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2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , 2020, My Modern Met, https://mymodernmet.com/bethany-noel-murray-migraines-in-nature/?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=etcetera. 3. Jones, V.C. “Patrick Henry: A Personality Profile,” American History Illustrated, (January, 1969), pp. 12-24. 4. “An Infectious Joy: The resilient life of Kristen Fersovitch” by Robert Jones. Rev. Robert W. Jones is the senior pastor of North Pointe Community Church in Edmonton, Alberta. He blogs at http://blog.northpointechurch.ca. https://testimony ...

2. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... of slavery." It was a win for the kingdom and the birth of a brand of Celtic Christianity that many in our own day are recovering. Saint Patrick didn't chase the snakes out of Ireland, as many believe. Instead, the Lord used him to bring into Ireland a sturdy faith in the one true ... Nashville, TN: Abington, 1988); Jan Lambrecht, S.J., The Sermon On The Mount (Collegeville, MN: Michael Glazier, 1985); Robert A. Guelich, The Sermon On The Mount (Waco, TX: Word, 1982); and for a philosophical, theological, and ...

3. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Gospel. When I awoke I felt as if I were a slave again – but now God was my master.” (Celtic Parables, Robert Van De Weyer, Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, 1999) I share this picture story to immediately ground us, and reveal my perspective on ... ’s no equivocation in Bonhoeffer’s answer, “Thou knowest, O God, I am thine.” Go back to my introductory story of Saint Patrick. A voice spoke to him – “Return to Ireland, and, preach the Gospel.” He paid attention. The result? “When I awoke I felt ...

4. A Protestant (And Catholic) Way To Confess

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... myself; but when I am good, confession to you means simply not attributing any goodness to myself.[10] Both Saint Patrick and Martin Luther said something like this too. First Patrick: So now I commend my soul to you my most trustworthy God on whose behalf I am carrying out a ... Christ’s Descent into Hell and the Resurrection (1533), in Sources and Contexts of The Book of Concord, eds. Robert Kolb and James A. Nestingen (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2001), p.249. [9] John Calvin, Commentary On The Book of Psalms ...

5. Teamwork

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

Rev. Dr. Ward Williams

... women who are residents of the Southeast Senior Center for Independent Living in Englewood, New Jersey. Their names are Margaret Patrick and Ruth Eisenberg. Margaret is black and Ruth is Jewish. Both are accomplished pianists and spent most of their lives ... for talking about teamwork and cooperation? I suspect that most of us were appalled to read sometime back about the tragedy of Robert McFall, a thirty-nine-year-old man suffering from acute aplastic anemia ” a failure of the bone marrow to produce red ...

6. A Tragic Waste

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Many of us in this church family have been richly blessed. Perhaps ours are not great worldly talents comparable to Patrick Bissell's, but still we have been blessed. We too have gifts, "spiritual gifts," and those gifts are being ... of the gifts he lists need to be interpreted. For example, is the gift of healing to include only praying for the sick a la Oral Roberts? Or are there others who have the gift of healing of a different sortthe healing of damaged feelings or healing of fractured families by a quiet ...

7. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... amazing how much we might accomplish if we put our time to better use. In a speech on "The Trouble with Television," Robert MacNeil of the "MacNeilLehrer Newshour" said: "It is difficult to escape the influence of television. If you fit the statistical averages, by the ... have walked around the world and written a book about it." (3) Are we good stewards of our time? Let's put it to Patrick Morley's test: "Why not prioritize everything we do on the basis of who will be crying at our funeral?" WHO IN THIS WORLD ...

8. An Intimate Conversation and an Exclusive Covenant

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

... treat and care for the sick, and then evangelists to preach the gospel to people in countries where Christ is not known at all. Oral Roberts also spoke of the revelation: "God told me I am on the last rung of the ladder ... He gave me a year to set up ... choose, as long as they are within the law of land and the limits of decency and decorum. Jonathan Swift is buried in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, where he served boldly and faithfully as dean. A plaque was placed on the wall over his tomb: Here is laid ...

