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1. Investing Time

Illustration

Silas Shotwell

... , 19th century political figure and diplomat, kept a diary. One day he entered: "Went fishing with my son today a day wasted." His son, Brook Adams, also kept a diary, which is still in existence. On that same day, Brook Adams made this entry: "Went fishing with my father - the most wonderful day of my life!" The father thought he was wasting his time while fishing with his son, but his son saw it as an investment of time. The only way to tell the difference between wasting and investing is ...

2. Lasting Impression

Luke 3:34-38, Matthew 1:5, 16

Sermon

James Merritt

... Tennyson, Elizabeth Barret Browning, General Robert E. Lee, scientist Charles Darwin and actors - Humphrey Bogart, Aubrey Hepburn and Brooke Shields. Think about that. You may be a royal blueblood right now and not even know it. You may ... a part of our human family so that we could become a part of His heavenly family. Christ, the son of God Became a son of Adam That we, sons of Adam, Might become sons of God. When Jesus Christ became a part of the mosaic that we find in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 when He became ...

3. Paul Today

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... in modern scientific analysis of human nature? Ignorant of the laws of heredity, did not Paul falsely assume that the guilt of Adam could be inherited? How can we speak of "original sin" when psychological studies have failed to find any trace of "sin" in ... Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit who makes Christ the contemporary of men of every age. The Work of the Holy Spirit Phillips Brooks was once asked whether communion with Christ is necessary if one is to be a Christian. His reply was, "Communion with Christ is ...

4. A Friend in Low Places

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... on the other side, somebody who is for him, who wants to help him. That is what life is all about. It is as old as Adam and Eve. It says that there are forces inside of you, and outside of you, that will lead you into lives you will regret, lives ... grace to help in time of need." Which brings us back again to country western music. My consultants gave me a CD of Garth Brooks greatest hits for my birthday. One of those hits is entitled, "I've Got Friends in Low Places." That title caught my imagination. The ...

5. The Neverending Feast

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... famine 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 ... Story Lectionary Major Text Elijah Raises a Widow’s Son (1 Kings 17:7-24) Minor Text The In-Breathing of Adam by the Holy Spirit and God’s Calling Out of Adam and Eve (Genesis 2-3) The Story of Noah and the Raising Up of New Life / God’s Salvific Power (Genesis ...

6. Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... to care. On goes the endless debate in Philadelphia while men are dying of exposure and disease. Finally, the character who portrays John Adams, sings a song. It is a song that arises from the depths of his own heart, but it speaks for those in any ... of a bad time in his life, he felt God was nowhere to be found. "O God, art thou to me like a dried up brook when the waters fail?" Is anybody there? Does anybody care? Martin Luther, certainly no cynic, and surely a believer in God's mercy, nevertheless once ...

7. Gabriel Speaks to Mary

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

George Bass

... in it were recreated; sinful people are reconciled to God once more so that things are like they were when God created Adam and Eve as the last act of the Creation and gave them dominion over everything that he had created. The announcement ... front of houses. Their cooking pots were filled with cornmeal "from bags labeled, ‘Gift of the People of the United States.’ " Ms. Brooks noticed "a teen-age girl who carried an amplifier that would have done justice to the Rolling Stones." The world of the Bushman ...

8. God Is Not Yet Finished With You

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... get this second creation, this new heart of goodness? How is one re-made or re-born as a new person? The new heart is made out of the ashes of the old heart. The new Adam arises out of the old Adam, who must first die in order to live again. While Barney Clark was given a new heart by physicians, Charles Brooks, a murderer, was executed in Texas by being given deadly drugs through intravenous injection. Because of his crime, society sentenced his heart to stop. This is what must happen to us if we are to ...

9. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... or Pavlov's... none of us are happy in the way we were supposed to be. Nobody is...so confident that they feel the way Adam and Eve felt before they knew they were naked. We are in the wreckage of a war, a kind of Hiroshima, a kind of Mount Saint ... and 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 ...

