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1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The university has not been easy, but I've loved it." And four years later, again: "Dear Miss Williams, as of today, I am Grover Junior Johnson, M.D. How about that? I wanted you to be the first to know. I am getting married next month, the 27th to be ... would sit if she were alive? You are the only family I really have now. Dad died last year. Hopefully, and with love, Grover Junior Johnson." I'm told that Miss Williams went to that wedding, and sat where "Grubby's" Mother would have sat. She deserved to sit ...

2. Cha-cha-cha Christians: The Dance that Advances

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with those of us who can’t, or those of us born with Baptist feet. The nightmare is endured by all who have been through Junior High school. That name of that nightmare? The “first real dance.” Remember the school cafeteria? It still smelled like lunch, but now it was old ... not yet finished, the choreography of which we have only just begun to learn.” Jay Emerson Johnson, Dancing with God: Anglican Christianity and the Practice of Hope (Harrisburg, PA: Morehouse Publishing, 2005), 164. *** “Rather ...

3. Chosen

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... choice by how we live. Jesus tells us to "love one another as [He has loved us]." It was Franks first day at Junior High School. It began with an opening assembly where all the home room teachers were introduced. First to be introduced was Miss Smith ... arms around him and said: "It's all right, son. You didn't really tell a lie; you just got the family members mixed up. Mr. Johnson's not your father, he's your brother." (2) That's what Jesus meant by "loving one another as [He has loved us]." Sometimes being a ...

4. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Dale Young, and his assignment is to decide what to do with the seven frozen pre-embryos in dispute in the divorce case between Junior Davis and Mary Sue Davis. His decision will set a nation-wide precedent. Most lawyers say Judge Young is up to the task. It ... love in the lives of others. One of the other women of Brewster Place for whom Mattie kept singing the Lord's song was Eddie Mae Johnson. She was Mattie's long-time friend who had lived off her beauty and her men all her life. But she was too old for ...

5. Dark Shadows

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... paralyzed by a stroke in the last years of his presidency. While he lay there, incapacitated within his shriveled body, Johnson dreamed he could hear his assistants in the next room debating about which parts of his powers they could divide among ... of our souls. Stephen Brown in his book, When Being Good Isn't Good Enough, tells a delightful story about when he was a junior high school student. They had a principal whom all the students feared named Mr. Hunt. The teachers used Mr. Hunt as a threat: "If ...

6. On Names That Preach

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... Fornication Andrews." With a name like that, one learns the value of nicknames! "Hello, my name is Flie Fornication, but you can call me Junior!" My name doesn't preach any sermons but I went through a time when I, too, thought I might prefer using initials. Few children ... Committee, introducing me last June. "We would like to introduce to the congregation our new pastor, the S. S. Johnson." Sounds too much like a pastoral battleship patrolling turbulent church waters! I digress. I started to tell you about ...

7. Help Me, I'm Lost

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... our rank or station. There is a wonderful story about a young man named Billy who was attending his first day in Junior High school. At an opening assembly there was an introduction of all the homeroom teachers. Miss Smith was introduced first. She was ... was devastating to young Billy. He was a sensitive kid and he could not believe how the other students were treating Mr. Johnson. Suddenly he stood up in the middle of the bleachers and shouted: “Shut up! That’s my father!” Instantly, the jeering and ...

8. He's Your Brother

Luke 15:11-32

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There is a wonderful story about a young man named Billy who was attending his first day in Junior High school. At an opening assembly there was an introduction of all the homeroom teachers. Miss Smith was introduced first. She was an "easy" teacher, so the kids cheered as she was introduced. Mr. Brown was next and he also met with thundering approval. But Mr. Johnson was known to be a very strict disciplinarian. The kids jeered most unkindly when his name was called. The pain was evident on his face This ...

9. The Secret Ingredient Of Success

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... , a burning desire to be the best they can be. Baseball fans may recognize the name Brett Butler. According to Greg Johnson in an article in YOUTH magazine (May 1993, p. 27-28), Butler was a tiny kid that all the rest of the guys picked on. ... ." For Brett, the perils of being small didn't end at age twelve. When he played football in high school, they had to go to the junior high school to get his pads because he was so small. He played quarterback and had to roll out just to see over the offensive line. His ...

