The Gospel Observer

January 5, 1997

• Taking Up One's Cross (Tom Edwards)
• What Is A Bible Class? (Carl McMurray)

January 12, 1997

• God Thinks of Everything (Tom Edwards)
• Your Treasure and Your Heart (Clarence Johnson)
• The Battleship and the Lighthouse (author unknown)
• Only Human? (Frank Bush)
• New Year's Resolutions (Tom Edwards)
• Those "Other" Sinners (Robert F. Turner)

January 19, 1997

• A Sentence Sermon (Chuck Bartlett)
• Selected Sentence Sermons
• Remember and Celebrate (Jerry F. Bassett)
• How Does The Holy Spirit Dwell In Us? (Wayne S. Walker)

January 26, 1997

• Observations on Thirty Years of Preaching (Dick Blackford)

February 2, 1997

• Are You Blocked By An Obstacle Illusion? (Tom Edwards)

February 9, 1997

• The Need For Purpose In One's Life (Tom Edwards)

February 16, 1997

• Going Abroad (Chuck Bartlett)
• "Neither Have I Gone Back" (C. D. Plum)
• Have You "Heard" the Daffodils? (Tom Edwards)
• Food for Thought (selected)

February 23, 1997

• The Worth Of A Woman (Morris D. Norman)
• What is the Value of One Member? (Selected)
• "Women Keep Silence" (Robert F. Turner)

March 2, 1997

• Time, Change, and Stability (Tom Edwards)

March 9, 1997

• Learning to Yield to One Another (Tom Edwards)
• "Exposing Error" (James P. Needham)
• "God Cares" (Tom Edwards)

March 16, 1997

• The Bitterness of Shimei (Steve Wallace)
• Ups and Downs (Sam Binkley, Jr.)
• Jesus' Death (Wayne S. Walker)

March 23, 1997

• Sharing Burdens (Paul C. Keller)
• What Are the Signs? (Chuck Bartlett)
• How Faith Comes (Dan Richardson)
• Why Send For Peter? (Robert Turner)

March 30, 1997

• "The Accuser of Our Brethren" (Steve Wallace)
• What Do We Look For In A Sermon? (Tom Edwards)

April 6, 1997

• What Makes a Good Leader? (Tom Edwards)

April 13,1997

• Arrogating to Ourselves the Name "Christian" (Tom Edwards)
• What I Want For My Daughters (Bryan Gibson)

April 20, 1997

• "Make Friends of God's Children" (Wayne S. Walker)
• MY LORD AND MY GOD! (Ron Halbrook)
• "Help Those Who Are Weak" (Wayne S. Walker)

April 27, 1997

• Jonah: Some Things From Which You Cannot Run Away (Jon Quinn)
• The "Excellent Speaker" (Excerpt from Thomas Carlyle's "Inaugural Address," April 2, 1866)

May 4, 1997

• Obadiah's Prophecy (Jon Quinn)
• Putoffitis (Dee Bowman)

May 11, 1997

• The Message of Joel (Jon Quinn)
• Thoughts on Procrastination (selected quotes)

May 18, 1997

• Hosea: The Broken Hearted Prophet (Jon Quinn)
• Reasons for Rejoicing (Arnold Spiece)

May 25, 1997

• The Word of the Lord Came to Micah (Jon Quinn)
• Sunday Night (selected)
• God's Word (Tom Edwards, short exhortation)

June 1, 1997

• Value of the Old Testament (Tom Edwards)
• Are You Giving to Support Error? (Bill Hall)

June 8, 1997

• Major Lessons From the "Minor Judges": Shamgar, Tola, Jair, Ibzan, Elon, Abdon (Craig Meyer)

June 15, 1997

• Church Kitchens and Fellowship Halls (David J. Riggs)
• The Enemy Within (Jason Moore)

June 22, 1997

• Was The Apostle Peter A Pope? (David J. Riggs)
• "Do Something Religious" (selected)
• A Christian -- Almost or Altogether? (Ken Weliever)

June 29, 1997

• Zephaniah: The Royal Prophet (Jon Quinn)
• The Providence of God (Jason Moore)