10. Pressing on Toward the Goal

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... his conversion as the occasion on which a powerful hand was laid on his shoulder, turning him right round in his tracks, and a voice that brooked no refusal spoke in his ear: “You must come along with me.” Paul was conscripted into the service of Christ, but never was there a ... are raised and the living who are changed, having hitherto “borne the likeness of the earthly man” (the first Adam, according to the narrative of Gen. 2:7), will henceforth “bear the likeness of the man from heaven.” This ...

11. Proper 5

Luke 7:11-17, 1 Kings 17:7-24, Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... history of what happened to him that turned him from his pursuit of the Christians into a fiery preacher of the good news. He is adamant in his assertion that God spoke directly to him, informing him of what he was to do and what he was to preach; he had ... didn't, nor did the prophet. Remember? God sent him to a brook (Cherith), and there he drank from its water and ravens fed him bread and meat two times a day. But, like everything else, the brook finally dried up. God sent Elijah to Zarephath. 2. It was only ...

12. Small Towns

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... reason we are celebrating small towns today is, of course, because Jesus was born in a small town. Each year we sing Phillip Brooks’ beautiful hymn, “O little town of Bethlehem / How still we see thee lie / Above thy deep and dreamless sleep / The silent stars go ... s Digest, date unknown. 2. Cited by Jim Hammond, http://vvchristianchurch.net/Sermons/B2S15.htm. 3. Adam Christing, Comedy Comes Clean (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996). 4. Rev. Craig Ross, http://www.stpeterslutheran-lanc.org/worship/2005_sermons/ ...

13. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... perspective. Thus, the covenant curses of Deuteronomy 28:15–68 inform Genesis 3:15. Just as God cursed the serpent and exiled Adam and Eve from the garden, so God will curse Israel for breaking their covenant and will send them into exile. (We assume ... 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; and thus ...

14. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... preachers misinterpret work as a curse, which came as a result of the fall of Adam and Eve. Nothing could be farther from the truth. This world is the result of God's work. (Gen. 2:2) God gave Adam the job of tending the Garden of Eden before sin came on the scene. (Gen. ... Word Publishing, 1994), 106. 6 The Atlanta Journal , September 2, 1996. 7 Bill Gothard, Men's Manual, Vol. 2 (Oak Brook, IL.: Institute in Basic Youth Conflicts, Inc., 1983), 226. 8 R. C. Sproul, Pleasing God (Wheaton, IL.: Tyndale House ...

15. God Where Are You? - The Problem of Evil

Genesis 3:1-6, Judges 6:13

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James Merritt

... why people murder one another and even the reason why tsunamis and earthquakes erupt to wreak havoc on the human race is because of sin. Ever since Adam and Eve sinned a sin nature has been passed on to every man and every woman who has ever been born. That is why you don't ... sermon delivered at Saddleback Valley Community Church, February 26, 2000.) [4] I am indebted to Norman Gizler and Ron Brooks, "Wise Skeptics Ask", pp 62-63. [5] Heroes, Hurricanes Bring More Than Destruction," Facts and Faith, 12, no.4 ...

16. God in a Glimpse

Acts 17:16-34

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... says there is. Just because we can't see Jesus the way the disciples did, or hear a voice from God the Father as did Adam and Moses and the prophets, doesn't mean God isn't real. It simply means we haven't looked in the right places. Like Thomas, ... beliefs, but surrendering to a person we call Lord and Savior. And the result of faith is commitment, not credence. Theologian Brooke Westcott wrote 100 years ago: "A Christian is essentially one who throws himself with absolute trust upon a living Lord, and ...

17. The Fashioning of Christians

Ezekiel 36:1-38

Sermon

... churches, that Christians are united if not by denomination and communion, at least by fashion. Not that all true Christians wear only Brooks Brothers suits and Gucci shoes. Far from it. Generally speaking, Christians dress up to go to church on the Lord’s ... waters in the nude was a symbol for a return to the innocence of the Garden of Eden. Baptism restores you to the state of Adam and Eve prior to the Fall.24 After being washed with the waters of baptism, the person would step out of the baptistery and be ...

