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1. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... body is like putting sand on the bearings of an engine. It just doesn't belong. I have a better use for my brain than to poison it with alcohol." It is now clear that consumption of alcohol, in any amount, is harmful. Professor E. Don Nelson, of the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, concluded, based on latest research, that "the less we drink the better off we are." He noted that in any amount alcohol kills cells in every organ of the body. Consequently, alcohol in any amount "causes permanent ...

2. The Mother Side Of God

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked, "Why were you so concerned with finding a six-pack of beer in her closet?" "Because I don't want her to get into trouble," the mother answered. "I understand that," Nelson replied, "but why is it you don't want her to get into trouble?" The mother answered, "Well, because I don't want her to ruin her life." "I understand that," Nelson replied, "but why is it that you don't want her to ruin her life?" Finally the mother got it. "Well, because I love her," she said. "Do you think she got that message ...

3. Accept His Peace

John 4:1-26, Romans 5:1-11, Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... you bring us up out of Egypt to make us and our children and livestock die of thirst? That’s a legitimate complaint, don’t you think? If you are faced with a problem that severe it’s perfectly all right to complain to the Lord. If ... , we may carry a life-long burden of feelings of unworthiness. No wonder that before he sank that sixty-two foot putt, Larry Nelson prayed for peace. Peace really is one of the most precious gifts that Christ offers us. One elderly gentleman found that peace even though ...

4. Giants Or Grasshoppers?

Numbers 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... again of his pledge. "Maybe we could give a little more," he thought. After all, our faith is important to us. Even if we don't understand it sometimes. He thought about Ed, his former Scout Master who had died a few weeks ago ” after a slow and painful ... us to become. Then he used a true story to illustrate his point. There was a high school swimmer a few years back named Nelson Diebel. Nelson dreamed of one day making it to the Olympics. He was a life guard at his high school pool. One day when no one ...

5. 2 Boys at Doc's

Luke 15:25-32

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... . Boys be seated. You over here and you over there. DOC: Hello fellows. It’s good to see you. How are you? BROTHER ONE: I’m fine. Don’t really need this examination but Dad said we’d better get checked just to make sure we are all right. DOC: I’m glad you’re here. Sometimes something shows up and we need to address it. (Starts to examine brother one) NURSE NELSON: And how are you? (to brother two) Are you having any symptoms? BROTHER TWO: Well, I didn’t think so but then it began to happen and ...

6. The Wisdom of the Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... audience with him, when I knelt before him, he kissed me on the forehead and began a conversation. He asked me a very profound question.” “You don’t say,” said the barber. “What did he ask?” “He asked me where I got this lousy haircut.” Well now, that was good enough for ... . We never come to Jesus on equality; we must come to him in submission and in surrender. Nelson was one of the great Navy admirals of England. And it was his custom to always treat his vanquished opponents with the greatest ...

7. Better Than a Spanking

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; what you’re doing with yourself. And then, there is also God. You see, no telling what God might try to do with you. From what I’ve seen of God, once He has claimed you, you don’t get off the hook so easily. God is relentless in claiming what is God’s. And, in baptism, God says you belong to Him.” Eugene Nelson ends his story this way: “The boy shook his head in wonder at this strange unreasonable brand of reasoning and more or less stumbled out the door of my study. In a week or so, he was ...

8. Where's Dad?

Matthew 2:13-18

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... always is. Stranger: You sound more than disappointed. Something wrong? Brad: (loudly blurts out) Wouldn’t you be if — (speaks normally) sorry, I don’t even know you and here I am dumping my crap on you — I didn’t mean to blow up! Stranger: That’s ... bet five bucks on you in the race and you made me win $5,000. Wow!” The next day the papers reported, “Norval Nelson’s Son Wins The Annual Sailing Regatta.” I felt I’d done something significant. Dad didn’t say a word. Not even, “Nice job ...

