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Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... — aka the common “cold.” So viruses are “bad.” But not always. It was the discovery by Dr. Edward Jenner that the workers milking cows who caught a slightly uncomfortable disease called “cowpox” never caught the far more ... to go preach in the slums and prisons and miners’ pits, Wesley said: “You WILL go visit the poor in their hovels, the prisoners in their cells, the miners in their pits. Jesus is already there and he will be with you.” The polio virus is a classic example of how a virus ...

2. Tear Down This Wall!

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... together when things seem to be falling apart. How our loving Creator is also our Sustainer through the rough times. Then he tells us about laminin, these cell adhesion molecules that hold us together. What is amazing is what laminin looks like. The structure of laminin is the same as the structure of a cross ... Ray C. Stedman, http://www.pbc.org/files/messages/5262/3013.html. 5. Lynn McAdam in Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing Group, 2008), p ...

3. A Cure for the Workaholic

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... days, disappearing vacations and Americans are coping with an unprecedented level of job stress. A psychiatrist, by the name of Edward Hallowell, is coming out with a book that he has entitled, Crazy Busy: Overstretched, Overbooked And About To Snap - ... statement? It is not so much because it bothers me and bothers others, but one of the reasons why we ask you to turn off your cell phone when you come into the church is because you need to understand that this is the one hour of the week, not to mention the ...

4. Love's Redeeming Work Is Done: The Sixth Word

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... want to see this?" he asked again. "Yes, of course," said Colson, saying that he had been in hundreds of isolation cells around the world. They entered the room. There was only one object there: a cross upon which Christ was suspended. The ... to the cross, and I can find my way home. For here our salvation is complete for all eternity. I close today with a poem written by Edward Shillito called "The Jesus of Scars," which is a testimony as to why our Lord was able to cry out, "It is finished." He could cry ...

5. The Edge Of Night

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... mission in Zaire, she was kidnaped by a team of guerilla soldiers. They beat and raped her, and locked her in a dirty cell. In despair, Dr. Roseveare considered giving up her ministry. She chose to turn the situation over to God instead. Ten years later, Dr. ... God is good and loving. 1. From web page, hiwaay.net 2. DAILY BREAD, July 1, 1990. 3. Richard Smith and Edward Decter, OOPS (New York, The Rutledge Press, 1981). 4. AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF HUMOR (Peabody MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998). 5. Steve ...

6. A Visit To Millennium Manor

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... places. One year the Wizard of Id ran quite a remarkable comic strip on Christmas day: Hearing a cutting sound from within the cell, the Spook in the dungeon was asked by his jailer what he was up to. "Trimming the tree," was the reply. "Very funny," intoned the jailer. Then the jailer looked inside the ... 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, D.Min. 6. "Life's Like That," Nov. 1999, pp. 84-85.

7. Loving Deeply (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... to him. (3) We see love lived out in many areas of our secular world. A man tells a delightful story about an occasion when his cell phone quit working. This occurred just as he was trying to let his wife know that he was caught in a freeway gridlock and would be ... be the rule. There are to be no exceptions. Why? Because we are loved by One who makes no exceptions. 1. Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing, 2008), p. 330. 2. Charles Swindoll, Day By ...

8. A Message To You from God

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... system. The server issue wasn’t fixed until early November 2019. And suddenly, all those unsent messages flooded into people’s cell phones, creating all kinds of confusion and possibly some awkward conversations. (3) Can you imagine sending out an “I love you, ... to submit your life to Jesus as your Lord and Savior? 1. Mikey’s Funnies (funnies-owner@lists.MikeysFunnies.com). 2. Edward Russell-Walling, 50 Management Ideas You Really Need to Know (London, England: Quercus, 2007), p. 182. 3. “A ton of ...

