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Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

O Star (the fairest one in sight), We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud – It will not do to say of night, Since dark is what brings out your light. Some mystery becomes the proud. But to be wholly taciturn In your reserve is not allowed. Say something to us we can learn By heart and when alone repeat. Say something! And it says "I burn." -- Robert Frost, "Choose Something Like A Star" The Star of Bethlehem associated with this holy season was taciturn and mysterious. It was lofty ...

2. Remember the Lord

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... danger for individuals; it’s a danger for nations. God loves everyone the same. And we dare not take our blessings for granted. Every generation must be reminded. Regardless of how wealthy or powerful we become, we dare not forget the One who gave us ... is a gift from God, they lose their sense of purpose and meaning. Motivational speaker Cavett Robert once told about attending a convention in Boston years ago. Robert was being kicked out of the hotel where the convention was taking place after two days. ...

3. When Life Tumbles In

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He had several broken bones, including a broken back, a concussion, and other injuries. None of his injuries were life threatening. Robert told his mom from his hospital room not to worry, that he was okay. (1) I don't know if I would have ... to slow down, to appreciate my life. Now I'm ten times closer with my family and friends. I don't take one day--or one friend--for granted." (4) I believe Niki Taylor's going to make it, don't you--in spite of all the adversity that has befallen her? This is where we ...

4. Egypt

Ezekiel 29:1-21, Ezekiel 30:1-26, Ezekiel 31:1-18, Ezekiel 32:1-32

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... personification of the people in its king,” compare Isa. 10:5–11; Greenberg, Ezekiel 21–37, p. 637). Ezekiel grants Pharaoh this, just as he grants to the citizens of Jerusalem their self-identification as choice meat in a stewpot (11:3–6; 24:1–14 ... across the pool, to show that “Just a little further” may be a concession to human limitations, and an incentive to hope (Roberts, “Prophetic Prediction,” pp. 249–50). A time of doom for the nations. The MT has only “a time for the nations.” ...

5. A Great Light (Sermon for Candlelight Service)

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Brett Blair

... we come together to sing again the words: Yet, in thy dark street shineth the everlasting light. History records for us an interesting footnote. It was during the dark winter of 1864. At Petersburg, Virginia, the Confederate army of Robert E. Lee faced the Union divisions of General Ulysses S. Grant. The war was now three and a half years old and the glorious charge had long since given way to the muck and mud of trench warfare. Late one evening one of Lee's generals, Major General George Pickett, received ...

6. Stand Tall

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... . As the king was sipping wine Esther made her daring request. "What is your petition, Queen Esther?" the king asked. "It shall be granted you. Even to half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled," he promised blindly. This was the moment that Esther was waiting for ... , "what did he save you for?" That was one question that Robert admits he never thought of. Jesus saved him, but for what? What was his next step in his walk with Christ? Robert prayed for direction. Several weeks later he returned to talk with ...

7. Seder Service: The Passover Haggadah

Bulletin Aid

Robert L. Linder and Rabbi Sol Ester

... the meaning of the institution of the Sacrament of Holy Communion." This work was inspired and initially written by Rev. Robert L. Linder while pastor of First English Lutheran Church in Toledo, Ohio. He was assisted by Jewish leaders of ... us the love of liberty, has a significance also for all humankind. Freedom, which is one of man's most precious gifts, must not be taken for granted. In every age it must be won anew. The Pharaoh of the Exodus is symbolic of the tyrants of our day as well as of the tyrants ...

8. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... we go we are faced with reminders of thousands of people in our land who can’t take for granted what many of us often do take for granted - the ability to walk or see or hear or think or motion. But then we don’t have to look ... to be fraught with the promise of pain and gloom can become, by the power of God, shot through with blessing. I’ll let Robert Coles, the emminent Harvard psychiatrist, have the final word: Long ago an itinerant preacher drew upon His awesome healing powers, as He trekked the ...

9. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... George Washington to spare the life of a man sentenced to death for neglect of duty. "I am sorry I can’t grant the request for your friend’s pardon," Washington said. The preacher replied, "He is not my friend; I suppose I do not ... lives in the fellowship of One who prayed on a cross, "Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). 1. Robert Zacks. "Forget And Forgive," in "The Reader’s Digest," Vol. 65, October, 1954, pp. 65-66. 2. Quoted in The Expositor’s Dictionary Of Texts ...

10. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Gettysburg. He said: Right in the middle of the Battle of the Wilderness, all the staff men who had been fighting in the east all this time—Grant 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 a double somersault and land in our rear. I want you to quit thinking about what he is ...

11. We Are At War

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

12. Blessed Are Those Who Believe

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... put my hand into his side, I will not believe.” We all long for certainty. But that is one gift that God has not granted us. Undoubtedly, God has His reasons. If His aim is to produce mature spirits fit to spend eternity in His presence, it makes sense that ... we have that makes the crucial difference in life. It is how much we love God and our fellow human beings. The poet Robert Frost once spoke of the founders of this country and how they journeyed forth without a map saying: They “…did not believe in ...

13. The Source Of Joy

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . . One of the most gifted Christian writers today is Max Lucado of San Antonio, Texas. Max tells about meeting a gentleman called Robert Reed. Robert's hands are twisted and his feet are useless. He can't bathe himself. He can't feed himself. He can't ... find joy, or maybe I should correctly state that joy finds us, as we journey through life looking at life through God's eyes. God grants the gift of joy to pilgrims who seek Him rather than those who seek joy. A recent evening news program told a story of a ...

