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Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... power from the image of the Servant, so too it is unexpected to have the gentle, lowly, defenseless image of the dove (really, a white pigeon) represent that Spirit which John had likened to an all-consuming fire (3:11). One final element in this vision is the ... big thing” or the next big toy will bring us the joy we’ve been looking for, it never will. Here is Gilbert’s summary: When we have an experience . .. on successive occasions, we quickly begin to adapt to it, and the experience yields less ...

2. One In Christ

Galatians 3:15-25

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Dr. Ronald Love

... . Then the man smiled, and a beautiful radiance shone in his face. Traveling home that evening, riding the street car up Gilbert Avenue, Clifford Peale asked his son to describe what happened. Norman did not fumble for words. Quickly he answered, "I saw ... Rosa knew as more whites boarded the bus, moving their seats closer to the rear, she would soon have to stand so a white person could sit. Two stops later what she expected happened. No longer were there enough available seats for the white patrons, so Rosa ...

3. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... to forgive. In the wake of the first Rodney King trial, many of us watched Los Angeles explode in racial fury. Four white police officers had beaten Mr. King live on videotape. Two officers were acquitted by the court, and two others received short ... , Elements of Rite: A Handbook of Liturgical Style (New York: Pueblo Publishing Company, Inc., 1982), pp. 77-78. 2. Gilbert Cope, "Gestures," The Westminster Dictionary of Worship (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1979), pp. 187-88. 3. Fred B. Craddock, John ...

4. Playing The Comparison Game

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... lightening because he got the new satellite dish?" (2) It's hard not to compare what we have with what our neighbor has. Gilbert Brim wrote a weighty book with the simple title, Ambition. In it he demonstrated how defeating this game of comparison is. He tells ... woman who worked 30 years as a maid and 30 years as a live-in housekeeper. On Saturdays, when she lived with a rich White couple in Bel-Air, she would cook pigs' feet, greens and fried chicken, then invite some of her friends over for the evening. The ...

5. Immanuel

Isaiah 63:7-14

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King Duncan

... . Needless to say, she was disappointed and started to cry. The clerk, trying to console her, said, "Don't worry, Snow White. Someday your prints will come." We've already noted that the people of Israel were awaiting their prince, their Messiah, who would ... many of us need to know more than ever in our personal lives that God is with us as well. Life is not easy. Bob Gilbert tells about a little girl who lived near the beach. She had a grandfather she loved very much and she always looked forward to visiting ...

6. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

Do you remember the fairy tale "Snow White"? Recall how the wicked witch peered into her magic looking glass and said, "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is ... We were his workmanship," past tense. It says, "We are!" Right now God is still working on us.\n Have you ever seen that famous unfinished portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart? It hangs in a Boston museum, but copies of it are familiar to every school child. The picture is considered a masterpiece, yet it has never been completed. The artist ...

7. Winners Every One

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... One of the most grueling of all bicycle races is the Tour De France. A contestant in that event, Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle, describes it in a National Geographic article titled, "An Annual Madness." The race covers about 2000 miles, ... for years, riding their bikes thousands upon grueling miles--just for the honor of wearing a special jersey? Imagine millions of people standing in white robes receiving a sincere, "well done, thy good and servant," from the throne of God. Is it worth it? It's worth more than ...

8. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... because he recalls the look of enmity on his host's face. The king puts it like this: "I saw his heart in his face." Gilbert Stuart took one look at Talleyrand, the French ambassador, and said, "If that man isn't a scoundrel, God doesn't write a legible hand." A ... other's arms--three of God's children, with no dividing line of color, bitterness, or hate. If a black man, living in a white man's world, can live and work triumphantly and radiantly, so may you and I. (4) Roland Hayes had the glow. And you and ...

9. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... you, you can have two more for each one.” The woman just stood there paralyzed, feeling helpless when Ryan Abel, who is white, piped up. “I’m a relative,” he said. “So am I,” announced a young Chinese girl nearby. The Red Cross worker handed ... people in the Rose Garden Arena in Portland. At the beginning of the game, a local girl, thirteen-year-old Natalie Gilbert walked to mid-court to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Natalie did fine at first, but somewhere around “the twilight’s ...

10. No One Over 12 Inches Wide Need Apply

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... 2) One of the most demanding challenges in sports is the Tour de France bicycle race. One committed cyclist Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle once wrote an article for the National Geographic magazine titled, “An Annual Madness,” in which he described ... The cartoon showed a humble log cabin. Above the log cabin was a ladder. At the top of that ladder was a drawing of the White House. Underneath the cartoon was this caption, “The ladder is still there.” (4) That is my closing word to you this morning. The ladder ...

11. The Gracious Dream

Genesis 28:10-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... on campus! "Dr. Willimon; this is Public Safety, we've got a guy over here who calls himself Gabriel. Yeah. Wearing wings, white robe, trying to break into Alspaugh 102. You want us to bust him?" Well, last week we met upstart little brother, Jacob. ... Level and Durham) we get a message--1 am with you, I will keep you, I will bring you home. And we awake. It's still Gilbert-Addoms. It's Monday. We are still on a journey. But now we are different, having been surprised that, even to us, the Word has become ...

White is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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