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1. Three Great Resolutions for the New Year

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

James W. Moore

... ’ mother.” Barbara thought: “O my goodness! I should be introducing my mom to Dr. Zan Holmes and telling her what a great man Dr. Holmes is.” But, quickly, Zan Holmes smiled and said: “So, you are Barbara Edwards’ mother. You must be very, very proud!” Barbara Edwards said that she didn’t think she could possibly admire Zan Holmes any more than she already did,… but when she saw how kind he was to her mother… and to her… her love and appreciation and respect for him sky-rocketed even ...

2. Sick People Like Us Will Always Need The (Divine) Doctor

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... not want to admit that we are in need of a physician, or we would remain forever dependent. And that is where our sin becomes diabolically apparent. We really do not want Jesus! The great American Puritan preacher of the eighteenth century, Jonathan Edwards, said it so well in what was perhaps his second most famous sermon, God Glorified in Man's Dependence. Hence these doctrines and schemes of divinity that are in any respect opposite to such an absolute and universal dependence on God, derogate from His ...

3. Jingle Bells at a Funeral

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... to Johnson’s rooms and talked of many things. Telling of what he had done since they had been to college together Edwards said: “You are a philosopher, Dr. Johnson. I have tried too in my time to be a philosopher; but, I don’t know ... the privilege, but also the responsibility of a Christian. It is our witness to the world that God is alive. A French philosopher once said, “I look at the Christians or those who call themselves such. They look so morbid and sad. If that’s Christianity, I’ll have ...

4. The Voice Of The Lord

Psalm 29:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Computer Services. Quantum had an online service called Q-Link. She overheard the company's CEO, a young guy by the name of Steve Case, describe how he wanted to add a voice to its user interface. She said, "Hey, you should try Elwood.'" Her husband's entire career had been in radio and TV. Edwards agreed to record four simple phrases on a run-of-the-mill cassette player. The phrases were "Welcome!"; "File's done"; "Goodbye"; and, of course, "You've got mail!". Quantum changed its name to America Online and ...

5. Looking Into the Eyes of the Risen Christ

John 20:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... an old, old man falling off a ladder. It scares the dickens out of him… and he and his brother run home in fear. Now, only Edward remains. What should he do? Does he really want to look into her eye? Does he really want to know? On the one hand, knowing how ... they arrived at the desk and the authorities asked for her papers, the young man put his arm around her shoulder and said: “She’s with me.” Together, they were welcomed to America and a few weeks later they were married! And, today, their ...

6. Living in Chains

2 Timothy 2:8-13

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... no one to get mad at, per se. He needed patience with the circumstance. This kind of patience is inspired by hope. Brighter days lay ahead because God is God and I am his. Job said, "I know that my redeemer lives and at the last when my flesh has been destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God." Paul and Edwards shared that same hope in the midst of horrendous circumstances. The second kind of peace and patience is with people. It is a patience not inspired by hope but rather with mercy. Let me explain ...

7. Characteristics of Christ That You and I Need

Mark 8:27-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... forced to go out during the day to beg for money. But Tom dreams of one day being a person of distinction. The second boy is Edward Tudor, who happens to be the son of King Henry VIII. As such he lives the life of a prince, raised in the palace, wrapped in fine ... a risk, of course, that he lost. Or did he? Not in Jesus’ book. “For whoever wants to save their life will lose it,” said Jesus, “but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” It takes compassion to be a follower of ...

8. Come Home For New Year's

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back." Tom Wolfe said, You can't go home again. God's promise is that we can go home. THERE IS A SENSE IN WHICH YOU AND I ARE ... tombstone: "Make you the world a bit more beautiful and better because you have been on it." But the story doesn't end there. Edward Bok, the grandson, who had become an American citizen, believed that anyone who was able to do so should retire at 50 and spend the ...

9. The Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... three years in advance. Needless to say, there are a lot of people who believe in crossing over and, in particular, in John Edward's ability to patch them through to their deceased loved ones. He is quite convincing. To his credit, at the end of every ... sorcerer was spared for one year and thrown into the dungeon. A duke, who was friendly to the sorcerer, sneaked down to the dungeon and said: "You are indeed a fool. Both you and I know that you do not have the power to make animals speak. Now you will surely ...

10. Jesus Destroys the Power of Sin

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... responds with its own reflection, its own kind of bounce-back echo, of that divinity. Of course, the emanation Edwards meant was the person and presence of Jesus Christ. Each human being who encounters the Christ, who is transformed ... out of his hip pocket, he fished into a leather billfold and brought out a very small round mirror, about the size of a quarter. And what he said went like this: "When I was a small child, during the war, we were very poor and we lived in a remote village. One day, on the road ...

11. You Can Create A Godly Heritage!

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... would collapse after his death and that his sons would be enslaved and castrated by the Babylonians. And what was the king's response? He said, "Why not, if there will be peace and security in my days?" Then there is the heritage of Eli described in 1 Samuel 1-4 ... three congressmen, thirty judges, and one vice-president of the United States. All this, and there is not one record of an Edwards in prison, divorced, or on public welfare. As Proverbs 10:7 says, "The memory of the righteous is a blessing." What If ...

12. Submission

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

... free to love and serve are first and foremost submitted to God's authority in all of life. Earlier in this worship service, I gave the Sacrament of Baptism to John Edward Fitzpatrick. When I asked, "What name is this child given?", his mother and father said, "John Edward." He was named for his grandfathers, both of whom are now deceased. After taking John Edward into my arms, I baptized him in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I hope the day will come when he will take the faith for himself and ...

13. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... led him into the wilderness. It is a very familiar scene to you. Jesus had been fasting. He was hungry. The devil came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become bread." Jesus proved he was the Son of God by resisting the devil, ... . Toward the end of the game, Cumberland quarterback Ed Edwards fumbled a snap from center. As the Tech linemen charged into his backfield, Edwards yelled to his backs, "Pick it up! Pick it up!" Edward's fullback, seeing the monsters rush in who had ...

14. The Family Was God’s Idea

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... happen to come into this congregation?’ " And the reply was, "Well, one time, our son was dying, and he was being operated on in the hospital, and the former pastor came there and spent the night with us outside surgery." And Hudnut said, "Well, what did he do? What did he say? How did it make a difference?" And the man said, "He didn’t say or do anything special. He was just there." Just there. That’s why we are in the world. Salt. Leaven. God’s love, trying. Amen. The Rev. Edward V. Stein, Ph.D.

15. Lateral Thinking

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... a party in London and got back late to Oxford after the gates had closed. He had to climb two walls to get to his room. He said, "I got over the first wall without too much difficulty. I came to the second wall and noticed it was exactly the same height as the first ... that move laterally, and sometimes even backward, until you find the gate that nobody knew existed. Well I haven't heard much about Edward De Bono lately, but there was a time when he was in the news quite a bit, because he was being used by ...

16. He Leadeth Me

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for five minutes it’s $122, and you call Him from here and we talk for an hour and it only costs 25 cents?” Begin said, “Because when you call God from Jerusalem it’s a local call.” (The Reverend Mark Trotter, “What is Lost When You Keep It?”) That ... ease of conscience, the assurance of God’s good pleasure and eternal life will affect any price. Many years ago, King Edward II and his Queen Alexandra were out walking on the moors some distance from their summer palace at Windsor. Suddenly, the ...

17. Memorable Words

Luke 3:1-20

Illustration

Paul Boller

... only 267 words structured in only ten sentences. These words have remained in the conscience of Americans ever since: "That government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth." And perhaps because he was a great orator, it was Edward Everett who took Lincoln's hand and said, "My speech will soon be forgotten; yours never will be. How gladly would I exchange my hundred pages for your twenty lines." Today we still remember Lincoln's words and no one can even tell you who ...

18. Surprise in a Graveyard

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... body was not there. Suddenly two men in gleaming white clothes stood beside them. The women bowed down their faces with fright, but the men said to them, “Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while ... his book The Good Life, tells us of one man who believed strongly in Christ’s resurrection. His name was Edward Bennett Williams. Williams, now deceased, was one of the great lawyers and Washington power brokers of our age, an extraordinarily ...

19. What If You Could Change the Ending?

Luke 23:33-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... a screen image of a large sign that says the police caught all the bad guys, they prevented the bomb from exploding, Edward Norton’s character spent time in a sanitarium where he received psychological treatment, and he was discharged from the sanitarium in ... . Instead of being able to preach the gospel effectively, Jackie had to show people who Jesus was by her actions. As she said, “. . . I found out that the people there were not listening anyway, they were watching to see how I acted, whether I really ...

20. Where Did He Get Such Authority?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Rosenow kept his eyes riveted on the anxious and anguished faces of his parents. Finally, the doctor turned to his parents with a smile and said, “You can relax, folks, your boy is going to be alright.” Young Edward Rosenow was profoundly impressed with the change that announcement brought over his parents. In relating the incident in later years he said, “I resolved then and there that I was going to be a doctor so I could put light in people’s faces.” (3) Jesus put light in people’s faces ...

21. Life, Death, and Judgment

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... to do what they were called to do. While many people understand only this much about that famous sermon, and hold it up as an example of the worst sort of preaching meant to terrify those who hear what is said, the sermon itself is actually quite pastoral. Once Edwards established the implications of the human behavior of his followers, and the rather gruesome rewards this behavior had earned at the coming judgment before God, he turned his attention to what he described as the door of mercy which Christ ...

22. The Church of Your Dreams

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... 's worth going to church, regardless of the quality of the sermon. Ned Edwards was the pastor when the church was built. During the summer the church opened, Ned said: This summer I have spent at least one or two hours every day guiding people ... you would like to do through us for the sake of Jesus Christ…then do it! Not by our strength, but by your power. I think Ned Edwards was right—not just about the Beulah Church, but any church, our church. It is the church of our dreams, not because of high ceilings or ...

23. How Can I Keep From Singing?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

24. When God Was Nothing

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... an encouraging word. Just before his death he wrote his apprentice Timothy whom he regarded as a son and encouraged him. Timothy, he said, I have been reminded of your sincere faith. Your grandmother had it, your mother had it, and I am persuaded it is in you ... almost gave up on the day he shot his first pictures. At 16, young Edward bought a camera and took 50 photos. Only one turned out -- a portrait of his sister at the piano. Edward's father thought that was a poor showing. But his mother insisted that ...

25. As Seen from the Solitary Broom Tree

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... was written by someone in a position to know Reverend Weatherhead well, his son, Kingsley. Here's something the author said happened to his father during a time when things were going especially well: He was himself, I suppose, at 62, intellectually ... is nothing like the death of child to knock the stuffing out of a parent. But not long after her son's death, Mrs. Edwards quit her job as a bankruptcy lawyer and threw herself into creating a computer lab for underprivileged high school students. She set it ...

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