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1. The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was true, They had simply and sadly tramped home. What, we might ask, had they been doing in Jerusalem all day? The women had gone to the tomb at break of day and now it was late evening. It was about seven miles from the city to their village, about a two- ... hoped he was the one.” Something is missing without the next step. Second Step of Transition: Anticipation. As they walk Christopher Robin uses this last little-boy conversation with Pooh to ask him what he likes doing best in the world. Pooh starts ...

2. Passing The Baton

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the magnetic letters, $120 for the ruined food and $310 for the refrigerator. "That evening, we sat down to watch TV. When I turned it on, everything was green," Hawkins said. "Robin had twisted the fine tune so far that it broke inside." Cost: $115 to repair the television. The next day, Robin's mother, Bernie, went to pick up her husband at work. Robin was sleeping in her safety seat, so Mrs. Hawkins decided to leave her while she ran in to get him. She put the keys in her purse and left the purse in ...

3. Robin Hood?

Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 5:27-30, Matthew 5:21-26, Matthew 5:17-20

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... of it would take too long. And the understanding, never. FRIAR TUCK: (enters) Hail, Robin. ROBIN: And a hi-thee-well to thee, fair companion, this day, Friar. JOHN: Thou art well met, Friar Tuck. Didst thou see any game about? FRIAR: Nary a hare. (grabbing apple from robin and biting into it) Yuketh! JOHN: What couldst be the problem? FRIAR: I think, dear friends, that the dearth of game must be causeth by a lack of animals. ROBIN: Yea, verily. Although the truth of which you speak soundeth tinny to my ear ...

4. To Catch a Thief

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... which says, "You shall not steal." (Exodus 20:15, NASB) Unfortunately, America has become a nation full of Robin Hood's. Not long ago, USA Today Magazine ran an article entitled, "How Honest Are Americans?" The article began ... gave this commandment what He was really saying was this, "I don't want you stealing, because I am your provider. I want to live every day trusting that I will supply all of your needs. You don't need to scheme, manipulate, deceive, lie or steal to get what you need. I am ...

5. Flying High

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... of achieving . . . And then he hanged himself. He hanged himself in his own home, leaving behind hundreds of millions of people who love him to this day. Even more devastating, he left his wife and children traumatized and brokenhearted.” (3) We don’t know what demons drove Robin Williams, but they drove him to his death. It’s sad. It was more than simple ambition that drove Robin Williams, I am certain, but it is also true that ambition can make us or it can break us. A man named James Dodson in a ...

6. The Sin of Robin Hood

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... if it's a piece of candy or a piece of jewelry; a dime or a dollar. It doesn't even matter, contrary to what Robin Hood thought, if the person from whom you are taking it would miss it or not. It is stealing and God condemns it. Incidentally, if ... ] Well, I tell you today if you are not a tither, I charge you with a spiritual felony against heaven's King; and one day a CPA a Certified Perfect Accountant, the Lord Jesus Christ, is going to open your books and your check account and expose your spiritual ...

7. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... is in Leo. Chronologically, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it's evident that God is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you, Batman?" Batman is silent for a moment, then speaks: "Robin, you're an idiot, it means somebody stole our tent while we were sleeping." (1) Almost everyone born before 1960 remembers the 1966 TV series Batman. And there are a bunch of younger folks who ...

8. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... in Leo. Chronologically, it appears to be approximately a quarter past three. Theologically, it's evident that God is all-powerful and we are small and insignificant. Meteorologically, it seems we will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you, Batman?" Batman is silent for a moment, then speaks: "Robin, you're an idiot, it means somebody stole our tent while we were sleeping." (1) (Clip of Batman series opening) Almost everyone born before 1960 remembers the 1966 TV series Batman. And there are ...

9. How Shall We Pray?

Luke 11:1-13

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... in it. How many of you know the Lord's Prayer? It begins, "Our Father which art in Heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Give us this day our daily bread..." I thought about the idea of daily bread as I was reading about baby robins. Did you know that a baby robin eats almost 100 meals a day--most of them before noon? Wow! What a big breakfast. Jesus told us that God watches over the smallest, most insignificant bird. God makes certain that the baby ...

10. Good News about Sparrows

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... the sparrow became front page news in Great Britain. The London Daily Telegraph ran a clever headline that said, “Rev. Robin Orders Death of Sparrow.” Editorials and letters to the editor flowed, chastising the cruel and unusual punishment for this lowly ... has such an intimate knowledge of us that He knows every hair on our heads. You think you are alone as you face your problems each day. There is One who is even closer to us than the air we breathe. He knows our needs. And He cares about us. We are God ...

11. Was There No Other Way?

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... stuck himself. And the diving back and forth to the nails and to the thorns on the man’s head, the little brown robin got his little breast all red with blood, and since then he has been known as the bird with the red breast. It’s just a legend, of course. But it reminds us of the seriousness of this day. The prophet Isaiah tried to prepare us for Good Friday. Hundreds of years before Christ’s birth Isaiah wrote, “He was despised and rejected . . . a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like ...

12. What's So Good About Feeling Bad?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Joann Hary

... of who we are as humans. But is the health magazine right? Is feeling "bad" good for us? How often does the examination paper of life have a question we are so sure we can't answer, yet a few days later if someone asks us what we were so worried about, we can't even remember what it was? Soon the robins will be back and they will one more time teach us a lesson that we so soon forget. We watch them as they peck in the ground seeking for worms, and they sometimes look despairingly down into the dead ...

13. Trees

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... being who they are. There is a silly story about a little turtle who lived deep in the woods, near a beautiful clean pond. One day he began climbing a tree. It took hours for him to reach the top. Then, waving his little arms and legs, he jumped off ... there for a while, shook it off, and slowly started climbing up the tree once again. Two robins sitting in their nest watched the little turtle's pitiful efforts. Finally, the female robin turned to the male and said, "I don't care what you say, I'm going to ...

