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1576. Add It All Up

Mark 8:36

Illustration

Staff

... register. "I don't see how you can run your business this way," said his son. "How do you know what your profits are." "Son," replied the businessman, "when I got off the boat, I had only 36 cents and the pants I was wearing. Today your sister is an art teacher, your brother is a doctor, and you are an accountant. I have a car, a house, and a good business. Everything is paid for. Just add it all up, subtract 36 cents and the pants, and there's your profit."

1577. See If You Can Do Better

Illustration

Staff

Over 2,400 years ago a young Greek artist named Timanthes studied under a respected tutor. After several years the teacher's efforts seemed to have paid off when Timanthes painted an exquisite work of art. Legend has it that he became so enraptured with the painting that he spent days gazing at it. One morning when he arrived to admire his work, he was shocked to find it blotted out with paint. Angry, Timanthes ran to his teacher, who admitted he had destroyed the painting. " ...

1578. Predictions in the Past

2 Pet 3:11

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Brett Blair

I am fond of a line from Niels Bohr, the physicist, and have quoted it before: "Prediction is a very difficult art especially when it involves the future." Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center report that one of the largest stars in our galaxy is about to self-destruct. Eta Carinae, which has a mass 100 times greater than that of our sun, is giving signs that its life is about ...

1579. Staring Down the Barrel

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Jeffrey D. King

In 1982, "ABC Evening News" reported on an unusual work of modern art, a chair affixed to a shotgun. It was to be viewed by sitting in the chair and looking directly into the gun barrel. The gun was loaded and set on a timer to fire at an undetermined moment within the next hundred years. The amazing thing was that people waited ...

1580. A Beautiful Void

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Chuck Colson

... stools surround a large square rock at the center of the room. It is very quiet. But there is no altar, rug, vase, candle, or symbol of any type of religious worship. Ceiling lights create bright spots of illumination on the front wall. One focuses on a piece of modern art: steel squares and ovals. Beyond the abstract shapes, there is nothing in those bright circles of light. They are focused on a void. And it is in that void that the visitor suddenly sees the soul of the brave new world.

1581. Being Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... igloos. Dehumidifiers were installed throughout the ships. Some critics fumed that it would have been cheaper to have sunk them. “For twenty‑five years these mothballed relics were monitored by the U.S. Navy’s Ship Maintenance Facility staff, specialists in the art of preserving ships. “Then the Reagan administration called for an immediate increase in the size of the Navy, and the ships were recommissioned. Immediately these ships that had been dry-docked had to be made sea-worthy, but listen ...

1582. The Painting Was Framed

Humor Illustration

Staff

There's a legend of a brawny man who stood in front of a painting by the great artist Sargent in an art gallery in New York City. He kept muttering to himself, "I've been given a place at last. I have a place at last." Artist Robert Henri was standing nearby. Henri was mystified at the man's words. "Are you in this sort of work?" he asked the man. "Oh, ...

1583. Life Begins At Three

Humor Illustration

Years ago Art Linkletter, in his book KIDS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS, gave us a little inkling of how children think: "I'd like to be six. I'm tired of being five. I've been five for the whole year!" "I'd like to be forty-five so I could watch TV ...

1584. Ready For Reality?

Humor Illustration

... . But on the other hand, I thought I might write a book about my experience here in the hospital, what it's like to be a patient here. People might be interested in reading a book like that. In addition, I thought I might go back to college and study art history, which I've grown interested in lately." Dr. Leroy nods and says, "Yes, those all sound like intriguing possibilities." The patient replies, "And the best part is, in my spare time, I can go on being a teapot."

1585. If I Were The Devil

Mark 13:1-31

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Paul Harvey

... that every night I could pollute the minds of every family member for my agenda; I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation … I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movies screens, and I would call it art … I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as politically correct; I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date and that the Bible is for ...

1586. When the Light Comes

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William G. Carter

There was a priest in a Midwestern city who wanted to help inner-city children. He wanted them to see something more than their own situations. He put them on a bus and took them to see some things of great beauty. They went to the art museum and saw paintings by the masters. They went to a symphony matinee and heard beautiful music. They went for a walk through a row of homes that were done over by a creative team of architects. That young priest showed those children the best and brightest things he knew ...

1587. Matthew 2:1-12

Matthew 2:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... the wondrous events that surround the story of Jesus’ birth, there is perhaps none so startling as Matthew’s tale of the “magi.” Little surprise to learn that “The Adoration of the Magi” is one of the most portrayed moments in the history of Christian art. The Magi are such familiar characters to us now that we fail to register how truly strange they are to be on the scene at all. They are strangers from the far East. Magicians. Astrologers. Persian pagan priests perhaps. Not kings. Not all that ...

1588. Prophesy Your Way Forward

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1589. The Handiwork of God

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... are and what we are about when Christ lives within us God’s handiwork. 1. (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming Revell Company, 1985), pp. 141-144. Richard Nunn Lanier, The Angel Of Marye’s Heights. 2. Michael J. Gleb and Tony Buzan, Lessons From the Art of Juggling (New York: Harmony Books, 1992). 3. http://www.markdroberts.com/htmfiles/sermons/5.9.04.htm 4. Tony Evans’ Book Of Illustrations (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2009). 5. Outlive Your Life: You Were Made to Make A Difference (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc ...

1590. Pithy, Terse, and Succinct

Mark 1:9-13

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Luke Bouman

... to read and less time to grade. They didn’t imagine, at age 16, that perhaps it meant that they would be better writers. Today, after the advent of the personal computer and the reality of the endless blog on the internet, word conservation is a lost art. Mark, on the other hand, does not have a problem with word conservation. The state of his prose was less important than the scarcity of paper. Or perhaps he just doesn’t want to waste time on details that do not serve his proclamation. Whatever the ...

