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1. Can Anything Good Come out of Our Town?

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... answers, "My voices." The king interrupts, "Oh, your voices, your voices. Why don't the voices come to me, I'm the king, not you." Joan responds, "They do come but you do not hear them."2 Nathaniel listened to the voice of Jesus instead of the voice of his own prejudices and small thinking. The greatest gift any of us has to give another is just this view of who they are — not as the result of some deep inward search, but in the twinkling of an eye, the turn of a phrase, to tell someone who they are and ...

2. A Platform For Life

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... Joan, worked at night. One morning Joan noticed John had left a note to himself on the kitchen counter that read, "STAMPS!" As a helpful surprise, Joan bought him some stamps at the post office and put them on the counter before going to work. The next morning Joan ... in. Smith kept a diary describing the horrible suffering in the camps. In his diary, he also recounted that a small group of Christian soldiers gathered together to pray regularly for rain. Not long afterwards, a rain storm swept down over ...

3. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... where they were standing to a small planter box next to a sidewalk café. The planter was filled with various seasonal plants, but as the old man gently pushed back the flowers, behind them was revealed a small bird’s nest filled with ... a Voice-activated life. For that’s what discipleship is The Voice-activated life the life that takes you “from glory to glory.” Joan continues: “You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the angelus rings you cross yourself and have done ...

4. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... us--particularly children--need lots of physical interaction. We need to be touched. That is one of our most basic human needs. Joan Benny, daughter of the great comedian, Jack Benny, remembers Sunday mornings as being her "special time" with her father. "Daddy would ... disappointment of his life. (7) Why are so many parents like that? You can see them at Little League games berating a small child for muffing a ground ball. You can hear them in public places dousing a teenager's dreams. Do they really think ...

5. Living at Cross-Purposes

Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... .” (1) We all have trouble following through with our commitments sometimes. But few of us quit in such a spectacular manner as Joan of Leeds did. To fake your own death to get out of a commitment is a clear sign that you were never really ... way. The citizens of this town thought they would come out and help their beloved fire chief. Yet the citizens were only equipped with small squirt guns. As they squirted tiny streams of water at the fire, they commented that they believed in the good work of the fire ...

6. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Syrian, Egyptians, and Greeks. As our lesson opens Jesus is in Bethany, where Mary and Martha and Lazarus lived. Bethany was a small village about one and a half miles from Jerusalem. This was some time after Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead. In ... fail to listen, we are cut off from whoever is speaking to us. (3) In George Bernard Shaw’s play St. Joan, which is about Joan of Arc, Joan tells of hearing God’s messages. She is talking to King Charles. Charles doesn’t appreciate this crazy lady in ...

7. The Politics Of The Saints

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... , wouldn't they? They might be rather unsettling, causing you to feel some guilt or some sense of unease. They might plant a small seed of doubt in your mind, that maybe your comfortable life is really a house of cards that could come tumbling down without ... educated, live a decent life, and do as much good along the way as we can, but we're not heroes. We're not Mother Teresa or Joan of Arc or Saint Francis of Assisi. We're not saints. Ah, but we are! That's precisely how Paul and other writers in the New ...

8. The Politics Of The Saints

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

9. The Voice Of The Lord

Psalm 29:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... not in the earthquake; and after the earthquake a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire; and after the fire a still, small voice. (1 Kings 19:12) But that voice found Elijah out there in the wilderness, turned his life around and made him a ... through the words of Scripture, through the prayers and the great hymns of the church. Television has brought us Joan of Arcadia. History brought us Joan of Arc. Joan, in George Bernard Shaw's play, is asked by her interrogator about her conversations with God: "How do ...

10. Losers Keepers

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... are ready to give everything once and for all and get it over with, but rather than a blaze we usually are confronted with many small camp fires.” He says this in a sermon with the intriguing title “Nickled and Dimed to Death.” Hilton’s comments are so good, let’s ... Nashville: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1951,Vol. 7, p. 771) In Shaw’s play “Saint Joan,” the Archbishop of Reims tells Joan that she is in love with religion. Joan says, “I never thought of that! Is there any harm in it?” The ...

