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Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... canceled the debt and let him go. But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. He grabbed his fellow servant and began to choke him. “Pay back what you owe me!” he demanded. His fellow servant fell to ... to purchase drugs. In other words, she was simply an innocent bystander—collateral damage. But she was killed, nonetheless. Ron Flowers became a Christian in prison, but still he refused to admit that he was guilty of this murder. However ...

2. He Is Risen!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Master comforted that heartbroken pastor, and he hasn't been back to that cemetery since. He knows now that the cemetery is not Ron's home. Ron is alive because his Redeemer is alive! (1) You and I are here in this place and at this time because we know ... which to hunt and utensils with which to cook in the happy hunting ground to which they had departed. The Greeks put a silver coin in the mouth of their corpses that they might pay Charon, the ferryman, to cross them over the river Styx. The Egyptians ...

3. Eyes Set on Jerusalem

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That six-letter word was “Rescue.” ‘Hope in Nepal,” says Ron Hutchcraft, “depended on--as it is in so many disasters--a rescuer from above. And that,” says Ron Hutchcraft “is where [this news story] intersects my life and yours. Because ... accused of having a demon, yet He cast out demons. Jesus wept, yet He wipes away our tears. Jesus was sold for thirty pieces of silver, yet He redeemed the world. Jesus was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, yet He is the Good Shepherd. Jesus died, yet by His ...

4. God Where Are You? - The Problem of Evil

Genesis 3:1-6, Judges 6:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... throughout history? And how could God - all-good and all-just, according to Christian theology, permit the person who murdered Ron and Nicole to go free…When Judge Ito's clerk, Deidre Roberson, read the jury's not-guilty verdict Nicole's ... kings and counselors of the earth, who built for themselves places now lying in ruins, with rulers who had gold, who filled their houses with silver. Or why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?" (Job 3:11 ...

5. Ready For A Change

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... when Jesus walks into their life. Many years ago, journalist Lee Strobel investigated a story about a hardened gang member named Ron Bronski. Bronski found God in prison. As an atheist, Lee Strobel was skeptical of Bronski's story. In fact, he expected ... luxurious ocean liners in the world back in the 1930s and '40s. The tables of this great liner bore the finest china and silver. Its private berths were spacious and well-decorated. But during World War II, the Queen Mary was commissioned to serve as a troop ...

6. Who Wants To Be a Millionaire

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... villages. How could it be materialism? These villagers didn't have cars, televisions, or satellite dishes; not even homes. But this villager said to Ron, "If a man has a mud hut, he wants one made out of cow manure; if he has a cow-manure hut he wants ... refers to rats and worms that could get into a person's grain and eat it up. Then people had wealth in the form of gold and silver. The only problem was there were no banks or vaults back in those days, and the only place to really keep your money was in your ...

7. Eyewitness News

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... our protests to the contrary, we have a subtle fear down in our hearts that the Gospel is simply too good to be true? Author Ron Mehl writes about a bridge in his home town of Portland, Oregon that goes nowhere. When the bridge was built back in the mid-1960s ... celebrities. Among them were Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Well, not really. But they certainly brought the tragedy to life on the silver screen. The sinking of the Titanic is one of the best-known events of the twentieth century. But how do we ...

8. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... a deliberate act by one of the closest men to the Lord. Each Lenten season we come to the same troubling question. Why did Judas betray his Master? Thirty pieces of silver was a paltry sum. Why go to the trouble? There is evidence to indicate that before the betrayal, Judas had a place of honor among the disciples. The fact that he was ... New York: Harper Collins, 2006), pg. 151. 3. The Clergy Journal, May/June, 1992, p. 29. Cited by Dr. Ron Parker, http://www.gbgm‑umc.org/epworthberkeley/MSG/020414RP.html.

9. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... only way we grow. John Steele Gordon in an issue of American Heritage magazine makes an interesting observation. He notes that in the story, Silver Blaze, the clue that most interested Sherlock Holmes was the dog that didn't bark in the night. Why didn't it bark? Gordon ... . 1. Kathryn Lindskoog, "What do You Say to Job?" Leadership (Spring 1985), 93-94. Quoted in Ron Lee Davis, Healing Life's Hurts (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1986). 2. Jefferson, Jon. "Sooner or Later, You've Got to Pay." The Knoxville News-Sentinel ...

10. Don't Forget What You Look Like

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the tabernacle in the wilderness, the Bible records that Moses made a complete record of how every item had been used. The gold and the silver, the brass and every precious item were accounted for, to the very last piece. Why did he do this?4 Moses did this for ... The Autobiography of St. Ignatius Loyola, trans. by Joseph F. O'Callaghan, S. J. (New York: Harper & Row, 1974), p. 23. Ron Hansen has a clear treatment of the stated events in his chapter, "The Pilgrim," in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers ...

11. The Writing on the Wall

Daniel 5:1-31

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... false gods—and his nobles share his culpability (cf. 5:3–4; Isa. 44:9–20).11The idols are made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron, recalling Nebuchadnezzar’s statue (Dan. 2:31–45) and foreshadowing the continuing fulfillment of God’s judgment. Though Belshazzar ... in false wisdom is especially dangerous in those with influence. Culture: The modern Scientology movement began with L. Ron Hubbard’s self-help book Dianetics in 1952. Its beliefs, which include spiritual beings caught in human bodies ...

12. Only the Lost and the Least

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Ron Lavin

A woman approached her pastor with a question: "Where is the lost and found department in our church? I've lost my glasses and I just can't see well." The pastor replied, "We don't actually have a lost and found department. You might check the secretary's desk. Maybe you'll find your glasses there." After the woman left, the pastor rethought his answer. "Actually, the whole church is a lost and found department. The business of the church is to find the lost." The incident that gave rise to Jesus' parables ...

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