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1. A New Perspective

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... himself in the heart, his mother, Hazel Dunham, revealed Monday. She said relatives knew of no motive for the suicide. "It was something I had to do," Walters told The Times after his flight from San Pedro to Long Beach on July 2, 1982. "I had this dream for 20 years, and if I hadn't done it, I would have ended up in the funny farm." Walters rigged 42 weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair, pumped them full of helium and had two friends untether the craft, which he had dubbed "Inspiration I." He ...

2. Getting The Proper Nourishment

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... rations. It had been thrown clear when the plane crashed but the lad was unaware of what it contained. Many people today are like Walter Sedor. They are lost in the wilderness, not of the north country, but of doubt and fear, and their starved souls suffer from malnutrition ... lives? 1. A friend took these off of the Internet. Source is unknown. 2. "The Chow of Champions," People, July 15, 1996, p.119. 3. THE INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, James Orr, editor, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand ...

3. Who Should I Invite To My Party?

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... feel so strongly you're willing to sacrifice the whole account, it must be a bad product. We'll fix it." So J. Walter Thompson kept the account. Kevin Dolan, a young executive in the ad agency was standing outside the door when Strauss confronted the RCA ... to excuse our behavior by writing them off as undeserving. But it will never pass the WWJD test, what would Jesus do? On July 3, 1988, an American navy cruiser, thinking itself to be under attack by an Iranian F-14, gunned down an Iranian airliner. Two ...

4. Your Face Gives You Away

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... was an even sadder story in the news sometime back. It’s a story that occurs more often than most people realize. Julie Rubenzer wanted to look good. In fact, she was obsessed with looking better. The 38-year-old saleswoman turned to plastic surgery ... we can be like Moses. We can spend so much time in God’s presence that our face literally glows with the light of God. Walter L. Larimore, a medical doctor, wrote a book, 10 Essentials of Highly Healthy People. In it he tells about Fran, a patient who was a ...

5. Holy Week

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... was dressed in the most glorious white clothes I have ever seen. Yes, he was the Ragman of our town; he was the Christ.1 Walter Wangerin, Jr.'s, powerful story of "The Ragman" is certainly a story of resurrection. It is a totally appropriate story on this day, the ... the framers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Society celebrates national holidays such as the 4th of July in a prescribed, traditional manner. Traditions are handed on from one generation to another. We keep the tradition ...

6. The Lamb of God

John 1:29-34

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... ), p. 12. 5. My thanks to Jeff Bell for sharing this personal experience, which I first retold in a sermon published in Biblical Preaching Journal, Summer, 1993. 6. Walter Brueggemann, Leslie R. Smith Lectures in Preaching, Lexington Theological Seminary, Lexington, Kentucky, April, 1992. 7. Joanna Dewey, "An End to Sacrifice," Christianity and Crisis, July 15, 1991, p. 213. 8. Martin Luther King, Jr., quoted in James Cone, Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or A Nightmare (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis ...

7. Something To Do While The World Falls Apart

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... School, we stopped going." Another said, "I enjoy going to church on the really big days, like Christmas, Easter, and the Fourth of July. Compared to those days, other services are a little bit dull." One response was different. Two volunteers named Jack and Esther went to ... when there are no more tears, when death has no more power, when grief is swallowed up in laughter. 1. Walter Brueggemann, "The terrible ungluing," The Christian Century 21 October 1992. 2. I wish this were a fictional story, but a ...

8. Freedom in Bondedness

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to make freedom work our freedom to govern, to serve, to defend, to protect, to honor and to be loyal. The Fourth of July is a good time to celebrate the paradox at the center of the Christian faith: We are most free when we are most bonded ... enough, nor divine enough, to serve ourselves, and in the end, if that is what we use our gifts for, we will come up empty" (J. Walter Cross, "When One Plus One is More than Two"). A nine-year-old girl observed a friend at school shivering in the play yard during an ...

9. John Mellencamp and the Danger of Procrastination

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... The Transfiguration.” But he died at age thirty-four with the painting only half-finished. Two of his disciples were forced to finish the master’s work. Sir Walter Scott wrote in his diary in his study at Abbotsford, “Tomorrow, we shall . . .” But this last-written sentence of one of Scotland’s greatest writers was never completed ... works-two-sides-coin/. 2. Illusaurus. 3. Contributed. Source unknown. 4. Contributed. Source unknown. 5. As told to Edna Gundersen, AARP, The Magazine (June/July 2017).

10. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... the flag accepted in Washington!" And so that's what 17-year-old Robert Heft did. He presented his flag to Ohio congressman Walter Moeller and asked him to take it to Washington for consideration as the new design for the American flag. In 1959, Alaska ... Reader's Digest, April 2003, pp. 27-29. 2. Richard Schneider, "A Grand New Flag," Guideposts, July 2003, pp. 36-41. 3. Lynn Rosellini, "Not On My Block," Reader's Digest, July 2003, pp. 25-27. 4. Fred Craddock in Ten Great Preachers, edited by Bill Turpie ( ...

11. Heaven's Wait

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... waiting for you.' " "As for me and my household," Joshua proclaims, "we will serve the Lord." Are there any other takers? The choice is ours. The time is now. And all of heaven waits .... 1. C.S. Lewis, "Christian Apologetics," God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, ed. Walter Hooper (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970), p. 101. 2. Thomas G. Long, "Joy In The House," Princeton Seminary Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey ...

12. Just In Time

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... Lander eases toward the moon. Finally, the historic words from Armstrong, "Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed." At 4:17 p.m. EDT, July 20, 1969, the first humans landed on the moon with sixteen seconds of fuel remaining -- just in time.2 Or consider a young Hebrew who ... in the fullness of time. 1. Based on events as described by Walter Cronkite, A Reporter's Life (New York: Knopf, 1996), pp. 120 ff. 2. Allan Shepherd and Deke Slaton, Moonshot (Atlanta: Turner Publishing, 1994), pp. 21-29.

13. The Divine Advocacy

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of obsessive materialism and the exhaustion of compulsive achieving. Many Americans are so caught up in the obsession with success at any cost that they want to make their mark, even if it is only as brief as a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. Many Americans are typified by drama critic Walter Kerr's friend who said that he was afraid that if he did not hurry up he would not achieve his goals before he had his heart attack, but that if he did not slow down, he was going to have his heart attack before ...

14. Jesus Is Rejected

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

James Garrett

... not massage the status quo at the expense of the truth. People don’t want their turf invaded, not even by a hometown boy. Walter Bagehot once wrote, “one of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.” The citizens of Nazareth were ... way home, the only way that matters. We reject him at our own peril. At a performance in the Kennedy Center, Julie Harris was portraying the life of Emily Dickinson. Emily talked about religion -- about her father’s strict Puritan moralism, about the ...

15. Pay Back Time

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... -R-R-NES." But Junior Barnes didn't come back that day, so Bill's avenging shushball had to wait...and wait...and wait...and wait. July! The hottest day of the summer. Ever since that day of the slushball, Bill had done everything he could to make Junior Barnes think that the ... , 1960) 2. Gen 50:20-21 3. Source Unknown, ChristianGlobe Network, Inc, 2001, www.esermons.com 4. From a sermon by Walter Brueggemann quoted by Jim Gorman, via Ecunet, "Sermonshop 02 18 01," #27, 2/14/01 5. Quoted by Philip Yancey, "An ...

16. God Bless America

Psalm 33:1-22

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Opportunity" offers more opportunity to some folks than to others. I recall a conversation I had with a young friend of mine one day just before July 4th a few years ago. He had asked me what I was planning to preach on the Sunday just before the holiday, and I told him ... oceans, white with foam, God bless America, my home sweet home; God bless America, my home sweet home.(3) Amen! 1. Sir Walter Scott, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel," Canto VI, Stanza I 2. 7:14 3. Copyright 1938, 1939 by Irving Berlin renewed ...

17. Jesus Won! We Won!

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... just won for himself but for all those with him. For all of us who are in Christ Jesus will rise like he did to be with God. Jesus won! "WE WON!" 1. Don Emmitte. 2. The Rev. Dr. Richard Andersen. 3. CONTEXT. Cited in "Etcetera," SALT OF THE EARTH, July/August 1996, p. 35. 4. Walter Wangerin, Jr., "Them also which sleep in Jesus," THE LUTHERAN, October 1989, p. 5. **Daniel J. Holt is pastor of the Trinity Lutheran, Fowler, CO.

