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Romans 2:11-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... IS GUARANTEED. Judgment is as certain as the sunrise. Some of it is immediate; some delayed; and the rest will come at the end of this life. As the Bible warns, "Be sure your sin will find you out." The late, great preacher of Bellevue Baptist Church, Robert G. Lee, had a title for this judgment: "Pay Day Someday." In verse 12 Paul wrote, "All who have sinned without the law will also perish without the law, and all who have sinned under the law will be judged by the law." The law here refers to the ...

2. Small Towns

Luke 2:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... life.” (2) There are no superstars in the Christmas story. Even the Master comes into the world under the most inauspicious circumstances. A stable, a manger, shepherds in the field, a humble couple with no place to lay their heads. Christian comedian Robert G. Lee put it in a humorous and memorable way. He said, “Christianity is filled with paradoxes. The Israelites expected the Messiah to be a great warrior and king. They got a carpenter. You generally don’t expect the guy who’s doing your ...

3. “God Is Our Refuge and Strength, an Ever-Present Help in Trouble”

Psalm 46:1-11

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... and works uncanny changes on nature, here melting the earth and in Amos 1:2 withering the top of Mount Carmel (see also, e.g., Exod. 15:15; Isa. 14:31). Psalm 29 speaks of the power of God’s voice as it thunders over the mighty waters. Kidner comments ... , for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.” “Be still, and know that I am God.” Quote: Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee was an American military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the ...

4. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... When Paul came to the end of his life he said in 2 Tim. 4:7, "I have fought the good fight." He exhorted his protégé, young Timothy, in 1 Tim. 6:12, "to fight the good fight of faith." I say again, the problem is we've got too many ... had just come from the West—kept talking "Robert E. Lee, Robert E. Lee. He'll do this, he'll do that, he'll do the other." Ulysses S. Grant heard all he wanted to hear and finally said to them, "I am tired of hearing about Robert E. Lee. You would think he was going to do ...

5. We Are At War

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

6. Miscellaneous Oracles of Judgment

Ezekiel 21:1-32, Ezekiel 22:1-31

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... inevitably brings. In December of 1862, after witnessing the bloody repulse of a seemingly irresistible Union advance at Fredericksburg, Robert E. Lee said, “It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it.” Tragically, though, we ... and King Joash (2 Kgs. 13:14–19) illustrates divination with arrows, and we find casting lots to determine the divine will throughout Scripture (e.g., Num. 26:55; 1 Sam. 10:16–26; 1 Chr. 24:5; Luke 1:9; Acts 1:26; not to mention the sacred lot, the Urim ...

7. What Child Is This?

Isaiah 9:6-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... not have his beginning in Bethlehem. Dr. R. G. Lee said that Jesus Christ is the only person ever born, who at the moment of his birth was older than his mother, and as old as his father. What Dr. Lee said practically John said theologically. "In the beginning ... counselor. After many years of studying human behavior at one of the finest universities in the world, Harvard Psychiatrist, Robert Cole, said this: Nothing I have discovered about the makeup of human beings, contradicts in anyway what I have learned ...

8. Now Is The Day Of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... a difference in how they lived and what they believed? How sad. The cross is at the very center of Christian faith. The late R.G. Lee once noted that Christ's crucifixion is mentioned in every book of the New Testament except Philemon, 2 John, and 3 John. That is ... minute. Through several subsequent interviews with Ruby, as well as through conversations with her teachers and parents, Dr. Robert Coles, a child psychiatrist and social psychologist, discovered that Ruby had stopped to pray for the people in ...

9. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is relevant to our spiritual development and describes our destiny. A. Judgment is certain. A well—known Baptist preacher, R. G. Lee, had a famous sermon he preached hundreds of times, all over America, “Payday Someday.” The title alone is gripping and ... the cross at some focal point with in their building. But what does the cross really mean in the life of those congregations? Robert McAfee Brown found in a cross not within but outside a church the challenging meaning of the cross. It was at the ...

10. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... rifle, drove into Dallas, and put two huge holes in the head of our former president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. His name, of course, was Lee Harvey Oswald. (5) An extreme example, to be sure. What I hope we will see, though, is that the same sense of inferiority ... love, as Christ hath also loved us." 1. Brian Herbert, INCREDIBLE INSURANCE CLAIMS (Los Angeles: Price, Stern, Sloan Publishers, 1982). 2. Robert G. Tuttle, HELP ME GOD! IT'S HARD TO COPE. (Lima, Ohio: C.S.S. Publishing Company, 1984). 3. NEW YORK ...

11. The Law of the Harvest

Psalm 126:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... Southern Baptists have never shared a verbal witness with one lost person. 73% of Southern Baptist churches have no soul-winning training program. I believe Dr. R. G. Lee, the former pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, was correct when he said, "The greatest sit-down strike in the world is in our churches, where those who ... of the harvest, sow the gospel seed, and bring people to Jesus Christ. 1. Cited by Robert E. Coleman, The Spark that Ignites, p. 82. 2. Junior Hill, God's Cure for a Broken Heart, p. 80.

12. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sea tells us there will be a time of separation - a time of judgment. In the famous words of Men most colorful preacher, Dr. R. G. Lee, there will be “Payday Someday”. The evil will be separated from the righteous, and the scripture says in verse 50, that the evil will be ... and unexamined motivations we carry around inside us. (Bob Olmstead, “Heel-Grabbers and Hip-Huggers”, 17 August 1, 1993). Robert Bly, who is most famous for his book Iron John wrote another book that is not so well-known entitled ...

