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Hebrews 12:1-13, Luke 12:54-59, Luke 12:49-53, Psalm 82:1-8, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Jeremiah 23:9-32, Jeremiah 38:1-13

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George Bass

... the book of Hebrews (10:5-10). The psalm contains a picture of the "rescue God," as God is called in a novel by Robert Flynn, The Sounds of Rescue, the Signs of Hope - "I waited patiently upon the Lord; he stooped to me and heard me cry. He lifted ... beginning of June, 1990, Amos Owen, the most influential spiritual leader of the Native Americans living in Minnesota died: "Amos Owen dies, a man of 2 cultures," was Jim Parson's headline in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He wrote: "Amos Owen knew last week that ...

2. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

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King Duncan

... you were a small child. Say it with me: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you” (Matthew 7:12). Pastor Sue Owen travelled to Kenya not too long ago, and she tells of the wonderful experience she had of seeing unselfish sharing among the students at a ... . Thomas G. Long, http://day1.org/3823 the_start_of_the_trail. 2. As told by Ed McManus in The Jokesmith. 3. Robert J. Morgan, Preacher’s Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 463. 4. “What You ...

3. All That From A Little Bit Of Water?

Mark 1:9-13

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King Duncan

... FOR ALL SEASONS (Mystic, CT.: Twenty-Third Publications, 1996), p. 12. 4. Walt Kallestad, WAKE UP TO YOUR DREAMS (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1996), p. 48. 5. As told by Sara Owen-Gemoets in EMPHASIS, Jan./Feb., 1999, 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 SOUTH FARMER'S ALMANAC, 1998, pp. 115-116. [ORIGINAL SERMON] There ...

4. Look, The Morning Star

2 Peter 1:12-21

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Richard Hasler

... seconds he is jammed in with ten other men. A bell rings, and the cage plunges over 300 feet into the mine. Gasping for breath, Owen leaves the cage and staggers along through the darkness. His miner's lamp attached to his cap is the only light penetrating the darkness all ... and follows this light until he returns to the surface and daylight once again.1 In this manner Ellis Wynne Roberts in his fascinating historical novel Flames And Embers Of Coal describes a young man's first day in an Anthracite ...

5. The Problem With Miracles In Our Time

Matthew 14:22-36

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William J. Carl

... Harper and Row, Publishers, 1973, p. 36).” Another way of saying it would be you don’t have to be a follower of Oral Roberts to believe in the miraculous healing power of God. You can even be a Presbyterian or a Methodist or a Baptist or an Episcopalian or ... can recognize this (Keller, op. cit. p. 21). Even the skeptical, doubting Reverend Lewis Merrill in John Irving’s, A Prayer for Owen Meany, understood when he said that miracles don’t cause belief; they don’t make faith out of thin air; “you ...

6. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

... for Biblical Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1990), 394. 9. John 5:19. 10. For the image of the heavens unzipped, I am indebted to Randy Clark. 11. For a study of repentance by a long time student of revivals and awakenings, see Richard Owen Roberts, Repentance: The First Word Of The Gospel (Wheaton, ILL: Crossway Books, 2002), and on Mt. 4:12ff. see pages 27-32. 12. PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 4:12-25. 13. See K.C. Hanson, “The Galilean Fishing Economy and the Jesus Tradition,” Biblical ...

7. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

... towards the dark side of judgment. In a book on the sayings of the desert monks of the fourth century, Owen Chadwick sounds a note of caution: “Sometimes we excuse relatively minor flaws in people, especially if they have done something ... the North 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 work, ...

8. ...More...

Luke 16:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

... a living in a service economy that they can't lift up their heads for hope or help or anything much else beyond survival. Robert Reich, a liberal economist at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, portrays a more unnerving scenario. In his book The Work of Nations: Preparing ... half of them women) are well-educated, lawyer/engineer/teacher types like "LA Law's" Victor Siefuentes and Grace Van Owen. "New collars" (comprising over 35% of the boomer work force and 2/3 women) represent mid-level workers with some ...

9. A Bill of Rights

Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28

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Leonard Sweet

... as Schlessinger's book is, it isn't the book to do that. The Bible's the book to do that. One of the great historians of the Christian church, the British scholar Owen Chadwick, concludes his volume A History of Christianity (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996) with a tribute to the church's historic witness to the Bible as the source of truth and ... Wallis, "Life's Unlimited Value and Our Limited Resources," in Life as Liberty, Life as Trust, ed. J. Robert Nelson (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1992), 26.

10. A Child Will Be Born

Isaiah 9:1-7

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King Duncan

... “the man for others.” There are no adjectives lofty enough to describe our feelings about the man from Nazareth. I like the way Dan Owens put it: Just ask the angels what they think of Jesus, they’ll tell you, “A Savior has been born unto you, He is Christ ... store gave away more than six million copies over the years. In 1946 Montgomery Ward transferred the copyright of the poem back to Robert May, who worked for the department store when he wrote it in 1939. May, who had a sick wife and 6 children to ...

11. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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William J. Carl, III

... have finished writing The Lord of the Rings, sections of which he read aloud at weekly meetings with Lewis, Charles Williams, and Owen Barfield, who would also read from the works they were writing at the time. The very air you breathe is filled with ... in England, especially in the little Methodist church in Keswick in the lake district, Southey Street Methodist Church, named after the poet, Robert Southey. But, I also saw this enthusiasm for the gospel in other places. One of the bishops told us about Ian ...

12. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

The Scripture for this ninth Sunday after Pentecost is very strange. I quote from the NEB: "In the same way the Spirit comes to the aid of our weakness. We do not even know how we ought to pray, but through our inarticulate groans the Spirit himself is pleading for us, and God who searches our inmost beings knows what the Spirit means, because he pleads for God’s own people in God’s own way." Let’s face it, our hope lies in a dimension beyond the human. If we do not acknowledge the supernatural, we are ...

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Robert Dale Owen

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Robert Dale Owen

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1. Proper 15

Hebrews 12:1-13, Luke 12:54-59, Luke 12:49-53, Psalm 82:1-8, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Jeremiah 23:9-32, Jeremiah 38:1-13

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George Bass

2. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

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King Duncan

3. All That From A Little Bit Of Water?

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

4. Look, The Morning Star

2 Peter 1:12-21

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Richard Hasler

5. The Problem With Miracles In Our Time

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

William J. Carl

6. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

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Phil Thrailkill

7. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

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Phil Thrailkill

8. ...More...

Luke 16:19-31

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Leonard Sweet

9. A Bill of Rights

Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

10. A Child Will Be Born

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

11. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

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William J. Carl, III

12. On Being Lifted Beyond Ourselves

Romans 8:18-27

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Robert G. Tuttle

Boldness and decision command, often even in evil, the respect and concurrence of mankind.

Robert Dale Owen

Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God.

Robert Dale Owen

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