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Antonyms: deficient, imperfect
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Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... own research. While the quantity of our genes has more in common with our fellow creeping, crawling creatures than we might like to think, scientists are also discovering that there's much more going on at the gene level than a daily grind of splitting, copying, and reassembling. For example, a human being contains almost 1,000 immunity genes, vs. about 100 in worms and flies. Or take another recent discovery: At first we thought that it was the genes (made up of DNA) that contain the secrets of life. Now ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... a used magic lamp. He rubbed the lamp and the genie appeared, inviting him to make a wish. The man pondered for a moment and then had a great idea. He requested a copy of the stock page from the local newspaper, dated exactly one year into the future. With a puff of smoke, the genie disappeared and in his place was a copy of the stock page, dated exactly one year into the future. Gleefully, the man sat down to peruse his trophy. Now he could invest with certainty, knowing which stocks would rise. But then ...
103. Dots on a Screen
Hebrews 9:24-28
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
... The audience of worshipers could be drawn closer to God as they watched and participated. And yet, like the veil in the temple, the barrier between divine and human reality remained. For all its powerful imagery the experience remained "dots on a screen" — a faint copy of the heavenly reality. Then along came Jesus. The preacher of Hebrews insists that, unlike the pagan myths or the Jewish ritual, Jesus is no actor playing a role, he is the real thing: More than a screen image of God, he is God incarnate ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... years since his release, Colson has given the royalties from all his speeches, books and awards to the Prison Fellowship Ministry. This includes the prestigious $1 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion as well as the royalties from the sale of five million copies of his twenty-three books. (2) In Colson’s books, he often tells about his experiences in prisons. Some of these stories tug strongly at the heart. For example, in his book, Being The Body, Colson tells about the time he and a close ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... which has exerted great symbolic power on a vast number of people is the "Isenheim Altarpiece," completed in 1515. (Note: It would add immeasurably to this sermon if you get a picture of this and either put it up on the screen or have a copy store copy it and include it in your bulletin.) One art historian has called it a "work of such tremendous and dismal grandeur of expression that nothing on earth seems to equal it." This awesome altarpiece, measuring 10 feet long when closed, 21 feet long when opened ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... the sound of another lark, a very special adult lark, that is chosen because of its singing ability. Suzuki noticed to his amazement that every little chick that hatched automatically began to copy the master singer lark. Even more remarkable, after a few days he observed that each chick, having started out by purely copying songs, began to develop its own variations on the original Master Song. The breeders wait until the chick musicians have developed their own styles, and then select from them the next ...
107. The Secret of Power
Luke 24:36b-48
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Richard J. Fairchild
... and some of the routes that could be used to avoid those dangers. The people took the map and they framed and hung it on the wall of the local science museum so that everyone could look at it. Some made copies of it. After a period of time many of those who made copies for themselves considered themselves experts on the river - and indeed they knew its every turn and bend, they knew how broad it was and how deep, where the rapids where and where the falls. They knew the river and they instructed others ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... the Canon of Scripture. By the end of the 1st century, all 27 books in our present New Testament had been written and received by the churches. The news is even better. The earliest copy of the New Testament we have goes back to around 130 A. D. which is about a 40 year time gap. In addition, we have over 5,600 full manuscript copies of the New Testament. It is the most well attested document of antiquity in history. What does this mean? This means that by the time the Council of Nicea took place, which is ...
109. Asking for Help
Mark 10:46-52
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Richard J. Fairchild
... 't have the kind of money he needed to complete medical school on his own. And so when he mustered out of the army, he had no idea how he'd ever finish school, if indeed he'd ever finish it all. One day he happened to pick up a copy of a magazine in a barber shop. One of the articles talked about the kindness and compassion of Eleanor Roosevelt, whose husband, President Franklin Roosevelt had died just a few months before. That article planted a seed in Fred's mind. He went to the local library and with the ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... cartoon, a picture of God standing next to an open filing cabinet. Open files are strewn around that filing cabinet and God, in obvious despair, has His hand on His head. The caption has God saying, “[O no,] I seemed to have lost my copy of the divine plan.” (4) Well, God hasn’t lost His copy of the divine plan, and God’s plan is still in effect. God is in charge of how and when time will end. And God is in charge of our lives. God will provide for our needs, regardless of what may come. Gregory L ...
111. Overcoming Obstacles - Together
Luke 2:1-7, Psalm 107:1-9
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
There was a businessman who had five kids, his wife stayed home to care the kids. And it never failed, he'd come home from work and Mom, needing the care and advice of another adult, would begin to tell him all the things that went wrong during the day. And which of the kids needed further disciplining from Dad. One day the stress of work got to Dad, as Mom regaled him with the various trouble HIS children had gotten into and he lost it. "Honey, just once, just once couldn't you greet me at the door with ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... free advertisement. The spiritual forces of wickedness are always here. There's nothing you can do about this. In fact, Dan Brown's sources date back to Narcissism in the first century which was proved to be a heresy and a lot he had to do in copying a book in 1982. The spiritual forces of wickedness - Peter says, “Renounce them." II. REPENT AND TURN TO GOD SO THAT YOUR SINS CAN BE WIPED OUT. We are not likely to reach our desired destination by traveling faster in the wrong direction. Sometimes the best ...
113. Mistaken Identity
Matthew 16:13-20
Sermon
Wayne Brouwer
... make things ready. Elijah would appear with stern speeches and mighty miracles. The people should get ready, for when Elijah came, God would follow quickly on his heels. That is why some people thought Jesus was Elijah. Especially among the scribes who copied the prophetic writings this idea took hold. Jesus spoke with divine authority. He performed miraculous healings, just like Elijah had done. Maybe this was the occasion for God to fulfill Malachi's prophecies. If so, Jesus was the new Elijah. But Jesus ...