13. Now is the Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... of course, is talking about Christ’s death on the cross. This is the supreme sacrifice so that our sins may be forgiven. A pastor named Robert Noblett tells about an episode on the classic TV show M*A*S*H. Some of you will remember that the show is set in the ... in how they lived and what they believed? How sad. The cross is at the very center of Christian faith. The late R.G. Lee once noted that Christ’s crucifixion is mentioned in every book of the New Testament except Philemon, 2 John, and 3 John. That ...

14. Warnings and Exhortations for Jerusalem and Judah

Zephaniah 1:1-3, Zephaniah 1:4-13, Zephaniah 1:14--2:3

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... lees.” The lees (NIV dregs) are the sediment of grape skins and yeast that sits at the bottom of the casks as the wine ferments. The lees ... , of distress and walking as if one were blind, stumbling around in the dark (Roberts, Nahum, Habakkuk, and Zephaniah, p. 184). Verse 17b makes the point more gorily and ... that make the wicked fall are then the divine images, which is the connotation of miksholim in (e.g.) Ezek. 14:3, 4, 7. The context here may suggest that these would be images of animals, birds, and ...

15. A Call for Repentance - Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... You can offer your heart again to God, Mr. Robinson,” she said. “It’s not too late.” “And it wasn’t too late for Robert Robinson,” reports Ron Lee Davis. “In that moment he turned his heart back to God and walked with Him the rest of his days.” (2) I don’t ... death. Let us go forth to prepare the world for his kingdom. 1. Rev Sharon G. W. Jones, http://gbgmchurches.gbgm umc.org/aldersgate ma/s030713.htm. 2. Kenneth W. Osbeck, 101 Hymn Stories (Harvest House, Eugene, OR; 1978), pp. 145 ...

16. People of the Book

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’m not going to ask for a show of hands. You know which group you belong to. St. Paul writes to his young protégé Timothy and he gives him this admonition, “But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you ... . 1. From the Internet. Source unknown. 2. USA Today. 3. Lee Strobel, God’s Outrageous Claims (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan Publishing House, 1997), pp. 55-56. 4. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas ...

17. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... less!” The Christian pastor, Shin, in his own agonizing unbelief cries out to the agnostic Lee: “All my life I have searched for God but I found only man in all his ... implication, rejected it for His disciples. Jesus did not even save Himself from suffering. Robert Raines writes of the problem of suffering: “There is no answer to that question ... Riverside Church titled: “The Importance of Doubting Your Doubts” taking his cue from G.K. Chesterton, who once spoke of his “first wild doubts of doubt.” ...

18. The Story of Abraham versus the Story of Israel

Romans 4:1-25

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... thought to have obeyed the Torah in advance and thereby to have been justified by his good works (e.g., Sir. 44:19–20; 1 Macc. 2:52; Jub. 19.8–9; 23.9–10; CD 3.2–4). ( ... : Scottish writer J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan, told a story about another Scottish writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. When Stevenson moved to the island of Samoa toward the end ... How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind; Lee Strobbel (journalist), The Case for Christ. Quote: John Calvin. Let ...

19. A Message For Big Bird

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

In the summer of 1981, Will Lee, the actor who played an adult character named Mr. Hooper on the children's television show SESAME STREET, died. This posed a difficult set of issues for The Children's Television Workshop, ... a message for me? Would you tell him that it is true that a person who is dead does not come back ” unless he happens to be a friend of Jesus. 1. Robert H. Waterman, Jr., THE RENEWAL FACTOR, (New York: Bantam Books, 1987), pp. 100-101. 2. Contributed by Gerald Hill, Powderly, TX 3. Joe ...

20. You Will Not Leave My Soul In Hell

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... who clung to finishing a book, returning to their children, or to helping others bear their suffering. They had something to keep them going. Robert Schuller tells about a hopeless old drunk who was brought into a New York City hospital. "You know, this is your 50th visit," ... Two Ways About It, (Westwood, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell, 1963). 4. G. Avery Lee, I Want That Mountain, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 1974). 5. Robert H. Schuller, Reach Out For New Life, (New York: Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1977).

21. Do Not Lose Heart

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... their office. We are told that during the Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara busied himself with the minor details of war planning to ... at hand. OF COURSE, THE ESSENTIAL KEY IS TO TRUST IN A HEAVENLY FATHER. As R.G. Letourneau once said, "Worry and trust cannot live in the same house. When worry is allowed ... Upset at Winning," The Tennessean (Aug. 2, 1990), Section B, p. 2. 2. Clay F. Lee, JESUS NEVER SAID EVERYONE WAS LOVABLE, (Nashville: Abingdon, 1987). 3. Warran Bennis, WHY LEADERS CAN ...

22. Clean Hearts And Dirty Hands

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... ridicule the Pharisees, but they were the people who helped maintain standards in a world "Slouching Toward Gomorrah," to use Robert Bork's colorful phrase. They were guardians of good taste, gatekeepers at the walls of tradition. Mark tells us ... a new thing in our lives because he is continually helping us see new realities. In his book, The Reputation of the Church, G. Avery Lee cited four diseases which often strike the church: 1. sleeping sickness, the disease of a church that falls asleep in the midst of ...

23. What If You Truly Were Born Again?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... you” or “please.” One day she got so disgusted and disillusioned that she was ready to quit. She went to see her professor, Robert Coles. She said, “I’ve been taking all of these philosophy courses and we talk about what’s true, what’s important, what’s ... : Baker Book House, 1998), p. 51. 3. Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long, http://day1.org/3823-the_start_of_the_trail. 4. http://www.aberdeenmethodist.info/Reichsermons/christian_love.pdf. 5. Lee A. Koontz, http://reflectious.com/2011/03/08/ashes-to- ...

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