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Let God Be God
Paul Harrison 1 Kings 17:1; 18:1-2a, 17-24, 36-40 Elijah is surely one of the most striking characters to figure in the Bible story. He strides on to the stage unannounced, a man of solitary grandeur and sensational impact, stirring up a heap of dramatic action as though he were a whirlwind – and in a […]
Baffled To Fight Better
Paul Harrison 1 Kings 17:1 – 18:1 Elijah ¢â‚¬â„¢s tremendous task, as we have seen, was to recall a whole nation to its lost God, to turn it away from idols to serve the living God. The first act in his dramatic campaign was to crash into King Ahab ¢â‚¬â„¢s court like a thunderbolt, and declare in […]
The Holy City
by Wayne Dobratz [Suitable for All Saints Day (1 Nov) or the following Sunday] The telephone rings and you recognize a voice that you haven’t heard in years. Your old friends are out at the truck stop and they want to know if you live in the same place and if they can come to […]
The Greatest Commandment
The English author Dorothy Sayers wrote these words: "The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore—on the contrary; they thought him too dynamic to be safe…He was tender to the unfortunate, patient with honest inquirers, and humble before Heaven; but He insulted respectable clergymen by calling them […]
Science, State Or God?
(Elijah #3/6) Paul Harrison 1 Kings 18:1, 17-37 In the name of Yahweh, the God of Moses, Elijah had proclaimed a three year drought. Now the time had come to demonstrate that the power to bring rain again was Yahweh’s, not the Baals’. Elijah’s hour of crisis is one of the most dramatic in the […]
Ananias And Sapphira (A Sermon)
Here’s one version of a sermon I’ve preached hundreds of times (that’s not a misprint)! You ask, ‘Should anything be preached that often?’ My response: anything I believe is worth saying is worth saying again. This story has themes implicit within it which are pivotal to our understanding of the Christian faith. Rowland Croucher Text: Acts 4:32-5:11 Preachers […]
How To Be Happy
Text: Psalm 32 My guess is that everybody here wants to be happy. We dream of happiness, we plan for it, and perhaps pay almost any price to achieve it. Searching for happiness, one person will make a lot of money; another gives all their money away. One couple will have five or six kids […]
What Can We Do When The World’s Falling Apart?
Sermon notes Text: Psalm 11 If you had to rate our world – its problems and tragedies and on the other hand its beauty, wealth and opportunities – unbelievably bad to wonderful and beautifully good – say from one to seven, what score would you give it? (Take a show of hands: ‘Now you have […]
Sermon Outline: The Emotions Of Christmas
Bible Reading: The Magnificat, Luke 1:46-55. At Christmas we experience more ‘highs’ and ‘lows’ emotionally than at any other time. There is more happiness as families get together and more suicides as families come apart. We Christians experience the joy of the world that the Lord has come, and also great sadness that the real […]
The Power Of One
Once there was a notion of the "heroic ideal" that we preserved in Western culture, made the theme of stories we told our children, and cherished in our hearts. It inspired people at critical moments and enabled them to act both correctly and courageously. This ideal affirmed to us that a single life could make […]
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