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1. Worthy of Worship

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Michael P. Green

... Church in Brooklyn, New York. Many curiosity seekers had come to hear the renowned Henry Beecher speak. Therefore, when Thomas Beecher appeared in the pulpit instead, some people got up and started for the doors. Sensing that they were disappointed because he was substituting for his brother, Thomas raised his hand for silence and announced, “All those who came here this morning to worship Henry Ward Beecher may withdraw from the church; all who came to worship God may remain.” The example of godly ...

2. Thankless Jobs

John 10:1-21

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King Duncan

... son's illness, Sarah had spent much time in hospital wards, and she was aware that there were many suffering children in these wards who had no one to visit them. So Sarah began visiting the children's wards of the local hospitals to talk to the children and ... David 4. C. Cook Publishing Co., 1974), p. 37. Cited in Lynn Anderson, FINDING THE HEART TO GO ON, (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1991), pp. 27-28. 5. William Barclay, GOSPEL OF JOHN. 6. BIBLICAL ILLUSTRATOR ILLUSAURUS 7. Charles R. Swindoll, COME ...

3. Who Is Your Hero?

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ever dreamed possible. And that's the best kind of hero to have. Winston Churchill knew the difference between celebrities and heroes. In the summer of 1941, Sergeant James Allen Ward was awarded the Victoria Cross for climbing out onto the wing of his Wellington bomber at 13,000 feet above ground to extinguish a fire in the starboard engine. ... 1990). 7. C. Neil Strait, PASTOR . . . BE ENCOURAGED (Kansas City: Beacon Hill Press, 1996). 8. Max Anders, Jesus (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995), p. 24.

4. The Lord Is My Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

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Eric Ritz

... University, the School of Theology, for my Master of Divinity degree. During my time at Drew, I studied under Dr. Thomas Oden. Dr. Oden repeatedly explained that the imagery of the shepherd is still the most important analogy for Ordained Ministers, ... Tan, is the pastor of a church in Singapore. All this happened because someone gave him a copy of the 23rd Psalm. (3) Yes, Henry Ward Beecher is correct, "Its work is not done yet!" I wondered what walls and prisons could fall today if we opened up our lives to ...

5. Hiding in Plain Sight

Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23, Exodus 2:1-10, Exodus 2:11-25

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Lori Wagner

... love of the stars, cosmology, and time spent in the Oxford observatory, Ward believes that Lewis’s 7 fictional Narnia series are united by a symbolism based in medieval cosmology. Ward sees each book as reflecting one of the 7 planets in the ... message. This is your time. *The Blade, “Narnia Secret Unveiled” (June 19, 2008). **The Seraph Seal by Leonard Sweet and Lori Wagner, Thomas Nelson, 2011. Based on the Story Lectionary Major Text Moses’ Mother Hides Him and Moses Later Hides in Midian (Exodus 2) ...

6. The Jesus RX and the Biology of Belief

John 20:24-31

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Leonard Sweet

... of you sucked on and sucked down zinc lozenges a few winters ago when some anonymous "studies" suggested that zinc could actually ward off that nasty winter cold? A few small towns volunteered to go on oatmeal diets, eagerly scooping up spoonful after spoonful of ... would become the first great theological pronouncement of the church. Jesus is "my Lord and my God." Although acknowledging Thomas' ultimate stand in faith, Jesus also takes this nocebo moment to offer this prescription for all future generations ...

7. The Way, The Truth, And The Life Style

John 14:5-14

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Thomas Long

... recalls his early memories of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. One early morning in 1959, Thomas, just beginning his service as a medical school teacher, was hearing a report from a student, an intern at the hospital, about a patient who had spent two weeks on one of the wards with advanced pneumonia and meningitis. This young intern had been up all night, moving back and forth between the patient and the senior physicians and consultants in infectious diseases. The intern had done everything he could ...

8. The God Of The Living

Luke 20:27-40

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King Duncan

... particularly the onset of serious and sometimes fatal diseases. There is a story about a doctor who was making the rounds in a ward of terminally ill patients. He asked each of them whether he or she had any final requests. To one older lady, he said ... attack, cancer or any other serious disease. But, after you seek help, don't give up just because the doctor's prognosis is grim. Dylan Thomas' great line, "Do not go gently into that good night," would keep many people alive for years. God's will is for us to ...

