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Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... brought you through this past year. Remember God's promise that He has a "future and a hope" for you. And leave here rejoicing "in all the good things the Lord your God has given to you and to your household." 1. Donald Davis. Ride the Butterflies (Little Rock, Ark.: August House Publishers, Inc., 2000), pp. 14-15. 2. Martha Graybeal Rowlett. Responding to God (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1996), p. 106. 3. Becky Freeman, Susan Duke, Rebecca Barlow Jordan, Gracie Malone, Fran Caffey Sandin. Eggstra Courage ...

2. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... embryos in dispute in the divorce case between Junior Davis and Mary Sue Davis. His decision will set a nation-wide precedent. Most lawyers say Judge Young is up to the task. It's a tough one. "Mrs. Davis,...wants to implant the pre-embryos in her uterus ... a left-handed kid learns to write -- I learned by practice: One has the power over the quality of one's life. That is all..." (Donald J. Shelby, "How Deep is Down", February 25, 1973). Yes, we know there are times when we can't sing -- or we think we can't ...

3. A Misplaced Holy Day

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... lone postmark was from Dec. 22, 1942. "It's all speculation on where it was, who discovered it, was it delivered, why it got to Tinley Park," Davis said. It's easy to make fun of the U.S. Postal Service. The truth of the matter is that, with the millions of cards which ... , THE JESUS I NEVER KNEW (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing, 1995), pp. 3940. 3. "Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh," Donald Culross Peattie, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST, Nov/Dec 1992, p. 60. 4. Adapted from Beatrice S. Stevenson, "Christmas ...

4. At the Intersection of Heaven and Earth

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... world. We know that His purpose was that the world through Him might be saved. But what is our response to that stupendous news? Pastor Barry Davis noticed some interesting statistics in a recent issue of the Harvard Business Review that you might find enlightening in this season of gift-giving. One of the ... joyfully, and make it our own. 1. From a sermon by Dr. Donald Strobe who cites the bulletin of the Metropolitan UMC, Detroit, 1987, as his source. 2. Tim Allis in People magazine, date unknown. 3. Barry L ...

5. The Lord's Prayer: Forgive Us Our Trespasses

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... witness" that could be made in the face of evil itself. I had the privilege of reading a printed sermon that Dr. Earl C. Davis of Memphis, TN preached at his church titled, "Common Sense About Forgiveness," in which he shared: "There are no Summa Cum Laude graduates of ... forgiveness to us. If hatred is the driving force in our lives, we will waste ourselves going over the wrong bridge. Donald Shelby, in Ernest Gordon''s THROUGH THE VALLEY OF KWAI, describes what he and his fellow prisoners of war went through ...

6. How Connected Are You?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... us. A group of young children were sitting in a circle with their teacher. She was going around asking each of them questions. “Davy, what noise does a cow make?” He said, “It goes moo.” “Alice, what noise does a cat make?” “It goes meow ... vine.” And so I ask you one last time: how connected are you? 1. Randy Cassingham, www.thisistrue.com. 2. Donald M. Tuttle, http://www.first‑christian‑cc.org/images/sermons/Oct%201,%202000.htm. 3. Michael Bugeja, Interpersonal Divide (Oxford University ...

7. Daddy, I'm Afraid

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... I’m frightened of that cloud that’s over Russia. “I’m scared of war between Libya and us. “I’m really scared of Chubby Davis that bully that beats up on me and lives two doors away from us. “I’m afraid I’m not gonna pass into the next ... daughter, when we are afraid, we have a Daddy we can turn to. That of course is what “Abba” means ”Daddy.” Bible scholar Donald Guthrie has this to say about the term Abba: “(Abba),” he writes, “is a unique form that finds no parallel either in ...

8. Structure And Clarity

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... for one sermon. The most difficult task of sermon preparation for me is to narrow it all down to one central theme. Donald Macleod suggests first writing down ideas as you "brood" about the text, then jotting down more ideas as you study commentaries. ... take its shape.32 The main point must finally communicate the point of the text and move into the lives of the people. H. Grady Davis lists four characteristics of a good sermon idea: 1. It must be narrow enough to be sharp. 2. It must have in it a force ...

9. Called Into Covenant

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... glorious color picture of the rainbow in last Monday's Commercial Appeal? It had to do with Davis Love's victory in last week's Professional Golf Association Championship. Just as he marched triumphantly onto ... way of contrast, a contract is an agreement based on law. A marriage, for example, is a covenant, an agreement based on love and trust. But a Donald Trump pre-nuptial agreement is a contract based on law. Why did God want a covenant relationship with us? The staggering truth is that God yearns for ...

10. Power Praying

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... there is in prayer? 1. Sally Magnusson, THE FLYING SCOTSMAN (New York: Quartet Books, 1981), p. 16. 2. Cited in Gordon MacDonald, RESTORING JOY, (New York: Inspirational Press, 1992), p. 157. 3. Ronald L. Davis, MISTREATED (Portland: Multnomah, 1989). 4. Aug/Sept. 1993, p. 2. 5. Donald F. Ackland, Brian Harbour, Polly Cooper, BROADMAN COMMENTS 1990-91 (Nashville, Broadman Press, 1990). 6. Richard Speight, SECOND HELPINGS, (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1993), pp. 30-32. 7. Edward E. Ham (Wheaton: Sword ...

11. Do You Have It?

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... what made this fifteen inch, three-year-old beagle so special, the response was the same: "He just has it." The judge, Dr. Donald J. Jones, said of Uno, "He's the most perfect beagle I've ever seen... Look at his face, you melt right down." ... Do you have "It"? Would you like "It"? Animations, Illustrations, Illuminations, Ruminations, Applications Although Nassau Presbyterian Church pastor David A. Davis (Princeton, NJ) didn't have "It" in mind when he wrote this (in A Kingdom We Can Taste: Sermons for ...

12. The Son Superior to Angels

Hebrews 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

God’s Definitive Revelation The magnificent opening verses of this passage provide an immediate expression of the author’s theological perspective: he moves from past revelation to definitive revelation, from God’s word to the OT “fathers” to his final word through his Son, Jesus Christ. He gives first his doctrine of Christ in order to set the tone for the entire book. The introductory christological prologue in these verses is thus similar to the prologue of the Fourth Gospel (John 1:1–18) in its ...

13. Jesus and the Baptists

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

A little girl who normally attended another Sunday School happened to attend a Methodist Sunday School one week-end, while visiting her grandmother. In the course of the morning she heard a number of things she wasn’t quite sure about, but when the teacher said that Jesus was a Jew she responded, “Maybe Jesus was a Jew, but God is a Baptist!” Of course, God isn’t a Baptist; and neither was John the Baptist, for that matter. That is why the Revised Standard Version calls him “John the Baptizer”...to avoid ...

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