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1. What Would Bill Do?

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our life. They do not have to defeat us. Don’t give up on God. Don’t give up on serving others. Ask what Paul would do. Even better--WWJD--ask what Jesus would do. And if you can’t bring yourself to that level, at least ask what Bill Porter would do, a man with cerebral palsy who never allowed himself a pity party, never gave up believing that he could make a difference. I don’t believe our Lord would mind if this one time we ended with this thought, WWBD, what would ...

2. A Bill of Rights

Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... it is always wrong not to carry each other's burdens. Galatians 6:2 insists we "Carry each other's burdens, [because] in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ" (NIV). For those who have trouble with "right" and "wrong," how's this for a beginner's "Bill of Rights"? Here are some "absolutes," some "rights" that are "wrongs" when violated: The right to see a clear night sky. The right to breathe clean, fresh air. The right to drink a fresh glass of water. The right to walk along the shore. The right to ...

3. When the Bills Come Due

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... card is now more than $8,000 according to CardWeb.com. About 43% of American families spend more than they earn each year. Personal bankruptcies have doubled in the last 10 years. Many people have more month than they do money. They have more bills to pay than bills to pay them. This problem prevents more extreme home makeovers than almost any other problem you could imagine. Gallup reports that 64% of all couples worry about money. It is also now the number one cause of divorce - 51% of all spouses that ...

4. She Gave More than Bill Gates

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... giving as in any way sacrificial. They will still have more money in their possession than any of us will ever dream of. But still, it was quite a sight a few years back to see 168 billionaires (yes, that is billionaire with a b) worldwide line up with Bill Gates, the richest man in the world and Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world, to announce that they will give away at least half of their wealth by the time they die to help fund a wide variety of worthwhile causes. Of course, you don’t ...

5. What It Means To Be A Family

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... The love of a few refugee families transformed him from a bitter man with no hope to a loving man with an energizing purpose. (4) Love can do that. Love can unlock the coldest heart. I have to confess to you that I have known some Christians who resemble Bill Fero more in his bitter state than in his loving state. And the sad thing is they see no dissonance in their witness as Christians. How could they or we have missed the Gospel so badly? Jesus commands us to love one another. Love is the distinguishing ...

6. Enduring the Trials of Faith

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Mitchell has twice been elected mayor of his town, earned recognition as an environmental activist, and has run for Congress. He has hosted his own television show and travels the nation speaking to groups about his message of proper attitude, service, and transformation. Bill's message is to show people that it isn't what happens to you that is important, but how you handle the trials of faith in your life. Let us have the courage that he exhibited. Let us triumph over the trials of our lives. Let us be ...

7. Defeat Transformed into Victory

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Richard Gribble

8. Enduring the Trials of Faith

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... has twice been elected mayor of his town, earned recognition as an environmental activist, and run for Congress. He has hosted his own television show and travels the nation speaking to groups about his message of proper attitude, service, and transformation. Bill's message is to show people that it isn't what happens to you that is important, but how you handle the trials of faith in your life. Let us have the courage that he exhibited. Let us triumph over the trials of our lives. Let us be strengthened ...

9. Claiming Hope

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

... that look like? Let me tell you a story. This is a fictional story made up of a composite of the experiences of some real people. Bill was a middle-aged man with a wife and two teenage children and a job that he liked. He was a concerned person so he ... home," "I'll fly away," "Tis grace that brought me safe thus far and grace will see me home," "Sing with all the saints in glory." Bill knew better than to take the words of those old songs literally, but he knew they came out of a witness of hope. He let them ...

10. Good to Great

Ezekiel 45:3-5

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... understanding the concept of tithing. So you can imagine when we got married she was not very pleased to find out that we would be giving 10 percent of our income to the church. She about fell over when I told her! We were putting together our money, debts and bills and she did not know how we were going to pay all that we owed and give 10 percent to the church. I explained to her the concept of tithing and how God would provide. Well Brandy is a believer now. Since the day we were married we have always ...

11. Getting Rid Of Fear

2 Timonty 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... do we find selfdiscipline? We do it just as Paul did it by putting our lives under Christ's control. We look beyond ourselves to the One is who is the source of Perfect Power which includes power over ourselves. It is found where Bill Tomes found it at the altar of the church. We need to live under Christ's control, then we discover his power, his love, his discipline. 1. Contemporary Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, & Writers. Craig Brian Larson, ed. (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 1996), 71 ...

12. Broken Promises

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... tells about the legacy that he received from his grandfather. Gaither says that he and his wife Gloria had been married a couple of years. They were teaching school in Alexandria, Indiana, where Bill had grown up, and they wanted a piece of land where they could build a house. Bill noticed the parcel south of town where cattle grazed, and he learned it belonged to a ninety-two‑year‑old retired banker named Mr. Yule. Mr. Yule owned a lot of land in the area, and he gave the same speech to everyone ...

13. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

James L. Killen

... invite others to come and be different with you? Are you willing to work to make the world different as God wants it to be different? If you will, you can become a part of the hope of the world. A certain man, we will call him Bill, told how he happened to become a Christian missionary. His story started when he was an aggressive young businessman, riding the wave of a booming economy in a city that was enjoying spectacular economic growth. He was intent on getting rich. He presented himself to others - and ...

