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Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... the inner shrine to its place above the cherubim in the court and so departs, pausing on the way by the entrance to the east gate of the LORD’s house (v. 19). 11:1–12 The final chapter in this second vision complex begins and ends with the spirit ... p. A4). 11:1 Leaders of the people. The Heb. term sar “is a very general term for an officer” (J. J. M. Roberts, “Bearers of the Polity: Isaiah of Jerusalem’s View of the Eighth-Century Judean Society,” in Constituting the Community: Studies on the ...

2. The Road Less Traveled

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... God as a saint, He will reject you as a sinner. I know that what I'm saying sounds very narrow. But I say that the gate to eternal life is Jesus, and He is the only gate that leads to heaven. That does sound very narrow, and the reason why it sounds narrow ... take you to the wrong place. But following Jesus, who is going in the right direction, will take you to the right place. Robert Frost, the great poet uttered the words most of us have heard and will never forget: "Two roads…two roads diverged in a wood ...

3. Uncle Abraham

Romans 4:13-25

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William G. Carter

... let it sink in. We find some help at this point from an Episcopalian priest named Robert Capon. He writes theology books and cookbooks. One of his books is called The Supper of ... . So stop working so hard. If you wanted to earn your way into the pearly gates, you would never be able to make enough money. You would be so busy trying to ... him because he did what God wanted him to do. The truth is, God had already said, "I'm going to make you the father of a huge multitude." Then came that day, that very dark day ...

4. Walls, Walls, Everywhere Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... Robert Frost. I wish that everyone shared that sentiment. Unfortunately most people do not. Most people love walls. They see walls as their security, even their salvation. It is interesting that the largest construction project ever undertaken by humanity was the building of a wall. I’m ... of humanity: walls, walls, everywhere walls. We live in the time of the gated community. It’s the sign of an exclusive neighborhood. High walls, a gate across the entrance; sometimes a guard. Most of the time it’s for ...

5. The New Jerusalem

Revelation 21:1-27

Understanding Series

Robert W. Wall

... brought him to a place where he can easily survey the city from within its opened gates. Himself a member of the community of overcomers (cf. 1:9), the seer is now an ... over nature; that is, “the glory of God is manifest for the salvation of man in Jesus” (so D. M. Smith, John, p. 30). This, then, is the essence of God’s Word which is the light of truth ... is not an actual place but the Bride for Christ, the church, see Robert H. Gundry, “The New Jerusalem: People as Place, not Place for People,” NovT ...

6. The Gates of Hell

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... is Tobacco Day! The finest Havana cigars, all the best cigarette blends." The guy begins to brighten up. He says, "I'm sold. Let me in!" They let him in the gate and he promptly falls into a fiery pit where he is prodded by a nasty looking thing with a pitchfork. "Hey ... to do his part. "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." That's who we are. That's what we are about. "Gentlemen, ladies, take your battle stations. Full speed ahead." 1. The Jokesmith. 2. C. Robert Wetzel in Eileen H. Wilmoth, 365 ...

7. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... cast demons out of me and healed my wife with a prayer. No wonder they are up near the front. I’m sure they’ll be received, and when they enter the gates let’s all clap. These are the cream of the crop.” All of a sudden there is a hush; the crowd ... Sea's most violent storms. It rests on less than an acre of solid rock that is covered by seawater twenty hours a day. Robert Stevenson and his band of 65 builders had four hours each day to chink away stone and gouge out a foundation. Because of their ...

8. How May We Come To God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... said, "I did what you said, Sister. I followed your advice; I had faith in myself. I'm a self-made man." "Yes, you're successful," she said. "And I always knew you could ... was the Source of his life, and he had not put God first in his life" (Robert Brubaker, "Trumpets in the Morning", November 23, 1986). And so with too many of us. We need ... can it be? If our hands are not clean and our hearts are not pure, will the Gate open? We are driven back to will and willingness. What is our deepest desire? Now this ...

