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Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... had forgotten about the invitation. But since he would be away preaching at another church, he allowed Henry Moorhouse to preach that Sunday in Chicago. A week later, Moody returned to his church to discover that the church board had invited Moorhouse to preach every night that week. And his text every single night was John 3:16, “For God so loved the world that He sent His One and Only Son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” Every single night, Henry Moorhouse had ...

2. The Lord, The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... with fire (Matthew 3:11, 12). FIRST: Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you (1 Corinthians 6:19). D. L. MOODY: I suppose there is not a real Christian here, today, but has a real desire to be used of God. If you have no desire, no ... name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (John 14:26). 1. Richard S. Rhodes, ed., Moody's Latest Sermons (Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publ. Co., 1898), pp. 447, 455. 2. Helen Wessel, ed., Autobiography of Charles ...

3. Polished Up For Christmas

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... man will sacrifice his wife, his family, his all, for the snails of sin! How many a girl has deliberately turned from the love of parents and home to learn too late that heaven has been forfeited for snails!" (4) Moody spoke those words a century ago, but people are still swapping heaven for snails. How about you? John the Baptist's words are for each of us: Are there some changes that need to be made in your life? ARE THERE SOME PEOPLE YOU NEED TO REACH OUT TO? Repentance for the follower of Christ is more ...

4. Persistence In Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... to Christ. His name was William Grenfell, and he would become a medical missionary to Labrador and one of Moody’s most famous converts. Martin Luther once put it succinctly, “The fewer words, the better [the] prayer.” No meaningless ... Who could say that a Toscanini with perfect vision would have been better off? In the later years of his life the imaginative writer John Milton lost his position and his sight as well. His body was tortured with illness, and many of his friends forsook him. There were ...

5. Good Taste Or Good Religion?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... impeccable taste and manners. Good manners is not the same as good religion. Dwight L. Moody was one of the greatest Christian preachers who ever lived. When Moody began his ministry, though, he was criticized often. Why? Because of his lack of ... the backwater region of Galilee. They didn't have the polished sophistication of London or San Francisco or New York. They hadn't read John Malloy's DRESS FOR SUCCESS or Amy Vanderbilt's BOOK OF ETIQUETTE. They were rather crude men even by the standards of their own ...

6. God's Time

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... so blessed of God that the World's Fair being held there had to be closed down on Sundays because they had no customers. Time had suddenly become very precious to Moody and he did not want to waste any of it. There was still work to be done. (2) Many of us can feel the pressure of time right now as Christmas comes ever closer. John the Baptist had that same urgency. Jesus had that same urgency. The early church had that same sense of urgency. Time is important. Time is in short supply. And yet the important ...

7. What's The Matter? Are You Blind?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... any kind of pain right now. I don't need Jesus'healing." Maybe not, but we don't want to miss the central teaching of this chapter of John's Gospel. The central teaching of this chapter is that losing your sight is a tragic thing, but far more tragic is having healthy eyes and being spiritually ... God opens the eyes of anyone who acknowledges his sin and accepts the Savior in humble faith. The newsman was touched by Moody's words and saw that he too was blind and in need of Christ's healing touch. (6) It's a ...

8. Sabbath in Capernaum

Luke 4:38-44, Luke 4:31-37

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... observers, and they recognize him as their natural antagonist. The title “Holy One of God” suitably contrasts him with the “unclean” demon. In John 6:69 it denotes Jesus’s role as the Messiah. 4:35 came out without injuring him. Contrast 9:42 and the more ... to the church.3 Jesus’s ministry included teaching, healing, and exorcism; he said and he did. Biography: D. L. Moody. Moody (1837–99) was famous for frequently saying, “I would rather save one soul from death than have a monument of ...

9. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... him on the sacred mountain” (2 Peter 1:16-18). Can you imagine the impact that this experience had on Peter, James and John? They were kneeling in the presence of the Son of God. Jon Tal Murphree in his book, Made to be Mastered, tells about the ... wasn’t right yet. Jesus and the disciples still had work to do. That’s why they couldn’t stay on the mountain. Dwight L. Moody was an American evangelist in the 1800s, and he wrote about meeting a man at one of his meetings who testified that he had “lived ...

10. Sinner to Saint

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... lege, "take and read." He went to an open Bible and read, "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ ...", and Christ became a reality to him. John Wesley was confronted by Christ as he listened to one reading Luther’s preface to the book of Romans and for the first time he ... not take place until, like Matthew, we leave all and follow Jesus. It calls for complete and total surrender to Christ. Dwight L. Moody once heard a Christian teacher, Henry Varley, say to a group, "The world has yet to see what God can do with and ...

11. What to Wear to the War

Ephesians 6:13-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... it quite frankly. I heard about a woman who came up to Dwight L. Moody and said, "Mr. Moody, I've been saved for 25 years and I've never had a single doubt." Dwight L. Moody said, "Madam, I doubt you've been saved. That would be like somebody saying, ‘ ... 't look at how you used to feel. Don't pull out a baptismal certificate. Pull out the word of God. Just pull out this verse: John 5:24, "Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not ...

12. Giving Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.” Now that’s comfort—comfort that only God can give. In one of his books the late well-known pastor Jess Moody told of meeting Rose Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy. She came to a Bible study Moody was conducting. In that study Moody challenged his hearers to make their hearts ready to meet the Lord because life is short, and no one knows what the future may hold. Later Rose Kennedy spoke to Jess ...

13. A Life Hidden With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... actual life that we live, must be brought into harmony with our new position. A man once said to Dwight L. Moody, "Sir, I am a self-made man." Moody replied, "You have saved the Lord from a very great responsibility." It is the Lord who made us and who remakes ... sin.2. There is the recreation of the image of God in the life of the believer. This is the reason John Wesley talked about grace impinging upon us and working in three specific ways: prevenient grace, justifying grace, sanctifying grace. Prevenient ...

