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Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... we Christians have become royal people because "you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s own people." Either we are chosen and crowned as kings and queens or we are born into rulership. Prince Charles of England will, upon his mother’s death or resignation, become the next king. Charles’ baby boy will be a future king of Great Britain. The people do not choose them as future kings because they are kings by virtue of birth in a royal family. In the same manner, we Christians are ...

2. The "Potential" Monarch

2 Timothy 2:12

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... one day wear the crown of England?” An American news reporter put that question to Prince Charles. Without hesitation, Charles replied, “Rough!” The future king expanded on this by describing the almost unbelievable discipline needed ... his grooming. “It’s still rough,” said the potential monarch. “I really don’t have a life of my own.” Normally we think of a prince as growing up with a silver spoon in his mouth and a kingdom for his playground. But it makes more sense to realize that an heir ...

3. Marriage is Forever

Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , an old-fashioned fairy tale ended. Princess Diana and Prince Charles were officially divorced. What a sad ending to what began so gloriously fifteen years ago. Charles, then a somewhat awkward 32-year-old bachelor, announced that ... on the way to Camelot, something went dreadfully wrong. The loving looks were traded in for cold stares and separate houses. Both Charles and Diana have admitted committing adultery. The slipper did not fit Cinderella after all. A romantic dream became a dismal nightmare, and ...

4. Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... coverage of religious events two days in a row. First the respectful and dignified coverage of the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and then a play-by-play commentary on the blessing of Prince Charles' civil marriage to Camilla Parker Bowles, now to be known as Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Cornwall. Prince Rainer of Monaco died after a long illness, the man who made his tiny Mediterranean nation of Monaco famous for something other than being a sunny place for shady characters when he married Grace ...

5. Samuel Was the Search Committee

1 Samuel 15:34-35, 16:1-13

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

I don't know about you but when I was growing up I always loved hearing the story of Cinderella. There was always something magical about it. It was more than Walter Mitty or Lee Iacocca — small-town boy made good. It was more than Prince Charles and Princess Diana in all their regal splendor long before Diana's untimely death. It was like the triumph of the poor and the oppressed over the powerful and the arrogant — the quintessential example of the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It ...

6. A Small Town Is Blessed

Micah 5:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... millions of people feel like they are members of one harmonious family. “At least that’s the way one newspaper article says it was on June 21, 1982 when at 9:03 p.m. the future King of England came into the world. “His name was William, Prince of Wales, born to Prince Charles and his young wife Diana. This boy was a legitimate heir to the throne. He was of royal ancestry. Born to be king. “But that’s not the way it was when Jesus came into the world. It’s difficult to imagine a birth more humble ...

7. Taxes and Tightwads

James 5:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... lose their value. Many of us have never forgotten Black Monday that occurred in October 1987. Wealth can be here today--and gone tomorrow. If your life only has value because of a portfolio, you are a pathetic individual. Wealth did not guarantee Prince Charles and Princess Diana a happy marriage. Now James is not speaking against the proper place of financial planning and economic scrutiny in our lives. What James is speaking about is that many people have no place for God because money has become their ...

8. The Conversion of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... born in the servant's quarters of Blenheim Palace rather than in the upstairs rooms reserved for dignitaries? Did Franklin D. Roosevelt have a mistress and did John F. Kennedy have extramarital affairs? Has the passion gone from the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Di? Will Elizabeth Taylor marry yet again? Insatiable is our appetite for singularities in noteworthy people. So, since we know how vastly important Saul is to our Christian faith, we latch onto Luke's accounts with ready interest. Let ...

9. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... expensive paneling flown in from England or the opulent antiques decorating even more opulent rooms, "We think Jesus, when he returns to earth, is going to return here first, and we want him to have the very best." So we encountered a Jesus who resembled Prince Charles or Donald Trump, a kingly, regal man with a white cloud for transportation. Personally, if Jesus was as much human as divine, like the Bible says he was, I think none of those depictions are accurate. Jesus was not only a Messiah and a Risen ...

10. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is quite correct: "The man who commits adultery is an utter fool, for he destroys his own soul." You don't break the seventh commandment; it breaks you. Surely most of us remember that wedding of the century, the marriage of Princess Diana and Prince Charles. St. Paul's Cathedral was resplendent with decorative and historic grandeur. The nobility of the world was there. I have a copy of the wedding homily or sermon delivered on that occasion by the Archbishop of Canterbury. High were the hopes of the world ...

11. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... the ever-cheerful Magic Johnson has the virus, too. John Belushi died of a drug overdose, as have so many others. Comedian Johnny Carson suffered the pain of failed marriages and the tragic death of a son he loved dearly. The storybook marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana has problems, also. We know for certain that the tabloid reporters have made it a living hell for them. So you see the rich and famous, the talented and important people are not immune from the real problems of real life. Anyone ...

12. Hungry People

Matthew 14:13-21

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David E. Leininger

... says, "Nothing here but five loaves and two fish." It is the response of the spouse who is desperately trying to make a go of a troubled marriage, and who grows weary of being the only partner working at the relationship. No, it is not as bad as Prince Charles and Lady Di. He is still around...some. But not enough. And when he IS there, his mind is somewhere else. Hungry for a rekindling of the passion, she is left with saying sadly, "There is nothing here but five loaves and two fish." It is the response ...

13. With A Name Like That . . .

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... by which we must be saved." There is no ambiguity in their answer. THERE IS BUT ONE NAME BY WHICH HUMANITY CAN BE SAVED. Back in 1994 there was an interesting article from the Associated Press. Princess Diana, 32, at that time the estranged wife of Prince Charles, had been jogging in Regents Park and was being driven home. A group of tourists flagged her car down as it was leaving the park, saying someone had fallen into a narrow lake nearby. Diana, still in running shoes and shorts, told her chauffeur to ...

