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1. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?
Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... because Batman can't save everyone. In the saga of Batman, plenty of significant people in his life have died. Michael Brewer in Who Needs A Superhero? writes, "We can forgive Batman for failing to protect every innocent and save every ... what Grace and Redemption are all about, Trusting God To Do It. Trusting God to save us. Clip Batman Begins: Scene toward the end. Alfred and Bruce. That's Grace, God never gives up on us. Even after Batman's butler, Alfred, shows him what Grace is, Batman still doesn't get it ...
Sermon
Billy D. Strayhorn
... Partly because Batman can't save everyone. In the saga of Batman, plenty of significant people in his life have died. Michael Brewer in Who Needs A Superhero? writes, "We can forgive Batman for failing to protect every innocent and save every ... let it grow at the very core of our being. The answer Jesus gave the rich young ruler could have been the answer Jesus gave Bruce Wayne and Batman. Remember the story, the rich young ruler came and said, "Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?" Jesus ...
3. House of Jesus
John 14:5-14
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... Graves Targets Everyman." Companies are trying to become more like houses, with company signatures coming in the form of architect Michael Graves, or lifestyle maven Martha Stewart. Each wants to be your Total Fashion Designer, and to provide you with a Life Style, or what Bruce Mau calls "Styling Life." (Life Style [London: Phaidon, 2000], edited by Kyo Maclear with Bart Testa). The House of Dior or Martha's World have defining characteristics that are keys to their longevity. Each house, like that of ...
Sermon
Phil Thrailkill
... Biebel & Harold Koenig, New Light On Depression (Grand Rapids, MI: 2004). 3. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1978, 15-17. 4. 6:30b, 8:26, 14:31, 16:8, 17:20. 5. 1 John 4:18. 6. Bruce Wilkinson with Brian Smith, Beyond Jabez (Portland, OR: Multnomah Press, 2005), 147-148. 7. Quoted in Michael Green, Matthew (Waco, TX: Word, 1988), 86. 8. PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 6:25-34. 9. David Dockery & David Garland, Seeking the Kingdom (Wheaton, ILL: Shaw, 1992), 96-97. 10. Sermon 60, “The General Deliverance ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... this room who considers himself or herself a sinner--which at my last count, includes all of us. Pastor and author Bruce Larson makes the interesting point that when it came to delivering the greatest message on earth, God chose amateurs and nobodies instead ... in the little town of Bethlehem who is Emmanuel--God with us. 1. National Catholic Reporter, February 3, 1995, p. 38; Michael J. Farrell reviewing Dear God: Children’s Letters To God, by David Heller. 2. Contributed. Source unknown. 3. From a sermon ...
6. The Coming of the Lord
1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... 4–6), “one unbroken night of sleep” (Aeschylus, Eumenides 651). Such hopelessness in the face of death permeated pagan society. Bruce cites Theocritus: “hopes are for the living; the dead are without hope.” But the Thessalonian Christians had no cause ... the archangel is literally, “a voice of an archangel.” No specific archangel is meant and perhaps no archangel at all is in view (Michael is the only one named in the NT, Jude 9; Gabriel is mentioned in Luke 1:26 but not as an archangel). Paul ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... worst high school shooting in the United States. It was a day of enormous heartbreak. In an online sermon Father Michael K. Marsh, an Episcopal priest, tells about the first picture that he saw from that horrendous scene. It was a woman ... act of devotion and love. It is not noisy in announcing itself to the world. It is silent, but sincere. It’s like a man that Pastor Bruce Lee tells about that he knew years ago in a small church that he once served. There was a senior member in the church named Bob who ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... what other people think of me.” Can anyone relate to those two lies? Vickie says that in her group there was a young Nigerian pastor named Michael. Michael later told her that, as a black man, when he sat in meetings with all-white pastors, he struggled with the same lies as Vickie “I ... 1993), pp. 58-59. 2. Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (New York: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1963). 3. Bruce Larson, The Communicator’s Commentary (Luke) (Waco: Word, Inc. 1983), p. 127. 4. Jim Birchfield. Cited by ...
9. Adopted! Thank God!
Ephesians 1:1-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... all our lives. The Christian life is just a synonym for respectability, decency, fitting in. We don’t quite get it when British evangelist, Michael Green says, “Jesus did not come to make bad men good, but to make dead men live.” We don’t think of ourselves as ... love you with all my heart.” “I love you too, dear,” she replied, “but tell me more about Jerome.” (3) Each time Bruce Larson was chosen, he found it to be a mixed blessing. Being chosen by God can be a mixed blessing, too, for those ...
Understanding Series
F. F. Bruce
... of 3:1 goes closely with the warning of 3:2 and refers to a similar warning given in an earlier letter, now lost (cf. J. H. Michael, ad loc.). On the whole, in spite of some difficulty, it seems best to understand the same things as the call for joy in 2:18 ... , “through Christ’s faithfulness” (cf. Rom. 3:22, 26; Gal. 2:16). See J. A. Ziesler, The Meaning of Righteousness in Paul; F. F. Bruce, The Epistle to the Galatians, pp. 138–40 (in a note on Gal. 2:16). 3:10 I want to know Christ: Gk. tou gn ...
11. Unnoticed at Your Own Party
Isaiah 35:1-10, Matthew 11:2-11, James 5:7-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... smile! Maybe it doesn’t really exist at all! All these thoughts filled his head as he thought about the name--the Little Hope church. And so, one beautiful Sunday afternoon, Michael Dent and his wife and mother-in-law decided to make a journey to see if they could find the church advertised on the sign. There it was just as he ... .marvinumc.com/main.php?sort=&return_id=400&return_name=Sermons%20?%20Michael%20Dent&resource=1013. 4. Bruce Larson, Ed., The Power to Make All Things New (Waco: Word Books).
12. Passing The Baton
Deuteronomy 11:1-32
Sermon
King Duncan
... In one episode, the first three segments show the mother tossing and turning in her bed, worrying about her ten-year-old son, Michael. She says, "Are we too tough on Michael? Are we not tough enough? Do we give in too often? Too seldom? Do we listen? Do we understand? Maybe I nag ... Terror," ARKANSAS GAZETTE, July 30, 1982, 1D. 2. Edwin L. West, Jr., VITAL SPEECHES, 2/1/92, p. 242. 3. Bruce Larson, THE PRESENCE, (HarperCollins Publishers, 1988), p. 106 . 4. Joe G. Emerson, I WANTED THE ELEVATOR, BUT I GOT THE ...
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... Witnesses, "Who do you say Jesus is?" The Jehovah's Witness publication, New Heavens and New Earth, declares by way of response, "Michael the Archangel is no other than the only begotten Son of God, now Jesus Christ."5 Consider the religion of Islam. Ask ... News Online, March 26, 2001. 2. Michka Assayas, Bono: In Conversation with MichkaAssayas (New York: Riverhead, 2005), p. 108. 3. Bruce ReddMcConkie, Mormon Doctrine (New York: Barnes& Noble, 1966), pp. 163-164. 4. See Journal of Discourses,Vol. 1, pp. 50- ...
14. Living to Please God
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Understanding Series
David J. Williams
... excitement had induced a restless tendency in some of the Thessalonian Christians and made them disinclined to attend to their ordinary business” (Bruce); but there may have been some other local sociological reason (see further disc. and note on 2 Thess. 3:6–12; cf ... O. L. Yarbrough, Not Like the Gentiles: Marriage Rules in the Letters of Paul (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1985) p. 7. Michael McGehee offers a critique of both Yarbrough and Collins in “A Rejoiner to Two Recent Studies Dealing with 1 Thess. ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Come and share your master's happiness!"? 1. "Let's Think Thanks" by Roy L. Smith. 2. Robert Schuller, Power Thoughts (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), pp. 112-116. 3. John Henry Jowett. 4. The Magic of Teamwork by Pat Williams, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, 1997, p. 215. 5. Michael Yaconelli. Dangerous Wonder (Colorado Springs, CO: NavPress, 1998), pp. 109-110. 6. Bruce Wilkinson. Secrets of the Vine (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishing, 2001), p. 85. 7.Pages 33-34. Found on the Internet.
16. Hungry For Bread
Matthew 25:31-46
Sermon
King Duncan
... reach out to the poor and needy of society. According to this passage, we will see Jesus in their faces. A man named Michael Christensen spent some time with Mother Teresa in the slums of Calcutta. In his book City Streets, City People, he tells of ... Empowered Life" by David Wilson, Preaching, Nov./Dec, 1998, p. 34. 4. Bruce Larson, Living out the Book of Acts (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1984), p. 80. 5. "Loving the Unlovely" by Michael E. Williams, Preaching, Sept./ Oct. 2000, p. 44-45. 6. From Plough ...
17. Body
2 Corinthians 5:1-10
Understanding Series
James M. Scott
... immediately consequent upon the action of the protasis. On the concept of the dwellings in the heavenly Jerusalem (John 14:2; cf. Michael Chyutin, “The New Jerusalem: Ideal City,” DSD 1 [1994], pp. 71–97). On Mark 14:58, whose authenticity can scarcely be doubted ... . Furthermore, as we have seen, Pauline eschatology expects a bodily resurrection. On the textual problem in v. 3, see Bruce M. Metzger, A Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament (2d ed.; Stuttgart: United Bible Societies, 1994), p. 511 ...
