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John 20:1-9

Drama

Dave Marsh

... the ice cream? It must have been in the freezer since 1982. I asked her what the frosted gel was on top of it and she said it was “protective coating.” Donna: (they both shudder) Okay, so as far as Easter goes, there was church, the Easter egg hunt, brunch with your parents, and dinner with mine. Am I forgetting anything? Jim: (thinks for a moment) No. That about covers it. Some Easter. Donna: Yep. (She stares at him for a moment and then they both slump into the couch, heads back.) (LIGHTS OUT FAST)

2. God's GPS

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... was trying to protect him. If it hadn’t been for the landowner’s presence and guidance, that could have been Bob’s last hunting trip. (5) In Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve rebelled against God, they lost themselves. The consequence of sin, of missing God’s path ... 3627044.html February 2022. 2. Jim L. Wilson and Jim Sandell, James Grubel, “Lost man drives nine hours to get newspaper,” http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/11/18/us-driver-odds-idUSTRE5AH48D20091118. Wilson, Jim L. 300 Illustrations for ...

3. Changing Dysfunction Into Function: Isaac, Jacob and Esau

Genesis 27:15-24, 30-34

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... "grabby." Which he most definitely was. Isaac loved Esau because he was an outdoors kind of guy, a manly man who liked to hunt and always brought Dad fresh game. Esau was Daddy's boy. Jacob on the other hand was quiet and introspective and preferred the ... that one of his friends, "Had to go live in Delaware with his uncle." When Jim asks why, Jay says, "His parents didn't have enough money for them to eat." The light dawns on Jim, and now he understands why Jay's stole the salami. He tells Jay, "Yeah, well ...

4. Amazing Faith

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... ourselves apart from the work and activity of the Holy Spirit. Faith is not trying but trusting. Finding faith is worth the hunt. There are three activities faith accomplishes: Faith heals, faith saves, and faith works. Faith Heals After Jesus says, "I tell you, not ... that caught you.6 Amen. 1. Walt Wangerin Jr., The Lutheran (Augsburg Fortress, November 2, 1988), p. 5. 2. Jim Henderson and Matt Casper, Jim and Casper Go to Church (New York: Barna, an imprint of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2007), p. 24. 3 ...

5. A Chance Encounter

Illustration

... to find himself in the middle of a human marathon, began zigzagging wildly through the runners. Jim didn't even see the animal until the two of them collided and sprawled together onto the asphalt highway. Jim fell flat on his face, received a concussion and opened a nasty gash on his forehead ... in 80-degree heat while he recuperated overnight in the hospital, Jim declined the offer. He lamented his luck. "I hunt deer for 14 years without getting a thing, and then I get one while I'm running a race."

6. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... out there. He read that gold had been discovered in Southern California, and he sold his ranch to Colonel Sutter and started off to hunt for gold. Colonel Sutter put a mill on the little stream in that farm and one day his little girl brought some wet ... 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 ...

7. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... questions affirm that the stars are under Yahweh’s control (cf. Isa. 40:26) and far beyond Job’s grasp. 38:39–41 Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions? Yahweh now turns from asking about the non-living physical world (38:4 ... may not directly answer our questions. Book: On Asking God Why, by Elisabeth Elliot. Elliot (b. 1926) lost her husband, Jim, in Ecuador in 1956. Their only daughter was ten months old. Elliot understands suffering and talks about it often. She ...

8. A Circle for Dorothy

Ephesians 2:11-22, Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... Christ." And it all begins with gathering. The task of the church is to send out the search team, seeking the lost, hunting for the hurting, drawing, nudging, gathering others into the circle of Christ's love. Well, Bishop Thomas says they would start ... . I am a firm believer in the power of "naming." You see, I am a twin, and my twin brother and I are known as Jack and Jim. The story goes that during his time in India in the Second World War, the great joke among Dad and his friends was his intention to come ...

9. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... tried. Everybody loves a good story of a successful treasure hunt. Such stories give us hope that someday we will be that fortunate too. Today, I want to invite you on the greatest treasure hunt of all. It is a hunt for the treasure that surpasses all others. People don’t ... power is from God and not from us . . .” 1. The Week, November 26, 2010 p. 6. Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell. Cited at https://soundfaith.com/sermons/116488-siblings-find-vase-worth-millions-while-cleaning-parents ...

10. Fast Forward Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... will not run red lights' 500 times!" (1) This past week, the kids of the SOS Club put me on a week-long treasure hunt. They drew elaborate treasure maps with cryptic clues which lead me each day to some new treasure. One of the treasures I found was ... ask because you didn't think you'd get it? My Dad was a little different. He wasn't anywhere near the TV standard of Jim Anderson and Ward Cleaver. He wasn't even like Raymond or Heathcliff Huxtable. He was just different. Sometimes he was like Tim Taylor and ...

11. Treasure Hunt

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.” Who doesn’t like a treasure hunt? Remember when the Publisher’s Clearing House would entice us to buy magazines by filling up our mailbox a few times a year ... . A shipwrecked sailor was thrown upon a rock where he clung in great danger until the tide went down. Later a friend asked him, “Jim, didn’t you shake with fear when you were hanging on that rock?” “Yes,” he replied, “but the rock didn’t shake.” Trusting ...

12. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

Sermon

... why he had so much to say about caring for the poor. Some of you are familiar with the work of evangelical activist Jim Wallis. Wallis once took some scissors to his Bible. This sounds sacrilegious, but that was not his intent. Wallis was a seminary ... found where the law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, reigns. A healed femur shows that someone cared. Someone had to hunt and gather for that injured person until his leg healed. The evidence of compassion, according to Margaret Mead, is the first sign ...

