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Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... played, all persons were to fall down and worship the image of gold. And anyone who did not do so would be thrown into a fiery furnace. Old Nebuchadnezzer knew the power of music. Have you ever noticed that the Bible is full of music? Music is a God-given medium ... to a CD of praise music on my way to church. It gets me ready for worship. In verse 8, the bad guys show up. Remember that in the previous chapter, the Hebrew boys—Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego—had been made administrators of the province ...

2. The Millennial Reign, Followed by Satan’s Release, Defeat, and Punishment

Revelation 20:1-7, Revelation 20:8-10

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... ii. Satan deceives the wicked and gathers them for battle (20:8–9a) iii. God wins the final battle (20:9b) iv. Satan thrown into fiery lake (20:10) Interpretive Insights 20:4–6 I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. Those seated ... : It’s a classic scene in most rip-roaring adventure films. The hero and his merry band are running from the bad guys. They are just a few steps ahead, weaving through a jungle thicket when suddenly, they emerge at the edge of a great ...

3. Matthew

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... poetry. He was up in the hills all last week instead of watching the Damascus-Acre road office. He even sent me a copy of his poems about being tempted by the Devil. I had to switch him with the guy who handles the taxes of the fishermen. I think he got the hint. The cheese helped and the stomach is not as fiery as it has been. But I still don't sleep too much. Caligula came through here two weeks ago. The next day, one of King Herod's advisors went on trial for treason. The word is that the ...

4. The Armor of What?!

Ephesians 6:10-20

Drama

Dave Marsh

... ’t recall, I only took a two hour lunch today. Yep, honoring God at work. That’s me. Mr. Honor God at work guy. That’s what they call me. Dave: So what’s today about? Hmmm. Spiritual battles. Well, that sounds pretty cool! Maybe I’ll take ... to be trying to pick me off with projectiles of fiery death! I mean, I’ve seen those movies! No matter how big the guys shield is, somebody always hits him with an arrow. And it always ends up in his leg and the guy starts pulling it out on his own. But this is ...

5. Eleven Plus One

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... teamwork; and suddenly, a team destined for the dumpster is sitting on top. We love these Cinderella teams. They make us feel like the little guy can still win, that the richest and the biggest don't always get their own way in the world. Even if it's a team ... requiring converts to be circumcised. He appeared to have a mixed temperament – legal, impetuous, and sanguine, yet impressed by Paul's fiery arguments. James is the kind of person who knows the answer but doesn't raise his hand. James would drive a ...

6. That Is SO God!

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... field to field, and hadn't done very well at that. Looking for a new, powerful, prophetic voice? It's SO God to choose Jonah, the guy who only takes the job when it's a choice between God's plans and the inside of a fish's belly. Determined to send ... the answer John or anyone else expects. Yes, Jesus the Messiah can work miracles. But true messianic power is not fiery judgment or political revolution. Jesus' messianic mission is in seemingly small, individual acts of healing and hope that transform the ...

7. Faith is a River That Flows

Genesis 19:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... they split up. Abraham goes one direction; Lot goes another and sets up household in a place we learn later is called Sodom. Lot’s a good guy, and so is his family, it seems. But one day, God calls out both Abraham and Lot. Let’s think about that again. Abraham’s story ... those cities. The scriptures describe a rain of sulfur, much as in Pompeii. Perhaps it was a rain of lava. Perhaps the fiery rain of salty rock. But what’s important in our story isn’t the loss itself, but our ability I think to ...

8. The Delimma II (A Drama about Prayer)

Drama

Dave Marsh

... . I like to use music from the King of Kings soundtrack available anywhere (Amazon is a good place to go...) Cast: Dave: A normal guy at church Props: Chairs Pre-recorded V.O. tape Setting: Church (LIGHTS UP CENTER STAGE where Dave is standing after just singing the last song ... and know thine servant! Oh ye who didst strike down the Philistines and who delivered thine servants from the fiery furnace and didst bring low the Pharisees and Sadducees outside the Damascus gate and who didst show the Revelations of ...