9. It Isn't Easy Getting Ready For Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... homesickness, the captors played the song "I'll Be Home for Christmas" over the PA system. Just then, McCain heard tapping on his cell wall. This was the communication code the POWs used to communicate with one another. On the other side of the wall was Ernie ... Herbert, The New York Times, November 28, 2002. Cited by the Rev. Edward Chinn, D. Min. in Religion in Daily Life. 4. Seasonal Illustrations, San Jose: Resource, 1992, p. 16. 5. Edward Hastings in The Speaker's Bible. 6. "We are all changed. Every ...

10. The Twenty-Ninth Chapter of Acts

2 Timothy 4:1-22

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... poignant appeal. Just come. Come now. Bring my books, my cloak, but just come. I need your companionship. I need you. Clarence Edward MacCartney was one of the great preachers in a day of great preachers in the early and mid-1900's. Just before ... : "And are you Timothy? Didn't you know he was beheaded in December? Every time the jailer put the key in the door of his cell, Paul thought you were coming. His last message was ‘Give my love to Timothy when he comes.' " You see there are some things which must ...

11. Giving Thanks Before Thanksgiving

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and faith. It was that same sense of hope and faith that enable the apostle Paul to sit in a dingy prison cell in Rome and write: “First, I give thanks to God, through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” Perhaps Daniel Defoe gave us ... the coast of Evanston Illinois there comes the story of a shipwreck. The students of Northwestern University came to the rescue. One student, Edward Spenser, personally saved the lives of 17 persons that day. Years later a reporter was writing a follow up story on the event, ...

12. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... most everyone agrees the family is a good and necessary institution. Sociologists continue to say the family is the vital unit or cell of society. We are all disturbed by the disintegration of the family as the divorce rate climbs. Many believe this phenomenon ... Plato that the family is an enemy of justice. I have some explaining to do! Years ago the Harvard political scientist, Edward Banfield, went to the little town of Montegrano in southern Italy. He wondered why its people could not deal with the ...

13. The Excitement of Meaningful Living

John 10:10 · Matthew 6:33 · Ephesians 3:20

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... a God of fear; God is a God of love" and, quietly, he experienced calm and peace. He was surprised, although he felt that every cell in his brain was on fire, yet inwardly he was calm. Responding to pain and to fear, he probably would have died; but responding to ... happiness of heart, peace of mind, vitality of soul - these will be added;" and that is the "abundant life" he seeks to give us. Jonathan Edwards put it this way, "The Christian way of life is more than what we do. It is who we are by the power of ...

14. If You Had Been Here

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... information to fill an encyclopedia. It is said by the molecular biologists, the men who know about these things, that a single cell may contain a half-million molecules, and all of this tremendous action and interaction and selection takes place at the heart of ... World War I, many of the cultural centers, the art galleries, and the universities of Europe were being destroyed, Sr. Edward Gray said, "War is destructive of many things of priceless value, but Beethoven’s music will survive. Shakespeare will ...

15. Good News For Broken Hearts

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... could see God's heart. And one thing more: ONLY JESUS CAN FORGIVE SINS. Before the Reformation Martin Luther was in his monk's cell weeping because of his sins. His confessor, a young man, simply didn't know what to do, so he began repeating the Apostles' Creed ... . Only Jesus can give us that assurance. He will give us that assurance if we will open ourselves to him today. 1. Edward Paul Cohn, "Go Ahead and Grow," cited in BEST SERMONS, ed. James W. Cox (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 381. 2. Victor ...

16. The Mighty Tide Of God Rolled In

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... Africa and India. There was no elaborate evangelistic organization. Communication was slow; word had to spread from one prayer cell to the next, from church to church, from city to city. It was a movement inspired by the ... times, it is because there is no real sharing going on of individual concerns and heartaches. The Prime Minister of New Zealand attended the coronation of Edward VII as king of the British empire. Someone asked him what was most memorable about his trip. He replied that on the way back to ...

17. Pax Augusta, Pax Christi

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... envy." Says Epictetus: "He cannot give peace of heart, for which humanity yearns more than even for outward peace!" And so it is that Edward Gibbon begins his great seven-volume work on THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE precisely at this point! Because, in the ... Caesar Augustus? During the great PAX AUGUSTUS? In April of 1961, Martin Luther King, Jr. was sitting in a jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama. He had been arrested for leading a demonstration. While he was in jail, twenty Christian leaders in ...

