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101. Saved!

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... almost at the point of thinking so, when suddenly the hammer hits the thumb. Our exemplar of virtue lacked something - indeed, he lacked a great deal. Did Shakespeare have him in mind? What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And this line, spoken by Hamlet, closes: and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?1 ...

102. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... to ask for special appointments in the Kingdom: "one at your right hand and one at your left." It was a modest request (they thought). Leadership Before us is a case study in leadership models, especially leadership in the church. As a member of a seminary faculty, I see the issue daily. Jesus made it clear to James and John: Special appointments are not handed out as though by a medieval bishop to those in high favor. Quite the reverse, it is the way of the "wounded healer" and "the suffering servant ...

103. Twenty-First Century Reformation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... stormy and warlike." He went on: "I must root out the stumps and stocks, cut away the thorns and hedges, fill up the ditches, and am the rough forester to break a path and make ready." He then spoke of an interesting contrast with his fellow faculty member, Philip Melanchthon, "But Master Philip walks softly and silently, tills and plants, sows and waters with pleasure, as God has gifted him richly."2 In truth, there was nothing revolutionary in the way it was all done. Debate was the usual pattern for the ...

104. When Jesus Speaks Your Name

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

ARTHUR L. FOSTER is currently Director of Pastoral Associates in Wichita, Kansas. Previous to that he worked in other counseling settings and served as a professor of pastoral counseling on the faculty of the University of Chicago and other theological schools. He has had a research interest in how self-images in people change when their images of God change as well as an interest in the development of house churches. (See his book The House Church Evolving, Exploration Press, 1976.) These ...

105. Like Trees Walking

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... Counselors and a Supervisor in the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, HELEN E. TERKELSEN is currently Director of the Lex King Souter Center for Pastoral Counseling and Pastoral Care in Fall River, Massachusetts, as well as a teaching supervisor and adjunct faculty at Andover Newton Theological School. In the midst of these and other related duties, she claims to be doing what she would rather be doing more than anything else. This sense of delight and affirmation as well as her acute perception ...

106. Bringing the Gospel to Marriage

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

MARCUS D. BRYANT is an ordained minister who served in a number of Christian Church congregations and on the faculty of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before accepting his present position at Texas Christian University. There he is Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Pastoral Care at Brite Divinity School and a supervisor and consultant both at the Pastoral Care Center at Brite and the Azie Pastoral Counseling Center. His ...

107. The Apostles' Creed: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Baptist Seminary, "What Makes Life on Earth Possible?" printed in the Texas Baptist Standard. 2. Irene Corbally Kuhn, "Fun & Laughter," Reader's Digest, 1967, p. 557 3. Further details come from Douglas Linder, via Internet, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm 4. Walter Brueggemann, "The Book of Genesis," New Interpreter's Bible, CD-ROM, (Nashville: Abingdon, 1997) 5. John Killinger, You Are What You Believe: The Apostles' Creed for Today, (Nashville: Abingdon, 1990), pp. 37 ...

108. Excuses

Luke 14:15-24, Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ." One college president, after years of working with students, said that he was not sure whether the degree B.A. stood for Bachelor of Arts or Builder of Alibis.(1) Douglas Bernstein, a psychology professor at the University of Illinois, recently asked faculty members for the "most unusual, bizarre and amazing student excuses" they had ever heard. He got dozens.(2) Listen: • Grandparent death: an old favorite, but one professor's class established some sort of record when 14 out of 250 students reported ...

109. Good Medicine

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a doctor while institutionalized for depression as a teenager, Patch Adams attended the Medical College of Virginia in the late '60's and early '70's where he was criticized in his official medical school record for "excessive happiness" and was once told by a faculty advisor, "If you want to be a clown, join the circus." Patch did, in fact, want to be a clown. But he also wanted to be a physician. Combining those vastly different sides of his personality, he became both. After graduation, he formed the ...

110. Connected

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... staff a hotline to help grieving pet owners cope with the death of their precious animal friends. The students receive specialized training to learn how to counsel and assist callers experiencing painful emotions. "There is a tremendous need for such a service," says faculty member Thomas Lane, who spearheaded the project. Growing numbers of single and elderly people rely on pets for companionship, feeling the death of a pet as strongly as that of a family member or friend. (4) If you don't think people can ...

111. Motorcycles, Marriage And A Word From God

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... and his bride. And imagine that I am the pastor performing the ceremony. That may not seem too difficult, but to tell you the truth, I have a difficult time imagining some of you with tatoos, riding on Harley-Davidsons. But let's suspend our critical faculties for a few minutes and imagine that we are there. The birds are singing. The bride is radiant. Bear has tears running down his face and all these bikers are waiting expectantly for a word from God. What could I say about marriage in that auspicious ...

112. Congratulations, Joseph, It's A God!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christianity starts, this is the rock on which it is founded." (1) J.B. Phillips is right. That will take your breath away if you seek to fully comprehend it. "Congratulations, Joseph. It's a God!" Theologian Karl Barth stood before students and faculty at Princeton in 1963 during his Princeton Lectures. A student asked: "Sir, don't you think that God has revealed himself in other religions and not only Christianity?" Barth stunned many who were present when he thundered, "No, God has not revealed himself ...

113. A New Daddy

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

Bob Stamps was on the faculty at Oral Roberts University. Bob is a delightful man with a good sense of humor. He is also bald. One night he and his wife decided to go out to dinner and hired a babysitter to take care of their little children. While they were gone, the babysitter got interested ...

