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Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... that Jesus Christ and his mission are the legitimate, and only, hope for the human race. He sat down, wondering if he had blown it, when Einstein leaned over to him and said, "Say fellow, I hope your side wins. If you don't we're all doomed!" (7) Bill Alexander knew that we see God most clearly in the person of Jesus Christ. "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found. . ." Of course most of the people we meet will never see God unless they see him in us. Most people we meet nowadays will never read the ...

2. What to Do When You Are in a Fix

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... twenty years before? He was greeted by one woman and immediately asked her about her husband. “And how is Bill?” “Oh,” she said, misty-voiced, “Bill is in heaven.” “In heaven? I’m sorry!” but that didn’t sound right. “I mean —I’m ... Lord. I will never forget my visit to Estonia a few years ago and a man named Alexander Kooms. Some of you may have heard me tell this story. Alexander Kooms is really the father, the patriarch of the Methodist Church in Estonia. During the time of Stalin ...

3. A New Name

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... boulder built on the foundation of Christ the solid rock. As one of the chief apostles who established the Church, Peter lived up to the billing. What about you and me during this Lenten season? If God were to show up at your coffee break room at work or the locker ... saved and have abundant life now. How well are we living up to the name God gave us: Christian? Alexander the Great was reviewing his troops as they prepared for war. As he walked along the straight lines, he found one disheveled soldier. Standing directly ...

4. A Sympathetic High Priest

Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9

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Mark Ellingsen

... abandoned, he knows what it’s like to face death. Remember when Bill Clinton was president, and with his southern accent he would tell us he could “feel our pain.” Well, God is not like Bill Clinton, from a distance feeling your pain. No, God is like the ... really Good — the victory is already won! [1] “Origen, On First Principles,” in Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol.4, eds. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, p.283. This is a view of Lutheranism; see Formula of Concord, Solid Declaration (1577), in ...

5. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... mood of people was expressed in a bank’s full-page newspaper ad, "Paying without pain." It described a new way of paying bills - by telephone! In the Christian life, there is no paying without pain; there is the pain of a cross. The American people are ... the case with every truly great leader of men. Each marched in the vanguard and challenged men to follow in their path. When Alexander the Great was in pursuit of Darius, king of Persia, he made his troops march 412 miles in eleven days. The men were about ...

6. The One Thing That Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... BECAUSE OF WHAT IT SAYS ABOUT SIN. Martin Luther once said that we have three enemies: "Sin, Death, and the power of Satan." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian novelist, lay on a bed of straw in a prison camp in Siberia. Contemplating all that he had ... also his problem, he realized his need of a Savior. You and I need a Savior. Can I say that in this calloused age? As Bill Copeland once said in the Sarasota Florida Journal, "We used to hiss the villain; now we go out and buy his book." Is there any ...

7. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... ? May we not claim the following as our own? Twentieth century witnesses -- Mother Teresa, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Bishop Tutu, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Kagawa; Social reformers -- William Booth, Elizabeth Fry and ... that happens to meet in the local church. No one recognizes him as the founder of AA, but he is accepted warmly. He introduced himself: “My name is Bill W.” How thrilled he is as he sits back and watches the group in action. They listen to each other, care for each other and all call upon ...

8. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... with God, your life, your mistakes. You explore the depths and crevices of your own life. Rabbi Chanoch Henich of Alexander told the following story: “There was once a fellow who was very forgetful. Indeed, his memory was so short that ... no insurance and no identity, so the man writes a check for several thousand dollars, and leaves his own ID, so that he can be billed for the remainder of the services necessary for this man –an operation, a recovery, a place to live if needed. This is really out of ...

9. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... . One need not look long to see humanity's age-old propensity to carry praise too far. Consider, for example, some of the titles of rulers of the past: Alexander the Great, Herod the Great, Caesar Augustus, Antiochus Epiphanes, meaning the manifestation of the Divine. Can you hear it now? Governor Pataki the Great, or President Bill Clinton, Ephiphanes! Other rulers of history were not overwhelmed with modesty. Some of the Caesars began to demand that they be worshiped as gods. The Emperor of Japan until ...

