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Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Dr. Chane M. Hutton

... change is that the young people have no feeling of hopefulness about tomorrow. Many of them don't even expect to live to adulthood. Nobody believes in them and thus they do not believe in themselves. To know that someone believes in us makes all the difference in the world. Jim Burns in his book, RADICALLY COMMITTED, tells what for him was an unforgettable experience as a senior in high school. A girl named Marie had been in his classes since early elementary school. To his knowledge ...

2. Did You Ask How Much It Was Going To Cost?

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... JESUS KNEW THAT IMPULSIVENESS WAS NOT THE BIGGEST BARRIER MOST PEOPLE FACE. THE BIGGEST BARRIER IS INACTION. For every one who leaps without looking there are a dozen more who never leap at all. They stay on the sidelines. They become God's frozen people. Jim Burns tells about watching an interview on the evening news with a homeowner named Paul Swanson. There had been horrible mud slides in Swanson's community, a cul-de-sac with fine homes. Swanson's house was the only one that remained intact. The reason ...

3. Who Did He Praise?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

There was once a young businessman in Germany named Neckerman who had a burning ambition to build his small retail store into a large chain of department stores. His problem was that no one knew his name. He couldn't attract customers. He had only limited capital. This ... Heroes for Today," Reader's Digest, August 1996, p. 48. 4. Stan Toler, God Has Never Failed Me, but He Sure Has Scared Me to Death a Few Times! (Tulsa: Honor Books, 1995). 5. Jim Burns, Radically Committed (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1991).

4. Finding Glory

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

Some of you may remember a program years ago on television called "Topper." It was one of the better comedies in the early days of television. Jim Burns, in his book, RADICALLY COMMITTED, tells about one of the zanier episodes in this series. Mrs. Topper wanted to train her husband to be nicer to her. She found a book titled HOW TO TRAIN PUPPIES and followed it exactly by substituting her husband~s name for the puppy. So ...

5. Counting Our Spiritual Blessings

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the material blessings in your life. These blessings are generally trivial and transitory. It is a cliché, of course, to say that money can’t buy happiness. But the proof is bountiful. There are many, many people who are blessed materially who are miserable. Jim Burns in his book Radically Committed tells about an incident a few years ago when police in New York City were called to a building where a woman was threatening suicide. She was standing on top of a fifty-four-story building ready to jump ...

6. A Time To Remember - Memorial Day

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... man! Thou knowest I am not at guilt, and that is the truth of God for which I now suffer." As the fire burned, the young martyr called out, "How long, O Lord, shall darkness overwhelm this realm? How long wilt Thou suffer this tyranny of man?" ... her son's ill fortunes, of his wounds, and of his suffering, and how Jim had stuck by him day and night through it all. The letter closed like this, "Mother, receive Jim for my sake." Jim carefully tucked the letter away in his waistcoat. After the close of the war ...

7. Fire Falling from Heaven

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... of God. When Moses was tending the flocks of his father-in-law on Mount Horeb, the Lord God spoke to him out of a burning bush. When the Hebrew people were wandering in the wilderness of the Sinai, the Lord God led them at night with a pillar of fire. ... . He spent the next few years in prison. When he returned, he became one of the leaders of that spiritual renewal movement. Jim experienced the teachings of Jesus as disruptive. It was nothing less than a firestorm from heaven. That can happen. This faith can ...

8. What God Has Joined Together

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... to go on record as saying I love you!" "That’s how I’ve survived," Carol said later. "Knowing that the last words I said to Jim were I love you!" (5) Wouldn’t it be tragic if the last word you spoke to your husband or wife was a word of criticism, ... , but one," said Jesus. "Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate." Amen. 1. From the Internet. Source unknown. 2. George Burns, Gracie, A Love Story (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1988), pp. 70-71. 3. "The twist of fate that saved our ...

