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1. An Empty Cup
Job 23:1--24:25
Sermon
King Duncan
... to comfort Lewis, whom he calls Jack. He asks about Joy: "What news, Jack?" "Good news, Harry," Lewis responds. "I think good news." "I'm very glad, Jack. Christopher can scoff, but I know how hard you've been praying, ... awesome not be found? Have you ever gone looking for God and found nothing? Have you demanded answers from God and received only silence? Reverend Barbara Taylor Brown writes, "One thing is for sure: there is no sense of absence where there has been no sense of presence. What makes absence ...
Sermon
Thomas Long
... praying, we are given what we most deeply need -- communion with God. In her book, The Preaching Life, Episcopal priest Barbara Brown Taylor tells of her experience, early in her ministry, planning adult education for a local church. Whenever she would ... s medical situation, replies, "I know how hard you've been praying .... Now, God is answering your prayer." "That's not why I pray, Harry," Lewis responds. "I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of ...
3. Friends
John 15:1-17
Sermon
King Duncan
... made in our behalf. Why was Christ willing to make such a sacrifice? Obviously he believes we are worth it. Dennis and Barbara Rainey tell about two boyhood friends named Johnny and Marty, who loved baseball. They also loved each other. They were such good ... . We can see it in the cross and in the church. In his recent biography on Harry Truman, David McCullough relates a story from the end of Truman's life. Harry Truman was an interesting character. He was the only president to not have a middle name ” the ...
4. No Other Name
Acts 4:1-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... 33rd President of our country was Harry S Truman. Question number two: what was Truman’s home state? That’s right, Missouri. Last question. We remember him as Harry S Truman. What did the “S” stand for? Trick question: the middle initial of Harry S Truman’s name did not ... by Jack Griffin and Alice Marks (Prentice Hall, 1994). 4. Time, March 8, 1993, p. 76. 5. Rev. Barbara A. Kenley, http://www.firstpresbyterianrichmondindiana.com/serm0107.htm. 6. Rev. Brent Beasley, http://www.2ndmemphis.org/2004/ ...
5. Unusual, To Say The Least!
Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... Bible), but I consented to stay on. I committed myself to the second week because the pastor blithely promised me, "Open your mouth, Barbara, and the Lord will fill it." That may be fine when you are standing before magistrates, but don't ever try it ... and even when they deserted him, and were unfaithful, and disobedient, he found 88it hard to let them go. The great magician, Harry Houdini, had a lifelong love affair with his wife. He was always writing her little notes. They always began, "Dear Bess, You' ...
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King Duncan & Angela Akers
... said yes? Did they miss their chance to become a star? Actor Tim Roth turned down the role of Snape in the Harry Potter movie franchise because he knew the movies would generate a lot of merchandise tie-ins---notebooks and T-shirts and action ... , and an experience of transcendence. He is challenging us to choose a more abundant life. In her book Leaving Church, priest and author Barbara Brown Taylor tells of an insight she received from a friend of hers named Matilda. “When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou ...
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Maxie Dunnam
... about it in the way that I’ve talked about it before: There’s some things God either cannot or will not do until people pray. Harry Emerson Fosdick has put it so well. The experience of the race is clear that some things God never can do until he finds a man ... actionary movement of creationism and science. I believe secular humanists have sought ours and our children’s minds. I agree with Barbara Parker that trying to define secular humanism is like “trying to nail jell-o to a tree.” Yet, can there ...
8. Nightline
Matthew 2:1-12
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... and gather the family and flee as quickly as possible to Egypt land. "Now, I want to turn to my colleague in Bethlehem, Barbara Rivers." "Good Evening, Ted. I am in Bethlehem, and there is great crying and mourning from mothers for the killing of their ... power and not only claims us but frees us from the shackles of the deceptive promises of evil. Many years ago Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, the famous preacher from Riverside Church, New York, shared a message at the University of Beirut where in attendance were ...
