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Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , DEVELOPING THE LEADERS AROUND YOU (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc.). 2. Elliot Johnson and Al Schierbaum, OUR GREAT AND AWESOME SAVIOR (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1991), p. ... cross. Slowly she said, "Yes, Marcellus, I have changed; he changed me!" (4) To see Christ as he really is is to experience personal transformation. C. S. Lewis put it quite pointedly: "He (Jesus) never talked vague, idealistic gas. When he said, Be perfect, He meant it. He meant that we must go in for ...

2. The Debt of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... on us. God’s love is without equal. God holds nothing back. God’s love is all encompassing, eternal, beyond our comprehension. C. S. Lewis in his book The Four Loves wrote of two kinds of love—Need-love and Gift-love. Need-love is the most common kind ... members of his church, old Al Lunde, who later died in his early nineties. Al was in his eighties when this scene took place. Al was over at the retirement center with his wife Cora, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s. Al would come to the retirement ...

3. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... for a miracle: St. Augustine: "A miracle is an occurrence which is contrary to what is known of nature." C. S. Lewis: "I use the word, miracle, to mean an interference with nature by supernatural power." William Barclay: "A miracle is an event ... Miracles 1. Classification of miracles A. Healings: lepers, blind, crippled, paralyzed, et al. B. Exorcisms: demons. C. Nature: feeding thousands, stilling a storm, water to wine, et al. 2. Methods of healing. A. Healing by word only - centurion's servant - Matthew ...

4. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

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John R. Brokhoff

5. “Zeal for Your House Consumes Me”

Psalm 69:1-36

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... To the tune of “Lilies.”Literally, “on lilies” (‘al-shoshannim). Probably a tune name, this phrase occurs in the titles of Psalms 45 and 69, while variants occur in the titles of Psalms 60 (‘al-shushan ‘edut, “according to the lily of the covenant ... the Kingdom, by James Emery White. In his book, White tells the story about his visit to the pub where C. S. Lewis and his friends used to meet to discuss their latest works. While he was there, the manager complained about Christians who came ...

6. Bearing Fruit

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... took the silver medal in the heptathlon, while her brother Al took the gold in the triple jump. Now the world knows that there is something better to be said about East St. Louis. Jackie and Al's lives are a testimony; they are bearing fruit. Jesus' ... American Schools and Colleges. Over 85% of these honor students said that their faith in God was extremely important to them." C.S. Lewis wrote, "God has designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or ...

7. Sometimes, You Gotta Get Your Feet Wet First

Joshua 3:1-4:24

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Robert S. Crilley

... . Like it or not, taking the first step is never easy. There are always risks involved whenever one ventures out into uncharted waters. C.S. Lewis says as much when he writes: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and ... knows, like the Israelite priests, it might even require getting your feet wet! 1. Michael E. Williams et al., The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible, Volume Two: Exodus-Joshua (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1992), p. 173. 2. ...

8. The Way, The Truth, And The Life Style

John 14:5-14

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Thomas Long

... of God, though, is to have life, and to have it abundantly. In his memoir about his career as a physician and a professor of medicine, Lewis Thomas recalls his early memories of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. One early morning in 1959, Thomas, just beginning his service as a medical school ... and the life." 1. Robert Bellah et al., Habits Of The Heart. 2. Herb Gardner, A Thousand Clowns, p. 86. 3. Lewis Thomas, The Youngest Science: Notes Of A Medicine Watcher (New York: Viking Press, 1983), p. 135.

9. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... do we make heroes out of heels, wise men out of fools, ladies out of tramps, successes out of failures? Even in Al Capp’s "Li’l Abner," that cutting satire of all of our human failings and foibles, he depicts Dogpatch’s own ... own lives. Well, where’s the joy? It’s no wonder that C. S. Lewis, the great British theologian, when he became a Christian, finally wrote his autobiography and entitled it, Surprised by Joy. To Lewis, the astounding effect of the gospel, all unlooked for, was the JOY that it ...

