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Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... listen at the gates And hear the household jar within. XCV By night we linger’d on the lawn, For underfoot the herb was dry; And genial warmth; and o’er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn; And calm that let the tapers burn Unwavering: not a cricket chirr’d: The brook alone far-off was heard, And on the board the fluttering urn: And bats went round in fragrant skies, And wheel’d or lit the filmy shapes That haunt the dusk, with ermine capes And woolly breasts and beaded eyes; While now we sang ...

2. The Reluctant Prophet

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : “When God decides to make His appearance to man, any old bush will do.” We are staying with the story of the burning bush again today as we continue our preaching journey through Exodus. In my last sermon I talked about a redeeming God and a ... for his training. Elijah drank from a brook and there was a drought that caused the brook to dry up and Elijah got the lesson. He watched the brook grow smaller and smaller and said, “My life is no more than a dried up brook.” He was right. Then you remember ...

3. Swimming With The Sharks

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... back to the States to meet with his young bride, Brenda. Just before Brenda arrived, Roever watched the wife of another burn victim tell her husband that she wanted a divorce. Then Brenda walked in. "Showing not the slightest tremor of horror or ... remember a player by the name of Brooks Robinson, former third baseman of the Baltimore Orioles. Robinson was such a stellar defensive player that he became the standard of excellence for third basemen. It was often said of Brooks that he played third base as if ...

4. Giving Our Best

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... night. At the end of the year he was the number one student. (6) That’s what I mean by a radical commitment. A passion burned within Sir Walter Raleigh to give his very best. Now, let’s think about our commitment to Christ. You and I are not saved by ... human being possible. That would be a worthy goal, would it not? In his recent book The Road to Character, journalist David Brooks notes that most people cultivate two sets of virtues, one he calls our résumé virtues and the other he calls our eulogy ...

5. God, The Promise Keeper

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... without getting caught. Rafael Schaecter was a young Jewish conductor who was imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp. Schaecter burned with anger toward the Nazis. One day, he had an idea for channeling his anger. He gathered a small ... Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting light, The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight. (4) Phillips Brooks knew about hopes and fears, and he knew about new beginnings. Such beginnings are available to anyone who will allow Christ's love to ...

6. Out of the Darkness

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Civil War, but his wife had died a couple of years earlier in a household fire. He had tried to save her and was badly burned himself. Not only that but his son had joined the Union army without his permission and was severely wounded. Longfellow was nearly at his wit’ ... season. Office employees are all standing around a crèche singing Christmas carols. They’re singing the carol that Phillips Brooks was inspired to write after his visit to the Holy Land: “O little town of Bethlehem / How still we see ...

7. God’s Flowing and Our Ebbing

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... is not therefore aware all the time that what he does has deeper sources and more distant issues than he can comprehend. (Phillips Brooks, Selected Sermons, p. 84) “I saw the Lord ...” Beyond all else, that’s what people should declare when they leave the sanctuary ... have had. The good news from Isaiah is that God is waiting to send a seraphim in our direction, carrying a burning coal, to burn our guilt away. And, just maybe, the difficulty we have in feeling grace and forgiveness has more to do with our ...

8. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... destroyed under the Persians in 586 B. C. The temple was destroyed, the walls of the city were torn down, the gates burned. Thousands of people were transported to Babylon as captives and slaves. A generation passed, and then another. As time went on, ... . So we have more choice over our goals. Getting those choices right is the problem. (4) Recently journalist David Brooks, author of the bestseller, Bobos in Paradise, wrote a fascinating article for the Atlantic Monthly titled, “Kicking the Secularist Habit ...

9. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... until at last he whirled that bank of fog into a solid ball of fire, and it went rolling through the universe, burning its way through other cosmic banks of fog, until it condensed the moisture without, and fell in floods of rain upon the ... 's successor led his camel out into the garden to drink, and as that camel put its nose down into the clear water of the garden brook Al Hafed's successor noticed a curious flash of light from the sands of the shallow stream, and reaching in he pulled out a black stone ...

10. Life Is What Happens When You've Made Other Plans

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Dr. Robert E. Lair

... Midian (hiding from an angry Pharoah), married, raising a family, and trying to forget about his people in Egypt, is unexpectedly disturbed by a burning bush and a call from God. His reply was something like: "Who, me?" and "Why me?" and "Can't you send somebody else." (I ... Philadelphia and Boston. His name was Phillips Brooks. Of all the letters he received in his life, the one that he cherished most was from a tailor in a small shop near Copley Square in Boston. It said: "Dear Mr. Brooks: I am a tailor in a ...

11. If You Had Been Here

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ilk are dead. The silent forces of the world seem to be arrayed on the side of God. Evil has a way of burning itself out and perishing through its own rottenness. Long ago, a prophet of God cried out against the bloody tyrant, "The stars in ... , O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right." This is the word of a coward. But, by contrast, hear the word of Rupert Brooke: "Now God can be thanked, who has matched us with this hour in history." These are the words of a Christian. We can assume that God’s ...

12. Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

William G. Carter

One summer day, it was my turn to mow the yard. The dew had burned off, the grass was dry. I fired up the Briggs and Stratton, lowered the blade, and took it for a ... say with cynicism, “There’s nothing we can do.” A number of years ago, columnist David Brooks interviewed a young politician named Barack Obama. It was a genial conversation, and Brooks discerned that Mr. Obama read a lot of books. Suddenly Brooks asked out of the blue, “Have you ever read the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr?” Obama sat up ...

13. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... burning bush - why don’t we? Well, the answer may be because the bush we see is blooming instead of burning - and the blooming of a bush may very well be a greater wonder than the burning of one. But, someone says, God spoke to Moses from the bush that burned ... ? Do you remember that, unwilling to turn loose and let go in response to the invitation of Christ, he went away sorrowfully? Phillips Brooks said of this young man: "His soul was like a tall, strong ship, but tied fast with a long rope. It was able ...

14. It's All In The Blood

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The blood of the lambs washes down the temple steps and into a channel that carries it straight to the Brook Kidron. Jesus has just finished praying his final earthly prayer. He and his disciples are heading towards a private garden ... Stop for a second and listen closely to Jesus' words. We've heard this declaration before. In Exodus 3, God speaks to Moses out of the burning bush. He calls Moses to lead the Israelites out of slavery in Egypt. In fear, Moses asks for some way to prove himself to the ...

15. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... in 1415, Wycliffe was condemned by Pope Martin V, and it was ordered that Wycliffe’s remains be exhumed and burned. But it was Wycliffe who had the last laugh. Church historian Thomas Fuller wrote, “To city of Lutterworth they come, . . . take what was ... left out of the grave, and burnt them to ashes, and cast them into the Swift, a neighbouring brook running hard by. Thus this brook hath conveyed his ashes into Avon, Avon into Severn, Severn into the narrow seas, they into the main ocean; ...

16. The Neverending Feast

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in the land. At first, God sends Elijah to Kerith Ravine, east of the Jordan to drink from the brook there. During that time, ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, much as we saw happen ... weight. Whether you eat green beans or a candy bar matters. You might consume the same amount of calories, but the way your body burns those calories is not the same. Healthy food sustains. Junk food does not. Likewise, in scripture, not all “bread” is alike! You can eat ...

17. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... colleagues in the North, Dabney had only these chilling words: “What! Forgive those people who have invaded our country, burned our cities, destroyed our homes, slain our young men, and spread desolation and ruin over our land?! No, I do ... in that), but he was a man of more faith than perhaps even he knew. One of the best preachers of Lincoln’s day, Phillips Brooks, in a memorial sermon after the assassination said, “He [Lincoln] fed us faithfully and truly. He fed us with counsel when we were in ...

18. Walk in Light

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

... boots of hikers of a century ago and the soft deerskin moccasins centuries before that. Along the trail runs a brook filled with rainbow trout. Occasionally a black bear will paw along that trail, looking for berries and trout, its snout ... to feel today that he never felt before? What is it about killing the buck that has so struck this young man? Was there some rust burned off his iron that day? Some tarnish rubbed off the gold? Or did he grow a little rusty? Was his gold tarnished that day? Left to ...

19. The Promise of Homecoming

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

... beach. During their stay at the beach Cate and Lydia have a fierce fight. Cate burns cardboard in the summer cottage's fireplace. Sparks set the roof on fire and the cottage burns. Cate then decides to go to her parents' home in Mountain City while her mother ... have been sent, to protect and defend them as the Shepherd who will lead them home by the most direct route and by brooks of water to sustain and nourish them. In the midst of our shattered dreams, broken hopes, torn lives, God speaks a similar word. ...

20. Born One Of Us

Drama

... the lion and the bear will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine." Refusing Saul’s armor, David chose five smooth stones from the brook and put them in his shepherd’s bag. He carried his sling in his hand. And when Goliath saw David, he sneered and called him a ... wouldn’t understand, Father. Father: An old man knows his fire burns low, Abner, like the oil in the temple lamps. But he never forgets how it feels to burn. Abner: (Swinging around toward Father) Somebody has to do something, Father! ...

21. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... the outer and the inner galaxies we are startled by mystery. Whether it is Moses and the voice of God from the burning bush, or Isaiah caught up in a religious trance in the incense-filled Temple, or Jeremiah trembling with the inner Word of ... a defeated spirit, and where most of all, love would flood our inner beings with love for God and love for one another. So with Phillips Brooks we pray: O holy child of Bethlehem Descend to us, we pray; Cast out our sin and enter in; Be born in us today. We hear the ...

22. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... with learning to love one woman well all her life long. It is less demanding to stray than to keep the home fires burning. Vital marriage takes creativity; adultery only takes availability. To look at one’s own wife with desire is a virtue, and the frank ... obedience are better yet, because they are the path to freedom and restored dignity in this most sensitive and intimate area. Thomas Brooks wrote, “Saving grace makes a man as willing to leave his lusts as a slave is willing to leave his galley, or a ...

23. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... punch line, “In the presence of a king” he commented, “don't ask for small gifts!”1 In an sermon on prayer, Phillips Brooks wrote, “You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not ... . And here’s a physical beggar. So what happened in the next hour? Craig ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on a micro-waved, freezer-burned hamburger bun with a side of ice cream, a diet soda, and a bag of chips. You paid for a motel room as well! When I ...

24. The One Habit of Highly Effective Christians

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... today where God in greatness stood; Revealing all His majesty in water, stone, and wood. I heard His voice speak from the brook, I saw mountains He had made; His aspen trees clapped golden hands— I rested in their shade. I saw the graceful trees He ... , it will be boring. Instead of looking at your Bible during the sermon, you will be looking at your watch. But if your heart is burning and on fire for God, it is amazing how fast the time flies when you're worshiping. That's why I believe that real worship ...

25. Resurrected Glory (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

John 17:1-5

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... him saw his greatness when he died. Joan of Arc was burned as a witch and a heretic by the English. But some people left the scene saying “We are all lost because we have burned a saint.” Martin Luther King, Jr. was ridiculed as a ... of missionaries coming home from work with primitive tribes sharing the joy that came to uneducated, uninformed people when they discovered that every tree, brook, hill, mountain, river, and stone was not a god that had to be appeased. Oh, what a relief it is to know that God ...

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