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Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... can’t catch a wave?" But once they were in position, Caleb was ready. They slowly turned the board around and waited. When a wave came, Mike started paddling as hard as he could while Caleb got ready to stand up in front of him and surf. Caleb caught on pretty fast. ... . The vests were placed on mannequins and then the officers would fire round after round into the vests. The rookies were asked to check to see if any of the rounds had penetrated the vests. Invariably the vests would pass the test with ...

2. Close Calls

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... the alligator chomped down on the boy's head, he found the diving gear distasteful and spit him out. Mike swam as fast as he could underwater toward the shore. The alligator swam round and round in circles trying to find the boy. When Mike surfaced, the alligator located him and headed toward him again. Mike was about twenty feet from shore when the alligator caught him, this time by the feet. By this time, Mike's mother, who was on shore, had waded out to where the boy was. She grabbed his extended hands ...

3. The Little Boat

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... alligator chomped down on the boy's head, he found the diving gear distasteful and spit him out. Now Mike swam as fast as he could underwater toward the shore. The alligator swam round and round in circles trying to find the boy. When Mike surfaced, the alligator located him and headed toward him again. Mike was about twenty feet from shore when the alligator caught him, this time by the feet. By this time, Mike's mother, who was on shore, had waded out to where the boy was. She grabbed his extended hands ...

4. Holing Out

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... of the church have had aces in the last year. But I am thinking of stealing -- in a Christian kind of way -- James Dodson's (Final Rounds, 1996) idea and starting a Hole-in-None Society. I'm about to order a pub sign from the latest golf catalogue of useless accessories: "I ... rather win. But I'm just happy to be playing with my dad. I'm glad Eric woke me up before being forced to grieve with Mike and the Mechanics, "It's too late when we die to admit we don't see eye to eye." And I'm glad you're reading ...

5. The First Hole

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... . His handicap was higher than New Jersey taxes. He approached his job and golf with the enthusiasm of someone being interviewed by Mike Wallace. So nobody wanted to work or play with him. After about five holes of his firm's annual golf outing, his ... You have to keep reminding yourself all the time that the first three holes count, for it's easy to forget. Even in an eighteen-hole round the whole day seems to loom ahead of you. If you lose the first hole, there's always the second. And if you lose the second ...

6. “Unto Us A Child Is Born... Next, On Omar”

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... host, Omar Looseandfree. (Small child walks in from stage right with an “Applause” sign as Omar enters from stage left with hand mike. If the audience doesn’t applaud, the child should point to the sign and say, “Can’t you read?” Child then sits ... Bethlehem. Funny thing. It was like those sheep knew something special was happening, because they didn’t give us a hard time rounding them up. Shepherd 3: And just like the Angels said, we found the baby lying in a manger, with animals all around him ...

7. Lost and Found

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... you wearing your wedding ring?” I tried to get out of it the best that I could. “Well, that old wedding ring you gave me was so round that when it drops it tends to roll. By the law of gravity and the theory of relativity it slipped away and I just couldn’t find it ... bar. People recognized him from his television ministry. One day as he was leaving, a customer spoke up and said, “Thanks, Mike, for eating with sinners like us.” If we become concerned for the lost we will spend more time in bars and ...

8. Tangible Tests

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... of this faith’s believers. Like the little kid in the commercial back in Michael Jordan’s heyday who said, “Like Mike; I want to be like Mike,” those watching the Jesus’ followers’ actions said, “Like you. I want to be like you.” There is a story ... and new vision all of the above There are 168 hours in a week. Ten percent (a tithe) equals 16.8 hours. Rounded down, let’s make it 16 hours. Some of us, including our children and adolescents, our spouses, good friends, and yes, ourselves, waste ...

9. Take Dead Aim

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... I said every golfer knew character would be a continuing issue after correspondents for several golf magazines caught him cheating during a round with two of his predecessors. I said everybody knows he cheated on his wife for years and lied to family, friends, ... and liberty while enslaving people. Babe Ruth struck out a lot and not just on the diamond. Mickey Mantle was a drunk. Mike Tyson bit off more than he could chew. Cross-waving Evander Holyfield has six children by six different women. Tiger Woods can ...

10. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... take long for the griping and grumbling to start. Sometime back, they had begun their diet of manna - those small round grains or flakes, which appeared around the Israelites' camp each morning, which were ground and baked into cakes or boiled ... send among us bigger and better rattlesnakes. Amen."(7) Hmm. Some years ago, an insightful watcher of the church by the name of Mike Yaconelli, wrote an article called "The Tyranny of Trivia."(8) Some of his observations remind me of our ancient desert wanderers as ...

11. The Fourth King In The Christmas Story

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in spite of the joy we all experience during the celebration of Christ's birth, there is a downside to Christmas. Newspaper columnist Mike Royko once shared the other side of the Christmas Story in one of his columns. He told about a stranger who put $ ... guarantee that someone would grieve at his passing. According to Barclay, Herod left orders that when he died his soldiers were to round up a group of well-known citizens, frame them for some concocted crime, and then kill them. That way, Herod assured himself ...

12. Dogsleds And Dogged Determination

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

King Duncan

... or eighty pounds) and I weigh only one hundred pounds. You have to be able to take care of the dogs and provide for them year round, it's a commitment of many years. I'm in my eighth generation of breeding my own dogs. Sometimes we run into an icy trail or ... Witnesses say they saw "an explosion taking place inside his pants. He was seen hopping and jumping around," police spokesman Mike Carey said. The suspect stripped to his boxer shorts and left his smoldering pants behind. Police confiscated the charred ...

