Memorial Day Moments with Jephthah
Donald Cantrell
Judges 11: 1 – 11, 30 – 40
This is a “Memorial Day” sermon that honors those that have given all”
I – The Past Characterization of Jephthah (1)
II – The Painful Chiders of Jephthah (2)
III – The Plundering Comrades of Jephthah (3)
IV – The Patriotic Call of Jephthah (4 – 6)
V – The Personal Commitment of Jephthah (7 – 11)
VI – The Phenomenal Covenant of Jephthah (30 – 31)
VII – The Powerful Conquest of Jephthah (32 – 33)
VIII – The Pristine Character of Jephthah (34 – 40)
Theme: “Jephthah is a pristine example of patriotism”
A seminar speaker began his presentation by taking out a crisp, clean $20-dollar bill. He asked, “Who would like this $20-dollar bill?”, and hands started going up. He then said, OK, but first let me do this—and he crumpled up the bill. The students’ hands remained in the air. The speaker then dropped the bill on the floor and started to grind it with his shoe. It was now crumpled and dirty. Still plenty of hands were in the air.
The speaker said, “You’ve learned a valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we’re worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we never lose our value in God’s eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, we are still priceless.”
Billy Sunday – The Modern Day Jephthah
This is the story of Billy Sunday, pro-baseball player and then evangelist. Until Billy Graham, no American evangelist preached to so many millions, or saw as many conversions—an estimated 300,000.
In Billy Sunday’s autobiography he said “I never saw my father” You see his father had died of pneumonia in the Civil War five weeks after Sunday's birth. In fact, his early chil ...
Donald Cantrell
Judges 11: 1 – 11, 30 – 40
This is a “Memorial Day” sermon that honors those that have given all”
I – The Past Characterization of Jephthah (1)
II – The Painful Chiders of Jephthah (2)
III – The Plundering Comrades of Jephthah (3)
IV – The Patriotic Call of Jephthah (4 – 6)
V – The Personal Commitment of Jephthah (7 – 11)
VI – The Phenomenal Covenant of Jephthah (30 – 31)
VII – The Powerful Conquest of Jephthah (32 – 33)
VIII – The Pristine Character of Jephthah (34 – 40)
Theme: “Jephthah is a pristine example of patriotism”
A seminar speaker began his presentation by taking out a crisp, clean $20-dollar bill. He asked, “Who would like this $20-dollar bill?”, and hands started going up. He then said, OK, but first let me do this—and he crumpled up the bill. The students’ hands remained in the air. The speaker then dropped the bill on the floor and started to grind it with his shoe. It was now crumpled and dirty. Still plenty of hands were in the air.
The speaker said, “You’ve learned a valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20. Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we’re worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, we never lose our value in God’s eyes. To Him, dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, we are still priceless.”
Billy Sunday – The Modern Day Jephthah
This is the story of Billy Sunday, pro-baseball player and then evangelist. Until Billy Graham, no American evangelist preached to so many millions, or saw as many conversions—an estimated 300,000.
In Billy Sunday’s autobiography he said “I never saw my father” You see his father had died of pneumonia in the Civil War five weeks after Sunday's birth. In fact, his early chil ...
There are 20663 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
