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Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro’ the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. VIII A happy lover who has come To look on her that loves him well, Who ‘lights and rings the gateway bell, And ... poor, And he supplied my want the more As his unlikeness fitted mine. LXXX If any vague desire should rise, That holy Death ere Arthur died Had moved me kindly from his side, And dropt the dust on tearless eyes; Then fancy shapes, as fancy can, The grief my ...

2. Blessed Hunger And Thirst

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... O God, until they find their rest in Thee." It's true that, as it has been said, there is a "God-shaped blank in every person" -- an emptiness that only God can fill. Physical hunger and thirst are blessed if they drive us to take ... ongoing filling not with wine ... but with the Spirit ... (She or) he is to be filled with the peace of God that passeth all understanding.... (Arthur W. Pink, The Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer, Baker Books, p. 35) How blessed you and I are, every month, to be able to come ...

3. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

Welcome to worship this morning. I’m glad to see you here. And I’d like to offer a special welcome to all our Joes in the congregation this morning, since March 27 is officially “National Joe Day.” I’m not kidding. I don’t know who decides these things, like National Goof Off Day (March 22) or National Waffle Day (March 25), but March 27 is designated as National Joe Day. It’s a day for celebrating anyone with the name Joe. In fact, the founder of National Joe Day invites all people to change their name to ...

4. I Voted for God

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... not worthy of me." Still and all, it’s a pretty stringent requirement. Honestly now, if you were to make a list at this moment on the blank margin or your church bulletin of those you loved the most, in preferential order, on how many lists would Jesus’ name be first? If this is ... great leader is that he sets the terms of his discipleship. In his Idylls of the King, Tennyson tells us that King Arthur bound his knights "by so straight vows that they were dazed as if half blinded by the coming of a light." ...

5. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... availability of God. This is God's world and He is involved in it. "If you would do the best with your life," British leader Arthur Wallis has said, "find out what God is doing in your generation and fling yourself into it." That is the ultimate key to successful living ... many of you have ever seen the Atlantic Ocean?" There wasn't a single responce. All the children stared at him blankly. Thinking they had not understood him, he repeated the question: "How many of you have seen the Atlantic Ocean?" No one ...

6. Looking For Mr. Right

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... a splendid job in conducting the marriage ceremony, until he pronounced the young couple husband and wife. At that point, his mind went blank. He did not know what to say. He remembered the advice of the old preacher to quote Scripture. And he quoted the only ... appreciation and affection can take other forms as well. Several years ago a West German magazine released a study by Dr. Arthur Sazbo which he conducted for a life insurance company. This study found that husbands who kiss their wives every morning ...

7. Insincere Religion

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... the church's appearance. They remarked that it was like a scene from a Gothic horror movie. Leddy's Dad looked at them rather blankly. In 1944, he had never really noticed what the church looked like. "It looked pretty good at the time," he said. "It was ... we quit criticizing and began bearing a cross? 1. Jeffrey McQuain. POWER LANGUAGE (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996). 2. Arthur P. Boers, "Church Growth and the Consumer Church," THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY, Sep./Oct. 92. . 3. Augsberger, Myron S. THE ...

8. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ready, adjusted his straps, looked out, braced himself, closed his eyes, and made the leap. The sensation of it was too much. He went totally blank. He hurdled downward, he was paralyzed, not knowing what to do. Plummeting downward, 8000 feet above the earth, 7,000, 6,000, 5,000, 4 ... with the power of his resurrection. We can know it. The power of his resurrection. Here is a hint of it. Arthur Ruebenstein, even at 80, reached a greater height than he had known in his long career as a peerless artist. In ...

9. Where do You Live?

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the irreverent comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is a send up of the King Arthur tales, there is a scene where one of the knights, Sir Bedevere is confronted by a group ... house do you live, the House of Judgment or the House of Mercy and Grace? And it's a subject most of us don't want to hear about. Paul point blank talks about standing in judgment of others. You can almost hear the disbelief, sadness and spiritual amazement in his voice as he writes: [4] Who are you to pass judgment on servants ...

10. Characteristics of the Church

Acts 2:42-47

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Maxie Dunnam

... upon, God choosing me to help him... If my hand slacked I should rob God since he is fullest good leaving a blank instead of violins...he could not make Antonio Stradivari’s violins without Antonio. Now if God has left some things contingent on ... called upon to serve as “stand-ins” for God to other people. One story will illustrate it, and with this I will close: Arthur Samuel Peak was a layman who gave us some of the most searching commentaries the Old and the New Testaments. Dr. Peak once received ...

11. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, “I would be willing to give up my wife of 19 years . . .” Whoa! I hope she doesn’t find out he said that. Arthur said, “I would be willing to trade my mother-in-law.” Stephen said, “I would be willing to tell my wife where I’ve hidden ... are willing to make the supreme sacrifice. Someone has said that a veteran is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount up to and including their life. What if the world knew that ...

12. No Turning Back

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... forward if the highest principle it has as an organization is to keep everyone happy. Don Cousins, Leith Anderson and Arthur DeKruyter, in their book titled Mastering Church Management tell a dramatic story about a pastor in his first church, a ... time before to use individual cups, but the board had never enforced the policy with this family. The pastor then told them, point blank, “I am not going to serve this family Communion this way again. Furthermore, I think that you elders need to tell this family ...

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