9. Who Is Your Lazarus?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... eighteen years old but to know what I know now." At this point the waitress, who had been clearing the table, stopped and said, "I'm eighteen. What is it you know?" (4) Our young people need the benefit of our experience. And they need for us to listen to ... be tramping on the heart of someone nearby. Who is the Lazarus at your gate? 1. Robert C. Morgan, LIFT HIGH THE CROSS, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995), pp. 99-100. 2. Robert H. Waterman, Jr., THE RENEWAL FACTOR, (New York: Bantam Books, 1987), p. 18. 3 ...

10. Giving Back to Caesar

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... generosity,” writes Adam Hamilton. “When we share with God, our gifts are a way of saying, ‘God, I’m returning to you a portion of what I have . . . to say thank you and I love you.’” (3 ... given control over it for a purpose.” (5) Of course, Bill and Melinda Gates have themselves proven to be good stewards as they, through their foundation, serve humanity ... s like something that happened last summer at the Olympics in Rio. Embry Roberts told about it recently on the Today show. The story was about ...

11. You Never Noticed

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... we give no thought to the problems of those about us. Professor Robert Wuthnow once conducted some research about why some people are generous and ... m not going anywhere!” Days after the rescue, the two men embraced as the driver said to Jack, “You know, you were crazy to stay there with me. We both could’ve died.” Jack smiled. “I just couldn’t leave you,” Jack said. (5) Here is the point of today’s message. There was a time, spiritually, when each of us was a beggar lying at the gate ...

12. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... with all the people gathered in the square before what was known as the Water Gate. Ezra the priest brings out the five scrolls of the Law of Moses. He stands ... to the barracks, their lives spared for yet a little longer. (3) I am sad to report that Robert Desnos did die in a concentration camp. But it was after the camp was liberated. He died of ... I know who I am, too,” said the great scientist, “but I don’t know where I’m going!” That’s a sad place to be when you don’t know where you’re going ...

13. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able....” A long time before Peck, way back in 1930, the poet, Robert Frost, coined the metaphor, “The Road Less Traveled.” Listen to him: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. And sorry I could not travel ... is that I’m surprised.” “That’s good biblical theology. Those who are last, some of them are going to be first, even old Albert. (Someone put it in humorous poetry) I dreamt death came the other night And heaven’s gate swung wide. An ...

14. Tyre, Sidon—and Israel

Ezekiel 26:1-21, Ezekiel 27:1-36, Ezekiel 28:1-19, Ezekiel 28:20-26

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... is gleeful anticipation: “The gate to the nations is broken, and its doors have swung open to me; now that she lies ... fallen heroes and kings from ancient days, who were consigned to the place of the dead (M. Smith, “Rephaim,” ABD 5, pp. 675–76). You will not return or take your place in ... list of gemstones is to beg the question: why would someone have inserted such a list? As Robert Wilson observes, since the list can have no other referent than the high-priestly breastplate, “the purpose ...

15. She Gave More than Bill Gates

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... to see 168 billionaires (yes, that is billionaire with a b) worldwide line up with Bill Gates, the richest man in the world and Warren Buffett, the second richest man in the world, ... two coins into the temple treasury is: “I’ve come to grips with my grief. I’m over my resentment. I am at peace with God.” There’s a second thing that widow ... God rather than on herself. The work of God was important in her life. Robert Schnase wrote a book, which he titled Five Practices of Fruitful Congregations. Let ...

16. Last Words

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... from time to time and ask the question, "Where am I headed in life? If I continue in the direction I'm headed, will it take me where God means for me to be?" Daniel Defoe, the author of ROBINSON CRUSOE, ran away ... died, his funeral cortege came to the cathedral door, there they were shocked to find the gate barred by the bishop. "Who comes?" shouted the bishop. The heralds answered, "Charlemagne, Lord and King ... Robert Dean, 52 READY-TO-TEACH BIBLE STUDY LESSONS, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1994). 4. See Robert ...

17. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... For instance, it has been said that the needle’s eye was a small gate beside the large city gate; a camel, stripped of its baggage, might be able to squeeze its way ... I don’t think so, no. You see, I’m on the other side. I know what you’re talking about, what you’re leading up to. I’m on the side of adversity."4 A lot ... . New York; The Dial Press, Inc., 1968. 4. Edward Connery Lathem, Editor. Interviews With Robert Frost, p. 156. New York, Chicago, San Francisco: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. 5 ...

18. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... get, the less there is to be proud of and the more there is to be thankful for . . . I'm more thankful for my family than I am proud of them, because I realize most of what they are ... person. So what! That won't get even your big toe inside the gate of heaven. So, you're the president of the PTA, chairman of the United Way, president of the Kiwanis ... sense. Of course God is on our side--in hockey as in everything else. Writer Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote a little fable that went something like this: "Look around you," ...

19. Tear Down This Wall!

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” Twenty-nine months later Mikhail Gorbachev did allow Berliners to destroy that wall, and soon after the Soviet Union collapsed. Tear down this wall! “Something there is,” said poet Robert Frost, “that ... Louie Giglio. Some of our young people might want to look it up online. Go to Google and simply type in laminin l-a-m-i-n-i-n. What is laminin? Here is the scientific explanation: “Laminins are a family of proteins that are an integral part of the ...

20. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... put the box on their shoulders and carried it out past the barn. As they passed through the gate, one of the boys bumped into the post and this caused them to drop the box. The casket ... wonder he didn’t find much good in people. I don’t want to sound like I’m blowing our trumpet, but I wish he could know some of the people I’ve come to ... a mentor and role model to someone else who is just beginning the journey. Mark Roberts in his book, Dare to Be True, tells about a friend years ago who decided she ...

21. A Faith for the Uncharted Way

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... of this oft-quoted sentiment for the New Year: "I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year, ‘Give me a sight that I might tread safely into the unknown.’ And he said ... summons they will bear, but we can be ready for them when they come. Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and many other fine adventure stories, a ... think I’ll see how fast it will run." I want to add another one: "I’m all set." I’m all fixed; I have things arranged just the way I want them. Well, things have a ...

22. Life Begins at Thirty-Eight

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Beth-zatha.” John tells us that it was near the Sheep Gate in Jerusalem, a city gate on the north side, which was restored by Nehemiah during his ... not forsake you, One who cares infinitely for you? I think that is the case. In Robert Browning’s poem “Rabbi ben Ezra” we read these lines: Thoughts narrowly to be packed Into ... of the characters sings a song about excuses. It goes something like this: As soon as I’m out of college, And pay all the debts I’ve carried; As soon as I’ve done my ...

23. Are You a Victim of Identity Theft?

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... captain treated Robert as if the mix‑up was his fault. He told him to be out of the camp in two hours. Robert was overjoyed. He raced back to the barracks, changed into his civvies and high-tailed it for the exit. Just as the gate opened, ... . Dr. Craddock said he groaned inwardly. Oh no, here comes another preacher story. It seems everyone has one. The man stuck out his hand. “I’m Ben Hooper. I was born not far from here across the mountains. My mother wasn’t married when I was born so I had a hard ...

24. Building Relationships

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... close friends. We’re isolated and alone. We wall ourselves into gated communities, and worse yet, we don’t even know the other people behind those walls, much less people outside. Robert Putnam wrote a book which he titled Bowling Alone. He ... heaven. Later when this woman and Rev. Taylor were alone, the woman with tears running down her face looked at Taylor and said, “I’m never going to get away from him, am I?” (6) That story will either make you laugh or make you cry. Not every relationship ...

25. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... they picked him back up in the morning and led him out through the Golden Gate Bridge, to the freedom of the Pacific Ocean where he promptly headed south to parts ... up and be nice,” the mother said as the child began to cry and whine. “Mommy, I’m all out of nice,” came the response. (4) Well, sometimes adults run out of nice, too, and ... . The pastor of this particular inner city congregation, named Mark, was a friend of Robert Morris. Mark was a man who was devoted to serving the homeless, but he ...

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