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Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... , and to the outcaste people, almost divine. As he drew near the Delhi Gate on one of his journeys, 25,000 outcastes awaited his coming. They only expected to see a car flash past, and with luck, to catch a glimpse of him. But Edward, Prince of Wales, stopped the car, stepped out, and heard a spokesman for the sixty million outcastes beg that they might never be abandoned and left to the tyranny of those who despised them and would keep them slaves. The Prince listened patiently and then did an unheard of ...

2. Caught Up In A Dream

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Over the years workers had pilfered all kinds of things. Everything from wheelbarrows to hammers had been stolen. However, as people sought to be right with God they started to return what they had taken, with the result that soon the shipyards of Wales were overwhelmed with returned property. There were such huge piles of returned tools that several of the yards had to put up signs that read, IF YOU HAVE BEEN LED BY GOD TO RETURN WHAT YOU HAVE STOLEN, PLEASE KNOW THAT THE MANAGEMENT FORGIVES YOU AND WISHES ...

3. Leaving Before the Invitation

Luke 5:1-11

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Gary L. Carver

... awareness of his own unworthiness equipped him to be a servant and that drove him to his knees as a sinner lifted up and as a servant of the Christ. Several years ago, two land surveyors were sent from a large city in Wales to survey the mountains in North Wales. For a week, they stayed in an isolated cabin in shepherd country. Every day they went out with maps, compasses, and charts checking the countryside and the valleys. Several days into the first week, an old shepherd came up to them and said, "Might ...

4. Catch of the Day

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... pilfered all kinds of things. Everything from wheelbarrows to hammers had been "borrowed" or stolen. However, as the people sought to get right with God they started to return what they had taken. The result was that it wasn't long before the shipyards of Wales were overwhelmed with returned property. There were such huge piles of returned tools that several of the shipyards had to put up signs that read, IF YOU HAVE BEEN LED BY GOD TO RETURN WHAT YOU HAVE STOLEN, PLEASE KNOW THAT THE MANAGEMENT FORGIVES ...

5. Finding Our Roots in God and Country

2 Samuel 5:1-5, 6-10

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... -war?" Instead of asking him which war he meant, since York Minster is 1,000 years old, the guide simply replied, "Sir, it is pre-America!" How brief and short our American history is and yet we find our roots in England and Scotland, in Ireland and Wales. Like David, we have a lot in common in both adversity and unity. God knows that our two countries have experienced our share of adversity: their civil war, our civil war. David certainly did before coming to this point in his life. David had come a long ...

6. Waltzing With Coyotes

Luke 6:27-36

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... FOOT) This hare town haint big 'nough fer tha both o' us. BART: Ah reckon ah knowed that. Yar a steppin' on ma toes. (SHOVING WILLIE OFF) WILLIE: Yar a fixin' ta git yar face kicked in so fer yar a gonna sneeze outen that back a yar haid. BART: Wale, now haint that sumthin'. Tha toad is a-thinkin' it's a baer. Ah warn't aknowin' that a toad could do nary a thang but sit in tha sun and eat skeeters. WILLIE: Yar agonna find out that this toad has turned inta a scorpion. Ya better forgit ya ...

7. Show Us The Father, and We Shall Be Satisfied

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Larry Powell

... our Lord has promised to bestow. The presence and power of the Spirit enable things of the kingdom to be accomplished despite our troubled and worried attitudes. It is told that Newman Hall stood early one morning on the summit of Snowden in Wales, accompanied by approximately 120 others. They had all climbed to this high vantage point to behold what they had hoped to be a breathtaking sunrise. They were not disappointed. The sunlight bathed the mountain peaks and danced upon scattered lakes in the valley ...

8. Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

James Weekley

... Michael Faraday, an early pioneer of electromagnetic current, once addressed a convocation of scientists. For an hour he held the audience spellbound with his lecture on the nature of the magnet. After he had finished, he received a thundering ovation. The Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, stood to congratulate him. The applause thundered again. Just as quickly, a deadened silence pervaded the audience. Faraday had left. It was the hour of a mid-week prayer service in a little church of which he was a ...

