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Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.” The point of ... Dr. James C. Brown, about a patient of his. The patient was a five‑year‑old boy named Bobby. Bobby had been diagnosed with leukemia at age four. His cancer was now in remission. Still he had come to the hospital for a series of ...

2. God the Boggler

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... -old American street preacher dressed in long black robes and a baseball cap that says JESUS IS LORD who called himself "Bobby Bible," walked around Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and warned all the Muslims going to Mosque, " ... asked us. We who so often think of ourselves as not much more than a grain among the sands of time are invited to the table of the one who created all the sand. It does not compute. But then, it does not HAVE to. We can simply accept the invitation by ...

3. A Man Named Pain (Part 1)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... it would stop, zoom in for a close-up of this one man and then continue scanning. It is like a prospector sifting grains of sand and suddenly stopping for a pearl. What is there about this man Jabez and the prayer he prayed that we should remember him 2500 years ... his Dad. The other–his daughter–is a medical doctor. How do you explain such success out of so little promise? Bobby took responsibility for his life, he lived honorably and he trusted God. And therefore he was victorious. And those were Jabez ...

4. Chaos or Christ: Dreams Which Calm our Fears

Matthew 1:18-25

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J. Howard Olds

... pieces in this hand, how many pieces of candy would you have?" Bobby, with great confidence, replied, “I would have 14." “No", said the teacher, “nine plus seven equals 16." “But teacher," said Bobby, “you said use your imagination. I ate one piece and gave another ... flowing into the realities of faith. He told stories of wise men building houses on rocks and foolish people building houses on sand. If you are going to build a tower, you should first sit down and count the cost. He did not learn that ...

5. Christmas Preparations We Often Forget

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... effort to find him. At day's end, they left, and as he watched the ship sail away out of his sight, he fell down on the sand of his island prison and wept. The judgment of Christmas is like that. It comes, Christ comes, to rescue and to save us. But we can hide ... himself on his bed, crying softly for a world that simply was no more.Then he heard his mother's voice saying excitedly, "Bobby get up. It's Christmas morning!" The little lad sprang from his bed and ran to the window. Out there on the houses were ...

6. Is God Still God?

Isaiah 44:6-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... Who will deliver me from this body of death?" Because we sin, we feel dirty inside and long for cleansing. This was expressed by Bobby Ewing in the popular TV serial, Dallas. He had just engaged in blackmail. When he returned home that night, he told his wife ... cannot be destroyed, for God cannot be eradicated nor displaced. We stand on Christ the Rock, for all other ground is sinking sand. His promises can be trusted, for God never changes his Word. When we base our lives on the absolute values found in ...

7. Searching For A Lost God

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... is God?'" The boy jumped out of the chair, ran from the room, grabbed his little brother and raced from the church. He shouted, "Bobby, they've lost God and they're trying to pin it on us." We live in a world that has lost God, and we' ... for nothing." If you don't think that is the attitude of America's media moguls toward religious faith, you have your head buried in the sand. I know, we live in a pluralistic society. America is a free land. As good citizens of this land, we must respect the rights of those ...

8. Don't Forget Your Ticket

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... Little League coach looked down at his eager second baseman with desperation in his eye. "Bobby," he said, "You know the principles of good sportsmanship that the Little League practices. You know ... of a 15yearold who was living under the Boardwalk. He kept visiting, begging her to come in from the cold. One day he found her curled up, barely moving, the sand beneath her was pink. As he carried her to the van, she begged, "Don't forget my knapsack." He grabbed the bag and took her to the hospital. A doctor ...

9. Be Happy!

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Spirit. This is what the old happyologist hymnwriter proposes when he specifies that "to be happy in Jesus" means to "trust and obey." Bobby McFerrin's 1989 overnight hit "Don't Worry, Be Happy" (the phrase was lifted from Meher Baba, the Indian spiritual leader who died ... lilt and calypso beat, evoked images of carefree lolling on sun-drenched beaches. That the ocean rolling up on these sands was growing more polluted every day, or that the beach itself was littered with debris, or that just inland there ...

10. You Are Invited

Matthew 11:25-30

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J. Howard Olds

... remaining 10%, half of it you can't do anything about. So on a lighter day I might have said to you, along with Bobby McFerrin, “Don't worry, be happy." But I would be talking to the wind to say that today. We are worried, and no amount ... catch a glimpse of His wonder and grace. Embrace those things, which are eternal and everlasting, that are not transient even in these shifting sands of times. Actor Jimmy Stewart enlisted in the Army Air Corp in 1941 and prepared to go overseas. Like so many fathers of ...

11. Where's the Magic?

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-12

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King Duncan

... And so from this one man, and he as good as dead, came descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as countless as the sand on the seashore.” A 99-year-old woman, way past childbearing years, bears a child whose 100-year-old father is “as good as dead” in the ... thought they were incapable of. Most important, though, he taught them to believe in themselves. There was one young fellow named Bobby who in a very short time proved how well he had learned the lesson of believing in himself. One day he ...

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