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Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The flab was fun to put on, he says, but hard to take off. Some of us know what he’s talking about. However, he contends, he wouldn’t have won the championship title if he first hadn’t gotten rid of that extra weight. (1) I admire George Foreman. I admire anyone who sets a lofty goal and then gives his or her best to attaining that goal. A few years ago Karen Phelps, a distance runner, wrote these challenging words, “On this particular day, I didn’t feel like running at all, but I made myself ...

2. Good News For Tough Times

Luke 2:1-7

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Eric Ritz

... intended to be. Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out!" (3) Let me share the story of one who gave his life to Christ and let him into the muck and mire of his life. George Foreman made sports history when at the tender age of 45 he won the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World. However, unknown to most of the world was the reason he fought and to whom he credited the victory. About his youth ...

3. Good News for Tough Times - Encouragment for the Soul

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... one who gave his life to Christ--and let him into the muck and mire of his life. A while back George Foreman made sports history when at the tender age of 45, he won the Heavyweight Boxing Championship of the World. However, unknown to most of the world was the reason he ... Christ came into my life as Lord and Savior." It changed him from an arrogant man to an ambassador for Christ. George Foreman has spent the last ten years of his life preaching and sharing the Gospel to the people on the streets in ...

4. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... depend on, who does not engage in self-destructive behavior. Blessed is the person who bears fruit by living a committed, caring life. He or she shall be like a tree planted by a stream. According to Tim Storey in his book, IT'S TIME FOR YOUR COMEBACK heavyweight boxer, George Foreman, used to be a very disturbed, angry, mean, individual. One day after losing a fight, he was lying in the back room on a table, and he had a vision of Jesus. Jesus said, "I'm going to transform your life." And ...

5. Mark 6:14-29

Mark 6:14-29

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Leonard Sweet

... , who think that they are important enough to have their names live on, repeat their names again and again. What am I talking about? Take former heavyweight champion and now indoor grill king, George Foreman. Foreman is also the father of five sons. He named all five “George.” Don’t ask, “Who comes when called?” Michael Jackson named both his sons “Prince Michael.” Michael’s older brother Jermaine Jackson named his daughter born in 2000 “Jermajesty.” But these recent examples don ...

6. You Can Be Forever Young

Genesis 25:1-11

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... when I was only in my early forties! Why, I had just aged out of Clearasil. To be sure, age is relative. To my children I am old. To my father I am just a boy. When I look in the mirror, I just see a member of the George Foreman generation. We're not getting older; we're getting better. Bifocals because "it's time"? Bah! Humbug! As much as anything else I suppose it was the trip to the ophthalmologist that got me to thinking seriously about aging. It seems that everyone is thinking seriously about aging and ...

7. Mark 6:14-29

Mark 6:14-29

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Leonard Sweet

... of family life within the Herodians. Keeping track of the gnarled and nasty family tree that sprung forth from Herod the Great is about as confusing as a family reunion of the child of retired boxer/grillmaster George Foreman, who named all five of his sons “George.” Likewise the name “Herod” is ubiquitous among the many offspring with many different wives that followed Herod the Great into the “family business” of corrupt and conniving ruling. The “Herod” Mark refers to in today’s text ...

8. When Others Serve Your Head on a Platter

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

9. Celebrity Culture

Psalm 95:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Texas. He began his sermon munching on a bag of potato chips but any form of junk food will do. All the while he was preaching someone was grilling steak so that the congregation could smell the barbecue and sauce. You might need to use a George Foreman grill, and/or barbecue chicken/vegetables/fish; whatever is especially aromatic and fits in with your local food culture. As he preached he continued to eat the chips. At the end of his sermon, when the barbecue was ready, someone brought it up front, and he ...

10. Don't Look Back, Remember Lot's Wife

Genesis 19:24-26

Sermon

James W. Moore

... is a great athlete, a great person, a great gift to the game. I don’t know a lot about boxing, but I do know enough to understand two phrases that fight analysts use… phrases that carry over into other dimensions of life. I recently heard George Foreman talking on television about an upcoming fight and he used these two phrases. He predicted that one fighter (who had been very successful as a boxer) would lose because (here is the first phrase) he said: “He Has Become a Fat Cat”… and he predicted ...

11. A Call to Arms

Exodus 17:8-16

Sermon

James Merritt

Whether or not you are a boxing fan, names like Muhammad Ali, George Foreman, Mike Tyson, and Evander Holyfield will certainly conjure up pictures of big-fisted gladiators. C. D. Blalock is not as well known, but he did something in the ring that should make him the most famous boxer of all time. In the 1930s Blalock stepped into the ring to fight ...

12. The Church: The Health of a Godly Family

Hebrews 10:22-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... end of the day the foreman asked the first crew how many poles they had done. They said, "Twelve." The foreman replied, "That's not bad for a first day." He then asked the second crew how many poles they had put in. They said, "Two." The foreman shouted, "Two! The others did ... of the Heart (New York: Harper& Row, 1985), p. 221. 3 Time's/Mirror Survey, February 3, 1994. 4 George Barna, Marketing the Church (Colorado Springs, Colo., Nav Press, 1988), pp. 21-22. 5 National& International Religion Report, May 30 ...

13. Thank You, Siri...Oops!

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... only reason for being. There’s a humorous story about a man who injured his thumb on the job. He was told by his foreman to go to the clinic. He stepped inside the clinic and saw an empty room with only a desk and two chairs. Toward the ... you.” That is why worship is not optional for the Christian. It is what being a Christian is all about. Native American Chief Dan George in his book, My Heart Soars, describes that kind of gratitude when he tells about his love for his father. He writes, “I remember as ...

14. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... , Though constantly tired, He could loaf until fired Then collect unemployment insurance." Or perhaps we are like the worker to whom the foreman said: "You’re the slowest man I’ve ever seen. Can’t you do anything fast?" "Oh, yes" he replied, "I get ... he played his own music and talked about his music and about himself. Finally, Levant walked over to Gershwin and asked: "Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over again, would you fall in love with yourself once more?" Having a love affair with ...

15. How Can We Live Wisely?

Job 26:1--31:40

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... have a sense of wonder. For example, think of Moses. About 1,300 years before Christ Moses escaped from Egypt. He had murdered an Egyptian foreman who was mistreating a Hebrew slave. In his self-imposed exile, Moses became the shepherd of Midian, caring for the flocks of Jethro, his father ... renewing of your mind." To live wisely is to sometimes put our lives into reverse. "It is never too late," said George Eliot, "to be what you might have been." It is never too late to turn in reverence to God and to turn ...

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