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Acts 9:1-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... Burns. A strange transformation took place on that eighth floor of that hospital. Many of that staff began to walk up and down those hallways saying, "Happy Easter." In fact, they started calling Edith "Edith Easter." Everybody on that floor was excited about Edith Easter except one woman. Her name was Phyllis Cross. She was the head nurse. She had been a nurse in an army hospital. She had seen it all and heard it all. She was the original G.I. Jane. She had been married three times, she was hard, cold ...

2. A Place Of Honor

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... He tried to find some way to break the news gently. To his surprise, though, Edith wasn't upset. She talked very calmly of finally seeing Jesus, and celebrating Easter every day of the year. Edith was thrilled that she was going home. Within a month, Edith had to be hospitalized. Even in the hospital, Edith spread joy among the staff and visitors. But the head nurse, Phyllis Cross, seemed resistant to Edith's charm. She called Edith "a religious nut," and told her in no uncertain terms that she did not want ...

3. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we want to do is go back. When we can’t go back, and we don’t know how to go forward, we freeze. We get stuck. Edith here. She’s stuck. She’s got to be terrified. Most of her extended family probably died in the fire that was Sodom. The life she ... been literally forced out of town, and all she’s got is that they will head toward the next town, and start again. Hey, even Hagar gets an oasis in her desert! But Edith here, all she’s got is that she knows she needs to move forward. With her husband. ...

4. Do You Believe In Easter?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Do you believe in Easter?" If they said yes, she would ask them what they believe about Easter. If they talked about Easter bunnies and colored eggs, she had a chance to share with them the real meaning of Easter. Countless people were led to Christ by Edith Burns, including Dr. Phillips’ head nurse. One day Dr. Phillips called Edith into his office and said, "Edith, I’ve got bad news for you. Your tests have come back positive. You have an aggressive form of cancer, and you may not have long to live ...

5. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... who are paid millions of dollars by large corporations to read the times? In big business it is important to know where society is headed. If you can spot a trend and ride that trend, there are fortunes to be made. Why don't you and I spend a few ... will tell you we need God more than ever before. 1. Rick Marin, "Jerry Seins Off," Newsweek, January 12, 1998, p. 56. 2. Edith Schaeffer in The Greatest Lesson I've Ever Learned, Vonette Zachary Bright, ed. (San Bernardino, CA.: Here's Life Publishers, 1990), 154- ...

6. How Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... met like the Canaanite woman was met by the disciples and by Jesus, we'd have been out of there in a flash. But like Edith, she just kept on coming, kept on hollering for Jesus to heal her daughter. The disciples come whining to Jesus about her, "Tell her to ... with the likes of you." I think the disciples heard this and semi, sort of believed it. They might have even nodded their heads in agreement. Scripture did say they were the chosen. But this woman wouldn't be denied. She even got on her knees and ...

7. Which Parade Are You In?

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... eight year old girl working 14 hours a day in coal mines. Did you notice what impressed Sarah Gooder about Jesus, though? “He had stones for his head to rest on.” No soft pillow in a luxurious mansion for him. He cared enough to come down where Sarah was! Do you have that much ... me life. He saved me. There’s no other word for it. It’s thanks to him I’m here today.” Then Edith Zirer quoted a verse from the Talmud which says, “To save one life is to save the world.” (1) Sometimes when we think ...

8. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... almost worthless creatures falls to the ground. God’s knowledge of us is so detailed that he even knows the number of hairs on our heads. Worth Everything What do you think you are worth? The worldly man thinks he is everything. He is top value and there is nothing more ... of a cannon firing a bowling ball at a set of pins. Beautiful. When you got something like that on your back, Edith, you know you’re somebody." The 1970s have been described as the "Me decade." Narcissism has been reborn in our time. You ...

