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John 10:22-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Half an hour later, he was washing the car when Kevin came outside. His face looked bruised, blistered and cut. "Son, are you all right?" his father asked. "Daddy," Kevin said, "can I ask you something?" "Sure, what is it?" his father asked. "Daddy," Kevin said, "Can Drake come back to see me?" "What?" Kenneth said with some frustration. "After what he did to you? No, he can't come back to see you!" What's the matter with this kid? Kenneth wondered. Can't he get up an old-fashioned dislike for someone? He ...

2. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... theirs if they came with him. Not one of them enlisted for the journey. The next day a different group came out. Drake told them that if they came with him they would encounter storms that would terrify them to tears. Tiger winds would hammer ... suffering. The first tempted them with things; the second seduced them with an experience unlike any other. I like to think that Sir Francis Drake discovered what Jesus knew all to well. And that is this: The paths that are offered to us must promise to shape us, build ...

3. Eager for the Journey - Sermon Starter

Luke 5:1-11

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Brett Blair

... theirs if they came with him. Not one of them enlisted for the journey. The next day a different group came out. Drake told them that if they came with him they would encounter storms that would terrify them into tears. Tiger winds would ... suffering. The first tempted them with things; the second seduced them with an experience unlike any other. I like to think that Sir Francis Drake discovered what Jesus knew all to well. And that is this: The paths that are offered to us must promise to shape us, build ...

4. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... out to his heirs. It had just been sitting there for over 300 years, gathering interest. So by now it was worth an eye‑popping four trillion dollars--enough money to buy all of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales combined! Hartzell invited people named Drake from all over North America to invest in his campaign to take the British government to court to retrieve that money. He promised that everyone would make at least $500 for every dollar invested. You wouldn’t believe how many people fell for that ...

5. The Paraclete Is Not a Bird

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... would be. She noticed that Miss Caroline was still there in the wings. She remembered the last words that she said to her, "I am counting with you all the way." She didn't say, "I am counting on you." She said, "I am counting with you." And Drake wrote this. "She felt that they were held together by something beyond either of them alone. Teacher and disciple were as one. She realized that it was this that she had been preparing for all year long, this test. And the music, at her command, came cascading out ...

6. I Am Counting with You

John 14:1-14

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Mark Trotter

7. The Churches and Higher Education

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... England the church established Oxford and Cambridge. When the European colonists came to this country, schools such as Harvard and Yale were established by the church primarily for the education of clergy. As the churches pushed west, they founded universities such as Drake, Notre Dame and Southern Methodist. Thus far the university movement had, with few exceptions, been sponsored solely by the church. With the passage of the Morrill Act by the United States Congress in 1862, a new type of school of higher ...

8. Step Four - Courage

Mt 26:69-75 · Acts 9:1-9 · Ps 139:1-6

Sermon

John A. Terry

... the courtroom scene from every Perry Mason show. The innocent party has been charged with guilt. The guilty party is on the stand or in the courtroom watching the trial. The evidence builds and builds. There is that one last piece of evidence detective Paul Drake brings in, and in an instant the plea of innocence becomes an admission of guilt. Paul had been fighting and fighting and fighting against the Way of Christ, but as he dealt with the saints, the evidence continued to mount against what he was doing ...

9. On Having "The Right Stuff"

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... to the early disciples? Is it right to think that, when they left Jesus on his cross and went back to their former ways, they quickly sensed they lacked the aliveness that risky discipleship had given them? The sailors who had gone with Sir Francis Drake on his many voyages used to gather to tell of those days. What they recalled most were those perilous moments when their little ships would be caught in the ocean’s fury, the bow plunging deep into the water, the shuddering of the ship’s timbers ...

10. Proper 4

Genesis 12:1-8

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... like a fat caterpillar, munching on a cabbage leaf of ease. People were made to risk the conflict, to wrestle with the hard problems, and, in the struggle, to make something worthy of themselves. Instinctively, we know this. Dr. Paul Shearer tells of Sir Francis Drake's sailors sitting on a rocky coast in England, spinning yarns for the young people about the adventure of the sea. Those men didn't talk about the balmy seas, the pleasant climates, and the beautiful places. They told of the thrill of the high ...

11. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... is that they point out how silly and stupid and humorous all these situations are that require the Exedrin treatment. Students, you know, are decorating their rooms today with posters. That’s all the thing. I picked up one of their posters over near Drake University the other day, and I’m pleased that students haven’t lost their sense of humor. Notice the twists in the poster. All of our big, desperate problems - they’re laughing at them. "Support your local Police?" No! "Support your local poet ...

12. But Men Loved Darkness

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... by the judge whether the jury had reached a verdict. "Yes, your Honor," she replied, "we have reached twelve verdicts." I suppose I’m considered a male chauvinist pig for using that story, but it could apply in either men or women. Yet the writer, Glen Drake, has placed his finger on a vital point when he says: "In our great concern in this country politically over the right and the left, we have forgotten that there is also an above and below." He would have put it more biblically had he said: "There ...

13. The Good News of the Cross

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... our schools. That is against the law, the Constitution, and we must be lawful. Of the school’s constantly encroaching upon any time that the children might have for the CHURCH - that’s a different thing. Oh, yes, they are dismissed for the Drake Relays. They are dismissed from school for the Teachers’ Convention, at which a few teachers attend and the rest go on a shopping spree downtown, as any shopkeeper will tell you. They are free and dismissed for the Student-Parent Conferences. But GOOD FRIDAY ...

