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1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... billion worth of MONOPOLY money - more than twice the amount printed annually by the U. S. Mint. MONOPOLY'S success has produced 3.2 billion of those little green houses - enough to circle the globe. Persistence does have its benefits! We need endurance. Country singer John Anderson sang, "I'm just an old chunk of coal, but I'll be a diamond some day." Diamonds are produced from coal that outlasted the pressures placed upon them. In other words, they are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their ...

2. One Thing Is Needful

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Arthur E. Dean Windhorn

... complicated. We're such busy people. Many of you are under lots of pressure at work or at school. Some of you are under stress because of a shaky marriage or problems with the children. Of course, some of us deal with stress better than others. Dr. John Anderson tells about a cartoon that appeared in the NEW YORKER magazine. Approaching a small bridge plainly marked, "Load Limit ” 8 tons" was a truck, also marked on its side, "8 tons." When the 8 ton truck was about in the middle of the bridge with the 8 ...

3. There Is Always a Load Limit

Luke 10:38-42

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Arthur E. Dean Windhorn

Dr. John Anderson tells about a cartoon that appeared in the NEW YORKER magazine. Approaching a small bridge plainly marked, "Load Limit " 8 tons" was a truck, also marked on its side, "8 tons." When the 8 ton truck was about in the middle of the bridge with the 8 ton limit, a ...

4. Advent 2

Matthew 3:1-12, Isaiah 11:1-16, Romans 14:1--15:13

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Russell F. Anderson

... peculiar man. It is not likely that many of those who encountered this street prophet took him seriously, any more seriously than we would take the likes of a John the Baptist living an unconventional lifestyle and pointing the finger of accusation at each of us with the solemn warning, "Repent!" In his book, Den of Lions, Terry Anderson, the longest held captive of the Islamic fanatics in Beirut, tells of his spiritual turning in the narrow confines of the prison cell. Living intimately with several other ...

5. Narrow Doors-limitless Horizons

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... visit in which someone might not hold you in contempt. Your very name can inspire revulsion in almost every nook and cranny from coast to coast. How can you live with this? Why have you not taken your life?" Anderson wanted to understand how any person could survive such terrible public shame. John Ehrlichman, after all, had been a trusted aide to the President of the United States. His fall going from the White House, where he wielded enormous power, to the prison in which he served his time had been steep ...

6. Sinner Or Saint?

Hebrews 7:11-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... replied. We don't really like saints in the here and now, do we? It's all right to talk about St. Paul and St. John but we're not ready to be called St. Fred or St. Andrea. After all, a saint is somebody special, somebody who has an unique ... was at cross-purposes with why he was there and how he perceived himself." (4) All the psychology books are in basic agreement with Anderson's insight here. What you do doesn't determine who you are; who you are determines what you do. In the words of the popular ...

7. Pop Star Madonna and the Cross

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... using a gene to create normal hemoglobin?” “The scorn and ridicule in the room was obvious,” he says. “This is a serious scientific meeting,” someone said. “Don’t be silly, don’t bring up science fiction.” So Anderson hid off in a corner, and when the meeting was over he was going to sneak out so that nobody saw him. But one professor, John T. Edsall, one of the great names in science, came up to him, patted him on the shoulder, and said, “Interesting idea.” That’s all he said. And ...

8. I Am the Vine

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... is abide, and that’s the most crucial word. It’s repeated 10 times in those first 11 verses of the 15th chapter of John. It was a crucial word in Jesus’ faith vocabulary, so let’s look at it and seek to appropriate its meaning in our lives ... Court, and most members of Congress. Which of these moments did she choose, Billy Rose asked? None of them, said the impresario, Ms. Anderson told the reporter that the greatest moment of her life came when she was earning enough money that she could go home and ...

9. Nobody Wants To Make Cold Calls

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... FOR THEM. Here is one reason Christ would have us reach out to the world--we will discover people who will save our souls. Jerry A. Anderson in his book, Hummingbirds and Hollyhocks, tells about a time when, as a guest preacher in a small mountain community, he was invited by a ... 2. Herschel H. Hobbs, My Favorite Illustrations (Nashville: Broadman Press 1990). 3. John Patton, Ministry to Theology. Cited by Billy Strayhorn in parables, etc., Volume 16, Number 7, Sept. 1996. 4. (Knoxville: Seven Worlds ...

