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1. I Saw a New Heaven
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
Two ninety-five-year-old sisters died at the same time and went to Heaven. There they were overwhelmed by the magnificence and glory of heaven. They ooh-ed and ah-ed at the wonders they saw. They couldn’t get over what a matchless place it was. Then one said to the other, “You know, we could have been here five years earlier if you hadn’t insisted on our eating oat bran.” If you’re going to Heaven...
2. Reformation Sunday
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
George Paul Mocko
A Book Misunderstood; Jerusalem the Great and Jerusalem the Golden; Away With the Sea and Tears and In With Love; and Faith in a God Who Can Do Anything. One of the best comedy routines I've ever seen on TV took place in the waiting room of a veterinarian. Among those gathered was a man with a huge box which shuddered and lurched about from the struggles of the creature inside. Strange growls, fur...
3. Five Minutes After Death
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
Robert Allen
There is an old Arab parable about a merchant in Bagdad who sent his servant to the market one day. Before very long, the servant returned, white and trembling with fear. There was great agitation in his voice as he said: "Master, down in the market place I was jostled by someone in the crowd. When I turned around, I saw that it was Death who had jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening...
4. All This And Heaven Too
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
Dick Sheppard was one of the great preachers of England in another generation. He was really one of the British church, a great preacher prophet. His preaching often set all of Britain aflame. The morning after he died, almost all of England mourned his passing, and a London newspaper proclaimed a great truth. The paper carried a picture of the pulpit of the church where Dick Sheppard preached, St...
5. Home Alone
Revelation 21:10, 22-27
Sermon
Leonard Sweet
To refer to a group of people as "homeless" one must believe in "home." Might that be part of our problem? Have we lost our concept of "home," if not our "home" itself? It is time to go home again and find that our home is in God. The runaway smash movie of the 1990-91 holiday season was a farcical comedy entitled Home Alone. The plot of the movie whirled around the adventures of a young boy ...
6. Wiping Away the Tears
Revelation 21:1-6
Sermon
Patrick J. Rooney
It is one line. A few words cast upon a sea of words. One line that sums up all that this day is about and what it represents. One line upon which every human hope finds its fulfillment. One line in which we place our trust. One line that every man, woman, and child turns to when the losses of this life are more than they can bear. One line when the woman stands sobbing quietly beside the hospital...
7. All This And Heaven Too
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
Maxie Dunnam
Dick Sheppard was one of the great preachers of England in another generation. He was really one of the British church, a great preacher prophet. His preaching often set all of Britain aflame. The morning after he died, almost all of England mourned his passing, and a London newspaper proclaimed a great truth. The paper carried a picture of the pulpit of the church where Dick Sheppard preached, St...
8. The Most Exciting Moment of Your Life
1 Cor 5:1-13, Rev 21:1-27, Rev 6:1-17, Heb 12:14-29, Rev 22:7-21, Phil 1:12-30
Sermon
James Merritt
The great Bible teacher, John MacArthur, told the story of how recently his sister died of cancer, and went to be with the Lord. One of the last times John saw his sister was at the hospital. She was suffering terribly. They talked very candidly about the future. She looked up at him and said, "John, I am going to die very soon and be with the Lord." Dr. MacArthur looked at his sister and made thi...
9. Begin With The End
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
King Duncan
Pastor Kent Crockett tells a powerful story in his book, I Once Was Blind, But Now I Squint. Years ago Kent and his wife Cindy recorded many of their family highlights using an 8mm home movie camera. Some of you are too young to even know about 8mm film. Others of you took your first home movies with them. They were silent, and the picture wasn't very sharp. But they were sufficient to capture so...
10. Hope Wins!
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
King Duncan
The scene is a church camp in Illinois with about 100 kids and various counselors. Jim, the camp director, and Frank, the maintenance director, are away from the camp on business. The next day they return to camp to find everyone gone. Everyone. Gone. There are no campers or counselors anywhere. Empty kayaks float out on the camp lake. An electric typewriter is left on. In it is a sheet of paper. ...
11. Above All--god
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
King Duncan
In a recent story in The Washington Times, First Lady Laura Bush recalled a visit with her husband to the home of his parents, the former president and Mrs. Bush. According to Laura Bush, on this visit her husband, the most powerful man on earth, woke up at 6:00 a.m. as usual and went downstairs to get a cup of coffee. As he sat down on the sofa, he put his feet up on the coffee table. All of a su...
Sermon
King Duncan
TIME magazine, January 27, 1992: There is an article that will tear your heart out. It is titled, "Corridors of Agony." It tells the stories of children caught in the almost hopeless jungle of our juvenile courts. There is Antwan, age 10. His mother warned him about the drug dealers who hang around the playground where he spends hours each day. A mother's warnings are no match for threats by stre...
