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1. The Power Of God

Philippians 4:13

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Brett Blair

Linda Down discovered real power and she needed it. She had dealt with the limitations of cerebral palsy all her life. One day, she got this crazy idea of running the New York Marathon. But Linda walked with difficulty, so running seemed out of the question? She used Canadian canes with arm clamps to steady her arms. On top of this she was 25 pounds overweight and jobless. In a state of depression, she began reading in the scriptures about the power of God at work in people's lives. She read Phil. 4:13, "I ...

2. The Healing Power of Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:1-8

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Brett Blair

As Matthew's story begins this morning, Jesus, the great physician, is on his way to make an emergency house call. There was a little girl who was in a grave state and her father implored Jesus to come. We are told that a large crowd of the curious followed Jesus. Some were hoping he would succeed, others that he would fail; most probably got caught up in the excitement of the parade. In this throng was one woman who was there for quite a different reason. We are told that for twelve years she had been ...

3. Our Logo the Cross

Matt 16:21-28, 27:32-44; Mar 15:21-32; Lu 23:26-43; Jo 19:17-27

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Brett Blair

Marketing experts are always quick to tell start-up businesses how important it is to develop a corporate logo. "Brand identity" they call it. Think about it. One symbol can readily identity a billion dollar organization. The ultimate goal of any designer when creating a logo is to develop a mark that identifies the company but also persuade viewers to respond in a specified manner. Logos. So what makes a good logo? Here are the five things that most marketing agencies agree makes a good logo: Simplicity. ...

4. The Road of Life

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Author Unknown

The following is a poem from Tim Hansel's book "Holy Sweat" which describes how we should ride through life with Jesus in control: At first, I saw God as my observer, my judge, keeping track of the things I did wrong, so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when I die. He was out there sort of like the president. I recognized His picture when I saw it, but I didn't really know Him. But later on, when I recognized this Higher Power, it seemed as though life was rather like a bike ride, but it was a ...

5. The Idiot

Matthew 10:40-42

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King Duncan

In Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot the central character is Prince Myshkin, who does not fit in to the society around him. His peers are striving for status and power. They judge each other on the basis of money or appearance or family connections. In their world, there is no real friendship or intimacy. People use each other to meet their own needs. And into this world walks Prince Myshkin. He just doesn't get it. He treats everyone, whether poor or rich, with respect and kindness. He has no hidden agenda, ...

6. Christ in the Form of Communion

Luke 2:41-52

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James W. Moore

It was a cold Christmas Eve a few years ago. Will Willimon, Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, was rushing his family to get in the car. They were running late for the communion service. "Where are the sermon notes? Where is the pulpit robe? Don't forget to turn off the lights. Everybody get in the car and be quiet!" On the way to the church… rushing through the traffic, their 5-year-old- daughter, Harriet, got sick at her stomach and she up-chucked all over the car. "Great!" Will Willimon thought, "If ...

7. Little Transmitters

Luke 5:1-11

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Bill Bouknight

In 1972, NASA launched the exploratory space probe "Pioneer 10." Its main mission was to reach Jupiter and send back information about that planet. It was a bold plan because at that time no satellite had gone beyond Mars. Pioneer 10 accomplished its mission and so much more. It swung past Jupiter in November, 1973, then passed Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. By 1997, Pioneer 10 was more than six billion miles from the sun. Despite that immense distance, Pioneer 10 continued to beam back radio signals ...

8. The Story of Sarah's Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

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Max Lucado

Sarah was rich. She had inherited twenty million dollars. Plus she had an additional income of one thousand dollars a day. That's a lot of money any day, but it was immense in the late 1800s. Sarah was well known. She was the belle of New Haven, Connecticut. No social event was complete without her presence. No one hosted a party without inviting her. Sarah was powerful. Her name and money would open almost any door in America. Colleges wanted her donations. Politicians clamored for her support. ...

