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    Seeing with the Heart: A Spiritual Resource
    Seeing with the Heart: A Spiritual Resource
    Seeing with the Heart: A Spiritual Resource
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    Seeing with the Heart: A Spiritual Resource

    By Dr. Robert L. Veon

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    Robert L. Veon, author of Living on the Growing Edge, presents Seeing with the Heart. In these sermons, Veon, a master storyteller, brings characters in the New Testament to life, allowing them to tell their own stories, in their own words.
    Joseph, Matthew and Mary Magdalene, to name but a few, invite you to follow them back to the time of Jesus. Their ancient stories are told with intimacy and resonance, making them approachable to the modern reader. With wisdom and grace, whether from the pulpit or the page, Veon inspires all of us to see with the heart.
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    Release dateMar 11, 2014
    ISBN9781491854525
    Seeing with the Heart: A Spiritual Resource
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    Dr. Robert L. Veon

    Dr. Robert L. Veon has served churches in Arkansas, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Connecticut and Maine. The Presbytery of Southern New England honored him for fifty years of Gospel ministry, at their meeting at Yale University Divinity School in New Haven, Connecticut in 2012. The United States Marine Corp selected him as “Outstanding Spokesman of the Faith” at Camp Quantico, Virginia in 1981. He was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey and a Visiting Scholar at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He holds a B.A. and a D.D. from Westminster College in Pennsylvania and an M.Div. and a D.Min. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. He attended the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for a year of post-graduate studies. He has returned to Scotland, Europe and Israel a number of times on study trips. He is currently working toward an M.S. in Psychology at Husson University. Dr. Veon and his wife, Susan Jean Michel-Veon, moved to Maine seventeen years ago, when he retired from parish assignments. They have named their home nestled in the woods and on a lake, “Kairos Cove.” In “retirement,” his passions remain teaching, preaching and writing. After moving to Maine, he was hired as the Athletic Director for Greenville High School. He has taught Ethics, Critical Thinking, Human Behavior in Contemporary Film, and World Religions at Beal College in Bangor and Kennebec Valley Community College in Fairfield. He supplied the pulpit at the Jackman Congregational church for a year or so. For the last ten years, he has conducted worship and preached at the Union Church UCC in Greenville and the Rockwood Chapel. Dr. Veon authored a collection of “prayer-poems,” Living on the Growing Edge, in 1986. It is slated for rerelease. He is currently working on a second volume of poetry, which will be published in 2014. One of his favorite literary quotes quotes is this one, from Thoreau: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wished to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

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      Seeing with the Heart - Dr. Robert L. Veon

      © 2014 Dr. Robert L. Veon. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse     03/06/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-5453-2 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-5452-5 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014902978

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      Dedication

      Foreword

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      In the moment of selfless abandonment

      I Remember the Night

      What was there about Joseph

      I, Joseph

      Bethlehem’s Babe

      I Remember the Stable

      You will see Him

      Silence sweeps across the soul

      At the Campfire

      You are God’s gift

      Dan, the Donkey Man

      Because you are such a surprising God

      I, Matthew

      If I Could but Touch Him

      A Miracle within a Miracle

      Thank You, God, for your precious gift

      I, Philip

      Listen to the wind, Nicodemus

      I, Nicodemus

      There’s a special stirring in the soul

      I, Peter

      When will we learn

      I, Judas

      Grace always calls beyond yesterday

      I, Simon of Cyrene

      Reflection on Friday Called Good

      I, Barabbas

      We met in early spring one day

      I, Mary Magdalene

      Thank You, Lord, for a promise-piled heart

      I, Thomas

      Afterword

      About the Author

      Dedication

      It is my pleasure to dedicate this book to my wife, Susan Jean Michel-Veon for her steadfast support and love through the years. She is my sine qua non and best friend. I will always be grateful for the way she has taught me to see with the heart and that What is essential is invisible to the eye.

      I would also like to dedicate the premise and perspective of this book to our grandchildren, in the hope that they will early learn and long remember what it means to be seeing with the heart.

      Greer Ellen Veon

      John Thompson Veon

      Joshua Scott Veon

      Alexander Samuel Nyiri

      Jessica Lynn Veon

      ‘And now here is my secret, a very simple secret,’ said the fox. ‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.’

      Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

      The Little Prince

      There’s a beauty so delicate it will not be

      captured or contained in canisters of words

      for easy storage or transportation,

      yet you can hold onto it forever

      and take it wherever you go.

      This awesome wonder of being

      is seen only through the heart, where

      perceiving its indescribable beauty

      and reality of breathtaking magnitude,

      one can only remain silent and weep.

