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1. Tossing Sticks in the Air

Matthew 7:21-29

Illustration

King Duncan

An elderly Scottish woman was making her way through the countryside. Each time she came to a crossroads she would toss a stick into the air. Whichever way the stick came down was the direction she went. At one intersection, however, an old man saw her toss her stick into the air not once, not twice, but three times before resuming her journey. The old man was curious. "Why are you throwing your stick like that?" he asked. She squinted and replied, "I'm letting God direct my journey by using this stick." " ...

2. Hold Hands and Stick Together

John 17:1-19

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Robert Fulghum was a feature writer for The Kansas City Times. I'm not sure he's still there, because he has written a runaway best seller entitled All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten. That book is an expansion of an article he wrote for The Kansas City Times a few years ago. It was this article that launched his writing career. Listen to a part of it: "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate ...

3. Are You Going to Fish?

Luke 19:1-10

Illustration

Bob Younts

There's an old story about a fisherman who was very successful. Every morning he went out on the lake in a small boat and when he returned a couple of hours later, his boat was loaded down with fish. He never failed. People wondered how he did it, even when others were not catching anything at all. He always came in with his boat just overflowing with fish. One morning a stranger showed up with his fishing tackle and said, "Mind if I go fishing with you this morning?" "No," said the fisherman. "Just hop in ...

4. New Doors Will Open

Luke 24:13-35

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Wayne Cordeiro and Robert Lewis

David Livingstone, the famous nineteenth-century missionary and explorer, was eager to travel into the uncharted lands of Central Africa to preach the gospel. On one occasion he arrived at the edge of a large territory that was ruled by a tribal chieftain. He was instructed to stop at the perimeter and wait. According to tradition, the chief would come out to meet him there. Livingstone could go forward only after an exchange was made. The chief would choose any item of Livingstone's personal property that ...

5. The Resurrection Changes Everything

Luke 24:13-35

Illustration

Brett Blair

There's a story about a young boy named Walter Elias. Born in the city, his parents one day moved out to the country to become farmers. Walter had a vivid imagination and the farm was the perfect place for a young boy and a wondering mind. One day in the apple orchard he was amazed when he saw sitting on a branch of one of the apple trees an owl. He just stood there and stared at the owl. He thought about what his father had told him about owls: owls always rested during the day because they hunted ...

6. We All Need Dad

Eph 6:1-4

Illustration

King Duncan

Some years ago, South Africa's game managers had to figure out what to do about the elephant herd at Kruger National Park. The herd was growing well beyond the ability of the park to sustain it. And so they decided to transport some of the herd to a nearby game park. A dozen years later, however, several of the young male elephants (now teenagers) that had been transported to the game park began attacking the park's herd of white rhinos, an endangered species. They used their trunks to throw sticks at the ...

7. 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

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. ...

8. All We Really Need to Know

John 3:1-17

Illustration

Robert Fulgum

Robert Fulghum in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten summed it up best: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile of Sunday School. These are the things I learned: Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody ...

9. Too Easily Satisfied

Mark 12:34

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

Today as much as ever, people need to know that this kingdom is real and available. They need to see the joy and the possibilities of that kingdom in us. Because often people are too easily satisfied just to make do with what is quick and easy and cheap. People settle for sex or liquor or a rock band or the distractions provided by entertainment. They look to these things to save them, or at least to help them move forward in a grim world. But, as C.S. Lewis once wrote, we are far too easily satisfied. We' ...

10. If We Could All Be Royal

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

In his book, The Gospel For The Person Who Has Everything, William Willimon tells of a young friend, age 4, who was asked on the occasion of his 5th birthday what kind of party he wanted to have. I want everybody to be a king and queen, Clayton said. So, he and his mother went to work, fashioning a score of silver crowns – cardboard and aluminum foil, purple robes– crepe paper, and royal scepters – sticks painted gold. On the day of the party, as the guests arrived, they were each given a royal crown, a ...

11. I’ll Need Another Book…

Matthew 18:21-35

Illustration

Johnny Dean

And Jesus said to Peter, "Here's what I want you to do, Rocky. Go down to Wal-Mart and buy one of those big spiral notebooks they have on their back-to-school specials rack. Pick out a bright-colored one - red or yellow or orange - so you'll be able to keep up with it and know where it is at all times. Better buy some pencils, too - lots of pencils. Then, I want you to write down the name of everyone you know in that big spiral notebook. Leave lots of space between the names, now. You'll need it! And be ...

