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John 1:35-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ’s Cross of Scotland. Andrew is on the bottom—supporting all the rest! An almost unbelievable story crossed my desk a few weeks ago. But a pastor passed it on as coming from a parishioner, and it must be true. The parishioner said that his older brother was a very wealthy man and had purchased for him a new car for his birthday. It was a beautiful blue Lincoln Continental with all the extras. A few days later, the man came down from his office to get his new car and found a young boy, obviously a child ...

2. Let's Go Fishing

Mark 1:14-20

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David E. Leininger

... this morning is this gospel lesson with Jesus’ call to four fishermen who he says he will make into “fishers of men.” A few notes. First, the players: Simon, Andrew, James, and John — names with which the world has become familiar over two millennia of Christian history — but, in their own day, just average folks. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, “God must love the common people — He made so many of them.”[4] And the selection of these first disciples is just one more affirmation that God ...

3. Broken Promises

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

That creative writer Father Andrew Greeley tells a story--a parable, really--about two sisters who worked as babysitters in their community. A young couple had recently moved into the ... . That would have been unthinkable in earlier times. Let me tell you something about President Abraham Lincoln that you may not know. Before he went into politics Lincoln and another man bought a general store in New Salem, IL. Lincoln and his business partner attempted to run the store as a profitable business. But owing to ...

4. Out of the Darkness

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... intended by Booth to revive the Confederate cause by eliminating the three most important officials of the United States government. Two conspirators were assigned to kill Secretary of State William H. Seward. Another was assigned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson. Except for Lincoln’s death, the plot failed: Seward was only wounded, and Johnson’s would-be attacker became drunk instead of killing the Vice President. After a dramatic initial escape, John Wilkes Booth was killed at the climax of a ...

5. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

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King Duncan

... It takes a great deal of character to laugh at yourself like that. We thank God for men like Washington and Lincoln. They made a significant impact on history. Nevertheless, their significance is dwarfed by a simple carpenter who lived in the ... healed a man with an unclean spirit. As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon Peter and Andrew. Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her by the ...

6. I'm On a Mission from God!

Jonah 1:1-17

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... here. We can be proud of James Knox Polk, a direct descendant of Scotland's John Knox, and of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. We might even stretch it a bit and claim Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln never joined any congregation, but he attended Presbyterian churches. There are three Lincoln pews in this country. One is at First Presbyterian Church in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he attended worship the morning ...

7. Mentor, Mediator, Master

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... arose and walked forward to the front. He announced that he would represent Zenger. The court immediately recognized the man as Andrew Hamilton, a respected member of the Pennsylvania Council and the Philadelphia Assembly and also the most celebrated lawyer in the ... heart break on the hill of Calvary. He is our Mentor. He is our Mediator. FINALLY, HE IS OUR MASTER. Abraham Lincoln went down to the slave block to buy back a slave girl. As the slave girl looked at the tall, homely-looking white man bidding on her, she ...

8. Men Like Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-26

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Donald B. Strobe

... important because it was the hometown of at least five of Jesus’ disciples.... the “Bethsaida Boys:” Peter, John, James, Andrew, and Philip. Bethsaida was the village upon which which Jesus had pronounced judgment because of its failure to repent (See ... of infinite value. There is the story of two women relatives of General Lew Wallace who came to the White House when Lincoln was president and asked about General Wallace. he had been involved in a vicious battle and they wanted to make sure that he ...

9. It's Happening!

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

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David G. Rogne

... any trumpets sounding or anybody being aware that anything exceptional was taking place. On the one hundredth anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, John McCutcheon drew a famous cartoon. He showed two Kentucky backwoodsmen standing at the edge of a wood ... plant and puts forth its branches for the benefit of all. Bishop Bevel Jones tells a story about an experience of Andrew Young, former ambassador to the United Nations, when Young visited South Africa at the invitation of Nelson Mandela several years ago ...

10. Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... , a prominent newspaper of its day, ridiculed that address which had been delivered, of course, by President Lincoln. On November 20, 1863, the day after Lincoln delivered his famous speech, the editor of the Times wrote: “The cheek of every American must tingle ... of love. 1. Leland Gregory, Stupid History Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2007), p. 117. 2. Dr. Alan Zimmerman, www.drzimmerman.com. Cited by John C. Maxwell, ...

11. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

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... even if there were, they didn’t have anywhere near enough money to buy food for a crowd numbering in the thousands. Another of his disciples, Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, spoke up, “Here is a boy with five small barley loaves and two small fish, but how far will they go among ... and some of the choices they were forced to make. He tells about a fifty year old climber, Lincoln Hall, who was left for dead by his team, and other passing climbers, on the side of that treacherous mountain. But a small team led by Dan ...

12. The Truth about Trouble

2 Timothy 4:16-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... Bunyan; bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have George Washington; raise him in poverty and you have Abraham Lincoln; strike him down with infantile paralysis and you will have Franklin Delano Roosevelt; burn him so severely that doctors say he ... and when He knows. Let me say I am here, By God's appointment, In His keeping, Under His training, For His time.2 Andrew Murray had learned the truth about trouble. Bottom line, when times are tough, and trouble is real, God is faithful. He'll never leave ...

13. A Courageous Mr. Nobody

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Jon Johnston

... seemed destined to surpass his colleagues, but he tossed it all away by one courageous act of conscience. Let's set the stage. Conflict was dividing our government in the wake of the Civil War. President Andrew Johnson was determined to follow Lincoln's policy of reconciliation toward the defeated South. Congress, however, wanted to rule the downtrodden Confederate states with an iron hand. Congress decided to strike first. Shortly after Senator Ross was seated, the Senate introduced impeachment proceedings ...

