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2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... think, this was someone who spent the first seven years of her life with braces on her legs in order to be able just to walk. She’s a good reminder that a weakness can become a strength if we don’t give in to it. (3) A writer named Larry Lee tells about his 10-year-old daughter, Sarah, who had that same kind of determination. Sarah was born with a muscle missing in her foot. As a consequence, she is forced to wear a brace all the time. And yet Sarah came home one beautiful spring day to tell her ...

2. Christ Arose

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... difficult time maintaining her composure and was able to blurt out only a few words before lapsing into uncontrollable sobs. Larry King was patient and gave her plenty of time to regain her composure. Mickie recounted the chilling story: “Let me tell ... resurrection, it is simply impossible to explain a world in which people suffer. But the resurrection is real. Christ is alive. Lee Strobel is only one among many intelligent and scientifically trained men and women who have studied the record carefully and ...

3. We Believe in Jesus Christ

John 20:19-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... What shall I do with Jesus who is called the Christ?" I suppose the responses to that would be multiple. Interviewer Larry King of Larry King Live was asked, “If you could select only one person across all of history to interview, who would it be ... . HE IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. Popular author and speaker, Ravi Zacharias, is a man of great spiritual perceptions and integrity. Lee Strobel asked Dr. Zacharias one day how he came to be such a profound Christian. Dr. Zacharias replied, “I was raised in ...

4. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... to do good. Film: To Kill a Mockingbird. In this enduring, Academy Award–winning film (1962) based on the novel by Harper Lee, Atticus Finch, the main character (played by Gregory Peck), is a lawyer who chooses to defend a wrongly accused black man in ... and women left in a world without transcendence. In A Serious Man (2009), the lead character, played by Michael Stuhlbarg, is Larry, a Jewish man whose life in every area, both personally and professionally, begins to fall apart. He starts to question his ...

5. Traveling Forgotten Mountains

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

Larry Crabb has written a book called Moving Through Your Problems Toward Finding God. In the foreword the author writes, I have come to ... tossed the relatively little ship like a cork on a pond. After a sleepless night of being tossed about, Nick got up for duty just as dawn was breaking. They had steered a course into the lee of the Norwegian mountains to wait out the storm. Suddenly, about a mile off the coast they hit a floating mine, blowing the front of the hull away and sinking the ship with most of ...

6. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... from countries ranging from Paraguay to Poland, from Trinidad to Thailand. "We're like a big family here," said Peter Lee. "We thought by pooling our efforts we would increase our luck, and we were right." (2) Obviously I am not ... minds and bodies and dreams that we might struggle against life and produce fruit worthy of branches connected to the living vine. Dr. Larry Baker is a man who knows about developing strong fibers, fibers strong enough to burst constricting bands. Baker became totally blind by a ...

7. Come Home To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Angela Akers

... a changed life. Welcome home. 1. Clean-Cut-Jokes-subscribe@topica.com. doughels@erols.com (Aiken Drum). 2. (Donald Grey Barnhouse) BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATOR. 3.ASPIRE, October 1995, p. 10. 4. The NIV STUDY BIBLE, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995, p. 1331. 5. Larry King, pp. 58-59. 6. "When Angels Speak" by Martha Williamson, p. 268. 7. Lee Strobel, GOD'S OUTRAGEOUS CLAIMS (Grand Rapids, MI.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997),pp. 63-66. Angela Akers is assistant editor of DYNAMIC PREACHING

8. By Enduring

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... by the yard and it is no cinch by the inch. Suffering is not an option in the school of life. Last Friday night, Larry King assembled a panel of preachers and New Age proponents to discuss the nature of good and evil. It was an interesting discussion. But ... Jesus ushered in the most tumultuous era of our marriage. It was a time of harsh words, stony silence, and raw rage." Lee and Leslie, now both Christians, offer this advice about living with an unbelieving partner: Don't fixate on your struggles, focus on ...

9. Bittersweet

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... remember Seinfeld, someone tell us about it! [All time for someone to share something about the show.] Created by the phenomenal Larry David, who is now impersonating Bernie Sanders on Saturday Night Live, the show ran from 1989 to 1998. Seinfeld coined a ... know the gift of Jesus. *The photo for this sermon is used with permission by Alamy Stock Photos taken by John Warburton Lee Photography. A marketplace in Haran. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Matthew’s Witness to the Visit of the Magi to ...

10. The Peace That Jesus Gives

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Lee Griess

There is a road in southern Italy that begins in the city of Eboli and ends in the mountain village of Gagliano. To anyone who makes that journey, it is an ascent to hell. Gagliano is no more than a scattered cluster of fallen down whitewashed old buildings, hanging desperately to barren slopes near a rocky cliff. The village has been there for centuries and for as far back as the oldest person can remember, it has always been a place of severe poverty, unrelenting disease, frightening superstition, ...

11. Overlooked, but Not Forgotten

John 14:15-31

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Lee Griess

Every basketball fan knows the name Larry Bird. An All-Star player for the Boston Celtics for many years, Larry Bird won nearly every award a basketball player can win. And yet he still remembers what it was like to be overlooked and unappreciated. In his senior year in high school, Bird was chosen for the Kentucky/Indiana All-Star Games. Now those games are a big deal in basketball crazy Kentucky and Indiana. However, the only reason Bird was chosen was that usually there was a representative from ...

12. The True Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lee Griess

It's no wonder that the image of the shepherd was so frequently on the lips of our Savior. It's no surprise he used that illustration so often. For the image of a shepherd and the sheep was very much a part of Jesus' heritage and culture. Abraham, the father of the Jewish people, was the keeper of great flocks of sheep. Moses was called by God to be God's deliverer of the ancient Jewish people while living as a shepherd and tending the flocks of his father-in-law. And David, the greatest king of the Jewish ...

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