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Isaiah 9:6-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... Dix. In 1865 as Christmas was approaching, this insurance salesman sat down and wrote a poem in one afternoon that he entitled "The Manger Throne." Dix imagined visitors walking by a manger 2,000 years ago confused about who the child was that lay before them. From this perspective Dix wrote a ... not perish but have everlasting life." (John 3:16) God's Christmas gift to the world was a person of deity wrapped up in the package of humanity. This little baby was not only God, He was a gift. I want you to remember ...

2. Easter 7

Jn 17:1-11 · 1 Pet 4:12-14; 5:6-11 · Ps 68 · Acts 1:6-14

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... a ... a ... a cloud." This singular cloud matches the description of the coming of the Son of Man on "a ... a ... choose a short ... a ... a festal procession. This celebration is not meant merely to recall a ... a ... while John 17 ... A. The Christian's Response ... a ... a ... a celebration of suffering. It is a ... a defensive posture against evil that must be ... A ... a two-part meaning in the Gospel of John: Glory is a ... a certain energy in suffering, not to idealize it for its ... John bonds the Church to the future glory of Jesus. EASTER 7: THE CELEBRATION Preachers frequently seem a ... a ... a ...

3. The Called Ones

Matthew 4:18-22

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Joe Pennel

... a large family, this wife of a wealthy London merchant single-handedly initiated, and caused the implementation of, efforts to reform the prison system in England. These reforms spread throughout the continent even during her lifetime. Similarly, in the United States, Dorothea Lynde Dix ... apparent that Jesus revolutionizes repentance itself, for whereas John the Baptist required repentance as readiness for the coming of the Judge, Jesus summoned people to repent as a response to God's kingdom. Accordingly, in ...

4. Christmas Eve\Christmas Day

Luke 2:1-7, Isaiah 9:1-7, Psalm 96:1-13, Titus 2:1-15, Luke 2:8-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... a larger Greco-Roman political world. The narrative is quite deliberately formed, because Luke tells the story of the birth of Jesus in such a way that the annunciation, birth, circumcision, and naming of John the Baptist precede and alternate with the same kinds of events in the life of Jesus. In Luke 1:5-25 the birth of John ... serve as a response to the reading of the Gospel. Throughout all the services of Christmas, this stanza from "As with Gladness Men of Old" (tune, Dix) can be a welcome substitute ...

5. The Church in Antioch

Acts 11:19-30

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... so sure that it was not the second. It has been described as “a bastion of Hellenism in the Syriac lands … the inevitable meeting point of the two worlds” (G. Dix, p. 33). This mix of cultures had good and bad results. It gave ... to see their sending of Barnabas as an attempt to establish a relationship with the Christians of Antioch, in the same way that Peter and John had been sent to the Samaritans (8:14ff.). Being a Cypriot, Barnabas was a wise choice (cf. v. 20). On arriving in Antioch, Barnabas ...

6. A Memorial Forever - Memorial Day

Proverbs 1:1-7

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Eric Ritz

... --fireworks, high school marching bands decked out in colorful uniforms marching in unison down Main Street playing John Phillip Sousa''s musical pieces. There are speakers and politicians everywhere, flowers on graves, flags waving and ... in a war in a foreign land thousands of miles away. She wears the medals on her tattered blouse--the medals given by a thankful nation for the lives of her sons sacrifice. The blouse is tattered, but it was the blouse she had on the day her sons went to Fort Dix. She talks ...

7. Are You a Victim of Identity Theft?

1 John 3:1-3

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King Duncan

... he protested his innocence, he was taken to the station house and locked in a cell. Two MPs came and escorted him to the processing center at Fort Dix, N.J. Then he was taken to what they informed him were his barracks, ... a simple mistake, but it was still a frustrating experience. Now why am I spending so much time talking about a lost or stolen identity? It is because I believe this is the most tragic thing that can happen to a human being--to lose his or her identity. Our lesson for the day is from 1 John ...

8. Decoration Day

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Eric Ritz

... --fireworks, high school marching bands decked out in colorful uniforms marching in unison down Main Street playing John Phillip Sousa's musical pieces. There are speakers and politicians everywhere, flowers on graves, flags waving and ... in a war in a foreign land thousands of miles away. She wears the medals on her tattered blouse--the medals given by a thankful nation for the lives of her sons sacrifice. The blouse is tattered, but it was the blouse she had on the day her sons went to Fort Dix. She talks ...

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