14. Going Fishing

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the texts and then move on to consider this "fishers of people" phrase and what that might mean for us today. A few notes on the texts. First, the players. Simon, Andrew, James, and John - names with which the world has become familiar over 2 millenia of Christian history - but, in their own day, just average folks. It was Abraham Lincoln who said, "God must love the common people - He made so many of them."(4) And the selection of these first disciples is just one more affirmation that God USES common ...

15. Memorial Day

John 15:1-17

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Angela Akers

... . Using their new toy, they came across a live shell that dates back to the Civil War. The boys, Michael and Andrew Zimmerman of Winchester, Virginia, didn't know what the shell was at first. Neither did their uncle, Michael Robinson. He reports ... come back." (2) Today is the day we honor those men and women who didn't come back. The ones who, in President Abraham Lincoln's words in the Gettysburg Address, "gave the last, full measure of devotion." But it is uncomfortable to look back. When we reflect on ...

16. WHY THEY MATTER TODAY

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Angela Akers

... day their synagogue just wouldn''t be there." Teacher: "I''m so sorry to hear that. Now, you all know about Lincoln, our sixteenth President, and his contribution to American freedom, the Emancipation Proclamation. What did it do?" Julie: "It was the first ... step toward freeing all the slaves." Teacher: "Excellent! And the 13th Amendment, ratified under Andrew Johnson, was the next step, abolishing slavery in America for all time. Not bad for a guy whose wife taught ...

17. On Talking to Oneself

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... I agree with that assessment. One of the reasons why astrology seems to work for some people is simply because, as Lincoln said, “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” I remember working for a crusty ... word she desperately needed to hear. And one which we desperately need to hear, also. And that is why we have come this morning. Andrew W. Blackwood, an outstanding Presbyterian preacher and teacher of preachers who lived in the first half of this century wrote: “In the hour of ...

18. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the United States. John Quincy Adams said, "The first, and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world…and I say to you, ‘Search the Scriptures.'" Andrew Jackson said, "The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." Abraham Lincoln said, "I am profitably engaged in reading the Bible. Take all of this book upon reason that you can, and the balance by faith, and you will live and die a better man." Theodore Roosevelt said, "Almost every ...

19. Who?

Acts 5:27-32

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... now, except for their connection to someone famous. What do we really know about Stephen A. Douglas except that he debated Abraham Lincoln? How about Thomas Dewey? He was a major political figure of the middle part of the twentieth century, but the main reason ... of the country. Later, they worked with such major Christian civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Andrew Young. They were criticized by the church's mainstream for defending the rights of outsiders and minorities. Yet, history ...

20. A One Sentence Legacy

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... the U.S. Congress, offered some advice to President John F. Kennedy. “A great man,” she told him, “is a sentence.” Abraham Lincoln’s sentence was: “He preserved the union and freed the slaves.” Franklin Roosevelt’s sentence was: “He lifted us out of a ... ). 3. Leland Gregory, Stupid History Tales of Stupidity, Strangeness, and Mythconceptions Throughout the Ages (Kansas City: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2007), p. 173. 4. (Charisma House, 2008). 5. Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising ...

21. Hallelujah! Come On, Get Happy

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... can be costly. President John F. Kennedy, in his book Profiles in Courage (New York: Harper, 1955), relates the story of Edmund G. Ross, the senator from Kansas whose vote back in 1868 decided the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Johnson courageously tried to carry out Abraham Lincoln's policies of reconciliation after the Civil War. The mood of the country, however, was to impeach the untactful Tennessean who had succeeded to the highest office of the land only by the course of an assassin's ...

22. Human Things

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” ~Abraham Lincoln We have a mantra in our society: power corrupts. Lord Acton, 19th-century British historian noted that “absolute power corrupts ... all-men-political-and-religious-leaders-included-especially-since-power-tends-to-corrupt-and-absolute-power-corrupts-absolutely-1887. [2] Andrew Fisher and Mark Dimmock, “Phronesis,” Pressbooks, https://pressbooks.pub/phronesis/chapter/virtue-ethics/.

23. We're On the Move Now!

Sermon

Ronald Love

... blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord” (Luke 4:18-19). Andrew Jackson avowed, “One man with courage makes a majority.” Empowered by the Holy Spirit, you can make a difference in the ... every obstacle placed in our path. Obliged to our Savior, we are undaunted in our mission. Scolded and criticized, Abraham Lincoln still insisted on signing the Emancipation Proclamation. Defiant, the president answered his adversaries, “I am a slow walker, but I ...

24. The Loaves

John 6:1-21

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David Coffin

... are we to buy bread for these people to eat?” John 6:5 (RSV). John was unique to other gospels in that he featured the disciples Andrew and Philip in his stories, rather than Peter, James, and John in the synoptic gospels. Lesser known names do have a place in the kingdom in John ... R. Alan, Interpreting Biblical Texts: The Gospel and Letters of John, (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1998). 2. Lincoln, Andres T. Black’s New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to Saint John, (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson ...

25. Lord To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:56-69

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David Coffin

... on with our new, forward moving lives as Christians and a congregation on this Sunday in Pentecost. Amen. Sources: 1. Johannes Beutler, S.J., A Commentary on the Gospel of John, (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Erdmann’s, 2017). 2. Andrew T. Lincoln, Black’s New Testament Commentary: The Gospel According to John, (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 2005). 3. J. Louis Martyn, History & Theology in the Fourth Gospel, (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 1968). 4. Barclay Newman, Greek-English Dictionary of the New ...

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