Sermon and Worship Resources

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , so we need not only Mrs. Proverbs, but Mr. Proverbs, Grandpa Proverbs, Grandma Proverbs, Junior Proverbs, Little Miss Proverbs, Ms. Proverbs, and all the rest of the Proverbs clan. It's a family to which Christ calls us to belong. 1. David Rosenberg and Harold Bloom, The Book Of J (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990). 2. Anne Marie Chaker and Hilary Stout, "After Years Off, Women Struggle to Revive Careers," The Wall Street Journal, May 6, 2004, A1. 3. Alan Paton, Ah But Your Land Is Beautiful (New York ...

2. Genesis 2:18-24

Genesis 2:18-24

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... creation story, preferring to concentrate on the more equitable-sounding simultaneous creation of male and female recorded by the priestly writer in Genesis 1:27. But the absorbing and quixotic tale told by the less linear Jahwist author (whom Harold Bloom in The Book of J [1989] argues was a woman) actually intimates a much more inter-related, mutually dependent connection between these human creatures that are God's handiwork. Verse 18 begins this story with God recognizing the fundamental incompleteness ...

3. John 20:19-31 [Genesis 2:5-24]

John 20:19-31 [Genesis 2:5-24]

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Leonard Sweet

... helper fit for him" should really read "a power equal to" man. Eve was created as Adam's equal. This is the only kind of "partner" that will do. In fact, this is such a radical notion of the equality of the creation of male and female that Harold Bloom playfully suggests that it could only have been written by a woman. v.23: Hear Adam's triumphant and ecstatic cry, the first recorded saying of humans in Scripture: "At last..." (Adam had been waiting for Eve a long time!). What excitement and joy there is in ...

4. Genesis 2:18-24

Genesis 2:18-24

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... creation story, preferring to concentrate on the more equitable-sounding simultaneous creation of male and female recorded by the priestly writer in Genesis 1:27. But the absorbing and quixotic tale told by the less linear Jahwist author (whom Harold Bloom in The Book of J [1989] argues was a woman) actually intimates a much more inter-related, mutually dependent connection between these human creatures that are God's handiwork. Verse 18 begins this story with God recognizing the fundamental incompleteness ...

5. John 20:19-31 [Genesis 2:5-24]

John 20:19-31 [Genesis 2:5-24]

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... helper fit for him" should really read "a power equal to" man. Eve was created as Adam's equal. This is the only kind of "partner" that will do. In fact, this is such a radical notion of the equality of the creation of male and female that Harold Bloom playfully suggests that it could only have been written by a woman. v.23: Hear Adam's triumphant and ecstatic cry, the first recorded saying of humans in Scripture: "At last..." (Adam had been waiting for Eve a long time!). What excitement and joy there is in ...

6. How Do You Get Rid of Evil without Destroying Good?

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... its end-time, its climax, its judgment. As James Russell Lowell wrote about it: “Some great cause, God’s new Messiah, offering each the bloom or blight, parts the goats upon the left and the sheep upon the right.” [7] Leave it alone until the harvest. God will ... have to rush the judgment, nor do we take it into our own hands. Let harvest time come and trust the Lord. 1. Harold A. Bosley, He Spoke to them in Parables, New York: Harper & Rowe Publishers, 1963, p. 127 2. Clovis G. Chappell, Sermons from the ...

7. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... to say, `If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.''" The Bible also speaks of our lives as flowers that bloom quickly and wither as grass, the grass that springs up and quickly dies away. We should never presume upon time, yet we all do ... it in and one to screw it up. And how many procrastinators?...One but he has to wait until the light is better. Professor Harold Hill, in the lively musical THE MUSIC MAN, has a classic challenge to procrastination. He invites River City''s piano teacher to come ...