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Mark 4:26-34

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King Duncan

... first fruits of a great harvest, one of millions who shall come and be saved on the day of wrath to come.” God gave Robert Morrison faith to see beyond his meager beginning to a day when a vast multitude of Chinese would follow Christ. On that day no one would have ... Enjoy Life (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 1988), p. 85. 2. Rev. Dr. David E. Leininger, https://www.sermonwriter.com/sermons/matthew-1414-21-hungry-people-leininger. 3. Author unknown. 4. (Multnomah, 1992), p. 44. 5. From the Internet. 6. espn.go. ...

2. Joseph

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... after younger brothers and sisters. "Is not this the carpenter’s son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren ... And his sisters ...?" (Matthew 13:55-56) Joseph was a true father for the growing Jesus - the only one he ever knew, "Is not this Jesus, the son ... The Little Child" by Albert Bigelow Paine in Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. by Morrison (New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1948), p. 170. 2. "The Father" by Dorothy Scott Ballard in Christ in Poetry, ed. by Clark (New ...

3. The King Of Ifs

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Richard Andersen

... to them," explained Jesus. "And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at Me," He added. The King of Ifs had already mastered their query with actions of Her own. (Matthew 11:4-6) Here were fulfilled ancient understandings of Isaiah the Prophet about what the Messiah would be like (35:5-6; 61:1) The rabbis had taught that the ... 1989, Page 154. (4) Barstow, Henry H.; Stanzas 3 & 4 quoted inMasterpieces of Religious Verse, edited by James Dalton Morrison; Harper & Brothers; New York, 1948, Page 205 (#649).

4. Laborers Needed for the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Cananaean, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve ... Island turned to Christ.) Judson toiled seven years in Burma for his first convert but later saw great blessings. Morrison waited seventeen years in China, but then thousands responded. In our present era, missionaries have been in Japan about ...

5. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

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Robert Noblett

... and the weather, "... He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust." (Matthew 5:45) Later in the Gospel he again mentions weather, but this time chides those who spend a great deal of time worrying about it. " ... in the Words of Henry David Thoreau (Waukesha, Wisconsin: Country Beautiful Corporation, 1966), p. 24. 2. Robert Loveman, "April Rain," Morrison, op. cit., p. 20. 3. Robert Wallace, quoted by Ehrenfeld, op. cit., p. 15. 4. For an excellent discussion ...

6. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than he was at the beginning. This is what will happen to the evil people of this day." (Matthew 12:43-45, GNB) What Jesus is describing in these words that are hundreds of years old is something that psychologists have only been writing about the last hundred or so years. What ... us while we rest.2 1. James Hillman, Insearch (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1967), p. 91. 2. John Martin, God’s Dark, Morrison, op. cit., pp. 85-86.

7. Entertaining Angels

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... like frightening and unpleasant. Who does? It ties our stomachs into knots and gives us nightmares. It unsettles our lives. “Jim Morrison and the Doors, a rock group from the sixties wrote a song with a haunting melody and lyrics titled "˜People Are ... show of hospitality, no matter how small. Jesus said, “A cup of cold water given to a stranger in my name will not go unrewarded." (Matthew 10:42) You and I probably need to pray for the ability to be more hospitable to strangers. How can we show the love ...

8. Cross Connections

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... of these maneuvers. Particularly insightful is his treatment of this strategy: "... if any one strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also" (Matthew 5:39). Wink asks why the right cheek and how one would go about striking someone in that location. A blow, he notes, by the ... " (Sojourners, December 30, l986), p. 30. 6. Edwin Markham, "Outwitted" (Masterpieces of Religious Verse, James Dalton Morrison, ed., New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1948), p. 402. 7. D. M. Baillie, God Was in Christ (New ...

9. The Witch of Endor

1 Samuel 28:1-25

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Warren Thomas Smith

... . Strange, how we discover light amid gloom, kindness in caves. It was Micah who said, "... what doth the Lord require ... but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God." (6:8) It was Jesus who spoke "... whosoever shall give ... a cup of cold water ..." (Matthew 10:42). 1. Macbeth, Act I, Scene I. 2. Ibid., Act IV, Scene I. 3. "In Men Whom Men Condemn" by Joaquin Miller, from Masterpieces of Religious Verse, ed. by ...

10. The Saint without a Name

Luke 6:12-16

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Donald B. Strobe

... Demsky became Kirk Douglas; Frances Gumm became Judy Garland; Archie Leach became Cary Grant; Aaron Schwatt became Red Buttons; and Marion Morrison became...guess who? John Wayne. In more recent years, Hollywood seems to have gotten over this fear of ethnic names, ... of John. After that event, Nathanael/Bartholomew disappears from the historical records. One tradition says that he carried Matthew’s Gospel in Hebrew to India. Another tradition says that he was finally martyred in Armenia. Medieval painters ...

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