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Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... enter the nearest meat locker. They did just as he said, and all the shoppers survived the tornado without incident. Why did Larry Fore speak to the shoppers with such authority? Because 18 years before, Fore had survived a more devastating tornado. He had been ... buy them all,” he told the merchant, who was elated. After receiving the money, the merchant was surprised to hear the buyer say `Now, I want you to set them all free.” “What’s that, sir?” asked the merchant. “You heard me. Cut the strings ...

2. The Baby or the Window?

Matthew 13:44-46

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King Duncan

... , he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” What Jesus is saying to ... .laughandlift.com/. 5. http://www.sermonillustrations.com. 6. Lyrics by Larry Groce, http://www.lyricsfreak.com/l/larry+groce/junk+food+junkie_20225147.html. 7. http://www.wellesleyvillagechurch.org/sermons/2005/2006/20060312_ ...

3. What "They" Say

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... passed since she made the reply, the words remain clearly in my mind; "I don't really know who is right, but what Larry is saying sounds more like what mother and daddy believe than what you say." The question was not, "What do your parents ... sell it." Strange, I thought, that a man should operate a place of business and then refuse to do business. We later discovered from local merchants that the man hasn't sold anything in a long time. He just goes down every morning, opens the front door, leans back in his ...

4. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... lies the entrance to Blanchard Springs and the much-heralded Blanchard Caverns. It was a bright day indeed for local merchants when the parks, forestry, and recreation people began to do their magic among the rocks and hollows, thus delivering the ... stopped. I don't remember who the man in the truck was, but I remember the big man with the scary reputation ordering him to "Take Larry Don's dog to Jonesboro and do whatever needs to be done." He put his hand on my shoulder and said he would phone my father ...

5. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... who, although in her ninetieth year, refused to honor picket lines set up around the stores of Jewish merchants for the purpose of discouraging patronization. She would not countenance any prohibition of her freedom even by Nazi ... 53. 2. Bosanquet, p. 54. 3. Clovis Chappell, And The Prophets. (New York-Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1946) pp. 104-105. 4. Larry Rasmussen, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Reality and Resistance, (New York-Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972) p. 107. 5. Bosanquet, p. 109. 6. Rasmussen, p. ...

6. "God News" For Bad Times

1 Kings 17:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... soldier was trying to get a check cashed in the small town near the base to which he had been assigned. "I'm sorry," said the merchant who was waiting on him, "but I can't cash your check without some kind of identification. Haven't you got any friends at the base ... credits came when TWA flight 847 was hijacked in June, 1985, and was flown four times between Algeria and Beirut. Larry Hilliard, regional director of corporate communications for TWA, revealed that Deborah Toga, wife of one of the hostages, had ...

7. Epiphany: A Faith to Work Miracles

John 2:1-11

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... monk, Thalasius. The first hospital of record was founded by a Christian woman, Fabiola, in love for God. Apollonius, a Christian merchant, opened the first free dispensary. Are these the stuff of miracles? Indeed! In a world where compassion was essentially an unknown ... ask for nothing. Many ventures, some grand and some ordinary, are never begun because we don't have the faith to dare. Larry Sachau says that most Christians have "an almost terminal case of practicality." I fear he's right. God seems to find ...

8. Treasure Hidden In a Clay Jar

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

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King Duncan

... ? It is “the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.” Jesus called it the pearl of great price. It is so valuable that when a merchant finds it he sells everything else that he owns and goes and buys that pearl. This is to say that there is a treasure worth far more than the crown jewels of England ... Anxiety (Vintage) (Kindle Edition). 5. Dr. Ray Pritchard, http://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/christmas-hope/. 6. Larry Briney, More Grace for the Daily Grind (Xulon Press).

9. Jesus Clears the Temple

Mark 11:12-19

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

11:12–14 With this passage we have the beginning of another example of Mark’s sandwiching of two stories together in order to relate them to each other. In this case, Mark begins the story of the barren fig tree in 11:12–14, interrupting it to relate Jesus’ cleansing of the temple in 11:15–19, and completing the fig tree story in 11:20–26. This means that the incident of the fig tree both interprets the cleansing of the temple and is interpreted by the latter incident. Jesus’ disappointment with the fig ...

10. Man Up A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Illustration

Larry Powell

Every church school child knows the story of Zacchaeus: "Zacchaeus was a wee little man, a wee little man was he; he climbed up in a sycamore tree, for Jesus he would see." For our purposes here, let us divide the story into three parts: 1. The person. Jericho was the gate city for Judea’s trade with the East, which meant that it was also the checkpoint for customs on imports and exports. Zacchaeus, as "chief tax collector," was in charge of collections and overseer of all other tax collectors in his ...

11. Jesus Before Pilate

Mark 15:1-15

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

15:1–5 In this passage the Jewish leaders meet to make a formal decision about Jesus (v. 1) and they hand him over to Pilate, the Roman governor, whose interrogation of Jesus is then briefly described (vv. 2–5). All three Synoptic Gospels record a morning meeting of the Jewish Council to deal with Jesus (cf. Matt. 27:1; Luke 22:66), which is further evidence that any hearing held during the night must have been either an interrogation or some sort of pretrial hearing, not a formal trial. Otherwise no ...

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