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John 15:1-11, 16

Sermon

James Merritt

... Ark, there is a scene where Indiana Jones is reading a flight map that takes him over Thailand. The problem is the movie was set in 1936 and Thailand was called Siam until 1939. Deborah Ricketts lives to find those mistakes. In Die Hard 2, Bruce Willis uses a payphone, from what is supposed to be DullesAirport in Washington, D.C. Only Deborah noticed that the phone booth read "Pacific Bell." Deborah Ricketts has a full time job and makes a tremendous living at doing one simple thing - separating the fake ...

2. Will 2012 Be the End of the World?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... but that should not be a reason for anxiety, but for great joy. It reminds me of a really bad joke I heard recently. It seems that Hollywood decided to make an action movie called The Three Bs, based on the lives of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Bruce Willis signed up to play Beethoven and Mel Gibson agreed to play Brahms. When the casting director approached Arnold Schwarzenegger and asked him if he’d like to be in the movie, too, he thought about it a minute, then nodded and said: “I’ll be Bach.” O ...

3. Lost In America

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... that will improve his chances for a better life. It didn’t have to end that way. Things could have turned out better. Willie simply could not get it all together. He was lost there is no better word for it lost like a lamb in the ... you?" had become an empty question. (4) Some people don’t care at all. Others care in a superficial way. Then there are those like Bruce Kimball’s friend who care like God cares and who seek to help lost people reestablish their faith. Who seek out the hurting and introduce ...

4. The Bible Study

Matthew 10:1-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... 't be here and he asked me to teach the lesson. BILL: How is he? Has anyone heard? REGGIE: Well, Rosie said he'd be in the hospital for some time and then he'll need lots of rest. WENDY: That's terrible. BRUCE: What's our lesson this week? REGGIE: Well, Willie told me to teach anything I like so I thought we'd take the tenth chapter of Matthew, verses 32 and 33. Do you all have it? "Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven. But whosever ...

5. Fear Of Flying

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... of us it is not a friendly universe. It is filled with a God of anger, a God who is always judging us, a God who intervenes willy-nilly in His universe to punish some people and reward others. And so, even if we never enunciate this as a problem in our lives, really it ... t ever have to fear flying again! 1. Bob Ward, THE LIGHT STUFF, (Huntsville, Alabama: Jester Books, 1982). 2. Bruce Larson, THE PRESENCE, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1988), pp. 10-11. 3. Elaine M. Ward, ONCE UPON A PARABLE...(Educational ...

6. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

The title of this sermon, "You Can't Win Them All," sounds like what Bruce Bochy might say in the locker room after each game the Padres play. At least the Padres ... dust off your feet and move on." The Tony Awards were on television this last week. Brian Dennehy won the best actor for his re-creation of the role of Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman, one of the great American classics. All this year, as they anticipated the opening of that play on Broadway, newspapers, magazines, and commentators have been ...

7. The Scarlet Letter

Exodus 20:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... was working with a little boy trying to help him with his grammar. She said, "Willie, what is it when I say ‘I love you, you love me, he loves me?'" Willie replied, "That's one of those triangles where somebody gets shot." Well, people do not ... driving until you find the exit marked "Obedience." That's the only road that will get you to genuine happiness. [1] F. F. Bruce, History of the English Bible, (New York: Oxford, 1978), p. 108. [2] Michael Medvid, Hollywood vs. America, p. 117. [3] Russell Chandler, ...

8. The Lions Are Shackled

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... California minister had himself nailed to a cross as a protest against crime in the streets. The Reverend Willie Dicks, of St. John’s Missionary Baptist Church in San Jose, set up a 9-foot by 12 ... commitment to being all that God created us to be. The lions are shackled. Let us go forward with confidence as those for whom Christ died. 1. Bruce Felton, What Were They Thinking? (Guilford, Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2003), p. 135. 2. http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Isaiah.html. 3. Mark Victor ...

9. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... Baptist Press, 10-4-91. 13 Robert L. Alden, Proverbs (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1983), p. 148. 14 R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr., Bruce K. Waltke, eds. Theological Word Book of the Old Testament (Chicago: Moody Press, 1980) Vol. 2, p. 927. 15 Norman L. Geisler, "A Christian Perspective on ... Devaluing of America (New York: Summit Books, 1992), p. 118. 27 Land, Light, September/October, 1994. 28 Willie W. White, ed. Out of My Treasure (Joplin, Missouri: College Press, 1964), p. 278.

10. Almost Persuaded

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... centuries. The rich young ruler had everything in the world except what he wanted most this eternal or abundant life. Bruce Larson is a nationally known Presbyterian leader. In one of his books he tells about a Presbyterian conference that ... sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.” That gives me a slight touch of the "willies" every time I read it. What if Jesus were to tell you or me in a vision too real to deny: "Son or daughter, I want you ...

11. Stilling Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... Acres spiders as in Charlotte’s Web dolphins like Flipper bears like Gentle Ben and killer whales as in Free Willy. Even skunks have Pepe Le Pew. There are no famous porcupines. “As a general rule, porcupines have two methods for ... do well in dealing with stormy relationships if we cannot conquer the storms in our own hearts and souls. In the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story, Lee’s mentor tells him: “You have to conquer the demons inside you. Otherwise you will pass them on to your children.” ...

12. A Man of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Ken Kragen to assemble some of the top names in the recording industry in order to create a hit record and then donate the proceeds to the African famine relief project. Within days pop stars like Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, and Bob Dylan arrived at Kenny Rogers’ Lion Share Recording Studio. A few months later the super-group released the hit song “We Are the World.” “We Are the World” became the fastest-selling American pop single in ...

13. Jesus Sends Out the Seventy-two

Luke 10:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... James A. Sanders (“The Ethic of Election in Luke’s Great Banquet Parable,” in J. L. Crenshaw and J. T. Willis, eds., Essays in Old Testament Ethics [New York: Ktav, 1974], pp. 247–71) has pointed out that the reason Deuteronomy is ... . Since it is the Greek version that Luke has followed, seventy-two is probably the original reading. For a fuller discussion see Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (New York: United Bible Societies, 1971), pp. 150–51. On the significance ...

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