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Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... , The Gospel Selections of the Ancient Church (Columbus, Ohio: Lutheran Book Concern, 1936), p. 348. William Hendriksen, New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1973). 3. A. E. Harvey, Companion to the New Testament (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 65. 4. H. Benedict Green, The Gospel According to Matthew, New Clarendon Bible (London: Oxford University Press, 1975), p. 146. 5. William M. Taylor, The Miracles of Our Savior (New York: A. C. Arnstrong, 1900), p. 299. 6 ...

2. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... Every summer I go to our permanent home in Michigan, where my wife grew up. Usually the evening is closed in the dead of the darkness by our standing on the shore of that broad expanse of Lake Michigan and gazing up into the sky to watch the ... the scene because that picture was a mode of thinking, a symol of our understanding of how much we know about God and the universe, or, more poignantly, about our husbands and our wives. You may have been married for thirty or forty years, but you still don’t ...

3. Well, What Did You Expect?

Acts 12:1-19a

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Louis H. Valbracht

... , if answered, would do unjust harm to other persons. Some prayers are inconsistent with the character of God. I remember a picture in the paper a few years back that showed the Michigan State football team praying that Ohio State would beat Michigan so that Michigan State could go to the Rose Bowl. Well, I’m sorry, but I don’t think that the God of the Universe is at all concerned about what team is going to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl. We don’t have a right to pray for such things in the ...

4. The War of Malchus’ Ear

John 18:1-11

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Donald B. Strobe

... We are supposed to be followers of Jesus. A few years back I read a novel called “the Vicar of Christ” by Walter Murphy. It is the improbable story of a man who is successively, a war hero (Korea), Dean of the Law School (at the University of Michigan,) a Supreme Court Justice, then Chief Justice. This man’s wife dies tragically...and he goes into a monastery to retreat from the world just as the College of Cardinals meets in Rome to elect a new pope. The cardinals become deadlocked, when somebody, in ...

5. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

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Donald B. Strobe

... fail to be amused when they discover that our state contains both a Hell and a Paradise, Michigan. Paradise is in the Upper Peninsula, and Hell is not too far from Ann Arbor. I have no ... heaven or hell: the furniture of the one or the temperature of the other. I don’t know whether or not God will ultimately win everybody to Himself. (That’s universalism.) I don’t know versalist. I hope that He does. Perhaps God never gives up. Perhaps God’s search for us is eternal. But perhaps our freedom to say No ...

6. Imagine a World

Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that is still operating. In fact I will be there next Sunday preaching on the last weekend of the summer season. At Bay View in Michigan, in addition to preaching, I taught a class on the parables. I was captured once again with the importance of that parable for the life ... that it is breaking down and disintegrating. That is called "entropy," the second law of thermodynamics. It is true universally. Life breaks down, disintegrates. Everything is supposed to do that. That is the law. That is what you would ...

7. With a Firm Foundation, Application Is Second Nature

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... difference in your life. Again we turn to the latest scientific research on happiness, on what makes people happy. A University of California psychologist, Sonja Lyumbomirsky, has noted that satisfaction with life is boosted in most people who savor life's ... of Blood Healed (n.d.), pp. 5-6, The Complete Sermons of Martin Luther, Vol. 3.1, ed. John Nicholas Lenker (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Books, 2000), pp. 329-330. 7. Op cit, Schweizer, p. 191. 8. Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics, Vol. II/2, ed. G. W. ...

8. The Near Edge of God

Jn 1:1-3, 14

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... college ... which, ironically, was the first time I ever laid eyes upon the place) might just as easily have been the end of the universe. Given a car and a map, I was far from certain that I would have known how to get home to Detroit. Which changed ... tells me that he is doing this or that ... or not doing this or that ... because of the healthy respect he has for Lake Michigan, he is not saying that sailing is no longer fulfilling or fun. Indeed, he may believe that he is never happier, more alive, or ...

9. Deadly Sins - A Matter Of Sutton's Law

Romans 7:14-25

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R. Curtis Fussell

... , "I did the thing I didn't want to do. I'm sorry. I am to blame." Chris Webber, the star basketball player for the University of Michigan, managed to get ahold of the ball with only eleven seconds left in the final game of the 1993 NCAA tournament against the University of North Carolina. All he had to do was take the ball down the court, put the ball through the net, and Michigan would have won. But as Chris came down the court with the ball, he called for time-out. Unfortunately, his team had used up all ...

10. Ready For The Game Warden

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... the will to go out there every day training and building those muscles and sharpening those skills!" (3) No wonder Bobby Knight has been so successful as a coach. Another famous coach believed the same thing. "Hurry Up" Yost was the football coach at the University of Michigan. A player once assured Coach Yost that their team was sure to win on Saturday because the players had "the will to win." "Hurry Up" Yost answered: "Don't fool yourself. The will to win is not worth a plugged nickel unless you have the ...

11. A Colt Is Not A Horse

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Burial Service, 1662 BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER (John II: 2526). 6. 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 magazine, grew up in a fundamentalist church which didn't observe the major events of Holy Week. He never attended a Good Friday service and shied away from crucifixes because ...

12. Only a Carpenter

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... past, but what was needed to save Russia was ten Francis of Assisi’s.” (Quoted in WHY JESUS NEVER HAD ULCERS by Robert M. Holmes, Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1986, p. 89) Or one Jesus Christ!! One Carpenter from Nazareth. In the old University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. there was a Carpenter’s Workroom located deep in the bowels of the basement. I know, because that is the route I had to take to find my way through a maze of corridors and eventually to the elevator which would take ...

