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Sermon
King Duncan
... Sarah was a princess. Her father, a ruling member of the Mende Tribe in Bumpe, Sierra Leone, was living in Africa. By birthright, Sarah was royalty. She could one day be known as paramount chief in a country she’s never seen. Talking with ABC’s Robin Roberts on “Good Morning America,” Sarah said it took a while to process the shock of discovering her biological dad. For one thing, “It took a couple of years to kind of deal with finding my father and having two dads,” she said. Her African father ...
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
... itself ends in confusion. “We had 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 to say “Eating honey,” but then ... your church will now have ways of becoming reality. Opening paragraphs of Wayne Cordeiro and Robert Lewis, Culture Shift: Transforming Your Church from the Inside Out (Jossey-Bass, 2005).
3. Flying High
Mark 10:35-45
Sermon
King Duncan
... 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 ... christians. 6. Margaret Mead, The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future, ed., Robert B. Textor (New York: Berghahn, 2005), 12. 7. http://day1.org/5721-everyone_loves_a_parade. 8. “Are Ye Able.” ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... No wolf!" Not wanting to create strife just before bedtime, Rob sighs and replies, "Okay, Jack. It’s okay. No wolf." "Already," says Robin Meyers, the author of this powerful story, "at the age of two, the little boy has an understanding of evil. If he had ... the force of the winds because of the weight that it bore. "The weight of your responsibilities may rest heavily upon you," says Robert Shannon, "but that weight may be the very thing that keeps you from being swept away by the storm of sin." (4) Is ...
5. Trees
Jeremiah 16:1--17:18
Sermon
King Duncan
... to the ground. He lay 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 tell him he's adopted ... TRUE. Http://www.thisistrue.com. 5. Author unknown. 6. "To Illustrate" by Robert Shannon, Preaching, July/Aug 1999, p. 49. 7. "How Do We Evaluate a Youth Ministry?" Good News Nov./ Dec. 1999 p. 8. Harrison House, Tulsa ...
6. Oh, Jerusalem
Luke 13:31-35
Sermon
Frank Ramirez
... , and we were using the garage door as an entryway once more. Would that we were as persistent in working for God's kingdom as that robin was in making her nest. In addition to persistence we must never set ourselves apart, so that what happens in the world seems to happen to ... ­ten. In my life, events such as the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, the destruction on September 11, 2001, are defining moments. The ...
Eulogy
Alan Bacon Bond
... God's eternal realm, a promise made through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 2. To remember before God a servant of God, Andrew William Hartmann. 3. To support one another, especially Bill's family including his wife Peg and their children Robin, Lara, Robert, Paul and Chet. Prayer of Invocation Almighty and Gracious God, in whom we live and move and have our being, we present ourselves before you as a people stunned by a sudden loss, seeking the counsel of your truth, the strength of your ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... sense of peace. “Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” 1. THE JOKESMITH 2. Dr. Robin R. Meyers, The Virtue in The Vice: Finding Seven Lively Virtues in The Seven Deadly Sins ( Deerfield Beach, FL: Health Communications, Inc., 2004). 3. Donald M. ... Roseveare. Transcribed from a tape of her address at Columbia Bible College. “The Wedding Banquet,” Dr. Robert Rayburn, http://www.faithtacoma.org/sermons/Matthew/Matthew75.22.1‑14.Jul3.05.htm.
9. The Way of a Saint
Revelation 7:9-17 · Luke 6:20-31
Sermon
King Duncan & Angela Akers
... in Christianity Today magazine students were taking their mid-terms. Few of them even noticed when a fellow student named Robert Flores entered their classroom carrying a handgun. Flores walked up to the professor, Cheryl McGaffic, and asked her a ... ethics 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, “Apparently ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... winds or drawn by the moon’s gravitational pull. A few earthquakes have caused rivers to temporarily reverse course. Robin Bell, a geophysics professor from Columbia University, says that massive ice sheets in the Antarctic create downward pressure on ... clear that when humanity is restored to God, we will no longer desire war. We will turn our weapons into instruments of peace. Robert Capa was a famous photojournalist who specialized in war photos. He risked his life on the front lines of battle, and his ...
11. Blinding Specks
Matthew 7:1-6
Sermon
Herchel H. Sheets
... pack among a strange collection of items from the past: the wolf that devoured Little Red Riding-Hood, Nero’s fiddle, Robin Hood’s arrows, Sir Walter Raleigh’s tobacco pipes, the inkstand which Martin Luther threw at the devil, and many other ... more attention to the why, and not just to the what, of others’ faults and wrongs, we might be more sympathetic toward them. Robert Burns wrote: Then gently scan your brother man, Still gentler sister woman; Though they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is ...
12. Broken Hydrants
Jeremiah 17:19-27
Sermon
King Duncan
... in self-pity. "I had a `right' to feel self-pity," she says. Within the space of a year she lost her child Robin; her father died; and she came down with a crippling illness. An inner ear infection with serious complications gave her double vision, ... us. That hope is in loving God and loving our neighbor. THIS KIND OF LIFE BEGINS WITH A NEW ORIENTATION TOWARD GOD THROUGH CHRIST. Robert Fulghum, author of such books as ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN always had a secret dream of conducting ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... us while we are awaiting the culmination of God's plan? OUR TASK IS TO MAKE THE MOST OF THE PRESENT. In the words of the Robin Williams character in the movie, The Dead Poets Society, "Carpe diem" or seize the day." In the movie Williams plays an English teacher who takes ... second is the time we spend with God. God is our primary resource for coping with an unknown future. Dr. Robert Schuller tells a remarkable story about Christy Wilson, a missionary-educator in Afghanistan. A few years ago there was a near ...