114. True Blood
Luke 14:25-35
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... all time is arguably “if it bleeds, it leads.” Rolling Stone magazine decided to take that adage literally. The 18 August 2010 cover of Rolling Stone magazine featured a bloody mess and it was a huge hit, creating a big stir, selling lots of copies. Wearing nothing but dripping, smeared, puddling blood, the three young stars of "True Blood" posed in way meant to sell magazines rather than report on the series. "True Blood" is an American television drama series. It premiered on HBO exactly two years ago ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... : "Practice random kindness; commit senseless acts of beauty." The phrase seemed to leap out at her, and she copied it down. Judy Foreman spotted the phrase spray-painted on a warehouse wall 100 miles from her home. When it stayed on her mind for days, she gave up ... and drove all the way back to copy it down. "I thought it was incredibly beautiful," she said. She started writing it at the bottom of all her letters. Her husband, Frank ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... my piano, and I improvised a simple accompaniment. I noticed, too, that the first section of the song — thirteen bars in length — formed an effective loop which repeated in a slightly unpredictable way. I took the tape loop to Leicester, where I was working in the Fine Art Department, and copied the loop onto a continuous reel of tape, thinking about perhaps adding an orchestrated accompaniment to this. The door of the recording room opened on to one of the large painting studios and I left the tape ...
Drama
Arley K. Fadness
... jolly) Happy holiday, everybody! Ho, ho, ho! Narrator: The old man plodded on wondering what it all meant. (Old Man walks on.) Narrator: His next stop was at the home of a devout gentleman who was at the very moment reading a properly threadbare leather-bound copy of the Bible. It took only one deft flick of the wrist to find the correct passage to explain how giving and getting differed. Devout Gentleman: See here, my good fellow. In the gospel of our Lord according to Saint Luke, in chapter 6, verses 30 ...
118. The Coveted Compositions
Illustration
Staff
... his home to perfect the works first. Johann Sebastian clearly coveted his brother's book, however, and in the middle of the night, when everyone else in the house was asleep, he crept down to sneak the anthology from the cabinet. He took it to his room and began to copy it by moonlight! It took him six months. Johann Christoph found out about it...and promptly impounded the copied volume. Johann Sebastian did not get the book back until his brother died almost a quarter-century later.
119. Sing on Pitch
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Donald Grey Barnhouse
... someone suggested that it was because the bells of Westminster were slightly out of tune. Something had gone wrong with the chimes and they were discordant. The boys did not know there was anything wrong with the peals, and quite unconsciously they had copied their pitch. So we tend to copy the people with whom we associate; we borrow thoughts from the books we read and the programs to which we listen, almost without knowing it. God has given us His Word which is the absolute pitch of life and living. If we ...
120. Show and Tell
Humor Illustration
Charlie Brown, Linus, and Lucy are on their way to school. Lucy asks Linus if he has remembered to bring anything for show-and-tell that day. "Yes," Linus answers, "I have a couple of things here to show the class." He then unfolds some papers. "These are copies I've been making of some of the Dead Sea scrolls," he says. Holding them up for Charlie Brown and Lucy to inspect, he continues. "This is a duplicate of the scroll of Isaiah, chapters 38-40. It was made from 17 pieces of sheep skin and was found in ...
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... 2 Timothy 3:16) — all the tasks of ministry that Timothy will be called upon to deliver that will develop disciples and create the character of the Christian community. "All scripture is God-breathed ... inspired ..." And we believe it. Practically every American home has a copy of the Bible. Be careful with it. Serious Bible study is more than memorizing an index that tells where to look up certain proof-texts that we can then apply like Band-Aids™ to life's wounds or a scalpel for societal surgery. It ...
Sermon
R. Kevin Mohr
... the future. Amen. 1. "In the Dust and the Dirt: Greater Glory in Lesser Circumstances," The Jour­ney with Jesus: Notes to Myself, Daniel B. Clendenin, June 8, 2007. Accessed May 29, 2008. http://www.journeywithjesus.net/Essays/20071105JJ.shtml. 2. "24th Sunday After Pentecost, November 11, 2007," Dennis Bratcher, copy­right © 2007, Dennis Bratcher. CRI / Voice, Institute. Last modified: October 24, 2007. Accessed May 28, 2008. http://www.cresourcei.org/lectionary/YearC/ Cproper27ot.html.
Sermon
King Duncan
... at the same time freshening the air by releasing negative ions. It also uses a washable strainer to purify the air of all those microscopic particles that plague your allergies. Finally, to put all your work into a hard copy, there is the Dell Photo All-In-ONE Printer. It will make copies of your photos, print, fax, scan and photocopy your documents with up to a 50-page auto feeder. Dr. Pavelko asks, “With all of these multi-tasking devices, why do we have such difficulty accepting the notion that one ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to insulate the structure against frigid winds. He spent days removing this home-made insulation. He took the newspapers home and gleaned enough facts for two stories. This was not an isolated incident. By the time L’Amour started a novel, he was armed with copies of every topographical map, relief map, and mine chart that existed on the area covered in his story. “My descriptions must be right,” he insists. “When I tell my reader about a well in the desert, he knows it’s there, and that the water ...
125. Come Home
Matthew 25:14-30
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... -cat “spin-offs” from the grand-daddy original “discover-unknown-talent” show “American Idol,” a franchise we copied from Great Britain’s “Pop Idol” franchise. This genre of television that includes “The Voice,” “X-Factor” and “America’s Got Talent” focus on finding that rare pearl of stardom embedded amidst the grit and gravel of everyday gifts. Ferreting out someone’s ability to excel at something, identifying an ...
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