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Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... J. M. Nouwen, Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life (Notre Dame, Indiana: Ave Maria Press, 1974), p. 14. 2. Elie Wiesel, The Town Beyond the Wall, as quoted in Robert McAfee Brown, Creative Dislocations: The Movement of Grace (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1980), p. 90. 3. The story about Carlyle Marney is told in William H. Willimon, Sighing for Eden: Sin, Evil, and the Christian Faith (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1985), p. 24. 4. William H. Willimon, What’s Right With the Church (San ...

2. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... day came into the home of Thomas Carlyle. A friend opened the New Testament for him and started to read the magnificent words of John 14: “Let not your heart be troubled. . . in my Father’s house are many rooms.” “Aye,” Carlyle said despondently, “If you were God, you had ... as the poor invalid of Wimpole Street, but then love broke through into her despondent life in the person of Robert Browning. Because of this love her life took on new bloom and purpose. She wrote to her husband, you remember ...

3. Is Anybody There? Does Anybody Care?

Isaiah 49:8-26

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Robert Beringer

... no cynic, and surely a believer in God's mercy, nevertheless once cried out in rage, "My God, art thou dead?" Thomas Carlyle looked over the slums of London and groaned in disgust, "God sits in his heaven and does nothing." Is anybody there? Does ... afraid at that moment?" The actress laughingly replied, "Not at all! You see, I had read the script to the end, and I knew that Robert Taylor would rush in to rescue me!" In the resurrection of Jesus Christ, we have been privileged to read the script of God's plan ...

4. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

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Robert G. Tuttle

... sense, and we are confused and lost. We do not make an investment of our lives in that which we do not trust. My son Robert G. Tuttle, Jr., tells of a young doctor coming to him for counseling. The doctor opened with this strange declaration: "I’ve got everything I ... of Christ. Jesus said: "Don’t take them out of this world, Father; just give them strength to live in this world." Thomas Carlyle calls Jesus, "The son of fact." I like that. The Master was not a dreamer but a realist. Life will not work any ...

5. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... us, anger us in a crowd and we can become more devastating than swarms of locusts or herds of animals. Society, in the words of Carlyle Marney, can sometimes be "a composite picture of (our) great power to harm."30 I've been associated with campus ministry or churches near ... , a shibboleth, a word to emblazon all they were about. The word appeared from two writers, Thomas Peters and Robert Watterman, who made their livelihood consorting with the pharaohs. The word was excellence. Soon we were knee-deep in ...

6. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

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Harold Warlick

... God's authority. The "sign" will never be authoritative enough. How much money would God have to raise as God's sign? Oral Roberts once said eleven million dollars. How many cures would God have to work? Are we so evil that we need a sign? ... Miss Lucy, "I believe that the silence of God, the absolute speechlessness of God, is a long, long and awful thing ..." The late Carlyle Mamey retired from his church in Charlotte and went to Wolf Pen Mountain. There he waited for God to say something. He confessed that ...

7. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... Stewart, and Arthur John Gossip. To allow myself the luxury of a second decalogue, I also name Louis Evans, Carlyle Marney, James Pike, Ted Loder, Wallace Hamilton, Gerald Kennedy, Eugene Carson Blake, Liston Pope, Elton Trueblood, and Richard Raines ... to my faith: Loren Eiseley, Thomas Merton, Halford Luccock, Reinhold Niebuhr, Frederick Buechner, Walter Brueggemann, C. S. Lewis, Robert McAfee Brown, Ernest Fremont Tittle, John Sutherland Bonnell, Henri J. M. Nouwen, Howard Thurman, Samuel Miller, David H. ...

8. The Language of the Heart

Psalm 100:1-5

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David E. Leininger

Music, music, music. In the words of Carlyle, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."(1) Or Longfellow, "Music is the universal language of mankind."(2) Shakespeare ... 7. Paul Brand, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made quoted by James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988) p. 295 8. Quoted by Robert Craft, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky, American Biography Service, 59 9. Ephesians 5:19-20 10. http://www.homileticsonline.com/Installments/aug1494.htm 11. Text by ...

9. When God Overdoes It

Lamentations 1:1-22

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David E. Leininger

... cancer that took Mother this year, the worry about the divorced daughter. We don't like to think about things like that - Carlyle Marney, that great Baptist preacher with a voice that James Earl Jones would envy, used to say that we play hard to ... such things as the treasure of darkness. The darkness, thank God, passes, but what one learns in the darkness, one possesses forever."(2) When Robert Louis Stevenson was nearing the end of is life his wife came in one morning and said, "I suppose in spite of all ...

10. Don't Be Afraid

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... ” of being a victim of individual violence. 32% are “afraid” or “very afraid” of being unable to pay current debts. (5) Famed pastor Dr. Carlyle Marney used to say that we play hard to forget that we live in a haunted house. In a sense we do. Fear is ... With Catherine Whitney, Where Have All the Leaders Gone? (New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc, 2007), pp. 176-177. 5. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 295. 6. John A. Boadus ...

