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Daniel 10:1--11:1

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... , Daniel refrains from using lotions (Dan. 10:3). Oils and lotions helped to keep the skin moist in the Near East, where the weather is often dry. Because it was also frequently hot, they would add perfume to these ointments as a kind of deodorant. When mourning, ... this celestial one could not overcome the powerful spirit being who exercised control over Persia without the help of the archangel, Michael, which would not be true of God or Jesus. However, to consider vv. 5–6 as a christophany is reading the ...

2. A Visit To Millennium Manor

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... invasion of Kuwait was about to start. As part of Operation Desert Storm, a Marine battalion would soon cross the border. Major Michael Halt was second in command of this battalion of 130 brave Marines who were facing the most daunting challenge of their military ... as they neared the Kuwaiti border. They stopped there, knowing that the enemy waited on the other side. Regardless of the weather, they were soon going into full-scale combat. They awoke on the day of the invasion to beautiful sunny skies. As ...

3. FEAR NOT! You've Got To Be Kidding!

Luke 1:26-37

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... gain until the fear of terror becomes its own terror. And add to that, panic-driven newscasters who can't even give the weather without fear-filled, baited breath. It all leads to what Jane Spencer in the Wall Street Journal refers to as the "fear system" ... the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow keeping watch above his own. If you would like to know more about Rev. Dr. Michael Lindvall and his writings, check out www.brickchurch.org, or you can find his books at www.amazon.com or www.alibris.com ...

4. You Can Be Intelligent

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... She 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 ignorant, just ... an undergraduate at a small denominationally supported college, I had the good fortune to know a man named Owen Weatherly. Dr. Weatherly, formerly pastor of some large urban congregations, had moved south to become Chair of the department of Religion and ...

5. The Bridge

John 1:1-18, Matthew 2:1-12, Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 1:26-38, Genesis 3:1-24

Drama

H. J. Hizer

... work before. Remember Noah? All he got out of the flood was the world's biggest hangover. One: Well, as head of the weather, stars, and prophets committee, I could train another prophet:"Thus sez the Lord: I want you stubborn stupid rapscallions to give up your ... : How can we be sure, Lord, if you're gone? Five: I give you my promise. One: When will you be leaving, Lord? Five: Very soon. Michael, let's take care of this one last thing. I want you to get the new star and put it in the eastern part of this ...

6. Baptized with Christ

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... on Jim Standiford’s robe. A little five-year-old 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 there.” (2) We know who we are. We are God ... a Nazarene church, and a Christian church. The attendance at each of these small churches rose and fell according to the weather and whether it was time to harvest the wheat. But the most consistent attendance in town was at the little café ...

7. You Are Somebody!

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... else feel small, insignificant, unworthy could be held accountable for their words or actions. ABC News’ science editor Michael Guillen tells about being part of a famous experiment in cooperation with the former anchor of ABC news, ... wedding, and grief there because of a death." She stopped to talk with the kids who were sitting outside on the steps in 10‑degree weather, because they had forgotten their keys and mom and dad were at work. She remembered a house a couple of doors down where the people ...

8. Watchers, Walkers And Worshipers

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... me," the now curious man replied. "He watches TV, he watches Mom do the housework, he watches for the paper boy, he watches the weather, and I think he watches girls, too," he said with an impish grin on his face. "He watches the stock market, football games, ... seemed to stand still for this family as they made their way safely across the busy intersection. It was as if God had broken into Michael's world. It was as if God was telling him to look around, to be conscious of God's presence in the world. (3) ...

9. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... The 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 ... Notes 2:17 Mists: The rare Greek word homichlai is used by Aristotle (On Meteorology 1.346b) for the haze heralding dry weather. The term occurs in the NT only here. Some MSS have altered it to nephalai (clouds), as in the corresponding passage, Jude ...

10. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... date for 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 happen, Stiftell ... the weather. Our ecosystem is so interrelated that a butterfly flapping its wings in Beijing may ultimately affect weather over New York City. There are simply too many variables to ever give a completely accurate long range weather ...

11. Predictable Surprises

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... hits with its inevitable power outage, we're out of the broadcast loop. It's completely predictable. Those in the middle of the worst weather, those with the most critical need to know, are those the information can't reach. Yet whenever the power really does go out we ... their best-selling book Predictable Surprises (Boston Mass: Harvard Business School Press, 2004), authors Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins declare that the more recent disasters - the terrorist attack on 9-11, the economic collapse of ...

12. When the Drought Gets Really Bad

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... Smith Barney. When the traders saw the company’s meteorologist wearing a trench coat, they figured this was some kind of secret signal that the weather would break and start raining, so they started selling the market. In fact, Davis explained, it was a cool day in May and he’d ... live in a Waste Land no more. 1. (Tulsa: Honor Books, Inc., 1973), p. 163. 2. David Phillips, Michael Parfit, Suzanne Chisholm (San Diego: Advantage Publishers Group, 1998), p. 203. 3. Mastering the Seven Decisions that Determine ...

13. The True Olympians

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... goal. Athletes work nonstop for years. They work through pulled muscles. They were through spiking fevers. There is no weather too hot or cold to stop practice. Like parenthood, there are no “days off,” ever. Through a grueling ... Jesus this morning, if you are a Christ follower, then you are called to present your bodies as dedicated beings. Like the Olympic athletes, like Michael Phelps, you are called to “will one thing:” you are to be the Body of Christ for this world. We are to dedicate our bodies ...

