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Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ) Did you know that a church can be highly successful, and still miss the point of being a church? Fellowship and prayer--these are the marks of an authentic church. Such a church is a church of joy and power. 1. Contributed by Keith Brown. MONDAY FODDER, http://family-safe-mail.com/. 2. Harvey MacKay, Swim with the Sharks (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc.). 3. Chuck Swindoll, Dropping Your Guard (Waco: Word), p. 73. 4. Richard B. Wilke, Signs and Wonders (Nashville: Abingdon Press. 5. Contributed ...

2. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... .S. senator. (3) It is difficult to minister to someone with whom you are not willing to live. In the late 1960s Dr. Keith Phillips, founder of World Impact, tried to minister to a ghetto in the Watts area of Los Angeles by commuting from an upper ... human. For God took on human flesh and lived as we live. In the October 3, 1977, issue of CHRISTIANITY AND CRISIS, Robert McAfee Brown wrote an article in the form of a dialogue between a Roman Catholic priest and some of his destitute parishioners. The setting is ...

3. Do You See Lazarus On Your Doorstep?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... , correct, and eventually restore. We don’t want to give up on the Lazarus on our doorstep or anyone else. God’s compassionate grace continually seeks us. Amen. [1]. Peter Harry Brown and Pat H. Broeske, Howard Hughes: The Untold Story (New York: A Dutton Book, Penguin Group, 1996), 339. [2]. Keith Nickel, Preaching the Gospel of Luke: Proclaiming God’ Royal Rule (Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press, 2000), 169-170. [3]. Tom Wright, Luke for Everyone, 199-200. [4]. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim ...

4. Attitudes

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

Object: A brown paper sack in which I have placed several different styles of calendars, an egg timer, a mechanical timer, and an alarm clock. Lesson: Attitudes; ... answers. "Yes," I agree, "and I have one of those in here too." I take out an hourglass egg-timer and set it on the floor by the clock. "Do you have a sundial in there?" Keith asks with a grin. "No, I don't," I answer. "But that is a good suggestion. I might have found a picture of one in a catalogue if I'd had time to look for one." "Daylight ...

5. You Can't Start a Car With a Cross

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of achieving but receiving something. Your part and mine is to be open to the gift of salvation in Christ. Keith Miller, the author, tells of a forty-year-old woman who shared her past with a Christian fellowship group. Reconciliation ... when Alice skipped home from school and ran in the front door of the big old house, she saw her battered old suitcase with her little brown coat draped over it standing in the hall. It slowly dawned on her that the family didn't want her. That happened seven times before she ...

6. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a determined disciple? From our text for the day, we can deduce three. FIRST OF ALL, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE. Charlie Brown ™s dog Snoopy is playing tennis. In picture one, Snoopy is shown with a brand new tennis racket. However, things are not ... no fixed point of reference for our lives. In the novel, THE CAINE MUTINY, Herman Wouk has one of the characters, Willie Keith, receive a letter. The letter came from his father who was dying of an incurable disease. His father offered three bits of ...

7. Nobody Wants To Make Cold Calls

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... a voice from inside the house. "Come in," the woman said. "We have been waiting for you." "She wore a print dress and her brown hair hung softly about her face," Anderson writes. "She was prettier than I remembered her. The man came in from the back porch carrying ... and the lowest, sometimes we encounter Christ--and that, dear friends, will save our souls. 1. ktodd@vci.net (Keith Todd) 2. Herschel H. Hobbs, My Favorite Illustrations (Nashville: Broadman Press 1990). 3. John Patton, Ministry to Theology. Cited ...

8. Was Jesus the First Buster?

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Notice how Buster shows like "Friends" take place at home and play while Boomer shows like "Murphy Brown" take place at the office. - Their openness to "honest" or "real" spirituality. Busters don't take anything ... fashioned to look like a clerical collar: "The new evening clothes walk the line between preacher man and night stalker" (141). - The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards is asked whether he read any of Marianne Faithful's books, and he admits he has, while paying her the highest compliment for her ...

9. Don't Ever Say That Again

John 1:29-34

Illustration

Keith Wagner

In A 3rd Serving of Chicken Soup for the Soul, there is a story about a student who was unlike most students. One day in the 11th grade he went into a classroom to wait for a friend. The teacher appeared and asked him to go to the blackboard. He replied, "I'm not one of your students." The teacher said, "Doesn't matter. Go to the board anyhow." The student told him he couldn't do that and when the teacher asked "why not?" the student told him he was mentally retarded. The teacher came over to the student ...

10. I Didn't Know How to Teach Until I Met You

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Illustration

Keith Wagner

There is a story many years ago of an elementary teacher. Her name was Mrs. Thompson. And as she stood in front of her fifth grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children a lie. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. But that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson had watched Teddy the year before and noticed that he didn't play well with the other ...

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