9. Fish Bait

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... -person table, all jolly and sanctified after Sunday night service, who run me mercilessly and then leave me $1 on a $92 bill. Or the guy with the crucifixion T-shirt (SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO) who complains that his baked potato is too hard and his iced tea too icy ... accommodations (all she could afford, of course), she went to a Pentecostal tent revival. Lots of singing and clapping, fiery preaching attacking "this wicked city" for not turning out more souls to the revival..."which costs money, you know; this ...

10. Help For Hurting Dads

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... would make a perfect father. He was fully supportive when his mother and Frank married. Frank McCarty was a tough guy, with little experience in the job of parenting. His father had been demanding and dictatorial, and that is how Frank treated Hanoch and his brother. Also, Frank had a fiery temper, and little patience for the contrary ways of young people. Soon, Hanoch and Frank were locked in a battle of wills. The more Frank tried to claim the role of father, the more Hanoch rebelled against him. Hanoch ...

11. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... for example, is Party Day! We party around the clock. Tuesday is Alcohol Day! An open bar, take all you want! Wednesday is Tobacco Day! The finest Havana cigars, all the best cigarette blends." The guy begins to brighten up. He says, "I'm sold. Let me in!" They let him in the gate and he promptly falls into a fiery pit where he is prodded by a nasty looking thing with a pitchfork. "Hey," he cried, "what happened to those Theme Days?" "Today is Thursday," Satan giggles with glee. "Thursdays we tell lies!" (1 ...

12. Masks Off!

John 7:25-45 and 8:11-59

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Mt. Sinai, in the power of the holy tabernacle, in a heavenly ladder, in a mysterious stranger, in the whirlwind of a fiery chariot. Now most fully in the person of Jesus. Whenever we see God revealed, you know something extraordinary is soon to occur ... This is OUR good news! This is YOUR good news! This is MY good news! Jesus isn’t just some guy on a mission in the first century. Jesus isn’t some dead guy whose memory we keep alive. Jesus isn’t someone we read about in a history book. Jesus isn’t just ...

13. Oh That Cookie Jar Goodness!

Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... one of the elite members of the Sanhedrin, a man who honestly tries to live an upright life, a guy who obeys every jot and tittle of the law, a guy who has attained a high position due to the exceptionalism of his religious aptitude and attitude. He’s well- ... 138: I Praise You With My Whole Heart Psalms 100, 118, 136: Give Thanks for the Lord is Good Daniel and the Fiery Furnace (Daniel 3) Job’s Acknowledgement of the Lord’s Goodness and Sovereignty (Job 42) The Strength and Sovereignty and Goodness of ...

14. The Tragedy of Caiaphas

John 18:1-27 · John 11:45-47 · Matthew 26:36-75

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 13-14) Daniel’s Prayer and Vision of Temple and Messiah (Daniel 9: 1-19 and 20-27) The Prayer of Azariah in the Fiery Furnace and His Song of Praise Mordechai’s Prophetic Dream (Greek Esther 10:4-13) A Prayer of Thanksgiving for Deliverance from Death (Sirach ... in the character of Caiaphas, High Priest of Israel. What does it mean to miss the mark? Someone who misses a punch line? A guy who misses a girl’s hints and a romance is doomed? A man who receives an important message but cannot read it/decipher ...

15. A Little Foolishness

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... waiting, with a smile on his face. Most preachers recognized the names of the three young men thrown into the fiery furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar, but regardless of denomination, none could ever remember what the book of Daniel had said about ... in the basement of that old house trying to live off of a welfare check that she gets from someone else’s taxes or that guy with the political ideas that make your stomach turn? That person you see in the congregation each Sunday morning and wonder why they don’t ...

16. You Can Be A Livesaver

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... Shatner's television show Rescue 911 share my feelings of inadequacy. Viewing makes you think that some guy hanging by his ankles off a 40-story building to rescue a stranded window washer is everyday ... that story on Rescue 911. Most would deny ever having saved anyone's life. Very few have dragged another off a field of battle or pulled someone from a fiery car. To be sure, doctors, nurses and EMTs can tell stories of saving lives. For them, lifesaving is part of their daily routine. The rest of us, though, ...