13. Aha! An Epiphany!

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Within a year he was at the top of his class. After this epiphany in Junior High School that he was not stupid, Benny went on to Yale and the University of Michigan Medical School. And at the age of 32, Dr. Benjamin Carson became the youngest surgeon in the nation to hold the position of Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins University. As a surgeon he was chosen to separate several sets of what are popularly known as Siamese twins. (2) Clarence Evinrude one afternoon saw the need for a motor ...

14. Bracing For The Rough Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... another athletic contest with a happier ending than the infamous Heidi incident. "On a balmy October afternoon in 1982, Badger Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin, was packed. More than 60,000 diehard University of Wisconsin supporters were watching their football team take on the Michigan State Spartans. "It soon became obvious that Michigan State had the better team. What seemed odd, however, as the score became more lopsided, were the bursts of applause and shouts of joy from the Wisconsin fans. How could they ...

15. A One Sentence Legacy

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... , your plan for life, begin with the big question: What’s your sentence? Former pro football great Bubba Smith came face-to-face with his sentence many years ago, and he didn’t like it. Do you remember Bubba? He first came into prominence at Michigan State University as an All-American defensive end. The first selection of the 1967 NFL Draft, he played nine years in the pros. He was named to two Pro Bowls and was a First-Team All-Pro in 1971. After football, Smith was recruited to appear in commercials ...

16. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... feel it, and to believe in God when God is silent for a period. Even if the world crucifies you, the design of God's universe and your life with it will ultimately triumph. The dream will triumph even if it is not immediately evident. You and I live by our ... to sit on a couch with the talk show host and ala the Larry King Show take telephone calls from people in that part of Michigan and Indiana. I dreaded it. I just knew some professors would call in questions I couldn't answer. Or worse yet, some nut would ...

17. Living Sacrifice

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

... but whether or not you personally feel it to be true. My point is that most of your work here at the University proceeds from a philosophical standpoint, some assumption about what is true and good. The trouble is that most of our work here ... their tight grip upon the status quo and we are wrenched away from the world as it is. I know a Junior. A Presbyterian. In Michigan, he says, he never thought much about being a Presbyterian. But he came to Duke and, for the first time in his little Presbyterian life, ...

18. Making Sense of the Ascension

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and power of God from overwhelming them. Now, because Jesus had gone to be with God, they believed, He reigns with God over the universe. Now they had a clue to how the whole human story is going to come out. No wonder we read that after Jesus ascended ... Catholic, says that the crosses aren’t permanent because they’ll only be on his property until the second coming of Christ (Michigan Christian Advocate, July 17., 1989, p. 3). Anybody want to bet that, if allowed to stand, they will be there longer than ...

19. Power

2 Corinthians 6:7

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to tell me not to use their phone." One night while Dan was chattering away with his girlfriend and laying that "You don't have the power" speech on me, Bob walked out of his room. Bob had been an All-American tackle in football at the University of Michigan. He weighed 260 pounds. Without saying a word, Bob ran 10 or 15 feet toward the phone, aimed his shoulder and knocked the phone completely off the wall. Wires whipped everywhere. One of them caught Dan under his armpit, drew blood and knocked him to the ...

20. Focusing On The Possibilities

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... that Dantzig's professor was so impressed that he "gave Dantzig a job as his assistant, and Dantzig has been at Stanford ever since." George Dantzig (himself the son of a mathematician) received a Bachelor's degree from University of Maryland in 1936 and a Master's from the University of Michigan in 1937 before completing his Doctorate (interrupted by World War II) at UC Berkeley in 1946. He later worked for the Air Force, took a position with the RAND Corporation as a research mathematician in 1952, became ...

21. The Lord's Prayer: "Thy Will Be Done"

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... sometime back.(2) The headline reads "A Child is beaten to death: Murder or God's Will?" The dateline is South Haven, Michigan and it starts off, "The police call it murder. But `Prophet' William Lewis has another explanation: the 12-year-old boy ... wipe out unsuspecting communities or individuals - that would not be God; it would be a devil. I DO believe that God created the universe according to certain natural laws. Those can most assuredly be called GOD'S WILL. But I also believe that God does not suspend ...

22. Response To The Resurrection: Christian People In A Pluralistic Society

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... these concerned a fundraising letter that was mailed out by the Robertson Organization following his victory in the Michigan state caucus in which he said to his supporters, "The Christians are winning." Mark Greene wanted to know ... embody in his own life. What do we have to say to a pluralistic world? We say that we have a lot in common. We share a universal Godconsciousness. But we have good news. God has become a human being, and because he has become a human being, he understands our predicament and has ...

23. Where Earth and Heaven Meet

John 1:14

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... theological statement, a statement of belief. My predecessor at Ann Arbor, Don Strobe, is one of the great preachers of Michigan Methodism, still going strong in his retirement. Years ago he preached a Christmas sermon called "The Autobiography of God." He ... was born in Bethlehem 2000 years ago if he has not been born in me today. Christmas Eve is not just about expanding universes, expansive heavens, or unimaginable messages coming from the vastness of outer space. It is about the coming of God's love in the ...

24. What Happens When You're Not Prepared for What Happens

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... to his house for the briefing sessions and then takes the children who are not already in school to work with him at the university. Trying to work and take care of the kids at both home and school turns out to be another disaster. Things are so messed ... a regiment was made up of 6,000 troops. A Catholic nun tells me about the time she came home from the grocery in Detroit, Michigan. Her apartment was in a rather rundown part of the city. As she was getting her groceries out of her car, this tiny, tiny, lady ...

25. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... sense of right and wrong. For many people there are no moral absolutes, no divine commandments to be obeyed, no universal, timeless principles to which they feel obligated. Many people are governed by whatever gives them pleasure or satisfies their lust ... about issues in terms of the Judeo-Christian truth."1 Colson asks in his speech given at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, "Can we be good without God?" His resounding answer is "no." Any society, especially a free society, says Colson, "depends ...

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