July 6, 1997

• Lies the Devil Tells (Jason Moore)
• All That Glitters Is Not Gold (Dee Bowman)

July 13,1997

• What If You Won The Lottery? (Jason Moore)
• Seeing is Believing? (Doy Moyer)

July 20, 1997

• God Gives The Increase (Jeff S. Smith)
• You May Be Surprised To Learn... (T. Doy Moyer)

July 27, 1997

• "Back'ards" (erooM nosaJ [Jason Moore])
• One of Those Days! (Dennis Tucker)
• Sentence Sermons (selected)

August 3, 1997

• Nahum: The Lord's Vengeance on Nineveh (Jon Quinn)
• Book, Chapter, Verse (R. L. Morrison)
• Captions (Tom Edwards)

August 10, 1997

• The Sin of Murmuring (Earl Fly)
• A Farmer's Wisdom (Jimmy Fields)
• "Work Out Your Own Salvation" (David A. Cox)

August 17, 1997

• Who Is To Teach? (Gene Taylor)
• The Need of Humility (Dwane Derrick)
• Two Cripples (poem, author unknown)
• Selected Sentence Sermons (authors unknown)

August 24, 1997

• "Frustration" (Brian Sullivan)
• "Power To Forgive Sins" (Grant B. Caldwell)

August 31, 1997

• Problems Between Brethren (David A. Padfield)
• The Curiosity of Unbelief (Jason Moore)
• The Lord Requires Us To "Do Justice" (Paul Smithson)

September 7, 1997

• Mary, The Mother Of Jesus (David A. Padfield)
• Selected Passages (2 Bible passages)

September 14, 1997

• The Second Coming of Christ & The Judgment (David A. Cox)
• The Ethiopian Eunuch (David Padfield)

September 21, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church (Roy E. Cogdill)
• "Make All Things According to the Pattern" (David A. Cox)

September 28, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 2 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• "Feelings" From the Holy Spirit? (a brief observation of Acts 16:7) (Tom Edwards)

October 5, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 3 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• Selected Sentence Sermons
• Today I Will Make A Difference (Selected via Good News)
• How Would We Feel? (selected)

October 12, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 4 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• Habakkuk: "The Righteous Shall Live By His Faith" (Minor Prophets Series #9, Jon W. Quinn)

October 19, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 5 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• What It Means To Preach Jesus (Dee Bowman)
• Time (Frank Chesser)

October 26, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 6 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• Serving God by Serving Others (Gene Taylor)
• Nothing To Live For (David Watts)
• Divers Diseases (author unknown)

November 2, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 7 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• No One Cared For My Soul (David Padfield)
• For the Lack of Wood (Bob Dickey)
• The Breath of Life (selected)
• "Good Night" or "Good-bye"? (selected)

November 9, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 8 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• Miracles of the Bible (Tom Edwards)

November 16, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 9 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• 1888 in England, America in the Early 1930s (Jere E. Frost)
• "Just Try, You Can Do It...." (John Berlin)

November 23, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 10 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• The Tiny, Untameable Tongue (Dee Bowman)

November 30, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church, Part 11 (Roy E. Cogdill)
• A Caring People (Jere E. Frost)
• Bringing Up Baby (Tracy Schell)

December 7, 1997

• Sign Posts on the Road to Denominationalism (Roy E. Cogdill)
• Hawthorne's Success (Jere E. Frost)
• Christian Fellowship (Tracy Schell)
• The Pagan Reverence That Rebukes Many Believers (selected)

December 14, 1997

• The Local Church Perverted In Mission and Function (Roy E. Cogdill)
• A Covenant of Grace (Jerry Prince)

December 21, 1997

• Denominationalizing the Church (Roy E. Cogdill)
• Pressure (Dee Bowman)
• The Pursuit of Happiness (Jere E. Frost)

December 28, 1997

• You Better Watch Out, You Better Not.... (Dee Bowman)
• Mirroring the NT Church (Tracy Schell)
• Why I Was Lost (Selected)
• To Capture Hearts.... (Robert Turner)
• Yes, He Won the Argument, All Right! (Selected)