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Mark 1:4-11 · Genesis 1:1-5

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... meaning of baptism as he symbolically died to the old life and was raised to new life, fresh and clean. Just at the moment that he rose from the water, God's mark of approval was placed on Jesus and His ministry. That mark was more than just a laundry mark, it was ... United Methodist Church in their area. They fell in love with the folks and joined recently. None of Carl's family, except Carl, had ever been baptized, so the whole family, including three-year-old Rachel, went through a confirmation and ...

2. You Can Be Forever Young

Genesis 25:1-11

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... me off too soon. I've still got neon in my veins!" There are lots of people around who agree with that. Grandfather Carl Perkins recently released an album titled Born To Rock. Show business legend Donald O'Connor was performing in Asheville, North Carolina, recently. An ... of yourself. Maintain a low fat diet. Get reasonable exercise. Provide yourself with sufficient rest. Develop a hobby. "Smell the roses." Those endeavors add years to our life and life to our years. 2 -- Take care of your world. In other ...

3. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

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David E. Leininger

... most cherished rules - he bet on the games, even some of his own. That transgression earned him a lifetime ban from the sport. Pete Rose had a great name, one of the greatest names of all time, but he ruined that name, and he has been living with the ... the Black Bear Inn. Craddock writes: We were seated there looking out at the mountains when this old man, with shocking white hair, a Carl Sandburg-looking person came over and spoke to us. He said, "You're on vacation?" We said, "Yes," and he just kept right on ...

4. Maturity in Stewardship

2 Corinthians 9:6-15, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... of us. Adam, you''ll remember, tried to place all the blame for his sin on Eve. He was like an old man in the hospital Carl Mays tells about who had been married 45 years. His wife was sitting next to his bed. He turned toward her and said, "You know, Martha, I ... of roses, and those carvings, it was discovered, were painted with an arsenic lead paint. A fine dust fell from the roses. Completely unaware of what was going on, Mrs. Luce was being poisoned in her bed by this fine dust falling from the roses. ...

5. Redeem the Time

Matthew 24:36-44 · Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of making these ancient, end-of-the-world, apocalyptic passages sound almost modem. Matthew, when he talks about the end, sounds like Carl Sagan when he talks about nuclear winter. Our nuclear activist professor is telling us to think about the Bomb before it is ... you that breaking in line at a bus stop, throwing a piece of paper on the ground, snipping a flower in the Marx Rose Garden, is not just a matter of churlishness but of disloyalty to your beloved Socialist paradise just as in South Africa, a joke ...

6. No Telltale Clues

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

... than anything that had come Matthew's way in a long time. We can all make our guesses as to why Matthew rose and followed him, but we will never know for certain. And if the writer of the Gospel knows, he is not going to ... cheat and who was about as straightforward as a person can be. He was full of Rocky Mountain air and sunshine. You and I, George Burns and Carl Reiner, may choose followers of God like John Denver, but Jesus chose a follower like Matthew. Jesus chose a man who could not go to church even ...

7. The Unfettered Word

2 Timothy 2:8-15

Sermon

Will Willimon

... was going to retire for good and move to the mountains of Hendersonville to live among the Floridians. The hot Sunday sun rose over green tobacco fields as the service began in the little church. He had asked a quartet of sweet, soprano voices to ... 't think it's ever been sung in Duke Chapel. After they sang, he preached. Before he set off for the mountains and Hendersonville, Carl Parker preached. His text? Something about the depth and breadth, the height and width of the love of God. It was Father's Day, ...

8. Endorsing The Future

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Harold Warlick

... over. Right there in that valley they just endorsed their lives over to the power of the universe. They let it loose and rose above their own time and place. Through their perceived darkness and tribulation, they just endorsed their lives over to God. That message has been ... of our life from the twentieth century may well have to die. Ultimately, all privileged people may have to die. Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan are noted American scientists. They contend that however one understands the creation of the earth, ...

9. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... shall be revealed in us." But our awareness and our blindness to reality hold to the paths of unlife and of death. Carl Jung reminds us sadly "It is becoming more and more obvious that it is not starvation, not microbes, not cancer, but man ... to be faithful to my moment?" Listen well to a contemporary ballad. He came singing love, He lived singing love, He died singing love, He rose in silence - If the singing is to continue, We must do the singing! And remember this: The farther out on the limb we go in ...

10. The Bedrock of Faith

Mark 13:1-8 · Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Brett Blair

... chorus and orchestra burst forth in such power that the crowd could no longer restrain its enthusiasm. The vast assembly rose spontaneous applause in the middle of the peace. Haydn weakened by age and confined to a wheelchair struggled to stand ... make you watchful, cautious, and prepared. III The bedrock of faith is not in Temples or Signs. The bedrock of is in Christ. Years ago, Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks did a comedy skit called the "2013 Year Old Man". In the skit, Reiner is a TV interviewer and Brooks is ...

11. Terms of Endearment

Luke 3:21-38

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David E. Leininger

... syllables the better (even though, in the end, a Bridgette by any other name still smells like Johnson's Baby Powder)." True enough, a rose by any other name still smells as sweet, but we also know how true it is that WHAT we are called makes a difference ... Black Bear Inn. Craddock writes: We were seated there looking out at the mountains when this old man, with shocking white hair, a Carl Sandburg-looking person came over and spoke to us. He said, "You're on vacation?" We said, "Yes," and he just kept right ...

12. Where Have All The Heroes Gone?

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... City for a short visit. He was amazed at what he saw. When he returned to his native village, he told stories of buildings that rose into the very face of the sky; of streetcars, which he described as houses that moved along the trail, with people living in them as ... the Bible heroes listed in Hebrews 11. All we need is courage, character and a great confidence in a great God. 1. Carl Lomen, the reindeer king of Alaska, quoted in KEEP OPEN THE WINDOW OF YOUR MIND by Merle Crowell in the The American ...

13. A Christmas To Remember

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... needs and aspirations, dreams in the Bible revealed God's will or plan for that individual. In studying over 80,000 dreams Carl Jung has discovered that many dreams reflect a "process of spiritual growth." God speaks to us in many ways. One way is ... Christmas party after the service, and the parishioners were in back with cookies and coffee, when out of the church rose a magnificent voice, singing, "O Holy Night." It was a trained professional voice, radically beautiful, and everyone listened, awestruck, then ...

14. Whatever became of Kingdomtide?

John 16:17-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... want to paint of our Lord, as the sort of person who would bring his wet blanket to every party. In one of his Chicago Poems Carl Sandburg said of Jesus: “(He) had a way of talking soft and outside of a few bankers and higher-ups among the con men of Jerusalem ... Him, all right. But He conquered death. The thing most of them dread and fear all of their lives He broke and conquered. He rose again, and a few of them saw Him, and from then on became His utterly devoted slaves.” That is the essence of the ...

15. God’s Strange Arithmetic

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... which was sprayed into the boat and around the boat, so it looked like an overgrown, melted marshmallow. Thus filled, the boat rose and floated at lake level. For the first time in two millennia, the boat “sailed” again to the cheers of an ... in the old town hall. But they also decided to go right on meeting in the old town hall while the new one was being built! (Carl Michalson, FAITH FOR PERSONAL CRISES, New York: Chas Scribner’s Sons, 1958 p. 136) A nice trick if you can do it! Michalson says that is ...

16. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... me what it has to offer... it might be a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there." We can't be Pollyannish, looking at the world through rose-colored glasses, and we can't be superficial and practice a faith that is totally other-worldly, or a superficial religion such as the New Age Movement which sees each one of ... He has her heart, He has her devotion. What about you? So be it! (Carl Schenck, Missouri United Methodist Church, and Donald Shelby, "Joseph: Keeping Vigil", Rev. Donald Shelby)

17. Dusting Off Our Gratitude

Joel 2:21-27

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... removed the weevil from the statue's arms, Comedy Central captioned the news segment reporting this event as "See No Weevil."1 Carl Sandburg and Brook Benton have also immortalized the boll weevil in a "top 100" folk song that has been enjoyed by generations ... us. The Joad family and others migrating westward were expecting little more from California than meager survival, while daughter "Rose of Sharon" entertains high hopes of living the traditional American dream. She is the one beacon of hope within the ...

