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1. Do You Hear What I Hear?
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Sermon
Paul E. Robinson
I'm a bird lover, and spring time is prime time to get excited about our feathered friends. This past week I watched as robins and other birds scrounged bits of straw and other stringy things from my garden. It is nest building time!  If you've ever built a house you know the amount of time and effort it takes. Countless hours examining huge books of wall paper samples, floor plans, paint colors a...
2. This Kiss
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Leonard Sweet
Not another way to divulge how old you are . . . Ever find yourself describing some task as "child's play?" Ever hear yourself mouth the words, "this is so simple a child could understand it . .?" Guess what? You've instantly dated yourself. You're ancient. You're a quaint antique. In today's digitized, down-loaded, DVD world, there is nothing more challenging, more frustrating, more mind-boggling...
3. Has He Appeared to You?
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Leonard Sweet
How does Christ appear to you? And if Christ hasn't appeared to you lately - why not? If you think God only visits on Sundays, maybe you need to start looking at different parts of your life, different days in your week, in order to rediscover God's presence there. Jesus' physical appearance on this earth was just the beginning of the greatest story ever told. For a few, like Simon Peter and the ...
4. Grits, Grats and Gruts...Not Grunts
1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50
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Leonard Sweet
"Where there's a will...." This sermon brings together the financial concept of needing to have a will with the faith concept of needing to have a willing nature, to help people see the complex interconnections between the spiritual and the material, our will and our work, our desires and our deeds. The good news is that by continually flexing our spiritual willpower we can experience redeeming ac...
5. Fish Bait
Mark 1:17, 1 Corinthians 15:2-4
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James Merritt
Jesus said in Mark 1:17, "Follow me and I will make you become fishers of men." (Mark 1:17, NASB) With that one statement to his first followers, Jesus told all his future followers that they were to continuously go "deep soul fishing." With that one statement, we know that Jesus wants His followers to be in the fishing business. With that one statement, we know that Jesus wants His followers t...
6. The Unbelievable Truth
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Sermon
Nancy Kraft
I remember my first experience with death. I was only six years old, which was a long time ago, but I remember it. I remember a room filled with people who were all talking above me as if I wasn't there. I remember the stifling smell of flowers and the horrifying sound of my grandmother wailing. Most of all, I remember the body in the box. It didn't look real. It was like the people in the wax mus...
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James Merritt
One of the greatest lessons I have ever learned as a preacher and as a communicator is this - it is not only important to mean what you say, it is just as important to say what you mean. I remember a story about Yogi Berra, who was sitting up on a platform with the wife of the Mayor of New York City. He and his teammates (the New York Yankees) were being honored for winning another World Series an...
8. Three Men Changed by God
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Isaiah 6:1-13, Luke 5:1-11
Sermon
King Duncan
CNN carried a dramatic story about a pastor in South Korea who used to be a trained killer. That’s right--I said a trained killer. His name is Kim Shin Jo. We have been reading much the past couple of years about North Korea. This is a state that has caused the world many headaches over the years. Kim Shin Jo was originally a North Korean assassin. In January of 1968, Jo and a team of other assa...
9. The Great Sacrifice of Love
Luke 9:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11
Sermon
Richard Gribble
In the fifteenth century, a rural village in Germany was home to a family with eighteen children. The family was poor, but despite the difficulty of making ends meet, two brothers in the family still held a dream, namely to pursue their talent as artists. With the financial situation bleak the two boys came up with their own solution to the problem. They agreed to toss a coin with the loser going ...
10. Gathered In, Sent Out
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Ephesians 4:1-16
Sermon
John E. Harnish
It seems my little jaunt into English grammar, and especially the proper placement of prepositions, produced more response than almost anything I have written in Steeple Notes. I suppose that, in itself, is amazing. Several of you sent me Winston Churchill's famous quotation: "This is a situation with which I will not put up." But the best one came from a couple of my Wednesday morning Arbon Denn...
11. Witnesses
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Mark J. Molldrem
In a play about the crucifixion of Jesus, playwright John Masefield creates a conversation between Pilate's wife and one of the soldiers present at Golgotha. The soldier tells Pilate's wife that he does not think Jesus has remained dead and buried. When she asks where he might be, the soldier replies, "He is let loose in the world where no one can stop him." Paul verifies this observation, as he ...
Sermon
Edward Inabinet
"Do you think I will ever see her again?" The ride had been rather painfully quiet up Northampton Street to the Palmer Shrine Cemetery. About 40 minutes before, some eighty people gathered at the Ashton Funeral Home for a memorial service. She had died too soon, so many shared with me. She had lived a good, full life--even though her health the past three months had erased most of the evidence. O...
13. Good News for Good Living
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Harold Warlick
The weather that Sunday was beautiful in Augusta, Georgia. The middle-aged minister and his wife, after being away eleven years, returned to their perch by the sixth tee at the Masters Golf Tournament on the Augusta National Golf Course. It was their spot. They’d sat there in former times, when they were younger, healthier, and, perhaps, less wise. Sitting beside them were two young college studen...
14. We Will Be Changed
Ezekiel 37:1-14, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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Lori Wagner
What is in a name? Nothing defines us in our lives more than what we are named. We are given a name, but through our lives, we also take on other names. We know Jesus by many names: wonderful, counselor, almighty God, everlasting Father, prince of peace, as Handel’s oratorio tells us. But we too have names that define us. In the scriptures, often the name that one is born with is not the name Go...
15. Trust Your Intuition
1 Corinthians 15:1-11, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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Lori Wagner
Ever drive down the road, your wind wandering, and suddenly you realize you are much further along than you thought you were? You’ve taken turns, made stops, but realize that you’ve actually been driving toward your destination on autopilot? Your brain instinctively kept following the path you knew, even though you were not consciously plugged in nor was the the rubber of your rational mind hittin...
16. Rising to New Life
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Richard Gribble
Akron, Ohio, in 1935 was the site of what many might call a miracle. That year Bill Wilson, a former New York stockbroker, and Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon in Akron, met. Both men for many years had been helpless and hopeless alcoholics. Their meeting, however, led to the foundation of Alcoholics Anonymous, an international organization which over the last eighty plus years has literally saved million...
17. Treasures from the Past
1 Corinthians 15:1-11
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Mary Austin
We continue in the season of Epiphany, listening to the words Paul writes to the church in Corinth. Listen for God speaking. Now I should remind you, brothers and sisters, of the good news that I proclaimed to you, which you in turn received, in which also you stand, through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe...
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John B. Jamison
We have heard it before, but let’s hear the story again. The law of Moses said that if a person was killed by hanging on a tree, their body must not be left there overnight but must be buried before sundown. The Romans in charge of the crucifixion did not care at all about what Moses said, and usually left the bodies hanging there for the animals to remove. That set the best example for people wal...
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