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1. Where The Halls Cross

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David O. Bales

... office. I wish he'd use his brains out of your class as well as in it. I'm sure he has masterminded pennying the faculty door. I get so frustrated finding it jammed shut and having to yank on it, then all those pennies flying out. And from the pieces ... . Tiner. I was not near him in worship so I did not see him until this morning. I could look down the hall at the faculty door and see him approach. He stopped outside, stretched his hand slowly to the knob, and gently opened the door. He looked down the hall ...

2. All Your Facilities Intact

Acts 17:16-34, Colossians 1:15-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... read J. D. Salinger's famous short story, For Esme With Love And Squalor. In it Esme, a thirteen year old girl, writes a man who has gone off to war. She writes, "I hope you come back with all your faculties intact." Salinger's anthropology, evident in all his writings, is that we are born with all our faculties intact, with all our senses working. You can see that in little children. Early life as a human being is like a Garden of Eden. It is a time of innocence. But in adolescence, when we begin to go out ...

3. Holy Extravagance

Mark 14:3-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... doesn't get out of hand. Everything in moderation. Right?" Wrong. It is of the very nature of love that it wants, needs, always tries to get "out of hand." Love knows not moderation. That's part of the fun of it. It's—excessive. The faculty was discussing a proposal to renovate the seminary chapel. An architectural designer had been asked to turn our bare room of fading carpet and broken furniture into a more fitting place of worship. A plan was submitted, not a terribly expensive plan of renovation, but ...

4. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Larry Powell

... . I do not understand the workings and initiatives of the Holy Spirit, but do know that the Spirit tends to be "really" present when accompanied by love, knowledge, memory, and yearning for Christ. REMEMBERING TO FORGET One of the most fascinating faculties of the human species is that of memory. Without memory, everything would be limited to a present experience. We could neither recall what preceded the present nor know what to anticipate following, for we would be unable to remember past experiences ...

5. Restarting Joy - Rejoice

Isaiah 55:10-13

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... a choice! In his book, Laugh Again, written in 1991, author Charles Swindoll relates that he was on the Dallas Theological Seminary's Board of Regents as they interviewed the first woman faculty member. Her name was Lucy Mabery. Swindoll chronicles the incredible journey of Professor Mabery on her ride to being a faculty member at Dallas Seminary. He writes that Lucy was rearing a family, teaching Bible classes, and was engaged in a dozen other activities while married to Dr. Trevor Mabery. Dr. Mabery was ...

6. Party in Room 210 ... Everyone Invited

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Thomas Long

... of Yale Divinity School. Surrounded there by colleagues who had come to their work in response to a genuine sense of calling, Muehl soon began to doubt that he had experienced a real call, so he approached another faculty member, the ethicist H. Richard Niebuhr, with his concern. Niebuhr puffed on his pipe, laughed gently, and responded, "What does it take to make up a ‘call’ for you, Muehl? What you had planned to do with your life was quite literally eating you up inside, driving you ... to consider ...

7. A Radical Faith

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the Augustinians who ran Erfurt, and asked them, and Staupitz, to create a university for him. Staupitz brought together the best and the brightest for the faculty at Wittenberg. Luther was among the first appointed to the faculty of the University at Wittenberg. Luther was thirty-one when he went to Wittenberg, and he was among the oldest members of the faculty. Revolutions are started by young people. Luther was assigned by Staupitz to teach the Bible. Staupitz knew what he was doing. He knew that in the ...

8. What's Your Drink?

Isaiah 43:16-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... attributes that people gripped by the Holy Spirit demonstrate. Consider that while clinically alcohol is a depressant, its most immediate affects appear to be stimulating. With that first drink the imbiber feels, and often is, more in control of physical and mental faculties. With the edge of self-consciousness dimmed by drink you can, for a few moments, sing that song with more panache, or speak publicly with greater ease and conviction. That first drink also usually makes the drinker joyful. As Psalm 104 ...

9. Lessons from a Fool

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... or to talk. Willimon sat on the patio with one student who said, “Dr. Willimon, thanks for having us over to your home. This is the first time I’ve ever been in a faculty home.” “That’s a disgrace,” Willimon said. “I think that we faculty ought to have students in our homes as often as possible.” “Well, few faculty think that way,” said the student. “And you have a beautiful home,” he said. Then the student added these words: “Let me ask you, do you feel at all guilty being a ...

10. Forty Days and Forever

Exodus 24:12-18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... in even more foolish, ridiculous actions. It has been said before that many Christians have been raised with eleven (not ten) commandments. The eleventh commandment was the question ... "What will people think about you?" You see, the real issue here, for those foolish faculty members and for us, is "What does God think about you?" It's not about us; it is about God. Today, Transfiguration Sunday, celebrates what God thinks about us and what God does among us in forming us as God's people. Indeed, it ...

11. No Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... pay, the younger should too. The president hadn’t seen it that way. For him, it wasn’t a matter of earning, but of taking part in what belonged to the university. The decision was his after all. He hadn’t taken anything from any of the older faculty. He had merely gifted the younger. Right? Our culture cherishes an ethic of fairness. We expect things to be fair, just, even-steven. We want to feel good about what we’ve earned. We want to survey our hard-work and feel justified that we deserve our ...

12. Homecoming

Hosea 14:1-3a

Sermon

Will Willimon

... everything there is about one species of lemur, one year in the history of Albania. Graduate school is a search for something small enough to write a dissertation upon. Intellect defined as a very long dissertation on a very small subject. Thus we faculty know more and more about less and less. Our modern lives are measured, said Eliot, in teaspoons. In a world committed to cutting free of all commitments, fiercely intolerant of everything but tolerance, open-minded rather than informed, no wonder we feel ...

