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Billy D. Strayhorn
... , you can discover what God's purpose for your life is all about. God won't twist your arm to get you to answer that call. But God won't leave alone either. 1. AutoIllustrator 2. LOST: Episode 19 - Deus Ex Machina 3. LOST: Episode 25 - Exodus Part 3 4. Originally seen on NBC Today Show, Friday, Feb 2, 2007. Researched and read articles online from Sports Illustrated, New York Daily News and other news sources.
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... works." And when you don't know how something works, it's hard to explain. Just look at this passage. Jesus invites Peter, James and John to go up on the mountain to pray. Jesus takes sort of a midweek mini retreat and invites three of the four original disciples to go with him. They were ecstatic. Then up on the mountain top they're praying up a storm, when all of a sudden Jesus flips open his communicator and says, "Two to beam down Mr. Scott." And then there's Moses and Elijah standing with Jesus. Like ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... not dead but sleeping." And they laughed at him. [25] But when the crowd had been put outside, he went in and took her by the hand, and the girl got up. [26] And the report of this spread throughout that district. This is the passage which was the original inspiration for this series because it's all about interruptions on the Journey and how Jesus responded to them. There's a old country western song that says: "Whenever I make my mark, somebody paints the wall." I can't tell you how many times I've felt ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... Lord and our Creator. When we come to partake of the Sacrament, we realize just how Important and Perfect this gift from God is. This Greatest Gift Of All is the Light of the World, who pushes back the darkness and changes everything with His love. 1. I think the original version of this was written or included in a collection of stories by Norman Vincent Peale.
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... is sin. But sin's leading role was played by Herod. Herod is the quintessential villain. He is Simon Lagree, Philthy McNasty, Snidley Whiplash, Captain Bly, Lex Luthor, Darth Vader, the Grinch and Lord Voldemort all rolled into one. Herod is the Scrooge of the original Christmas story but a Scrooge whose heart never melts, a Scrooge whose heart is never touched and remains hard as stone and cold as ice. He may be the one John Calvin was thinking of when he came up with the theology of the Total Depravity ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... and turn it into one in which the glory of God is revealed. Wouldn’t you like to experience his life-changing touch in your life today? 1. Amelia Court House, VA: ABM Enterprises, Inc., 1996, pp. 75-76. 2. Sent to me by a friend. Original source unknown. 3. Andreas Schroeder, Scams, True Stories from the Edge (Buffalo. NY: Annick Press Ltd., 2004), p. 1. 4. The Divine Drama (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2001), pp. 58‑59. 5. Ray Stedman, http://www.pbc.org/dp/stedman/john/3846.html. 6 ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... a response to the intimacy of a trusting family. Often times in dysfunctional families there is humor but it's at the expense of someone else in the family or it's a denigrating kind of humor about people who are of different national, racial, religious or economic origins. When there is no trust, then you get the actions of Jacob and Rebekah, conniving to get their part. When there is no trust, then there's not a lot of room for intimacy and pretty soon it all becomes about power and control: the power of ...
2383. Superman: More Than A Super Hero
John 1:1-5, 9-14; John 13:31-32; John 20:30-31
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... . For example there's a scene reminiscent of Salvador Dali's "The Christ of St. John" And "When his mother finds her son in the field after his return, she holds him just like Mary did Jesus in Michelangelo's Pieta'. (3) Did you know that originally Superman's parents names were Mary and Joseph and not Martha and Jonathon. I guess they thought it was too blatant. (4) In the current movie, Lex Luthor is a compilation Herod and Pontius Pilate and when Jesus is under the effects of the deadly Green Kryptonite ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... it in constructive ways. Simply acknowledging it tends to help diffuse it. Let me give you an example. B. I was heavily involved in the Metro Board dinner this year. I prepared all the graphics and a short video which included an interview with some of the original people in Metro Board's 40 year history. Everything was pretty much completed when I arrived at Will Rogers to set up about lunch time for the 6:00 pm meeting that night. I assumed that all I needed was my presentation and my laptop. Wrong. I ...
2385. Love Is Patient
Luke 4:14-21; 1 Cor 13
Illustration
Dale Johnson
... Abraham Lincoln. From his earliest days in politics, Lincoln had a critic, an enemy, who continually treated him with contempt, a man by the name of Edwin Stanton. Stanton would say to newspaper reporters that Lincoln was a "low cunning clown" and "the original gorilla". He said it was ridiculous for explorers to go to Africa to capture a gorilla "when they could find one easily in Springfield, Illinois." Lincoln never responded to such slander; he never retaliated in the least. And when, as President, he ...
2386. The Law of the Pendulum
Mt 14:22-36; Mk 6:45-56
Illustration
Brett Blair
... the physical principle that governs a swinging pendulum. The law of the pendulum is: A pendulum can never return to a point higher than the point from which it was released. Because of friction and gravity, when the pendulum returns, it will fall short of its original release point. Each time it swings it makes less and less of an arc, until finally it is at rest. This point of rest is called the state of equilibrium, where all forces acting on the pendulum are equal. He then attached a 3-foot string ...
2387. How Do Needs Become Sinful?
Luke 4:1-13
Illustration
Jirair Tashjian
The sure antidote to temptation is to be focused on Christ, to be so filled with his power, his salvation, his life and service, that there is no room for temptation. Shortly after the Reformation, some young followers of Martin Luther wrote him (kind of like an original Ann Landers) with a question,saying, "We are harassed by many temptations which appeal to us so often and so strongly that they give us no rest. You don't seem to be troubled in this way and we should like to know your secret. Don't ...
