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Malachi 2:5-7, 2 Timothy 2:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... who will be able to teach others also." (II Timothy 2:2, NASB) According to Paul, in his instructions to Timothy, we have a mandate and a mission for multiplication. Doc Blakely is a famous public speaker who has been inducted into the National Public Speakers Hall of Fame. He said that when he first got interested in speaking, he went to visit a man who lived near his hometown, who was a fantastic and funny speaker. He told him he wanted to do that kind of work too and asked if he would help him. He said ...

2. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... illustrates Job 38:7: “while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy.” In this engraving, Blake portrays the angels and God above, while humans are beneath them in a posture of humility. This illustrates the humble ... domain of humans. No human, like Job, has taught them to fly, but rather their superb ability comes from Yahweh. These birds of prey live in inaccessible places that humans cannot approach (39:28), and no human can tell them when to fly or where to nest (39:27). The ...

3. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... where you want me to go. You are driving. O.K., if God is who he says he is, then he alone knows the direction that our lives must take. We give him the controls. He takes over. We trust him. We keep our hands off the wheel. We stop our "backseat driving." We ... his eyes had been so faithfully set during his mortal years. A neighbor, a simple person, who had come to sit with Mrs. Blake said that they had been present at the death, not of a man, ‘but of an angel.’ " - "And I agree," concludes Malcolm ...

4. THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

... on the topmost rung of a ladder reaching for the moon and crying impatiently, "I want, I want!" Blake felt that man is a creature of unfulfilled desires. He never is satisfied. "Man never is, but always to ... cease to have wants when he becomes a Christian. Indeed God has some unfulfilled wants of his own for his children - their growth and development in lives of holiness. "This is the will of God, your sanctification." 1. THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD: THE SANCTIFICATION OF YOUR THOUGHTS. "As a man thinketh ...

5. The FUD Club: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... uncertainty and doubt? How do you not join a FUD CLUB? You hear the “good news” of the gospel once again: that we are to focus our lives on faith, not on the final days, but on the fullness of life God offers to us now in these days. The “good news” of apostolic teaching ... should doubt, They’d immediately Go out --William Blake, “Auguries of Innocence,” in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, newly rev. ed., ed. David V. Erdman (Berkeley, University of California Press, 1982), 492.

6. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... Another: "It seems I’m more in tune with people now." And another, in the same vein: "I can sense the needs in other individuals’ lives ... I have been with people in the elevator ... I can almost read their faces, and tell that they need help, and what kind." And another ... brightness which I have glimpsed myself." Malcolm Muggeridge tells of the death of William Blake, genius, scientist, artist, and poet, who died in 1827: "Blake lay in bed, a friend who was there recalled, singing songs so divinely, so ...

7. Man Is Never Satisfied

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Illustration

John W. Rilling

... drew a picture of a child standing on the topmost rung of a ladder reaching for the moon and crying impatiently, "I want, I want!" Blake felt that man is a creature of unfulfilled desires. He never is satisfied. "Man never is, but always to be blest." And so life is a series of rungs ... does not cease to have wants when he becomes a Christian. Indeed God has some unfulfilled wants of his own for his children - their growth and development in lives of holiness. "This is the will of God, your sanctification."

8. What's a Human Book?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He became fully human so he could experience our burdens and sorrows and share with us the love of God. He died so that we could live eternally with God. There is no question, no objection, no anger, no burden that could separate you from his love. And if you have come to ... life and joy that you found in Jesus Christ. 1. “The Human Library” by John Blake, CNN, November 14, 2021 https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/14/health/human-library-blake-cec/index.html. 2. By John Patterson in More God Allows U-Turns by ...

9. What In The World Are We Doing Here?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... this way again.” All good religion begins here. We may not be able to agree on everything. Indeed, we may have some areas of our lives in which we are in sharp conflict with one another, but we can at least treat each other with civility, with simple human kindness. There was ... named Patrick Connelly. Connelly is a fan of country star and TV celebrity Blake Shelton. In fact, Connelly was fortunate enough to attend a Blake Shelton concert in Overland Park, Kansas. Unfortunately, Connelly is in a wheelchair. ...

