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Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... humanity for its sin, but in saving humanity from that sin. You and I need to hold on to that promise. It’s spelled out in John 3:17: “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” That has been ... a congressman to serve as a page in the United States House of Representatives. This was a life-changing experience, but it didn’t keep Oates out of the mill forever. Sixteen is the highest age you can be a page and so he had to go back to Greenville and ...

2. Washing Away The Junk

Luke 3:21-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... ?" (2) Thankfully all Christians use water, not oats, but today we celebrate the washing away of all the junk that covers people and keeps us from being what God has created each of us to be. Only one person who ever lived escaped being covered with this junk and that was Jesus. Still, he came to be baptized by John. The Jews already practiced baptism before John the Baptist, but their baptism had little to do with repentance and confession of sins. Among the Jews, clothing, utensils, and even articles of ...

3. The Prophet of Locusts and Honey

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in honey or vinegar or they would be ground into flour and made into a kind of biscuit or cake. So, if you were to go to John’s abode at tea time, you may just find yourself snacking on locust biscuits with honey. Ugh! you still say. But wait a minute. Is this really ... parsley, and then baked until crispy. That’s not a lot different from the Scottish haggis, which is basically offal and oats. What other strange foods do you eat in your culture? What about pigs feet? Or turtle soup? Frog legs? Or snails? ...

4. Ready or Not, Here He Comes!

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 's words don't worry me." Don't dare say, "I read my Bible and pray everyday; I'm at church every time the doors are open - John is not talking to me." Maybe. Maybe not. The truth is that more folks than we care to admit sow their wild oats for six days a week then on the seventh day come in to church to pray for a crop failure. John's message is that your religion MUST make a difference in the way you live in the world and the way you treat people; if it does not, your religion is not ...

5. Ready Or Not, Here He Comes!

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... 's words don't worry me." Don't dare say, "I read my Bible and pray every day; I'm at church every time the doors are open — John is not talking to me." Maybe, or maybe not. The truth is that more folks than we care to admit sow their wild oats for six days a week then on the seventh day come to church to pray for a crop failure. John's message is that your religion must make a difference in the way you live in the world and the way you treat people; if it does not, your religion is ...

6. When The Baker Becomes the Bread!

John 6:51-58

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... of loaf bread in Bible times, it was not the only one. Poor people also had learned to make loaf bread from beans, peas, tares, oats, lentils, and even acorns. All these were ground down into flour, mixed with water, and baked in an oven or on a hot stone in ... food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval." — John 6:25-27 In short, Jesus is telling them, and us, not to follow him short-sightedly for what he might do for us but ...

7. Out of Solitude

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... were singing in these services-do they still teach you to love poetry in school? I hope so. And I hope in addition to John Greenleaf Whittier, you learn about Jane Kenyon. Jane Kenyon and I were born in the same year, 1947. She was born in Ann Arbor, ... den. Let the wind die down. Let the shed go black inside. Let evening come. To the bottle in the ditch, to the scoop in the oats, to air in the lung let evening come. Let it come, as it will, and don't be afraid. God does not leave us comfortless, so ...

8. I Saw a New Heaven

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to the other, “You know, we could have been here five years earlier if you hadn’t insisted on our eating oat bran.” If you’re going to Heaven, the earlier the better, but let God appoint the time. There’s a barbershop quartet song that ... of God in glory, there to rejoice in his presence forever. There is one more thing that must be noted in the vision in Revelation. John saw “the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God.” This suggests that we can have Heaven on earth to a ...

9. God’s Most Troubling Promise

Romans 8:28

Sermon

King Duncan

... went out,” Jill said. “Can you come and get me?” “Where are you?” John asked. “I’m in the drugstore,” Jill responded. “And where’s the car?” John asked. Jill replied, “It’s in here with me.” (1) That’s life, we say ... sun. A little ways inland, Taylor found the turtle, exhausted and all but baked. After pouring water on her and covering her with sea oats, Taylor fetched a park ranger. The ranger drove to the spot in his jeep. He flipped the turtle over on her back, wrapped tire ...

10. Famous Last Words

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

William L. Self

... decay. God supplied the needed leadership in George Whitfield and John and Charles Wesley, who became flaming evangels, carrying the message of God throughout America and England. John Hudson Taylor founded the China Inland Mission. John Barnaroll began mission work in London which rescued and trained ... spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty we are free at last!"1 1. Stephen B. Oats, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), p. 260-261."

11. Religion and Politics

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... overwhelmingly supported George W. Bush, but polls now indicate that this year they are likely to vote in large numbers for John Kerry and Ralph Nader. This may constitute one of the most dramatic changes of heart on the part of any major voting ... deaf ear. Why? "Your hands are full of blood." This is the ancient equivalent of a throughly modern concern - don't sow your wild oats for six days, then come in on the seventh and pray for a crop failure. Your walk should match your talk. Fortunately, those harsh ...

12. 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 ... What I Was Planning, subtitled, Six-Word Memoirs by Famous and Obscure Writers. One famous author, Joyce Carol Oates, submitted these six words: “Revenge is living well without you.” Comic Stephen Colbert submitted this one: “Well, I ...

13. Such a Little Thing

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... feet near its base. It is estimated to weigh 2,756 tons. And yet the seed of the giant Sequoia is about the size of an oat flake. According to the Guinness Book of World Records a Sequoia seed weighs only 1/6,000 of an ounce. Talk about a mighty plant from ... whole multitude was sharing the small amounts of food they had brought with them, and like a church fellowship supper, the food simply multiplied. (John 6:1-14) A little offered to Jesus goes a long way. The story is told that a sparrow once asked a wild ...