14. When Table Talk Won a Super Bowl

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... words we have spoken, by his grace we are accepted just as we are. In an issue of the publication, Light and Life, Dan Hummer tells about a 60‑year‑old man named Bill whom he met when he was serving as a chaplain at the VA Medical Center in Indianapolis. He recalls Bill’s tears, along with his request that Dan pray with him, but with little verbalization of any specific concern. One notable Sunday afternoon, during his ward visitation, and following those earlier seemingly insignificant encounters ...

15. Backsliding

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Brett Blair

... have a witness in this world. Your friends, your family, your children especially need to see you faithful. It will have a life long effect upon them. There is a sequel to the story of Bill Havens. The child eventually born to Bill and his wife was a boy, whom they named Frank. Twenty-eight years later, in 1952, Bill received a cablegram from his son. It was sent from Helsinki, Finland, where the 1952 Olympics were being held. The cablegram read, and I quote it exactly: "Dad, I won. I'm bringing home the ...

16. Unstoppable Determination

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the hardware store. He asked to see the manager, demanding a refund. “Calm down,” the store manager told him. “I could have told you when you bought it that there is no such thing as a squirrel‑proof bird feeder.” Bill looked at him in disbelief. “You mean,” said Bill, “we can land a man on the moon and send instantaneous messages via satellite to anywhere around the world, but our best and brightest scientists and engineers can’t design and manufacture a bird feeder that can outsmart an ...

17. Real Gratitude

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... God is to imitate, to model, to emulate His generosity in our daily living, to take on His gracious and generous approach and to live daily in that spirit. Zacchaeus got it! He saw it and did it! The question is, do we? Are we God-like in our living? Bill and Tom were best friends. They enjoyed each other’s company and had since they were children. They had grown up together. They loved to hunt and fish. One Saturday morning, they went hunting and there was an accident. As ...

18. Are You Successful Or Do You Just Have Money?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... who are living an illusion. May I share with you briefly a couple of principles by which you can know whether your life is a success or not? These principles quite obviously have nothing to do with wealth or power. Wealth and power are transitory. Donald Trump, Bill Gates and Bill Clinton will some day occupy the same size coffin as you and I. All of their wealth and power will be left behind. Will their lives be successful? That's not for us to judge. But let me give you these two principles by which we ...

19. What Were You Thinking?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Tony Everett

... He has told you, O mortal, what is good, and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly.— Micah 6:8 The prosecution rests. The case is airtight. Israel was guilty as charged. So was Pastor Bill. So were C. J.'s well-intentioned church friends — and so are we. For the Lord, justice is daily living according to God's will and not our own comfort. Justice includes the weak, powerless, vulnerable, and exploited. For the Lord, to love kindness means to live ...

20. A Kudzu-Kind of Kingdom

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... us not grow weary in doing what is right, for we will reap at harvest time, if we do not give up." (Galatians 6:9) Let me close with a story from the life of a friend of mine, Dr. Bill Hinson, a former pastor of the largest united Methodist church in the world--First Church, Houston, Texas. When Bill was a college student, he was invited to preach one Sunday at a rural church in South Georgia. It was a hot September Sunday. Throughout his sermon, he was distracted by a barefoot boy on the front row who kept ...

21. Have You Checked On Your Investments Lately?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... around for me to get born. I'm coming home with the gold medal you should have won. Your loving son, Frank." His son won the gold medal in the singles' 10,000 meters canoeing event ” the same event his father would have competed in. (6) Bill Havens made a great investment. There is something more important than money. Something more important than following your own dream. It is investing in the people you love. Many of us will give lip-service to that truth, but the statistics tell a different story. The ...

22. Trusting in the Goodness of God

Genesis 2:15-17, Genesis 3:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t an outdoorsman. He didn’t care for hiking or camping. He was out-of-shape and not very athletic. And he was completely blind by now. Why in the world would he take on something so risky? To anyone who asked him for an explanation, Bill said simply that God had told him to. Bill would write later about the hike, “The first clear-eyed thing I had ever done was as a blind man,” he wrote, “when I asked God to take charge of my life.” For Mr. Irwin, who died March 1, 2014 at age 73, the hike was ...

23. Elephants in the Room: Depression

Lamentations 3:17-26

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... to the balcony door. He was going to jump from the balcony but when he reached the door to the balcony it was locked. He could have gotten a key from the volunteer who was monitoring the balcony, but he did not want her to see him jump. So Bill went back to his dorm. He lied on the black and white tile floor and thought about this church and his faith. He thought about the sermons that he heard from J. Wallace Hamilton. He closed his eyes and prayed, “Lord, I release everything to you. I surrender to ...

24. Biography Of A Changed Person

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... vast resources from God's well, but the problem is your pipe doesn't go deep enough into the well. You are only drawing water from the surface, and until you learn to go deep, you will never be able to help yourself, or anyone else." Bill Smith, even though he has been a pastor, symbolizes many lives that are bored, burned out, lonely and empty. Many people have tried to substitute the accumulation of things for good relationships, but no matter how much they get, something is still missing in life. Their ...

25. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , uniquely, personally. Let me illustrate. Some years ago in another church a party was given to recognize a married couple for their outstanding work in the church’s youth program. Let me tell you about this couple. I will call them Betty and Bill. They had very different personalities. Betty was vivacious, out-going, gregarious, affectionate... a hugger. If you gave her a “bow ribbon,” she would jump up and down and squeal with delight and then run around and hug and kiss everybody in the room ...

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