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Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Steve Molin

... a day; something to capture my imagination. I started with John Grisham and read everything he has written. Then I moved on to Swedish author Henning Mankell and read all of his stuff. More recently, I have been reading the murder mysteries of Lee Childs. There is nothing like a good “whodunit” to take my weary brain away from council meetings and budget conversations. I mention this to you this morning because of a quote I recently came across from Ray Stedman. He wrote: Parables can be as exciting ...

2. Coffee Shop Christmas Eve

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Julia Ross Strope

... ’t mention God or love ... Rebecca: Or Gabriel flying in wearing combat boots. Grandma: We didn’t tell the part about Mary being overwhelmed by the Holy Spirit. Jeff: Nor did we name Joseph who probably wondered if he was crazy! Lee: (delivers the hot chocolate) My grandmother sang the story to me: C is for the Christ Child born upon this day H for herald angels in the night R is our Redeemer I means Israel S is for the star that shone so bright T is for three wise men they who traveled far M is for the ...

3. It's A Terrible Thing To Be Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... into his own story of love and hate, his parents' broken marriage, his childhood pain. He began identifying with the innocent child caught in the fateful vagaries of his parents' love. He thinks of his own passionate loves--the woman he loved ... best-liked persons in Hollywood is Kathie Lee Gifford. Like everyone, Kathie Lee has had her share of heartaches--particularly in her marriage, as the tabloids have pointed out to us repeatedly over the last few years. Kathie Lee was recognized recently as Mother of ...

4. Wrong About Christ

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... longer than others in coming to Christ. Lee Strobel was the legal affairs editor for the Chicago Tribune. Although he had been raised as a Christian, he was now a self-proclaimed atheist. At one point in their marriage, Lee's wife, Leslie, decided to commit her ... foolish behavior. Then he took a child who was playing nearby and placed the child before them. Jesus wanted his disciples to identify with the child, instead of with power and prestige. "Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me," he ...

5. How To Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... hostile and aggressive. But their attitude didn't bother him nearly so much as the attitude of their parents. Often the child's father would be outraged: "Why do you do this to my boy?" he would ask. "œWhy bring him in here? Don ... child. As a mother, there is much I must teach my child, but the greatest of all is love. This is a mother who loves as Christ loves. Love is a command, not a feeling. (9) We love with affection, encouragement and moral guidance. 1. From the Internet. Source unknown. 2. Blaine Lee ...

6. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... chains about your neck." (Pr. 1:8-9) God's purpose for parents is to impart wisdom unto their children. Therefore it is a wise child who will listen to his parents. As we all know, teenagers have a tendency to think that they know a whole lot more about life ... to look into your eyes, and I can tell whether or not you have dishonored your father and your mother and your God." Dr. Lee went to Panama. He faced many temptations, but he kept himself clean. When he came home to South Carolina and met his mother, he ...

7. Children Of The Light

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... had died in a fire. And James had walked up and down the sidewalks outside the funeral home, begging strangers to come and attend the funeral service. There was no family. Shirley's mother had been dead since the child was two. On the telephone, with the reporter, just before he died, James Lee wept in loneliness. He asked that maybe the church where Shirley went to Sunday School could put up a little plaque some place for her. “Maybe then," he said, “in ten or twenty years, someone will see the plaque ...

8. Will Names Never Hurt Us?

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... cited Hiam Ginott, the author of Between Parent and Child, who wrote about the importance of how we talk to children. He showed how bad names can mortally wound a child’s self-esteem. To bad-mouth a child, to put a bad name on the child, is so harmful that the bishop has coined a ... College at Lexington, Virginia. This small college had been badly damaged by the war. Reflecting on his life, General Robert E. Lee said, "I have led the young men of the South in battle; I intend to give the remaining years of my ...

