Contributed by Tim Hinrichs on Nov 29, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    EXPECTATIONS AND REALITY
I had arrived only a couple weeks before in the Czech Republic and was living with a retired Czech couple in a small village. Being the only American in the area I was somewhat a celebrity. One day a couple elders from a local church visited me to ask if I would preach in
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Aug 8, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The reality in the first century was that the most intense persecution of the Christian church came, not from the Romans, but from the Jewish community.  The Romans and the outside world viewed the Christian Community as merely a small sect of Judaism.  Christianity did not spread globally and
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Oh, this is a reality, not a fable, that the Lord Jesus Christ is our friend. And we should not be satisfied till we
                    
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                    THE REALITY OF PALM SUNDAY
Pope Benedict himself in his homily last Sunday in St Peter’s Square said this about Palm Sunday:
"But what are we really doing when we join this procession as part of the throng which went up with Jesus to Jerusalem and hailed him as King of Israel? 
Is this anything
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Mar 14, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SIGNS ONLY EXPOSE REALITY
Signs do not create a reality; they merely expose it. For example, a sign on a highway may read "Chicago: 160 miles". If we changed the sign to read "60 miles" instead, it wouldn't change the fact that Chicago is really 160 miles away. 
Truth doesn't change, no matter
                    
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                    Contributed by Ruth Hind on Oct 11, 2008
                
                
                
                    "In reality there is perhaps no one of our natural Passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself...For even if I could conceive
                    
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                    Contributed by Matthew Kratz on Feb 8, 2009
                
                
                
                    In understanding the new reality in Christ with the law, Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) explained it in this way:
“What is God’s law now? It is not above a Christian-it is under Christian. Some men hold God’s law like a rod, in terror, over Christians, and say, “If you sin you will be punished with
                    
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                    Contributed by Gregg Bitter on May 5, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A year or so ago the rage on TV was the reality shows. Survivor was the first one that made it it big. The selling point was that instead of actors, these were real, every-day people. The outcome was not scripted and no one knew who would come out the survivor at the end. Since then many other
                    
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                    Contributed by Jay Winters on May 30, 2015
                
                
                
                    MTV gave us our first ever "reality show", a thing called "The Real World" that came out in 1992. The first "Real World" cast sought to show us what happens when you put seven strangers in a house together, and quote, "people stop being polite, and start being real". And the world sat there, glued
                    
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                    Contributed by Jay Winters on Jun 10, 2006
                
                
                
                    Little babies, whose concepts of reality are still being formed, lack the ability to realize that when their father is out of their sight that they still exist.  A father can spend hours with her infant, put it down in the crib, walk away – and it is as if the father didn’t even exist anymore to
                    
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