9. Ash Wednesday

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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George Bass

... gospel for Ash Wednesday - Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21 - with the opening word of Lent - Genesis 3:19 - "Nightmare." Life would be something of a nightmare, if our thoughts continually turned to death and nothingness. In an old Clint Eastwood movie, The Ballad Of Josie Wales, Eastwood's young companion is shot as they escape an ambush, and he blurts out, sweat pouring from his face, "I'm afraid to die." This first word of Lent, "Remember, you are dust, and to dust you shall return," makes the sweat pour out upon ...

10. The Inaugural Address

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... from Nazareth where, long ago, a Nazarene stood up and preached good news to the poor. Noelene Martin, a Franciscan monk in Australia, learned this the hard way, when he was assigned to be the guide and "gofer" to Mother Teresa when she visited New South Wales. Thrilled and excited at the prospect of being so close to this great woman, he dreamed of how much he would learn from her and what they would talk about. But during her visit, he became frustrated. Although he was constantly near her, the friar ...

11. The Master Has Come - And Calls Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

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... the need is. Would you go where he leads you, and serve where he needs you? Leslie Newbigin was a student at Cambridge University in England, preparing to go into his father’s business. He decided to spend part of a vacation working with the miners in South Wales who he said, had been rotting in misery for years. He had no success, and felt defeated. But one night, overwhelmed by defeat, he had a vison of the Cross. And he realized it was the only thing which could make sense out of life. When he finished ...

12. Security: Deeply Personal

Ezekiel 34:1-31

Sermon

... focal point for food and, in fact, unless he does the feeding, malnutrition and even starvation result. Not only are we unable to save ourselves, we are unable to feed ourselves, separate and apart from him. William Williams was a dissenting preacher in eighteenth century Wales, but we remember him largely because of a single hymn that he wrote, entitled "Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah." With sustaining power those lines come to us: Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven, Feed me till I want no more, Feed me till ...

13. Looking For God?

Isaiah 55:1-13

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John R. Brokhoff

... is to see God’s handiwork in nature. Whenever we see a person’s product, we feel close to the maker, and we learn certain things about him/her from the beauty and quality of the product. Dorothy Gurney’s poem is inscribed at the Bok Singing Tower in Lake Wales, Florida: The kiss of the sun for pardon, The song of the bird for mirth, - One is nearer to God’s heart in a garden Than anywhere else on earth. Though this is a popular answer, it is the weakest one. Most of us would not agree with the line ...

14. Report of a Secret Meeting

John 3:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... that the death of Christ was not in vain. But all of that doesn’t make contemplation of Christ’s cross - and facing up to his death - any easier. The renowned English preacher, W. E. Sangster, once said, "I never go to Aber Fall in North Wales, without feeling the pathos of something that occurred there three years ago. A brilliant young lawyer, of whom I knew, was climbing the mountain near Aber Falls with a friend. His friend noticed the green slime on the rocks as they climbed and called out: ‘Do ...

15. Counting The Cost?

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... were not many present at Pentecost. Not many young men took part in the Haystack Prayer Meeting at Williams College (which originated the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions). How many watched Luther post the 95 Theses? A great revival in Wales started when, because no one else offered to witness, a little girl rose in the meeting and said she would testify. Frances E. Willard espoused the cause of rights for women, temperance crusades, education, social concern - and she fought amid the ...

16. The ABC Gospel

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... God who could bring healing to her husband’s life. Who would have ever guessed it? “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it” (Hebrews 13:2). One stormy night a country doctor in Wales was called to help deliver a child. The weather was so bad it was dangerous to venture outside. Knowing that the family was too poor even to pay his fee, the doctor contemplated refusing to answer the patient’s urgent appeal. Yet, he knew that ...

