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Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... a thorn in people's sides, when you look back on it, Elred is virtually always right. Often very right. Maybe the rabbi did mean brother Elred. But surely not Brother Phillip. Phillip is so passive, a real nobody. But then, almost mysteriously, he has a gift for somehow always being there when you need him. He just magically appears by your side. Maybe Phillip is the Messiah. Of course the rabbi didn't mean me. He couldn't possibly have meant me. I'm just an ordinary person. Yet supposing he did? Suppose I ...

2. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... a thorn in people's sides, when you look back on it, Elred is virtually always right. Often very right. Maybe the rabbi did mean Brother Elred. But surely not Brother Phillip. Phillip is so passive, a real nobody. But then, almost mysteriously, he has a gift for somehow always being there when you need him. He just magically appears by your side. Maybe Phillip is the Messiah. Of course the rabbi didn't mean me. He couldn't possibly have meant me. I'm just an ordinary person. Yet supposing he did? Suppose I ...

3. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... to him should be one of reverential awe and worship. Elihu is rigid and limiting when he applies God’s rule to humans. Book: Your God Is Too Small, by J. B. Phillips. Phillips (1906–82) was a British preacher and writer who was encouraged in his writing by C. S. Lewis. In his book Your God Is Too Small (1952), Phillips discusses the various ways in which inadequate views of God are detrimental to people’s spiritual lives. Some of these are seeing God as a policeman, a parental hangover, a grand old ...

4. Measure of Success

Drama

Sarah Walton Miller

... going to play baseball with Henry and the boys? VOICE OF BOY: No, mother. MOTHER: But they are counting on you for - now, what did Henry say? Stop short or something like that. BOY: I’ve got something better to do than play ball, even if Henry hasn’t. MOTHER: Phillip, you never want to play baseball, or go fishing or do anything to have fun with your cousin and the other boys. BOY: I’ve got a deal making. MOTHER: But that’s not fun. BOY: It’s fun when I see that money in the bank. How many boys ...

5. Something Good Can Come From Nazareth

John 1:43-51

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Brett Blair

... Jesus would redeem Nathanael as well. Come and see, he said, just come and see, that's all I ask you. I know that every Christian here believes that God can redeem a soul. I know you believe that. So I ask you from this moment on to live like Phillip. Go out and ask someone to come and see. Invite to bible study, invite them to Sunday school, invite them to worship service, invite them to a church activity. I like the story of the two robins sitting in a tree. "I'm really hungry," said the first one. "Me ...

6. I Believe in Easter

Acts 9:1-29

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James Merritt

... and said: "Dr. Will, why are you so sad? Why do you have such a long face? Are you reading your Bible? Are you praying?" Dr. Phillips said, "Now Edith, I'm the doctor, you're the patient." He laughed. But then he remembered the sad news he had to give to ... Edith, your lab report came back and it says you have cancer, and Edith, you're not going to live very long." Edith said, "Why Will Phillips, shame on you. Why are you so sad? Do you think God makes a mistake? You have just told me that soon I'm going to ...

7. Show Us The Father, and We Shall Be Satisfied

John 14:5-14

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Larry Powell

... wants me to be, where my wife would want me to be, and where I need to be." "Show us the Father," my friend could have cried out in remorse. But he already knew the whereabouts of the Father. "Show us the Father, and we shall be satisfied," Phillip asked on behalf of the others. We know all about that kind of request, especially when we experience reverses in our lives, when evil appears to have its way, and when death reaches into our circle of family and friends. II. The Reply Have you ever received an ...

8. The Ultimate Evidence of God

2 Peter 1:16-21

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King Duncan

... reality. Intellectually we believe in God, but His existence does not seem to have much relevance to our everyday lives. Few of us know what it means to stand on holy ground. This is not to say that such experiences do not occur. Christian scholar J. B. Phillips lay in a hospital bed after a severe and prolonged operation “unable,” as he says, “to move a finger nor blink an eye-lid.” Yet he was fully conscious. Late one night he overheard a doctor murmur to the night-nurse, “I am afraid he won’t ...

