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There can be no friendship when there is no freedom. Friendship loves the free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

William Penn

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill

2628. A Cure for Complainers

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... a lot more! Moses had to put up with a whole nation of complainers. The Bible says the people were “murmuring.” Have you ever heard people murmuring? We all have. John Galsworthy once described complainers like this: they are “always building dungeons in the air.” The ironic thing is that often it is people who have the least to complain about who are the worst murmurers. There is something about having much that makes us feel we deserve more. True, the children of Israel were out in the wilderness ...

2629. Our Vocal Chords

Illustration

Staff

Because a woman's vocal cords are shorter than a man's she can actually speak with less effort than he can. Shorter vocal cords not only cause a woman's voice to be more highly pitched, but also require less air to become agitated, making it possible for her to talk more with less energy expended.

2630. Dancing in the Wind

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . We must “dance in the wind.” Beverly learned this lesson not from other runners but from hawks he saw flying above the fields. He noticed that the raptors did not struggle against the headwinds, but they used the wind to do a kind of mid-air dance. They circled, they swooped, they twirled, they dove. They relaxed and played in the wind. Their goal was not measured progress but play and enjoyment. They were masters at seizing the moment and “going with the flow.” Adapting to the wind. Adapting to ...

2631. Your Wake-up Call

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... his goals. But what does it mean if you are very successful at achieving the wrong goals? You’ve heard me mention the name Jon Krakauer before. Jon is a mountain climber and best-selling author of books about his climbing adventures. In his book Into Thin Air, he writes of the day in May, 1996 when he finally reached the summit of Mt. Everest. A number of his fellow climbers had died along the route. Krakauer wrote, “I understood on some dim, detached level that [it] was a spectacular sight. I’d been ...

2632. Beyond Fairness

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Roy Howard

... are not earned or bought. They are given from the bounty of a generous God. The perspective of privilege can actually blind us from seeing such generosity. When a labor pool operated not that far from here, men would stand for hours all day in the open air, waiting in hope for someone to select them for job. A truck would drive up and the men would scramble with hands raised, pleading to be selected. Each time a man climbed into the truck, there was joy spread across his face, along with relief. On the ...

2633. At peace in Golf

Humor

I get upset over a bad golf shot just like anyone else, but it's silly to let the game get to you. When I miss a shot, I just think what a beautiful day it is. And what pure fresh air I'm breathing. Then I take a deep breath. I have to do that. That's what gives me the strength to break the club....

2634. Curve Ball

Humor

The young boy was showing off to his father what a hitter he was; three times he tossed the ball into the air and swung at it and missed each time. At the third miss he said, "Boy, what a pitcher I am!"

2635. Reagan's Reaction

Humor

... W.C. Fields): “All in all, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.” In another note, recalling a Winston Churchill observation: “There’s no more exhilarating feeling than being shot at without result.” In a third note: “Send me to L.A., where I can see the air I’m breathing.” In yet another note written while surrounded by medical staff: “If I had this much attention in Hollywood, I’d have stayed there.” Complimented by a doctor for being a good patient: “I have to be. My father-in-law is a ...

2636. The Jesus Straightway

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... lava. The roads were about 3-5 ft thick. They “graded” the surface until absolutely smooth, that is, they smoothed and leveled it with equipment made for these kinds of roadways. Underneath the roadway, a combination of stones in various sizes allowed for water and air to filter through. They measured carefully and provided drainage on the sides of the roads. The Romans were not the first to build roads. The earliest road in the holy land dates back to Ur in 4000 BCE. In 2000 BCE the Minoans built a ...

2637. A Message To You from God

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... to gain their trust. She brings along sandwiches. She sits and listens to the veterans’ stories. It may take months of visits and conversations before a vet will let her take his blood pressure or give him some medicine. She tells of encountering a homeless Air Force veteran suffering from schizophrenia who had lived on the streets for twenty years. Janel found him a safe place to live, but he still didn’t trust her. He refused to use the electricity in his new apartment. He refused to let Janel treat ...

2638. A Quantum Decision

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... That morning, as reports of the devastating attacks came into the Federal Aviation Commission’s offices, their National Operations Manager, Ben Sliney, made a critical decision. The decision was to ground all U.S. flights that day and close down American air space for all but lifesaving medical flights. This was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of decision, and I’m sure Ben Sliney faced some questions about that decision. Every impactful decision encounters some opposition. Looking back from our vantage point ...

2639. Are You Troubled by Demons?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... they be physical, emotional or spiritual. All of us have times in our life when we are confronted with problems and emotions that almost overwhelm us. Perhaps you remember the story about a monastery in Europe perched high on a cliff several hundred feet in the air. The only way to reach the monastery was to be suspended in a basket which was brought to the top by several monks who pulled and tugged with all their strength. Obviously, the ride up the steep cliff in that basket was terrifying. One tourist ...