14. Walk Wisely

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... the excitement she forgot to remove the note. After the guests departed, the towels were discovered still in perfect order, as well as the note itself. Life would be dull without such miscues. I got a chuckle when I read about something that happened to Prince Charles and Lady Di on their visit to Australia and New Zealand. Walking freely among the crowds in South Australia, the princess made for a group of young children, the nearest of whom she patted affectionately on his tousled head. "Why aren't you at ...

15. Call the Tribe of Issachar Together

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we say "she has a screw loose." Busters do, however, know what it means when "he has a bad chip." Sign 2: Moral Malaise According to Time magazine's report of a Daily Express survey, 84 percent of those polled did not think that Prince Charles' TV confession that he had committed adultery sullied his reputation (Ginia Bellafonte, "People," Time, 18 July 1994, 61). The church as an organized institution has become too comfortable, too at home with the standards and values of the world. Our silence in the ...

16. Christ's Chosen People: Privilege

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Back in 1981, the attention of the world was focused on the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana. My wife, an almost hopeless romantic, (I really praise God for that) became tremendously involved in that event. We were traveling when the wedding took place, and I remember she stayed up almost all night in a hotel room where we were, watching the live television presentation. ...

17. Mary and Martha: Nine to Five and Five to Nine

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... waitresses and bimbos whose only job is to make the boss look good. Man: Except for Dolly Parton, the secretary who is not only supposed to make her married boss look good but also feel good by hopping into bed with him. If the Queen Mother advised Prince Charles upon meeting Dolly Parton to look her squarely in the eye, in this movie it is clear the boss's eyes regularly are elsewhere. Woman: In this lighthearted comedy, Dolly, Lily, and Jane eventually lock up the boss in his own home. While he is there ...

18. Who? Me Worry?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... their successes possible. And as the family bowed their head to thank God for abundance of blessings in their lives, Charles Kuralt remarked, "Whenever I hear that the family is a dying institution, I'll think of them. Whenever I hear ... Bethyl Joy Shepperson, there is a rather bizarre story about a son who lived in the castle of his father, the king. One day the young prince went to his father and asked to go traveling into the world to discover his fate. The father equipped him with a horse, a dog, weapons, ...

19. Called to Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... 1520, the pope once again declared Luther's writings heretical and ordered all his books burned. The students at Wittenberg took all of the papal books out of the library and burned them. The pope then asked Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor, to call a "diet." A diet was a meeting of the "electors." The electors were the princes of the Holy Roman Empire, who elected the emperor. So a diet was a meeting of the major powers in Europe. He called the diet to meet at Worms for the purpose of trying Martin Luther ...

20. The Difference a Baby Makes

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... forward in a science fiction novel, to suddenly hug one’s fully grown child. He then embraced his new son, Zeni’s husband, the prince. Finally, his son-in-law handed Mandela his tiny granddaughter. Mandela says he did not let go of this precious child for the rest ... statesmen that England ever produced. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the extraordinary poet. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Darwin, and perhaps most notably, Abraham Lincoln. Swindoll writes, “If there had been news broadcasts at ...

21. Daniel’s Vision of a Man

Daniel 10:1--11:1

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... (Rom. 8:35–39). Our confidence in Almighty God empowers us to sing with Martin Luther (“A Mighty Fortress Is Our God”), The prince of darkness grim, We tremble not for him; His rage we can endure, For lo! his doom is sure; One little word shall fell ... that the author intends us to think of someone even higher in the chain of command than Gabriel or Michael (R. H. Charles, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Daniel [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1929], pp. 256–68; A. Jeffery, “The Book of ...

22. Characteristics of Christ That You and I Need

Mark 8:27-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... do good for others who may or may not reward you for your efforts? Why not be a skinflint like Scrooge in Charles Dickens’ Christmas Story who cares only about himself? Where is the motivation to be a generous, caring person if life does not reward ... . The second boy is Edward Tudor, who happens to be the son of King Henry VIII. As such he lives the life of a prince, raised in the palace, wrapped in fine silks and protected from the horrible conditions that exist beyond the palace gates. To this point in ...

23. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... do we relate to people? How can our skills be best employed in God’s service? "No one is useless in the world," said Charles Dickens, "who lightens the burden of it for anyone else." "Are you able to drink the cup that I drink?" may mean the willingness ... made the offer. It was the chance of a lifetime. Fletcher’s answer, "I want nothing, but more grace."4 A Word From A Prince Of The Church To all who aspire for preferment, to those who dream of high offices in the church, hear the words which Shakespeare ...

24. Daniel’s Final Revelation

Daniel 10:1--11:1

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... , one of eight holy angels, is set over paradise, serpents, and cherubim, whereas Michael, one of six holy angels, is a “prince” over the “best part of mankind” (Israel) and over chaos (1 Enoch 9–10; 20; 24). These two observe humanity’s ... ’s ear is always turned to the earnest prayers of those who love him. Lyrics: “Come, Ye Weary Sinners, Come,” by Charles Wesley. Wesley (1707–88), a central figure in the Methodist movement and author of over six thousand hymns, wrote “Come, Ye Weary ...

25. New Beginnings

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Philip Arthur George was born on November 14, 1948 in London, England. This little 7 lb. 6 oz. boy was born to a couple named Philip and Elizabeth. When Charles was just 3 years old, his grandfather, King George VI, died. His mother then became Queen Elizabeth II. What that meant for Charles was that he would never live as a regular child. Charles instantly became “Prince of Wales” and “Heir to the Throne,” not because of anything he did but because of who his mother was. When Queen Elizabeth dies ...

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