Sermon and Worship Resources

Showing all results

1. Wait. Trust Me.

Exodus 20:12 · Ephesians 6:1-12 · Proverbs 22:6

Illustration

Paul Batura

... case back when John F. Kennedy was in the White House.] As the storyline goes, a homeless man named David Browne shows up in Mayberry. He swipes some sandwiches, makes friend with Sheriff Andy Taylor (played by Griffith) and by extension, Opie, Griffith’s son. Deputy Barney Fife is suspicious of Browne, but Andy gives the traveler benefit of the doubt. Soon, though, things begin to change. Opie becomes enamored with the man, impressed how he can eat well and live such a carefree existence without a job ...

2. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... my dreams. I'd be slim, popular, handsome, and very caring and understanding. I'd be up on their music, and kind and tolerant when they brought home poor grades. I'd spend hours communicating with my boys. We'd go down the road, arm-in-arm like Andy Taylor and Opie in Mayberry on the way to the fishing hole, and have these long, meaningful father-son talks. You dream one life and are forced to live another. It's enough to make you live only for momentary pleasure or admit the utter meaninglessness of life ...

3. Repairing Your Broken Dreams

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... in my dreams. I'd be slim, popular, handsome and very caring and understanding. I'd be up on their music, and kind and tolerant when they brought home poor grades. I'd spend hours communicating with my boys. We'd go down the road, arm-in-arm like Andy Taylor and Opie in Mayberry on the way to the fishing hole and have these long, meaningful father-son talks. You dream one life and are forced to live another. College can be that way. Everyone had a dream of what college would be like. Mid-term grades are ...

4. Love Lifted Me

Psalm 40:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... other. So, he let them play on. Then people began to get hurt. Thankfully, before anyone was seriously injured, his friend Andy arrived. Andy blew his whistle, passed out the uniforms, marked the boundaries with cones, called the ball in and out, also called the ... run really fast, we will be able to distance ourselves from all our problems. We’re like a woman that Barbara Brown Taylor tells about. Mrs. Taylor moved out to the country. This woman, a friend of hers, came out for a visit. But, on the way, she ...

5. Where is the Nearest Sycamore Tree?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... control centers if there were not literally millions of us who want a body other than the one we currently occupy? Elizabeth Taylor, who was long considered one of the most beautiful women in the world, once told an interviewer that she had spent most of ... her life wanting to look like someone else! Actor Don Knotts (Deputy Barney Fife on the Andy Griffith show) said that he wanted a "body transplant." Plastic surgeons make millions of dollars a year and health clubs continue to ...

Showing 1 to 5 of 5all results