Sermon and Worship Resources

Showing all results

Galatians 5:16-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... tools?" The neighbor smiled and said, "Mostly friends. I'm available any time." (3) B. You probably remember the movie Pay It Forward. In the movie Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) is an eleven-year-old who lives in Las Vegas with his working-class mother, Arlene (Helen Hunt), who is a recovering alcoholic. She works hard at two jobs to support her son but feels that it is a losing battle. Trevor is a latch-key kid who often has to take care of himself. This seventh-grader's spirits are lifted when on ...

2. Seen The Doctor Lately?

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and serve the Lord in such a way that we pass it on. Or as one movie title put it "Pay It Forward." In the movie Pay It Forward, Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) is an eleven-year-old who lives in Las Vegas with his working-class mother, Arlene (Helen Hunt), who is a recovering alcoholic. She works hard at two jobs to support her son but feels that it is a losing battle. Trevor is a latch-key kid who often has to take care of himself. This seventh-grader's spirits are lifted when on the first day of ...

3. When You Are Up And Out

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... down at once and welcomed him gladly. In the movie As Good As It Gets, Jack Nicholson plays a crude, obsessive-compulsive author by the name of Melvin Udall. He falls in love, however, with a waitress by the name of Carol Connelly played by Helen Hunt. Melvin finally invites Carol to dinner and then immediately insults her awfully about her dress. That’s when Carol says to Melvin, “Pay me a compliment, Melvin. I need one now.” Melvin then delivers one of the most romantic lines in big screen history ...

4. Making Christmas Last

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the hearts of many will be revealed.” There are two well-known pictures, each with the same title, "The Shadow of the Cross." One by Holeman Hunt depicts the interior of a carpenter's shop, with Joseph and the Boy Jesus at work. Mary is also present. The Boy Jesus pauses in his ... most for each decade]. *1903 Orville and Wilbur Wright fly a powered airplane at Kitty Hawk 1904 Deaf and blind Helen Keller graduates from Radcliffe College 1910 The "week-end" becomes popular in the U.S. 1912 The S.S. Titanic ...

5. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... that one of his patients was married but had not had any visitors. He thought his wife might not have been notified, so he hunted down her address and asked her to come. When she arrived, she seemed fatigued and annoyed. But when the doctor said something about the ... ) 6. Zacks, op. cit. 7. Edward Rowland Sill. "The Fool’s Prayer," in The Bedside Treasury Of Inspiration, edited by Helen and Horace Johnson, pp. 224-225. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956. 8. C. S. Lewis. Letters To ...

6. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... lightning flashes smiting the earth and setting the stricken areas on fire. Long centuries ago certain men began to search for the way, hunted for that particular set of conditions down which they might lead this wild power and thus tame it to human uses and ... back the symbol. Then said her teacher, Miss Anne M. Sullivan, "I looked into the beautiful unseeing blue eyes of Helen Keller and I saw a soul aborning." With that initial intelligible contact as the beginning, this great-hearted, patient, persistent ...

7. The Secret Of Happy Marriages

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... meaning of that word. Of course, some couples find ways around Paul's teachings. One young husband was remarking to his bachelor friends, "Marriage is great! I've learned so much being married to Helen. I've learned that the man is the rightful head of the household." Then he added, "But I've also discovered that the woman is the neck, and the neck turns the head any ... !", (New York: World Almanac Publications, 1983), pp. 108-109. 7. LOVE: A FRUIT ALWAYS IN SEASON, edited by Dorothy S. Hunt (Ignatius Press).

8. Home Alone

Revelation 21:10, 22-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... child in the worst ghetto, the only difference being that they can wrap their neglect in minks." Edidin tells the story of Terry Hunt, age 39, whose grandfather built a family fortune as chairman of Alcoa Aluminum. Terry says that in most cases he knew, the ... in the midst of the dangerous desert of secular culture. In "Family: Toward Androgyny," authors James Davison Hunter and Helen V. L. Stehline have correctly diagnosed this prescription as an attempt to perpetuate the 19th-century bourgeois family ideal ...

9. When It’s Time to Seek Direction

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in the formation of your life, is the deep, deep, deep hunger for God. Ann Sullivan approached her deaf and blind student Helen Keller saying, “Today I am going to teach you about God.” Ms. Keller signed back, “Good, I have been thinking about Him ... in the chief priests and asked “where is Christ to be born?” Is it not interesting—same question—where? Searching, looking, hunting. There is something inside the soul that longs and looks and reaches for God and whether it is right under your nose ...

10. The Irrational Season

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time — Traditions that recall The precious memories down the years, The sameness of them all. Helen Lowrie Marshall (1904-1975) So which is it? Sameness or Newness? The truth is Christmas finds us caught between our quest ... dangerous and as deadly a place as it has ever been. Especially for people of faith. *Christians were massacred in worship, then hunted down and executed in their homes, in Bagdad in the past month. This carnage didn’t even make the headlines in ...

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.