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Acts 6:8-15, Acts 6:1-7

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... It's money in his pocket. MARTHA: This is all well and good, but I think the emphasis should be on spreading the gospel. JIM: I still think we ought to concentrate on the members we already have -- encourage them to give more. This is just between us but ... a discussion in our Sunday school class and a lot of people admitted giving less each week to the church than they spent on dining out. The Bible says: "It is more blessed to give than to receive." MARTHA: Well, If you're going to start quoting the Bible ...

2. Singing In The Rain

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the "still point where is the turning"; corporate worship with songs and music of praise; the Eucharist -- the holy meal where the Lord welcomes us to his table to dine with Him. What a beautiful image -- at the Lord's table -- with the Lord Himself as our Host. It's not normal that you would have a theology of ... be done. "My God in his loving kindness shall meet me at every corner." (Dr. Jim Moore, "There is No Spot Where God is Not", May 28, 1989. If you can believe that you can go "singing in the rain."

3. The Battle For Control

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... I ask only one thing: Don't lift up the box on the dining room table. Enjoy everything else in the house, be what you want to be, do your own thing, but that box on the dining room table, do not touch." Sam said, "No problem. I can handle it ... God to raise you right." "And he did!" said Nancy. He hasn't had a drink since. He hasn't missed a day of work since. Jim graduated from Medical School. Tommy's graduating from MIT this Spring. I'm going to teacher's college. Tomorrow night will be 6 commencements Uncle ...

4. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... be a Christian and store up wealth for the future, and ignore those people who have nothing in the present. You can't dine sumptuously everyday, and not be concerned about those who are hungry. You can't laugh and have a good time, and not ... want to be independent, not dependent, who want to become a part of the community, and not ostracized from it, can do so. As Jim Wallis said from this pulpit last week, the most onerous thing about being poor is the ostracism; being branded as a failure, as worthless, ...

5. A Matter Of The Heart

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... inner city pastor who was leading a visitor through the church on the day when they were feeding homeless men in the dining hall. The guests were lined up in the hallway waiting for lunch as the pastor led the visitor through the building, introducing ... ." Open heart surgery. That's what it takes, and that's what God has in mind for each of us. Well, back to my brother, Jim. A couple of years after his bout with cardiomyopathy, he went back for a check-up and his heart was fine. When he thanked the doctor ...

6. Mystery of the Unlikely

Luke 1:39-55

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Dear God, was there anything special about Bethlehem or did you just figure that that was as good a place as any to start a franchise? Your friend, Jim age 12." (3) It was an Unlikely Place. But then, we have a God who never seems to do what we expect. As we read and study ... it on their way to the Christmas tree. At noon, arriving guests pushed past it to get to the dining room. One accidentally knocked over a shepherd as he took off his winter coat. Later in the afternoon a well-fed group of adults ...

7. The Glow of a Star

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... that time closer than we think? There was an article in Time magazine a few years back about a new trend in fine dining that was appearing in which people really did prefer the dark. This trend was termed, “dinners in the dark.” It explained that ... needed. And even today that light is still lighting people’s lives, helping them to move out of the darkness. A man named Jim Birchfield once gave a powerful illustration of a person moving from darkness into the light. He told about Father Greg Boyle, a ...

8. Role Models

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... dribble rice down my front as I tried to get it down my mouth," Schwarzkopf admitted. His hosts graciously ignored his dining habits, and the alliance continued. (2) It's hard to picture Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf dribbling food down the front of his ... die to cross the line. Topley Holland was the first man across the line. Others quickly followed - Daniel Cloud, Micajah Utry, Davy Crockett. Colonel Jim Bowie was sick and unable to cross the line so he called for help and four men sprang to the side of his cot ...

9. Who Are We, Really?

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... you leave this building you are still the church. When you go to your civic club, you are still the church. When you dine with your family, when you have recreation, when you go to the office, when you fulfill your civic responsibility and cast your ballot ... a whole new light. Suddenly he understood what the church was. Those two men’s demonstration of their love for his father became Jim Standiford’s call to ministry. (3) Who are we? Priests to one another. Regardless of whether we see eye-to-eye on ...

10. Proper 4

Luke 7:1-10, Psalm 117:1-2, 1 Kings 8:22-61, Galatians 1:1-10

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... statement: "I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith."On New Year's Eve, a few years ago, a story appeared in a newspaper (Jim Klobuchar was the writer) about a 17-year-old boy who was dying. He has been a "vegetable" since he was four years of age. He lives ... abbot has a visitor, he invites him into this little chapel for prayer. Then he takes the person into his private dining room for lunch or dinner. And after that they retire to his office/study to discuss the business that prompted the ...

