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3426. Change Your Tune

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Grady Nutt

Openness is essentially the willingness to grow, a distaste for ruts, eagerly standing on top-toe for a better view of what tomorrow brings. A man once bought a new radio, brought it home, placed it on the refrigerator, plugged it in, turned it to WSM in Nashville (home of the Grand Ole Opry), and then pulled all the knobs off! He had already tuned in all he ever wanted ...

3427. Carved from Ruins

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Staff

... came the image of the young shepherd boy David. So he carefully made a sketch of that biblical character as he envisioned him. For 3 years he worked steadily, his chisel skillfully shaping the marble. Finally, when one of his students was allowed to view the towering figure, 17 feet high and weighing 9 tons, he exclaimed, "Master, it lacks only one thing, and that is speech!" Facts from History.com: Michelangelo was notoriously picky about the marble he used for his sculptures, yet for his famous “David ...

3428. Hidden Messages

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Staff

... graffiti found today on the sides of buildings and subway cars. It reads: "Whoever is the human instrument under God in the conversion of one soul, erects a monument to his own memory more lofty and enduing (sic) than this," reads the inscription which can now be viewed by visitors to the monument. It is signed BFB. No one knows who that is, or who left the small drawings and 19th century dates on other walls. The markings in the lobby of the monument were covered over when it was decorated at the turn of ...

3429. Devil Descriptions

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Merrill F. Unger

... 25:41 · He is a fallen angel Matthew 25:41; Rev 20:10 · His ultimate fate is Gehenna Luke 4:13 · He is the devil, the slanderer Luke 10:18 · He fell from a sinless high estate Luke 13:16 · He blinds people physically and spiritually Luke 22:31 · He viewed Simon Peter as a target John 3:8, 10 · His children are unsaved people John 8:44 · He was branded "a liar" and "the father of lies" by Jesus John 8:44 · He is a murderer John 12:31; 14:30 · He is the prince of this world John 13 ...

3430. Satan Is No Myth

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J. O. Sanders

... proclaim his own gospel, "a gospel contrary to that which we have preached to you" (Galatians 1:7-8). He has his own throne (Revelation 13:2) and his own worshipers (Revelation 13:4). So he has developed a thorough imitation of Christianity, viewed as a system of religion. In his role as the imitator of God, he inspires false christs, self-constituted messiahs (Matthew 24:4-5). He employs false teachers who are specialists in his "theology," to bring in "destructive heresies, even denying the Master ...

3431. How To Be Miserable

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Brett Blair

... . Mirror yourself continually in the opinion of others. Listen greedily to what people say about you. Expect to be appreciated. Be suspicious. Be jealous and envious. Be sensitive to slights. Never forgive a criticism. Trust nobody but yourself. Insist on consideration and respect. Demand agreement with your own views on everything. Sulk if people are not grateful to you for favors shown them. Never forget a service you have rendered. Shirk your duties if you can. Do as little as possible for others.

3432. Bigger Not Always Better

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J.I. Packer

... if our techniques and procedures are right, numerical increase validates ministries as nothing else does, and numerical increase must be everyone's main goal. Four unhappy features marked the situation. First, big and growing churches were viewed as far more significant than others. Second, parachurch specialists (evangelists, college and seminary teachers with platform skills, medicine men with traveling seminars, convention-circuit riders, top people in youth movements, full-time authors and such) were ...

3433. Aim for the Goal

1 Thess 5:23

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Staff

Imagine what the game of bowling would be like if you couldn't see the pins you were trying to hit. Bill Knox did just that and bowled a perfect game. In Philadelphia's Olney Alleys, Bill had a screen placed just above the foul line to obscure his view of the lane. His purpose was to demonstrate the technique of spot bowling, which involves throwing the ball at a selected floor mark on the near end of the lane. Like many bowlers, Bill knew that you can do better if you aim at a mark close to you that' ...

3434. 2020 Vision

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Staff

... 39,000 member American Academy of Pediatrics says too much TV watching by your children can turn them violent, aggressive or overweight and possibly all three. In their statement on kids and TV, the pediatricians advised the nation's parents to reduce their children's video-viewing by at least half. Data from the A.C. Nielsen Co. confirm the above data. Children aged 2 to 5 currently watch about 32 hours of TV a week; Preteen and teen are spending even more since our world has turned to video for so much ...

