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176. Blank Walls or Filled Lives (Part V)

Philippians 1:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... up on one elbow to take his first look. Finally, he would have the joy of seeing it all himself. He strained to look out the window beside the bed. IT FACED A BLANK WALL. (1) I chose this story with great care to open our sermon today to illustrate that our contentment in life must be based on our relationship to Christ and never solely based on circumstances. Here we find the Apostle Paul in a prison jail cell. What is operative in his life that allows him not to only see the prison bars but a mission ...

177. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... , Randy, Jerry's brother. Randy had died of cancer a few years before. I had written about Randy’s death in one of my books, and quoted a letter that Randy had written me in the midst of his suffering with cancer. Frank used that letter as an illustration in his sermon – he mentioned my and Randy’s names. Well you can imagine how that took Gerald and Lora by surprise – to hear a letter, written by their son, going out to bless thousands of people who had heard Frank preach. Well, I told Frank that ...

178. How to Look Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

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Mark Trotter

... , or people winning against all odds, business successes, going from rags to riches, heroic deeds, and other singular accomplishments. Those are the most common sermon illustrations, and the most popular. When you think about it, they are probably the illustrations that the Corinthians wanted to hear, images of success, winning and triumphing, fame and fortune, what Paul called the power and wisdom of the world. Against that image, Paul admitted, what we preach is weakness and foolishness. Against ...

179. A Place for You

Ruth 1:16-18

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Mark Trotter

... . But both Christians and Jews have to live with the Bible. In the Bible is the revelation that God is bigger than we are. God is bigger than our institutions. God is bigger than the boundaries that separate us into nations, races, and peoples. To illustrate that, the New Testament always has Jesus lifting up foreigners to be the example for us: the Roman Centurion, a hated foreigner, lifted up as an example of faith; the Samaritan, a despised race, lifted up to be the example of what neighbor love looks ...

180. Transformed in Christ

John 3:1-17

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Richard Gribble

... deny us; if we are faithless, he remains faithful - for he cannot deny himself" (1 Timothy 2:11-13). Transformation is, in essence, the process of turning the dirty laundry of our lives into something that is clean and useful. This idea is illustrated in an apocryphal but nonetheless instructive story of the famous British monarch Queen Victoria. One day her highness paid a visit to a paper mill on the outskirts of London. Without realizing who his distinguished visitor was, the foreman showed the Queen ...

181. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11, Rom 5:12-21

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