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More Alive With This Friend
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Andy Cook
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Proverbs 17:17, 1 Peter 4:10, John 13:14-15, Galatians 6:9-10, Philippians 2:3-4
In his book, The Enormous Exception, Earl Palmer tells about a pre-med undergrad at the University of California, Berkley, who became a Christian after a long journey through doubts and questions. A b...
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Making Coffee
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Robert G. Morgan
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Proverbs 19:17, 1 John 3:18, John 13:14-15, Matthew 25:35-36, Romans 12:13, Philippians 2:3-4, Galatians 6:9-10
Mr. Sam Rayburn was Speaker of the United States House of Representatives longer than any other man in our history. There is a story about him that reveals the kind of man he really was. The teenage ...
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I Knew You would Come
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John C. Maxwell and Dan Reiland
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Romans 12:10, James 5:19-20, Ruth 1:16-17 , 1 Samuel 18:1-4, 2 Samuel 23:15-17 , John 15:13, Luke 10:30-37, Psalm 133:1
Though Jim was just a little older than Phillip and often assumed the role of leader, they did everything together. They even went to high school and college together. After college they decided to jo...
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Friends in Peace and in War
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John C. Maxwell
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Galatians 6:2, 1 Samuel 18:1-3, Romans 12:10, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Proverbs 17:17, John 15:13
Though Jim was just a little older than Phillip and often assumed the role of leader, they did everything together. They even went to high school and college together. After college they decided to jo...
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Arthur Conan Doyle
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Watson. Come at once if convenient. If inconvenient, come all the same.
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It All Starts with Relationships
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John Townsend
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Proverbs 18:1, Ephesians 4:16, Romans 12:10, Ecclesiastes 4:9
Everything significant starts with relationship. At the end of the day, your faith, your family, your work, and your leadership are all based on who you relate to and how you relate. Your life is moti...
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Father: Thank You for always being
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Richard Herman
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Psalm 34:14, Luke 15:20, Hebrews 4:14, Romans 6:4, Acts 1:8, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Psalm 25:4-5, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10, John 14:13, James 1:5, 2 Corinthians 9:8, Habakkuk 3:2, Isaiah 6:8, Matthew 28:19-20
Father: Thank You for always being ready to welcome us and listen to us. Thank You for sending Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Savior: born like us, experiencing all that we experience yet sinless, who d...
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Jesus–our Lord, Savior and Friend: Come
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Richard Herman
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2 Corinthians 1:3-4, James 5:14-15, Matthew 11:28, Psalm 34:18, Isaiah 9:6
Jesus–our Lord, Savior and Friend: Come into our hearts to save us and to rule. Come into your Church to direct and empower us with Your Gospel and Your Spirit. Come into your World to redeem the Lost...
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A Day with Jesus
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Mark 10:13-16, Luke 19:1-10, Matthew 9:10-13, John 15:15, Mark 5:35-43
A group of fourth-graders at a Christian school was given an assignment to draw what they would like to do if Jesus spent a day with them. After working diligently on their pictures, one little girl a...
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E. B. White
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- Friendship
- Deserving
'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is...
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Somebody Does Care
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Matthew Keller
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Philippians 2:4, Galatians 6:2, John 13:34-35, Matthew 5:14,16, Isaiah 58:10, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Proverbs 27:9
Many years ago, I was on my way home from work and a friend came to mind. It occurred to me that I hadn’t heard from him for a few days, and I knew he had been having a tough time. (This was before th...
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Eugene Peterson
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Like the sacramental use of water and bread and wine, friendship takes what's common in human experience and turns it into something holy.
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Jesus–our Lord, Savior, Friend and
Author

