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Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a sad thing when a person loses sight of who he or she is. Annette Simmons in her book The Story Factor tells a wonderful story about Tipper Gore, the ex-wife of former Vice-President Al Gore. I suspect that most people were saddened to learn that Al and Tipper Gore divorced sometime back. Tipper was an asset to our country when Al was Vice President. In those days Tipper volunteered regularly to aid the homeless around the Lafayette Park area of Washington, D.C. She helped to provide food, shelter, and ...

2. Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Mark 8:27-30

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... to phone a mom. Ok, we are going to call upon mom. Mom would you please stand up. Mom you have thirty seconds and we need the answer to the following question: Who was the inventor of the Internet? NASA, US Department of Defense, the FBI, or Al Gore? (response) Finish out the game here. If she gets it right give her a fake check for one million dollars. By the way the answer is: US Department of Defense. Note: In terms of individuals, computer scientist Vinton Cerf is considered to be the "father of the ...

3. Rebellion in the Vineyard

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... the children of Israel during the Exodus. And the result is always the same alienation, heartbreak and tragedy. We Are the Tenants. A story was making the rounds during the last presidential campaign. An asteroid hits the speaker’s platform at a Seattle conference center, and Al Gore, George W. Bush and Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and one of the richest men on earth, all arrive in heaven at the same time. They are greeted by the Almighty, who is sitting on His golden throne. First, the Lord speaks to ...

4. Want to Be Happy?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... (think Christy Turlington) Middlemen (think Johnny Knoxville) Denim Dads (think Peter Saarsgard) E-litists (think Al Gore) Ms. Independents (think about the women from Lipstick Jungle or Cashmere Mafia) Parentocrats (think Bree ... super. It will refresh everyone’s memory and make the next story vivid. Just use Google image search to find many to choose from] The Burj Al Arab perches like a huge glass sail off the coast of Jumeirah Beach in Dubai. This seven-star hotel rises out of the sea, constructed on ...

5. Hypocrites

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Brett Blair

... our public figures, but not pretense and hypocrisy. Presidential press conferences are scrutinized not only for major policy shifts but also for flickers of insincerity passing across the President's face, for the subtle twitch of an eyelid, and the vocal cadence of insincerity. To this day I believe that Al Gore lost the presidential election, not because of a Florida recount, or Ralph Nadar taking 3% of the votes away, but because of that one stunt in the second debate when Governor Bush was speaking and ...

6. Will You Dance the Metanoia with Me?

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to get your blood moving again during the Seventh Inning Stretch. But is was definitely a ‘dorky dance.’ Hence its popularity: it was easy, repetitive, and anybody could do it. Except, famously, Al Gore. When “doing the Macarena” livened up the Democratic National Convention in 1996, Al, it seems, revealed his terminally “Baptist feet.” He “did the Macarena” without any sign of actually moving. But although there is not much “dancing” involved in “doing the Macarena,” it does require ...

7. Generous Religion

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... themselves, are likely to go to heaven. Only 79% believed Mother Teresa would. Sixtysix percent believe Oprah will. Sixtyfive percent believe Michael Jordan will. Sixtyone percent believe Colin Powell will. Sixty percent believed Princess Di would. Fiftyfive percent believe Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton will. Fiftytwo percent believe President Clinton will. Only 47% believe TV evangelist Pat Robertson will. (1) "Heaven," Mark Twain once said, "goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out, and ...

8. You Might Be A Redneck If . . .

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... rednecks they make fun of themselves. Or perhaps we gain permission by acknowledging that the part of our country famous for producing rednecks is also the part of our country that is producing our leading politicians. Our four most powerful elected officialsBill Clinton, Al Gore, Trent Lott, and Newt Gingrichare all from the part of the country that we normally associate with rednecks. (Some of you are thinking, "Yes and that's what's wrong with the country!") Now why in the world would I be talking about ...

9. Living in Denial

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... man in Jesus’ story was an expert at this. Lazarus lay right outside his door and chances are he never saw him. Oh, maybe at first. But soon he was able to shut the desperate man out of his visual field. The poor beggar was an “Inconvenient Truth,” to use Al Gore’s phrase, that the rich man was able to ignore. It’s amazing how easy that is to do. Oh, we don’t have beggars lying outside our houses, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t have neighbors who have needs. If we were to survey our ...

