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626. How To Become What You Are

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Erskine White

... I'm already supposed to be?" How to become what you are. Like the man who said to Jesus, "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief!" (Mark 9:24), so, too, can we say today, "Lord, we are Christian; how can we become Christian?" People try to do it in many ... Jesus - is this: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind" (Deuteronomy 6:4, Matthew 22:37). So, how do we become the Christians we already are? Certainly not by buying things, not by talking about it ...

627. Preparing The Way

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the land with a curse (Malachi 4:5-6)." John's List John the Baptist is that Elijah who fulfills Malachi's prophecy. Jesus himself says so: "He (John) is ... and roads, (2) by raising valleys, and (3) by lowering mountains (Luke 3:1-6), thus fulfilling Isaiah's prophecy of the coming Messiah. First of all, your Advent ... , Lima, Ohio, December 1988, page 6. 2. Malachi means messenger. We do not know whether this was a man named Malachi or an ...

628. How To Hear A Sermon

Micah 1:1-7

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... be stimulated. Personal application will follow. All will be active participants -- speakers and hearers alike. The speaker was not too far off the mark when he began the message with these remarks: “Both of us have a task to perform: I am to speak, and you ... decided to check one of his radio sermons. The night before he set the alarm clock for the right station to come on for the 6:30 a.m. broadcast. What happened the next morning? In Read’s own words: “Sure enough I woke to the sound of my own voice ...

629. Exasperating Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... paid, and they also received $45, as did the noon workers and the 9 a.m. crew. By the time the foreman got around to the 6 a.m. workers, the ones who had been sweating in the hot sun for about 10 hours, they had been doing some mental arithmetic. They figured ... through faith." God gave up on salvation by the book and quit keeping score about 2,000 years ago, gathered up all our IOUs, marked them "paid in full," and nailed them to the cross of Calvary. The only way to "get saved" is to accept the invitation to ...

630. Remember That You Are Not Alone

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... light, and in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to be sharing in his life while we walk in the dark, our words and our lives are a lie ... [1 John 1:5-6 NEB] If we pretend to be like Christ while knowing ourselves to be otherwise, then we are living a lie. Our only recourse is to throw ourselves upon the mercy of God and ask Jesus Christ to ... faith falls short."2 1 Paul M. Lamhourne, editor, Selections from the Journal of John Wesley. Nashville, 1967, The Upper Room, p. 8. 2 Mark 9:24 NEB, adapted.

631. Being Set Free

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... one of Christ’s disciples, we don’t worry about what other people will think, and we concentrate on what God thinks. Mark Twain tells a quaint story of the man who spent years in prison, only to walk out one morning when he discovered ... gain a freedom. Socrates had demanded, "How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him?" Paul wrote his thanks to God in Romans 6:17-20 for freedom from the slavery of sin that Christ had given him. You have said, as I have, when someone scolds us for what ...

632. While We Watch for the Coming

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... 9). 5. Threats against the Christian church. Verses 4 and 5, 11-13: "... Take heed that no one leads you astray" (Matthew 24:4b). 6. Then there are the verses referring to the second coming of Christ. Verses 3 and 14: "And this gospel of the kingdom will be ... practice discipleship, we’ll encounter persecution. If we haven’t experienced it, perhaps we are falling short of the mark of being Christ’s people. Howard W. Smith writes, "When the Roman Emperor threatened to banish Chrysostom, the early ...

633. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... mainly adult. "The probable reason," she said, "is that the kids can’t afford to come, since ticket prices range from $8 to $6." She said, "It is ironic that a show that spends a lot of time knocking materialism should be overpriced."1 It is a ... of the Letter of James has some pretty rough things to say about rich persons. A cartoonist pictures a modern-day church leader marking through that chapter and saying to its author, "About this fifth chapter, James, remember: we have the poor always with us but the ...

634. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... I come I will do something for God." The synagogue, like the tenements which fill the neighborhood in which it stands, is marked by peeling paint, deteriorating floors, and falling plaster. Morris, himself, is feeling the wearing effects of the passing days. "I’m broken ... B, p. 3. 2. Raymond E. Brown, The Birth of the Messiah (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1977), pp. 435-6. 3. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from Birmingham Jail," in Why We Can’t Wait (New York: Harper and Row, 1964), p. ...

635. What Is God Like?

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... , is an excellent example of Jesus’ attitude to God as father. When Jesus prayed to God, he called Him by the Aramaic word Abba (Mark 14:36). This word abba has a warmer shade of meaning than merely father. It is the word that a little child in first ... child in Jesus’ day addressed God at bedtime. Before that child closed his eyes in sleep, he would say these words from Psalm 31:6 - "Into thy hands I commend my spirit." When David’s greater Son, Christ, was ready to close his eyes in the sleep of death ...

636. The Big Snow

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... of the Creator and a domination of the creation. It began on Friday, January 12. By 6:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 13, 6.8 inches of it had arrived. By noon 12.2 inches had fallen; by 6:00 p.m. 17.7 inches had arrived. And by the end of it all ... available. Policemen, I hear, got more than their normal share of abuse and disregard. More fights, more violence, more temper, more anger - all marks of the storm. Why? Who is to blame for our plight? Scapegoats - people or things who take the blame and become the ...

637. JESUS: Liar, Lunatic, Legend, or Lord

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Brett Blair

... 44. 3. I will cause your resurrection, v. 44. 4. I am the object of the prophet’s teachings, v. 45. 5. I am from God, v.46. 6. I have seen the Father, v. 46. 7. He who believes in me has eternal life, v. 47. 8. I am the bread of life, v. 48. 8 ... is interesting to note that Jesus demonstrated some of the worlds most acute and critical thinking when challenged by his adversaries. This is not the mark of a deranged mind. If you call him a legend let me ask you: Is he a legend? How do you know? Were you there ...

638. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... in our lives. It seems to be part and parcel of the normal human experience. Until now Elijah’s life was uniquely marked by success. Everything he put his hand to seemed to prosper. When it seemed as though he should have been riding the crest ... body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?” (1 Corinthians 6:13, 19). Take care of your body. It belongs to God. His mind was depleted. Elijah was physically fatigued. He was also mentally frazzled. ...

639. A Messenger of Promise

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Jesus if he knew that Elijah must come to prepare all things. Jesus answered that Elijah had already come, had performed his duties, and had paid the price for the ministry of preparation (Mark 9:10-12). Thus it is our Lord himself who identifies God’s messenger as John the Baptist. In the Holy Gospel for today (Luke 3:1-6), John the Baptist is identified as the one whom the Prophet Isaiah predicted. As such, John is pictured as “the voice of one crying out in the wilderness.” In either description of ...

640. The Ten Commandments: One God, Only One

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... moment, the first commandment is broken. We need that reminder because, as one commentator has it, "We are monotheists in theory but polytheists in practice."(6) Really? Who is your God? Some offer their allegiance to the great God Mammon. Ancient mythology did not actually have one of those, but we ... , (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1990), p. 189 5. Matt. 22:37-39; Mark 12:30-31; Luke 10:27 6. Winn, p. 196 7. I Tim. 6:10 8. Matthew 19:16-22 9. Luke 12:16-20 10. Acts 17:23 11. Winn, p. 198

641. The Ten Commandments #3: God's Name

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... up hearing the prohibition against using the Lord's name IN VAIN. But, in modern speech, the phrase IN VAIN implies failure. If Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa did not hit home runs in the games last night, the sportscasts this morning could say their attempts were ... when falling to our baser instincts. As the poet says, "O what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive."(6) As background to this, remember how seriously the ancient world took the mention of the name of God. Indeed, some of the ...

642. Look Up and Live

Numbers 21:4-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... them? I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."(6) Once more, Moses intercedes on the people's behalf, calms God down and extracts a promise that they will not be wiped out ... life." It was a wonderful word of love and grace. One might wish that this encounter in the desert with serious venom would have marked the absolute end of venomous complaining and criticizing among God's people, but we know it did not. It goes on all the time ...

