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1. Moses: A Traveling God in a Pop-Up Camper

Exodus 13:17-22, 33:7-11

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... tabernacle, we not only meet God, but we meet each other…all of God's people…together, and God is made known in the midst. My friend Tom Frank, professor at Candler School of Theology, Emory University, recently wrote a book called The Soul of the Congregation. He talks about his experience as a pastor and that ... Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Simon & Schuster, 2000. 2. Thomas Frank, The Soul of the Congregation, page 136. 3. Bruce Larson, The Presence, page 81.

2. No Doubt about It

John 20:24-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... seasoned veteran skeptic, had me so confused that when I walked out of his office, I wasn't even sure there was a God. Quite frankly, if I had walked into his office, the way I walked out, I might have walked out the way I walked in. He asked me ... such a problem with doubt that he is the only disciple that has ever been given a nickname. He is famously known as "Doubting Thomas." Though Thomas has gotten somewhat of a bad rap through the years, he does teach us how to deal with doubt - how to handle a bout ...

3. Unlocking The Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... meet Christ: II. He Gives a Foundation that will not Crumble. Over 100 years ago, Japan asked the famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a hotel for Tokyo that would be capable of surviving an earthquake. When Wright visited Japan to ... here and see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it in my side. Do not doubt, but believe." That was all it took. Thomas exclaimed, "My Lord and my God!" And Jesus said, "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and ...

4. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to make an on-course adjustment in our pattern of life and ministry. Now comes my second personal testimony. I don’t know who Thomas Fuller is, but I owe him an enthusiastic expression of gratitude. He provided a warning that has become a kind of motto for me. ... Lora by surprise – to hear a letter, written by their son, going out to bless thousands of people who had heard Frank preach. Well, I told Frank that story. The next week, when he was back in Atlanta, he called my in-laws and shared a pastoral ...

5. Children Of Dust Or Children Of God?

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world." And that's true. All people, everywhere, are God's children. Pastor Thomas Long tells the story of Confirmation Sunday at the church of a friend of his. All the young students who were ... were all professional business leaders in Chicago. They were all very serious about serving the Lord in this magnificent house of worship. A man named Frank Loesch was one of the ushers. He was not a very imposing-looking man, but he was a legend in Chicago at that time ...

6. Way Down In Egypt's Land

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... As Isaiah prophesied long before the birth of Jesus, "It was no messenger or angel but his presence that saved them." (Isa. 63:9a) Thomas A. Dorsey knew what it meant to find God’s presence even in the worst of times. Dorsey is the composer of the ... dismal." As he was visiting, a little boy came up to him and stroked the sleeve of his coat. "I’ll never forget it," Frank told Adele. "You know full well what I’ve always said about Christmas," he said. "Christmas is for children! Well, it’s about time ...

7. The Patron Saint Of All Who Are The Last To Know

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... I wonder how many people in this world are held back by doubt. There comes a time when faith yields to conviction. There comes a time when we hear what Jesus said to Thomas: "Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe." In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy ... , William H. "The Dictionary of Bible and Religion," p. 1049. 15. John 20:29 13. Frank Lyman is the pastor of the University United Methodist Church of East Lansing, Michigan.

8. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... happened that caused him to reassess his priorities. In one of the 49ers games an opposing player appeared to have suffered a serious injury. John Frank rushed to his side. At one time Frank had dreamed of becoming a physician but he gave in to the fame, glory and big bucks of being a professional football player. Still, he ... 2005 (Colorado Springs: Cook Communications). 5. Representative Barbara Cubin, Profiles in Character (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1996), pp. 68-69. 6. Contributed. Source unknown.

9. What Happens When We Can't Believe It?

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... our second lesson from the first letter of Peter (2:19-25), you have Peter writing to Christians who, to put it frankly, were going through a living hell. Life was really treating them rotten, sort of like it does for us sometimes (1 Peter ... second lesson) tells us, "look people, sometimes you have to believe against the way you feel." Especially this is Jesus' point to Thomas, when he calls Thomas and us to faith even though we do not directly feel (or experience) his resurrection (John 21:29; cf. 1 Peter ...