Richard Herman
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10, Ephesians 2:8-9, Psalm 23:1-2
Jesus–our Lord, Savior, Friend and Companion: To be “in” You is to no longer be strangers to Your Father, or to one another. In You–we are brought near. In You–we are redeemed and forgiven. In You–we ...
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Sherry Turkle
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Digital connections . . . may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other.
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Andy Stanley
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Blessed is the man who gets the opportunity to devote his life to something bigger than himself and who finds himself surrounded by friends who share his passion.
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Dharius Daniels
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1 Samuel 18:1-4 , Exodus 17:8-13 , Ruth 1:16-17, John 15:12-15 , Philippians 2:19-22, Psalm 133:1
Friends are individuals who are relational assets and not liabilities. Friends are those whom God escorts into our environments because there is something they need to be for us in order to help us be...
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Jesus Christ, the love that gives
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Ephesians 3:17-19, Ephesians 5:25-27, John 15:15, 1 Corinthians 12:27, John 1:1-2, Genesis 2:7, Romans 8:11
Jesus Christ, the love that gives love, You are higher than the highest star; you are deeper than the deepest sea; You cherish us as your own family; You embrace us as your own spouse; You rule over u...
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Praising God's Eternal Power
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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois
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1 Peter 2:1-12
Pastor: Friends in Christ, I urge you all to lift up your hearts to God and pray with me as Christ our Lord has taught us and freely promised to hear us. People: Our Father, who art in heave...
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Hear Our Prayer, O Lord
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Trinity Lutheran Church, Lisle, Illinois
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1 Peter 2:1-12
Pastor: Friends in Christ, I urge you all to lift up your hearts to God and pray with me as Christ our Lord has taught us and freely promised to hear us. People: Our Father, who art in heave...
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Fixing a Person in the Stars
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Adele Ahlberg Calhoun
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Ecclesiastes 4:9-12, 1 John 4:7-8, Mark 12:31, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, John 13:34
Mike Mason recounts how his friend Daniel Adair once said: Whenever I meet someone new, I take that person and fix him or her in my heart. To do this, I literally see that person as a star, and I ...
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Augustine of Hippo
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Community is the fruit of charity and is expressed in friendship which brings forth and nourishes loyalty, trust, sincerity and mutual understanding. … Friendship in Christ not only favors the develop...
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Jenn Johnson
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Have people in your life that will chase you and come after you with love when you are struggling or not at your best.
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Peter Kreeft
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He's what we really need. If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation but for you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anythin...
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Risen Lord, Loving Father ... and
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Richard Herman
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Risen Lord, Loving Father ... and Ever-Present Spirit: Thank You for reaching into our doubts, giving us the faith we lack. Thank You for Your gracious condescension reaching from the glories of heave...
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C. S. Lewis
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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The Upper Room
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Sarah Bourns Crosby
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Genesis 22:1-14, Exodus 14:15-28, John 13:1-17, John 15:1-17, Psalm 23:, John 13:7
“ What I am doing, you do not understand now, but in a little while you will understand” Only Jesus knew This would be their last time together. The last supper they would share around the same...
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Moving the Fence: A Sermon Illustration
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Stuart R. Strachan, Jr.
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- Friendship
- Grace
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Matthew 9:9-13, James 2:13, Mark 7:24-30, Ephesians 2:13-14, Luke 15:1-7
In the Second World War, a group of soldiers were fighting in the rural countryside of France. During an intense battle, one of the American soldiers was killed. His comrades did not want to leave his...
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Frederick Buechner
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- Friendship
- Relationships
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Proverbs 18:24, Ecclesiastes 4:9-12
What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds
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Author

Hugh Kingsmill
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- Friendship
[Friends are] God’s apology for relations.
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C. S. Lewis
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- Fellowship
- Friendship
In each of my friends, there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity.

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Genesis

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Ruth

Ruth 1 (5)

1 Samuel

1 Sam 18 (8)

Job

Job 2 (4)

Psalm

Proverbs

Ecclesiastes

Eccl 4 (11)

Isaiah

Isa 41 (2)

Matthew

Mark

Mark 8 (2)

Luke

John

Romans

Rom 12 (8)

1 Corinthians

2 Corinthians

Galatians

Gal 6 (7)

Ephesians

Philippians

Phil 2 (8)

Colossians

Col 3 (5)

1 Thessalonians

James

1 Peter

1 John

1 John 4 (3)