10. A Commitment to Righteousness

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... strained, slurred manner…each word coming with enormous effort…he simply said, “Jesus loves me — and I love Jesus!” Conviction rolled over that junior high camp as God began to speak to their hearts about how they had treated one of his children. Many began to cry. Most ... :22). Responding includes obedience. The bottom line for all believers is that obedience is never an option. Wendell Johnson observed that the predominant Hebrew word for obedience is sama and the New Testament words are akouo and ...

11. What's Inside

1 Corinthians 1:28-31

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... novel slipped onto a Bible. Lesson: Boasting; children of God; love; talents; thanksgiving. This morning a large group of children has assembled, their numbers increased by junior-high youths who are visiting from another denomination. I begin by holding up the covered Bible, and ask one of the older children to read the title ... a cover. It's what's inside of us that counts -- love for God and for one another." 1. Johnson, James L., A Piece of the Moon Is Missing (New York: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1979).

12. A Fool’s Tools

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

... that an individual doesn’t know he has the tool. An occasion permitting its discovery just has not occurred. Walter Johnson could send rocks whistling down a railroad track, but it took friends, acquaintances, and scouts to help him discover that ... didn’t know he would leave at forty-two. George Gershwin didn’t realize his writing pen would close at thirty-eight. And Roger Chafee, junior member of the Grissom-White space crew didn’t know he would leave at thirty-one. We don’t know when we’ll be ...

13. People Who Inspire Us

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... If one of the children was ridiculed for wearing shabby clothes, the others would leap to his or her defense. As early as junior high school, Larry's love of basketball was obvious. He'd stay for hours after a game, practicing over and over the shots ... as they say, is history. Larry led Indiana State to the NCAA finals, where they lost to Michigan State, led by Magic Johnson. Larry went on to join the Boston Celtics and become a National Basketball Association and Olympic basketball champion. He was voted ...

14. Names For The Christ Child

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

(This meditation is based on a sermon by Siegfried S. Johnson, pastor of First United Methodist Church, Warren, Arkansas. The original sermon is titled "On Names That Preach" ... introduce you to my good friend; Flie Fornication Andrews." With a name like that, one learns the value of nicknames! "Hello, my name is Flie Fornication, but you can call me Junior! Some of us go through life burdened by unusual names. Potential parents need to be aware of the impact of a name on a young person's life. Even before ...

15. What's in It for Me?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . Jesus came, in fact, because you and I are sinners. I will never forget June Day. June Day was a girl in our class in Junior High School who was always called upon to stand at the board and take names in case any of us acted up while the teacher ... had a great job, a secure future, a nice home. Have you ever seen that commercial where this happy suburbanite fellow says, “Hi I’m Stanley Johnson. I’ve got a great house; like my new car? I even belong to the local country club. How do I do it? I’m in ...

16. It's My Life, Isn't It?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... keep saying that: you can. You are free. Just don’t expect it to work out very well. Several years ago, I spoke at a Junior College in Mississippi. I remember saying to them: You love your cars. I know you love your cars. But not just any old way of driving ... should be, I remember Elizabeth Orde, and Burdette and Helen Boileau, and Bill and Carolyn Fulton, and Danny McKenzie, and Andy Johnson, and so many others, including members of the Chapel, who have encouraged me and dared to believe that God was using ...

17. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... Independence marked the separation of the American colonies from Great Britain. A recent study by the National Endowment for the Humanities found that 66% of high school juniors could not place the decade in which the Civil War was fought, or the half century in which Columbus discovered America. Only 25% of eighth graders are ... America, p. 166. 20 William Kilpatrick, Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong, p. 100. 21 Ibid. 22 Philip E. Johnson, Reason in the Balance, pp. 158-159. 23 Cal Thomas, p. 118-119.

18. The Forgiving Christ

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... 1963 and I was a freshman in college. One night some vandalism took place to the boys' dormitory. The next day in chapel, President Z.T. Johnson preached a sermon entitled, “Who Fixed The Roof?" In it, he dangled us over the fires of hell like sinners in the hands of an ... know how it is when you are homesick, nothing goes right and nobody does right. I remember years ago when I was doing a junior high camp in the middle of the summer and a little boy was there, the first time away from home, and he was ...

19. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Will Willimon

... pone to love these little earthly, transient habitations too much but at least I may not be too wrong to want them. I don't know whether Dr. Johnson was being laudatory or critical of us when he said that, "To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor." As the Letter to the ... one reason why, around here, Freshpersons are often so much more interesting than certain members of the Junior Class. The recently uprooted, the homeless (except for East Campus) are so wonderfully, wisely vulnerable, mobile, ...

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