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Jonah 4:1-11, Jonah 3:1-10, Jonah 2:1-10, Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... issues. In 1963, Maurice Sendak wrote a children’s book called, Where the Wild Things Are. The story tells us about a little boy, Max, who while dressed in a wolf costume, wreaks havoc through his family’s household and causes his parents to send him to his room ... Ninevites. Jonah is angry with God. He wants to escape both God and his faith by sailing off to a pagan land. But as Jacob learned with his metaphor of the ladder, God follows us everywhere we go. God is not only around us but can speak to us ...

2. A Man of the Moment

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... with the other. It's not a particularly happy ending. That story is not a movie, but is the biblical account of Esau and Jacob, the twins born to Isaac and Rebekah. The part of their story we are considering today is when both brothers are still young men ... the future, even though our logical brain clearly sees the future consequences of our current actions. Our emotional brain wants to max out the credit card, order dessert, and smoke a cigarette. Our logical brain knows we should save for retirement, go for ...

3. Taking the High Way to Heaven

John 1:43-51

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Lori Wagner

... the angels of God ascending and descending on it. --Genesis 28:12 I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. --John 14:6 MAX (formerly HBO) has seen huge success recently with its show scripted by Julian Fellowes (author of the popular Downton Abbey), called The Gilded Age ... . He is Son of God. He is of the “household” of God. He is Bayit YWHW and collectively Bayit Israel. Like Jacob, Nathanael realized that “the Lord was in this place!” And for this, Jesus recognized in him a true “Israelite.” The ...

4. How Can We Live Wisely?

Job 26:1--31:40

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... Take off your sandals, because you are standing on holy ground. I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" (Exodus 3:5-6, TEV). Moses was instructed to live wisely by revering God in his creation. He had a sense of wonder and ... go to the Bowery changed Wilson’s life. "When I got my free meal that night and went to bed in a free dormitory," he told author Max Gunther, "I just gave up. The pressure was off. I didn’t have to hunt for a job anymore. From that day on, I was trapped." ...

5. The Idiot's Guide To Christianity

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... , status-seeking people will be strangely drawn to you. You will attract others, not through money or power, but through the strength of your character. 1. Dr. Robert R. Kopp,"Thanks for the Trip!" Oct. 29, 2000, pp. 4-5. 2. Max Lucado, "When There Are No Words," Rev. Magazine, Jan./ Feb. 2002, p. 54. 3. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. Adapted from a translation by D. L. Ashliman. Â© 2000. 4. From a sermon by Frank Lyman. 5. Reality and the Vision, Philip Yancey, ed. (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1990), pp. 17-18.

6. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... came into Jerusalem on that day is a key to the way Jesus still comes to us today. I have borrowed my title from Max Lucado who wrote, The One who came still comes, and the One who spoke still speaks.[1] How did Jesus come then and how ... grace of God like he had in this suffering. We held hands and read from Isaiah. But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the ...

7. Where's the Magic?

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... God was more acceptable than Cain’s because of his faith. Then he deals with Enoch and Noah and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and Moses and even the harlot Rahab, and he shows us the importance of faith at work in their lives. Then ... is present with us and is working to our best good. In other words, faith is trusting God in all things. That wonderful writer Max Lucado tells about spending a week years ago visiting the interior of Brazil with a long-time missionary pilot. In his work this missionary ...

8. Going Fishing

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... ," says Jesus. And Paul Harvey has noted, "Too many Christians are no longer fishers of [people] but keepers of the aquarium."(8) Sad. Max Lucado has a wonderful story in one of his books (I wish I could remember which one!) about a boy who went fishing with ... task before us. Help us to not worry about being successful. Just keep us faithful. In the name of Jesus. Amen! 1. Jacob M. Braude, Braude's Treasury of Humor, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964), p. 78 2. James C. Humes, Podium Humor, (New ...

9. Like A Tornado

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... God was there. 1. Submitted by John Neidigh, "And Lived to Tell" from "Esquire Presents What It Feels Like," edited by A.J. Jacobs, reprinted in Reader's Digest, December 2003, pp. 146-147. 2. Rabbi Wayne Dosick, The Business Bible (New York: William Morrow and Company, ... the Japanese: POWS of WWII in the Pacific (William Morrow & Co, New York, NY, 1994). 4. "The Killer Among Us" by Max Alexander, Reader's Digest, January 2004, pp. 97-104. 5. Kent Crockett, I Once Was Blind, But Now I Squint, Chattanooga, TN ...

10. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

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King Duncan

... Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy ... in the middle of the warehouse. (1) In his book, The Regis Touch, marketing expert Regis McKenna tells a story about Max Poll, CEO of Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Poll, disguised as a patient, has someone wheel him around the hospital on a ...

11. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... biblical times. In some ways failure actually drew them closer to God. Look at this roll call of failures: Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, David, John Wesley, Martin Luther, and Saint Augustine. Failure can be a doorway to a new spiritual direction. ... changed my middle name to `VICTORIA'' to honor the victory God has so graciously given me in the face of spiritual death." As Max Lucado writes so powerfully: "Our lives are not futile Our failures are not fatal Our deaths are not final." (3) Just imagine a ...

12. Daddy, Tell Me a Story

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... to hear . . .” But, before those life-changing stories of Jesus, there were the stories of David and Abraham and Jacob and Joseph and Moses and Joshua. The Bible is crammed through with stories. God knows that telling stories is the ... sealed that covenant with the cross of Calvary. God loves human beings. God loves you and me. God loves every person on this earth. In Max Lucado’s famous words, “If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it.” That’s not something Lucado came up with out ...

13. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over Jacob’s descendants forever; his kingdom will never end.” “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel ... ’ve blown up our life? We know the answer to that, don’t we? the Savior of the world. I love something that author Max Lucado said in one of his books. “It is unfortunate that most of us see ourselves as a composite of all our failures,” writes ...

14. The Healer

Matthew 4:23-25, Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.” (Zechariah 4:6) "It is too small a thing for you to be my servant to restore the tribes of Jacob and bring back those of Israel I have kept. I will also make you a light for the Gentiles, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth." (Isaiah 49:6) “Nevertheless, ... See “The Forgotten Kingdom” by Israel Finkelstein and “Jesus of Nazareth” by Paul Frederiksen. And the “Historical Jesus of Nazareth” by Max Schlesinger.

15. The Tragedy of Caiaphas

John 18:1-27 · John 11:45-47 · Matthew 26:36-75

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... another. Jesus would use this Greek word to describe the priests and some of the Pharisees. The word describes Caiaphas to the max. In a sense, Caiaphas wore the mask of the High Priest, but while serving his own interests. High Priest…ever since Aaron ... the Greeks. High Priest John Hyrcanus had a vision of who would be his heir (Josephus). Enoch had a vision of 70 Shepherds. Jacob, Ben Sira, the Book of Jubilees all attest to the vision of High Priests, whose prophetic ability came from the glory of his ...

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