12. The Good Hunter

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Editor James S. Hewett

During hard times in the darkness of winter in an Alaskan Eskimo village a young man of unequaled courage might go out into the bitter cold in search of food for his people. Armed only with a pointed stick and his compassion for his starving village, he would wander, anticipating the attack of a polar bear. Having no natural fear of humans, a polar bear will stalk and eat a man. In the attack the Eskimo hunter would wave his hands and spear to anger the bear and make him rise up on his hind legs to over ...

13. The Birthday Boy

Illustration

King Duncan

Pastor Charles Swindoll recalled his last spanking when he turned thirteen years old. Chuck said, “Having just broken into the sophisticated ranks of the teen world, I thought I was something on a stick. My father wasn’t nearly as impressed as I was with my great importance and new-found independence. “I was lying on my bed. He was outside the window on a muggy October afternoon in Houston, TX, weeding the garden. He said, ‘Charles, come out and help me weed the garden.’ I said something like, ‘NO, IT’S MY ...

14. The Christmas Candy Cane

Illustration

Staff

Tradition holds that a candy maker wanted to make a candy that would be a witness, so he made the Christmas Candy Cane. He incorporated several symbols for the birth, ministry, and death of Jesus Christ. He began with a stick of pure white hard candy: white to symbolize the Virgin Birth and the sinless nature of Jesus, and hard to symbolize the solid rock, the Foundation of the Church and firmness of the promises of God. The candy maker made the candy in the form of a "J" to represent the name of Jesus, ...

15. What Things Are Perfect Joy

John 14:23-29; Gal 6:14

Illustration

St. Francis of Assisi

How St. Francis, Walking One Day with Brother Leo, Explained to Him What Things Are Perfect Joy. One day in winter, as St. Francis was going with Brother Leo from Perugia to St. Mary of the Angels, and was suffering greatly from the cold, he called to Brother Leo, who was walking on before him, and said to him: "Brother Leo, if it were to please God that the Friars Minor should give, in all lands, a great example of holiness and edification, write down, and note carefully, that this would not be perfect ...

16. I Built a Shrine

Matthew 14:22-33

Illustration

King Duncan

When Jesus told those early disciples to fear not he was not telling them to seek safety and security. Rather he was telling them to move forward, but to always trust him. Years ago there was a little comic strip that spoke to this quite beautifully. The comic strip "B.C.," set in cavemen days, had its hero, B.C., sitting in his fur loincloth, opening a box. A letter in the box says, "Congratulations! You have just purchased the world's finest fire-starting kit!" The next picture shows him reading on, "The ...

17. Roosevelt's Life: After Tragedy

John 2:1-11

Illustration

Edmund Morrison

When Theodore Roosevelt was an Assembly man in the legislature of the state of New York, events developed in his personal life that would wound him deeply. On February 13, Roosevelt, seated on the floor of the Assembly, received a telegram informing him that his wife Alice had given birth to a baby girl late the night before. He received the congratulations of his colleagues but decided to finish work on legislative matters before leaving for home to be with his family. Several hours later he received ...

18. Middle C

John 1:1-18

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Lloyd C. Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels lived in a boarding house when he was a student. On the first floor of the house there lived a retired music teacher who was confined to a wheelchair. Every morning as Douglas went down stairs he would stick his head in the music teacher's room and ask his friend; “What's the good news?” To which the music teacher would respond each day by striking a tuning fork against the side of his wheelchair and saying; “Middle C! Hear that, it's middle C! It was ...

19. Don’t Miss Life

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Illustration

David E. Leininger

Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-famous architect, told how a lecture he received at the age of nine helped set his philosophy of life. An uncle, a stolid, no-nonsense type, had taken him for a long walk across a snow-covered field. At the far side, his uncle told him to look back at their two sets of tracks. "See, my boy," he said, "how your footprints go aimlessly back and forth from those trees, to the cattle, back to the fence then over there where you were throwing sticks? But notice how my path comes ...

