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John 18:33-37

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Thomas C. Willadsen

... ”) but kings have subjects, and subjects are under the control of kings. That brings me to the lessons from John’s gospel, part of Jesus’ trial before Pilate. Every time I come across this passage I remember David Bowie playing Pilate in “The Last Temptation of Christ.” Bowie’s Pilate was icily indifferent as he cooed, “So, you are a king.” The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by Martin Scorsese (1988; New York: Universal Pictures), DVD. He was aloof and disinterested in the film, but ...

2. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

3. Trying to Face the Strain

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... have to die Trapped within the circle-time parade Of changes. Of course, other writers took a different view. I believe it was David Crosby who wrote my all-time favorite protest song, "For What It’s Worth." The song contains memorable opening line, "There’s something ... during that era, who knew that changes had to come, but didn’t know exactly how they would come about. But maybe David Bowie best expressed the way most of us approach changes in his song "Ch-ch-changes," when he sang of "trying to face ...

4. God Communicates in Humanly Understandable Terms

Luke 2:41-52

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Richard D. Campbell

... -blanket" who ruins the joy of life. They react as if he were a curse instead of a blessing. So Walter Russell Bowie, writing in The Interpreter's Bible, says about our text: Many people since that time, both without and within the church, have ... official standing in the church, both clerical and lay, have a kind of formal piety, but are poison to live with, like Mr. Murdstone in David Copperfield. It has been rightly said that not much credit can be given to any man's religion whose very dog and cat are not ...

5. A Straying Heart

Psalm 95:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , purposeful rest for God’s people. The word “rest” in Hebrew is the root of the word “Sabbath.” In Psalm 62:1, King David declares, “My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.” And in Matthew 11, Jesus says, “Come to me, all ... home and never work in the media again. Fortunately for him, that did not happen. Several days later the Long Island Railroad and Bowie Kuhn announced they would not fire him. Then WNEW-TV gave him a job. He admits that lying about his education was ...

6. Building Relationships

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... it is from our relationship with God, not with another human being, that we draw our strength and our identity. 1. From a sermon by Rev. Dr. David E. Leininger, http://www.presbyterianwarren.com/nogiveup.html. 2. Will Miller with Glenn Sparks, Refrigerator Rights (New York: Penguin Putnam, 2002). 3. John Ortberg, Everybody’s Normal ... 76. 6. Barbara Brown Taylor, Home by Another Way (Cambridge, MA: Cowley Publications), p. 206. 7. http://www.stmatthews‑bowie.org/Worship/Sermons/2004/sermon_11_21_04.asp.

7. A Celebration of Love

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger." Suddenly a ... Lloyd III, http://www.trinityboston.org/wsp_smn_smnpage.asp?docpage=20041224.html. 4. Rev. Richard E. Stetler, http://www.stmatthews-bowie.org/Worship/Sermons/2003/sermon_12_21_03.asp.

8. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... because they reckon on God’s being with them." As it was with the boy David against Goliath, when the soldiers of Israel had melted in a paralysis of fear before the giant, David stepped in with his affirmation of risk, trusting God. You know the outcome. The early ... amazing new dimensions of life. But we have to give up the old cocoon if we are going to fly. Russell Bowie beautifully describes those who are being born into the God-relationship dimensions of life. Life is discovered and developed, by faith ...

9. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... ! She had found her place: "The bearer of Fire Divine." What’s your place in the divine scheme of things? Dr. Russell Bowie tells of a great woman: "She always had her feelers out, making contact with humanity." He tells of a minister: "A trusted, ... intersect with the need of the world in your moment of time." Anything less than that is burning up life to little purpose. David Cairnes, in The Faith That Rebels, declares: "If Christ were here in the body ... and we all gathered round him, and each of ...

10. Changed Lives: Judas

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... , The Wounds of Jesus: A Meditation on the Crucified Saviour (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2004). 4. http://www.firstchurchcambridge.org/sermons/sermon20021020_jazz.html. 5. Cited by Geoffrey Connor, http://www.eppinganglicans.org.uk/Season‑HolyWeekPage.htm. 6. Illusaurus. 7. Tarbell’s Teacher’s Guide, Sept. 1996-Aug. 1997 (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 1996), pp. 156-157. 8. Rev. Richard E. Stetler, http://www.stmatthews ...

11. A Violent Wind

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... , 1998), pp. 239-240. 2. Aberdeen Evening Express. 3. Yitta Halberstam and Judith Levanthal (Holbrook, MA: Adams Media Corporation, 1997), p. 183. 4. (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House Company, 1992). 5. Dr. William P. Barker, Ed., Tarbell's Teacher's Guide (Elgin, IL. David C. Cook Co., 1990). 6. Uncle John’s Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Ashland, OR: Bathroom Readers’ Press, 2002), pp. 509-510. 7. DeYoung 8. Day By Day (Nashville, TN:W Publishing Group, 2000), p. 35. 9. DeYoung 10. http://www.stmatthews ...

12. God’s Most Troubling Promise

Romans 8:28

Sermon

King Duncan

... &id=55. 2. http://www.adventlutheranchurch.com/sermontexts/sermon060122.shtml 3. Barbara Brown Taylor, “Preaching the Terrors,” Leadership Journal, Spring 1992, p. 45. Cited in Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 746. 4. http://www.stmatthews bowie.org/Worship/Sermons/1997/sermon_7_27_97.asp. 5. March 1996, p. 33. Cited in David C. Cook, Good Night, God! (Colorado Springs: Cook Communications Ministries, 2004), pp. 162-163.

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