14. Do You Hear What I Hear?

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... We might wish that the passing on of faith in God might be as automatic as the process of building a nest for a robin or a hummingbird or a Baltimore oriole. But we know that the passing on of faith is a personal thing, and cannot be ... to hear the message, has anything of significance happened? It is a worthwhile enterprise to find effective ways of securing a hearing in these days. It is a valid focus to question the assumption that it's "normal" for two thirds of a typical Christian congregation not to be ...

15. Something Good Can Come From Nazareth

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Brett Blair

... bible study, invite them to Sunday school, invite them to worship service, invite them to a church activity. I like the story of the two robins sitting in a tree. "I'm really hungry," said the first one. "Me too," said the second one. "Let's fly down and find some ... went to the United States as a young man to study in one of your fine universities, intending to become a lawyer. On my first day on campus, a student dropped by to visit. He welcomed me and offered to help in any way he could. Then he asked me ...

16. Oh, Jerusalem

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... happens we feel like we have to use the garage door instead of the front door to enter and exit our home, and we can't use the light either. So for several days we would take off all the dried grass, string, twigs, and weeds that the mother robin painstakingly placed on the lamp. After about a week we had to go out of town for a couple days and that's all it took. The nest was made, the eggs were laid, and we were using the garage door as an entryway once more. Would that we were as persistent in ...

17. Easter Is True

Luke 24:13-35 · 1 Peter 1:17-23

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , scientific person to be a Christian." And you can see his point. For if you step aside from the glorious music of this day, the beauty of this building, the order and solemnity of this place and hear again the Easter story, as if hearing for the first ... me to preach an Easter sermon about the butterfly emerging from the cocoon, the budding of the crocus, or the return of the robin. No such poetic drivel can help. That somehow the forces of life and death were reversed and overcome and Christ was let loose ...

18. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... you, can’t he? I remember a childhood poem: "Said the robin to the sparrow, I would really like to know Why those anxious human beings Rush about and worry so. Said the sparrow to the robin, Well, think that it must be That they have no ... a permanent place in the order of things. Excessive anxiety, the kind and pulls us apart and afflicts us with sleepless nights and fragmented days, is a lie against God who has given us such dignity in creation and who has come in Christ to restore the dignity we have ...

19. When Seeing is Not Believing

John 20:19-31

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... the questions, we take the step which leads toward the Risen Christ. And in that moment, we discover that believing is seeing. Robin Lovin, Dean of Perkins School of Theology, says: Resurrection faith is not true because you can prove it, like a theorem ... to him of the truth of the Gospel. His friends like JRR Tolkien challenged his atheism and led him in the quest of faith. Then the day came. He writes: The odd thing was that before God closed in on me, I was in fact offered what now appears to have been a ...

20. Death of the Unchurched For a Recovering Alcoholic

Eulogy

Alan Bacon Bond

... of it. Ministering to you in Christ's name I declare our sins are forgiven. Psalm 23 Scripture - 2 Corinthians 4:13--5:5 MeditationPeg, Robin, Lara, Bob, Paul, Chet, Mr. and Mrs. Colburn, we sat and talked on Wednesday afternoon about Bill and all he meant to you as a ... the wisdom to know the difference. Have mercy, O God, on Bill's family, that by your tender ministries they may draw day by day on your strength until at last each of us realizes your healing power and our grief is relieved. We give you thanks ...

21. Sweet-Smelling Fragrance

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... that would help them be recognized by their neighbors as good people. Yet morals are difficult to learn and adopt. As Robin Lovin, Dean of Perkins School of Theology, has noted,2 most Christians do not realize how serious are the obstacles to ... the fence. He told his father about his success. The father suggested that the boy now pull out a nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The day finally came when he was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The father led the boy out ...

22. The Phrase We Never Want to Hear

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... ulcer. As a result, medical journals around the world began publishing their research. Dr. Barry Marshall and Dr. Robin Warren were awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine. And today, peptic ulcers are easily treatable and stomach ... rights campaign in Montgomery, Alabama. One night, he got an anonymous call from a man who said that King’s house would be bombed in three days if they didn’t get out of town. Fear filled Dr. King as he thought about the danger facing him and his family if he continued ...

23. The Way of a Saint

Revelation 7:9-17 · Luke 6:20-31

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... and spirituality . . .” Before shooting Cheryl and Barbara, Flores had killed a young woman named Robin Rogers in another part of the building. Robin was active in her church and a leader for the contemporary praise service. Says Tolson ... was the way they died that taught others how to live.” (3) It is a tragic, yet inspiring story. As we celebrate this All Saints Day we need to be reminded of the price many of our spiritual ancestors paid that we might have the life changing Gospel of Jesus Christ today ...

24. Worry Wart or Winning Warrior

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... freed us from its crippling grip. Many of the problems we cannot eliminate instantly can be moved one piece at a time, one day at a time. Our scripture lesson read a few moments ago stated, "So do not be anxious about tomorrow, tomorrow will be ... written by the Poet Elizabeth Cheney: "Overheard in an Orchard" Said the Robin to a Sparrow, "I should like to know Why these anxious human beings Rush about and worry so." Said the Sparrow to the Robin, "I think that it must be That they have no heavenly Father ...

25. Winning over Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... robin, Friend, I think that it must be That they have no heavenly Father Such as cares for you and me.(6) What Jesus wants us to know is that we do INDEED have such a heavenly Father...and because of that we do not have to spend all our time worrying about the necessities of life. We can live one day ... . Today's trouble is enough for today." Peter Marshall once prayed, "Help us to do our very best this day and be content with today's troubles so that we shall not borrow the troubles of tomorrow. Save us from ...

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