20. The Fork in the Road

Mark 8:31-38

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

According to that great font of wisdom, Yogi Berra, "If you come to a fork in the road, take it." Mark 8 is a kind of theological fork in the road. This chapter is the hinge of Mark's gospel. Not only is this the exact middle of Mark in terms of chapters and verses, it is also theologically the center point at which the ministry of Jesus takes a decisive turn toward the cross. Jesus seems to know what he is doing and also where he is going (or, better said, where he must go whether he wants to go that ...

21. Jesus Walking on Water

John 6:1-21; Matt. 14:22-36

Illustration

Johnny Dean

Alexander Solzhenitsyn said that only once during his long imprisonment in a labor camp in the Soviet Union did he become so discouraged that he thought about suicide. He was outdoors, on a work detail, and he had reached a point where he no longer cared whether he lived or died. When he had a break, he sat down, and a stranger sat beside him, someone he had never seen before and would never see again. For no apparent reason, this stranger took a stick and drew a cross on the ground. Solzhenitsyn sat and ...

22. Creeds and Deeds - Sermon Starter

Mark 7:1-23

Illustration

Brett Blair

Rev. David Chadwell posed a rather interesting question: Which would you prefer for a next-door neighbor: a person of excellent habits or a person with a good heart? Which would you prefer for a good friend: a person of excellent habits, or a person with a good heart? Which would you prefer for a husband or a wife: a person of excellent habits, or a person with a good heart? Which would you prefer for a child: a child with excellent habits, or a child with a good heart? It is wonderful to have a neighbor ...

23. Fear of the Cure

Luke 4:21-30

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

In order for Jesus to heal us, He must first expose our sins, prejudices, and myths. That process is not pleasant. It made the folks in Nazareth fighting mad. In order for Jesus to heal them, he had to challenge some of their cherished myths and prejudices. When I was a boy of 7 or 8, I was running through a neighbor's yard one day and stepped on a sling blade. Today's children don't know what a sling blade is, but it was an ancient grass-cutting instrument. My foot was cut rather deeply. I ran and hid. ...

24. Mixed Metaphors

John 21:1-25

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Brett Blair

English professors love to catch mixed metaphors, when grading papers. Here's list from some students papers: He swept the rug under the carpet." She's burning the midnight oil at both ends." It was so cold last night I had to throw another blanket on the fire." It's time to step up to the plate and cut the mustard." She's robbing Peter to pay the piper." He's up a tree without a paddle." Beware my friend...you are skating on hot water." Keep your ear to the grindstone." Sometimes you've gotta stick your ...

25. Door to Door

Luke 12:32-40

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Two young missionaries were going door to door. They knocked on the door of one woman who was not at all happy to see them. The woman told them in no uncertain terms that she did not want to hear their message and slammed the door in their faces. To her surprise, however, the door did not close and, in fact, almost magically bounced back open. She tried again, really putting her back into it and slammed the door again with the same amazing result - the door bounced back again. Convinced that one of the ...

26. 8 Signs You're Not Reading Your Bible

2 Tim 3:14-4:5

Illustration

King Duncan

A group of boys and girls was asked to sum up what they had learned from the New Testament. Here is a summation of what they had learned: "Jesus is the star of the New Testament. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn. During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees and the Republicans. Jesus also had twelve opossums. The worst one was Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable after him. "Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to ...

27. Great Truths

John 9: 1-41

Illustration

James W. Moore

Recently, I ran across a "fascinating list" that carried this intriguing title: "Great Truths About Life That Little Children Have Learned." Let me share a few of these "great truths" with you. No matter how hard you try you cannot baptize a cat. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush your hair. Never ask your 3-year-old brother to hold a tomato… or an egg. You can't trust dogs to watch your food for you. Don't sneeze when somebody is cutting your hair. School lunches stick to the wall. You ...

28. Be Careful Which Ruts You Get Into

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Illustration

James W. Moore

Recently, I was driving on an old dirt road way out in the country when I came to a sign which said: "Be real careful which ruts you get into. You'll be in them for the next 20 miles!" Some people get in the rut of seeing life as nothing more than just coping, just enduring, just surviving, just sticking it out. In a recent Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown expressed it like this: "I have a new philosophy of life, Linus. From this moment on, I'm going to only dread one day at a time!"

