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2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... who have been bought with the very blood of Christ and yet are willing to settle for second-rate lives. It's not enough, he's telling us. "Love so amazing, so divine, demands my life, my love, my all." 1. "Paderewski's Piano" by David Taylor Smithsonian Magazine Mar. 1999 pp. 30-34. 2. Cited in Roger Ailes, You Are the Message (New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1988). 3. The Business Bible--Ten Commandments for Creating an Ethical Workplace by Rabbi Wayne Dosick, William Morrow and Co., Inc., New York, 1993, p ...

2. When Life Tumbles In

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles." Over the next few years, David slowly recovered from his accident. Among the lessons Kristi learned from that time was that waiting on the Lord in itself is ... life. Now I'm ten times closer with my family and friends. I don't take one day--or one friend--for granted." (4) I believe Niki Taylor's going to make it, don't you--in spite of all the adversity that has befallen her? This is where we always begin when life ...

3. Building Relationships

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... m advocating severing a marriage relationship. I’m not. But, of course, not even every marriage is made in heaven. Barbara Brown Taylor tells a story about a woman who was already dying of cancer when her husband suddenly dropped dead of a heart attack ... 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, ...

4. Wait. Trust Me.

Exodus 20:12 · Ephesians 6:1-12 · Proverbs 22:6

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Paul Batura

... these days to refer to a homeless person as a “hobo” – but that wasn’t the case back when John F. Kennedy was in the White House.] As the storyline goes, a homeless man named David Browne shows up in Mayberry. He swipes some sandwiches, makes friend with Sheriff Andy Taylor (played by Griffith) and by extension, Opie, Griffith’s son. Deputy Barney Fife is suspicious of Browne, but Andy gives the traveler benefit of the doubt. Soon, though, things begin to change. Opie becomes enamored with ...

5. The Angel's Message

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... these words were inscribed: “For her to live was Christ, and to die was gain.” Pastor Paul Chappell makes this comment about the Taylors’ ministry, “In a day when many are self-absorbed and care more about what they can get rather than what they can give, ... Christ was born—not in Jerusalem or Rome—but in Bethlehem. Bethlehem was no teeming metropolis, but it was the city of David and it was there that the Messiah was to be born. As cities go, however, there was nothing to recommend it. It was ...

6. By D Grace of God

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... local school. (2) Isn’t that a great ending—or beginning—to their story? It’s a story with a happy ending for Ben Taylor, Joel Willie, and all the people whose lives have been impacted by the charitable giving from their photo booklets. So I think the ... not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you.” Jesus isn’t calling us to an easy task! Pastor David Lose has a great perspective on this teaching. He writes, “Jesus isn’t offering a set of simple rules by which to get by or ...

7. Learning to Walk in the Dark

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... into the dark part, identifying God with the sunny part and leaving you to deal with the rest on your own time.” So Taylor set about exploring the dark — in her backyard and on the crest of her land’s mountain, in a “wild” cave’s total darkness ... ; he might have been a teacher to some extent — maybe. But he could not be God’s anointed. He wasn’t from the house of David — an absolute must. He did not get rid of the Romans or put Israel back on the map as God’s supreme kingdom. By your ...

8. On Taking Candy from a Stranger

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and how does God expect us to keep it holy? What is expected out of us with regard to obedience to God’s Law? In her junior year of high school, Pastor Barbara Brown Taylor dated a standout basketball player named David. David could have been the star of his high school basketball team. But because David was Jewish, he abstained from playing on Friday nights. Why? The Jewish Sabbath begins at sundown on Friday. He felt that playing basketball was a violation of Sabbath law. Since so many high school ...

9. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... where was the concern of her heart? Not on herself but on her daughter. She came to Jesus, and she cried out, "Son of David, sir! Have mercy on me! My daughter has a demon and is in a terrible condition." The whole life of this mother was focused ... pointed out, "To call a policeman a ‘little piggy’ would not soften the sting of the insult. It might even increase it." William Taylor seems closer to the truth when he writes, "Surely this was a mode of speech well calculated to destroy all hope in the woman ...

