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Acts 4:35-5:16

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... gladness Of love for one another. It's a long, long road, from which there is no return. While we're on our way to there, why not share? And the load doesn't weigh me down at all. He ain't heavy, he's my brother. (Sidney Russell and Robert Stack) Note: Special thanks to Joe Armijo, our music director for Sunday Night Alive, for ending the sermon with a wonderful rendition of "He Ain't Heavy." 1. Drumbeat of Love, page 67

2. Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... put it this way: He was going to be all that a mortal should be Tomorrow No one would be better than he Tomorrow Each morning he stacked up the letters he'd write Tomorrow It was too bad indeed he was too busy to see Bill, but he promised to do it Tomorrow The ... thing happened. He changed his mind. He changed his mind and went obediently and did the work his father asked him to do. Dr. Robert Coles tells a heartbreaking story about a young lady he met in his years as a medical intern. He was on the hospital ...

3. One Commandment, Slightly Used

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... we can get out of it, but love for what we can bring to it. I am not a great fan of television preacher Robert Schuller. It seems to me that too often he talks too much about himself and about us, and too little about Christ; but I ... .” Now, that’s the kind of love that I am talking about, and what I believe Jesus was talking about. The famous psychiatrist Harry Stack Sullivan once defined love as “the condition that exists when you are as interested in fulfilling the needs of the other as you are in ...

4. Attics, Basements, Closets

Psalm 130:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is a gentle two fingers to the lips/two fingers to the heart signal, the guy who used to work as a shoeshine boy, was breaking the rules, stacking the deck a lying cheat. Every now and again it's time for us to reexamine the fact that if the cynical saying "nice guys finish last" is ... championed by so many who look at our present-day leaders with highbrow disdain. In the 14th century Robert Erdeswick of Stafford was the first English gentlemen (according to Maurice Keen, Origins of the English Gentleman: ...

5. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... Helen and Horace Johnson, pp. 224-225. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1956. 8. C. S. Lewis. Letters To An American Lady, pp. 90-91. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1967. 9. W. E. Stack, Editor. How Do I Love Thee: The Love Letters Of Robert Browning And Elizabeth Barrett, pp. 196-197. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969. 10. Edwin Markham. "How To Go And Forget," Gates Of Paradise And Other Poems, p. 13. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928 ...

6. It's A Wonderful Life

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... about hope. THE FIRST THING THAT CHRIST'S COMING INTO THE WORLD MEANS IS HOPE FOR THE HOPELESS. The George Baileys and the Robert McFarlanes of our world have a reason to go on. Christ has come into our world. John the Baptist was in prison. As one ... did know how to give attention to his children. One of the best Christmas dinners Don ever had was at the rig. The rig was "stacked", which means it was not operating for the holidays, and Don's Dad had to stay with it to prevent thefts. Don, his mother, sister ...

7. Uncle Abraham

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

William G. Carter

... large, so heavy, that it is tough to 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 the Lamb, and a reader is never really ... , the son whom you love, and offer him on the mountain as a burnt offering." Abraham didn't say a word. He saddled the donkey, stacked the wood, and took his son up the mountain. He built the altar, put Isaac upon it, and raised the stone knife. There was a ...

8. Paul’s “We-With” Body-Building

2 Corinthians 8:1-15, 2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the parchments,” were first of all written words on separate skins, the skin of sheep or goats. These skins could be stacked together to forma a kind of notebook, portable, pliable, and durable. Here’s the amazing part: By the first century these ... Romans 8:17). We are crucified with God (Romans 6:6). We are raised with God (Ephesians 2:6). According to Robert Dale, “We-with relationships are our theological prototype for connecting.” (Dale develops this “we-with” theme extensively in his Sharing ...

9. Extreme Humility

John 13:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... with their lives. These gamblers went into the city of Carthage, during the height of the plagues, when bodies were stacked head high along the streets, and carried the dead outside the city and buried them. They risked their very lives to ... feet in a literal way. By doing that he showed an earnestness that touched all who knew him. It’s like a college president that Robert E. Speer tells about. Several years ago, says Speer, he was being entertained by this president of a small college in the South. The ...

10. Made New By Taking A Different Road Home

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... and the road from Bethlehem are never the same. You can't bow at the manger and see the world the same again. Poets know this. Robert Frost would poetically inform us that "here is before each of us a decision, much like a fork in the road. Having been where we have ... by a boy in tattered clothes. Two men kept running to meet the plane and the third had the good sense to stop, help the boy stack the apples, buy two of them and leave him a nice tip. The boy looked at the face of this man who took the time to ...

11. Exasperating Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... wine press. It was time to pay the help, and Mr. Gallo was in a very generous mood. He gave his foreman a stack of pay envelopes, instructing him to pay the 5 o’clock workers first. When they opened their pay envelopes, the 5 o’clock workers ... of equality with us? Isn’t it curious how the more amazing God’s grace becomes, the more we grumble about it? Writer Robert Capon says that, if the world could have been saved by bookkeeping and settling accounts, God would have sent Moses, not Jesus. The ...

12. Fasting: Foolish or Fruitful?

Matthew 6:16-18

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... It should show how good we are and how hard we are trying to please God. All of the denials and sacrifices are supposed to stack up merit so that, at judgment day, God will give us an okay. This puts us back to pre-Reformation times when all the ... wicked. Without this ability to deny self, a person does anything he wants to as long as he can get by with it. In the days of Robert E. Lee, a mother who had him serve as godfather asked him at the baptism what she should teach her boy. He said, "Teach him to deny ...

