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Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... saw the company’s meteorologist wearing a trench coat, they figured this was some kind of secret signal that the weather would break and start raining, so they started selling the market. In fact, Davis explained, it was a cool day in May and he’d put the coat on because ... the two ships became trapped in ice off King William Island. Many of the crew members perished onboard ship, including Franklin. The remaining crew began walking on the ice toward the Canadian mainland. They did not make it. They all ...

2. In Praise Of Goofing Off

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... Tennessee there is a farmer who said that lightning struck an old shed and thus saved him the trouble of tearing it down, and rain washed off his car and saved him that chore too. When asked what he was doing now, he replied, "Waiting for an earthquake to ... he was a fraud, far wiser in his actual approach to time than the one he proposed for the rest of us. We've taken Franklin's advice, says Keyes; we should have followed his example. (2) Now, am I encouraging us to slothfulness? Not in the least. Most of us ...

3. If It's The Lord's Will

James 4:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and the thick wheat had no head of grain. They complained bitterly to God. God replied, "When you asked for rain, I sent rain. When you asked for sunshine, I gave sunshine. You never asked for the harsh north winds, however. Without the harsh north ... to the truth! Follow the example of the tiger and stop imitating the disabled fox." (3) That's good advice for us. It was Ben Franklin, not the Bible, who said, "God helps those who help themselves." There's a lot of honest truth there. We are not to depend on ...

4. Does Jesus Care?

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... were in tumbled off the tracks and down an embankment. Neither the president nor his wife was injured in the accident, but their son was killed. Franklin Pierce brooded over this, as would most of us. He asked the question of God that so many of us would have asked. Why would God ... "to learn what it's like to be homeless." Harper spent the days wandering the streets in the icy January rain and her nights sleeping in doorways, train stations and public shelters. She began to realize that most of the homeless ...

5. News From The Vineyard

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , in the service to the community which the church provides. But again, this is also true of individuals. Dorothy E. Franklin, a pastor's wife in York, Nebraska notes that there were a considerable number of people chuckling one Sunday morning ... the hospital or morgue that God is responsible. Jesus dispensed with that interpretation of life forever when he said that "God sends his rain to fall on the just and the unjust." Life happens. But for those who are connected to the vine, life is never meaningless. ...

6. Team Work is Dream Work

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... mean a oneness of heart, a similarity of purpose, and an agreement on truth. When our founding fathers signed the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin stood up and said, "Gentlemen, now we must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately." I believe Satan's strategy to ... farmers there in the lower part of Zion were very grateful for that life-giving dew. In the absence of rain, and with no irrigation, there was not a more beautiful sight to a Hebrew farmer than that morning dew that ...

7. A Brass Cross and a Barometer

Luke 6:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... usually means that they aren't very hungry. At the recent inauguration of President Bush, the two pastors on the program, Franklin Graham and Methodist pastor Kirbyjohn Caldwell, both ended their prayers with these words-"through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." Some ... , like the grace of God and the redemption of our souls. The barometer, on the other hand, going up and down, heralding rain and sun, reminds us that life is changing. The eternal God is always doing some new thing. His strategy is always changing ...

8. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... enough to grow all the food needed and to manufacture goods enough to go around. God has given us the seed, the sun, the rain, and the natural resources for everyone to have enough just as he gave enough manna to the Israelites in the wilderness for forty years ... , God used Wilberforce. At a time when millions in America were suffering want and hunger from unemployment, God raised up Franklin Delano Roosevelt who ushered in a governmental program of social welfare which to this day is taking care of the ...

9. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... we were shown the food production resulting from our cooperation with the land by watering, fertilizing, and cultivating. But there was no mention of God as the giver of food in terms of soil, rain, and sun. In the American Express and Coca-Cola exhibit, the history of our country was given by tabloids and a dialogue between Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain. We saw the advance of our country from the Pilgrim’s landing on Plymouth Rock to the landing on the moon, but God’s hand in our history was never ...

10. For Those in Church: Joy and Service

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... we are excited about. Carlton Van Ornum tells this story. A large crowd of people gathered near an enclosure in the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston as a peacock slowly spread his great tail and displayed its stunning plummage. The great bird stood erect ... s coat and trousers and got them, too. The slum dwellers laughed at him, but they came to respect him. He stood in the driving rain to preach, coughing all the time. ‘God is love,’ he shouted. ‘God is love. Where love is, there is God.’ He often fell ...

11. How Can We Foretell the Future?

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... other things, they will find a model of the Eiffel Tower, 800 books on microfilm, 11 tape-recorded hours of President Franklin Roosevelt’s voice, seeds, a movie projector, and a machine to teach English. How fascinating it is to think about those ... of blessing he gives us, whether we deserve it or not, "for he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil" (Matthew 5:45, TEV). The other blessing of God is conditional. It depends on whether ...

