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John 13:31-35

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

She opened our eyes to the way that civilizations unfold and develop. Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead became the talk of society with her study, Coming of Age in Samoa. For decades she toured the world, explaining what she had observed as children were born, how they were raised, what families and groups did to reinforce certain behaviors, what happened to non-conformists, what marriage looked like, and how people aged and died. When Ms. Mead was speaking at a university, one student asked her what ...

2. I Am Christ's

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , and listen with your heart as well as your ears. What does it mean to be in Christ? It means one, a new status; two, a new style, and three, a new strength. I. First, a new status. To be in Christ is to become a new creation, as Paul puts it in our text. ... Lincoln said to her, "I wanted to dance with you in the worst way." Mary Todd said, "And you did!" When he is out in public, Harry Hahn is especially conscious of who he is supposed to be. He has put on Abraham Lincoln. He wants to be more and more like ...

3. God’s Evite: Wait!

Philippians 1:3-11

Sermon

Mary Austin

On this second Sunday of Advent, we hear Paul's words to the church at Philippi, a church he knew well. I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now. I am confident of this, that the one who began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. It is right for me to think this way about all of you, because you hold me in your heart, for all of ...

4. Kissing Cousins (Father's Day)

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... weight loss of fifty pounds. He had already lost thirty pounds and he would be really svelte if he could drop another fifty pounds. Harry pays the $100.00 and is directed to still another room. Upon entering, to his horror, he finds a huge, hulking, ugly gorilla with ... a kiss of love” (1 Peter 5:14). Now, before you get too excited about this text, you need to understand that this style of kissing had nothing at all to do with romance. Actually, in the early church, men kissed men and women kissed women. ...

5. What If He Shows Up?

John 2:13-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... School days when I was in high school, what a problem this story was for the teacher, and what a delight it was for the self-styled atheists and free thinking sixteen year olds in that class, who loved to point out that this was the same Jesus who told us to "turn ... a wonderful place, everything to his liking. At the end of the novel, Christ gets on a train and goes to Chicago. Harry Golden, the editor of The Carolina Israelite, wrote in a column in his newspaper once, "What if Christ came to Charlotte." He ...

6. The Sacred Power of a Listening Heart

1 Samuel 3:1-10, 19

Sermon

King Duncan

... to his vest. “This phenomenon is quite commonplace,” he said, “especially among successful individuals. Your hearing is excellent Mr. Harris. You’ve simply quit listening.” (1) Do you know anyone like that? They don’t have a hearing ... those unexpected interruptions through the day. Before long, things around our home started reflecting the pattern of my hurry-up style. It was becoming unbearable. “I distinctly remember after supper one evening, the words of our younger daughter, Colleen. She ...

7. An Everyday Theology

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... in a little Sunday school tune. Alongside his wide-ranging academic theology, he had an everyday theology. Jesus was a master of this theological style. This can be seen in the passage on prayer in Luke 11. The disciples ask Jesus to teach them to pray and the result ... us remember that the sound, intellectual preaching of Ambrose of Milan played a major part in the conversion of Augustine. Harry Emerson Fosdick confesses, in The Living of These Days, that it was the vibrant, modern thinking of a theology ...

8. Being and Doing as the People of God

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... many of us are today. It isn’t the claim is less real than it has been. The problem is we are frustrated in working out a style of life fully responsive to that claim. We try to work it out in a lot of ways. The most common mistake most of us make it ... who have never gone beneath the form of religion to find the power which is at its heart.” 200 years earlier than Harry Emerson Fosdick, our father in the faith, John Wesley, expressed the same concern. He said, “I do not fear that the Methodist Church ...

9. Choosing Your Spirituality

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... of helplessness and hopelessness because they say humanity is no good. An experience several years ago provoked me to evaluate my style of presenting Christ’s Gospel. A young man called on the phone. His call combined good humor with seriousness. He said, “ ... Bible, and others.2. Robert Schuller, Hour of Power, and other sources.3. CBS-TV 5/18/88.4. Frederica Harris Thompsett, Professor of Church History at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has written in depth on these issues and has ...