9. The Divine Advocacy

John 16:5-16

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Maurice A. Fetty

... today they resist it in totalitarian countries. But our resistance is not violent, but passive. We do not hate the Bible, we ignore it. We do not wish its extinction except by default through neglect. It has for centuries been the agent of the Spirit, but says J. B. Phillips, we really have not studied it with an adult mind. Note how hard it is to get people to study the Bible in an adult way. If Pastor John Robinson assured the Pilgrims there was yet more light to break from God's blessed word of truth, so ...

10. When God Has Enough

Zephaniah 1:4-13, Zephaniah 1:14--2:3

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Sims Robert

... Brooks was one of the best-known pastors of the last century. We perhaps know him best as the man who wrote the Christmas carol, “O Little Town of Bethlehem.” The story is told that when Phillips Brooks came to the end of life, he was gravely ill and could not receive visitors. Many of his dearest friends came to his home but were not given admittance because he was simply too ill to see them. Among those who came, however, was a man named Robert Ingersoll. ...

11. Life After Life

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Robert G. Tuttle

... and the immediate reality of the Spirit. This is where life finds its final consummation; otherwise, there is no meaning. J. B. Phillips, the well-known British New Testament scholar and friend of C. S. Lewis, shares an experience in his book, For This ... response to life. That night at ten p.m., when his doctor came by to check on him, he heard him say to the nurse, "Dr. Phillips will not be with us in the morning. He cannot make it through the night." There he lay, totally aware, wanting to shake his head, " ...

12. Idle Tale Or Eternal Truth?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a liar and practically no one will accept that or he was hallucinating or Lewis was alive after his death. Those are the only three possibilities. You may take your pick. I do not believe that J.B Phillips, however, would have been willing to have been thrown into the gladiator's ring to support his contention that he really had seen Lewis. The disciples, however, were willing to give up every thing they had including their lives in defense of their contention that Christ was alive. Why? Because ...

13. On the Mountainside

Matthew 6:5-13

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John E. Harnish

... anything our feeble minds can grasp, the God who is (in theological language) "WHOLLY OTHER." Back in 1961, J.B. Phillips wrote a little book which shocked the staid religious landscape of a settled church coming out of the comfortable 50' ... Nostre in Jerusalem and view any of the 1128 languages and dialects at www.christusrex.org/ww1/pater/. As I say in the sermon, J.B. Phillips' Your God is Too Small is still in print and well-worth reading. John Killinger's The God Named Hallowed is no longer in print, but ...

14. Just a Little Faith Will Do

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... life he went through perils of sickness and poverty, and all forms of limitation and trouble, but he never forgot that scene and that sentence. “I have trusted God for forty years, and He has never forsaken me; I am not going to distrust Him now.” (7) Phillips Brook’ father knew what it was to follow Jesus. He was saved not by his knowledge not by his good works but by his faith in Jesus Christ. And friends, that faith, just a little bit of it, will save us as well. 1. http://www.moorparkpres.org ...

15. The Conversion of Chuck Colson

John 20:1-18; 21:15-25

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Ray Pritchard

... would have blurted out, 'What are you talking about? Jesus Christ lived two thousand years ago, a great moral leader, of course, and doubtless divinely inspired. But why would anyone "accept" Him or "commit one's life to Him?" as if he were around today.'" Tom Phillips gave Chuck Colson a book to read, a book by C.S. Lewis entitled Mere Christianity. In that book, Lewis talks about what it means to believe in Jesus Christ. Particularly, what it means to believe that Jesus Christ really is God in human flesh ...

16. Truth Or Duty?

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Klyne Snodgrass

... witnesses aggressively. At the beginning of the second day of the trial, however, Courvoisier confessed privately to his lawyer that he had committed the murder. When asked if he were going to plead guilty, he replied to Charles Phillips, "No, sir, I expect you to defend me to the utmost." Phillips was faced with a dilemma. Should he declare to the court that the man was guilty, or should he defend Courvoisier as best he could? Should he break the confidentiality of the client-lawyer relationship, or should ...

