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1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... series of sermons on the essentials of the Faith without including one on resurrection. Did you read in the newspaper back during the winter about the elderly couple whose car skidded off the road in a snowstorm in Sierra National Forest? Jean and Ken Chaney lived for ... 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 that when he was a teenager, he was given a pamphlet ...

2. Worry Not

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... 3,000 miles to reach their winter home in Mexico. In this astonishing annual pilgrimage they fly around city buildings and over coastal waters. They stop briefly to feed on flowers when available, and they cluster at night in trees when they are over land. At sea Monarch butterflies rest on the masts of fishing boats. Only God knows how they make this extraordinary journey safely. According to The National Geographic tall ships are often a haven for birds in flight. Kenneth Garrett, who sailed from Poland ...

3. True and False Discipleship

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

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... to 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, which ... in the summer may seem as solid as rock but will “turn into the consistency of chocolate pudding” when the winter rains come.1Jesus’s imagery of good and bad foundations echoes that of Isaiah 28:14–18. Ezekiel 13:10–16 ...

4. Sometimes, You Gotta Get Your Feet Wet First

Joshua 3:1-4:24

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Robert S. Crilley

... for the Israelite priests than crossing the river itself. However, in the late spring during the harvest season, the waters suddenly swell with the winter rains and the melting of Mount Hermon's snows, making the Jordan a raging flood -- at some points more than a mile wide. And ... House, 1986), pp. 30-31. 3. C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed (New York: Bantam, 1976), p. 25. 4. Kenneth W. Osbeck, 101 Hymn Stories (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1982), pp. 87-88. 5. Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A ...

5. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

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Robert Beringer

... us never forget that the One who began life as a baby in Bethlehem is the one who has changed all things! Kenneth Scott Latourette, the distinguished Yale historian once wrote, "Measured by its fruits in the human race, that short life of Jesus has ... of old-fashioned things: bracelets and lockets, gold rings and silver boxes, images of jade and ivory porcelain figurines. On this winter's afternoon just before Christmas, little Jean had spent a long time with her forehead pressed against the glass, looking ...

6. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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Carveth Mitchell

... and wife and two children lived in a small frame bungalow. Their heat was supplied by a potbellied stove. In the severe winter weather the house caught fire, destroying most of the structure, as well as furniture and clothing. The family was not injured. The ... we are part of the body of Christ, his hands and feet and lips and pocketbooks. I am indebted to my friend, Dr. Kenneth Sauer, Bishop of the Southern Ohio Synod of The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, for the following. During a severe flood in ...

7. The Nearest Hand

Luke 10:25-37

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8. Which Jesus? This Jesus!

Acts 17:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... owned, and I literally wore it out reading it. How wise she was. Not all teachers and speakers are so wise. Economist John Kenneth Galbraith relayed, with keen good humor, his wife’s comment on the lengthiness of his speeches. "She says," he reported to an ... worn the skin off of them. She ironed for us all with an old flat iron. She cooked meals on a wood stove in the winter and on a cantakerous old kerosene stove in the summer. She kept the house spotlessly neat and clean. She loved Jesus with a pure heart ...

9. Finding the Truth That Makes Us Free

John 8:31-41

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James W. Robinson

... a stage. Now I could see clearly the scene outside. In the immediate foreground was an asphalt parking lot; beyond that a stretch of winter-browned grass, relieved of monotony only by a cluster or two of leafless shrubs. An ambulance pulled away from a diner on the far ... the Historical Jesus (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1968), p. 403. 3. "The Freedom of the Christian Man." 4. Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1953), p. 714. 5. An inexact quotation, from ...

10. Dead Man Walking

Psalm 130:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... psalmist is blown out of his pit of despair by the all-powerful oxygen burst of God's gusting spirit. Pastor/Bishop Kenneth Ulmer (Inglewood, California) envisions the animating, life-fulfilling power of the Holy Spirit as like the transformation that comes over the ... weather is blustery and unpredictable, when big blows and great gusts can come seemingly out of nowhere and transform a late-winter day. Will you let the Holy Spirit move with power and precision into your soul, across your life, across this ...

