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Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... was asking, “Are you willing to give your all, as I am giving my all, to see my kingdom established?” To their credit James and John answered, “We are able.” And Jesus said to them, “The cup that I drink, you will drink, and the baptism with which I am baptized, you ... be without those people who chose to fly higher than most of us care to fly. Physicist Stephen Hawking died last year at age 76. Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years to the day after the death of Galileo. ...

2. Jesus Won! We Won!

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... alive. In the same way the cross of Christ is a living cross. It has never known defeat. (2) Jesus won! WE WON! Somehow John knew, but Mary did not. She returned to the tomb and wept again. When she looked inside the tomb, she saw two angels. They ... husky and worked hard, thoguh. While in the fields, this young man came across a nest of hawks and took them to his bunk house. During his breaks, he would feed those baby hawks with the grasshoppers he collected as he worked. One of the rough cut men he labored ...

3. That Believing Ye Might Have Life

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... and majestic universe. (1) Unable to stand or walk, he cannot even speak except through a computerized translator. Stephen Hawking is still alive, not only physically, but also intellectually and emotionally as well. His life is a wonderful example ... devastating illness. Add the right attitude to the right aptitude and you have a winner. But where do you get the right attitude? As John wrote in the last verse of the 20th chapter of his gospel: ". . . these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the ...

4. The Baptism of Jesus

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a Savior. The symbol of Christ is not that of an eagle or a hawk, but a dove. It is also interesting to note that Christ was baptized by his cousin John. John was Elizabeth and Zechariah’s boy. This humble couple were righteous people in the best ... . 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 ...

5. Right Answer - Wrong Conclusion

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the region of Caesarea Philippi. And he posed this question to them, “Who do people say I am?” His disciples replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still others, one of the prophets.” “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I ... stars who seemingly have it all but end up destroying their lives in an endless quest for more. And here is Stephen Hawking reduced to practically none of the world’s pleasures and yet he is grateful for the little that he has. Peter who ...

6. Christ The King

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?" And does he have an answer? "If I knew that," says Hawking, "then I would know everything important." "So we're back to the possibility of God," writes Schuller, "who puts fire not only in equations ... Church," by Robert Moeller, MOODY, February 1995, pp. 22-23 6. "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda," by Victor M. Parachin and John Archer, ASPIRE, August/September 1995, p. 52. 7. Max Lucado, "The Sacrificial General" AND THE ANGELS WERE SILENT, p ...

7. The Ten Commandments #2: No Idols!

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to it. It got so bad that King Hezekiah smashed the thing into little pieces. It had become an idol, just like the grotesque hawks and lions and serpents of centuries before. What had started out as a REMINDER of God finally had BECOME a god. The means had ... brother Abel, and killed him" - Genesis 4:8. "You shall do the same" - Deuteronomy 22:3. "Do quickly what you are going to do" - John 13:27. THE BIBLE SAYS! Of course, that is foolish...but no more so than some of the other strings of quotations we hear ...

8. Building A Faith

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... occasion he said to them, "Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. For John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit." I. "Wait." He said to them, "Wait.". Lawrence ... new and more honest picture of that person. As an illustration, Barbara mentions her husband's great love for hawks. Many times Barbara feared for her life as her husband veered off the road to catch a better look at the birds circling overhead. He ...

9. Facetime and Facebook

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. (John 15:9-10) And what were these “commandments” that would keep us in Jesus’ love, in the Father’s love? Jesus said to him, “ ... the true face of God is the face of love. Perhaps the most celebrated physicist in thee world today is Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking's 1988 book A Brief History of Time starts this way: A well‑known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell ...

10. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in images. The Psalmist did it beautifully, "The Lord is my Shepherd." And, Jesus Himself did it -- you remember the 15th Chapter of John: "I am the vine, my Father is the vine-dresser -- you are the branches." So, don't mock the metaphor. Don't snide ... for Jerusalem. I've seen the old hawk soaring overhead, doing his surveillance, spotting the hen and her little chicks. And I've seen that very sensitive mother hen -- I don't know whether she heard the hawk or saw the hawk -- but she senses danger. She knows ...

11. Team Work is Dream Work

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... umbrella of His authority. Perhaps the most beautiful prayer ever prayed in history, Jesus prayed for the church in the seventeenth chapter of John and this is what He prayed: "I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through ... He also discovered that the reason geese hawk, is they are encouraging those up front to keep up their speed. By the way, be careful when you hawk at the lead goose, make sure it is a positive hawk and not a negative hawk. Finally, when a goose gets sick ...

12. It's Not Rocket Science

John 8:31-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... important. “You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.” (John 5:39, ESV) The primary purpose of this book is not to teach you how the heavens go, but how to go to heaven ... Physician who can heal your heart and cure you of the disease called sin. The British Physicist, atheist, and skeptic, Steven Hawking, confesses “Although science may solve the problem of how the universe began, it cannot answer the question: Why does the ...

13. Playing Golf at Midnight

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... have severe disabilities who are nevertheless quite productive. We discussed one of these last week, the amazing Stephen Hawking. People like Hawking certainly wouldn’t want a handout. All they want is an opportunity to be productive. If Bartimaeus were alive ... boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, everyone thought he was crazy. But John and his son Washington set out to prove it could be done. After only a year of construction, though, John Roebling was killed in an unfortunate ferry accident. This left his ...

14. Playing It Safe

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... by the color green, so maybe a green woods hides the cardinal. Did you ever see a scarlet tanager in a woods? I didn’t think so. Hawks can see a whole range of color, but their favorite prey tends to have muted colors. They can see a cardinal, but red is not necessarily a ... God did not send the Son into the world to condemn the world but in order that the world might be saved through him” (John 3:16-17). The problem is that our faith is tepid — neither hot nor cold. How will a tepid faith save us when ...

