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1201. The Ear, the Tongue, and the Temper: A Lesson in Spiritual Anatomy

James 1:17-27

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... answers to that question will reveal your character. As the proverb says, "You can tell the size of the man by the size of the thing that makes him mad." Certainly to boil up inside, to lose control because of some trivial personal hurt, to allow the wild forces of our being to run loose because our wills have been crossed or our self-esteem has been wounded, is not a mark of power. That, literally, is power converted into poison. Beethoven is thought to have brought on his own deafness by falling into a ...

1202. Oops! I Did It Again

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

Have you ever had a setback, a defeat, a screw-up? Have you ever snatched failure from the jaws of success? Playwright Oscar Wilde once commented after a disastrous opening night that his play was a great success but the audience was a failure. That’s one way of handling defeat, I guess. Winston Churchill had that same ability to spin a setback a setback into something else. He was once asked, “What most ...

1203. A Christmas Program

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... from an innkeeper in Bethlehem. He stores it for the animals he keeps in the stable near his inn. Ah yes, I love the life of a shepherd. Gets crazy once in a while when I’ve got to chase away a wolf or a lion or a rustler. No wild beasts or thief is going to get away with any of my flock as long as I have this staff and this club. (shows staff and club) Now, let me tell you what happened one night when my shepherd friends, Josh, Tobias, Shilock, and I were watching our flocks. We ...

1204. What a Way to Start a Church!

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... . What a way to start a church! What a way to jumpstart a tired and worn out Christian life. The second thing that happened was that the church caused a disturbance unexpectedly. Clearly something happened that day. We're not exactly sure what. But it was kind of wild and swashbuckling and hard to explain, a little like a Men's Renewal Conference I attended a few years ago. I've never seen anything like it. It was a male bonding experience where men go out in the woods. It was a combination of beating drums ...

1205. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... seems to vanish into a haze? I remember one morning riding the bus in Pittsburgh and noticing a large, elderly, white woman looking down and seeing her shoe was untied; she strained to tie it but couldn't reach it. Across from her sat a young, black man with wild hair with an iPod playing so loudly the whole bus could hear it and tattoos on his arms. He watched the woman struggling for her shoestring then moved from his seat and knelt before her. I watched him tie her shoes gently in a nice, neat knot then ...

1206. The Real Underdog!

1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... lose heart, sir. I will go and fight this Philistine." He must have struck everyone strangely mute until Saul with almost a laugh and a hint of envy in his voice tells David that Goliath will tear him limb from limb. When David recites his conquests out in the wilds and ends with this phrase, "[Goliath] has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear will save me from the hand of this Philistine," even Saul sees the real reason for David ...

1207. Listen to the Music

Illustration

Staff

... had a hypnotic effect on his audiences. They sat motionless, as though they were in a trance. He found he had the same effect on his friends' pets. Dogs and cats would sit spellbound while he played. Wondering if he could cast the same spell over wild beasts, he went to a jungle clearing in Africa, took out his violin and began to play. A lion, an elephant, and a gorilla charged into the clearing, stopped to listen, and sat mesmerized by the music. Soon the clearing was filled with every kind of ferocious ...

1208. In Evil Long I Took Delight

Illustration

John Newton

In evil long I took delight, Unawed by shame or fear, Till a new object struck my sight, And stopp'd my wild career: I saw One hanging on a Tree In agonies and blood, Who fix'd His languid eyes on me. As near His Cross I stood. Sure never till my latest breath, Can I forget that look: It seem'd to charge me with His death, Though not a word ...

1209. Death: The Hell Club

Illustration

Paul Lee Tan

In the 18th century, Archibald Boyle was the leading member of an association of wild and wicked men known as "The Hell Club" in Glasgow, Scotland. After one night of carousing at the Club's notorious annual meeting, Boyle dreamed he was riding home on his black horse. In the darkness, someone seized the reins, shouting, "You must go with me!" As Boyle desperately tried ...

1210. Black Tuesday

Illustration

... -nine persons were wounded or injured in rioting. Nine bank holdups were committed, almost a tenth of the total number of holdups the previous year along with 17 robberies at gunpoint. Usually disciplined, peaceful citizens joined the riffraff and went wild, smashing some 1,000 plate glass windows in a stretch of 21 business blocks in the heart of the city, hauling away stereo units, radios, TVs and wearing apparel. While looters stripped windows of valuable merchandise, professional burglars entered stores ...

