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1. Dealing with the Hard Moments of the Journey

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... become the King of England, that he was possessed of a great skill of surviving every defeat. It seems that once the French army appeared ready to defeat him and his army at Amsterdam. As he saw the enemy approaching, he used a unique strategy. ... strife of the battle of life, It's easy to fight when you''re winning; It's easy to slave, and starve, and be brave, When the dawn of success is beginning. But the man who can meet despair and defeat With a cheer, there''s the man of God''s choosing; The man who ...

2. Running Around The Empty Tomb

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Thomas Long

... first moment and see there a strange sight -- Mary Magdalene in a breakneck dash away from the garden. As an old saying of the French Foreign Legion has it: "When in doubt, gallop." But Mary is not the only one dashing about in the Easter story. When she gets ... the first person to believe in the good news of the resurrection, the first child of the kingdom to wake up and see the dawn of the new creation. Why is it important to know that the beloved disciple won the race? Why is John concerned to report that ...

3. Your Image of Tomorrow

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... I mentioned Dr. Marlatt’s fine hymn, Spirit of Life, in this New Dawn. I mentioned the prayer with which the hymn concludes: Give us thy vision, eyes that see, Beyond the dark, the dawn and Thee. I think this prayer has the approval of Jesus, and ... togs, Said things were going to the dogs. But this is what I wish to state; The dogs have had an awful wait! Recently a French scientist was asked what he saw on the human horizon to be optimistic about. He replied, "I am very optimistic about the future of ...

4. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... thesame ones to whom we owe our arts, sciences and thevery use of speech.1 Volney, as other white explorers of previous German, French, and English expeditions, had discovered the truth about Africa and Egypt's role and influence on the development of Western civilization. Many of ... Black Africa (Chicago: ThirdWorld Press, 1978). 5. Herodotus, Histories (London: 1848), p. 122. 6. James Henry Breasted, The Dawn of Conscience (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), p. xv. 7. E.A. Wallis Budge, From Fetishism ...

5. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... host's face. The king puts it like this: "I saw his heart in his face." Gilbert Stuart took one look at Talleyrand, the French ambassador, and said, "If that man isn't a scoundrel, God doesn't write a legible hand." A selfish prince once had a magician ... , and thought, "I will live to look once more into her deep, loving eyes." He thought about his children. "If I make it until dawn, I will feel their kisses on my parched lips and feel their fingers on my face." The doctor's filled the soldier's heart full ...

6. Too Soon, Monsieurs, Too Soon?

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Thomas Long

... , blandly chirped "si bon, si bon" in the background. In Freberg's parody, we hear the lead singer (Freberg affecting a very bad French accent) rehearsing his background chorus, "When eh gav' yew the sig-uh-nal, you will sahng 'si bon, si bon.' So wait, monsieurs, ... in the mud and mire of the present, we are called to see people not only as they are but also as they were at the dawn of God's creation and as they will be in the triumph of God's future. In order to become a minister in most denominations, a ...

7. Resurrection: From Chaos to Order

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... He began to read it. He continued to read it. "I could not find words to express my awe and wonder. And suddenly the realization dawned upon me: This was the [word] that would understand me ... I continued to read deeply into the night And lo and behold! the One of ... career as teacher, a Christian philosopher at Princeton University. Through the experience of being introduced to Jesus in the French Bible, Cailliet found the answers to questions that had gone unanswered for so long. He discovered and order amid ...

8. Surprised By Christmas

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... It was now a colorful dream home, complete with miniature furnishings. Something even Santa could not improve upon. In the cold, gray dawn of Christmas Day, Rick loaded his treasure into his car and drove over to the little girl's house. He gently cleared ... s world. A familiar story tells us that, on Christmas Eve in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War, when Paris was besieged, the French and Germans faced each other in trenches before the city. Suddenly, a young Frenchman jumped out of his trench, and in a ...

