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Matthew 21:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... is because most preachers are somewhat embarrassed by it. Jesus seems to be acting so out of character. The late Dr. J. Wallace Hamilton wrote a book titled RIDE THE WILD HORSES! which is about the “Seven Deadly Sins,” one of which is the sin of anger ... like that. Most of the time, anger is not a very pleasant thing to behold. In Sinclair Lewis’ famous novel BABBITT, which is a study of small-town life, Lewis gave us the description of an angry woman whose “face was wrinkled like the Medusa, her voice ...

2. A Date With Destiny

Philippians 2:1-11

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King Duncan

... of 20 boys from 5 to 18 years of age. "Now," he says, "I'm where God wants me to be, in a life that began--instead of ending--with my obituary." Hamilton Whaley had discovered his reason for being. Many people in our society are asking the question, "Where does God mean for me to be?" How about you? Have you discovered where God ... Peale, Faith Is the Answer (New York: Fawcett Crest,1950). 5. Phillipe Vermier, quoted by Lewis L. Dunningo in his book, The Inner Splendor (New York: The MacMillan Co., 1954).

3. Something That Will Last Forever

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... to the nation as shining examples of what the free enterprise system could produce. Twenty-five years later a friend handed Dr. Hamilton a memo about what happened to those eight financial giants. Three of them went to prison, three committed suicide, and the ... than Chi Chi. His name is Smokey Bailey and he lives in Atlanta, Georgia. I found out about Smokey because the late Lewis Grizzard wrote a newspaper article about him. Smokey is a janitor in an Atlanta apartment building but he spends much of his ...

4. Receiving Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

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King Duncan

... you can’t believe one way and act another and be happy. It just doesn’t work. I like something that humorist Argus Hamilton once said about former President Bill Clinton. He acknowledged that Clinton is a religious man. He said the former President lived his ... by the campfire and the refusal of these men to do wrong. She was able to persuade the chief, and he loaned Lewis and Clark the needed horses and supplies. (6) Morality is a serious issue. How fortunate the young person is today who understands ...

5. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Curtis Lewis

... we sing? Shall we sing Phillips Brooks' "O Little Town Of Bethlehem," or Joseph Mohr's "Silent Night, Holy Night"? Maybe Edmund Hamilton Sears' "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear" would be appropriate. Perhaps Charles Wesley's "Hark, The Herald Angels Sing" is the ... exiles, so he desires to restore our joy which has been stolen by Satan who is totally committed to our joylessness. C. S. Lewis, in The Screw-tape Letters, depicts for us the devil's view of joy. The Screwtape Letters are a series of letters ...

6. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

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James Angell

... myself the luxury of a second decalogue, I also name Louis Evans, Carlyle Marney, James Pike, Ted Loder, Wallace Hamilton, Gerald Kennedy, Eugene Carson Blake, Liston Pope, Elton Trueblood, and Richard Raines. Plus the following, whose writing informed ... to my faith: Loren Eiseley, Thomas Merton, Halford Luccock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Frederick Buechner, Walter Brueggemann, C. S. Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David ...

7. Picking A Winner, Claiming A Treasure

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... his love, and to be busy in his service. To win an Olympic gold metal causes profound joy for even such a veteran as Carl Lewis. For a few months you are feted and celebrated. You appear on talk shows and endorse some athletic shoes. But after a while, life ... her home before him, he is going to place these words on her tombstone: "Hot Diggity Dog!" That great preacher, J. Wallace Hamilton, told about a talk made one night at his church by a missionary to Labrador, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell. Dr. Grenfell told about ...

8. Are We On Speaking Terms With The Almighty?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... stopped hearing our prayers. The biggest obstacle is that we have stopped listening to God. In his book, DIRECTIONS, James Hamilton tells about a man who lost a valuable watch while working in an icehouse. He searched diligently for it, carefully ... , "The same way you, a man of God, could be that fat." Some of us are prone to confess other's sins rather than our own. C.S. Lewis was right when he said, "We must lay before God what is really inside of us, not what ought to be in us." The Psalmist says in Psalm ...

9. Some Said It Thundered

John 12:20-36

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Donald B. Strobe

... God per se, but was rather what you might call the faint echo of a voice, sort of like the famous smile of Lewis Carroll’s Cheshire Cat. By Jesus’ time people had come to believe that the days of the prophets were over, that God no ... with the whole thing, asking, “Ho-hum, so what else is new?” In a book titled Still the Trumpet Sounds, the late Dr. J. Wallace Hamilton commented on that verse in Isaiah 64:1, “O That Thou would rend the heavens and come down!” He wrote, “Suppose He did. You have ...

10. Facing Difficult Decisions in Life! Part VI

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

J. Wallace Hamilton, one of the great voices of Methodism, once shared an old story that I want to use to open our sermon today. "An old ... decision away. Choose God. George MacDonald had great insights when he wrote, "It is the heart that is not yet sure of its God that is afraid to laugh in his presence." C. S. Lewis says it better: "Joy is the serious business of heaven--but it is not solemn." This is why Paul begins this section testifying, "Christ is proclaimed and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I shall ...

11. Are We on Speaking Terms with the Almighty?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... obstacle is that we have stopped listening for God''s direction. In his book Directions, author James Hamilton shares this insight about listening to God: "Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had ... way you, a man of God, could be that fat." Because we are usually blind to our own vices, we are hardly qualified to judge others. C.S. Lewis was right when he said, "We must lay before him what is really inside of us, not what ought to be in us." The Psalmist stated in ...

12. More Tolerable For Sodom And Gomorrah

Luke 10:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... as a telling reminder and warning that powers of destruction and evil still await not only Cracow but the whole world. (Flora Lewis, Europe, quoted by Don Shelby, "When God Settles Accounts," July 2, 1989) It is a dramatic picture of warning. Sounding the ... Bill of Rights. Men like Thomas Jefferson, Samuel and John Adams, James Madison, George Washington, Patrick Henry and Alexander Hamilton were enormously influenced by the moral and ethical precepts of the Judeo-Christian faith, in a God who manifested ...

13. They Said 'Yes!'

Ephesians 1:11-23

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Eckhart, Bob Core, Albert Outler, Karl Barth, Detrich Bonhoeffer, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Fanny Crosby, Isaac Watts, C.S. Lewis, Pauline Cruze, Beulah Miller, Pauline Swearingen, Tom & Vera Goodrum, Ruth Terry, Jo Cater. What do all of ... , he walks by statues and paintings of the fathers, leaders and framers of America and says their names. "James Madison. Alexander Hamilton. Ben Franklin. Thomas Jefferson. George Washington." He pauses at the last statue, that of his father, "John Adams. We have long ...

14. In Which City Do You Live?

Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23

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King Duncan

... was the only place where my fears were justified.” In a standup routine about traffic in Boston, Massachusetts comedian Lewis Black said, “The last person to get across that town in under three hours was yelling, ‘The British are coming ... every man and woman the desire for recognition and appreciation, for power and position, for material wealth and worldly acclaim. Years ago Wallace Hamilton called it the drum major instinct. All of us long to march out in front of the parade. So we strive for success ...

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