1211. What Might Have Been

Illustration

Joeseph Stowell

A Brief Biography: He was 25 and had already captured the hearts of Russia with his novel Poor Folk. Fame quickly went to his head. He drank immoderately and partied wildly. He carelessly criticized the Czarist regime. You don't that in Czarist Russia. He was arrested in St. Petersburg and sentenced to death by the firing squad along with several other dissidents. It was a cold December morning. Dressed in a white execution gown, he was led to the wall ...

1212. The Empty Egg

Illustration

Staff

... that lovely spring day, find some symbol for new life, and put it in the egg-like container. Back in the classroom, they would share their new-life symbols, opening the containers one by one in surprise fashion. After running about the church property in wild confusion, the students returned to the classroom and placed the containers on the table. Surrounded by the children, the teacher began to open them one by one. After each one, whether a flower, butterfly, or leaf, the class would ooh and ahh. Then one ...

1213. Faith: Do You Believe?

Illustration

... up, many people came to see the event. Tightrope was to start on the Canadian side and come to the American side. Drums roll, and he comes across the rope which is suspended over the treacherous part of the falls blindfolded!! And he makes it across easily. The crowds go wild, and he comes to the promoter and says, "Well, Mr. Promoter, now do you believe I can do it?" "Well of course I do. I mean, I just saw you do it." "No," said Tightrope, "do you really believe I can do it?" "Well of course I do, you ...

1214. A Labor of Love

Illustration

C.S. Lewis

... our present impurities no more than the beggar maid could wish that King Cophetua should be content with her rags and dirt, or a dog, once having learned to love man, could wish that man were such as to tolerate in his house the snapping, verminous, polluting creature of the wild pack. What we would here and now call our "happiness" is not the end God chiefly has in view: but when we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy.

1215. Healing - Gone With One Call

Illustration

Philip Yancey

... tongues; and every few minutes a happy interruption when someone would stand and claim, "I'm healed!" One person especially made an impression, a man from Milwaukee who had been carried into the meeting on a stretcher. When he walked yes, walked onstage, we all cheered wildly. He told us he was a physician, and I was even more impressed. He had incurable lung cancer, he said, and was told he had six months to live. But now, tonight, he believed God had healed him. He was walking for the first time in ...

1216. Clear and Plain

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H. A. Ironside

On one occasion Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, the agnostic lecturer of the last century, was announced to give an address on hell. He declared he would prove conclusively that hell was a wild dream of some scheming theologians who invented it to terrify credulous people. As he was launching into his subject, a half-drunken man arose in the audience and exclaimed, "Make it strong, Bob. There's a lot of us poor fellows depending on you. If you are wrong, we are ...

1217. Taking the Penalty

Illustration

... the leaders in a tournament offering a top prize of $108,000. To acknowledge that the ball had moved could mean he would lose his chance for big money. Writer David Holahan describes as follows what others might have done: "The athlete ducks his head and flails wildly with his hands, as if being attacked by a killer bee; next, he steps back from the ball, rubbing his eye for a phantom speck of dust, all the while scanning his playing partners and the gallery for any sign that the ball's movement has been ...

1218. A Chance Encounter

Illustration

... into the race, in a cluster of runners not far off the pace of the leaders, when two deer ambled out of the woods and onto the road. The startled buck, no doubt distressed to find himself in the middle of a human marathon, began zigzagging wildly through the runners. Jim didn't even see the animal until the two of them collided and sprawled together onto the asphalt highway. Jim fell flat on his face, received a concussion and opened a nasty gash on his forehead that required 23 stitches. "Luckily there ...

1219. Grace Rejected

Ezekiel 7:8, 9

Illustration

H.A. Ironside

... up in a Christian home and who had often had very serious convictions in regard to the importance of coming to Christ, chose instead to take the way of the world. Much against the wishes of her godly mother, she insisted on keeping company with a wild, hilarious crowd, who lived only for the passing moment and tried to forget the things of eternity. Again and again she was pleaded with to turn to Christ, but she persistently refused to heed the admonitions addressed to her. Finally, she was taken with a ...