9. The Downside Of The Practice -- Performance Equation

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert R. Kopp

... sexism really hit home when my sister became a victim. Sue entered a golf tournament sponsored by the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick at a modest course called Four Seasons just outside of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. FSSP is a benevolent fraternity -- meaning they do ... really isn't a downside to faith. Golfers say, "A bad day of golf is better than any day without golf." Robert Schuller says, "God turns our scars into stars!" I like that. I'm glad God doesn't shrug us off. No matter how the ball bounces or how ...

10. Driven To Serve

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... unloved. "All of the lonely people," asked the song Eleanor Rigby, "Where do they all come from?" Based on a landmark study of loneliness, sociologist Robert Weiss estimates that a quarter of the American population feels extremely lonely at some time during any given month. It is a condition that effects ... COUNSELING, (Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing, 1988). 7. Greg Asimakoupoulos, Concord, California in LEADERSHIP/'93, Winter Quarter 1993. 8. Patrick Perry, "Safe Under the Sun," Sept./Oct. 1996, p. 42.

11. Save The Children

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... up, "Well, if it is a dog, Mom, can we name it Lassie?" (1) A grandmother took her grandson to St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. She showed him various parts of that magnificent structure. Finally, they arrived at the altar. " ... is correct. The apostle Paul put it like this, "For children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children." Robert Raines tells a beautiful story about a young man named David who left home for the first time. From the age of seven he had ...

12. The Cross We Do Not Want To See

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... an abstract concept in the Christian faith. Love is a concrete act. "God so loved the world that he gave his only Son. . . ." John Patrick once wrote a comedy titled The Curious Savage. In the play a character named Fairy May is asked by a Mrs. Savage what is ... 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 ...

13. I Can Have Anything?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... a moment by just sending for a prayer cloth. And one more item out of the newspapers for you to ponder: The Rev. Patrick Leary is the rector of the Shrine of the Most Holy Redeemer in Las Vegas, Nevada. He says visitors to the cathedral there often ... 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 ...

14. Ministering Angels

Exodus 23:20-33

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.” (p. 105, quoted by Robert A. Rains, To Kiss the Joy, pp. 111-112) That’s what God was saying to the Israelites. They would have nothing between them and ... When we walk to the edge of all the light we have and take that step into the darkness of the unknown,” wrote Patrick Overton, “we just believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for us to stand on, or, we will ...

15. How to Have a Rich Future

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... accident that would keep us from working at all. “The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry . . .” said the poet Robert Burns, and he was right. There are very few sure things in life. The only bullet-proof investment that you can make in this ... long as God is in control, God’s children have nothing to fear. It’s like a delightful story told by Irish writer Patrick Taylor in his book, An Irish Country Christmas. It is about a woman named Eileen whose eldest son is running a high fever ...

16. Walking On Our Hands

John 8:31-41

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... debate between Jesus and "the Jews." It is well known that the Gospel of John differs in many ways from the other three Gospels. Robert Kysar's book on the Gospel of John is called John: the Maverick Gospel. This is how his introduction begins: There is a delightful ... faith. Nor were they the first to challenge the status quo of the Roman Church. Others had preceded them. Some, like Patrick Hamilton of St. Andrews, Scotland, had given their lives for the cause. Finally Luther, Calvin, and Knox came to the ...

17. Idols

Psalm 115:1-18

Children's Sermon

B. Kathleen Fannin

... voice. "Well, it has legs ... Can it walk?" "Of course not!" Jennifer says with an edge of impatience. "The legs don't even move," Robert protests. "Yes, you're right. Let's see ... It has a mouth. Can it speak?" By this time most of the children are ... you can talk -- because you keep answering my questions. So, what is the difference between you and this wooden cow?" "We're alive!" Patrick responds with assurance. "Oh! So you are," I agree, "and this wooden cow is not. Do you think God made this cow?" " ...

