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John 11:17-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... crisis by Christ’s power. Every follower of Jesus Christ needs to understand that Christ has power over both life and death--otherwise we have no news that is ultimately Good News. John Huffman in his book Who’s In Charge Here? tells about Robert Dick Wilson, a great professor at Princeton Theological Seminary. One of Dr. Wilson’s students had been invited back to preach in Miller Chapel twelve years after his graduation. Old Dr. Wilson came in and sat down near the front. At the close of the meeting ...

2. Building a House (Mother's Day)

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to talk about building a house of life in the context of the family. I can't imagine that you haven't heard or read Robert Fulghum's "All I Really Need to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten." It appeared in a number of different places, before it became the anchor ... it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be, world without end. Amen. Amen." To the top of their lungs, Granddaddy Dick Murray and grandson Martin sang the "Gloria Patri" over and over and over...and they had a marvelous time. A short time ...

3. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

4. The Right Reason

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

David O. Bales

... though Jesus is just a religious contrarian who takes a stand against everything the way it is. The physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was instrumental in creating the atom bombs dropped on Japan to end WWII. When he was in graduate school ... cross country athlete had become a paraplegic in an accident. Rick communicated with his father that he would like to participate. His father Dick pushed him in a two wheel running chair. When they returned home, Rick was connected to his head switch to type on the computer ...

5. Choosing Your Spirituality

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... religious pluralism. It goes like this: Tommy, confused about the numerous groups of organized religion in the world, queries Dick, “Why are there so many?” Dick says, “Is there anything that is common among all these many religions?” Tommy thinks, and he is sure he ... loves the whole world. 1. Cf. The New American Bible, The Good News Bible, The New English Bible, and others.2. Robert Schuller, Hour of Power, and other sources.3. CBS-TV 5/18/88.4. Frederica Harris Thompsett, Professor of Church History ...

6. Jesus' Object Lesson

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... and everything else faded into the background. (2) Children have a way of seeing God that we lose as we grow older. Dick Gregory, a very controversial figure, a black comedian and activist, once told about taking his oldest son to Mexico to a place ... Maybe that's why God uses children as object lessons for us today: unrestrained joy, unrestrained love, unrestrained faith. I like what Robert Fulgrum, a Minister Emeritus in Edmonds, Washington, said: "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and ...

7. An Announcement about Our Future

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... caught her in a thicket at Briar Cliff College. They reloaded her into the truck and got her into place with two minutes to spare. Dick said all the way to the church, the lines from My Fair Lady kept running through his head: “Kick up a rumpus, but don’t ... season if we forgot totally about the deeper meaning of Christ’s birth? Pastor Jeff Strite tells about a man named Robert McGimsey who, on Christmas Eve 1932, attended a midnight church service in New York City. Feeling much inspired, he then headed ...

8. The Secret Of A Great New Year

Luke 3:1-20, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to whatever noble dream God has placed in our heart. 1. Seize the Day by Danny Cox and John Hoover, Career Press, Hawthorne, N.J., 1994, p. 81. 2. Robert H. Schuller. Prayer: My Soul's Adventure with God (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1995), pp. 7-13. 3. Dan and Nancy Dick, Wisdom from the Proverbs (Uhrichsville, OH: Narbour & Company, 1986). 4. Robert H. Schuller, If It's Going to Be, It's Up to Me! (New York: HarperPaperbacks, 1997), pp. 58-59. 5. Alderson Press Corporation. 6. Alistair Begg. Made for ...

9. Don't Look Down

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... that brings us to a final thing to be said: RISKING GREAT THINGS FOR GOD IS NO RISK AT ALL. When we attempt to do great things for God, we find that God is with us each step of the way. Robert J. Morgan, in his book, On This Day, tells about missionaries Dick and Margaret Hillis. These committed Christians found themselves caught in China during the Japanese invasion of the Second World War. The couple lived with their two children in the inland town of Shenkiu. The village was tense with fear, for every ...