9. Clinging Creepers

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J. Alistair Brown

Walking through a park, I passed a massive oak tree. A vine had grown up along its trunk. The vine started small, nothing to bother about. But over the years, the vine grew taller and taller. By the time I passed the tree again, the entire lower half of the tree was covered by the vine's creepers. The mass of tiny feelers was so thick that the tree looked as though it had innumerable birds' nests in it. Now the tree was in danger. This huge, solid oak was quite literally being taken over; the life was ...

10. God in Christ--The King Seeks a Wife

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Editor James S. Hewett

The Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once sought to describe the incarnation of God in Christ. He used this simple illustrative story: A certain king was very rich. His power was known throughout the world. But he was most unhappy, for he desired a wife. Without a queen, the vast palace was empty. One day, while riding through the streets of a small village, he saw a beautiful peasant girl. So lovely was she that the heart of the king was won. He wanted her more than anything he had ever desired. On ...

11. Love Your Enemy

Luke 6:27-36

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Tim Carpenter

Corrie Tin Boon survived the Holocaust, but her family did not. They were Dutch Christians caught by the Nazis for hiding Jews in their home. She watched the horrors of the genocide from Auschwitz, and barely survived. Following the war, she became famous for her book "The Hiding Place," which shared the story of her family. The popularity of the book gave her the opportunity to share her faith with thousands of people on speaking tours. One such evening, after she had spoken about the forgiveness of ...

12. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (Long Version)

John 3:1-36

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Staff

It is very hard these days to know who to believe. Everyone is trying to lead us to their version of truth. In 1997, Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student at Eagle Rock Junior High School in Idaho Falls won first prize at the Greater Idaho Falls Science Fair by showing how conditioned we have become to alarmists spreading fear of everything in our environment through junk science. In his project he urged people to sign a petition demanding strict control or total elimination of the chemical "Dihydrogen ...

13. All It Would Take To Make Me Happy

John 3:14-21

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Brett Blair

Charles Shultz, creator and author of the Peanuts cartoon characters often conveyed a message in his comic strips. In one strip he conveys through Charlie Brown the need we have to be loved and through Lucy our inability to love one another. Charlie Brown and Lucy are leaning over the proverbial fence speaking to one another: CB: All it would take to make me happy is to have someone say he likes me. Lucy: Are you sure? CB: Of course I'm sure! Lucy: You mean you'd be happy if someone merely said he or she ...

14. Illustrations on the Trinity

John 16:12-15; Mt 28:19

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Brett Blair

The Fathers of the Church used examples to explain the Trinity. They said: Look at a tree if you want to try to understand God. There is the root, the trunk and the fruit. The root is like God the Father, invisible but you know it's there, the trunk is like God the son, sent forth by the Father, visible and tangible, the branches and fruit is like the Holy Spirit. We are connected to Christ through the Spirit dwelling in us and by the power of the Spirit we bear fruit in the world. Or look at a steam: the ...

15. The Wild Goose

Acts 2:1-13; 2 Tim. 1:6-7; Gal. 3:28; Luke 4:18

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Mickey Anders

Celtic Christians chose, not the dove, but the wild goose as a symbol representing the Holy Spirit. It sounds strange to us, but it has a long tradition in Ireland. While the Roman Church imagined the Holy Spirit in the form of a peaceful, graceful dove, the Ancient Celts understood the Holy Spirit to be like a wild goose. When you hear of the Spirit descending like a heavenly dove on you, you hear harps and strings softly playing and get a peaceful feeling. The image of the Holy Spirit as dove has become ...

16. A Beautiful Void

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Chuck Colson

The United Nations complex sits on sixteen acres of New York City's choicest real estate, bordering the East River and Manhattan. The lean, immense Secretariat building rises into the sky, the sun reflecting off its window walls. Bright flags of the nations of the world fly in the breezes off the river; the most prominent is the blue and white UN flag, its two white reeds of olive branches surrounding the world. A visitor is immediately struck by the grandeur of the building, stirred by the sight of ...

17. Love Rejoices in the Right

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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John R. Steward

Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right." (vv. 5-6) Andre Malraux, the French author, tells in his book Lazarus of being with the troops that liberated the Nazi extermination camps toward the end of World War II. He said that you could see the prisoners' skeletons through their skin. One journalist who was with the liberating troops was interviewing the now former prisoners. They were very weak and many were near death. ...