9. Jesus Says, 'Just Do It'

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Dr. Chane M. Hutton

... of faith. But he also knew what their problem was. They needed to get started living what they already believed. It never dawned on the disciples that it might take action to forgive others. You know what I'm talking about ” effort. While the disciples ... people can bring to problems if we can just get them into action. I read an amusing tale recently about a group of French prisoners of war during World War II. These prisoners were forced to work in a German munitions factory. Upon realizing that the very ...

10. Believing Isn’t Easy

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... cost me mine, replied Nissenson, who had covered the trial of Adolph Eichmann in Jerusalem. There was no rebuke offered to the French priest’s faith or integrity, it was a simple statement that the writer could not believe in God in a world where ... world’s proclamations of other lords. Those who dared to confess the new creed were telling the world that a new age had dawned. It might appear that Caesar is Lord, that Baal is Lord, that Zeus is Lord, or whoever, but Christians were those who believed that ...

11. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the power of His Spirit as the indwelling Christ. I remember well when the first glimmer of this glory began to dawn in my soul. I was a pastor in one of the fastest-growing new congregations in Mississippi. I was a "success" in ... in the afternoon. When school was dismissed, she would call to a boy or two and say to them, "boys, come here please. Do you know French?" Very proudly, they said that they did. Then she would ask, "Please read to me this passage underscored in red in my Bible." They did. Then ...

12. Jesus and John the Baptist

Luke 7:18-35

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... speaks of one who is privileged to announce the coming of Yahweh himself in judgment and salvation, the last prophet before the age of fulfillment finally dawns, the returning Elijah (Mal. 4:5–6; see on 1:17). But the wording of Malachi 3:1 has been modified (drawing on the wording of ... a number of mystical encounters converted to Christianity. Always devoted to the poor and helpless, she joined the French Resistance and starved herself to death in protest of what was happening to the Jews. Her writings are ...

13. When God Is The Problem

Psalm 13:1-6

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... had a memorable way of putting it. Meese liked to recall the advice of the man who preceded him in that office, William French Smith, who advised Ed Meese that there would be days in this position when he would feel like the javelin competitor who won ... to count our days And set our hearts on wisdom's ways;Turn, Lord, to us in our distress. In pity now Thy servants bless.Let mercy's dawn dispel our night, And all our day with joy be bright. O send the day of joy and light, For long has been our sorrow's night; ...

14. Trip Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Trick Questions I love the story of the incompetent counterfeiter who spent all day making up some funny money. At the end of the day, it dawned on him that he had mistakenly been printing $15 bills. He figured the only way he was going to get anything out of this batch ... . Forget that hundreds of thousands of innocent people suffered. Forget that the main sin section of New Orleans, the French Quarter, was relatively unscathed by the hurricane. For this senator, why else would God have sent a hurricane than ...

15. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... "worms" to "worship" without one entry at "worry." But things have greatly changed. Albert Camus, the French existentialist philosopher, called the Twentieth Century, "the century of fear." People today are anxious and anxiety affects ... the pain that it causes, and the sorrow that it brings. Do you remember the same quote: "It's always darkest just before dawn?" Lions most often roar just before dawn between three and six o'clock in the morning. Then we are told that the devil is looking for those "whom he ...

16. A Career in The Kingdom

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... way. When Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States, his exploits at physical endurance were legendary. French diplomat, Jean Jusserand, stationed in Washington DC at the time, developed a good friendship with the president. ... was the call and invitation of John the Baptist which too many had refused to heed. From Jesus' perspective, John was the first hint of dawn calling to minds newly awakening from the twisted darkness of the world in which we are trapped: the advertiser who claims to know what ...

17. Do You Have Your Key Ready?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... world’s highest resurrection rate is one. And that is why we are here today. The time was Sunday morning just before dawn. The setting--a garden not too far from the place where Jesus had been cruelly crucified. In the garden was a tomb-- ... God’s whisper to us, “You can make it through. I am nearer than you imagine. I will not let you fall.” Bernard Tristain, a French novelist, was held captive with his wife by the Gestapo during World War II. “The time of fear is over,” Bernard told his wife when ...

