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1. The Awesome Power of a Mustard Seed (Father's Day)

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... third of the total population of the planet), and we are still growing. While it is true that churches in the West have slowed their growth, and some churches have actually declined, there are places, particularly in Asia and South America, where the ... Burns and John Denver. Burns played God. Denver played a grocery store manager named Jerry. One day God decides to communicate his love to the world through Jerry. Jerry, with much reluctance, holds a news conference to deliver God’s message. This lands him ...

2. Finishing Strong

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... What’s wrong, son? You’ve lost races before but it hasn’t hurt this badly. Why does this loss hurt so much?” Jerry replied, “Dad, I could have won that race. But I held out too long and waited too late, and I finished with something left ... a ministry in East High School that will be extended. We want to fully retire the debt on the SOS Building several miles west of us on Poplar Avenue. SOS is one of the best urban ministries in America. And, our growing recreational ministry requires an expanded ...

3. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for my personal image to emerge: Preachers don't lose their temper -- I'm a preacher -- I don't lose my temper. Jerry hadn't been "schooled" in this kind of control. She came from a family where love was shown in open, physical expressions. ... just respond, or react. So, kindness calls for intentional action. My friend, George Mann, whom I succeeded as Pastor of the West Anaheim United Methodist Church -- a colleague in ministry in California for ten years -- now minister of First United Methodist Church in ...

4. Fear of Flying

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... into the hands of the unknown pilot caused him to practically break out in hives. Instead, he thought how much happier he would be if he stayed in his house, relaxed by the pool, and forgot about that trip. After all, did he really need to see Key West? Jerry has what we call “fear of flying.” But guess what? So do most of us at one time or another. And it has nothing to do with airplanes. It does, however, have to do with fear. Big fear. Deep fear. Consuming fear. Paralyzing fear. The kind that keeps ...

5. No Longer Damned

Romans 8:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... out of her church." I said, "That sounds interesting." The story began to emerge. She was born into an Irish family on the west side of town. There were lots of children, all of them were baptized in an Irish church. Then she fell in love with a ... men. No women, all men. Something began to dawn on him, so he asked, "How did your friend Jerry die?" One of them said, "He died of AIDS." Tony said, "Did Jerry have any family?" "They haven't talked to one another in years. We looked in on him when he got ...

6. Digging Deeper

Philippians 3:12-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ?" And asks if Opie thinks he's been following that rule. Opie says "Yes, Tommy did unto me and now I'm doing it unto Jerry." Andy says, I believe you're bending that rule just a little bit. And then goes on to explain the meaning and application of the ... s Service, too. We're called to Respond To God By Serving Others. A certain woman came to the pastor of a church out in West Texas. She asked if she could be a part of the Bible Study he was teaching. He gladly agreed, which eventually resulted in the woman ...

7. Put Your Best Foot Forward

Isaiah 52:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... the Great Commission still in existence today? Well, the resounding answer has come back—yes! Beginning 200 years ago, for the first time the gospel went out from the west until it traveled all around the world and in just the last few decades we have seen a tremendous result of this missionary mindset. In 1970, just 30 years ago, two ... the World Evangelized by AD 2000 and Beyond (Birmingham, AL, New Hope, 1990, p.54. 5. D. James Kennedy and Jerry Nucombe, What if the Bible Had Never Been Written, p. 167.

8. The Resurrection

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

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... ll have other chances. You and he will connect up again, soon I hope. (Angel slips back around the side of the organ away from Field Announcer. Angel then goes out the west door of the sanctuary, turns up through the 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 lectern) I know we got part of it, your part ...

9. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... her to marry him. Then one day he invited her to lunch. They drove to the Los Angeles Coliseum, the largest sports arena on the West Coast. In the center of the vast playing field were placed a small table and two chairs. A maitre d' showed them to the table ... words of our Lord, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe." 1. Jerry Kramer with Dick Schaap, DISTANT REPLAY, (New York: G.P.Putnams Sons, 1985). 2. Milo O. Frank, HOW TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS ...

10. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in somebody else's dreams. I heard about one man who was determined it wouldn't happen to him. Jim Egan worked at the West Coast Computer Fair in 1977. His job was to help customers decorate their booths. Industry shows are the cheapest way to reach customers within ... 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 ...

11. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... and time people have been wrong particularly about the future. Jesus said to the multitudes, "When you see a cloud rising in the west, straightway you say, ˜There comes a shower,' and it comes to pass. When you see a south wind blowing, you say, ˜There ... Rock of ages. Read the signs of the times. They will tell you we need God more than ever before. 1. Rick Marin, "Jerry Seins Off," Newsweek, January 12, 1998, p. 56. 2. Edith Schaeffer in The Greatest Lesson I've Ever Learned, Vonette Zachary Bright, ed. ( ...

12. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... says the motivational speaker, “and heard this announcement: ‘Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We’re traveling west across the Pacific Ocean. In a few hours, you will be able to look down and see land. When that ... spiritual life. These are our assets. All four are necessary to our well-being. “How do you want your life to end?” asks Jerry Foster, “With your final breath do you want to utter, ‘What a satisfying, fulfilling, and meaningful life I have lived’? Do you desire ...

13. Mutual Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon

... biblical injunctions. No wonder that today's Epistle, Ephesians 5, is one of the more unpopular pieces of scripture -- except among Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson and their devotees. (And you know what they're like.) Let us therefore be done with ... John Westerhoff tells of being called in to consult about problems encountered by government teachers at a school for Native Americans out west somewhere. One of the teachers confessed to him that she was shocked by the lack of morals among the Native American ...

14. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... out their feelings and somehow find a way to start all over again. With chins dragging and hope in the ditch, at a low ebb, they headed west, talking together as if saying it again would somehow make it go away; retelling the story to one another to ease the pain and share the ... , or in the aftermath of defeat and despair, of suffering and pain and confusion, there is always the friend who joins us. Jerry and I were privileged to come back to Memphis a few weeks ago to work in a women’s Emmaus weekend. The ...

15. ASAP

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... experience of a dad bringing his daughter back home from her first year away at college. It was a west-to-east coast journey, made over the course of a few long days of driving. Father and daughter held long ... the weak, the child, the aged, the sinner, the prisoner, in any nation, in any language, all can pray. Then why don't we pray? (With thanks to Jerry Dusenberry.) Ever wonder about the acronym ASAP? Generally we think of it in terms of even more hurry and stress in our lives: "As soon as possible." Maybe ...

16. When Do You Feel God's Pleasure?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

James W. Moore

Jerry Seinfeld once said, “Men don’t want to know what’s on TV, they want to know what else is on TV!” That explains why one ... , to the lowly, the lonely and the outcast and bringing them into the circle. God wants us to be inclusive like that. Fred Craddock tells about how some years ago, he used to go home to West Tennessee for Christmas… Each year the routine was pretty much the same. He would go back to the town where he grew up… and he would always stop by a restaurant to visit one of his ...

17. Did You Know?

1 Timothy 1:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... about. But another thing we know is that nobody can know everything. A census taker knocked on the door of an old backwoods shack way up in the mountains of West Virginia, in the middle of nowhere. An old-timer came to the door, and asked the man what he wanted. The census taker said, "Well, the President has sent us ... Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations, pp. 478-479. 4 Cited by D. James Kennedy and Jerry Neucomb, What if the Bible Had Never Been Written, p. 188. 5 Wonder Book of Strange Facts, p. 444. 6 Ibid.

18. The Blessing Of A Godly Mentality

Genesis 18:16-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of the Hebrew people, was living as a nomadic shepherd in the land of Canaan. This territory today is part of Israel and the West Bank. The time is about 2000 years before Christ. One day three men came to visit Abraham. Actually they were angels sent by God ... has slipped into a mode of vulgarity that is sliding toward depravity. As an example, he pointed to the Chicago-based Jerry Springer Show in which young men and women are scripted to attack one another physically over the most salacious and infantile ...

19. Chosen by God

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at The Upper Room has had. But he is not overly impressed with all that. Now I share all this to tell you that when Jerry called my Mom and Dad to tell them of our decision to accept this call to Christ church, his response was spontaneous: “Well, I’m glad ... lays down in the world of the dead, God is there; if he flew away to the east or lived in the farthest places in the west, God would still be there. If he asked the darkness to hide him or the light around him to turn into night the darkness would not ...

20. Something to Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... would have been lost. What does the cross mean in your life? Does it mean salvation? Does it mean a changed life? Or is it merely a decoration, a trinket on a necklace? What is it about which you boast? 1. http://www.mustsharejokes.com/page/Johnny+Carson+Jokes. 2. Jerry De Luca, Montreal West, Quebec in Leadership. 3. Dr. James Flamming, http://www.fbcrichmond.org/sermons/8-14-05sermon.htm. 4. http://www.pastortom.org/purpose2.htm.

21. The Knot: Bound

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... Mr. Hyde? Do you husbands ever feel like you went to bed with Sleeping Beauty and woke up with the Wicked Witch of the West? It doesn’t take long for newlyweds to realize that “everything in one person nobody’s got.” There is an old Arab proverb that ... are few things worse than feeling like you are trapped in an unhappy marriage. Some of us have heard of the comedian, Jerry Lewis. He said the best wedding gift he ever got was a video recording of his entire wedding ceremony. He said when things ...

22. What to Do With Human Failing

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... 56. To paraphrase, Jesus said to the crowd, “Everyone knows the causes of weather. When dark clouds come from the Mediterranean Sea in the west, you know rain will likely follow. Dark clouds cause rain. When a strong breeze blows from the south, you know it is going to ... radical grace of another change, we give thanks. Amen and amen. 1. Conversation between Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, The PTL Club, September 13, 2001. 2. Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life (San ...

23. On Rendering to God and to Caesar

Mark 12:13-17, Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Gospel. Formerly, only we liberal Methodists talked politics. But have you noticed? Today, everybody does it. The Rev. Jerry Falwell has created an empire for political agitation among those who once claimed that preachers shouldn't talk ... man I know here, a professor, has become friends with a high official in one of the Eastern block countries. He's had his own East West dialogue going with her for the past few years. "Have you ever met a person,” he asked me, “who is an honest-to-goodness atheist, ...

24. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

The religious people of Jesus’ day got together to try to trap Jesus with their questions. They asked him about paying taxes. They asked him about rising from death. We read today that they asked him what was the greatest commandment. The Jewish rabbis liked to distill the meaning of religion into little phrases like the ones we put on our Burma Shave signs. They had 632 laws and rules for the practice of their religion. They tried to break it down into a couple of inclusive commandments. "Teacher," he ...

25. The Wisemen

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

January 8, 1984 Comment: This was the first story sermon for adultsthat I wrote and dramatized during worship. I had written anumber of story sermons for children, but the breakthoughcame because an old sermon I had been revising every half-dozen years was not taking shape. I started to write.Usually, I have just outlined sermons and "talked" them tothe congregation. When I got started on this one, I found atext forming with which I decided to stay. There were two major problems that I had with this one. ...

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