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1. Peter, James and John

Matt. 17:1-9; Mark 9:2-13

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J.O. Sanders

G.C. Morgan wrote concerning the special three: "There can be no doubt that these men, Peter, James, and John, were the most remarkable in the apostolate. Peter loved Him; John He loved; James was the first to seal his testimony with his blood. Even their blunders proved their strength. They were the ...

2. Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

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King Duncan

... God. God is the restorer of broken dreams. God takes the stone that was rejected and makes it the very cornerstone. In 1888, G. Campbell Morgan was a candidate for the Wesleyan ministry. He passed the doctrinal examination but then faced the trial sermon. In an enormous auditorium that ... 4. Dr. William P. Barker, TARBELL'S TEACHER'S GUIDE, (Elgin, Illinois: David C. Cook, 1994). 5. Hans Schwarz, WHAT CHRISTIANS BELIEVE, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987, p.52). 6. Fred Coleman, U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, ...

3. God Of Compassion

Mark 6:30-44

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King Duncan

... some whose god is a vengeful, spiteful, capricious being who is as far removed from the God of the New Testament as night is from day. C.S. Lewis said that he grew up believing that God was an "Old meany looking around to see if someone is having a good time, to ... become the shepherd of the sheep. Even more. To become a lamb slain for the sins of the world. G. Campbell Morgan was once approached by a soldier who said he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins. However, he said he could ...

4. It's Hard To Be Number Two

John 1:29-34

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King Duncan

... looked on, he took this progression one step farther. Bob tightened up his abdomen as solid as he could, and said through clenched teeth, "C'mon, Doris. Hit me in the stomach as hard as you want. It won't even hurt me." A crowd began to gather to ... where he and another great preacher of the day, G. Campbell Morgan were both preaching. Morgan was drawing much larger crowds than Meyer was: "The only way I can conquer my feelings," Meyer confessed, "is to pray for [Morgan] daily, which I do." (2) What do you do ...

5. The Cross We Do Not Want To See

Mark 15:21-32

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King Duncan

... this day. After all, it was from a garbage heap of humanity that our salvation was lifted. It reminds me of a scene that Robert C. Morgan tells about in his book, Lift High the Cross. An unusual cross stood one Lenten season in Dallas on the lawn of a local ... experienced the full weight of sin as it smashed into Him at Calvary, while we stood at a safe distance and watched." Douglas G. Pratt a pastor in Allison Park, Pennsylvania drew another analogy. He notes that in the 1993 hit film, In the Line of Fire ...

6. Overcoming Envy

Matthew 20:1-16

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... possessed. It happened at a conference where he and another great preacher of the day, G. Campbell Morgan were both preaching. Morgan was drawing much larger crowds than Meyer was. It was a demoralizing experience for Meyer. “The only way I ... Breakthrough by Heather Thompson Day. 5. 1000 Windows: A Speaker’s Sourcebook of Illustrations, edited by Robert C. Shannon, Standard Publishing Company, 1984. 6. Illustrations That Connect: Over 100 Illustrations for preachers, teachers, public speaker, ...

7. Food For Thought

1 Peter 1:13-21

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James Merritt

... L. Moody said, "I never preach a sermon without thinking that possibly the Lord may come before I preach another." G. Campbell Morgan, one of the greatest British preachers who ever lived, said, "I never begin my work in the morning without ... live with God forever? Well, Jesus said, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me will live even if he dies." c. Reconciliation Peter goes on to say, "so that your faith and hope are in God." Now understand what Peter was saying. You can only believe ...

8. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... came out it was 'in the power of the Spirit'. In the life of Jesus all that temptation could achieve was to turn fullness into power. "Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, in his book The Crises of the Christ, claims that we ought to make a clear distinction between the two words 'fullness' and 'power'. The 'fullness of ... character; (B) to bring us to a single-minded allegiance to God; and (C) to develop our prayer life. Then three: Though God allows us to be tempted, He does not allow it beyond the point of no return.

9. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

10. Why?

Job 3:11-12, 16, 20, 23

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James Merritt

... with evil in this world not because of our unbelief, but because of our faith! The great British Bible teacher, Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, said it this way: "Men of faith are always the men that have to confront problems. Block God out and your problems ... should force you to turn to God. Indeed that is always one purpose of evil. It not only challenges your faith, it changes your focus. C. S. Lewis once said, "God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts to us in our pains; it ...

11. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

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Donald A. Hagner

... the Father. The only other place in the book where “sons” is used absolutely is in 12:5–8. The author shares this concept with Paul (e.g., Rom. 8:14, 19; Gal. 3:26; 4:6f.). To be “sons” means to be those who enjoy and are on the way to salvation and ... verse, although the distinction is not always easy to make (cf. James 1:13–15). See the discussion in C. L. Mitton, The Epistle of James (London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1966), pp. 46–50. For the testing of Jesus, see Mark 3:21; 8:32; and esp ...

12. One Bad Apple

Matthew 26:47-56

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Donald B. Strobe

... upon the Jews by the Greeks in the second century before Jesus. His victory over Antiochus Epiphanes around 165 B.C. is celebrated in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Jewish parents everywhere took pride in naming their ... of much finer stuff.” It is hard for us to realize our kinship with such a man as Judas Iscariot. The great British preacher G. Campbell Morgan (1863-1945) said that he did not believe that Judas was a man in the ordinary sense of the word. He believed that Judas ...

13. A Faith that Will Transform You

Luke 19:1-10

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King Duncan

... stories of Jesus’ wondrous acts of grace are almost always accompanied by a chorus of the self-righteous decrying those very acts. That brilliant thinker C. S. Lewis once dealt with the tendency of people to be self-righteousness. In one of his books, he wrote that religious people are most scandalized ... may mean to you, won’t you open yourself to his love? 1. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity 2. Edwin Orr, “Playing the Good News Off‑Key,” Christianity Today, January 1, 1982, 24‑25. Cited in Robert J ...

14. Are You the One Who Is to Come?

Matthew 11:1-19

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King Duncan

... J. Wallace Hamilton tells about one of the weirdest auction sales in history; and it was held in Washington, D.C., in 1926, where 150,000 patented models of old inventions were declared obsolete and placed on the auction block for ... to the world, the Lord is come. 1. Rev. Robert Morgan, Montgomery UMC, Montgomery, Texas 2. Leo Buscalgia, BUS 9 TO PARADISE (New York: Slack, 1986), pp. 25-26. 3. Charles Kuralt, ON THE ROAD WITH CHARLES KURALT (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985), pp. 315-316. 4. Lincoln ...

15. Rock Stars at the Top

Luke 9:28-36 (37-43a)

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Derl G. Keefer

If I were a Hollywood writer, the Transfiguration story would be a great setting. I could see it ranking right up there with “The Ten Commandments,” “Samson and Delilah,” “The Greatest Story Ever Told,” or any of the others. I would title it, “Rock Stars At The Top.” The stars would include Jesus, Moses, Elijah, Peter, James, John, and the Voice and I’m still contemplating who I would cast in the roles. It would be a great media-hype type movie with spectacular special effects…a hard to climb mountain, ...

16. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

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Robert G. Tuttle

For the key verse in this Scripture reading, like best the King James Version: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God." No! Not everything that happens in life is good (much of it is very bad). But when you add all the happenings of life together and look at the whole of life, for the person who has faith in God, for the person who loves God and shares the love of God, that life is good. The whole of life, its ups and downs, are good when we see them interrelated in a ...

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