9. Chaos or Christ: Dreams Which Calm our Fears

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... be pleased to know that you will be grandparents in a few months. Love, Cheryl P.S. Actually none of the above happened no fire, no burns, no Bill, no pregnancy. However, I did get two D's and one F this semester. I wanted you to keep the news in perspective when ... a moment and adore him, and lay our lives before him. You may not always be right, but you can always be faithful. Jim and Phillip were best of friends. They grew up together, went to school together, and attended the same college. When the Big War ...

10. The Final Answer

Drama

Dave Marsh

... facing each other) Setting: The set of a game show. (LIGHTS UP CENTER STAGE with Regis and Jim sitting there.) (It would be great if you taped and played the theme. I found it on the web and recorded each part and burned it to a CD...) Regis: Well, welcome back to Who Wants to be a Millionaire?! If you missed it, young Jim Duncan here has us all on the edge of our seats! With the help of two of his lifelines, Jim has breezed through the questions here like no other contestant! And now he’s on the verge ...

11. The Secret Ingredient Of Success

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... not harder, but that can be deceptive. People who make a difference in this world do both. They have a passion, a vision, a burning desire to be the best they can be. Baseball fans may recognize the name Brett Butler. According to Greg Johnson in an article in ... question is, is it that important to us? Are we willing to give it our best? To Jim Mertz the question is phrased like this: Do we really love Jesus that much? Jim once watched a movie on television. In it he saw a Muslim from India fall on his ...

12. Take Off Your Shoes...You Are Standing on Holy Ground

Acts 7:1-53

Sermon

James W. Moore

... eye and the hearing heart; we can be well aware that God is reaching out to us and speaking to us loud and clear through burning bushes and sacred moments and holy ground right in our own backyard,… right under our noses. Let me show you what I mean… I. FIRST ... of what that Mom had said: “After 9/11, my children all called and asked, ‘What did St. Luke’s do and what did Jim say?’” And as I let those words soak into my soul, I realized the sacredness of our responsibility as God’s church. I ...

13. Grain Offerings

Leviticus 2:1-16

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... it. This case is similar to 2:1–3 in requiring incense, but similar to 2:4–10 in that it is cooked. A small portion is burned, the rest to be used by the priests. On an offering made by fire, see comments at Leviticus 1:9. Theological Insights Distinctive is the grain offering’ ... Della, are deeply in love with each other, but money is tight. Della has no money to buy Jim a Christmas present. So she makes a great sacrifice. To get money to buy her husband a present—a fancy fob or chain for his ...

14. For Laughing Out Loud!

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and answered, "Orenthal, sir. Orenthal James Simpson. My friends call me O. J." (3) O. J. Simpson did indeed go on to break all of Jim Brown's records and set some new ones of his own. We live in a world of infinite possibilities. Abraham and Sarah would have a ... years before, "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; ...when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you." (Isa. 43:2) (4) God keeps His promises. Isaac was born. His name means laughter. ...

15. Houston We Have a Problem

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire." (Nehemiah 1:1-3, NKJV) Someone has said, "Understanding the problem is half the solution" and immediately we see ... field for fifteen years. In his five year study, out of all the corporations and companies in America, only eleven made the cut. Jim Collins says that one of the marks of those companies going from a good company to a great company was the willingness to ...

16. Watchers, Walkers And Worshipers

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... the disciples received the gift of the Holy Spirit, they were filled with a new sense of confidence and power. They had a flame burning in their hearts; they had a message on their lips; and they had a great desire to accomplish wonderful things in the name of ... man who was still huddled in the bank entrance; and he took him to the soup kitchen where he would get a hot meal. (2) Jim had taken those first steps of faith. He had become a walker. Now he knew what Jesus wanted him do. And he did it. Sometimes ...

17. Blind Bartimaeus - Model For Healing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... pages of my notebook. At the end of class, I returned his papers, filled with my copious notes on the professor’s lecture. It took Jim all day to complete a two-hour exam. But despite all his handicaps - they were challenges to him - he made the dean’s list several ... again; he followed Christ. His world was brilliant now; he saw things he had been blind to all his life. Did your eyes burn, Bartimaeus, when you saw Christ on the Cross? Were they opened that you might see that?"2 To which we may confidently ...

