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1. This Is Athletics -- Check Your Christianity At The Door

Drama

Karren Boehr

... you. (Shouts) Sit down, lady. Your principal's looking out for your team just fine. (Both girls sit back down, munch popcorn, both are very quiet) ANN: (Resignedly) Okay, what's the deal? I've yelled at games ever since you've known me. CLAIRE: I guess I thought last week's Powerhouse decision, that we were going all the way with Christ, would make a difference. (Hesitantly) I guess I thought maybe you'd want it to make a difference. ANN: (Sarcastically) Excuse me! So, aren't we Miss Goodie Two Shoes? You ...

2. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, “but you assured me that I wouldn’t need to answer the second difficult question.” (1) Just like last week, our Bible passage today is about the religious leaders asking Jesus difficult questions, not because they wanted real answers, but ... with Operation Christmas Child. This couple in turn spoke to a thirteen-year-old girl named Claire in a Russian orphanage about the love of God. Today, Claire is doing mission work herself, sharing God’s love with other orphans. Each person in this chain ...

3. The Need for Transformation

Jonah 3:1-5, 10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... find transformation we must first have a sense of openness to the will of God in our lives, as we heard in last week's message. We must realize our need for transformation. No one is perfect; no one "has it all together." We need to ... that were sent in advance before your arrival. I went back and checked the records and the only thing we can find is this dirty chocolate éclair." Yes, there is a need to treat others as we would have them treat us, but for many this will require a transformation, not only in ...

4. Surprise

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... drives up to someone's home and surprises them with a brand new house. Amy Grant surprises three people a week on TV by granting their wishes. A crazy youth pastor surprised his bride by having his dog be the ring ... role might be. Finally Jimmy came up to Claire and said, “I'm a sheep, what are you?" Claire replied, “I am Mary!" Shocked that he was talking to the main character, Jimmy continued. “It's hard being a sheep you know!" Not to be outdone Claire replied, “O yeah, it's even harder being ...

5. Jesus and Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... He gave His life for us on the cross of Calvary. The other Good Friday was a personal one for us. It came two weeks earlier. June had been experiencing some physical symptoms which sent us to the doctor. We fully expected the doctor to change her diet or ... loves to push buttons, was pushing the red Nurse Call Button on the hospital bed! It was about then that our daughter-in-law Claire decided to take all four children for a walk in the hospital. As they left the room, our daughter Jodi said to her daughter ...

6. Hey, Gang, We're Moving!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... his wife . . . Prefers showering to taking a bath. Spends about 7.2 hours a week eating. Does not know his cholesterol count, but it's 211. Watches 26 hours and 44 minutes of TV a week. Takes out the garbage in his household. Prefers white underwear to colored. Cries about once ... are you doing? I don't know, but God does. And that's good enough for me. 1. John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb. Great American Anecdotes (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993), p. 251. 2. William Barclay via Apple Seeds, ...

7. What Can We Count On From God?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

James W. Moore

... over the United States to train college cheerleaders. Every now and then, these days she is asked to go to Disney World in Orlando, Florida to judge those ESPN Cheerleader Contests. A couple of weeks ago she went to Orlando, and June and I went up to Dallas to help with the grandchildren while their mom was out of town. Jeff and Claire have two delightful little boys: Dawson who is three, and Daniel who is 16 months. June and I realized once again how smart God was when he decided to let younger people have ...

8. When the Drought Gets Really Bad

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... my little cottage was full.” The neighbor said, “You know this is impossible. How can you have had 35 the first week and it was full, 51 the next week and it was full, and 62 yesterday and it was full again?” “Oh, it’s quite simple,” said this lady, “We ... the Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2008). 4. Guinness World Records 2004, edited by Claire Folkard, et. al. (Guinness World Records Limited, 2003), p. 70. 5. Richard Watson, Future Files: A Brief ...

9. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... GRATITUDE. Bartimaeus was so grateful for what Jesus did for him, he just dropped everything and followed Jesus, which, by the way, is the Biblical way for saying, “He became a disciple of Jesus.” Just a few weeks from now, on April 12, our son Jeff and his wife Claire will celebrate their eighth wedding anniversary. On the night before their wedding, at the rehearsal dinner, Jeff said something I will never forget. After dinner, he stood up to thank everybody. His very first sentence moved everyone in ...

10. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

11. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... meaning been honored the week? Who have you touched in the last seven days? Was your touch gentle, or was it intimidating? What documents and checks have they signed? Have your hands been open in gestures of generosity or tight-fisted in gestures of greed? It is a form of spiritual inventory to ask your hands on occasion, What have you guys been up to lately? There is a children’s song in our hymnal, and it is a perfect bridge into the text. It is sung to the tune of Debussy’s Claire de Lune: “Jesus ...

12. Any Friendly Bears Out There?

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... worship services lived an average of seven years longer than those who never attended." (6) What can I say? Listening to me each week is good for you. A healthy bank account and a healthy body will take you a long way in our society. And if ... 3. As told by Max Anders in his book, The Good Life (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1993), pp. 74-76. 4. John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb. Great American Anecdotes (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993), p. 33. 5. The Futurist. 6. The New Republic (July 19 ...

13. Parenting — Not For The Faint Of Heart

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... my husband and me as we encourage our sons to study and do their best. Earlier today, as one of our sons and I spoke about the week ahead and its demands, I got that look that can send a parent around the block, so to speak — you know, the rolling of the eyes. For ... the early 1990s. The show featured Bill Cosby as Dr. "Cliff" Heathcliff Huxtable, an obstetrician-gynecologist; his wife, Claire, herself an accomplished attorney; and their five children, living in a brownstone in New York City. Although some ...

14. You Feed Them!

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... founder. Billionaire H.L. Hunt, in an interview with Mike Wallace, once said, "I would starve to death with an income of a million dollars a week." (2) Well, most of us aren't rich like that. Somebody has made a list of "10 ways to know that you're broke": 1. American ... gift for the Master to bless and multiply? 1. God's Forever Feast (Discovery House Publishers). 2. John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb, Great American Anecdotes (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993), pp. 38-39. 3. From the Internet. Source ...

15. His Name Was Rocky Johnson

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... based on Jesus healing Peter's mother-in-law. It may have been a good sermon, but for her, a nurse who had been dealing with sick people all week, the sermon was a little flat, leaving her somewhat spiritually unfilled. She drove out to the country that afternoon to visit her parents. They invited her to attend their ... ?" DECISION magazine, Mar 2000, p. 31. 2. From a sermon by Eric Ritz. 3. John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb, Great American Anecdotes (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1993), p. 305.

16. Faith Working In Love

James 2:14-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The baby will not stop screaming. On the third floor of a brownstone in New York City's Harlem, a woman holds the two-week-old infant in her arms. The little body trembles and twitches with pain, but Clara Hale has no medicine to offer against that agony, ... and calm, mixed with megadoses of love. Her cure works, but that is just the beginning of being one of "Mama Hale's children." (Claire Safran, The Reader's Digest, September 1984, pp. 49-50) It's a moving story that tells of Clara Hale spending a lifetime ...

17. A Place of Honor

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... message of the cross. It doesn’t matter what your status is in society. Your picture may be in the society pages every week. The president may call you for advice on matters of importance. You may know the story of three executives who were defining status ... will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous." 1. Emphasis, Mar/Apr 2001, p. 50. 2. John Whitcomb and Claire Whitcomb. Great American Anecdotes (New York: William Morrow, 1993), p. 43. 3. Rev. Susan Towner-Larsen, Fauntleroy Church, http:// ...

18. Hemlock and Hyssop

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... she was being “buried with Jesus” responded, quite reasonably, “Well! That’s not very nice.” (As told by theologian Claire Watkins in her book Living Baptism [2004] 58) That eight-year old child was absolutely right. That does NOT sound ... weird” enough. Baptism is not just a momentary ritual. It is a seemingly strange and yet absolutely life-changing event. In this week’s Romans text Paul proclaims this weirdness as a proud Christian conviction: “all of us who have been baptized into Christ ...

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