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Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... a mission. There in the nursing home she was able to touch the lives of other residents as well as some employees. In fact some former employees who changed jobs still returned to the nursing home to spend time with this remarkable woman. William White was inspired when his mother-in-law told him how thankful she was to have memorized so many scriptures before she lost her eyesight. Those scriptures filled her heart with the Lord. (3) This dear 98-year-old lady did not have much left in this world but she ...

2. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... forsake the role of judge for something more humble, less omnipotent. Jesus’ words are not just wise human relations advice; they are a law of the universe, as unbreakable as gravity, “Judge not, that you not be judged.” It is a command plus a warning: a ... Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton, ILL: Tyndale, 1988), 311. 10. Our Daily Bread, August 4, 1991. 11. Edited from William White, Stories for the Journey (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg, 1988), 47. 12. PreachingToday.com search under Mt. 7:1-6. ...

3. Power in the Pulpit

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... no solace or hope, would trample in scorn on the restraints of human laws. Virtue, duty, principle would be mocked and spurned as unmeaning sounds. A sordid self ... above principled conviction. It is not popular for the pulpiteer today to paint in colors of black and white; people prefer a subtle gray. I read the tragic story not long ago of an 18 year ... on the preaching of this Bible as truth. No less than Yale Professor, William Lyons Phelps, once said, "Our civilization is founded upon the Bible. More of our ...

4. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... WITH A TOUCH. Jesus was visiting in the home of Simon Peter. Simon's mother-in-law was sick in bed with a high fever. Without anyone saying a word about her ... tracked by the adulation of the crowds. He knew where he was headed. Nothing else mattered. Gorman Williams spent most of his life as a missionary to India. He purchased tickets for a long-awaited ... looked at the pictures he couldn't help but notice they were covered with white streaks ” bird droppings. Just then the ex-champ looked into the rafters at ...

5. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... . She was not a member of God’s chosen race. She did not know the law or obey it. She was a representative of the unclean Gentile world and yet Jesus ... a ‘little piggy’ would not soften the sting of the insult. It might even increase it." William Taylor seems closer to the truth when he writes, "Surely this was a mode of ... effectively in the life of this particular woman. There was once a little old man with a long white beard. He had a great amount of faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. With ...

6. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the campus is William James Hall, a multi-storied white edifice which houses the psychology department. I think we can say that William James was as brilliant as any professor you will ever meet in any university in your lifetime. William James recommended to ... , our great civilization would be in ruin. If we should destroy past our own generation's memory the knowledge of etiquette, laws, and patterns of civilized conduct, we would be glorified apes and swamp creatures again. That is our very real fear. More ...

7. Bad Good News Won’t Sell!

Jeremiah 28:1-17

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... collapsed, for by age eighteen, half of our youth have pre-marital intercourse resulting in thirty percent of the white and eighty percent of the black babies born illegitimately. Pornography abounds, with twenty million males buying 400 "skin" magazines ... , a gospel with a judgment, a Word without law. William Willimon, a professor and a pastor, tells of a Sunday when his Sunday school teacher told the story of Joseph and his brothers. During the story, William pushed Stanley into a radiator at the back ...

8. God Moves In Mysterious Ways

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... interruption of law, but the working of a law which human reason does not yet comprehend.” We may not understand the precise methods of God’s dealing with Elijah, but that should not deter us from standing open-eyed and open-minded before a miraculous story. William Cowper ... had no church. The people had been frugal in their personal expenses so that they could give generously to build a small white frame church with a steeple on top. There was a vacant lot in the center of town. It was the ideal location ...

9. Like Cupped Hands

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... for divorce or not. In Jesus time, "some reason" for divorce had become "any reason" and even "no reason" for divorce. As William Barclay reminds us, "In Jewish law a woman was regarded as a thing. She had no legal rights whatever but was at the complete disposal of the male ... dressed in wedding finery. Ernest, the husband, was seated in his wheelchair wearing an angel-white tuxedo while his wife Beatrice wore a frilly white bridal gown. She held in one of her hands a bridal bouquet. Looking closely you ...

10. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... God rules over the world in justice. For the friends, everything is black or white, but Job realizes that some factors in life, such as his own situation, are ... them? In the treatment of his slaves, Job has gone well beyond what is required in the Mosaic law (cf. Exod. 21:1–11; Lev. 25:39–55; Deut. 15:12–18). In the ancient Near ... we must put our case in God’s hands. Literature: “A Job of the Plains,” by William Humphrey. This short story is based on the story of Job, though it is certainly not ...

11. A Parable in a Miracle

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... White, he said that you were not a converted man either.” Alexander White stopped and sank into his chair. He put his face in his hands, and for a moment did not say a word. Then he looked up to his friend, and said with great earnestness, “Leave me, friend, leave me! I must examine my heart.” (William ... ) That tells it all. Stay with that encounter for just a moment to get the full impact of it. By law, the leper had no right to even draw near Jesus, much less speak to Him. How, we don’t know, but ...

12. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... country: this is my own society in action, and I am part and parcel of that society." (William M. Logan, In the Beginning, John Knox Press, Richmond, VA, 1957, pp. 15-16). So, with that ... exact position in the solar system. Incandescent amazement. To read in black and white in the newspaper that this one-tone space ship had traveled 4.4 ... and a cell, a jellybean and a sorrey, and caves where cavemen dwell, and a sense of law and beauty and a face turned from the clod some call it evolution; others call it God ...

