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Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Stone Blackwell, to her side just before she passed away. These were her parting words: "Make the world better." (3) Norman Vincent Peale told an amusing story of the very early Kentucky frontier. It was after the year of 1782, during which ... and all and read him out of the church." She got well and survived to rear her family and do her share of the work. In his frankness he had restored her courage and her will to live. (4) We need to be reminded that there are people who depend on us. Indeed the world ...

2. Curiosity Or Consecration

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... dull dead soul which he has never reached, and wistfully urges me to help him reach that stolid, tight shut mind. Now you may not be as much the mystic as Frank Laubach, I’m not. I wish I were. The truth still is - wholeness comes only through an intentional, intimate, ongoing communion with the living Christ. This is the way Edna St. Vincent Malay felt about it - the world stands out on either side, no wider than the heart is wide. Above the world is stretched the sky, no higher than the soul is high ...

3. Heroes

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , they learned that Ruth had married, and now her last name was Foisy. But they couldn't find a Foisy anywhere. Finally, Deanne and Vincent tracked down the priest who had married Ruth and her husband. He agreed to send her a letter from the Sferrino's. When Ruth ... Are you among that number? Can Christ count on you to be a hero of the faith? 1. “A Star Is Born," by Frank Gannon, Modern Maturity, Sept./Oct. 2000. 2. Washington, D.C.: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1990, p. 168. 3. “A Second Gift ...

4. The Song of an Awe-Filled Life

Psalm 138:1-8

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... think "dreadful," "scary" or even "icky." But for Watts and Wesley, the word meant "awe-filled, awesome." It's the "awe factor," and frankly, it's what missing from most of our lives. Oh, yes, we use the word "awesome." We over-use it, in fact, ... school learn poetry anymore, but I am thankful for Mrs. Loll in fourth grade who made us memorize great poetry, like this. Edna St. Vincent Millay sings the song of awe and wonder: O World, I cannot hold thee close enough! Thy winds, thy wide grey skies! Thy mists ...

5. There's No Such Thing as Too Much Sugar

Psalm 91:1-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... included a Polaroid of her winged warrior and urged that someone from the paper come to visit and do a story. OK. "This is too good to pass up," thinks reporter Frank Quinlan - a page-one scoop. True or not, it becomes his job to track down this alleged angel and bring him back to Chicago in time for Christmas. But his ... via diskette, WordStar International, 1991-92 7. Myrne Roe, ibid. 8. John 10:10 9. Norman Vincent Peale, Powerful Results, (New York: Foundation for Christian Living, 1982), pp. 109-111

6. God Spoke

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... travel for granted. Those early successes seemed so easy. “This is Apollo 8 coming to you from the moon . . .” reported Frank Borman in the first of six telecasts beamed from the rocket to earth. It was a stunning achievement for our space ... speak? Sometimes he speaks to us in the beauty of the world he has created. Sometimes he speaks through the reading of Scripture. Norman Vincent Peale once told of a woman who had an eighteen-year-old daughter who went out riding and was thrown from her horse and ...

7. How Can I Know It's Real?

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... father had not shielded him from facing justice when he shot his first victim. (2) Regardless, it is clear that though the fathers of Frank and Jesse James and of John Wesley Hardin were men of the cloth, they were not great role models. Have you ever wondered how ... coach he had been sleeping on the floor the last five nights. That’s determination. (3) In one of his books Norman Vincent Peale tells about a ragged newsboy years ago in Chicago who had that same kind of determination. This young fellow used to ...

8. What "They" Say

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Larry Powell

... is the question. Think one last time before answering. (3) Do not claim Jesus as Lord while clinging to some false security. Norman Vincent Peale has observed, "It is curious and sad the way much of the intellectual climate has changed. Once we roared like lions for ... ." In the absence of security, confidence and a sense of well-being go begging. We have a low tolerance for insecurity. Frankly, there is only one thing worse than insecurity and that is false security, especially if one is not even aware that it ...

9. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... true. They are true because they recognize that as human beings, we are not able to do everything on our own. Prayer, quite frankly, is an admission of our human limitations of our weaknesses. This is not easy for many people to admit because we like to boast ... faith. Because he did, he was "able to do all things through Christ which strengthened him." We can, too. 1. Norman Vincent Peale - "Believe You Can and You Can," Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching, Vol. XI (Waco, Texas: Word Books, Publisher, 1971), ...

10. God With A Human Face

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is eternal, the life God gives is eternal. Because of this, Christians have life in the very midst of physical death. When Norman Vincent Peale was a young minister in Brooklyn he saw one Christmas Eve two Christmas wreaths on a door. The one had a red ... all our books, schools, and learned societies. We are in the dark when it comes to some of our main problems. Our leaders frankly admit they do not have the answer to problems such as cancer, inflation, the energy crisis, and even something as simple as the ...

11. Finding Glory

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... possessions. This is a little tricker. Materialism ” the worship of things ” is a constant threat in a society such as ours. As Frank Tyger has so cleverly put it: "America is the land of the spree and the home of the crave." (2) Fights over ... wives. There are people who are engaged in all kinds of destructive behavior because they do not know how to heal the past. Norman Vincent Peale tells about a young mother who had been unfaithful to her husband. She could not get rid of the guilt. She asked God ...

12. The Look Of Eagles

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... him. On the other hand, nothing could defeat him. Author Irving Stone has spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that runs through the lives of all these ... Books, 1987), pp. 138139. 9. THE EXPOSITOR'S BIBLE COMMENTARY, Vol. 11, Frank E. Gaebelein, ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990, p.143. 10. Crossroads, Issue No. 7, Page 18.

13. Discerning The Will Of God

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... seek in which we seek and God hides. I know God is very patient with me. Without that patience I would be lost. But frankly, I have to be patient with Him. With no other friend would I go on seeking with such scant conscious response. Yet I cannot ... that God is faithful to His promises. If you still make a wrong decision, He will show you. I was amused by a story that Norman Vincent Peale told about Henry B. Wright, a professor at Yale University. Wright had a friend who was a bum on skid row in New York City ...

14. Eating in the Echoing Hall

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... distress about something you wish could be different, and in reality, not many of us get through life without a few regrets. As Frank Sinatra crooned in his song "My Way": "Regrets? I've had a few, but then again, too few to mention." And that's ... " could have been the title of the sermon today, but I chose to use a phrase from the twentieth-century poet Edna St. Vincent Millay who, in one of her poems, captured that sense of opportunity forever gone that underlies regret, referring to things she'd said or ...

15. When I Am Weak, I Am Strong

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... difficult circumstances. Author Irving Stone spent a lifetime studying greatness, writing novelized biographies of such men as Michelangelo, Vincent van Gogh, Sigmund Freud and Charles Darwin. Stone was once asked if he had found a thread that ... and strength of a father that took Ricky where he could not go alone.” (6) Isn’t that a beautiful metaphor for the life of faith? Frank Sinatra may have sung, “I Did It My Way,” [maybe with a little help from the mob, if the stories were true.] But no one ...

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