9. A Life of Trust

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... the place where he can go to the bathroom by himself. He can feed himself. He can hug you and love you. But here’s what Nelson loves about Curt. “He is innocent and pure, and he loves people. You can be a big guy or a little guy, a female or a ... us is immune. However, living by faith and not by sight also means that whatever occurs, with God’s help, we can make it. We don’t know what lies ahead, but we know that whatever it is, with God’s help, we will handle it. Texas media mogul Bob Buford, in ...

10. Love and Obey (Mother's Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... said. “He cannot submit to his parents. He cannot submit to an employer. He cannot submit to a teacher.” The coach told Nelson, “We’ve carried him along for the sake of the ball club. But I assure you, he will not submit to his ... that of a mother who loves her child. Young people, you know that when your mother gives you a rule to follow, even one as bland as “Don’t sit too close to the TV . . .” or “Be sure to put a jacket on . . .” or “Be in by midnight . . .”, you know down in ...

11. A Difficult Day to Follow Jesus

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... have been put to death. Everything and everybody that means anything to me, they’ve taken away. It’s all gone and I hated them for it. Then I remembered,” said Nelson Mandela, “what Jesus said about forgiveness, and God spoke to me and said, ‘Nelson, for twenty-seven years you were their prisoner but you were always a free man. Don’t let them turn you into a free man only to make you into their prisoner.’ And I realized the importance of forgiveness.” (7) He’s right, of course. We must ...

12. The Difference a Baby Makes

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... be able to reach the pedals, and anyway, my mom said I can’t get my driver’s license yet. Kyle, 5 Dear Santa, Pleease! Don’t bring me any new clothes. Kayla, 9 Dear Santa, Thank you for the remote control car last year, even though it broke the day ... to select the new child’s name, and the one he chose was Zaziwe which means “Hope.” The name had special meaning for Nelson Mandela, for during all his years in prison, he says, hope never left him and now it never would. He was convinced that this ...

13. Sacred Pleasures

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . I love country and western music, and the musical sound and soundtrack that Willie Nelson has given the world is a national treasure. If you’ve every been to a Willie Nelson concert, you know how it ends. After singing the classic Nelson songs for an hour and a half . . you know them [maybe have them call out their Willie Nelson favorites] . . . . “Always on My Mind,” “On the Road Again,” “Mama Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys,” “Crazy” . . . Willie ends with either one ...

14. Belling the Cat

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... do something about all this killing, all this crime going on around the neighborhood? Then, she say, God spoke to her. And God said, “Why don’t you?” So she took to the streets. She called the police department. She said, “I need some help. What can we do for you ... Thomas Nelson Publishers, Inc., 2005), p.34. 2. William H. Cosby Jr. and Alvin F. Poussaint, M.D., Come On (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc, 2007), pp. 216-217. 3. Getting Through What You’re Going Through (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, ...

15. Whosoever Will

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... studying for the ministry. As you can imagine, not everyone in the church was in favor of admitting him into the clergy ranks, but Nelson appealed to the church's belief in salvation for all who turn to God. In the end, he was admitted by a special ... the matter of our destiny, not to choose is to choose. This is a fact we would probably eliminate from our religion if we could. We don't like being pushed into a corner where we have to say, "Yes" or "No." Faith would be so much easier if it just spoke words ...

16. Jesus’ Hospital

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

... office. And He said to him, ‘Follow Me.’ And he arose and followed Him." Now that’s what we call a response to a call don’t we? Jesus said: "Follow Me." Matthew got up and followed him. The problem with many of us is that we haven’t even gotten up ... of this one called "God’s Gift" that the others could not see. Jesus saw one who would get up and follow him. Nelson's illustrated Bible Dictionary makes a good point when it states: By His attitude toward the tax collectors, Jesus showed that God’s ...

17. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... matters. Your cause is dead. Your family is gone. Your friends have been killed. Now they're releasing you, but there's nothing left for you out there.' And I hated them for what they had taken from me. Then, I sensed an inner voice saying to me, "˜Nelson! For twenty-seven years you were their prisoner, but you were always a free man! Don't allow them to make you into a free man, only to turn you into their prisoner!'"(7) You can never be free to be a whole person if you are unable to forgive. You see that ...