14. The Steady March Forward

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... announced to people that Jesus was on his way. The message was a simple one — “The kingdom of God has come near to you” (Luke 10:9). Jesus told them to shake the dust of the town off their feet if they were rejected. James and John must have been feeling their oats, for when they were rejected by the Samaritans, they wanted to call fire down upon the town and destroy it. Jesus would have none of it, of course, so they simply shook the dust off their feet and went to the next village. The route they ...

15. The Lord's Prayer: Hallowed Be Thy Name

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... about God will show how much reverence we have for God. We hallow God's name by believing things that are worthy of God. As John Wesley said to one who held some of those unworthy beliefs, "Sir, your God is my devil." But, certainly, true reverence (just like true ... for all the pious pronouncements over the air, the preachers appeared for all the world to be going out to sow their wild oats then coming into the tv studio to pray for a crop failure. People were not stupid - they saw what was going on, and ...

16. Lord, What A Bountiful God!

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... also do we receive God's blessings when we sit and wait and when we receive what God has to offer. Notice, finally, how John concludes this story: "So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, left by those who ... Isn't this wonderful?" The other replied, "Yes, and to think we could have gotten here ten years sooner if we hadn't eaten all that oat bran." God has so many blessings to pour out on all of us. He asks us to sit down and receive what He has to give ...

17. Life on the Rock

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... lived it, he belonged to the Son of God and loved Him. You know who really belongs to Jesus? Those who become like Jesus. The Apostle John said, "Now by this we know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments. He who says, ‘I know Him,' and does not keep ... an iron, a relatively short iron; just keep it straight in the fairway, and short of this Marshy Creek. But Van DeVelde, feeling his oats, pulls out a driver. Now the problem with a driver is, even though you can hit the ball a long way, it is very ...

18. Second Chances

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... will lead him to genuine repentance. And now, O Father, wilt thou send another rattlesnake to bite Ron, and another to bite Little John, and another really big one to bite the old man. For years we have done everything we know to get them to get ... ? Look around you. That is how all of life is ordered. It is part of the law of sowing and reaping. Sow all the wild oats you want to, but eventually there will be a harvest. What kind of harvest can you expect under such circumstances--certainly not a good one ...

19. Prayer for Lent 2

John 2:12-25

Sermon Aid

Richard F. Bansemer

... even impulsively -- as he purges the temple. This passage is the first time God is named "Father" in John, and it is interesting to note that it follows immediately upon the miracle involving his mother. Very deliberately ... I wonder if I am only one of them, marked for sacrifice, too frightened and dumb to know that you would free me from certain death. I see the plentiful oats and barley that taste so good and make me fat, but know that all my days are numbered short if I live in a feeding lot. I see my value ...

20. Three Arrows

1 Samuel 20:1-42

Sermon

... hearts. We forget that arrows were once weapons. Archaeologists have dug up more arrows in the land of Israel than Quaker has oats. David and Jonathan knew about arrows. They were both brave warriors who had fought against the Philistines. Jonathan was the son of ... then that we read that Jonathan loved David as his own soul. Even as the Son of David would love a disciple named John, did David love Jonathan. Mark Twain once told a reporter, "I don’t say much about heaven and hell because I have friends ...

21. But God...

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the farmer's son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that good luck? Bad luck? Who knows?(1) Luck. Sometime ago, Christian therapist Wayne Oates wrote a book entitled Luck, A Secular Faith,(2) in which he claimed that modern people no longer believe in a purposeful, intervening, directing God. What we ... Jesuit Sources, 1979), 134 in Homiletics, J/S, 94, p. 5 2. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, 1995 3. Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall, 1981 4. Genesis 45:5-8a 5. Acts 2:22-24 6. Romans 8:28

22. The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... even more, my prayer is that the church will be in YOU every day. Too many Christians are perceived by the world as sowing their wild oats for six days of the week, then coming in on the seventh to pray for a crop failure. Not here, I trust. I want to ... way. He was more than a bit of a lady-killer. He once prayed, "Lord, make me chaste...but not yet." Augustine was a Jacob. John Newton was a Jacob. Newton was so wild in his youth that England was not big enough to contain him. He became a slave trader, and ...

23. Who Will Wipe Away Their Tears?

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... for us to be. And you know what? THERE IS NO GREATER SATISFACTION IN LIFE THAN HELPING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. That's true. John Hersey, in his book HIROSHIMA, describes the aftermath of the atomic bomb that exploded in that never-to-be-forgotten city. At the ... other activity doing regular volunteer work dramatically increases life expectancy. It's more important than jogging or aerobics or even oat bran. Help somebody else and you will live longer. You will have more vitality, more energy, more zest for life ...

24. Internal Medicine

Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... horses, do you?! Health Department spokesman Haagen Schmidt, (not HaagenDas!), says that "especially young women keep on eating hay and raw oats!" And they do it, he says, in spite of a tremendous surge in digestive problems reported by hospitals all over the country ... something tragic happens, only the careless and the cowardly and the callous are unmoved. No man is an Island, said John Donne. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind! Daniel fasted when he remembered the destruction ...

25. Entitlements

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... OVER. Here is the Good News for the day. We are entitled to begin again. Would you want to reap every thing you sow? Do you remember the old adage about the person who sows wild oats then prays for a crop failure? We don't want to reap everything we sow. We sometimes do stupid things. We act impulsively. We leap before we look, talk before we think, give in to the ... ). 6. Nell Mohney, "We Can Often Find Hell in the Here and Now," Kingsport TimesNews, March 24, 1995, p. 10D. Contributed by Dr. John Bardsley.

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