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Luke 6:39-49

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... and logs. Just before our morning verses in Luke we hear Jesus say: “Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned... for the measure you give will be the measure you get back” (vv. 37, 38b). And then to illustrate, he talks about specks and logs: “Why do you see the speck in your neighbor’s eye, but do not notice the log in your own?” (v. 41). In other words, friends, if you are like me the judgments we make about others are often totally obscured by our ...

3227. Speaking from the Heart

Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... Found in Storage Units” by Emily Becker, July 16, 2015, http://mentalfloss.com/article/66120/7-strange-things-found-storage-units. 3. http://factsanddetails.com/japan/cat26/sub162/item869.html. 4. Associated Press 1/17/91, Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2008), pp. 310-311. 5. “Planting Patriotism” by Steve Hartman from CBS News. Published in Reader’s Digest, July/August 2018, p. 11. 6. Rick James, A Million Ways to Die (David ...

3228. Eyes Set on Jerusalem

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... , yet He redeemed the world. Jesus was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, yet He is the Good Shepherd. Jesus died, yet by His death He destroyed the power of death. Have you made this Jesus the Master of your life? 1. Contributed. Source unknown. 2. Bryan Chapell, Using Illustrations to Preach with Power (Revised Edition). 3. Ron Hutchcraft, “A Word With You,” http://www.hutchcraft.com/. Cited by MONDAY FODDER, http://family-safe-mail.com/.

3229. The Devastating Influence of Faultfinding, Nay-Saying, and Nitpicking

John 12:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... are even aware they are “aginners.” I once knew a minister who was an “aginner.” Our paths crossed frequently in ministerial retreats, meetings, conferences, workshops, and social settings. This fellow had a remarkable ability to faultfind and nitpick. To illustrate, when a speaker finished and opened the meeting for questions, this fellow always had something to say. Seldom were any of his comments positive. Instead, he liked to point out factual errors and correct for omissions in the speaker’s ...

3230. What Will We Do When He Is Gone?

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet” (v. 14). Over the centuries, foot washing has become a Maundy (or Holy) Thursday tradition in expressions of Christianity from German Anabaptist to Eastern Orthodox to Ethiopian Coptic to Roman Catholic. To illustrate: When Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the 266th pope, he took the name of Francis of Assisi, an early thirteenth-century monk who identified with the plight of the poor. Two weeks after he became Pope, on the Thursday of Holy Week 2013 ...

3231. The Awesome Power of FUD

John 21:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... concluded would certainly result in extra credit for my art project. Before returning our artwork, the teacher took the opportunity to give a lesson. I do not recall everything she said that day. I do, however, distinctly recall that she held up my drawing as an illustration of how not to draw a boat. “This child,” she patiently explained, “only used one color. He drew the entire boat in black crayon. I am not certain what all these lines are on the deck. I suppose they are people, but I cannot really ...

3232. What Gets Into Us?

John 18:1--19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... , we can keep a diary, as did Ben Franklin, and meticulously seek to eliminate all of our bad habits and substitute them wholly with good, but we will only be dealing with symptoms. We will never touch the disease. Dr. J. Vernon McGee once offered a good illustration of that truth. He tells about a game he used to play which he called “jumping to Catalina Island.” He says, “It’s about twenty-five miles directly across to Catalina from the pier in Santa Monica. We get to the end of the pier and we ...

3233. Surprise--One Got Out!

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It’s real! It’s been real all the time! Christ is risen from the dead and because he lives, we shall live too. Pastor Ray Pritchard tells of a sermon preached over 100 years ago by a man named T. DeWitt Talmage of New York City. Talmage illustrated our coming resurrection by referring to what was then a new-fangled invention called a phonograph. He spoke of how a person’s voice could be recorded and preserved on a cylinder and then played back again and again even after the person had died. Then he ...

3234. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

... John’s Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Ashland, OR: Bathroom Readers’ Press, 2002), pp. 510-511. 2. Patrick Doucette, Free Sermons: The Best Free Sermons for Modern Times (Kindle Edition). 3. Regal Books (1985). 4. Thanks to Pastor David Rogne for this illustration. 5. Adapted from R. L. Middleton, My Cup Runneth Over (Nashville: Broadman Press), p. 60. 6. Lee Hastings Bristol, More Power to You (Waco: Word Books). 7. “Drugs Took Over Until Former Hee Haw Star Lulu Roman Found Jesus,” www.godupdates ...

