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Long Before Lazarus
June 10, 2007 By Harry T. Cook I Kings 17: 17-24 & Luke 7: 11-17 Lazarus. The name is synonymous with the reanimation of dead tissue – to put it bluntly. The “raising of Lazarus†episode immediately precedes Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem as John told the story in chapter 11 of the gospel named for […]
Methodists
Opening Reflection 2 Cor. 5:17-18 I expect that many of you think that Annual Conference, like church in general, is where we come to do OLD. We build most of our churches to look like they are at least 200 years older than they are. Church loves words that, 1000 years ago, everybody knew – […]
Affluence
“A Humbling Experience” Americans come at life expecting everything to work. It always has. I was born with seven silver spoons in my mouth. I had a strong family and was loved from the beginning. My parents paved a path for me. Do you realize what a head start that is? It’s wonderful. But there’s […]
Thomas More’s wisdom
Westminster Abbey – Sermon 2004 Sermon for Legal Service, 1 October 2004, Westminster Abbey by the Reverend Dr. Nicholas Sagovsky, Canon Theologian In his biography of Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd tells how the Lord Chancellor of England was once asked to right a particular wrong. A beggar-woman lost her dog, which was then adopted by […]
Choosing the Butter
A sermon by Rod Benson at Morling College Chapel, 29 May 2007 2 Kings 2:1-18 One of my favourite French atheist philosophers is a man of about my own age called Michel Onfray. When he was 28, Onfray nearly died of a heart attack brought on, in part, by his love for classic French cuisine. […]
James S. Stewart, Walking With God
James S. Stewart, Walking With God, Regent College Publishing, Vancouver, 2006. (Originally published in 1996 by St. Andrew Press, Edinburgh). Evangelical Scottish Presbyterian James Stewart was voted in a survey conducted by preaching.com as the #1 English-speaking preacher of the twentieth century. I’d agree. I’ve listened on audio-tape to his most famous sermon ‘The Wind […]
Becoming a Velvet-Covered Brick
Becoming a Velvet-Covered Brick Dr. Robert Jeffress According to Matthew 28:18-20, our goal as believers is to lead people to become obedient and reproducing disciples of Jesus Christ. Sounds simple. We have the answer and eternal hope that people need. So, we should just tell them that their sinful living is wrong and that a […]
Love and Obedience
*May 13, 2007**//* ** *Love and Obedience* ** *By Harry T. Cook* */John 14: 23-29/* */ /* “I love you, Mom,” we’d say after having done something we shouldn’t have done and hearing about it from her in no uncertain terms. “Well,” she would say, “If you love me so much, how about doing what […]
Christ means Change
Easter keeps happening, even though we are now four weeks after Easter, every time someone is converted to Christ. The Christian life comes neither naturally nor normally. Little within us prepares us for the shock of moral regeneration that is occasioned by the work of Christ among us. What God in Christ wants to do […]
Sheep, Shepherds and Messianic Inquiries
*April 29, 2007* *//* ** *Sheep, Shepherds and Messianic Inquiries* ** *By Harry T. Cook* /*John 10: 22-30*/ /**/ /[Note: Here is an edited passage of my 2003 work, *FINDINGS: Lectionary Research & Analysis*, New York, Church Publishing Group.]/ The lectionary puts it in reverse by directing that the John 10 passage be read on […]
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