9. L. T.: The Lonely Terrestrial

Drama

Edward Long

... wrong. Finally God determined to send an only Son to redeem the world from greed and hatred. In many ways the birth of the child was like ET coming to the world to bring a message of peace and love. All the time Christ's real home was with ... your space message and you are doubting the power of The Visit of one you know as The Christ on this day before the observance of his birth ... LEE: Zora, you've described me to a "T." But then, if I may ask, what do you know about the power of love at Christmas or the ...

10. Dealing with Grief

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... way to keep it from overwhelming us. A few years back, a newspaper reporter in Chicago received a telephone call from a man named James Lee. Lee said he was sending the newspaper a story. About his suicide. The reporter tried to trace the call, but he was too late. Lee killed himself not long after hanging up the phone. In Lee’s pocket was a drawing, obviously made by a child. Lee had written on the back of it, “Please leave this in my pocket. I want to have it buried with me.” The picture was drawn ...

11. The Lonely in the Crowd

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... . When the police arrived the young man was slumped in the booth with a bullet through his head. In his pockets they found a child's crayon drawing, much folded and worn. On it was written, "Please leave in my coat pocket. I want to have it buried with me." The drawing was signed in childish print by his daughter, Shirley Lee, who had perished in a fire just five months before. Lee was so grief-stricken he had asked total strangers to attend his daughter's funeral so she would have a nice service. He said ...

12. A Cross In A Cradle

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... holding the baby Jesus, that the Spirit revealed to him that this was the child he had spent his life waiting for. Simeon began to sing, "Master, now you may dismiss your servant in peace, according to your word; for my eyes have seen your salvation...." From that moment on his life would never be the same ” for he had seen the Messiah. God always keeps His promises. Someone once asked an aide of Confederate General Robert E. Lee about a certain thing that the general had promised. "What guarantee do I ...

13. Are You in the Right Place?

Matthew 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... the key was to unlock the lid to change it. A few weeks later the clock on the wall in the sanctuary stopped working. Pastor Lee took the clock down and it turned out to simply be that the batteries needed changing. When it was pointed out, one lady said that ... of service that Christ appreciates. It’s the kind of service where a woman quietly consoles a friend who has lost a child in a school shooting. It’s the kind of service in which a neighbor inconspicuously helps out someone in the community in ...

14. A Miracle of Grace

Philemon 1:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... love—and I, Paul, do this as an old man, and now also as a prisoner of Christ Jesus. I am appealing to you for my child, Onesimus, whose father I have become during my imprisonment. “I am sending him, that is, my own heart, back to you. I wanted to keep him ... since he had called the Watts household, but Rev. Watts recognized his voice immediately. The love in his voice washed away Johnny Lee’s fears. He told Rev. Watts of his new life as a Christian, and Rev. Watts invited him to speak at his church ...

15. What Child Is This?

Isaiah 9:6-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... have his beginning in Bethlehem. Dr. R. G. Lee said that Jesus Christ is the only person ever born, who at the moment of his birth was older than his mother, and as old as his father. What Dr. Lee said practically John said theologically. "In the ... sneak attack, a sniper's bullet, or a terrorists' bomb. But the peace that Jesus gives can weather any storm. III. This Is the Child That Will Govern "And the government will be upon His shoulder." (v.6) Today, less than 25% of the people in America say they ...

16. You're A Good Kid!

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... bad! I wish every mother and father could believe that about their child. We are all familiar with the term self-fulling prophecy. It means that we tend to conform to the image we have of ourselves. If we see ourselves as clumsy, we will act clumsy. If we see ourselves as intelligent, we will generally act intelligently. And if we see ourselves as bad, unacceptable, unlovable and unworthy, that is how we will behave. In his book, MISTREATED!, Ron Lee Dunn tells about two altar boys. One was born in 1892 in ...

17. The Hardest Thing That God Could Ask

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , the One who alone can provide the missing part in our hearts and souls. HERE IS THE THIRD QUESTION: ARE YOU TEACHING YOUR CHILD THAT GOD WILL PROVIDE? In the case of Abraham and Isaac, God provided a ram in the bush, a sacrifice for the altar. God ... is good!” The Rudicks knew they could not provide for all of Allen’s needs. But they know One who could. The writer Humphrey Lee had an opportunity to visit a small county airport one night and watch a small, private plane take off. Here is how he described ...

18. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Lord's Supper. Infant baptism is a sacrament but an unfinished sacrament. It looks forward to a time of completion when a child will be old enough to take his own vows of faith and thus endorse the claim we made earlier on his behalf. ... local tailors make a suit for him. Their work is internationally renowned. So Dr. Meeks went to a Korean tailor whose name happened to be Smitty Lee. After getting to know him a bit, Dr. Meeks asked how he happened to get that very non-Korean name. Smitty told him that many ...

19. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... people’s neighborhoods too. I’ll try to believe more. (Signed)Ian.” (age 10) (p.121) Who of us cannot relate to that child’s letter to God? Who has not asked the same questions? It is said that the most important questions are asked by children ... and all their horrors - your God couldn’t care less!” The Christian pastor, Shin, in his own agonizing unbelief cries out to the agnostic Lee: “All my life I have searched for God but I found only man in all his suffering!” But of course, had he but ...

20. Acquired Taste

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... return are offered praise and reward, it would never be hard to do the right thing. But a “nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee” faith is as frozen and oversweet as those deep freeze baked goods. It takes Holy Spirit power, Christlike love, and the pushy perseverance of ... at the mission school. How far apart culturally was Budapest from Scotland? How different could the world of a Hungarian Jewish child be from that of a working class Scottish woman? As far as the East is from the West? But Jane Haining’ ...

21. What Makes A Family?

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... has put new pressures on most families. There was an interesting ad sometime back that reflects these pressures. "You could turn your child into a screen saver," read the ad. The ad was for "I See You" ” a system that allows parents of day-care ... , but if your family is built on commitment and character, your chances of success are strong indeed. In his best-selling book STRAIGHT TALK, Lee Iacocca put it this way: "My father told me that the best way to teach is by example. He certainly showed me what it ...

22. Greed - Putting Things In Their Proper Perspective

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... priority means that you end up thinking that who you are, your value as a person, is determined by how much you have. Lee Atwater, a political strategist under President Bush, died from a brain tumor at the age of 41 in 1991.1 Reflecting on ... hand or a giving hand.5 Perhaps you've noticed that greed starts early in life. It seems a child is taught that he or she never has enough toys, and that some other child has more or better toys. That's what our children learn when we buy them toys for every occasion. ...

23. The Guiding Light for a New Year

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... churches celebrate this as the day when the wise men followed the star that came to rest over the house where the young child lay. It reminds us of the light Christ brought into the world. Christ has given us power over sin and death. Christ tells ... be another trick. Please let this be real. Please. Do you know do you understand that you represent Jesus to me?" Not long after sending Lee Strobel this poem, Maggie gave her life to Christ. (3) Here is why we are to arise and shine. The world is waiting for our ...

24. It's A Good Thing There Weren't Unions . . .

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... broad, shallow file drawer, and inside were rows packed with yellow envelopes that were stamped 'Lee Strobel.' "Here you go," she said. "These are all your articles." Lee Strobel had a strange sensation as he looked inside that drawer. Here was the substance ... reason they ought to attend. And attend they did. (4) A church and a community were changed forever when a lost daughter and her child came home. I wonder how the people in this community think about this church. Do they see this as a place of grace? Or ...

25. Caught Between God And Caesar

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... The Kingdom is like a mustard seed . . . it is like treasure hidden in a field . . . it is like a pearl of great price . . ." Jessie Lee Brown Foveaux tells the story of a traveling salesman who once came to her small Arkansas town. The man was looking to buy pearls at ... of forgiveness . . . In view of all this, I laid the gold coin struck with the effigy of my father King Theodenos at the child's feet. It was my only treasure, my only proof that I was the legal heir to the throne of Palmyra. In relinquishing ...

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