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Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... former baseball great, Joe Gordon. In 1947, Gordon was in his prime with the Cleveland Indians. That same year, a young black athlete named Larry Doby came to play for Cleveland. Doby was the first black rookie to join an American League team. Doby was tense and nervous when he ... wilderness, that was it." (4) There comes a time when someone must take that walk of compassion, someone must scale that wall of hostility, someone must go out on that limb of love. Jesus did. There is no more graphic illustration of ...

2. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... of their photos. That jogger was Larry Bird. He was going through his daily work-out in the off-season. But these two tourists were so focused on the Larry Bird sign that they didn't even notice when the real Larry Bird passed by. (2) Many ... had been me, I would have screamed, "Help me!" But that is not the first thing Stanley Praimnath said to the man who was digging through the wall to help him. Stanley asked a question. He said to Brian, "I have to ask you--do you know Jesus?" You see, neither man knew if ...

3. You Have a Story to Tell

John 9:1-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... where the blind man was when Jesus healed him. But one commentary writer says, “A trip to Siloam and back from the nearest wall of the temple, for example, would be about 1,300 yards.” (6) Would you walk blind even half that distance on the word ... who needs to hear God’s story through us. There is a beautiful story on the Divine Opportunities blog by a man named Larry. Many years ago, Larry was driving down Highway 240 in Memphis when he saw a car pulled off on the side of the highway. He felt strongly ...

4. A Memorial Forever - Memorial Day

Proverbs 1:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the first things that is done when the moving van pulls away is to quickly place on the walls our family''s pictures. Immediately, I place on the walls of my office my diplomas, ordination credentials and special pictures. It gives me a sense of connection to ... is also the hometown of Boston Celtics great Larry Bird. Main Street in French Lick bears the name Larry Bird Boulevard. One day, a couple was taking pictures of each other in front of the Larry Bird sign when Larry ran past. They never saw him, and he ...

5. How Well Do You Listen?

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... This host had five questions written out by someone else and she checked off each question as she asked it. Larry noticed she wasn’t listening at all. She was looking at the camera, at the monitor--anywhere but at him. Her third question was, “What ... assertive in our commitment to him? What is holding us back? Why does the seed of the Gospel sometimes fall on infertile soil even within the walls of the church? And so I’m asking you as I’m asking myself: How well do you listen? How well do you listen to ...

6. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... going to change anything, and in the meantime, why lose sleep? I get precious little as it is." "But you still wonder, don't you?" Larry nods thoughtfully and answers, "I'm human, Phil."8 What does it mean that my life is a gift? What does it mean that God ... Instead of thinking creatively about how to bring someone else down, pray creatively how to build them up. My landlady had a little wall plaque that read, ‘Why pray when you can worry? I always saw the humor of it-and the reverse psychology was good ...

7. When God Speaks You Better Listen

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... acres, had 71 rooms with hallways 180 ft. long and 40 ft. wide. It was a huge city. It was enclosed within eight miles of walls, with fifteen gates and had a population of 175,000 people. But primarily it was a wicked city. The Living Bible translates verse 2, "Their ... Him and submit to His will and do what He tells you to do. One of my favorite basketball players of all time is Larry Bird. I think he is one of the five greatest NBA players of all time. During the final seconds of an especially tense close ...

8. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... water reasonably well. One does grow weary of using the hair dryer on a soggy paper. Inconsistency is what drives one up the wall. I suppose that is the reason some of us find particular meaning in such passages as, "Lo, I am with you ALWAYS," "Love ... 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 ...

9. Tear Down This Wall!

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... three daughters moved across the room and for the first time hugged Betty and asked for forgiveness. Be careful when you build a wall. Walls destroy as well as protect. (2) Pastor Joel Gregory tells about a castle on the coast of England. No one currently was living ... . Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing Group, 2008), p. 213. 6. Larry Bethune, http://ubcaustin.org/sermons/19990411.htm. 7. The Rev. Miles Brandon, http://www.utepiscopal.org/Sermons/ ...

10. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... is not so much a matter of smarts as it is obedience and sanctified common sense. You don't have to be a Wall Street broker or a financial swami to manage money. I want to give you what I call Merritt's methods of money management. ... the burden is so heavy you cannot save for the future. Debt is wrong if it puts your family under financial pressure. (Financial Counselor, Larry Burkette, says that credit is the motivating factor behind perhaps 80% of all divorces.)13 Debt is wrong if it is used to pay for ...

11. Speaking of Us

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Steve Molin

... River, and they grew popcorn; if you ever ate Jolly Time Popcorn, you may have been munching some of Larry and Gwen’s crop. But Larry died and Gwen couldn’t actively raise and harvest a crop any longer, so she leased out those thousand acres ... really good at it, we point to others and blame them for their selfish, unethical, and hurtful behavior. Who is to blame for the Wall Street fiasco; was it the greedy lenders? “You’re darn right it was the predatory lenders!” Who’s to blame for the high ...

12. Mind Games

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... alienated and enemies in your mind…" But when you give your heart to Christ He storms the citadel of your mind, breaks down the walls, casts out the devil, and He takes over. But the devil never gives in and he never gives up. He wants to take your ... not because there is no light, but because the world loves darkness rather than light. It broke my heart recently to find out that Larry King asked Chuck Colson not long ago to go to dinner. He told Chuck Colson the invitation was for one purpose. He said, "I' ...