18. The First Billionaire

Luke 17:11-19

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Brett Blair

The very first person to reach the status of billionaire was a man who knew how to set goals and follow through. At the age of 23, he had become a millionaire, by the age of 50 a billionaire. Every decision, attitude, and relationship was tailored to create his personal power and wealth. But three years later at the age of 53 he became ill. His entire body became racked with pain and he lost all the hair on his head. In complete agony, the world's only billionaire could buy anything he wanted, but he could ...

19. God is Calling Your Name

Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:9-15; Luke 4:1-13

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

Harry Emerson Fosdick was one of the greatest American preachers of this century. He described his preaching as counseling on a large scale. Few people knew that as a young seminary student he reached the breaking point after working one summer in a New York Bowery mission. He went home and was overcome by deep depression. One day he stood in the bathroom with a straight razor to his throat. He thought about taking his own life. And then -- and then he heard his father in the other room calling his name, " ...

20. Someone Had Tripped the Switch

Acts 2:1-21

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James W. Moore

Bishop Bob Morgan in his book Who's Coming To Dinner? tells a powerful story about a Dutch pastor and his family who during the second World War got into big trouble with the Nazis. The Dutch pastor and his family had been hiding Jewish people in their home to keep them safe from Hitler's forces. They were eventually found out. And one night in the darkness, they heard the sound of heavy boots and the loud impatient knocking on the door. They were arrested and loaded into a cattle car to be taken to one of ...

21. Christian Hope Had Changed His Life

Luke 3:7-18

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James W. Moore

Some years ago a military airplane crashed at Sonderstrom Air Force Base in Greenland. Twenty-two people were killed. The runway and the nearby fields were strewn with bodies. It was a tragic and horrible moment. There was only one chaplain on the base at the time… and the entire burden was laid on him to bring comfort and the Word of Christ to a shocked community staggered by the horrendous accident. But there was little time to mourn that day. The grisly task of gathering up and identifying the bodies ...

22. Don't Let That Be All That There Is

Luke 1:39-56; Mark 1:1-8

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The message of Christmas is that God intrudes upon the weak and the vulnerable, and this is precisely the message that we so often miss. God does not come to that part of us that swaggers through life, confident in our self sufficiency. God leaves his treasure in the broken fragmented places of our life. God comes to us in those rare moments when we are able to transcend our own selfishness long enough to really care about another human being. On the wall of the museum of the concentration camp at Dachau ...

23. Love of Christ

Matt 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27; John 13:34

Illustration

G. Curtis Jones

Legend has it that a wealthy merchant traveling through the Mediterranean world looking for the distinguished Pharisee, Paul, encountered Timothy, who arranged a visit. Paul was, at the time, a prisoner in Rome. Stepping inside the cell, the merchant was surprised to find a rather old man, physically frail, but whose serenity and magnetism challenged the visitor. They talked for hours. Finally the merchant left with Paul's blessing. Outside the prison, the concerned man inquired, "What is the secret of ...

24. Nothing Fills the Vacuum

John 12:35-36

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Billy D. Strayhorn

In 1992, the Washington Redskins won the Super Bowl with an explosive victory over the Buffalo Bills. Seventy five thousand people gathered on the mall between the Capitol and the Washington Monument to cheer their team and Coach. Four days later, Chuck Colson called the Redskins' office to see if any football players could attend a rally at a prison the next day. Many of the players had given their life to Christ. Joe Gibbs the head coach answered the phone and told Colson that all the players had left ...

25. What Anger Leaves Behind

Jn 20:1-18; 24-31

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Brett Blair

There was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all ...

26. The Train Stops Just in Time

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Editor James S. Hewett

The British express train raced through the night, its powerful headlamp spearing the black darkness ahead. The train was carrying Queen Victoria. Suddenly the engineer saw a startling sight. Revealed in the beam of the engine's headlights was a weird figure in a black cloak, standing in the middle of the tracks and waving its arms. The engineer grabbed for the brakes and brought the train to a grinding halt. He and his fellow trainsmen climbed out to see what had stopped them. They could find no trace of ...

