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Darrin Koone
Contributing sermons since Jan 1, 2000
Newest Sermons
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Being Jesus In The Quicksand Of Culture
Contributed on May 10, 2002
A study of Christianity in the Postmodern age and how to be culturally relavent.
I use the term quicksand because it has a scary connotation of being caught in something that I have no control over. Yet I have always heard that the best thing to do if your caught in it is to stay calm because all the flailing around we tend to due when we’re scared just causes us to sink ...read more
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A Happy Heart Makes The Face Cheerful
Contributed on May 10, 2002
A look at what we have to rejoice about in Chrsit primarily from the Psalms and Proverbs.
One sunny Sunday morning, Henry Jones awoke to find his wife standing over him,shaking him by the shoulder. "You have to get up," she urged. "We have to get ready for church.” "I don’t want to go to church," he replied. "I want to stay in bed.” Crossing her arms over her chest, his wife ...read more
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Why Baptism?
Contributed on Sep 20, 2001
A sermon on the historiacl context of Baptism.
(Luke 3:1-3) In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar--when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, Herod tetrarch of Galilee, his brother Philip tetrarch of Iturea and Traconitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene-- {2} during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God ...read more
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The Need For Rituals
Contributed on Sep 20, 2001
A sermon discussing the need for ritual in raising our children in a post-modern society.
Last week I spoke to you about the need to throw traditions by the way side if the principles of the gospel or models of the New Testament dictate the need to do so. I’m changing my mind about that this week. Well, not really, but I am going to try to provide the balance to that ...read more
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His Name Is John
Contributed on Sep 20, 2001
A sermon in a series on Luke delaing with our difficulty of breking with tradition when faced with God’s challenge to do so.
(Luke 1:57-63) When it was time for Elizabeth to have her baby, she gave birth to a son. {58} Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they shared her joy. {59} On the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they were going to name him after his ...read more
Newest Sermon Series
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Postmodern Christianity
Contributed on May 10, 2002
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Preaching Through Luke
Contributed on Sep 20, 2001
Newest Sermon Illustrations
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One Sunny Sunday Morning, Henry Jones Awoke To ...
Contributed on May 10, 2002
One sunny Sunday morning, Henry Jones awoke to find his wife standing over him,shaking him by the shoulder. "You have to get up," she urged. "We have to get ready for church.” "I don’t want to go to church," he replied. "I want to stay in bed.” Crossing her arms over her chest, his wife ...read more
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It Is Said That As Benjamin Franklin Concluded A ...
Contributed on May 10, 2002
It is said that as Benjamin Franklin concluded a stirring speech on the guarantees of the Constitution, a heckler shouted, "Aw, them words don’t mean nothin’ at all. Where’s all the happiness you say it guarantees us?" Franklin smiled and replied, "My friend, the Constitution only ...read more