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1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... human history and too vivid a witness to human depravity for us to begin at any other point but our fallen nature. Kim’s conflict with her professor and the fact that they’re both right makes what we’re talking about today crucially important ... really look at those drives and instincts and passions that are stirring within? What do we do with ourselves? How do we deal with these hoards of feelings and passions? First of all recognize them. That’s important. We recognize them. Just recognize that they ...

2. Kim's Wish Come True

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Ron Lavin

... two months she attended a class of instruction. It was not always easy for her to attend, because of her physical condition. Nevertheless, she attended the sessions and indicated that she had learned a great deal from them. On Sunday, October 30th, she had to arise at 3:00 a.m. so by the time she came to church she would be stable. Kim was frequently dizzy, especially when she first got up in the morning. To assure the fact that she would be able to participate in the 8:00 a.m. worship service, she arose at ...

3. Free At Last!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... busyness, but he also understood that their time together was more important to both of them. Here's what's interesting. For just a moment, Kim Bolton said her two-year-old boy was an example of Jesus to her. (3) "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened ... work. People have always had to work. The reason we are weary is that we do not have the spiritual, mental and emotional resources to deal with this brave new world. We need to ask Christ to share our yoke. We need to ask Christ to set us free from our ...

4. In Love with Howard

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... arrives on schedule. It does so because its captain and crew are in charge. Nevertheless, the passengers of the ship have a great deal of freedom, freedom to do good and freedom to do ill. Freedom to move around the deck as they please. But the day is ... use me,” she says, “but I’m just excited to see his plan for me.” (5) Being in a wheelchair does not block So Young Kim’s vision. She is part of God’s eternal plan. It is a calling worth everything she has and everything she is. It is the kingdom ...

5. The Danger of American Express

Exodus 20:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... is the most unusual of all of the commandments. The other nine commandments deal with actions. This one deals with an attitude. The other commandments deal with a deed. This deals with a desire. You see the sins of the other commandment on the outside ... into all kinds of snares and sorrows and temptations. In their groundbreaking work, The Day America Told the Truth, James Patterson and Peter Kim asked this question: "What are you willing to do for $10 million?" For $10 million one out of four of us would ...

6. Your Word is Your Bond

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... , and yet we are living in a society that is hungering for honesty in their leadership. James Patterson and Peter Kim wrote a fascinating book called, The Second American Revolution. They interviewed over 1,000 Americans and asked this question: "What ... does not keep you from perjury, but it makes you liable if you commit perjury. But that is not the type of oath that Jesus is dealing with here. The Pharisees felt that an oath taken to God had to be kept. In other words, if you swore something was true by God ...

7. No Retaliation

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... because it deters aggression. We have a duty to protect ourselves and those for whom we are responsible. All of us in grammar school had to deal with the school-yard bully. To run from the bully only made him worse. The most loving thing you could do for the bully was ... of the world. Her village had just been hit by a United States napalm attack. Her two brothers were killed instantly. Kim Phu's clothes were burned off her. In the photograph, this little girl was running, naked, in pain and terror. Last ...

8. Will This Be On The Test?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... verse like most students of past generations did. Yet, most all of you here who have ever had to do just that probably remember a great deal of that recitation. Saying something over and over and over again is about the best way to learn it. When I was learning Greek, I ... , paused for a moment, and then barged off into the brush. The next morning while surveying the damage the bear had done, Kim found her Bible with a big bite out of it. Remembering the Psalm she had recited, she looked up the passage to ...

9. From Russia With Love

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... It's a school where Dr. Sundo Kim has rented a hall as a chapel. Some of you will remember that Dr. Kim, the pastor of the largest Methodist church in the world, preached in this congregation a few months ago. Dr. Kim and his congregation have made a ... . You know these cafeterias in all these huge housing blocks -- cheap -- people could eat cheap. So, they went to them and made a deal with them. So it helps the Soviet economy. Those people can get the food and prepare it, instead of us preparing it. And ...

10. Liar, Liar

Exodus 20:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... , because lying has an eternal impact on you. It may even determine your eternal destiny. You don't think lying is a big deal? Listen to this. "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, ... I can honestly tell you that you can become a part of God's family forever. [1] James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told The Truth, (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1991), p 200. [2] Albert M. Wells, Sr., Compiler, Inspiring Quotations ...

11. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . We had been married only a few months, and this was our first conflict. I wasn't prepared to recognize conflict, much less deal with it. I had told myself that to become angry is bad, and to express anger is worse. I had convinced myself that " ... part of a person, as this supposed model of spirituality demonstrated. Here is the point. As many of you know, our daughter, Kim, is in theology school at Yale. She has difficulty reading this theologian’s books, or really appreciating the pioneer work she did ...

12. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

1 Peter 3:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... that a woman ought to have the right to abortion, may have made it legal, but it doesn't make it right. I want to deal now with three specific "hard cases" and give answers to each one of them. 6. What About Abortion When The Mother's Life Is At ... Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. That is not only the answer for abortion, that's the answer for sin. 1 James Patterson & Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth, p. 32. 2 Charles R. Swindoll, Sanctity of Life, p. 13. 3 Randy Alcorn, Pro-life Answers to Pro- ...

13. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

Proverbs 24:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

14. Better To Be a Loner than a Loser

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... be examined before you, and the countenances of the young men who eat the portion of the king's delicacies; and as you see fit, so deal with your servants." (vv.11-13) Do you notice what Daniel did? He didn't stage a protest, he didn't firebomb the banquet hall, ... for God stands with you. That's why it's better to be a loner than to be a loser. 1. James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Second American Revolution, p. 26. 2. Don Fedr, A Jewish Conservative Looks at Pagan America, pp. 51-52. 3. Cited by Zig Ziglar, ...