27. For He Shall Save His People - Sermon Starter

Matthew 1:18-25

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... the Biblical image of power - power through vulnerability.

28. The Source of the Power

Luke 17:5-10

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Bill Bouknight

When you drive east on I-40 through the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina, you pass through two tunnels. Each is about ½ mile long, right through the side of mountains. I’m always awed by the brilliance of the engineers who designed those tunnels. How were they carved out of the solid rock? I’m sure that dynamite was the key. Sticks of dynamite were well placed and then ignited by some sort of fuse. The fuse was necessary but it was not the source of power. The power came from the nitroglycerin in ...

29. A Revolution in Seven Verses

Luke 13:10-17

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Mickey Anders

Walter Wink, in his book Engaging the Powers, suggests that Jesus' action represented a revolution happening in seven short verses. In this short story, Jesus tries to wake people up to the kind of life God wants for them. He often talks about the Kingdom of God where people have equal worth and all of life has dignity. But in the latter part of his ministry, he begins to act this out. In the midst of a highly patriarchal culture Jesus breaks at least six strict cultural rules: 1. Jesus speaks to the woman ...

30. Never Underestimate the Power of a Cold Cup of Water - Sermon Starter

Matt 10:40-42

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Brett Blair

Now I would like to stop the world for just one minute and ask you to think back. Think back with me to the first century. Think about those 50 years after Jesus' death and what it must been like for Jesus' disciples. Before the last one died their efforts had brought 500,000 men, women, and children into the ranks of the church. But what they had to suffer in order to accomplish this task is seldom discussed. We like the outcome of their discipleship but we don't want to hear the cost of discipleship. So ...

31. The Saving Power of a Baby

Matthew 1:18-25

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John Thomas Randolph

Harry Emerson Fosdick told the story of General Pickett's baby. It was during the last slaughterous days of the Civil War when the Confederates locked horns with the Union soldiers outside of Richmond. It was the cruelest time of the whole war. Then one night the Confederate lines were lighted with bonfires, and the Union guards discovered that the Southern troops were celebrating General Pickett's newborn baby, word of whose arrival had just reached the army. General Grant was so moved by the event that ...

32. Mind Before Body

Illustration

Norman Vincent Peale

Once walking through the twisted little streets of Kowloon in Hong Kong, a man came upon a tattoo studio. In the window were displayed samples of the tattoos available. On the chest or arms you could have tattooed an anchor or flag or mermaid or whatever. But what struck the man were three words that could be tattooed on one's flesh: Born to lose. He entered the shop in astonishment and pointing to those words, asked the Chinese tattoo artist, "Does anyone really have that terrible phrase, Born to lose, ...

33. The Man with the Terrible Headache

Acts 2:1-21

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James W. Moore

Perhaps you heard about the man who had been suffering with a headache for several days. Finally, he went to see a doctor. However, the office nurse who looked and acted like a Marine Drill Sergeant at Paris Island greeted him gruffly. When he told her about his headache, she barked in a loud stern voice: "Go into that examination room, take off your clothes and put on this hospital gown. The doctor will be there in a few minutes." The man protested, "But ma'am," he said. "I really don't need to go through ...

34. God's Mystery

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Editor James S. Hewett

I have observed the power of the watermelon seed. It has the power of drawing from the ground and through itself two hundred thousand times its weight. When you can tell me how it takes this material and out of it colors an outside surface beyond the imagination of art, and then forms inside of it a white rind and within that again a red heart, thickly inlaid with black seed, each one of which is capable of drawing through itself two hundred thousand times its weight—when you can explain to me the mystery ...

35. Forgiveness

John 20:19-23

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Kendall K. McCabe

Forgiveness is part of the action of the Holy Spirit in our lives. More accurately, it is the action of Christ through the Holy Spirit in our midst. By the power of the Spirit, Christ is present both forgiving us and forgiving through us. The Spirit is given to us by Christ himself. He breathed upon the disciples and they received the Holy Spirit. In one of her books, Corrie Ten Boom tells of meeting the guard from the concentration camp where she and her family had been held by the Nazis. She had been ...

