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1726. The Eyes of Faith

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... seeing another way out. By faith, Isaac and Jacob blessed their sons not seeing the promise. By faith, Joseph saved his people in Egypt from famine, not seeing the hand of God. By faith, Moses led the people out of bondage in Egypt, through the desert and to the promised land seeing only sand. And then the authors, after this long list of people who by faith went through these problems with eyes of faith, not seeing how the story will end, concludes with these words: By faith these people overthrew kingdoms ...

1727. Praying in Boldness and Faith

Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon

Patrick J. Rooney

... from God, this one man alone is permitted to undertake the ritual that now follows. One man alone is permitted to enter the holiest place, to sprinkle the blood so that the temple might be cleansed from impurity and to prepare the scapegoat which will be sent out into the desert so that it might bear away the sins of the nation and of God's people. One man alone carries upon his shoulders the weight of this task, so that the nation can be relieved of the burden of its sin. It is the holiest of days for God ...

1728. Prepare: An Advent Play

Matthew 24:36-51

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... The setting can be anywhere Approximate time: 7-8 minutes (John the Baptist enters singing “Prepare Ye” from Godspell or a favorite Advent hymn verse.) John: (shouts) People of God! I am John the Baptist, son of Zachariah and Elizabeth. I’ve just come from the desert. (shakes off dust) And I have a message of great importance for you. (points to the audience) It’s this: It’s time to wake up! Get ready! Change your ways — the Advent of our Lord King is near. (*) I see you are already preparing ...

1729. Jesus Brings New Life

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , as do we, the escape of the Israelites through the Red Sea and how God crushed the Egyptians in their wake. Additionally, the people remembered how God fought on the side of Israel, eliminating all their enemies when, after their long sojourn in the desert, they finally reached the promised land. God then raised up judges, kings, and prophets to aid the people and gave them direction in life. God did so much for the people, all of which was unexpected, to demonstrate his loyalty to the covenant and ...

1730. You Are in Good Hands with God

Isaiah 40:21-31

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... leaders and other influential people of Judaic society found themselves in exile away from their homeland. They may have thought that God had abandoned them. The situation seemed very bleak. Most assuredly, the people were disheartened, if not convinced, that God had deserted them and their fate was permanent. However, the message of God as proclaimed by Isaiah is not one of warning or doom, as had been proclaimed earlier, but rather one of hope. Logically speaking, one might assume that God's anger or ...

1731. God, The Good Ally

Exodus 20:1-17

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... by the prophet Nathan because he took for himself another man's wife. Even today, Iraqis invaded in their home by American soldiers searching for insurgents or the weapons of insurgents will be offered a cup of tea. God's gift and his unique partnership with the desert rats was nothing that could be turned down by sane human beings. The God of Sinai was proving himself to be a good ally. He was a keeper. The loyalty of the Israelites waned to and fro for centuries before the words of the prophets recorded ...

1732. Salvation Has A Name!

Acts 4:5-12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... Smyrna, pledged his oath of allegiance to his Savior while the fire licked at the stake; Paul was tormented by his defectors many times before meeting his end in Rome. In our own day, we have witnessed the persecution of Christians in communist states, in the deserts of Africa, and in the humid climes of South America. Not too many years ago, a Protestant bishop in El Salvador sent his family to the United States because of the threats of death squads. A Catholic bishop was shot dead at the altar. Generally ...

1733. Dedicating Temples

1 Kings 8:1- 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... newcomers, and the foreigners. Good leaders see that the foreigners have something to offer. Surely those who are working on the magnificent movements of immigrants to our country listen in on this passage. Surely the two-year-old girl who died crossing the desert, buried with a rosary around her neck, in Tucson, Arizona, would have welcomed Solomon as her leader. Surely the families of people who are deported because they have broken the American law and are here in our great country "illegally" would have ...

1734. Remember the Lord

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... : I was thankful for my wonderful family. AFTER CHILDREN: I am thankful for my wonderful family. (1) We are thankful for many things this Thanksgiving Day. Certainly one of those is our wonderful family. The Hebrew people had spent forty years wandering in the Sinai desert after escaping slavery in Egypt. They are now standing on the borders of Canaan, the promised land. Moses is an old man and is about to die. And he gives them instructions for how they are to deal with this new phase of their existence ...