13. Winners and Losers

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... Law: “If anything can go wrong, it will.” And its corollary: “If anything can’t go wrong, it will anyway.” Every field has its own version of Murphy’s Law. For example someone has made a list of Murphy’s Laws ... may have labeled him a loser, but, I suspect, that God labeled William Henry Brisbane as an extraordinary winner. (3) Think about that story for ... coming out but it belonged to Archie. There was a junky little black and white TV, no rabbit ears‑-but a bent coat hanger, and there was even a ...

14. A Law We Can Live With

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Robert S. Crilley

... each and every one of us -- not to shake us down and scare us into obedience -- but rather to lift us up, embracing us with a law which offers life itself. In fact, if you listen closely, you may even be able to hear the merciful whispers of the Almighty: "These ones are ... : The Vertical Relationship," Baptist Pastors School, University of Richmond, Virginia, June 27, 1984. 5. William R. White, Stories for the Journey: A Sourcebook for Christian Storytellers (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1988), ...

15. Jesus and Judgment

Romans 2:11-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... law." The law here refers to the Ten Commandments and other laws of God found in the Old Testament. Jesus said, "For God will bring every deed into judgment, and every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil." Again, Jesus said, "Men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken." Perhaps the toughest part of God's judgment has to do with what we did not do or say that we should have done or said. The pastor, William ... , Papa hated with white-hot intensity anything ...

16. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , on the television, talking about justice, a real William Kuntsler, only he talked right. I invited him to lunch. Since law school, Lewis has been involved in poverty law, radical law. He goes to Mississippi, Robeson County, anywhere to ... defend people without money or friends. He has defended communists against the Klan, Native Americans against the sheriff, blacks against blacks or whites. ...

17. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Then it was time – time to go on. I grabbed some notes and started to leave the room and go to the podium. I had on a freshly starched white shirt and my best suit – so I thought. The truth was I had on my coat, but I looked down and discovered I was wearing the pants of a ... ages, writers whose names I barely knew and to whose writings I was a stranger: Julian or Norwich, William Law, Francois Fenelon, Francis of Assisi, Evelyn Underhill, Brother Lawrence, and an array of others. I began a deliberate ...

18. Grace Is What Christ Has Done

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... from the outer rule to inner experience, from doctrines to life, from rules to revelation, from law to grace. For many years I felt that God would love and accept me only if ... wants to work on the internal. We try to whitewash ourselves, but only God can wash us white! Grace Is What Christ Has Done Salvation is not what we can do, but what Christ has ... 't need a Savior. Those who think they can fix themselves don't need Christ. William Temple once said, "It is no good giving me a play like Hamlet, or King Lear ...

19. Wedding, Wine, And Wonderment

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... chapter 2. I want you to picture in your mind a typical white New England Church nestled near a forest and lake. The sign reads: Little ... wine into cracked bottles." The religious people of Jesus' time were passionately attached to things as they were. The Law to them was God's last and final word--and to add one word or subtract one word ... we need to let go of the past in order to claim the present and the future. William Easum in his book Dancing with Dinosaurs tells about a woman who owned the finest winery ...

20. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... coming. In the early '60s, at the height of the civil rights movement, a group of white ministers issued a public statement urging Dr. Martin Luther King, in the name of the ... it means to be fully human is to wait for his coming. Jesuit priest William F. Lynch has observed that there are two kinds of waiting. One kind waits ... fragile baby bundled into the Temple by two young parents who were eager to obey the ritual law of purification, but who were too poor to afford the sacrifice of a lamb and brought ...

21. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... . In the early 1960s, at the height of the civil rights movement, a group of white ministers issued a public statement urging Dr. Martin Luther King, in the name of the Christian ... it means to be fully human is to wait for his coming. Jesuit priest William F. Lynch has observed that there are two kinds of waiting. One kind waits ... fragile baby bundled into the Temple by two young parents who were eager to obey the ritual law of purification, but who were too poor to afford the sacrifice of a lamb and brought ...

22. In the Cross of Christ We Glory

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Michael Milton

... it has come with power” (Mark 8:31-9:1.) No Cross, No Church In his book The Victory of the Cross, Pastor Erskine White relates the following story: “In the rolling hills of northern New Jersey stands a small church with a large, stone cross cut into an ... ” is dei. It could also be rendered “it is necessary,” as William Lane states in his classic work on Mark.[2] In the mind of God, He purposed that He would come in the flesh, fulfill the Law in the flesh of man through His Son, and then cause His ...

23. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... alcohol, federal and state governments have enacted over a thousand laws since 1980.8 There are those who try to defend ... kills ten thousand brain cells. No wonder William Shakespeare said, "Oh God, that men would ... law again. But listen to the real truth about this national experiment on banning alcohol. Dr. William Bennett said: One of the clear lessons of prohibition capitalizes that when we had laws ... William J. Bennett, The Devaluing of America (New York: Summit Books, 1992), p. 118. 27 Land, Light, September/October ...

24. The Sin of Robin Hood

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... is fraud, or what is called by names such as "white collar crime," "inside or trading," "misappropriation of funds." Did you ... know that it is possible to steal a man's reputation as well as steal a man's riches? William Shakespeare said, "He who steals my purse, steals trash; but he that filches from me my good name, robs ... more under the law than he would under grace, is a disgrace to grace. But I also want to add that the tithe was not just under the law, it was before the law and after the law. As someone ...

25. Broken and Beautiful

Luke 18:9-14, Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... she leaves the workplace three times per day to come to the sanctuary for prayer. Let's nickname this Pharisee "Holy Harry." The Jewish law of that day required that the faithful give 10 percent of their income from crops and livestock to God's work. Holy Harry went ... The late Scotsman William Barclay told about traveling by train from Glasgow, Scotland to London. As they passed through the Yorkshire moors, he noticed a little whitewashed cottage. It seemed to shine with almost a radiant whiteness. A few days ...

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