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Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... take us long, however, to accumulate many othersfear of the dark, fear of lightning and thunder, fear of dogs, fear of other people. For many people this list continues to grow over a lifetimefear of heights, of closed in spaces, trains or planes... Virginia Spring wrote to Reader's Digest recently about how her family gathered around the telvision to witness the arrival of Pope John Paul II when he visited this country. As they watched the Pontiff step from the plane and symbolically kiss the ground, her ...

2. Hope from a Stump

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

In a radio interview, Nazi concentration camp survivor Gerta Weissman recalled an episode one spring when she and her fellow concentration camp inmates stood for roll call for hours on end, nearly ... man flew into a rage, switched their legs, tore the catalog to bits, and sat down in his yard and wept. John Jewell tells about a young woman named Virginia, 19 years old and pregnant when she went to live with her 15th set of foster parents. “Her case file read like a textbook example of neglect, abuse and ...

3. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

Seven years ago, our family moved from southern Virginia to northeast Wisconsin. As you might expect, spring comes later here. Fall comes earlier. And winter is a much different experience in northeast Wisconsin than it was in southern Virginia. The same temperatures that seemed bone-chilling in Virginia are good reason to leave the mufflers and mittens at home in Wisconsin. Of course, many of the retired folks in my congregation here take their cue from the geese and fly south for the winter each year. ...

4. By the Sea

Matthew 4:18-22, John 1:35-42, John 1:43-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... example, some of my “primal memories” are in West Virginia. If I’m in someone’s home, and they make that special dish of pinto beans and corn bread –voila! I’m back in my grammas kitchen in West Virginia. I smell that distinctive Old Spice cologne my father ... , “blue-collar,” fishing industry capital, and filled to the brim with injured and sick who flock daily to the hot springs along the coast of the Sea of Galilee. On the other hand, what better place to begin his ministry of healing ...

5. Follow that Dream

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Virginia, who had no idea who his white father was, this was a huge step. He decided that he would enter the Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia. With nothing more than a small satchel of clothing, he started walking from Malden, West Virginia, 500 ... responsibility? Woodrow Wilson once said, "We grow by dreams. All big [individuals] are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day, or in the red fire on a long winter's evening. Some of us let those great dreams die, but others nourish ...

6. Work (Labor Day)

Genesis 1:1 - 2:25

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... twice know there is more to the story than that. During the 1960 Democratic Presidential primaries, Senator Kennedy visited a mine in West Virginia. If you recall, one of the issues in that campaign was whether this son of Massachusetts privilege would ever be able to ... that fine day - hugging. Spring...surely God created Spring for fun. Not the Spring that causes people to get their muscles all sore and hands all full of blisters from trying to rearrange what God planted...but Spring with fluffy clouds and ...

7. When It's Time to Reconcile

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is to break down the walls of hostility. “Remember the Titans” is a popular movie. It is a true story of a Virginia high school football team that faced their fears of integration. That made them champions in the community as well as on the ... “Mending Wall.” Maybe some of you know it. It is the story about two New England farmers who go out every spring to mend the rock fences that have broken with the freeze and thaw of the winter, a rock fence like the one on Old Smyrna Road today. They have been ...

8. Will I Really Live Forever?

John 11:18-27, 39-45

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... forever? At the crossroads of faith we come today to discuss the question of immortality. Yes, Virginia, there is a heaven. Yes, Jim, you can live forever. I believe that with all of ... is a flower, in the seed an apple tree, In cocoons a hidden promise, butterflies will soon be free. In the cold and snow of winter, there’s a spring that waits to be Unrevealed until its season, something God alone can see. All of creation speaks of resurrection! Even now it unfolds before us. William Cullen Bryant reasoned ...

9. Acres of Diamonds

1 Timothy 6:10

Sermon

Russell Conwell

... General Garfield let me in -- one of the grandest men of our century. The great men of the world are ever so. I was down in Virginia and went up to an educational institution and was directed to a man who was setting out a tree. I approached him and said, "Do ... where I have lectured, saying that they have discovered this and that, and one man out in Ohio took me through his great factories last spring, and said that they cost him $680,000, and, said he, "I was not worth a cent in the world when I heard your ...

