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119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... upon your servant, and teach me your statutes. My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your law (Psalm 119:129-136). Fishing in a Sewage Ditch Years ago when I first got out of the Navy, I was a salesman for the Dow Chemical Company. My sales ... face of Jesus found through diligent study of His Word. He became an obedient son, and he began a new life. There is a song by Michael Card, Joy in the Journey, that I think of here: There is a joy in the journey, there's a light we can love on the ...

2. We've Been Bragging About You!

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the fish they "almost caught," the one that "got away," has given us the term "fish story." Max Anders, in one of his books, tells about a fishing contest which holds a lying contest afterward. The person who catches the biggest fish gets an ... going to see George Michael in concert tonight!" Mueller didn't know whether to laugh or cry. In a grand bubblebursting moment, he showed the mother the lyrics to Michael's lusty hit song "I Want Your Sex." (2) In case anyone wonders, George Michael is not a singer ...

3. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

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 ... told the disciples to meet him at the Sea of Galilee. Tired of sitting around and waiting, Peter one night says, "I'm going fishing." They fish all night and don't catch a thing. But early in the morning, they see someone on the beach who has built a charcoal fire ...

4. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

5. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... -in-law, refueled that we might serve. Simon Peter walked away from the biggest day in his life. I suppose we could say that God had bigger fish for him to fry! Jesus offered Simon, as he offers us, a better direction in life. Simon Peter learned he was a child of God. In James ... 32. New Interpreter's Bible, pg. 116. Wilde, Oscar, De Profundis and Other Writings, pg. 178. Michael J. Geb. How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci (New York: Dell Publishing, 1998), pg. 79. Lewis, C. S., The Problem of Pain, pg. ...

6. Missing The Real Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... an unknown number of women and children with five small barley loaves and two small fish. I believe that would qualify as quite a spectacular miracle. And what was the result? Really, it was predictable. People started coming to him ... at God, and in her heart she heard a reply, "Give me your life before it's too late." When they returned to New York, Maria persuaded Michael to take her to church, with the hope that she would find some answers for the emptiness she felt. The pastor preached a simple sermon that day. ...

7. Hungry People

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... he IS there, his mind is somewhere else. Hungry for a rekindling of the passion, she is left with saying sadly, "There is nothing here but five loaves and two fish." It is the response of the youngster who finds life on campus so demanding that he or she no longer knows how to cope. I was intrigued by a letter ... The idea for this sermon and some of the included material comes from Michael Brown, "Dealing with Feelings of Inadequacy," PEBS, Summer--1993 (pp. 12, 17) 3. Quoted in Bible Illustrator for Windows

8. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... disciples. Left to themselves they would spend the rest of their lives doing the same thing day after day. “I fish; my father fished before me, and my sons will fish after me. It’s all we know. After all, as the saying goes, a man’s gotta do what a ... land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, 2' toward the sea, across the Jordan, 1 ‘Galilee of the Gentiles‘— 8. Michael Green, editor, Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1990), 394. 9. John 5:19. 10. For the image of the ...

9. The Awesome Power of FUD

John 21:1-19

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... , and doubt. These voracious destroyers of confident living linger at the edge of life, waiting for an opportunity to rush in and take charge. The image that comes to mind is the crab pot in a fish market. These don’t need lids because any crab trying to escape is always pulled back in by the others. As Michael Corleone puts it in Godfather III, “Just when I thought I was out… they pulled me back in.” That can and does happen. When we least expect it, some person or experience can grab hold with ...

10. 'Nevertheless': A Word of Faith

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... understand." But are you willing to say with Simon Peter, "NEVERTHELESS. Lord, if you say the word, I'll launch out in faith and trust you for another miracle! I believe you are just as good with dollars as you were with fish." One of the few creatures on earth that can out-jump Michael Jordon is the Impala. This is an African deer with a supercharged spring. It has a vertical leap of over 10 feet and can broadjump over 30 feet. You would think that the zoos of the world would find it impossible to keep ...

11. By D Grace of God

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a beautiful thing to see. Sometimes it is contagious. Phil Robertson, the star of the reality TV show Duck Dynasty, says that he once had a problem with people stealing fish from the nets he had placed along the river. At first, he patrolled the river in an attempt to stop them. But then he read the passage in Romans 12 that says ... classical%20language,of%20Sanskrit%20words%20for%20love. 8. “We Need to Know the Shirley Chisholms” by George Raveling and Michael Lombardi, The Daily Coach, Oct 28, 2020.

12. Building a Winning Team

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... that makes you very uncomfortable. Having been raised in the Jewish faith which rejected all forms of idolatry, you feel like a fish out of water in such a place. Everywhere you look, you see evidence of shrines and statues and inscriptions to various pagan ... a standard adoption hearing and saw 39 five-year-olds waving red paper hearts in support of Michael. The judge even took the time to ask the children to share what Michael meant to them. (5) When you became a follower of Jesus, you were adopted into the ...

13. Epilogue to the Law of the Temple: River, Land, City

Ezekiel 47:1-12, Ezekiel 47:13-23, Ezekiel 48:1-29, Ezekiel 48:30-35

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... power becomes quite specific. The sweetening of the salt sea transforms this formerly lifeless body of water into a fresh-water lake, teeming with fish (v. 9), so that from En Gedi [an oasis on the western shore of the Dead Sea, about halfway along its length] to En ... Persia could not have “resisted” Gabriel. The reference must be to Persia’s supernatural counterpart—just as Michael is the heavenly representative of Israel. Ezekiel’s connection of Zion with Eden, his disassociation of the ...