14. Bringing the Gospel to Marriage

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

MARCUS D. BRYANT is an ordained minister who served in a number of Christian Church congregations and on the faculty of Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, before accepting his present position at Texas Christian University. There he is Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Pastoral Care at Brite Divinity School and a supervisor and consultant both at the Pastoral Care Center at Brite and the Azie Pastoral Counseling Center. His sermon published ...

15. David and Bathsheba

2 Samuel 11:1-27, 12:1-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... we do. Rather, the cross "crosses them out," makes it possible for life to continue, and for God to do great things. We have come to call that "Amazing grace!" YES! Then, "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." Amen! 1. Young & Drake, "Blondie," The Washington Post, January 28, 2000, C12, quoted in Homiletics, July-August, 2000, p. 33 2. I Samuel 13:14 3. I Chronicles 11:4-6 4. Homiletics 5. cf. II Samuel 23:18-39 6. Homiletics 7. Deuteronomy. 23:9; I Samuel. 21:4-5

16. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. "Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy." That's how potential drillers responded to Edwin L. Drake in 1859. "The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives." Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project. "Man will never reach the moon regardless of all future scientific advances." Dr. Lee De Forest, inventor of the vacuum tube and father of ...

17. Self-Fulfillment Through Self-Sacrifice

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to "become." I believe for ev'ry drop of rain that falls, a flower grows. I believe that somewhere in the darkest night, a candle glows. I believe for ev'ryone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way. I believe, I believe.... Words and music by Ervin Drake, Irvin Graham, Jimmy Shirl and Al Stillman. Copyright Cromwell Music, Inc., 1952.

18. Like a Waving Flag

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a waving flag" But then in the midst of that dream, reality breaks in. The next three lines are “and then it goes back, and then it goes back, and then it goes back.” In March of 2010, some Canadian artists like Justin Bieber and Drake, Avril Lavigne, Fefe Dobson, Kardinal Offishall, Nelly Furtado, and more, got together and recorded this song as a relief effort for Haiti. It is the Canadian version of the Michael Jackson “We are the World,” though it is becoming a global anthem that is inspiring ...

19. Emmanuel - God with Us

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... no chart or ship can show Under the sky’s dome. This world is wild as an old wives’ tale, And strange the plain things are, The earth is enough and the air is enough For our wonder and our war; But our rest is as far as the fire-drake swings And our peace is put in impossible things Where clashed and thundered unthinkable wings Round an incredible star. To an open house in the evening Home shall men come, To an older place than Eden And a taller town than Rome. To the end of the way of the ...

20. Finding Our Place in All Creation

Genesis 1:1, 26-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... River and he writes poetry about nature itself. In one of his works he says, “When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things, who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water and I feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their ...

21. Finding Our Place In All Creation

Job 38:1-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the name of Wendell Berry does his writing. In one of his books he says, “When despair for the world grows in me, and I wake in the night in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things, who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water and I feel above me the day blind stars waiting with their ...

22. Something to Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... is our situation without Christ? Look at the cross and you will see. When Paul looked at the cross, he saw God’s love poured out. He saw his sins forgiven. He saw that he had been set free from both sin and death. A woman named Kim Drake wrote to Reader’s Digest sometime back to say that her mom was getting swamped with calls from strangers. The reason? A medical billing service had launched an 800 number that was identical to hers. When she called to complain, they told her to get a new number ...

23. A Faith That Transforms, Not Just Adorns

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... determined witness. So much effort and energy has been put into the hopeless exuberance of human-based “hope.” This year is the fiftieth anniversary of something called SETI — the “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.” In 1960 Frank Drake, an astronomer at the newly established radio astronomy observatory in West Virginia, started his own search of the skies, focusing on regions of the electromagnetic spectrum at the 21 centimeter hydrogen line. The Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence ...

24. Jesus Will Lead Us Home

Isaiah 40:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... the 800-mile journey to South Georgia Island. The voyage of the James Caird is certainly one of the most remarkable maritime crossings ever undertaken. With winds often 45 mph and waves measuring at times sixty feet, the small boat proceeded through the Drake Passage. After fourteen days, the crew was in sight of the island. The boat landed on the unpopulated southern coast of the island. Thus, it was necessary to cross overland to Stomness, where personnel and ships were present for a possible rescue. In ...

25. L4G Live For God

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to giving it all away in order to usher others into the kingdom and to fulfill our fiduciary responsibility as God’s trustees. For a while the #1 hashtag on Twitter has been “YOLO,” an acronym for "You Only Live Once." The phrase was made popular by singer Drake, who used "YOLO" in his song "The Motto.” But it is now used in a couple of ways. For some it is the new version of “Carpe Diem,” which is Latin for “Seize Today” or “Seize the Moment.” We someone reaches out to seize the moment ...

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1. God Is Greater

John 10:22-42

Sermon

King Duncan

2. Eager For The Journey

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

3. Eager for the Journey - Sermon Starter

Luke 5:1-11

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Brett Blair

... theirs if they came with him. Not one of them enlisted for the journey. The next day a different group came out. Drake told them that if they came with him they would encounter storms that would terrify them into tears. Tiger winds would ... suffering. The first tempted them with things; the second seduced them with an experience unlike any other. I like to think that Sir Francis Drake discovered what Jesus knew all to well. And that is this: The paths that are offered to us must promise to shape us, build ...

4. A Word to the Wealthy

Mark 10:17-30

Sermon

King Duncan

5. The Paraclete Is Not a Bird

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Mark Trotter

6. I Am Counting with You

John 14:1-14

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Mark Trotter