3235. A Hall of Fame Dad

John 16:12-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and wrong, and by showing them the love of Jesus Christ who showed us how much His Father loves him and how much His Father loves each of us? 1. (Gresham, OR: Vision House, 1995). 2. Ted Kyle and John Todd, A Treasury of Bible Illustrations, AMG Publishers, Chattanooga, TN., 1995, p. 147. 3. Bill Hybels, Honest to God? (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1992). 4. We are grateful to Billy P. Duncan, Oberlin, Kansas for this piece of humor. 5. Ken Sowers, Prince of Peace Church, Mentor, Ohio. Cited by ...

3236. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “Beginnings and Endings,” The Christian Century, Jan 25, 2012. Cited in The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long, http://day1.org/3823 the_start_of_the_trail. 2. As told by Ed McManus in The Jokesmith. 3. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 463. 4. “What You See Sticks” by Rick Brown, 1Life2Love. 5. Roberta Bondi, To Pray and To Love (Fortress Press), 1991, pp. 14-15. Cited by Pastor Jeremy Hajdu, http://www.open.org/~dallasmc ...

3237. A Prayer to a Good, Good Father

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . 29-30. Cited by Dave Redick, http://preacherstudy.com/eagle.html. 7. “6 Powerful Prayer Stories for the National Day of Prayer” by Kelsey Dallas, https://www.deseretnews.com/article/865653573/6-powerful-prayer-stories-for-the-National-Day-of-Prayer.html. 8. Walter B. Knight, Knight’s Treasury of Illustrations, (William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1989) p. 297.

3238. Did You Mean to Delete Christ?

Rev 3:20

Illustration

A pastor was preparing a message for an upcoming Sunday, and he wanted to use the famous painting Christ at the Door by William Holman Hunt as an illustration. He searched the Internet for the image, found it, and began to download a digital picture of the painting. Something went wrong. He didn’t receive the whole file. He decided to delete the file and start over. He pressed the Delete key, and the computer, as computers do, asked ...

3239. Join in the Singing

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Armed standoff ends after SWAT member sings Christmas carol,” The Associated Press, AOL & The Associated Press, Dec 28, 2018. 2. Nicole Darrah covers breaking and trending news for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @nicoledarrah. 3. Jim L. Wilson, Fresh Illustrations: Faith, Hope & Love (FreshMinistry.org. Kindle Edition), p. 103. 4. Carlos E. Wilton, Glow Of A Candle, Sign Of The Cross, copyright 2006. Cited at http://pointpresbyterian.org/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=92&Itemid=28. 5 ...

3240. In Need of a "Rally Monkey"

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... ://www.mlb.com/cut4/15-years-ago-angels-rally-monkey-was-born/c-128832446. 2. Tim Ellsworth, “Holy Hitter,” World magazine (2-27-10). Cited by Barry L. Davis, 52 Topical Sermons Volume 1 (GodSpeed Publishing), p. 125. 3. Jim Wilson, Fresh Illustrations, Volume 1 (pp. 21-22). Kindle Edition. 4. Volker Heide, God’s Punch Line (Madison, CT: King of Kings Publishing). 5. George H. Fox, Survivor Number Three (Whittier, CA: Moody Institute of Science), film script, p. 10. Cited by George Sweeting, Secrets ...

3241. Déjà Vu or Divine Revelation?

Luke 23:35-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... . One night the daughter came back, tried the door, and found it open. This unlocked door was such a symbol of God’s grace to the young woman that she decided that night to turn her life around. The author writes, “That unlocked door is a beautiful illustration of God’s grace toward sinners. God’s door is always unlocked whenever you are willing to come home.” (6) The cross of Jesus Christ is the key that unlocks the kingdom of God. The kingdom of God is a chosen kingdom, not an imposed one. God ...

3242. Is There Any Hope?

1 Cor 15:14

Illustration

Staff

This is a long illustration and a sad story, but a remarkable story worth the read. It can be found here: https://www.ussnautilus.org/the-loss-of-uss-s-4-ss-109. On 17 December 1927, USS S-4 (SS-109), an eight-year-old S-class submarine, was running submerged just off the ...