13. Happiness Full Stop

John 15:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be complete.” Notice that love is essential to joy. Pastor Larry Brincefield tells of reading a book called Second Wind that contains interviews with a number of overseas missionaries. He expected to read about the ... man’s mother was trapped inside. The young man, Jermaine, didn’t think twice when he began scaling the outer wall of the burning apartment building to rescue his mother. Jermaine’s mother, who is bed-ridden, lived on the 15th ...

14. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... Finally, one day he was ready to make his move. He leased the apartment directly beneath Mellon's in Washington and covered the walls with masterpieces. Then, before returning to New York, Duveen offered Mellon the key to the apartment and invited him to drop in whenever ... be introduced into the body. Accordingly, his wife died. A similar tragedy befell the Larry Parker family. In his book, WE LET OUR SON DIE, Larry records the tragic story of the devastation his family experienced when their diabetic eleven ...

15. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... trying to love especially difficult people, our imagination can provide the transportation beyond those walls and around those corners. What must it feel like for Jan to believe she must erect a wall? What must it be like for Jim to peek at me, as if barely, ... was not always good at following his physician's directives. At times the physician would become exasperated and say to the man: "Larry, I love ya'! But you gotta stop doing that!" Christian love is just like that. It's what Paul calls "speaking the ...

16. What "They" Say

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... have 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 believe?" but ... so totally stuffed with "stuff." It was amazing. An old fellow leaned back in a cane bottomed chair against the outside wall, picking his teeth. He watched us with interest as we peered through the large window and commented about the tremendous volume ...

17. The Shepherd Who Loved His Sheep

John 10:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... factors responsible for the terror. Those "Christ in Glory" Good Shepherd mosaics seem, sometimes, to be relics of another age, appropriately gracing the walls and ceilings of churches that are more museums than they are places where people gather to worship in the name of the ... to "fetch her daughter Amy, return and camp in these offices until she got what she wanted or was arrested." Larry Batson, the columnist who tells her story, reports her explanation: "I went a little crazy. I’m not emotional. I’ ...

18. The God Of The Living

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... of their home, he suddenly noticed that the pastor had done one thing that might reveal the determination of his heart. For there on the chimney wall, the only part left standing, the pastor had taken a lump of charcoal and written the words that were spoken as a vow by all ... have found that AIDS patients who are fatalistic about their disease actually hasten the onset of death. According to Larry Dossey, "The most effective psychological coping strategy in the acute phase of a heart attack, after one is in ...

19. Piercing A Hole In The Darkness

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

King Duncan

... God knows. And in this, Job finds what he is looking for. In his book Powerful Prayers, Larry King interviews people from all walks of life on their concept of prayer. Actor Kirk Douglas shared an amusing story in his interview. A poor, blind, childless man ... spent his days praying at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem for some good fortune from God. Imagine his surprise when God spoke to him and offered to fulfill one of ...

20. Happy Marriage...It's All About Choices

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Moore

... of a busy town, Watching men tearing a building down. With a ho, heave ho, and a lusty yell, They swing a beam… and side wall fell! I asked the foreman of the crew, ‘Are these men as skilled As those you’d hire if you want to build?” ‘Ah no ... a church in a small town in West Tennessee. June and I moved into the parsonage at noon on a Thursday. My predecessor, the Reverend Larry Yates had moved out just a few minutes before. At 12:15… (we had been there only 15 minutes)… the door-bell rang. It was ...

21. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... emotional and spiritual growth. In spite of being able to communicate with his fellow POWs only by tapping on the cell walls, he along with other prisoners managed to learn French. He learned to recite Kipling and Shakespeare. Most amazing of all, ... 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 ...

22. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... ve got to buy now, even if it destroys us financially and ruins our family life. We’re afraid! A fellow names Larry Henshaw tells of the time his home was rocked by an earthquake. Daughters Debbie and Carol were locked in their bedroom ... one time or another. We fear what people will say about us. We fear we won’t make it at university. We hide ourselves behind walls of trinkets and hope nobody sees what we’re really like inside. Franklin Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear ...

23. Trumpets in Church on Easter, The Very Idea!

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... tells the story of miners trapped by an underwater lake draining into their pit. I had just gone back into No. 1 room when it happened. Over the rattle of machinery I heard Frank Scarbro's yell. "Larry! Boys! Come on! There's water in here!" It roared out of No. 3 room in what seemed like a solid wall, knocking down support timbers, tearing up huge slabs of slate. "Up here," Frank’s voice called again. "There’s a high ground here." I crawled toward him. Six of us gathered there. That meant that four men ...

24. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The Texas Almanac contains maps that are so detailed and so accurate that prison officials fear they could help prisoners escape. “A map would be of great assistance if you were planning to go over the wall,” said Larry Fitzgerald, spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. “Once they’re outside the walls, they go, `Ooh, I’m out here. What do I do now?’ A lot of times they won’t have any idea really where they are, what road leads to where,” Fitzgerald said. Would-be escapees ...

25. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... your eyes before, but I read where there is a disease called "a dirty heart." In this condition ulcers form on the inner walls of the heart, which then cause the eyes to become bloodshot. If that condition is not corrected the blood vessels in the eye ... have to serve somebody. [9] What is so very sad is that so many people in the church wind up serving money anyway. Larry Burkett said that materialism is running rampant in the American church. Quoting this 24th verse he said, "Christians are trying to serve ...

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