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Luke 17:1-10

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Brett Blair

... and grandparents have long observed that loyalty, service, and sacrifice no longer characterize our workforce, our families, and in some cases even our military. What Tom Brokaw has called “The Greatest Generation” grew up facing great economic challenges and then the trials of war and cold war. But I have noticed ... owes us nothing. And, we are only doing our duty. We owe God everything. Amen. 1. Kraft story by Brett Blair adapted from Michael Green, Illustrations for Biblical Preaching, Baker, p. 331.

2. The Majesty And The Misery

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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King Duncan

... century's most famous missionary in French Equatorial Africa. His nameAlbert Schweitzer. (1) Some of you can remember the misery of youth. Charles Blair in his book, THE MAN WHO COULD DO NO WRONG, tells of his childhood in the depression. His family was poorer than most ... others. We dare not let anyone penetrate the facade that we have constructed. They might discover that we are, in fact, human. Tom Hopkins in his book, HOW TO MASTER THE ART OF SELLING, uses the analogy of a torpedo on a submarine. Use you ...

3. A Most Successful Sermon

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

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King Duncan

... with our lives so that we are kept in the way that leads to life. We need power--power to make the changes necessary for us to be all God created us to be. Tom Harris, the famous psychiatrist, who wrote that enormously successful book, I’m O.K., You’re O.K. says that there are three reasons why people change. First, people change when it is ... our Christian walk. They are the key to a life that is full, rich, and eternal. 1. J. Allen Blair, Living Patiently (Neptune, N.J: Loizeaux). 2. Pastor’s Digest.

4. Experience the Mountaintop But Don't Forget the Valley Below

Luke 9:28-36

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Brett Blair

Many of us have had them, those times when we felt like we were on top of the world, really happy, confident that we knew all the answers, could solve any problem that came up. Or we felt that we were really close to God, really in tune with God’s plan for us. In those moments we were excited and alive, and everything seemed new. The moment might have come at some exciting event in your life: graduation, baptism, your first kiss, your first day on your first job, your wedding, the birth of a child, even ...

5. For A D-day Memorial - Sermon Starter

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Brett Blair

On our national Mall now sits 7 acres of bronze, granite, and gardens that memorializes the greatest generation, those who fought and died in WWII. Perhaps you've seen it. There are 56 tall pillars that encircle the memorial stand for the states, and districts, territories of our country. When it was dedicated the speakers ranged from General Kelly, Tom Brokaw, who wrote the book The Greatest Generation, Tom hanks who was the spokesman for the memorial, Fred Smith co-chair and Bob Dole chair of the ...

6. Giving

Mark 12:41-44

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Brett Blair

Robert Fulghum, who wrote All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, says that he placed alongside the mirror in his bathroom a picture of a woman who is not his wife. That's risky business! Every morning as he stood there shaving, he looked at the picture of that woman. The picture? The picture is of a small humped-over woman wearing sandals and a blue eastern robe and head dress (sari). She is surrounded by important-looking people in tuxedos, evening gowns, and the regalia of royalty. It is ...

7. Episode 1: The Holy Spirit

Acts 2:1-13

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Brett Blair

In 1977 two teenagers walked into a movie theatre in Memphis to watch a movie that was then virtually unknown. The name of the movie was Star Wars. The characters were unknown to my brother Todd and I. In fact, the movie was virtually unknown to many. Star Wars was not expected by anyone to be a smash hit let alone the biggest grossing movie of all times. We did know it was science-fiction. That’s the reason we went to see it; having grown up on a steady diet of comic books and Star Trek, we were a ready ...

8. What's Our Purpose?

Acts 2:1-21

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Brett Blair

If we are to reach people for Christ we need people with passion and power. But we also need people with a purpose. In the late 1800’s, no business matched the financial and political dominance of the railroad. Trains dominated the transportation industry of the United States, moving both people and goods throughout the country. Then a new discovery came along—the car—and incredibly, the leaders of the railroad industry did not take advantage of their unique position to participate in this transportation ...

9. Episode III: Birth of the Church

Acts 2:1-13

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Brett Blair

In 1977 teenagers all over America walked into movie theatres to watch a movie that was virtually unknown. The director was unknown, the characters were unknown, the soundtrack was unknown, the robots were unknown. The name of the movie was Star Wars. It was not expected to be the biggest grossing movie of all times. It’s hard to believe that was 28 years ago. But even then some of us could read the handwriting on the wall. It was more grand than anything else we’d had ever see. For the next two months in ...

10. Muggeridge Encounters Mother Teresa

Mark 12:41-44

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Brett Blair

In 1970, a man by the name of Malcolm Muggeridge went to Calcutta to do a special documentary on Mother Teresa for BBC-TV. Muggeridge then was Europe's Tom Brokaw. Well, on that fated morning of their meeting (a morning that would change him the him for the rest of his life) he met her as she was working out in the streets with sick and poor people in a ghetto like he had never seen before, amid stench, filth, garbage, disease, and poverty that was just unbelievable. But what struck Muggeridge more than ...

11. Not Peace but Division

Luke 12:49-53

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Brett Blair

Jesus said, "Do you think I have come to give peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division." That saying of Jesus has always struck me as one of the most disturbingly honest things Jesus ever said. There's a legend, which may actually be true because it sounds real, that when Abraham Lincoln was first introduced to Harriet Beecher Stowe, who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, he said, "So this is the little lady who started the Civil War." However true that incident may be, she wrote not to bring peace, but ...

12. Three Characteristics of Success

Luke 15:1-32

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Brett Blair

The most successful companies aren't successful because of charismatic leadership or because they found some "great idea" that no one else came up with. Instead, these highly successful companies share three distinct characteristics: First, the focus of each one had always been on a set of core values that never changed. Second, each company always had a purpose that was higher than just making a profit. Third, there was a relentless drive to change and improve everything in the company except their core ...

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