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Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . As he was backing out the garage, the woman ran to the door and shouted at him, "Honey, won't you get some nuts too -- if we could just put some nuts on the ice cream, it would make it so good. Shouldn't you make a list of these things that I want you to get. But the man smiled and said, "No, honey, I can remember. Vanilla ice cream, chocolate syrup, nuts for topping." And he drove off. When he got to the store, he couldn't remember what he was supposed to get. He walked up and down the aisles ...

2. Every Day God Enriches

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... when you add a little chocolate syrup or strawberries or caramel. And then sprinkle it with some nuts, add a little bit of whipped cream and top it with a cherry? That ordinary bowl of just wonderful vanilla ice cream becomes a culinary work of art. It moves from just wonderful to scrumptious. It goes from being a bowl of ice cream to being a sundae. And that's what we're called to do. You see every day God Enriches our lives, God enriches, fortifies and enhances our lives, so we can enhance the world with ...

3. Fire from Heaven

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... (then you add the flavors real peaches or raspberries or pecans or chocolate or caramel)? The smaller the number of ingredients, the more premium the brand. The larger the list of ingredients, the cheaper the brand. Premium ice cream is made of a minimum of ingredients — cream, sugar, eggs, vanilla, ice and crank. The bare minimum. The basics. The “real deal” is what speaks to people the world over. At Pentecost the most basic of basics came forward with power and presence. God’s Spirit, the Holy ...

4. You Can Be Well Fed

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... because one of her goals was to make me as skinny as she was. Following a trip to a church conference at Lake Junaluska, North Carolina, I made the mistake of telling her that I had stopped at the Biltmore Dairy Bar in Asheville and had eaten vanilla ice cream. "Why did you do that?" she raged. "You should've ordered frozen yogurt!" "I tried, but they wouldn't let me," I answered honestly. She was obviously dumbfounded. "I don't believe that," she said. "Why wouldn't they let you order frozen yogurt?" I ...

5. Praying With Tears in Your Eyes

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... that we are praying about critical and crucial matters of life that affect our destinies. If our needs are of such little concern that it does not matter one way or another, we will not be moved to tears. Is my concern only whether I should have chocolate or vanilla ice cream? Shall it be a red or a blue dress that I should buy? Which car shall it be - a Chevy, an Escort, or a Spitfire? Rather, when we pray about the essential issues of life that are matters of life and death, we pray with tears. This is ...

6. Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James McCormick

... Now, I like strawberry. It’s okay for me to like strawberry. It’s even okay for me to believe and say that strawberry is the best. It’s just not okay for me to say that only strawberry can be ice cream, and that those who prefer vanilla or chocolate are not real Christians - I mean, not real ice cream lovers. I say all of this not to prepare you for some radical changes we intend to make. No, we will probably keep on doing much of what we have been doing. Most of our congregation is fairly traditional ...

7. Chocolate Or Vanilla

Humor

A mother took her three children into the ice cream parlor for an ice cream cone. The man behind the counter asked, "Chocolate or vanilla?" The mother asked, "Why don't you have more flavors?" "Lady," he answered, "if you only knew how much time it takes some people to make up their minds just between chocolate and vanilla, you'd never have another flavor!"

8. Digging Deeper

Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... be written down so we won’t ever forget them. There was an elderly couple who were getting ready for bed one night and the wife said, “I am just so hungry for ice cream, but there isn’t any in the house.” The husband said, “I’ll go out and get some.” She said, “You are so sweet. Please get vanilla with chocolate sauce.” He said, “Okay.” She said, “Now, write it down or you will forget it.” He said, ‘I won’t forget.” She said, “Also get some whipped cream on top.” He ...

9. I Know What You Want

1 Corinthians 2:16, Philippians 2:5

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... friends. Act all of this out with the puppets as you tell the story. And the favorite part of the walk for them was going to the ice cream store. 'A' would say, "I want vanilla," and 'B' would say, "I want chocolate." Give different voices to the puppets as they order the ice cream. The next day they went down the street. Retell the story, until the characters go into the ice cream store. 'A' said, "Today, I want raspberry," and 'B' said, "I want chocolate." Tell the story again, until they get into the ...

10. Jesus Chose You

John 15:9-17

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... .) Choosing means “to pick out something”, like one cookie on a whole plate of cookies. When you take that cookie, you are choosing. I love to go to the ice cream store that has all kinds of flavors in a big case, like butter pecan, chocolate, mint, moose tracks, caramel, and vanilla, and thirty more different kinds. I think I will choose black cherry ice cream but then I look some more and I think I will choose chocolate fudge. But it is hard, because there are so many other flavors. There is superman ...

11. When Did We See You?

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Lucy is seated comfortably in her ben bag chair watching television. She asks Charlie Brown: "How about getting me a dish of ice cream? . . . Mint! Make sure it's mint!" Charlie Brown returns with a dish of green ice cream. Lucy smiles and says, "Thank you." Then her face is perplexed and she sticks out her tongue. "This doesn't taste like mint." Charlie Brown replies, "All we had was vanilla . . . But you can do amazing things with a green felt tip." (1) We are living in a time when many persons want ...

12. The End of Time

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... the counter at the bank toward the cashier, he would grin proudly. "These are for my son's college fund. He'll never work at the mill all his life like me." We would always celebrate each deposit by stopping for an ice cream cone. I always got chocolate. Dad always got vanilla. When the clerk at the ice cream parlor handed Dad his change, he would show me the few coins nestled in his palm. "When we get home, we'll start filling the jar again." He always let me drop the first coins into the empty jar. As ...

13. Compliments Of The House

Psalm 23:6

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... we could pick up. We'd play some Ping-Pong. But we always made sure to raid the freezer. We thought we were getting away with something. We'd open Aunt Viola's freezer and sure enough, there was always a new half gallon of Neapolitan ice cream. Danny loved strawberry, Bruce loved vanilla and I loved chocolate. It was perfect. We'd grab spoons and snarf that down and then hide the empty container. I don't know when it started probably when we were about 10. And we'd all feel guilty about it but excited that ...

14. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... people develop anosmia often from head injuries – like Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry's, which is why he says his ice cream has so many tactile and other sensory characteristics. Some people drift into anosmic states by repressing their sense of smell ... chores induce stress, why not pump in peppermint scents? Lace bedrooms with lavender to foster sleep. Perfume MRIs with heliotropin (vanilla) scents to ease patient anxiety. 2) The sense of smell is an almost infallible trigger of memory. In fact, smell ...

15. House of God

Ephesians 2:1-10, Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... .” [You can optionally read or play another clip as well from the movie:] Remy: [sniffing a cake] Flour, eggs, sugar... vanilla bean... Oh, small twist of lemon. Emile: Whoa! You can smell all that? You have a gift! Remy: [voiceover] This is ... the brownies made with olive oil, the gourmet chocolate “bacon” candy. And don’t forget those “pregnancy” delights: pickles and ice cream! J Well, just as combining different ingredients makes for great recipes, the same thing goes for our ideas –and ...

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