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Mark 1:14-20

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Brett Blair

... his upstart AFL and the old guard National Football League. "Why not," he wondered, "call our championship game the Super Bowl?" The name caught on quickly and thus, an American tradition was born. Some of you will remember the 1989 MVP of Super Bowl 23: Jerry Rice. There is an interesting story about him. He was the longtime star for the San Francisco 49ers, considered one of the greatest receivers in the history of football; he played for the 49ers for 15 years, 1985 to 2000. He is a famous athlete and ...

2. The Personal Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 1:14-20

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Brett Blair

... championship game the Super Bowl?" The name caught on quickly and thus, an American tradition was born. Today's the big game! And there is an interesting story behind one of the players. If you watch the game today I want you to remember this story about Jerry Rice. He was the longtime star for the San Francisco 49ers, considered one of the greatest receivers in the history of football; he played for the 49ers for 15 years, 1985 to 2000. Tonight he will be playing for the Raiders. He is a famous athlete and ...

3. Are You Strong Enough To Forgive?

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jerry waited and listened; he was alone. Days passed in a blur of monotony and fear. Jerry had always thought of Jesus' teaching about forgiveness as incredibly tacky, wimpy, and weak-kneed. Now in his solitary cell, Jerry ... Jerry Levin learned to forgive his captors. The hostile, bitter men who were holding him had actually done God's work. God had used his imprisonment to get Jerry ... is the same discovery Jerry Levin made as a ... Egypt. Jesus did it on the cross. Jerry Levin did it imprisoned in Lebanon. How ...

4. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... to trust. There are few heroes anymore, few authority figures. And everyone seems to have his or her own agenda. Jesse Jackson and Jerry Falwell are both ordained ministers of the Gospel ” and yet their versions of the truth are wildly different. To make matters worse there ... the secretion or flow of saliva in most people. In a stressful situation they would give a suspected liar a handful of rice to chew. If the suspect could spit it out, they declared him honest. But if he could not summon up enough ...

5. Remember Me

Luke 22:7-38, John 13:18-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Tennessee, just north of Knoxville, will see a sign for the Museum of Appalachia. This unique museum is the handiwork of John Rice Irwin, a former school teacher and historian who has tried to capture the best of Appalachian culture. A reporter from the Smithsonian ... soul. Take, eat, remember, and let the risen Christ enter your life anew. 1. Jeannie Ralston, interview w/John Rice Irwin, Smithsonian, February 1996, pp. 52-53. 2. The Rev. Linda Maloney, http://www.motherflash.com/sermons/sermonsb3/ ...

6. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... survivors from the sinking of the Italian liner Andrea Doria. Landing back in New York after the ordeal, he found his colleague, Jerry Leiber,waiting on the dockside to greet him. But Leiber's mind was on more pressing matters than his friend's lucky escape ... the preceding decades of western missions work, many of the approximately one million Protestant communicants had become "rice Christians," accepting the forms of Christianity more for personal gain than genuine conviction. When the pressures began to ...

7. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... topping off our labors with the gift of his kingdom. When has the world been more divided or in peril than today? Condalezza Rice has, in my estimation, the toughest job in the world. Well, on second thought, the Pope has the toughest job; hers is second ... politics of 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 on this ...

8. The Fountain of Truth

2 Peter 1:12-21

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James Merritt

... tent is not where you live; a tent is where you camp out. Did you know that none of us were created to live here? We're all just camping out. Jerry Glanville, who used to be the head coach of the Atlanta Falcons, once said, "If you don't live in Atlanta, you're just camping out." When you die, you really ... , p. 25. 2. The Best of Billy Sunday, ed. John R. Rice, p. 93. 3. Cited by Michael Scott Horton, Made in America, p. 25. 4. James T. Draper, Jr., Authority: The Critical Issue for Southern Baptist, p. 63.

9. Tasting the Gruel of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... by anybody. Eckerd walked over to where the cooks were ladling out the food. It was a grayish‑green stew dumped over a scoop of rice. It smelled dreadful. Jack Eckerd, whose family owned the Eckerd Drug chain and could afford any pleasure he desired, leaned down, smiled broadly, and asked ... 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 ...

10. Strength's Weakness

John 20:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

... " chips began to take larger shares of the market. Borden saw no reason to change or add to its standard Wise potato chips. Next, premium ice creams like Ben & Jerry's and Haagen-Dazs appeared on the scene. Borden saw no reason to change or add to its traditional, lower-priced Lady Borden ice cream. Then, easy-to-prepare meals like Rice-a-Roni became popular. Borden saw no reason to change or add to its staple Prince spaghetti and Classico spaghetti sauce. Today, this $5.5 billion business called Borden ...

11. No Instant Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23

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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 last ... took three brands home in order to be sure. That’s the kind of world in which we live. Instant pudding, instant rice, instant coffee, instant breakfast. It’s little wonder really that this has permeated all of life and we want instant religion and ...

12. Matthew

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

Comment: Somewhere in my reading, I came across the notion that "executive diseases" like ulcers and headaches were common in Jesus' time among the bureaucrats. With a lead like that, a dimension was added to a story sermon. Again, the pastor and a lay person speaking from the other side of the sanctuary (at a lectern, perhaps) could conduct the following verbal "correspondence." Or, maybe the pastor could stay out of this completely and turn it over to the laity. Matthew 9:9-13 Jerusalem, March 18, 13th ...

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