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John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... 2. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, The Hollywood Walk of Shame (Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1993), p. 29. 3. Kingsport-Times News (TN), 10-21-94, p. 12D, “Rumors and Innuendo Could Destroy a Life,” Nell Mohney. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley. 4. http://www.stjosephsbeaverton.ca/Bulletins/May%201%20%202011%20make%20up.pdf. 5. Adapted from Clark Tanner. Cited by Eloy Gonzalez, http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/being-ready-means-living-in-faith-eloy-gonzalez-sermon-on-second-coming-52813.asp?Page=2.

2. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... message sent to nobody in particular?" David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s. "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." Gary Cooper said this about his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind." "We ... 154-160. 3. Anna Mulrine, U.S. News & World Report, 5-12-97, p. 12. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley. 4. J. Allen Nudge with Marge Van Kirk, "The Boy Next Door," McCall's, January 1998 p. 38.

3. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Prayer," a sermon by Dr. John Killinger, delivered at ... First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, February 14, 1988. 2. E. Stanley Jones, "How to Pray," AN ANTHOLOGY OF DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE, Thomas S. Kepler, compiler, (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1977), pg. 697. 3. Harold Kushner, WHO NEEDS GOD? (New York: Summit Books, 1989), pg. 153. 4. DAILY GUIDEPOSTS 1991, (Carmel, NY: GUIDEPOSTS, 1990), pp. 129-130. 5. TREASURY OF CHRISTIAN FAITH, Stanley I. Stuber and Thomas C. Clark ...

4. A Visit To Millennium Manor

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... thousand years. Fifteen years later, at the age of 88 and nearly blind and deaf, Mr. Nicholson joined his wife in the Clarks Grove Cemetery. (1) We can laugh at the Nicholson's rather simplistic interpretation of the Bible, but through the centuries there have ... .com 2. Source: Bill's Punch Line, http://www.tcmr.com/billspunchline.html 3. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley. 4. Major Michael Halt, Camp LeJeune, North Carolina, Guideposts, November 2002. 5. Religion in Daily Life by the Rev. Edward Chinn ...

5. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the wonder of God’s provision for that work: “In 1880 George and Sarah Clarke, purchased the lease for the Pacific Beer Garden. Dropping the word Beer, the ... facing anxieties with God’s help is reinforced by the 20 year best-seller of Dr. M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled. In the words of the opening section he ... all else, not to exploit it but to understand and develop it with respect. I believe, with John Wesley I might add, that the new heavens and the new earth will include animals and plants ...

6. To Touch The Untouchable

Luke 5:12-16

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... feel.5 Paul Brand believed that if he could do this, then he would be restoring life to those who had been living their own death. Dr. Brand cared that much about the people whom he had been sent to heal. He was able to heal these sick and often forgotten human beings ... Mt. Carmel, New York: Guideposts, 1986), p. 303. 2. Howard Clark Kee, Medicine, Miracle and Magic in New Testament Times (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), pp. 78-79. 3. John Sutherland Bonnell, Do You Want to be Healed?" (New York ...

7. The Present

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... reservation?" “No," said the man, “But I think I'll hang around and watch that thing take off." Dr. Chris Thurman and his wife Holly took a trip to Jamaica prior to the birth of their third ... that seems to pervade the New Testament? In our lesson from the Revelation of John, the victorious Christ says to his people, “Behold, I am coming soon!" And again ... . “The parents are subjected to a shakedown body search" for weapons or drugs, Clark says. “They hear the door slam. They look at the inmates to see ...

8. Preparing the Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... a righteous God. “Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty . . .” John Bright, the renowned Old Testament scholar who taught at Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, was a guest professor at Princeton. Dr. Robert R. Kopp took his course on Isaiah and ... enter your heart that his spirit may bring us all to the righteousness of God. 1. The Rev. C. Robbins Clark, http://stmarksberkeley.org/worship/Christmas_2002.htm 2. Bill Hybels, Engraved On Your Heart (Colorado Springs, CO: Victor, 2000), p. ...

9. Act Quickly - Catch It Early

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... a God of healing and reconciliation. There is still hope if you are willing to yield to God’s control. Years ago, Dr. Charles Sheldon sat on the side of a hill at Winona Lake with a thousand other men and listened to the life ... good breakfast, and I haven’t time to tell the whole story, but in that Pacific Garden Mission under the ministration of Col. Clark and his devoted wife I was soundly converted by the Lord Jesus Christ, was baptized, and became a new man.” The man ... John Knox Press, 1971), p. 25.

10. The Bodily Glorification of God

John 1:29-34

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... who felt guilty because they had done nothing in the sixties. Dr. William Sloane Coffin, the recent pastor of Riverside Church in New York City, was the preacher. The choir from Clark College sang. A predominantly white choir from a nearby Baptist Church ... 's Gospel reading tells us how John the Baptizer clarified the identity of Jesus. During the Baptism of Jesus, John the Baptizer saw the Spirit descend upon Jesus in the form of a dove. As the dove descended, God spoke to John and said, "He on whom you ...

11. Living as Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... were in relation to God. Today, I want to focus on these words from our Master found in John 14 beginning with the eighteenth verse: “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you ... the “Quantrill Technique” after a famous Civil War general named William Clarke Quantrill who fought for the Confederacy. After the war, many of ... which said this: “Dear Sir, do not close the door.” It was signed, “Jesus.” Dr. Caliandro smiled. He was amused by that. “Dear Sir, do not close the door.” Signed ...

