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John 10:22-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... left side has been missing for about ten minutes. But, I must ask for your attention of one thing that seems to be a little more serious. Along the aisle, all the way through the plane, a crack has appeared. Some of you are, I suppose, looking through the crack ... big hug. With big tears in his eyes he stood in the driveway, waving goodby as the family drove out of sight. Echoing in Kenneth's mind were Kevin's words, "Daddy, you don't understand. Drake is my very best friend." What we are talking about is a ...

2. Paul's Prayer For Us

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's courageous example, Judge Mester has his faith in goodness restored. (4) You have seen people with bulging biceps, but have you ever had the privilege of meeting anyone as strong as Kenneth? Here is a more important question: Do you have that kind of strength? You and I, for the most part, live such easy lives. Such living is rarely conducive to building spiritual and moral muscles. Many of us need to pray for strength. Strength for carrying heavy burdens, yes. But also strength for facing ...

3. The Fourth Person In The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... , spying on children, watching them from a safe distance. "You had to be at least a little bit of afraid of this God," Kenneth says, "because you could never get away from such a One. God could look inside your head and read every thought." (1) Many parents ... way of thinking of his role with the children. From that moment on Ron would ask himself, "What am I doing each day to be more like Jesus?" (2) Have you guessed by now who the fourth person is in the Trinity? I don’t want to sound too heretical. But ...

4. Love Your Enemies

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... , influential senators, and other dignitaries. While festivities were in full swing below, Stockton was summoned to fire the gun one more time. Most of the cabinet and the Senators did not come back up on deck this time. President Tyler started up ... his father died his mother and he tried to run the service station. His mother opened the station every morning and after school Kenneth went down and worked until they closed. As he worked he began to notice a large file of debts that had accumulated through ...

5. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... says if we have no eternal hope, we are to be more pitied than anybody else. Because in that case we have been teaching a lie and we ought to be charged with fraud. Dr. Kenneth Chafin of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville recalls ... air. I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God: Just hovering over the great gulf; till, a few moments hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity! I want to know one thing--the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore." Now ...

6. A Squirrel Crossing a Busy Street

Romans 5:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... of yards a runner gains after an opposing player hits him. “When an opposing player hits a running back,” says pastor Kenneth Squires, “he doesn’t throw the ball down. He doesn’t just stop. He doesn’t announce, ‘I’m taking my ball ... that God would get me through it.” Then he said, “And it came to pass.” (5) That’s an important lesson to learn. We can endure more than we think we can. With God’s help we will survive. Of course, for some of us, this truth will not be real until we ...

7. Beneath The Cross

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... reading in the cantata. His eyes kept returning to the cross. At the end of the service, the pastor brought the cross over and handed it to Kenneth. He was struck by its size and weight. "It wasn’t a very big cross," he said, "but at that moment it seemed very large and very ... little girl was thrown in. At last the bell maker succeeded. The bell, called the Emille Bell, made a sound more beautiful than any other. When it rang, most people praised the art that had produced such a beautiful sound. But ...

8. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... "sin." The lay-person reasoned, "We wish you would not speak so plainly about sin. Our youth and children hearing you will be more than likely to indulge in sin if you keep referring to it. Call it something else, such as inhibition, or error, or mistake, ... they could be. You seem to especially stand by those who are weak in body and spirit who could be doing better." The doctor replied: "Kenneth, I'll have to tell you how much I've been forgiven. If you know what the grace of God had done in my own life ...

9. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

Paul W. F. Harms

... matter of killing or being killed. They did not do it because the killing of millions was a moral duty. They did it, says Kenneth Burke, as an act of adoration. As life had been treasured, under the Nazis killing was treasured. Having denied infinity to God, they became ... give us no more than one calorie for every eight ounces consumed? Companies are in competition to produce more and more which gives us less and less nutrition but more pleasure, more color, more pleasing texture, more pleasing taste ...

10. Seek Good, Not Evil (That You May Live)

Amos 5:1-17

Sermon

11. Proper 20

Psalm 79:1-13, 1 Timothy 2:1-15, Jeremiah 8:4--9:26, Luke 16:1-15

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... skillful and competent. 14. "Dishonest Wealth." (vv. 9, 11) The word for wealth in the Greek is mammon. The word translated dishonest is adikos, which is more often translated as "unrighteousness." The translators of the NRSV probably chose dishonest to have the play on words in verse 10 where dishonesty and honesty are contrasted. An Explanatory Note Kenneth E. Bailey contends that the original hearers of Jesus' parable would have readily understood much that is not given in great detail.1 That the manager ...

12. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... People like this make one wonder just who the handicapped really are - the handicapped or the supposed non-handicapped? Kenneth Keniston was surely on target when he wrote, What makes the handicapped "special" are the attitudes and reactions ... of crisis, to teach me to trust him, to appreciate and understand better what he has done, is doing, and will do, and to be more sensitive to others’ sufferings. This particular crisis was one of temptation, though I did not think of it in that way. Thus in my six ...

13. When Your Sister or Brother Stumbles

2 Corinthians 2:5-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... was his fault. He left his family and withdrew from the church as well. After he had come to his senses, he had asked God's forgiveness and had begun that slow and painful process of rebuilding his life. During lunch with Dr. Chafin, he said, Kenneth, I've been back in the church for more than a decade but now I still don't feel quite right about things. I know God has forgiven me, but I need a means of closure by which my church by which my church family recognizes that I have been forgiven and restored to ...