18. The Racial Gap

Psalm 53:1-6

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... race. Today the cry is "Black Power" which means something very different to Eldridge Cleaver or Stokeley Carmichael than it does to Roy Wilkins or Edward Brooke - but it is a cry for separate identity - a demand on the part of the Negro to be seen as a group. So what I’ ... to discover itself. Our call is to understand it. If love would be genuine, it must be honest - and understanding. Adam Clayton Powell isn’t my ideal for a congressman (although there are some white elected officials who fall short of ...

19. Some Said It Thundered

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... pages of the Bible there is contained the ancient tradition that God at one time spoke directly with people. He spoke directly to Adam and Eve in the Garden; He spoke directly to the child Samuel, according to the story contained in I Samuel 3:1-14 ... could rise to a new life. He cries out, O glory of the lighted mind. How dead I’ve been, how dumb, how blind. The station brook, to my new eyes Was babbling out of paradise; The waters rush from the rain Were singing Christ is risen again. I thought all earthly ...

20. What Are Your Chances of Going to Heaven

John 14:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (v.6) Ever since the Garden of Eden and the fall of Adam, man has been divided from God, deceived by the devil, and dead in sin. The Lord Jesus is the remedy for all three of those problems. We ... Mohammed, you can be a Confucianist without knowing Confucius. But you cannot be a Christian without knowing Jesus. Philip Brooks was once asked: "Is it necessary to have a personal experience with Christ in order to be a Christian?" ...

21. Pray

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... We ask for guidance and all we hear is silence. We get what we want and wind up not wanting what we get. Unlike Garth Brooks, we don't always find it easy to thank God for unanswered prayers. Prayer is a mystery, yet over 80% of Americans pray and ... a relationship to be experienced. Prayer is not primarily our striving for God. Prayer is God coming to us. As surely as God searched for Adam and Eve in the Garden, so He looks and longs for us. Let not our guilt and embarrassment over sin keep us apart. Paul ...

22. Israel’s Ill-Placed Confidence

Amos 5:18-27

Understanding Series

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... fruit harvest. They were to “take the fruit of majestic trees, branches of palm trees, boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook; and you shall rejoice” before God for seven days (Lev. 23:40 NRSV). Avoiding all work on the first and last days of ... the garden, with one exception, to a comprehensive prohibition and then goes on to contradict God and promise that eating will make Adam and Eve “like God, knowing good and evil” (3:5). While an explicit identity for the serpent is not given at this ...

23. We've Got a Friend in High Places

1 Corinthians 15:20-26, 28, Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... writes in Ephesians 1. In other words, we have a “big brother,” or, if you will, a Friend in the highest regions of heaven. Garth Brooks sang about having friends in low places, which, of course, is what country music is all about. But you and I have a friend in ... have fallen asleep. For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive. But each in turn: Christ, the firstfruits; then, when he comes, those who ...

24. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... while I read a portion of Moses’ words to his people: “For the Lord your God is bringing you into a good land—a land with brooks, streams, and deep springs gushing out into the valleys and hills; a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees, pomegranates, olive oil and honey; ... July 12, 2002; http://www.acfnewsource.org/religion/gratitude_theory.html. Cited by Adam Hamilton in his book Enough, Revised and Updated: Discovering Joy through Simplicity and Generosity (Abingdon Press). 6. www ...

25. The Judge of the Living and the Dead

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... the judgment of God. Judgment is not a minor theme in the Bible, after all, but a major one. What is the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden after they ate the forbidden fruit other than an example of God’s judgment? What is the ... selfish choices. Not long after, Jesus told another story about God’s judgment, the story about the rich man who dressed in Brooks Brothers’ Suits and feasted on champagne and surf and turf. Meanwhile, just beyond the rich man’s gated community, just outside ...

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