13. Amazing Grace

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... guy is justified, made right with God. The good guy goes home empty. Why? I don't know. Hey, it's a story about God, not us. Why did God bless the prayer of one and not the other? I don't know. Does it shock you to hear a faculty person say, ''I don' t know''? The message can't be—''all right people, get out there and be humble.'' That would be the conventional story we already know, the story about our getting our lives all cleaned up on our own, God as another of our projects, making ourselves ...

14. Roots Near The River

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... unfair"; those with a smaller distance as "fair." Of course, this had nothing to do with fact. These were merely computer creations. Next the students were asked to look at another series of faces which, supposedly, were those of candidates for faculty positions at their own university. This time the students were told to share their perception of potentially fair and unfair professors. You can easily guess the results. With an amazingly high percentage of accuracy, the "unfair and uncaring" faces selected ...

15. Country Songs and Easter Hymns

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Thomas Long

... to go home. The petition was flatly denied. "We brought you to the city for an experience," they replied, "and you're not leaving until you've had it." Brought to the city for an experience and forbidden to leave until we'd had it. Since that faculty fiat, I have always had great sympathy for the disciples as they are described in the Gospel of Luke. Luke's picture of them is different from the other gospels. In Luke, the emphasis falls upon the disciples' connection to the city. By contrast, in Mark, part ...

16. The Churches and Higher Education

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... of knowledge. We thank You for the noble men and women who labor in these schools as seekers after Your truth. For Christian centers of learning in distant lands, as well as for those in our own nation, we thank You. Guide the staffs, faculties, and student bodies of Christian schools. Give to them quickened insights into Your will. In days of frustration and conflict, assure them of Your love and sustaining power. Help them to rise above petty fears into the quiet confidence which is known through being ...

17. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... of a university I should establish a compulsory course in 'How to Use Your Eyes'. The professor would try to show his pupils how they could add joy to their lives by really seeing what passes unnoticed before them. He would try to awake their dormant and sluggish faculties. II Perhaps I can best illustrate by imagining what I should most like to see if I was given the use of my eyes, say, for just three days. And while I am imagining, suppose you, too, set your mind to work on the problem of how to ...

18. The Call to Servanthood

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

... of choosing, the world is not much different today. Always we seek the best, the brightest, the richest, the strongest, the fastest, the largest. All of us here in this Seminary community are here after some sort of screening process, faculty and student alike. Our credentials have been checked. Our grades, interviews, publications, possibilities, potentialities, and worth have been weighed and measured. And after a rigorous screening process, still we are checked to see that we were correctly chosen. We ...

19. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... of our love for God, our willingness to love God with our minds. That may strike some as a bit unusual - loving someone with our mind (we usually love with our hearts), but then loving God is a different matter than loving our spouses or our children. Utilizing every faculty that God has made available to us is a way of expressing our love for God; it is a way of expressing our appreciation for what has been given us. I suppose it is much like giving another a gift of a table saw; the individual’s use of ...

20. Truce or Peace?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... loving person that influenced the crowd. His presence helped effect a resolution that could not be planned for, could not be researched and anticipated, and could not be purchased. What’s more, it could not even be rationally understood by anyone, including most of the faculty in the university’s department of Religion and Philosophy, all Ph.D.’s, who were at the meeting. As we look at our lives and our churches, what is it that gives us peace? If we take away the Scriptures, the logic, the talk, the ...

21. Hope For A New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It was as if the teacher were guilty and not the cheating students. An isolated case? Hardly. A Rutgers University study found that over 75% of college students cheat. And studies of college faculty show that the professors are often aware of the cheating and do nothing about it. In fact, faculty at Columbia University and Syracuse University two of our finest schools have published essays suggesting that students shouldn't be held accountable for their cheating because it would hurt the student-professor ...

22. Aging Is Mandatory; Maturity Is Optional

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... members accepted this arrangement grudgingly. They were forced to admit that if someone else had to have the best office on campus, it might as well be Professor Einstein. Everything went along just fine until Einstein died in his sleep in 1955. The Princeton faculty was assembled and told that Einstein was dead. There came a quick gasp of surprise. Then, from the back of the room, came a voice: "So, who gets his office?" (1) It didn't take long for their true feelings to emerge. The disciples together ...

23. Is Conscience the Best Guide?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... philosopher Immanuel Kant spoke of this sense of "ought" as the "categorical imperative," the moral law within" which, at times, molds and directs our lives. This inner law we call "conscience." I think that the Bible would tell us further that God can use this faculty called "conscience" for our highest good. There is that within every human being to which God can speak. As the poet put it, Speak to Him, for He heareth, And Spirit to spirit can speak; Closer is He than breathing, And nearer than hands or ...

24. A Longer Stride and a Larger Embrace

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Lord, the God of Hosts, was with him.” David proceeded from that moment with “a longer stride and a larger embrace.” The Trustees who are here for our Executive Committee meeting, our returning students, and our ongoing community of staff, administration, and faculty, know that I presented a White Paper to our board of trustees last spring. It was a beginning expression of my vision for this next season of our life here at Asbury. I’ve shared this vision paper broadly within the community. Outside ...

25. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at the seminary. At the beginning of each school year I divide our entire community into 38 groups – that’s the number of weeks that we have during the basic school year. I pray for a number of students, faculty, and staff during each week. About two weeks before I’m going to pray for them I write them a note, asking them to share with me what’s going on in their lives – their joys and celebrations – but especially their concerns and needs – what they would like for me ...

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