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Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... war Walker continued to practice medicine, but because female doctors were not trusted she had difficulty getting patients. She was also very involved in the abolitionist, feminist, and prohibition movements. On the recommendation of General William Tecumseh and General George Henry Thomas, Mary Edwards Walker was awarded the Medal of Honor. She received the award for her willingness to treat soldiers on the field of battle, but even more so for the courage of crossing enemy lines to ad- minister medical ...

2. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

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Staff

... Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn South Carolina: Edward Rutledge ...

3. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... Hamilton, Gerald Kennedy, Eugene Carson Blake, Liston Pope, Elton Trueblood, and Richard Raines. Plus the following, whose writing informed my mind and added 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 ...

4. Victorious, but Not Unscarred

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... them his hands and side . . .” Then a few verses later we read, “Now Thomas . . . was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, ‘We have seen the Lord!’ “But [Thomas] said to them, ‘Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and ... the world who does not pay a price. On this April 15th we might remember a well-known tax evader named Henry David Thoreau. Unlike modern tax evaders who are interested only in their own welfare, Thoreau willingly went to jail rather than ...

5. Worthy of Worship

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Michael P. Green

... , at the Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, New York. Many curiosity seekers had come to hear the renowned Henry Beecher speak. Therefore, when Thomas Beecher appeared in the pulpit instead, some people got up and started for the doors. Sensing that they were disappointed because he was substituting for his brother, Thomas raised his hand for silence and announced, “All those who came here this morning to worship Henry Ward Beecher may withdraw from the church; all who came to worship God may remain.” The ...

6. It's Not About Us

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... ends. It's all about him. Christ is saying to us, "Come." He is reaching out his hand to us today. 1. Fleming H. Revell, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1995, p. 70. 2. Ed Young, Against All Odds: Family Survival in a Hostile World (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992). 3. "Anew" by Henry Coffeen, III, Guideposts, November 2001, pp. 33-35. 4. "Life in These United States," Reader's Digest, October 2003. 5. A friend of Morgan's, a fellow North Carolina pastor, H. Warren Casiday, shared this with us years ago. 6. Lynn A ...

7. The Journey of Salvation

Luke 22:39-46, 2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... snow and knelt at the feet of the pope to beg forgiveness. As a result, the Pope granted him absolution. Contrast what Henry IV did to obtain absolution for his sins and what you and I were forced to do to obtain our salvation. It is ... who experienced them were turned upside down. There were the scars in his hands, his feet, and his side. “My Lord and my God,” cried doubting Thomas. It was incredible, but it was true. “He is alive.” He is alive and because he is alive, we can live too. The journey of ...

8. If Your Cry for Help Is Loud Enough...

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. So we cry out to Jesus with our needs. Henri Nouwen was a priest and a professor of psychology who ... Henri and asked, “Henri, can you bless me?” Henri made the sign of the cross on her forehead and said a short prayer. The woman wasn’t satisfied. She said, “Henri, it doesn’t work.” What was she talking about? His blessing didn’t work? At a worship service that evening, Henri ... put her head on Henri’s chest. He hugged her ... Henri Nouwen, http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/nouwen_3502.htm. 4. “ ...

9. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... . John Wesley admonished his lay preachers to learn to study or "go back to your trade." Francis Asbury taught himself Hebrew and records, "I lodged with Mr. Henry, a Jew. We read Hebrew part of the night, and I should have been pleased to have spent the night thus occupied with so good a scholar." ... , number 413. 3. The Cokesbury Worship Hymnal (Nashville: Abingdon, 1981), number 142. 4. See Warren Thomas Smith, "Justice and Grace" in The Upper Room Disciplines 1976 (Nashville: The Upper Room, 1976). 5. King ...

10. Changed Lives - Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, “Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.” Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord ... was, too. But she never gave up serving God. That’s the important thing. She never stopped serving. Henry Drummond summed up the difference between unbelief and doubt in this way: “Christ himself never failed to ...

11. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

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Louis H. Valbracht

... . Genuine doubt, you see, is doubt in our own faith. We will not to believe what we believe. I don’t care whether it’s Thomas or one who stands in the pulpit or one who sits in the pew. We will not have faith in our own faith. Genuine doubt, ... After the Fall is the story of the hopelessness of existence. Well, that’s a sample of the empty, searching man. Dr. Carl F. H. Henry said in his book, The Nature of Man: "While Nietzsche asserted in the 19th Century that God had died, some now add that in the ...

12. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... a hot tub instead. Perhaps someone will have a video when the tub goes airborne with its aging cargo! “Look, Maude, the tub’s a-spinnin’!” 22 CONCLUSION Thomas Linacre was king's physician to Henry VII and Henry VIII of England; a prominent scientist, he was founder of the Royal College of Physicians and friend of the great Renaissance thinkers Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. Late in life he took Roman Catholic orders and was given a copy of the Gospels to read for the first time. The Bible, of course ...

13. Christ the King A King Worth Having

John 12:12-19

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... Queen Catherine. Some of his other wives weren’t that lucky. He severed his marriages with them by severing their heads from their bodies on the chopping block. Nor were Henry’s mates the only ones to get the axe. A couple centuries later, the colonies in the New World had their grief with another king of England, George III. Thomas Jefferson spelled out a long list of grievances in the Declaration of Independence: sending his soldiers to live free-of-charge in the homes of the colonists; protecting his ...