36. It Doesn't Have to Be That Way - Sermon Opener

Luke 8:26-39

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James W. Moore

The noted author, John Killinger, tells a powerful story about a man who is all-alone in a hotel room in Canada. The man is in a state of deep depression. He is so depressed that he can't even bring himself to go downstairs to the restaurant to eat. He is a powerful man usually the chairman of a large shipping company but at this moment, he is absolutely overwhelmed by the pressures and demands of life… and he lies there on a lonely hotel bed far from home wallowing in self-pity. All of his life, he has ...

37. REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM

Illustration

John H. Krahn

On January 26, 1905, in Pretoria, South Africa, Captain M. F. Wells found a diamond weighing one and one-quarter pounds. Two years later, the diamond was purchased and presented to King Edward VII of the United Kingdom. In 1908, a diamond cutter from Amsterdam cut from that diamond the Star of Africa, the largest cut diamond in the world, containing seventy-four facets with a weight of 530 carats. Today, the diamond is still set in the British Royal Scepter. Can you imagine the value of such a jewel? Then ...

38. The Tragedy of the Unprepared Life - Sermon Starter

Matthew 25:1-13

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Brett Blair

There's a true story that comes form the sinking of the Titanic. A frightened woman found her place in a lifeboat that was about to be lowered into the raging North Atlantic. She suddenly thought of something she needed, so she asked permission to return to her stateroom before they cast off. She was granted three minutes or they would leave without her. She ran across the deck that was already slanted at a dangerous angle. She raced through the gambling room with all the money that had rolled to one side ...

39. The Covenants of the Scripture

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Merrill F. Unger

Scripture's covenants and their significance: Eternal covenant, Hebrews 13:20 :The redemptive covenant before time began, between the Father and the Son. By this covenant we have eternal redemption, an eternal peace from the 'God of peace', through the death and resurrection of the Son. Edenic covenant, Genesis 1:26-28: The creative covenant between the Triune God, as the first party (Genesis 1:26), and newly created man, as the second party, governing man's creation and life in Edenic innocence. It ...

40. Parable of the Two Ships

Mark 10:37, 43, 44

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Unknown

The first ship was a mighty man of war carrying its cargo of manpower and ammunition. It was a thrilling sight to see and a devastating power. On occasion the ship moved with mighty purpose and more often flexed its guns in peacetime pageantry. The second ship was a fishing boat manned by a few hands and eternally engaged in the procuring of food for hungry men. "Wouldn't you like to be a great battleship," spoke the trawling boat to its mother fishing craft. "Then all the other boats would make way for ...

41. Sunday's A' Comin'

John 11:1-45

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Ronald Lavin

Tony Campolo tells the story of a black Baptist preacher in the inner city of Philadelphia who preached a sermon Tony says he'll never forget. Tony preached first. He was "hot," so "hot" he says, that he even stopped and listened to himself. He sat down and said to his pastor: "Now see if you can top that one!" "Son," said the black pastor, "you ain't seen nothin' yet." For an hour and a half the pastor repeated these words over and over again: "It's Friday, but Sunday's a comin'." "I've never heard ...

42. It's A 12 Volt Volt System

John 12:24; Mark 2:22

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Philip W. McLarty

In the old days – I'm talking about the 30s, 40s and 50s here – cars came equipped with a six-volt electrical system. That's all they needed. The engines were small – a hundred horsepower, or so – and they had few accessories – a starter (you had to crank the old Model T by hand), windshield wipers, a cigarette lighter and, if you were in tall cotton, an AM radio. As cars got bigger and more powerful and loaded with all sorts of accessories – including an air conditioner – the old six-volt system couldn't ...

43. 26 Lead Soldiers

Illustration

Tom Peterson

"Give me twenty-six lead soldiers and I will conquer the world" - meaning the twenty-six letters of the alphabet on a printing press. Referring to the lead type of bygone days, this quote about power of the printed word has been attributed to both Benjamin Franklin and Karl Marx. And through their writing each of them has made serious dents on our history. Franklin co-authored the Declaration of Independence, setting the idea of democracy on a path that is still changing the world. But he also popularized ...

