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1. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Christians

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

William L. Self

... waving of flags or the noise of machine guns in the streets, but in the dark, in the stillness, when no one is aware of it. It never gets in the paper, but long afterward a few people looking back begin to see that it has happened. Sometimes in the stillness of the night, thinking of what is going on in our country, in our homes, and in places of entertainment ... (New York: Fireside Books, Simon & Schuster, 1989), p. 30. 3. Covey, p. 31.4. From unpublished material shared with me by Dr. J. Chalmers Holmes."

2. Made New By 180 Degrees

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... is felt also in the first Christmas card that was ever printed. It all started in 1843 with J.C. Horsley. He made a card that had a Victorian family at the dinner table. When opened, the inscription on the card read: "Feed the hungry; clothe the ... unannounced - 50 points (Includes shepherds and what they dragged in on their sandals. Also includes angels -- how do you entertain them?) Dr. Holmes says that people get sick with 200 stress points. Mary's ordeal earns her well over 400 points -- an all-time high ...

3. Living in the Red

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... does one plunge so deep into the stream of life, so share in its passions, its battles, its despair, its triumphs?" Sorry, Justice Holmes. It's not law where one plunges deep into the stream of life. It's following Jesus where one takes life's deepest ... when he comes home from work today.' And what her father promised her, she claimed at the moment of the promise." (William J. Wyne, "A Faith for Life's Fires," The African American Pulpit, 6 [Summer 2003], 90). Whatever the Father has promised, you can claim it ...

4. When Life Seems to Be Going in the Wrong Direction

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Holmes once found himself on a train. When the conductor came by, Justice Homes couldn't find his ticket; he seemed terribly upset. He searched all of his pockets and fumbled through his wallet but to no avail. The conductor tried to ease his anxiety. He said, "Don''t worry, Mr. Holmes ... a ... a ... a ... a ... have a " ... a ... love the story about a 10-year-old ... the air and took a mighty swing. His ... him from being a great baseball ... of a cold, ... a "sabbatical leave" and wrote a letter to a ... described a few ... ! 2) Be a victor, not a victim! 3) ...

5. When the New Comes, the Old Passes

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... That, unfortunately, can never be more than a wish. Even the youngest living members of that generation approach the outer limit of human body design. When we see them they increasingly resemble the aged man Oliver Wendell Holmes described as "The Last Leaf Upon the ... Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Last Leaf (Cambridge: The Riverside Press, Houghton-Mifflin and Company, 1895), p. 6. 5. Adapted from Michel Montaigne's essay, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die," The Works of Montaigne (Philadelphia: J.W. ...

6. Congratulations, Joseph, It's A God!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... I do?" The drowning man said, "For God's sake, give me something to hold on to!" This is the first Sunday of a new year. Marjorie Holmes once said that each New Year is like opening an intriguing mystery story. What's going to happen? Where will it lead? Charles ... of Judea, something beyond the comprehension of human minds. "Congratulations, Joseph, it's a God!" J.B. Phillips once put it this way: "Christianity begins with a historical fact, indeed its starting point is the most important event in the ...

7. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... has in store for us. We are gifted with spiritual gifts, talents, abilities, passions, dreams, aspirations, and needs. Yet, as Oliver Wendell Holmes sadly observed, "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." The third purpose of God is ... and looking forward to a day off." Nonetheless Richard J. Leider and David Shapiro have listed common threads of people who possess lifestyles rich in purpose: They have a purpose larger than their own needs, wants, and desires -- a sense of how their ...

8. Leaving The City of Regret

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... in life." (5) J. C. Penney had walked out of the City of Regret--not of his own power, but by the grace of God. Like the man who was lowered through a roof long ago, Penney found deliverance and a new life. That new life is available today to all who would trust in Jesus. Our emotions can cripple us. Guilt is one of the most destructive of emotions. Hear the words of Jesus to the paralyzed man: "Your sins are forgiven." 1. James Merritt, Friends, Foes & Fools (Nashville, TN, Broadman & Holmes, 1997). 2. In ...

9. Can a Rich Person Go to Heaven?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... A year later he got a call from the contractor complaining that his work had been completed a ... a ... a rich man, I’d have the time that I lack, to sit in the synagogue and pray, and maybe have a ... a ... a ... A father gave his daughter a ... a lot of families ... a ... a ... a spiritual problem. If we can make a payment on a ... a ... a check in church. The offering plate comes by, and Clarence proudly puts in the check, only to realize a moment too late that he has just written a ... J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske with John Butman, Trading Up (London: Penguin Books Ltd., 2003), p ...

10. Everyone's Talking about Him

Mark 7:31-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... us, as the church today, to reach out to in the same way that the Benedictines reached out to the deaf. I do know this: we follow a compassionate Christ who never turned anyone away. He healed everyone who called to him for help. And he calls us today to continue his ministry to the ... -online.com/. 5. (Penguin, 1996), pp. 12-13. Cited by Jean A. F. Holmes, http://www.npcpearl.org/Sermons/Sermon10292000.htm. 6. Quentin J. Schultze, Communicating for Life (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, Co., 2000), p. 37.

11. The Story of Abraham versus the Story of Israel

Romans 4:1-25

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... the hymn: “My faith has found a resting place, / not in device nor creed. / I trust the ever-living One, / his wounds for me shall plead.” Biography: Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, told a story about another Scottish writer, ... true seed. News Story: Ann Holmes Redding, ordained as an Episcopal priest in 1984, made a profession of faith in Islam in 2006, and she claims to be both a Christian and a Muslim. Because of her decision, she was deposed as a priest in 2009. She says, “I ...

