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Hebrews 11:1-40

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Alex Gondola

... would fulfill God’s promises, and somehow use their pain and suffering to produce good. They believed, as William Bradford put it, "Their condition was not ordinary, their ends were good and honorable, their calling lawful and urgent" and ... faith, I wonder, what might you and I do? 1. William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation: The Pilgrims In America, edited by Harvey Wish (New York: Capricorn Books, 1962). 2. John R. W. Stott (quoting Robert Bellah), "Christians, Salt, And Light" (Preaching Today Audio Series, ...

2. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

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Wayne Brouwer

... often we’ve sung along with that lonely voice on the radio, "Is that all there is?" Is that all there is? Think of Gamaliel Bradford. He was a writer who captured the optimism of his age. Things were going great in his life. And things were going well in his ... . These are the words in his diary, "Who will tell me something of God?" he said. "Who will tell me something of God?" It’s John who’ll tell us something of God, isn’t it? He was a man of warmth and sensitivity. He was a man who needed people, ...

3. To Be Abased, To Abound, To Be Content

Philippians 4:2-9

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Frank Lyman

... this one, to thank and worship God. Thanksgiving is a day we recall the purpose of why the Pilgrims came to America. As William Bradford wrote in the Mayflower Compact: "Having undertaken, for the glorie of God, and advancements of the Christian faith . . . a voyage to plant the ... Dictionary. 2. Hakuna Matata, Lyrics by Tim Rice, Tune by Elton John. 3. Plantinga, Jr. Cornelius, Assurances of the Heart. Frank Lyman is the pastor of the University United Methodist Church of East Lansing, MI. Thanksgiving Day ...

4. Pilgrim Living in a Vagabond World

Matthew 7:13-14

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Leonard Mann

... the Mayflower. And these homeless wanderers pointed that little vessel toward a new home across the sea. William Bradford, for thirty years the governor of their colony at Plymouth, wrote in his History of Plymouth Plantation concerning ... said that a mountain never looks as high from anywhere as it does from the bottom. I’m saying: Act on the good things you wish for. John Wesley gave us some good advice on Christian living when he said: If you do not have faith, act as though you do until it comes, and ...

5. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... up to receive God's spirit, we will discover it is far more rewarding to have a relationship with God than simply having a responsibility to God. 1. Sunday Sermons. 2. Brad Preston, Bradford, PA. 3. John Kramp. Getting Ahead by Staying Behind (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1997), p. 137. 4. By the Bathroom Readers' Institute. Uncle John's Ahh-Inspiring Bathroom Reader (Ashland, OR: Bathroom Readers' Press, 2002), p.68. 5. Bruce Wilkinson. Answers to Life's Most Perplexing Problems, compiled by ...

6. Habakkuk

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... also arrived with some supplies. It was then the first real Thanksgiving was observed, by order of Governor William Bradford, July 30, 1623. Thanksgiving, not in time of abundance, but of want. The saga of Thanksgiving continues, for the ... King Lear, Act I, Scent IV. 3. George B. Cheever, The Journal of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, In New England in 1620 (New York: John Wiley, 1848), p. 95. 4. The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, ed. by Basler (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1953), VI:496 ...

7. Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1609 was borrowed from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Great Britain by Colonel Robert Walpole in 1667. It was found by Professor Sir John Plumb in a library at Houghton Hall, Norfolk, Great Britain and returned 288 years later. No fine was exacted. The most overdue ... hardly conducive to shooting candid photographs or what Levison called "instantaneous pictures." So he and his partner George Bradford Brainerd invented their own camera, which they patented in 1885 as the Brainerd-Levison Hand Camera. The ...

8. Entertaining Angels

Hebrews 13:1-25

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King Duncan

... . He has no idea what the man's intentions are, but he's not looking forward to the meeting. He explains his reasoning to John Wayne, “No stranger," he says, “ever good-newsed me." (3) Well, I've been “good-newsed" by many strangers. And so have you. One ... So Squanto went to meet them, greeting the startled Pilgrims in English. According to the diary of Pilgrim Governor William Bradford, Squanto “became a special instrument sent of God for [our] good . . . He showed [us] how to plant [our] corn, where ...

9. Will I Really Live Forever?

John 11:18-27, 39-45

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... overnight this week? I was driving in our subdivision one evening and the trees were bare. The very next morning I left home and the Bradford pears were full of blooms. Suddenly, I was surrounded by God’s great coming out party. Every spring I embrace it. This miraculous rebirth ... of sense. Of course, eternal life is not just something in the future. It is radically present now. The whole message of John’s gospel was to present to us a notion of eternal life, not just over there, but now. And the way you ...

10. Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

Isaiah 49:8-26

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Robert Beringer

... no one seems to care. On goes the endless debate in Philadelphia while men are dying of exposure and disease. Finally, the character who portrays John Adams, sings a song. It is a song that arises from the depths of his own heart, but it speaks for those in any age ... Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted." Those words were echoed many years later by William Bradford as he recorded the struggle of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony. "They had no friends to welcome them, nor inns ...

11. A Pilgrim Recounts

Psalm 107:1-43

Drama

Edward G. Hunter

... up the first group of pilgrims that sailed to America. We left Delft Haven in 1620. I still remember the resonant voice of our pastor, John Robinson, as he led 103 of us from the church to the harbor. He read from the Book of Genesis, the 12th chapter, verses ... We will be forever grateful to the Almighty for sparing so many of us in those early days. It was William Bradford, our first governor, who made the official proclamation of Thanksgiving three years after we arrived, an observance we would honor each ...

12. Ultimate Thanksgiving

Matthew 25:14-30

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King Duncan

... have the most difficult time during the Thanksgiving season. In the fall of 1621, when the Pilgrims under William Bradford celebrated the first Thanksgiving four men went "fowling." The ducks and geese they brought back were added to lobsters ... free land, you are very, very rich. If world events have taught us one lesson this past year, it is how fortunate we are. Cdr. John O. Stull, USN (Ret.) tells about an event that happened many years ago when he and his wife were on a short Thanksgiving vacation in Palm ...

13. Thanksgiving Day, North America

Luke 17:11-19, Deuteronomy 8:1-20, Psalm 65:1-13, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27

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

... of Faith" Setting. In chapter 3 Luke tells of the appearance of the adult Jesus in the context of the ministry of John the Baptist. After narrating certain preliminary events (for example, the temptations of Jesus) Luke begins in chapter 4 to tell about the ... it. The Old Testament lesson will remind us of how America has identified with the story of Israel. A re-reading of William Bradford's Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647 can be a good annual exercise for preachers at this time of year. The catch to ...

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