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Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... have your back.” If I say to someone, especially someone in a difficult situation, “I’ll have your back,” it means I’ll be there for you, look out for you, help you out if you’re in trouble. One literal application occurs all the time in football. According to Michael Lewis’ book from a few years ago The Blind Side, which was later turned into an inspiring movie starring Sandra Bulloch, the second most important players, after the quarterback, in professional football are left tackles ...

2. Messies Anonymous

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... we? Even in the church we don't talk about heaven as we once did. C.S. Lewis in his book, THE PROBLEM OF PAIN expressed our dilemma like this: "We are very shy nowadays," Lewis writes, "of even mentioning heaven. We are afraid of the jeer about `pie in the sky' and ... TOYS? David and his brother, Michael, were complete opposites. Michael was a successful businessman, while David took seasonal jobs at dude ranches, parks and resorts. Concerned for David's welfare, businessman Michael tried to entice David with ...

3. The Woman, the Son, and the Dragon

Revelation 12:1--13:1a

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... Satan, avoid extremes. Quote: The Screwtape Letters, by C. S. Lewis. In his preface to this famous, fictional correspondence between Screwtape, a master tempter, and his nephew, Wormwood, Lewis writes: There are two equal and opposite errors into ... their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death. Not only has the dragon been conquered by Michael the archangel; he continues to be conquered by Christians. Believers triumph over or overcome the devil (nika?; see the sidebar in 2:1 ...

4. Letting Go

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... some serious conversation about it? How many sermons do you hear about heaven outside of a funeral? C. S. Lewis asked this question in his 1940 work, The Problem of Pain. Professor Lewis was an atheist. But in searching himself with intellectual honesty, he became a Christian. He used his great intellect ... knows the way. He lets go of himself and latches on to Jesus. 1. Michael Crichton, Travels (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988), p. 79f. 2. C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: Macmillan, 1962), p. 145.

5. Mourning Our Fallen Tormentors

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... how to pull myself up, to hold my head high, and to soldier on.6 One more example: The great Christian writer C. S. Lewis was sent to an English boarding school as a child, where the schoolmaster was a paragon of cruelty, running his little empire brutally on ... to acknowledge that past and give it its due, whatever that may be, so that we can follow God's lead into our future. 1. Michael Dirda, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003), p. 32. 2. Ibid., p. 320. 3. Ibid., ...

6. Broken Promises

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... the money that you devote to them is your sacrificial gift because you care for them? Evidently not. They sure don’t act like it. C. S. Lewis kept his promise. He had no power to control his friend’s widow’s response to his kindnesses. But he did have the power to choose to ... ! How Taking Responsibility Can Make You a Happy Adult (St. Martin's Press). 5. Morgan W. McCall, Jr., and Michael M. Lombardo, “What Makes A Top Executive?” Psychology Today, February 1983. 6. Mark D. Roberts, Dare to Be True ...

7. Hiding in Plain Sight

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

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 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 believes that ...

8. Seeking Jesus

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... patients’ faith helped them to deal with suffering, and the second was reading the writings of that great Christian author C.S. Lewis. However, the moment that Dr. Francis Collins really found God was while he was hiking in the Cascade Mountains. The beauty ... with him. She said yes. During the counseling sessions, Michelle fell in love with Michael, her ex-husband, in a whole new way. One evening after their sessions, Michael asked Michelle—for the second time—if she would be his wife. They got ...

9. Salvation in Jesus’ Name

Acts 4:5-12

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... moral Law of God is written in our hearts and that all people are called to obey it (Romans 2:15). "When a culture ignores the moral law," C. S. Lewis said, "such spiritual concepts of the Old and New Testaments as atonement and redemption make little sense. Without a law to transgress and a Law-maker to whom one is ... . 1. Ron Lavin, The Great I Am (Lima, Ohio: CSS Publishing Co., 1995). 2. As quoted by Armand Michael, Jr. in The Question of God (New York: Free Press, 2004), p. 88. 3. Ibid., p. 73.

10. You Provoke Me...and That's Good

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.” Did you grasp that? Lewis is saying that you can never tell what another person may become an angel or a monster and thus we need, in all ... world. Of course, Christ set the example of love and kindness for us. “We love because he first loved us,” says I John 4:19. Michael J. Gelb, in his book How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci notes that da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” one of the classic masterpieces ...

11. The Ten Commandments #8: No Stealing

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... newspaper(8) sometime back was a story that brings me up short. Judy lives on welfare in the Watts section of Los Angeles with her two sons, Michael and Tiger. Every month, after she pays her bills she is about $25 light. There is always a lag between the time her money runs out and ... Internet 4. Winn, p. 242 5. Exodus 22:1-4 6. Pierre Joseph Proudhon 7. Malachi 3:8 8. Quoted by Lewis Smedes, Mere Morality, (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmanns, 1983), p. 202 9. Proverbs 6:30 10. Walter Brueggemann, CD-ROM, "The Book ...

12. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? Your choice of a role model tells a lot about you. Some of you will remember the 1987 motion picture Wall Street starring Michael Douglas and Charlie Sheen. There was a 2010 version of Wall Street, but it did not have the impact that the original did. ... famed Santa Monica Track Club. She was working out with the best runners in the world--literally. Members of the club included Carl Lewis and Evelyn Ashford, both of whom won Olympic gold medals in 1984. As Mark watched Nancy run around the track at a ...