15. Tasting the Gruel of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... very special gift that day. They identified with them. They entered their experience and connected with them. Today we want to deal with the nature of love. Not the love that popular song writers extol, the love which the Greeks called eros. But ... what love does. Rev. Susan Gilbert Zencka tells about a good friend of hers who died from Hodgkin’s disease. Kim left two young children. At Kim’s wake, the six-year-old, Brian, was inconsolable. He sobbed and sobbed, his whole body shaking with the force of ...

16. P.S. I Love You

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is North Korea going to do next? If you live in South Korea, or Austin, Texas, you are following every move of another “Little Kim” other than Kim Kardashian. How do we shine the light in a world frozen by fear, flawed by distrust and fractured by dissension, a world every ... Even as Paul continued to be a tent-maker, these metaphysical “fishers” also continued to cast their nets for the real deal. After all, they still needed to eat and feed their families. The author of chapter 21 sets his scene at ...

17. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... citizens of Rwanda murdered more than 800,000 Tutsi citizens in around 100 days. Rose and her two daughters survived the attacks. How does Rose deal with the shock and grief of witnessing such carnage in which she lost members of her own family? She explains it this way, “For this, I ... /595459/. 3. “Dying for a better life: South Koreans fake their funerals for life lessons,” Daewoung Kim, Youngseo Choi, Reuters, November 5, 2019, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-livingfunerals. 4. Barry L ...

18. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... good people to suffer so. Twenty years ago there came out of Korea a classic little book titled “The Martyred” by Richard E. Kim (New York: George Braziller, 1964) In it the agnostic Captain Lee comes to know Mr. Shin, a Christian pastor, in the midst of ... church and confidently proclaim: “I believe in God the Father Almighty...” but the next day we say, “I wonder...” How do we deal with our doubts? For one thing: don’t feel guilty about them. In a sense, doubt is not contrary to faith, but a ...

19. Gambling On God

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... your well-being. There was an article in the Associated Press sometime back about a Frenchman, Andre-Francois Raffray, who thought he made a shrewd deal 31 years ago: he agreed to pay a 90-year-old woman $500 a month until she died as a way purchasing her apartment. This ... South Korea. It figured prominently in the battles of the Korean War; hence, the appropriate name, Heartbreak Ridge. Dr. Billy Kim, a South Korean pastor, tells a story about a battle that took place one night on this ridge. The North ...

20. The Heavier the Purse, The Tighter the Strings

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... commandments; fulfill them and you will live with God forever." Then Jesus named half of the Ten Commandments, the five which deal with treatment of other people. And Jesus added one: "Do not defraud." Perhaps Jesus speculated that some of the young man's ... fail to give 10 percent is to steal from God. Down in Brazil a few weeks ago I heard that great Korean Bishop Sundo Kim say, "If you don't tithe, your pocketbook is not converted. And if your pocketbook is not converted, you aren't." Some people cannot be ...

21. The Terrible Tree

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

George Bass

... to solve by putting others to death. That is not what God intended for humanity. Death is not God’s way of dealing with his people. Adolfo Perez Esquivel, who won the 1980 Nobel Peace Prize, was confined and tortured for fourteen months in the ... that people could do to him, and he died believing that he had completed the work that his Father had given him to do. When Kim Dae-jung, a devout Catholic, was sentenced to death some years ago, he said that his situation was enough "to break one’s spirit." He ...

22. The Most Difficult Commandment

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... full knowledge of the danger and turmoil that society faced. They began a ministry to youth in Sri Lanka, helping them to deal with the violence and hatred seeping into their communities. But one night, a group of guerilla fighters attacked the van carrying Rohan ... Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1994). 3. Don M. Aycock, WALKING STRAIGHT IN A CROOKED WORLD (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1987). 4. Kim McGuire in Tyler, Texas, MORNING TELEGRAPH. 5. Cited in "Heroes for Today," READER'S DIGEST, May 1996, pp. 64-65 ...

23. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... each part does its work. (Ephesians 4:11-16,NIV) It is a powerful text. It draws us to it, especially when we’re dealing with the theme of this conference. But the Spirit led me to another text for this address. Listen to it: Read 1 Peter 2: ... did it in pairs. I had the joyful, the overwhelmingly joyful experience, of sharing in the baptizing of persons with my daughter Kim, who is an ordained Methodist preacher. We baptized about twenty persons. What a celebration it was! What joy. There was preaching and ...

24. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... out in bold relief and we dare not miss them -- “Go”and “disciples.” Go! Go make disciples. After a great deal of discussion and behind-the-scenes political maneuvering, we finally got our mission statement as United Methodist approved and printed in ... it in pairs. I had the joyful, the overwhelmingly joyful experience, of sharing in the baptizing of persons with my daughter Kim, who is an ordained Methodist preacher. We baptized about twenty persons. What a celebration it was! What joy. There was ...

25. With Jesus In The Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the German soldiers who had brought so much suffering to their land. But these men and women made another choice. How you deal with your wilderness experiences reveals what you are inside. Some people have gone through the wilderness and lost their faith. Others have moved ... . Dr. David E. Leininger, First Presbyterian Church, Warren, PA, http://www.presbyterianwarren.com/hurting.html. 5. Kim Thoday, Hewett Community Church of Christ, South Australia, 6. Comfort from the Cross, p. 99. Cited by John D ...

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