10. The Lions Are Shackled

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... between the third and fourth fingers of each hand, and between his first and second toes. While a small crowd formed, Reverend Dicks remained on the cross for ten minutes, lecturing about crime and morality. “I would like to say from this cross that I’ ... The Globe Pequot Press, 2003), p. 135. 2. http://www.gotquestions.org/Book-of-Isaiah.html. 3. Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen, The One Minute Millionaire (New York: Harmony Books, 1990). 4. Sermon Fodder, http://www.sermonfodder.com. 5. Pastor Ian ...

11. Climbing the Right Ladder

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

How do you define success? I would like to talk about that today. Robert Raines says, “Success is a moving target. Every time I make my mark, somebody paints the wall,” go ... the game that mattered. Then in the real world, I learned you had to win to get anywhere and it didn’t matter how you did it. But now after what has happened to Dick, I realize the old way is the right way. It really and truly is how you play the game.” That night under the stars, Jacob recognizes that it is not by power that I ...

12. A Prophet in a Panic

1 Kings 19:9-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... boy. Even big people are attacked by the demons of anxiety, panic, and depression. Writing recently in Time magazine, Dr. Robert Wright noted that 15 percent of Americans have had a clinical anxiety disorder. In some industrialized societies, the rates of ... In our successes we sometimes become proud and self- sufficient; sometimes we distance from God. Then we are most vulnerable. Dick Morris is the infamous Washington political advisor whose escapades with a prostitute cost him his job and his marriage. He ...

13. On Forgetting To Do A Business Plan

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... both a vertical and a horizontal dimension to life, and it is the vertical dimension that empowers us and gives us hope. Pastor Robert Morgan was working on a sermon based on Isaiah 40: “But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall ... 2. Amused News #16, January 29, 1999 3. Dan and Nancy Dick, Wisdom from the Proverbs (Uhrichsville, OH: Narbour & Company, 1986). 4. February 5, 1996, p. 19. 5. Robert J. Morgan, From This Verse (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998). 6. Ben Kinchlow, You ...

14. All We Really Need to Know

John 3:1-17

Illustration

Robert Fulgum

Robert Fulghum in All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten summed it up best: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to ... really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup–they all die. So do we. And remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned–the biggest word of all–LOOK. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics ...

15. Whistling Jesus

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... books, penned under the now famous name of “Dr. Seuss,” transformed reading to our little ones from dull and dreary tales of “Dick and Jane” to the lyrical fun of “The Cat in the Hat.” Adding to this new literary library was a protég ... not one flower. No flowers mean no seeds. And no seeds mean no fruit. Every living thing has its own requirements for fertility. Robert Frost’s poem highlights the fact that even though a tree might appear lush and healthy, “unless you put the right thing to ...

16. Walls, Walls, Everywhere Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... men and women, the wall between people of different colors, the wall between saints and sinners. It could have been Jesus, not Robert Frost, who first said, “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall.” The first thing we need to see is that ... any reason, or toward any other group of people, that you will ask God to deliver you from that hostility. Years ago, beloved actor Dick Van Dyke wrote a little book titled Faith, Hope, and Hilarity. In it he told about a Sunday School teacher who asked her class ...

17. Gaining A Gratitude Attitude

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God." (v. 6) Many of us go through the motions of praying. Dick Van Dyke once told of a little boy who was dining with his parents at the home of an elderly man. After watching the old man bow his head and ... August 1992, p. 143. 5. Experiment by Dr. Mary Klinnert, Dr. Joseph Campos, andDr. Robert Emde, University of Colorado at Denver ” Cited in JEALOUSY. Nancy Friday. New York: Bantam Books, 1991.

18. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... comes from knowing that Jesus conquered death. Author Tony Campolo tells of the wonderful example his father-in-law, Pastor Robert Davidson, provided for him while he was dying. Pastor Davidson had been slowly deteriorating in mind and body for many ... were going to win . . .” 1. R. Douglas Reinard, June 1989, The Christian Herald. 2. Fred Beck, Beyond the Cross. 3. Dick Hyman, Washington Wind & Wisdom (Lexington, Massachusetts:The Stephen Greene Press, 1988). 4. The Romance of Victory by Dr. Norman Vincent ...

19. Dare To Dream

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Zig is one of the most noted positive thinkers in our country. He says that he is the kind of optimist who would go after Moby Dick in a rowboat, and take a bottle of tartar sauce with him. If there are any people in the world who should be positive thinking, miracle ... Harry Emerson Fosdick, Adventurous Religion, (New York: Harper and Brothers, Publishers, 1926). (2) Robert W. Youngs, What it Means to be a Christian, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1960). (3) Stephen F. Olford, Going Places With ...

20. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... school that day and for a long time I did not go back very often. There was shame there." (from the autobiography of Dick Gregory) It's a picture of the opposite of what I'm talking about today. With that picture in mind, in what bold ... the door just a chink. But when you say goodbye, you are warm and palsy. So long -- see ya, Buddy -- Take care -- Keep the faith -- Goodbye. Robert Raines from whom I got the image and the title of this sermon, "God's Hello People", says much of the time, we are the goodbye ...

21. Patience

James 5:7-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... around us. Or to ignore them. How badly many of us need patience, especially with those we love. There are some words attributed to Robert Keeshan, better known to America as Captain Kangaroo that we might remember during this busy season: “A small child waits with impatience the arrival ... Boat (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2001), p. 179. 5. Weekend Encounter, by Dick Innes, Copyright (c) ACTS International, 2004, http://www.actsweb.org/subscribe.php. 6. One Voice, Rev. Dr. Brad Munroe, http ...

22. Joshua: Why These Stones?

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... not always one of promise. The future can be filled with difficult challenges and foreboding. Just read your Free Press this morning. Robert S. (Steve) Miller, chairman of Delphi, says, "We all understand that life is not going to continue the way it has been ... the path right here, right now. I've come this far by the grace of God, and I have confidence to trust him for the future." Dick Wills, in his book Waking to God's Dream, says that our prayers should not ask God to bless what we are doing. He says that ...

23. Touch and Feel, Taste and See

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... that moment of doubt as a teaching moment about faith. Doubt isn't bad or wrong or a sin. Doubt is actually quite useful in the faith. Otherwise we might fall for the Gospel of every Tom, Dick and Harry or believe works of fiction like the Da Vinci Code are fact. Doubt can act as a filter. Robert Strand writes: "Faith lives in the same apartment building as Doubt. When Faith was out of town visiting her uncle in the hospital, Doubt fed the cat and watered the asparagus fern. Faith is comfortable with Doubt ...

24. Wrestling Alone at Night

Genesis 32:22-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is on the dotted line. You belong to the family of God. You are a Christian. I know, it seems like too much doesn’t it? Don’t you think Jacob had to feel that way that day? It is something like Bobby trying to become Robert, or Marge trying to become Marjorie, or Dick trying to become Richard, or Pat putting on Patricia. Jacob must have felt weird at first to have taken on this new identity. As he rose that morning to become Israel, the father of all nations, so we must rise to live a life worthy of ...

25. Exactly How Wide Is It?

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... been there, haven’t you? It’s a challenge. And the really scary part is that you only get one shot at it. You may remember the words of Robert Keeshan, better known to many parents as Captain Kangaroo. Keeshan once wrote these haunting words: “A small child waits with impatience the arrival home of a parent. She wishes ... OR: Multonomah, 2004), p. 121. 3. Lame Humor, http://absoluterobeo.com. 4.Weekend Encounter, by Dick Innes, Copyright (c) ACTS International, 2004, http://www.actsweb.org/subscribe.php.

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