18. Week Of Ash Wednesday

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... man had been asking for her in her absence. He insisted upon staying in the apartment until he could speak with her. This man, a French immigrant to the United States via Canada, had a new vision of life. He wanted to give back to all people the Christian dignity ... , sheltering the homeless and clothing the naked. These acts of kindness will produce a light which will break forth like the dawn. All of these acts as well describe the ministry of welcome to those whom society has forgotten. Jesus also speaks of ...

19. Come The Judgment Day

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

Erskine White

... face up to the knowledge God puts in our hearts. Sooner or later, our self-satisfaction and our spiritual pride must melt away like dew in dawn's pure light. There comes a time in all our lives when we know that the judgment is real and that the ground rules for ... trying to do right and live the Christian life if God's grace will let us off the hook anyway? We would be like the French atheist who, when lying on his death bed, was asked if he was worried because he had never tried to believe in God. "No," the ...

20. Wedding: The Foundation of Faithfulness

Sermon Aid

John M. Braaten

... day of the rest of your lives.All this may sound exciting to newlyweds, but apparently it is shortlived. That we rebel against the unity of marriage is obvious from the demeaning way in which we speak of it. For instance, one old French adage offers: "Love is the dawn of marriage, and marriage is the sunset of love." It sounds as though love creates the grounds for marriage, but marriage cannot sustain love. I tell you that just the opposite is true. Love does not make marriage possible; marriage makes love ...

21. Easter 7

John 17:20-26, Psalm 47:1-9, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 16:6-10, Acts 16:16-40, 1 Samuel 12:1-25, Revelation 22:7-21

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... Psalm 47 in the eucharistic worship. Psalm 97:1-2, 6-7, 9 (RC) - This psalm is also appointed for the Mass at Dawn on Christmas Day in the ORDO, The Book Of Common Prayer (Christmas Day II), and the Lutheran Book Of Worship (Psalms and ... things about the gospel." That was his way of stating our unity in the Word of God and, specifically, in the, gospel of our Lord. A French mathematician, who was teaching at the University of Minnesota for a year, lived next door to my wife and me during that year. After we ...

22. The Crowing of a Rooster

Matthew 26:31-35, Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... by association." Just as Peter settled comfortably, secure in his lies, the sound of a rooster crowing broke the stillness before dawn. Certainly this was an ordinary sound to those in the courtyard who could tell by the eastern sky that morning was ... was born there. I've since learned that it has been shifted back and forth between France and Italy and is now under French rule. Every year on Good Friday in the Corsican village of Sartene, the drama of Christ carrying his cross is reenacted. This reenactment ...

23. Dead or Alive?

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

... freedom gives us a significant volitional role. Anthropologist James Breasted wrote a book some years ago entitled The Dawn of Conscience. Using the evolutionary perspective, he celebrated that early, unknown ancestor who first went beyond being merely ... ’s needs, and even gave his life in love for all humanity. I cannot forget a little book entitled Human Destiny, by a French writer named LeComte du Nouy. In it the author argues that all the processes of evolution have been pointed toward production of the ...

24. The Unemployed Embalmers

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

Renan, the French Skeptic, scathingly quipped that the Christian faith was built on the body of a dead Jew. He was right, at least as far as ... Easter, the first morning of the Resurrection. I have read, and heard, and even preached sermons that started out with that little embalming party leaving their homes in the cold light of dawn and hurrying to the Garden of Joseph of Arimathea to the tomb where the body of the crucified Christ had been hastily buried. Bent they were on their sad and somewhat gruesome ...

25. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... else again. We ought always to recognize extenuating circumstances which, although they may not excuse, may explain. I presume that is why the French have a saying: "To know all is to forgive all." The third precaution is to question whether it is ever fair to judge ... that Cain had relinquished the prerogative of being the first-born, and he was dispossessed of his spiritual birthright. When this dawned upon him and he saw his more pious brother acceding to the place of spiritual priority, it made him angry ...

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