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Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... the LSU players were beginning to watch the clock rather than wholeheartedly play the game. As a result of this shift in focus, Indiana closed the gap, won the game by one point, and eventually went on to become NCAA champions. David Bianchin goes on to say that ... . The second is the time we spend with God. God is our primary resource for coping with an unknown future. Dr. Robert Schuller tells a remarkable story about Christy Wilson, a missionary-educator in Afghanistan. A few years ago there was a near wipe ...

2. Proclaiming The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have plenty of time to make his. Given that idea, it seemed clear to me that our German friend could get from Chicago to Bloomington, Indiana, far easier than from Bloomington, Illinois. It took us a bit of doing to communicate that, but we did, and so we were soon on ... singing. An evangelist years ago did some research on the life of the famous 19th Century philosopher and agnostic, Robert Ingersoll. In his study, the evangelist came upon the program for Ingersoll's funeral service. Across the bottom of ...

3. Who?

Acts 5:27-32

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... My guess is that unless you're a fan of Elizabethan theater you've never heard of Robert Greene (1560?-1592). In his day, however, he was a well-known and respected poet and essayist. ... died. He realized: "These children don't need a cup, they need a cow." If only, he thought to himself, he could bring some of the cows from his native Indiana to hungry people then they could produce their own milk. And then he wondered - why not do exactly that? Then he got another idea - why not send impregnated cows so ...

4. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... to move." The second responded: "This is Robert Smith. I order you to move." Now Captain Jones was really hot under the collar. "You don't understand. This is the battleship Missouri." Robert Smith responded: "You don't understand. ... God did not forsake me. He gave me other guides and advocates. Second, Duane Johnson was a leader in the second church I served in Muncie, Indiana. One day Duane stopped by the church office and said, "How are you doing, Pastor?" "Not so well," I replied. "I have just written a ...

5. We Interrupt This Service

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Thomas Long

... dull announcements." Heads bobbed in vigorous agreement all around the room. The announcements were out of favor in that corner of Indiana, no question about it. Thomas Long said he knew what the man meant. You're soaring above the pews on Sunday ... In everything," wrote Paul to the Romans, "God works for good with those who love him ... " (Romans 8:28). The theologian Robert McAfee Brown likes to use in his writing the musical metaphor of themes and variations.3 There are many musical compositions, Beethoven ...

6. Ready For The Game Warden

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the television show "60 Minutes." The commentator asked him, "Why is it, Bobby, that your basketball teams at Indiana are always so successful? Is it the will to succeed?" "The will to succeed is important," replied Bobby Knight, "but ... Greene once observed. "There is always one moment when the door opens and lets the future in." Will you be ready when your time comes? Robert Runcie was. During a battle in WWII a British tank was hit. The crew, except for the co driver, scrambled out. The turret on the ...

7. How To Stay Young Forever

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... does get the grail and it does save his father, but it is not the cup that saves him. It is his faith in the God of the cup. Indiana Jones' father asks him, "What do you believe in now, son?" (7) That is a good question for each of us. What do you believe in now? The ... Lydia Bronte, Ph.D., THE LONGEVITY FACTOR, (New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1993), p. 24. 3. Donald F. Ackland and Robert Dean, 52 READY-TO-TEACH BIBLE STUDY LESSONS, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1994). 4. NEWSWEEK, Sept. 25, 1972. Source: ...

8. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to sit on a couch with the talk show host and ala the Larry King Show take telephone calls from people in that part of Michigan and Indiana. I dreaded it. I just knew some professors would call in questions I couldn't answer. Or worse yet, some nut would call in a crazy ... '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 ...

9. Studying under the Greatest Teacher

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Gary W. Houston

Robert Frost’s first assignment for a class of teachers was to read "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." This was Mark ... fortunate in that I had two such teachers who did not only fill me with buckshot. I worked with a man named Dr. Helmut Hoffmann for nearly five years in graduate study at Indiana University. At that time I was involved in Comparative Religions and Tibetan Studies. It was my intention to become a great scholar like Dr. Hoffmann. He was quite well known for his academic ...

10. Bound By A Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... hitched in front of cameras for a British documentary about marriage. Unwilling to leave her hometown, the bride flew back to Indiana. Unwilling to venture into the cold, the groom remained in California. They stayed in touch by writing letters. (1) Scotty Wolfe ... games, he was ready. The 1968 Olympics were not long after the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. Race relations in the U.S. were in turmoil, and the pressure on AfricanAmerican athletes was tremendous. There was ...

11. The World's Worst Bargain

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... by several other roles. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in 1988’s Running on Empty. He also played the young Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. For one film he won the National Society of Film Critics’ best actor award. He had it all fame, ... world. Walk away. It’s still a bad, bad bargain. 1. The Associated Press, 2001. 2. By Peter Brown and Robert Rans, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.stuart/music/madonna/material.html. 3. Illusaurus 4. Tommy Nelson, The 12 Essentials of ...

12. Small-Minded Christians in a Big World

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... , which Paul felt were out of step with the gospel and out of touch with reality. On Tuesday, January 28, 1986, Dr. Bob Roberts and I were preparing to lead a lunchtime Bible study at the University of South Florida when the campus minister from next door ... is still a hot potato. I have to confess that in all these years, including many as a member of the South Indiana Conference Board of Ordained Ministry, I never dealt with a gay person seeking ordination. I cannot even count, however, the people with ...

13. Rock Solid

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... of all the books that would occupy the building. And so the library is sinking. Obviously some heavy reading takes place at the University of Indiana. It is a foolish person who does not take into account both the weight of a structure, and its contents, as well as the foundation ... , Inc, 1997), pp. 305-306. 4. (Waco: Word Books, 1979), pp. 27‑31. Cited in Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 445. 5. http://www ...

14. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... it into much. God wants to take our dreams and use them to God's glory. Will we give God a chance? 1. Robert Schuller, Power Thoughts, p.46-49. NOTE: HERE IS THE ACTUAL ACCOUNT FROM DANTZING HIMSELF WHICH CONTAINS SOME CORRECTIONS TO SCHULLER'S ACCOUNT ... Knuth as he rode by on his bicycle. He is a colleague at Stanford. He stopped and said, "Hey, George — I was visiting in Indiana recently and heard a sermon about you in church. Do you know that you are an influence on Christians of middle America?" I looked ...

15. Faith In Conflict

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... paid when we choose wrongly. Several years after inventing radar, Sir Robert Watson Watt was arrested in Canada for speeding--in a radar trap. Afterwards he wrote this poem: Pity Sir Robert Watson Watt, /strange target of his radar plot, And this, with ... Losing an argument with God is the best conflict you will ever know. 1. Thanks to Dr. William Schwien of Carmel UMC, Carmel, Indiana for this story. 2. THE BOOK OF HYMNS, The United Methodist Publishing House, 1979, Hymn No. 242. 3. From the Internet. Source ...

16. An Unforgettable Day

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... done. Would you like to play in the milk for a few minutes before we clean it up?" Robert thought that was a great idea. After a few minutes, his mother said, "You know, Robert, when you make a mess like this, eventually you have to clean it up. So, how would you ... the year. It's titled simply The Christmas Story. It tells the story of Ralphie, a young boy living in northern Indiana in the late 1940s. In one scene, Ralphie beats up a neighborhood bully, literally pummeling his foe. Ralphie's mother catches ...

17. Good News for Good Living

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Epiphany to the Gentiles in every age! So be it! 1. As quoted in Fred Craddock, John Hayes, Carl Holladay, and Gene M. Tucker, Preaching Through the Christian Year (Valley Forge: Trinity Press International, 1994), p. 97. 2. Robert Cleveland Holland, Robert Holland at Shadyside (Pittsburgh: The Shadyside Presbyterian Church, 1985), pp. 87-88. 3. George A. Buttrick, The Interpreter’s Dictionary of the Bible (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962), p. 685. 4. Paul J. Achtemeier, Harper’s Bible Dictionary (San ...

18. We Know Where You Came From

John 6:41-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... operates. Be careful when you judge another person's potential. Anytime you write anyone off without giving them a fair shot, you may be mistaken. Robert Schuller once asked one of his colleagues, "What's one of the most vivid memories you have of going to school as a child?" Here ... , not before this judge, and certainly not before God. No one would see his pain. The citizens of Goshen, Indiana had been stunned to learn that Tracey Bailey ” captain of the wrestling team, member of the student council, good ...

19. Do You Know This Man?

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... today and worship Jesus--but still not trust him with their lives? Think about that while I share another story with you. French Lick, Indiana, is well known to basketball fans as the boyhood home of basketball legend Larry Bird. In fact, many basketball fans come to take ... for a small community that had been poisoned by a corrupt industrial plant. In the movie, Julia Roberts plays the strong-willed title character. But the real Erin Brockovich appears in one small scene. She is the waitress at the ...

20. Party Time!

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... Backwards Day, in which people wear their clothes backward and walk backward, is a big celebration in Fort Wayne, Indiana. And the citizens of Millington, Tennessee are proud to host the yearly celebration of International Goat Day, which ... . And there are endless possibilities for enjoyment in almost any facet of life. Except, it seems, in our worship of God. Author Robert Louis Stevenson once entered in his diary, as if he were recording an extraordinary phenomenon, “I have been to Church today, and ...

21. To Thank Is To ...

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

... udders of cows. Joseph Sittler highlights this dilemma. A modern man "crouches over levers of a crane and guides it to lift stone from Indiana, which he has never touched, to the top of a construction job in Omaha, where it is fixed in walls he need not look ... an outstretched arm; therefore be hospitable to slaves; you were once a stranger in a strange land, therefore be hospitable to strangers. Robert MacAfee Brown says, "When in the Lord’s Supper we eat and drink the body and blood of Christ, it unites us ...

22. Embalmed Leaders

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... do you want this office? What is your underlying motive? Is it love of the people or just ‘White House fever,’ as Robert Bender called it." Freud called it "the expression of the ego." Jung called it "the hunger for power." Adler called it "the ... a hymn. The cannon thunder is the voice of God." Or, even a more descriptive attitude is a speech made by a Senator from Indiana, back in the debate for the annexation of the Philippine Islands when it was going on. He said: We Americans are trustees under God of ...

23. A Tempting and Lonely Place

Mark 1:35-39

Sermon

Thomas Long

... , too. And he is there even now, in our lonely places, beckoning us, if we will, to follow. 1. Henri 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 ...

24. Be Joyful

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... JESUS." There it is from God's word in black and white. God's will is for you to be joyful! According to Robert Wayne Pelton's book, Laughable Laws and Courtroom Capers, there is a community in Idaho that requires its citizens always to appear ... drawn to this church if we got the reputation as being the happiest-looking people in town? Yvonne Dilling, a church worker from Indiana spent time in Salvadoran refugee camps in Honduras during the time of much violence and heartache in El Salvador. One group of ...

25. Do Not Lose Heart

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... next?" One of the students answered, "A basketball coach." Coaching basketball must take a terrible toll emotionally. That's why Indiana's Bobby Knight is famous for his tantrums, and Las Vegas Nevada's Jerry Tarkanian chews on a towel. Coaches, though ... before our eyes under the heavy responsibilities of 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 distract himself from the futility of that terrible war ...

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