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Narnia: The Lion Returns Series

Contributed by Timothy Darling on Jan 4, 2006

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As with Aslan in Narnia, the resurrection of the Lord Jesus signifies His ultimate triumph over sin and death.

The Lion Returns In the book The Life of Pi, Pi Patel, a little Hindu boy goes into a church and asks the priest to tell him a story. The priest tells him the story of Jesus. The next day Pi goes back and asks to hear another story. The priest very wisely tells him Christians have only one story. ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Denomination: Mennonite

Narnia: The Lion Comes Series

Contributed by Timothy Darling on Dec 21, 2005

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As a lion is passionate about protecting his young, Christ’s passion is his love for you.

The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe is a Christian allegory, so, it is not surprising that there are people in the world who are attacking this story and Lewis in writing it. Some even say that the Church is making it out to be something it is not. The Bible does use the lion for many ideas, but in ...read more

Scripture: Revelation 5:5

Denomination: Mennonite

Narnia: Why Won't Anyone Believe Us? Series

Contributed by Timothy Darling on Dec 21, 2005

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Sometimes the message of the Gospel is as difficult for others to believe as a magical world beyond the wardrobe.

In the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the wardrobe represents the barrier to belief. Beyond the back of that cabinet lay a magical world in which humans could be heroes and the fantastic was true. Lucy goes into the wardrobe and finds the back of it a gateway to a wonderful place called Narnia. ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 53:1-3

Denomination: Mennonite

Narnia: Always Winter And Never Christmas Series

Contributed by Timothy Darling on Dec 21, 2005

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Sometimes the waiting in our lives is like a winter of unending anticipation.

In his book The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, C. S. Lewis tells how a young girl, Lucy, enters the wardrobe in the spare room of the Professor’s house and is unable to find the back of the cabinet. Instead she works her way through fur coats and steps into a forest with snow crunching under ...read more

Scripture: Luke 2:25

Denomination: Mennonite

A Eucatastrophe In Narnia Reveals The True Meaning Of Christmas Series

Contributed by Richard Woodcock on Dec 6, 2005

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It is a sermon about Christmas and also include the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe theme.

Sermon at Indian Valley Mennonite Church November 27, 2005 Text: John 15:13 Title: A Eucatastrophe in Narnia Reveals the True Meaning of Christmas Introduction: A. Incarnation story from Philip Yancy, The Jesus I Never Knew (Zondervan, 1995) cited in Perfect Illustrations (Tyndale, ...read more

Scripture: John 15:13-27

Denomination: Mennonite

No Offense!

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Nov 25, 2005

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Are you easily offended or do you know someone that is? Who is responsible for working out the little differences? What happens if we just ignore them?

27, November 2005 Dakota Community Church No Offense Are you easily offended or do you have someone in your life that is? You know what I mean, one of those people who get all bent out of shape because you haven’t called them, as though their phone doesn’t have buttons. What are we supposed do ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 18:6-7

Denomination: Mennonite

The Glory Of God

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Nov 19, 2005

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We sing about the glory of God. We speak about experiencing the glory of God. We do all kinds of different things and claim that it is “All done to the glory of God”. But do we really understand it?

20, November 2005 Dakota Community Church The Glory of God We sing about. We speak about experiencing it. We do different things “All to the glory of God”. We say we want it, that we want to bring it to His name. When someone compliments us on an act of Christian service we respond with, “Glory ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 6:1-4

Denomination: Mennonite

The Hunger

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Nov 18, 2005

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Something is not right. There must be more to life than this. Nothing in this life brings satisfaction.This one is about that longing - THE HUNGER - and how we try to deal with it.

The Hunger Psalms 84:1-84:3 6, November 2005 Dakota Community Church The Hunger When do we first recognize it? Is it in our early twenties, late teens, earlier perhaps? That sense that something is missing, that there must be more to life than what we are experiencing. Quote: "All men ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 84:1-3

Denomination: Mennonite

Questions

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Nov 11, 2005

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Do you ever question those who are in positions of spiritual authority over you? Do you ever question God? Maybe you should.

13, November 2005 Dakota Community Church Questions Do these quotes sound familiar? “Children should be seen and not heard.” “Because I’m your father and I said so; that’s why.” Most of us were raised with the idea that it is somehow wrong to question authority. The Church where I became a ...read more

Scripture: Isaiah 1:18-19

Denomination: Mennonite

Where Is God?

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 31, 2005

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A child suffers horrific abuse for years, where is God? A woman is raped, where is God? An evil dictator goes on the rampage and commits genocide, where is God?

30, October 2005 Dakota Community Church Where is God? A child suffers horrific abuse for years, where is God? A woman is raped, where is God? An evil dictator goes on the rampage and commits genocide, where is God? 1. God is there. Proverbs 15:3 The eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping ...read more

Scripture: Proverbs 15:3

Denomination: Mennonite

Maintaining Your Integrity In The Wilderness?

Contributed by Darryl Klassen on Oct 27, 2005

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This is a series on the life of David and what made him a man after God’s heart. Here we find David’s faults and weaknesses a puzzling companion to the great title "Man after God’s own heart"

MAINTAINING YOUR INTEGRITY IN THE WILDERNESS? David is on the run. In this part of the story of David’s life everything has broken loose. Quiet suspicions that Saul is trying to kill him are now loudly in the open. Even Jonathon who struggled to grasp how his own father could possibly consider ...read more

Scripture: 1 Samuel 21:1-15

Denomination: Mennonite

Living A G-Rated Life In An R-Rated World

Contributed by Darryl Klassen on Oct 27, 2005

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I borrowed the title from a Sermoncentral contributor because it was so good. But the rest of this sermon deals with sexual immorality and how the Christian needs to walk in a sexually darkened world.

LIVING A G-RATED LIFE IN AN R-RATED WORLD Let me tell you about a couple I have become familiar with, Josh and Jerusha. These two grew up together in the same neighborhood, you could say. Actually, Josh was a few years older than Jerusha and had the pleasure of watching Jerusha grow from an ...read more

Scripture: Ephesians 5:3-14

Denomination: Mennonite

Mystery

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 16, 2005

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Most of know what the cross has done "for" us; but what is the cross doing "in" us now? This one is about the Mystery of the Gospel. The Kingdom of God in the here and now.

16, October 2005 Dakota Community Church Mystery I have three words I want you to think about this morning: - The first is “desperation”. Are you desperate for the Lord in your life this morning? Have you come to worship with a sense of urgency? Don’t let this be a church attendance experience ...read more

Scripture: 1 Corinthians 2:1-10

Denomination: Mennonite

Thanksgiving - What's In It For Me?

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Oct 6, 2005

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Three benefits of offering sacrifial thanks.

9, October 2005 (Thanksgiving weekend in Canada) Dakota Community Church Thanksgiving What’s In It for Me? We have many things to be thankful for. Why do we have holidays? They are God’s idea. 1. Thanksgiving defeats pride. Pride is a destroyer. - It destroys finances. - It destroys ...read more

Scripture: Psalm 100:3-4

Denomination: Mennonite

Lost Sheep

Contributed by Dan Cormie on Sep 25, 2005

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What happens when believers stray and how we make it back into the fold.

25, September 2005 Dakota Community Church Lost Sheep Proverbs19: 27 Stop listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. 1Peter 2: 25 For you were like sheep going astray, but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls. Isaiah 53:6 We ...read more

Scripture: Luke 15:11-24

Denomination: Mennonite

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