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2426. A GPS for Your Life

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... reliable guides through unfamiliar cities. For example, two burglars were convicted and were sentenced to jail for a total of seven years when the GPS system in their van recorded them at the scene of each of their crimes. One of the burglars used his work van to drop off his fellow miscreant outside each home they burgled. A check of the van's GPS gave a precise record of their movements. So if you decide to embark on a life of crime, be sure to disable your GPS. Speaking of burglars, one tip I read is ...

2427. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... he prays, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me . . .” (v. 42). The description of his struggle in Luke’s gospel indicates that this prayer was no mere formality. “And being in anguish, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground” (v. 44). He knew what it was to battle temptation. His humanity was engaged in a great contest with his divinely appointed task. It is interesting, though, when he returns to his disciples and finds them sleeping he ...

2428. Eyes Set on Jerusalem

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... , a pulley, and a bucket at the end of a rope. The African people sink a narrow well shaft as much as 100 feet into the ground. Even though the well is deep, the ground water of that dry land seeps very slowly into it and there is never a drop to waste. If the water were too easy to reach, the people might not use it sparingly, or an enemy might steal the next day’s supply at night. So, the tribesmen cut alternating slits into the wall of the well all the way down to the water. By alternating ...

2429. The Journey of Salvation

Luke 22:39-46, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s throw from his disciples, knelt down and began to pray, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but yours be done” (Luke 22:41-42). Luke tells us that Jesus’ agony was so great that his sweat became like great drops of blood falling upon the ground. You and I have had our Gethsemanes, haven’t we? Anybody who has ever sought to do God’s will has wrestled with difficult decisions. To be a disciple of Jesus Christ is to make a commitment to a style of living that ...

2430. Can I Get Some Help Over Here?

John 14:23-29

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... help because we have gotten beyond our comfort zone. We are familiar with the plea. “Can I get some help over here?” It was little Billy Johnson’s first day of kindergarten. Understandably, he was frightened. In his brief life, Billy had seldom been dropped off with a room full of total strangers. His mother had tried to prepare him. In fact, she thought she had done everything humanly possible to ready him for his first day of school. However, as she walked down the sidewalk toward her car, Mrs ...

2431. On The Surface

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

A rabbi was asked a question by a pupil, referring to Deuteronomy 6:6- "And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart." "Why is it said this way?" the pupil asked. "Why are we not told to place them in our heart?"The rabbi answered that it is not within man's power to place the divine teachings directly in his heart. "All that we can do is place them on the surface of the heart so that when the heart breaks they will drop in."

2432. Recycling Tragedy

Illustration

Thomas Lane Butts

An artist went to visit a dear friend. When he arrived, she was weeping. He asked why. She showed him a handkerchief of exquisite beauty that had great sentimental value, which had been ruined by a drop of indelible ink. The artist asked her to let him have the handkerchief, which he returned to her by mail several days later. When she opened the package she could hardly believe her eyes. The artist, using the inkblot as a base, had drawn on the handkerchief a design of ...

2433. A Mean Drunk

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... be exciting. Do you think I could do it too?" The surly patron said, "Of course you could." So, the man climbed up on the ledge and jumped. And he fell like a rock, splat, all the way to the pavement below never pausing for even a moment during his drop. Meanwhile, the surly man went back to the bar and ordered another drink. As he sat down the bartender turned to another patron, pointed to the surly drinker and said, "That Clark Kent really gets mean when he drinks."

2434. What a Difference a Change Makes

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Editor James S. Hewett

... along toward the tower. Being a fat little caterpillar, he had to work hard to get there, even sweat a bit. He thought to himself, wouldn't you know it, the sun would have to be shining today! Just then the weather began to change. Clouds moved in and little drops started coming down all around him. He grumbled, "Rain, of all things. And I just had this suit cleaned." But Claude wasn't a quitter. He made it to the tower and searched for a way up. A vine growing along one side was the obvious answer. Inch by ...

