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2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that went on far longer than we anticipated, few folks can know the joy she has known -- to literally give life. I think I'll never forget, and I know Jerry and Randy will never forget, the day February 1 (1990). That was the day when the doctors made the transplant. Jerry was in a room down the hall from Randy -- coming out from the anesthesia, as her marrow was being fed into Randy's system. I was back and forth between the room during that six-hour process. When the last drop of the liter of marrow had ...

2. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , “If I were any better I would be twins.” Someone once asked him why he was always so upbeat, and Jerry said, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, “Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in ... said something I will never forget. After dinner, he stood up to thank everybody. His very first sentence moved everyone in the banquet hall. He said, “If I lived thirty lifetimes, I could never repay my family for what it has done for me.” All of ...

3. Jesus and Bartimaeus

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

4. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sermons into the kind of file my wife uses for domestic work – an accordion-type file, usually brown, with ten or twelve compartments. The lesson? I need to be more dependent upon Jerry. We need to accept the care of those who love us and admit our need for that care. I put all the sermons and notes in that file, jumped into my car, and headed for the convention hall. I got there 15 minutes before it was time to preach and I knew I had to be by myself and get some notes ready for my speaking. I went into ...

5. The Resurrection

John 20:10-18, John 20:1-9

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... was enough room for a grand piano. The pews were split by a center aisle. Directly below the worship room was a fellowship hall of the same dimensions. When the youth group marched down the center aisle at the end of the sermon, they sent reverberations ... parlor and goes to join the others at the church entryway. Field Announcer turns back toward the center aisle.) Field Announcer: Jerry, did we get that last conversation on the tape? I'm not really sure what just happened. Studio Announcer: (from the ...

6. Three Temptations Of The American People

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... pastor has a list. Think how different the list would be for the Rev. Jesse Jackson compared to the Rev. Jerry Falwell. I have no political axe to grind. I would simply focus your attention on three persistent temptations. THE ... is giving time and energy and to the one who is receiving the new home. "Soon after we began our work with Habitat, we asked Tom Hall, who had come to the international headquarters for brief volunteer service and had stayed for 5 years, `Why do you keep on staying?' His answer was ...

7. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... are judged by our actions, not our intentions. We may have a heart of gold--but so does a hard-boiled egg." Comedian Jerry Clower tells a story about Christian love in action. Two Christian businessmen were having lunch in a downtown restaurant. The waitress serving their ... then it happened. She had come around the corner to discover Rachel picking the last chrysanthemum from the pot in the hall. Rachel, by the way, was the most distant, most disruptive child in the class. In a stern, trembling voice the ...

8. Let Not Thy Will Roar, When Thy Power Can But Whisper

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... by Thomas Fuller: “Let not Your will Roar, when Your power can but Whisper.” (Ernie Larson and Carol Hagerty, Believing In Myself, Prentice Hall, 1991) Now that’s a word on which we can reflect for a long time. It is a graphic word designating for me ... mainland. For three days we were there, and that is where God taught me. I had gone to the beach to be alone with God – just Jerry and me and maybe a person here and there we would invite to share it with us. Our time of rest and renewal had only begun ...

9. Being Open to the Impossible

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Gulfport that evening. I remember it, as though it were yesterday. It is one of those times that has a permanent place in our store of pleasant memory: the quaint French Quarter, New Orleans jazz, Preservation Hall, Jackson Square, Bourbon street, artists displaying their paintings on the street — but what I remember most was Jerry and I deciding to eat, and seeking a place to eat on the resources we had – those four rolls of coins: 2 rolls of nickels, 1 roll each of dimes and pennies — a total of $9 ...

10. Nightline

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Story and truth about humankind''s reaction to God''s gift of Jesus Christ. Every year the Christmas Spectacular is held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. It is a very moving drama which ends with a re-enactment of the nativity scene. However, if I were in ... timbers. The Communist Government confiscated two-thirds of the building years ago. But when we entered the little sanctuary, Jerry and I felt we were in another world. There was an atmosphere completely different from the exterior appearance of ...

11. Tasting the Gruel of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... him from every microbe lurking within it. “The moment we started to eat,” Colson goes on to report, “the atmosphere in that dismal prison dining hall was transformed. Inmates got up from other tables and joined us. People laughed and spoke with us. Some of the women showed us the crosses that ... files/Lament.pdf. 5. http://chelseaumc.org/html/sermon012107.pdf. 6. Jerry Goebel: 2005 © http://onefamilyoutreach.com. 7. Bruce Larson, The Communicator’s Commentary: Luke (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1983), pp. 247‑248 ...

12. Show Me The Fish!

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... down on our knees and call him Lord until he has done something to personally affect our lives. If any of you have seen the movie JERRY MAGUIRE, you can appreciate this. In the movie, Tom Cruise is starting a business as an agent for sports stars. He is trying to snag one ... that we can trust him and then, we give to him our all. 1. Bruce Nash and Allan Zullo, THE FISHING HALL OF SHAME (New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 1991). 2. The Word in Life Study Bible, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville ...

13. A Place Of Honor

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... special button, and when you push it, you get an immediate round of applause. This is not tepid applause, says Brown, but concert-hall size applause. So you can play anything, press the button, and get a virtual standing ovation. (1) What a great idea. Nobody ... No wonder people find it hard to motivate themselves in many workplaces. I mean, if nobody cares, what's the use! Jerry D. Twentier in THE POSITIVE POWER OF PRAISING PEOPLE, suggests that we pick our favorite professional football team. Assume we offer ...

14. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... was right. What kind of God do some people have? Many people were startled to hear TV evangelists Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell blame the bombing of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on God's unhappiness with gays, feminists and People for ... personified American wealth beyond counting. Today those names are to be found on street signs, universities, parks, hospitals, museums, concert halls and libraries. But not on the Forbes list of the four hundred wealthiest Americans. Why not? Think of the head ...

15. Taxes and Tightwads

James 5:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... prevent you from experiencing many of the same adversities that others do. Just ask Mickey Mantle or Magic Johnson or Jerry Garcia if their wealth and fame prevented miseries and purposelessness from claiming parts of their lives. Maya Angelou, the black ... Tee, a little peeved, laid down her cards and went to the door. The couple backed away and asked her to come into the hall, and there they both spoke and won Aunt Tee''s sympathy forever. "Theresa, we don''t mean to disturb you," the man whispered, "but ...

16. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... only one kingdom that is eternal, and it has not yet arrived, and one day the noble Stars and Stripes will take their place in the hall of great nations that had their day and faded. China may be next atop the world heap, or perhaps a revived European Union. All nations, ... the kingdom of God. 1. I Corinthians 3:10-15. 2. For a possible Protestant reading of purgation at death, see Jerry Walls, “Purgatory for Everyone,” First Things 122, April 2002, 26-30. 3. Two books that have pushed me over the edge ...

17. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... instant food departments. I get in the grocery stores only when a near emergency state is declared at our house. A while ago Jerry became anxious about the possibility that she would not have enough dessert for a meeting at our house. People called at the ... past year. As Charles F. Kettering once said, “If you fiddle today, you can’t expect to give a concert in Carnegie Hall tomorrow.” This is what Jesus was talking about in our scripture lesson: “Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles ...

18. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... army which is the church of Jesus Christ. Each of you is precious to this group of people and we need each of you to offer your talents to making this church all that God means for it to be. In 1993 scientist, Dr. Jerry L. Hall of George Washington University Medical Center, for the first time cloned human embryos, splitting single embryos into identical twins or triplets--setting off a firestorm of controversy. The experiment was not a technical breakthrough, since he used methods that are commonly used to ...

19. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

He walked rapidly, his long robes flowing behind him to be whipped by the brisk, dry east wind. His two servants occasionally quick-stepped to keep pace, their sandals padding softly on the dust of the deserted streets. As they turned eastward from the upper city, the declining, full moon flung their shadows ahead like long moving fingers pointing toward the white limestone buildings of the temple compound. Nicodemus’ mind was thoughtless, yet filled with many thoughts. He had no plan, no course of action ...

20. The Voices Of Christmas

Drama

Jerry Nordstrom

Cast PATIENT - Resident of a nursing home (male) HOMEMAKER - Food-happy matron (female) SHOPPER - Wealthy, materialistic socialite (female) SPORTSMAN - Young ski enthusiast (male) MERCHANT - Toy store owner (male) TRADITIONALIST - Sentimental Swedish-American grandma (female) CORPORATION MAN - Heavy-drinking party-goer (male) *CHILD - Greedy little girl (female) WORKING WIFE - Frazzled victim of the Christmas rush (female) *May be read, in character, by an adult. Presentation time: about half an hour Using ...

21. The Babel Disaster - You Are There

Genesis 11:1-9

Drama

Jerry Eckert

Comment: Up to this time, I had tried to handle the story sermons myself. With the encouragement shown for my dramatic efforts of the earlier weeks that summer, I decided to try to involve the congregation in a more direct way. That year, a large hotel in a major U. S. city had collapsed, killing scores and injuring hundreds. I saw the story in a periodical which, unfortunately, I did not keep. The first interview in the script, the woman's experience, comes from that. With a few bits remembered from that ...

22. The Pageant

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Jerry Eckert

[Comment: Emmanuel Church in Horicon was nothing like Faith Church, Milwaukee. There was talent galore, except, it appeared, in theatrical skills. Only one person in the church was active in a community theater and no one seemed to think it should be part of church life. There was no stage in the fellowship hall and the sanctuary was not particularly conducive to plays because there was no lighting except the normal room lights, which gave little flexibility for variations. There was a resistance to ...

23. One Flock, One Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

One of the vital signs of an alive Christ with us here is whether this live body out of the grave is seeking unity, oneness with other members and other denominations and other families of God. Because our Lord prayed for it, because it was so evident during his earthly ministry, and because it is the very heart of the gospel, we know a vital sign of an alive Christ is an aggressive seeking after unity. It is the very nature of an alive group of his disciples. Let’s check the vital sign in our own church. ...

24. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

Here is the crazy story that Jesus told: A man owned a vineyard and needed to get the grapes harvested before the rains came. He hired some men at the early morning hour and agreed to pay them a silver coin for the day’s work. At nine and noon, and then at five p.m., he hired more men to help with the harvest. When evening came, the owner called all the workers together. They were all paid the same amount. Those who worked ten hours were paid the same amount as those who worked one hour. Those who had ...

25. Stewards of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

About the second Sunday in November each year, after mailing out a flood of brochures, putting up posters, twisting arms of the faithful to make visits, and designing a banner, there comes from this pulpit what I like to call, "The Sermon on the Amount." Members sit in the pews and squirm on their billfolds, hang onto their checkbooks and purses, fill out a pledge card reluctantly, and sing the hymn: "Take my silver and my gold, not a mite would I withhold." For biblical justification of this once-a-year ...

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