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Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... was that as a child he was very sickly and suffered severely from asthma. According to the myth, he overcame his asthma through a rigorous regimen of physical activities, including bodybuilding and boxing. In reality, according to biographer David McCullough, Teddy Roosevelt had stopped suffering from asthma long before he took up his athletic activities. The chief factor in his physical recovery seems to have been his removal from his family setting. When he went to Harvard, says McCullough, his illness ...

2. Walk With Confidence

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . I really got on top of things." (2) Effectiveness in life so often is determined by that elusive quality called confidence. But where does confidence come from? Some people seem to come by it naturally. Teddy Roosevelt seemed to be one of those people. Teddy was such an outgoing person with a bombastic personality that the story circulates that on Teddy Roosevelt's first day in heaven he said to St. Peter: "Your choir is weak, inexcusably weak! You need to reorganize it at once." St. Peter assigned ...

3. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... , "I think I'll keep my first name. After all, I'm used to responding to that." "But for the last name I think I'd like Roosevelt." Well, Teddy Roosevelt would be a pretty nice name. There would be certain advantages to being a Kennedy or a Roosevelt or a Rockefeller. Membership in a prominent family is helpful in this world. I want to suggest to you, however, there is an even greater advantage to those who know themselves to be a part of the family of God. An unknown poet has written: I may be young; I ...

4. Teddy in Heaven

Humor

Teddy Roosevelt was such an outgoing person with a bombastic personality that on Teddy Roosevelt's first day in heaven he said to St. Peter, "Your choir is weak, inexcusably weak! You need to reorganize it at once." St. Peter assigned Roosevelt the task of reorganization. Roosevelt immediately responded, "I need ten thousand sopranos, ten thousand altos, and ten thousand tenors." St. Peter inquired, "But what about the basses?" "Oh," said Teddy, "I'll sing bass!"

5. Let The Shofar Sound!

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... our hearts before God's Ash Wednesday altar as a sign of willingness to accept God's grace. In penitential humility, we return to the Lord who is gracious and merciful. We will show all people that the God of grace is our God. During the Spanish-American War, Colonel Teddy Roosevelt commanded a regiment of "Rough Riders" in Cuba. He was closely attached to his men and was quite concerned when many of them became ill. He heard that Clara Barton had received a supply of food for the soldiers in ...

6. A Career in The Kingdom

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... to it. Exercise, because if you don't, by the time you're our age, you'll be pushing up daisies." Fitness gymnasiums ought to put the Delany Sisters on their billboards and quote them into larger profit margins. Some people get into exercise in a very big way. When Teddy Roosevelt was president of the United States, his exploits at physical endurance were legendary. French diplomat, Jean Jusserand, stationed in Washington DC at the time, developed a good friendship with the president ...

7. Can A Nation Repent?

2 Chronicles 34:14-33

Sermon

Erskine White

... everywhere, even with you and me! Can a nation repent? Can ournation repent? We have a slogan printed on our coins: it says, "In God We Trust." We've printed it on our coins since 1964, except for a brief period when President Teddy Roosevelt tried to ban it. Teddy Roosevelt felt that this slogan was blasphemy, that we cheapen God's name when we use it on our money. He ordered new coins to be minted without the slogan, and guess what happened? All hell broke loose! The religious lobby - the defenders of ...

8. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... need it in our marriages. We also need it in the church. I say that knowing that some people are scared to death of getting excited in church. It reminds me of a story David McCullough tells in his book MORNINGS ON HORSEBACK about young Teddy Roosevelt: Roosevelt's mother discovered one day that her son was so afraid of the Madison Square Church where their family attended that he refused to set foot inside if alone. He was terrified, she discovered, of something called the `zeal.' This zeal was crouched in ...

9. On the Singing of Hymns

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... every bit as much as worldly warfare. In a sermon a couple of years ago I insisted that the hymn was NOT a militaristic hymn - and then went home that evening to watch a television special on the life of Teddy Roosevelt. In it, I saw Teddy Roosevelt rallying the troops for battle during the First World War... And what was the music which accompanied their march? “Onward Christian Soldiers...” Sometimes you can’t win! Some Methodists opposed including the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” in the new ...

10. You're Not Home Yet

Illustration

Ray C. Stedman

... no pension for they belonged to no missionary board. Their health was broken, they were defeated, discouraged, and afraid. When they went down to the wharf to board the ship they discovered to their amazement that they were booked on the same ship with Teddy Roosevelt, who was returning from one of his big game hunting expeditions. They went aboard the ship and no one paid any attention to them. They watched all the tremendous fanfare that accompanied the President's arrival, how the band played as he came ...

11. Fear of Missing Out

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and William Howard Taft as presidents. He said, “The difference was that when you left Teddy Roosevelt’s presence you were ready to eat bricks for lunch, and when you left Taft you felt what’s the use.” (Felix Frankfurter, Felix Frankfurter Reminisces [1960], 85.) We’re hoping that when you leave church this morning, you’re ready to eat bricks for lunch. But I hope you ...

12. Christmasize Your Life

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... big, only small things become big. To Christmasize your life means hearing God say to each one of us: "You dreamed to do great things. You did small things faithfully and well. Well done, good and faithful servant. A biographer of Teddy Roosevelt tells of a bedtime ritual that Roosevelt often carried out with his close friend, William Beebe, the famous naturalist. The two men would go out into the night and look up at the sky, searching for a tiny patch of light near the constellation of Pegasus. When their ...

13. Focus on the Finish

Galatians 6:7-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... to America and they began to discuss among themselves, "Will anyone remember us? Will anyone even recall who we are? Will anyone even meet us at the boat?" Remember all this time they had totally supported themselves. Well, unknown to Henry Morrison and his wife, Teddy Roosevelt, the President of the United States, was also on board this ship. He had gone to Africa for a big game hunting safari and he was returning to the United States. As the ship pulled into New York harbor, Henry Morrison went to the ...