11. Thanksgiving

Ephesians 1:1

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the Pilgrims. I wish to paint quite a different scene, however, than the familiar painting that we envision of the pilgrims happily dining with their Indian brothers before tables of food.. The scene I would like to paint is much more factual and to ... you of that wonderful Children's holiday classic “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.” It was released this weekend as a movie staring Jim Carrey. You’ll recall in the story how the Grinch enters all the homes by way of their chimneys disguised as Santa Clause ...

12. When Your Sister or Brother Stumbles

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... confidential friend and the two of you go visit that brother. Can't you imagine sitting in the office of a Christian friend and saying, "Bill, Jim and I are here because of a report concerning you that disturbs us. It disturbs us because we love you. We want to share it with ... and set the table ahead of time. Can't you picture a 9-year-old carrying a huge pan of dishes toward the dining room? Suddenly the family cat wound around her ankles just as her load started to teeter. There was a huge crash. Dishes and ...

13. Held Hostage

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... them, a prisoner nearby sent a message to him by snapping rhythmically with a towel. The message was "God bless you, Jim Stockdale." It was this simple message that gave Stockdale the strength to endure. (1) A few years ago, a couple in Tennessee ... in a plain uniform, approached the microphone and began to sing. For the next fifteen minutes, this anonymous woman filled the dining room with beautiful music. Then, she abruptly walked back into the ladies' room and resumed her duties. Bob Greene followed her, ...

14. Generations

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have in common is a fundamental cynicism about life, a basic disbelief that anything or anyone can be trusted. Buster Jim Anderson remembers asking his mother what a bumper sticker meant that read "Impeach Nixon." Acronyms like LAPD and PTL spell ... the easiest way is eliminate meat. But what also drives buster vegetarianism is an identification with animals (at Oberlin College, a veggie dining hall serves over 20 percent of the college's 2,200 students). It will be this generation that will make a McDonald' ...

15. Deal with It, Get over it, and Get Help

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... deeper and deeper in debt, take more and more time away from our families, even make the shopping mall food court our family dining room, all in order to enable us to consume more material goods. We are slaves to wanting more “things;” We are slaves to ... too fails to fulfill. There is a less well-known behavioral syndrome that has been dubbed the “Stockdale Paradox.” Admiral Jim Stockdale was a prisoner of war at the infamous “Hanoi Hilton” during the Vietnam War. He remained a prisoner there from ...

16. A Bill of Rights

Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... overdose of tolerance, drowning in what is "politically correct"? Jesus was more loving and accepting than any person who has ever walked this earth. He dined with sinners and tax collectors, he welcomed the presence of the sick and despairing, he worked among the poor and the pitiful. But Jesus ... in all of those whose eyes long to see a new day." Jim Wallis, "Life's Unlimited Value and Our Limited Resources," in Life as Liberty, Life as Trust, ed. J. Robert Nelson (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1992), 26.

17. Small Towns

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... shirt she used to put on after her bath, and each and every other “patch” and its meaning, there was not a dry eye in the dining room. Cathy picked up the quilt and held it against herself and cried. To think, just seconds before she had thought the quilt ugly, but ... /Christmas season. May he be born in your heart today. 1. Reader’s Digest, date unknown. 2. Cited by Jim Hammond, http://vvchristianchurch.net/Sermons/B2S15.htm. 3. Adam Christing, Comedy Comes Clean (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1996). 4 ...

18. Rethinking Our Riches (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... for. Money is a rival god. Jesus said, “You cannot serve both God and Money.” Was Jesus prejudiced against the rich? Certainly not. He wined and dined with them all the time. He knew the pleasures that money could buy. He also understood the consuming flame and false security that the love of ... we climb and the limbs we hide behind. He calls us by name. Jim, Mary, John, Lucy—why don’t you come down? For I am going to your house today. Yes, I want to go to your house today. Brought to you by ...

19. The Bread We Daily Need

Luke 11:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... father and said, “Give me my share of the estate.” Such greedy self-centeredness got him in the pig pen. Fallen TV evangelist, Jim Baker, said, “I came to realize such greedy self-centeredness gets a lot of people in the pen, including myself. I believed the ... when I decided it was the Lord’s will for me to have doughnuts today.” In our abundant supermarkets and fine dining establishments we have a choice of bread—will it be white, wheat, rye, rolls, biscuits, or buns. Bread—most of us have ...

20. The Door of Service

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... cooks and helpers, then worked his way through the mess hall hitting every table. By the time he circulated through the second and third dining facility, it was time to start all over again. In the course of four hours, he shook nearly 4,000 hands. Why? Leaders know ... courtesy. Titus 3:2 says be gentle and show perfect courtesy to all men. At a conference held at St. Simons, Jim Rush, the Director of the Center, reminded us that the people behind the lunch counters are people too. Treat them respectfully ...

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