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Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... the family, his son had learned to be too busy for him! Of course, the other side of the story is just as true. Maurice Boyd remembers the impact of one incident that sealed the impact of his father on his life forever. His father worked in a shipyard in ... and our world have lost our integrity that the great prophet of God must come and set things right. There is a powerful scene in Robert Bolt's play A Man for All Seasons. The story is that of Sir Thomas More, loyal subject of the English crown. King Henry ...

2. What It Takes

Luke 16:1-15

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Timothy J. Smith

... carefully for the future today is foolish indeed. Even more foolish is laying up treasure for this world only. Dr. Maurice Boyd, former pastor of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City, comments: "Jesus found many who lived as though ... on our worldly activities." (5) That's Jesus' intent. It is not to praise the manager's dishonesty, but his attention to his situation. Robert Fulghum, in his latest book UH-OH, tells of a scene he watched while eating breakfast in a cafe in Northwest Thailand. He ...

3. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

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King Duncan

... tears. Suddenly there was an arm about her. It was Maurice Cheeks, coach of the Trail Blazers. With his arm around Natalie, Cheeks began singing the next line and invited the crowd to join in. Maurice, Natalie, and twenty thousand people make it all the way ... didn’t wait until we were worthy. Neither should we wait until others are worthy. In his book, The Spiritual Life of Children, Robert Coles describes what happened when he asked a group of children to draw a picture of God. Most of the pictures which ...

4. What Is a Good Samaritan?

Luke 10:25-37

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Leonard Sweet

... on out there on the Jericho roads of these latter days of the 20th century, it is enough to make Robert Schuller say, "I can't," or Oral Roberts to promise, "Something bad is going to happen to you." Respected journalist Pete Hamill writes that "as this dreadful century ... us as the Great Commission. "All evangelism, no discipleship" fits Jules Lechevalier's criticism of the Christian Socialist F. D. Maurice, whose system was "a very good one for bringing men in, but it is all door" (as quoted by Edward Norman ...

5. You Can Be Real

Matthew 5:33-37

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Michael B. Brown

... absolutely dependent upon honesty. Our first duty to one another really is to be what we appear. In his book Permit Me Voyage, Maurice Boyd reminds us that being dishonest is unnatural. It forces us to live in two worlds: one of fact and one of ... and accepting it ... and affirming it ... and letting go of my envy, jealousy and foolish desire to be like somebody else. I love Robert Fulghum's report of the little girl who stood fast during a fellowship hall game of "Giants, Wizards and Dwarfs." "Where do the ...

6. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

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King Duncan

Mother Teresa appeared this Spring on Robert Schuller’s television program. Schuller reminded her that the show was being carried all over America and in 22 foreign countries ... others. And pray daily for His guidance. 1. Dale E. Galloway, CONFIDENCE WITHOUT CONCEIT, (Old Tappan, N. J.:Fleming H. Revell, 1989). 2. R. Maurice Boyd, A LOVER’S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD, (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1985). 3. Paul Aurandt, MORE OF PAUL HARVEY’S THE REST OF THE STORY (Toronto: Bantam Books, 1980) ...

7. Day Of Decision

Mark 14:10-26, 43-52

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King Duncan

... with sports on the Lord's day. We reap what we sow. We are the products of our past, but we are also products of our choices. Did you hear of the man who used to think he was indecisive, but now is not so sure? R. Maurice Boyd tells about a friend of writer Robert Frost who was like that. He seemed incapable of making up his mind about anything, to the great amusement of the small group of poets to which they both belonged. Just for the fun of it, Frost wrote a poem about the man's waffling. When ...

8. How A Christian Grieves

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

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King Duncan

... sooner or later all of us must die. Of course, there is something healthy about laughing at the Grim Reaper. Before British actor Robert Morley died, he asked that his credit cards be buried with him. That is a novel way to try to take it with ... accompany Sir David Wilcocks of Cambridge. “In case,” he writes, “the heavenly choirs, singing everlastingly, are not in tune.” Maurice Godbold of Hindhead, England would take a crowbar: “In case the affair proved premature” and he needed to get out of ...

9. Lord, What A Bountiful God!

John 6:1-15

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King Duncan

... down and receive what He has to give. What He has to give, He gives with extravagance. As St. Paul once wrote, "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, nor the heart of man conceived, what God has prepared for those who love Him." (2 Corinthians 2:9). 1. R. Maurice Boyd, A Lover's Quarrel with the World, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Westminster Press, 1985). 2. Cullen, Joseph P. "James' Towne," American History Illustrated (October, 1972), p. 35. 3. The illustration is from ...

10. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part III)

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... than the reality of Hell. FAST FROM CRITICIZING THE CHURCH AND SIMPLY LOVE AND SUPPORT THE BRIDE THAT CHRIST GAVE HIS LIFE FOR. Dr. Maurice Boyd put it so beautifully when he writes, "We do not belong to the Church because we are perfect but because we are ... is always "the people problem". So many of God''s saints live in a my-way-or-the-highway world, according to my good friend Dr. Robert Kopp. When we take our eyes off the Lord whom we serve we can fall to most any temptation in the world. We even try to ...

