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Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... and wonderful. He gives us a love and an acceptance we have never known before and makes it possible for us to become all that he has created us to be. It's interesting. SHALLOW HAL, the movie we referred to earlier starring Gwyneth Paltrow co-stars Jack Black as a man who's hypnotized and sees Paltrow's character as a thin, beautiful woman rather than the obese woman that the world dismisses. That is what Christ does for us. Christ sees us as the person we can be, the beautiful person Christ created us ...

2. What Does God Expect Of You?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Robert Allen

... our faith, the Cross of Jesus Christ, and planted it in the driveway of a black Methodist church. They set the cross on fire to try to intimidate the black people of our community. But, the people of faith of this community refused to allow ... in our daily lives. Jack Stephens once received a telephone call from a friend who wanted a favor. A problem had come up in his family and he wanted Jack to fill in for him by taking a young boy and his mother to a hospital. The boy had leukemia Jack was told, and ...

3. Courage Me!

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and pretentiousness in order to be generous and honest in Christ. We die to despair and self-doubt in order that we might live hopeful and graceful lives. Here it is in a very simple story. Jack Heacock tells of bringing a young intern to the staff of their congregation in Austin, Texas. This was a young Black man, a member of that annual conference, attending the Perkins School of Theology at S.M.U. When the announcement was made, there was understandably a lot of nervous gossip. A few of the people had ...

4. The Secret Of Effective Living

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Robert Allen

... right, once he understood that his only real problem centered on the way he looked at himself, once he stopped waging war within himself, Jack was wise enough to realize that he was on his way to living an effective life. And what is the secret of effective living ... ; I am only a visitor. My trouble is that you do not understand my problem. I cannot preach in a church where blacks are refused admission. I believe in the brotherhood of man.” Of course, during that period in our history, his refusal to speak ...

5. A Kudzu-Kind of Kingdom

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... measured in miles per hour. You remember the story of Jack and the Beanstalk? That was no beanstalk; it was a ... Jack Eckerd has been on a quiet campaign to get other retail stores to do the same. Isn't it strange how the kingdom works. One committed Christian can become God's leaven to change society. Everybody knows that Memphis is a racially polarized city. The leaders of your church and of Mississippi Boulevard Christian Church have decided to do something about that. These two large churches, one black ...

6. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... hospital room. Johnny Cash tells the story: "I remember standing in line to tell him goodbye. He was still unconscious. I bent over his bed and put my cheek against his and said, `Goodbye, Jack.' That's all I could get out. "My mother and daddy were on their knees. At 6:30 a.m. he woke up. He opened his eyes and looked around and said, `Why is everybody ... . 17. 3. William H. Hinson, RESHAPING THE INNER YOU, (San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1988). 4. Johnny Cash, Man in Black (Warner Books), p. 3653.

7. The Speed Bump On the Road to Bethlehem

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... But then comes this call to repent. Before you get to the manger, repent. John is the speed bump on the road to Bethlehem. Jack, the street prophet in Seattle, says, "I see and I say ... make ready for what is coming," and he echoes those soaring words of ... out. Men and women, boys and girls, rich and poor, young and old,slave and free. Every nation, tongue, and tribe, red, and yellow, black and white. All are anxiously gathered to watch for the arrival of the King of all kings who is the embodiment of God's ...

8. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... Even the banker who is about to foreclose on the mortgage and the cotton gin operator are there. Members of the Klan are there. Also, black tenant farmers. The couple whose marriage had been torn are there, reconciled. It is as if to say, here is the one place where ... admiral into its tomb. Then as though answering to a sharp order from the quarter deck, they all seized the Union Jack with which the coffin had been covered and tore it to fragments, and each took his souvenir of the illustrious dead." ...

9. Jesus, The Mad Man

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Erskine White

... and others, who had been openly whipping up anti-Kennedy hostility for months with public rallies and radio shows and broadside newspapers. Kennedy, they said, was soft on communism, soft on the Russians and soft on Castro. Kennedy was doing too much for black people. Jack Shea wrote that Dallas had become a hotbed of far-right extremism while people like himself had been silent. Now, the President of the United States was dead. Soon after he wrote the article, he was forced to resign from the oil company ...

10. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... see her. There were simply too many people, so we decided to leave. But suddenly, a motorcade almost ran over us, and there, in this black Rolls Royce, was the queen! Her motorcade had stopped right in front of us! She looked at Mae and me, smiled, and gave us that ... house sold, and God led them into a bright day where they grew more and more in the Word of the Lord and in their faith. Jack came to know that the One who came still comes, and the One who spoke still speaks. He is faithful to His Word. He is a ...

11. God's Christmas List

John 3:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... is not just a political love. He loves the Democrat just as much as He loves the Republican. It is not a racial love. He loves the black just as He loves the white. It is not a financial love. He loves the poor just as He loves the rich. It is not a ... 's Christmas List, every day is Christmas Day, because Jesus Christ is the gift that keeps on giving. Many of us remember the comedian, Jack Benny when he met his future wife, Mary, the first time, he was so shy and so intimidated that he couldn't even ask her ...

12. All My Children

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... -handed gloves. Have you ever attempted to jack up a van to change a tire in a blizzard while wearing a backward glove? Lyman testifies that it exceeded his level of dexterity. After 25 minutes of attempting to jack the van up, he gave up, and ... the stories of Jesus. Deep in his heart he knew that "Jesus loves the little children, all the children of the world; red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in his sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." Maybe his change of heart was simply a ...