3435. A Letter to Donatus

Mark 8:36-38; 2 Cor 11:16-33

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Saint Cyprian

This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands, you know very well what I would see; brigands on the high road, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheaters men murdered to please the ...

3436. Don't Bury the Talents

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Stuart Briscoe

As a pastor, a husband, and a father, I have a dread of burying someone else's talents, particularly those bestowed on women. Accordingly, I have tried to scrutinize my views, the place of tradition, the thrust of theology, and the force of my prejudices. Repeatedly, I have come back to this fact: If the Lord has given gifts, I had better be careful about denying freedom for their exercise. More than that, I need to ensure that the women in ...

3437. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... . “It is unfortunate that most of us see ourselves as a composite of all our failures,” writes Lucado. “When we look in the mirror we may only see our failures. Even though many of us can’t see beyond the failures, this is not the way God views us. As a loving God, he looks past our failures. Can you imagine a loving parent introducing their children by saying, ‘This is my daughter Meagan, who stained the carpet with grape juice when she was two,’ or ‘This is my son Myles, who broke a valuable ...

3438. Being Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” That doesn’t mean they don’t hurt. We learn all right, but we take our lumps. That’s life. You better be prepared. One of the best examples of a mother preparing her young for the ups and downs of life comes from Gary Richmond’s book, A View from the Zoo. In chapter one Richmond gives us an amazing look at the birth of a baby giraffe. Now here’s the first thing you need to recognize giraffes have long legs very long legs. The body of a mother giraffe is some ten feet from the ground and ...

3439. Matthew 25:14-30

Matthew 25:14-30

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Leonard Sweet

... . The “bottom line” is about being in a new relationship with him and experiencing the joy of his presence. As the third servant approaches his master he offers excuses even before he offers back the single talent he had been given. In this servant’s view, it is the master’s own actions and attitudes that account for the amount he now receives back, not anything the servant may or may not have done. Because the master is “harsh,” because the master reaps what he did not sow and gathers what ...

3440. Ugly Laws

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... diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, or an improper person to be allowed in or on the public ways or other public places in this city, shall therein or thereon expose himself to public view, under a penalty of not less than $1 nor more than $50 for each offense." Note: This is true. In the past several cities had "Ugly Laws." Chicago didn't repeal its ordinance banning people deemed "diseased, maimed, mutilated or in any way deformed" from public ...

3441. The Emotion Behind Christmas

Humor Illustration

In the cartoon, SALLY FORTH, Sally says to her mother after she has just viewed the large family Christmas tree with all the packages lying under it: "Have you ever noticed how one particular emotion gets real strong at Christmas?" Her mother answers: "I sure have, honey. I get very nostalgic at this time of the year. I especially like to think back to Christmas ...

3442. A Woman's Guide to Men's Gifts

Humor Illustration

... ?" "OK." By-the-way, are you through with my 3/8-inch socket yet?" Again, no one knows why. Rule #3: If you are really, really broke, buy him anything for his car. A 99-cent ice scraper, a small bottle of deicer or something to hang from his rear view mirror. Men love gifts for their cars. No one knows why. Rule #4: Do not buy men socks. Do not buy men ties. And never buy men bathrobes. I was told that if God had wanted men to wear bathrobes, he wouldn't have invented Jockey shorts. Rule #5: You ...

3443. Defeating the Devil

Humor Illustration

Toward the end of Lent, I dressed up in a red suit with horns and a tail, carried a pitchfork and prepared to give one hell of a sermon. The idea was to get the congregation to hear the devil's story and point of view so that they could outsmart him. I started my carefully prepared monologue by walking out toward the congregation and asking cynically, "Okay, I'll bet there isn't a single person here who has kept up their Lenten promises without ever failing." A little girl, about nine years old, stood ...

3444. A Mule Egg

Humor Illustration

... in the back of their pick-up truck and headed down the bumpy country road toward their own ranch. Suddenly they hit an especially treacherous bump and the watermelon bounced out of the pick-up truck, hit the road and burst open. Seeing in his rear view mirror what had happened, the driver turned his truck around and drove back to retrieve his mule egg. Meanwhile the big old Texas jackrabbit was hopping by and saw this watermelon burst in the road and he hopped over to it. Standing in the middle of ...

