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Crises Reveal God & Us
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Marlena Graves
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- Crises
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Genesis 32:28, Exodus 3:14, Job 3:11, Psalm 139:14, Isaiah 6:5, Matthew 16:15-17
God uses our identity crises to reveal who we are and who he is. Sometimes these crises come out of nowhere. Something devastating happens. Someone close to us dies. We are diagnosed, or someone we kn...
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Dan Allender
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- Control
- Crises
Crises serve to remind us that we are fundamentally not in control.
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Milton Friedman
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- Crises
You never have real changes unless you have a time of crisis.
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The Importance of Selective Change
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Jared Diamond
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Ecclesiastes 3:1, Romans 12:2, Isaiah 43:19, Hebrews 12:27, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, James 1:2-4
Crises, and pressures for change, confront individuals and their groups at all levels, ranging from single people, to teams, to businesses, to nations, to the whole world. Crises may arise from extern...
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The Anatomy of a Crisis: Sermon Illustration Thursday
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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All crises are judgments of history that call into question an existing state of affairs. They sift and sort the character and condition of a nation and its capacity to respond. The deeper the crisis,...
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Calling into Question the Status Quo
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Os Guinness
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- Crises
- Status Quo
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James 1:5, Matthew 16:15, Jeremiah 6:16, Psalm 11:3, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Lamentations 3:40, Isaiah 6:5
All crises are judgments of history that call into question an existing state of affairs. They sift and sort the character and condition of a nation and its capacity to respond. The deeper the crisis,...
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Crisis & Peace: An Unexpected Connection
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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- Crises
- Peace
Like many of you, I have been praying for those affected by Hurricane Ian along the Eastern shore of the United States. I've also continued to pray for Ukraine and for Russia, that peace would com...
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Heinz Kohut
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Almost all heroic individuals face grave crises while they are still on the road to reaching the ultimate decision that they will remain faithful to their selves, whatever the cost.
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Jonathan K. Dodson
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If we’re unable or unwilling to discern a norm to judge what is good and evil, the whole moral order will tumble into confusion. If we don’t get the moral facts straight, a variety of “crises” will co...
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Joseph Soloveitchik
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- Crises
- Religion
Religion is not, at the outset, a refuge of grace and mercy for the despondent and desperate, an enchanted stream for crushed spirits, but a raging clamorous torrent of man’s consciousness with all it...
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St. Anthony and the Search for God Amidst Crisis
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Daniel Grothe
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Matthew 19:21, Philippians 3:8, Luke 9:23, Romans 8:29, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Hebrews 12:11, Isaiah 58:6-7
Given life’s unpredictability and the inevitability of pain and hardship, what do we do when that pain and hardship show up on our doorsteps? In roughly AD 270, there was a man in Lower Egypt named An...
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The Love of God Wrapped About Him
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Thomas Kelly
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Psalm 4:1-3, Psalm 30:5, Romans 8:28, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 43:2, Psalm 23:4, Job 1:, Job 2:, Job 42:, 2 Samuel 11:, 2 Samuel 12:, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 17:8-24, Daniel 6:, Psalm 34:18
The sense of Presence! I have spoken of it as stealing on one unawares. It is recorded of John Wilhelm Rowntree that as he left a great physician’s office, where he had just been told that his advanci...
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Defining Crisis
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Jonathan K. Dodson
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- Crises
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Matthew 10:15, John 5:22, Genesis 2:null, Judges 4:4-5, Matthew 10:15, Genesis 2:9, Judges 4:4-5
The word krisis was used by the Greeks to refer to “a legal process of judgment.” Aristotle used it to refer to a legal procedure that secured civic order. In his case, it was a judgment that helped k...
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Desmond Tutu
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A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
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Winston S. Churchill
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Never let a good crisis go to waste.
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Jim Elliot
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- Crises
Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.
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Elaine M. Prevallet
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- Crises
The present crisis is always the worst crisis.
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D. Michael Lindsay
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There are at least three kinds of changes we face: those we wouldn’t choose but we can see coming, those we choose ourselves, and those that flood our homes at two in the morning.
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Viktor E. Frankl
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- Crises
- Meaning
In times of crisis, people reach for meaning. Meaning is strength. Our survival may depend on our seeking and finding it.
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Jack Kinder
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- Crises
- Divine Revelation
You’re not made in a crisis—you’re revealed. When you squeeze an orange—you get orange juice. When you squeeze a lemon—you get lemon juice. When a human being gets squeezed—you get what is inside—posi...
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Dallas Willard
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Individual disasters, too, very largely follow upon human choices, our own or those of others. And whether or not they do in a particular case, the situations in which we find ourselves are never as i...
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Crisis Intensifies our Search for Wisdom
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Andy Cook
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Romans 8:28, Ecclesiastes 7:12, Psalm 46:1, Isaiah 30:21, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 1:5
A life-threatening crisis came to my home when I was only 25. My wife suffered a near-fatal stroke and was rushed to the hospital, where doctors scrambled to keep her alive. Within hours, we were maki...
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Times of Crisis: Sermon Illustration Tuesday
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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- Crises
On November 28, 1942, a fire broke out and spread rapidly through an overcrowded Boston nightclub called Cocoanut Grove (the owner’s spelling), whose sole exit became blocked. A total of 492 people di...
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The Messy Middle
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William Bridges
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- Crises
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2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Hebrews 10:23, Romans 12:2, Psalm 37:23-24, Philippians 1:6, Isaiah 43:19, Ecclesiastes 3:1
The Messy Middle In his classic work Transitions, author and professor William Bridges shares an excellent anecdote about life in crisis: it can happen at any time and in a myriad of ways. It also de...
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Holy and Merciful God, We acknowledge
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Holy and Merciful God, We acknowledge that this crisis has exposed our idols. We accept that we have placed our trust and hope in stability, in consistency, and technology. And now, as we recognize o...
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Holy God, We recognize that when crisis
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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Holy God, We recognize that when crisis strikes, the natural impulse is to turn inward, to take care of ourselves above our neighbors. We hoard the essentials we think will keep us safe, even if that...
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The Cycle of Upheaval
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Phyllis Tickle
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- Crises
- Western Culture
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Acts 17:26, 2 Corinthians 4:18, Romans 8:22, Matthew 24:6, Jeremiah 6:16, Ecclesiastes 1:9
Every five hundred years, give or take a decade or two, Western culture, along with those parts of the world that have been colonized or colonialized by it, goes through a time of enormous upheaval, a...
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Paul Chappell
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Often we become apathetic in our lives until we face a severe storm. Whether loss of a job, health crisis, loss of a loved one, or financial struggle; God often brings storms into our lives to change ...
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David Brooks
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The road to character often involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. When they were in a crucible moment, they suddenly had a greater ability to see their own nature. The everyda...