13. Big Bubba Has Your Back
Revelation 21:1-6a
Sermon
King Duncan
In one of his sermons pastor John Ortberg tells the story of an evening many years ago when he and two friends were walking along a street in Newport Beach, California. They walked past a bar where a fight had been going on inside. The fight spilled out into the street, just like in an old western. Several guys were beating up on another guy, and he was bleeding from the forehead. Ortberg and his...
14. In Which City Do You Live?
Revelation 21:10-14, 22-23
Sermon
King Duncan
I came across a report the other day from the United Nations about how more and more people are moving from rural areas and subdivisions into urban areas and big cities. That’s surprising to me because there are so many jokes about the drawbacks of living in a city. Comedian Anita Weiss says, “I moved to New York City for my health. I’m paranoid, and it was the only place where my fears were just...
15. In Search of a New Life
Revelation 21:1-5a
Sermon
King Duncan
Do you like stories of buried treasure? Here’s one that you may not have heard. According to a legend from the Wild West, back in the 1870s, notorious outlaw Jesse James and his gang stole millions of dollars worth of gold bullion from a Mexican general. The men proceeded to bury their treasure somewhere in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma. Rumor had it that Jesse had scratched a secretly-coded ...
Sermon
J. Howard Olds
A Sunday School teacher asked her students where God lived. After the usual answers of heaven and in my heart, Bobby spoke up and said, “God lives in the bathroom at our house!” “Why the bathroom?” inquired the teacher. “I don’t know,” replied Bobby. “I only know that my Dad gets up every morning and beats on the bathroom door where my sister is taking forever to get ready for school and exclaims,...
Sermon
Richard Gribble
There once was a very unhappy old man. For him, things were never right and, thus, he grumbled quite a bit. He complained that he had to get up in the morning, and when nightfall came it was too soon. He complained when he had to work, but found it boring when he did not work. He talked about how people paid insufficient attention to him, yet when others spoke to him he seemed annoyed or irritated...
18. Pie In the Sky
Revelation 21:1-6
Sermon
David E. Leininger
Do you like to eat? I do. I like food! And it shows. Unfortunately, food does not like me and the result is I am always on a diet. I think I have always been on a diet and I will always be on a diet, or I will get as big as a house or as the more politically correct language of the day has it, I will be "a gentleman of size." I have always believed that there is profound theology in this constant...
19. Heaven on Earth
Revelation 21:1-6
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
Many years ago when I was going to prep school in Milwaukee, the students loved to walk past a nearby factory from which often emanated some simply wonderful smells. The factory made a product whose name seemed to perfectly fit the heavenly aromas that would occasionally fill the atmosphere of the neighborhood. The factory made Ambrosia Chocolate! For a chocolate lover like myself, there could be ...
20. It's All Good
Revelation 21:1-27
Sermon
James Merritt
It was Easter Sunday. The Children’s Bible study class was packed. The teacher had talked about Good Friday and Easter. After thinking that she had carefully explained what had happened that weekend she decided to see how much of the story the kids remembered. She said, “Would somebody like to tell me something they remember about either Good Friday or Easter? One little boy said, “The cross was v...
21. A Glimpse of Glory
Revelation 21:10-22 - 22:5
Sermon
Steven E. Albertin
(Sing the first verse and chorus of "The Battle Hymn Of The Republic.") Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He has loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword; His truth is marching on. Glory, glory! Hallelujah! Glory, glory! Hallelujah! Glory, glory! Hallelujah! His truth is marching on.1 Ev...
Sermon
Lee Ann Dunlap
On U.S. Route 40 just west of New Concord, Ohio, stands an S-shaped bridge spanning a creek on the old National Road. Standing uphill from that bridge a traveler can simultaneously observe five historic transportation links that helped to build a nation: •The original trail blazed by Ebenezer Zane, also known as "Zane's Trace." •The brick roadbed of the old "National Road" that followed. •The t...
23. Jesus, The Light of the World
Revelation 21:10, 21:22-22:5
Sermon
Richard Gribble
In the beginning when the Great Spirit created all that exists, he gave great gifts to all the animals. The Great Spirit gave each animal a cedar box inside of which were very special and wonderful gifts. And, one by one the boxes were opened. The first box contained water. The second box contained the mountains. The third box contained the seeds of all things that grow. The fourth box contained t...
Sermon
John E. Harnish
In just these few short weeks, there is really no way to grasp the expanse of images, the epic proportions of John's fantastic vision. It is filled with imagery and symbols, dream language and illusions, and written in a secret "Revelation Code" which is entirely foreign to us but would have been discernable by John's underground church. So the best way to approach it is through the use of fantasy...
25. Imagine
Revelation 21:10, 22-26
Sermon
Will Willimon
''And I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God the Almighty and the Lamb. And the city has no need of sun or moon to shine upon it, for the glory of God is its light…” Today's lesson speaks of the New Jerusalem, the Heavenly City. ''Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first...had passed away'' (Rev. 21:1). When God gets finished with Durham, there will be no sun or...
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