1591. We Are Dying All the Time

John 12:20-33

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Todd Weir

... relationship while anger and bitterness ravage the spirit like a cancer. Holding on to regrets strangles hope before it can lift us to new life. Trying to control events and other people leads to frustration, excessive stress, and exhaustion. Forgiveness and letting go of control are spiritual exercises in the art of dying so that new life may abound.

1592. She'll Never Make It

Humor Illustration

... a lot of experience with this kind of problem. Now, just relax. Everything will be fine! Now give me your height and position." She says, "I'm 5'4" and I'm in the front seat." "O.K." says the voice from the tower. "Repeat after me: Our Father....Who art in Heaven...."

1593. Mixing Up the Old With the New

John 10:11-18

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Scott Hoezee

Those of you who are familiar with art may recall a funny habit which many Medieval painters practiced for quite a long time in Europe, and particularly in Germany. Artists such as Lukas Cranach and others painted many depictions of biblical scenes but they did so with the curious twist of dressing the biblical characters in the contemporary ...

1594. Whistling Jesus

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... poem entitled “Leaves Compared with Flowers.” A tree’s leaves my be ever so good so may its bark, so may its wood; But unless you put the right thing to its root It will never show much flower or fruit. One of Spring’s most artful and alluring plants is the wisteria. A twining, vining, winding shrub, it can be trained up on and over porches, doorways, trellises, and towers. In spring the vines drip and drape with clusters of grape‑like blooms. The greenery grows up as the flowers cascade down ...

1595. Breaking Loose

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1. Pastoral Renewal, date unknown. 2. Dare to Discipline (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, Publishers, 1970). 3. Net Results, Feb. 1991. Cited in Parables, Etc, date unknown. 4. 10 Essentials of Highly Healthy People (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003), p. 204. 5. Secrets of Influence from the Art of Storytelling (New York: Basic Books, 2001). 6. Edward Paul Cohn in James W. Cox, Editor, Best Sermons, Vol. 1 (San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988). 7. The Presence (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1988), p. 63.

1596. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... them detract him from his call. His life is a challenge to our lives. It is time for us to toss our cap over the wall as well. 1 The New Model for Exceptional Performance (New York: Penguin Group, Inc., 2004), pp. 118-119. 2. Leon A. Harris, The Fine Art Of Political Wit (E.P. Dutton.) 3. Michael and Donna Nason, Robert Schuller: His Story (New York: Jove Books, 1983). 4. Copyright 1971 by the Public Domain Foundation. 5. Fred Hartley, 100% Beyond Mediocrity (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1983).

1597. The Quality Inside

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Merritt W. Ednie

... the leading producers of dog food had a meeting. Sales of the company product were slumping and the chairman was angry: "I don't understand," he shouted as he pounded the table, "we have the best brains in the nutrition business advising us; our art department has designed award-winning labels; our advertising people have put together an aggressive marketing campaign, So, why are sales down? Can anybody tell me why our dog food isn't selling?" There was silence around the table as the various members of the ...

1598. The 4 Spiritual Flaws

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... little boy and offers thanks ("eucharistesas") for the morsels. While John's Greek would clearly have had a Eucharistic meal meaning for his later first century readers, Jesus' own prayer at this moment almost certainly was the traditional Jewish blessing offered before meals: "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, Ruler of the Universe, who brings froth bread from the earth." It is not the presence of the food that is blessed. It is the presence and power of God, the One who created the fruitful world, who is ...

1599. John 6:1-21

John 6:1-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1600. Sit Up and Speak!

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... . Increasingly, we in the church are singing the folk song, "Where have all the young men gone, long time passing? Where have all the young men gone? Long time ago?" The folk song echoes God's question in the Garden of Eden, "[Adam] where art thou?" (Genesis 3:9 KJV). Dr. Curtis A. Miller, past president of the North American Conference of church men's staff, of the Presbyterian church (USA) writes, The authors [Coming of Age by Anderson, Hill, and Martinson] show a real concern for the lost ...

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1576. Add It All Up

Mark 8:36

Illustration

Staff

1577. See If You Can Do Better

Illustration

Staff

1578. Predictions in the Past

2 Pet 3:11

Illustration

Brett Blair

1579. Staring Down the Barrel

Illustration

Jeffrey D. King

1580. A Beautiful Void

Illustration

Chuck Colson

1581. Being Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

1582. The Painting Was Framed

Humor Illustration

Staff

1583. Life Begins At Three

Humor Illustration

1584. Ready For Reality?

Humor Illustration

1585. If I Were The Devil

Mark 13:1-31

Illustration

Paul Harvey

1586. When the Light Comes

Illustration

William G. Carter

1587. Matthew 2:1-12

Matthew 2:1-12

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1588. Prophesy Your Way Forward

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1589. The Handiwork of God

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

1590. Pithy, Terse, and Succinct

Mark 1:9-13

Illustration

Luke Bouman

1591. We Are Dying All the Time

John 12:20-33

Illustration

Todd Weir

1592. She'll Never Make It

Humor Illustration

1593. Mixing Up the Old With the New

John 10:11-18

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

1594. Whistling Jesus

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1595. Breaking Loose

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

1596. Toss Your Cap Over the Wall

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

King Duncan

1597. The Quality Inside

Illustration

Merritt W. Ednie

1598. The 4 Spiritual Flaws

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1599. John 6:1-21

John 6:1-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1600. Sit Up and Speak!

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

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