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1. Thinking and Speaking

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Staff

Howard Baker, Jr., the former senator from Tennessee and White House chief of staff, said he still remembers the advice his dad gave him after Baker argued his first case as a fledgling attorney. His dad told him, "In the future, son, I would guard against speaking more clearly than you think."

2. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... died. A memorial service was held in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Washington's elite gathered to say good-bye to their much-beloved friend. Richard Nixon was there that day. He sat off to himself as if he were quarantined. Senator Howard Baker, remembering that day, said, “Nobody would talk to him.” The awkward ostracizing of the former president ended when President Jimmy Carter walked over to Mr. Nixon, shook his hand, and welcomed him back to Washington. Newsweek magazine concluded that this simple act ...

3. Breaking Down The Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... died several years ago there was a memorial service in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda. Washington's elite gathered to say goodbye to their much beloved friend. Richard Nixon was there that day. He sat off by himself, as if he were quarantined. Howard Baker, remembering that day, said, "Nobody would talk to him. Everybody was afraid of him." The awkward ostracizing of the former president ended only when President Jimmy Carter walked over to Mr. Nixon, shook his hand, and welcomed him back to Washington. Newsweek ...

4. In Love with Howard

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... is. It is the kingdom of God being lived out in her life. She is part of the universal family enterprise. She is part of the Howard family “Howard be Thy name.” That’s exciting. What is there in this world except those you love that is worth everything you have? If you have not ... . 3. Dr. Worth Green, http://www.npmc.org/sermons/psalm97.htm. 4. Fresh Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching (Baker), from the editors of Leadership. 5. Source: American Bible Society, retrieved August 13, 2005. Cited by W. ...

5. The Fruit of Forgiveness

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... in Sunday school. We can use bits and pieces of Joseph’s bio as they match up with the Holy Gospel for today. Joseph, like Howard Hughes, did become known as one of the wisest and richest men of his day. Joseph, you may recall, was the firstborn son of Jacob ... ’s cupbearer and the other his baker. Both had dreams which Joseph interpreted for them. The one was favorable for the cupbearer, who returned to his master’s service. The other was fateful for the baker. Two years later Pharaoh had the famous ...

6. When Mickey Mouse Recognizes You...

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... he reflected on the incident, he realized that it was frivolous to base his standing on the words of a cartoon mouse. After that, status didn’t mean much to Howard K. Smith. Instead, he focused on living an upright life and no longer caring what others thought of him. (1) We all like to be recognized, don’t we, even ... Books). 6. Tony Campolo, Stories that Feed your Soul (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2010), pp. 104-106. 7. Source unknown. https://www.sermonsearch.com/sermon-illustrations/2178/broken-eggs/.

7. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Mrs. Peale wrote, "and in the course of our prayers, the idea came to Norman to go to Philadelphia and explain our predicament to Mr. Howard Pew." He was the head of a large corporation and a very wealthy man. The Peales didn't know him well, but his name came ... , 1988. 2. E. Stanley Jones, "How to Pray," AN ANTHOLOGY OF DEVOTIONAL LITERATURE, Thomas S. Kepler, compiler, (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1977), pg. 697. 3. Harold Kushner, WHO NEEDS GOD? (New York: Summit Books, 1989), pg. 153. 4. DAILY GUIDEPOSTS ...

8. Blessed Hunger And Thirst

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... of America's largest independent steel company; Samuel Insull, President of America's largest electric utility; Howard Hopson, President of the nation's largest gas company; Arthur Cutten, America's premier speculator in ... the Spirit ... (She or) he is to be filled with the peace of God that passeth all understanding.... (Arthur W. Pink, The Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer, Baker Books, p. 35) How blessed you and I are, every month, to be able to come to the Lord's Table to be set right with God and ...

