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1. When Is Justification By Faith A Heresy?

John 8:31-41

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George Johnson

... my church. It is Reformation Sunday. We remember what happened nearly 500 years ago. God raised up a priest by the name of Martin Luther who challenged the church to recover something he felt it had neglected or covered up. The church needed to reform, to wake up, to ... or causes us to neglect other truths, resulting in its becoming an escape from even more important truths. Ernest Campbell, former pastor of Riverside Church in New York City, says that justification by faith is the most neglected and ...

2. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

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Maxie Dunnam

... here we are in church doing our religious thing. My hunch is, however, that more of you know the name Charlie Daniels than Will Campbell. I don’t have time to talk about what that means, either for you or the church. Again, though, don’t feel bad if ... communicated without you. Imagine that. Christ wanting and needing us. That’s incredible, isn’t it? That’s a miracle! Martin Luther, overcome with the glory of knowing that Jesus needed him, even in his weakness, said, “God carves the rotten wood and ...

3. Crying On Palm Sunday

Luke 19:28-44

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Donald B. Strobe

... cry? In it he took issue with the familiar Christmas lullaby (sometimes attributed to Martin Luther), which contains the words: "Away in a manger, no crib for a bed, the little Lord Jesus lay down his sweet head." The second verse is the one that caught his attention: "The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes. But little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes." Campbell took issue with that verse. Jesus was a normal child. Normal children cry. Campbell said:"It would be strange if He did not cry as a child...He did ...

4. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... people, our histories, experiences, and vocations. These are all ways through which God's will and guidance is known. In fact, Luther sometimes called them larvae Dei -- masks of God. We can't know, or see, God directly as Moses had to look ... realization that who and where you are may be where God needs and wants you -- all contribute to a sense that you have a calling. Joseph Campbell says, "Go where your body and soul want to go, when you have the feeling, then stay with it and don't let anyone throw you ...

5. God Speaks and the Church Is Our Hearing Aid

Mark 4:1-9

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James W. Moore

... they often think of highly dramatic, even miraculous happenings like… Moses before the Burning Bush Paul blinded on The Damascus Road Luther caught in a thunderstorm Wesley being saved from a burning house. But God didn’t call me through a burning bush ... never been in a game… not one play… but he had no other choice, so he called for him. Meanwhile, out on field, Earl Campbell had gathered the other ten players into a huddle and he said to them: “Fellows, we are in big trouble here. I don’t know ...

6. When God’s “No” Means “Yes”

Habakkuk 1:1-4, Habakkuk 2:2-20

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Richard Hasler

... can help us cultivate the art of waiting. Live By Faith Still another guideline in helping you to pray is to live by faith. Ernie Campbell tells the story of one of the first parades on behalf of women’s suffrage held in New York City. It seems that 89 courageous ... Galatians 3:11).” After an agonizing spiritual quest Martin Luther rediscovered the same biblical truth and made it the hallmark of the 16th century Reformation Both Paul’s faith and Luther’s faith were marked by bold risk-taking. They knew ...

7. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

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James Angell

... my own spirit-shaping experiences of reading (in addition to Seven-Story Mountain), Thomas Kelly's Testament Of Devotion, John Woolman's Journal, Luther's A Simple Way To Pray, The Ladder Of Devotion by Caspar Calvor, the writings of John Watson, the Scriptures themselves. My inner ... Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. C. Read, Joseph Ford Newton, Ernest Campbell, William Sloane Coffin, John Henry Jouette, Ernest Gordon, and Abraham Heschel. I wish these lists included the ...

8. Wouldn't You Prefer Real Freedom?

John 8:31-41

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King Duncan

... . Nothing wrong with that. Many churches celebrate today as Reformation Sunday recognizing that time in history when Martin Luther set into play forces that freed many Christians from a church rife with corruption. "Freedom from . . ." can be ... with the One who is the source of life itself? Are you leading a disciplined life morally? "Wise persons," writes Colin Campbell in LEADERSHIP magazine, "have always recognized that freedom does not mean the absence of constraints or moral absolutes. Suppose a skydiver ...

9. On Doing the Truth

John 3:14-21

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Donald B. Strobe

... book, long out of print, he was right on target. Truth is something which is to be done, not merely to be believed. Martin Luther once said, “There is a believing in God which means I put my trust in Him, give myself up to thinking that I can have ... the next day?” The new birth is supposed to be a prelude to a new life. I once heard the great Presbyterian preacher Ernest Campbell talk about the Prodigal Son who had returned home to be embraced by his father and returned to the family. The next day he ...

10. On Talking to Oneself

Mark 5:21-43

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Donald B. Strobe

... of His “true cross” were spread throughout the ancient world, and treasured as relics in many churches. At the time of the Reformation Luther commented that there were enough pieces of the “true cross” around to build several German villages. But the amazing thing was that many ... The signs all read: “PLEASE TOUCH.” (Edwin M. McMahon and Peter A. Campbell, PLEASE TOUCH, New York: Sheed and Ward, 1969) I can imagine Jesus with the same invitation, standing among us this morning. “Please touch.”

11. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

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Eric Ritz

... had some difficulty praying and understanding God as Father. One of the Christian faith''s most noteworthy figures, Martin Luther, the great Protestant reformer, had such conflicts with his earthly father that he also had trouble understanding God as ... DELIGHTS IN SPENDING TIME WITH US. A committed Christian Father once went to his Pastor, the well-known and respected Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, because he sensed his children were becoming distant from him. Dr. Morgan asked, "Do you ever play marbles or ride your ...

12. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... the power of the Spirit'. In the life of Jesus all that temptation could achieve was to turn fullness into power. "Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, in his book The Crises of the Christ, claims that we ought to make a clear distinction between the two words 'fullness' ... use the wings of prayer as much, and our appearances before the throne of grace might be few and far between. Martin Luther claimed that his temptations were his 'Masters of Divinity' which taught him more about prayer than all his formal training as a ...

13. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

14. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

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King Duncan

... Twain once said, “No man, deep down in the privacy of his own heart, has any considerable respect for himself!” Martin Luther once declared, “When a man like me comes to know the plague of his own heart, he is not miserable only, he ... relate to that? THIS, OF COURSE, IS WHAT THE BIBLE CALLS SIN. Pastor James Crawford tells about a fascinating singer-songwriter named Kate Campbell. Kate was born in the northwest corner of Mississippi in a little town called Sledge. She grew up in the ‘60s as the ...

15. The Shepherd Lord

Psalm 23:1-6

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Maxie Dunnam

... that some combination of these ways of approaching God is what gives most of us our God—problems. (Dr. Ernest T. Campbell, sermon preached from The Riverside Church in New York City, “The Inverted Majesty of God,” December 12, 1971). Then into ... the Lord to be our Shepherd — He is our Shepherd. III Now press the image even further. The Lord is my shepherd. Martin Luther said “the heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.” What a difference that one little word makes: my shepherd. That’s ...

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