10. Merry XMas

John 1:1-18

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David E. Leininger

... the wishes of Merry Xmas. After all, He is NOT an "X." He is the Lord. Go, tell it on the mountain, Over the hills and everywhere; Go, tell it on the mountain, That Jesus Christ is born.(6) Amen! 1. Al Fasol, Humor with a Halo, (Lima, OH: C.S.S. Publishing, 1989), pp. 25-26 2. Lewis, C. S., Letters to an American Lady, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1967), p. 80 3. Quoted by Newell Dwight Hillis, "What If Christ Were Not?" The World's Great Sermons, (Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing, 1943), p. 200 4. Roger ...

11. The Real Tragedy Of The Tv Evangelists

Mark 6:7-13

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King Duncan

... to worry if they caught their children playing doctor. Now they worry if they're playing evangelist." It has been 60 years since Sinclair Lewis wrote his fiery indictment of the traveling evangelist. His spiritual predecessor of Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart was named Elmer Gantry. In this classic portrayal ... be doing the work of the Master. 1. BROADMAN COMMENTS,198485, Donald F. Ackland, editor, et al. (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1984). 2. Dr. Donald Strobe 3. MY CREATOR, MY FRIEND (Waco: Word Books, 1986).

12. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... Considering a Counterpart to the Israelite bet ’ab” (in The Bible and the Politics of Exegesis; ed. D. Jobling et al.; [Cleveland: Pilgrim, 1991], pp. 42–44). Steinberg, however (Kinship and Marriage in Genesis, p. 14), thinks this is an ... discusses the temptation to overstate the distinctions between eastern and western cultures in “Corporate Personality,” ABD 1:1156. T. Lewis carefully researches the use of il? (“gods”) for “the deceased” in a number of ancient Near Eastern texts, then ...

13. “I Confess My Iniquity; I Am Troubled by My Sin”

Psalm 38:1-22

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... uses a synonym, ’ap, rather than the word here (qetsep); (2) before the second half of the verse, 6:1 inserts the negative word ’al, while here it is implied. 38:2 Your arrows have pierced me. Arrows may be a military term here, but they are also ... of God’s discipline Children’s Book: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, by C. S. Lewis. In this book, which is part of the Chronicles of Narnia series, Lewis has a character named Eustace who becomes a dragon (reflecting his selfish heart). Eustace does not ...

14. The Infinite Becomes An Infant

Matthew 1:18-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... spiritual invades the physical. The following quotations explain:"The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." - C.S. Lewis"The highest cannot be spoken; it can only be enacted." - Goethe."If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a ... and came to us not as a principle or theory but as a person we can know and love. Toughest Thing for God. Dr. Al Lindgren of Garrett Seminary tells of taking his junior high school son fishing. While waiting for the fish to bite, they got to talking ...

15. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Matthew 18:21-35

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King Duncan

... we know simply by its date, 9-11. On September 11, 2001 nineteen members of the terrorist group al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin ... on the tomb of her adulterous husband. The epitaph said, “Gone, but not forgiven.” Some of you can relate to that emotion. C.S. Lewis made an important distinction between excusing and forgiving. If somebody jostles me accidentally and I drop my books, I excuse that it didn’t ...

16. Do You Believe In Miracles?

Matthew 15:29-39

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James Merritt

... defined by the miraculous—from his virgin birth to his sinless life to his physical resurrection. Two of the four Gospels commence with a miracle what C.S. Lewis called the “Grand Miracle” the incarnation of Jesus Christ that God became man. If you believe in the incarnation then you have no trouble believing in miracles. All ... , and raised from the dead, when you ask me the question, “Do you believe in miracles?” I say with Al Michaels, “Yes!” [1] Mark Batterson, The Circle Maker, p. 17.

17. A Call to Persevere

Hebrews 10:19-39

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... alone is the means of forgiveness. On “sacrifice for sins,” see note to 10:5. Knowledge of the truth (epignōsis tēs alētheias, where the word “knowledge” is found in an intensive form) is an expression found also in the Pastoral Epistles (1 Tim. 2:4 ... doing so “in concealment” (cf. the emphasis in 4:12–13). See K. H. Rengstorf, TDNT, vol. 7, pp. 597–99; T. W. Lewis, “ ‘… And if he shrinks back’ (Heb. 10:38b),” NTS 22 (1975), pp. 88–94. 10:39 Are destroyed is derived from ap ...

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