10. On Being in the Wrong Place

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... give their lives to causes, go to jail, risk themselves for causes greater than themselves. Such were the earliest Christians. When Bill Coffin graced this pulpit a couple of weeks ago, he noted that the book in the Bible titled “The Acts of ... GOOD CAME OF IT. Mark alone gives us an interesting detail about this man Simon of Cyrene. He says that he was “the father of Alexander and Rufus...”(15:21) as though those two boys would be well known to his readers. And so they were...for in Paul’s Letter ...

11. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

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John R. Brokhoff

... he is, and all he has, and all he can do depend upon the grace of God. Secularism through our mass media is selling us a bill of goods in terms of materialism and worldliness. Radio and TV, as well as full-page ads in newspapers, are out to convince us that what ... compromise with the enemy. In our day, a nicer word for "compromise" is "detente." Some, like Nobel-prize winner, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, warn America against making detente with Communist Russia. He addressed the nation in 1975, warning that we were ...

12. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... season of hope. Those who express hope and have experienced pain are worth hearing. Such a person is Bill Cosby. Since the murder of his son, Ennis, Bill Cosby knows that ultimate pain of outliving a child. Listen to what he said about good and ... and Evil, and let's remember that KALI ANESTASI is not just "Greek to us" but is the essence of the faith. I close with this: Alexander de Seversky, U.S. aviator and engineer, was once visiting a fellow flyer in the hospital. The young man had just lost his leg; de ...

13. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... buys groceries for the family. After several more circulations and innocent transactions it goes to the bank where the cashier says, “This bill is counterfeit.” The fake note did lots of good while in circulation, but when it arrived at the bank, it was ... ordinary lay people. It was the fortune of Linacre to live through some of the church's dark hours: the papacy of Alexander VI, the Borgia pope whose bribery, corruption, incest, and murder plumbed new depths in the annals of Christian shame. Reading the ...

14. Seeing the Elephant/Hearing the Owl

2 Samuel 18:24-33

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to use with some frequency. The earliest likely use of the saying goes way back to the third century BC, when Alexander the Great's soldiers defeated King Porus' elephant-borne troops in the IndusValley. Gerald Conti,"Seeing the Elephant,"Civil War Times ... of God. The first century church, waiting for the eschaton and persecuted by the secular powers, sang and made melodies to the Lord. Bill Irwin is a 50-year-old blind recovering alcoholic. He is also now a member of an elite club: the AT "thru-hikers" ...

15. Miracle Ten: Healing A Blind Beggar

Mark 10:46-52

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Harold H. Lentz

... them. Sometimes this results in giving them money. And sometimes, wary of their statements, we go with them to a restaurant where we pay the bill and know they are spending it on food. Of course, there is always the alternative of shelling out some money in answer to their ... July 25, 1807, at a spot in the Tilsit River in Prussia. In the middle of that stream Napoleon and Alexander held a much publicized private conference. It was widely described in advance as a meeting which would "arrange the destinies ...

16. Is There No Balm in Gilead?

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... had “forgotten God” and was “intoxicated with unbroken success…too proud to pray to the God who made us.” Alexander Solzhenitsyn said communism strangled the Soviet Union for seven decades because his people had “forgotten God.” I suppose it ... not lead us out of Egypt; the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. We were not given the Law of Moses. We drafted a Bill of Rights. This past week Cal Thomas wrote an excellent article entitled “The judgment of God.” In it he said the following: “There ...

17. The More Excellent Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Robert Allen

... life, he was striken by a disease which grotesquely crippled him for life. In spite of his suffering and handicaps, Alexander Pope came to be regarded by many as one of the greatest English poets. This man who knew lifelong suffering ... Governor’s mansion, and they were getting their food from the garbage. I wanted to help those people and I pulled out my wallet, but the only bill I had was a twenty. I began to rationalize. I began to find excuses to keep my twenty - after all, my wife Madalyne and I were ...