10. Sitting At God's Table

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... to go. Clifton was the only nonwhite child on the trip, but that didn't cause any problems with the other children. He and his roommate, Frank Miller, got along fine once they realized their mutual passion for water balloons. The boys spent their spare time soaking unsuspecting pedestrians who walked beneath their ... McCarty (Deerfield Beach, Florida: Health Communications, Inc., 1997), 2329. 2. Denis Rainey, The Tribute (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994), p. 59-61. 3. The Associated Press

11. Second Chances

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... leading experts on fraud. (3) He is also a polished public speaker addressing corporations about how to protect themselves from people like him. True story. Frank Abagnale, like Alan Simpson, is a man who could testify, “Thank God for second chances.” Here’s something we should note. A second chance ... %201.13? 25.htm. 4. (New York: Random House, 2015). 5. The Rev. Dr. Thomas G. Long, http://www.nationalcathedral.org/worship/sermonTexts/tl080601.shtml. 6. A Heapin’ Helping of True Grizzard (New York: ...

12. Country Songs and Easter Hymns

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Thomas Long

... Now that is definitely a city story, full of the clamor and conflict of the metropolis. In fact, the meditative monk Thomas Merton would probably have said that this is a typical city story involving recognizable city types like a godless judge and ... no village so small, no place so isolated, that there is not at least some taste of the richness, the challenge, and, quite frankly, the grating difficulty, of human differences. It is there in the wild diversity of the "city" -- wherever it may be found -- that ...

13. Embalmed With Cardiac Arrest

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... . Our basic characteristics and personality traits were not run through any computer. She was not chosen by an IBM selector system. Frankly, I didn’t fall in love with her mind. I think it was her pretty finger that pulled the trigger. And ... enough For I am sure of you. What are we saying? That there are many ways of arriving at certainty. Scientific proof is one. Oh, yes, Thomas stuck his fingers in the scars and then he fell down and said: "My Lord and my God," and Jesus rebuked him, because he had ...

14. Blessed Are Those Who Believe

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... at him.” Where are you this morning--on the side of the doubters or on the side of the believers? Anybody can be a doubting Thomas. It takes no particular strength of character to say, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were ... in Edward K. Rowell, 1001 Quotes, Illustrations, and Humorous Stories (Grand Rapids: Baker Publishing Group, 2008), p. 324. 2. Milo O. Frank, How To Get Your Point Across In 30 Seconds or Less (New York: Pocket Books, 1986). 3. From a sermon ...

15. Transforming Moment

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... to do for five years without success, then what would the rest of my life be like if I had the guts to turn it over to Him?" Frank did "turn it over to Him." He took a year off from Motown, grounded himself in his new faith and returned to share his repaired dream with ... . What matters is not a feeling, but a faith. 1. Peter and Barbara Jenkins, The Road Unseen (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1985), pp. 32-33. 2. David Douglas, Wilderness Sojourn (San Francisco: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1987), p. 68 ...

16. An Understated Masterpiece

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... The place was a high school English class. The subject was modern drama, and the exercise was a class reading of the script of Frank Gilroy’s "The Subject Was Roses." The reading moved toward the final scene, one in which a young man named Timmy is leaving home ... faith in Jesus Christ, to have compassion on others who suffer. What is this? ... A new teaching! 1. Frank D. Gilroy, About Those Roses, and the text of The Subject Was Roses (New York: Random House, 1965), p. 209. 2. From the New York Times ...

17. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ! The disciple Peter betrays the Lord but finds forgiveness. Forgiveness still is possible . . . KALI ANESTASI! The doubter Thomas has his doubts shattered. How good to shatter doubts! KALI ANESTASI! Mary Magdalene weeps outside a grave but ... . As cited by Frederick Buechner in THE SACRED JOURNEY, pg. 92. 7. TODAY IN THE WORD. The author of this sermon, Frank Lyman, is pastor of the University United Methodist Church of East Lansing, Michigan. [ORIGINAL SERMON] Philip Yancey, an editor at Christianity Today ...

