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Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... ways to sabotage your organization's productivity, from a CIA manual published in 1944” by Richard Feloni, BusinessInsider.com, November 5, 2015. https://www.businessinsider.com/oss-manual-sabotage-productivity-2015-11?utm_source=ForTheInterestedNewsletter. 2. Michael Shannon. 3. Francis Schaeffer, The Mark of the Christian (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1970), foreword. Joseph M. Stowell, The Trouble With Jesus (Chicago: Moody Publishers, 2003). 4. “My Beloved Daughter” by The Rev. William (Scott ...

2. About That Anger

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... .org/sections/health-shots/2019/06/26/735757156/poll-americans-say-were-angrier-than-a-generation-ago? 4. “Righteous anger can bring out the best in us all,” The Drum by Michael Jensen January 5, 2015 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-01-06/jensen-why-we-love-rage/6002174. 5. “The Art of Righteous Anger” by Shannon Leigh, Medium.com, Jun 4, 2020, https://medium.com/candour/the-art-of-righteous-anger-c12ec9fd02ac. 6. Lectionary Commentary: “Ray Charles and John 9—Seeing for the First Time” (for ...

3. Was It Really Necessary?

John 19:17-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... the day above all others when we commemorate Christ’s death on the cross of Calvary. Writer Robert C. Shannon tells a fascinating story about a nineteenth century emperor of Abyssinia named Merielik II. Abyssinia roughly corresponds to modern ... device to put on a church steeple or in a sanctuary or on an altar table. The cross was a cruel, barbaric way to die. Michael Card, in his book A Violent Grace, describes in gruesome detail how determined the Romans were in their desire to make an example of those ...

4. You Can't Fool God: Ananias and Sapphira

Acts 4:33 - 5:11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... kept bubbling to the surface. So, what is it God wants us to wrestle with and what is it God wants us to hear. Michael Phillips in Leadership Magazine makes the point that we need to realize and remember "that God was making a point, not setting a pattern ... The Pastor's Story File (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651; 970-785-2990) May 1985 2. Michael E. Phillips in Leadership, Vol. 7, no. 4. Adapted. 3. WordSearch Bible Software, Various Commentaries 4. Parables, Etc. (Saratoga Press, P.O. ...

5. A Faith that Leaves a Legacy

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Girard, Pennsylvania carries an epitaph that probably would be the source of a good lawsuit. It tells of Ellen Shannon, twenty‑six, “Who,” according to her epitaph, “was fatally burned March 21, 1870 by the explosion of a lamp filled ... castaway and be disqualified from running the race. Barry J. Farber in his book, Dive Right In, tells about the Olympic athlete Michael Johnson. Johnson earned his reputation as the fastest human on earth at the Olympic trials in 1996. Dr. Phil Santiago, official ...

6. The Gospel We Preach

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... not. In Tennessee Williams’ provocative play, The Night of the Iguana, the lead character is a defrocked minister by the name of the Reverend Shannon. At one point in the play, he rants and raves about the kind of God many people believe in. He says: [They think of ... attributes to God. The controversy surrounds the life and death of a Spanish physician and theologian by the name of Michael Servetus. To make a long story short, Servetus thought of himself as a Protestant, but he rejected the traditional ...

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