9. What’s Going on at Your House?

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... Jesus. Many of us lived through the trauma of the Civil Rights Movement, spearheaded by the late Martin Luther King, Jr. Racism still shows its ugly head at the workplace, in the church, and on the street. But we have an awareness of it like never before. And there is such a ... we don’t let them go on too long. Somebody always says, ‘I’m sorry.’ And Archie always says, ‘It’s okay, Edith.’ “ What’s going on at your house? How do you know a shakeup might be occurring? How do you know when it’ ...

10. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... promise, but we choke on their program because they conflict so radically with the values deeply imbedded in each of us. We may nod our heads in approval at what is said here, but when we go from here to life’s dailiness, and to all the relationships we have with ... we are rich in ego. We’re like a character named Edith described by a writer in a novel as "a little country bounded on the north, south, east, and west ... by Edith." Some years ago one of Duke University’s outstanding basketball players ...

11. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... remember Archie Bunker of the popular 1970s show All in the Family, who never allowed his wife Edith to have a thought or conviction of her own. And Edith certainly didn't have her own bank account or cell phone. They ponder some of the selfish, ... tear up the tickets. "When I got to her home about 20 minutes before time, her mother met me at the door and sadly shook her head, `Nellie will never be ready in time. She just came in.' I walked the floor and I watched the clock as the minutes dragged by and ...

12. Does Love Make You Sorry?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... my feet with her tears. You gave me no kiss of greeting, but this prostitute kissed my feet. You did not anoint my head, but she anointed my feet." The reason for her devotion to Jesus was that "she loved much." Her tears expressed her penitence for ... you love, you are more than willing to apologize and say you are sorry. In the popular TV program, All in the Family, Archie and Edith had a marital spat. He deeply offended her when he said that she was not human. She declared that in the twenty-three years of ...

13. "Lite Beer by Miller"

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... straight line to safety and closed the door behind you. Was the last battle you heard at work occurring between two peers? You headed for your office, thinking that you are not dumb enough to get caught in that fight. As an afterthought, you wondered, "What a ... . Her parents had a tremendous battle when she was a child. As I remember it, the battle was over pancakes. After the battle, Edith’s parents did not speak to each other for three days. The house was stoney cold and silent. When they made up, things ...

14. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... when she tells Archie to "stiffle!"? Or the episode where Archie accuses her of being a saint, of not being human, and Edith, hurt and angry, cries out "I am too human! I'm just as human as you are! I got feelin's just ... . It's What We Do With Our Anger That Counts None of us can avoid being angry. As Luther said, "We can't keep the birds from flying over our heads, but we can keep them from building a nest in our hair." We can't avoid becoming angry, but we can control what we do with our anger! Sometimes we ...

15. Grapes Of Wrath Or Grace?

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... of the blade. The other man jumped back and then jeered, "Ah ha! You missed!" Whereupon the first man said, "Yeah? Then try to shake your head!" So with sin. We can be dead in our sins and trespasses and never even know it. Just so, sin blinds us as to who is ... sinners and eateth with them." A woman named Edith, hearing this verse for the first time, thought they were calling her name specifically, but it could be any of us, or all. "This man receiveth sinners and Edith with them" -- or Bill, or Barbara, or ...

16. William Barclay on the Rich Fool

Luke 12:13-21

Illustration

William Barclay

... lived in a little world, bounded on the north, south, east and west by Edith." The famous criticism was made of a self-centered person, "There is too much ego in his cosmos." When this man had a superfluity of goods the one thing that never entered his head was to give any away. His whole attitude was the very reverse of Christianity. Instead of denying himself he aggressively affirmed himself: instead of finding his happiness in giving he tried to conserve it by keeping. John Wesley's rule of life was ...

17. ...More...

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Forgotten Four-Fifths". Both groups are unable to see reality as it is - one has its head in the clouds, arched in the air, above the pain and poverty, while the other head is in the sand and dirt, so enmeshed in the grind and grime of eking out ... and Carol Brady of "The Brady Bunch," and blue-collar Ralph and Alice Kramden of "The Honeymooners," and later Archie and Edith Bunker of "All in the Family." Schematically, it looked something like this: THE RICH THE EXPANDING MIDDLE CLASS: White Collar Blue Collar ...