1735. So Close Yet So Far

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J.M. Boice

Driving up from Beersheba, a combined force of British, Australians and New Zealanders were pressing on the rear of the Turkish retreat over arid desert. The attack outdistanced its water carrying camel train. Water bottles were empty. The sun blazed pitilessly out of a sky where the vultures wheeled expectantly. "Our heads ached," writes Gilbert, "and our eyes became bloodshot and dim in the blinding glare...Our tongues began to swell...Our lips turned a ...

1736. Three Monkey's In a Tree

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Staff

... sat in a coconut tree Discussing the things that are said to be Said one to another: "Now listen you two There's a certain rumor, but it can't be true' That man descended from our noble race- Why, the very idea; it's a disgrace. No monkey ever deserted his wife, Starved her babies and ruined her life. Nor did ever a mother-monkey Leave her babies with others to bunk, Or pass them on from one to another 'Till they scarcely knew who was their mother. And another thing you'll never see A monkey building a nest ...

1737. One-Man Think Tank

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Staff

... with amphibious capability. an arrangement whereby a car could be driven from the back seat. several golf inventions, including a golf ball that could be steered in flight. The grandest scheme of Pedrick, who described himself as the "One-Man-Think-Tank Basic Research Laboratories of Sussex," was to irrigate deserts of the world by sending a constant supply of snowballs from the polar region through a massive network of giant peashooters.

1738. Too Much to Let Go

Illustration

... after her husband's death in 1610. In later years her relationship with Louis soured and they lived in a state of ongoing hostility. Marie also felt a deep sense of betrayal when Cardinal Richelieu, whom she had helped in his rise to political power, deserted her and went over to her son's side. While on her deathbed Marie was visited by Fabio Chigi, who was papal nuncio of France. Marie vowed to forgive all of her enemies, including Cardinal Richelieu. "Madam," asked Chigi, "as a mark of reconciliation ...

1739. Laws of the Harvest

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Staff

... mission agency. His story points out the price some people pay to sow the seed of the gospel in hard soil: I was always perplexed by Psalm 126 until I went to the Sahel, that vast stretch of savanna more than four thousand miles wide just under the Sahara Desert. In the Sahel, all the moisture comes in a four month period: May, June, July, and August. After that, not a drop of rain falls for eight months. The ground cracks from dryness, and so do your hands and feet. The winds of the Sahara pick up the dust ...

1740. Eternal Punishment

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James Packer

... and balancing phrase "eternal punishment." The idea that in this text aionios as applied to kolasis must imply everlastingness seems to be unbreakable. The New testament always conceives of this eternal punishment as consisting of an agonizing knowledge of one's own ill desert, of God's displeasure, of the good that one has lost, and of the irrevocable fixed state in which one now finds oneself. The doctrine of eternal punishment was taught in the synagogue even before our Lord took it up and enforced it ...

1741. A Mother's Prayer for Her Children

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Staff

... by Your wisdom You have created both them and me, and by Your death You have redeemed us. So we are Yours, good Lord, we are Yours, whom You have made with such wisdom and bought so dearly. Then if You commend them to me, Lord, You do not therefore desert me or them. You commend them to me: I commend myself and them to You. Yours is the flock, Lord, and Yours is the shepherd. Be Shepherd of both Your flock and shepherd. You have made an ignorant mother, a blind leader, an erring ruler: teach the mother You ...

1742. The Little Burro

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... Atlantic Monthly about the days of the great western cattle rancher: "A little burro sometimes would be harnessed to a wild steed. Bucking and raging, convulsing like drunken sailors, the two would be turned loose like Laurel and Hardy to proceed out onto the desert range. They could be seen disappearing over the horizon, the great steed dragging that little burro along and throwing him about like a bag of cream puffs. They might be gone for days, but eventually they would come back. The little burro would ...

1743. A Lonely Request

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Staff

Three men were marooned on a desert island. As the days slowly went by, they dreamed of what it would be like to be at home with their friends and family, to be back at their jobs doing the things they loved. One day one of the men found a bottle that contained a genie. He opened ...

1744. Be Prudent or Productive?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... by his master and buries it underground for safekeeping. But while acting prudently he was not acting productively. In the first century burying treasure was an accepted, respectable way of safe-guarding valuables. Unless some enemy started to just randomly dig up the desert, the location of buried treasure remained the secret stash of knowledge known only to the one who had buried it. Jesus didn’t like buried treasure. He didn’t take the side-street safe-way. Jesus didn’t teach his disciples to bury ...