Sermon
Eric Ritz
... Jesus will always have a word to share with his church, so we can reflect more of his love and light. I thought Robert Schuller would have been proud of me. Snow tires on--95 degrees outside. Talk about possibility thinking! Let us look at verses 1- ... us all, and Christ does not play favorites! The cross is all the fame, fortune and favored status we will ever need. Recently Robin Leach, host of the TV show, Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous, said, "After interviewing hundreds of rich and famous people, it is ...
15. An Empty Tomb
Matthew 28:1-10
Sermon
Robert Allen
... egg and show what they found. A little girl opened hers and a pretty flower fell out. A little boy opened his and half of a robin egg fell out. Another little boy opened his and the butterfly that he caught in the yard flew out. Then, it was time to open Amy ... , politics, or anything else I could think of. Finally, I asked him, "Joe, doesn't it bother you? Aren't you frightened?" He smiled and said, "Robert, I know I'm not going to make it, but I'm not afraid. I have a confession to make. I've taken a peek at ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... couldn’t connect with the world around them or communicate with anyone. Dr. Sacks’ experiments with this new drug were so successful that he published a book on his findings. The book titled Awakenings was made into a movie starring Robin Williams and Robert DeNiro. In the movie, Robert DeNiro’s character, Leonard, has been in a catatonic state for thirty years. The drug therapy brings him out of this sleepwalking state and allows him to return, at least for a while, to some semblance of a normal life ...
17. When We Are Weak
2 Corinthians 12:7-10
Sermon
King Duncan
... A. A. Milne’s WINNIE-THE-POOH. Milne writes: “Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way . . . if only he ... , 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 ...
Sermon
George Johnson
... 10 years ago. Following Jesus is a lifelong journey that takes you through many stages and growth experiences. Janet Hagberg and Robert Guelich have an interesting book called The Critical Journey which talks about stages of one's faith journey. I recommend it ... began "learning war" when we were given children's war toys, or when we watched movies and videos that exalted war. In the movie Robin Hood, there are more than 250 acts of violence. In the media these days there is talk of war. We are preparing, we ...
Sermon
Harold Warlick
... conjure up images and illusions of perfection and get divorced when reality and its people aren't perfect. We want our teachers to be like Robin Williams, our wives to be like Meryl Streep, our boyfriends to be like Mel Gibson, and our girlfriends to be like Cindy Crawford in heat ... a shibboleth, a word to emblazon all they were about. The word appeared from two writers, Thomas Peters and Robert Watterman, who made their livelihood consorting with the pharaohs. The word was excellence. Soon we were knee-deep ...
20. The Dreamer Within You
Joel 2:18-27, Joel 2:28-32
Sermon
Richard Hasler
... England prep school steeped in tradition and discipline. Into this rather stiff environment comes a new English instructor played by Robin Williams. He has an unorthodox method of teaching. He stands on his desk at times to make a point. He ... will enliven us, interpret and re-interpret our intentions, and keep us moving ahead in a grand adventure of Faith. Business executive Robert E. Greenleaf in his provocative book, Servant Leadership, has a lot to say about goal-setting. He is convinced that the church ...
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
... the way it always is. We go down one way rather than another, and our whole career is colored thereby. That is what the poet, Robert Frost, was saying, “Two roads diverged into a wood, and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” ... see it. It is a marvelous account of a doctor’s life, based on a true story. Patch, played by that inimitable Robin Williams, became so depressed that he was tempted to suicide. Instead, he checked himself into a mental hospital. It was in that ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... sleepwalkers, if they walked at all, lost in an inaccessible dreamland. Dr. Sacks’ use of the drug on these patients yielded such dramatic results that he wrote a book about it. His book was later made into a movie, called Awakenings, starring Robin Williams as the doctor and Robert DeNiro as Leonard Lowe, the first patient to be “awakened.” After thirty years of existing in a sleep‑like state, Leonard suddenly regains his ability to walk and talk. In one scene in the movie, he’s so excited by his ...
Sermon
James Merritt
... is known as the father of modern-day missions. In 1792 in Nottingham, England, where the famous Sherwood Forest of Robin Hood legend exists, there was a debate that took place. This young cobbler stood before a group of ministers, and ... , and every time we do, no matter to whom, when, or where, we are then putting our best foot forward. 1. Robert Linder, God's Extraordinary Plodder: William Carey, Ambassadors for Christ: Distinguished Representatives of the Message Throughout the World, John D. Woodbridge, ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... resurrections. Not one person died in his presence. He came upon those who were already dead and resurrected them and gave them new life. (1) Some of you may remember a motion picture from the early 1990s titled, Awakenings. The film starred Robin Williams and Robert De Niro, and was directed by Penny Marshall. It was nominated for three Academy Awards. Awakenings was based on the real life experiences of Dr. Oliver Sacks, a neurologist who sought to treat a mysterious illness that swept across Europe and ...
25. 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
Theme: Jesus, when He taught the kingdom truths in His Sermon on the Mount, turned the values of the world upside down. Summary: Robin Hood is questioned about his practice of stealing and decides to quit. Playing Time: 6 minutes Costumes: Legendary Props: Robin -- an apple with an arrow through it Place: Sherwood Forest Time: The time of legends Cast: ROBIN HOOD FRIAR TUCK LITTLE JOHN ROBIN HOOD: (enters carrying an apple with an arrow piercing it) Ho, there. LITTLE JOHN: (takes apple and begins to eat it ...
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