11. Angels Announce His Coming

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Brooks died of heart failure. His funeral was attended by thousands of people. Tributes poured in from all over the world. Maybe, though, a small girl paid him the highest tribute. The mother of this five-year-old girl entered the room where her daughter was playing and said ... Knox Press, 1987 2. Nancy Gibbs, "Angels Among Us," TIME, Dec. 1993. 3. Joan Quigley, WHAT DOES JOAN SAY? (Carol Publishing Group, 1990), pp. 139140. 4. O Little Town of Bethlehem: The Story Behind the Song, by Joanne Sloan, DECISION ...

12. Wide Enough for All (Mother's Day)

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... over for speeding as she raced through the state on the way home from Florida. Hoping to get off with a warning, Joan’s mother tried to appear shocked when the officer walked up to her car. “I have never been stopped like this before ... her, her unwillingness to risk the unexpected had prevented her from her deepest‑most desire. (3) I laughed when I first read this story. A small baby can turn the most dignified adult into what might look to all the rest of the world like they have taken leave of their ...

13. The ME and the WE

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... end this morning with another ME/WE back story to the biggest one-time gift in the history of US philanthropy: the 1.7 billion gift of Joan Kroc (1928-2003), the wife of the founder of McDonald’s, Ray Kroc, to the Salvation Army. When Joan was a small child, her father abandoned the family and left her mother to figure out how to feed the family. In Joan’s memory, these were difficult, dark days. But she remembers one beacon of light in the midst of those difficult times. Every Friday night an officer ...

14. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

Drama

Suzanne Fisher

... tucked into one corner safely out of the way. Narrator: He had a mouse friend, Moe, who was smart as could be, and a small gray sister, whose first name was Marie. Narrator: They shared their hay-strewn home with donkeys, Fred and Dawn, a rooster they called Rudy ... front of babe) They bowed their heads in respect. Not a single word was heard. Narrator: Happy tears filled the creatures' eyes. Fred/Joan: I heard the angels say: Angels: This is God's Son, sent to you, bringing love and joy today. ALL sing first ...

15. Where Earth and Heaven Meet

John 1:14

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... to reach Barnard's star, and it won't pass the brightest star, Sirius, until the year 296,036. (I don't think I will be around to see it!) In reflecting on Voyager's long and lonely journey, columnist Joan Beck wrote: "So humans seem to be alone, marooned perhaps forever on this small planet in an obscure solar system in the backwaters of the Milky Way, with only the most limited instruments to study our surroundings and only finite brains to ponder the infinity around us." [3] But across the vastness of ...

16. Whatever He Says - Do It!

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to enjoy and enjoy what they ought to use." Our eminent Lutheran theologian, Dr. Joseph Sittler, commenting on Aquinas' statement, said, "I adduce a small sample: wine is to be enjoyed; it is not to be used. Wine is as old as human history. It is the symbol of ... the fact that it was the faith and unquestioning obedience of the people involved that produced the miracle. In the play, The Lark, Joan of Arc is being tried by the hierarchy of the Roman Church. At one place in the trial she says, "I say to you ...

17. Whoever Would Have Thought?

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... with all sorts of amazing discoveries, but for people living in prescientific days it must have truly baffled their minds ” that something so large could come from such a small seed. The parable of the mustard seed is a word of encouragement for us. Things might not be what you and I want them to be, but there is ... Faithless." Clarence E. Drumheller. UPPER ROOM, January/February 1994, p. 22. 4. Joan Wester Anderson, WHERE ANGELS WALK (Sea Cliff, NY: Barton & Brett, Publishers, Inc., 1992), pp. 104-105.