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James W. Moore
... 20th Anniversary was quite a celebration… I was invited to have a little part in the big event. The guest speaker was Barbara Bush In her talk, Mrs. Bush (who is always delightful) told a Christmas Story about a little boy who really, really wanted ... Christ-child’s life… and that experience would plague him for the remainder of his days on this earth – no room. Harry Emerson Fosdick said it like this: “The crucial difficulty of his life, - Which denied him the service he longed to render, - ...
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King Duncan
... our vocabulary. It is because without a consciousness of our sin there is no consciousness of our need for salvation. This is an insight we gain from Barbara Brown Taylor. In her book Speaking of Sin, Ms. Taylor names one chapter “Sin is Our Only Hope.” Simply put, she argues that the key to ... Cited in Chuck Colson, The Good Life (Wharton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005), p. 248. 3. Harry Heintz, http://www.brunswickchurch.org/life_resources/sermondetail.php?Sermon_ID=360. 4. Jon Johnston, Walls Or ...
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King Duncan
... immediately. This was the start of the most brilliant intelligence operation in modern history. Garcia and his handler, Tomás Harris, created hundreds of false reports detailing the “secret” plans of British troops and fed these plans to the Germans. Garcia ... May 29, 2014, https://www.oddee.com/item_98975.aspx. 4. Mark Collins, http://www.northwoodunited.org/sermons/042504.php. 5. Barbara Amiel, “A timeless hero for troubled times,” MacLean’s, September 25, 1995, 9. Cited in Mark Buchanan, Hidden In ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
"I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they see me, saying, ‘Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up.’ " A woman was filling out an employment application. When she came to the line marked "age," she hesitated a long time. Finally, the personnel manager leaned across his desk and whispered to her, "The longer you wait, the worse it gets!" That’s true of repentance and ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
A few years ago I was asked to preach at a large event in Atlanta. I inquired as to the theme of the occasion, and the pastor who invited me said, "I want you to preach as if it were your last sermon. If you had only one more opportunity to proclaim the Word, what message would it be? Preach that!" What a quandary! What should I preach? I first thought to preach about the omnipotence and love of God the Father. Then I reconsidered, "But I must preach about Jesus, his death and resurrection and the ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
Hope, for many, is as futile as the philosophy in a "Peanuts" comic strip which showed Linus and Charlie Brown leaning on a fence, talking. Linus says, "I guess it's wrong to be worrying about tomorrow, maybe we should think only about today." Charlie Brown interrupts him to say, "No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better!" A lot of people have no hope for today, and are sure that tomorrow will be just as hopeless. Indeed, in our time "hope" has become a bad word. When the ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
Next to "love," the word "new" is one of the most overworked words in our world. If it isn't new, we immediately consign it to ancient history. A minister friend, tells of speaking to a group of seventh grade confirmands. They were at a rather rustic retreat center. One boy came up to him, saying, "Boy! Is this place old! In the bathroom you have to turn on two faucets to get hot and cold water!" New and old is always relative, of course, but we quickly tire of the old and readily embrace the new as better ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
Now the Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who curses you, I will curse; and by you all the families of the earth shall bless themselves." So Abram went, as the Lord had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And ...
17. Midnight Turned Into High Noon
Isaiah 42:10-17, Isaiah 42:18-25
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Barbara Brokhoff
"... I will turn the darkness before them into light ..." David Hume, the philospher, once wrote an essay on the sufficiency of the light of nature for man’s spiritual matters. About the same time, F. W. Robertson, a noted minister, published a sermon upholding the opposite thesis, pointing out that the light of nature needs to be supplemented by the light of a revelation from God. Mutual friends of the philosopher and preacher decided to bring the two together to debate the matter. When the evening ended ...
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Barbara Brokhoff
There is no doubt - the most misunderstood God of the Trinity is the Holy Spirit. There is also no doubt - the most misunderstood gift of the Holy Spirit is the gift of speaking in tongues. Nearly every Christian has already chosen his "side" regarding the speaking in tongues. Few people are neutral on the subject - most are either "anti-tongues" or "pro-tongues." Not everybody even wants to hear the pros and cons. They remind you of the woman who said to her husband, during a discussion: "Don’t confuse me ...
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