11. It's Thanksgiving Time!

Psalm 100:1-5

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James W. Moore

... this pulpit filled so magnificently by the three outstanding ministers who preceded me… Dr. Durwood Fleming, Bishop Kenneth Shamblin and Bishop Walter Underwood! What fun it is to work with this talented, committed and ... meeting human needs." Each year at this time I find myself thinking about that wonderful story about the woman in Birmingham who on a cold winter morning saw a little boy standing on a grating outside a bakery. It was snowing and sleeting and the little boy was bare-footed… and ...

12. The Narrow Door

Luke 13:22-30

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King Duncan

... he has established for us. Some of you are undoubtedly familiar with the movie Coach Carter. Coach Carter is the true story of Kenneth Carter, an inner‑city Richmond basketball coach who took a ragtag group of high school players and shaped them into a tightly disciplined ... Van Ekeren, Speaker’s Sourcebook II (Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994), p. 326. 4. Wayne Pohl, Leadership (Winter, 1982), p. 95. Cited by Steven J. Cole, http://www.fcfonline.org/content/1/sermons/011799m.pdf. 5. Mark ...

13. A Hall of Fame Dad

John 16:12-15

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King Duncan

... fascinating story about a remarkable, heartwarming discovery workers at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Ohio, made in the winter of 1993. While renovating a section of the museum, they found a photograph that had been hidden in a crevice ... Billy P. Duncan, Oberlin, Kansas for this piece of humor. 5. Ken Sowers, Prince of Peace Church, Mentor, Ohio. Cited by Kenneth Morris, https://sermons.faithlife.com/sermons/93906-the-model-father. 6. “Alpha Ray,” by Sara Davidson, Reader’s Digest, February ...

14. A Winter Experiment

1 Corinthians 13:8

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Purpose: To think about how love affects us all. Materials: A large piece of ice. A thin strong wire and two heavy weights that can be attached to the wire. A dish pan to hold the ice. Special Preparation: Tie the weights on the ends of the wire. Place the wire over the ice. Make sure that the weights hang free so that they can move downward as the wire cuts through the ice. Start the procedure before you plan to use it. Lesson: This piece of wire was placed over the ice about one hour ago. As you can see ...

15. What Day Is This?

James 5:19, 20

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Purpose: To help children learn what to do when they make a mistake. Material: No special material is needed. Special Procedure: This object lesson should be used at a time when the children will know that it is not the date you say, like in winter, or at the start of the new year. Lesson: Good morning. Today is the third of July. Right? ... It's not July third? ... Well, what am I going to do? ... You think I made a mistake? ... Maybe I should just go home? ... You must think I am dumb since I don't know ...

16. Learning Obedience

Acts 5:32

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Object: No special material is needed. Lesson: To help children understand the purpose of obeying. Do any of you have a dog? ... Does your dog do what it is told to do? ... Can it do any tricks? ... Well, let me tell you what happened one night with a dog named Dana. Dana belonged to a family who lived in Wisconsin. One day, Dana's family decided to take a long trip to Europe. They were to be gone over a month. Dana could not go with them, so Dana's family took her to Illinois to stay with the grandparents ...

17. The Lever

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Purpose: To show how people working together can accomplish more than the same number of people working alone. Materials: Two poles, one shorter than the other. Lesson: If you wanted to move a large rock you could do so by using a smaller rock and a pole. You would place the smaller rock near the large one and then use the pole as a lever. (If you think the children are too young to understand this, show them a picture of a pole being used as a lever.) I have two poles here. (Show them to the children.) ...

18. New Year's Resolution

Gal 5:22-23 · Mt 5:13

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

Purpose: To remember that outward appearances are not the most important things in life. Materials: Three small jars containing salt, sugar and flour respectively. Lesson: I have here three jars and, as you can see, each contains something white. From a distance, they all look alike; but if you were to put them to the use for which they were intended, you would see that they are very different. This is salt and you might use it on your breakfast eggs. But you would not use this on eggs, for this is sugar. ...

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