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Romans 8:28-39

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Bill Bouknight

... the UT Medical School. They married in September and absolutely adored each other. After just three months of married life, Calvin was gunned down by criminals. (1) That’s not just unfair. That’s absolutely rotten. Why is life so unfair ... strength. A former great preacher in Atlanta, Pierce Harris, lost his wife Mary in a tragic auto accident. A few weeks later a man wrote to Dr. Harris and said, “I hope your terrible loss will not destroy your faith.” Dr. Harris said that he felt like writing back to ...

2. Celebrating Christ The King

Ezekiel 34:1-31

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King Duncan

... such forays can be appalling. One morning he found nine of his choicest ewes, all soon to lamb, lying dead where a cougar had harried the flock during the night. It was a terrible shock to someone new to the business of raising sheep. From then on, he slept ... who is hurting. We are all sheep who have gone astray. Norm Lawson tells about a CALVIN AND HOBBES cartoon series that illustrates this truth brilliantly. Calvin says to Hobbes, "Let's push the car out of the garage. I can't budge it by myself." Hobbes ...

3. Called to Be Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

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Warren Thomas Smith

... get along without them. We must also have Thecla and Perpetua; Athanasius and Ambrose; Benedict and Thomas Aquinas; Theresa of Avila and Katherine Zell; Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin; Ann Hutchinson and Madam Guyon. Harry Hosier’s Story One of the remarkable personalities in American church history is Harry Hosier, better known as "Black Harry." Unable to read or write, he was regarded as one of the greatest orators of his generation. He traveled with Francis Asbury, Thomas Coke, Freeborn Garrettson and ...

4. A Protestant (And Catholic) Way To Confess

Romans 10:8b-13

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Mark Ellingsen

... today. We are living in a world in which a sense of loneliness is growing in America (especially since the 1980’s). A 2016 Harris poll indicated that 72% of us say that we are lonely.[3] We even do our religion more and more on our own. That’ ... : that neither hell nor the devil can take us and all others who believe him captive nor can they do us harm.[8] We can, John Calvin once said, “rest with a sweet confidence in God...”[9] The focus on the grace of God and that that is the only way we’re saved ...

5. How Can I Know The Truth?

John 16:5-16

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King Duncan

... God. I believe in the testimonies of the great heroes of our faith like Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley and others. I am helped by more recent theologians like Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer and great Christian ... a publisher, I’m so pleased to see that you are buying all those books. I suppose you read yourself to sleep at night." Harry Truman answered, "No, young man, I read myself AWAKE." (3) That is the purpose of reading the Bible and reading the testimony of the ...

6. How to Love God

Matthew 22:34-46

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Stephen M. Crotts

... been cold and formal. If you show emotion you're breaking the rules. Influential church reformer John Calvin himself had a strong disdain for emotionalism. (John Calvin also had kidney stones. If you've ever had one, you'll know it's hard to ... peculiar in his blend of emotion, will, and intellect. When we turn our lives to the love of God, each one of us comes out unique. Harry Emerson Fosdick used to say, "If we could get religion like a Methodist, be sure of it like a Baptist, preach it like a Presbyterian, ...

7. Put Up and Shut Up

Proverbs 18:21

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James Merritt

... minute of keeping your mouth shut is worth an hour of explanation. One of the most underrated Presidents of all time, in my opinion, was Calvin Coolidge. He was known as "Silent Cal" because he spoke very little. He said one of the wisest things, without saying anything, that I've ... Green, ed. Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI.: Baker Book House, 1989), p. 378. 5 R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, Jr. & Bruce K. Waltke, Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Vol. II, (Chicaco: Moody ...

8. Death Through Adam, Life Through Christ

Romans 5:12-21

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... the greater that we saw in 5:9–10. Its logic contains the key to the Adam-Christ typology, the how much more of grace! Calvin said it well, “Christ is much more powerful to save, than Adam was to destroy” (Romans, p. 206). Verse 16 repeats that the propositions about ... to Paul,” in Pauline Studies. Essays Presented to Professor F. F. Bruce on his 70th Birthday, ed. D. Hagner and M. Harris (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), pp. 67–79. 5:13–14 On the idea that sin precedes death, but that only death ...

9. Vengeance: Human and Divine

Matthew 13:1-9 · Isaiah 44:6-8 · Psalm 1-12, 17-18, 23-24

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Will Willimon

... you cannot know yourself, until you know that you are capable, not only of love, but also of vengeance. As John Calvin said (I'm quoting Calvin in honor of Presbyterian Pelham Wilder), the Psalms are “an anatomy of all parts of the soul.” This is who we ... executes more criminals than any other civilized, free nation on earth; with movies like “Death Wish,” and “Walking Tall,” and “Dirty Harry” where the hero takes vengeance into his own hands with a stick or a magnum. We will do God's business ...

10. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

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William L. Self

... a declaration that we are deadly serious about this prayer business. We are going to keep at it and not give up."3 John Calvin writes, "We must repeat the same supplications not twice or three times only, but as often as we have need, a hundred and ... prayers. We must lay hold on God with bloody knuckles to be carried along with him in his desires for all humankind. 1. Harry Emerson Fosdick, The Meaning of Prayer (New York: Associated Press, 1915), p. 190. 2. Richard J. Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart's True ...

11. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

... the beginning of an answer. Clint Eastwood is an American film icon. Who can forget Dirty Harry and the huge 45 caliber magnum weapon he carried, more a canon than a pistol, or the sneering invitation to ‘Make my day?’ But long before he was Dirty Harry, Eastwood was Rowdy Yates on the TV show Rawhide. I can still sing part of the ... ," The Wenatchee World, July 20, 2001. 16. PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 4:12-25. 17. Calvin Miller, The Book of Jesus (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 54.