1220. Wakeup Call

Illustration

Staff

... base. He's too lackadaisical. I want you to help me. From now on, charge every ground ball. When you get it, fire it as quickly and as hard as you can to first base. Knock Gehrig off the bag if you can. I don't care if you throw wild or not, but throw it fast and make it tough for him." Crosetti demurred and said: "Maybe Lou won't like the idea." "Who cares what Gehrig likes!" McCarthy snapped. "Just do as I tell you." McCarthy then said to the coach: "Now that's the story. What conclusions do ...

1221. Tears of a Clown

Illustration

... circus. She writes: "The clowns were particularly good and the last one of them was a little fellow wearing a very wonderful high hat. While he was bowing elaborately to a dignified woman, his hat fell off and an elephant sat on it. "The clown gestured wildly at the elephant, but the beast sat still. He waved and shouted again and again, but the elephant never budged. Angrily the clown stepped behind the elephant and kicked with all his strength, and hopped away with a sore foot in his hands. "Then, frantic ...

1222. The Little Burro

Illustration

John Killinger retells this story from Atlantic Monthly about the days of the great western cattle rancher: "A little burro sometimes would be harnessed to a wild steed. Bucking and raging, convulsing like drunken sailors, the two would be turned loose like Laurel and Hardy to proceed out onto the desert range. They could be seen disappearing over the horizon, the great steed dragging that little burro along and throwing him about like a bag of cream ...

1223. Standing Watch

Illustration

Staff

... security of the family and the tribe. But on this night, he was blindfolded and taken several miles away. When he took off the blindfold, he was in the middle of a thick woods and he was terrified! Every time a twig snapped, he visualized a wild animal ready to pounce. After what seemed like an eternity, dawn broke and the first rays of sunlight entered the interior of the forest. Looking around, the boy saw flowers, trees, and the outline of the path. Then, to his utter astonishment, he beheld the figure ...

1224. A Game of Cliché

Illustration

Louis De V. Day, Jr.

... center aisle of the lecture hall, the students throughout the term played inning after inning of silent but vigorous baseball. On the last day of class, the impossible happened--the score was tied, the bases were loaded and the batter hit a home run! The winning team stood and cheered wildly. Though deeply appreciative, the professor was quoted later as having wondered why only one-half of the students had been enthusiastic about his lectures.

1225. Fill In the Gaps

Illustration

Staff

... , the Voice of the Lord. "And He said, What hast thou done? The voice of thy brothers' blood crieth unto Me from the ground." The tom-toms still beat heavily, the darkness still shuddered and shivered about me; I heard the yells of the devil-dancers and the weird wild shriek of the devil-possessed just outside the gate. What does it matter, after all? It has gone on for years; it will go on for years. Why make such a fuss about it? God forgive us! God arouse us! Shame us out of our callousness! Shame us out ...

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1201. The Ear, the Tongue, and the Temper: A Lesson in Spiritual Anatomy

James 1:17-27

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

1202. Oops! I Did It Again

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

1203. A Christmas Program

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

1204. What a Way to Start a Church!

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

1205. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

1206. The Real Underdog!

1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

1207. Listen to the Music

Illustration

Staff

1208. In Evil Long I Took Delight

Illustration

John Newton

1209. Death: The Hell Club

Illustration

Paul Lee Tan

1210. Black Tuesday

Illustration

1211. What Might Have Been

Illustration

Joeseph Stowell

1212. The Empty Egg

Illustration

Staff

1213. Faith: Do You Believe?

Illustration

1214. A Labor of Love

Illustration

C.S. Lewis

1215. Healing - Gone With One Call

Illustration

Philip Yancey

1216. Clear and Plain

Illustration

H. A. Ironside

1217. Taking the Penalty

Illustration

1218. A Chance Encounter

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1219. Grace Rejected

Ezekiel 7:8, 9

Illustration

H.A. Ironside

1220. Wakeup Call

Illustration

Staff

1221. Tears of a Clown

Illustration

1222. The Little Burro

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1223. Standing Watch

Illustration

Staff

1224. A Game of Cliché

Illustration

Louis De V. Day, Jr.

1225. Fill In the Gaps

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Staff

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