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126. The Lord's Prayer: Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... his skin. His parents were non-existent and he was bounced from one foster home to another. Not exactly the best pattern in life for success and self-esteem to emerge. However, today this gentleman is now Dr. Duncan and a member of the distinguished faculty at Princeton University. You see, amidst all the voices of the system of segregation shouting he was inferior, he managed to be brought to a variety of small but less than fancy black churches in his life''s journey. It was here that Dr. Duncan testifies ...

127. The Power of a God-Shaped Attitude

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... very poor track record of thinking for themselves. Now that he is on a roll, Dr. Willimon shares how the President of Yale University (his alma mater) recently welcomed freshmen students to the hallowed ground of this prestigious eastern university. He told them, "The faculty can guide you. We can take you to the frontiers of knowledge, but we cannot supply you with a philosophy of education anymore than we can supply you with a philosophy of life. This must come from your own active learning, from your own ...

128. Tripping the Tempter

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of his skin. He was an orphan, and he was bounced from one foster home to another. Not exactly the best environment in life for success and self-esteem to emerge. However, this gentleman overcame his negative background and is now a member of the distinguished faculty at Princeton University. You see, amidst all the voices shouting that he was inferior, he heard a voice inside him which he claimed to be the voice of God. This voice, this inward voice, said, "You can do it, Burt. You are not alone." So by ...

129. Thanks for the Memories

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... home." Toward the end of the play, Sister Mary, while singing, remembers her name and her identity and further discovers that she has won the READER''S DIGEST Sweepstakes. To lose one''s memory and identity is a tragic experience. Memory is that mental faculty which connects us to the past, the present, and the future. Annually in this country we celebrate and observe Memorial Day. We have public and private rituals that will help us to remember the values that we are trying to preserve and those who have ...

130. Is Anything Unforgivable?

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... by God, which resides in every person, enabling us to recognize goodness and truth. To sin against the Holy Spirit, 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 ...

131. Security Concerns

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... 's password or "PIN" number. So pervasive is the concern for security that a whole new mentality animates parents who tour college campuses with their teenagers, seeking to make a choice among various institutions. No longer do such parents ask questions about the faculty, living accommodations, library, or dining hall. The questions have changed during the past decade: "Will my child be safe here?" "Where are your call boxes located and how many do you have?" "How many cases of date rape do you have per ...

132. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 45 and Hebrews 5:14. The Hebrew passage especially is enlightening. In that passage, Paul is talking about teaching the word of God, and he uses the metaphor of milk and solid food. The solid food he says is for the mature, for those who have their faculties trained by practice to distinguish, that is to discern good from evil. This gives meaning and power to Paul’s petition that we may grow in the gift of discernment and spiritual knowledge. At least two dimensions must be noted – one is the quality of ...

133. If I Have Not Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of New Testament days -- a cloud of witnesses who have marched the Christian way for us. Through most of his teaching career he was also Pastor of a little rural church in Northern Medina County in Ohio. His brothers and sisters of the seminary faculty noticed a change in his life, coming midway through his teaching career. The "Christian graces" of life -- "the fruit of the Spirit" -- settled comfortably upon him. The change was understood at the time of his death. His wife found a little piece of paper ...

134. Loving The Jesus Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Dodd was for many years a professor of biblical studies at Cambridge. He has written a number of books on biblical studies -- a classic one on the parables, and another on Paul's teaching entitled "According to Paul." His imperious attitude toward his students and faculty colleagues set him apart in a kind of Olympian detachment and prompt an oft-repeated limerick in the Halls of Cambridge: I deem it exceedingly odd, that a bumptious old fellow named Dodd should spell, if you please, his name with two D's ...

135. East Of Eden And The City Of Beginning

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... also upon those people of good will who knew what was right and good but refused to speak and act for the cause of justice and brotherhood." You could tell that got to Miss Daisy. The other scene was the closing one when Miss Daisy has lost her mental faculties. Hoke discovers her in the morning when he comes in for his day's work, out of touch with reality. She thinks she is a young woman again, teaching school. But Hoke is kind and gentle, listens to her, but calls her to her senses. And when she finally ...

136. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... how small -- against the darkness; who live with Easter in their eyes, their hearts, and their hands." (Donald Shelby, "Beginnnings: What If It Had Been Our Donkey", Palm Sunday, March 27, 1988). Dr. Roland Bainton was for many years the eminent historian on the faculty of Yale University Divinity School. He wrote the landmark biography of Martin Luther. He once paid a memorable tribute to his father, who was a small- town preacher all his life. This is what he said about his Dad: "My father's congregation ...

137. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

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Maxie Dunnam

... hard is the way that leads to life.” Where did we get these funny notions about what it means to be a Christian — that a Christian life ought to be peaceful and tranquil. “When a student had enrolled in a university, he was assigned to a faculty advisor who asked, “Where do you attend church?” The student responded, “I do not attend formal, institutional services. Instead of confining myself to the four walls of a building, I go out into the green fields. I seek out the woods where I can stand ...

138. The Perfect Man

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ’s scars remind us how much God loves us. Christ’s sacrifice on the cross has given us a perfection that we cannot achieve on our own. But it also does something else--it helps us become better than we are. Morris Niedenthal is on the faculty at the University of Chicago. He says that Jesus accepted people just the way they were, but he never left people just the way they were because he loved them. Jesus always made them better. Listen again to these important words, "he has made perfect forever ...