14. Is It Wrong To Be Ambitious?

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... president of the police commission of New York; national hero as leader of the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War at forty; then, in just three busy years, governor of New York, vice-president, and president. In 1905 Teddy Roosevelt received the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in helping to end the Russo-Japanese War. Roosevelt, by the way, was five feet nine inches tall. (1) He was not a big man physically. But he did prove once again the truth of the maxim that it's not the size of the dog in the ...

15. Come, Holy Spirit, Come

Psalm 104:24-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... stared directly at me. The encounter took me by surprise. No words can describe the sense of awe and wonder that came over me. For a moment, I was one with God's creation." Teddy Roosevelt, maybe more than any other President of the United States, had a deep appreciation for nature. When he entertained diplomatic guests at the White House, Mr. Roosevelt loved to take them out on the back lawn at the end of the day. Back then the vast array of stars were not dimmed by the city lights. So the heads of states ...

16. By Humbly Doing Good

1 Peter 5:6-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... " without having to be the “center of the universe." That is a tremendous thing to learn. How to be a part of the universe without having to be the center of the universe. Teddy Roosevelt's love for the outdoors is well documented. He is responsible for many of our nation's parks and monuments. The story I like most about President Roosevelt is how he often took diplomatic guests out on the back lawn of the White House at the end of the day to sit and watch the stars. After sitting there for a while ...

17. Small Enough

Illustration

Staff

... , used to tell this story about Teddy Roosevelt. At Sagamore Hill, after an evening of talk, the two would go out on the lawn and search the skies for a certain spot of star-like light near the lower left-hand corner of the Great Square of Pegasus. Then Roosevelt would recite: "That is the Spiral Galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million galaxies. It consists of one hundred billion suns, each larger than our sun." Then Roosevelt would grin and say, "Now, I ...

18. Jogging with Roosevelt

Humor Illustration

Teddy Roosevelt, one of my favorite presidents, was so intensely energetic that he was a terror to sluggards. A British visitor once described him as "an interesting combination of St. Vitus and St. Paul." He fired brisk commands at those he wanted to see active: "Get action, do things, be sane, don't fritter your time away, create, act, be somebody." On one occasion, after playing two sets of tennis with the French ambassador, Roosevelt suggested jogging. Following the jogging, the two worked out with a ...

19. The Inner Galaxy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... space, inner galaxies have to do with this particular time and this particular space. The story is told of Teddy Roosevelt entertaining guests at his Sagamore Hill estate on Long Island. After a late dinner he invited his guests outside to walk beneath the brilliant ... nighttime sky. After a silent, reverent stroll Roosevelt said, "I guess we've been humbled enough now. Let's go inside." And that's what Christmas Eve is all ...

20. Epiphany 4

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Micah 6:1-8, Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... in our lives. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Lesson 1: Micah 6:1-8 1. Sermon Title: Walking Small. Sermon Angle: You are probably aware of the two Walking Tall movies, the true story of sheriff Buford Pusser, who almost singlehandedly fought the mob in his county. Like Teddy Roosevelt, he believed in carrying a big stick which he used to bash the bad guys. All of the lessons today talk about walking small, that is, walking humble. Micah says it exquisitely, "What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and ...

21. Born Naked With A Cross

Sermon

... Christian to match him as far as possible. When Kagawa became a Christian, his first prayer was, "God, make me like Christ." In the days when boys were hero worshipers, a young lad went into a public building and saw in a mosaic on the ceiling a figure of Teddy Roosevelt seated on his horse. Overcome with admiration, the boy took off his cap, held it by his side, and said, "I want to be like him." As a Christian looks to Jesus, he says that he, too, wants to be just like him. Knowing Jesus means living with ...

22. The Cross Way of Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is not standing behind but before us, leading the way. He sets the example of discipline, hardship, and sacrifice. Jesus never asks us to do what he himself would not do. He goes ahead of us as a pioneer, as a true leader. It is said that Teddy Roosevelt never said to his Rough Riders, "Go!" He said, "Come on, boys!" It is the case with every truly great leader of men. Each marched in the vanguard and challenged men to follow in their path. When Alexander the Great was in pursuit of Darius, king of Persia ...

23. It Isn't Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Brett Blair

... missionary for forty years in Africa, Henry C. Morrison became sick and had to return to America. As the great ocean liner docked in New York Harbor there was a great crowd gathered to welcome home another passenger on that boat. Morrison watched as President Teddy Roosevelt received a grand welcome home party after his African Safari. Resentment seized Henry Morrsion and he turned to God in anger, "I have come back home after all this time and service to the church and there is no one, not even one person ...

24. Help For Hurting Dads

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... did say the couple was out of luck: Mount Rushmore has no more carvable rock. "There's no way another head could be carved up there," the spokeswoman said. "I'm sorry." So Zaslow told the letter writer: ˜"Should Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt ever fall out of favor, I suppose their likenesses could be recarved to resemble someone elseyour husband, perhaps. But I don't want to encourage unattainable pipe dreams. I suggest you find a more modest way to honor and glorify your husband. Maybe ...

25. Jesus Came Preaching

Mark 1:14-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is the Good News we are called to preach. “I am no longer alone in the darkness.” Of course, other people preach beside those of us who are called “preachers.” You may remember (from your U.S. History courses, of course,) that Teddy Roosevelt called the presidency a “bully pulpit.” There are other pulpits equally as bully. An eloquent sermon appeared in last Tuesday’s Detroit Free Press, preached by a cartoonist named Jim Borgman. It is hanging across from my office. I hope you’ll glance ...

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