114. Marriage: Agony Or Ecstasy

Matthew 5:31-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... name and hers, ISH AND ISSHAH. He recognizes her as "flesh of (his) flesh and bone of (his) bones." They were of the same identical flesh and blood, and of the same genetic makeup in all respects, and consequently they were to have equal powers, faculties, and rights. The Bible is completely right when it says that God could not have given Adam a greater gift than this one. All of creation pales in comparison. I love the way John Sullivan, pastor of the Broadmoor Baptist Church in Shreveport, Louisiana put ...

115. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... would seem to work out. Then he thought, "I am too old. I have worked long and diligently and have achieved enough. Here I have before me a carefree old age and can enjoy it in peace. I resolve to compose no more." This cleared his mind and relaxed his faculties so much that he was able to pick up with his composing again without difficulty. Many of us are a bundle of anxieties. That is why we accomplish so little. What we need is to relax in the knowledge that we are loved. "God so loved the world that he ...

116. When Actions Speak Louder Than Words

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked the chief priests and the elders of the temple, "Which of the two did the will of his father?" "The first," they answered. The parable puzzled them. They never dreamed it was about them. Best selling author, Stephen Covey, writes about the time he was a faculty member at the Marriott School of Management. One of the young executives asked him how he was doing in class. As they talked for a while Stephen Covey confronted him directly: "You didn't really come in to find out how you are doing in class ...

117. Working For Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... are feeling like Sisyphus. I hope that you don't wake up every morning feeling like you have to push a giant boulder up a hill. Some people do. Like the teacher who was complaining about her job. She told about her principal who was lecturing the faculty quite unmercifully. One by one, he presented them with a painful list of all their failures, flaws and shortcomings. He chided them for over an hour for all the mistakes they had made over the year. Then he announced that the science club was sponsoring a ...

118. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... (interrupted by World War II) at UC Berkeley in 1946. He later worked for the Air Force, took a position with the RAND Corporation as a research mathematician in 1952, became professor of operations research at Berkeley in 1960, and joined the faculty of Stanford University in 1966, where he taught and published as a professor of operations research until the 1990s. In 1975, Dr. Dantzig was awarded the National Medal of Science by President Gerald Ford . George Dantzig passed away at his Stanford home ...

119. Be Careful What You Call Me

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... moment by moment to the living God. (6) People are people. Pride is pride. But fortunately, God is still God. Dr. William Trice of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, put it in a beautiful way in a story he once told on himself. A new Louisiana State University faculty member was visiting Dr. Trice's church one Sunday. Trice pulled out some of his best doctrinal sermons, presenting them in a superb manner in the hope of winning this choice church prospect. After about a month of such profound preaching aimed at such a ...

120. Family Resemblance

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... won't get in heaven if he uses his bowling words in the house?" And Neil wondered, "I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that OK?"(1) It's fun being a family. Tony Campolo says that when he was a member of the sociology faculty at an Ivy League university, his wife and he were expected to attend get-togethers with his colleagues and their spouses. On more than one occasion someone would ask Tony's wife in what appeared to Tony to be a condescending manner, "And what is it you do, my ...

121. Hurting People Hurt People

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... the state paid the bill and the college people, including students, did everything they could to accommodate her physical limitations, she was unable to accept herself after the accident. She lashed out at the people who pushed her wheelchair. She was angry with faculty members and torn up over any and everything that related to her. Her letter to Parrott addressed his insensitivity to her needs on campus. His momentary spirit of anger eased into a mellowness as he said to himself, "I really don't know ...

122. A Devastating Storm, An Incredible Promise

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... families gathered; it was the social center of the community, too. "Although I never doubted the existence of God," Dr. Rice continues, "I think like all people I've had some ups and downs in my faith. When I first moved to California in 1981 to join the faculty at Stanford, there were a lot of years when I was not attending church regularly. I was traveling a lot. I was a specialist in international politics, so I was always traveling abroad. I was always in another time zone. One Sunday I was in the Lucky ...

123. Like A Mighty Army

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... bickering or fighting. It means that we will be there for one another. It means we will lift one another up in times of need. In the newsletter, NET RESULTS a story is told concerning the distinguished pastor Dr. Dale Galloway, who is now on the faculty of Asbury Theological Seminary. Dr. Galloway had the joy of building from scratch a 6,400 member church in Portland, Oregon. The church is called New Hope Community Church. Galloway tells the story of a single mother who belonged to the church along with her ...

124. Setting An Example

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... -school diploma. Someone at Coconut Creek High School in Florida heard of Dave's effort, and so the student body decided to adopt him. They invited Dave and his wife, Lorraine, to their prom, where they crowned them King and Queen of the event. The students and faculty wanted to honor Dave for going back and taking care of business. (3) I believe most of us can admire that in Dave Thomas. He didn't want to encourage young people to follow his example and drop out of school, so when other men were retiring ...

125. The Question That Will Not Go Away

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... Consider the alternative--life without death." Life would be forever locked into the daily grind of our existence --a horrible thought indeed. He further shares, "We'd take days just to get out of bed, weeks to decide what to do next. Students would never graduate, and faculty meetings, deacon meetings, and all kinds of other meetings would go on for months. Chances are, we'd be as bored as the ancient Greek gods and up to their same silly tricks. Death cannot be the enemy if it is death that brings us to ...

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