17. Something Good Can Come from Nazareth - Sermon Starter

John 1:43-51

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Brett Blair

... found the one whom Moses wrote about. He is Jesus of Nazareth. While we do not know what expression Nathanael had on his face when he responded, I think that it is safe to say that his response revealed a cynical sneer. "Can anything good come from Nazareth?" Answered Phillip: "Come and see." You see, the church has the same problem. The church is full of those sure of themselves. We may even get to the point where we believe very little that we are told. We sit back under the fig tree with the sneer of a ...

18. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Friends

John 11:1-45

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... Us. Someone wrote: "A friend is one who, in times of trouble, walks in while everyone else is walking out." Friends stick with us. Earl C. Willer tells the story of two men who grew up best friends: Though Jim was just a little older than Phillip and often assumed the role of leader, they did everything together. They even went to high school and college together. After college they joined the Marines. By a unique series of circumstances they were sent to Germany together where they fought side by side in ...

19. By Whose Standards?

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

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John N. Brittain

... other, "more important" work, but who chose the life he discerned as appropriate. And, if you will forgive the rabbit-trail, I cannot help but think of a man whose biography carried the same title as one of Nouwen's most famous works: The Wounded Healer. He was J. B. Phillips, most well known for his modern-language translation of scripture and the short book, Your God is Too Small, which has had a life changing impact on untold numbers of people. But as great a man and undoubtedly great a Christian as was ...

20. The Grateful Samaritan

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... Texas day, Randy reports, he came in to find Mama Ruth praying in the living room. It was an intense prayer. Randy couldn’t help but listen as she prayed. She prayed for her children and then she prayed for Randy. “It stopped me cold,” says Randy Phillips “to know that someone who really should be praying for other things was taking the time to pray for me. Years later when I introduced my wife to Mamma Ruth, my wife asked, ‘Do you still pray for Randy?’ She answered, ‘I pray for him every day ...

21. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16

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King Duncan

... to arrest William Tyndale while the two men were out for a walk. In October 1536, William Tyndale was executed for the crime of heresy because he dared to translate the Bible into the English language. (3) Judas betrayed Jesus in the same way that Henry Phillips betrayed William Tyndale. And when he finally realized what he had done, Judas Iscariot threw the money he received from that betrayal on the floor of the temple and went and hanged himself. Judas faced the same choice each of us face when we are ...

22. Do You Believe In Easter?

Luke 24:1-12

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Bill Bouknight

... Christ is alive because he has touched my life." God can anoint that simple testimony with life-changing power. Let me tell you about one woman who had a special way of sharing her resurrection faith. Her story is told in a book by her physician, Dr. Will Phillips of San Antonio. Her name was Edith Burns. She was an elderly widow who loved Jesus. She would often sit down with someone and say, "Hello, my name is Edith Burns. Do you believe in Easter?" If they said yes, she would ask them what they believe ...

23. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

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King Duncan

... will not get the job done. (4) This is the first step in understanding the meaning of Advent. When we could not climb up to God, God came to us. Advent means to "come to." God came to our world. We live on a God-invaded planet, as J. B. Phillips once put it. But there is a second amazing claim Christians make about Advent: GOD IDENTIFIES WITH OUR NEEDS AND OUR CONCERNS. God is no stranger to the challenge of being human. For God took on human flesh and lived as we live. In the October 3, 1977, issue of ...

24. More Than "Turkey Day" (New) Thanksgiving

2 Chronicles 9:1-28

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King Duncan

... the missionary’s son needed it more than she did. So she gave every hard-earned dollar to the Sunday School teacher. Years later, Amanda fell in love with a college classmate named Phillip. Amanda’s and Phillip’s families came together for a big dinner to celebrate their children’s engagement. At the family dinner, Phillip’s parents shared stories from their years serving as missionaries overseas. One of their hardest times, they recalled, was when the whole family fell ill while serving in Chile ...

25. A Little Town of Great Renown

Micah 5:2-5a

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... to have trod organ pedals," "the most dangerous musician since Nero," and other things even less complimentary.1 P.D.Q. composed works that were sure to catapult him into obscurity, not the least of which was "O Little Town of Hackensack." Phillips Brooks, the nineteenth-century Episcopal priest and bishop who penned the words to "O Little Town of Bethlehem," could never have imagined the cultural changes that have transpired in our country during the last century. I doubt that Hackensack, or any little ...

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