1745. Answered Prayers

Humor Illustration

There's a parable about a voyaging ship that was wrecked during a storm at sea and only two of the men on it were able to swim to a small, desert-like island. The two survivors, not knowing what else to do, agreed that they had no other recourse but to pray to God. However, to find out whose prayer was more powerful, they agreed to divide the territory between them and stay on opposite sides of the island. The first ...

1746. The History of the World?

Humor Illustration

The true history of the world according to student bloopers: The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. They lived in the Sarah Desert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere, so certain areas of the dessert are cultivated by irritation. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France ...

1747. What a Cow!

Humor Illustration

... old prospector wandered over to speak to some of his friends. Before he came back, a man came in wearing a black threadbare coat. He walked up to the bartender and timidly said, "Sir, I'm a poor traveling Methodist circuit rider. I've just made it across the desert. I'm bone dry. Could you let me have that foamy glass of milk I see you've just poured?" The preacher drank that milk real slow, savoring every drop. Then he looked up towards the ceiling and with a smile on his face he declared, "Lord, what a ...

1748. The Church Has What We Want

Illustration

King Duncan

... , his brother, John Wesley, and Richard Pilmore, were holding an outdoor service, when a mob attacked them pelting them with stones. They were compelled to flee for their lives. They found shelter behind a hedge. When night came they found their way to a deserted spring-house, where they struck a light with a flint-stone, washed their faces in the clear, cold water, brushed the dirt from their clothes, and felt at least a moment's security from the missiles which had pelted them. Charles Wesley had with ...

1749. We Ache to Know God’s Blessings

John 1:6-8, 19-28

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Joel D. Kline

... in a poor inner-city neighborhood of Washington, D.C. After living in that neighborhood for more than twenty years, Wallis found himself the victim of a mugging. Preoccupied with an upcoming speaking opportunity, Jim failed to "watch his back" as he turned the corner on a deserted street, and by the time he heard the running feet behind him, it was too late. As he turned around, he was hit by something sharp enough to open a gash over one eye, and he immediately felt the blood running down his face. Several ...

1750. A Night to Slow Down and See

Mark 9:2-9

Illustration

King Duncan

... visit, but the plane that carried him to the glacier was unable to bring him back. Since it was getting late Charles and Izzy, a photographer who worked with him, would have to spend the night. Charles admits a feeling of fear swept over him in that strange deserted place. There was a cabin on the mountain not too far from where they were, their pilot told them. They would be able to spend the night there. The men hiked for nearly an hour before they found the simple cabin. The cabin was small, six-sided ...

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1726. The Eyes of Faith

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

1727. Praying in Boldness and Faith

Hebrews 4:12-16

Sermon

Patrick J. Rooney

1728. Prepare: An Advent Play

Matthew 24:36-51

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

1729. Jesus Brings New Life

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

1730. You Are in Good Hands with God

Isaiah 40:21-31

Sermon

Richard Gribble

1731. God, The Good Ally

Exodus 20:1-17

Sermon

Ken Lentz

1732. Salvation Has A Name!

Acts 4:5-12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

1733. Dedicating Temples

1 Kings 8:1- 6, 10-11, 22-30, 41-43

Sermon

Donna Schaper

1734. Remember the Lord

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

1735. So Close Yet So Far

Illustration

J.M. Boice

1736. Three Monkey's In a Tree

Illustration

Staff

1737. One-Man Think Tank

Illustration

Staff

1738. Too Much to Let Go

Illustration

1739. Laws of the Harvest

Illustration

Staff

1740. Eternal Punishment

Illustration

James Packer

1741. A Mother's Prayer for Her Children

Illustration

Staff

1742. The Little Burro

Illustration

1743. A Lonely Request

Illustration

Staff

1744. Be Prudent or Productive?

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

1745. Answered Prayers

Humor Illustration

1746. The History of the World?

Humor Illustration

1747. What a Cow!

Humor Illustration

1748. The Church Has What We Want

Illustration

King Duncan

1749. We Ache to Know God’s Blessings

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Illustration

Joel D. Kline

1750. A Night to Slow Down and See

Mark 9:2-9

Illustration

King Duncan

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