14. For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... some distant city, and he ran into someone with whom he had gone to high school. In the bad dream, the person would say, “Henri, Henri, haven’t seen you in years. What have you done with your life?” This question always felt like judgment to this theologian. He’d ... Press, 1960), p. 125. 3. http://preceptaustin.org/hebrews_12_sermon_illustrations.htm 4. Zig Ziglar, Better Than Good (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2006), p. 37. 5. Daily Bread, 11 December 1999. Cited by David Jeremiah, Slaying The ...

15. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Ron Love

... just nine days earlier, he was hesitant to speak publicly. Especially when seated around him were such distinguished men as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. The delegates were in debate and divided on how to respond to the Stamp Act that had been ... wants all of those who are speaking to share the message that Paul taught them without any deviation. As Patrick Henry standing to the left side of the sanctuary brought unity and harmony to the Virginia Provincial Convention, it is time ...

16. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... % of high school seniors could not place the approximate date when the Constitution was written. 50% did not recognize Patrick Henry as the individual who said, "Give me liberty or give me death." 33% did not know that the Declaration of ... , and Happiness (New York: Bantam Books, 1992), p. 53. 11 Reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, 20 November 1991, 839. 12 Thomas L. Gippen, "In Defense of Accurate History Education," Policy Insights, NO. 512, September 1993. 13 Rush Limbaugh, See, I Told You So, ...

17. Labor Pains

2 Samuel 18:1-18

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... Mississippi. Vast plantations of white cotton stretched before the verandah where this blackhearted dictator ruled his slaves and his family with a rod of iron. The story of Thomas Sutpen is told with brilliance by William Faulkner in his 1936 novel, Absalom, Absalom. Faulkner tells how Tom’s two sons Henry and Charles grew to hate one another. At last, Henry’s cup of wrath reached the boiling point, as it poured out in the hot blood of his murdered brother Charles. Faulkner drew many parallels in his ...

18. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ago still are the evils of today. I've never seen this more succinctly summarized than by Henry Sloane Coffin who identified these ills as religious intolerance (the Pharisees), commercial privilege (the Sadducees), political expediency ... true: KALI ANESTASI! The disciple Peter betrays the Lord but finds forgiveness. Forgiveness still is possible . . . KALI ANESTASI! The doubter Thomas has his doubts shattered. How good to shatter doubts! KALI ANESTASI! Mary Magdalene weeps outside a grave but hears her name ...

19. When Darkness Covered the Land

Matthew 27:11-54

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... .com/bible-commentary/matthew-Today in the Word, Moody Bible Institute, October 1991, p. 12. 3. Today in the Word, Moody Bible Institute, October 1991, p. 12. 4. Henry Blackaby and Richard Blackaby, Being Still with God: A 366 Daily Devotional (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2007), 309. Cited by Max Lucado, Unshakable Hope (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2018). 5. “A button that lets you make someone’s day (or at least their morning)” by Mitchell Clark, TheVerge.com, August 31, 2022. https://www.theverge ...

20. Are You Successful Or Do You Just Have Money?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , but we can excel where it matters most - in leaving the world a better place and in living a life of love. 1. Brian McGinty, "The Man Who Called Himself `O. Henry,'" AMERICAN HISTORY ILLUSTRATED (May/June 1990), pp. 50-51. 2. Clive James, FAME (New York: Random House, 1993), p. 133. 3. Robert A. Schuller, THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMEBACKS (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988), p.71-74. 4. "Aspiring Citizen," ASPIRE, February 1996, p. 10. 5. (Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Company, Inc., 1995), pp. 9-10.

21. Living In Sin Or Synergy?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... They produced such a flat surface that it could be used to measure objects within two-millionths of an inch--a great improvement over anything previously developed. When Dr. Henry visited their plant, one of the owners said to him, "See these two squares of glass? They have been put through this new process, and I want to ... COMMENTARY (Colorado Springs, Colo.: ChariotVictor Publishing, 1990), p. 656. 7. Cheatham, Melvin, M.D. LIVING A LIFE THAT COUNTS (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995), pp. 96-97.

22. The Man in the Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... stories are considered classics of English literature. You may have heard of this reformed writer yourself. His pen name was O. Henry. Zacchaeus had a new name following his encounter with the Master. Now he could be called Christian. I have a feeling ... God awaits you with open arms. Is today your day to begin anew? 1. Lynn Anderson, Finding the Heart to Go on (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1991), pp. 91-92. 2. I’m sorry, but I have lost the source of this outstanding illustration. 3. Larry King, The King ...

23. The Ultimate Mountaintop Experience

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the great privileges God has given us. There is a classic story about a king of Bavaria in the eleventh century named Henry III. King Henry became tired of his responsibilities as king. He wearied of the pressures of international politics and the mundane worldliness of court life. So ... Today. Contributed. Source unknown. 3. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 291. 4. God’s Little Lessons For Leaders (Colorado Springs, CO: ...

24. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... God had to do to get through to God's fallen children. God sent His Son to die on the cross in our behalf. The central character in the drama A Man for All Seasons is Sir Thomas More, an advisor to King Henry VIII who must choose between his religious beliefs and his loyalty to the king. In the end, Sir Thomas More chooses his faith over his royal position. He faces his execution with courage and calmness. A Man for All Seasons is narrated by a character called Common Man. He represents all of us who don't ...

25. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... and future tenses and tend to neglect the past tense? Do you think something really old means a pop tune from the 1960s? Would you side with Henry Ford who is alleged to have said: “History is bunk”? If you answer “Yes” to the above questions, then today’s theme on All Saints’ Sunday in ... and David Livingstone; Puritans -- Thomas Hooker, John Cotton and Thomas Shepard; Reformers -- Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Cranmer and Menno Simons; Medieval saints -- Thomas Aquinas and Francis of ...

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