18. It's Happening!

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... way." The woman who had come up to the table patted the little girl on the shoulder and, obviously touched, looked at the mother and said, "Don't ever stop. It means a lot to those around you." It seems like such a little thing, but it was a witness. The seeds of ... an experience of Andrew Young, former ambassador to the United Nations, when Young visited South Africa at the invitation of Nelson Mandela several years ago. For years Mandela was a leading opponent of apartheid in South Africa. In 1964, the white ...

19. Will the Real Christian Please Stand Up?

Acts 11:26

Sermon

James Merritt

... Now there is a controversy about whether or not you have to accept Jesus Christ as Lord in order to be saved. Quite frankly, I don't know what the controversy is all about. First of all, why would anybody want to be saved if they did not want to accept ... But giving up your sword was the ultimate act of total surrender. That is why this story carries on added meaning. Lord Nelson, the British Admiral, after a notable victory over the French, had the French Admiral to come to surrender. Well, the French Admiral ...

20. Please Pass The Salt

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... she needs you! She needs you to pay for the pills."' Then Suzanne Fields concluded: " A lot of us prefer Harriet Nelson, sentiment and all, to Roseanne, vulgarity and all." When Jesus called us the salt of the earth, he meant that we ... salty Christians ought to make folks thirsty for that living water which is Jesus Christ. Are you the only Christian in your office? If so, don't moan and feel sorry for yourself. Instead say, "Hot dog, I've got the exclusive salt franchise in my office. Jesus has trusted me ...

21. Legacies of Power

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... power is used and for what purpose. Andrew Young relates a "parable of power" about an experience he had while visiting with Nelson Mandela in South Africa. As you may remember, Mandela was a strong opponent of apartheid, South Africa's official policy of ... minutes, tens of thousands of people in the stadium were standing and singing this black African miners' song. Andrew Young confessed, "I don't know anything about rugby, and I did not understand the words of that song, but I was in tears." When the ...

22. Distracted by Disappointment

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our faith that we do not understand. Understanding is not the key to life, however. Faith is. Trust in God is. God’s eyeglasses don’t allow us to see why we are going through a certain situation, but they do allow us to see what step we should take ... in him. In other words, you had to believe in order to see. This is a powerful lesson about the nature of faith. Author Nelson Searcy tells of visiting Disney World with his son some years ago. It was a magical time for them. What they did not realize ...

23. Are You Suffering from FOMO?

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... attending a better party or taking a better vacation than we are, and that we’d better cram as many experiences into our life as possible so we don’t miss out on the good life. After all, “You only go around once in life....” FOMO is popping up in other areas of our society as ... ’s Excuse Note,” ABC News, June 3, 2012. Cited in Max Lucado, Unshakable Hope (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2018). 5. John Ortberg, The Life You’ve Always Wanted (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2002), pp. 77-82. 6. ...

24. Love: The Happiness of a Godly Family

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... this world, was when God gave His Son on the cross for you and for me. That's why if you're looking for a definition of love, don't look in the dictionary, look at Calvary. You can never love your family with a godly love until the God who is love lives in your heart. ... Imprimatur of Nursing," American Journal of Nursing, May 1975, p. 784. 8. Gary Smalley and John Trent, The Blessing, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1986), p. 40. 9. Ibid, pp. 41-42. 10. Ibid. p. 43. 11. Ibid. p. 44. 12. Ross Campbell, ...

25. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what good country music is about: life – life in the raw. Life as we experience it, and a good image for that is Willie Nelson’s classic “On the Road Again.” Do you remember it? “On the road again just can’t wait to get on the road again ... again would somehow make it go away; retelling the story to one another to ease the pain and share the heaviness. We know where Emmaus is don’t we? We have been there in one way or another at sometime in our live. Emmaus is whatever we do, or wherever we go to ...

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