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1. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... retire, then I would be happy. If only I had this...if only I could find that.... Looking for happiness in all the wrong places. Will Rogers said that now and then he grew tired of the same old surroundings. Then he would wish for a new place to live and work. He said ... His Son, Jesus Christ. He will give you living water. You need never thirst again. 1. Eric Ritz 2. James E. Carter, A SOURCEBOOK FOR STEWARDSHIP SERMONS (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1972). 3. David W. Richardson 4. Norman King, THE FIRST FIVE ...

2. God's Timing or Our Timing -The Tension of Time

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... E'' train." Even God has a timing problem in the Big Apple! Or does God? Patrick Morley writes, "God always has provided enough time to accomplish God''s plan." What James is trying to share in these verses is that we have no right to ignore God''s will for our lives under the guise of planning and scheming. James ... your life is impacted most drastically by what you do with time and what it does with you. Will Rogers was once asked, "If you had only 48 hours to live, how would you spend them?" The Oklahoma ...

3. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... kingdom (4:23; 5:2; 9:35) and will continue to do so throughout the narrative (e.g., chaps. 13, 18, 24–25). The disciples, although called to proclaim the kingdom here ( ... . Before leaving on their mission, the five missionaries (Pete Fleming, Ed McCully, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, and Jim Elliot) sang the hymn “We Rest on Thee.” The lyric of ... apostles considered acknowledging Jesus as more important than their own lives.8 James the brother of John – Killed by sword (see Acts 12) Peter – Sentenced ...

4. When Your Life Is Put On Hold

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... study. And he wept. And he poured out his heart to God. And God visited him with peace. Roger, as I said, was a hymn writer, and his study had a stereo system and a bunch of ... made his way to Jairus’ house accompanied by his three closest disciples--Peter, James, and John. When he came into the house he saw family and friends weeping ... . Richard A. Jensen, Telling the Story (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House). 3. William E. Hulme, Managing Stress in Ministry (San Francisco: Harper and Row Publishers). 4 ...

5. It Costs to Belong

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... JAMES BELONGED? For us, the word may mean several different things. It may refer to a building or a denomination, but the primary New Testament meaning is a community. The Church is the people of God in the world. In the New Testament it is called by a variety of different names. Paul’s favorite was “The Body of Christ,” i.e ... an inscription that ought to give us all something to think about: “Here lies Nathaniel Rogers, who was born in 1755. He was a member of the convention that formed the ...

6. Proper 5

Luke 7:11-17, 1 Kings 17:7-24, Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... , and that is why God called him in the way that he did. Luke 7:11-17 (RC, E, L, C) Jesus, a man of perception and compassion, not only saw the funeral procession, but he saw ... - September 2, 1990] article by Paul Levy, "Life in the afterlife," editor Roger Skophammer wrote, in part: "The belief in an afterlife is commonly held, ... to preach the gospel to his world. Only then did he meet with Peter in Jerusalem (and James, the Lord's brother), and after that he began preaching with power. 4. As far as the ...

7. Here I Am

Hebrews 12:18-29

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... your or has plans to equip you for that ministry, if you'll just listen like the people in the E. F. Hutton commercials. B. Let me tell you about someone who did. Eddie Charles Spencer grew up in a pitifully poor ... . Just like Joshua. Just like Isaiah and Jeremiah, David and Solomon. Just like John the Baptist. Just like Jesus, Peter, James and John. Just like Paul and Timothy.Just like your favorite pastor. The only difference is that today I am ... Rogers (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, 2001), pp. 39-45.

8. What It Takes to Stay Christian

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... of works in relation to faith that he branded the Letter of James as "an epistle of straw" because of its emphasis upon works as necessary ... 13 as being "patient and kind ... which does not keep a record of wrongs ... which never gives up" (T.E.V.). Agape-love is tough-minded love, love at which you have to work and work and work, day ... , cannot close and forget. I am absolutely convinced that the source of Miss Roger’s beautiful definition was St. Paul’s second guideline to the Thessalonians as ...