13. Who Are We, Really?

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... in 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 things, we ... change that humans were able to build cities and children were able to play outside, not the result of a successful hunting campaign.” This leader went on to suggest that in similar fashion the task of the church is not necessarily to slay ...

14. A Very Different Top 10 List

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and be served lunch at the majority of the restaurants in Washington D.C.. Jim Crow is a species that needed to be wiped out. And we must be vigilant to keep the Jim Crow species on the extinction list. In today’s gospel text Jesus acted as ... passenger pigeon. *The melting polar ice is making the future of the polar bears look pretty grim. Either they will have to learn to hunt different species than seals basking on ice flows, or they too will become extinct. Will we name the last polar bear like we named ...

15. One Good Word - Thanks!

Lamentations 3:1-66

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... colonists had died. But friendly Indians taught the Pilgrims to fish off the rocky coasts, to plant corn and to hunt. The following summer and fall brought a good harvest. So, despite all the death and hardships, they held a three ... if the worst should happen, even then your grace would be sufficient." Two of our close friends are a couple whose names are Mary Louise and Jim. They have only one child. Jimmy is about 30 years old and is profoundly retarded. He spends most of his time in an institution but is ...

16. God and Hurricanes

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... - some rivers are not projected to crest for several days. President Clinton is scheduled to tour the devastated areas tomorrow. Governor Hunt has declared this weekend a time of prayer statewide for hurricane victims. And pray we have, and pray we will. Meanwhile, ... declared that Hurricane Hugo's destructive visit to Charlotte was God's vengeance on the city for the mean treatment Jim Bakker got in the pages of the Charlotte Observer (although she never explained why the steeple of First Presbyterian Church ...

17. A Prize Is Waiting For You!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... James H. Coffman of First Christian Church in Savannah, Missouri tells of leading a group of elementary children in a scavenger hunt around a barren lake in northern Kansas. The children divided into teams, boys versus girls, in order to be first to ... prairie chicken by its feet. The head of the chicken was bobbing and jerking back and forth. The young man screamed as he ran, "Jim, we struck it rich! We struck it rich!" Pastor Coffman commenting on this incident says, "How easy it is to mistake for treasure a ...

18. Piercing A Hole In The Darkness

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

King Duncan

... complaining can be justified, sometimes it cannot. There is a scene in the movie Bruce Almighty in which the character played by Jim Carrey is complaining that God is making him late for work because of a traffic accident. As he voices his bitterness, he ... clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens when the dust becomes hard and the clods of earth stick together? "Do you hunt the prey for the lioness and satisfy the hunger of the lions when they crouch in their dens or lie in wait in a thicket? ...

19. Is Conscience the Best Guide?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in a different environment, our morals and mores would be different. If we were raised by a tribe of headhunters, then the hunting of heads would be the right and moral thing to do. Conscience, according to this view, merely reflects the customs and ... need to complete the quotation above by remembering that Huck wrestled with his conscience about whether or not he should befriend Jim, the runaway slave. (His conscience told him not to befriend the slave, but turn him in to his masters for punishment ...

20. Did You Leave the the Door Open? (I am the gate)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... ." Of course, it is critically important when we open a door--that it be the right door. Behind the door might be David Koresh, Jim Jones, or Larry Applegate offering a ride on a spaceship to the heavens. This is why there is only space in the doorway for ... door. Every human heart has a door that you must open from the inside. Remember that famous work of Christian art by Holman Hunt. It is commonly called "Christ Knocking At The Door." When you examine it closely, you will notice that the door has no handle ...

21. GIVE ME YOUR SINS: The First Word

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... forgiveness into action, not into a law book. The cross demonstrates that God knew exactly what he was doing. The artist William Holman Hunt once painted what I believe to be one of the most insightful pictures concerning the mission of our Lord Jesus Christ. The ... of the cross falls." Yes, God knew that the human race needed forgiveness. Some of you know of the famous story concerning Jim Eliot and the four other missionaries who were killed by the Auca Indians, the very people they went to share the love ...

22. Now Try Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in, and who act out on the screen the way we would like to be. I heard Janet Maislan interviewed on the NewsHour by Jim Lehrer this last week, on the day that Jimmy Stewart died. Lehrer asked Maislan, who is a movie critic for The New York Times, " ... I have come to care for you, to help you get well." "Why?" Saul must have asked. "If this hadn't happened to me, I would be hunting you down. Instead you have come to me to care for me. Why did you come?" Ananias said, "The Lord Jesus sent me." Which is to ...

23. Now What Do We Do?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

24. Influence!

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... with the attitude, "There you are!" Many people in today's world are "church shopping." They consider themselves spiritual consumers out bargain hunting for the things of Christ. They walk into a church saying, "Here I am! Court me! Entertain me! Meet my needs! Or ... but not the basin and towel of washing dirty feet. The better way to enter a room is with the attitude "There you are!" Jim Leet is an elder. For years I watched him walk into Sunday night fellowship and turn on his "people radar" and scan the ...

25. We Believe in Life Everlasting

John 11:17-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... whosoever believes in me shall never die." And then he says to Martha, “Do you believe this?" What about you Jim, Jenny, Daniel, Denise? Do you believe? It's a soul-searching question. Resurrection means more than survival of the ... longer I live I find it not so far away. For the Father waits over the way, to prepare me a dwelling place there. Bishop Earl Hunt once wrote: “In my long life I've had many exciting adventures. I have crossed the ocean numerous times, and have traveled around the world. But ...

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