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Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... gentleness, and self-control. Those are the characteristics, says St. Paul, of persons who belong to Christ Jesus. Those are the characteristics of people who are genuinely free. Scott Brown visited in East Germany when the wall was still there. An East German pastor asked Scott this question, "Are the people in the West really free?" The question puzzled Scott. He asked an East German friend what the pastor meant. His friend said this: "You see, knowing God is true freedom." Referring to his own land, his ...

2. In the Light of His Glory

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... as that great philosopher of the comic strips, Charlie Brown, once decided that it was. Lucy is saying to him, “Life is a mystery Charlie Brown . . . Do you know the answer?” Charlie Brown answers, “Be kind. Don’t smoke. Be prompt. Smile ... of Christ. Christ, who is a dependable guide, whose love never fails. “If you look in the dictionary,” writes Pastor Scott Coltrain, “the first definition for ‘light’ is ‘something that makes vision possible.’ In other words, light makes it possible for ...

3. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... articles and even teaches seminars on the topic of approachability. And it all started with a simple name tag: “Hi, my name is Scott.” (4) What if Jesus’ love was “tattooed” on our actions, attitudes and priorities? What if everything we said, did or thought flowed ... Sourcebook Creative Sermon Illustrations (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2007), p. 463. 4. “What You See Sticks” by Rick Brown, 1Life2Love. 5. Roberta Bondi, To Pray and To Love (Fortress Press), 1991, pp. 14-15. Cited by Pastor ...

4. Responsible Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... crunchy in the hallway. When she turned on the light, she saw that the floor was covered with little round pieces of dark brown paper. She followed the trail of candy wrappers and found a totally empty box of See’s candy! Jeanie was stunned. She thought ... mature is to be responsible. To be a follower of Jesus Christ is to be responsible. If you have read Dr. M. Scott Peck’s very popular book The Road Less Traveled, you know the emphasis he places upon accepting responsibility. Dr. Peck is both ...

5. The Marked Man

Sermon

George Bass

... that they will live with Christ forever, and the mark of the marked man is there. When Jennifer watched her baby brother Scott’s baptism several years ago, she posed what might be the most crucial question that we should be asking at the beginning, ... everyone who believes, for every age, for all time! He has opened the way into the kingdom of heaven for each of us, as Browning declared, “A hand like this hand shall throw open the gates of new life to thee! See the Christ (the risen Christ) stand!” So ...

6. On Living Before You Die

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... don''t use the treasure He has for them. Our orientation gets mixed up. We aim our lives in the wrong direction. Charlie Brown in the PEANUTS cartoon comes to the kitchen one morning in his PJ''s and says to his mother, "Mom, I think I'' ... m lonesome." "Well, I''m sure somebody will come shortly and be with you, Tommy." With this, Tommy pulled up to his full stature, looked Dr. Scott in the eye and asked, "What about you?" Well, what about us? What about you? What about me? We may have only one talent, we may ...

7. The Word And Words

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , I just want to ask you one question. On the ship of life, which way is your deck chair facing?" Charlie Brown responds: "Gee whiz, Lucy, I'm still trying to figure out how to open mine up." There's a parable in that -- a parable for our life. We need direction. Scott Peck opens his very helpful, best selling book, The Road Less Traveled, with this simple sentence, "Life is difficult." Well, it is. It's difficult at every level. Do we believe that there is a distinctive Christian response to life? If not ...

8. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... In Charles Schulz's PEANUTS cartoon, Charlie Brown and Lucy are discussing the meaning of existence. "Why do you think we're put here on earth, Charlie Brown?" Lucy asks. "To make others happy," answers Charlie Brown. Lucy is not pleased with this answer ... . H. Lawrence said that their moral could be characterized like this: "Avoid one thing only: getting connected up (to anyone)." Scott Donaldson, in a study of Hemingway, says that that really was his philosophy. Hemingway once fired a babysitter because his ...

9. Thorns of Grace

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... is victory for the anguished of heart. We are God’s people. We are followers of Jesus Christ. With God’s help we can deal with any thorn, any obstacle, any heartache. Indeed, pain and suffering and loss can even bring us closer to God. Scott Wesley Brown is a well-known singer of contemporary Christian music. He tells of a time years ago when he was doing concerts in churches behind the iron curtain. One night he sang in a small church full of impoverished believers, who were obviously suffering for ...

10. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... how he could survive. Later, when he finally awoke enough to recognize the people around him, he saw a narrow face with large brown eyes looking down at him. "Remember me?" the man said to Turski, "You once saved my life in Vienna." And Turski was surprised ... God to use the unlikely to accomplish his will. III. Now a final affirmation: Any one of us may be God's borrowed razor. Scott Peck tells a story called "The Rabbi's Gift". "The story concerns a monastery that had fallen upon hard times. Once a great ...

11. No More Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... and death. This One is Jesus Christ and he has the power to call you forth from your tomb of tears and give you life once again. 1. Judy Brown, Squeaky Clean Comedy (Andrews McMeel, 2005). 2. The Wounded Warrior (Sisters, OR: Multnomah Publishers, Inc., 2006), p. 33. 3. Bruce J. Malina, Social-Science Commentary on the Gospel ... .org/Sermons/03‑13‑05.pdf 6. Ken Winter, http://www.auburnpresbyterian.org/pdf/sermons/Healing_Sermon_20070119.pdf. 7. Scott Bayles, http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/jesus-wept ...

12. But…!

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... dormant trees and bushes. The crocus and daffodils will be peeping out of the soil and bringing the first colors to the brown, dead landscape. The lilies that adorn our sanctuaries with their fragrant smell remind us of the flowers and fragrances that soon will ... to the modern world. The article was about the family of the Reverend Scott Willis, a Baptist minister in Chicago. In a freak accident with a truck on I-94, the Scott car exploded killing their six youngest children. The headline was "Still Thankful ...

13. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... of life” and Acts 5:31, absolutely, “Prince.” See G. Johnston, “Christ as Archēgos,” NTS 27 (1981), pp. 381–85; J. J. Scott, “Archēgos in the Salvation History of the Epistle to the Hebrews,” JETS 29 (1986), pp. 47–54. H. Bietenhard, NIDNTT, vol. 1 ... yet retaining an active statement of the work of Jesus. See the full discussion of the debate in H.-G. Link and C. Brown, NIDNTT, vol. 3, pp. 148–66. 2:18 The translation of peirazō by “test” rather than “tempt” (as in NEB) may be of ...

14. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... when we remember those who have given their lives in service to their country. A pastor, Scott Knowlton, has an ex-brother-in-law who served 24½ years in the Marine Corps. One day Scott saw a post on this Marine’s Facebook page. Here is what he had written: “Some ... company? 1. Contributed. Source unknown 2 (1-19-86. pp. 14-15). 3. Contributed. Source unknown. 4. (Waco: Word Books, Brown Spots edition, 1975) 5. Bill J. Vamos, The Life That Listens (Waco: Word Books, 1980). 6. Contributed. Source unknown. ...

15. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... one could be trusted. Truth is essential ” even when it hurts. In his book THE DIFFERENT DRUM, M. Scott Peck presents an interesting theory about relationships. He says God designed us to yearn for open, honest, authentic ... account of the life and ministry of the Word made flesh. This was their testimony and it is good enough for me. Truth is Christ. Steve Brown tells the story of a British soldier in the First World War who lost heart for the battle and deserted. Trying to reach the coast for ...

16. Right Choices

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... WINNER. THERE IS HOPE FOR YOU. BY MY GRACE , YOU CAN DO IT." In a PEANUTS strip Lucy is parked in her psychiatric booth, and Charlie Brown is sharing his problems with her. "Sometimes I ask myself questions," he begins. "Sometimes I ask myself, 'Is this your real life, or is this ... Myron S. Augsberger, THE COMMUNICATOR'S COMMENTARY MATTHEW (Waco, TX: Word Books, 1982), pp. 172, 173, 176. 2. Randy Scott, COUNTRY MUSIC REVEALED (New York: MetroBooks, 1995), p. 60. 3. Associated Press (1-17-91). Cited in Edward ...

17. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... are self-sufficient and maybe we are 99 percent of the time. But there are those times in life when we are helpless. Like Charlie Brown we have experienced one of those hard line drives that have knocked us off the pitcher's mound. And we turn where everyone must turn sooner ... love one another from the heart . . ." This is the ultimate secret of the Christian: Love. 1. "We've Been Hit!" by Scott Gold in the Los Angeles Times, reprinted in Reader's Digest, Dec. 2001, pp. 64-66. 2. By Steve Stephens. Answers to ...

18. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... a great gift. Most of us are not like that. Most of us wander. Drift. We try this. We dabble in that. We’re like Charlie Brown in an old Peanuts comic strip. Charlie Brown says with bewilderment, “I feel like I was born on the wrong planet!” Charlie’s like many of us, and it is a terrible feeling. In January of the year 1912 Robert Falcon Scott made a tragic journey to the South Pole. Afterward he described one occasion when weather conditions were such that a white haze blended with the whiteness ...

19. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... was the top editor at Charles Scribner’s Publishing Company for some years. He served as personal editor for F. Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), Ernest Hemingway (For Whom The Bell Tolls), Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel), as well as for ... . A lady named Peggy Piland, writing in Guideposts, tells about an interesting event in her life. She had been planning to make brown-sugar pound cake, her specialty, for her Sunday School teacher, Mrs. Howell, who had been in her thoughts. But suddenly the idea ...

20. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... her son had overheard, called him to her side. "If Mrs. Brown had left her purse here just now, would you give it to someone else?" "Of course not!" the boy replied. The Mom said: "Mrs. Brown left something far more precious than her purse. The story she ... the golden rule. "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." V. Endurance A. That brings us to Endurance. M Scott Peck's book The Road Less Traveled begins with three words. Three profoundly true words: "Life is hard." And because "Life is hard" ...

21. On Taking Candy from a Stranger

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? What is expected out of us with regard to obedience to God’s Law? In her junior year of high school, Pastor Barbara Brown Taylor dated a standout basketball player named David. David could have been the star of his high school basketball team. But because David ... .com/cbnnews/us/2018/february/freedom-in-christ-how-this-bible-was-used-to-manipulate. 5. “I was Superman” by Scott Stump, March 14, 2018, Today Show, https://www.today.com/news/nasa-tribute-stephen-hawking-shows-him-floating-zero-gravity-i ...

22. There Is Healing in the Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... “doctor who resides within” you the best chance to work. A “yes” means you are most vulnerable to illness.2 In a Charlie Brown comic strip, Linus is eating a sandwich. He makes this observation: “Hands are fascinating things. I like hands! I think I have nice ... therapeutic. Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles Medical Center; Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas; and Scott and White Clinic, Temple, Texas, have shown that hugging communicates tenderness, gentleness, caring-ness all ...

23. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... church in Lubbock, Texas, to experience the miracle of the Virgin Mary's appearance with a message. In The Road Less Traveled, Dr. M. Scott Peck reports his change of mind about miracles: "Fifteen years ago, when I graduated from medical school, I was certain there were no ... Eyes Can Be Opened, University Press of America, 1982. Barclay, William, And He Had Compassion, Judson, 1976. Brown, Colin, That You May Believe, Eerdmanns, 1985. Fuller, Reginald, Interpreting the Miracles, SCM, 1963. Lewis, C. S ...

24. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... church in Lubbock, Texas, to experience the miracle of the Virgin Mary's appearance with a message. In The Road Less Traveled, Dr. M. Scott Peck reports his change of mind about miracles: "Fifteen years ago, when I graduated from medical school, I was certain there were no ... Eyes Can Be Opened, University Press of America, 1982 .Barclay, William, And He Had Compassion, Judson, 1976. Brown, Colin, That You May Believe, Eerdmanns, 1985. Fuller, Reginald, Interpreting the Miracles, SCM, 1963. Lewis, C. S ...

25. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... little children. If we are wise and committed to the journey of life, we will continue to work on these maps all our lives. Dr. Scott Peck has written a book called The Road Less Traveled. In it he talks about the ability to see the world as it really ... asked for a baseball glove for months. Mother couldn't be home, so she left my present on the table. There it was in a brown S & H Green Stamp bag - a baseball glove. It was horrible. My folks knew nothing about baseball. It was too small. It was too ...

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1. Created For Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

2. In the Light of His Glory

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

3. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

4. Responsible Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

5. The Marked Man

Sermon

George Bass

6. On Living Before You Die

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

7. The Word And Words

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

8. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

9. Thorns of Grace

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

10. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

11. No More Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

12. But…!

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

13. Jesus Made Like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:5-18

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

14. An Army Officer Deeply Concerned

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

15. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

16. Right Choices

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

17. Loving From The Heart

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

18. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

19. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

20. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

21. On Taking Candy from a Stranger

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

22. There Is Healing in the Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

23. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

24. Preaching the Miracles of Jesus

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... church in Lubbock, Texas, to experience the miracle of the Virgin Mary's appearance with a message. In The Road Less Traveled, Dr. M. Scott Peck reports his change of mind about miracles: "Fifteen years ago, when I graduated from medical school, I was certain there were no ... Eyes Can Be Opened, University Press of America, 1982 .Barclay, William, And He Had Compassion, Judson, 1976. Brown, Colin, That You May Believe, Eerdmanns, 1985. Fuller, Reginald, Interpreting the Miracles, SCM, 1963. Lewis, C. S ...

25. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

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