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301. Joey and Nicky at Skull Mountain

Mark 15:42-47

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Jesus’ skin may still have had the scent of nard from Mary’s anointing, combined with blood and sweat. After he rose, his linens must still have held the scent of myrrh and aloes, wafting from the tomb, where his head dressing lay and his body linens discarded. Did the same angels who later rescued Peter from prison come to roll away the stone for Jesus? Did they lift off his head wrapping, rolling it neatly, then lift him out of the other linens? Did he speak his own rising after his mouth was freed ...

302. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... do you know which are which? Even professional hikers sometimes can have difficulty discerning one from another. Both can be found in every forest. If in doubt, don’t take a risk, experts say! You could consume a deadly fungus. Or you could discard a perfect succulent treat! Many varieties appear nearly identical with only a few giveaway features that you may discover just too late! Weeds too can be mistaken for flowers in your backyard garden. Is that your new flowering shrub coming up? Or a counterfeit ...

303. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... power of that one song written by Millard changed so many lives. Because songs are stories. In the wake of early Methodism, it was songs and stories too that changed lives. When people read the little tracts and pamphlets left on the streets as though discarded….when they witnessed the stories of change in the fields, when they engaged together in life-changing stories, when they heard the promises of God in song, and embodied them as they sang –so many were changed. We need the Song of God, the Voice ...

304. We Will Be Changed

Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... says, “I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live.” What appeared to be dry and disconnected –a people truly disconnected from God-- would again be restored to life, relationship, hope, and a future. Those who appeared to be dead and discarded, disconnected, and hopeless still had the potential within them to be a restored, changed, new kind of people. “I will put my spirit within you, and you shall live!” says God. This is the good news of the gospel! Jesus’ resurrection guarantee ...

305. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the compassion of a God who walks beside us, puts hands upon us, and seeks to be with us in a kind of intimate and loving relationship that defies all human logic. And no matter how tattered our image of Jesus may become, no matter how we discard him, tear him down, or disdain him….no matter how sin-stained or dirt-soiled our lives can become, Jesus can restore us. In and through our restoration, He will live forever. His beauty will be ageless and timeless, and through His image, God’s grace, eternally ...

306. Heart Shaped Stone

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and refuse to believe that their leader would sacrifice Himself, would die for the cause, would leave them, would rise again. Even on resurrection day, they only believed it, when the reality of it was thrust rudely into their faces, when they faced the discarded cloths, when they saw the opened tomb. And even after that, many did not believe, until they saw the risen Lord, or touched his open wounds. Expectations are powerful forces in our lives, more powerful than we realize they can be. We are people ...

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Anais Nin

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Benjamin Disraeli

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Benjamin Franklin

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Charlotte Cushman

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Gelett Burgess

Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.

George A. Moore

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

George Washington

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards – or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer external directions. He will discard formula after formula, until he reaches the conclusion: Let nature take its course.

Larry Bird

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Ramakrishna

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Robert MacNeil

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

323. Jesus’ Recipe for a Kingdom Style Feast

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... all the disciples need to do is wait and let it happen. Step Five: Allow time to take its course. And let God handle it from here. In Jesus’ story of the net that catches all fish with people sorting them into those good to eat and those to discard, Jesus notes that it will be evident that some have heard and ingested the Word and that some have rejected it --that is, those who have internalized Jesus’ truth as opposed to those who have rejected it. In the end, God will take an accounting of all people ...

324. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Ron Love

... in our sanctuary, with a cobble stone aisle flanked by hand carved oak pews; but nonetheless, we are the seat of Christian learning in our community today. For within these walls of made of stucco are multiple opportunities for learning. We should not discard the sermon as only a message of inspiration, for it is also a message of spiritual enlightenment. There are Sunday school classes to attend that provide a formal presentation with a chance for dialogue. During the course of the year we offer some ...

325. You're Never Too Old

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... he noticed a certificate hanging on a wall which bore the dentist’s full name. Suddenly, he remembered that a slender, nice looking young woman with that name had been in his high school class some 50 years ago. Upon seeing the dentist, however, he quickly discarded any such thought. This gray‑haired lady with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been his classmate. After she had examined his teeth, he mentioned a certain school and asked if by chance she had gone to that school. “I sure did ...

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Showing 301 to 325 of 341 results

301. Joey and Nicky at Skull Mountain

Mark 15:42-47

Sermon

Lori Wagner

302. Tale of the Tares

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

303. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

304. We Will Be Changed

Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58

Sermon

Lori Wagner

305. The Physician

Isaiah 38:1-22, Matthew 8:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

306. Heart Shaped Stone

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Anais Nin

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

Arlie Russell Hochschild

Arthur Schopenhauer

Benjamin Disraeli

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Benjamin Franklin

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Chanakya

Goethe said there would be little left of him if you were to discard what he owed to others.

Charlotte Cushman

If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

Gelett Burgess

Terrible is the day when each sees his soul naked, stripped of all veil; that dear soul which he cannot change or discard, and which is so irreparably his.

George A. Moore

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

George Washington

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Larry Bird

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

Ramakrishna

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.

Robert MacNeil

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Thomas Edison

323. Jesus’ Recipe for a Kingdom Style Feast

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

324. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Ron Love

325. You're Never Too Old

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

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