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1. Are You Willing to Live in Hell?

Matthew 18:15-20

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Randy Hyde

In his book The Great Divorce, C. S. Lewis, the great Christian apologist, draws a stark picture of hell. Hell is like a great, vast city, Lewis says, a city inhabited only at its outer edges, with rows and rows of empty houses in the middle. These houses in the middle are empty because everyone who once lived there has quarreled with the neighbors and moved. Then, they quarreled with the new neig...

2. Control

Acts 2:1-13

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Randy Hyde

A wealthy family from Massachusetts used to take a month's vacation every summer to the coast of Maine, taking their maid with them. The maid had an annual ritual at the beach. She wore an old-fashioned bathing suit, complete with a little white hat, and carried enough paraphernalia to stock Wal-Mart. She would settle herself on the beach, cover every inch of her exposed flesh and journey down to ...

3. Mommy, I'm Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

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Randy Hyde

It's been years, but I remember Fred Craddock telling of the time he attended a conference on hunger. Influential, knowledgeable speakers had been brought in from all over to talk on the subject. Near the end of the conference, Fred says, a young, willowy woman got up to speak. Her long straight hair fell down her back, almost to her waist. She carried a legal pad to the podium and began reading. ...

4. The Preview

Matthew 17:1-9

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Randy Hyde

The story of the transfiguration of Christ is the biblical equivalent of Friday night at your local Theater. It is a preview of what it would be for Christ in the resurrection. Jesus' face shines like the sun, Matthew tells us, and his clothes become dazzling white. Jesus is glorified right before the very eyes of Peter, James, and John as he communes with Moses and Elijah. Previews, unfortunatel...

5. The Stranger at the Door

Matthew 10:40-42

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Randy Hyde

Jim Somerville is pastor of the First Baptist Church in Washington, D. C. Once one of the most prominent churches in our nation's capital, it is still housed in a wonderful, ornate facility. However, there are few people who come to worship there anymore. Washington has one of the highest populations of homeless people in America, if not the highest. They're everywhere, and sometimes they take re...

6. Throw Caution to the Wind and Open the Door

Matthew 10:40-42

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Randy Hyde

One night, Mark Ralls, a minister in North Carolina, was leaving his church at the same time a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous was adjourning. He found himself in conversation with a man standing next to his rusty, worn-out Ford, and introduced himself as one of the pastors of the church that had hosted his group. The man sighed and told Mark how long he had intended to "get back to church." So Ma...

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1. Are You Willing to Live in Hell?

Matthew 18:15-20

Illustration

Randy Hyde

2. Control

Acts 2:1-13

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Randy Hyde

3. Mommy, I'm Hungry

Matthew 25:31-46

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Randy Hyde

4. The Preview

Matthew 17:1-9

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Randy Hyde

5. The Stranger at the Door

Matthew 10:40-42

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Randy Hyde

6. Throw Caution to the Wind and Open the Door

Matthew 10:40-42

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Randy Hyde

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