9. A Law Against Dying?

Luke 20:27-38

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King Duncan

... was 26 years old, autistic, and in heart failure. His grandmother had been his guardian until her death. Now Jonathan was a ward of the state. Because donor organs are so rare and precious, they are only granted to people who have the ability or ... I am tired, I am worn. Through the dark, through the night. Lead me on, to the light. Take my hand, precious Lord, lead me home.” (4) Thomas Dorsey understood that God’s purpose for us was not to leave us in death but to lead us back home. We don’t need a law ...

10. Love Of Life

Ezekiel 37:1-14

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King Duncan

... the supernatural. The doctors decided to go down to the ward where this event kept occurring on the next Friday morning and watch to see what was happening. Friday morning came, and the doctors and nurses were in the ward watching the room. But nothing happened. Everything was normal. ... , 1992), pp. 28-29. 6. Robert J. Morgan, MORE REAL STORIES FOR THE SOUL (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2000), pp. 137-140. 7. "I Will Be There For You" by Zoe Koplowitz with Mike Celizic from "The Winning Spirit," READER'S ...

11. A Child Will Be Born

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... this just man.” Ask the Roman centurion what he thinks of Jesus, he will tell you. “Surely this is the Son of God.” Ask Thomas what he thinks about Jesus, he’ll fall down prostrate before him and cry out, “My Lord and my God.” Ask Peter, what do you ... Christmas one foggy night when his nose became a beacon that guided Santa’s sled. Seventy-one years ago Montgomery Ward remember them? gave copies of a poem, “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” to customers for their children. It was an ...

12. Was There No Other Way?

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

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King Duncan

... where the fire of God’s judgment against sin burned itself out completely. It is there that we are safe.” Wayne E. Ward described it like this: “All heaven and earth converge upon that central cross. The drama of redemption reached its amazing climax when ... unknown. 2. Make a Difference: Responding to God’s Call to Love the World (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, Inc., 2004), pp. 87-88. 3. Rev. Adrian Dieleman, http://www.trinityurcvisalia.com/sermons/1ki13.html. 4. Billy Graham, How To Be Born Again ( ...

13. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 15:18--16:4

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Maurice A. Fetty

... have uncovered a variety of behaviors and improprieties which would have greatly offended my dad. John F. Kennedy lauded Thomas Jefferson when, at an assemblage of artists, actors, authors and musicians in the East Room of the White House, ... group of parents has organized to counteract the violence. They meet each night to pray, and then to patrol the streets to ward off violence. A group called MAD DADS, which stands for Men Against Destruction -- Defending Against Drugs and Social Disorder, hit the street ...

14. Who? Me Worry?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... never happen!" They really mean it. Some people are genuinely concerned that if they fail to worry, that which they fear will happen. Thomas Borkovec, a professor of Psychology at Penn State University, is (like many of us) an expert in the field of worry. Borkovec ... , and the like there is, to the primitive limbic brain at least, something magical about it. Like an amulet that wards off some anticipated evil, the worry psychologically gets the credit for preventing the danger it obsesses about. (4) So, some ...

15. Building a Nation

Matthew 11:25-30

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King Duncan

... . (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 out over Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians." Perhaps that is for the best. I say that, even though living for a good cause is ... 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." ...

16. How to Lower Your Temper (-ature)

Proverbs 16:32

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James Merritt

... person who always gets angry is a fool, but a person who never gets angry is a wimp. A well known preacher of yesteryear, Henry Ward Beecher, made a strong statement about anger, that we who are living in a crumbling society need to hear again: A man that does ... and when anger is wrong. The way to be angry, and not sin, is to be angry at nothing but sin. The old Puritan, Thomas Watson, put it best when he said, "That anger is without sin that is against sin."(8) II. Selfish Anger Is Severely Condemned Most ...

17. A Life of Trust

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

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King Duncan

... do, you discover anew the grace of God. And you pick yourself up and you continue your life journey stronger than you were before. Henry Ward Beecher, one of the most powerful preachers in American history, gave this illustration in one of his sermons: A lobster, when left high and ... Tn: W Publishing Group, 2001), p. 21. 3. Help! I’m Laughing and I Can’t Get Up (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998), p. 72. 4. Dr. Daniel Lioy, International Bible Lesson Commentary (Colorado Springs, CO: David C. Cook ...

18. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 16:5-16

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Maurice A. Fetty

... Hoover have uncovered a variety of behavior and improprieties that would have greatly offended my dad. President John F. Kennedy lauded Thomas Jefferson when, at an assemblage of artists, actors, authors, and musicians in the East Room of the White House, he ... A group of parents has organized to counteract the violence. They meet each night to pray and then to patrol the streets to ward off violence and keep kids from shooting one another. So long as there are groups like that, so long as there are churches ...

19. Heaven's Wait

Joshua 24:1-27

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Robert S. Crilley

... but their lives -- from this very moment on -- will change in countless ways. Nevertheless, for most couples, it is a welcomed change. On the way down to the maternity ward, you stop off at the store to purchase an infant car seat and an extra supply of diapers. The baby's room is freshly painted, and much of the ... Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics, ed. Walter Hooper (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970), p. 101. 2. Thomas G. Long, "Joy In The House," Princeton Seminary Chapel, Princeton, New Jersey, July 5, 1987.

20. Checking The Vital Signs

Luke 24:36-49

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... people and a part of that pulse and heartbeat which says that he is alive here. Last week we saw the danger of doubts and disbelief Thomas ran into when he was not with the other believers. It sounds to me like we should sing, “He is risen and out of my hair,” ... to radiate from us as a congregation and as an individual these two weeks that we call Easter weeks. It was said of Henry Ward Beecher that no one ever felt the full force of his kindness until he/she did Beecher an injury. Life is most froth and ...

21. LIFE! LIFE! ETERNAL LIFE!

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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John W. Rilling

... than one foot, but clinging with tenacious roots, like so many hands, to the clefts in the bare rock. Go into the hospital ward and you find this same tenacious clinging to life. And that is good. But it is not eternal life. Eternal life is not ... . "If a man die shall he live again." Let’s face it - no arguments for eternal life will ever persuade any doubting Thomas. The order of persuasion is not from argument to belief, but from venturesome trust to unshakable conviction. The disciples did not come ...

22. A Society Out Of Control

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... rebuke, "The answer is, ˜No'. Not because it isn't cool or smart or because you might end up in jail or dying in an AIDS ward but because it is wrong. Because we have spent 5,000 years as a race of rational human beings trying to drag ourselves out of the primeval ... disperses experience like a river with no banks. Its water is spilled and wasted as it flows without direction. Years ago Thomas Hobbes used the metaphor of a highway lined with hedges. "The king," he said, "has placed hedges along the road, not ...

23. Breaking Down The Walls

Ephesians 2:11-22

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King Duncan

... heart for the transplant. The Palestinian's family refused. Both men died. A year later, another Arab and another Jew lay dying in hospital wards. This time the brain dead man was an Israeli soldier shot by Arabs in an ambush in the Gaza strip. The man who needed ... POEMS OF ROBERT FROST (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1947). 3. David W. Smith, MEN WITHOUT FRIENDS, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1990). 4. Judson Swihart, HOW DO YOU SAY "I LOVE YOU"? (Downers Grove, IL,: InterVarsity Press, 1977 ...

24. How Can I Know The Truth?

John 16:5-16

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King Duncan

... am looking into the very face of God. I believe in the testimonies of the great heroes of our faith like Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Wesley and others. I am helped by more recent theologians like Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer ... have seen miracles in my life, haven’t you? I know God’s grace is true because I have experienced it. Henry Ward Beecher recalled a difficult time from his childhood. His family was struggling to make ends meet. His mother was struggling with ...

25. Is It Wrong To Be Ambitious?

Matthew 20:20-28

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King Duncan

... for the right things. We could use a healthy dose of ambition ” an ambition like Jesus' ambition ” an ambition for the Kingdom of God. It's not bad to be ambitious ” as long as we are ambitious for the right things. 1. Geoffrey C. Ward, SUCCESS magazine (April 1985), pp. 55-56. Cited in Ted Engstrom, HIGH PERFORMANCE, (San Bernardino, CA: Here's Life Publishers, 1988). 2. Joe G. Emerson, I WANTED THE ELEVATOR, BUT I GOT THE SHAFT, (Nashville: Dimensions for Living, 1993). 3. TIME (May 25, 1987 ...

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