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101. Terms of Endearment

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... his wife had found a lovely restaurant at a place called the Black Bear Inn. Craddock writes: We were seated there looking out at the mountains when this old man, with shocking white hair, a Carl Sandburg-looking person came over and spoke to us. He said, "You're on vacation?" We said, "Yes," and he just kept right on talking. "What do you do," he asked. Well, I was thinking, Craddock notes, that it was none of his business, but I let out that I was a minister. Then he said, "Oh, a minister, well I've got a ...

102. Good News For Parents And For Kids, Too!

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... vowed never to entrust her children to a housekeeper. The counselor asked why, and the young woman explained that when she was a young child, her wealthy parents would vacation in Europe each summer and leave her with a nanny. One spring when the girl was eleven the housekeeper suddenly quit. The parents were upset that their vacation was jeopardized, but a few days before their intended departure they found a replacement. When the daughter noticed her mother wrapping up all the family silverware and jewels ...

103. God's Plan For Empowerment

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... point all we can do is receive. (2) That was a lesson that a man named Geoffrey also learned. Between 1971 and 1975 Geoffrey's life took a negative turn. There were problems in his personal life and problems at work. Geoffrey decided to take a vacation. Perhaps being away from his problems would help him solve them. He went to England chiefly to visit museums and listen to concerts. While he was in England he planned to visit some cathedrals like any other tourist would. "I made my pilgrimage to England in ...

104. He Brings Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

There is an old vaudeville joke that goes like this. What is worse than a oneweek vacation in Philadelphia? The answera twoweek vacation in Philadelphia. The reason: Philadelphia rolls up its sidewalks after dark. It's unfair, of course, to label Philadelphia in this way. In the years preceding and immediately following World War II, most American cities were like Philadelphia. Almost everything in them, from retail outlets to radio stations, was packed ...

105. Living In Spite House

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... care of it. The boy refused. He said his family could not afford it. The dentist persuaded the lad to let him do the repairs. The dentist didn't send the boy a bill. Soon he forgot the incident. That summer the dentist left town for an extended vacation. When he returned, he found that his lawn had been well cared for during all that time by the teenager whose tooth he had repaired. The lad just smiled and said, "A tooth for a tooth." (5) When the dentist first had trouble with the neighborhood kids, he ...

106. The Greatest Discovery Of All

Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... for over a year. Day after day her late husband sat there, and day after day she acknowledged his presence with a smile and friendly wave. The woman decided to take a lengthy vacation to Europe. It would be a delightful change of scenery for her. While she was in Europe she met a fine American gentleman who was also vacationing. The woman fell in love and after a whirlwind romance, they got married and honeymooned all over Europe. All during that time she said nothing about old John back on the plantation ...

107. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... for that is what I came out to do." Jesus would not be side-tracked by the adulation of the crowds. He knew where he was headed. Nothing else mattered. Gorman Williams spent most of his life as a missionary to India. He purchased tickets for a long-awaited vacation back to the United States. He had counted down the months and days until he would be home. A few days before he was to leave he heard about some Jews who had escaped the wrath of the Nazis. They had traveled by boat to India seeking refuge. Since ...

108. A Life Above All Others

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

It was a once in a lifetime vacation trip for Robert Daley. He and his wife were driving through parts of Europe. While in France they stopped in the ... stone either. It is just a white marble stone ” nothing fancy at all. (1) We have all experienced what it is like to be tourists. Milton Klamen has compiled a list of what he calls "Vacation Vexations" (Or, Words We Wish We'd Never Heard). Let me read a few of them. I found them amusing. "Sure we'll take the dog along. How much trouble can it be?" "The car ...

109. Jesus Goes To School

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... makes me feel that my efforts don't quite measure up to your expectations. I know it's hard, but please don't try to compare me with my brothers and sisters. Please don't be afraid to leave for a weekend together. Kids needs vacations from parents, just as parents need vacations from kids. Besides, it's a great way to show us kids that your marriage is very special. Please take me to Sunday School and Church regularly, setting a good example for me to follow. I enjoy learning more about God. (3) I believe ...

110. Lessons From The Locker Room

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... can't break the rules!! Cathy: You hate rules! Irving: But this is a SPORT! It's no fun without rules! It's pointless unless everyone plays by the exact same rules! As Irving walks away, Cathy follows after, writing in her notebook, "To do after vacation. Get relationships declared a "sport" and print up rule book for all the men." (1) Not everyone in this room is a sports fan. I recognize that. There are some of us who cannot even understand the almost pathological appeal that sports have for some people ...

111. Show Me The Fish!

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... hadn't snared any blues yet, several members of the presidential fishing party had caught fish "under the President's very careful tutelage." But the press continued to report his catch of the day: zero. Finally, with only one full day left of his vacation, a desperate Bush turned to prayer. And it worked. Within an hour after leaving church, President Bush landed a two-foot, ten-pound bluefish to put an end to his embarrassing jinx. Reporters and Secret Service agents in boats about 150 yards away began ...

112. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... a picture? That sounds pretty hard. One day, a young man named George Eastman decided he wanted to take a vacation at the beach. George loved to take pictures, and he wanted to take a picture of the beach. But he didn't want to carry around all ... that heavy equipment. So George decided that he would build a better camera. He canceled his vacation, and stayed home and began working on his new invention. It took him three years of hard work just to create a new kind ...

113. Justified By What?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Gerstner says, "I preached justification emphatically, clearly, earnestly, and I hoped, persuasively. It was, therefore, rather discouraging to learn from the newspaper account that I had spoken the night before on the theme of ˜Just a vacation by faith'!" (2) Our text for the day has nothing to do with taking a vacation. It has nothing to do with sandy beaches or cabins in the mountains. But I wonder if some of the concepts we take for granted in the churchgrand old words and phrases like grace and ...

