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Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... life? If I continue in the direction I'm headed, will it take me where God means for me to be?" Daniel Defoe, the author of ROBINSON CRUSOE, ran away from home and went to sea as a young man. His father protested young Defoe's plans, and his mother wept. But Defoe was ... preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem . . ." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Frank Eames in Elkhorn, Wisconsin, INDEPENDENT. 2. George Gipes, THE LAST TIME ...

2. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on an emotional issue like abortion, we may have regarded opponents as people of questionable motives and inferior judgment. Frankly, they just made us angry. But when Christ lives within us, he teaches us to assume that our opponents are ... . If you give it away, your own supply increases. But if you hoard it in selfishness, your own supply disappears. When Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to enter major league baseball, he faced jeering crowds in every stadium. One day, when playing at ...

3. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Ephesians 1:15-23

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... ” in his Ephesians, pp. 187–89. On “knowledge” and wisdom, cf. disc. on Col. 1:9, 10, and the extended note on epignōsis in Robinson, pp. 249–54. 1:18 The baptismal nature of 1 Peter is surveyed in R. P. Martin’s “The Composition of I Peter in Recent Study ... as the fullness of him. One may wisely heed the caution of C. L. Mitton, who concludes: “It must be frankly confessed that the meaning of these concluding words in verse 23 is quite uncertain, and, therefore, they cannot legitimately be ...

4. A Loving Parent

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , his mother took him to the hospital in St. Louis. He was diagnosed as having leukemia. The doctors told him in frank terms about his disease. They said that for the next three years, he would have to undergo chemotherapy. They didn’t sugarcoat ... the motion picture The Graduate a few years ago. Remember the song, “Mrs. Robinson, Jesus loves you more than you can know, wo, wo, wo.” Mrs. Robinson was an adulteress. Mrs. Robinson was morally bankrupt. She was representative of a bored and dissolute modern ...

5. Transforming Moment

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... did "turn it over to Him." He took a year off from Motown, grounded himself in his new faith and returned to share his repaired dream with others in the record business, including Stevie Wonder, Smokey Robinson and Marilyn McCoo who all gave their hearts to the Lord because of his witness. (3) What Frank Wilson discovered was more than a feeling. It was faith in the living God. Seeing Jesus speaking with Moses and Elijah was the experience of a lifetime for the three disciples. When they heard the voice ...

6. Among You Stands One

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... , weeks, months. But one day, he noticed a footprint in the sand and that footprint was not his own. Immediately, Robinson Crusoe knew that he was not alone. Someone else was on that island with him. “Christmas,” says Pastor Ed Markquart ... and seeking to live for him daily. One of the movies that it is difficult to miss on television this time of year is the Frank Capra classic, It’s a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart. Stewart plays a man named George Bailey. George is a man with great dreams and ...

7. Preparing for the King

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... else could unholy people such as you and I receive the Lord’s own anointed unless we repent? A few years back, a man named Frank Warren handed out 3,000 self-addressed stamped postcards to random people on the street. Warren asked the recipients to write their deepest secrets on ... Kessler, author of The First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents and Jeffrey Robinson, co-author of Standing Next to History: An Agent’s Life Inside the Secret Service. Cited in “13 ...

8. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... across the street from Wesley’s Chapel in London. It was Defoe who, in 1719, after 25 years of writing for newspapers, wrote Robinson Crusoe. And it was Defoe who had something to say about repentance. As a boy, he had surrendered himself to the wanderlust of ... other one; (6) at the University of Denver, a student was asked on a test, "Tell what you know about Moses." He answered frankly, "All I know about Moses is that he is dead." Samson did not have a monopoly on unfulfilled potential and the "wasted" ...

9. Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... You folks have got it; if only you knew you had it and if only you knew how to say it" (Haddon Robinson, "Foreword," in Mark Galli and Craig Brian Larson, Preaching that Connects (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994), 9.). Part of our glorious inheritance is ... he said to another guest: "You're a teacher, Susan. Be honest. What do you make?" Susan, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied, "You want to know what I make? I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could. I make a C+ feel like ...

10. A Most Important Dawning

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

Early in January in northern Canada the sun peeks above the horizon for the first time after six weeks of hiding. An important dawn for Canada. Imagine how the lives of people in the northern latitudes would be different if they got used to the darkness and never even expected that a dawn would ever lighten their horizon again. The people to whom the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah witnessed and preached so long ago were a people whose hope for dawn had been all but extinguished. First the northern kingdom, ...

11. Blind Bartimaeus - Model For Healing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Robinson

His name was Bartimaeus. He occupied the lowest rung on society’s ladder, a poor man of Bethany, who eked out a living begging at the side of the road. In his sightlessness, he was forced to depend on others to guide him to his place of business. He had never seen the smile on the lips of a child, the blush on a maiden’s cheeks, the love in his mother’s eyes. His eyes had never feasted on a sea of flowers in a field, a sky spilling over with stars, or the glorious glow of the setting sun. He had heard, but ...

12. Satisfaction Gauranteed

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

I remember a song of some years back that I never liked. The singer screamed as much as he sang, and he repeated the words over and over again. But the message and the title of the song I remember well, and so will you: "I can't get no satisfaction!" As we think about our lives today, is it not true that there are those days, those weeks, and those periods in our lives when we could easily intone with great feeling, "I can't get no satisfaction"? My big, red, unabridged power-dictionary I quote now and ...

13. From A Distance

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

Heroes are a part of the human experience. They motivate, stimulate, encourage, and provide role models. There's something about looking up to the one who did something that is so far beyond most everyone's reach or ability. "Wow! I could never do that!" we say. All through the Olympics my wife and I joked about what we would look like if we tried to jump off the ski jump or leap into the air with skates on! It's remarkable what some people are able to do, and do it with grace and apparent ease. Can you do ...

14. All-Out Love

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

James W. Robinson

Jesus is now in Jerusalem, where the death he has predicted is little more than a breath away. His enemies are closing in, firing salvos of accusations impugning his religious orthodoxy and his loyalty to Caesar. They hope to find blasphemy and treason in his responses. What pastor has not found himself in somewhat the same situation? The telephone rings in the parsonage, manse, or rectory. A caller, who prefers to remain anonymous, launches a mini-probe of the pastor’s beliefs about heaven and hell, and ...

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