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Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... darkly. No little human brain will ever contain the awesome import of what Christ did upon Calvary. All we know is that something happened there that makes it possible for me and you to live confidently, creatively, in the knowledge that we are sons and daughters of the King. S.D. Gordon once tried to express the joy of that truth like this: He told about a time when he was out walking and met a little boy who had a cage of four birds. He asked the little boy, "Son, what are you going to do with those birds ...

2. Ruth: The Problem of Grief

Ruth 1:1-8, 16-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... You don't want these birds," replied the boy. “They are worthless—they don't sing or anything." Nevertheless I hung in there until I bought the birds. Then I took them to the park and set them free. Then S.D. Gordon leaned over the pulpit and said this: God saw Satan playing around with the people God had made in His own image. God said to Satan— What are you going to do with my people? Satan replied, “I'm going to tease them a while, make them marry and divorce, ...

3. Welcome To The Mountain. Now Go Home

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ. So, my closing words to you are these: "Welcome to the mountain. Now go home." 1. Wilma Dykeman 2. Sherwood Eliot Wirt, A THIRST FOR GOD (Minneapolis: World Wide Publications, 1986). 3. Jack Gulledge, IDEAS AND ILLUSTRATIONS FOR INSPIRATIONAL TALKS (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1986). 4. David A. Seamands, GOD'S BLUEPRINT FOR LIVING (Wilmore, KY.: Bristol Books, 1988). 5. S.D. Gordon, QUIET THOUGHTS ON PRAYER.

4. Never Let Them See You Sweat (Fruit of the Spirit: Self-Control)

Galatians 5:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me…" A great preacher by the name of S. D. Gordon, used to say, "In every man's life there is a throne, and when self is on that throne, Christ is on the cross. But when Christ is on that ... only be controlled from within. Self-control is a matter of Spirit-control. The way to self-control is surrender to the Spirit's control. I want to share with you my definition of self-control. Self-control is when you are so filled with, and led by ...

5. Never Too Old for an Adventure

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... a matter of trust. It is simply a matter of accepting God's grace. It is simply a matter of allowing Christ to make the critical difference in your life. 1. James Hewett, HOW TO LIVE CONFIDENTLY IN A HOSTILE WORLD, (Dallas, Texas: Word Publishing, 1989). 2. Gordon MacDonald, REBUILDING YOUR BROKEN WORLD, (Nashville: Nelson Publishers, 1988), pp. 192-193. 3. S. D. Gaede, FOR ALL WHO HAVE BEEN FORSAKEN, (Grand Rapids, MI: Broadmoor Books, 1989), pp. 5-9. 4. James W. Moore, HEALING WHERE IT HURTS, (Nashville ...

6. For the Glory of Christ

John 12:20-33 · Hebrews 5:5-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... we will never know for sure. However, it is interesting to note that from that day on, every time Larry Doby went out onto the field he first picked up Joe Gordon's glove and tossed it to him. You see, that's family. That's caring that some one else succeeds. That's caring for someone else's feelings. That's being a servant and being obedient to God's will. Did you know that there are some people in every church who feel threatened if other people do well? They're jealous if any one else receives a little ...

7. An Announcement in Song

Psalm 98:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... their pool cues and rednecks were heading for the gun rack, I’d start playing ‘Silent Night.’ It could be the middle of July I didn’t care. Sometimes, I swear, they’d even start crying, standing there watching me sweat and play Christmas carols ... circumstances. The movie won an Academy Award. Ernest Gordon, later to become chaplain at Yale, was among those prisoners. He wrote a book called Through the River of the Kwai, which told how these P.O.W.s dealt with the degradation and desolation of this ...

8. Worthy Is The Lamb

Revelation 5:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... see God when you look way up at the trees. You can kind of see a face. It looks like a face. Maybe it's Him." (1) Pastor Gordon MacDonald admits that he had a lot of misconceptions about God when he was a little boy. The church he attended as a child had ... to being right?" he asks. The students protest that there is no right answer because a person's favorite song is strictly a matter of taste. This pastor, who has a Ph.D. in philosophy from Notre Dame asks, "When you decide what to believe in terms of your ...

