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Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... 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 ... shall not lose thee tho’ I die. CXXXI O living will that shalt endure When all that seems shall suffer shock, Rise in the spiritual rock, Flow thro’ our deeds and make them pure, That we may lift from out of dust A voice as unto him that hears, A ...

2. Legends Of Christmas

Drama

Georgianna Summers

... they go out together] I think I’ll go home and take an aspirin. Derek: I’m stopping by the library to look up King Arthur and the Holy Grail. [Lights out momentarily] Scene ii (The Next Day) [Lights up. A boy comes in and draws a funny picture on the ... deeds was about a nobleman who had three daughters. [Katie, Becky, Marcia, and another girl who plays Mama go offstage to get a rocking chair and sewing basket, bring them back on and take their places in the center - Mama on the rocker, pretending to sew, ...

3. Sword of the Spirit

John 6:56-69 · Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... sword. It could “mystically” discern the heart of he who grasped its handle and knew who would be worthy.In Arthur’s day, and even today, persons deemed worthy are “knighted” by touching a sword to either side of their ... by the winds of change and whipped about by the storms of life, be they spiritual or physical, just remember that you are standing on the rock of truth, a Knight of the True King, clothed in his glory and girded up with his strength. You stand amidst every storm of life sturdy ...

4. Do Not Disturb

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... universal sign? "Do Not Disturb." On second thought, that is the sentiment of many, many people. "Leave me alone." "Let it be." "Don't rock the boat." But then, on this Second Sunday of Advent comes the prophet Isaiah--with words to both encourage and to disturb. He writes ... us that God's laws have not been suspended. It also reminds us that God's promises have not been forgotten. Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli (Chya-rah-mee-KO-lee) tells of the Christmas when he was nine years old. His little heart ached for just ...

5. How Faithful Are We?

1 Corinthians 11:23-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Mrs. Dowson said, “I fell. He meant nothing to me except that he was gentle and noticed my hair and touched my face. He was there, Arthur, but God knows where you were, for days at a time.” “I atoned and God has forgiven me because God is good, but you never forgave ... associated with this sacrament, the common denominator of fidelity, namely God’s fidelity to the human race, remains a rock-solid principle for all who seek to follow Jesus. A few moments of reflection on the magnanimity of God’s ...

6. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... are repeatable among us to the point where they seem more the rule than the exception. An enterprising fellow by the name of Arthur Bloch has put laws of this kind together between two covers and the result makes interesting and delightful leisure reading.1 Ginsberg’s ... sang a different tune. He lost his nerve. For all he would say of the man who deemed him the Church’s rock was that he never knew him. With others, zeal flags because of the erroneous assumption that everything should be exciting. If ever ...

7. The Broken

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.” (John 8:7-9, ESV) It was obvious these Pharisees had rocks in their hand. They were about to take their wind-up and throw their best fastball and all of a sudden rocks began dropping like flies. One-by-one beginning with the older ones they all left when they were confronted with their sin. It reminds me of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the author of the “Sherlock Holmes Mysteries” who loved practical jokes. One time, just as a practical joke he ...

8. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... by a leg amputation that had embittered him to life; others said no, that he was just vituperous by nature. One evening rock musician Frank Zappa was a guest on the show. This was at a time in the sixties when very long hair on ... sermon. She was, in a word, charming. After the clergyman left, the society matron lay down on her couch and died of a massive stroke. Arthur Gordon has always wondered if the woman was overcome by the extreme effort required to be charming to someone she disliked. (6) No amount of ...

9. If God Is For Us

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... on. Now they are in the wilderness. Will famine destroy them? No, the heavens drop with manna. Will thirst scorch them? No, the rock follows them with its living stream. The Amalekites attack them, but they will not be driven back. They come to the river Jordan ... for us in God's promises to us, in God's purposes for us, and finally, in God's power through us. 1. Arthur Gordon. Daily Guideposts, 1998 (Carmel, N.Y.: Guideposts, 1997), pp. 46-47. 2. "To US Peacekeepers, Petty Crimes Reflect a Divided Bosnia" by ...

10. Once Save - Always Saved

John 10:27-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... you are only as secure as God is. One of the most amazing things to me is mountain climbing. I marvel at these men and women who can climb up shear vertical faces of rock that are at a ninety degree angle to the earth. I was interested to read that they are totally dependent in their climbing upon a little anchor boat called a "piton." These mountain ... p. 3. 2. J. Vernon McGee,Thru the Bible, Vol 4, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1983) p. 706. 3. Arthur Pink, Eternal Security (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), p. 84.

11. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... young man became desperate and hired himself out to a pig farmer just to keep from starving to death. Feeding pigs was rock-bottom, the most shameful job a young Jewish man could have. The son in Jesus’ story had rejected his father, lost his ... your life to God and come home to the God who is running to meet you with open arms. 1. “Do You Like Your Name?” by Arthur C. Brooks, The New York Times, May 31, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/sunday/good-bad-first-name.html. 2. “The bizarre ...

12. A Tale to be Told

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Bass

... receive from Christ. "You love Christ so much and are so certain of heaven, aren’t you? This will help you on your way" - and another rock was hurled at his body. A young man named Saul was there, too, close enough to hear that prayer and the second petition he made to ... those who were taking his life away from him in the name of God and righteousness. It has the ring of King Arthur’s word to Guinevere when she knelt before him in the nunnery, after her adultery was found out, "Lo, I forgive thee ...

13. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... was a spring outside the city walls in the Kidron Valley. So they cut a tunnel five hundred eighty-three yards long out of the solid rock, thus bringing the water from the spring into the city. The pool was given the name "Sent" because the water it held was literally sent to ... . cit. p. 373. 19. Marsh, op. cit. p. 384. 20. Redding, op. cit. p. 99. 21. Arthur John Gossip, The Gospel According to St. John, The Interpreter's Bible, Vol. VIII (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1952), p. 615. 22. Marsh, op. cit. p. 379. 23 ...

