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Mark 6:1-13

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Lori Wagner

... dancing joyfully at the concert with the rest of the “Swifties.” The clip made us smile. We, the public, know what the royal family has been going through. Both Princess Catherine and King Charles have been struggling with cancer. Yet that evening in June, Prince William was able to dance along with his children and for a little while, to “shake off” the pall of worry and experience joy in that moment. No rumors. No gossip. No worries. No stress. Just a joy filled evening and a dream come true for ...

2. When Seeing is Not Believing

John 20:19-31

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John E. Harnish

... for a moment. The twin brother of Jesus. Imagine that for sibling rivalry! How would you like to be the second born to the Son of God? No question about the fact that "Momma always liked you best!" I've always wondered how Prince Harry feels when people refer to him and Prince William as "the heir and the spare." But enough of my personal birth order issues. Back to Thomas. Who knows? Maybe that would explain why he became the one who doubted, the one who always had to ask the tough questions, the one who ...

3. GIVE ME YOUR SINS: The First Word

Luke 23:26-43

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Eric Ritz

... think that Jesus actually prayed for those who were performing this task is beyond my comprehension: "Father, forgive them!" Most everyone gathered here today remembers how the world watched in dismay when the Exxon Valdez dumped most of its crude oil into the Prince William Sound in Alaska. We all had our noses out of joint because of the destruction caused by such a careless act. However, the Nightly News put it in proper perspective one night when it reported that American do-it-yourselfers annually dump ...

4. David's Turn From Wisdom

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... have markers to note a beloved section or a poem I'd like to find with dispatch. Some are helpful in a direct manner, some reflective. My line-up includes Strunk and White's Elements of Style, Willa Cather's My Antonia, St. Exupery's The Little Prince. William Zinnser's Willie & Dwike is the one I read last summer. I have Edna St. Vincent Millay's Collected Poems, in which the poetry reflects labor, love, loss. Her sonnet on grief moves me no matter how many times I reread it. "Time does not bring relief ...

5. A Dynasty of Destiny

2 Samuel 7:1-17

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... pace for the plums of power, prestige, and pelf. In Los Angeles, fervid fans still hoot and holler for a Bruin roundball dynasty built by Goliaths of the goalpost named Jabbar and Walton. The Windsor dynasty is assured of a successor, as Prince William toddles along a London street under the watchful supervision of an attendant nanny. The Kennedy dynasty gathers in sorrow around the grave of a heroin victim. The Shah of Iran is deposed from power and a centuriesold dynasty crumbles under the scowling ...

6. Love - A Christian Imperative

John 15:1-17

Sermon

George Bass

... and mercy will tell the world that we belong to the Lord, and he will support us with his love, as his friends, until that last day when the trumpet will sound and the Lord will return to usher in the fullness of his kingdom in love and peace. 50. William C. Menninger, Living in a Troubled World. (Kansas City, Missouri: Hallmark Cards, Inc., 1967). 51. Antoine de St. Exupery, The Little Prince. (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1943). 52. Helmut Thielicke, The Silence of God. (Grand Rapids. Michigan ...

7. The Perfect Gift

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and the needs of the person receiving it. Now keep that in mind while I tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a prince who was single, and who was eager to marry a lovely maiden to be his future queen. Now his palace was near a large city ... have enough money to buy shoes, the teenager said, but she’ll probably never get enough money to. The bus driver, a man named John Williams, said that the pregnant woman was about 35 years old and she got on the bus wearing a tattered coat and ripped socks with no ...

8. God Is No Gentleman

Luke 1:67-80

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Allan J. Weenink

... king, how he dwelt among them and shared their humble lot, could they truly rejoice, assured that he who ruled them had a heart of love. The incarnation, the coming of Christ, is our way of saying that God relates to us like that. William James said it another way when he wrote: "The Prince of darkness may be a gentleman, as we are told he is, but whatever the God of earth and heaven is, he can surely be no gentleman. His menial services are needed in the dust of our human trials, even more than his dignity ...

9. Extreme Humility

John 13:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... of them would have performed this task. And so, their Master, whom Isaiah once described as Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace (9:6), knelt in front of each one and quietly washed the crud from their feet. Only days before, ... should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.” 1. William B. Irvine, On Desire: Why We Want What We Want (Kindle Edition). 2. Gilbert Brim, Ambition (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), p. 78. 3. ...

10. The Days Are Coming

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... coming of the Messiah. There will be justice. This world needs more justice, doesn’t it? There is an old Arabian story about a wealthy prince who claims the land of a poor widow so that he can enlarge his palace gardens. The poor widow brings her complaint before a local ... Ruby Bridges was just six years old when, in 1960, she was chosen as the first Black child to integrate the William Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans. Photos show the incredible courage of this little girl who was escorted to school ...

11. War and the Prince of Peace

Isaiah 9:2-7

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J. Howard Olds

... Little Me, Big Me take over." All of us with integrity and insight have known and experienced that struggle in our souls. Williams James, nearly a century ago, said Conversion is the process by which the divided self becomes unified. “I" and “Me" must learn ... had a witness among us the Mennonites, the Church of Brethren, the Quakers to name a few. I don't know how to reconcile the Prince of Peace with a world at war, but I do know that Isaiah's vision of peace will never come with swords loud clashing nor ...

12. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

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Carroll Gunkel

... well as a physiological one for the whole city - the whole of society reeked with corruption ... and in the effluvia of East London William Booth met the Master. As the result of that meeting, Booth knew what work God had called him to do. He was able ... sharp relief, Beard a-flying, air of high command Unabated in that holy land. Oh, shout Salvation! it was good to see Kings and princes by the Lamb set free. The banjos rattled and the tambourines Jing jing-jingled in the hands of queens. And when Booth halted ...

