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Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... the Christian Life (Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1974), p. 14. 2. Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall, as quoted in Robert McAfee Brown, Creative Dislocations: The Movement of Grace (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980), p. 90. 3. The story about Carlyle Marney is told in William H. Willimon, Sighing for Eden: Sin, Evil, and the Christian Faith (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985), p. 24. 4. William H. Willimon, What’s Right With the Church (San Francisco: Harper and Row Publishers, 1985), pp. 112-3.

2. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

Dr. Carlyle Marney was one of the great preachers in the South during the time after the Second World War. He was a mentor and role model to many pastors. One of the stories attributed to the rich legacy he left behind took place on a seminary campus where he was invited to be the speaker for a distinguished lectureship. One of the students asked, "Dr. Marney let us hear you say a word or two about the meaning of the resurrection." It was a fair question and an appropriate one from a future preacher to one ...

3. What Do You Know?

John 21:1-19

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Eric Ritz

4. While It Was Still Dark

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... the resurrection of Jesus, the world was a dark, dark place? There was once a widely known Baptist preacher named Carlyle Marney. Marney once visited the campus of Duke University. A student asked, “Dr. Marney, would you say a word or two about the resurrection of the dead?” Marney answered, “I will not discuss that with people like you.” The student was shocked and wanted to know why. Marney said, “Look at you, in the prime of the life . . . Never have you known honest‑to‑God failure, heart ...

5. We Have Waited

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... longer needed. Today we must “take no thought for the morrow," worry about today, that's all that matters, today. No “pie in the sky by and by” theology for me. But I was nineteen or twenty then, so what could I know? When I was in college, the late Carlyle Marney, who graced this pulpit many times, came to my college. One of us asked, “Dr. Marney, let us hear you say a word or two about the resurrection of the dead.” “I will not discuss that with people like you,” replied ...

6. All Dressed Up And Somewhere To Go!

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

Sermon

Harold Warlick

In Tennessee Williams' play Sweet Bird of Youth, the heckler says to Miss Lucy, "I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of God, is a long, long and awful thing...." The late Carlyle Marney retired from his church in Charlotte and went to Wolf Pen Mountain. There he waited for God to say something. He confessed that he had figured if he could get some time completely free from his preaching, his church work, and his worldly obligations that God would really jabber. After ...

7. The Man From Galilee III: The Touch Of His Hand

Matthew 8:14-17

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... "served them." Now back on her feet, she served those who were there. The touch of His hand still enables us to serve. That is the only motive for giving ourselves to the Church of Christ and the Kingdom of God. There is no other reason for us being here. Carlyle Marney, the great Baptist preacher, said, "The reaction to who he is puts us in church always."4 Not only does it put us in Christ's church, it also puts Christ's church in us. It does something to the way we look at life. It gives us a different ...

8. Any FAX, Or E-Mail From God Today?

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... or a satellite just once and called earth? In Tennessee Williams' play Sweet Bird of Youth, the heckler says to Miss Lucy, "I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of God, is a long, long and awful thing...." The late Carlyle Marney retired from Myers Park Baptist Church in Charlotte and went to Wolf Pen Mountain, waiting for God to say something. He confessed that he had figured if he could get some time completely free from his preaching, his church work, and his worldly obligations ...

9. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... with you. It is no longer a part of you; it will no longer have power over you. Together we will overcome this thing that was destroying you. That, my son, is salvation." I am intrigued by a passage in a small book by Dr. Carlyle Marney. When he was pastor of the Myers Park (Charlotte, North Carolina) Baptist Church, he was watching, as he waited for someone, the janitor tidying up the sanctuary after the morning service. He was picking up such articles as lost umbrellas, old gloves, discarded bulletins. Dr ...

10. Blood Sprinkled On A Modern Altar

Exodus 24:3-8, Mark 14:12-16, 22-26, Hebrews 9:11-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and Eve’s Skeletons Found South of Denver,’ Eden was not in Colorado. Where was Eden?” he asks innocently. That’s the question a student once asked Dr. Carlyle Marney. Marney put down his pen, turned to the college freshman, and replied, “I can tell you exactly—in Tennessee.” “What?” gasped the student. “Knoxville, Tennessee, 215 South Elm Street,” Marney insisted. “It was there on Elm Street, when I was a boy, that I stole a quarter out of Mama’s purse and ran to the store and ...

11. A Chance To Start Over

John 8:3-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it. III. The One We Carry A. Third, the stone can be the one we carry. The stone can be the one we carry with us from unforgiven sins. Sins we think are too horrible for God to forgive, so we never ask. Dr. Carlyle Marney was asked a question by one of his freshman students one day. The student asked, "Where was Eden?" Dr. Marney put down his pen, turned to the college freshman, and replied, "I can tell you exactly, in Tennessee." "What?" gasped the student. "Knoxville, Tennessee, 215 South Elm Street ...

12. Despair, Hope, Easter, and Pentecost

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... mercy enough to send him back to his crucifiers. This is why I say despair is heretical and downright sinful. And even more, it is so unnecessary! One of the greatest sermons Carlyle Marney, the late great preacher and professor, ever preached is titled "God's Strong Hands." It is about Judas and the ultimate tragedy of his life. His undoing, Marney said, lay not in his decision to betray our Lord, dastardly as that was, but in not staying around to see what God could do with human defection. In other words ...

13. Proclaiming Death

1 Corinthians 11:26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... the best of them, arise from mixed motives. Self-interest infects all I do. Even my love is often an extension of my inflated ego. Dare I gaze in the mirror of truth for more than a moment? I even stand on the bathroom scales fully clothed! There are moments. Carlyle Marney, Baptist prophet, told about the day his wife Elizabeth bid him farewell as he was leaving for some speaking engagement, handing him his hat, his coat, saying, "You don't do all you do because you love God ...

