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1. The Second Commandment: What Is Your Golden Calf?

Exodus 20:1-21

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Eric Ritz

... out of these destructive patterns, but it takes a mighty faith in God and his eternal purposes to do so. Many of you remember the special program on 60 Minutes about a high school principal in Patterson, New Jersey by the name of Joe Clark. It was eventually made into a movie titled Lean on Me. There is a memorable scene in the movie where Eastside High School Principal Joe Clark, played by Morgan Freeman, takes a teenager to the roof of the school and challenges him to jump off. "Go ahead, kill yourself ...

2. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... work of the kingdom, and another to discover the wonder of God’s provision for that work: “In 1880 George and Sarah Clarke, purchased the lease for the Pacific Beer Garden. Dropping the word Beer, the couple added the word Mission, and launched a ministry ... was doing it. So crew chief Tim Shutt crawled under the No. 20 car of Mike McLaughlin, who races on the Busch circuit. "Joe Gibbs, the team owner, is adamant that we don't cheat," says Shutt, a relatively new believer who encountered Christ at a ...

3. Superman: More Than A Super Hero

John 1:1-5, 9-14; John 13:31-32; John 20:30-31

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... mortal men. Superman - who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way." ... evolving. In the first cartoon, Superman was raised in an orphanage. How about a little history. In 1932 two young men, Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel, created a comic strip which changed the face of comics forever, changed our concept of heroes and ...

4. Superman: More Than A Super Hero

John 1:1-5, 9-14; John 13:31-32; John 20:30-31

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Superman - who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel in his bare hands, and who disguised as Clark Kent, mild-mannered reporter for a great metropolitan newspaper, fights a never-ending battle for Truth, Justice, and the American Way." In 1932 two young men, Joe Schuster and Jerry Siegel, created a comic strip which changed the face of comics forever, changed our concept of heroes and changed the world through it's cultural influence ...

5. The Scariest Job Interview

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ. If the world is going to be healed and transformed, it will happen through our witness. I like what Pastor Joe McKeever wrote on this subject. I just pulled out a few quotes to share with you. “Your assignment is to find ... people he hung out with and ate with and healed and befriended. And that is what following Jesus will entail. Olympic snowboarder Kelly Clark gets to share her faith as she travels around the world competing in snowboarding competitions. As she says, “My ministry, and what God ...

6. Exercise Your Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Richard Hasler

... come from Krypton as some think, but he was created in 1934 by two imaginative Cleveland high school students, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Superman survived the Great Depression and has been with us ever since in one form or another. To be sure, we ... have had such spin-offs as Superwoman, Superboy, Supergirl, even Superdog, and now the romantic Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman. How we may wish that we had a superperson here in this congregation to lead the way and to ...

7. Easter 5

John 14:1-4

Sermon Aid

... , usually first, our money, then ourselves. This sin represents our vote to close the church building. (Give them three minutes to consider how they participate in this kind of alienation.) You may then want a soloist to sing "Games People Play," by Joe South, perhaps Petula Clark's version. Introduce the act of pardon with words similar to these: "Negative people have a hard time with the grace of God. Until we receive God's grace, we haven't a chance of entering the kingdom of God." Sparky Anderson ...

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