18. God Has Come

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... will you get into our house this year? We don't have a chimney and my father just installed a very expensive security system. Julie Dear Santa, How old are you? How did you meet Mrs. Claus? Is your first name really Santa? Can I be an elf next ... I give him, I'll give him my heart. That's what Christ really wants--our hearts. Once there was a young man named Howard Walter. He was a graduate of Princeton University. He was a person of sterling character who went on to seminary and then into the mission field ...

19. Above All--god

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... man, named Charles Haffey, bought a tombstone to be inscribed with his former name. He plans to plant it in the tall grass on his property. He said it will read, "Charles Walter Haffey, born September 23, 1948, and died October 21, 1968, Republic of Vietnam.'' (3) Our hearts go out to anyone who is so affected by the insanity of war, but we need to ... TN, 2000, p. 37. 6. Kristin Merriman-Clarke, Falls Church, Virginia, "Kids of the Kingdom," Christian Reader (July/August 2000). 7. ktodd@vci.net (Keith Todd).

20. The Holidaze Craze

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... from 12am to 6am the day after Thanksgiving. Of course, the shopping networks have been hawking Christmas since the Fourth of July. Maybe you've heard the new Christmas Carol called "OH, LITTLE BANK AMERICARD," sung to the tune of "O Little Town ... body you are a member. Through the sacrament of baptism you have become a temple of the Holy Spirit." (As quoted by Walter J. Burghardt, To Be Just Is To Love [NY: Paulist Press, 2000], 86.) Christians this Advent Season: RECOGNIZE YOUR GIFTEDNESS! . . . . RECOGNIZE ...

21. Building Bridges While Getting Shot at from Both Shores

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... deeply instinctual responses to violence: flight or fight. Jesus offers a third way: nonviolent direct action." (For more see Walter Wink, Engaging the Powers: Discernment and Resistance in a World of Domination [Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992], 175.) But ... through the formation of the "Pastors' Emergency League" and the "Six Articles of Barmen," which led to his arrest on 1 July 1937. He spent most of the war in a concentration camp, in solitary confinement. After the war Niemoller made preaching ...

22. Table Manners

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... Psalm 23: “You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies.” Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Fourth of July and I am dreaming dreams of sugar plum fairies, turkey legs, chocolate bunnies, and barbecues. This is definitely a job ... uncanny way, Jesus’ encounter with the temple makes clear that his work is in alignment with the full body of scripture. Walter Brueggemann points out in Hopeful Imagination, that scripture invites us into a world of relinquishing and receiving. We are invited ...

23. The Day of Atonement: Preparation

Leviticus 16:1-34

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... inculcating patriotism and loyalty to one’s country, as are flag-raising ceremonies and fireworks on the Fourth of July. Graduation ceremonies underscore the value placed on academic achievement. The common ritual of serving turkey at Thanksgiving is a ... , who in turn transfers it to the live goat that then carries it completely away (see “Theological Insights” above). Walter Kaiser sees the following symbolism.10 The first goat represents sins forgiven. Blood sacrifice is the means for forgiveness of ...

24. God Subjugates Judah under Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... and in life. Children’s Book: In the 1990s a series of children’s books appeared, written by Jean Marzollo and Walter Wick, titled I Spy. These include amazingly detailed photos and drawings that invite their readers to ponder complex images to discover ... the sun never sets.”11Viewed against the larger backdrop of human experience, however, its greatness was relatively short lived. By July 2013 it had been reduced to only one out of twenty-eight countries that constitute the much smaller and less ...

25. About Unclaimed Luggage

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... other people, we have lost faith in our institutions, we have lost faith in God. Wouldn’t you agree that we have lost faith in people—people we used to admire? We no longer have heroes, do we? Not heroes in the classic sense. On July 17, 2009 legendary television news anchor Walter Cronkite died at the age of 92. His death marked the end of an era that I suspect we will never see again. Cronkite was the face of CBS news from 1962 to 1981. He’s remembered as the “father of television news,” as well ...

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