13. The King Of Ifs

Luke 23:26-43

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Richard Andersen

... route by robbers. The offspring of the chief of the band of brigands was exceptionally entranced by the Child Jesus. William Barclay says, "The young brigand could not bear to lay hands on Him but set Him free, saying, ˜O most blessed ... is as Hebrews says in the King James Version, "The Author and Finisher of our faith," (12:2) as well as the King of kings, the Prince of Peace, the Noble Lord and Monarch of Mercy, who turns ifs into reality and wishes into hopes realized. He does not imprison us, but instead ...

14. Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams

Luke 1:67-80

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Carroll Gunkel

... the hatred and religious bigotry, which had festered like a suppurating wound, could be excised. The deaths of the children would not be in vain. Because of their deaths, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan met each other. More importantly, they met the Master, and they took seriously the injunction of that Master who is called the Prince of Peace that they should become peacemakers. On August 21, 1976, the first of what was to become many peace rallies was held. The rally brought together Protestants and ...

15. The Difference a Baby Makes

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... had sped 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 of the ... important news of that year was not the battles that were fought, but the babies that were born: William Gladstone, for example, one of the finest statesmen that England ever produced. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the extraordinary ...

16. The Story of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... was strongly infatuated with her. He desperately desired to ask her hand in marriage. But how should he go about it? Of course, as the prince, he could order her to the palace and command her to be his wife. But what kind of marriage would that be? Again, he thought ... , a small distant planet called Earth. He saw for the first time from that perspective that we are truly one family. William Sloan Coffin, Jr., commenting on Mitchell’s experience wrote: “I was thrilled once to hear him tell his tale, but I ...

17. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

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

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King Duncan

... was able to hide from them for eleven years as he refined his translation and passed it on to others. But William Tyndale had his own Judas. Tyndale had no idea that one of his friends, Henry Phillips, was actually working with ... kingdom of God. He made it very clear from the beginning of his ministry what God planned to do through him. He was coming as the Prince of Peace. The problem is, it is easier to rally people’s energy and emotions around war than it is around peace. War is tangible. War requires ...

18. At The Name Of Jesus

John 12:12-19

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... he was dead. Imagine those who awaited the messiah and who hungered for Israel's vindication shouting, "We have no king but Caesar!" William Barclay notes: "A man comes to a sorry pass when he is afraid of the truth and when he sets his personal prestige and ... and, if it is, let's hush it up." Living In The Kingdom To be a citizen of the kingdom of God, the follower of the Prince of Peace and the voice of truth, one must forever be open to the truth of God, and that truth always impacts with our world, our ...

19. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

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Staff

... every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We ... , James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas ...

20. The Three Kings--And The King Of Kings

Isaiah 9:1-7

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... them kings. But we are not exactly sure about what they were or who they were. The Greek word for them is magi. It can mean "wise men," or "astrologers," or "magicians."2 They may have been kings or princes. But they were at least some combination of royal priests who studied the stars. William Barclay, in his Bible commentary, says they were "teachers of Persian kings" and men "of holiness and wisdom."3 Matthew tells us these wise men came from the East to the city of Jerusalem. When they got there they ...

21. Lent 2

Philippians 3:12-4:1, Jeremiah 26:1-24, Genesis 15:1-18, Luke 13:31-35, Psalm 27:1-14, Psalm 42:1-11

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George Bass

... C) - "On Sticks And Stones." In a sermon included in The Riverside Preachers and dedicated to the late Harry Emerson Fosdick, William Sloane Coffin, Jr. said: "In Browning's The Ring And The Book, Pompilia says of her friend, 'Through such souls alone, ... had a close call, a brush with death, when he preached repentance. The religious leaders called for his death. 2. The belief, held by the "princes and the people," that he was truly a prophet sent by God and spoke God's Word to them, saved him from death. 3. ...

22. Strong Faith For Tough Times

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... by public authorities, the cause must indeed be just, and the motive must be right. During World War II, William Temple expressed the Just War philosophy when he said this: “We Christians in wartime are called to the hardest of ... it. Just think what could be done. Just think what could be done. III. THIRD AND FINALLY, THE MOST IMPORTANT LESSON OF ALL: JESUS CHRIST IS THE PRINCE OF PEACE. I believe with all my heart that the way to a lasting peace resides in Jesus Christ – in what He came for and stood ...

23. The Future Shapes the Present

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... , where the will of God would be done, a kingdom of God where the lion would lie down with the lamb; where the king on the throne would be the Prince of Peace and not a totalitarian despot. He said his Spirit, his Holy Spirit, would be here to support it. But it doesn’t seem to have happened. To be quite ... 2. Peter J. Gomes, Sermons: Biblical Wisdom for Daily Living (New York: William Morrow, 1998), p. 20. 3. As quoted by Herbert O. Driscoll, Year of the Lord (Toronto, Anglican Book Center, 1986), p. 104.

24. The Healing of the Gerasene Demoniac

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

25. Christ Has Gone Up

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... are old enough to know that we have been here before. In his fine book, On a Wild and Windy Mountain, William H. Willimon tells of being in New Haven, Connecticut as a student at Yale in l970 during the famous Black ... for awe and adoration. It was a time of drawing together as one company. It was a time of great anticipation. In The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the Prince becomes close friends with a fox. On one occasion they are trying to set a time for their next visit. It is very important ...

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