139. Constantly Abiding

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... WorldCom, the war in Iraq, and the diminishing of the stock market. Not at all. But I do believe that God uses circumstances—and God is using these circumstances in a marvelous way for me and our leadership at Asbury—our trustees and administration—our faculty and students. We’re learning to trust and to depend upon the Lord in a way we never have before. The greatest lesson I’ve learned is the difference between resignation and surrender. There was a period of time during the past months when I ...

140. Let Me Say That Again

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ours to find and live a new life, free of sin and guilt. One of the most thrilling things at the Seminary is our worship services on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I wish you could share in those experiences some time. Estes Chapel is full of students and faculty as we worship together, and the singing - it is glorious. Many times we will have testimonies. During senior week at the beginning of May, we had chapel every day. Seniors plan the services. In every chapel we not only had a preacher we had at least one ...

141. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . If things had gone according to plans made three months ago, I would have just returned from Macedonia and Bulgaria. We would have been in Macedonia to present Boris Trajkovski the honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree. Boris was the President of Macedonia. Our faculty and trustees voted this honorary degree two years ago. Boris had not been able to come to this country to receive it. Our plan was to confer the degree in his capital city, Skopje. We were shocked and saddened early on the morning of ...

142. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... weekend you’ll experience firsthand the new things God is doing at Asbury – and most important, you’ll hear His call and discover His direction for the new thing He wants to do in your life. You’re going to meet and hear from our world-class faculty. You’ll hear the witness of some of our students and you’ll get the sense of their passionate desire to take the Gospel to the whole world. You’ll get an exciting sweeping glance of the heart of our enterprise: the School of Theology with three ...

143. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Some of you will know the name Norman Cousins. For many years he was the eminent editor of The Saturday Review. During his last years he served as a faculty member at the UCLA Medical School. He had developed what was considered an incurable disease—and he discovered that laughter was a way that helped. In fact, he convinced some medical folks to include laughter as a part of their treatment programs. As a part of this, there was a ...

144. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I divide them into groups in such a way that, before the year is past, I will have prayed for every person in our community. At least my intention is that it will work in that fashion. Prior to the week that I am going to pray for these students, faculty and staff I write them a letter inviting them to share with me their thanksgiving, as well as the particular needs for which they would like for me to pray during the week that I am giving them my prayer attention. The past two weeks I have prayed for a ...

145. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... this time to teach them a lesson. The issue is about the value of a child in relationship to God. If God is only ascertained through reading, through debating, through studying, through decision making, through self-evaluation, and in using all of the innate faculties of a man, then children are of no use to the Lord. This may have been the thinking of these disciples, so they become ecclesiastical bouncers keeping parents and infants out of the presence of Jesus. They remind me of the giant, frightening ...

146. What's in It for Me?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Michael Milton

... I will never forget June Day. June Day was a girl in our class in Junior High School who was always called upon to stand at the board and take names in case any of us acted up while the teacher went out to that strange, mysterious place called the faculty lounge. Basically, she couldn’t take anymore and needed a break. And June Day was called upon to police the room. I must admit that during those days I did not like June Day because June invariably wrote my name on the board. But one day when the teacher ...

147. Message from a Cloud

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s late, how long do we have to wait? At one university custom dictated that if a professor was ten minutes late, class was canceled. Well, a professor arrived early one morning for a 9:00 a.m. lecture. He placed his hat on his desk, and went to the faculty room. Before he knew it, it was 9:10. By the time he got back to his classroom, it was empty. The next day, he let his students have it. “When my hat is here,” he fumed, “I’m here!” The following day, the professor arrived at 9:00 a ...

148. A Friend in Low Places

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... 't assume that because you are intelligent, or because you've got an education, that reason is going to lead you safely through this life. Don't be naive. Reason can be bought, or seduced, just as easily, and maybe more easily, than any other human faculty. That is why Jesus instructed us to pray daily, "Lead us not into temptation," because we will need grace, we will need strength from beyond ourselves, to lead a meaningful, fulfilled and moral life. Which brings us to the other point of this story. There ...

149. An Enclave of Resistance

Hebrews 1:1-14; 2:5-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... for over ten years to bring this to pass, under Rev. Davis' leadership. The project began with a letter written to me by David Fulcomer, who at that time was the chairman of the Family Life Committee in this church. He was also on the sociology faculty at San Diego State, in charge of their program in family life. He spoke to me about something very dear to his heart, the depersonalization and the anonymity that characterizes urban life today. He said that the church was "an enclave of resistance." He didn ...

150. Advent 2

Isaiah 11:1-16, Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 14:1--15:13

Bulletin Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... or to the Parousia. Who is this expected one and what is he like? Is he worth hoping and waiting for? A book titled Profiles in Courage, portrays brave Americans. Admissions of offices of colleges and seminaries often prepare profiles of new students to acquaint the faculty with the lives of incoming students. In Lesson 1, Isaiah draws a profile of the Messiah about 800 years before he came in Jesus. The sermon is to paint a portrait of the one for whom we are preparing. Outline: Consider this profile in ...

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