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Luke 3:1-20

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Leonard Sweet

... of Annas and Caiphas together as high priests. Strictly speaking there was only one chief priest at a time. Annas held that position from 6-15 CE, and then was succeeded by his son-in-law Caiaphas, who served from 18-36CE. Luke’s double reference emphasizes the influence of attitude and authoritarianism that ran from generation to generation. Likewise the father-to-son connection is important as the gospel writer works his way to the one who is the final focus of his chronology. John is described as ...

777. I Am the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wave and they scream, but the helicopter moves on. It comes into the edge of the city of Rome and is flying rather low over an apartment building, on the top of which is a swimming pool surrounded by beautiful girls dressed in bikinis. The helicopter does a double take as the men flying it see what’s going on there. It comes back and it hovers over the swimming pool and in an effort to attract the girls’ attention, the men began to shout down at the them, asking them for their telephone numbers, telling ...

778. The Rewards of Waiting

Isaiah 25:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... the spirit. Many of us are like that American tourist in Paris; he went into the Louvre in Paris and found the first curator he could find and shouted, Quick! Quick! Lead me to the Mona Lisa, I must see the Mona Lisa before I leave Paris and I’m double-parked outside. We don’t want to wait for anything, and that’s one of our major problems. Most of our children have been given everything too soon, and that’s the reason they’re so bored, and that’s the reason most of us are so bored. Waiting and ...

779. Every Day God Equips

John 14:15-27

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Billy D. Strayhorn

I grew up in construction. My Dad worked in construction either for someone else or later for his own construction company. I learned about tools and how to use them early on. If Dad was working on something and hollered for a Magillacuddy's double-barreled left-handed wedginator, I'd better know what it was. When I was in the Coast Guard, I was a marine diesel mechanic and while in school we had a week long class on tools. Until that time, I'd never met anybody who didn't know how to ...

780. The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Luke 23:32-46

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... all three of these movies and "Hang 'Em High at Wally World for about $20) The movie is set during the Civil War and basically it's the adventures of three dirtbags in search of $200,000 in Confederate gold, buried somewhere. It's all about their conniving and double crossing and hunting down each other. Two of the characters might actually be redeemable but the third is so Bad, there's no chance for redemption for him. So you can see why I think it fits this passage. I. The Good So, let's look at each of ...

781. By Right Paths

Psalm 23:3

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... much about many of the games, a stand up triple stands out in my memory. The one game that stands out in my memory though, is the only game my Dad ever attended. That's because He as there. He saw me strike out and he saw me get a double and a single. He saw me score a run. He was there. He said, "Good hit. You might try dropping your left shoulder a bit." I've forgotten almost everything else but I remember that. There's not too many times I can say that my Dad was there, but ...

782. Your King Comes

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... baseball player who was asked what it was like to be a hero to so many young people. He said, “Well, there was one particular game that made me take all the adulation with a grain of salt. I had four ‘at bats’ with two home runs, a double and a strike out my last time up. The crowd cheered my first three hits and booed loudly when I struck out!” (7) Sports fans are fickle. So are people in general. Notice how quickly public opinion changes in this land. Any politician who puts too much stock ...

783. What Are You Going to Do When the Wine Runs Out?

John 2:1-11

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Brett Blair

... . He had noticed that the guns were locked up in the basement, but the keys, as he well knew, were on the window ledge above the kitchen sink. He tiptoed down the basement stairs and unlocked the storage room. It smelled as dank as a grave. He chose a double barreled shotgun with a tight choke. He had used it for years to shoot pigeon's. He took some shells from one of the boxes in the storage room, closed and locked the door, and climbed the basement stairs. If he saw the bright day outside, it did not ...

784. Joseph’s Kid?

Luke 4:21-30

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Scott Hoezee

Based on verse 22, it appears there was immediately a double-reaction: some were amazed and part of their amazement at his "gracious" speech gets expressed in the line "Isn't this Joseph's son?" But that question seems to cut two ways, and Jesus' subsequent words indicate his awareness of this. The question "Isn't this Joseph's son" CAN ...

785. Valley of Rejection (Series: Peace in the Valley)

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... love you. But be assured that we will wear you down by our capacity to suffer. One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process and our victory will be a double victory. For love is the most durable power in the world.” He drew a circle that shut me out, Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout. But love and I had a wit to win; We drew a circle that took him in. Amen. Brought to you by FaithBreaks.org

786. Valley of Betrayal (Series: Peace in the Valley)

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . When honest sales people pad their expense accounts using the excuse that everybody else is doing it; greed is the motive. Before long we become what we do not perceive ourselves to be a thief, a robber, a rogue, a compartmentalized person who lives a double life. Maybe he did it for the money – about $10,000 in today’s dollars. Some think Judas as a violent nationalist, a misguided zealot and therefore, not interested in the money at all. He attached himself to Jesus because Jesus was a leader. Jesus ...

787. Come and See

John 1:43-51

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... part is very simple. That's the invitation. Come and See. A simple invitation. "Come and See for yourself. Experience it first hand." Our youngest son, josh, like a lot of children, wouldn't eat anything mixed together. No stew or casseroles. The only thing mixed he ate was Double Noodle Chicken Noodle Soup. He wouldn't even eat my world famous spaghetti sauce. He didn't even want his food to touch when you put it on his plate. I told him one time that it all got mixed up in his stomach any way. And he ...