14. Rejoice

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... , has gone to Johannesburg to find his son Jonathan. When he finds him, Jonathan is in jail for killing a white lawyer named Arthur Jarvis, who was an advocate of black rights and had written a book about the urgency for justice in that hate-filled country ... Tony Bennett is well-known to many of you. Bennett is a crooner who thrilled many of our older citizens before the heyday of rock-and-roll. Many of our young people know about him because he was rediscovered by MTV a year or so ago. Bennett tells about a ...

15. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... to Accomplishment. I like the perspective of an old New England farmer who cleared his land of the rocks that covered it. With those rocks he built a rock fence that was three feet high and four feet wide. When someone asked him why the unusual ... 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 ...

16. Like A Big Happy Family

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... called a limpet. It lives in a conical shell and clings tenaciously to rocks and timers at the seashore. It is so sensitive to the approach of danger that when a person comes near, it adheres tightly to its rock. It is almost impossible to pry it loose. What a grand thing ... and what we are about! 1. From a sermon by Dr. Leslie Borsay. 2. Jamie Buckingham, POWER FOR LIVING (Arthur S. Demoss Foundation, 1983). 3. Dale E. Galloway, REBUILD YOUR LIFE (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. 1982). 4. Dr. ...

17. Who Counted the Fish?

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... nun named Egeria from somewhere aound France or Spain came to this area and was shown by the local Christians a place with rock-hewn steps leading down to the water, and was told that it was on these steps that the risen Lord stood to call ... my sheep.” In the commentary on this chapter of the fourth Gospel which we find in the Interpreter’s Bible, the great Scots preacher Arthur John Gossip gives us these tremendous words: “...in the end of the day what other plea has any one of us? We, too, have failed ...

18. Natural Or Supernatural?

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... I would like to know where you found them. Your reader, Jimmy." Another young man is even more blunt. He writes: "Dear God: My friend, Arthur, says that you make all the flowers. I don't believe it. Best wishes, Benjamin." Oh, there are a few who believe, but perhaps ... is plain. Three, solid, practical men stood on top of a mountain, a solid, real, natural mountain of good, hard earth and rock. But they found that life on that mountain could be bathed in the glory of heaven. How seldom we use that word ...

19. Temptation

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... 6) Temptation. The reality and the ruin. Don't they know better? we ask. Knowing better does not seem to be enough. Dr. Arthur Freeman compares it to a series of scenes from the popular movie INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE. Indiana Jones and the ... , the sirens were mythical, evil creatures, half-bird and half-women, who lived on an island surrounded by submerged, jagged rocks. As ships approached the island, the sirens would sing beautiful seductive songs, luring the sailors to their deaths. When Odysseus ...

20. The Problem with Signs

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... if you were Cassie's family? Could you handle that and still believe in a loving God? And what about Arthur Ashe, the late, great champion tennis player who acquired AIDS through a blood transfusion at the time he underwent heart surgery ... Oh, that my words were recorded, that they were written on a scroll, that they were inscribed with an iron tool on lead, or engraved in rock forever! I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet ...

21. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... they anticipated the opening of that play on Broadway, newspapers, magazines, and commentators have been talking about Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. It is an amazing phenomenon. It's on Broadway again, sold out. You can't get tickets to it. It's ... those junk cars on the street in front of her house. She asked them to remove it. They refused to do it. They played rock and roll music all day and all night, big loud speakers. They used obscene language in front of her children. She objected to that ...

22. The Pride Is Right

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... on borrowed money. Samuel Insull died in a foreign land, a fugitive from justice, penniless. Howard Hopson died in an insane asylum. Arthur Cutten went bankrupt and died in a foreign country. Richard Whitney had just been released from Sing Sing Prison. Ivar Kreuger and Leon ... God is gracious. He "exercises loving kindness." When Moses was on Mt. Sinai receiving the Ten Commandments, he was sitting on a rock with two tablets of stone waiting for God to speak to him, and when the Lord appeared here's what we ...

23. First Encounters

1 Samuel 16:14-23

Sermon

... encounters are close encounters of the most important kind. Boswell meeting Dr. Johnson. W. S. Gilbert’s lyrics meeting Arthur Sullivan’s music. And what would the line be without Mason’s encounter with Dixon? Without his partner, Richard Rogers ... Saul’s son Jonathan had crept through two sharp rocks to ambush the sleeping Philistines at Micmash. Unbelievably, this is where his own army was. A British brigade slipped through the identical rocks called Bozez and Seneh, overpowered the Turkish guards ...

24. For Future Generations

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... the majesty of God’s creation. And then his foot slipped. He plunged down the mountainside. His life was snatched away by the rocks. He was only 25 at the time. And Wolterstorff writes: It’s so wrong, so profoundly wrong, for a child to die ... Maybe they’re just more honest about religion than we’ve ever dared to be. And sometimes parents lose their faith too. (2) Arthur Miller wrote about that. He called his famous drama Death of a Salesman. It’s the story of Willy Loman, a traveling salesman, ...

25. The Love Triangle: Man-Woman-God

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

Many years ago, my wife Gloria and I decided to take dancing lessons at the local Arthur Murray studio. We knew a few dances already but we wanted to add to our repertoire. ... is a glorious triangle, a three-way relationship between man, woman, and God. As long as the relationships are kept healthy all three ways, the home is founded on solid rock. Houses can be built by contractors, but only God can build a home. “Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain.” (Ps. 127:1) I heard about ...

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