17. God Knows!

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... ace right down the middle. It was perfect -- right on the line with out-of-sight-out-of-reach pace. Immediately, the guy closest to the net yelled, "Out!" "Out?" I yelled back. But quickly, composing myself, conscious of congregants on adjacent courts and in ... Edward's sermon on sinners in God's hands was not designed to stress the flames of hell. The resounding accent falls not on the fiery pit but on the hands of the God who holds us and rescues us from it. The hands of God are gracious hands. They alone ...

18. Advent 3

James 5:7-12, Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... restaurant near Omaha, Nebraska. The waitress had just served him his grub when a trio of Hell's Angels-type guys wearing leather jackets and chains swaggered into the establishment. They quickly surrounded the driver. Eager to provoke a fight, one ... You? When Jesus walked on earth, he offended many people, good and bad, including John the Baptist, who pictured a more fiery Messiah. Christ continues to offend us. Thank God. Outline: a. Christ offended John the Baptist by his gracious dealings with sinners ...

19. Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Daniel 2:24-49, Daniel 2:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 'm going back to my car and write you up." Mary Jane sat there seething with anger. She said out loud, "That turkey! That guy is an absolute turkey!" She forgot that her four-year-old son was listening. When the policeman returned and handed the ticket to her, ... that he had led a charmed life up to that point, and that his spiritual life was somewhat casual and superficial. But in the fiery furnace of life-threatening illness, he had to reach out for resources that he did not have. He found them in God. Some ...

20. How Free Are We?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in the Exodus. Again and again during the bloody history of the Jewish nation, insurrections and rebellions flared up, as one fiery leader after another would arise to inflame the passions of the people by insisting that Jews could obey no earthly ... . Jesus’ primary problem was not with “sinners,” those who had transgressed certain moral laws; His problem was with the “good guys,” the righteous folk who thought that they had committed no sin, and pointed their fingers at others who they believed ...

21. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... generosity or tight-fisted in gestures of greed? It is a form of spiritual inventory to ask your hands on occasion, What have you guys been up to lately? There is a children’s song in our hymnal, and it is a perfect bridge into the text. It is ... new shape of the monster evil, and was victor over it in every form. Let the arrow fly from what quarter it might, He quenched its fiery power. The heat of fever, or the cold of dropsy; the lethargy of palsy, or the rage of madness; the filth of leprosy, or the ...

22. Gross Personality Disorder

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... average appearing, normal neighbor anyone could imagine. No one suspected Dennis Rayder of being anything other than an ordinary guy. He was quiet, well-mannered, usually pleasant, a Boy Scout leader and a loyal church member who never ... minimalization of that message. "I hope you reach your destination safely" easily can be edited to read "I'm not hoping you die in a fiery crash" or "I hope drive-by shooters don't blow your brains out." LPD Christians don't offer milquetoast wishes. LPD Christians do not lag ...

23. Who Put It There? (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that the problem could be corrected when the boy reached his full growth and a donor could be found. Well, it was tough on the little guy when he started school Many times he came home crying, 'I'm a freak,' when he was subjected to the stares, whispers, and taunts of ... his readers, admonishing them that they should "not be surprised" (4:12) that their confessed faith takes them into a fiery ordeal. In the first century Christian suffering did not take the form of snipes and jabs around the office water- ...

24. Worship Like A Wesley

Philippians 4:4-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... in the saddle bags of the circuit riders who moved from town to town with the message of personal experience and a fiery faith. They went wherever the people went, "to spread through all the earth abroad, the wonders of Christ's name."Actually, there ... success is just showing up—being present in worship, being committed to the gathering, being there. Have I told you the story about the guy who woke up one Sunday morning, rolled over with a groan and said, "Ah, Ma, do I have to go to church today? The ...

25. Shame On Who?

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. (Matthew 5:21-22, NASB) Just as they were building their case, Jesus was building His. Instead of passing judgment on the woman, He passes ... , both now and in eternity to come. [1] Fred Guy, "Whatever Happened To Shame," The Daily Record, May 9, 2003. [2] William Law, The Power Of The Spirit (Ft. Washington, PA:Christian Literature Crusade, 1971), p. 124

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