11. The True Story of the Magi

Matthew 1:1-17

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John Jamison

... Wild Fires Spam (20 Billion in lost productivity) Deaths Strom Thurmond Johnny Cash June Carter Cash Donald O’Conner John Ritter Bob Hope Mr. Fred Rodgers David Bloom Buddy Ebsen Buddy Hackett Art Carney Charles Bronson David Brinkley Maurice Gibb Althea Gibson Katherine Hepburn Robert Palmer Johnny Paycheck Greogory Peck Sam Phillips Barry White Warren Zevon Warren Zevon died September 7 at the age of 56, living long enough to make "The Wind" and to see the birth of twin grandchildren. Last October ...

12. Attics, Basements, Closets

Psalm 130:1-8

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Leonard Sweet

... . The standard for gentlemanly behavior was officially set back in the so-called age of chivalry championed by so many who look at our present-day leaders with highbrow disdain. In the 14th century Robert Erdeswick of Stafford was the first English gentlemen (according to Maurice Keen, Origins of the English Gentleman: Heraldry, Chivalry and Gentility in Medieval England, c. 1300-c.1500; Arcadia; December 2002). Yet this first English gentleman was indicted for breaking and entering, assault and battery ...

13. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

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Maurice A. Fetty

O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud – It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to be wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says "I burn." -- Robert Frost, "Choose Something Like A Star" The Star of Bethlehem associated with this holy season was taciturn and mysterious. It was lofty ...

14. A Voice to be Heard

John 1:19-28

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Maurice A. Fetty

It had been a long time. History seemed more moribund and leaden than ever. Hope was either frozen or fanatic. Cynicism was the daily fare and optimism the dream of fools. So it was in those days of long ago. But now there was a stirring in history's corridors -- not in the throne rooms of Rome or Alexandria, not in the libraries of Athens or the armies of Caesar -- but in little backwater towns of a troublesome, rebellious, backwater country. The first of the stirrings began in Jerusalem with a tired old ...

15. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

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Maurice A. Fetty

Christmas Eve is the night for midnight blue skies, cloudless and serene; a night for stars dazzling and tantalizingly close to earth in all their silent glory; the night for galaxies vast and mysterious, drawing us away in time and space to worlds beyond the fringes of sense and imagination. Increasingly urban as we are, we often lose the appreciation for the sky's nighttime splendor so spectacular to dwellers in the more arid climes. As a very young child in Wisconsin, on our way to the school Christmas ...

16. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

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Maurice A. Fetty

Jesus began his earthly ministry preaching, teaching, healing and forgiving sins. And now at the end of his earthly ministry in his post-resurrection appearance to his disciples, Jesus is passing on to his disciples the ministry of preaching, teaching, healing and forgiving sins. Through the gift of the Holy spirit they are to be empowered to continue the work he inaugurated. We often overlook in the gospels the connection between forgiveness and healing -- healing that is both physical and spiritual. ...

17. Adam’s Prime Rib

Genesis 2:4-25

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John R. Brokhoff

When William Jennings Bryan went to the father of the young woman whom he loved to ask her hand in marriage, he remembered that the father was a strong religious believer, so he quoted a proverb of Solomon from the Bible: “He who finds a wife finds a good thing.” But the father surprised him by responding with a quote from St. Paul, “He who marries his betrothed does well; and he who refrains from marriage will do better.” The young man was at a loss for a reply for a moment, but then he came up with this ...

18. Why Prophets Get Under Our Skin

Luke 3:1-20

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Maurice A. Fetty

To tell you the truth, you might not like him if you met him. Chances are you would not invite him for cocktails at the club or for dinner at home with some of your prestigious friends. The likelihood is your children would think him curious and your teenagers would scorn him as not worth an autograph. The tabloids might attempt to puff him up as an oddity or curiosity piece for the sake of profit. But the respectable newspapers might think the news he had was not fit to print. I speak, of course, of John ...

19. A Time for Us

Ephesians 1:3-14

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Maurice A. Fetty

In the musical, West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein's modern paraphrase of Romeo and Juliet, Tony and Maria, the two lovers, confidently sing that there will be "a time for us," a time when their day for true love will arrive, a time when all the pieces will fit together, a time when the fulfillment they dream of will be realized, a time when human life will make sense, a time when the mysteries and questions will be resolved, a time when they will have the confidence they have not lived and loved in vain. ...

20. The Time Is Now!

Luke 24:50-53

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Robert Leslie Holmes

Unlike John or Peter, the gospel writer Luke was a cool-headed intellect. Luke was a physician. As a physician, he was trained to keep his emotional distance from the events he saw. Nobody wants a physician who lets emotion run ahead of intellect. We want our medical doctors to be able to confront the most remarkable experiences and stay calm; to analyze, decide the best course of action, and prescribe whatever it takes to get the patient well again. Above all else, "Keep calm and carry on." That is, do ...

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