18. Following the Footsteps of the Faithful

Hebrews 11:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... future. I know you and Joy have already made a commitment to the future, to the people who will come after you. Why do you keep investing in the future?” Billy Jim: “Well, I remember the Depression. I remember it very well, when there was nothing. There was nothing. No money floating around, people wondered where to go and what to do, our church had just burned down. We really didn’t have a place to go. But, I saw the women of this church get up at 3 o’clock in the morning and bake cakes and pies ...

19. The Stranger at the Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

George Bass

... is highly unlikely that they had any hope that Jesus was still alive. From the time he was five or six years old, Jim Bridwell had dreams and visions about his father, Lt. Clarence Bridwell, who had been lost in combat during World War II just before ... ecstatic, exhilarating experience." While they never fully comprehended how they were able to walk across the red-hot coals without being burned or killed, they did reach several conclusions. One of them is this: "From our fire-walking we learned that the ...

20. Serendipity

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you. That means we don’t work to achieve it. We look for it and receive it when we, like Moses at the site of the burning bush, “turn aside to see”; when we give life our attention; when we, like children, hold on to the belief that there is joy waiting ... sentences goes like this: He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep in order to get that which he cannot lose. Well, Jim Elliott lived by his own word. He gave up what he could not keep—his life (for none of us, ultimately, can keep it)—in ...

21. Confused But Not Forgotten

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... transcend the negative life experiences some of us have had. With the love of God we can be whole persons again. In the Ken Burns series on the Civil War a few years ago on public television there were a number of scenes of the fiftieth anniversary of ... Even though it was raining hard, the wind was howling and I couldn't see a thing under that coat, I was not at all afraid," Jim remembers. "Because I knew my father could see where we were going, so I just held on tightly and trusted him. And soon the coat ...

22. A Gallery of Mirrors

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that we are to put ourselves into it. We are not to be spectators to the drama, but participants. Do you remember Bobby Burns’ challenging word: O wad the pow’r the gift to give us To see ourselves as others see us. Today, let’s seek ... before Christmas, and Della had exactly $1.87 to buy Jim a present. She did the only thing she could do; she went out and sold her hair for $20, and with the proceeds she bought a platinum fob for Jim’s precious watch. Jim came home at night. When he saw Della’s ...

23. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... at last he whirled that bank of fog into a solid ball of fire, and it went rolling through the universe, burning its way through other cosmic banks of fog, until it condensed the moisture without, and fell in floods of rain upon ... him and say, "How are you, Jim, good morning, Sam." Of course you can, for they are always so simple. When I wrote the life of General Garfield, one of his neighbors took me to his back door, and shouted, "Jim, Jim, Jim!" and very soon "Jim" came to the door and General Garfield ...

24. The Gathering at Cana

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... has it touched the hearts of others? Can others discern it too? Does it make your passion for Jesus rise? Does it make your heart burn with love without even knowing why? That is a sure sign that the Savior is near. [Now hold up the cup or glass of wine] ... act of God ends with a promise! If there’s hope abounding, God is in it! *Photo from www.southerninlaw.com. Adapted by Jim Walton of The 3rd Choice. **Mike Pomeranz, May 2015 “A Crash Course in Spotting Fake Wine by the Sherlock Holmes of Wine” ...

25. Just a Crazy Story

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Lange

... movie, you'd think there'd be like this huge rush of people thinking they could do a way better job being God than Jim Carrey." "No, Zachary, there hasn't been a big rush to be Bruce Almighty. Most people can tell the difference between a movie and ... me, man." So they took him in. Just as Zack reached their "operation," the whole thing blew up. All of the squatters were severely burned and were lying about wherever the power of the blast had thrown them. They were all groaning and dying. Zack knew he'd never ...

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