2388. A Good Word for The Pharisees
Luke 13:31-35
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Jirair Tashjian
... a Pharisee for dinner (Luke 7:36, 11:37; 14:1). In Acts 5:33-39, when the Jewish Sanhedrin wanted to kill the apostles, a well-known Pharisee, Gamaliel, counsels them to be careful how they treat these men. If the undertaking of the apostles is of human origin, Gamaliel says, it will fail; "but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them in that case you may even be found fighting against God!" Some Pharisees had even become Christians (Acts 15:5). And of course we know that Paul himself was a ...
2389. Becoming What We Are
Lk 13:1-9
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King Duncan
Somerset Maugham said it best in his autobiography, Summing Up, "I knew that I had no lyrical quality, a small vocabulary, little gift of metaphor. The original and striking simile never occurred to me. Poetic flights...were beyond my powers. On the other hand, I had an acute power of observation, and it seemed to me that I could see a great many things that other people missed. I could put down in clear terms what I ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... corner he broke the news of King’s death to an African-American audience. After he had spoken of Dr. King, and the greatness of his vision and ministry, Kennedy closed with a quotation from Aeschylus: [I recommend that you actually play for your people the original recording of Kennedy’s speech. You will need RealPlayer plug‑ins. Download the RealAudio file at http://www.morec.com/rfk.rm, so that the audio may be heard (Aeschylus quote is the 20 seconds from 3:09 to 3:29, though I would have them ...
2391. Luke 24:1-12
Luke 24:1-12
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... this increasingly unempty tomb “two men.” Luke’s text simply identifies these new arrivals as “andres”, “men,” but his description of their clothing reveals their true nature. They wear “dazzling clothes” (“astrapto”), an obvious indication of their angelic origin. Although the women do not yet know the reason for Jesus’ absence or for the sudden appearance of these “two men,” their instinctual reaction is to bow down before the dazzling strangers. The meaning of the empty tomb ...
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... foretold. This babe in a manger is the Expectation, Joy and Perfect Gift we've been waiting for. He is the Meaning of Christmas. He came to bring us Salvation. He came to give us Himself. 1. Susan Childress, Modesto, California in CHRISTIAN HERALD 2. Author Unknown: Adapted from the original
2393. In You and Through You
1 Thessalonians 2:9-13
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Billy D. Strayhorn
... whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." Society puts it in even simpler terms through the acronym GIGO. Garbage In, Garbage Out. It was originally a computer term that meant that if invalid data was entered into a system, the resulting output would also be invalid. That same argument holds true for all aspects of life from raising kids to dealing with worries to personal health. But the ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... she called my Mom and told her what I'd done. One tree, one law. Pretty easy to follow. Wrong. Once upon a time there were two people who lived in the perfect place. It was designed by the perfect designer. Everything in it was a designer original. It was a place filled with everything they could ever need. It was absolutely beautiful. It was the most beautiful estate ever created. And it had been created especially for this couple. At the very center was a gorgeous fruit tree. But just like the Wallaces ...
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J. Howard Olds
... . This kind of talk gets Jesus kicked out of town. But let us not be too quick to judge. These Nazarenes liked the idea of Jubilee. Who wouldn’t be in favor of a little heaven on earth that grants forgiveness of debts and return of land to original owners? It was the sweet dream of all God’s children in Israel. They hoped Jesus would make it happen. So their hopes rise with this hometown boy. But Jesus leads no revolution against Rome. Jesus fits no image of their expected Messiah. Jesus is not elected ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
... any other expenses when he returned. And Jesus concludes “Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?” I. Need Is Our Neighbor Who is my neighbor? The one who had mercy; the person NEARBY. In my family of origin, we didn’t have much wealth, but we did have good neighbors. They were the “Young’s.” They lived right across the road from us, the “Olds.” That’s the truth. As a kid I spent more time at their house than I did mine. They had a ...
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J. Howard Olds
... Be To God. The word of God is open to interpretation. We need to get good at it. There is a great debate going on in Christianity these days about the inerrancy of Scriptures. I think it is a mute discussion. In the first place, the original manuscripts do not exist. More importantly, the moment I say, “The Bible says...,” the words are subject to fallibility, for I am fallible. The Bible says, “For God so loved the world,” but I suspect there might be as many as 100 different interpretations of ...
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J. Howard Olds
... are restored. Hope is gained and healing happens. When Peter and the Apostles were arrested for healing people in the name of Jesus, the Sanhedrin was ready to kill them. But, Gamaliel stood up among them and said, “Wait a minute. If their purpose is of human origin, then it will run its course and die. But, if it is of God, who can compete with God?” The Church is of God and shall be preserved to the end of time for worship for the edification of believers, for the salvation of the world. I ...
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King Duncan
... a big smile, and declare for all the world to hear, “This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!” Football coach Bill Walsh was recognized as having one of the best minds in professional football. He was the originator of the famous West Coast offense. He says something quite interesting his book, Building a Champion. He says that when a wildebeest or zebra is trapped by a lion, the trapped animal will submit to the inevitable. Its head drops, its eyes glaze over, and it ...
2400. John 21:1-19
John 21:1-14
Sweet
Leonard Sweet
... , there is never an “ending” to the story. Perhaps this is why scholars are almost unanimous in their agreement that the twenty-first chapter of John’s gospel is a later addition. There is, however, a split decision on whether the original author or a later editor added this final note to the gospel story. There are Greek vs. Hebrew grammatical discrepancies in this final chapter. But the message, the testimony of an ongoing, faithful community, is the enduring connective tissue that make chapter ...
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