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Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... all the way to our church fellowship today. The story is told of Pablo Picasso who, during the roaring twenties in Paris, was asked to paint the portrait of a young poet, Gertrude Stein. After months of work, Picasso unveiled the painting. People were shocked. The ... never go down for the count. We learn that the darkest moments are short corridors leading to sunlit rooms." Dr. Charles F. Stanley, Senior Minister of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, often calls to his memory an incident in his ...

2. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part II)

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Michael Jackson sang a song popular a few years ago entitled, "The Man in the Mirror." I''m starting with the man in the mirror, I''m asking him to change his ways. No message could have been any clearer If you want to make the world a better place You got to start with ... to the Family Channel at 10 p.m. to watch the "In Touch" program featuring the preaching ministry of the Reverend Dr. Charles F. Stanley. He was not preaching that night. It was his son, Andy. I almost turned the channel, but being a young ...

3. When Life Seems to Be Going in the Wrong Direction

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is Where am I going?''" I don''t know about you, but there certainly have been moments in my journey of faith when I have asked myself, "How in the world did I get myself in this mess?" "What wrong turn did I make?" "Where am I supposed to be going?" The ... eyes on Him. We do not know about tomorrow, but we can know Him. He who holds all tomorrows in His Hands! Dr. Charles F. Stanley, Senior Minister of the First Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia, often calls to his memory an incident in his life in which ...

4. Thanksgiving - The Biblical Version

1 Chronicles 16:7-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... religion. (1) It seems that on Thanksgiving Day we fill it full of so much life that we forget to pause to ask the question "about life." I think everyone here would agree that very, very few Americans are as SPIRITUAL about Thanksgiving as the Pilgrims ... Thanksgiving must focus on God and not on ourselves and our present circumstances. REAL THANKSGIVING PUTS GOD IN THE CENTER. Dr. Charles F. Stanley said, "God desires us to live with a spirit of thanksgiving in every circumstance. He tells us: `It is good ...

5. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... disciples surely said to themselves, it can't be done! Impossible! It's like something Charles F. Kettering once said when he was Research Head of General Motors. When he wanted a ... winner because he didn't listen to people who said he couldn't do it. Dr. William H. Willimon tells of being in East Germany sometime back when his knowledgeable, university ... so long to do the homework — the problems seemed to be a little harder than usual. I asked him if he still wanted it. He told me to throw it on his desk. I ...

6. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... mater, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. One of the lecturers was a theologian by the name of Dr. F. Dale Bruner from Washington State, and he gave me the idea for the title of this sermon. In his lecture he related ... Dr. Charles Erdman, who was a very popular Bible lecturer of his day. Erdman had written an exhaustive commentary on the New Testament. During the course of the evening the discussion got around to the subject of the Holy Spirit, and several budding theologues asked ...

7. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... minute saying they would be coming. She telephoned me at the church in the late afternoon asking me to stop at a grocery store on the way home and pick up some instant ... a woman who wanted instant prayer—power, but didn’t find it. After a raging hurricane, she called Dr. Angel on the phone and cursed him out for preaching such false hopes. She went on a tirade ... haven’t tried to make contact with God in the past year. As Charles F. Kettering once said, “If you fiddle today, you can’t expect to give ...

8. Behold The Man Who Took The Victory

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... enables us to see who he is. In one of his books United Methodist minister Dr. Charles Allen quotes a historian who wrote, "When the final history of mankind has been ... on a distant planet. It is a place far different than this world. One boy learns about this and asks his grandfather, "Why are you leaving us?" The man replies, "I'm going to a place where you never ... Dallas A. Brauninger, Emphasis, July-August, 1992, p. 19. 5. S. F. Bennett, "Sweet By and By," The Cokesbury Worship Hymnal, Abingdon-Cokesbury ...

9. How Can We Foretell the Future?

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... how twentieth century people lived. A president of the University, Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, created a vault in the Atlanta institution because he ... personal reasons than the remnants of our civilization. "My interest is in the future," said Charles F. Kettering of the General Motors Corporation, "because I’m going to spend the rest of ... class of sixth graders that John Milton, the poet, was blind. The next day she asked the children whether any of them could remember what Milton’s great affliction was. "Yes ...

