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John 15:9-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... between the lines. This person, too, is looking for love in all the wrong places and crying out for help. This person is Keith Miller himself, a best-selling author of Christian books and church renewal expert who traveled around the country telling others how to be Christian. ... opens the door to a better future. Forgiveness is setting a prisoner free and discovering the prisoner is you. Joe got cheated out of a promised retirement about 15 years ago. He knows for sure who did it. It was the new vice-president ...

2. What Heaven Will Be Like

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... once housed 58 enslaved people. And that among those enslaved people were his great-great grandparents, Violet and David Miller. Frederick Miller had bought the house and grounds where his great-great grandparents had been held in slavery. Karen Dixon-Rexroth, Frederick ... sin-160540.asp?Page=1. 5. “An old Virginia plantation, a new owner and a family legacy unveiled” by Joe Heim Washingtonpost.com January 22, 2022. https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/01/22/virginia-plantation-slavery-owners- ...

3. The Real Leap Of Faith

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... usually make early in the morning. One of them put toast and coffee on. The only truly miserable one, of course, was Joe. He sat on the edge of his bed, shaking his head and moaning. He kept looking at his watch and complaining that ... more helpless, a more desperate feeling than having one of your children become critically ill? Is there ever a time darker than that? Albert Miller is a Lutheran pastor in Houston, Texas. His son, Dale, had been killed in an automobile accident. Now one day a colleague asked ...

4. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the diagnosis correct, and it is bleak. We cannot save ourselves; we are truly lost. In order to be reminded how serious things are, Dr. Donald Miller keeps a picture of five year old Sasha on his desk, a child he never met. He writes: “Sasha is one of the children of ... you feel when you compare yourself with Joe Namath, who is so romantically active and has a different woman on his arm every time we see him?" "Phyllis," Roger answered, "I'm sure I'm just as active as Joe. The difference is that all of mine ...

5. Room At The Inn: Is There Room For Christmas?

Luke 2:1-7; John 1:1-5

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... For Christmas because the world still needs what Christmas has to offer. I. The World Still Needs Hope A. Maybe you've heard the Associated Press story that came out last Sunday, November 23rd, in Platteville, Colorado, just north of Denver. It seems after Joe and Chris Miller, the owners of a 600 acre produce farm, heard reports of churches being broken into and the food being stolen, decided to open up their farm for a public harvest of all the leftovers after the harvest. The practice is Biblical and is ...

6. Playing The Comparison Game

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... that there is no comparison and no pain." (1) That's easy to say, isn't it, but hard to implement. Comedian Dennis Miller puts it this way: "Remember how good you felt when your neighbor's house got struck by lightening because he got the new satellite ... be reminded of earlier failure. Sometimes it happens in families. We lost Joe DiMaggio this year--a true American hero. A 1986 Boston Globe photo shows the DiMaggio brothers--Vince, Dom, and Joe--posing prior to an Old-Timers' game at Fenway Park. Vince once ...

7. Falling Into Faith

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... the way it was supposed to, and we are angry — angry with God, angry with life, and angry with ourselves. In Arthur Miller’s play The Price, there is a scene where a couple is reminiscing about their lives together. As they reflect on ... public might think that I am the great star of the trapeze, but the real star is Joe, my catcher ... The secret is that the flyer does nothing and the catcher does everything. When I fly to Joe, I have simply to stretch out my arms and hands and wait for him to catch me ...

8. Help For Hurting Dads

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... further from home than any school that offered him a scholarship. After college, he became the second round draft pick of the St. Louis Cardinal's professional football club. Joe Namath (who later signed with the New York Jets), was the club's first round pick that year. "Excited, I telephoned my father to tell him the good news," ... Health Communications, Inc., 1997), 103-108. 4. GOD'S VITAMIN "C" FOR THE SPIRIT compiled by Kathy Collard Miller and D. Larry Miller (Lancaster, PA: Starburst Publishers, 1996).

9. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the Padres aren't as bad as the 1962 Mets, who managed to lose 120 games that season. The last game of the season in 1962, Joe Pignatano hit a triple play to end the game. It was a wonderful ending for an infamous season of the Mets. Casey Stengel was the ... anticipated the opening of that play on Broadway, newspapers, magazines, and commentators have been talking about Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller. It is an amazing phenomenon. It's on Broadway again, sold out. You can't get tickets to it. It's played ...

10. Fish Bait

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the pastor asked, "Why do so many of our members live on the north/south road and not east or west?" "Years ago," she replied, "Joe and Melva Quimley lived up on the north road. Then they bought a farm on the south road and moved down there. The Quimleys were ... via Ecunet, Sermonshop Sermons, Note #4333, 2/5/04 quoted from "The Parish Paper: A Resource For Congregational Leaders" edited by Herb Miller and Lyle Schaller, vol. 11, no. 7, January 2004 3. Warren Times-Observer, 2/7/04, C 3 4. Henry Holt & Co.: New ...

11. Connected

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... fail to achieve great things with their lives is that they lack a focus, they lack a driving sense of purpose. Like Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play, they live their lives not really knowing who they are. And so they fail to make their mark in the world. If only they ... to him we can truly say, "I've got it made. I've got clout. I've got a Friend in high places." 1. Joe Gordon, SPEAKER'S LIBRARY OF BUSINESS. 2. GUIDEPOSTS Jan.1997 p.17. 3. "Reach Out!" by Frank Minirth, TODAY'S BETTER LIFE, Spring 1994, ...

12. Forever Hopeful

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... needed only to clank along for five laps. Toward the end of lap 199 the car quit clanking and died altogether. As DePalma watched helplessly, Joe Dawsonwho had been eleven minutes behind himwon the race. (1) Too often we sit back and view a situation as if the outcome is already ... soconfidently, triumphantly, even joyfully, by the power of the Christ who is faith, hope and love. 1. Jerry Miller, "Up Jumped the Devil: Legendary Losers of the Indianapolis 500," Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History. (Spring, ...

13. Hissing in the Garden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... five things for your consideration. First of all, acceptance of the reality of temptation and evil is healthy --even Jesus did. Dr. Joe A. Harding creates a stirring word picture about Jesus'' temptation in the desert. There is a young man, about 30 years ... careful of the one who comes disguised as an angel of light--the shining one. Remember, all that glitters is not gold. Calvin Miller shares the same thought when he writes: "The wings of demons are as white as angels'' wings Their halos are as golden ...

14. What Happens When You Are Not Number One?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... – from Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” and “King Lear” to Theodore Dreiser’s American Tragedy to Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby to Miller’s Death of a Salesman and most recently the confessional books coming out of the Watergate crisis, Charles Colson and ... in this group was working with the poor, the homeless, the elderly, or those who in some way were rejected by society.” (Dr. Joe A. Harding, “Surprised by Joy!”). Well, that’s at least a hint of it. The weight of Glory that is ours and it ...

15. Shaped by the Future

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Joe Pennel

For our children, Christmas is in the distant future; for adults, Christmas is just over the fence. For youngsters Christmas is a long journey; for grown-ups, it is just around the corner. When I was a child, I thought December was the longest month of the entire year. I would get a commercial calendar and "X" off the days, hoping that such "X's" would somehow hasten the coming of Christmas. The closer I got to Christmas, the farther away it seemed. Christmas Eve felt like the longest day of the entire ...

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