29. You Are Supposed to Love Me

Matthew 22:1-14

Illustration

King Duncan

Frederick William I ruled Prussia in the early eighteenth century. Frederick walked the streets of Berlin unattended, and when anyone displeased him, he did not hesitate to use his walking stick to thrash them. Berliners tried to keep their distance. One time, as Frederick William was pounding down the street, a citizen spied him but too late, and his attempt to slide quietly into a doorway proved a failure. "You," called out Frederick William, "where are you going?" "Into the house, Your Majesty," said ...

30. Live Churches

Illustration

Staff

Living, breathing churches are always going to have more problems and tension, than churches that are dead. Churches can be alive and well without growth but they need programs and services. Here's a list of contrasts: Live churches' expenses are always more than their income; dead churches don't need much money! Live churches have parking problems; Dead churches have empty spaces! Live churches may have some noisy children; Dead churches are quiet as a cemetery. Live churches keep changing their ways of ...

31. Hard to Catch

Luke 12:13-21

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

Men who trap animals in Africa for zoos in America say that one of the hardest animals to catch is the ringtailed monkey. For the Zulus of that continent, however, it's simple. They've been catching this agile little animal with ease for years. The method the Zulus use is based on knowledge of the animal. Their trap is nothing more than a melon growing on a vine. The seeds of this melon are a favorite of the monkey. Knowing this, the Zulus simply cut a hole in the melon, just large enough for the monkey to ...

32. Tacky Messages in Choir

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Staff

As with many innovations, the originator of 3M's sticky yellow Post-its didn't know what he had at first. Researcher Spence Sliver was curious about what would happen if he mixed an unusual amount of monomer into a polymer-based adhesive he was working on. The result was an adhesive that would "tack" one piece of paper to another and even re-stick, without leaving any residue on the second piece of paper. The company had no use for the new adhesive until 3M chemist Arthur Fry began having problems in the ...

33. Tools of Inspection

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Evangelist Fred Brown used three images to describe the purpose of the law. First he likened it to a dentist's little mirror, which he sticks into the patient's mouth. With the mirror he can detect any cavities. But he doesn't drill with it or use it to pull teeth. It can show him the decayed area or other abnormality, but it can't provide the solution. Brown then drew another analogy. He said that the law is also like a flashlight. If suddenly at night the lights go out, you use it to guide you down the ...

34. An Adhesive Bond

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When talking to teens, Dr. Richard Dobbins would often draw an analogy between the bonding capacity of the body and adhesive tape. Adhesive tape is not made for repetitive use. The strongest bond adhesive tape is capable of making is formed with the first surface to which it is applied. You can remove the tape and reapply it to other surfaces several times, and it will still adhere. However, with every application, some of the adhesiveness has been compromised. Finally, if you continue the practice long ...

35. 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 ...

36. The End of the Gladiator Games

Mark 7:24-37

Illustration

Robert Salzgeber

Telemachus was a monk who lived in Asia Minor about the year AD 400. During his life the gladiatorial games were very popular. The gladiators were usually slaves or political prisoners who were condemned to fight each other unto death for the amusement of the crowd. People were fascinated by the sight of spurting blood. Telemachus was very much disturbed that the Christian Emperor Honorius sponsored these games and that so many people who called themselves Christians went to see them. What could be further ...

37. Deliverance from Carnality

Illustration

Michael P. Green

The story is told of Handley Page, a pioneer in aviation, who once landed in an isolated area during his travels. Unknown to him, a rat got aboard the plane there. On the next leg of the flight, Page heard the sickening sound of gnawing. Suspecting it was a rodent, his heart began to pound as he visualized the serious damage that could be done to the fragile mechanisms that controlled his plane and the difficulty of repairs because of the lack of skilled labor and materials in the area. What could he do? ...

38. Be Sure of Your Course and Keep on Going

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

The setting was a cold January morning in a little town in Wisconsin, on the southern shore of Lake Superior. It happened to be the Saturday when they had their annual dog sled derby on the ice. A one-mile course had been staked out by sticking little fir trees in the ice. The whole course was easily visible because of the steep slope of the shore. It was a youngsters' meet and the contenders ranged all the way from large boys with several dogs and big sleds to one little fellow who didn't seem over five ...