18. Prologue to the Law of the Temple: The Lord Comes Home

Ezekiel 40:1--43:12

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... vision of a city (48:30–35)—clearly Jerusalem, but with a new name: “THE LORD IS THERE” (48:35). Kalinda Rose Stevenson neatly and insightfully sums up the book of Ezekiel in a single question, indeed a single word: “Where is God ... east. This is a fortified gate, much like the city gates excavated at Hazor, Gezer, and elsewhere (Zimmerli, Ezekiel 2, pp. 352–53). Carl Howie proposed that Ezekiel’s vision recalls the gates of Solomon’s temple (“The East Gate of Ezekiel’s Temple Enclosure and ...

19. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... has passed this way." George Buttrick once noted that in the Middle Ages cities were not as sanitary as today, but the Church spire rose above them. There are still churches in cities, of course, but now almost everything else rises above the church: ”banks, office buildings, factories, cell ... .uk/help-information/mental-health-a-z/H/hearing-voices/ 2. The Rev. Dr. William Carl, III, http://day1.org/1119-having_trouble_sleeping_through_the_night. 3. http://myfamilyminute.com/dailyemail/signup/index.php 4 ...

20. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

In the name of Jesus Christ, who is indeed the Resurrection and the Life, dear friends: During the past six weeks of Lent, some of you know that I have been preaching in the Wednesday services from the point of view of one who was there, at the scene of the suffering and death of Jesus. This morning again I wish to speak to you in a first-person style, taking the part of one who was there, Mary Magdalene. Please listen, then to what I say, not as a sermon by a pastor, but as a message from a woman who knew ...

21. Rocky

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

William J. Carl

It is said that Winston Churchill never liked talking to subordinates. He always wanted to go to the top because he figured that was the only way he could get any action. So, as the story goes, when Churchill went to heaven, he met St. Peter at the gate and said, “Who are you?” When Peter said, “I’m St. Peter,” Churchill said, “To hell with you, get God!” How did poor Peter get this job in the first place? It all started with the story recounted in this text when Jesus renamed him “Rocky” and gave him the ...

22. Rejoice! It's Lent

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

Rejoice! It's Lent. Sounds strange doesn't it? Joy and Lent just do not seem to go together. Lent is the somber season. In popular practice Lent possesses all the marks of a six-week funeral. The paraments are the deep purple of a dowager's dress. Hallelujahs are silenced within the service of the liturgy. Social celebrations are cancelled - or at least curtailed. Our attention is focused exclusively on the crucified body of a young man dying in agony on a criminal's cross. Our emotions are moved to tears ...

23. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

What comes to your mind when you hear the name "Moses"? Do you think of Chariton Heston standing on a rock with his hair and his beard and his robe blowing in the wind, while at the same time, beneath his feet the Red Sea churns and rolls back as mighty walls of waves forming a path for the fleeing Israelites? Perhaps you imagine Moses as a white-haired man standing on the jagged cliffs of a mountain and holding in his sinewy arms the two stone tablets of the law. It is doubtful that any of you imagine ...

24. An Easter-Life

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

What does Easter mean to you? In the secular world, it means fluffy bunnies, brightly colored eggs, hidden baskets, and lots of lush chocolate candy. If you are a child, there is nothing wrong with this. Easter is a happy day, and God loves to hear the laughter of little children; but, if you are an adult and this is all that Easter means to you, then there is something tragically missing in your faith-life. Interestingly enough, the word "Easter" appears nowhere in the Bible. The word "Easter" was ...

25. We Proclaim a Resurrection Message

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Hear the good news of Christ: He died for our sins; was buried and on the third day, arose from the dead. People: Praise the Lord for this Resurrection message! Pastor: This faith in Christ's Resurrection is the message proclaimed by all Christians for nearly two thousand years. People: We have heard and believe. Now we want to share that message with others whom God wants to save. Collect Heavenly Father, who gave your message of salvation through the life, death, and resurrection ...

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