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John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... scars, but her son and unborn child were both unscathed. “It is hard for me to tell this story,” writes Christi Brown, “without tearing up, because to me, it serves as a miniscule example of the immense sacrifice and love of Jesus Christ for ... . Gordon. Gordon directed the last official action against the Union Army on a Sunday morning in April, 1865, at Appomattox when Lee surrendered to Grant. Later Gordon became a candidate for the United States Senate. However, a man who had once served under Gordon ...

2. Loving Deeply (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... never went on the baseball field but that he did not reach down and pick up the glove of his teammate, Joe Gordon, and hand it to him. (3) We see love lived out in many areas of our secular world. A man tells a ... laid his head against that mean little boy’s body. “What Will did to Jason put an end to the meanness in that room,” observes Barbara Brown Taylor. “That is what love is . . . not a warm feeling between like-minded friends but plain old imitation of Christ, who took all the meanness of the ...

3. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the first way I said. Go down . . . Oh, what the heck. Look, I’ll take you there. Just follow me, and stick close!” Gordon MacDonald writes, “I followed him and stuck close. And it occurred to me along the way that that is the invitation of Christ to someone ... named Peggy Piland, writing in Guideposts, tells about an interesting event in her life. She had been planning to make brown-sugar pound cake, her specialty, for her Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Howell, who had been in her thoughts. But suddenly ...

4. Rat Poison

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... Who do we think we are hurting with our angry, bitter, unforgiving thoughts... someone else? No. We are hurting ourselves. Barbara Brown Taylor says this resentment is like a boomerang. We use it to protect ourselves — to hurt someone else — but it ... the windows so all the neighbors could hear them. They were loudly reminding her that she had promised to take them swimming. That, says Gordon, was when she lost it. She flew outside and jumped on the hood of the car. She pounded on the windshield. She told ...

5. A Voice in the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... began to sing, and those who could, those who were ambulatory, came to the parade field and sat there in a great circle. Gordon said, “God touched us that day.” He called it the most sacred event that he had ever been involved with. No preaching, nothing ... . At Christmas, the Weavers exchanged a number of lovely presents, including gifts for Stephanie. Then Stephanie handed Mrs. Weaver a brown paper sack with a rough drawing of a Christmas scene on it. Mrs. Weaver opened it to find a rhinestone necklace ...

6. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice . . .” Is there anyone you are bitter against? Dr. David L. Brown tells about a man who died with bitterness in his heart. His name was Sigmund Freud. As you probably know, Freud was one ... be an exposé. The tragically ironic aftermath of the film, however, was that, rather than causing people to despise such people as Gordon Gekko, many young people began to identify with him. The film inspired these young men and women to go to work on ...

7. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... painful. I was fourteen years old and a high school freshman when it happened. The young lady’s name was Joyce. She had long brown hair and dark brown eyes, and I was quite certain she was one of God’s own angels. I fell in love with Joyce the first time she ... have no one to love us, no one who cares, no one to whom we belong, life becomes drab and meaningless. Mary Gordon, in her novel, Final Payments, introduces a character who represents humanity in microcosm in this need. Mrs Riesart is a patient in ...

8. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... disappear tomorrow, nobody would miss me!" But Lucy hears him and says, "Oh, I don't think that's true, Charlie Brown..." Charlie Brown gets his hopes up. "You don't?", he asks. Lucy responds, "No, I don't think that's strictly true at ... book written by Lytton Strachey called Eminent Victorians. In that book, he tells about the lives of prominent people in England. One notable General Gordon was about to leave for a military campaign in the Sudan, so he drove all over London one Sunday to a number of different ...

9. Jacob and Esau

Genesis 25:19-34

Understanding Series

John E. Hartley

... term ’adom includes this color in its range of meaning, in contrast to Eng. “red” (Hamilton, Genesis: Chapters 18–50, p. 186). In cultures of the eastern Mediterranean the color red or reddish brown was used to depict heroic individuals; people painted themselves with these tones for ceremonies (C. Gordon, The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilizations [New York: Norton, 1965], pp. 230–31). Located to the southeast of Canaan, Edom’s southern border was the Gulf of Elat, and its northern ...

10. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... retarded young man did not eat cake, to which he is allergic, but ate the greatest gift he had ever been given a bland brown infant baby formula that keeps him alive. You see, the only thing Raymond Dunn can eat is a certain type of baby food. In ... from sinners, we are to be insulated from sinners. But we will never reach lost people until we develop "courage under fire." A. J. Gordon once said: "It often requires more courage to preach to one than it does to a thousand." That really is true. I love the ...

11. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... libbers and "Right to Lifers," gays and straights alike, Jews and Greeks, circumcised and uncircumcised, blacks, whites, browns, and yellows, Baptists, Roman Catholics, and Jehovah’s Witnesses - all are to love one another Paul said ... , it was discovered that a shovel was missing. The Japanese guard began to rage, because he was sure one of them had stolen it. Gordon described the scene thus: Screaming in broken English, he demanded that the guilty one step forward to take his punishment. No one moved. The ...

12. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... 10.46 - 470307 Albert Einstein - 9.85 - 443079 Martin Luther King - 8.48 - 381284 Pope John Paul II - 8.27 - 371899 Gordon B. Hinckley - 5.66 - 254665 Mohandas Gandhi - 3.63 - 163555 Ronald Reagan - 1.79 - 80890 *John Lennon - 1.42 - 64043 ... Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japan surrenders 1948 The Jewish state of Israel comes into existence 1951 Color television is first introduced 1954 Brown versus Board of Education decision requires desegregation of the public schools in the U.S. *1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog ...

