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551. Then They Will Understand

Illustration

Doris Stickney

... , he felt an impulse to move his wings. The warmth of the sun dried the moisture from the new body. He moved his wings again and suddenly found himself up above the water. He had become a dragonfly. Swooping and dipping in great curves, he flew through the air. He felt exhilarated in the new atmosphere. By and by, he lighted happily on a lily pad to rest. Then it was that he chanced to look below to the bottom of the pond. Why, he was right above his old friends, the water bugs! There they were, scurrying ...

552. The Story of Noah Retold

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... the face of the earth?" And Noah said: "They have been delivered unto the wrong address but should arrive on Friday." And the Lord said: "How about the unicorns, and the fowls of the air by sevens?" And Noah wrung his hands and wept, saying: "Lord, unicorns are a discontinued line; thou canst not get them for love nor money. And fowls of the air are sold only in half-dozens. Lord, Lord, Thou knowest how it is." And the Lord in His wisdom said: "Noah, my son, I knowest. Why else dost thou think I have caused ...

553. The Ogre in the Pit

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... the rope with his feet. His tongue held the diamond tightly against the roof of his mouth. Higher and higher he climbed until the heavy exertion began to render him breathless. He would have to breathe through his mouth in order to get enough air. As he took in a large gulp of air the diamond slipped and stuck in his throat. The White Knight choked on his treasure, lost consciousness, and fell to his death on the mound of bones below. You see, the terrible ogre in the pit was not the little troll. The ogre ...

554. High Flight

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr., a nineteen-year-old American serving with the Royal Canadian Air Force in England, was killed when his Spitfire collided with another airplane inside a cloud. Discovered ... and swung- High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there, I've chased the shouting winds along, and flung My eager craft through footless halls of air. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue, I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace, Where never lark or even eagle flew. And, while with ...

555. Beyond a Friendly, Cuddly Christmas

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... a donkey.” And Duplantis isn’t alone in his beliefs. Pastors Creflo Dollar and Kenneth Copeland also claim that they need multimillion dollar private jets to improve their ministries. Copeland described commercial air travel as being “in a long tube with a bunch of demons.” (5) I’m not saying I disagree with Copeland’s description of commercial air travel. But is that how God really works for those who love Him and obey Him? That’s not how God works in most people’s lives. That’s not how ...

556. Innate Potential

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

W. Robert McClelland

... alas! This king of birds came to think of itself as a chicken rather than an eagle. Each day the farmer would throw it into the air hoping to see it fly, and each time, it would return to the earth to eat the chicken feed thrown on the ground. One day, however, ... a strange and fearful excitement surged through its breast. It stretched its wings and soared, lifted by the rising currents of air. The farmer was ecstatic until the eagle, sensing its true nature, swooped down on the chickens in the barnyard, and ...

557. Aha! I See It Now!

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... respectable people don’t talk about sin anymore. I wonder why not? After all, sin separates us from God. Why doesn’t that terrify us? God is life. Without God, life ceases to exist. If you were separated from air, you would die. If you were separated from food or water, you would die. Air, food and water are necessary for human life. God is the source of spirit-life, soul-life, eternal life. Separation from God is spiritual death. In 1946, the movie The Razor’s Edge received four Oscar nominations. It ...

558. The Garden of Betrayal and the Garden of His Burial

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... anything humorous for the 12 days between Queen Elizabeth’s death and funeral. In the event of the queen’s passing, the BBC will immediately stop what they’re doing, make the announcement of her death, and start airing documentaries about the Queen’s life that have been pre-recorded. The station even has black suits and ties ready to be thrown on at a moment’s notice. (1) The British really take the monarchy seriously. This has traditionally been a day when Christians have taken the death of ...

559. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in fact, skin is only a small percentage of the dust we find settling on our furniture and floors or hanging in our air. House dust alone is made up of a combination of skin, dander, sand particles, kleenex fibers, insect waste, dirt tracked in from shoes ... the fluffier dust made more of animal hair and fibers. And dust is not just on our furniture. In fact, it often hangs in the air about 5 days before it even settles to confound our tidying routine. We breathe it and it becomes part of who we are and become ...

560. Dark Waters

Exodus 13:17--14:31, Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’t keep paddling, I’ll be in deep doo-doo.” What is it like to be in that kind of “deep water?” To be in deep water is to be so engulfed that it’s hard to swim ashore, keep afloat, get solid footing, or gasp for air. The alligators only make it worse, suggesting not only deep water, but swamp water. Or to marry two metaphors, can you really “drain the swamp” when you’re “up to your neck in alligators?” Imagine for a moment being entrenched or ensconced in muddy, marshy, syrupy, gooey ...

561. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... The owners of the store advertise it as “an enjoyable escape from the fast-paced lifestyle.” (4) Some people probably find that helpful. However, rest for our souls is not the same thing as a nap, or a vacation, or breathing in positive-ionization-filtered air while gazing at a fake waterfall. It’s not a temporary respite from our stress. Rest for our souls is a re-orientation of our values and perceptions of life to match up with the values and perceptions of God, the One who created us—the Source ...

