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John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... slow and oh, so mellow . . . Try to remember the kind of September . . . When grass was green and grain was yellow . . .” Do you remember how the song ends? “Try to remember and if you remember, then follow, follow, follow, follow . . . (5) I’m not certain what Tom Jones was saying about following, but I am certain what Jesus was saying. We are to stay close to him and follow in his footsteps. And he was saying one thing in particular: the one place we simply can’t have an enemy is within the church ...

2. He Can Change Water To Wine

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a new mission, and a new motivation. But most of all, Christ gives us a NEW MEASURE OF OUR WORTH AS HUMAN BEINGS. Tom Skinner, the gifted black president of Associates, Inc., of New York City, spoke at a prayer breakfast several years ago in Des Moines ... you bring meaning to my life, I will serve you.'" God did bring meaning into Dean Jones' life. Suddenly he knew who he was--a child of the King. Dallas Cowboy football coach Tom Landry made that same discovery back in 1958. As he put it,..."I became...a person ...

3. Like Fighting a Giant Tuna

Romans 7:14-25a

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. The question is, how is it done? How do we win the battle over our own desires and actions? Legendary management guru Tom Peters understands this problem. Most of us have a to-do list, but Peters also has what he calls a “to-don’t” ... matter of spending time each day listening for God to speak to us about our lives. There is a story told of a pastor named Carter Jones. Jones had a small room in the attic that he used as a place of prayer. When he was especially burdened, he would make his way up ...

4. Coming For The Right Reasons

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... ” from me to others, from the temporal to the eternal, from my will to God's will. Let me tell you about a man named Tom. Tom knew he needed to make some changes in his life, and he went to speak with his pastor. He had once fallen into the trap ... Pilgrim Press, 1992), pp. 40 2. The Observer, p. 57 3. Regina v. Davie, British Columbia Court of Appeal. Cited in Rodney Jones and Gerald Uelmen, Supreme Folly, (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1990), pp. 45-46. 4. Gareth Gaston, quoted by Enid Nemy ...

5. Greed - Putting Things In Their Proper Perspective

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... as you love yourself that abundant life is gained and lived. 1. Lee Atwater, "Lee Atwater's Last Campaign" in Life (February 1991). 2. Quoted by Todd Jones, tape #4. 3. Thomas H. Naylor, William H. Willimon, Magdalena R. Naylor, The Search for Meaning (Abingdon Press: Nashville, TN, 1994), p. 74. 4. Ibid., p. 10 ... , p. 3; drawn from Reader's Digest, April 1993, pp. 96-98. 9. Adapted from Tom Eisenman, Temptations Men Face (InterVarsity Press: Downers Grove, IL, 1990), p. 155. 10. See Eisenman, ibid., p. 155f.

6. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

... believed that there is a God who loves and cares for his creatures. In his book about James Jones and the Jonestown massacre, James Reston insists that Jones didn’t believe in God - nor did many of his closest followers.1 One of his assistants was ... security and wealth, as though faith in Christ were a means to escape from the unpleasant side of life. "Charles Rhoads," wrote Tom Davies in an article titled, "Man Wants Heavenly Return on Investment," "has not been blessed."2 Rhoads said, "I lost my job, ...

7. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... I blink our eyes, another person has died from starvation. In an article sometime back in the CHRISTIAN CENTURY, Tom Peterson described the tragedy of world hunger like this: "Imagine a DC10 preparing to land; it is filled with ... children are dying each day from hungerrelated diseases and we did nothing to help. In 1930, during the Great Depression, a man named Golden Rule Jones was mayor of Toledo, Ohio. During his term of office, he sometimes sat as the presiding judge in night court. One night a man was ...

8. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Christian Ashram -- that was a Christian renewal movement patterned after the Hindu Ashrams in India, put in Christian context with Christian content and carried all over the world by the renowned missionary/evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. Tom Carruth extended the invitation one more time for me to go with him to an Ashram in Clearwater, Florida. I remember that my friend Jerry Trigg and I drove all Sunday afternoon and all Sunday night to get to that Ashram on Monday morning. It changed my life. Had it ...