18. God Isn’t Dead - Death Is Dead

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... and done, the lowest common denominator which makes us tick appears to be money. That’s where it’s at, with George and Abe and Alexander and Ulysses and the rest of the boys. If God isn’t dead, there are many who live as if he never came to share his ... and purpose for life." There is another fellow of my acquaintance who came to church once a year. He would place a five dollar bill in the Easter offering. Yet, in spite of his belief that he could handle his own affairs, he was spending 25 dollars for a ...

19. Bad News from a Good Man!

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... the life of Ahab and his Jezebel. I. The Sliding Spiral Of Human Depravity John D. Rockefeller was the Bill Gates of his generation. After observing the commercial potential of oil production in western Pennsylvania, Rockefeller built his ... bed, turned away his face, and would not eat” (1 Kings 21:4). He sounds like a spoiled brat, does he not? He reminds me of Alexander the Great, who sat and wept because there were no more worlds to conquer. He had it all, yet he had nothing. Steve Brown writes, “The ...

20. Dreaming Of Florida--awaking In Alaska

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sometimes we use the word saint in a pejorative sense: “Well, I didn't know that YOU were such a saint!" Or, “Nobody said Bill Clinton was a saint." Sometimes we might use the word saint as a compliment: “Old George was a such a saintly man." But generally ... down their names. When he got the list of students back again, each person had put a number behind his name! John Alexander "˜76, Fred Thompson "˜77, Charles Francis Lovell "˜76, Philip Norton III "˜76. It didn't take him long to figure out that ...

21. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... heard of recently wasn't even made on a football field. It was made by a seventeen-year-old girl named Melissa Alexander. Melissa was fast asleep one night in December when she was awakened by the terrifying words, "I think there's somebody outside." ... Rosellini, "Not On My Block," Reader's Digest, July 2003, pp. 25-27. 4. Fred Craddock in Ten Great Preachers, edited by Bill Turpie (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), p. 45. 5. Pat Pearson. Stop Self-Sabotage! (Newport Coast, CA: Connemara Press, 1998), pp ...

22. That Believing Ye Might Have Life

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... stands with us as a pillar of fire; this God who tells us we can do anything. He will give us the victory! (4) Sir Alexander Fleming won the Nobel Prize for medicine when he discovered penicillin. But his discovery was an accident. He was a very positive, forward-looking man ... believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through His name." 1. Bill McCartey in The Knoxville Journal. 2. Louis H. Valbracht, Matters of Life and Death,, (Lima, Ohio: C.S.S. Publishing Co. ...

23. On Doing Beautiful Things

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to do...and I hope that somebody else sees fit to reimburse the poor fellow for the rest of the repair bill for the incident, which damaged the reputation of Michigan students far more than it damaged the poor man’s taxicab. But ... lowly, /and ordered their estate.” I’ll bet that wasn’t written by the poor man at the gate! Actually, it was written by Cecil Frances Alexander in 1848, who wrote a number of good hymns and good stanzas-but this is not one of them. Hence it is omitted from most hymnals ...

24. More Tolerable For Sodom And Gomorrah

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... account in terms of our moral and ethical performance. It was this belief in a divine judgment that became the context and the impetus for the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Men like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel and John Adams, James Madison, George Washington, Patrick Henry and Alexander Hamilton were enormously influenced by the moral and ethical precepts of the Judeo-Christian faith, in a God who manifested his will and purpose in history. They all believed that it was ...

25. Pay It Forward!

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... move to the back of the bus. · John, Paul, George, and Ringo decided not to get haircuts. · IBM decided to let Bill Gates keep the rights to his software. · Tiger Woods' dad gave his two-year-old a few toy golf clubs. · Rachael ... a stick or mouse in the hands of a 15-year-old. One child today has more power for good or evil than Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great combined. What actions have you taken today that might change the world? On this Sunday, this Palm Sunday, many churches re-enact their own ...

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