643. Integrity

Song of Songs 2:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... not mutually exclusive. Sex is a wonderful gift. GOD'S gift, even. Enjoy! OK. Now combine that with the passage we heard from Mark's gospel, this seemingly nit-picky confrontation between Jesus and the disciples on one side and the Scribes and Pharisees on the other ... chapter - seven pages - on the importance of washing hands, plus another 40-page chapter on cleaning pots, pans, plates and utensils.(6) But, again, the issue was not cleanliness, but identity. To give it a more 21st century spin, think of it as ...

644. God and Hurricanes

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... compassion of the wonderful people who make this country as great as it is. AMERICA, I am so proud of you!"(8) Amen? Amen. Mark Twain once said, "The rain is famous for falling on the just and unjust alike, but if I had the management of such affairs, ... 99 2. Sheila Watson, via Ecunet, "Sermonshop 1999 09 21," #42, 9/15/99 3. Ezekiel 13:13 4. Psalm 148:8 5. Genesis 6-9 6. Quoted by Charles Henderson, http://christianity.about.com/library/weekly/mcurrent.htm 7. NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw, 9/16/99 8. http ...

645. Winning over Worry

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Said the sparrow to the robin, Friend, I think that it must be That they have no heavenly Father Such as cares for you and me.(6) What Jesus wants us to know is that we do INDEED have such a heavenly Father...and because of that we do not have to spend ... ma'am, but there's some things'll scare you so bad, you hurt yourself."(7) How true! How true! Near the end of his life, Mark Twain said, "I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened." A common ailment...WORRY. But if ...

646. A Story Worth Sharing

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in the world today is that we draw the circle of our family too small. We need to draw it larger every day."(6) Amen. Another friend has a picture gallery in his church with photographs of many of the members. He says, "I don't know ... WORTH sharing. An ancient legend recounts the return of Jesus to glory after his time on earth. Even in heaven he bore the marks of his earthly pilgrimage with its cruel cross and shameful death. The angel Gabriel approached him and said, "Master, you suffered terribly down ...

647. God Bless the Child

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... brought their youngsters to a famous Rabbi for a blessing. It was such a situation that prompted the little story we find in Mark's record. One might think it strange that the disciples would have tried to stop such a thing. They were not boorish or ... by our provision of nothing but lip service in their behalf. That ought not to be. In his book, The Moral Life of Children,(6) Robert Coles tells the story of Ruby Bridges. Ruby was six years old when a Federal judge ordered that an elementary school in New ...

648. Rock Solid Living

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... , serving your church--there are many ways your life can have an impact. But there are many people who never leave their mark on the world. They’re here only for their own gratification. They give no thought about their responsibilities to the rest of ... they not listen to a man who had calluses on his hands from living out the picture God had painted in his mind? (6) Not everyone lives a life of significance. Even many religious people misunderstand what Christ has in mind for them. According to This Passage ...

649. Hope For Those Whom Life Has Cheated

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... , when his divorce from Maryann Kulpa was finalized. On January 21st, she claimed the $10.2 million jackpot in the New Jersey Pick-6 Lottery. When the press asked about Micofsky's condition, attorney Thomas Kline spoke for his client by saying, “Very upset, I think that' ... some of you who have experienced that in your own life. And that brings us to our final truth: JUSTICE WILL BE DONE. Mark it down. Write it in indelible ink. Justice will be done. As sure as there is a God, the innocent shall not suffer ...

650. Do Not Lose Heart

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... , knocking down trees as it progressed. A superintendent noticed that one tree had a nest of birds who couldn't yet fly. He marked the tree so it wouldn't be knocked down. Several weeks later the superintendent came back to the tree. He got into a ... about. Part of the material was a scrap torn from a Sunday school pamphlet. On the scrap of paper were these words: "He careth for you." (6) That's the good news for the day. The same God whose eye is on the sparrow is watching over you and me. There is no ...

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