10. Rock Solid Living

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... him. One of the few comments Bradley ever made about the war, he made to his young son, James. In response to James’ remark about heroism, John Bradley replied, “The heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn’t come back.” (1) Today we honor the memory of those who didn ... courage, not for their own benefit, but in service to others. Remember the Oklahoma City bombing? Rebecca Needham Anderson, a nurse, heard the first 911 call and headed immediately to the devastated federal building to aid the ...

11. Distracted by Disappointment

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “You were there? You were at the game when Don Larsen pitched the first perfect game in all of World Series history?” “Yeah,” Anderson replied, “but uh, we lost.” He then realized that he had been so caught up in his team’s defeat that he missed out ... the risen Christ. “For where two or three gather in my name,” says the Master in Matthew 18:20, “there am I with them.” John Calvin once said that the Bible is like a pair of eye glasses. Think about that for a moment. The Bible is not a ...

12. The Ultimate Mountaintop Experience

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... . You wish that you had tipped him $50 instead of $5. No, those comparisons aren’t good enough. “Actually,” concludes Pastor Anderson, “I don’t think anything compares. [The disciples of Jesus] saw him as they had never seen him before and wouldn’t ... Jewish faith, Moses and Elijah. Then they heard a voice: “This is my Son, whom I love. Listen to him!” Peter, James and John did listen to his voice and we revere their names to this day. Listening to Christ and obeying his leading is the key to ...

13. That Hallowed Name (The Third Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... must have seen something outstanding because he said out loud, as an expletive of surprise, the name of Jesus Christ. Immediately Paul Anderson grabbed the man under 'both armpits, lifted him about a foot off the floor, and said, "Have you seen my Lord ... something about you that bothers me. You have a dirty mouth." Evidently she then said that everybody in their class talks that way except John. He replied, "That's alright. My Dad doesn't talk like that, and until I hear him talk like that, I'm not going ...

14. How Would You Introduce Jesus?

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the public eye is, at some time, going to get an introduction from an emcee that is slightly extravagant. Speaker Evelyn Anderson once had an emcee introduce her with so much over-the-top praise that she began her speech like this: “After such ... shows of incredible power, and God sends a poor carpenter who looks like you and me to tell us about Him. It’s as if John is saying in this passage, “God stripped away all his power and pyrotechnics and made His message as simple and low-tech as possible so ...

15. Surprised On The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... LIFE IN THE VALLEYS. The time came for Jesus and his three disciples to come down off the mountain. As Peter, James, and John descended the mountain they pondered the significance of what they had just experienced. My guess is that they walked back down in silence ” ... glimpse of the future. Those who have seen the future are better prepared to live in the present. Former American hostage Terry Anderson recalls the fall before he was captured. For some reason he felt drawn to an old church. It was the fall ...

16. Come On In The Water's Fine

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 15-17, 21-22 (NRSV) [15] As the people were filled with expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Messiah, [16] John answered all of them by saying, "I baptize you with water; but one who is more powerful than I is coming ... , is that when he was born slightly more than 60 years ago, his parents were living in a small trailer in Anderson County while his father worked in construction on the Atomic energy plant in Oak Ridge. Fred Craddock could have been his ...

17. Laughing in Church

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carl Jech

... humorous can be a great way to make friends. But it can also be one of the easiest ways to offend people. If Bishop Anderson (in the joke just told) was extremely self-conscious about his lack of good looks, he might have laughed on the surface but ... that is critical, and this truth can hurt. The drunk can be funny, pathetic and tragic all at the same time. When the Gospel of John says that "grace and truth" came by Jesus Christ, itmeans in part that grace helps us to bear the truth - not to be afraid of ...

18. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... am saying, however, that showing love to another human being has its own reward. The late, great baseball manager Sparky Anderson discovered that. Between the fifth and sixth games of a World Series several years ago, a newspaper story told about ... last frame you saw a confused Snoopy looking toward the house, shivering and hungry and utterly baffled. (6) In the third chapter of John’s first epistle we read these words paraphrased in the Living Bible: “We know what real love is from Christ’s example in ...

19. The God Who Comforts

Isaiah 40:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... told him the cost. Leith was grateful. In fact, he says to this day, he is still grateful. (3) This event had an enormous impact on Leith Anderson. We’ve all been there, haven’t we? Maybe we haven’t wrecked our Dad’s new car, but all of us have sinned. All of us ... . Source unknown. 2. Luis Palau. Answers to Life’s Most Perplexing Problems, compiled by John Van Diest (Sisters, OR.: Multnomah Books, 1998), pp. 29-31. 3. http://www.higherpraise.com/outlines/woodvale/7_Luke7d.htm. 4. (NewYork: The ...

20. Proper 21

Matthew 21:23-27, Matthew 21:28-32, Exodus 17:1-7, Ezekiel 18:1-32, Philippians 2:1-11

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Russell F. Anderson

... couples who claim that they have never had an argument or a cross word. Yet I must admit that my Uncle Herman and Aunt Lotti Anderson, as far as I could tell, fell into that exalted category. Some women's liberationists might scoff at this relationship, in that he coordinated ... all your faults are more pardonable than the methods you think up to hide them." (La Rouchefoucauld, a French moralist) In John Steinbeck's epic novel, East Of Eden, Adam Trask is left to raise his two sons by himself. The one son ...

21. What Would Jesus Really Do?

1 Peter 2:13-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... they taunted him as he hung on the tree. But Jesus knew how to handle adversity. Most of us have never heard of Dorothy Anderson Tormoehlen. That's not surprising. She was hardly known outside her small Indiana community. Yet, at one time her image was one of ... 'm too tired" God says: I will give you rest (Matthew 11:28-30) We think: "Nobody really loves me" God says: I love you (John 3:16 & John 13:34) We think: "I can't go on" God says: My grace is sufficient (II Corinthians 12:9 & Psalm 91:15) We think: "I ...

22. Mission to Unbelievers

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... else. But the more we try to force it, the less effective our witness becomes. In The Hope of Glory, John Coburn tells of Arthur Lichtenberger, former presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, serving in retirement on the faculty of Episcopal ... of Murrow we learn that he told his future wife that what she appreciated in him was due to a handicapped college speech teacher, Ida Lou Anderson: She taught me one must have more than a good bluff to really live. I owe the ability to live to her, and to her you ...

23. Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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... to God, "Lord, hear me and help me!" Just recently a story appeared in the newspapers about an eighty-five-year-old woman, Signe Anderson, who "turned to prayer to see (a) housing miracle in (her) ... neighborhood." She told a reporter that she got down on her knees ... It was a story about The Bomb, and who wanted to hear about that? The report came out of Princeton that John Aristotle Phillips, an aerospace-engineering student, had taken to the drawing board and produced The Design - a blueprint for an atomic ...

24. LENT: The Passion of Christ: "Betrayed"

John 13:21-30; Matthew 26:14-16; 45-50

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... to Betray him just as Judas did. Let's look at the passages of Scripture for this morning. There are two: John 13:21-30; Matthew 26:14-16; 45-50 John 13:21-30 (NRSV) [21] After saying this Jesus was troubled in spirit, and declared, "Very truly, I tell you, one ... forgiven, that he hid from Jesus. Judas couldn't repent because he wouldn't even hear the offer of forgiveness. B. Ray Anderson has written a sermon titled "The Gospel According to Judas." In it, he describes going into a men's restroom in San ...

25. One For All

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... 28, 1989. "Former NFL football player Jerry Anderson," read the newspaper account, "died Saturday after pulling two young boys out of a rainswollen river about 40 miles southeast of Nashville. Witnesses said Anderson saw two boys, thought to be 11 ... . We applaud such bravery, such selflessness, such willingness to sacrifice one's life for another. That is not what this passage from John's Gospel teaches us, however. Jesus says, "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep." ...

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