14. Free Living Water for All

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... of the Pharisees, "Very truly I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and the Spirit" (John 3:5). We are very thirsty creatures. Our thirsts are many and varied. We thirst for true friends; we thirst for success; we thirst ... as the body of Christ. Let us offer the drink from the well that is deep and pure and life-giving. Jess Moody says, "The church, that's you and me, must provide more enjoyment, better fellowship, listening ears, and the intoxication it advertises ... ...

15. The Thousand Years

Revelation 20:1-7

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... reader assumes that Christ’s second advent will have a similar effect on earth—and so it does, as we will soon find out. At first, John sees not the dragon, but rather an angel coming down out of heaven to earth where the Evil One now lives. This angel comes as Satan’ ... M. C. Tenney, “The Importance and Exegesis of Revelation 20:1–6,” in Truth for Today, ed. J. F. Walvoord (Chicago: Moody Press, 1963), pp. 175–86; M. Rissi, The Future of the World: An Exegetical Study of Revelation 19:11–22:15 ...

16. Jesus: The Only Way To God?

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... days earlier. Had we read a few verses further here, we would have read this: "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and JohnÉ." So, standing before the very people who had sent him scurrying away in fear not long before, we now find Peter staring them down ... words as recorded by Mark: "The one who endures to the end will be saved." The famous nineteenth century evangelist Dwight L. Moody once told of the time his father scolded him rather severely for some act of misconduct, though he was basically a kind ...

17. A Four Word Memoir

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... let her lie. Now she’s at rest . . . And so am I. Or this one from the grave of a dentist named John Brown: Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity! John Brown is filling his last cavity. Epitaphs normally seek to sum up a person’s life in just a few words. If you ... be with Christ win/win. It’s like a story that is told about the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody. Moody was traveling by boat on one of the Great Lakes when a really bad storm developed. The other passengers on the boat cowered in ...

18. In Need of a "Rally Monkey"

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... stay here in the States and perhaps live a longer life ministering among people who have heard it many times already.” With this confirmation, John Beekman and his wife, Elaine, headed to Chiapas in southern Mexico to minister to the Chol Indians. The Beekmans walked through the villages every day, learning ... , CT: King of Kings Publishing). 5. George H. Fox, Survivor Number Three (Whittier, CA: Moody Institute of Science), film script, p. 10. Cited by George Sweeting, Secrets of Excellence (Chicago, IL ...

19. A Sense of Urgency

Mk 1:1-8

Illustration

King Duncan

... Chicago was so huge and so blessed of God that the World's Fair being held there had to be closed down on Sundays because they had no customers. Time had suddenly become very precious to Moody and he did not want to waste any of it. There was still work to be done. Many of us can feel the pressure of time right now as Christmas comes ever closer. John the Baptist had that same urgency. Jesus had that same urgency. The early church had that same sense of urgency. Time is important. Time is in short supply.

20. The Grace Side of the Cross

John 3:16

Illustration

Author Unknown

... returned from his business his wife informed him that revival had broken out in his church and that “he needed to be converted”. The young man preached every night on the same text, John 3:16, speaking of the love of God, from his heart. Moody went and he said he was indeed converted. He said “I used to preach the judgment side of the cross, now I focus on the grace side of the cross; I used to preach mainly on the wrath of God, now I preach he said on the love of God.” ...

21. Power For Christian Living: Am I On My Own?

Romans 3:3-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.” (John 14:16,18,25-26, NIV). Can you imagine a more radical possibility?… “you will do greater things than these, because I am going to ... live, must be brought into harmony with our new position. A man once said to Dwight L. Moody, “Sir, I am a self-made man.” Moody replied, “You have certainly saved the Lord from a very grave responsibility.” Paul contended we are ...

22. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life we live, must be brought into harmony with our new position. A man once said to Dwight L. Moody: “Sir, I am a self-made man.” Moody replied, “You have saved the Lord from a very grave responsibility.” Paul contended that we are to become new ... to tell. Take time to get to know each other. Tell your stories – in fact, this is a story-telling weekend. John Wesley called this kind of sharing “Christian conferencing” and that’s what we want to do this weekend – to conference together ...

23. The Grief Grinch

John 11:17-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... SURVIVAL TIPS to help me manage this year. I have good news. You have been given some survival tips. The lesson from John's gospel this morning provides some - resources for dealing with grief at the holidays or any days. Follow the story and see ... over and over again at funerals, comes from that great evangelist of the last century, Dwight L. Moody. Moody said, "One day you will read in the newspaper that D. L. Moody of East Northfield, Massachusetts is dead. Well, don't believe a word of it. I will have ...

24. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the lighthouse, missed the channel, and was dashed against the rocks. It was a terrible tragedy. Many people were killed. Moody brought that story home with these words. He said, "Brothers and sisters, the Master will take care of the lighthouse ... brings people to church? Light. They come to church looking for light. When your world is dark, you look for light. In Rabbit Run, John Updike's second novel, he talks about Harry Angstrom, who is a former high school athlete, who never grew up. He is now married, ...

25. Turning Doubt Inside Out

Luke 23:39-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... Christians who have never doubted their salvation. One woman boasted to Dwight L. Moody: "Mr. Moody, I have been saved for twenty years, and I have never had a single doubt." Moody replied: "Madam, I doubt that you're saved. That would be like somebody ... has, or anyone needs that they are going to heaven, is the Word of God. One of the all-time Christian classics is John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Every Christian should read that great novel. If you've read it, you remember that Christian and Hopeful ...

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