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1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Epiphany 4B

[…] luminous film Babette’s Feast gives the viewer a curious reversal on traditional ways of thinking about “weaker” and “stronger” members in the Body of Christ.  My colleague Roy Anker has been publishing a lot of wonderful “Movies for Preaching” pieces on the CEP website.  He has three on this film, of which this particular […]

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Acts 10:34-43

Epiphany 1A

[…] want his people to be part of that, either. Illustration Idea For an illustration idea on this Sunday focusing on baptism, I will defer to my colleague Roy Anker from another part of the Center for Excellence in Preaching website and his observations on what he deems to be the best encapsulation of baptism […]

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Proverbs 31

Proper 20B

[…] text when she observes, “ There are so many literary and thematic parallels between her and the figure of Woman Wisdom in chapters 1– 9”. Additionally, scholar Christine Roy Yoder contends, ““the two women who frame the book essentially coalesce as one.”  The implication of this is that the author of Proverbs primary concern is […]

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Romans 7:15-25a

Proper 9A

[…] to the law as “good,” throughout the rest of our text, he also points out that good law’s limitations. A few years ago an Alabama judge named Roy Moore commissioned a monument of the Ten Commandments to be placed in the front of Alabama’s Supreme Court building. He claimed it marked “the restoration of […]

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1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50

Epiphany 7C

[…] usher his adopted siblings into the glory of the new earth and heaven. Illustration In his review of the movie E.T: The Extra Terrestrial, Calvin College professor Roy Anker describes how ‘A lonely, heartbroken boy, Elliott, all of ten or twelve years old, stumbles upon a … needy creature, a rather funny-looking alien. Elliott’s […]

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Matthew 3:13-17

Epiphany 1A

[…] It’s a good question to ponder. Illustration Idea One of the finer films of the last thirty or so years is Bruce Beresford’s “Tender Mercies” (our colleague Roy Anker has an entry on the role of the Holy Spirit in the film and another on the kingdom of God on the CEP website).  The […]

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Books

Home » You searched for roy%252525252525252525252Banker » Page 6 Preaching Books: General A Little Handbook for Preachers: Ten Practical Ways to a Better Sermon by Sunday Mary Hulst     IVP Books, 2016 Actuality: Real Life Stories for Sermons that Matter Scott Hoezee Abingdon Press, 2014 Preachers need stories. Stories, examples, and illustrations bring […]

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A Married Man

John Strickland, a barrister who runs as a labour party candidate argues with a conservative banker that a coal miner ought to earn as much as he, namely, the banker. The banker replies that no law prevents a coal miner becoming a merchant banker. No, says Strickland, but then you wouldn’t give him a […]

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“All Fall Down”

[…] to Risk,” actually left me totally disgusted. Why? Because in searing detail it exposed — using Citigroup as Exhibit A — how some of our country’s best-paid bankers were overrated dopes who had no idea what they were selling, or greedy cynics who did know and turned a blind eye. But it wasn’t only […]

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2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Lent 4C

[…] gets to work, moves into Edna’s barn, and befriends her children. But then comes someone who’s far more problematic, who’s dumped on Ms. Spaulding by the slimy banker who proposed she sell the place to the bank and send her kids away. The banker’s brother-in-law Will, blinded in the First World War, has come to […]

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