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Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... of my family, and I mind my own business. Far as I’m concerned, everything else is fluff.’” “You see what he told me?” Fred Craddock asks. “‘Leave me alone, I’m not a prospect.’ I didn’t bother Frank. “That’s why I, the entire church, and the ... , D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1990), p. 359. 2. From a sermon by Bill Gordon, 3. Mike Graves & Richard Ward, eds., Craddock Stories (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 67-69. From a sermon by Rev. Dr. David E. Leininger, The ...

2. When Do You Feel God's Pleasure?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

James W. Moore

... us to be inclusive like that. Fred Craddock tells about how some years ... Fred a cup of coffee and a piece of chess pie for free. But, one year it was different. Buck asked Fred to go with him to a different place for coffee. Fred ... said to Fred: “The curtain ... Fred) said, ‘Good, bring it down.’ Buck said, ‘That’s easy for ... (Fred) said, ‘Okay, leave it up.’ Buck said, ‘I can’t leave it up.’ (Fred) ... Fred Craddock, Craddock Stories, p.61, Chalice Press, St. Louis, Mo., 2001, edited by Mike Graves and Richard F ...

3. The Christ of the Commonplace

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and let him get in a booth. A big man with a greasy apron came over to the table and asked him what he wanted. Not knowing what the café served, Fred asked to see a menu. "What'd ya want with a menu?" the man asked. "We have soup." "Then I'll have soup," he said. Just what he wanted--soup for breakfast ... . The story is also found in Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis : Chalice Press, 2001) 3. William Carter, "Where Does Easter Happen?" sermon delivered on The Protestant Hour, 4/18/99

4. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of God! I see a striking resemblance, boy!' He swatted me on the bottom and said, 'Go, claim your inheritance.'" And then the old man who was telling the story said to Fred Craddock, "I was born on that day!" What's in a name? For Ben Hooper, for Essie Mae Washington-Williams, for everyone of us, there is so much!!! Then we come ... Quoted in Pulpit Resource, Volume 32, No. 1, Year C, pp. 10-11 5. Fred Craddock, Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 156-157

5. The Danger of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... man too. He had been born in a sod house; he had his credentials, and all the men there at the café considered him their patron saint. "Ha! 0l' Frank will never go to church." Fred says, "I met Frank on the street one time. He knew I was a preacher, but it has never been my custom to accost people in the name of Jesus, so I just was shaking ... ., (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1971), p. 87 5. The story is also found in Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis : Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 67-68

6. Homecoming

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... t know how this whole thing is going, people dying, starving. And you are worried about nails in a blind man's cup?" And the pastor sent him away. But Fred's problem would not go away. Finally, he went to see his youth pastor, a very wise woman by the name of Mignonne. He told her what he had ... Son," http://www.moorparkpres.org/sermons/2001/111801.htm 5. Fred B. Craddock, Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis : Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 101-102 6. Will Lamartine Thompson 1847-1909

7. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part IV)

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... two children get only crumbs. One of them dies of dysentery, the other from pneumonia, which they are too weak to ward off. Who among us today can adequately grasp the human needs of the Third World? Poverty, disease, hunger--"the unholy ... plan--to touch a life for Him--keeps me going in the direction of the Kingdom of God. Now, I hope you see why the Fred Craddock story is so important in its message of affirmation rather than criticism. Our lesson today urges us "not to regard anyone from a human point ...

8. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... from the pulpit--a liberal. I need for you to understand that so that you will appreciate a story about this remarkable man. It is a story told by Dr. Fred Craddock: “I think I was twenty years old,” writes Craddock, “when I read Albert Schweitzer’s Quest for the Historical Jesus. I found his Christology lacking--more water than wine ... It’s Monday! (Nashville, TN: Everywhere Press, 1998, p. 32). 4. Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, eds. (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 125-126.

9. A Tale of Two Sisters

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... need it, sometimes desperately. That is why we are gather here, not only today but week after week after week after week. Our friend Fred Craddock tells of a wonderful lady, another one who was both Martha and Mary. He writes, "When I was a child, I never ... was not a stranger, but death was an enemy, going at unexpected times into the hospital, and up and down the corridors and in the wards, and taking away an aunt or and uncle. And the nurses said, "I was in there a few moments ago and he was breathing fine ...

10. Building a Nation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... us DIE to make men free." They questioned, "Is freedom for others worth dying for?" An alternative phrase had come from Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. They had recorded a popular version of the Battle Hymn with the "softer" lyrics of, "As He ... Lyman has said, "It's the nearest mystery United Methodists have to the aliens of Roswell, New Mexico! In the end Julia Ward Howe won out over Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians." Perhaps that is for the best. I say that, even though living for a good cause is often ...