13. The Reversal of the Deuteronomic Curses and Blessings: Replacing Law with Faith

Romans 9:30--10:21

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... drowned in Berlin. Rydelnik’s father and his third wife moved to America; twenty years later, that wife and his son Michael and two daughters came to faith in Jesus Christ. The elder Rydelnik then disowned them and moved to Israel. Among the ... heart, what is good and what is evil, having only your image before him as a guide.”10 Literature: The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis. In chapter 11 of this book (1945) is a well-known account in which a “little red lizard” riding on the ghost’s shoulder ...

14. No Longer Home Alone

John 15:13-17

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... lift up the other; but woe to one who is alone and falls and does not have another to help." C.S. Lewis said, "We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we ... just life in general in these strange, detached times? And how did you feel when someone came to your side and walked with you? Michael Guido writes in his column, "Seeds From The Sower": My lawnmower had broken down and I had been working on it for hours, but ...

15. If You Really Want To Be Helpful

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We don't have to turn to the Disciples to find examples of prayers answered. Our friends have experienced it. Dr. Ralph Lewis was encouraged in his own prayer life when a trusted friend told him about an unusual prayer experience. The friend was walking ... whispered to the young pastor, "We are going to have a baby." Less than one year later he had the privilege of baptizing Michael at the altar of the church where the parents dedicated him to the Lord. About a month later, as the couple was leaving ...

16. By D Grace of God

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... was a scam? It’s a pretty common occurrence. I read an excellent story on the blog Now I Know! by Dan Lewis that I’d like to share with you. It’s about a potential Internet scammer. A few years ago, a man from ... by-victims-of-internet-crimes/. 2. “The Internet Scammer Who Won” by Dan Lewis, Now I Know!, January 27, 2021 http://nowiknow.com/the-internet-scammer-who ... Words for Love from Around the World . . .” by Benny Lewis, https://www.fluentin3months.com/words-for-love/?utm_term=OZY&utm_campaign= ...

17. Persistence And Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... as they stared into mine, has never left me.”[4] Now let us look at World War II from a different perspective, namely from the point of view of a German officer who participated in this horrible war. Lewis B. Smedes who taught at Fuller Theological Seminary for many years called our attention to Michael Christopher’s powerful play called The Black Angel. The story was about a former German officer who tried to rebuild his life after World War II by hiding in the woods just outside a small French village ...

18. Body Language

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Paul is saying the same thing about 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 that the model many of us have in our minds for ... uniform. He used the right equipment. He even was assigned to the right field. But watching Michael Jordan play baseball was not anything like watching Michael play basketball. Fly balls hit him in the chest. His swing lagged inches behind a fast ...

19. When It's Time For Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... that lubricates the human machine. Without it, all of life becomes hot and squeaky. Or as my favorite author on the subject Lewis Smedes says, “God has invented forgiveness as a remedy to the past that even He could not change.” Jesus said, “Forgive and ... said their last prayer together, she and 35 classmates. As they dismissed the prayer meeting, another classmate by the name of Michael Carneal walked into their midst and opened fire on them. Missy took a bullet through her left shoulder and it lodged ...

20. Close! But No Cigar!

John 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... remember a story that made international news back in 1982. Very early in the morning of July 9, 1982, a young man named Michael Fagan broke into Buckingham Palace and entered Queen Elizabeth’s bedroom. The Queen was still asleep. Can you imagine her surprise when she ... him and “shooting down” his arguments for God. Instead, the minister suggested he read some books by C.S. Lewis and come back to discuss them. In those books, Francis Collins found logical, reasoned evidence for the existence of God ...

21. Sometimes, You Gotta Get Your Feet Wet First

Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... . Like it or not, taking the first step is never easy. There are always risks involved whenever one ventures out into uncharted waters. C.S. Lewis says as much when he writes: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and ... the other shore. Who knows, like the Israelite priests, it might even require getting your feet wet! 1. Michael E. Williams et al., The Storyteller's Companion to the Bible, Volume Two: Exodus-Joshua (Nashville: Abingdon Press ...

22. For I Have Chosen You!

Haggai 2:20-23

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... would have put these words into his mouth when on the surface it looks as if Jesus was wrong. But as Lewis also pointed out, this statement proved that God did not cheat when it came to the incarnation. While fully God and in ... represent the early Christian church which abandoned Jerusalem before its destruction, flees to the desert. "Now war arose in heaven," reads Revelation 12:7. Michael is on one side and the dragon is on the earth, and the dragon "was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown ...

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

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... 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 ... she must have been Jesus' grandmother. He was all she talked about." If I sound like Jesus' grandmother this morning, so be it. C. S. Lewis in his book, THE GREAT DIVORCE tells a little fantasy about a very liberal Bishop of the Church of England who died and went to ...

24. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... but with goodness. If we're listening to God, then like Simon and Isaiah we are driven to an honest appraisal of who we are. C. S. Lewis expressed this by writing, "We are at present, creatures whose character must be a horror to God, (and) when we really see it, a horror to ourselves ... 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. 67. Goldman, James, The Lion in Winter, pgs. 55- ...

25. Winners And Losers

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... of judgment over others, because God's love is wide enough to draw in even the people we don't dare accept. A few years ago, Lewis Smedes spent a day at the Los Angeles county jail trying to bail someone out. After seeing a stream of assorted thugs and addicts coming in ... , pp. 6-7. 3. Jim Cymbala. Breakthrough Prayer (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), pp.84-85. 4. Lewis B. Smedes. A Life of Distinction (Colorado Springs, CO: Shaw Books, 2002), pp. 166-167. 5. by Eddie Charles Spencer The Day I Met ...

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