13. One Life To Live

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... white coveralls. Then, pro golfer Scott Simpson, a good friend of Max Lucado's, invited him to caddie for him in an exhibition round. For one glorious day, Max Lucado got to wear the white coveralls of a caddie, and he got to enter into the ... , 2001), pp. 35-36. 2. The Associated Press. 1997. 3. Max Lucado, WHEN CHRIST COMES (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1999), pp.55-62. 4. Mike Trout. Off the Air (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995), pp.4-23. 5. "The Broken Heart" by Richard Wilke. 6. Dr. Paul Brand, ...

14. Baptized with Christ

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the House Ways and Means Committee stand and, to a man, they give George Washington Carver--scientist and former slave--a long round of applause. What gave George Washington Carver courage that day long ago? The knowledge that he had been baptized. (4) By our baptism ... Love (Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1990), p. 359. 2. From a sermon by Bill Gordon, 3. Mike Graves & Richard Ward, eds., Craddock Stories (St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2001), pp. 67-69. From a sermon by Rev. Dr. ...

15. Be Kind

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James McCormick

... about. This sermon began forming in my heart and mind several years ago when I first saw the movie, “Wit,” a Mike Nichols film, starring Emma Thompson. A great movie, not so much entertaining as disturbingly thought provoking. The movie is about Dr ... would go into and out of comas. One day while she was unconscious, the young research assistant came into the room, making rounds. The caring nurse began asking questions about “Why? Why?” Without even looking up from the chart he was examining, he replied ...

16. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... one that crosses all generations. It’s on the Discovery Channel. It’s called “Dirty Jobs.” This surprising hit has host Mike Rowe taking on a new, disgusting, you-never-even-thought-of-doing-that “dirty job” each week. He has cleaned dairy ... heart. In fact, it’s the hands that bridge and bring the head and heart together. Every now and then something makes the rounds of the Internet that captures the soul: “Grandma, some ninety plus years, sat feebly on the patio bench. She didn’t move, just ...

17. The True Feng Shui Life

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... retired corporate executive finds herself helping an inner city grocery store get set up and established, instead of playing a relaxing round of golf. *This is how a shy, reclusive librarian finds himself founding a hospitality center for recent immigrants. *This is how ... wind of the Spirit Fill the sails of my Soul Send us on Lord Let your wind blow.” –Russ Rosen/Sandy Rosen/Mike Oshiro In his autobiography, John Stuart Mill told the story of his father, a man who was intellectually ambitious for his son ...

18. The Supernatural Witness to the Significance of Jesus’s Death

Mark 15:42-47

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... be only about three feet high. rolled a stone against the entrance. Some tombs had rectangular stones, but this was a large round stone, probably four to six feet in diameter, rolled into a trough in front of the entrance. It would take several ... the presence of God. A faithful witness even when suffering Quotes: In the winter 2014 edition of Leadership Magazine, Pastor Mike Erre of First Evangelical Free Church in Fullerton, California, vulnerably shares a story about his personal battle with depression and ...

19. God Has No Grandchildren

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to do when he grew up. “I want to be an animal trainer,” said the child, loudly and clearly into the mike. “And I’ll have lots of wild lions and tigers and leopards,” he continued boldly. “And then I’ll walk into ... had heard, there shone from his eyes the glint of unshed tears. After his recital of the facts, he concluded: “It was worth going round the world more than once to hear those humble native Christians bearing witness to the grace of Jesus Christ.” Whosoever believeth in him should ...

20. Have Your ID Ready

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , which earned her the nickname “the Angel of Crimea.” There is an old story that one soldier, while watching her make her rounds, shouted to her, “You look like the grace of God!” (5) Jesus didn’t look like a great military hero or political ... . Amen.” (7) 1. “Weissmuller's Tarzan leap from sport to film - aped by Arnie and a huge cast” by Mike Rowbottom, Insidethegames.biz, December 22, 2019, https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1088405/johnny-weissmuller-sport-to-films#:~:text=In%201958 ...

21. Whose Fault Is It?

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... chest. His hair was messy and his toes peeked out the front of his sandals. A stick-on name patch read, “Hi! I’m Mike! I’m the Youth Pastor.” On the dark and imposing desk was a bronze plate boldly proclaiming, “Senior Pastor.” A caption underneath carried ... still Job loved God and served him openly. The wagering in heaven heated up, and Satan got one more shot at Job in round two. He was allowed to touch Job’s body without killing him. Job began to writhe in pain. And Satan touched Job’s mind ...

22. Learning to Listen

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Mike Ripski

Mary Ann Bird has writes this story from her childhood. It’s entitled, “The Whisper Test.” I grew up knowing I was different, and I hated it. I was born with a cleft palate, and when I started school, my classmates made it clear to me how I must look to others: a girl with a misshapen lip, crooked nose, lopsided teeth and garbled speech. “When schoolmates would ask, ‘What happened to your lip?’ I’d tell them I’d fallen and cut it on a piece of glass. Somehow it seemed more acceptable to have suffered an ...

23. Not My Jesus!

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

Mike Ripski

I. “The story you are about to hear….” Remember Sgt. Joe Friday is? Jack Webb? “Dragnet” – the first crime drama on television back when the TV screen was round and the colors black and white? Each show opened with these words: “The story you are about to see is true; the names have been changed to protect the innocent.” This morning the story you are about to see is true; the names have not been changed to protect the guilty. Christians don’t believe guilt is bad. Guilt is to our soul as fever is to our ...

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