11. Fast Forward Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 't think you'd get it? My Dad was a little different. He wasn't anywhere near the TV standard of Jim Anderson and Ward Cleaver. He wasn't even like Raymond or Heathcliff Huxtable. He was just different. Sometimes he was like Tim Taylor and occasionally like Roseanne. ... faith enough to believe. Bartimaeus had faith enough to believe that Jesus could and would heal him and restore his sight. Fred Craddock tells the story of serving in an area where all the local pastors rotated turns as chaplain at the small ...

12. Skin Game

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... prevented from proclaiming his message by the interruption of this unfortunate. Rather he turned the situation itself into a powerful proclamation. Fred Craddock said "All the way to the cross, Jesus will be trying to get those who think ‘where the Messiah is ... social effort is expended in stopping crime before it happens with education, intervention, and prevention programs. Oftentimes the oncology wards of our hospitals can become places where our modern-day lepers are warehoused, out of sight and out of ...

13. The Reluctant Celebrity

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... matters. People who are famous simply for being famous. (1) I suspect that most of us would have mixed feelings about being celebrities. Fred Allen once quipped that a celebrity is one who works to be known, then wears dark glasses so as not to be ... was quite wonderful, Rev. Fairchild reports. When she was able, she wheeled her chair up and down the corridors of the extended care ward where she would pop in and visit all the other folks in the place. She learned their birthdays and sent them cards. She ...

14. Windows Of Wonder

Sermon

James Angell

... backdrop. Yet there are biblical ingredients present and constant - in theater, novels, literature, television, news items, hospital wards, travel, the world of science, the life of megacities, and the questions of children. Honor also ... us now, and she needs you. She was as good as dead and is alive. She was lost, and now has been found. Come in, please ..." Jesus, said Fred Cropp, left the story there. A legend tells of a boy who looked for some windows of gold which he saw far away "when he looked in the ...

15. The Powerful Moments that Change Your Life Forever

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

James W. Moore

... t do this. I don’t have what it takes to be a minister.” I drove back to the seminary campus. I went to see Dr. Fred Gayley who was my advisor, and Dr. Gayley was a real smart man. I told him I needed to drop out of the ministry and he said ... see me next week?” He was buying some time. The next Thursday I went back to the hospital, went to the 8th floor of the neurosurgery ward, and I slipped in early because I knew they would be giving out the lunch trays. I looked down the list to see if Mrs. Davis had ...

16. Grumblers Among God's People

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... service is not to identify the actual moment of sunrise so much as to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. Grumblers like anonymity. Rev. Henry Ward Beecher one Sunday morning found an anonymous note with just one word written on it FOOL. That morning he held up the note to ... not grumble . . ." says St. Paul. That's a good word for us all. 1. Adapted from a sermon by Dr. Fred Craddock. 2. John White, "Breaking the Grumblers' Grip," LEADERSHIP (Spring, 1993), p. 98. 3. Bob Phillips, THE BEST OF GOOD CLEAN JOKES ( ...

17. Dreaming Of Florida--awaking In Alaska

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... names. When he got the list of students back again, each person had put a number behind his name! John Alexander "˜76, Fred Thompson "˜77, Charles Francis Lovell "˜76, Philip Norton III "˜76. It didn't take him long to figure out that the ... (New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1984). 2. These two illustrations are taken from a sermon by Wayne Brouwer. 3. Jason Ward, NATIONAL LAMPOON'S TOTALLY TRUE FACTS (Lincolnwood, IL.: Contemporary Books, 1994). 4. Philip Yancey, “What's a Heaven For?" CHRISTIANITY ...

18. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... to accept it. As she drove the package back to her office in Detroit, she began to worry. The box was from Montgomery Ward, but the sender, Edward Achorn, was unknown to Margaret and her husband, despite the identical last name. What if the thing was a ... Nazareth. He told her that she would bear a child. That child would be the hope of the world. And he is. 1. Fred Brown. "Hancock Moonshiner . . ." The Knoxville News-Sentinel (July 22, 1990), Section B, pp. 1, 6. 2. Douglas V. Steere, TOGETHER IN SOLITUDE (New ...

19. All in the Family

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... , Oregon: Multnomah, 1989) pp. 138-39. 2. Emerson S. Colaw, during a lecture in "Preparing to Preach," United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio, October 17, 1991. 3. Maxie Dunnam and Kimberly Dunnam Reisman, The Workbook on Virtues and The Fruit of the Spirit (Nashville: Upper Room Books, 1998), p. 106. 4. Fred Craddock, eds. Mike Graves and Richard F. Ward, Craddock Stories (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 156-57.

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