2640. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... to drop everything to follow Jesus. So at the beginning of chapter 9, when Jesus called his inner circle, his closest friends, Peter, James, and John, to go with him up the mountain, they were ready to go. Perhaps, they thought, in the rarefied air of the mountain their minds would clear. There was no way the disciples could have prepared for what would take place on the top of that mountain, however. The Bible says on the mountaintop, in the presence of his three disciples, Jesus was “transfigured ...

2641. You're Never Too Old

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... Some risks I find impossible to take—particularly personal risks with people—for example, marriage, or having children.” Did you get that? Getting married and having children are scarier to this wire-walker than crossing a tiny cable 1,350 feet in the air. (3) You and I take such relationships for granted. Maybe Petit’s unusual fear will cause us to think about our relationships. What greater risk is there than trusting your life to another person until “death do us part.” That is an enormous ...

2642. Beginning the Lenten Journey

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... here on earth, literally. None of what they did was lasting before God. None of God’s good will was gained by their sacrifices or their suffering. They weren’t cleaning their rooms. Instead they were shoving everything into the closet, spraying the room with an air freshener and saying it was all done. Making matters even worse, they were saying for others to do it like them. In the same way, putting a cross of ashes on your forehead is not cleaning your room. Ashes on your forehead is recognizing that ...

2643. Survival

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Will Willimon

... that the bomb is our only hope and the people who believe that doing away with the bomb is our only hope have much in common. As Christopher Lasch said in a recent book, the modern world makes "survival artists" of us all. Fearful about the water we drink, the air we breathe, ecological disaster, the great mushroom cloud looming over us, we get by as best we can and grab hold of what we can. What is our only hope? You tell me. What does it do to a generation of college students, the majority of whom believe ...

2644. Advice

Romans 12:2, 9-20; 13:8-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... letters on the walls of the dining hall at the University of Indiana for all the students to meditate upon as they chewed breakfast. People in Indiana ought to know that, as it turns out, Polonius' advice, like a lot of advice fathers give their sons, is mostly hot air and doesn't bear much analysis: "Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar…Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;…Neither a borrower nor a lender be; own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be ...

2645. The Catch

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the more dangerous aspects of the job –actually fighting fires! But for most firefighters, the benefits far outweigh the risks. A similar sign could have been posted in Jesus’ time for the job of “fisherman.” Perhaps something like this: Fresh Salt Air Strenuous Labor Long Hours Tedious Work Minimal Results While the life of a fisherman might have included beautiful sunrises and sunsets, some great camaraderie, and maybe even a free fish dinner once a week, it also was an extremely tough job that ...

2646. Joy

Luke 2:1-11 · Isaiah 9:2-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 't get much more joyful than this; Christmas Day, and on a Sunday. All of today's scriptures speak of joy, as well as the hymns. "Joy To the World." Joy can be a challenge in church. On most Sundays, church tends to overdo the imperative, filling the air with "should," "ought," and "must." Do this, don't do that. You come to church feeling fairly good about yourself, about the world; we'll fix that. After we have enumerated what's wrong with you and with the world, you leave church feeling worse than when ...

2647. The Mighty Mustard Seed

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... grow 8-12 feet high. (2) Jesus compared the kingdom of God to a mustard seed. He called it the tiniest seed on earth but when it grows up, it is taller than any of the other plants in the garden with branches so large that the birds of the air can make their nests in its shade. On another occasion he told his disciples that if they had as much faith as a grain of mustard seed, they could say to a sycamore tree, “Pluck yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea and it would obey ...

2648. The Power of Belief

1 John 5:9-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... called Kitty Hawk, North Carolina became the setting for the launching of their “ridiculous” idea. Finally, consider the plight of Benjamin Franklin. The next time you marvel at the modern conveniences we take for granted — television, computers, air-conditioning, stereos, kitchen blenders, and so on, all of which work by simply plugging them into an electrical wall outlet, remember Franklin and his experiments with electricity. Franklin was admonished to stop his foolish experiments with lightning ...

2649. Little Start, Big Finish

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... It is like a mustard seed which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet, when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs, and puts forth large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.” The comparison, here, is one of size and potential. What starts out very small can become very big, what starts out weak can become strong, what starts out insignificant can become hugely significant, what starts out unimportant can become very ...

2650. The Organic Gospel

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... use for it? It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth; yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes the greatest of all shrubs and puts forth large branches so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.’” I like to call this the “organic gospel.” For we have a simple job. We are both seeds and sowers. We plant ourselves in God’s care, seed our faith deeply in Jesus. And we live our lives growing into that relationship. We ...

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