11. The Language of the Heart

Psalm 98:1-9

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David E. Leininger

... with trumpets and the blast of the ram's horn - shout for joy before the Lord, the King" (vv. 1, 5-6). Music, music, music. In the words of Carlyle, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels," or if not that, the speech of those of us who would serenade the angels. Public school music ... , Illinois: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988), p. 295. 3. Quoted by Robert Craft, Conversations with Igor Stravinsky, American Biography Service, p. 59. 4. http://www.homileticsonline.com/Installments/aug1494.htm.

12. Faced with Debt

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... my best to fight, although oppressed in spirits; and shall a similar despondency prevent me from mental exertion? It shall not, by heaven!" With a tremendous exercise of will, he returned to the task, stifling his grief. He turned out Woodstock, Count Robert of Paris, Castle Dangerous, and other works. Though twice stricken with paralysis, he labored steadily until the fall of 1832. Then came a merciful miracle. Although his mental powers had left him, he died September 21, 1832, happy in the illusion that ...

13. When God Overdoes It

Lamentations 1:1-6

Sermon

David E. Leininger

14. The Post Launch Slump

2 Cor 8:10-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

If you still haven’t heard of Murphy’s law, let me tell you how it reads: Says Murphy’s law, "If anything can go wrong, it will." Murphy’s law and others like it are not laws in a scientific sense; they are not laws in the sense that the law of gravity is a law. But they do capture human moments that are repeatable among us to the point where they seem more the rule than the exception. An enterprising fellow by the name of Arthur Bloch has put laws of this kind together between two covers and the result ...

15. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

In surveying the vast and rich history of African-American people, we must go beyond the shores of America to the continent of "Alkebulan" or Africa. We are indebted to the late Dr. Carter G. Woodson and members for the study of Negro Life and History for designating February as a time for observing the outstanding contributions of black people, not only to American but also to world history. A great tragedy of our times is that many people, both black and white, think that Black History began four hundred ...

16. African-American Spirituality: The African's Gift To America

Exodus 3:1-22

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

As we commence celebrations of Black History this month, I want to say what a wonderful thing that we have time for formal observances of the great contributions black people have made to world civilization in general and to America in particular. We are a great people who have literally and spiritually come a long, long way. We have built the pyramids and originated the mathematical, medical, and physical sciences. We invented the first alphabet and gave to humanity its first language and systems of civil ...

17. Shake It Off!

Matthew 10:1-42

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

Adrenaline pulsed through our bodies as we nervously took our positions in the field. It was an important playoff game, and everyone was feeling the pressure. The second baseman dropped a routine fly in the bottom of the seventh, allowing three runs to score which tied the game. In the third inning the right fielder had uncharacteristically overrun a pop-up after losing it in the sun, permitting the first run. Now it was the bottom of the eight inning, the score tied, runners on first and third with two ...

18. Living Beyond Unhappily Ever After

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

The story escalated towards its climax as viewers sat breathlessly riveted to their seats. The beautiful young woman stands in the doorway, tears cascading down her cheeks as she pans the green rolling hills of her 100-acre estate, looking for Joel. The camera follows her eyes, peering towards the large iron gate fronting her palatial abode. Then suddenly appearing is the faint figure of a dashing young man, clad in resplendent blue military decor, red scarf flowing in the wind, with high black saddle ...

19. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

In his classic treatise on politics, The Republic, Plato observed that the greatest enemy of justice is the family. Yes, the family! I daresay his claim will strike you as being rather silly. After all, most everyone agrees the family is a good and necessary institution. Sociologists continue to say the family is the vital unit or cell of society. We are all disturbed by the disintegration of the family as the divorce rate climbs. Many believe this phenomenon is as dangerous as running out of energy or ...

20. Whatever Became of Sin?

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

Death pervaded the whole human race, inasmuch as all men have sinned. But, its effect is vastly exceeded by the grace of God and the gift that came to so many by the grace of one man, Jesus Christ (Romans 5:12, 15 NEB). Paul puts it more succinctly in 1 Corinthians 15:21: "As by man came death, by man comes also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ shall all be made alive." William Barclay explains: "Sin had man in its power. There was no hope. Into this situation there came ...

21. Deformed, Disfigured, and Despised: A Marred but Magnificent Messiah

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

The prophet gives the report, but who will believe it? The servant will act wisely. He will be lifted up and exalted. The problem is the new Messiah does not fit the description of the Holy One of Israel, the gallant one, the defiant and courageous who shall lift God’s people out of the dregs of despair. He shall not come as one standing upright, but one who is disfigured and deformed, despised and rejected; a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. Who would believe such a report? That God would choose a ...

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