18. The Surprise of Absolute Victory

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... more steady in the midst of the collapse all around you. A great pessimism has to be conquered by a great faith. Edith Lovejoy Pierce uncovers a challenging insight: Even though we escape now We shall not escape Turning a key in a lock, Dropping ... gone too far. My problems are too great." Listen to James Stewart, the well-known Scotch preacher: "God doesn’t look at me, shake his head and admit, ‘This fellow’s problem is beyond me. His case is too hard for me. This one I cannot save.’ " We deal with a ...

19. The Leadership Principles Of Jesus

Hebrews 5:11-6:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... . "What do you want me to do for you?" asked Jesus patiently. "Grant us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory." Jesus shook his head. "You do not know what you are asking," he said. "Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, or be baptized with the baptism with which I am baptized?" I ... in Daryl G. Mitton & Betty Lilligren-Mitton, CLOUT (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980), p. 193. 4. Edith Deen, GREAT WOMEN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH (New York: Harper & Row, 1959), pp.214-217.

20. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... said to [Jesus], "I will follow you wherever you go." Jesus replied, "Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head." He said to another man, "Follow me." But the man replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father." Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but you ... READER'S DIGEST. 6. "Play It Again, Sam" by Joan Brasher, ASPIRE, June/July 1997, p. 34. 7. Edith Deen, GREAT WOMEN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH (New York: Harper & Row, 1959), 37.

21. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... they need not fear, because God cares deeply and personally for each disciple, so much so that “even the very hairs of your head are all numbered” (10:29–30). As we have seen at other points in Matthew, deep theological currents run under and through Jesus ... McCully, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, and Jim Elliot) sang the hymn “We Rest on Thee.” The lyric of this great hymn, by Edith Cherry, exhibits the courage that we can have when we fear the Lord alone. The first stanza reads, We rest on Thee, our ...

22. A Pep Talk for the Kingdom

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... braced themselves. They knew Rockne would tear into them. They sat and sat, but Rockne did not appear. Finally, as the team began to head toward the door for the beginning of the second half, Rockne came walking in. He looked around and started to walk back out again ... They Can Be Restored (Kindle Edition). 4. https://benferencz.org/biography/. 5. The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life by Edith Eva Eger with Esma Schwall Weigand (New York, NY: Scribner), 2020. 6. No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I ...

23. Do I Matter?

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... : one at a time.(5) Once, Jesus let us in on a secret - God knows us individually so intimately that even the hairs on our head are numbered(6)...and as some of us are aware, that number changes all the time. Do I matter? Do you? One of six-billion? ... to love." And once more all together: "God loves each one of us as if there was only one of us to love." Amen! 1. Edith M. Lederer, "World Population Hits 6 Billion," Associated Press, 10/12/99 2. Stewart K. Hine, "How Great Thou Art," © 1953. Assigned to Manna ...

24. Love In Action

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... the vast nautical wasteland of the Artic Ocean. At one point they felt that their investigation would be best served by heading further north, so they charted the stars and made a treacherous journey northward. Marching across ice flows, they crept along for ... but in deed and action. It is love that doesn't just sit there. It fishes! 1. Spencer Marsh, EDITH THE GOOD (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1977). 2. Steve Salerno, TNS: THE NEWEST PROFESSION (New York: William Morrow and Co., Inc., 1985). 3. John ...

25. Blank Walls or Filled Lives (Part V)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... see it in his mind''s eye as the gentleman by the window portrayed it with descriptive words. Unexpectedly, an alien thought entered his head: Why should he have all the pleasure of seeing everything while I never get to see anything? It didn't seem fair. As the ... Lord reflect His love, not our desire for prestige and power. I want to share in closing a writing by Edith Lillian Young titled "Disappointment--His Appointment," which expresses exactly what happens when Paul sees his imprisonment in jail as a ...

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