15. God Is Into Birds!

Exodus 19:1-25

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... ark. Elijah, the prophet, was fed by ravens. Peter was brought to repentance by hearing the cock crow. Job reminds us the hawk does not fly by its own wisdom. The book of Lamentations speaks of the ostrich in the wilderness. Solomon had peacocks brought ... great line from Charles Wesley's beloved, "Jesus Lover of My Soul," says, "Cover my defenseless head With the shadow of Thy wing." John and I recently had the experience of thinking we had full auto insurance coverage, only to find that when a driver with no ...

16. Dolphin Drops

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... – this is posing. Thane didn't mind not being as skilled as Tony Hawk yet – as long as no one would ever think he was just a poser. [By the way, Tony Hawk is the Michael Jordan of extreme sports, and today a bigger name than ... her back to another sense of herself. She searches and finds the skin hidden in the roof, puts it on and returns to the ocean. John Moriarty uses this story to remind us how hints of the eternal show themselves in the midst of ordinary life. We live immersed in dailiness. But ...

17. A Wilderness Prophet · John The Baptist

Jn 1:6-8 · Mt 3:1-12

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... victims, and death in the guise of vipers lurking behind every rock. Moreover, when the moment for action had struck, whatever its nature, he seized it with the tenacity of a hawk snatching its prey, pinioning its challenge with a moral judgment as piercing as that bird's talons. Undoubtedly such a passion for the spiritual on John's part stemmed from his earliest days. For both his father, Zechariah, and his mother, Elizabeth, were priests of the order of Aaron, a lineage of no lesser distinction. At the ...

18. Jesus and the Baptists

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... such a thing: adopt an orphan boy and raise him as one of them. (WARS OF THE JEWS, 2.8.2) We do know that John, like the Essenes, had strange dietary habits, wore strange clothes and reduced life down to its simplest essentials. Mark’s Gospel says that he ate ... when we consider the Temptations, Jesus did not choose the way of force or violence. His symbol was a dove, not a hawk. Jesus will conquer, but the conquest will be a conquest of love. All of these things Jesus’ baptism meant, and probably much ...

19. When The Saints Come Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... the wall, and life hardly seems worth continuing, that we are offered the opportunity of obtaining another. "Through the world now for 2,000 years," Paul Scherer once wrote, "the Christian religion has been hawking its wares: 'New Lives for Old!' If it cannot make good on that claim, it cannot make good, period."4 And here John makes just such a claim. He makes it in part, of course, because of the dire circumstances now facing the early church. But I don't think Roman persecution is the only reason this ...

20. How Do We Choose?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... stand in the presence of God and vow that you would be faithful to one another for the rest of your lives? The great evangelist John Wesley, patron saint of the Methodists, was engaged to a young lady and could not decide whether he should marry her. So he prayed about ... of junk on the world, and if Orville and Wilbur hadn't gone for liftoff with that bucket of bolts down at Kitty Hawk, we wouldn't have 747's and a vast communication network that can instantly link anyone on this planet. Tom Peters goes on ...

21. A New Vision

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things.” (2) John Lennon of the Beatles was a searcher. He never completely found what he was looking for, and it’s easy to see why ... in our world today, following so many false stars. A few years back our Air Force built a sophisticated unmanned jet called the Global Hawk. With no pilot aboard, this plane can fly for more than a day, scouring terrain and relaying video to a ground station 3000 ...

22. A Small Man Who Was Given a Big Heart

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... he led them to the Sweet Sixteen. Then Spud graduated and again no one drafted him. Finally the Atlanta Hawks gave him a shot. He played for them for four years, and under his leadership the Hawks made the playoffs each time. He got traded the team wanted to make room for a new full‑sized ... So Amazing About Grace. Cited by Priest Robert Thomas, http://ruminations.ratsco.com/. 7. John Jewell, http://www.lectionarysermons.com/nov98-1.html. 8. http://www.raystedman.org/leviticus/leviticus.html. 9. From ...

23. Waiting in Life's Waiting Rooms

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of God, the Savior of the world, is coming. John is witnessing to and waiting for his arrival with joy. Every time we look at the presents accumulating under our tree we should think, not of elves, but of John the Baptizer. John is the one who is sitting in expectation, waiting ... Soaring uses the aerodynamics of gliding but combines it with the science of meteorology. If you have ever admired hawks or eagles or turkey vultures effortlessly wheeling high up in the air, you have seen the power of soaring. ...

24. The Power of Belief

1 John 5:9-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... “Sorry,” the brothers replied, “We can make it happen.” As a result, a place called Kitty Hawk, North Carolina became the setting for the launching of their “ridiculous” idea. Finally, consider the plight of Benjamin ... belief provides another very special and important gift, the rationale for our presence in the world itself, the goal of eternal life with God. John says that we have been given eternal life through the teaching and mission of his son, Jesus. Thus, all who believe and profess Jesus ...

25. Light of the World

John 1:1-18

Sermon

William G. Carter

... you are a thousand points of light,” he says, and then he adds, “Don’t you dare hide your light under a bushel basket.” But here in the Gospel of John, Jesus never says, “You are the light.” Rather he says, “I am the light.” What does that mean? You can sit in physics class and learn a lot of things about light. Ask Stephen Hawking, who holds the Newton chair at Cambridge. He will tell you that light is the ultimate constant in the universe, that it always travels at 186,000 miles per second ...

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