788. Jesus Saves, We're Called To Invest

Matthew 25:14-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... amount of money. Which means that the master had a significant amount of trust in the abilities of these three men. You just don't hand over a million dollars to a stranger who hasn't been tried and trusted. So, the scenario is that two invest and double their money. And one simply buries it in the backyard. The first two are praised and rewarded but the one talent guy who buried the money is chastised and Donald Trumped, "You're Fired!" So, what's the deal. The master didn't lose any money. In my ...

789. One Lord, One Table

Exodus 20:1-4

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... six kids, one girl and five boys. Their yard was the cut through yard to get to the rest of our friends houses. Mr. Wallace loved to grow things. He always had a garden and grew tomatoes, lettuce and carrots. But his favorite was peaches. The Wallaces had a double lot and he must have had three dozen peach trees. He sold many of the peaches to a local grocery store. But Mr. Wallace also had red and purple grape vines, plum trees, four kinds of apple trees, two kinds of pear trees and one big cooking apple ...

790. Getting Real

Genesis 22:1-14

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... is played by Burt Lancaster. He's lamented to Ray that he only played one inning in the major leagues and never got to bat. He tells Ray wishes he could have one at bat, in which he winks at the pitcher and then hits the ball deep, stretching a double into a triple. Later in the movie, when the younger Graham does get his turn at bat in the field of dreams, he comes to the plate with a man on third and fewer than two outs. He immediately winks at the pitcher. He gets brushed back by the pitcher ...

791. Follow Your Questions (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... have no sense of needing God, you will be - or so it feels - welcomed with open arms. But go to God when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in you face, a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside, after that, silence!” Some of you know exactly what Lewis meant. Why should I believe in the Resurrection of the Dead? Of course we can identify with Thomas here. It takes a stretch for human minds to embrace immortality. Paul said, “If Christ has ...

792. Why Should I Read The Bible? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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J. Howard Olds

... accomplishes that. The Bible is the Word of God for the people of God. The Bible is the Word of God, for it contains what God wants to say to his people. Our founder, John Wesley, had a particular notion about inspiration. He believed in double-inspiration. The Spirit of God not only inspired those who wrote it, but continually inspires and supernaturally assists those who read it with earnest prayer. Claude was a rather normal young adult. One day Claude decided he would read the Bible from cover to cover ...

793. Reviewing Our Hungers (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

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J. Howard Olds

... otherwise is to be full of it. We are full of our WORRIES. There are things to worry about. No society in the history of the world has ever enjoyed the standard of living that Americans know today. Yet, since 1960 the divorce rate has doubled, teen suicide has tripled, violent crime has quadrupled, and incidences of depression are ten times what they were one hundred years ago. Meanwhile, our enlightened society tells us the sun will cause cancer, but cloudy days tend to make us depressed. One day we are ...

794. Go

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Was, the author says the average person knows about 250 people, some more, some less, but about 250. (3) That means if each of you brought just one person to worship, and that person became an active faithful member of this congregation, we would double our worship attendance. We'd have to start new worship services, new classes, new ministries, possibly begin the plans for the next phase and potentially wind up never having to mention financial struggles ever again. When Jesus said: "Go into all the world ...

795. Selfish and Altruistic at the Same Time

John 14:23-29

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Mary Hinkle Shore

E. M. Forster says, "When human beings love they try to get something. They also try to give something, and this double aim makes love more complicated than food or sleep. It is selfish and altruistic at the same time, and no amount of specialization in one direction quite atrophies the other" (Aspects of the Novel [Orlando: Harcourt, 1927] 50). On the verge of his departure from them, Jesus says to his ...

796. Bearing the Marks of Christ

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... of Christ? Can they tell (without question) that we belong to Christ? Do we bear on our bodies the marks of Jesus? A couple of quick footnotes here… 1. First, when Paul speaks of “the marks of Jesus,” he is using a double analogy. He is probably referring to the physical scars which he has received on his body because of his consecration to Christ. Physical scars from beatings, floggings, shipwrecks, exposure, harsh persecutings, prompted by the allegiance to Christ. 2. But, also, remember that when ...

797. The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

... the supermarket one morning? Her car stalled at a stop sign... she tried everything to get her car started again, but no luck. Suddenly, a man in a pick-up truck came up behind her and with obvious agitation he started honking his horn at her impatiently. She doubled her efforts to get her car going. She pumped the gas, turned the ignition, but still no luck... the man in the pick-up truck continued to honk his horn constantly and loudly. I love what the elderly woman did. Very calmly she got out of her car ...

798. Being and Doing as the People of God

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

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Maxie Dunnam

... to be viewed as a ‘council of perfection. It soon followed that these requirements were reserved for Monastic Orders – those who had made a deliberate decision to completely separate themselves from the world. Following Luther and the Reformation which ejected the double standard, Orthodox Protestants contended that no one live up to the demands, so the absolute standards of the Sermon on the Mount were calculated to drive people to a sense of failure and despair, and that they would accept the message ...

799. The Wise Men: Going Home Another Way

Matthew 2:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... ’s Messiah – it’s one of my favorite pieces from The Messiah: “Comfort, comfort my people, says your God, Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended,that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice tries: ‘In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level ...

800. Jesus' First Miracle

John 2:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... what Jesus is doing. Sometimes we are asked to walk an unclear path with a yet undisclosed destination. To trust Jesus when everything is clear takes commitment, of course. But to trust Him when nothing seems clear, and we can’t see the sense of it, requires a double portion of faith and a depth of commitment tacking in most of us. It happened with me when I was working on our Counseling arid Family Life Ministry. There came a time in that process when I was at a dead end. Despite the desperate need, and ...

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