18. A Vital Night Call

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... come in response to night-time calls, usually of an emergency nature. However, not all of our night calls are that significant. Dr. Robert Ozmont of First united Methodist Church in Atlanta received a call one night about 2:00 AM. He did not know the lady ... boy who visited his grandmother in New York City. She took him on a tour of the city, including the huge and imposing St. Patrick's Cathedral. When they got to altar area down front she said, "Under here is where all the cardinals are buried." He looked ...

19. In The Valley Of Dry Bones

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Now that's one way to live," Larson says, "trying to carry the world on your shoulders." On the other side of Fifth Avenue, Larson notes, is Saint Patrick's Cathedral, and there behind the high altar is a little shrine of the boy Jesus. He is perhaps eight or nine years old, and with no effort ... . Even dry bones can live again. 1. Jane and Robert Handly, THE LIFE PLUS PROGRAM FOR GETTING UNSTUCK, (New York: Rawson Associates, 1989). 2. Herb Miller, ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN VERBS, (Nashville: Abingdon Press, ...

20. Tongue-tied By Three Zeros

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... of time. Vietnam. War protestors. Hippies. Assassinations. JFK. Dealey Plaza. Texas School Book Depository. Martin Luther King. Memphis. Robert Kennedy. Apollo 11. Neil and Buzz strolling on the lunar surface. These were The Sixties. And so on. ... to look at them, they sound as inadequate as "The Double Oh's" or "The Zilches " or "The Aughty Aught Aughts." There's St. Patrick's Cloverleaf image of the Trinity. One clover--three leaves. Then there's the egg: one egg, three parts--shell, white, yolk. Then there ...

21. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... by Meryl Streep, takes a risky trip into the wilderness and has a close encounter with a lion. Later, the movie's hero, played by Robert Redford, offers her this advice: "It's all right to take a chance," he says, "as long as you're the only one who will ... 31, 2000, 47. HOMILETICS JULY 2001, p. 28. 2. Richard Exley, Deliver me (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998), p. 169. 3. Patrick O'dooley, Flight Plan for Living (New York: Mastermedia Limited), 1992. 4. Cited in Howard Hendricks, Gen. Ed., A Life of ...

22. The Church: The Health of a Godly Family

Hebrews 10:22-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... all: Religion is good for people and for poor people most of all. The Heritage Foundation's Patrick Fagan summarizes those findings in a brief entitled, "Why Religion Matters." "Regular religious practice," he writes, “generally ... your life. That is the health of a godly family. 1 Charles Olson, Faith on the Line, (Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books, 1994), p. 64. 2 Robert Bellow, Habits of the Heart (New York: Harper& Row, 1985), p. 221. 3 Time's/Mirror Survey, February 3, 1994. 4 George Barna, Marketing ...

23. The Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

Sermon

James Merritt

The famous explorer, Rear Admiral Robert Peary, who is credited as being the first person ever to reach the North Pole, was on one of his many polar expeditions one time headed north with one of his dog teams. At the end ... felt, you will love what Jesus loved, and you will go as Jesus went, sowing and reaping, working and weeping, and the harvest will be great. 1. Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church, pp. 365-366. 2. Patrick Morley, The Man in the Mirror, p. 45. 3. In Other Words, January/February, 1994.

24. The Urge to Purge

2 Samuel 12:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Lord was considered part of the terrible punishment meted out to the king (see verse 11). Indeed it now appears that Thomas Robert Dewar's sage observation that "confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation" is quaintly passe. ... little to appease churches who found themselves up to their necks in young, healthy sinners. It was the Irish St. Patrick who created and popularized the system of private confession and repeatable penances. The practical monk cataloged a list of ...

25. A Winning Life

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... love everybody, those you know and those you don’t. In fact, make a special attempt to be kind to strangers. First Lt. Patrick J. Chaisson tells about the first parachute jump he participated in. It was at Fort Benning, GA., home of the Army’s paratroop ... sermons/ahrensmoralvalues.html. 4. Bits & Pieces, April 30, 1992. 5. Jack Johnson, “Good People,” Brush Fire Records, 2005. Cited by Robert E. Dunham, http://www.upcch.org/modules/tinycontent0/index.php?id=65. 6. Les T. Csorba, Trust: the One Thing ...

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