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John 17:17, 1 Timothy 3:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... describes God as being above a world shaped like a ball, which is exactly what the world is.9 Here, almost 2,000 years before Christopher Columbus decided to sail the ocean blue, the word of God had revealed that the earth was not flat, but rather it was round. ... space in the northern part of the universe where there are no stars. But listen to what Job said. "He stretches out the north over empty space…" (Job 26:7A) For many years scientists believed that the moon was a luminous body just like the sun; ...

2. Riddles and Metaphors

Ezekiel 15:1-8, Ezekiel 16:1-63, Ezekiel 17:1-24

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... 1; New York: Brill, 1993], pp. 169–70; and Blenkinsopp, Ezekiel, p. 76). On the other hand, as Daniel Smith-Christopher notes, we have no reason to think that Ezekiel’s audience was predominately or exclusively male (“Ezekiel in Abu ... an ally, more often an adversary. If Aram is intended, the text would describe powerful, ancient enemies surrounding Judah: Aram to the north, Philistia to the south. Either way, the point is the same: Jerusalem has taken the place of Sodom as an illustration of the ...

3. Confronting a Christless Culture

2 Timothy 3:1-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... your course ten degrees to the south I am a battleship." The reply came back: "Change your course ten degrees to the north I am a lighthouse." So I want to say to our church specifically, and to all Christians generally, we are never to ... Word is true, and whose words will still be reverberating around the walls of eternity when heaven and earth have passed away. 1 Christopher Dawson, Progress and Religion (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1960), p. 181. 2 John Underwood, "How Nasty Do We Wanna Be? Reflections on ...

4. Two Adulterous Sisters

Ezekiel 23:1-49

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... :1–19//2 Chr. 10:1–19). By the time of Omri (876–869 B.C.), Samaria had become the capital of the north, just as Jerusalem continued to be the capital of the south (1 Kgs. 16:24). Samaria and Jerusalem alike, then, are daughters of ... 4:21). As stripping was a means of shaming prisoners of war (see the discussion of Ezek. 16:37–41, and Smith-Christopher, “Ezekiel,” p. 154), this woe is likely directed against the Babylonians. These oppressors, the prophet declares, will themselves be forced to ...

5. The Wrong Gift

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... to that they had stood open, as they always did when there were battles afoot, and the Legions were in the fields to the north and the east. But Caesar Augustus had brilliantly subdued the world and peace was his great gift to the expansive empire that embraced all. ... the home we desire; from the dream we miss or the dream we're still looking for. That's what Nicholas is saying to Margaret in Christopher Fry's play. We're all a bit lost in life. We're all a bit away from home. The best we can do is make ...

6. The Reversal of the Deuteronomic Curses and Blessings: Replacing Law with Faith

Romans 9:30--10:21

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... wider church. In 2005 Time magazine included Winter as one of the twenty-five most influential evangelicals. In 2008 the North American Mission Conference gave him the lifetime service award. “No doubt Winter will take greater pleasure in meeting the ... an interest in His dear Son.”5 Anyone who believes on and confesses the Lord Jesus Christ will be saved. Biography: Christopher Hitchens and Peter Hitchens are brothers: one is an atheist, the other a Christian. After Peter regained his Christian faith, he ...

7. Sheep Without a Shepherd

Mark 6:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He lived alone for 27 years, living on what he could steal from camps in the area. People in the area had never seen him, and they weren’t even sure he existed, that he was only a legend. They called him “The North Pond Hermit.” Now they know his name is Christopher Knight, and police estimated he committed more than 1000 burglaries. When he was arrested in April of 2013 after being caught on a surveillance camera, he spoke to a police officer, the first human being he had contact with since a brief ...

8. Light For A New Year

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... he wanted her to be. A week later, this woman remembered an article she had read about an organization called "The Christophers." Their motto had made a deep impression on her: "It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness." ... we have seen is kept burning until his return. Back in the 1770s or 1780s, a man named John Morris built a house in Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Using flint and steel, John Morris started a fire in his fireplace. And nobody knows why, but it became a point of pride in ...