13. Breakfast in Galilee

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Robert Allen

... recommend?" "Oh," she said, "you need something that will stick with you all morning. I would suggest some scrambled eggs, hash browns and biscuits and gravy." "That sounds pretty good," I said. "I think I'll try your suggestion." She smiled and started ... favorite is one told by J. Wallace Hamilton in his book What About Tomorrow? It is a story about a Baptist minister, Dr. Gordon Torgerson, sailing across the Atlantic one summer. He noticed a dark skinned man sitting in a deck chair reading the Bible. He sat ...

14. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... muscle and music to my faith: Loren Eiseley, Thomas Merton, Halford Luccock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Frederick Buechner, Walter Brueggemann, C. S. Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. C. Read, Joseph Ford Newton, Ernest Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, John Henry Jouette, Ernest Gordon, and Abraham Heschel. I wish these lists included the Afro-American preachers (whom we know are among the best preachers in the ...

15. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... . For God took on human flesh and lived as we live. In the October 3, 1977, issue of CHRISTIANITY AND CRISIS, Robert McAfee Brown wrote an article in the form of a dialogue between a Roman Catholic priest and some of his destitute parishioners. The setting is ... Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham, THE SPIRITUALITY OF IMPERFECTION, (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), pp. 126-127. 2. Joe Gordon, SPEAKER'S LIBRARY OF BUSINESS. 3. Jamie Buckingham, LOOK OUT, WORLD, (Altamonte Springs, FL: Strang Communications Company, 1993 ...

16. Does It Make A Difference Who Jesus Is?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Jesus taught us to call God "Abba" or "Daddy" and taught us that God loves all people equally whether they are rich or poor - black, brown, yellow, red or white - whether they live in the United States or in Communist China. God plays no favorites. God loves us all. Is that ... revealed the character of God but he also patterned the ideal life for humanity. In one of his books, Gordon MacDonald tells about a young Florida man who became devoted to Elvis Presley. For Dennis Wise, devotion meant spending every ...

17. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

Linus is building castles in the sand. He tells Charlie Brown: "Working with your hands is good therapy . . . It takes your mind off your troubles . . . Whenever I feel ... us a Counselor, a Comforter, an eternal Witness to himself. The Spirit is available to all who would receive him. In his book, Symbols of the Holy Spirit, Gordon Brownville tells about the great Norwegian explorer Ronald Amundsen. Amundsen was the first man to discover the magnetic meridian of the North Pole and to discover the South ...

18. Titles, Credentials, or Resurrection Power

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... sin in the first place. Let me explain it this way: In 1992 a Los Angeles county parking control officer came upon a brown El Dorado Cadillac illegally parked next to the curb on street-sweeping day. The officer dutifully wrote out a ticket. Ignoring the man ... that all these credentials were worthless and void. In a sermon published by the producers of Preaching Today, Dr. Hadden Robinson of Gordon-Conwell Seminary shared a similar problem: "A while ago I was trying to fix our garage door. I came to that one ...

19. Bearing the Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... up his cross and follow me.” They’re like Lucy in an old Peanuts comic strip. Lucy is swinging on the playground. Charlie Brown reads to her, “It says here that the world revolves around the sun once a year.” Lucy stops abruptly and responds, “The world ... save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it.” 1. Gordon MacDonald, Forging a Real World Faith (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., Publishers, 1989), pp. 141-142. 2. Author unknown. 3. From Sojourners ...

20. Love: The Happiness of a Godly Family

1 Corinthians 13:4-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... good in the other person. It is not negative, it is positive. Real love does not look over your family's faults, it overlooks their faults. Julius Gordon said, "Love is not blind it sees more not less. But because it sees more it is willing to see less." You can always find negative in ... The Development of Affectionate Behavior in Infancy," Journal of Genetic Psychology, Vol. 76: 283-289 (1978). 4. Frances Brown, S.R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew in English Lexicon of the Old Testament, Oxford: ...

21. Greed or the Gospel?

Acts 8:9-13, 18-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... amuck. Actor Alan Alda says, “It’s not necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich." Gordon Gekko, the business tycoon in the movie Wall Street is bent on success at any price. During his takeover bid at a paper company stockholder ... dresser. The company jingle says it all, “Happiness waits at the Stuff Mart, all you need is lots more stuff." As Charlie Brown says, “Most of us live just about one cookie away from being happy." It sneaks in on us, doesn't it? Greed ...

22. A Man of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... Joseph was a man in control of his emotions. That’s important. Some people are ruled all their lives by their emotions. Gordon McDonald tells a story of a Nigerian woman who is a physician at a great teaching hospital in the United States. Once ... plaid shirt. Joseph always wore thick glasses which invariably were held together white athletic tape. His hands were stained a brackish brown and he obviously hadn’t bathed in several days. “What do you want, Joseph?” Pastor Ashcroft asked. “Oh,” said ...

23. The Key to Getting Enough Rest

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... made. How many of you are wondering what to do with all the excess time on your hands? In one of her books Barbara Brown Taylor notes that in China the polite answer to the question of “How are you?” is to say, “I am very busy, thank you ... have jobs that put a lot of physical stress on us, but mental and emotional stress are another thing. Worry and stress are killers. Gordon MacDonald once noted that no man ever collapsed because of the burdens of the day; it is when the burdens of tomorrow are added ...

24. Jesus Demonstrates Status Inversion in the Kingdom

Matthew 19:1-12, Matthew 19:13-15, Matthew 19:16-30

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

Big Idea: Matthew illustrates the inversion of status in God’s kingdom by narrating Jesus’ protection of women in his teaching on divorce, his valuing of children, and his stringent call to a rich man who would follow him. Understanding the Text Following Jesus’ fourth major teaching block (chap. 18), Matthew provides his usual formula to transition to a narrative section (19:1; also 7:28–29; 11:1; 13:53; 26:1). Themes accentuated in the previous discourse are illustrated narratively in 19:1–26. The ...

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