9. The Authority of Scripture: God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The Gospel seemed clear. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted – ready to throw in the towel. Then I went to a weeklong Christian Ashram led by the world-famous missionary evangelist E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who have been to Asbury Theological Seminary and have lived here in Wilmore, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay ...

10. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... wrong. One thinks here of the followers of Jim Jones in the late 1970s, who were led astray by the distortion of the gospel preached by that minister. Jones’s followers—about one thousand of them—relocated from California ... (see 2 Tim. 4:11), since the apostle was confined in prison. Illustrating the Text The gospel was and is cross-cultural. Quote: Tom Cruise. Film star Tom Cruise discussed human unity in what he learned while filming The Last Samurai, an ode to Japan’s ancient class of warriors. He ...

11. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... to find a book like that. Something's missing and in its place we substitute all sorts of things. Affluence. Tom Sine in his book “Why Settle More and Miss the Best?” tells about Mill Valley, California. Mill Valley is nationally ... Him, you will never be satisfied. One of the spiritual giants of the 20th century was Missionary/Evangelist/Writer E. Stanley Jones. Late in life Jones had a debilitating stroke that left him immobile and virtually speechless. But it did not crush his spirit. "I was talking ...

12. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... other than my own driving commitment for social justice, which power was also activated by own understanding of professional success. Then I received an invitation which I accepted and which changed my life. A dear friend, Tom Carruth, invited me to a Christian ashram led by E. Stanley Jones, and some of you know that name. In my desperate search for deeper meaning in my ministry, for energy to struggle through the racial upheaval with integrity of preaching and action, looking for something more vital ...

13. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... driving commitment for social justice, which power was also activated by my desire for "professional success." At that point I received an invitation to which I responded, and which changed my life. A dear friend, Tom Carruth, invited me to a Christian Ashram led by E. Stanley Jones. In my desperate search for deeper meaning in my ministry, for energy to struggle through the racial upheaval with integrity of preaching and action, for something more vital than my own lagging, almost non-existent spiritual ...

14. Imitators of God

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted and ready to throw in the towel, when I went to a weeklong retreat conference – a Christian ashram – led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who have been to Asbury Theological Seminary, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay hands on and pray for me. He ...

15. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted and ready to throw in the towel, when I went to a weeklong retreat conference – a Christian Ashram – led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who had been to Asbury Theological Seminary, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay hands on and pray for me. He ...

16. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted and ready to throw in the tow, when I went to a weeklong retreat conference – a Christian Ashram – led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who had been to Asbury Theological Seminary, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay hands on and pray for me. He ...

17. Palm Sunday – Who Is That?

Matthew 21:1-11

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

... the source of all the hubbub. And inevitably people begin to ask, "Who is that?" In reply the branch-waving, coat-tossing folks excitedly answer, "Who is this, you ask! Why, it's Joshua Jones, a preacher from North Platte in Nebraska!" "Oh. So it's not Donald Trump? Not Tom Cruise or Katie Couric, not Bill Clinton? Joshua Jones from Nebraska? Oh. That's nice." But then eyes roll, eyebrows rise, and smirks are repressed as the big city folks go back to their big city business. Granted that Jerusalem circa 30 ...

18. The Bible: The Book No Other Can Match!

2 Timothy 3:16

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... can match. Some of you have undoubtedly seen that marvelous television commercial about the yellow pages done by the outstanding actor, James Earl Jones, as he shares testimony why the Bell Telephone Yellow Pages is the book no other can match. The purpose of my message is ... that was profoundly connected with this story. In some sense, remembering the story enabled me to walk again." (2) Tom Boomershine would agree that no other text--science book, theology book, a collection of poems--would have connected ...

19. As You Go, Remember…

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... , and to make it the goal of your ministry to bring God and humankind closer together." This really has been my "bot-tom-line objective" in all I have tried to do. More than anything else, I have wanted to heighten awareness of the God- ... classmates in college. Therefore, he went straight to the public address system in the store and said very clearly, "Will Jane and Jack Jones, the parents of Mary Anne, please come to counter 26 immediately. Your child is safe and waiting here." In a matter of minutes, ...

20. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... happen over the last week?" one asks. "No," answers the other, "nothing's happened. Oh, except there's a new baby down to Tom Lincoln's house. A boy, I think." That baby boy grew to be America's greatest president. Bethlehem was a small town. ... fling yourself into it." That is the ultimate key to successful living. God is alive and is at work in his world. Quaker philosopher Rufus Jones once told a true story about a man who owned a summer cottage on the coast of Maine who was determined to start a Sunday ...

21. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

One Sunday morning, following the church service, a layman accosted the pastor and said, “Tom, this church has been insulting me for years, and I did not know it until this ... power behind us is greater than the problems before us. An unbeliever once said to the great missionary E. Stanley Jones, “You believe in God, for then you have someone to hold your hand.” “No,” replied Jones, “I believe in God because He strengthens my arm.” The Good Shepherd keeps His sheep. The Good Shepherd goes after ...

22. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... is forced to live another. Parents have dreams for their children. We all do. I always knew my children would be a cross between Albert Einstein, Tom Selleck, and Joe Montana. On the other hand, I'm certain that I'm not their ideal dream of a parent, either. I knew just how ... lives they would have gone to Jesus and asked, "What do we do now?" Like the followers of the Rajneesh or Jim Jones or the Dalai Lama, they would have relied on appearance and words, instead of their own experience with God. Even with ...

23. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... . "Forget And Forgive," in "The Reader’s Digest," Vol. 65, October, 1954, pp. 65-66. 2. Quoted in The Expositor’s Dictionary Of Texts, Vol. II, p. 129. 3. E. Stanley Jones. How To Be A Transformed Person, p. 182. New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1951. 4. The Works Of John Wesley, Vol. II, p. 277. 5. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom’s Cabin, p. 57. New York: Harper and Row, Publishers, 1958, 1965. (A Perennial Classic) 6. Zacks, op. cit. 7. Edward Rowland Sill. "The Fool’s Prayer," in The Bedside ...

24. The Sound of Harmony

Romans 12:16

Children's Sermon

... harmony means? Well, today we are going to find out. Now let me introduce our quartet to you. (Introduce them by name and part - Mr. Jones, bass). Will you sing for us your tune, Mr. Bass? (Then let him sing.) That was great - kind of low, wasn’t it? (Proceed with ... make one church. Now if we don’t work together we will not be in harmony and we will sound terrible! But if Jane and Tom and Jan and Mike all work together, then God’s Church will be in harmony. Just as the members of the quartet had to ...

25. Holy Tares!

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... ‘Praise the Lord’ when you know full well that you stole my goose Friday night?" The tenant grinned and said, "Lordy mercy, Mister Jones! I ain’t gonna let no old dead goose keep me from shoutin’ about my Lord!" Why does this situation exist in every church ... . Unlike some clubs, a church member does not have to be voted in as a member. Instead, the church goes out to every Tom, Dick, and Harry and begs them to join, as though they would be doing the church a favor by joining. This has resulted in ...

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1. Staying Close to Christ

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

2. He Can Change Water To Wine

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

3. Like Fighting a Giant Tuna

Romans 7:14-25a

Sermon

King Duncan

4. Coming For The Right Reasons

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

5. Greed - Putting Things In Their Proper Perspective

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

6. Faith Bridges the Gap

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

7. Where Are Your Loaves And Fishes?

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

8. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

9. The Authority of Scripture: God's Breathed Word

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

10. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

11. Something Is Missing

John 6:24-35

Sermon

King Duncan

12. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

13. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

14. Imitators of God

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

15. A Prophet Among Them

Ezekiel 2:1-3:15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted and ready to throw in the towel, when I went to a weeklong retreat conference – a Christian Ashram – led by the world-famous missionary evangelist, E. Stanley Jones. It was Tom Carruth, that beloved mentor of many folks who had been to Asbury Theological Seminary, who led me in that direction. I will never forget going to the altar one evening, to have Brother Stanley lay hands on and pray for me. He ...

16. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

17. Palm Sunday – Who Is That?

Matthew 21:1-11

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

18. The Bible: The Book No Other Can Match!

2 Timothy 3:16

Sermon

Eric Ritz