14. Heroes

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... WORLD TO LOVE tells a dramatic story about an Italian fisherman named John Napolii. Napolii was returning with his catch of fish one foggy morning in 1955. He piloted his boat beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, into San Francisco harbor. What he saw ... , Sept./Oct. 2000. 2. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1990, p. 168. 3. “A Second Gift of Life" by Michael Bowker, Reader's Digest, April 1997, pp. 109-113. 4. James R. Bjorge, The Love Road to Calvary (Minneapolis: Augsburg, 1982), pp ...

15. Will Names Never Hurt Us?

Proverbs 10:1-32

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... the names of the students which appeared on the essays. Four of the essays were signed with common names Michael, David, Karen, and Lisa. The other four essays were signed with unconventional names - Elmer, Hubert, Bertha, and Adelle. ... . In that book Bishop Allison put his finger on "disesteem," a low sense of self-worth, as one of the major problems of our day. He described a fishing trip in which he once took part on the east coast. As he was ready to step into the boat, he said to the other men, "I’m ...

16. A Time for Opportunity

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... almost immediately from a pair of young women in Vancouver who offered to trade him a pen that looked like a fish. MacDonald then bartered the fish pen for a handmade doorknob from a potter in Seattle. In Massachusetts, MacDonald traded the doorknob for a camp stove. He ... matter is that addictions of all kinds are proliferating in our society. In his book Secret Life, prize‑winning poet Michael Ryan tells the story of his lifelong addiction to seducing women. Is there such a thing as sexual addiction? Yes ...

17. Wearing the King’s Clothes

Colossians 3:1-11

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... bug" is really the name of the creature, which is an enormous, heavy-bodied, brown beetle. It eats insects, tadpoles, fish, and frogs. Its grasping forelegs are mighty and hooked inward. It seizes a victim with these legs, hugs it tight, ... said, "It's good." Indeed, the ball went through the basket with a swish. The stadium crowd went wild. Calhoun rushed into the arms of Michael Jordan and the rest of the Bulls' players crowded around slapping him on the back. When Don Calhoun went home that night, he had ...

18. Onward Christian Hell-busters

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... you prefer a different ending try this: Too often, the church is content to go fishing in bathtubs instead of embarking out upon the high seas. Bathtub fishing may be fun and easy and safe, but it's certainly not where the fish are. Consider this moving "fish story" of one well-singed hell-buster. Upon arriving at his new church appointment, St. Mark's United Methodist Church in downtown Atlanta, Dr. Michael Cordle discovered he had inherited a struggling inner-city congregation with an attendance rate that ...

19. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... chemical deposits in the region (salt, potash, magnesium, calcium chloride, bromide) that give the Dead Sea its extraordinary buoyancy but fatally affect fish (Gen. 19:15–28). See IBD vol. 1, p. 372. 2:7 Lot, a righteous man: He is also so called in ... NIV yet corresponds to the Greek hopou, lit. “where,” i.e., “in a situation in which.” Slanderous accusations: The tradition about Michael and Satan was in the now lost ending of the Assumption of Moses. See Additional Note on Jude 9. For the Greek ...

20. When More Is Never Enough

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... happy. Asked to prescribe a cure for the success syndrome, Berglas said, "What's missing in these people (Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Leona Helmsley) is deep commitment or religious activity that goes far beyond just writing a check to a charity." ( ... is not perfect." There were many times when he would have to do something to restore that balance, because if he didn't his fish would die. Relating his aquarium to his understanding of God he said, "And we will never know how much God does every day to keep ...

21. It's A Miracle

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the shrine. Mrs. Gonzalez swore it was Mary's influence that made her flowers so beautiful. Her bathtub Mary roses were the envy of the neighborhood. Much later, however, Michael and his neighbors discovered that Mrs. Gonzalez' husband would go fishing and clean the fish he caught in the basement of their home. At dawn he'd bury the fish guts in Mrs. Gonzalez' grotto rose garden. Now, it did no harm for Mrs. Gonzalez to believe that her roses were supernaturally fertilized. Still, a mature faith does not ...

22. There's Something About A Mystery

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... day, they responded to each visit as a sure sign of my designs to torture them. I could not convince them of my true concern. To my fish I was deity. I was too large for them, my actions too incomprehensible. My acts of mercy they saw as cruelty; my attempts at healing they viewed ... will work out fine. Note: This sermon is a brief meditation for the Epiphany of the Lord 1. Michael Hodgin, 1001 Humorous Illustrations For Public Speaking (Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994), pp. 63-64. 2. Richard@ ...

23. Congratulations, Joseph, It's A God!

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... count they had only received 32 orders. As former astronaut Tom Stafford reminds us, "Yesterday's headlines are today's fish wrappers." Heroes come and go. This is not to say that heroes are unimportant. Carlyle once said, "Society is founded ... many people, especially young people, have modeled themselves after their heroes. I can just imagine a society modeled after Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Rambo, can't you? Some distant civilization will discover a lot about American ideals in the latter part ...

24. Coming For The Right Reasons

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... wanted proof. They wanted to see a sign that he was who he claimed to be, forgetting already the miracle of the loaves and fishes that had taken place only the day before. They told Christ that Moses had given their ancestors manna in the wilderness, and that ... make a new beginning. "I am the bread of life," he said. "Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again." 1. Michael Elliot, Partners in Grace, (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 1992), pp. 40 2. The Observer, p. 57 3. Regina v. Davie, British Columbia ...

25. When It's Time to Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . If you have not figured out why you are here, if you have no reason to be born, save to consume the corn and eat the fish, and leave behind a dirty dish, you are going to be bored with these in-between times in life. If you know why you are here ... , so the story goes, was once seen by friends pushing a heavy rock through the town square. Some of his friends inquired, “Michael, why are you laboring so over that rock?" Michelangelo replied, “There is an angel in this rock waiting to come out." You ...

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