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Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... trapped or enslaved. The way to escape sin or bad attitudes or even bad religion is to become attached to God in the same way that we were once attached to that which is negative, destructive, hateful. Let me give you an example. Mark D. Roberts, in his book Dare to Be True tells of accompanying his son Nathan on an outing to Six Flags Magic Mountain, a theme park in Southern California. Six Flags Magic Mountain features an enormous roller coaster named, quite appropriately Goliath. Goliath features such ...

2. The Handiwork of God

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Paul’s words say three things to me. First of all, they say we were created for greatness. Now it’s important for you to understand what I mean by greatness. Greatness in God’s eyes is different from what the world means by greatness. Dr. Mark D. Roberts tells one of the most moving stories I’ve heard in quite a while. He tells about a phone call he received about bedtime one evening. He was the pastor on call that night at the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood. The operator informed him that ...

3. More Than Just Image

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... —to look Instagram-ready. The problem with living in an image-conscious society is that we are easy to deceive. Too often, appearance wins out over substance. If something looks good on the outside, we don’t question its authenticity or integrity. Author Mark D. Roberts tells of meeting a man who worked as a food stylist for an ad agency. Food stylists create those perfect food pictures we see in advertisements. The man explained that one photo of the perfect hamburger might take days of intensive work ...

4. Together In One Place

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... , it is appropriate that we should also stop for a few minutes to ask what the church is, what is its purpose and how it came to be. We’ll start with that last question, first. How did the church come to be? The Reverend Dr. Mark D. Roberts provides an excellent little tutorial on the history and meaning of Pentecost in the blog that he writes for the religion website, Patheos.com. I won’t read you his entire article but here are some of the highlights: The word, Pentecost, is an English transliteration ...

5. Fit for God

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Inn, S.C., http://www.readersdigest.com/witandwisdom-on@lists.tagnet.org. 3. "T-riffic T’s" by Amy McCrary, July 8, 2003, pp. E1. 4. EurerkAlert! !0 June 2002: "UMass Researcher Finds Most People Lie in Everyday Conversations." Cited in Mark D. Roberts, Dare to be True, Living in the Freedom of Complete Honesty (Waterbrook Press, 2003). 5. Kenman Wong, "Finding True North," Life@Work2, no. 5 (September/ October 1999): 48. Cited in Stephen R. Graves and Thomas G. Addington, The Fourth Frontier: Exploring ...

6. Broken Promises

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... glasses. “Interesting. Grover Gaither was the best worker I ever had on my farm. Full day’s work for a day’s pay. So honest. What’d you say you wanted?” Bill told him again. “Let me do some thinking on it, then come back and see me,” he said. Bill ... McCall, Jr., and Michael M. Lombardo, “What Makes A Top Executive?” Psychology Today, February 1983. 6. Mark D. Roberts, Dare to Be True: Living in the Freedom of Complete Honesty (Colorado Springs: Waterbrook Press, 2003), pp. 57-58. ...

7. Do You Know How to Listen?

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” (3) How many children and teenagers would echo that same cry? How many spouses? We all need someone who will listen. Robert Herron says that good listening is like tuning in a radio station. For good results, you can listen to only one station ... simple and at the same time quite remarkable: Mark’s parents, the Orsinis, would sit at Mark’s side each day and recite the alphabet. When they got to a letter Mark needed to spell a word, he’d nod “yes.” They’d write it down, then start over and wait ...

8. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... . 12–25 begin and end with references to Tarshish: an editorial device for marking insertions often called “resumptive repetition” (D. M. Carr, Reading the Fractures of Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches [Louisville: Westminster ... that a later editor has inserted this list of gemstones is to beg the question: why would someone have inserted such a list? As Robert Wilson observes, since the list can have no other referent than the high-priestly breastplate, “the purpose of the list must be to ...

9. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... mention the commission to the scribe angel? Is the whole business with the mark just a meaningless charade? It is possible that this motif serves to underline ... Manifestation [Proof-Saying]: A Prophetic Genre,” in I Am Yahweh (ed. W. Brueggemann; trans. D. W. Scott; Atlanta: John Knox, 1982), pp. 100–102). The exact phrase “I will ... The Heb. term sar “is a very general term for an officer” (J. J. M. Roberts, “Bearers of the Polity: Isaiah of Jerusalem’s View of the Eighth-Century Judean Society,” ...

10. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... they immediately told Jesus about her. So he went to her, took her by the hand and helped her up. Mark tells us, “The fever left her and she began to wait on them.” Well, so much for the role of ... many Walt Disney films, such as The Love Bug (the original one) and The Shaggy D.A., and in the television show, The Teddy Bears. In February of 1974, Lory and ... of view shared by many during that era. After forty years of ministry, Robert Schuller changed his mind. The subconscious, he decided, is ahead of the ...

11. Only a Carpenter

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... magazine has no room for your vigorous verse.” The poet was Robert Frost. In 1905, the University of Bern flunked a Ph.D. dissertation because it was fanciful and irrelevant. The young Ph.D. student who received the bad news was Albert Einstein. In 1894, the ... him not.” In chapters 9-11 of Romans, Paul wrestles with the thorny problem of Jesus’ rejection by His own people, the Jews. In Mark 6 there is the same theme. But in this passage, Jesus’ own people are not the Jews as a whole but His own friends ...

12. The New Jerusalem

Revelation 21:1-27

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... does not refer to a “brand new” reality; neither does Christ’s parousia mark the end of human history. Rather it consummates the renewal of the ... miraculous power over nature; that is, “the glory of God is manifest for the salvation of man in Jesus” (so D. M. Smith, John, p. 30). This, then, is the essence of God’s Word which is the light of ... place but the Bride for Christ, the church, see Robert H. Gundry, “The New Jerusalem: People as Place, not Place for People,” NovT 29 (1987), pp ...

13. Knowing the Secret

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Thomas Long

... the suffering Son of God, and that is a hard secret to learn. That is why Mark tells us the secret in the beginning. He wants us to know that Jesus is the ... Galatians 3:26-27). Doc is a character in John Steinbeck’s Sweet Thursday. A Ph.D from the University of Chicago, Doc now earns his living selling marine specimens he has collected ... to be my own. In you I delight." In his autobiographical book Creative Dislocation, Robert McAfee Brown remembered the day in 1960 when he participated in a Lutheran worship ...

14. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... doesn't smoke, is prompt, smiles a lot, eats sensibly, avoids cavities and marks their ballot carefully . . . Avoids too much sun. Sends overseas packages early. Loves ... spent over forty years as a missionary to China, once told Dr. Robert Schuller of his experience of going to a remote village, where presumably missionaries ... be given to you. Would you wish to have the gift of healing?" "No," said the man, "I'd rather God did the healing himself." "Would you want to bring sinners back to the path of ...

15. A Terrorist among the Twelve

Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the most radical wing of our modern PLO. The Zealot revolt of 6-7 A.D. was quelled by Rome, in a violent demonstration of overwhelming power. Its leaders were nailed ... who drew a sword and struck at the servant of the high priest, cutting off his ear. (Mark 14:47) The sword wielder is not identified in the first three Gospels as a disciple, but simply ... commentary on Jesus’ words is to be found in the story of Sir Robert Watson-Watt, the brilliant man who helped to invent radar. Much to his chagrin, while driving ...

16. The Man of Lawlessness

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... temple that would pre-figure the End (see Mark 13:14 where the masculine participle suggests that a person is meant; cf. also Matt. 24:15). In this connection, the unsuccessful attempt of the emperor Gaius (Caligula) in A.D. 40 to have his statue erected in the ... Philipperbrief und die Enthusiasten in Thessalonich [Gütersloh: C. Bertelsman, 1909], pp. 547–654). Schmithals and Robert Jewett, “Enthusiastic Radicalism and the Thessalonian Correspondence,” SBL Seminar Papers 1 (1972), pp. 181–232, both ...

17. Signs of the End of the Age

Luke 21:5-38

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... 2 Bar., 4 Ezra, and Josephus, described the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 with the words of the biblical accounts concerned with Jerusalem’s first destruction.) Luke may have omitted Mark 13:18 (“pray that this will not take place in winter”) because ... in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. And so all Israel will be saved …”). Robert L. Brawley (Luke–Acts and the Jews: Conflict, Apology, and Conciliation, SBLMS 33 [Atlanta: Scholars, 1987], p. 125) finds “uncanny verbal ...