12. Commencement Address

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... and Mrs. Andrews of Massachusetts. During the journey, she heard troops along the road singing "John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave," and was reminded of this fine tune. James Freeman Clarke, her pastor and a member of the traveling group, suggested that she write more fitting ... words. Mrs. Howe completed them that same night, and showed them to Dr. Clarke a day or so later. The Atlantic Monthly issue of February, 1862, printed the poem of the power and ...

13. Is Your Religion Second-Hand?

Job 42:1-6

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... someone else. The word often has shady associations. For instance, in 1921, Grant Clarke wrote a song titled "Second-Hand Rose": Chorus I’m wearing second-hand ... one sense, all of us began our religious life with a second-hand faith. As Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick wrote in A Faith for Tough Times: We hear about Christian ... see a man who has told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?" (John 4:29). Those people of the village Sychar welcomed new religious insights. Because of their hospitality ...

14. Marked In God’s Book

Sermon

George Bass

... the country of Hertfordshire dedicate this plaque in grateful memory. 2nd Lt. John D. Ellis 2nd Lt. Robt. B. CoxS/sgt. Jay W. Gable T/sgt. Stanley E. JankowskiS/sgt. Clark Hultengrin T/sgt. John H. HollingF/0 Samuel C. Stalsby S/sgt. Wm. C. McGinleyS/sgt ... names. That would create a problem today, when some of the names we give to children are rather exotic, even strange. The late Dr. George Buttrick once asked, “What’s in a name?” and concluded that “they are hardly more than tags by which the mailman ...

15. Trust that Leads to Transformation

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... into manhood. It's hard not to believe that Mary was aware of Jesus' baptism and John the Baptist's testimony about her son. But she's certainly aware that Jesus has arrived at ... on trust they staged their seemingly impossible revolution. Everyone told Lewis and Clark they would never find their way through the uncharted western wilderness . . ... . what? William J. Wyne is pastor of Second Baptist Church of Battle Creek, Michigan. Dr. Wyne tells of his pastoral involvement in the sickness of a little angel of a ...

16. Out of Doors: Nature and Supernatural

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... the Lord who prayed in Gethsemane. Or when you walk down to the banks of the Jordan River, you will almost see John the Baptizer and Jesus, and though you may tell yourself, logically, that nineteen centuries have passed over this River since Jesus was baptized ... the pecan. How did he do it? Glenn Clark described him as "the man who talks with the flowers." A man who went walking with him said that in two hours they traveled little more than a hundred yards. Each time Dr. Carver saw a little flower he would ...

17. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... pro basketball player Ralph Sampson, St. Louis shortstop Ozzie Smith, Will Clark of the Giants, Billy Hobbley of the Harlem Globetrotters. Mackie is ... I have never forgotten the message on the medallion I received from (television pastor) Dr. (Robert) Schuller," he says, "which had this inscription: When faced with a mountain, ... that! That farmer was not going to be defeated no matter what. Life is a matter of attitude. As John Milton once put it, "The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of ...

18. An Invitation to a Wedding

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... we can relate to its sentiment. We all want to find and to be found by God. John Ortberg in his book Faith and Doubt tells about Mortimer Adler, one of the great philosophers of ... globe of the world. It was upside down. “When you’re right side up at the South Pole,” said Dr. Siple, “It’s the rest of the world that’s upside down.” “This is the way Christians feel in ... Who Believe, ed. Kelly James Clark (Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1993), p. 214. 8. The Best of ...

19. How to Deal with Demons

Matthew 12:38-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on the road for a while, Einstein’s chauffeur said to him, “Dr. Einstein, I’ve heard you deliver that lecture on relativity so ... Jesus Lord of your life. You allow Him to be the organizing center around which your life turns. John knew this when he talked about the spirits—the demons that seek to control our lives. He talked ... The Parables of Jesus, New York, Harper & Brothers, 1928, pp.74-75 2. Roy C. Clark, Expect a Miracle, Nashville, Discipleship Resources, 1976, pp. 38-39 3. David E. Roberts, The ...

20. Voluntary Blindness

Matthew 6:1-15

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... with some words which are inscribed under the portrait of the great Polish astronomer, Copernicus, in St. John’s Church in Torun, the city of his birth: "I do not ask the grace which ... settle for the transient and perishable. That reward is the companionship of God himself. Dr. Hudson, in Lloyd Douglas’ novel The Magnificent Obsession, builds his life on the ... Cross. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1931, p. 43. 9. Elmer T. Clark, J. Manning Potts, and Jacob S. Payton, Editors. The Journal And Letters ...

21. Resurrection: From Slave to Child

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... the travel was easy, in companionship with Timothy and Gaius and Barnabas and John Mark. Sometimes it was hard travel, chased by angry and violent opponents. Sometimes ... Act. Behind it all was a religious conscience, and the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for a non-violent process of public demonstration ... feel The beating of God’s heart.* *W. J. Suckow, Christ in Poetry, edited by Thomas Curtis Clark, Association Press, New York City, 1952, p. 87. Hymn Response "We would see Jesus; lo, his star ...

22. Your Faith: Winning or Whining?

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the store you have now, and you could do great things for God. The noted Bible teacher, Dr. Ray C. Stedman, shares, "When Hebrews talk about faith, it helps us to see the object of ... IS FRUITFUL AND GROWING WHEN YOU BEGIN TO TRUST HIM FOR THE SMALL THINGS OF LIFE. Roy Clark won $188,000 in the Florida Lottery last year. He had a pauper''s burial last week ... the United States Marine Corps. Those Latin words, also the title of a John Phillip Sousa march, are the commitment of that valiant group of men--Semper ...

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