3243. I Forgive You, Brother!

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

Donald Deffner

Corrie ten Boom graphically illustrates in Tramp for the Lord how after the war she met a guard who had been her captor in the Ravensbruck concentration camp where her sister had died. He came forward after she spoke at a church in Munich, and (though he did not recognize her) said he had been ...

3244. Reading the Last Chapter First

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... . “6 Real People With Secret Identities Nobody Saw Coming” by Cezary Jan Strusiewicz, January 05, 2011. 4. Thomas Lake, “The Way It Should Be: The Story of an Athlete’s Singular Gesture Continues to Inspire. Careful, Though, It Will Make You Cry,” Sports Illustrated, June 29, 2009, www.si.com/ vault/ 2009/ 06/ 29/ 105832485/ the-way-it-should-be. Cited by Max Lucado, Unshakable Hope (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2018). 5. “Watch Adele pull a fast one on a group of her impersonators” by Shannon O ...

3245. The Sign of the Dove

Matthew 3:1-17 · John 1:1-34 · Mark 1:1-8 · Luke 3:1-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the death. But the good news is that even in death, there is Life in Jesus, and a garden of beauty in God’s kingdom. There is an unknown book written by Eliane Wilson in 1998 called The Lost Dove of Peace. You can read it in one evening. The illustrations by Hans Erni are enchanting. It’s a story for young and old about a world in crisis based in part on Stefan Zweig's parable “The Legend of the Third Dove.” In “The Lost Dove” there is so much death and destruction that the doves of the world ...

3246. A Man Under Authority / A Centurion's Faith, An Elder's Love

Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... One God. Jesus however IS the One God, the messiah and Son! The Centurion encounters him face-to-face. You may choose in your sermon to use the Hebrew Testament story instead of the gospel if you wish. Or a combination of the two. Both stories illustrate that God’s blessings and salvation are for faithfulness (the true heirs of God are the faithful), not mere lineage. While Jesus came to save Israel, and the “lost sheep” of Israel, he came too to save anyone who is faithful to God. Both the Centurion ...

3247. A Taxing Encounter

Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 2:13-17, Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... identical fashion. Not every disciple has a “call story” in the scriptures. Only a few. And they are recorded for specific reasons. They contain “signs” and “messages” for us about who Jesus is, the nature of his mission, and to illustrate how his “way” differs from the norm of the day. This particular call story also contains a “warning” to those who would value “rules” over relationship and devotion to God (and Jesus), and a “joyful proclamation” to those who fall outside ...

3248. Seat of Power

Mark 10:35-45, Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... :34, Colossians 3:1, Hebrews 10:12-13, 1 Peter 3:21-22). We are saved by Christ’s authority in heaven, not by our own. Our seats in the heavenly kingdom are not about prestige, but about passion. The scriptures use this language of right and left also to illustrate how we need to walk in the “ways” of God, of Moses, of David, and now of Jesus. “Be strong and do not turn to the right or to the left” is the message (Joshua 1:7, 23:6). But follow the ways of God. “Do what God commands of ...

3249. The Curse of the Tongue

James 3:1-12, James 3:13-18, 2 Timothy 2:14-26, Psalm 34:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... recognition could one be truly healed. In the parashat metzora (healing of the leper), it was often thought that God imparted the spiritual disease of tzaraat to “remind” us of our sin and need for atonement. The purification ritual was meant therefore to illustrate our need for spiritual rebirth. Certainly in the scripture of Jesus’ healing of the leper, Jesus imparts God’s healing of body and soul, and spiritual birth is indicated by the man’s inability to stop praising God. Jesus sends him to ...

3250. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... shofet was later used more as dayyan. The Hebrew word tefilah (prayer) comes from another word for judge, so that prayer becomes “self-judgment.” ^^See also The Bible Dictionary by Ballantyne on “threshing” and the Expositors Greek Testament. See also for a description of the threshing process, Illustrations of Scripture: Suggested by a Tour Through the Holy Land by Horatio Balch Hackett. P. 168-170. And Threshing Floors in Ancient Israel: Their Ritual and Symbolic Significance by Jaime L. Waters.

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