12. Salvation: Authentic and Powerful

Amos 5:18-27

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King Duncan

... unity and salvation on God’s terms are inextricably bound together. A great homiletician out of the recent past, Harry Emerson Fosdick, provides a ray of light in his Riverside Sermons. He says, "Theologies change; creeds alter; the world views of ... one generation are incredible to the next; the mental patterns that Paul, Augustine, Calvin used we cannot exactly copy." Having made that admission and set such a condition, he speaks "of a profound need ...

13. A Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Acts 9:1-19a

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George Bass

... comprehend the true nature of the Church as one in Jesus Christ; that the Church is his, not ours. When Dr. Harry Whitely was pastor of St. Giles Cathedral in Edinburgh, Scotland, he impressed the Lordship of Christ upon those gathered to worship ... depicts Loyola in his pulpit, preaching and pointing to some people being condemned to Hell. The people are identified as "Luther, Calvin, and the other heretics." That church was begun shortly before the Council of Trent and completed after its conclusion for one ...

14. Dessert in the Desert

Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37

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Robert Noblett

... to begrudgingly break off for God what you would rather keep for yourself. Feeling religiously insipid, we take on the deportment of Calvin Coolidge as it once was evaluated by Alice Roosevelt Longworth. On one occasion Longworth said of Coolidge that he "looked as if ... shall not live by bread alone." T. S. Eliot, in his play The Family Reunion, gets at this when he has a character, Harry, remark about people: They don't understand what it is to be awake, To be living on several planes at once Though one ...

15. The Most Misunderstood Gift

Acts 2:1-13

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Barbara Brokhoff

... our ideas and motives makes us realize we often fail to be very logical. Preserving the status-quo experience is no more realistic than Harry Emerson Fosdick’s delightful little quatrain he learned as a child: "I eat my peas with honey - I’ve done it all my life ... , Oral Roberts is a present-day charismatic. On the other hand, great men of God like Wesley, Luther, Augustine, Moody, Asbury, or Calvin, so far as we know, never spoke in tongues. This is simply to say - to speak, or not to speak in tongues - ...

16. The Mighty Tide Of God Rolled In

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... appeared drunk and disorderly. That will never happen. Most of us in our Christian faith are as sedate as former President Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge kept himself under such control that when his death was made public, someone quipped, "How can they tell?" That ... Why? Let me suggest some reasons. THERE OUGHT TO BE THE EXCITEMENT, FIRST OF ALL, OF A PEOPLE FUELED BY PRAYER. Harry Emerson Fosdick, former pastor of Riverside Church, New York City, once stood by the rail admiring Niagara Falls. The man standing ...

17. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

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Donald B. Strobe

... by the Church. Without the Church’s tutelage, it is doubtful that any of us would ever have thought to pray, Our Father... A man asked Calvin Coolidge one day: Why cant I worship God out on the lake fishing as well as in Church. Coolidges laconic reply was this: You can, ... it. (Ephesians 5:25) Is it too much to expect that we should love the Church and give ourselves to it? Harry Emerson Fosdick is the source of many excellent stories and illustrations for sermons. Here is one which I came across recently ...

18. Does God Give Out Blank Checks?

John 15:1-17

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Donald B. Strobe

... some sort of ailment not once, but three times...all to no avail. Nobody is sure what Paul’s problem was. John Calvin thought it was the temptation to doubt. Luther felt that it was the opposition of his enemies. The Roman Catholic Church over ... ) God did not answer the prayer in the way Paul wanted, but God did answer the person, and that is far more important. Harry Emerson Fosdick, that controversial pastor of Riverside Church in New York many years ago said some wise words about prayer. Among the wisest ...

19. Precious and Privileged Children

Galatians 4:4-7

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Donald Charles Lacy

... they do not have the substance of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Even denominations have to be careful that Martin Luther, John Calvin, and John Wesley are not placed ahead of Christ. They are not the source but merely offer commentaries in print and behavior. We are to ... all learned from those they sought to imitate. On the more down-to-earth side of life, many of us found Harry Emerson Fosdick a homiletician worthy of imitation. In fact, go to any walk of life and we discover this phenomenon at ...

20. Getting the Face We Deserve

Exodus 34:29-35

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Leonard Sweet

... to them by Moses, they should construct a beautiful golden image to serve as the focal point of their worship. John Calvin was so concerned about people confusing icons with identity that he had Reformed churches stripped bare. And how much time, money ... substance by the sauce, even the oregano and cheese pitch in to provide him eyes. Recording this phenomenon with amused amazement, Harry T. Cook, an Episcopal priest and Detroit-area freelance writer, notes that poor Pizza Hut has had to hire extra operators ...

21. The Character Of Christmas; Herod: The Not So Great

Matthew 2:13-22

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... heart never melts, a Scrooge whose heart is never touched and remains hard as stone and cold as ice. He may be the one John Calvin was thinking of when he came up with the theology of the Total Depravity of Humanity. In all of Christian history, there may not have ... act of generosity in the birth of Jesus. Herod couldn't look up. He couldn't get past himself. And he missed it. Harry R. Boer in The Reformed Journal says, "The Point of Christmas is that the simplest soul [is told] that God understands them. It ...

22. They Said 'Yes!'

Ephesians 1:11-23

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... were and how they touched us and the church. I. Who They Were A. John & Charles Wesley, Zwingly, Martin Luther, Augustine, Billy Graham, Iranaeus, St. Patrick, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Allen, Harry Hoosier, Franics Asbury, Peter Cartwright, John Calvin, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob, the Disciples, Mary & Joseph, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, St. Jerome, Constantine, Saul of Tarsus, Stephen, Spurgeon, Theresa of Avila, Meister Eckhart, Bob Core, Albert Outler, Karl Barth, Detrich Bonhoeffer, Friedrich ...

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