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• Text: , of course. And so they wait and they wait and they wait, and he gets discouraged. And then one day Sarah takes things into her own hands and she says, "Have my slave girl from Egypt, Hagar," and Abraham has a child, Ishmael, with Hagar. There are the natural

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• Text: “modern” understanding. Anselm was a part of a culture that we know of as the Age of Feudalism when the castle was on the hill and the lord of the castle had serfs. The serf served as a slave to the castle and the castle gave protection to the serf. Anselm

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• Text: to the Deuteronomy account, the Sabbath commandment is based on the need to contemplate salvation or grace. You were slaves and God set you free. And so, it is a cessation of work but not as an end in itself, but as an opportunity to delight in the wonder of life

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• Text: . When I see a film like that, when I see the way we white people treated black people before the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s I could weep. It is treating people in a dehumanizing way. It is creating in them a slave mentality where they cower

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• Text: . They live by miracle, mystery, and authority. Let them submit. Let them be slaves, simply obedient, unthinking. Give them bread. That’s what the © Grand Valley State University Do I Need Religion? Richard A. Rhem Page 4   masses need, not the freedom

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• Text: America and Central America as ever I was for the slaves in America or the patriots of the Revolution of 1776. Now, America, that you have climbed to the place of power in the world, my challenge to you," says Almighty God, "is to use your power

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• Text: as a slave. The brothers ripped his beautiful cloak, stained it with blood and took it to their father, claiming a wild animal had killed Joseph. Jacob grieved and would not be comforted. In Egypt Joseph prospered for the story tells us God was with him. He

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• Text: of the Jewish year the child was present at the solemn [ceremony] of Rosh Hashanah. He heard thousands of these slaves cry with one voice, 'Blessed be the name of the Eternal.' Not long before he too would have prostrated himself and with such adoration

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• Text: , they celebrated every year and the Jewish community to this day still keeps Passover, remembering that they were slaves in Egypt and they were delivered by the mighty hand of God. In the beautiful statement of Moses in the Book of Exodus, in the words of God, "See

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• Text: in Deuteronomy? When your son or daughter says, "What do these things mean?" then you have a teaching moment, a wonderful opportunity. And what do you do? You don’t get out the catechism. You tell the story. You say, "Our fathers and mothers were slaves

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• Text: , and then I found to experience you, I was unable to speak about you." God breaks through or manifests, and we respond. Moses responds and we get the whole liberation movement of the slaves out of Egypt, and we get the nation Israel and that founding

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• Text: of Israel was one who was understood to hear the cries of the people. It is stated in those opening chapters: the cries of my people have come to me, and God calls Moses to lead those slaves out of Egyptian bondage. Walter Brueggemann speaks about the royal