10. God’s Most Troubling Promise

Romans 8:28

Sermon

King Duncan

... for our best good? That wonderful pastor and writer Barbara Brown Taylor tells of spending a few days on a barrier island where ... and empty her eggs into the sand. The next day Taylor returned to try to find the spot where the eggs ... Taylor found the turtle, exhausted and all but baked. After pouring water on her and covering her with sea oats, Taylor ... and remembering her nightmare ride through the dunes, Barbara Brown Taylor noted that it is sometimes hard to tell whether you ... Brown Taylor, “Preaching ...

11. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... My name is David Eugene Leininger. My folks told me they chose the name David after Israel's greatest king. Their hope for me was that, like the David of old, I would be "a man after God's own heart." I always liked the name David. I was less ... there is work to do, and some would rather not hear that in the midst of a life that is too busy already. I understand. Barbara Brown Taylor writes, “I will never forget the woman who listened to my speech on the ministry of the laity as God's best hope for the world ...

12. Wait Til Monday

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Staff

... Rice Atchison Forget what the history books say. The 12th president of the United States was David Rice Atchison, a man so obscure that Chester A. Arthur seems a household word by comparison. At exactly 12 noon on March 4, 1849, Zachary Taylor was scheduled to succeed James Polk as chief executive. But March 4 was a Sunday and Taylor, a devout old general, refused to take the oath of office on the Sabbath. Thus, under the Succession Act of 1792, Missouri Senator Atchison, as President ProTempore of the ...

13. “In the Lord I Take Refuge”

Psalm 11:1-7

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... wrote about resting in the joy of discovering the greatness of Christ’s loving heart. There is a story about Hudson Taylor, missionary to China, who, during the Boxer Rebellion at the end of the nineteenth century, sat at his desk, knowing that ... in Psalm 13 is encouragement to continue to look to God, and permission to speak honestly with the Lord. It was this process that brought David to a point of joy and praise even in the midst of sorrow. Our own story of faith Testimony: Ask a person from your church ...

14. The Lord Chooses a New King

1 Samuel 16:14-23, 1 Samuel 16:1-13

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... , 10; 11:6). Both accomplished great things in the Spirit’s power, but this special empowerment did not prevent them from experiencing great tragedy. David too will ultimately fail, a development that is already foreshadowed here when one reads the story a second time. (See the comments below on ... Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, John Jay, William Wilberforce, Hannah More, Lord Shaftesbury, Catherine Booth, Hudson Taylor, D. L. Moody, Charles Spurgeon, Oswald Chambers, Andrew Murray, Carl Henry, and John Stott ...

15. Written In Our Hearts

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... BECOME INNER DIRECTED RATHER THAN OUTER DIRECTED IN OUR VALUES. Those were words that were popularized many years ago by sociologist David Reisman. He spoke of a society that has become more and more outer directed. We guide our behavior according to the ... time Jordan was in the painful process of recovery from the wounds inflicted by a sniper. As he lay there in that bed he told Taylor something that had gone through his mind as he lay there in his own blood, on a dark road, in a strange town. Jordan says ...

16. The Phrase We Never Want to Hear

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Islam, and they raised Nabeel to love Islam and follow its ways. But in college, Nabeel became friends with a young Christian man named David Wood. David and Nabeel enjoyed discussing and debating their faith together. And slowly, Nabeel discovered a truth and peace in Jesus that he did not find ... https://storiesforpreaching.com/category/sermonillustrations/gods-will/. 6. “Nabeel Qureshi (1983-2017)” by Justin Taylor The Gospel Coalition September 16, 2017 https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin ...

17. Dying To Live

Isaiah 43:16-21

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... waiting. 1. Tom Sine, The Mustard Seed Conspiracy (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1981), pp. 15-16. 2. Quoted in A Guide to Prayer: For Ministers and Other Servants, ed. by Rueben P. Job and Norman Shawchuck (Nashville: The Upper Room, 1983), p. 203. 3. Barbara Brown Taylor, God in Pain: Teaching Sermons on Suffering (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998), p. 49. 4. Exact source unknown. 5. David C. Cooper, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success (Atlanta: Discover Life Ministries, 2000), pp. 102-103. Used by permission.

