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Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... off, laid back, scratching yourself, you are saying, "This is home. I'm comfortable here." That's called body language. We say something with our bodies. We say something with our posture, the way we stand. We say something with the gestures that we make. Edward Hall wrote a book back some years ago entitled, The Silent Language. He delineated the non-verbal language we use to communicate with each other. He said not only is there body language, but there is also time language. We say something with the way ...

2. Mary's Song

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... complex was full. The bar was hopping and the Dining Room was packed. The sleeping rooms were few, so not many guests were roaming the halls. Then one of the guests was disturbed in his room. He heard a baby crying. He left his room and spotted a box. When he ... most remarkable thing about this society isn't its technology, but its humanity; it has been planned as if people mattered. Edward Bellamy envisioned a future in which all people are treated with dignity and equity a future in which everyone has an ...

3. Where Did He Get Such Authority?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... a difference in this man’s life, it gave them the confidence that he could make a difference in their lives too. Dr. Edward Rosenow, formerly with the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told of the experience that caused him to become associated with the field of ... Kansas City: Andrews and McMeel, 1996), p. 104. 3. Kenneth McFarland, Eloquence in Public Speaking (Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961), p. 31. 4. Diane M. Komp, M.D. A Window to Heaven (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, ...

4. A Message To You from God

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... right to become children of God . . .” Everyone who receives Jesus as Lord gets adopted into God’s family, and into His love. Simon Hall, a chef in Knoxville, Tennessee, says his family and friends worried about him when he decided to adopt two sons in 2017. As he says, “Nobody ... 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 ...

5. Let's Play, Stump The Theologian!

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... There was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall. But, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small. At any rate it would not open any of them. However, the second ... all will be revealed. 1. Arnold Willis, SENSE AND NONSENSE, contributed by David Karges, P.O. Box 426, Hydro, OK 73048. 2. Edward Chinn, WONDER OF WORDS, (Lima, Ohio: C.S.S. Publishing Co., Inc., 1987), p. 42. 3. John Haggai, WINNING, (New York: ...

6. A Thanksgiving Question

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... knock on his hotel door at 6:00 AM. Brad yelled, "Who is it?" A voice replied, "Be sure to have your suitcase out in the hall by 7:00 AM." Brad lay there and thought: surely that guy doesn't know who I am. I am part of a Super Bowl winning ... Brad, "It dawned on me that even with my Super Bowl ring, nothing fundamental about me had changed. I was still the same old Brad Edwards, just a sinner saved by grace." No matter how high we rise in this world, we are still sinners saved by grace, servants and stewards ...

7. At the Banquet...In Your Pajamas

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... went out into the streets and gathered all the people they could find, bad people as well as good, and the wedding hall was filled with guests. Now, up to this point, the meaning of Jesus’ parable is pretty clear. He is expressing his disappointment with ... choice is ours and ours alone to make. 1. http://www.day1.net/index.php5. 2. Preaching Today. Cited in Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2008), pp. 328-329. 3. Helen Almanza, ...

8. Out of the Darkness

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... troubled a young minister in Philadelphia named Phillips Brooks. When the slain president’s body lay in state in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Brooks went to pay his respects. “A few months later,” according to Prichard, “hoping to lift his spirits ... people in the 20th century alone. It was a terrible time for humanity. But that was before a British doctor named Edward Jenner discovered that milkmaids infected with a milder virus called cowpox seemed immune to smallpox. And soon we had the first ...

9. Choosing Your Spirituality

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... going to be a bit critical. Speaking of styles of spirituality, let me tell you a story. A burglar entered an affluent home one night. As he entered the hall, he heard a voice, which he quickly concluded was a parrot: “Jesus will get you!” The burglar slowed down until he thought, “Why, I don’t believe in ... has announced plans to complete a book, The Reformation of Spirituality.5. Edward Sims in The Plumb Line, newsletter of Christ Episcopal Church, Cincinnati, Ohio, Volume 7, Number 21, 5/27/79.

10. The Secret Of His Success

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ..." One of Bonhoeffer’s students described him like this: "Never did I discover in him anything low, undisciplined or mean." Edward Robertson ends his book with the words of the camp doctor who did not really comprehend what Bonhoeffer stood for. " ...I ... she failed. A group who believed in her sponsored a concert in New York City’s famed Town Hall. But Marian Anderson was not yet ready for Town Hall, either in experience or personal maturity, and the critics flayed her. She felt she could not take it; ...

11. Get Your Third Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Except that day Lenin’s portrait was covered. In that massive hall the gospel message of Jesus Christ was preached to a huge gathering of Christians and non-Christians alike. The hall was filled with majestic music and Christ’s message of forgiveness ... W. Moore, Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991), pp. 45-46. 2. Ibid., p. 51. 3. Contributed by Bruce Edwards. Source: Confident Living, Feb. ’93, pp. 28-29. 4. E. Ross Helton. The Upper Room. September/October 1992, p. 28. 5. The ...

12. At Home In The Daylight

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... my room for the purpose of studying some music history for my exam tomorrow, but I never quite made it. That girl from down the hall, Nancy, passed my door, and I was determined to finally find out what it is that seems like a light around her. The journal entry ... without refueling. People said it couldn't be done, but they did it. More than 50,000 people greeted them at Edwards Air Force Base when they returned from flying 26,000 miles without refueling. They faced some anxious moments when an electrical ...

13. Eyewitness News

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That those we have lost in this world will be reclaimed in the world beyond. It’s like a story that pastor Edward Markquart tells about a young American author who had written a short story that was a masterpiece. Like so many young authors, ... for a sign for Emma. Something to ease her grief and to help her know the truth of the resurrection. As they walked down the hall, he felt sort of useless because he hadn’t been able to reach her. When he opened the door, the first thing Pastor Strayhorn noticed ...

14. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

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... North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton Background On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental ... Congress, meeting in Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania State House (now Independence Hall), approved the Declaration of Independence. Its purpose was to set forth the principles upon which the Congress had acted ...

15. Daddy, I'm Afraid

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... She explained that there had been a power failure around midnight and Andrea must have awakened in the dark. No night light, no hall light. She had opened her eyes and had been unable to see anything. Just darkness. She had apparently stayed in her room, frightened ... the city of London was terribly damaged. Only with great difficulty did the people carry on during those days. War correspondent Edward R. Murrow said that on one of those occasions when devastation and tragedy were all about him he saw a rudely ...

16. Reliable Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... around 500 B.C. “Earth is a sphere floating in space,” he declared to a packed lecture hall. It is said that a grave silence fell upon the hall when he said this. His listeners were amazed. They wondered how they could live on a sphere! ... all, the wondrous beauty of creation alone should show the sheer lunacy of believing it all happened by pure chance. “Nature,” wrote Jonathan Edwards, “is God’s greatest evangelist.” And he was right. That is one of the reasons you and I are in this room today ...

17. Get Your Third-Class Tickets Here!

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... see. Except that day Lenin’s portrait was covered. In that massive hall the gospel message of Jesus Christ was preached to a huge gathering of Christians and non-Christians alike. The hall was filled with majestic music and Christ’s message of forgiveness and ... W. Moore, Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1991), pp. 45-46. 2. Ibid., p. 51. 3. Contributed by Bruce Edwards. Source: Confident Living, Feb. ‘93, pp. 28-29. 4. E. Ross Helton, The Upper Room, September/October 1992, p. 28. 5. ...

18. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... Vol. II, p. 277. 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, p. 57. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1958, 1965. (A Perennial Classic) 6. Zacks, op. cit. 7. Edward Rowland Sill. "The Fool’s Prayer," in The Bedside Treasury Of Inspiration, edited by Helen and Horace Johnson, pp. 224-225. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956. 8. C. S. Lewis. Letters To An American Lady, pp. 90-91. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1967. 9. W. E. Stack, Editor. How Do ...

19. Light for Beauty

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... delight and joy is just as much for God as it is for us. For Or Against The Marriage? Edward Koch, former mayor of New York City, confesses to a nostalgia and lingering love for the office he held for a number of terms. To nurse his continuing affection ... for the job, he wrote a novel, Murder in City Hall. He spins a mystery tale about his willingness to perform a marriage ceremony for the daughter of a friend. He does this against his ...

20. I'm Mad And I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore!

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... wires jumped away from each other, as did the negatives, breaking the ice that had frozen to the layer of rubber above them. "It's like snapping a hall carpet," drawls Haslim, "and watching the dust fly." His invention can pulverize ice an inch thick on the surface of a wing. Yet it uses no more power ... 300,000 Estate," The Knoxville News Sentinel (May 10, 1989), Section A, P. 7. 3. Brother C. Edward, FSC. "The Law That Failed," AMERICAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED: (Jan., 1973), pp. 38-45. 4. SUCCESS, October, 1990.

21. Living Smart

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... your life. Try as best you are able to put away deadly distractions. Begin with your commitment to Jesus Christ and let the rest of your life flow from there. That's the difference between simply living and living smart. 1. Judson Edwards, REGAINING CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE, (Minneapolis:Bethany House Publishers, 1989). 2. "Brain Fuel," DISCOVER (July, 1988), p. 23. 3. Mark H. McCormack, WHAT THEY DON ™T TEACH YOU AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1984). 4. Nido R. Qubein, COMMUNICATE LIKE ...

22. Who? Me Worry?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... made a stealthy, speedy retreat. He rode back over the many miles to his father's castle. He rode over the drawbridge, into the main hall, and right up to the king's throne. He dismounted his horse and removed his armor. The king, amazed at the changes in his son, ... and fro slightly. Then with both hands, simultaneously pounce. The advice is soundly grounded in "fly neuroscience." Dr. Edward Gray of England's University College, London, writes: "The fly cannot cope with this situation, since its central ...

23. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , but ONE who is intimately close." (Volume 5, page 988.) As I write this sermon, I can still remember Dr. Edward Long, our ethics teacher at Drew Seminary, lecturing on the theme "The Immediacy and Distance in Religion." This sermon will focus ... with them. Encourage your children--fan the flames of their hopes, dreams, and aspirations. I liked the father figure described by the Hall of Fame baseball player, Harmon Killebrew, in his autobiography about growing up in a home with four boys. He shares that on ...

24. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Edward DeBono is a man who travels all over the world, giving seminars on how to think. He teaches what he calls “lateral thinking,” and he ... of someone being in Samaria and finding a ministry there. It is called the Career Support Ministry. Every Tuesday morning at 6:30 a.m., a group of men and women gather in Seabrook Hall for a continental breakfast. Sometimes there are as many as 75 folks there. Many of them are without jobs. Others are so unhappy in their job they are seeking a transition. Yet there ...

25. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... during his lifetime, preserved for us in Matthew, have now been repeated before saints and sinners, before demons and angels. They echo down the halls of heaven. It should surprise no one; it was already written down in the book. In verses 22 and 23 we are given a ... Kingdom (Wheaton, ILL: Shaw, 1992), 119. 21. For a treatment of direct and indirect claims on Christology, see James R. Edwards, Is Jesus the Only Savior? (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2005), Chapter 5, “Did Jesus Consider Himself God?” 67-97 ...

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