10. A Mountain Too High To Climb

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... you. I come from a world that may be different, but you'll find me serious and caring and wanting to help." " The people of West Virginia later elected Jay Rockefeller governor ” then U.S. senator. (3) It is difficult to minister to someone with whom you are not willing to live. In ... . 2. Joe Gordon, SPEAKER'S LIBRARY OF BUSINESS. 3. Jamie Buckingham, LOOK OUT, WORLD, (Altamonte Springs, FL: Strang Communications Company, 1993). 4. Larry Dinkins, HELP!, (Singapore: Overseas Missionary Fellowship, 1990), p. ...

11. Something To Die For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... to sit by Christ's side in his glory. Instead they drank of the cup from which he drank, the cup of service and sacrifice. What changed them? They came to know what it meant to follow Jesus. How about you? 1. Professor Jim Clawson, quoted in The University of Virginia Alumni Newsletter, Spring 2003. 2. Adapted from a sermon by Pastor Jonathan Wilson. 3.Redford Williams, M.D. and ...

12. Gratitude Takes Practice

Luke 17:11-19

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Maxie Dunnam

... had special meaning for her, but I was always too busy. How I wish I would have listened," he chokingly said. So, Don read some of Virginia's favorite lines which he had marked and which he had missed hearing her read because he was in a hurry. We can fail to ... much for granted that we receive them as our just due. The Holy Spirit of God can burst forth in the silent oratorio called "spring," and we never hear the glorious oratio sung by every tree, shrub and blade of grass. We can yawn at the blood -red path ...

13. Silly Love Songs

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... fair one, and come away." Winter has passed and spring has come. To the young man it seems that the earth has awakened at the same time his love has blossomed. There are sights and sounds of spring all around him, trees blossoming, figs ripening, birds singing. ... Stress was getting the best of him. In despair, Carl decided to take some time off of work and hike along Sky Line Drive in Virginia. The time away from the stresses of his life would do him good. Carl took a lawn chair with him, and at one picture ...

14. Habakkuk

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... proclaimed a Thanksgiving in 1578. In 1607, Popham Colony, on what is now the coast of Maine, held a similar observance. Virginia claims a very early Thanksgiving festival. The first harvest celebration by the Pilgrim Fathers was probably in October of 1621. ... ... Pilgrims. Empty larders prevailed during the long, cold winter. Eagerly they awaited spring and new crops, but a frightful drought descended with late spring and early summer, burning fields brown, withering the corn, destroying vegetable gardens. ...

15. Possibly Our Best Year! (A Sermon for New Year's)

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Write down your goals and refer to them from time to time. We will travel more surely in this new year if we know where we are going. And let's make certain our goals are worthy goals. In the spring of 1608 the settlers at Jamestown, Virginia discovered gold. At least they thought they did. They almost totally abandoned any efforts at planting crops, preparing buildings, and readying themselves for winter. They had found gold and devoted themselves to steadily digging out and washing the precious metal ...

16. No Salt in the City?

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... colored lights stirred something long asleep in those people. And before many days, the apartment complex twinkled with festive decor. When spring came, Kathryn asked me to make her a window box for her flowers. I did so, and all summer, banks of ... see hanging baskets and flower pots added to other apartments. After graduation we said our goodbyes and moved to work in a church in Virginia. And it was six years before we had a chance to visit our old Atlanta neighborhood. But as soon as we turned the corner ...

17. Crack Open Some Easter Eggs and Be Cracked Open

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and reed baskets has got to be one of the strangest rites in human existence. Oh yes, it is solemnly steeped in symbolism – spring, rebirth, chicks cracking out of a tomb-like shell. But for most of us – tell the truth now – it really is just a little ... appearance, surprise us with their spontaneity, and inspire us with their truth. On one middle-of-the-night drive to West Virginia we rounded a sharp turn on a pitch-black country lane and the headlights suddenly caught and captured a beautiful Easter ...