9. I'm O.k.; You're A Little Suspect

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... and murder are major sins, and God should be just as repulsed by these sins as we are. That's what we'd like to think. But it's a lie. A sin is anything . . . anything . . .anything that separates us from God. Anything. Romans 3: 23 says ... She was, in a word, charming. After the clergyman left, the society matron lay down on her couch and died of a massive stroke. Arthur Gordon has always wondered if the woman was overcome by the extreme effort required to be charming to someone she disliked. (6) No amount of ...

10. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... be an exposé. The tragically ironic aftermath of the film, however, was that, rather than causing people to despise such people as Gordon Gekko, many young people began to identify with him. The film inspired these young men and women to go to work on ... just as discouraged as before. Still trying to be positive, Mark told Nancy he’d go with her the next time to see what was wrong. When they arrived at the college where Nancy’s club trained, he understood why Nancy felt so out of place. She had joined ...

11. The Just-In-Case God

Acts 17:22-31

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... underworld. These newly-unearthed tablets had been thrown down a well in an ancient cemetery in Athens. (4) And that brings me to a question I’d like us to consider this morning: Does it matter what god we worship? Does it matter if we know much about God or not? So long ... the time for debate and discussion is over. Now is the time for decision. Sir Gordon Guggisberg was a British Army officer who served in Ghana and Africa’s Gold Coast in the early 1900s. In 1919, he was appointed Governor of the Gold ...

12. We Can't Afford It! Oh, Really?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... of faith. A church that has inspired many people through the years is The Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C. under the leadership of Gordon Cosby. This is a group of people who know about acting on faith. For example, many years ago, when they ... We’re not told. Some scholars think so. All we know is this, when Jesus is around, the problem is not resources, it is faith. It’s commitment. We can always do what he called us to do. St. Paul put it like this in our lesson from Ephesians: “Now to him who ...

13. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... far as he was concerned at that point his life was about over. He would soon run out of fuel and crash. “Don’t worry,” the test pilot said. “Everything’s going to be OK. I’m going to pull in front of you several hundred yards. Do everything I do. When I turn, I’ll turn gently. All you have to ... . 26. 3. Copyright 1998, The Associated Press. 4. Gordon MacDonald, Christ Followers in the Real World, Oliver Nelson, Nashville, 1991, p. 39. 5. Myers, D. G., The Pursuit of Happiness (New York: Avon, ...

14. Hungry For God

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the store who did not know quite what to say or do. On his third advance, Gordon's companion realized he was facing a mirror. "Why!" he cried, "it's only me!" He made a grand bow to his reflection. "Good to see you, old boy! Merry ... You." Christian singer Chris Rice begins a song about searching for God with these words: "I would take "˜no' for an answer, just to know I'd heard Your voice." But why would God remove His presence from His chosen people, the people of Israel? This was the same God who had ...

15. Paul the Apostle of the New Covenant to the Gentiles

Romans 15:14-22

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... sees himself as a central figure in salvation history whose mission to the Gentiles will usher in the end time. (d) Paul’s language in 15:16 about Gentiles being a sacrificial offering to God represents, as Douglas Moo observes, the eschatological ... for death. . . . Love, heroism, self-sacrifice, sympathy, mercy, integrity and creative faith . . . were the essence of life.”7 Later, Gordon says, “Through our readings and discussions we gradually came to know Jesus. He was one of us. . . . We understood ...

16. Daddy, I'm Afraid

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... from them. Do you remember a unique individual who came to national attention following the infamous Watergate scandal, a man named G. Gordon Liddy? He’s still around. He sometimes shows up on Fox News. Liddy is one person who confronts his fear. He says that when he ... hearts no longer we need not fear God. And with God on our side, we need fear nothing in this world. Pastor Billy D. Strayhorn tells about a nature show that was on television sometime back. It was about a mama black bear that had given ...

17. Year-Round Christmas

1 Kings 17:1-24

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , a Gentile city, along the Mediterranean coast near the mighty cities of Tyre and Sidon, and close to the ancestral home of Ahab's Queen Jezebel - no doubt, a little divine "in your face" business going on here. God says, "I have commanded a widow in that place ... . Somewhere in your travels you may have heard the name Gordon Cosby (no relation to Bill that I know of). This one is the founder and pastor of the Church of the Savior in Washington, D.C. Gordon tells of an incident that occurred when he was a ...