10. When Matters Hang in the Balance

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... if there is any principle that can be operative here, it is the principle that folks have a right to grapple with matters in a style that is theirs. Maybe it’s not the way we would do it, but it is their way and provided it isn’t fundamentally injurious ... and told him of Mary’s death. “Oh no,” he groaned and then went into the room to be with her for a time. Well, Harry surprised many of us. He took hold of what needed attention. He had never gotten a driver’s license, and at seventy-some years of ...

11. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Understanding Series

Marion L. Soards

... or Paul says they are, despite their sometimes extraordinary effects, dead ends in themselves. 13:8–10 Once again the style shifts at verse 8. Instead of the pithy wisdom sayings of the foregoing lines one encounters more elaborated arguments. The ... where there was a vital brass industry, these would have been common implements for making noise and getting attention. See W. Harris, “ ‘Sounding Brass’ and Hellenistic Theology,” BAR 8 (1982), pp. 38–41; W. W. Klein, “Noisy Gong or Acoustic Vase? A ...

12. Leading as Loving

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... something winsome about a president like Harry Truman who clearly was not affected by what he termed the “job” he had in Washington. His unassuming nature is reflected in some lines from Samuel Gallu’s play, Give ‘em Hell Harry. He has the President say, I ... A good leader delegates, but delegation does not mean abandonment or withdrawal. Long before some of the creative Japanese managerial styles came to this country, I worked for a large corporation as a summer employee. In that company the pecking ...

13. The Circus and My Faith

Ps 139 · Mt 22:37

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... ’ feet. I can imagine the woman growing increasingly frustrated and saying to herself, "Why doesn’t Harry move in some direction!" I can equally imagine Harry saying to himself, "Why on earth did I ever trade in my gift certificate to Arthur ... to prod the elephants. While the circus family certainly must have their family quarrels, it was clearly demonstrated that personal differences and styles were put aside in the interests of getting the circus before the people. The analogy that I am going to make is ...

14. The Fruit of Forgiveness

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... a serious investigation into all his affairs in order to make distribution of his great wealth. When that was done, Peter Harry Browne and Pat Boeske were able to write a definitive biography of Hughes. Their account of this tortured life stands in ... buried in the family plot of his grandfather Abraham. Joseph attended to his embalmment in Egyptian style and arranged for a funeral procession back to Canaan in regal style. Joseph and his brothers and their families returned to Egypt to live in peace and ...

15. Holy Hype

Matthew 11:1-19

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... . Please, if I could just talk to Him for a minute. I have some things I want Him to approve. Yes, yes, I'll wait. (PAUSE. HARRY TALKS TO HIMSELF) Boy, I don't know. These guys get on top and they forget who put them there. (JESUS COMES TO THE PHONE) Oh, ... all about, isn't it? We have to keep the money pouring in so the ministry will continue. Huh? Well, of course it's not your style, but that's what we're changing. We're working on your image, here. No more backwoods preacher. No sir. You're going to be a ...

16. Loving Jesus, Hating The Church

John 9:35-41

Sermon

Thomas Long

... is to think about the kind of church we ought to be, the sort of institution and organization the Christian community should seek, the style of leadership and theology we ought to nurture. When we think about it this way, the key to the story jumps out in ... in The Oxford Dictionary Of Modern Quotations, edited by Tony Augarde (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 4. 3. Harry Golden, The Right Time: An Autobiography (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1969), pp. 24-25. 4. Alice Walker, The Color ...

17. Stay—Tuned

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the beginning of the gospel,” the word is that this is not simply a biography of Jesus. This is a certain literary style that has a point of view. In fact, it is a relatively new form of literature in the ancient world — biographical, yes ... a change. Why? Because it is more painful to stay where you are than to change. A second reason for change, according to Dr. Harris, is finding yourself at the point of despair. Perhaps we suddenly come to the realization that we are about to lose our marriage, our ...