2435. The Nine Tests of Confucius

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Editor James S. Hewett

... to be stupid. There are those who are compliant and yielding but always get their objective. Some are hard outside but soft inside, and some are slow without but impatient within. Therefore those who rush forward to do the righteous thing as if they were craving for it, drop it like something hot. "Therefore (in the judgment of men) a gentleman sends a man to a distant mission in order to test his loyalty. He employs him nearby in order to observe his manners. He gives him a lot to do in order to judge his ...

2436. Making the Most of Life

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Editor James S. Hewett

... hope, less pain, I shall not have lived and loved in vain. If by life's roadside I can plant a tree, beneath whose shade some wearied head my rest, though I may never share its beauty, I shall yet be truly blest though no one knows my name, nor drops a flower upon my grave, I shall not have lived in vain while here.

2437. Bedlam

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... was one block away. The ambulance drivers arrived promptly and placed the man, who was now semiconscious, on a stretcher. As the attendants were carrying the man out of the den, the snake reappeared from beneath the couch. At this point one of the drivers became so excited that he dropped his end of the stretcher and broke the leg of the husband.

2438. Crucial Decisions

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

On the top of a hill in a Midwestern state stands a courthouse so situated that raindrops falling on one side of the roof travel by way of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic, while drops landing on the opposite side find their way through the Ohio and Mississippi to the Gulf. Just a breath of wind one way or the other may determine whether a single raindrop will end up either in the Gulf or in the Atlantic. Even so, one single decision is enough ...

2439. Heaven and Earth

Revelation 21:1-27

Illustration

Robert Capon

... in the New Testament bear little relation to the meanings we have so unscripturally attached to them. For us, heaven is an unearthly, humanly irrelevant condition in which bed-sheeted, paper-winged spirits sit on clouds and play tinkly music until their pipe-cleaner halos drop off from boredom.... But in Scripture, it is a city with boys and girls playing in the streets; it is buildings put up by a Department of Public Works that uses amethysts for cinder blocks and pearls as big as the Ritz for gates; and ...

2440. It's Been A Hard Winter

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

It had been a hard winter in the Appalachian area. The snow had piled up deeper and deeper, the mercury dropped, rivers froze, people suffered. The Red Cross used helicopters to fly in supplies. One crew had been working day after day - long hours. The rescue team was tired and figured they'd camp and get started back in the morning. They saw a little cabin submerged in the snow. There ...

2441. An Inside Job

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... hand at repairing the organ. For two days the old man worked in almost total silence. The sexton was, in fact, getting a bit nervous. Then on the third day, at high noon, the mountain valley once again was filled with glorious music. Farmers dropped their plows, merchants closed their stores—everyone in town stopped what they were doing and headed for the church. Even the bushes and trees of the mountain tops seemed to respond as the glorious music echoed from ridge to ridge. After the old man finished ...

2442. Tallest Tales Department

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Editor James S. Hewett

... the tiger came bearing down on him, he grabbed a rope hanging over the cliff and climbed down out of the tiger's reach. The man looked up and saw the tiger leering at him, waiting to devour him. Then he looked down below the cliff. There was a deadly drop to the rocks of over five hundred feet. Then he looked up and saw two mice beginning to chew the rope. What should he do? The tiger above, the rocks below, and the rope about to break! Just then he saw a bright red strawberry growing out of the side ...

2443. Creating Something New out of Ashes

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Editor James S. Hewett

... other. Every day that lad has come and sat there from sunup to sundown in the vain hope that she would awaken and speak to him. Now, he has no home at all!" Mrs. Norris was listening now. So the nurse went on, "Fifteen minutes ago that little mother died, dropped off like a pebble in the boundless ocean, and now it is my duty to go out and tell that little fellow that, at the age of seven, he is all alone in the world." The head nurse paused, then turned plaintively to Mrs. Norris. "I don't suppose," she ...