39. Love Adds the Chocolate

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Editor James S. Hewett

A house is a house is a house—until love comes through the door, that is. And love intuitively goes around sprinkling that special brand of angel dust that transforms a house into a very special home for very special people: your family. Money, of course, can build a charming house, but only love can furnish it with a feeling of home. Duty can pack an adequate sack lunch, but love may decide to tuck a little love note inside. Money can provide a television set, but love controls it and cares enough to say ...

40. The Case Against Consumerism

Illustration

Mike Magee

The happiest people I have ever met are the Kekchi Indians of Guatemala. Let me tell you something about them. They do not live on Belle Meade Boulevard. They do not live in Brentwood. In fact, their villages do not even have electricity or running water or flush toilets. And all they have to eat is beans, rice, tortillas, and scrawny chickens. No ahi tuna sashimi is on their menu. No Chilean sea bass or T-bone entrée. No martini or fancy wine. And no key lime pie. Beans, rice, tortillas, and one piece of ...

41. The Source of the Power

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

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 ...

42. Thanks for the Hurting

Illustration

Monica Dickens

David, a 2-year old with leukemia, was taken by him mother, Deborah, to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, to see Dr. John Truman who specializes in treating children with cancer and various blood diseases. Dr. Truman's prognosis was devastating: "He has a 50-50 chance." The countless clinic visits, the blood tests, the intravenous drugs, the fear and pain the mother's ordeal can be almost as bad as the child's because she must stand by, unable to bear the pain herself. David never cried in the ...

43. God is Laughing at Us

Zechariah 9:9-13

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

"LO YOUR KING COMES TO YOU. TRIUMPHANT AND VICTORIOUS IS HE, HUMBLE AND RIDING ON AN ASS, ON A COLT, THE FOAL OF AN ASS." Surely one sign of the lack of perceptiveness of us humans is sometimes we don’t know when we are being ridiculed, laughed at, satirized, made fun of. I remember when we arrived in Japan for the occupation years ago, the missionary’s son who was our regimental interpreter, told me to watch how the Japanese people greeted me. If they would bow and say "Koneechiwa Gozaimas" they were ...

44. TO LIVE IS CHRIST

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... him, and that he would stick by them when they did. Those ...

45. A Stick in the Air

Illustration

Staff

An old Scottish woman went from home to home across the countryside selling thread, buttons, and shoestrings. When she came to an unmarked crossroad, she would toss a stick into the air and go in the direction the stick pointed when it landed. One day, however, she was seen tossing the stick up several times. "Why do you toss the stick more than once?" someone asked. "Because," replied the woman, "it keeps pointing to the left, and I want to take the road on the right." She then dutifully kept throwing the ...

46. Stick Your Head Out

Illustration

Staff

Behold the turtle; he makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. These words by James Bryant Conant have special meaning for writer James Michener. In 1944, when Michener was nearly 40, he was serving in the U.S. Navy on a remote island in the South Pacific. To kill time, he decided to write a book. He knew that the chances of anyone's publishing it were practically nil. But he decided to stick his neck out and give it a try. Michener had decided that the book would be a collection of short stories. ...

47. Stick to One Model

Illustration

Staff

More and more people seem to forget Henry Ford's sage advice when asked on his 50th wedding anniversary for his rule for marital bliss and longevity. He replied, "Just the same as in the automobile business, stick to one model."

48. Familiar Things

John 6:25-59, Matthew 26:17-30, Luke 22:7-38

Illustration

Alex Gondola

From time to time, all of us have been guilty of taking some remarkable things for granted, simply because they have become familiar to us. Take, for instance, the ancient and honorable game of golf. Most of us understand the basic principles of golf. Some of us play golf. Some of us play at it. But suppose you had to explain golf to someone who had never seen it before say an Aborigine from the Australian outback. Don't you think an Aborigine from the Australian outback might find our game of golf rather ...

49. Unconditional Puppy Love

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Michael P. Green

One Sunday a little boy looked up at his dad and asked, “Daddy, how does God love us?” His father answered, “Son, God loves us with an unconditional love.” The lad thought for a moment and then asked, “Daddy, what kind of love is unconditional love?” After a few minutes of silence his father answered, “Do you remember the two boys who used to live next door to us and the cute little puppy they got last Christmas?” “Yes.” “Do you remember how they used to tease it, throw sticks and even rocks at it?” “Yes.” ...