44. I Forgive You, Brother!

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

Donald Deffner

Corrie ten Boom graphically illustrates in Tramp for the Lord how after the war she met a guard who had been her captor in the Ravensbruck concentration camp where her sister had died. He came forward after she spoke at a church in Munich, and (though he did not recognize her) said he had been one of her guards, and reached out his hand to her, asking for her forgiveness. For a moment, says Corrie, she hesitated, recalling his cruelty to her sister and those around her. Then, knowing God's warning to ...

45. Agony

Illustration

Louis H. Evans, Jr.

The Greek word translated race is agon, from which we get our word agony. It signifies a wrestling match or race where endurance and determination must overcome the aching desire to quit. In a race, such as the quarter mile, there are moments toward the end when the body cries out to let up. Pain starts in the calf and works up through the hamstrings to the gluteus maximus. At times it is so intense it feels like a burning fire. Agony is the best way to describe it. A wrestler knows the same pain when ...

46. Water That Brings a New Beginning - Sermon Starter

Mt 3:13-17

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Brett Blair

Water has been in the news a lot recently, at least in the forms of snow and ice. Winter storms and snow literally stopped traffic in many parts of the country. And as much as we try to forge through to get to work or school, sometimes we have to stop and respect what the water around us is doing. Water is part of the drama of our life. It brings life, but not enough or too much can bring destruction. Let us focus on the life giving power of clean, fresh water. There are two very different ways to think ...

47. Exclusive: The Ugliest Word

Mark 9:38-41, Acts 10:23b-48

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Bishop Kenneth Carder

A journalist once asked Carl Sandburg, "What is the ugliest word in the English language?" After a few minutes Sandburg replied, "Exclusive." The ugliness of exclusive depends upon whether we are among the included or the excluded. We pride ourselves on being members of exclusive clubs, living in exclusive neighborhoods, dining at exclusive restaurants, vacationing at exclusive resorts, belonging to exclusive churches. Being an insider carries with it a sense of pride and security. Most of us, however, ...

48. Suffering and Repentance

Luke 13:1-9

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John Bergland

Trevor Beeson stood at the high altar of Westminster Abbey to celebrate the marriage of his daughter, Catharine, to Anthony, aged twenty-three. Nine months later he stood before the same altar for Anthony's funeral, who was killed when his car ran into a wall in East London. Four months later, Trevor returned to the altar beside the coffin of his friend and hero Earl Mountbatten, who died when his fishing boat was blown to pieces by Irish terrorist. Reflecting on the experience, he said he could not blame ...

49. The Lord’s Prayer: A Walking Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15

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Kenneth W. Collins

Every evening I walk three miles as part of my losing campaign against high blood pressure and my imperialistic waist line. I generally don’t wear an iPod, because I prefer to take my exercise without anesthesia. (I enjoy the sounds of nature, and I want to be able to hear the cars honk before they run me over.) Sometimes I devote the time to prayer, and I have found that the Lord’s Prayer makes a good outline. Here’s how I do it: I address God as my Father by adoption through the grace of Jesus Christ and ...

50. Travel Light and Keep Moving

Mark 6:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

Jesus' mandate to his disciples is to travel lightly and keep moving. Nowhere do we see him sitting down with the twelve and a map, or a snakebite kit, or a store of provisions, or a feasibility study, or a specific set of "goals,""strategies" and "objectives." Jesus gives the disciples (at times as confused and uncomprehending a lot as ever there has been) only what they need most: a mission and the authority to carry it out. All he recommends they take in addition to this is a walking stick a personal ...