10. If You Look Like Your Passport Photo

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Bible there is not only "seeing," there is also "vision." "Vision" in the Bible means, seeing what God gives us the gift to see. William Blake, the great poet, who has been called a "visionary" poet, wrote it this way in a poem: What will be questioned When the sun rises ... Moses says to God, "I beseech thee. Show me thy glory." God said, "You can't see my face. Nobody can see my face and live." But he added, "Stand in the cleft of this rock and my glory shall pass by, and I shall put my hand over your face ...

11. Welcoming The New Millennium

Sermon

James Angell

... suggested a 5:30 a.m. "prayer meeting" as a send-off before catching his plane to fly out towards the morning sun. Blake thought it was a fine idea, though was surprised that the location for the gathering was an outdoor athletic stadium. He expected maybe ... billion. Today there are 5.7 billion of us. And by 2000, 6.3 billion. So that more than half of all the people who ever lived on planet Earth are alive today. We might wish there were some sort of intrinsic magic to the flip of a calendar page - that the ...

12. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... child, regard not your stuff and start all over again. All the goods of life will be yours if like little child you will learn to live lightly and pattern your life after mine. Now it takes most of us a long time to learn that lesson, but learn we must. We can ... , and we think it is all so natural, so easy, so effortless, and it is. But ,oh, the discipline behind the spontaneity! William Blake insists that Jesus was all virtue and acted from impulse, not from rules. He did not ponder. Now that may be a bit ...

13. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... nowadays. More and more of them are running their practices like an assembly line. Doc Blakely tells about a fellow who walked into a doctor’s office and the receptionist asked him ... in the hospital badly burned and in pain that I knew I had come back to life again for some reason." Eternal life means that we do not have to live our lives fearing death. Lee Trevino said after his experience, "There’s no reason to fear death." (3) The new life that Jesus gave Lazarus was only temporary. He would one day ...

14. Can These Bones Live Again?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... can these bones live?” Ezekiel answered, “Sovereign Lord, you alone know.” Maybe you’re asking that question about your life or the life of someone you love. Well, hear the word of the Lord. Dem bones, dem bones, dem dry bones, dem bones gonna rise again. 1. Words and music by James Weldon Johnson. 2. God’s Little Lessons for Graduates, (Honor Books). Cited by Dr. Keith Wagner, http://www.lectionary.org/Sermons/Wagner/OT24Jer-Dan/Ezekiel%2037.1-14,%20FreshBeginnings.htm. 3. Blake Ellis, “Social ...

15. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the world. It would later be on the mountain, the Mount of Olives, where Jesus would ascend to the heavens. “Great things happen when men and mountains meet,” wrote William Blake But do you really think they could ever imagine the impact of what would happen next on the mountain, or how it would imprint the rest of their lives? On this mountain they were “made” men, disciples made disciplers . . . . with a power not their own. But still after all of that-–they hesitated. The task seemed so big ...

16. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... into their home in a way they could never have expected. There was peace and assurance, faith and love on a deeper level. They felt close to their child and felt the very Presence of God. Their lives had been renewed. They wanted to thank me for the session of prayer. I was comforted. I saw that my prayer had been answered, but in a way I had not expected. When I moved to the ... our grief he may destroy: Till our grief is fled and gone He doth sit by us and moan. ("On Another’s Sorrow" by William Blake)

17. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... man I keep his house." It has never been easy being a woman, but it is a picnic today compared to the world in which Jesus lived. Women had few legal rights, and if a woman lost her husband, and she did not have other family members to turn to for support, her ... as teenagers. Sometimes people who hang in there and refuse to fold come out on top. A young man named Michael Blake suffered through poverty while writing screenplays that for years were never accepted. He admits, "I slept on a lot of floors," ...

18. Christ the Apple Tree

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... will not cease." This is the season where gilded trees and gleaming hopes both move into the midst of our homes and our lives. In the midst of this celebration, remember Dominus regnavit a ligno - "The Lord reigned from a tree." Sometime in the next week or ... keeps my dying faith alive, Which makes my soul in haste to be With Jesus Christ the Apple Tree. It is said that when William Blake was a boy, he saw a tree full of angels, like golden birds come home to roost. He made the mistake of telling his mother ...

19. News Too Good To Tell

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... a moment when it would have been better to have been quiet. Mystery is a moving target. Each moment belongs to itself. You can’t make a monument out of a mystery. William Blake put it this way, “He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy. He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in eternity’s sunrise.” We have made great mistakes in trying to institutionalize an inspiration. People experience a revelation from God and pretty soon we have a whole denomination of people springing into ...

