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Sermon
King Duncan
... years it has been the unique symbol of an unique people: people who believe that "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. . . ." If you believe that, really believe that, it will change your life. In his book Lift High the Cross, Robert Morgan also tells about Dave Hutto, the founder of a Christian camp for youth in Alabama, Camp Sumatanga. On a mountain just above the camp is Camp Sumatanga's own landmark, a large, lighted cross. Dave has collected many stories of that cross's impact on people ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of do-gooders. Do-gooders can be some of the unhappiest people on earth. Christians are people who have discovered that there is 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 mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not by weary, they shall walk and not faint.” He was having trouble ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... . Men of Integrity (March/April 2006) Cited in Davis, Barry L. 52 Sermons From the Gospel of John (GodSpeed Publishing, Kindle Edition). 3. Azinger, Links Newsletter, vol. 15, no. 1. Cited by Robert Russell, https://www.lifeway.com/en/articles/sermon-easter-resurrection-new-life-1-corinthians-15. 4. Robert Morgan, “Words by an Unmarked Grave,” From This Verse (Thomas Nelson Inc., 1998). Cited at http://www.preceptaustin.org/luke-24-commentary. 5. http://www.keepbelieving.com/sermon/the-death-of-death/.
Sermon
King Duncan
... order. Bethlehem teaches us about expectations, about signs, and about patience. God begins with a simple babe and humble surroundings and He works slowly, surely. But He is at work. Let us not lose hope. Joy to the world, the Lord is come. 1. Rev. Robert Morgan, Montgomery UMC, Montgomery, Texas 2. Leo Buscalgia, BUS 9 TO PARADISE (New York: Slack, 1986), pp. 25-26. 3. Charles Kuralt, ON THE ROAD WITH CHARLES KURALT (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1985), pp. 315-316. 4. Lincoln Steffens, "A Miserable Merry ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... our righteousness, all of us would be doomed. But we are not doomed. We are people of faith. We have invested our trust in God and we have accepted His grace. AND WHAT A DIFFERENCE THIS MAKES. Perhaps I can dramatize this difference with a story that Robert Morgan once told. A Dutch pastor and his family got into big trouble with the Nazis during the Second World War. The family had been hiding Jews in their home to keep them safe from Hitler. One night in the darkness, they heard the sound of heavy boots ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... ." There is something in man that yearns to live forever. There is something in the gospel that gives us hope. There is something about the Christian’s hope and joy that the world doesn’t understand. There is something out there beyond death. Pastor Robert Morgan, commenting on this story, wrote, "All that from an uneducated young circuit-rider . . . who had something to say—and nothing to fear." (1) Jabez may have had a rough beginning, but he knew where his hope lay--it lay in God. And so he ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... salvation. As Jesus rode to his death that day, as he led that parade and procession, he came freeing us from our sins. For the ultimate destination of that first Palm Sunday parade was not praise but the cross and salvation. In his book, Lift High The Cross, Robert Morgan tells a story about a man named Dave. He was a camp counselor at a Christian camp in Arkansas. In the hills above the camp is the camp's landmark — a large, lighted cross. One winter night, a stranger came to Dave's home to ask Dave if ...
Sermon
Lee Griess
... lifted from the garbage heap. It seems like an appropriate thought for our worship today. A treasure from the garbage heap — for after all, it was from the garbage heap of humanity that our salvation was lifted. In his book, Lift High The Cross, Robert Morgan tells about a most unusual cross that stood on the lawn of a Dallas church one Lenten season. The cross, which was about ten foot tall, created such a stir that pictures of it were carried by newspapers across the country and a television station ...
9. Rejected
Matthew 21:33-46
Sermon
King Duncan
... Barrett Browning eagerly opened it. The box contained all of the letters that she had written them since her marriage to Robert. Not one had been opened. (4) Parents can be vindictive at times as can children. And the pain that can ... the restorer of broken dreams. God takes the stone that was rejected and makes it the very cornerstone. In 1888, G. Campbell Morgan was a candidate for the Wesleyan ministry. He passed the doctrinal examination but then faced the trial sermon. In an enormous auditorium that could ...
10. Pretenders
Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:1-4
Sermon
King Duncan
... never pretend to be a plumber, or impersonate a butcher--they would find me out in twenty seconds." (1) I'm not certain I would want Morgan operating on me, even if he did have the image of a doctor down pat. I believe I would want the real thing. But, as the ... Scouts of America can be a pretender. Juliette Gordon Low was in her 50s and already going deaf when she met General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts. She became an instant fan of his group's female counterpart, the Girl Guides, and ...
11. When You're Rejected
Matthew 21:33-46
Sermon
King Duncan
... his wounds were we healed” (1 Peter 2:24). Because he was wounded, he could reach out to us. Christian author Robert J. Morgan tells us something interesting about Michelangelo’s magnificent statue of David. As you probably know, the statue of David is an enormous work of art. Morgan says it was carved from a block of marble eighteen feet high. But perhaps you didn’t know, says Morgan, that Michelangelo wasn’t the first person to attempt to craft a statue from that chunk of marble. An earlier artist ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... their nails to grow right. “Well, I guess this is just my cross to bear.” They can’t get the children to behave. “It’s my cross to bear.” Likewise, when they can’t get their husband to quit snoring: “Well, it’s just my cross to bear.” Robert C. Morgan tells about a woman who had a rattle in the dashboard of her new BMW. She took it to an auto mechanic. He said, regardless of how hard he tried, he could not repair it. “Oh well,” she said, “this is just my cross, and I will have to ...
Sermon
James W. Moore
... in my head. "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." Sometimes we forget that, don't we? Dr. Robert Elliot, a cardiovascular surgeon from the University of Nebraska has written a book about the relationship between stress and heart disease. It's ... called him. Someone had contacted her and told her about the purpose of the pastor's visit, so she called him and said: "Oh Dr. Morgan, I'm so sorry I was inside the house all the time when you were knocking and calling... but you see, I didn't come ...