18. More Than Just Image

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... time the hamburger was ready for the photo shoot, it was not fit to be eaten. (1) Of course, a little bit of food styling is nothing to worry about. We all know that advertising agencies use all sorts of tricks to make products look better than they really ... looked slightly off. His hair was parted on the wrong side. His face was slightly askew. But in every photo of Bush, Harris ensured there was a slight halo of light around his head. Another commercial featured some of Bush’s best quotes—helpfully ...

19. Jesus’ First Sign

John 2:1-11

Sermon

James Garrett

... now, were great and grand occasions. Friends and family came from miles away; the poor relatives and the rich relatives, the eccentric aunts and the harried uncles. Jesus was a guest at this wedding in the town of Cana. In Galilee a newly married couple would hold open house for a ... are more or less replaceable with other friends, but he was not. He was an Englishman of great style, elegance, wit, and one of a kind. He could make you laugh till you cried. He had a tender heart.”10 The Country Parson ...

20. A House for God

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Gary W. Houston

I remember as a small boy sitting in a small country church with seats in auditorium style that you flipped up when you got out. Outside the window, where I sat, some wasps ... the flood - you still can start over. It’s not too late to build a house for God with your life. Did you know that God is good about that? The great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick tells about his mental and emotional collapse in his book: The Living of These Days when he says: For the first time in my life, I faced, at my wit’s ...

21. Happiness Is ... the Kingship of Jesus

John 18:28-40

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... pilgrims far outnumbered the Roman garrisons then, and Jesus could easily have recruited a vast army and overwhelmed the legions of Caesar. But that was not Jesus’ style, and he made that clear: "My kingship is not of this world." Men and women, in recent history, shed light on the peaceable character of the kingship of Jesus. Harry Emerson Fosdick cited Mahatma Ghandi as an example: ... for us moderns, Mahatma Ghandi should help us to understand Jesus. Ghandi’s powerful leadership swayed millions of ...

22. Be Careful What You Ask For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... it wants something out of you. You’ll learn what a lonely job this is, and you’ll discover the need for somebody like Harry Hopkins, who asks for nothing except to serve you.” It is said that Winston Churchill rated Hopkins as one of the half-dozen ... people whose only desire is to serve him. Of course, serving Christ means serving those whom Christ loves. In his book, The Jesus Style, Gayle D. Erwin described servanthood this way: “A servant’s job is to do all he can to make life better for others-- ...

23. What Must Be Taught to Various Groups

Titus 2:1-15

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... exhortation for the younger men to “keep their heads” (as in NEB, NAB, Kelly, D-C). This usage fits the style of the PE and does not negate the otherwise emphatic use of seauton, “yourself,” in verse 7 (untranslated in NIV ... in opposition to Hellenistic cults, including the imperial cult, as an affirmation that Jesus Christ alone is the great God and Savior (see Harris, Hanson). The third option, which resolves the difficulties and carries none of its own, is to see it in apposition to “the glory ...

24. The Piety That Isn't

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Carl Jech

... issues of (1) church doctrine and practice, (2) abortion, (3) church and state issues, (4) interpretation of the Bible, (5) life-styles, and (6) views on morality. In this video age of images, where the outward image is so strong that Michael J. ... means to be evangelical! We began by quoting Herb Caen's comment about "those who believe in Christmas too loudly." The great preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick similarly gave us a witty nudge toward the piety that isn't, when he said that vital faith is a treasure ...

25. The Waiting Game

Sermon

James Bjorge

... picture is finished when it expresses the artist’s intention. Until that time it is incomplete. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick once commented, "God is not the God of unfinished business." It is another way of ... that lures the waiter is the one of timetables. We presume to work out the time of the Lord’s coming and then build our thoughts and life styles around it. It works in two ways. The overly zealous person tries to discover what not even the angels of heaven have had revealed to them. He sits down ...

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