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1. Crossing The Desert Or Protecting Our Vehicle?

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... a group of Germans. They had abandoned their fairly new Peugeot car in the desert. They continued on their way, hitching a ride on a truck. The most important thing to them was getting across the desert. The vehicle was just a means of getting ... I knew instinctively that the Lord was in their life, and that was the reason for their special relationship." From that moment on Laura began attending church; her search was over. (5) Nothing is more appealing than a life that has been authentically touched by the ...

2. Good News/Bad News

Matthew 16:21-28

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to a close. If the disciples were going to continue to follow Jesus, they were going to have to prepare themselves for a rougher ride. Bishop Will Willimon says that he is still haunted by a long conversation he had with a man who was a member of one ... ,” she asked her small daughter, “what would you do if you found me on the floor and you couldn’t wake me up?” Laura says she could see her daughter’s little brain working. To her surprise her daughter finally said, “I would go into the kitchen and ...

3. It Isn't Easy Getting Ready For Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

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King Duncan

... . Christ came because the world needed saving. It needed it then, it needs it now. Every year, President Bush and his wife Laura send out a Christmas card with a Bible verse on it. For Christmas 2001, when the country was still coming to terms with ... . We stare into his or her beautiful eyes and see coming days of "mama" and "da-da." The days of learning to crawl and then walk, ride a bicycle and then drive a car. Even as we cuddle the small baby, we do so with the awareness that, before we even know it, ...

4. Tiny Pencils

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ? How could anyone much less Christians be so insensitive to the devastations being visited upon groups of people? How could we? Yet Amy Laura Hall tells of overhearing an exchange a eight years ago that still gives her chills. "We were in a restaurant, and a well- ... a Dutch engine driven by a Belgian chauffeur who was high on Scottish whiskey, chased by Italian Paparazzi riding Japanese motorcycles, first treated by an American doctor using Brazilian medicines. But the phenomenon of globalization, if ...

5. When a Storm Is Raging

Mark 4:35-41

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King Duncan

... memorable words: “God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in the sea, and rides upon the storm.” (3) Everyone sooner or later goes through a storm. It seems especially true in today’s world ... he would never see grow up, graduate and get married, or he could look back in joy and say, “Thank you, God, for the gift of my daughter Laura Lou and the six best years of my life.” (7) John Claypool chose to trust God with his storm. So can you and I. Do you believe ...

6. A Man Named Pain (Part 1)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

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Eric Ritz

... run of things, being a person of integrity, a person who can be trusted, is essential to true success. It’s like a story that Laura Simms tells about a young man who played a wooden flute. One day, the man wandered into the royal gardens. There sat the royal princess, ... Law of Influence, tells about a young man whose name could have been "pain." Each morning when he was a child, Duncan would ride a school bus. And each day they would pass a home that defined what people in the South used to call, "poor ...

7. Preparing for Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

Pastor John Ortberg was giving a bath to his three children. Johnny was still in the tub. Laura was out and safely in her pajamas. He was trying to get Mallory dried off. Mallory was ... , the young man began to cry and hold him tight. He kept looking at Stanley and squeezing him tighter. They climbed into the helicopter and took off. During the ride, the young captive sat on the floor, clinging to Stanley’s leg. Never having ridden in a helicopter, the young man looked out with panic as they gained altitude ...

8. What Is That in Your Hand?

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

James McCormick

... tiny sparrow was lying on its back in the middle of the road, its little legs pointing up toward the heavens. A horseman came riding by, saw the sparrow, pulled his horse to a stop, and dismounted. He asked, “Why are you lying in the road like that?” ... God, inadequate though it always is from a human point of view, many people have started organizations and institutions to help others. Laura Moore, Jack and Glenda Mitchell, Jacque Jacobs, and John Feicht are just a few whose names we know. I am sure that ...

9. Household of Faith

II Timothy 1:3-7

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J. Howard Olds

... one thing I remember I no longer agree with in terms of his perspective, but I remember Louis. He cared about me in my struggling years of adolescence when I tried to find my direction. In fact, Laura and Owen Faris never said much of anything. They just showed up at my house on Sunday morning, let me ride to church with them, and then bring me back home after church was over. They didn't have to say a word. Their very actions, their care, their love, and their openheartedness spoke volumes about the nature ...

10. Staying Close to Christ

John 13:31-38

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King Duncan

... you’re not familiar with the words to “The Lord’s Army,” they go like this: “I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, shoot the artillery . . .” In the pianist’s mind this was a wonderful marching tune to dramatize the women’s ... , http://sumasacchurch.weebly.com/sermons/category/a%20front%20row%20seat. 2. Wayne Brouwer, Wedding Homilies (Seven Worlds). 3. Laura Schaefer, Man With Farm Seeks Woman With Tractor (Thunder’s Mouth Press). Cited in Reader’s Digest, September 2005 ...

11. The Invitation

Isaiah 55:1-9

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Charley Reeb

... the art stereo system, and sense the power of the engine, all of your problems will dissolve. You will be elevated to another dimension. You will ride in a state of complete ecstasy. But have you seen anybody smiling in traffic lately? Or is the new smile the lifted middle finger? We ... same again. 1. Information shared with me by Dr. William L. Self. 2. Poem by Laura Goethel. 3. Bill Hybels in Leadership, Vol. X, no. 3 (Summer, 1989), p. 38. 4. David O. Dykes, Pastor of Green Acres Baptist Church in Tyler, ...

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