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Hebrews 7:11-28

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Leonard Sweet

... dipped in honey are rolled in poppy seeds. They loved to spend afternoons watching people be killed. But for self-help, they don’t have self-help manuals but dice oracles, which predict death to three out of ten of those who ask about their ... by recounting his emergency training at the naval Survival Training Center in California. Undergoing an exercise in surviving a helicopter water crash, Sherwood recalled what he was taught to do in case he could not escape on his own. If the experience gets too intense ...

2. In the Waiting Room

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... the followers of Jesus awaiting his return. We have been waiting now for more than 2,000 years. Waiting is hard to do. Sherwood Wirt deals with waiting in his book Freshness of the Spirit. He reminds us that much of life is spent waiting. “Think of ... basketball for the same reason. Nobody envisioned what today’s women athletes would be capable of. There is still so much we don’t know about all the things that matter most, and predictions can only be based on current knowledge. Who could have predicted ...

3. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... own sin. And those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves." (Sherwood E. Wirt, editor, Spiritual Disciplines, p.19) It's very important -- to know our sin. It's in knowing our ... you asked God to remove that thorn from your flesh -- but the thorn is still there. Painfully present, we must be patient. God has reasons we don't know. How many times have you prayed for the sobriety of a husband or a wife or child? And yet they still go their way ...

4. Liberating Truth

John 8:31-41

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William G. Carter

During the 1960s, Sherwood Schwartz wrote and produced a number of hit television shows. One of the most popular shows was Gilligan's Island, a comedy ... think we have a corner on the truth, our words and deeds may be opposed to God. If we dare to tell one another, "I know what I'm doing," there's always evidence that we don't do everything God wants us to do. We think we are free, yet we really aren't free. As someone once quipped, "Those who believe they are liberated may merely be unzipped." We live under ...

5. Put Your Best Foot Forward

Isaiah 52:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... Jesus Christ. William Carey is known as the father of modern-day missions. In 1792 in Nottingham, England, where the famous Sherwood Forest of Robin Hood legend exists, there was a debate that took place. This young cobbler stood before a group of ... Just a few seconds after jumping out of an airplane, you will be falling at 120 miles an hour. But here's the strange part. You don't really believe you're falling. You think that you must be caught in some type of updraft; you're just aren't getting any closer ...

6. A Squirrel Crossing a Busy Street

Romans 5:1-5

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King Duncan

... a busy street and it seems like there is nowhere left to turn. Some of you have already been through such times. Others of us don’t like to think about it, but we know our time is coming. [We are beginning a new series of five messages today, When ... and make changes that can propel us forward. As St. Paul writes, “Suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” Sherwood Wirt, in his book Jesus, Man of Joy has a very helpful section on the positive role that pain can play ...

7. Welcome To The Mountain. Now Go Home

Exodus 24:1-18

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King Duncan

... come forward really `last'?" A prominent actress seated next to him didn't like the question. She commented, "What if they don't?" Everyone looked a bit startled, including Graham. She went on: "What if, in all their lives, they have just that ... living Christ. So, my closing words to you are these: "Welcome to the mountain. Now go home." 1. Wilma Dykeman 2. Sherwood Eliot Wirt, A THIRST FOR GOD (Minneapolis: World Wide Publications, 1986). 3. Jack Gulledge, IDEAS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR INSPIRATIONAL TALKS ( ...

8. Leaping from Recognition Point

2 Samuel 11:26—12:13a

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Stan Purdum

... is a small community in north-central Ohio named Clyde. Back in 1919, a man named Sherwood Anderson, who had grown up in Clyde, published a book of short stories called Winesburg, Ohio ... recognition point is so that we can leap off of it. For David, the leap was to repent and seek God's forgiveness. For the Simon the Pharisee the leap — though we don't know if he made it or not — was to see himself as no less a sinner than the woman who knelt before Jesus and to be more compassionate and understanding of ...

9. Grabbing up the Truths

John 17:1-11, Phil 3:12-17

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Forty-three years ago, I read something by Sherwood Anderson in an upper-level literature class at Albion College. Which took me a while to find, given that I wanted to see if it was as I remembered it. But I did. And it was. Anderson shared a legend, suggesting that in the ... persist in a belief that out there is to be found "the one true church," all I can tell you is where you cannot find it....that being the church that claims (to the point of bragging) that they have it. Whatever you do, don't go there.

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