9. Building An Understanding Of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... seek to understand and communicate this most precious doctrine of our faith--that God is "One in Three Persons, blessed Trinity." Pastor James Hazelwood of Brooklyn, New York, reflects on a sermon he preached on a Trinity Sunday. "A couple of years ago," he writes ... A. Pritchard, Willow Creek Seeker Services (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1996). 5. Roger Ailes, You Are the Message (New York: Doubleday/Currency, 1988). 6. Stephen E. Ambrose, "œI learn a lot from the veterans," American Heritage, November 1998, ...

10. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... -American to graduate from the University of Alabama. Vivian wasn't the only newcomer that day. James Hood was at her side and needed encouragement. So she slipped him a note; on it was ... decades. He says many hotheads suffer from a newly named pathology, Intermittent Explosive Disorder (I.E.D). Dr. Coccaro is championing treatment with the drug Depakote. Oddly enough, an effort to ... 25. 15. Quoted in Louisa Rogers, "Dealing with Anger" pamphlet (St. Meinrad, IN: CareNotes, 1990), 1. 16. Edited from PreachingToday.com search under Matthew ...

11. The Road To Jerusalem

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... the Baptists. He said, "When I get through with the Methodists it's bed time." Will Rogers once said, "Everyone wants to go to Rome to see where Saint Peter is buried, but ... 's choirs singing. The younger choir sang the songs, "Zacchaeus" and "The B.I.B.L.E." Then their leader said, "Now we are going to sing 'Jesus Loves Me,' "and a little ... face the cross and there would be a cross for them. As they got closer to Jerusalem, James and John came up to Jesus and asked for places of honor, on his right and on ...

12. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... we have realized so little of our magnificent potential. "Our fires," wrote William James, "are damped, our drafts are checked, we are living on only a small ... . Look at the "Bannister Effect." Up to 1954, no one had run a four-minute mile. Then Roger Bannister ran the mile in under four minutes, and since then many runners have broken it. They ... dullness of our blinded sight. Where does this life-power come from? M. E. Bosworth (in a meditation, "Pentecost") answers the question. What shakes this room, these ...

13. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... as dear children; And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us...." On June 18, 1972, a B.E.A. Trident crashed at Heathrow airport, London. As a result, 118 people lost their lives. What happened? After the ... our feelings of inferiority? Let's use an example. For 33 years Yul Brynner was the King of Siam in the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, THE KING AND I. We are told that in the earlier years Brynner was made up to resemble ... James Dobson, HIDE OR SEEK, (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1974).

14. On Panicking Close to Shore

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

Will Rogers once said that ... ’ unique claim to divinity. He was the One who could use the Divine Name. In Him we see the divine character revealed. As E. Stanley Jones once said in a book titled Christ at the Round Table: Jesus changes everything he touches. Call him a man, and you ... of the cross. But it is an empty cross, for Jesus is Victor, not Victim....victor even over the cross. As James Russell Lowell said in his famous poem: Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold ...

15. L. T.: The Lonely Terrestrial

Drama

Edward Long

Drama 1 Cast of Characters MRS. ROGERS: Young English teacher at Spring Hill High School who seeks to teach more than grammar to her students. LEE: Junior student who is the main character; often has felt out of place with his peers; has a crush on Susie. SUSIE: Student who shares some of Lee's values, but often is swayed by group pressure to avoid him. JAMES: Class cut-up and a playful adversary to Lee's sometimes too-serious views of things. ROD: A classmate with very materialistic interests. PAM: Girl ...

16. The Last Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

An old, old story has a fellow coming to the most famous and expensive doctor in town. From the very beginning the patient admitted that there was no way he could afford the physician's $500 fee, but he happened to catch the Doc on a generous day and the fee was reduced to $400. "But Doctor," pleaded the man, "I have a wife and six kids to feed." The fee was reduced to $250. "But Doc, that's a month's rent." Eventually, the fellow's begging and poor-mouthing got the fee down to $100 then $50 and finally to ...