13. The Stone Was Rolled Away (easter)

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... message is that the stone of defeat and despair is rolled away, making a way for hope.A friend of mine, Jack Heacock, tells the story of "a middle-aged professional engineer who had been out of church life for several years. He was ... one way or another. On this Sunday God once more revealed how being maimed does not keep us from being His witness. Elder I.D. Black as worship leader initiated the sacrament, the washing of feet. Singing his sermon-prayer, he tied the white towel around his waist and picked up ...

14. Jesus Saves, We're Called To Invest

Matthew 25:14-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... use it or lose it. B. Now compare those two stories to the life of Booker T. Washington. Washington started life as a black American slave. At the age of sixteen, he walked almost five hundred miles from his slave home to Hampton Institute in Virginia. When ... Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do!" You have to use it or lose it. Conclusion Do you remember Jack Benny? He always did the same routine over and over again. A robber comes up to him and says, "Your money or your life?" There is ...

15. A Vexing Vision

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... , “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root, root, root for the home team. If they don’t win, it’s a shame ... back of the room stood up and exclaimed, “That’s stupid! I think that is just stupid!” Then she bent down, grabbed her black, leather-bound King James Bible, stormed out of the room, slammed the door behind her, and sat in the sanctuary and waited for ...

16. Slavery and Freedom

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... For example, there are people in our society who have caressed and loved gambling so much that they now find it seemingly impossible to get away from the grasp of gambling. The turn of the wheel has mesmerized them. The racing horse has won them. The black-jack table has taken on life and held them to its side. They have loved this "lover" until the "lover" has won control over them. In our area we have Gamblers Anonymous. Like Alcoholics Anonymous, it is an organization of people who have had trouble with ...

17. Six Nails of the Cross II: The Nail of Infidelity

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... he used his own personal resources, and then, when the situation demanded, he raised funds so that his friend could be rehabilitated to at least a partial form of what he once was. The fact that Maurice eventually died, or that he was black and Jack was white is irrelevant to the meaning of their friendship. Their relationship became the symbol for thousands of how to relate as friends as well as the goal for groups concerned with racial harmony. Contrast this desire for brotherhood and true friendship with ...

18. It's Not Nice To Call Someone A Dog

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... one step led to bolder steps. She wanted to help the prisoners. She knew love could make a difference in anyone’s life. One day she met a murderer named Jack. He was one of the toughest of the tough. He was big and black and blind, a victim of harsh and cruel racial injustices. Catherine felt drawn to this hardened criminal. "Hi, Jack," she introduced herself one day. There was no response. The scarred, battered face stared back with icy, unseeing eyes. "What books do you read?" she asked him. The silence ...

19. The Dark Side Revealed

Numbers 32:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... those words and in this day and age an image comes to your mind of a creature in all black, who breathes heavily through a mask - called Darth Vader. Star Wars – a classic battle between good and evil, has now ... murder in London, England, who we all know by the name, "Jack the Ripper." To this very day, nobody knows who Jack the Ripper was. Many books have been written guessing who this man was, but we don't know who he was. Here is the fact about Jack the Ripper. He got away with his crime, but did he ...

20. Zophar’s Final Words for Job

Job 20:1-29

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... 20 contains the final speech by Zophar, and it is apparent that he is resolutely fixed in his position. Zophar views life in black-and-white terms as he presents an extreme form of retribution theology. Looking only at the negative side of the equation, Zophar insists ... will destroy the sinner. Film: The Days of Wine and Roses. In this beautifully acted and compelling old movie (1962) starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick (remade as When a Man Loves a Woman in 1994), we see the consequences of addiction, a ...

21. They Didn't Have To Do It, But They Did

Genesis 14:1-24

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... parking lot. Two men come to the aid of a woman who was nearly raped by two other men. The thieves who car-jacked another man's vehicle were hotly pursued by two citizens who saw the crime while at a stop light. The man whose car ... to make such sacrifices for Christ, but he did. Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X didn't have to give their lives for the black struggle for freedom, but they did! Rosa Parks didn't have to stand up by sitting down on a Birmingham bus and refusing to give her ...

22. Out of the Box

Acts 11:1-18

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... s church? Do we have our favorite people that we are only in mission to? Why don’t more white churches have black parishioners? Why don’t more black churches have white parishioners? Why don’t rich churches have more poor people? Why don’t more poor churches have rich ... forced us into. Peter and the apostles refused to stay in the box. Paul refused to stay in his box. Even if Jack refuses to stay in his box, why do Christians want to stay in their boxes? Christ was crucified and resurrected so that ...

23. And Who is my Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... stuck in Lakeland Massachusetts. Killing time wondering around on the sidewalks in this quaint New England town, suddenly before their very eyes a car jacking unfolds: Being New Yorkers and the kind of people they are they make fun of the guy who is being robbed. Kramer, who has ... of Berlin, was convinced that change in the condition of the American black could be effected by careful scientific investigations into the truth about the black in America. So he proceeded. His research was flawless and his graphs ...

24. Cards From the Same Deck

Romans 10:12

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... and maybe the other hearts, but I’m not helping any three of diamonds. You’re different than me.” The kings, queens, and jacks had already decided that they would only help themselves, since they were royalty, and they couldn’t be bothered by the little cards ... St. Paul said “there is no difference between [people] that call on the name of the Lord?” That means if we’re white or black, or red or yellow, or rich or poor, God only sees us as His children. So we shouldn’t be like the cards and ...

25. The Thrill of Victory

2 Corinthians 2:14-15

Sermon

James Merritt

The three astronauts, Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, and Fred Haise, were having a wonderful time watching planet earth become a sun-drenched white dot against ... tumbling down on him, and he lost his composure. Instead of beginning his message, he laid his hands on the pulpit, put his head on his hands and began to weep. An old black woman out in the audience, took out a white handkerchief and waved it to get his attention. Finally, he looked up, saw her handkerchief and heard her calling out to him. She said, " ...

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