14. Overcoming Envy
Matthew 20:1-16
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... the day, G. Campbell Morgan were both preaching. Morgan was drawing much larger crowds than Meyer was. It was a demoralizing experience for Meyer. “The only way I can conquer my feelings,” Meyer confessed, “is to pray for [Morgan] daily, which I do.” ... Your Breakthrough by Heather Thompson Day. 5. 1000 Windows: A Speaker’s Sourcebook of Illustrations, edited by Robert C. Shannon, Standard Publishing Company, 1984. 6. Illustrations That Connect: Over 100 Illustrations for preachers, teachers, public ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... we need to receive what Christ has to offer us, just as the multitude received the loaves and fish. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan went to visit a member of his church. He was saddened to learn that she was to be evicted from her house because she couldn't pay the rent. That was on Saturday afternoon. ... , 1985). 2. Cullen, Joseph P. "James' Towne," American History Illustrated (October, 1972), p. 35. 3. The illustration is from Robert Schuller's Move Ahead With Possibility Thinking, (New York: Jove Books, 1967).
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David O. Bales
... not as 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 in ... reasons, so he states, “Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (v. 21). He puts his finger on what J.P. Morgan noticed and what the poet T.S. Eliot indicts as, “the greatest treason,” which is “to do the right thing for the wrong reason ...
17. The Problem with "Fawneys"
Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the top of Mount Sinai and read the Ten Commandments aloud.” “I have a better idea,” Mark Twain remarked. “Why don’t you stay right at home in Boston and keep them.” Twain knew the man’s heart. Phony. Hypocrite. Robert J. Morgan tells about the disgust many Americans felt when transcripts of the famous Watergate tapes were released. Many Americans were stunned to read of the unrestrained filthiness of language used in the Oval Office by President Richard Nixon and his associates. Nixon’s ...
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... thing restored. So we can find strength in the knowledge that God walks beside us in our brokenness and find assurance that God will turn our brokenness into blessedness and all things will be made new in His kingdom. 1. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 706. 2. https://howloud.com/soundscore/. 3. “Earth’s Quietest Place Will Drive You Crazy in 45 Minutes” by Rose Eveleth Smithsonian Magazine, December 17, 2013, https ...
19. Spirit Power
Acts 2:1-13
Sermon
King Duncan
... if we yielded ourselves to the leading of the Holy Spirit? There are people in our community who need what this church has to offer. I like something that Robert Schuller wrote in the introduction to one of his books. “How much is a sprinkler-head worth?” he asks. “It all depends. Not much on a shelf in ... Grand Rapids, MI.: Fleming H. Revell, 1969), 71-76. Found in Robert J. Morgan. From This Verse (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998). 6. Jim Wallis, God’s Politics (HarperSanFrancisco, 2005). 7 ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , he exclaimed, "My God, and I have been tramping on them all my life!" Is that the word of warning we need? Wake up! Pay attention! Look around you. You may 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. (Dallas: Word Books, 1990). 4. Eric W. Johnson, A TREASURY OF HUMOR (New York: Ivy Books, 1989).
Sermon
King Duncan
... : Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994), p. 48. 7. Mark Littleton, THE STORM WITHIN (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 1994), pp. 117-118. 8. A. Philip Parham, LETTING GOD: CHRISTIAN MEDITATIONS FOR RECOVERING PERSONS (Harper San Francisco, 1987). 9. Robert C. Morgan, LIFT HIGH THE CROSS (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1995), pp. 22-23. 10. Philip Yancey, WHERE IS GOD WHEN IT HURTS? (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1977), pp. 118-119. Cited in THE STORM WITHIN by Mark Littleton, Tyndale House Publishers ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... by Byrl Shaver 3. Doris Shumate in A Foxfire Christmas, edited by Eliot Wigginton and his students (Chapel Hill, N.C.: The University of North Carolina Press, 1989), p. 118. 4. 1000 Windows: A Speaker’s Sourcebook of Illustrations, edited by Robert C. Shannon, Standard Publishing, 1984. 5. “Overwhelmed” by J. Wallace Hamilton, published by The Methodist Center, Jan. 28, 1968, p. 6. 6. Howard and Phyllis Rutledge with Mel and Lyla White, In the Presence of Mine Enemies (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming ...
23. Party Time!
Mark 2:18-22
Sermon
King Duncan
... fun in their daily lives. 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 am not depressed.” Ask the ... in Stories of Emergence, edited by Mike Yaconelli (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003), p. 16. 5. Robert J. Morgan, Then Sings My Soul, Book 2 (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2004), p. 209.
Sermon
King Duncan
... we do know how it all turns out. Those who are in Christ win. 1. MONDAY FODDER, http://mail.family-safe-mail.com/. 2. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/17/preacher-harold-camping-dies-the-rapture. 3. Cited in Robert J. Morgan, Nelson’s Complete Book of Stories, Illustrations, and Quotes. Electronic ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2000). 4. By David Borgenicht and Joshua Piven (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2000). Cited in “Help! Quicksand!” by Nadya Labi, Time Magazine, April 17 ...
Sermon
Don Tuttle
... who discover the “dumb jock” is now a federal judge or the girl voted “least likely to succeed” runs J.P. Morgan Chase. I figured Mary, having birthed and burped Jesus, couldn’t imagine him as anything more than that boy she had reared ... is not familiarity but willful blindness. And they are not alone. In their “Handbook of Christian Apologetics,” Peter Kreeft and Robert Tacelli wrestle with questions both skeptics and believers sometimes ask. One such question is the one Mark’s Gospel seeks ...
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