13. God Is No Respecter Of Persons

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

... , is it any wonder we don't impress God as being able to have respect - respect-able? If the odds of winning God's respect are stacked against us from birth, we don't help matters much. Not only do our obvious sins lose us our good name before God's judgment throne ... , changed any basic theological positions? I had a great urge to send the questioner a "sensitivity survey" which Dr. Robert McCracken once composed! It asked - "Have you a quick eye, an outgoing nature, a heart tender and sympathetic? Do ...

14. Put Out Your Nets

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lord Jesus," she explains. According to a legend, some lads were visiting that famous artist, Leonardo da Vinci. One of them knocked over a stack of canvases. This upset the artist because he was working very quietly and sensitively. He became angry, threw his brush, and hurled some ... . 1. "Oh No, Not Now!" EQUUS, April 1994, pp. 48-49. 2. Robert Fulghum, ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN, (New York: Villard Books, 1988). 3. Warren W. Wiersbe, BE REAL (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1972), p ...

15. Why Won't They Listen?

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... graders in his church recently. Toward the end of the retreat he asked the boys and girls to cut pictures out of a stack of magazines and create a collage of how they believe Jesus would live if he were alive in the flesh today. The ... much evidence that many of the faithful have soured on all socalled Televangelists due to Bakker's much publicized personal problems and Oral Roberts' unusual approach to raising funds. Of course when these men make mistakes millions of people see them. Some of you may have been ...

16. Day Of Decision

Mark 14:10-26, 43-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the man who used to think he was indecisive, but now is not so sure? R. Maurice Boyd tells about a friend of writer Robert Frost who was like that. He seemed incapable of making up his mind about anything, to the great amusement of the small group of poets ... 4) Don Drummond writing in Southern Wing tells about a miserable situation at the Miami International Airport. Miami controllers had planes stacked in holding patterns all the way to 15,000 feet. In the midst of the confusion was a tiny Cessna 150 ...

17. Secrets Of Successful Parenting

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills." Comedy writer Robert Orben says that sounds exactly like their family vacation. Danny Cox tells a wonderful story about his grandson Rex. Rex was in kindergarten when ... Not all belonged to an organized church, but they considered themselves highly religious." (5) How does your family stack up. Being successful parents is not brain surgery. All it requires is love, commitment, respect and a family ...

18. On "supersizing" Our Vision

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... widow, who gives all that she is able. With which group do you identify? Which of the two is more like you? Dr. Robert Coles, the brilliant child psychologist who teaches at Harvard University, tells about a child who grew up in a wealthy family. Through Sunday ... stitched for eight hours a day, producing an endless line of fabric, all the same, boring color. They folded, packed and stacked the parachutes. How could they maintain peak concentration in the midst of such boring labor? Every morning they met in a ...

19. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... filtered out by an aerial blanket of floating soot. Archivists at the British Museum found smog lurking in the book stacks. Cattle in the city's Smithfield market were killed and thrown away before they could be slaughtered and sold; their ... 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. ...

20. Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... lives were finally and fiscally worth something. For those highest up on the food chain, that something is counted as the stacks of dollars in the bank, the real estate holdings amassed, the stocks and bonds wallpapering a safe deposit box, or the ... Homo Sapiens." The first planet replies: "Oh, don't worry. It will soon pass." Nor by grand hope does Ephesians one mean what Robert Schuller said memorably in his autobiography, My Journey: "You can go anywhere from nowhere. My life is witness to that. I was born ...

21. Our God Is an Awesome God

Psalm 139:1-18

Sermon

James Merritt

Robert Wells wrote a book entitled: Is A Blue Whale The Biggest Thing There Is? It is a children's book to help little ones see ... put one hundred blue whales inside of a huge jar, you could put millions of those whale jars inside a Hallowed-Out Mount Everest. But Mount Everest isn't anywhere near as big as the earth. If you stack one hundred Mount Everests on top of one another, it would be just a whisker on the face of the earth. The earth isn't anywhere near as big as the sun. You could fit one million ...

22. Almost Persuaded

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Bill Hybels took a legal pad from his brief case and said, “I agree with you that God will judge all people. Let’s do some preliminary figuring on how we might stack up before God. I’m going to draw a line across the middle of this page. Let’s say that this line represents a passing grade with God. Who is the best person ... ratify and confirm your status as a forgiven, redeemed child of God! (1) Darden, Robert, and Richardson, P.J., The Way of an Eagle, (Thomas Nelson: Nashville, 1996), pp. 141-144.

23. From Silence to Sight

Job 42:1-6, Job 42:7-17

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... ultimate test and persuade him to renounce God in the Sunday edition of the New York Times. Satan is a suntanned Robert Redford look-alike who wears a pink suit. Soon after Sydney makes an appearance, Joe's company burns to the ground, ... just can't seem to unload that Old Maid card, no matter what you do. The game of life goes on in spite of crooked dealers and stacked decks. Although we may not be responsible for the cards in our hand, we are accountable for the way we play them. We must stop complaining ...

24. DisArming Christmas

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... race, and it's threatening the meaning of Christmas. In The Winner-Take-All Society (1995), Robert H. Frank and Philip J. Cook identify what they call "positional arms races" that take place ... then we will be filled with the true Christmas spirit. The arms-race-induced hallucinations convince us that piles of plastic toys (for children or adults), stacks of designer clothing and countless trendy gadgets actually embody Christmas joy. It is time to disarm. Who will declare a moratorium on the arms race? It ...

25. Investing in God’s Future

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... offering plate comes around today, I want you to take something out as well as put something in. You will see in each plate a stack of "gold ingots" — little pieces of gold paper. I invite you to take one, and on it prayerfully to write down one thing God has ... Miracles (New York: Harper Collins, 1992), pp. 190-191. Posted to sermonshop_1996_11_17.topic@ecunet.org (note #19) by Robert Stuart, mistakenly attributed to Nelson Mandela. Correct attribution supplied by Charles F. Brumbagh in note #95 of same ...

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