18. Will 2012 Be the End of the World?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... them, nor any scorching heat. For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.” It’s a shame that every apocalyptic thriller can’t ... . Pastor Michael D. Powell tells a true story that says it as well as it can be said: On a trip to Williamsburg, Virginia, to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary, Roy and Karen Pike slammed into a truck parked along the shoulder of the highway. They were ...

19. Remember the Lord

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... suggested that before you left on such a journey you should write out your will. Nevertheless, the Pilgrims made it to the New World. However, they had been blown far off course from their intended landing in Virginia. They were instead in New England with winter coming on and they were wholly unprepared. By spring over one half of the community had perished. During January and February it was not unusual to have two or three deaths a day among their small company. It is said that during the worst of it ...

20. “God Is Our Refuge and Strength, an Ever-Present Help in Trouble”

Psalm 46:1-11

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... ,” Ezek. 48:35). Psalm 46 maps out the water sources of the city, which were in geographical reality limited to the spring of Gihon, and makes the city a virtual replica of the garden of Eden (see “The Text in Context”; see also Pss ... Quote: Robert E. Lee. Robert E. Lee was an American military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. And he was very committed to faith in Jesus Christ. He once said, as a great summary of Psalm ...

21. Encounters With Christ V: Jesus and James and John

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , SELFISH AMBITION MAKES YOU APATHETIC TOWARD OTHER PEOPLE. There is an old story about a young man from West Virginia who went off to college at a prestigious eastern university. The mountain youngster was able to go to this ... his new friends that he just couldn’t make it home for Thanksgiving or Christmas, but of course, he would need some more money. And then when Spring Break came, he called his dad and said it was most important for him to go to the beach. Everybody was going,… and he would need some ...

22. If Only We Would Accept Responsibility ...

Ezekiel 33:1-20

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... brought some conflicting answers from my visitor. "Where were you living when God gave you instructions to go to Florida?" "In Farmville, Virginia." "With whom?" I continued. First, he said, he was staying with friends and God told him the friends didn’t want ... a widespread belief that some outside force is responsible for the evil in the world. We cannot bear to think that it springs from within us. That essentially is what was said an one of the highest courtrooms in America when Richard Nixon’s chief ...

23. Easter 4

Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 23:1-6, Acts 6:1-7, Acts 7:54--8:1a, 1 Peter 2:13-25, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

... before all sheep, not just "black sheep," that takes precedence over this question. It is: "Sheep, do you have a shepherd?" In the spring of the year a couple of decades ago, my family and I took a weekend drive through the highlands of Scotland. We ... 1-9; 7:2a, 51-60 - "Stones Break Bones - and Kill." My son, daughter-in-law, and two granddaughters live in Williamsburg, Virginia, where they are members of St. Stephen Lutheran Church, which was built after a design by Thomas Jefferson right across from the ...

24. God and the Weather

Matthew 5:45; 16:2-3 · Psalm 18:7-11; 46:1-3, 11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... her work, and in time, he said, she would complete her task. And she is. The area of our habitation is a four season area. In the spring we see the buds on the trees. In the summer those buds come to full bloom. In the fall what was green becomes crimson or yellow or ... arson, and arson is related to human sin and folly, not to God. Or take the building that collapsed in West Virginia many years ago killing so many workmen. Some undoubtedly called it the will of God, but investigations have clearly established ...

25. The Struggle of Faith

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... ., has been from 1952 to the present Marthina DeFriece Professor of Pastoral Counseling at Union Theological Seminary in Virginia. He is a past president of the Association for Clinical Pastoral Education and a Diplomate of the American ... at this point that my host said, "Here we are riding down this beautiful street. The grass is green, the flowers are out for spring, the dogwood and redbud are in blossom. The trees are filled with leaves, and all looks serene. Nevertheless, I am convinced that if we ...

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