17. Focus on the Finish

Hebrews 12:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

It was Mexico City 1968. John Steven Akhwari of Tanzania had started the Olympic marathon with all the other runners hours before, but he finished it alone. When he finally arrived at the stadium there were only a few spectators remaining in the stands. The winner of the marathon had crossed the finish line over an hour earlier. It was getting dark; his right leg was bandaged and heavily bleeding. He was obviously in great pain, but he crossed the finish line suffering from fatigue, leg cramps, dehydration ...

18. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

As I approach this topic, I am reminded of a story of a Sunday School teacher who was trying to explain the dangers of alcohol to a class of little boys. She took a glass of clear water and placed it on a desk; then took a glass of alcohol and placed it next to the glass of water. She dropped some worms into the water and they just swam around. She then dropped some worms into the alcohol and they immediately curled up and died. Holding the glass of alcohol in one hand and the glass of water in the other, ...

19. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

I found it….the quotation I used in Steeple Notes about the faith that sings. It comes from a 1949 sermon preached by James T. Cleland, Professor of Preaching at Duke. The sermon is entitled "A Religion That Sings." "There are times and occasions when a religious person has to shout hallelujah or stand the risk of an inner explosion." He reminds us that the birth narratives of Jesus are filled with the songs of angels and shepherds, Mary and Elizabeth, Zachariah and Simeon. Like a Rogers and Hammerstein ...

20. Integrity

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

Sexy stuff, huh? In our pew Bibles, the heading on the page we just read says "Song of Songs" but, as you know, in many Bibles the heading says "Song of Solomon." So saying, it is not generally thought that King Solomon was the author - granted he was a lusty fellow with 700 wives and 300 concubines, but that in itself, in my view, would mitigate against his authorship (when would he have had time?). More likely, Solomon's name became attached to the book in some sort of dedication. The original-language ...

21. When God Overdoes It

Lamentations 1:1-22

Sermon

David E. Leininger

A couple of years ago, a fascinating book by Mitch Albom hit the bestseller lists. You may have read it - Tuesdays with Morrie. The author had learned that his old teacher was slowly dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, and after an absence of many years, the two reconnected and began to get together every Tuesday. The book shares some of the great lessons that emerged from those weekly conversations. For example: "Okay, question," I say to Morrie. His bony fingers hold his glasses across his chest, which rises ...

22. God and Hurricanes

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

David E. Leininger

A scary few days, eh? Just a week ago we were hearing about this incredibly powerful Hurricane Floyd in the Atlantic that might be heading in our direction - almost a Category 5 with sustained winds near the eye of 155 miles per hour. And it cut a wide swath too, hundreds of miles in diameter. Fool that I am, I normally do not worry much about hurricanes. I have come through a few. During my years of living on the coast, I evacuated in the face of oncoming storms along with everyone else. I still have a ...

23. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

Have you been watching the Olympics? I have...some. I am a sports fan. And even though these winter events do not have the same appeal for me as some others, I still watch. I am glad that Dan Jansen finally won a medal. After so many tries, on his last ever attempt, he came through. Strange, isn't it - here is a man who is recognized in speed skating as the best sprinter in the world, but just because he had never won an Olympic medal, people asked, "What's wrong with Dan?" Just three weeks ago, the most ...

24. What Child Is This?

Isaiah 9:6-7

Sermon

James Merritt

A little girl came home from Sunday School as excited as her mother had ever seen her. She said, "Mommy! My teacher says I drew the most unusual Christmas picture she had ever seen!" Well, the mother took the picture from her daughter and looked at it for a moment, and was, to say the least, a bit puzzled. She said, "Honey, this is a beautiful picture, but all you have here are people riding in an airplane." She said, "What does it mean?" "Well," the little girl said, "It's the flight into Egypt." ...

25. Easter and a Lost World

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

James Merritt

Not long ago a lady wrote Dear Abby a letter, and in this letter this is what she said: Dear Abby: Your answer to the woman who complained that her relatives were always arguing with her about religion, was ridiculous. You advised her to simply declare the subject off- limits. Are you suggesting that people talk only about trivial meaningless subjects so as to avoid a potential controversy?…It is arrogant to tell people there are subjects that they may not mention in your presence. You could have suggested ...

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