50. Let Us Make A Name For Ourselves

Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

"When you're No. 1 in the world ... you're like a god to (people)." Burt Reynolds made that statement a few years ago. It was reported in the Chicago Tribune in an article written by Howard Reich. Mr. Reynolds had come to Chicago with his one-man stage show. The show was titled: "An Evening With Burt Reynolds: The Laughs, the Loves, the Legends, the Lies (Not Necessarily in That Order)." Howard Reich interviewed Mr. Reynolds while Reynolds was in Chicago for the show. Burt Reynolds, of course, made a ...

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1. Tossing Sticks in the Air

Matthew 7:21-29

Illustration

King Duncan

2. Hold Hands and Stick Together

John 17:1-19

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

3. Are You Going to Fish?

Luke 19:1-10

Illustration

Bob Younts

4. New Doors Will Open

Luke 24:13-35

Illustration

Wayne Cordeiro and Robert Lewis

5. The Resurrection Changes Everything

Luke 24:13-35

Illustration

Brett Blair

6. We All Need Dad

Eph 6:1-4

Illustration

King Duncan

7. 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

8. All We Really Need to Know

John 3:1-17

Illustration

Robert Fulgum

9. Too Easily Satisfied

Mark 12:34

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

10. If We Could All Be Royal

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

11. I’ll Need Another Book…

Matthew 18:21-35

Illustration

Johnny Dean

12. The Good Hunter

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

13. The Birthday Boy

Illustration

King Duncan

14. The Christmas Candy Cane

Illustration

Staff

15. What Things Are Perfect Joy

John 14:23-29; Gal 6:14

Illustration

St. Francis of Assisi

16. I Built a Shrine

Matthew 14:22-33

Illustration

King Duncan

17. Roosevelt's Life: After Tragedy

John 2:1-11

Illustration

Edmund Morrison

18. Middle C

John 1:1-18

Illustration

19. Don’t Miss Life

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Illustration

David E. Leininger

20. The Fork in the Road

Mark 8:31-38

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

21. Jesus Walking on Water

John 6:1-21; Matt. 14:22-36

Illustration

Johnny Dean

22. Creeds and Deeds - Sermon Starter

Mark 7:1-23

Illustration

Brett Blair

23. Fear of the Cure

Luke 4:21-30

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

24. Mixed Metaphors

John 21:1-25

Illustration

Brett Blair

25. Door to Door

Luke 12:32-40

Illustration

26. 8 Signs You're Not Reading Your Bible

2 Tim 3:14-4:5

Illustration

King Duncan

27. Great Truths

John 9: 1-41

Illustration

James W. Moore

28. Be Careful Which Ruts You Get Into

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Illustration

James W. Moore

29. You Are Supposed to Love Me

Matthew 22:1-14

Illustration

King Duncan

30. Live Churches

Illustration

Staff

31. Hard to Catch

Luke 12:13-21

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

32. Tacky Messages in Choir

Illustration

Staff

33. Tools of Inspection

Illustration

34. An Adhesive Bond

Illustration

35. Travel Light and Keep Moving

Mark 6:1-13

Illustration

Leonard Sweet

36. The End of the Gladiator Games

Mark 7:24-37

Illustration

Robert Salzgeber

37. Deliverance from Carnality

Illustration

Michael P. Green

38. Be Sure of Your Course and Keep on Going

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

39. Love Adds the Chocolate

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

40. The Case Against Consumerism

Illustration

Mike Magee

41. The Source of the Power

Luke 17:5-10

Illustration

Bill Bouknight

42. Thanks for the Hurting

Illustration

Monica Dickens

43. God is Laughing at Us

Zechariah 9:9-13

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

44. TO LIVE IS CHRIST

Illustration

John H. Krahn

... him, and that he would stick by them when they did. Those ...

45. A Stick in the Air

Illustration

Staff

46. Stick Your Head Out

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Staff

47. Stick to One Model

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Staff

48. Familiar Things

John 6:25-59, Matthew 26:17-30, Luke 22:7-38

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Alex Gondola

49. Unconditional Puppy Love

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Michael P. Green

50. Let Us Make A Name For Ourselves

Acts 2:1-13, Acts 2:14-41

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Richard A. Jensen

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