18. Naomi and Ruth

Ruth 1:1-22

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... 60). On Kilion, the proper name Ki-li-ya-nu is attested at Ugarit and listed in the glossary of C. H. Gordon, Ugaritic Textbook (Roma: Pontificium Institum Biblicum, 1965) no. 1238. On the Ephrathites, H. Cazelles argues (“Bethlehem,” ABD 1:712) for an ... She was left: C. Barth discusses death’s ability to intimidate the living in Die Erretung vom Tode in den individuellen Klage-und Dankliedern des alten Testaments (Basel: Zollikon, 1947), pp. 87–94. D. N. Fewell and D. M. Gunn (“ ‘A Son is Born ...

19. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... can climb one branch after another. You can do anything!" He feels that by loving he can achieve anything. "Go as high as you’d like!" he cries. Then he disappears, and there is silence on the stage. In a little while, he slowly comes down again. He is ... because he was sure one of them had stolen it. Gordon described the scene thus: Screaming in broken English, he demanded that the guilty one step forward to take his punishment. No one moved. The guard’s rage reached new heights of violence. "All die! All ...

20. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of people. There are two sources of suffering in this world. One source is sin. We break God's laws or nature's laws and we suffer. That is built into the very fabric of life. I walk out of this ... these disasters destroy the casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas? Or the crack houses in Washington, D.C.? Or the porno stores that are a blight on many cities? For that matter, why didn' ... the dog that didn't bark in the night. Why didn't it bark? Gordon goes on to say that in reading the latest Forbes list of the ...

21. Hope from a Stump

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... s reign would be over all. “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit . . .” He was describing hundreds of years in advance the coming of Jesus. A Messiah will come and righteousness shall rein triumphant. That wonderful writer Arthur Gordon ... when nothing else can . . . It gives us reason to continue and courage to move ahead, when we tell ourselves we’d rather give in . . . Hope puts a smile on our face when the heart cannot manage . . . Hope puts our feet on ...

22. Putting the World Back Together

John 20:1-9

Sermon

David O. Bales

... accounts in the four gospels and see how they disagree on the details they relate — exactly as you’d expect when people live through the world’s greatest event. Jesus’ resurrection is exciting and disorienting. Its consequences echo through lives and centuries and can never ... 1. C. Hoyt Watson, DeShazer (Coquitlam, B.C., Canada: Galaxy Communications, reprinted 1991). Gordon W. Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, and Katherine V. Dillon, God’s Samurai: Lead Pilot at Pearl Harbor (Washington: Brassey ...

23. The Crucifixion

Mark 15:21-32

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... two sites proposed for the crucifixion, one marked by the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the other called Gordon’s Calvary (named after Gen. Charles Gordon), near which is the site known as the Garden Tomb, one of the places proposed as Jesus’ burial site ... beam already planted in the ground. From the skeleton of a crucified man executed in the first century A.D., we know that the victim’s ankles were placed together and one large spike was driven through them from the side. (See the more complete ...

24. Counterfeit Christianity

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... about a famous athlete receiving a telephone call from a distinguished advertising agency requesting that he pose with a bottle of Gordon's Gin for a billboard campaign. The athlete replied: "Because of my religious beliefs I simply cannot do it." The executive said ... as the "Cotton Patch" version of the Bible. Jordan is a rare man. He earned a B.S. degree in Agriculture from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. in New Testament Greek. In the midst of the racially segregated south in the 1960s he attempted ...

25. Help For Troubled Hearts

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

Nissan Motors once used as its motto: WE ARE DRIVEN! According to Gordon MacDonald that phrase describes many of us. We are driven. Driven to acquire-driven to achieve-driven ... afraid of what lies ahead. Some of us are looking over our shoulder to what lies behind. Jesus says, "Look at today." There was another time he warned us about the C.D.T.’s. It was in the Sermon on the Mount. "Do not be anxious about your life," he said. And he mentioned our inner turmoil about what we shall eat and what we shall ...

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