren't apart....
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