18. Only the Abba Knows

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... work.” (II Thess. 3:11) He also said: “If anyone will not work, let him not eat.” (II Thess. 3:10) Around 200 A.D a Syrian bishop announced that Christ was about to come to begin His reign. So the bishop led all his people out into the desert ... the Father.” (Mark 13:32) In his excellent book “Jesus Against the Rapture,” Professor Robert Jewett says: “The most shocking and unexpected thing Jesus ever said about the end times is reported in the so-called ‘Little Apocalypse’ of Mark. ‘But of ...

19. Blessed Are Those Who Believe

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a few moments, the grandson asked: “But can’t they see them?”(1) I’d say that’s a reasonable question, wouldn’t you? Once you’ve seen something ... life. It is how much we love God and our fellow human beings. The poet Robert Frost once spoke of the founders of this country and how they journeyed forth without a ... be a doubting Thomas. It takes no particular strength of character to say, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side ...

20. It's A Wonderful Life

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... S COMING INTO THE WORLD MEANS IS HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS. The George Baileys and the Robert McFarlanes of our world have a reason to go on. Christ has come into our world. ... engage, Charlene blurted out, "Santa, I'm having a hysterectomy next Wednesday, and I'd like swift healing." For a moment, Charlene was mortified at her own bluntness, but ... Cruikshanks got the good news that Debbie's cancer was all gone. On Christmas Eve, Mark Cruikshank drove to his shops to post a new sign: PRAISE GOD, DEBBIE IS WINNING ...

21. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... that comes from knowing that Jesus conquered death. Author Tony Campolo tells of the wonderful example his father-in-law, Pastor Robert Davidson, provided for him while he was dying. Pastor Davidson had been slowly deteriorating in mind and body for many years. ... mind, the unquenchable joy, the outgoing love, and the irrepressible sense of victory that marks our lives. And we won’t have to say, when we stand before God: “If I’d known you were going to win . . .” 1. R. Douglas Reinard, June 1989, The ...

22. Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... be Tomorrow No one would be better than he Tomorrow Each morning he stacked up the letters he'd write Tomorrow It was too bad indeed he was too busy to see Bill, but he promised to ... mind and went obediently and did the work his father asked him to do. Dr. Robert Coles tells a heartbreaking story about a young lady he met in his years as ... Jesus' sake and your own, just follow HIM." (7) A father had two sons . . . 1. Mark C. Young, Facts on File, An Infobase Holdings Company. 2. Source unknown 3. "At Work," Sasha ...

23. “The King Rejoices in Your Strength, Lord”

Psalm 21:1-13

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... in the Lord and his unfailing love. Hymn: “How Can I Keep from Singing?,” by Robert Lowry. Lowry’s hymn (also known as “My Life Flows On in Endless Song”) ... 22:7 All who see me mock me; they hurl insults, shaking their heads. See Matthew 27:39/Mark 15:29. Shaking one’s head was an offensive gesture. 22:8 He trusts in the Lord. ... he’s been to me. He’s been awfully good to me in my life, you know. . . . I’d rather have Jesus. He’s all the world to me.” And then Mabel began to sing an ...

24. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... , featured the four-winged scarab—an Egyptian solar motif (A. D. Tushingham, “A Royal Israelite Seal [?] and the Jar-Handle Stamps,” ... well the many predictions in the New Testament that the end of the world would come soon (e.g., Mark 13:30; 1 Cor. 7:29–31; Rev. 22:12, 20), which, taking them at face value, clearly was ... little further” may be a concession to human limitations, and an incentive to hope (Roberts, “Prophetic Prediction,” pp. 249–50). A time of doom for the nations. The MT ...

25. Ascension

Acts 1:1-11, Mark 16:1-20, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... forever in your glory." Hymn of the Day "A Hymn Of Glory Let Us Sing" EXPLANATION Mark 16:19-20 Up (v. 19). Where is "up?" How high is "up?" Heaven is considered ... 1:11 B. A world to win - Matthew 28:19; Luke 24:47 C. His presence - Matthew 28:20 D. His power - Acts 1:8 5. The Good of His Going (John 16:7). The ascension was good for ... it was necessary to amputate it. Shortly thereafter Jackson died of pneumonia. When General Robert E. Lee heard the report, he said, "Stonewall Jackson lost his left arm but ...

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