114. Secrets Of Successful Parenting

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... ever forget Winston Churchill's immortal words: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." Comedy writer Robert Orben says that sounds exactly like their family vacation. Danny Cox tells a wonderful story about his grandson Rex. Rex was in kindergarten when he caught a case of spring fever. It hadn't been too long before in his young life that he had the freedom to come and go with his mother as their ...

115. Hurting People Hurt People

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It is an old story that some of you have doubtless heard before. It comes from a retired seminary professor, Dr. Fred Craddock--a man who has influenced thousands of pastors and lay people of every religious persuasion. Craddock and his wife were on vacation in Eastern Tennessee in the Smoky Mountains. They had gone to a place called The Black Bear Inn, a restaurant. One side of the building was all glass. You could look out over the mountains and have your dinner. "It was just beautiful," says Craddock ...

116. Trouble Brewing In The Kitchen

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Graham M. Bingham

... the type of individual who really knew how to put together a fabulous church dinner. Thank God for the Marthas in the church. If we did not have any Marthas, nothing would get done. It is the Marthas who teach the Sunday school classes, run the Vacation Bible Schools, chair the social committee and the outreach committee. The Marthas are "the movers and the shakers" in the church. They are the WORKERS the pastor depends upon to get the job done! Martha expressed her love to the Lord by the things she did ...

117. Managing Your Anger

Romans 12:9-21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... growing very tired of riding in the car and soon they start complaining, "Mommy, how much farther is it? Would you make him give me back my toy? It's too crowded in this car!" Have you ever seen something like that happen? When we are on a vacation, we can help make it a better trip by trying to improve everybody's mood by being loving rather than complaining, can't we? Of course, children are not the only ones who complain. When Moses led the nation of Israel out of slavery in Egypt, the people complained ...

118. Why Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... only can the Loeb family be thankful that Max was suspended from school that day, but, believe it or not, they can also be thankful that Dad had his heart attack. Why? If Hamilton Loeb had not suffered his heart attack, his family would have been on vacation at that time. They had their plane tickets secured and their bags packed. If Hamilton had not had his heart attack, they would have been catching a tan on the sunny beaches of Phuket, Thailand at the very time that same beach was being devastated by the ...

119. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... trip, and she had grown to hate God and others and herself. Everybody around her could sense that bitterness and that hatred because it had spilled over into every area of her life. Then she made that vacation trip. She said to the man in the letter: "Oh how I thank God that you saved me from committing that horrible crime. When I arrived back at home and went to work, the first day on the job I was there for a few hours, and then the boss ...

120. The Question That Will Not Go Away

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... questions with a need for an answer far beyond the realm of the ordinary and commonplace. We suddenly find ourselves asking questions about things far beyond today''s brunch or tomorrow''s duties or this summer''s vacation. There is a yearning deep inside of us. All the stock options, vacation clubs, money market accounts, timeshare programs cannot be of any help when it comes to the question of death. Christianity has never been about the denial of death but that there is something beyond the doorway of ...

121. WHERE DO I GO FOR A REFILL?

Drama

Angela Akers

... bankruptcy." Waiter: "Sounds like you should fire your board of directors." (They both laugh.) Man: "I wish I could fire me. Just let somebody else take over my life for a while." Waiter: "It''s vacation time, man, with a capital V." Man: "Yeah, that would be nice. But I think it''ll take more than a vacation to get me going again. I mean, where do I go for a refill?" (Grabs the coffee pot to refill his cup) Waiter: "Oh, here, I got that--" Man: "No, I mean, that''s not ...

122. Who Counted the Fish?

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... manuscript which does not contain this final epilogue to the Gospel of St. John, and so it must have been added to the Gospel for a reason. What, exactly, is going on here? “I am going fishing,” said Simon Peter. He didn’t mean that he was taking a vacation. It almost seems as though he is saying that he felt that he had wasted three years trying to be a follower of an unusual kind of Messiah who had managed to get himself crucified, and so he was returning to his old way of life as a fisherman on ...

123. Is Anything Unforgivable?

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... therefore, would be to go against the light we have been given. What Jesus was talking about was spiritual atrophy. We know that people lose those faculties which they do not use. Certainly that is true of our physical bodies. Whenever I take a vacation, my body says, "I want a vacation, too," which means, "I don't want to do that usual regimen of morning exercises." I give in, but when I return to the regimen, I discover, all too painfully, that certain muscles are no longer able to do what they used to do ...

124. Is Your Love Shy?

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... And I kept account of the kinds of questions they asked. "How can I avoid that extra tax?" "How much does a new Datson 280-Z cost?" "Have you ever eaten there? Was it good?" "Did you see that new James Bond movie?" "Where are you going on your vacation?" "Want to know where we're planning to build our new house?" Questions, sure! Scads of them! But questions of the belly, the bank. And not questions of the soul. Gently as I could, I turned the conversation toward Jesus. I asked his thinking on man's nature ...

125. Grace in the Midst of the Crush of Time

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... we are waiting for the right circumstances to arrive, or for a hardship to vanish. We're waiting for more money or more education or more insight or more data. First let's have the baby, or wait for the children to get into school, or wait until summer vacation, or wait until the nest is empty. Then we'll have time. Paul couldn't agree less. In verses 3 through 10 there isn't the faintest evidence that a hardship-free life is just over the horizon. It will never be the "right time" to act. Therefore God ...

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