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Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... he thinks to himself, maybe this man has the answer to my unhappiness. And so he comes to see Jesus who happens to be passing through Zacchaeus' hometown of Jericho. But the crowd of onlookers is too great. Jesus is attracting admirers. Can't you see Danny Devito hopping up and down trying to get a glimpse over the crowd? Finally he spies a nearby sycamore tree. Forgetting how ridiculous it must look to see a wealthy tax collector wearing a robe climbing a tree in the middle of town, Zacchaeus shimmies up ...

2. Danny Devito In A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A yardstick plus a ruler for each child Have any of you ever been measured to find out how tall you are? We could do that this morning. Let me use my yardstick to find out how tall a few of you are. When we are young, we want to be as tall as we can be. We might stand on our tiptoe to make ourselves taller. As we become adults we discover that it is not what we look like on the outside that counts, but what we have on the inside. Some of the most remarkable people who have ever lived have been very ...

3. God Believes In Us, Too

Luke 19:1-10

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Dr. Chane M. Hutton

... us teach the next generation to love their bodies "as is?" It surely couldn't hurt! (2) I wonder if Zacchaeus was self-conscious about his body. In Luke, chapter 19, we find a man of short stature. "Vertically challenged" is the politically correct term. The Danny Devito of Bible times. Perhaps he was the butt of many jokes. That happens, doesn't it? Any characteristic that sets us apart from others can be hard on our self-esteem. It may be because we are exceptionally short or exceptionally tall. It may be ...

4. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... of Satan and the culture woven around us is to deaden that appetite and distract us from its call. The film, Big Kahuna, is about three salesmen working together to make an important sale at a hotel convention. Late one night, Larry (Kevin Spacey) and Phil (Danny DeVito) are talking about God. Phil says, "I don't know why, but I've always had this haunting feeling that I had some kind of mission here on earth." "Mission? What kind of mission?" Larry asks. "I have no idea." "Well, I'll tell you what ...

5. A Cloud Of Witnesses

Hebrews 12:1-3

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... who was a giant of a man, at least to me. If I had to guess, from pictures I've seen, I'd say he was about 6' 6' or so. My Dad was only 5' 8" so it made for a comical sight, kind of like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the movie "Twins." I'm not sure but I think his name was Buck. And he was muscled like nobody else I've ever known. One weekend Dad and Buck and I went to this huge apple tree to pick apples. I picked up apples off the ground. Dad ...

6. A Man of the Moment

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Stan Purdum

Do you remember the movie 1988 movie, Twins? It was comedy that starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as, of all things, twin brothers. Even if you know nothing about the plot of the movie, the mental picture of those two actors standing side-by-side as twins is itself pretty funny. The setup for the move is that the brothers are the result of an experiment to ...

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