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Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... not allowed to give testimony in a Jewish court of law. Their work made it impossible for them to observe the Jewish ceremonial laws and temple rituals, so they were considered religiously unclean and unacceptable.” (3) Another writer, Michael Frost, notes that “the term ‘sinner’ was employed by the religious authorities to describe several types of people who failed to maintain conventional, acceptable lifestyles: tax collectors, prostitutes, lepers, Gentiles, and, of course, shepherds.” Then ...

2. The Richest Family in Church

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... that Jesus spent his adult life without a home of his own, without any possessions beyond what he could carry as he traveled from town to town sharing the message of the love of God with everyone he met. And listen to how author Michael Frost summed up Jesus’ life: “Regardless of how much many affluent pastors might love their state-of-the-art air-conditioned church sanctuaries with their coffee bars, bookshops, and valet parking lots, we cannot forget that Jesus died on the cross naked and empty-handed ...

3. The Star Thrower

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... modern cosmology, the science of the cosmos, 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 close to a breakthrough, or we're at ... gives wisdom and grace to the humble. Centuries ago at this season the Heavenly Star Thrower was getting the world's attention to say with Robert Frost: So when at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far, We may choose something like a star To stay our minds ...

4. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... to thee. LXIX I dream’d there would be Spring no more, That Nature’s ancient power was lost: The streets were black with smoke and frost, They chatter’d trifles at the door: I wander’d from the noisy town, I found a wood with thorny boughs: I took the thorns ... , And seem to lift the form, and 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 quicks, O tell me where the senses mix, ...

5. Meeting Our Needs, Not Our Greeds

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Steve Burt

... the morning, at dawn, God sends "bread from heaven," a thin flaky substance that forms and is described as being like a frost. They call it manna dew. What more could they ask for? Their prayers have been answered. Where there seemed to be ... meet a minister who befriends them. A conversation about Sunday school ensues. When the wagon is loaded, Pa Ingalls says (with that winning Michael Landon smile), "S'long, Reverend. Maybe you could say a prayer we find gold." To which the wise and kindly minister says, "I ...

6. You Can Be Intelligent

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... rarely used measuring spoons or cups. She just intuitively knew how much of each ingredient was enough. She was food smart. Michael Jordan was court smart. Conversely, we all have our gaps in knowledge. Will Rogers used to say, "We are all ... century since, that third piece of advice has proven inestimably valuable. Daily we are confronted with dilemmas to resolve. Daily for us, in Frost's words, "two roads converge in a yellow wood" and we stand wondering which avenue to follow. "Should I accept this job or ...

7. Job - A Probe Into the Shadow World of Despair

Job 6:1-7:21

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In Robert Frost’s The Masque of Reason God tells the "Easy Answers Committee" that it is mistaken. This sermon does the same. Its probing, illuminating force conforms to the terrain of human experience. It conforms to the terrain of God’s experience ... sermon from the book of Job allows the words of the biblical text to tell most of the story. The translation used is "Today’s English Version." This sermon was preached in Weaver Chapel, Wittenberg University, on February 7, 1982. - Michael D. Wuchter

8. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... , convinced his followers that the world would end in a nuclear holocaust on Christmas Day. Jensen even appeared on the DAVID FROST SHOW to announce this fact to millions of television viewers. (2) Since 1967 many other datesetters have come along including one ... this past September. Each one has been 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 on October 18, 1533. When it didn't ...

9. Don't Forget the Bread

John 6:25-59

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... the grocery store with one carton of eggs, two sacks of flour, three boxes of cake mix, four sacks of sugar and five cans of cake frosting. His wife looked at the sacks of groceries and lamented, ‘I never should have numbered the list.’” Knowing that Denalyn was counting on him to ... lives to him? 1. http://maxlucado.com/read/topical/the-write-stuff-2/ 2. Michael P. Green, Illustrations for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989). 3. http://pastormikescorner.blogspot.com/2013_09_01_archive. ...

10. Green, The Color of Life

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

H. Michael Nehls

These two sections of Scripture portray for us, in a panoramic way, the story of creation. Genesis teaches that in the beginning there was God who created all things. There was nothing in the beginning until God caused it to happen. He spoke, and creation became a reality. God created everything from nothing. And behold, it was very good! In much the same way, John’s Gospel also teaches us about creation. It begins just as the Genesis creation account: in the beginning. But John says more, proclaiming that ...

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