12. Christian Thanksgiving

Philippians 1:1-7

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... more for simple things we find along the way: For little children romping round, For birdsong, gay and happy sound, Through sun and rain. Friends to greet you, loved ones near, Songs to share - perchance a tear, For strength to work, for gift to play, For fireside ... . We do not give thanks in the spirit of the Pharisee, "I thank thee that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). Franklin D. Elmer in a little poem "On Giving Thanks" expresses the true spirit: "Shall I thank God For bread, And for the safety Of ...

13. The Greatness Of John The Baptist

John 1:19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... named George Whitefield preached to far more people than Wesley, baptized many more into the Kingdom of God and was a favorite of such prominent Americans as Benjamin Franklin. Whitefield and Wesley were the best of friends until they had a severe falling out over Whitefield's strict adherence to Calvinist doctrine. Whitefield was asked following this ... taken from THE NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN ENGLISH, Translated by J. B. Phillips (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1960). 2. Robert Raines, THE SECULAR CONGREGATION.

14. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... cold, and lack of proper nourishment. Just six people followed the cheap coffin of pine, and even they turned back because it started to rain. His pitiful funeral cost exactly $3.10. (2) It is not unusual to find eventually great people among the disadvantaged. A recent study of 300 highly successful people, people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Einstein, reveals that one fourth had handicaps: blindness, deafness, crippled limbs ...

15. Rise Above It

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... how he was awakened one night by a frantic telephone call from a client whose house had just recently been completed. It seems it had been raining, the roof leaked, and the living room was flooded. "What should I do?" asked the distraught client. Calmly, Frank Lloyd Wright replied, "Rise above it." That ... H. Lauer and Jeanette P. Lauer in Reader's Digest, Sept. 88. 5. Joe Franklin, A GIFT FOR PEOPLE, (New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1971). 6. (Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook Publishing Co., 1985).

16. Staying Close

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... year that King Uzziah died. The death of Uzziah was a traumatic moment in Isaiah's life just as the death of John F. Kennedy or Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a traumatic event in many American's lives. It is not unusual for the death of someone we greatly admire to make us ... was going to the college town in the hope of seeing my girl friend. I was miserable. "Driving too fast through the rain on those slick mountain roads, I did not notice that the car radio program had shifted to a mountain preacher. He was ...

17. Have You Changed Your Clock?

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the early 1940s, this Kansas farmer alleged that the worst thing that ever happened to the United States of America was the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President. And, he said, the worst thing Roosevelt ever did was to approve the order of Daylight Saving Time. As ... from the walls, it suddenly came gushing out like water from fire hoses. What they did not know was that the hardest rain to hit the mountain in fifty years had created tons of water pressure on the top of the cave. The climbers made ...

18. Some Said It Thundered

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the things we do in church. ...And not only in church. I came across the following fascinating story about President Franklin Roosevelt. It seems that one day he got tired of smiling that big, winsome smile of his and saying the ... dead I’ve been, how dumb, how blind. The station brook, to my new eyes Was babbling out of paradise; The waters rush from the rain Were singing Christ is risen again. I thought all earthly creatures knelt From rapture of the joy I felt. “Some said it thundered.” But some others ...

19. Hosea's Marriage Troubles

Hosea 2:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... population of the country today, that there were so many great leaders and philosopher/statesmen? It was amazing. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, and Adams. Those few men laid a political foundation that changed this world. The most famous age of genius ... of that history. Every other religion in the world believed that God was the God of nature, God controls the rain and the droughts, fertility, volcanos, earthquakes. But the Jews believed nature was a secondary concern for God, a maintenance matter ...

20. No Excuses

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

James Merritt

... not all glitter and glamour and flash and dash, and they drop out. Well, this man thought that following Jesus was all sunshine and no rain, all comfort and no pain. I'm sure he thought that when you follow Jesus there will always be a crown, never a cross; ... Him with all of your heart. You can make all of the excuses you want to and try to make yourself feel better, but Benjamin Franklin said, "I have never known a man that was good at making excuses that was good at anything else." The fact of the matter is ...

21. God's Favorite Day

Psalm 118:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... you don't kill time, time kills you. In the physical sense of the word, life is time and time is life. That's why Benjamin Franklin said, "Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."3 Now when I talk about spending ... come, your joy will be gone. If you rejoice only when He sends the sunshine, then your joy will be gone when He sends the rain. But if your joy is in Him, and who and what He is, that cannot change because He does not change. We can always rejoice in ...

22. Reassessing Our Laughter (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... for you will mourn and weep.” What could be the meaning of this Beatitude? May I suggest four things. I. Trouble Happens It rains on the just and the unjust. Pain is no respecter of persons. Never does the morning wear to evening without some heart breaking – a ... . A couple of weeks ago, I gave the invocation for a Brentwood/Cool Springs Chamber of Commerce meeting. The Mayor of Franklin was there to give his State of the City speech, and the ballroom was packed with business people and politicians. Before ...

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