17. Good News

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

The story is told of a Franciscan monk in Australia assigned to be the guide and "gofer" to Mother Teresa when she visited New South Wales. Thrilled and excited at the prospect of being so close to this great woman, he dreamed of how much he would learn from her and what they would talk about. But during her visit, he became frustrated. Although he was constantly near her, the friar never had the opportunity to ...

18. Good News - Sermon Starter

Luke 4:14-30

Illustration

Brett Blair

The story is told of a Franciscan monk in Australia was assigned to be the guide and "gofer" to Mother Teresa when she visited New South Wales. Thrilled and excited at the prospect of being so close to this great woman, he dreamed of how much he would learn from her and what they would talk about. But during her visit, he became frustrated. Although he was constantly near her, the friar never had the opportunity to ...

19. Long Range Planning

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... with the permission of the deceased's parents. Then they gave the corpse a fictitious life. Its name was to be Major William Martin, a man with a penchant for high living who had a fiancee named Pam and fictitious parents living in Wales. The bogus Major Martin was armed with love letters, English pounds, stamps, and a host of other personal effects, but most importantly, a cryptic letter detailing an impending invasion of either Greece or Sardinia. Supposedly these military documents were intended for the ...

20. Transformed By A Babe

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... we are going to need something real ”something that goes beneath the surface to our real needs. Or better yet, SOMEONE who goes beneath the surface. Many years ago, two land surveyors came from a big city to survey the mountains of North Wales. They stayed that week at a lonely shepherd’s cottage. During the day, they would climb the steep slopes of Snowdonia, charting the contours, checking the landmarks, tracing the mountain streams to their respective sources and returning each night to their lonely ...

21. Speak, Your Servant Hears

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... and where we seek to be part of His eternal plan. 1. Gerald G. Jampolsky, M.D. OUT OF DARKNESS INTO LIGHT, (New York: Bantam Books, 1989). 2. Melanie Brown, PH.D., ATTAINING PERSONAL GREATNESS, (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987). 3. Jon Noble, Castle Cove, New South Wales, Australia in "To Illustrate...," LEADERSHIP (Spring, 1990), p. 48. 4. Douglas Hyde, DEDICATION AND LEADERSHIP (Notre Dame, Indiana: Note Dame Press, 1966), pp. 27, 38.

22. One For All

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... the pin a wisp of smoke showed that a live grenade had become mixed in with demonstration grenades, and he gave his life. You don't have to be a man to perform such heroics. Many years ago a woman carrying a baby through the hills of South Wales, England, was overtaken by a blizzard. Searchers found her later frozen to death in the snow. Amazed that she had on no outer garments, they searched further and found her baby. She had wrapped them around the child, who was still alive and well. He grew up to ...

23. The Mighty Tide Of God Rolled In

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... American churches. As Charles Colson describes it: "Like flood waters, the revival spread through the Hudson River Valley and on to Chicago, where Dwight Moody was just beginning his work with young people. Then it jumped the Atlantic to Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales, and danced like fire across much of Europe, then to South Africa and India. There was no elaborate evangelistic organization. Communication was slow; word had to spread from one prayer cell to the next, from church to church, from city to ...

24. Lost In America

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... who seek to help lost people reestablish their faith. Who seek out the hurting and introduce them to the great healer of hearts. Who ask, "How are you?" and mean it. Of such is built the Kingdom of God. Several years ago, there was a story from Wales about two seventy-four-year-olds who had married, each for the first time. The two were lifelong neighbors who had been parted by a lovers’ quarrel when they both were thirty-two years old. Every week since then, for forty-two years, David Thomas had written ...

25. Sorry, The Doctor's Been Delayed

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... life that is available to us here and now is different. With eternal life we will always be with Jesus. We can live our lives knowing that Jesus has conquered death and has given us new life. Dr. Don Webb, president emeritus of Centenary College, was born in Wales and served in the British Navy before coming to America to begin his ministry. He was proud to be named captain of H.M.S. Switha. He wanted to impress the crew with how wise and brave he was. Their first assignment was to check the anchors that ...

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