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1. The Power Of God

Philippians 4:13

Illustration

Brett Blair

2. The Healing Power of Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:1-8

Illustration

Brett Blair

3. Our Logo the Cross

Matt 16:21-28, 27:32-44; Mar 15:21-32; Lu 23:26-43; Jo 19:17-27

Illustration

Brett Blair

4. The Road of Life

Illustration

Author Unknown

5. The Idiot

Matthew 10:40-42

Illustration

King Duncan

6. Christ in the Form of Communion

Luke 2:41-52

Illustration

James W. Moore

7. Little Transmitters

Luke 5:1-11

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

8. The Story of Sarah's Sorrow

2 Corinthians 7:10

Illustration

Max Lucado

9. Clinging Creepers

Illustration

J. Alistair Brown

10. God in Christ--The King Seeks a Wife

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

11. Love Your Enemy

Luke 6:27-36

Illustration

Tim Carpenter

12. Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide (Long Version)

John 3:1-36

Illustration

Staff

13. All It Would Take To Make Me Happy

John 3:14-21

Illustration

Brett Blair

14. Illustrations on the Trinity

John 16:12-15; Mt 28:19

Illustration

Brett Blair

15. The Wild Goose

Acts 2:1-13; 2 Tim. 1:6-7; Gal. 3:28; Luke 4:18

Illustration

Mickey Anders

16. A Beautiful Void

Illustration

Chuck Colson

17. Love Rejoices in the Right

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Illustration

John R. Steward

18. The First Billionaire

Luke 17:11-19

Illustration

Brett Blair

19. God is Calling Your Name

Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:9-15; Luke 4:1-13

Illustration

Thomas A. Pilgrim

20. Someone Had Tripped the Switch

Acts 2:1-21

Illustration

James W. Moore

21. Christian Hope Had Changed His Life

Luke 3:7-18

Illustration

James W. Moore

22. Don't Let That Be All That There Is

Luke 1:39-56; Mark 1:1-8

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23. Love of Christ

Matt 22:37; Mark 12:30; Luke 10:27; John 13:34

Illustration

G. Curtis Jones

24. Nothing Fills the Vacuum

John 12:35-36

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

25. What Anger Leaves Behind

Jn 20:1-18; 24-31

Illustration

Brett Blair

26. The Train Stops Just in Time

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

27. For He Shall Save His People - Sermon Starter

Matthew 1:18-25

Illustration

... the Biblical image of power - power through vulnerability.

28. The Source of the Power

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

29. A Revolution in Seven Verses

Luke 13:10-17

Illustration

Mickey Anders

30. Never Underestimate the Power of a Cold Cup of Water - Sermon Starter

Matt 10:40-42

Illustration

Brett Blair

31. The Saving Power of a Baby

Matthew 1:18-25

Illustration

John Thomas Randolph

32. Mind Before Body

Illustration

Norman Vincent Peale

33. The Man with the Terrible Headache

Acts 2:1-21

Illustration

James W. Moore

34. God's Mystery

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

35. Forgiveness

John 20:19-23

Illustration

Kendall K. McCabe

36. It Doesn't Have to Be That Way - Sermon Opener

Luke 8:26-39

Illustration

James W. Moore

37. REMEMBER YOUR BAPTISM

Illustration

John H. Krahn

38. The Tragedy of the Unprepared Life - Sermon Starter

Matthew 25:1-13

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Brett Blair

39. The Covenants of the Scripture

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Merrill F. Unger

40. Parable of the Two Ships

Mark 10:37, 43, 44

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41. Sunday's A' Comin'

John 11:1-45

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Ronald Lavin

42. It's A 12 Volt Volt System

John 12:24; Mark 2:22

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Philip W. McLarty

43. 26 Lead Soldiers

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Tom Peterson

44. I Forgive You, Brother!

Luke 17:5-10

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Donald Deffner

45. Agony

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Louis H. Evans, Jr.

46. Water That Brings a New Beginning - Sermon Starter

Mt 3:13-17

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Brett Blair

47. Exclusive: The Ugliest Word

Mark 9:38-41, Acts 10:23b-48

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Bishop Kenneth Carder

48. Suffering and Repentance

Luke 13:1-9

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John Bergland

49. The Lord’s Prayer: A Walking Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15

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Kenneth W. Collins

50. Travel Light and Keep Moving

Mark 6:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

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