20. My Younger Brother Gets Away With Everything

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... exactly the same, because each child is unique. That makes child-rearing the most complex of all human tasks. Doc Blakely once said that no man knows his true character until he has run out of gas, declared bankruptcy, and raised a ... . I didn't say anything, but just released them to him. And just this one act seemed to take the pressure off me to run the girls' lives...." This father with two sons knew that the younger boy would only grow more rebellious if he were made to stay at home, and so he gave ...

21. Building a House (Mother's Day)

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... feel a sense of awe. G. K. Chesterton once said that the world does not lack for wonder, but only for the sense of wonder. And Blake pictured it as to how it might be: To see the earth in a grain of sand, And Heaven in a wild flower. To hold the ... everywhere. If we can sell water on a dry desert, we can certainly sell hope on the ash heap of destruction which many of our lives have become. The family needs to be the setting where hope is cultivated, transmitted from one to the other. The family ought to be the ...

22. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... feel a sense of awe. G. K. Chesterton once said that the world does not lack for wonder, but only for the sense of wonder. And Blake pictured it as to how it might be: To see the earth in a grain of sand, And Heaven in a wild flower.To hold the ... everywhere. If we can sell water on a dry desert, we can certainly sell hope on the ash heap of destruction which many of our lives have become. The family needs to be the setting where hope is cultivated, transmitted from one to the other. The family ought to be the ...

23. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... statement about his feelings at all. He was simply putting his name, Love, on his helmet. That reminds me of something humorist Doc Blakely said recently. He was poking good-natured fun at the Civilian Air Patrol-those courageous pilots who are so much help in ... his bar, the man asks Rick, "Why didn't you help me?" Rick sneers, "I don't stick my neck out for anyone." Rick is living amid the cruelty and inhumanity of the Second World War. Once he was hurt when he made the "mistake" of sticking his neck out for ...

24. Looking to the Unseen

2 Corinthians 4:18

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... -understanding. The materialists are forever killing to dissect, hoping to find the secret of life and love by destroying it, but the people of faith are lured by the unseen mystery of life itself to say with poet William Blake: He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise Or as Jesus put it, "He who saves his life loses it, but be who loses his life for my sake and the gospel's, finds it" (Mark 8:35). III Lastly, the lure of ...

25. Can you Hear “The Voice?”

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of disciples. In “The Voice” reality show the contestants are “coached” by big star singers — Shakira, Usher, Blake, Adam. But as the competition crescendoes even these super-stars bring in their own coaches, drawing on ... match for a stranger, a 28-year old young man with cancer. Without the bone marrow transplant, that young man only has six months to live. The kicker is that a bone marrow transplant leaves the donor in such a depleted condition that you can hardly raise your hands above your ...

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1. Multiplying Men Of God

Malachi 2:5-7, 2 Timothy 2:2

Sermon

James Merritt

2. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

3. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

4. THIS IS THE WILL OF GOD, YOUR SANCTIFICATION

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon Aid

John W. Rilling

5. The FUD Club: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt

2 Thessalonians 2:13-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

6. Life After Life

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

7. Man Is Never Satisfied

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Illustration

John W. Rilling

8. What's a Human Book?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

9. What In The World Are We Doing Here?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

10. If You Look Like Your Passport Photo

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Mark Trotter

11. Welcoming The New Millennium

Sermon

James Angell

12. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

13. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

14. Can These Bones Live Again?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

15. Lost in the Wonder of God

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

16. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

17. Never Give Up

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

18. Christ the Apple Tree

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

19. News Too Good To Tell

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

20. My Younger Brother Gets Away With Everything

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

21. Building a House (Mother's Day)

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

22. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... feel a sense of awe. G. K. Chesterton once said that the world does not lack for wonder, but only for the sense of wonder. And Blake pictured it as to how it might be: To see the earth in a grain of sand, And Heaven in a wild flower.To hold the ... everywhere. If we can sell water on a dry desert, we can certainly sell hope on the ash heap of destruction which many of our lives have become. The family needs to be the setting where hope is cultivated, transmitted from one to the other. The family ought to be the ...

23. True Love

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

24. Looking to the Unseen

2 Corinthians 4:18

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

25. Can you Hear “The Voice?”

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

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