18. Building a Nation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... still singing, "As He died to make men holy, let us DIE to make men free." And no one knows how it happened. (1) As pastor Frank Lyman has said, "It's the nearest mystery United Methodists have to the aliens of Roswell, New Mexico! In the end Julia Ward Howe won ... John Hancocks on the declaration did not establish our independence. King George did not read the Declaration and then say to Thomas Jefferson, "Nice piece of writing Tom, y'all enjoy your USA, send me a postcard from Colonial Williamsburg." No, it ...

19. Nothing Great Happens Without It

Luke 14: 25-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... The world scorned Him and it will scorn you. The world rejected Him and it will reject you. That is a small price, quite frankly, to pay when you consider the benefit of becoming His disciple and living for Him and with Him for all eternity. Someone once ... with a sword in Ethiopia. Philip was hanged in Greece. Bartholomew was slain alive in Armenia. Andrew was crucified in Achaia and Thomas was killed with a lance in east India. Thaddeus was shot with arrows, Simon, the Zealot, was crucified by the Persians. ...

20. 2025 Lent Sermon Series

Sermon

Various Authors

... John 13:1-17 9. A Personal History - John 18:1—19:42 10. An Annual Reminder – John 20:1-9 Salvation at the Skull by Frank G. Honeycutt 1. Escape from the Island of Spiritual Sloth – Matthew 6:6-18 2. On Defeating the Devil – Luke 4:1-13 3. Headlines ... Genesis 12:1-8 4. The Evangelist Has a Shady Past – John 4:1-26 5. Playing the Blame Game – John 9:1-12 6. Daring Thomas – John 11:1-16 7. The Triumph and the Tragedy – Matthew 21:1-11 8. Why Are You Here? – 1 Corinthians 11:17-34 9. Eyewitness ...

21. Good News for Tenant Farmers

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... grows and blossoms and produces abundantly. I wish that such were always the case, but... Does that sound like anyone you know? Frankly, we could listen to a thousand sermons on these soil types and still be the same mixtures as we are - part and ... 's friends tells this story.(5) In the church where he worshiped there was a lonely old man, old Thomas. He had outlived all his friends and hardly anyone knew him. When Thomas died, this friend had the feeling that there would be no one to go to the funeral so he ...

22. How To Be Truly Wealthy

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Paul lost everything. Yet once he found “the life that is truly life,” he never looked back. A few years ago, the founder of Domino’s Pizza, Thomas Monaghan, experienced a “spiritual re-awakening” when he realized that all his wealth was not making him happy. Monaghan began selling off his “stuff”: three houses designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Detroit Tigers baseball team, and thirty vintage automobiles--one of which was a $13 million Bugatti. He was quoted as saying, “None of the things ...

23. When The Saints Come Marching In

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... s productions puny by comparison. And as if the literary style alone weren't treacherous enough to negotiate, frankly the book's message at times seems almost pathetically unrealistic. I mean, here Christians are being condemned ... John's perspective, God's expectations are continually trying to break through and reclaim our own. In a recent sermon on this passage, I think Thomas Troeger makes precisely this point in a rather creative fashion.5 What he does is to invite the listener to imagine that you are on ...

24. The Day Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-21 · Jn 15:26-27; 16:4-15; 20:19-23 · Eze 37:1-14 · 1 Cor 12:4-13 · Ps 104

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... part (vv. 19-23) provides for us the story of the Lord's appearance in the inner circle of the disciples. All but Thomas are present. Christ breathes on them and thereby bestows the Holy Spirit, granting them his peace as he commissions them to go out ... stand (v. 27). Jesus reminded his disciples that they were his witnesses because they had been with him from the beginning. He frankly informs them that they can expect suffering and persecution because of their witness (16:1-4). That's the price a person ...

25. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... have thrown at him." Where are you this morning-on the side of the doubters or on the side of the believers? Anybody can be a doubting Thomas. It takes no particular strength of character to say, "Lest I put my fingers in his hands and his side, I will not believe." It does take ... and yet believe." 1. Jerry Kramer with Dick Schaap, DISTANT REPLAY, (New York: G.P.Putnams Sons, 1985). 2. Milo O. Frank, HOW TO GET YOUR POINT ACROSS IN 30 SECONDS OR LESS, (New York: Pocket Books, 1986). 3. Pope John Paul II, ...

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