10. The Lord's Prayer: Deliver us from Evil

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... proclaims more blatant doctrines of demons, enslaves more persons, and murders even greater numbers of innocent victims." (Merrill F. Unger, BIBLICAL DEMONOLOGY, Wheaton, ILL: Van Kampen Press, 1952, p. 197.) I think this is enough evidence ... our Garden of Eden, there is no safe place from evil. As Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was known to say: "We may have guided missiles, but we still have misguided men." Charles Haddon Spurgeon was asked, "What is the most important thing you have ever learned?" He replied ...

11. The Law of the Harvest

Psalm 126:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... as "the generation of the unbowed head, the unbended knee, and the unbroken heart." F. B. Meyer, a great English preacher once said, "I believe that if there is ... of the Christian life is when you win people to Jesus Christ. Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said, "Even if I were utterly selfish and had ... ask Jesus into your heart?" She said, "Yes sir, I would." She said, "Dr. Leavell, I bowed my head in that little shack and I asked Jesus into my heart. My mother was crying, and that preacher went over and asked ...

12. Everyone's Talking about Him

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... have destroyed a weaker man. Dr. Remen reminded Max that despite his many brushes with death, the broken bones, the accidents, the risks he took almost daily, he was still here. She asked him what he thought had ... continue his ministry to the least, the lowliest and the lost whoever they may be. 1. Charles R. Boatman in The Standard Lesson Commentary 2008-2009 (Cincinnati, OH: Standard Pub. 2008), pp. 50- ... Cited by Jean A. F. Holmes, http://www.npcpearl.org/Sermons/Sermon10292000.htm. 6. Quentin J. Schultze, Communicating for ...

13. Light For Our Lives

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... 'd look fine once again. `Don't worry,' I said, `We'll take good care of you.'" "She asked how she would look, and I reassured her and tried to soothe her fears. Later, I operated on ... our feelings about ourselves. Many of you know those feelings of inadequacy, do you not? Charles Schultz does a masterful job of capturing those feelings in the cartoon character, Charlie Brown. ... Dr. Maxwell Maltz in PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS. 2. From a sermon by Donald F. Garret. 3. Adapted from C.L. Allen's ROADS TO RADIANT LIVING.

14. The Scarlet Letter

Exodus 20:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... the last time you heard one of these Hollywood harlots admit she was an adulterous. Woman magazine asked its readers what it's like being the "other woman in an affair?" More than 4,700 ... F. Bruce, History of the English Bible, (New York: Oxford, 1978), p. 108. [2] Michael Medvid, Hollywood vs. America, p. 117. [3] Russell Chandler, Racing Toward 2001, p. 96. [4] David A. Seamands, God's Blueprint for Living, p. 100. [5] Dr. James Dobson, When God Doesn't Make Sense, pp. 185-186. [6] Ibid, p. 187. [7] Charles ...

15. Against All Hope

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... asked the dentist, “what kind of filling would you like for that tooth?” The youngster thought for a moment and replied, “Chocolate.” That young man is a positive thinker. It seems to me that we don’t hear as much about positive thinking as we used to. Some of you will remember when, under the influence of the late, great Dr ... difference. It’s similar to the experience of Major F.J. Harold Kushner, who was held by the Viet ... in New York magazine. Cited in Charles R. Swindoll, Dropping Your Guard ( ...

16. Bitterness: How to Overcome What You Undergo

Hebrews 12:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... compels you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks you, and from him who wants to borrow from you do not turn away ... -selling book entitled, None of These Diseases. In that book Dr. McMillen points out how bitterness can consume a person both ... to deal with bitterness. They all begin with the letter "f." First of all, forget it. Whatever caused the problem that ... you go back to the foot of the cross and hang around for awhile. Charles Spurgeon once said, "Let us go to Calvary to learn how we may be ...

17. Good News about Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... says, “You have not because you ask not.” In 1962 a 14‑year‑old boy by the name of Robert White wrote to President John F. Kennedy’s personal secretary, Evelyn ... does not change the fact that there is healing in faith. The eminent Swiss physician and author Dr. Paul Tournier in his book, A Doctor’s Case Book, gave many examples from his own ... news service carried this item which I quote: “After six years of blindness, Charles Gilman has his sight back. Now he plays an exciting game of matching ...