9. Hugging The Coastline

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... who first shared Teaster's story with the world, went on to prestigious jobs with the United Press syndicate. Albert Teaster died in North Carolina in 1967. (1) Now I ask you--was Albert Teaster a man of faith or a fool? Suppose I brought a ... A child was born in Genoa--one who would push back the frontiers of what we think about our planet. His name? Christopher Columbus. As one author has written: "Columbus was not only an explorer, he was an entrepreneur. Before refrigeration and rapid transportation, most ...

10. Whatever Happened to those Mansions?

John 14:1-4

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Donald B. Strobe

... , “In my father’s house there are many mansions,” the RSV translates it “In my Father’s house are many rooms.” The North Carolina pastor was infuriated at the “cheapskates” who translated the RSV. He said that he had been promised a mansion in the sky ... by the word “mansion” today. English words change their meaning. It is said that when someone first viewed Sir Christopher Wren’s masterpiece, St. Paul’s Cathedral in London, he said that it was “awful” and “artificial.” What he ...

11. A Prayer for Persecuted Christians Everywhere

John 17:6-19

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Leonard Sweet

... all learned the ditty: “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Convinced by Christopher Columbus that a new, faster route to the rich spice regions of India could be found by ... per day) *Currently over 200 million Christians are being persecuted worldwide *Christians are persecuted in 131 of the world's 193 countries [Pew Forum study] *North Korea: in 2014 it continues to be the worst country in the world for persecution We may be persecuted. But we are uniquely empowered by ...

12. Proper 22

Luke 17:1-10, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13, Lamentations 1:1-22, Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... for Criticism. Mother Teresa has received some severe criticism in recent years. It came both in a Vanity Fair article by Christopher Hitchens and in The Door, a magazine of a Texas-based religious order. She had received major gifts from Charles Keating, ... led about 300 slaves to freedom through the so-called Underground Railroad in nineteen such journeys. She always told them to follow the north star and became known as "Moses to her people." A $40,000 bounty was placed on her head but she was never ...

13. Christmas 2

Mt 2:13-23 · Jn 1:1-18 · Eph 1:3-14 · Jer 31:7-14 · Is 61:10--62:3 · Ps 147

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... nineteenth century, the doctrine of manifest destiny was invoked to justify the westward expansion of our country and to make North America our sphere of influence. It was cited as a rationale for the Spanish-American War in 1898. Unfortunately, ... but walk in the light. To love our brothers and sisters means to walk in the light (1 John 1:7; 2:8). The Christopher movement, within the Roman Catholic Church employed as its motto the saying: "If everyone would light just one little candle, what a bright world ...

14. Bartolome’ de Las Casas Protector Of The Indians

Drama

Thomas A. Renquist

Reader 1: In 1992, North, Central and South Americans celebrated the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ “discovery” of America. Of course, we have been reminded that it ... . European diseases were also a factor in the deaths of so many Americans, but perhaps the single greatest cause was slavery. And it happened at the very beginning. Christopher Columbus gave each one of his returning men an Indian as a slave. Isabella, Queen of Spain, when she heard what Columbus had done, remarked: Reader 2: “Who gave ...

15. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... and cause us to do things. Most of the time it is what we believe that directs our choices and controls our actions. Christopher Morley, in the novel Kitty Foyle, has a sentence which says, "Nobody knows what he really believes; you've got to guess at ... a thousand times a day for your entire lifetime. Do it in summer, in winter. Do it by day or by night. Do it at the north pole or the south pole or the equator. Do it anywhere on the face of the earth or in outer space. Wherever, whenever, and under whatever ...

16. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... in gracefully and heartily answering their call, day by day, page by page, as the leaves are turned. Most people admire Christopher Columbus, his courage and venture. We admire him not because he sat by the seaside with his chin in his ... every sunset finds us looking forward to another dawn. Speaking of logbooks, there was the intrepid explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his voyage to the North Pole. At one point in the ship’s log, Nansen made this entry: "We let down 3,500 fathoms and touched no bottom." In our ...

