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1. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’ts. I. One, don't trust. "Do you have trouble hearing?" asked the teacher of a youngster who sat dreamily at his desk. "No, ma'am", replied the boy. "I have trouble listening." That's a problem for many of us -- listening. But no more a problem than trusting. ... was her pride and joy. All the neighbors knew if she had to choose between her husband and the cat it would be like Jack Benny choosing between his money and his wife. One day the cat disappeared. The woman was broken hearted. As an act of love and ...

2. Why The British Coast Guard Doesn't Like Eric, But God Does

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... finally solved by the arrest of several notorious criminals, among them a man named Jack Rose. After the case was settled and the convicted criminals imprisoned, Jack Rose said something like this: "I always believed that there must be a God ... with the phone, a dirty, unshaven "bum" walked up. He was one of the homeless she had eyed with suspicion. Hesitantly, he said, "Ma'am, please excuse the intrusion, but . . . well . . . I couldn't help but overhear the situation you are in, and well . . . me and ...

3. Radiate Love

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... old haunts and colleagues not so welcoming. Johnny finds himself a marked man and narrowly escapes being murdered after the Humphrey Bogard character Jack and his boys take him out into the woods to finish him off. Johnny escapes, wounded, and finds his way to a ... us is not just a diversion. It's not just a way the while away the time. It's Kingdom work because we have the ma and the key and the author of true freedom, freedom from sin. Radiate Love: "Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in ...

4. Hope for Hurting Hearts

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... there in the cold. He knew how she felt. It was that chill which only fear can put in you. He said, "I am here to help you, ma'am. Why don't you wait in the car where it's warm. By the way, my name is Joe." Well, all she had was a flat tire, ... but for an old lady, that was bad enough. Joe crawled under the car looking for a place to put the jack, skinning his knuckles a time or two. Soon he was able to change the tire. But he had to get dirty and his hands hurt. As he was ...

5. What's in a Name?

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... you from that love of God in Christ Jesus...ever. Amen! 1. http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/12/17/thurmond.paternity 2. "Harassed 'Saddam' Seeks New Name," Reuters, 1/5/04, via internet 3. Jack Good, "Naming Names," The Christian Century, 12/27/03, p. 19 4. Barbara Brown Taylor, The Preaching Life, (Boston, MA: Cowley Publications, 1993), pp. 25-34, Quoted in Pulpit Resource, Volume 32, No. 1, Year C, pp. 10-11 5. Fred Craddock, Craddock Stories, Mike Graves and Richard Ward, eds., (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001 ...

6. 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 the canopy ... his attention. Finally, he looked up, saw her handkerchief and heard her calling out to him. She said, "Brother Douglass, I want to ask you a question." He said, "What is it ma'am?" She said, "Mr. Douglass, is God dead?" He lifted his head higher and said, "No, Christ is alive." That little old woman then stood to her feet, waving that white ...

7. Good News about Thanksgiving

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... good God has been to you. After all, these blessings don’t just happen. There is a Source of everything we have. Pastor Jack Walchenbach tells about a professor of chemistry he had in college. One day over a cup of coffee this professor said to him, “You ... Sarah,” Dan Cole, 40plus_humor@onelist.com (40plus Humor). 2. David J. Schlafer, What Makes This Day Different? (Boston, MA:Cowley Publications, 1998), p. 123. 3. Phyllis Amy Wohlfarth, Guideposts, Nov. 1966, p. 11. Cited by Jim Westmoreland, =http ...

8. Daddy, Tell Me a Story

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... event, the Christ event. The message of that event has been constant through the ages; it is the story of God’s love for fallen humanity. “I love to tell the story, ’twill be my theme in glory, to tell the old, old story of Jesus and his love.” 1. Jack Maguire, The Power of Personal Storytelling (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher /Putnam, 1998). 2. Peg C. Neuhauser, Corporate Legends and Lore (New York: McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1993), p. xiv. 3. Cited by Barbara Brown Taylor, Home By Another Way (Cambridge ...

9. Looking for Rainbows

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

Jack Coe was a popular evangelist in the first half of the twentieth century. Like many popular evangelists of the time, Coe held his services in a tent ... House Publishers). 2. http://www.colours-of-the-rainbow.com/legends.html. 3. Moody, April 1993, p. 13. Cited by Raymond McHenry, Something to Think About (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, Inc., 1998). 4. Vergilius Ferm, Lightning Never Strikes Twice (New York: Gramercy Publishing Company, 1987), p. 131. 5. http://www.centralpc.org/sermons/2001/s011223. ...

10. Five Ways to be "Holy" During Holy Week

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... you remember begging your Mom or Dad for permission to do something they would ordinarily not permit by insisting, “But Ma, everyone else is getting to do it!” The typical parental response to such childish logic usually went something along ... flash mobs” have showed up — by definition randomly — all over. Impromptu gatherings of people with open umbrellas, doing jumping jacks, or having pillow fights. Acting together yet being basically uniformed about the “what” and the “why” is the core ...

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