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Richard Gribble
"Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as pestilence, famine, destruction, and death. These are only aliases. There real names are Studehler, Miller, Crowley, and Layden." Grantland Rice, a well-known sports columnist in the first half of the twentieth century, wrote those memorable words in October 1927 after attending a classic gr...
2. The Greater Honor
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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Richard A. Jensen
It was to be "Spiritual Gift" Sunday in Corinth of old. After all it was no lesser an authority than Paul himself who had said of these people that they were, "... not lacking in any spiritual gift" (1 Corinthians 1:7). Not lacking indeed! They were abounding in spiritual gifts and once every year they gathered in their worship service to honor the greatest among them. On "Spiritual Gift" Sunday ...
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J. Howard Olds
Christian artist, Twila Paris, does a song entitled, "How Beautiful is the Body of Christ." Some of the lyrics go like this: How beautiful when humble hearts give The fruit of pure lives so others may live. How beautiful the hands that serve The wine and the bread to the sons of earth. How beautiful is the body of Christ. The Church is the body of Christ. The world calls the Church an institutio...
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James Merritt
Gustav and Aurelia was a young couple in Austria who one day was approached by their 13 year old son who said to them, "I want to be the best built man in the world!" They didn't even realize how serious their son was. At 14 he started an intensive training program. Five years later, at the age of 19, he won the title of The Best Built Man in Europe, Mr. Europe, and the International Power Lifting...
5. Kintsugi Vessels
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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Leonard Sweet
Anyone here love “antiques?” How about “Antiques Road Show?” Did you know it’s been around for 36 years, since 1977? [This would be a good time to facilitate a short time of interaction with the congregation over their favorite “antiques,” their favorite shows dealing with “antiques,” what the difference is between “antiques” and “collectives,” etc.] “Antiques” and “collectibles” have value beca...
6. Stewards and Our Gifts
1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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Jerry L. Schmalemberger
Jenny Lind always spent a few minutes alone in her dressing room before a concert. Her maid, who locked the door and stood guard over it, has told what happened in those last moments of preparation. Miss Lind would stand in the middle of the floor, her shoulders back and her head up, draw a deep breath, strike a clear, vibrant note, and hold it as long as her breath lasted. When the overtones had ...
7. Shall We Waddle or Fly?
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Sermon
King Duncan
By the time John arrived at the football game, the first quarter was almost over. “Why are you so late?” his friend asked. “I had to flip a coin to decide between going to church and coming to the game,” John answered. “How long could that have taken you?” asked his friend. “Well,” said Ted, “I had to flip it 12 times.” For football fans, we’re about half-way through the time between the colle...
8. I Can Make It By Myself . . .
1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11
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King Duncan
Margo Ballantyne was shopping at a store in Scotland when it seemed that the whole world suddenly stopped. As Margo sorted through stacks of scarves, the other shoppers in the store suddenly froze in place. All conversation ceased. Sales clerks refused to make eye contact with Margo or answer her questions. What would you think if you were in Margo's situation? She assumed that she was unwelcome i...
9. Body Language
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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King Duncan
Have you ever noticed that communication is difficult business? In the book AMERICA'S DUMBEST CRIMINALS there is a story about a blundering, wannabe robber with speech difficulties in Thibodaux, Louisiana, who just couldn't win for losing. Sam Lincoln entered Bob's Cafe and, speaking in his thick, backwoods Cajun accent, ordered the waitress to "give me all the money." Unfortunately, she couldn't ...
Sermon
King Duncan
A bright yellow highway department truck creeps along a quiet, city street. A worker slowly climbs out of the truck and laboriously digs a large hole between the sidewalk and the street. A few minutes later, a second worker gets out, fills in the hole, and tamps down the dirt. A few yards down the street they repeat the same procedure, then again and again. An elderly lady has been watching. She ...
11. A Tragic Waste
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Sermon
King Duncan
In 1977 Patrick Bissel was a fastrising star with the prestigious American Ballet Theatre. Critic Clive Barnes had nothing but praise for Bissell. In his column Barnes hailed "the emergence of a major new star." Bissel, however, never fulfilled that prophecy. He died earlier this year from an overdose of cocaine. Bissel's story made the headlines because all who knew him recognized the tragedy of...
12. The Body of Christ
1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
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David E. Leininger
Have you ever wished that you were something you were not? I suspect we all have. There are times as I watch some of the professional athletes on television I wish that I could be them, playing games and making megabucks at it. Great life, but I realize that I cannot live that life: I am too old, too fat, too slow, and too lacking in talent. Still, it's a nice dream. Have you ever wished you were...
13. Straw Polls and Soul Quakes
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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Leonard Sweet
Anyone who has ever lived in a small town can tell you the meaning of MAD – Mutually Assured Destruction. At the height of the Cold War, it was MAD that kept the United States and the Soviet Union from blowing each other to bits. You unleash a nuclear weapon on me, and I'll push a button that will send your way an equally devastating nuclear weapon. It is this same MAD-ness – Mutually Assured Des...
14. Respect
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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Harold Warlick
Roland and Elizabeth were unusual guests at the complimentary “high tea” being held late in the afternoon in the four-star, luxury inn on Hilton Head Island. For one thing, Roland and Elizabeth were not guests of the hotel. They lived about twenty minutes away from the inn. Their home was in the wealthiest neighborhood on that island of very wealthy residents. In fact, Michael Jordan, the basketba...
15. Body Building at Its Best
1 Corinthians 12:13-27, Ephesians 4:1-6
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James Merritt
Take a moment and just think about your body. It represents a state of engineering that IBM, Mercedes, and Lockheed combined, could not ever match. Listen to this eloquent description of the magnificence of the human body: The body is a temple, warehouse, laboratory, pharmacy (the brain alone produces more than 50 cycle-active drugs), electric company, farm, mass-transit system, library (the bra...
16. The Four Marks of Failure
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
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Leonard Sweet
When you're a kid there is nothing better than being on the winning team. Of course, when you're a kid there is nothing worse than being on the losing team. Notice that all those great, feel-good Disney-esque movies don't ever end with the hometown team losing the big championship game. No, the whole point of these happily-ever-after stories is that the under-dog, schlubby, gave-it-their-all loser...
17. A Healthy Body
1 Corinthians 12:12-31
Sermon
King Duncan
Back in 1985, William R. Greer performed an in-depth chemical analysis of the human body and its mineral properties. His conclusions were published in the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times. Greer claimed that the average human body contained 5 pounds of calcium, 9 ounces of potassium, 1 and 1/2 pounds of phosphorus, 6 ounces of sodium, 6 ounces of sulfur, 1 ounce of magnesium, an...
18. Nose Hairs And Disney
1 Corinthians 12:12-31a
Sermon
Mary Austin
We continue listening to Paul’s letter to the early Christians in the city of Corinth. In this reading, he continues with his vision of the church as a body with many, equally important members. For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks,...
19. The Flow
John 7:37-39 · 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 · Acts 2:1-21
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Lori Wagner
A breathtaking phenomenon! That’s the way most people describe the northern lights, otherwise known as the aurora borealis. The beautiful colors of the aurora are actually moving waves of light, energized particles from the sun that have bombarded earth’s atmosphere at approximately 44 million miles per hour. When they hit our magnetic field, they are pulled toward the poles and depending on the g...
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