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Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... in My Corner, he tells about that second title. He says that when he started his comeback, he had to get rid of what he called “some excess George.” He was extremely overweight. In the nearly ten years he had been out of boxing, he had ballooned from 220 to 315 pounds. And it wasn’t muscle ... ), p. 95. Cited by Steven J. Cole, http://www.fcfonline.org/content/1/sermons/011799m.pdf. 5. Mark Buchanan, Hidden In Plain Sight (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2002), p. 60. 6. Cited by Don Gordon, http://www. ...

2. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... expectantly. Then this young pastor reached a crescendo. “The Spirit hit like a tornado!” Gary cried. Incredibly, says Mark Buchanan, at that very moment every window in the sanctuary shattered, and a wind, swift and terrible, shrieked through the ... . A hearty, “Praise the Lord” would be considered out of place in many churches. This may very well be to our disadvantage. George Knowles in his book A World to Love tells about a party of explorers who found themselves perplexed by something they found ...

3. Sermons in Stones

Psalm 19:1-14

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... world to this very day - with humanness, with sexuality - comes from that theological conflict. Can we get back to our roots, please? Scottish theologian George McDonald writes, "We should look not only to the scriptures and the church to know God, but to creation as well."(7) There is ... from Arabella," http://www.homileticsonline.com, 10/3/99 7. John Buchanan, "Doxology," http://www.fourthchurch.org/112402sermon.html 8. David J. Wolfe in Teaching Your Children About God, cited in Spiritual Literacy, p. 128 ...

4. What Jesus Wants for Christmas (Part 2)

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ," Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters [New York: Harper & Row, 1982], 137-39; Thanks to John M. Buchanan, "Keeping God at Arm's Length," Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Ill., 5 February 1995). Sometimes the very nature of ... the right time. The garment of goodness becomes them, sits gracefully on them. It is a garment, not of heaviness, but of praise. (George Matheson, O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go: Meditations, Prayers and Poems [London: Collins, 1990], 115.) It is a safe bet to ...

5. I'm On a Mission from God!

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

... is patterned after the government of the Presbyterian Church. Marj notes that we have almost forgotten that England's King George III called the entire American Revolution a Presbyterian insurrection, and it was. It was Presbyterians here in Pennsylvania and ... can be proud of James Knox Polk, a direct descendant of Scotland's John Knox, and of Andrew Jackson and James Buchanan and Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison and Woodrow Wilson, Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. We might even stretch it a bit ...

6. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Gospel is indeed great good news. And they are the people who need what we have to offer. John M. Buchanan, Pastor of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago tells a wonderful story about Elaine Pagels. Pagels is a distinguished professor at ... is why you serve in the ministries of our church. That is why you give to support its causes. In 1989, former President George Bush, our current president's father, was entering St. John's Episcopal Church to attend a worship service. A homeless man, William ...

7. Looking for Shoots or Roots?

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... did, something we lived. As Michael Blewett, the witty and provocative associate rector at the Church of St. Michael and St George in St. Louis summarizes it, “Eventually, we die: Adventually, we live.” Radio Shack has coined as its Christmas buying spree ... ? ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.” [The University of Wisconsin story is from John M. Buchanan, who tells this in “This Is Our Hymn of Grateful Praise,” 18 November 2007, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, Illinois.] [to ...

8. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

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King Duncan

... word that means “a failure to listen.” When we fail to listen, we are cut off from whoever is speaking to us. (3) In George Bernard Shaw’s play St. Joan, which is about Joan of Arc, Joan tells of hearing God’s messages. She is talking to King Charles ... so they answer, “The yolk.” (5) How well do you listen to those around you? How well do you listen to God? Author Mark Buchanan tells about a scene from the movie Ray which was based on the life of musician Ray Charles. Ray Charles went blind at age ...

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