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John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... continues, "Surrender to Jesus was the primary thing, and when the outer strands were cut by this stroke, my life didn't shake."(5) E. Stanley Jones' life didn't shake because he had found that one thing that was missing in his life. Former Nixon "hatchetman" Chuck Colson found it, too. Here is how he described his life without Christ in an interview in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY sometime back: I had arrived at everything I had ever dreamed about as a kid. I was 41 years old, had a healthy sixfigure law practice ...

2. Can People Change?

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... slowed him to a stagger during his getaway so that police officers easily jumped him from behind. Rodney Jones and Gerald Uelmen, in their book, SUPREME FOLLY, tell about Nancy Miller of Oroville, California who eagerly accepted ... the solution. Maybe God is calling some of us to get involved in prison ministry. Maybe there is something we could do to help people like Chuck Colson with his Prison Fellowship. People can change, but it's not easy. In fact, there is only one way that real change takes place. Real ...

3. How Have We Made It This Far?

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... greatest earthly asset. Of course, that doesn’t mean that every Christian contributes a caring spirit. Radio pastor Chuck Swindoll tells about a disconcerting experience he had years ago at a banquet attended by almost two ... along, I thought they were just grouches. Fortunately such folks are a tiny minority. Most of us would agree with missionary/evangelist E. Stanley Jones who never tired of saying: “Everyone who belongs to Christ belongs to everyone who belongs to Christ.” We are a family. We belong ...

4. The Pride Is Right

Jeremiah 9:23-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... It is a prescription for the right kind of pride. There is a pride that is right, and it is the pride of knowing God. Chuck Swindoll once gave several reasons why the most important thing about any human being is what that human being thinks about God. Here are ... and Leon Frser both committed suicide.3 What is the point? God is not impressed with Ph.D.'s, nuclear missiles, or the Dow Jones. Our pride must not be in Harvard's wisdom, the Pentagon's power, or Wall Street's wealth. Because that is when pride is ...

5. Living With The Birth Pangs

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a life. Most of us do not like change. Some of us accept it only with a great deal of kicking and screaming. Chuck Swindoll tells about a church in the Midwest he is familiar with in which somebody introduced the flannel graph in an adult Sunday ... is never easy it is inevitable. And that brings us to the last thing to be said: CHANGE IS IN GOD'S HANDS. As E. Stanley Jones said a generation ago: "I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future." Never does the Christian have to live in ...

6. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... persecutor to being an Apostle. It happened to that notorious hatchet man of the Watergate era, Charles Colson. Surely you remember Chuck Colson--a man filled with ability but with little or no character and no ethics. This man, out of the ... and concern for others, that exalts Christ in all circumstances. He was that kind of person living a normal Christian life. [E. Stanley Jones, that great Methodist missionary, said that so many of us as Christians live such a subnormal Christian life that if we ever got ...

7. Explore the Evidence

Acts 1:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... was taken? Q: Now, Mrs. Johnson, how was your first marriage terminated? A: By death. Q: And by whose death was it terminated? Q: Mrs. Jones, do you believe you are emotionally stable? A: I use to be. Q: How many times have you committed suicide? Q: You say that the ... with those large Roman spikes, placed them on the side of a stone that weighed several tons, rolled it away, then became Chuck Norris and kicked His way over an armed Roman guard and then walked 14 miles back to the disciples on heels that ...

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