562. Priceless!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

There was a news story on AOL.com earlier this year about an unnamed U.S. Air Force veteran who bought a Rolex watch in 1974 through the Air Force base exchange while stationed in Thailand. He bought the watch, a Rolex Oyster Cosmograph after hearing it was good for scuba diving. When he received the Rolex, he decided it was too nice to wear in saltwater and decided to lock it away in a safe deposit box. There ...

563. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... made up of sound. The world and beyond was created by God’s voice, and sound became what we know to us as matter. In fact, physicists know that what makes a table different from air simply has to do with how fast the molecules in that matter vibrate. The molecules in a table vibrate faster than those in water or air. But everything is made up of sound. We see objects, because sound has made matter possible. In fact, in space, we now know that everything in the universe has its own sound. The universe in ...

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Desmond Tutu

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Jack Benny

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

568. Cook

1 Samuel 9:23

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... the people had only two meals a day, the one very early before going to work; the other in the evening when work was done. The evening meal was the only one that required much preparation - the other was merely a snack affair. A fire in the open air was often considered good enough for cooking: the custom was to hollow out a place and border it with two stones - indeed, the Hebrew word for a cooking fire comes from the same root as "to hollow." There were also little portable stoves with two holes, in which ...

569. How Could We Possibly Forget?

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... into her handbag. The shocked kitten had sat calmly in her bag all the way to the office. (1) Yes, strange things can happen when you’re rushed, stressed and distracted. Back before COVID-19 when air travel was at its busiest, the Transportation Security Administration reported that air travelers left behind about $1 million each year in loose change at airport security bins. One million dollars every year in loose change! TSA spokesperson Lisa Farbstein says that security checkpoints can be stressful and ...

570. Stamped with God’s Own Image

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... God what is God’s? Certainly not by compartmentalizing, that’s for sure, which tends to minimize and even trivialize God’s exclusive claim on our lives. Remember what the scriptures teach us — that everything we have in life has been loaned to us by God: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we harvest from the land, the money we earn and spend. We don’t really own any of these things; they have simply been loaned to us for whatever time we have here on earth. They have been entrusted ...

571. Now is the Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Family.” It was written by someone named Morgan Cutolo. According to this article, once Queen Elizabeth II dies, the people of Britain are banned from being funny on public television. The BBC is serious about the death of their monarch. “The BBC isn’t allowed to air anything humorous for the 12 days between [the queen’s] death and her funeral,” says Cutolo. “In the event of the queen’s passing, [the] BBC will immediately stop what they’re doing, make the announcement of her death, and start ...

572. The Road to the Passover

John 2:13-22

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... into the dirty courtyard. Behind them were lambs racing to freedom, their bleating was loud. He saw doves rising into the air. The sound of wooden tables crashing to the ground followed by the clanging of coins being strewn across the stone porches ... animals then tossing a table filled with coins to the earth. The strong figure carried a whip made from cords that he cracked in the air above the cattle. The man’s eyes were bright but had a sadness to them. If John the Baptist was the forerunner to the ...

573. Good Sex

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Will Willimon

... that the man should be alone; I will make him a companion fit for him.” So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name…all cattle, and…birds of the air, and …every beast of the field; but for the man there was not found a fit companion.” (Genesis 2:18-20) The Creator makes a creature, an earthling (the “man” here is not ...

574. The Eye of the Storm

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in the eye has no other exit except through the whirling storm’s fury. The stages of a hurricane begin with the formation of a “disturbance.” The sun heats tropical ocean waters to the point of evaporating. When a cloud of warm air forms, these clouds heat the air around them, creating densely packed clouds. Then a large mass of warm rain clouds form over the ocean. This in itself is not dangerous until winds begin to form and pick up speed. A tropical storm becomes a hurricane when its wind speed ...

575. Proclaiming Death

1 Corinthians 11:26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... steps. There is talk of sin and death and sacrifice before a distant, demanding God. But even the table, a place of joy and etiquette, is also a place of sacrifice. For whence did the chicken come which you ate last night for dinner? In our air-conditioned, piped-in music, cellophaned, antiseptic supermarkets, we moderns forget that something had to die, blood had to be spilt, to enable us to eat Sunday dinner. Life-giving food is not on your table without the death and sacrifice, cost and pain. In a bygone ...

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551. Then They Will Understand

Illustration

Doris Stickney

552. The Story of Noah Retold

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

553. The Ogre in the Pit

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

554. High Flight

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

555. Beyond a Friendly, Cuddly Christmas

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

King Duncan

556. Innate Potential

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

W. Robert McClelland

557. Aha! I See It Now!

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

558. The Garden of Betrayal and the Garden of His Burial

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

559. Dusted

Mark 6:7-13, Matthew 10:1-42, Luke 9:1-9, Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

560. Dark Waters

Exodus 13:17--14:31, Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

561. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

562. Priceless!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

563. The Howling

Acts 2:1-13, John 7:25-44

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Desmond Tutu

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.

Ivan Pavlov

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Jack Benny

Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

568. Cook

1 Samuel 9:23

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

569. How Could We Possibly Forget?

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon