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Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... gone and far from home; He saddens, all the magic light Dies off at once from bower and hall, And all the place is dark, and all The chambers emptied of delight: So find I every ... glow In azure orbits heavenly-wise; And over those ethereal eyes The bar of Michael Angelo? LXXXVIII Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet, Rings Eden thro’ the budded ... On you and yours. I see in part That all, as in some piece of art, Is toil cöoperant to an end. CXXIX Dear friend, far off, my lost desire, So far, so near in ...

2. Where Did He Get Such Authority?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus. One of her favorite quotes comes from a former patient: “For the Christian, the Big C is not cancer; the Big C is Christ.” (4) Jesus is the big C. That’s authority. Jesus genuinely cares about people who are in distress. This authority also comes ... Woodward, Newsweek, March 29, 1999, p. 55. 7. Michael J. Gelb. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci (New York: Dell Publishing, 1998), p. 29. 8. Glenn Van Ekeren, Speaker’s Sourcebook II (Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994), pp. 327-328.

3. When God Is At Work

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Brett Blair

... . A cop is trained to be curious and concerned. So he dialed a third time. “Hey, c’mon,” the voice said. “Is this you again?” “Yea, it’s me. I was wondering how ... ability, the power of God to heal. And it changed his life. Let me share a story about Michael Wayne Hunter who was put on death row in California in 1983, in San Quentin Prison. After his ... his hands. This murderer who wouldn't have walked voluntarily down the hall to see the Warden, the Governor, the President, or the Pope, stood ...

4. When You Are Anxious About Many Things

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... vital? Take care of those first, then if the rest get done, fine. But it's no big deal. John C. Maxwell tells about an Eastern Airlines jumbo jet that crashed in the Everglades of Florida sometime back. The plane was ... we can be when we do not keep life in its proper perspective. A mountain guide, Michael Zanger, once told of leading some men up Mount Shasta. One man was having great difficulty ... Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1959), pp. 124-125. Cited in J. B. Fowler, Jr., ILLUSTRATING ...

5. Déjà Vu or Divine Revelation?

Luke 23:35-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... political event at a local meeting hall. Lt. Sayed noticed a suspicious-looking man approaching the meeting hall. He shouted for the man to stop, and the man began running toward the hall. Rather than running away, Sayed ran ... see the truth and the glory of God in our lives. 1. https://www.just-one-liners.com/topic/deja-vu/. 2. Drs. Michael Roizen and Mehmet Oz, cited in “9 Things Your Brain Is Trying to Tell You When You Experience Déjà vu” by Brandi ... C. Ryle, Foundations of Faith [Bridge Publishing]).

6. Baptized with Christ

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... voice spoke up and said, “Pastor Jim, you know who I am. I’m Michael!” “Thank God Michael knew who he was,” Pastor Jim says. “Otherwise, we might still be standing ... about George Washington Carver. It is 1921 and Carver has been summoned to Washington, D.C. to appear before the House Ways and Means Committee to explain his work on the ... he is called forward. He rises and begins the long walk toward the front of the hall. As he walks down the aisle he is met with derisive and bigoted comments. One ...

7. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... I'm kicking you out." So the nose and the mouth left. But after a while the convention hall caught fire and destroyed all the ears because no noses were there to smell the smoke and ... members of Christ's body, the church. Every one of us is essential. Everyone is indispensable. C. S. Lewis once said something about the church that I believe is important. He said ... assigned to the right field. But watching Michael Jordan play baseball was not anything like watching Michael play basketball. Fly balls hit him in ...

8. Are You in the Right Place?

Matthew 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 ... middle class social climber named Hyacinth Bucket. Though her last name is spelled “b-u-c-k-e-t,” bucket, she insists that it is pronounced “Bouquet.” She answers her phone ... . Sometime later Pastor Lee noticed a hinge on one of the cabinet doors in the fellowship hall was loose. The pastor heard many people complain about the hinge being loose but no one ...

9. Seen The Doctor Lately?

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... one prescription that was so hard to read one patient used it for two years as a railroad pass. Twice it got him into Bass Hall, and once into The Ballpark in Arlington. It came in handy as a letter from his employer to the cashier to increase his salary. ... Company, Inc., 1984). HELP 4 SUNDAY 4. Randy C. Alcorn, MONEY POSSESSIONS AND ETERNITY, (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1989). 5. "He Will Wipe Away Every Tear," Michael Duduit, THE ABINGDON PREACHING ANNUAL 1995, (Nashville: Abingdon ...

10. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... A little boy attended his first symphony concert. He was excited by the splendid hall, the beautiful people in all their formal finery, and the sound of the large ... with the purposes of God. ---------------------------------------------------- (1) From a sermon by C. Thomas Hilton, First Presbyterian Church, Pompano Beach, Florida. Original Title: Casting ... to admit we need help. Despite his phenomenal success in swimming, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian in history, encountered profound internal ...

11. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... with Herod the Great. He had been made King of Judea in 40 B.C. by the Roman Senate. Shrewd, capable, sometimes even magnanimous, Herod was, nevertheless, cruel and ... is on the verge of collapse. "If you ask me," says astrophysicist Michael Turner of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago, "either we're ... , and following them you will reach your destiny, said Carl Scharz, in an address in Faneuil Hall in Boston, 1859. To all those trapped in circumstance and landlocked in blame, the Star of ...

12. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... man in mind, and not in morals, is to train a menace to society."18 Richard C. Cabot, of Harvard University, said, "If there is not education of men's purpose; if there ... noise; number three today is pregnancy. The fourth most pressing problem in 1940 was running in the hall; today it is suicide. Fifth, sixth, and seventh on the list in 1940 were getting out ... . 9 D. James Kennedy, What If Jesus Had Never Been Born?, p. 55. 10 Michael Wolff, Where We Stand: Can America Make it in a Global Race for Wealth, ...

13. God's Prescription for a Healthy Christian

Jude 1:17-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... , got a screwdriver and handed it through the door. The doctor shut the door, they stood out in the hall wringing their hands; they could hear moans and groans. In a minute the doctor was back at the door. He ... for. Thirdly, he is dominated by the Spirit; he only wants what the Spirit of God wants for him. c. Looking For the Savior Jude goes on to say that we are to be "looking for the mercy of ... Publishing Co., 1953), 66. 3. Michael P. Green, ed. Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Bookhouse, ...

14. Hiding in Plain Sight

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23, Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“Things are not as they appear. We will not know ourselves or our beauty until we see God.” C.S. Lewis (“Till We Have Faces”) C.S. Lewis loved secrets, symbols, layers of meaning, and mystery. In 2008, Michael Ward, currently Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, announced his discovery of a possible new connection between Lewis’s 7 fiction books, The Chronicles of Narnia. Based on Lewis’s love of the stars, cosmology, and time spent in the Oxford observatory, Ward ...

15. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... , bankers, brokers and PR types at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. speculated on how various news media would play the story of the end ... wrong. It makes me think of a minister in what is now East Germany named Michael Stiftell. Based on his study of Revelation, Stiftell proclaimed that the world would end ... " or seize the day." In the movie Williams plays an English teacher who takes his class into the hall to the trophy case. There he shows them pictures of past heroes of the school. "All of these ...

16. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... disasters destroy the casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas? Or the crack houses in Washington, D.C.? Or the porno stores that are a blight on many cities? For that matter, why didn't ... names are to be found on street signs, universities, parks, hospitals, museums, concert halls and libraries. But not on the Forbes list of the four hundred ... National Cancer Institute to find the next generation of anti-cancer drugs. Michael Balick, an ethnobiologist, says, "The rain forest is a veritable chemical factory." ...

17. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the cardiologists are performing catherizations to unblock clogged arteries with balloons and stints; just down the hall we have machines full of non-food foods that put concrete in your veins. It’s part ... Charles Talbert, Reading the Sermon on the Mount (Columbia, SC: USC Press, 2004); Dale C. Allison, The Sermon On The Mount (New York: Herder & Herder, 1999); David Dockery & ... Lambrecht, S.J., The Sermon On The Mount (Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1985); Robert A. Guelich, The Sermon On The Mount ( ...

18. Singing with Lutherans

Humor Illustration

... an audience in New York City, a relatively Lutheran less place, to sing along on the chorus of 'Michael Row the Boat Ashore,' they will look daggers at you as if you had asked them to strip ... modest to be soloists, too worldly to sing in unison. When you're singing in the key of C and you slide into the A7th and D7th chords, all two hundred of you, it's an emotionally ... not staying to clean up after their own wedding reception in the Fellowship Hall. Lutherans are willing to pay up to one dollar for a meal at ...

19. By D Grace of God

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... s every parent’s and child’s worst nightmare. Math teacher Krista Gneiting rushed her class to safety, then went out into the hall to help a wounded student. That’s when she saw the shooter. In an interview with ABC News, Gneiting said, “It was a ... -internet-scammer-who-won/. 3. David Lose, http://www.davidlose.net/2019/02/epiphany-7-c-command-or-promise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+davidlose%2FIsqE+%28…In+the+ ... and Michael Lombardi, The Daily Coach, Oct 28, 2020.

20. You Can Be Beautiful

Hosea 14:1-9

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

Following a morning as guest preacher at a large suburban church, I was approached by a member whom I had spotted during the second morning service. He had been sitting on the very front pew. A large man, he left hardly any room for other persons on the short pew near the chancel. He was not poorly dressed but did present a generally disheveled look, as if appearance were at the bottom of his list of personal priorities. All smiles, he approached me with a hug and the following greeting: "Hey brother! All ...

21. You Can Be Real

Matthew 5:33-37

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Michael B. Brown

Several years ago our family spent a week as guests at a motel deep in the Appalachian Mountains. The motel manager was a nice enough sort of guy, forty-ish and very talkative. He was an intriguing fellow. The first day there he told my wife of having previously lived in Florida where he worked as a scuba diver. "I only left because I was attacked by a killer shark," he said. "It almost got me. Otherwise, I guess I'd still be there." The following day I was anxious to hear the story for myself. The ...

22. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

The Shadow: Fixation Introduction In one of his classic comedy routines Victor Borge sits down at the piano and says to the audience: "Pardon my back. Pardon my front ... But that's the way I'm built!" Every coin has two sides. Our body has a front and a back. And every body casts a shadow. These facts are neither good nor bad in themselves. They are just facts of life. To say, with psychologist Carl Jung, that every person has a shadow side, a "not-so-nice" side to their personality, is not necessarily to ...

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