9. Now Is The Day Of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... be urgent. Now is the day of salvation. 1. Monica Powell 2. Brent D. Earles, THE GOSPELS FOR GRADUATES, (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1987), p. 97. 3. Dr. Leonard E. Stadler 4. Vergilius Ferm, LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES TWICE, (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company ... , 1987), p. 131. 5. Bob Haslam, LIGHT & LIFE, October 1993, back page. 6. Gregory Cerio and 6. Lucy Howard with bureau reports, NEWSWEEK, April 1, 1994, p. 8. 7. Frank E. Leeper, First Presbyterian, Toccoa, GA in JOURNAL FOR ...

10. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Patty Hansen. 4. J. B. Fowler, Jr., Illustrating Great Words of the New Testament (Nashville, TN: Broadman Press, 1991). 5. Dr. Daniel Lioy, Tarbell's Lesson Commentary, Sept. 2004- August 2005 (Colorado Springs: Cook Communications). 6. Chuck Colson, found in A Life of Integrity, edited by Howard Hendricks (Sisters, OR: Multnomah, 1997), pp. 187-188. 7. Contemporary Illustrations for Preachers, Teachers, & Writers (Grand Rapids, Michigan ...

11. Good News about Ambition

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... people. The schedule is filled with dramas featuring explicit sex and gratuitous violence. The central and most famous event in Network occurs when veteran news anchor Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) goes insane on the air. Beale’s show suffers from low ratings, so when the entertainment division of the network takes over ... (Franklin Lakes, NJ: The Career Press, 2004), p. 22. 3. Quentin J. Schultze, Communicating for Life Christian Stewardship . . . (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), p. 79.

12. Spiritually Prepared

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Festival of Wisdom And Grace, Lake Junaluska, NC July 28-31, 2014. 3. (New York: Vintage Books, 1997), p. 92. 4. Dr. Steve Stephens, The Wounded Warrior (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, Inc., 2006), pp. 79-80. 5. With Mary Hollingsworth, Living Lights, Shining Stars (West Monroe, Louisiana: Howard Publishing Co., 1997), pp. 51-52. 6. Daniel B. Clendenin, http://www.journeywithjesus.net/Essays/20080922JJ.shtml?view=print. 7. Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids ...

13. The following resources were used for John's letters.

1 John 5:13-21

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

Anderson, Paul N. The Christology of the Fourth Gospel: Its Unity and Disunity in the Light of John 6. Rev. ed. Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2009. Barclay, William. The Letters of John and Jude. Daily Study Bible. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1976. Brown, Raymond E. The Community of the Beloved Disciple. New York: Paulist, 1979. ———. The Epistles of John. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982. Bruce, F. F. The Epistles of John: Introduction, Exposition, and Notes. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979. Burge, Gary M ...

14. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

Big Idea: When Job considers God’s greatness, he realizes how little he himself knows. Understanding the Text When Bildad says in Job 25:6 that humans are mere maggots and worms before the transcendent God, Job apparently interrupts him. Although Job agrees with much of Bildad’s lofty view of God, he draws different implications from their shared theology. Bildad claims that God’s greatness means nothing can thwart his justice, so life in God’s world is thoroughly predictable, but Job declares that God’s ...

15. The One in Whom We Glory

John 12:12-19

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

We come today to the final words of the Lord's Prayer. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. If you are a good Catholic, you know that phrase is not in the original Lord's Prayer. Of course, the Catholics are right. It was really a second century addition. If you are a good Methodist, you cannot receive your daily bread, be forgiven of your sins, and delivered from the evil one without exclaiming, For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen. Of course, ...

16. The Bread We Daily Need

Luke 11:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

At a small dinner party in the home of a member, a pastor was invited to ask the blessing for the meal. Turning to the talkative six year old in the house, the pastor suggested she might like to do the blessing instead. The outgoing youngster now suddenly shy replied, “I wouldn’t know what to say!” “Just say what you hear your Mommy say,” said the pastor assuredly. With that the little girl folded her hands, bowed her head and said, “Lord, why on earth did I invite all these people to dinner?” Give us this ...