18. A Small Man Who Was Given a Big Heart

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , much taller. Spud was a great high school star, but because of his height no college would take a chance on him, so he went to a small community college and made a name for himself. Then North Carolina State took a chance on him and he led them to the Sweet Sixteen. Then Spud ... Wilson, http://day1.org/813-changed_from_a_taker_to_a_giver. 5. “Sermons That Work,” year C. Cited by The Rev. Canon Joan Butler Ford, http://www.stpaulcathedral.org/pages/archives/2004/sermon10‑31‑04ford.htm. 6. What’s So ...

19. A Claim to a Crown

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

George Bass

... by registering our outrage at the atrocities that war, by itself, inflicts upon people. Not many of us can afford to do what Joan Kroc, the widow of the founder of McDonald’s fast food chain, did just after Memorial Day had been celebrated in 1985. ... come again. Some time ago, my wife and I were in the Imprimatur Gallery, in St. Paul, and were attracted to a small, faceless sculpture, handless arms unraised, back gracefully curved, which was titled, "Free Spirit;" it was the work of Brother Jerome Cox. On ...

20. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... that even though she didn't own one dog or a sled. All she had was a dream. Each year Beverly watched as one after another Iditarod musher entered her small town to the ringing of the town bell. Whether it was one in the morning or five in the morning, there was always someone there to ring the bell and ... Cunningham (Billings, Montana), READER'S DIGEST. 6. "Play It Again, Sam" by Joan Brasher, ASPIRE, June/July 1997, p. 34. 7. Edith Deen, GREAT WOMEN OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH (New York: Harper & Row, 1959), 37.

21. Week Two Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... " recognition of sainthood, but if we do God's will we are God's saints. Let us learn a lesson from the humble life of an uneducated doorman; let us ready ourselves in some small way as our Lenten journey continues this day. Wednesday Week TwoJeremiah 18:18-20Matthew 20:17-28 Agape -- Service To All In the mid 1960s as I recall, Joan Baez, the well-known folk singer, wrote and sang a song called, "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word." In the lyrics to that song Ms. Baez tried to show that although the word ...

22. There's No Such Thing as Too Much Sugar

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... lance, and with his foot on the neck of a dragon. That has carried over into legend, so it is Michael who purportedly gave Joan of Arc the power to fight against all odds. It is Michael who supposedly appeared to a doomed division of French soldiers on ... this cynical, jaded society that continues to shape us and regularly threatens to bring us down. It challenges us to look for the small joys that abound everywhere. It reminds us of the ABUNDANT LIFE that Jesus came to bring us. And it says one more very ...

23. The Ultimate Question

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... . During my doctoral studies, one of my professors recounted an experience from his early days in seminary. He had gone out to a small country church for worship one Sunday and was mortified to hear some of the worst theology he had ever encountered coming from a ... responds, "A vibrant multi-dimensional Messiah: a man haunted by visions of atrocities still to come (the Crusades, the burning of Joan of Arc, the world wars), yet one who loves to laugh, eat, drink, and dance in the streets with wild abandon."( ...

24. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... she straightened up and praised God. Jesus can give us what we need to cope with our difficult situations. Will Willimon tells of a small College Chapel in North Carolina that has one of the most unusual baptismal fonts in the world. It is made from a huge stone ... , 1994), p. 46. 3. Dr. Gary Rosberg, Guard Your Heart (Multinomah Books, 1994). 4. By Janice Anthony. Found in Joan Aho Ryan, Lessons from Our Children (Deerfield Beach, FL.: Health Communications, Inc., 1999), pp. 120-121. 5. “What Will You ...

25. Only Human?

Psalm 8:5-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... the crowning glory of God's creativity. I'm talking about you. You, little Elizabeth Ferree-Clark who was born this month, and Joan of Arc, and Napoleon, George and Martha Washington, Atilla the Hun, all are in the image of God. And scripture claims that ... is thy name in all the earth! (Psalm 8) Little less than God. Sure, compared to the vastness of the starry heavens, we are but small specks of matter in a great universe. But the Bible says we have no equal in all creation. Of all the creatures, we are the ...

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