18. The Son Superior to Angels

Hebrews 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... .; see too M. Hengel, The Son of God (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1976), pp. 85–88; on the Christology of Hebrews see V. Taylor, The Person of Christ (London: Macmillan, 1958), pp. 89–98. Universe is literally “the ages”; hence Barclay’s translation, “the present ... so glorious are the words spoken to him that their ultimate fulfillment can only be in the messianic king, the Son of David, the Son now at the right hand of the Father. The opening words of the quotation are ambiguous both in the Hebrew ...

19. Made New By Taking A Different Road Home

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... for independent living. Two weak Davids got together to slay the giant of genetics and accident and work hand in hand together. David Rogers went on with his medical career thanks to David Kaplan. "David Kaplan is my hands. He ... a mantel. The story happens through flesh and blood -- God incarnate -- your Christ comes! All this happens from taking a different road home. James Taylor wrote a popular and intriguing song about the Magi. The song is titled "Home By Another Way." In part it reads: Those magic men ...

20. Leading as Loving

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... To enable that is to serve. It is a gift always sorely needed in the body of Christ. Involved with the People “The time came when King David and his men set out ...” (2 Samuel 5:6 TEV) Too, leadership is a partnership in which both the leader and the led roll up their ... conceive of God, be pleased with the decisions and strategies I am employing, and will these further kingdom values? Bayard Taylor, a poet from the last century, put it well: Who, harnessed in his mail of Self, demandsTo be men’s ...

21. Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... was a sign of hopelessness and despair. When his family tried to comfort him he refused to be comforted (Genesis 37:34). King David was able to move beyond the death of one child (2 Samuel 12:20-23), but the death of Absalom brought weeping and ... is a love capable of giving us an equal measure of comfort, and therein lies the good news for all who mourn this day. 1. Mary Ann Taylor-Hall, Come and Go, Molly Snow (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1995), p. 18. 2. Ibid, p. 120. 3. Ibid, p. 219. 4. Ibid, p. ...

22. A Plan For Difficult Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... a flat platform, encompassing with retaining walls the outcropping of rock that had been Arunah's threshing floor, the location Solomon's father, David, had purchased as the site of the temple. Solomon's temple had stood for 370 years when it was first looted. A decade ... under attack, for there are few outside of the church sufficiently interested in it to assail it."9 Gardner C. Taylor comments further: "It is astonishing how much an American family will spend on physical fitness and how little time or ...

23. Strengthened For Life

John 15:1-17

Sermon

O. Garfield Beckstrand, II

... a part of me. Each one of us is a limb of his body, a branch of the vine." Within days people saw a new man in Taylor. He lost the sense of strain and agony. As he yielded his life to Christ, he radiated a magnetism of love and happiness. He was no longer ... without God. Let me tell you about a man who heard these words, accepted them, and cast his lot with God. When David Livingstone, the famous missionary, returned after eighteen years in Africa, he was invited to the University of Glasgow to receive a ...

24. The Love Triangle: Man-Woman-God

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... transcend any difference. (1) Swindoll, Charles R., Marriage, From Surviving to Thriving, (Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 2006), p. 10. (2) Moore, James W., At the End of the Day, (Dimensions for Living: Nashville, 2002), pp. 8-9. (3) Taylor, Gardner, The Words of Gardner Taylor, Vol. 3, (Judson Press: Valley Forge, 2000), pp. 38, 44. (4) Jeremiah, David, Gifts from God, (Cook Communications: Colorado Springs, 1999), pp. 67-68. (5) McQuilkin, Robertson, A Promise Kept, (Tyndale House: Wheaton, 1998), pp. 52-53.

25. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... you know that even the strongest believers in the Bible had their doubts? If you go back and read the Psalms, you will find that David had his doubts. Read the Book of Ecclesiastes and you will find that Solomon had his doubts. Read the Book of Job; it is full ... God, there is No Doubt About It." [1] These ideas come from Daniel Taylor, The Myth of Certainty, (Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, subsidiary rights owned by Daniel Taylor, 1986), pp14-15. [2] Lee Strobel, God's Outrageous Claims, p. 102 [3] ...

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