3445. Life’s Take-Home Final

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” and “secure.” That is when we enthrone Christ the King. That is when we welcome, and become a part of, his family. Jesus takes things personally. Jesus takes us person by person. Jesus does not judge according to the “big picture,” the long view, the undifferentiated median, or massified middle. Jesus insists, with the consequence of judgment, that we take life as we encounter it, that we take people as we experience them, that we meet the needs of others as they are presented to us. There are ...

3446. The Love of the Shepherd

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the day: God really does love you that much. The Shepherd lay down his life for His sheep. 1. Exploding Pigs compiled by Ian Simmons, Barnes & Noble Books, New York, 1997, pp. 9-10. 2. Reuters. 3. http://www.day1.net/index.php5?view=transcripts&tid=126. 4. One Flock, One Shepherd. Cited by Monday Fodder dgaufaaa@iohk.com?subject=Subscribe_Monday_Fodder. 5. Salvation On Sand Mountain, Cited by Steve Hyde, http://www.rbc‑va.org/sermons/4‑21‑2002‑sermon.htm. 6. A Treasury of Bible Illustrations ...

3447. A Forgiving Father

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King Duncan

... books. "It is unfortunate that most of us see ourselves as a composite of all our failures," writes Lucado. "When we look in the mirror we may only see our failures. Even though many of us can't see beyond the failures, this is not the way God views us. As a loving God, he looks past our failures. Can you imagine a loving parent introducing their children by saying, ‘This is my daughter Meagan, who stained the carpet with grape juice when she was two,' or ‘This is my son Myles, who broke a valuable vase ...

3448. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Brown tells of a time in 1960, when he participated in a Lutheran worship service in East Berlin, only a short time before the Berlin Wall was constructed. There were not many people present for the worship service, because church attendance was viewed with suspicion by the state. The East German Republic had developed secular alternatives to replace all of the rituals of the church. Nonetheless, a young couple came to the worship service and presented their child for baptism. Brown was amazed, and wondered ...

3449. Doing Your Own Thing

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever had the urge to simply do your own thing without any regard to how the world may view your actions? If you have ever had that urge, you would not be the first to feel that longing . . . or to act on it. In the late 1960s, a group of hippies remember them? living in the Haight Ashbury District of San Francisco decided that personal hygiene taking baths and ...

3450. It’s a New Year: Take 7 Steps Forward

John 1:43-51

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Leonard Sweet

... best practice.” Following forward in faith means also stepping back from the controls, stepping down from a position of ultimate authority and giving up control. Forward following faith looks ahead towards God’s unfolding vision, not at the possibilities revealed by our own clouded view. Will you step down from your high and lofty throne of being in charge, and give your Crown of Control to God in 2012? 6) Step over the Line To step forward in faith is by definition to step over the line. When forward ...

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3426. Change Your Tune

Illustration

Grady Nutt

3427. Carved from Ruins

Illustration

Staff

3428. Hidden Messages

Illustration

Staff

3429. Devil Descriptions

Illustration

Merrill F. Unger

3430. Satan Is No Myth

Illustration

J. O. Sanders

3431. How To Be Miserable

Illustration

Brett Blair

3432. Bigger Not Always Better

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J.I. Packer

3433. Aim for the Goal

1 Thess 5:23

Illustration

Staff

3434. 2020 Vision

Illustration

Staff

3435. A Letter to Donatus

Mark 8:36-38; 2 Cor 11:16-33

Illustration

Saint Cyprian

3436. Don't Bury the Talents

Illustration

Stuart Briscoe

3437. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

3438. Being Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

3439. Matthew 25:14-30

Matthew 25:14-30

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

3440. Ugly Laws

Illustration

3441. The Emotion Behind Christmas

Humor Illustration

3442. A Woman's Guide to Men's Gifts

Humor Illustration

3443. Defeating the Devil

Humor Illustration

3444. A Mule Egg

Humor Illustration

3445. Life’s Take-Home Final

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

3446. The Love of the Shepherd

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

3447. A Forgiving Father

Illustration

King Duncan

3448. I Am Baptized!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

3449. Doing Your Own Thing

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

3450. It’s a New Year: Take 7 Steps Forward

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

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