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Ephesians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... on your New Year's resolutions. I do know something that is more important than resolutions, though. How do you see this New Year? Is it one that you approach with anxiety or anticipation? Michael Bausch tells a great story about archaeologist Howard Carter. In 1922 Carter was completing nearly fifteen years of digging in the famous Valley of the Kings in Egypt. He was hoping to find the royal tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen. Having found nothing, his days of digging were coming to an end. Money was running ...

2. A Great and Wonderful New Year - Sermon Starter

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King Duncan

3. 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 ...

4. From Lust to Love

1 Corinthians 13: 1

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J. Howard Olds

... In 1976, Jimmy Carter was running for president of the United States. While Mr. Carter denied ever committing adultery, he did admit to Playboy Magazine that he had lusted for women in his heart from time to time. Born-again Jimmy Carter has never been ... you ought to put your name in this place. So I went home and got Sandy and said I want to read you something. "Howard is patient, Howard is kind, Howard does not envy, he does not boast, he is not proud." She didn't even let me finish. She said, "Who are you ...

5. Soaring with Christ

Matthew 28:1-8

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J. Howard Olds

... sat in the sunshine and the beauty of nature. As the two of us fished Josh turned to me and said, “Poppa, THIS IS LIFE!" Jimmy Carter says, “I don't remember many of the acts of state but I'll never forget what my grandson said to me that day. It won ... our meetings together, he was dying of colon cancer and I was trying to survive lymphoma. One day he looked me in the eye and said, “Howard, the rest of life is the best of life." He had more faith than I had. I looked deep in his eyes. He was an intimate ...

6. Adopted! (New)

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... At the end of the school year, after the adoption was finalized, Jeremy proudly announced to his principal, "When school started I was nobody. Now I'm a Carter." (2) St. Paul wanted a way to describe to the Christians at Ephesus what it meant to belong to God through Christ, and the word he chose is ... 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 ...

7. Moving Fences

2 Corinthians 5:16-19

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Bill Bouknight

... . 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 of humanity and compassion changed Nixon's future. Newsweek ...

8. African-American Spirituality: The African's Gift To America

Exodus 3:1-22

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Dumas, and Alexander Pushkin;from Ralph Ellison to Toni Morrison; from Cheikh Anta Diop to W.E.B. DuBois and Carter G. Woodson. We are a people of music, culture, and industry. We have among us Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz ... our northern neighbor Canada, and see the diversity of people in government, in business, and in other aspects of the nation's life. The great Howard Thurman said that the American experiment was the very mind of God doing a new thing in human history. I love America. Because I have ...

9. Breaking Down The Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

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King Duncan

... 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 magazine concluded that this simple act of humanity and compassion changed Nixon ...

10. Resurrected Obedience (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

John 14:15-31

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J. Howard Olds

Trust and obey, for there’s no other way To be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. I’ve been singing those lyrics since childhood. In more recent days of adulthood, I’ve been trying to live them in the very core of my being. I. Trust Trust means to have confidence in, rely on, depend on, believe in A. In God We Trust. We inscribe those words on our money. Do we embrace these words with our lives? God has set his people free. He has placed before us all the benefits and delights of belonging to His ...

11. The Person in Front of You

John 14:23-29

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J. Howard Olds

Jimmy Carter, in his book Sources of Strength, tells about interviewing Eloy Cruz, an admirable Cuban pastor, who had tremendous rapport with poor immigrants from Puerto Rico. "What is the secret to your success?" asked Carter. Pastor Cruz replied, "Señor Jimmy, we need to have only two loves for our lives, love for God and love for the person who happens to be in front of us at any time."

12. The Door of Service

Luke 22:7-38

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J. Howard Olds

Toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists, Newton and Maxwell, from his wall and replaced them with portraits of Gandhi and Schweitzer. When asked why, Einstein explained it this way; “The time has come to replace the image of success with the image of service." It would be a meaningful day of worship today if that were to happen in the hearts and lives in those of us who gather here. The time has come to replace the image of success with the image of service. The ...

13. The Broken Body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:17-26

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J. Howard Olds

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; All the king's horses and all the king's men, Couldn't put Humpty together again. Who is Humpty Dumpty anyway? He appears to be some egghead with scrambled brains, a nerd, a dork, a geek. But let's not be too quick to judge. Many think he was King Richard III, the hunchbacked monarch who rode a horse named Wall. In the Battle of Bosworth Field, King Richard fell from his horse and his body was hacked to pieces by the enemy. Maybe the resilience ...

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