14. That Would Be Some Miracle!

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... terms of miracles. Presbyterian Kenneth Foreman, commenting on this miracle, asks us to note ...the casual, offhand, quiet way in which he did these things, the apparently trivial uses to which he put his great powers. Getting more wine for a party ... most vividly, and paints his word-picture in an unforgettable manner. In his view, the crowd following Jesus was not as stupid as Kenneth Foreman suggested. They knew that they would be away from home all day, and so, like good Boy Scouts, they came prepared. But ...

15. True and False Discipleship

Luke 6:46-49, Luke 6:43-45, Luke 6:37-42

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... again to Jesus’s use of a parable (6:39), and the rest of this chapter will consist of little else. Parables are more than explanatory asides. They come with a message of their own that often is left unexplained, so that the hearer has the ... the kingdom of God. 6:48 laid the foundation on rock. This fundamental rule of safe building is well illustrated by Kenneth Bailey from Middle Eastern practice. Bailey points out the temptation of avoiding a very laborious excavation by building on hardened clay, ...

16. On Having The Right Credentials

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... , and our brother Sosthenes, To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ . . ." Kenneth L. Chafin, in his commentary on 1 Corinthians, notes that Paul identifies himself differently depending on how others view him. If ... to let go of solid ground to move to the next higher place. It's a scary step. You must trust what you're tied to more than what you're standing on. "Jesus offers us the same lesson," Richards continues. "œWhat you're tied to is so much greater than the ...

17. Welcome Home, Joseph

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is usually remembered for almost dumping Mary when she became pregnant before their formal marriage. Other than that, he is seen as little more than that guy leading the donkey on Christmas cards, or the rather ineffectual fellow who couldn't even find a fit place for ... for the night, leaving her nowhere to put the newborn when it arrived but in a feeding trough for animals. What Kenneth Bailey points out is that Palestinian peasants kept any livestock they might own in their homes during cold nights. Not only ...

18. Room When in Distress

Psalm 4:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Each one of us gives battle to the thought of being left where we are who we are, with no way out. The poet, Kenneth Patchen, expressed it this way: Isn’t all our dread a dread of being Just here? Of being only this? Of having no other thing to ... t.” When you add to the feeling of being trapped a feeling of being abandoned, the problem is intensified, becomes even more devastating, bringing us to the brink of despair. It’s the combined emotional and spiritual onslaught of fear and abandonment that ...

19. Lost and Found

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

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... as that of the shepherd, though since the loss of the coin need not be as public as that of the sheep, the extravagant public celebration is more striking in this case. 15:11 There was a man who had two sons. In the third “lost and found” parable the stakes are much higher: the ... the term “the gospel in a nutshell” fits the parable of the two sons (see “Theological Insights” above). 5. Kenneth Bailey lists the following five words as summing up the message of the parable of the two sons: sin, ...

20. The Man From Galilee II: The Transformation Of His Call

Matthew 4:18-22

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... ." To another He said, "Your sins are forgiven, take up your bed and go home." And, to another He said, "Go and sin no more." In so many places and to so many people Jesus spoke transforming words, "You will ... You are ..." Those are the words He speaks to ... ."4 That is the world's only hope. It was when Jesus first walked along the Sea of Galilee. It still is today. Kenneth Wyatt became famous for his paintings of horses. He has since become better known among church people for his paintings of the disciples ...

21. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ. We are the body of Christ. And we can’t afford to take any part of the body for granted. Pastor and author Kenneth L. Chafin tells of a very gifted athlete he knew in college whose athletic career ended when he seriously injured his big toe in ... became a health hazard. Suppose that happened throughout our land. A three-week nationwide strike would paralyze the country. “Who is more important,” asked Dr. Bob Reccord, “the President or a garbage collector?” (5) In the kingdom of God, all of us ...

22. Afraid at the Thank God Ledge

1 Kings 3:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... Hansen and Kenneth Wessner, partnered with him to found ServiceMaster, a residential and commercial cleaning business based on the idea that they were using their skills to serve their Master, Jesus Christ. Today, ServiceMaster International operates throughout the U.S. and in eight other countries. It generates revenue of $3.5 billion per year. (5) Marion Wade confronted his own inadequacy and prayed that God would guide him and equip him for the challenge in front of him. And God answered that prayer more ...

23. Victory on a Broken Knee

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... --but only 800 copies were sold the first year. He did not quit though. He continued to seek a publisher. Today there have been more than 40 million copies of Dr. Taylor’s work sold. Some of you own a copy. It’s known as The Living Bible. Few ... Service to Christ, of course, is the worthiest purpose of all. 1. Norman Vincent Peale, Faith is the Answer (Cedar Books). 2. Kenneth Hildebrand, Achieving Real Happiness (New York: Harper & Row). 3. Cited in Julie Barnhill, One Tough Mother: It’s Time to Step Up ...

24. Syncing with the Spirit

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... requirements is not fulfilled, each oscillator "will do its own thing" forever, without regard for the" community." Let’s put this in more homiletic and less scientific form. Advent syncing with the Spirit means it is time for us to Wake Up, Get Up, and Listen ... him while they desperately demanded from him, “Kenneth, what is the frequency!!??” In their 1994 album “Monster” REM wrote a song inspired by that encounter, called “What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Everyone is desperate to find the ...

25. Homecoming

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... I want RIGHT NOW what's coming to me." My inheritance!!! It was an outrageous request - it said in effect, "Dad, drop dead!" Dr. Kenneth Bailey, who taught for years at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut, writes of knowing of only one case in modern ... to us when we read this story. We hear it at first as an interesting tale with wonderfully drawn characters, but the more we listen the more we realize, "Hey, that's me."(4) It describes us and God, and the glorious homecoming that can await us as well. ...

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