18. The Spontaneous Routine

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... never know for sure. But there is one thing we can do. Each and every day we can raise this prayer: Of all the things we ask this day, Lord, give to us the gift of a grateful heart.5 After such a prayer, regularly prayed, our first question will answer itself. Thanksgiving ... p. 14. 3. John Baillie, A Diary of Readings, (New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955), "Day 45," quoting Dr. Albert Schweitzer. One cannot be sure from the excerpt of Dr. Schweitzer's writing whether the "refreshed soul" is that of the ...

19. Preach the World and Reach the World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... sermon than you are. I like what a black preacher said when asked how he prepared his sermons. He said, "First, I reads myself full ... calling is to make a sinful world straighten up. f. Preach Constructively We are to "exhort." The word means ... for Jesus, and preach this Book, you are going to endure affliction. Dr. Vance Havner used to say that a preacher should have the mind ... that moment I saw the sun." That thirteen-year-old boy was Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Thank God Robert Eaglan did not get up and preach ...

20. How to Preach a God-Sized Message to a Media Filled World

2 Timothy 4:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... an Afro-American preacher said one time when someone asked him how he prepared his sermons. He said, "First, I ... be those of us who are willing to preach God-sized messages. f. Preach Constructively Paul continues by saying we are to, "Exhort." (II Timothy ... . There was an old preacher and a great preacher years ago named, Dr. Vance Havner. He used to say, "If you are going to preach ... that moment I saw the Son." That 13 year old boy was Charles Haddon Spurgeon. To this day, I thank God that Robert Eagland did ...

21. Priest Without Peer

Genesis 14:1-24

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... heaven. With poignant understanding of this great sacrifice, Charles Wesley wrote: Five bleeding wounds he bears, ... elder passed the cup to her while tears ran down her cheeks, Dr. Duncan stepped down from behind the altar table and taking the cup ... father. I never saw the man before in my life." Amazed, the nurse asked, "Then why did you stay?" The boy answered, "Because he needed me." When ... help comes from the Lord, Maker of heaven and earth." Henry F. Lyte knew God was a present help when he wrote: When ...

22. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Alkebulan" or Africa. We are indebted to the late Dr. Carter G. Woodson and members for the study of ... Africans in giving the world its first systems of thought, Count C.F. Volney tells us: These are a people now forgotten discovered while others ... Moses about God's infinite and miraculous power. God first changes a stick into a snake and then asks Moses to put his hand into his bosom. In taking his hand out it is "white as ... Breasted, The Dawn of Conscience (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), p. xv. 7. ...

23. Blessings Beyond Our Dreams (Part 2 )

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Dr ... word "life" contains the letters "i - f"–if. Life is a matter of ... asking for no more than what was due him under the covenant. To get the blessing from this verse for our lives, though, you and I must view it through the eyes of Jesus. Let’s consider what a blessing is and is not. A blessing is not a ritual or a mere courtesy. As when someone sneezes and we say, "God bless you." Henny Youngman says, "God sneezed. What could I say to him?" A blessing is not a rite or a meaningless formality. Rev. Charles ...

24. Come with Me to the Mountain

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

Charles Swindoll in his book Day By Day tells the story of a mysterious event that ... six months and was getting no better. Finally Jung said, “Friend, I can’t do any more for you. What you need is God.” “How do I find God, Dr. Jung?” the man asked. “I don’t know,” said Jung, “but I suspect if you will find a group of people some place that believe in Him passionately and just spend time with ... , 1976), p. 62. 8. Beth Johnston, http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/4291/greena396.html#F eb18.

25. Staying Close

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The death of Uzziah was a traumatic moment in Isaiah's life just as the death of John F. Kennedy or Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a traumatic event in many American's lives. It is not unusual ... understood what it means to say yes to Jesus Christ. I like the way Dr. Clovis Chappel once put it. He used the analogy of breaking horses. He noted ... ll never again have to ask who it was that movedyou or God. 1. Harold C. Bennett, REFLECTION OF FAITH (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1983). 2. Charles L. Allen, IN QUEST ...

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