14. Flying High

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... one day he landed in a barnyard. There life was less exciting but easier. He didn’t have to scramble for food and when the weather was bad he could take shelter in the barn. The duck began to eat and live with the tame ducks and gradually he forgot how ... persons who are motivated to extend themselves beyond the ordinary person, there would be no great accomplishments in this world. Michael B. Curry, Presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, tells about an old Apple computer commercial from the 1990s that ...

15. The Process of Love

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... you flying to Baltimore and so concerned with the weather?" That's when she told me her husband was dead, his casket was in the jet's storage, and his graveside funeral would be in Baltimore. So she was hoping for good weather. I asked God to give me strength to ... I must stay at your house today." Can you imagine being lonely, going to a basketball game alone, and come half-time, Michael Jordan leaves the court, walks up to the nosebleed section where you are seated, shakes your hand, calls you by name, and ...

16. How to Live a Sizzle-When-It-Drizzles Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... midst of a dark night sheep need to feel the warmth of the herd pressing about them. A lone sheep is a lost sheep. Michael Blewett, an Anglican priest in St. Louis, tells of a parishioner who hadn’t been to Sunday worship in a while. She rarely missed ... we traverse. Third, you need wipes. When it drizzles, you need to keep your vision clear. Arguably the best invention ever for weather was the intermittent wiper blade on a car’s windshield. When the rain is coming down, but not a steady downpour, the ...

17. Yahweh Speaks as the Master Teacher

Job 38:1--41:34

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... can see the effects of Yahweh’s work, but he cannot understand how Yahweh accomplishes what he does in the weather. Job has to admit that his knowledge of snow, hail, lightning, wind, rain, and ice is profoundly deficient. Even what ... is portrayed with the same kind of imagery, as a great dragon with seven heads is cast down from heaven by the angel Michael. Consequently, in the history of Christian biblical interpretation, the antichrist as he wreaks havoc on the earth is often depicted as riding upon ...

18. This House In Its Former Glory

Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... miles, and only three nights in motels. Otherwise we depended on the kindness of friends and relatives. The trip started with cool weather. I wore sweatshirts in Oregon to the outdoor theater in Ashland. By the time we hit L.A., with the World Cup ... Lord of hosts." Got that? Things just get better. Even when it seems like it is all falling apart, trust God, and wait. Michael shall arise! Those ruins are a shadow. The real temple is being built. And still stands. The building raised by Haggai's contemporaries ...

19. Respect

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... home was in the wealthiest neighborhood on that island of very wealthy residents. In fact, Michael Jordan, the basketball legend, had lived next door to them. But Michael had stopped visiting the home after his father died. Roland and Elizabeth had moved south ... Nor were these Christians to be dues-paying members of a comfortable and secure group who had retired from the inclement weather and nasty pace of a secular world to gather with like-minded people for pleasant conversation. In the first struggles of ...

20. What In The World Is Happiness?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... don't want to be poor. We want to be like Michael Jordan. I read recently that Jordan makes more money each year from pitching Nike shoes than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Michael's our role model, not some homeless fellow shuffling along ... to have written on their tombstones? He was surprised by the wit and sincerity of the various responses. Ira Joe Fisher, a weather man, wrote this epitaph for himself: “He wanted the mind of Plato, the heart and soul of Socrates. But his life was ...

21. A Gospel for Losers

Jonah 3:1-5, 10

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of ten at-bats end up in failure. Hmm ... that would make them big time losers in almost any other job (except perhaps weather forecasting), if anyone cared to think that way. But no one does. It was baseball's opening day in 1954. The Milwaukee Braves ... smile secretive and knowing as he moves down the gauntlet of fans and well-wishers. He walks like a winner. After all, he is Michael Jordan, the man who made the impossible seem routine and the merely difficult look easy. Yet in the voice-over he says: "I have ...

22. Trusting God When You've Been Hurt

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... his faithfulness, blessing goes out to all the nations. And he even forgives his brothers who tried to kill him.” (6) The Rev. Dr. Michael Brown of Marble Collegiate Church in New York tells a story about how the redemptive love of Jesus can heal the pains of the ... in the yard all night. He would bang on the door, crying and begging to be let back in. No matter how bad the weather conditions outside, she never let him in. The next morning, she would deny him breakfast and rush him off to school. Many years ...

23. Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

James Weekley

... fat bank account give him real happiness? The great truths of the Bible are as timeless as granite. They have weathered every conceivable attack. The hammer wears. The anvil stands. What greater formula for happiness can be found apart from the Beatitudes ... and hands, and feet. In that sense, we pay our dues by giving his love its proper due toward hurting others. Michael Faraday, an early pioneer of electromagnetic current, once addressed a convocation of scientists. For an hour he held the audience ...

24. Decaffeinated Christianity

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... you all the way. You can count on us." Jesus was so kind that he did not say, "Are you kidding me? You fair-weather friends, you yellow cowards will run for cover the first time you smell real danger." Instead he said, "It is not my prerogative to ... two truths that I want to declare: MOST PEOPLE WANT A HIGH-BENEFIT LOW-COST RELIGION. Most Christian prefer what Bishop Michael Marshall has called "decaffeinated Christianity," the kind of religion that won't keep you awake a night. This kind of religion ...

25. Struggling with God

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... those awful events, can separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. The good news to Christians suffering around the country is that weather-related emergencies - flood, drought, forest fires - cannot separate you from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. To Christians in Baghdad, the good news is ... via Ecunet, "Sermonshop 1999 08 01," #6, 7/27/99 6. 28-39 passim 7. H. Michael Brewer, "Preaching on the Lessons," Church Management - The Clergy Journal, Oct., 1990, p. 23 8. Genesis 33:10

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