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1 Peter 2:13-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... and 1930s. As a niece of professional artist Mary Anderson, Dorothy was used regularly as a model for various renderings of children. The Morton Salt Company began using a girl with an umbrella on their round, blue salt containers in 1914, and they introduced us to a ... adversity with trust. Always ask, What would Jesus do? And the answer is, Jesus would trust God. 1. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1996), pp. 81-82. 2. Gary L. McIntosh, THREE GENERATIONS (Grand Rapids: Fleming H. Revell, 1995). 3. ...

2. Let Me See Your Hands

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Robert Allen

... side I shall stand, I shall know him, I shall know him. By the print of the nails in his hand. Today, as we look with Thomas at the hands of Jesus, there are three things which I believe his hands say to us. I. The Hands Of Jesus Remind Us Of His ... school teacher. She said, "I am a school teacher and I would see to it that he received a good education." Finally, the banker said, "Mrs. Morton and I would be able to give the boy a fine home and a fine education. We would like him to come and live with us." ...

3. Historic: The Declaration of Independence

Illustration

Staff

... Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John ...

4. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

... this is what we want and expect. When healings do not occur in this way, then we and our loved ones are disappointed. Agnes Sanford uses the example of Thomas Edison's invention of the incandescent light bulb to illustrate how it is that God's healing energy comes into our lives. Edison had tried and failed hundreds of ... . 77. 5. Hans Selye, quoted by Wagner in Blessed, p. 84. 6. A. M. Master, quoted by Morton T. Kelsey, in Psychology, Medicine & Christian Healing (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1988), p. 220.

5. Waiting For The Angels

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... theme for the morning. LIFE IS DIFFICULT. It is filled with tests, trials, temptations. Last year marked the 75th anniversary of the Morton Salt girl with her umbrella and the slogan, "When it rains it pours." How many of you have ever quoted that little ... listening for the angels. Because they do come. They come in this world. Why should they not come in the next? 1. Thomas Merton, THE WISDOM OF THE DESERT (New York: New Directions, 1960), p. 5657. 2. Fred Russell, I'LL TRY ANYTHING TWICE (Nashville ...

6. Watchers, Walkers And Worshipers

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... to watching, because we need to be on the lookout for God's activity in our world. Take the case of a gentleman named Michael Thomas. He was driving to a business appointment one day, and he was in a hurry as well as annoyed with traffic. He was stopped ... in the Way is good, but it's not enough either. Christ calls us to be watchers and walkers and worshipers. 1. Scott Morton, "The Best-Kept Secrets of Family Life," Discipleship Journal, Issue 77, 1993, pp. 103-104 2. James L. Henderschedt, The Light in the ...

7. Offer Them Christ

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Wesley, the 18th century Anglican priest who set off the great Wesleyan revival that swept England and America, was putting Thomas Coke on a ship to his new assignment. Mr. Wesley was sending Coke to give leadership to a rapidly growing ... , a Christian pastor and former College President tells about the people who were influential in his life. "I remember, with gratitude, that Al Morton changed everything for me as a child by inviting me to Sunday School. Up until I went to Sunday School my experience in ...

8. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... proprietor. ‘Do we sell salt! Just look!’ And Pop showed the customer one entire wall stocked with nothing but salt. Morton salt, iodized salt, kosher salt, sea salt, rock salt, garlic salt, seasoning salt, Epsom salts, every kind imaginable. ‘Wow!’ said ... Christian Reader, Vol. 35, no. 2. 7. PreachingToday.com search under Matthew 5:11-16. 8. Idem. 9. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1999, 46. 10. David Garland, Seeking the Kingdom (Wheaton, ILL: Shaw, 1992), 35-36. 11. PreachingToday.com search under ...

9. Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... further discussion see James A. Sanders, “From Isaiah 61 to Luke 4,” in J. Neusner, ed., Christianity, Judaism and Other Greco-Roman Cults (Morton Smith Festschrift; Leiden: Brill, 1975), pp. 75–106, esp. pp. 96–104. 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord is on me … he ... ,” Genesis Rabbah 23.5) traditions (both examples are taken from Fitzmyer, p. 535). The saying in the Gospel of Thomas 31 probably represents a variant version of the Synoptic saying: “A physician does not heal those who know him.” 4 ...

10. Onesimus

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

It is the middle of the first century A.D. Our scene is a prison, possibly in the Asiatic seaport Ephesus. In a dark little cell, mustiness permeated the air, mold clung to the wall. An earthen floor was packed smooth by the treading of countless prisoners. Sunlight crept through a tiny window at the ceiling. There was a crude table and a smoking lamp where a young man was writing. An older man paced the floor, dictating - sometimes in a torrent of words, then silence. A rattling sound broke the stillness ...

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