18. Right Choices

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... or so albums to make the careers of ten singers. Sometime back George was nearly killed in an automobile accident. He was talking on his cell phone. When the news first came out, many of his fans probably assumed that George was off the wagon again. Along with George Jones' ... Scott, COUNTRY MUSIC REVEALED (New York: MetroBooks, 1995), p. 60. 3. Associated Press (1-17-91). Cited in Edward K. Rowell, HUMOR FOR PREACHING AND TEACHING (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1996). 4. Bob Garfield, WAKING UP SCREAMING FROM ...

19. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... way, you and God can handle it? I’m not sure that there is a more important question in life than that one. Pastor Edward Markquart tells about three pictures that were published sometime back in a newspaper. Each of the pictures was of a man named Bill ... could say anything, one of them burst out: “Bishop, thank you for coming! I wanted to tell you. The day I was arrested, in my prison cell, I asked the Lord Jesus to come into my heart. He came in and forgave me all my sins! Heaven is now open, and there ...

20. Palm Pilot

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have a need to organize life and know what's next. It's the reason so many of us are now electronically wired cell phones glued to our ears, brief-bags bulging with palm pilots that detail and organize every moment of our existence. The palm pilot ... we call palm pilots. But what organizes the organizer? What pilots the pilot? "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me" is how the old sailors' hymn by Edward Hopper puts it. And Jesus, the true Palm Pilot of your life, wants to introduce you to a very different kind of palm ...

21. All God's Children Can Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... dance. Just as David leapt and danced with joy before the Lord, we too must move when the joy of the Lord overflows every cell in our body. So why are some of us so sedentary? Chris Hughes reminds us that the Bible talks about "acts of worship," not " ... bad choices and guilt tugging at our souls, nagging our minds and sapping our spirits of any real joy? (See Dwight Edwards, Revolution Within: A Fresh Look at Supernatural Living [Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook Press, 2001], 61-2.) While some fears can send ...

22. Good News about Christ

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus is God incarnate. That is, if you want to understand God, all you have to do is look at Christ. Pastor Edward Markquart once made an astute observation about a well-known study that was conducted some years back at the University of ... . A whistle, a cry, a flashing mirror, a bonfire, an “SOS” spelled out in pine branches, a message of distress from a cell phone any of these signals will cause Alpine Rescue to mobilize teams of medically trained searchers. Philip Yancey writes, “I have come to ...

23. Better Than a Spanking

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... fashion itself into you. Never before has life reached this far. Each day it perseveres, sets another record. Tucked away in every cell of your body are the instructions it has taken all those years to produce. It is a set of plans for bringing ... being all that God created me to be? I know I am blessed of God, but am I living a life of significance?” Edward DeBono, the creativity guru, once told a wonderful story about elevators and mirrors. Have you ever noticed in some really tall buildings skyscrapers, ...

24. The Real Thirst Quencher

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... at some time is dehydration. The body requires about 3 quarts of water a day to operate efficiently. Blood, which carries nutrients to the cells, is 90 percent water. Muscles are also mostly water. They must be replenished in order to do their work. Water regulates our body’s ... by Dr. Gary Dennis, http://www.lacanadapc.org/transcripts/031608st.htm. 5. Edward W. Bauman, Beyond Belief (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1964). 6. Rumours of Another World (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), pp. 223-224.

25. Hot Air or the Holy Spirit?

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... bewildered by communication? It's hard; it's tough. One business man lamented, “I've got cable TV, two land phone lines, a car phone, a cell phone, e-mail, a computer, and a fax machine and my kids still tell me I'm out of touch." Will Willimon wrote a few years ... life and restored their concern for the poor. That first great awakening spread to America with the preaching of Jonathan Edwards and other powerful preachers and sowed the seeds for the American Revolution. It is known as the First Awakening in ...

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