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Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... other kids raised their hands. I want to be baptized too.” Using her best pastoral tone of voice, Rev. Sarchet said, “Cameron, do you really want to be baptized just because everyone else is?” His freckles winked up at her and he ... and escaped. It was then that the Indians broke out into a cheer and followed him across. (8) Jesus entered the Jordon River to be baptized by John not because he needed it, but because we need it. Baptism is a sign of God’s grace. It is an initiation into the family of ...

2. Deep Faith

Genesis 6:1-8:22, Genesis 5:1-32

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Lori Wagner

... darkness. It was, he confesses, a foreign and unusual place. The deep. Lonely, somewhat frightening. The experience left Cameron off-kilter, and changed. And yet, a voice inside him drove him downward, saying, “go deep, go deeper still ... Story of Noah. I will not print it here due to space. You may also in addition want to read the story of Jesus’ baptism from John.] Image Exegesis: The Redemption Box / From Out of the Deep The story of Noah is a story of water. Deep and pervading water. But it’s ...

3. Who Is This Man?

Matthew 16:13-20

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King Duncan

... then replied, “Jesus is the best picture God ever had taken.” I like that. Author and former Divinity School professor John Killinger explained Christ’s role in another way. “Jesus,” he said, “is God’s way of getting rid of a bad ... quite unexpected happens, something that never happens in traditional fairy tales. Rather than being transformed back into the beautiful Cameron Diaz-like princess, Fiona is permanently transformed into a fat, green ogre. She loves Shrek so much that she gives ...

4. Everything Except God

Amos 5:1-17

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Richard Hasler

... visit Fort Frederica on Saint Simon’s Island, Georgia, you may see a historical marker. It commemorates the spot where John and Charles Wesley preached to the Indians in 1736. John Wesley’s two-year stay in America was not a happy period in his life, in fact it was for ... oppression that many women have suffered, and some continue to suffer? In the latter part of the 19th century Donaldina Cameron founded a mission house in San Francisco to help young Chinese women who were brought to this country to be ...

5. Can you Hear “The Voice?”

John 5:1-15

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Leonard Sweet

... power of the Voice we ultimately answer to can determine the destiny and direction of our life. In today’s gospel text from John, it is the power and authority of Jesus’ voice that transforms the life of one man. It was also the voice that challenges ... Can you still hear The Voice this morning. Is your heart still open to hearing The Voice so clearly that you could say, as Cameron Lyle did, that to sacrifice for another was “kind of a no-brainer?” Can you hear that sound this morning? Is the Voice ...

6. A New Way of Living

Mark 1:4-11

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Sarah Jo Sarchet

... all the other kids raised their hands. I want to be baptized too." Using her best pastoral care tone of voice, she said, "Cameron, do you really want to be baptized because everyone else is?" His freckles winked up at her and he replied, "No. I ... I just have a friend baptize me in the river?" She asked where he came up with that idea. "Well, Jesus was baptized by his cousin John in a river, wasn't he?" Caught off guard, she conceded, "You have a point. But, if a friend baptized you in the river, how would ...

7. Heroines of the Faith

Mark 1:29.39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... individual because she attracted other women from the colony to her home-based religious discussions and Bible studies. Governor John Winthrop in his diary called her an “American Jezebel.” He believed women should not be behaving like this. ... older, they were frequently sold into prostitution as well. It was the rescue of these Mui Tsai’s and prostitutes that was Donaldina Cameron’s mission. She is credited with breaking the back of the Chinese slave trade in the US and the rescue and education of ...

8. Same Table, Different Chairs

John 15:11-17

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Jesus gathered the Disciples he had a lot of things he had to say to both Disciples and to us. Listen to what Jesus said as recorded in John 15:11-17 (NRSV) [11] I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete. [12] " ... simply friends. II. In My Heart A. There's a movie titled "In Her Shoes" starring Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine. It's pretty much strictly a chick-flick about family, sibling rivalry, growing up and discovering who you really are in ...

9. The Broken

John 8:1-11

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James Merritt

... where there was a clock on the wall with the big hand and the little hand. She called from the other room, “Cameron, what is the little hand on?” He yelled back, “A chocolate-chip cookie!” If you are into legalese there is a ... when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.” (John 8:7-9, ESV) It was obvious these Pharisees had rocks in their hand. They were about to take their wind-up and throw their best ...

10. Back to the Real World

Luke 2:21-40

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King Duncan

... , but they knew God was with them, just as God is with us. It’s good to know. Indeed, it’s the best Good News in the world. 1. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley 2. Charles Kuralt with Peter Freundlich, American Moments (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998), pp. 70-71. 3. David Cameron, “Artificial Muscles Gain Strength,” February 15, 2002, www.techreview.com/articles/cameron021502.asp. Cited by Henry G. Brinton, http://www.fairfaxpresby.com/worship/sermons/2002_sermons/10-06-02_sermon.htm. 4. Rev. Joe ...

11. New Dominion as a Blessing of the New Covenant: Dead to Sin

Romans 6:1-14

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... pardoned; in the other, it is subdued” (Question 77). The Christian must make spiritual progress. Literature: The Pilgrim’s Progress, by John Bunyan. In The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678), after Christian has been to the cross, lost his burden, and fallen asleep on ... , however briefly that may be. Illustrating the Text Christians are called to union with Christ. Film: Avatar. James Cameron’s Oscar-winning movie (2009) provides a nice illustration for grasping the spiritual parallel life of the Christian ...

12. Resurrection

Acts 10:34-43

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King Duncan

... The thorns of Good Friday have blossomed into the roses of resurrection. Christ the Lord is risen. [Christ is risen indeed!] Pastor Cameron S. Smith tells a wonderful story. It is about the only white person in the state of Georgia buried in a cemetery ... the president of the United States--the most powerful men in America, who were intensely loyal to their president. But one of them, John Dean, turned state’s evidence, that is, testified against Nixon, as he put it, “to save his own skin.” And he did so ...

13. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

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King Duncan

... week. Dr. Bob Reccord gives us another powerful analogy. He notes that in March of 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot by John Hinckley, Jr., and was hospitalized for several weeks. Although Reagan was the nation’s chief executive, his hospitalization had little impact on ... , Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, September 14, 1991. Cited in In Other Words, date unknown. 6. Rev. Cameron S. Smith, http://www.courthousechurch.org/sermons/ephesians4.7?12.html. 7. New York Times News Service, October 24, ...

14. Easter: Seeing Is Believing

John 20:1-18

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Like the heroes of Lord of the Rings, they saw and they believed. How awesome was that? (2) Let's look at the Passage from John 20:1-18 [1] Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb and saw ... to remember where He was buried, we remember the Resurrection. You only need a tomb if there's a body. And no matter what James Cameron thinks, Jesus was raised from the dead. And later He ascended into heaven. What we need to ask is what does the Resurrection mean for ...

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