10. What Are Your Chances of Going to Heaven

John 14:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... was Mother Teresa at 79%. Who came in second? Oprah Winfrey at 66%. Third place went to Michael Jordan at 65%. Fourth place went to Colin Powell at 61%. Princess Diana scored an impressive 60%. But when it came to politicians, the figures began to plummet. Al Gore and Hillary Rodham Clinton each scored 55%. Coming in next was Bill Clinton at 52% (keep in mind this was before the latest scandals). Newt Gingrich came in at 40%. But then what is surprising, is to find that even heavenly connections didn't seem ...

11. I Believe In God The Father Almighty

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... rather amazing facts about our planet earth. We are just the right distance from the sun, 93 million miles. If the earth’s temperature were an average of 50 degrees hotter or colder, all life on the planet would cease. I haven’t checked that fact with Al Gore but I’m sure it is correct. Consider the fact that earth rotates 365 times each year. If it rotated only 50 times per year, one side of our planet would be terribly hot and the other side unbearably cold. Consider the fact that oxygen constitutes ...

12. The Revelation Code III: The Mark on Harry's Forehead

Revelation 13:11-14:7

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... attempting to figure out "Who is the beast, whose number is 666?", trying to predict the "Antichrist" even though that term never appears in the book of Revelation. They list everything from barcodes to credit cards, the United Nations to the European Union, Al Gore, Bill Gates or, even still today, the Pope. One site equated 666 to the WWW of website addresses, and another to biochip implants. I even found one TV preacher still saying it represents the Soviet Union, even though the Soviet Union no longer ...

13. RSVP—By Invitation Only

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... Presidential Aides who said, "The President would like for you to come and visit with him privately in the Oval Office." Let me tell you some things I didn't say. I didn't say, "No, thanks, I'm not interested." I didn't say, "Not me, I voted for Al Gore." I didn't say, "I'm just not in the mood." I didn't say, "Will he be serving refreshments?" I just said, "Yes." God's house is a house of fellowship. In fact, one of the most important functions of the church is fellowship. There is probably more ...

14. Jesus’ Trail of Tears (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... A British journalist wrote a book recently, asking what might have been if major world events had gone differently? What if Napoleon had not met his Waterloo? What if Great Britain had won the Revolutionary War? What if the Japanese had not bombed Pearl Harbor? What if Al Gore had inherited 9/11? Life is full of “what ifs.” Day by day we go our merry ways assuming life to be just the way it is. In reality, however, things are not so determined. Life does not consist of big decisions. Life is made up of ...

15. Children of the Heavenly Father

Romans 8:12-25

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... of the laws of nature and the natural course of things. They are signs of sin. Life is not as it is intended to be. This world is under divine judgment. It groans and cries out for someone or something to "save" it. If any of you have seen Al Gore's Oscar-winning film, An Inconvenient Truth, and are wondering about the human influence on global warming and the catastrophe that could result, then you can see that Paul's linkage of sin and suffering to the world of nature is not so far fetched. What Paul says ...

16. Personal Injuries

Exodus 21:12-36

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... follows creates a balance to the first contingency of the first case on bulls: “if it was known that the bull had the habit of goring” and the owner was negligent, he kept nothing. The owner of the dead bull kept all the meat and took possession of the live bull. ... 17 Was the death penalty carried out in these cases? The sentence in Heb., mot yumat (infinitive absolute with the hopʿal imperfective) can be translated, “may be put to death.” The NIV translates the same words “shall surely be put to ...

17. Lamps, Cakes, and the Blasphemer

Lev 24:1-23

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... , or the world order which is ordained by the divine word.1 Stoning expresses the community’s religious outrage. An ox that gored a human to death had usurped the position of human rule over nature, so it was not merely killed but stoned. But similarly ... was carried out, the convicted man was buried up to his head. “He was screaming with blood flowing from his head as al Shabaab fighters hit his head with big stones. After several minutes his soul left and stopped moving,” an eyewitness added in a ...

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