14. The Master Has Come - To Proclaim God’s Kingdom

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

... is a call to make the Kingdom of God a reality in our lives. Gerald Mann, a Baptist minister in Texas, wrote a book called Why Does Jesus Make Me Nervous? He told of going to see his friend Carlyle Marney, and telling him he was thinking of leaving the ministry. When asked why, Mann replied that he was unhappy. Marney said, "Well, you ought to quit! Whoever told you that you had a right to be happy? The ministry is no place for the pursuit of happiness ... it’s a place for the pursuit of the Kingdom of ...

15. A Father Pleased With His Son

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... kind of young men and young women they are becoming, and pleased that God has brought them our way. Then we will produce a generation of new adults with godly humility, genuine love for others, and a great commitment to making their lives count. Carlyle Marney once put it like this: "The Freudians emphasize to us that we are controlled by basement people from our past who go with us everywhere and push up out of our unconsciousness to push us off our best trails...We Christians have another powerful kind ...

16. Cheering from the Stands

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... we have tripped and fallen does not mean God writes us off. Noted preacher Carlyle Marney once said that because God doesn’t give up on us, we shouldn’t give up on ourselves. “The last person on earth [in whom] you will forgive a weakness is ... yourself,” Dr. Marney wrote. “Wait on God!” he continues. “When we have turned back, God can turn us around. When we have destroyed, God can ...

17. Liquid Hope

John 7:25-44

Sermon

James Weekley

... his healing streams?" Remember that Jesus did not thirst on a tree so that we might dam up the "waters of life" in the stagnated eddies of doubt and fear. He thirsted in order that his love might flow freely through us to thirsting others. Carlyle Marney is a friend who influenced my humanity and preaching more than anyone else. Over two decades ago he wrote, "... the only chance for you to have borne your weight against the tottering piles of moral sourness of our history lies in your having passed through ...

18. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and we will retaliate. Impoverish us and we will burn down our own cities in the night. Excite us, frighten us, anger us in a crowd and we can become more devastating than swarms of locusts or herds of animals. Society, in the words of Carlyle Marney, can sometimes be "a composite picture of (our) great power to harm."30 I've been associated with campus ministry or churches near university campuses for 23 years. Currently I am privileged to teach an honors section of a religion course. It has thirteen honor ...

19. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... -Kennedy, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Leslie Weatherhead, E. Stanley Jones, Ralph Sockman, George Buttrick, Peter Marshall, Donald Baillie, James Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow myself the luxury of a second decalogue, I also name Louis Evans, Carlyle Marney, James Pike, Ted Loder, Wallace Hamilton, Gerald Kennedy, Eugene Carson Blake, Liston Pope, Elton Trueblood, and Richard Raines. Plus the following, whose writing informed my mind and added muscle and music to my faith: Loren Eiseley, Thomas ...

20. The Master Has Come - To Build His Church

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

... to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things." The Master has come - to build his church. We are in the church today because the Master has come - because he has put the church here, and has called us to be in it. Carlyle Marney said, "The reaction to who Jesus is puts us in church always." The Master has come - and we are the church. Would you remember this about the church the Master has come to build? I The church has a message. That is the first thing to remember about ...

21. And Their Eyes Were Opened

Luke 24:13-35

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Larry Powell

... They fully expected the return, but in time, the expectation died. Although Jesus attempted on several occasions to interpret specific events to his disciples, as well as to prepare them for his certain return, not one of them was prepared. As Carlyle Marney once said, none of them lay hidden in the shrubbery near the tomb ... waiting ... waiting. Judas had gone off somewhere and hanged himself. The others were scattered, afraid, stroking their wounds, trying to recover from the total collaspe of everything ...

22. When God Overdoes It

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . For that matter, place all the private pain and pathos that burdens us down beside these words: the lost job, the retirement gone, the cancer that took Mother this year, the worry about the divorced daughter. We don't like to think about things like that - Carlyle Marney, that great Baptist preacher with a voice that James Earl Jones would envy, used to say that we play hard to forget that we live in a haunted house. But those are the facts of life. Sometimes the truth is tough, the questions raised are ...

23. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part II)

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is so greatly admired and respected because she feasts on forgiveness. Bitterness has no place in her soul and spirit. Fast from bitterness and you get rid of half the medication you are presently taking. The distinguished Southern Baptist pastor, Dr. Carlyle Marney, once wrote, "You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you flinch before it makes you free." Are you flinching today? Is there a broken relationship between you and someone? Please feast on forgiveness and fast from bitterness. SECONDLY ...

24. Mother's Day

Proverbs 1:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... God. I believe, and many women have told me, that motherhood grants a purpose to life far greater than anything IBM and ATT could ever grant. This is why Proverbs 31:25 says of motherhood, "strength and beauty and dignity are her clothing." On this day, as Carlyle Marney once wrote about moms, "We come waving boxes of candy, and bottles of cologne, and fragile blossoms. We sit all in one pew and sing and pray and listen, and when the sermon is finally done, we hurry downtown to stand in line for an hour at ...

25. No Fear

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that he makes it too personal, because if you have received this amazing love of God in your life, as you claim, then it will show. He says, No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God lives in us, and his love is perfected in us. Carlyle Marney told about an old man who was asked once, "Have you ever seen God?" He said, "No, but I have known a couple of Jesuses in my lifetime." That is what John is talking about. No one has ever seen God, but what you can see is God's love ...

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