12. It Doesn't Matter What I Do

Jeremiah 17:19-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... Never Say," #5 A would-be burglar in Pennsauken, N.J. needed to make sure the door to the company he was looting wouldn't fully close while he was burgling the place, so he stuck a piece of paper in the door. The piece of paper was a traffic ticket he'd been issued for driving with a cracked windshield. Police found the ticket, with a name and address ... Great Stories and Quotes (Wheaton, Illinois, Tyndale House, 1998). 5. Cited in James Merritt, Friends, Foes & Fools (Nashville, TN, Broadman & Holmes, 1997).

13. Casting Out Demons

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... unfounded. Edmund Vance Cooke was right when he wrote: A fear's a ton, or a fear's an ounce Or a fear is what you make it, It isn't the fact that you have fear that counts But only, how you take it. Or, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it: "When a resolute fellow steps up to that great bully, the ... , 1960). 2. Source unknown. 3. H.S. Vigeveno, Letters to Saints And Other Sinners (New York: A.J. Holman Company, 1972). 4. Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island, p. 201. 5. Ron Mehl. The Tender Commandments (Sister, OR: Multnomah Publishers ...

14. In the Lions' Den (Dealing with Stress)

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s pursue this path of suggestions. A part of the acknowledging process is to keep in mind the common causes of stress. Let’s look at some of those. First of all, change or crises. Some years ago, T.H. Holmes and K.H. Rahe developed ... strong and to heal my body. Please make me a better person to be around. Dear Lord Jesus, please hold me. Love Kirby” Her father added this word, “I know the Lord is holding Kirby, and she knows it, too.” (quoted by Clarence J. Forsberg in “How to Keep Life From Being ...

15. Beaten And Bloody, But Fortunate Nonetheless

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... is so rare in this world. I ran across a subtle piece of humor. Cal Holm tells about two liberal sociologists walking down the street. They see a man lying at the curb who is covered with cuts and bruises from a terrible mugging. Cal says one of the sociologists ... A PACK RAT, (Nashville, Tennessee: Oliver-Nelson Books, 1989). 2. Alex Thien in the MILWAUKEE SENTINEL, 4/23/91. 3. MISTREATED (Portland, Multnomah, 1989). 4. Henry Durbanvill, THE BEST IS YET TO BE, (Edinburgh: Barbour, 1950), pp. 16-18. Cited in J ...

16. The Case of the Dancing Men

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

Some of you may be fans of the PBS show, “Mystery.” Pastor Richard Slater tells about a scene in one of those PBS presentations, a Sherlock Holmes mystery, “The Case of the Dancing Men.” As the story opens, a young woman is gathering flowers in her garden. Suddenly, her face is transformed into terror by something she sees. She drops her basket of flowers and runs panic stricken toward her home. Once inside, she bolts the windows and doors, draws the drapes tight, and falls sobbing and trembling ...

17. The Pitcher Is Not Alone In This

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a diving catch by rookie outfielder Rusty Greer in the ninth inning to preserve this perfect game. Greer, a center fielder, made a ... a pretty good jump, dove and it fell in my glove." (1) Now here's the question I want to ask you? Did the pitcher hurl a ... . A ... teaching a class ... A ... a ... a ... part of a team and ... What a ... a trio that Frank Messenger ... brings us to a final thing to ... is a story ... J. Hastings, A WORD FITLY SPOKEN (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1962), 90-91. 4. Wheatland Avenue United Methodist Church, Logansport, IN. 5. Robert ...

18. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... a preparatory school, if you will. God is in the business of creating souls fit to dwell with him in eternity. So he has given us obstacles to overcome. Why? That is the only way we grow. John Steele Gordon in an issue of American Heritage magazine makes an interesting observation. He notes that in the story, Silver Blaze, the clue that most interested Sherlock Holmes ... designed so we can edit out all the trials and hardships. (2) As J. Willard Marriott has put it, "Good timber does not grow with ease: the ...

19. All God's Children Can Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... rocks the universe. According to an oft-told story, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series, once decided to play a practical joke on twelve of his friends. To each he sent an anonymous telegram that simply read, " ... Brokenness is realizing he is all we have. Hope is realizing he is all we need. Joy is realizing he is all we want." (Lawrence J. Crabb, The Safest Place on Earth: Where People Connect and Are Forever Changed [Nashville: Word, 1999], 39.) Do you have that joy this morning? ...

20. Jesus or Niccolo?

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

This world's kingdoms have never been presented in a more Machiavellian fashion or more compellingly. And never before and never again have they been nor will they be targeted to one with more reason to succumb. Surely one of the great strengthening comforts of taking Jesus Christ as our Lord is that he, more than anyone else, understands our temptations. Scripture tells us, "He himself was tested by what he suffered, he is able to help those who are being tested" (Hebrews 2:18). So we can say with ...

God may have been waiting for centuries for somebody ignorant enough of the impossible to do that thing.

Dr. J. A. Holmes

22. Climbing the Right Ladder

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

How do you define success? I would like to talk about that today. Robert Raines says, “Success is a moving target. Every time I make my mark, somebody paints the wall,” go the lyrics of a country song. Oliver Wendell Holmes at age 90 said, “The secret to my success is that at an early age, I discovered I was not God.” Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “To leave the world a bit better, to know that even one life has breathed easier because you lived, that is to have succeeded.” We catch up with our Old Testament ...

23. Develop Leaders—Humbly

Colossians 3:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

The Lion King came roaring into Nashville a few weeks ago. This delightful Broadway musical about the circle of life tells the story of Simba, the shame-based, guilt-ridden, lion cub from Pride Rock who avoids becoming King of the Jungle because he doesn't think he's good enough. When I mention the word leader, what images dance in your head — a military officer barking orders, a politician seeking votes, the head of a company telling others what to do? How does ‘leader' strike you? A stranger called a ...

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