      Thank You, God, for a gift so rare

      as grace, sculptured in my soul,

      to enrich a heart like mine

      when I perceive You through its lens.

      I cannot stop thanking You beyond tears

      for finding me worthy of Your love.

      In Jesus’ name. Amen.

      Foreword

      Some people are born to preach!

      One such individual is Dr. Robert L. Veon.

      In God’s providence, both Bob and I (in my case, a number of years before) were led to become theological students at Pittsburgh Seminary. There, among many benefits, solid foundational work in the area of homiletics, the art and science of preaching, took place.

      In addition to class instruction, each student was required to preach annually on an assigned text, without notes, before the professors and student body. The exercise was called The Faculty Sermon. The label was truly appropriate, for when your homily was finished one member of the faculty (not announced in advance but who had earlier been provided a copy of your manuscript) delivered a response, accurately referred to as The Faculty Criticism. When the experience at last concluded, you dusted yourself off, having been duly humbled, found comfort furnished by fellow students still awaiting their own ordeal, and moved on.

      Naturally, each year of seminary the bar was raised homiletically. But the end result was that by graduation you had been strongly equipped for the many years of pulpiteering that lay ahead. Bob and I agree that the Pittsburgh style of training seminarians to be faithful and fruitful heralds of the gospel, for which we will be forever grateful, was indeed outstanding.

      When asked, And what is your profession? many of the clergy are quick to respond Minister. A lesser number dare to say Preacher.

      I am of the conviction that Bob Veon would prefer the latter designation. See if you don’t agree as you proceed to read, reflect on and profit from his sermons, which follow.

      —Robert L. Kelley, Jr., DD, PhD

      Prof. Emeritus, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary

      Preface

      I am privileged to have had professors and role models of preaching that I consider to be among the best in the world: H. Ray Shear, DD, Frederick Bruce Speakman, DD, and Robert L. Kelley, PhD, DD, of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary; James S. Stewart, DD, of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and Raymond E. Brown, SS, PhD, of Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

      H. Ray Shear was always immaculately and properly dressed. He expected his students to be clothed appropriately as they prepared to enter their profession. Not surprisingly, he taught that preaching should be neat and uniform in construction. The biblical passage under consideration was to have been prayed over and thoroughly prospected by the neophyte preacher, who he promised would then find the jewels in the text and be able to share them. He held that preaching should be sound, strong, and succinct in order to hold the listener’s attention. Structure and sequence were stressed. He insisted on a powerful introduction, which signaled what was to be said to the listeners. This was to be followed by three distinct and biblically consistent sections defining and illustrating the premise. The final paragraph was to bring it all together with a conclusive summary. I am indebted to Dr. Shear for these formative teachings.

      Fred Speakman had a style of preaching that was more like storytelling. I recall that he engaged our ability to write descriptively by having us imagine pausing on the way home from school on a warm, sunny day in the fall of the year, sitting on one of those stainless steel stools with a faded red seat at the soda fountain of the local drug store, having just finished a strawberry ice cream soda, slowly stirring and tapping the remaining little clusters of bubbles at the bottom of a tall, old-fashioned, ice cream soda glass. Given such a richly detailed narration, a reader could picture himself or herself sitting on the very next stool. In light of that example, we were instructed to visualize standing beside Jesus as He taught His disciples along the shores of the Galilean Sea. Our task was, and still is, to describe the scene in such vivid detail that the readers can see, hear, and feel it unfolding before them.

      Robert Kelley, who in his undergraduate years was a cheerleader at the University of Pittsburgh, taught us that preaching should be exciting! We learned to catch the attention of our listeners by telling them of the enthusiasm that Jesus had when teaching the Truth. I am grateful to him for inspiring me to be clear, concise, compelling, Christ-centered, and convincing. He had a genius for alliterative outlines that, in conjunction with head-turning, eye-popping subjects, can make a sermon unforgettable. He taught us to engage in exegesis, the study of scripture, energetically! Which of us can forget the first week of school, when he jumped around the front of the classroom, teaching the Greek alphabet as if it were a cheer. I am grateful that he taught me to be a cheerleader for the Lord!

      James Stewart, one of the greatest preachers of the English-speaking world in the last century, taught that teaching should be proclamation! I had the privilege of doing one year of post-graduate study under him at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. He professed that the preacher has been given the opportunity to passionately proclaim the Lordship of Jesus Christ and the wonderful grace of God.

      Raymond Brown, under whose guidance I studied the Gospel of John in the early 1990s, taught me the value and necessity of scholarship and the search for Truth, no matter how busy and complicated parish life

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