17. Out Of Our Control

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... been good to me." (2) At the end of the 16th century a fisherman was standing on a cliff on one of the Orkney Islands north of Scotland. He watched a storm batter his cottage, his boat, and fishing tackle. The man was a Christian, but his faith sagged as he ... of the Elizabethan Agethat golden era that gave us such notables as Shakespeare, John Donne, Francis Bacon, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, and John Webster. Of course, the climaxing and culminating literary achievement in 1611 was the King James ...

18. An Empty Cup

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , whom he calls Jack. He asks about Joy: "What news, Jack?" "Good news, Harry," Lewis responds. "I think good news." "I'm very glad, Jack. Christopher can scoff, but I know how hard you've been praying, and now God is answering your prayer." "That's not why I pray, Harry," ... I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him. When he is at work in the north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him. God has made my heart faint; the Almighty has terrified ...

19. Why Believe the Bible?

John 17:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... the world believed the earth was flat. In fact, Columbus had to overcome this popular opinion in order to discover America. Do you know why Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain with no fear he would sail over the edge of the world? As a Christian, he knew what the Bible ... "jet streams". That is exactly what the Word of God says. "Blowing toward the south, then turning toward the north, the wind continues swirling along; and on its circular courses the wind returns." (Ecclesiastes 1:6, NASB) In ancient ...

20. Miracles in Contrast

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it out. There it is: the miracle in contrast - light against darkness and the darkness never snuffs it out. Is this what Christopher Frye was trying to summarize poetically? The darkest time of the year The poorest place in town Cold and a taste of ... Israel and Lebanon, Iran and Iraq. Living among people as poor and miserable as those in Chad, the Sudan, India, and some sections of North Memphis. Dying as violent a death as any we have known in this age of violence. A miracle in contrast. The Miracle of ...

21. Mystery of the Unlikely

Luke 1:39-55

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... their experiments in flight. They had tried repeatedly to fly a heavier-than-air craft. Finally on December 17, 1903, on the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, they did what no one had never done before. They actually flew under engine power! Elated, they wired their sister Katherine, "We have actually flown 120 ... the Wright brothers made their first flight. 1. Auto Illustrator 2. Auto Illustrator 3. SFDEC91 4. Christopher M. Belitto in "U.S. Catholic" (Dec. 1994) Christianity Today-Vol. 39, #14.

22. Send Her Away!

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... that “leaving that place, Jesus withdrew to the region of Tyre and Sidon.” Tyre and Sidon lay outside the land of Palestine to the north of Galilee. It was a land occupied by people of various religions. None of these religions was more detestable to the Jews than the ... Rev. Ken Kesselus, http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/6087_27601_ENG_HTM.htm. 2. Cited by the Rev. M. Christopher Boyer, http://gsbchurch.com/Sermons/2006_07_23_TearDownTheWall.pdf. 3. http://www.stbarnabas sbnj.org/sermons/070304s.htm ...

23. It's Not Rocket Science

John 8:31-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... a robe, and they will pass away.” (Psalm 102:25-26, ESV) The Bible is not a geography book, but it does talk about geography. One of the reasons Christopher Columbus was convinced that he could sail from one end of the world and eventually get back to the other end was because of a verse he read in ... . [5] Samuel Elliott, Morrison, The European Discovery of America – The North Voyages, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971), p 6. [6] Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes, Bantam Books, p 90 ...

24. Jehoram King of Judah

2 Chronicles 21:4-20

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... designated to become king of Judah, was married to an unnamed daughter of Ahab and Jezebel and became king of (north) Israel when his brother-in-law Ahaziah died; and (3) that Jehoram, as Jehoshaphat’s oldest (or perhaps only) surviving ... extension of a lamp that gives light (as in the Temple)” (entry 5775). 21:12 Elijah’s letter is called a miktab. Christopher Begg (“Constructing a Monster: The Chronicler’s Sondergut in 2 Chronicles 21,” ABR 37 [1989], p. 49) indicates that this same word ...

25. When We Are Weak

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... A. Milne’s WINNIE-THE-POOH. Milne writes: “Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way . . . if ... resilient life of Kristen Fersovitch” by Robert Jones. Rev. Robert W. Jones is the senior pastor of North Pointe Community Church in Edmonton, Alberta. He blogs at http://blog.northpointechurch.ca. https://testimony.paoc.org ...

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