Understanding Series
J. Ramsey Michaels
... and the 1979 translation by Richmond Lattimore, The Four Gospels and the Revelation [New York: Farrar Straus Giroux]). For a defense of this reading and the above translation of it, see J. R. Michaels, “Origen and the Text of John 1:15,” New Testament Textual Criticism: Its Significance for Exegesis. Essays in Honour of Bruce M. Metzger (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1981), pp. 87–104. 1:18 God the One and Only: Some ancient manuscripts lack the identification of the One and Only as God (monogenēs ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... to end the focus must be singular. We might scare people if we gave them that much attention, but you get the point. Author Bruce Larson once put it like this: “One of the greatest gifts that God can give us in life is the gift of listening. Listening ... shadows, afraid of ridicule, admitting weakness, afraid to admit we need help. Despite his phenomenal success in swimming, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, encountered profound internal struggles outside the pool. He battled anxiety ...
20. Going Ahead Anyway
Matthew 2:1-12, Matthew 2:13-18
Sermon
William B. Kincaid, III
... to back down or step back or give up, or will we recognize the problems but go ahead anyway? It's not a hypothetical situation. It's the reality in which we live. It's the question before us, right now. And a hungry, hurting world awaits our response. 1. Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), pp. 281-82. 2. Source unknown.
21. Promising Words
2 Samuel 7:18-29
Sermon
... holy light Prayed to the God of love for guidance to shepherd Israel with holy justice and might.3 As a Civil War buff, I have often pored over the pages of Bruce Catton’s A Stillness at Appamatox. As I gaze into the stilled tent where David prays, I see a great king adoring the King of kings and Lord of lords. "A ... Nelson Co., Nashville, 1983, poem quoted on page 171 by Ruth Thomas. 3. Poem by Michael Mills, 1987. 4. Helmut Thielicke, I Believe, I Believe, Fortress Press, Philadelphia, 1968, p. 214.
Sermon
Mark Ellingsen
... being? Some Jews have believed it to be a symbol for all faithful Jews. Others hold that it refers to the Archangel Michael. For us Christians, this is obviously a prophetic reference to Christ.6 Our Second Lesson from Ephesians 1 (v. 22) makes this point ... 13 1. Westermann, p. 265; Childs, p. 615. 2. For these views I am indebted to the insights of Childs, p. 618. 3. Bruce Metzger and Roland E. Murphy, ed., The New Oxford Annotated Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 1138OT; cf. Gerhard von ...
23. Family Feud
Genesis 29:15-30
Sermon
David E. Leininger
... can even use you...and you and you and you and you...and me. Wow! Be open to it. And remember, nothing can separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. And that is the best news you will ever hear. Amen! 1. Wedding details from Bruce Metzger and Michael Coogin, eds., The Oxford Companion to the Bible, (New York : Oxford University Press, 1993), p. 795 2. G. Ray Jordan, Beyond Despair, (New York: MacMillan, 1955), p. 163
24. About Kissing
2 Corinthians 13:11-14
Sermon
King Duncan
... . 4. Giggles & Grins Copyright (c) 2000 by Igiggle@aol. com All Rights Reserved, gigglesngrins-subscribe@topica. com. Cited by Richard@witandwisdom.org 5. Bruce Larson, What God Wants to Know, pp. 65-66. 6. The Jewish humor list (jhumor@lgk.com). 7. New Bible Commentary, edited by G ... HarperBusiness, New York, 1995, p. 135. 9. "Purpose-Driven Preaching: An Interview with Rick Warren" by Michael Duduit, Preaching, Sept./ Oct. 2001, p. 6. 10. "Miners took vow to live or die together" by Larry Neumeister, Associated Press, The Knoxville ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... or daughter of God. 1. From a story in the ASSOCIATED PRESS. 2. (Chicago: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1992), pp. 97-98. 3. (Lancaster, PA: Starburst Publishers, 1996). 4. "Fear of Phoning," by Michael Fumento, June 1993, reason 53. 5. "Futurists compile new list of worries," The WASHINGTON POST. 6. Bruce Larson, LIVING BEYOND OUR FEARS: DISCOVERING LIFE WHEN YOU'RE SCARED TO DEATH, (Harper & Row: New York 1990), p.19. Contributed by Rev. Curtis Fussell, Richlands Presbyterian Church, Richlands, VA. 7. Steven ...
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