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• Text: Slaves are slaves, but slaves are human. Slaves are people. Slaves have feelings. Slaves must not be used as a commodity, as so much chattel. As he brooded in the isolation of the desolate wilderness, I wonder if he churned inwardly.

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• Text: ...Once again, the institution of slavery was undercut by the Gospel because masters and slaves were alike called to respond to every human being as a human being. A slave in the early centuries was a thing, not a person, and masters were given counsel as well as the slaves, ...

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• Text: ...st, doing what top dogs ought to do. Another film by Spielberg is coming out: "Amistad." Amistad was the name of a slave ship that was bringing slaves from Africa around 1839, and they mutinied, these slaves. They killed the captain and several of the crew, and t...

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• Text: ...Rhem Page 2   who in the meantime took things into their own hands so that Sarah's slave girl, Hagar, bore Abraham a son, whom he loved. And Sarah, being so human, forced the slave girl and her son out of the tent. The tragic story of Ishmael, the firstborn, Abraham'...

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• Text: ...ving recovered, he was befriended by the family of a clergyman, Morly Urwin, and when Urwin died, John Newton, the converted slave trader become Anglican pastor and author of "Amazing Grace," invited Cowper to come to Olney, England, Newton's parish. For the last two decades ...

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• Text: ...of years, and they are to work the land for six years and then let it lie fallow for a year and not work, and not work their slaves and not work their beasts of burden, and take what the land offers, but let it lie fallow. Let the land rest. And then if you continue in Leviticus 25, you wil...

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• Text: Because he says, "...The Law is spiritual; but I am not. I am unspiritual, the purchased slave of sin." In utter amazement, Paul says, "I do not even acknowledge my own virtues as mine, for what I do is not what I want to do, but what I detest." What is the solution?

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• Text: ...Jesus was doing for the whole world what Moses did for Israel. Jesus was doing for the whole world what happened when the slaves were set free from the house of bondage in Pharaoh's Egypt. John understood the death of Jesus as a liberating act, as the culmination of a life that had cal...

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• Text: ...Hagar, full of Abraham's child, looks at Sarah with contempt. But can't you understand? The slave girl had the chance to look down her nose, just a little bit, at Sarah the barren one. And Sarah, of course, responding in kind, treated Hagar harshly. Hagar flees out into the wilder...

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• Text: ...mmunity Church Spring Lake, Michigan Pentecost VI, July 19, 1992 Transcription of the spoken sermon Remember that you were a slave ... and the Lord your God brought you out ... Deuteronomy 5:15 If with Christ you died ... why do you live as if you still belonged to the world? Colossians 2:2...

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• Text: ...That is who we are, and that is what this Seder is about. [And that is what this table is about.] For the slaves do become free, and the tyrants are destroyed. Once, it was by miracles; today, it is by defiance and devotion. [For us, to the way of Jesus.] From the book, A Different Night: T...

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• Text: ...Joel 2:28 …whoever wants to be great must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be the willing slave of all. Mark 10:43-44 I haven't had any of the Consistory newly organized last week come up to me and ask to sit on my right hand or on my left. No, there's not to...