17. The Door of Hospitality

John 12:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

Two strangers attended the same church for several Sundays. No one spoke to either one of them, so one lady decided, “I’ll give this church one more chance. If nobody speaks to me next Sunday I’ll never go again.” The other lady said, “I don’t like this ‘no speak’ situation in church. If no one speaks to me next Sunday, I’ll break the ice and speak to someone myself.” The next Sunday the ushers happened to seat the two strangers on the same pew. Once more nobody spoke. But, as the first woman rose to stalk ...

18. The Road of Peace

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

The word on our Advent Wreath today is PEACE. About 2,700 years ago, the Hebrew Prophet Isaiah caught a vision of a child to be born who would be called the Prince of Peace. This leader from the lineage of David would rule the world and there would be no limits to the peace he would bring. Cynics among us are saying why cry peace, when there has been no peace in the history of human kind? The militants remind us that even Jesus said, “I came not to bring peace but a sword." Meanwhile, American soldiers and ...

19. Death Is Unnatural

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Michael P. Green

It has become fashionable in our culture to hold the view that death is a perfectly natural occurrence. The Bible teaches that it is not, and even those who deny the afterlife witness that God “has set eternity in the hearts of men.” The following extract from Charlotte and Howard Clinebell’s The Intimate Marriage (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1970), p. 188, serves as a good illustration of this truth: One of the roots of the need for spiritual relatedness is the experience of man as the animal who knows he will ...

20. There We Will Be

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Michael P. Green

Tom Howard, one time professor of Theology and Missions at Gordon College, captured something of the way humanity feels in the presence of death in these eloquent words: Like a hen before a cobra, we find ourselves incapable of doing anything at all in the presence of the very thing that seems to call for the most drastic and decisive action. The disquieting thought, that stares at us like a fact with a freezing grin, is that there is, in fact, nothing we can do. Say what we will, dance how we will, we ...

21. The Kings Golden Tomb

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Michael P. Green

When Howard Carter and his associates found the tomb of King Tutankhamen, they opened up his casket and found another within it. They opened up the second, which was covered with gold leaf, and found a third. Inside the third casket was a fourth made of pure gold. The pharaoh’s body was in the fourth, wrapped in gold cloth with a gold face mask. But when the body was unwrapped, it was leathery and shriveled. Whether we are trying to cloak a dead spiritual life, or something else, in caskets of gold to ...

22. Essence of Peppermint

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Michael P. Green

One of the hardest things for the Christian of our day is to recognize the presence of sin in his own life and all around him. In fact, we often try to minimize the presence of sin and to make light of its effects on us. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman told of a distinguished Methodist minister in Australia who preached on sin. One of his church officers came afterward to talk with him in his study. He said to the pastor, “Dr. Howard, we don’t want you to talk so plainly as you do about sin, because if our boys and ...

23. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Ephesians 1:15-23

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

Prayer for Divine Enlightenment From the context of 1:15–2:10 it appears that these verses form the next major section of Ephesians. The apostle has just finished recalling the spiritual blessings that God, through Christ, has bestowed upon all believers. From this universal truth, he turns to something more specific: His thoughts move from doxology to prayer; he reminds his readers that he thanks God for them (vv. 15, 16) and that he prays specifically that they will have the necessary wisdom to ...

24. Rahab and the Spies

Joshua 2:1-24

Understanding Series

J. Gordon Harris

Spies and Rahab the Prostitute: Military history illustrates the importance of spies for gathering intelligence prior to battles, and army doctrine states that victory requires thorough reconnaissance. In the United States, General George Armstrong Custer shunned reconnaissance and lost his life and the lives of many troops at the battle of Little Big Horn. The Bible gives a mixed picture of the importance of spies for warfare. In the wilderness of Sinai, Moses sent spies to gather intelligence on Canaan, ...

25. Children of God

1 John 2:28--3:10

Understanding Series

Thomas F. Johnson

This section of 1 John is unified by the idea of the children of God: who they are and how one can identify them by their lives. It is a passage dominated by ethics, particularly an ethical concern for righteousness and sin. It compares two “families”: the children of God and the children of the devil. In the background, as always, are the Elder’s opponents, the secessionists, whom he strongly contrasts to his own “dear children.” The unit is built on a structure of four antitheses, four pairs of opposing ...

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