2444. VALS

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... financial success and elegant surroundings. They are looking for personal, nor necessarily professional fulfillment. They will try things from Zen to acupuncture. These are the gradually graying hippies. They shop for their clothes by mail from L. L. Bean, and have dropped out of the commercial rat-race to run antique stores. They have organic gardens and they hike in the woods. They are Madison Avenue's toughest challenge (20 percent of the population). Need-Directed: These are the survivors, those who ...

2445. The Self-Giving Mother

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Editor James S. Hewett

... mountains) left home to apply for a job. About an hour later his thirty-six-year-old wife Patsy left for her fifth grade teaching job down the mountain in Riverside—accompanied by her two children, five-year-old Susan and two-year-old Gerald—to be dropped off at the baby-sitter's. Unfortunately, they never got that far. Eight and a half hours later the man found his wife and daughter dead in their wrecked car, upside down in a cold mountain stream. His two-year-old son was just barely alive in ...

2446. A Fable on Peace

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Editor James S. Hewett

... —no, just like in a dream, without a sound, and without any violence. Since I did not have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number was exactly 3,741,952. When the 3,741,953rd dropped onto the branch, nothing more than nothing, as you say, the branch broke off." Having said that, the sparrow flew away. The dove, since Noah's time an authority on the matter, thought about the story for awhile, and finally said to herself, "Perhaps only one ...

2447. C. S. Lewis—Cost of a Public Faith

Illustration

Kathryn Lindskoog

... at Oxford and cost Lewis his chance of ever advancing to a higher position on the faculty—there. Lewis learned that if you speak about beauty, truth or goodness, and about God as a great spiritual force of some kind, people will remain friendly. But he found that the temperature drops when you discuss a God who gives definite commands, who does definite acts, who has definite ideas and character.

2448. All in the Family

Acts 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... having: “Tell Billy to stop waving at the car behind us.” “Daddy’s good hat is back here and Dolly’s standing on it.” “Which bags are the lollipops in?” “Blow your horn and make that police car get out of the way, Mom.” “Janie just dropped the ketchup bottle on top of the prune juice, and the bag’s leaking.” “Drive faster, we’re missing a good program on TV.” “Stop bouncing the car, I can’t read the message on the cereal box.” “It’s cold back here, sitting on the ...

2449. Can We Really Love Our Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... want you to know that because I am Christian and I love you." Thanks just the same, but I'd rather be despised. Occasionally someone that I have a difficult time loving will cross my path. When I'm honest I admit I would be just as happy if he dropped off the face of the earth. But I refuse to snarl and then describe how my Christian love extends even to him. Will Rogers may never have met a man he didn't like, but the rest of us know that somewhere along the line we have run into folk ...

2450. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... and he was alone. At the hospital, a paramedic searched her birth father’s clothes, found his ex-wife’s phone number in one of his pockets and called the house. Barbara’s stepfather answered the phone. When he learned what had happened, her stepfather dropped what he was doing, went immediately to the hospital and paid her birth father’s hospital bill. Then he took her birth father to a local motel. The stepfather paid the proprietor of the motel for the father’s room and meals until he had ...

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2426. A GPS for Your Life

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

2427. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

2428. Eyes Set on Jerusalem

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

2429. The Journey of Salvation

Luke 22:39-46, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Sermon

King Duncan

2430. Can I Get Some Help Over Here?

John 14:23-29

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

2431. On The Surface

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2432. Recycling Tragedy

Illustration

Thomas Lane Butts

2433. A Mean Drunk

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2434. What a Difference a Change Makes

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2435. The Nine Tests of Confucius

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2436. Making the Most of Life

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2437. Bedlam

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2438. Crucial Decisions

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2439. Heaven and Earth

Revelation 21:1-27

Illustration

Robert Capon

2440. It's Been A Hard Winter

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2441. An Inside Job

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2442. Tallest Tales Department

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2443. Creating Something New out of Ashes

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2444. VALS

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2445. The Self-Giving Mother

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2446. A Fable on Peace

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2447. C. S. Lewis—Cost of a Public Faith

Illustration

Kathryn Lindskoog

2448. All in the Family

Acts 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

2449. Can We Really Love Our Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

2450. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

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