14. The Handiwork of God

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... the suffering men, most of whom were members of the Union Army. The officer, though mystified by his sergeant’s request, granted his permission. And thus Confederate soldier Richard Kirkland bravely stepped forward to assist the legions of dying men he saw on ... understand what I mean by greatness. Greatness in God’s eyes is different from what the world means by greatness. Dr. Mark D. Roberts tells one of the most moving stories I’ve heard in quite a while. He tells about a phone call he received about ...

15. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... to a man who was setting out a tree. I approached him and said, "Do you think it would be possible for me to see General Robert E. Lee, the President of the University?" He said, "Sir, I am General Lee." Of course, when you meet such a man, so noble a man ... had gone down to death for their country, gone down for a cause they believed was right and still believe was right, though I grant to the other side the same that I ask for myself. Yet these men who had actually died for their country were little noticed ...

16. Some Healing Is Up To You

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... degree program by doing internship in pastoral Care there at the Veterans Hospital. I thought to myself, people need to hear Robert Standhardt. The world needs to hear the message of this man and especially persons across the nation with handicapping conditions need ... he has to put forth just to take care of his physical needs – just to do those things that you and I take for granted day in and day out. But whenever he received an invitation, whether it was in Iowa or California or New York, he does all ...

17. The Road Less Traveled

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... war, as old soldiers have a way of doing. Grant listened for a time, and then, his pale face full of a new and more obvious seriousness, he said, "Howard, tell me what you know about prayer." Grant, with death staring him in the face, was more ... when I waked at day, How -- how in God's name -- I could ever pay!3 If that doesn't "stab your spirit broad awake," as Robert Louis Stevenson once said, then take another thoughtful look at the cross on our altar, a reminder of the Prince of Glory who loved you enough ...

18. Under The Wings Of The Almighty

Ruth 2:1-23

Sermon

Sims Robert

... and kept them safe (John 17:11-12).” We face the world with courage today because we are protected by Almighty God. Robert, a scrawny, 10-year-old boy, answered the knock at the front door. Standing there with hands on hips was the meanest ... of thanksgiving. I’ve wondered, where are our tears? Where are our tears of thanksgiving? We who take God’s protective love so for granted, we who have been blessed by God in so many ways, where are our tears of thanksgiving? A famous speaker once asked his audience ...

19. He Left Them Where?

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... of time. He died instantly in the fall. In 2003, the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission named Robert Bonadies as a recipient of their Hero Award. Robert Bonadies knew the challenges and risks of skydiving. He knew the choice he was being asked to make. And when the time came, he chose to give his own life to save the life of another. What do you do when you discover that someone has given his or her life to save you? Do you take it for granted? Do you say, "Ho, hum, what I do with my life doesn't matter?" Or do ...

20. The Risky Business of Faith

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... going spiritual journey toward loving God, loving people and serving the needs of others. To live any other way is to come up short. Robert Bly in his poem, "Snowbanks North Of The House,"3 uses the image of the "great sweeps of snow that stop suddenly six feet ... and realizes she loves him no more. There was no problem, no crisis. The caring simply left. They took their marriage for granted and the warm glow of love drowned in neglect. We are fellow travelers on this pilgrimage that goes from birth to death ...

21. The One Thing That Would Make The Biggest Difference

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... accord and of one mind" (Philippians 2:2). This passage also tells us that when we are in agreement with one another, God will grant anything we ask. Therefore, we believe that the church should be without conflict. Christian marriages and Christian families should be without conflict. The truth ... them deeply can be loved, won't their heavenly father grant anything they ask? Amen. 1. Frost, Robert, "Mending Wall" in Twelve Poets, Legget, Glenn, ed., (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1958) pp. 253-254.

22. I Can Have Anything?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... almost lost his faith. He came to the conclusion that the promises of the Bible were not good ” all because God had not granted his wish for a good grade. The next year he repeated that course. He worked hard, and he passed. This time he decided ... enlist God's help, nothing is impossible! And that's true. Nothing is impossible for the church of Jesus Christ! Dr. Robert Schuller, that legendary advocate of Possibility Thinking, says that there are two words that have killed more God-inspired dreams and ...

23. All That From A Little Bit Of Water?

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Well, here is the dangerous Gospel: On the day of your baptism, you received an automatic "A." You did nothing to deserve it, but it was granted just the same. That is what a sacrament is. It is a means of grace. What you did before with your life is inconsequential. What you ... p. 35. 6. William J. Fallis, POINTS FOR EMPHASIS, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1993), p. 33. 7. "To Illustrate" by Robert Shannon, PREACHING, July/Aug 1999, p. 49. 8. John H. Leeper & Barbara Moseley, "Revival in the Camp," THE OLD ...

24. Strategy For Greatness

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... greater above his? The answer is none. And the lessons of his are clear. The first step toward greatness is commitment. Bess Myerson Grant was asked what makes a person great. She answered, "You've got to love people, places, ideas; you've got to live with ... , I just ran out of time." No wonder he was a winner. Some people simply will not accept defeat. You may be familiar with Robert Schuller's famous story about the father who bragged to his son about what a great hunter he was. The son joined his father ...

25. The Ministry of Refreshing

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Various Authors

... life within us for his sake and for the sake of his little ones. Let me make a prayer for all of us as we commune. It’s simply this: that, as we are refreshed, God will grant us grace that we may become persons who refresh others who thirst. In our daily round of duties and activities, in our home life, may we become more sharply aware of the needs of those about us ... and gave thee drink?" "Inasmuch as you did it unto one of the least of these my brethren, you have done it unto me." - Robert John Versteeg

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