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851. The Kindergarten Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

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Erskine White

... to you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child shall not enter it. (Mark 10:15) If I had preached on this text just six years ago, I would have extolled the ... these kids teach us about receiving the kingdom of God? Is it the way they live without worry, the way they live Jesus' words, "Do not be anxious about tomorrow"? (Matthew 6:34). Well, I've seen how worried a child can get just in moving from kindergarten to first grade. He worried about going from a half-day to a full day of ...

852. The Nearness Of A Faraway God

Isaiah 40:12-18

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Erskine White

... incomparable, everlasting mystery of God which goes beyond all words: Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,and marked off the heavens a span,enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure,and weighed the mountains in scales ...Whom did ... Philippians: even though Christ was "in the form of God, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness" (2:6). Christians can give thanks that God has come so near to us in the person of Jesus Christ. But we miss the full essence ...

853. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... thousand years older than that of the Hebrews contributed essentially to the formation of Hebrew Literature which we call the Old Testament.6 If we are to discover the African basis of Christianity, we must go to the Old Testament and the life and culture ... we must therefore go back to its African foundations. Although current Christian ideas of the Holy Spirit bear marked differences from their Egyptian predecessors, the similarities remain obvious. For the Egyptians, the creative, sustaining spirit of life ...

854. The Priesthood Of All Believers

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... from death to life. Jesus declared, “Whatever you ask for, believe that you have received it and it will be yours… (Mark 11:24).” The contention is, then, that faith is the necessary ingredient that makes prayer work. Prayer without faith is ... , you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. These are the words you are to speak to the Israelites (Exodus 19:4-6).” We are who we are, and have what we do today by the grace of God. To whom much is given, much is required. In comparison with ...

855. Mourning Turned To Joy

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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Ron Lavin

... the harlot? And I thought, "After she has done all this she will return to me"; but she did not return ... (Jeremiah 3:6-7). Idolatry is like adultery. It is faithlessness! Often we become dull to God in such circumstances. The lack of repentance characterized the ... for sorrow (Jeremiah 31:13)." Gladness Instead Of Sadness Listen, you nations of the world. Israel's return to Jerusalem was marked by the redeeming work of God: "For the Lord has ransomed Jacob (another name for Israel) and has redeemed him from ...

856. Leaping For Joy

Malachi 4:1-6

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... sell her three. “Why won’t you sell me the other three?” she asked. “What will I do in the afternoon?” he replied.6 The boy might not have been shrewd financially, but he did know something about the meaning of life. It is important that we have ... in the afternoon? What are you going to do with the second half of your life? Will you be bored? Will you simply mark time? Will you dissipate your energies in aimlessness? What will you do with the second half of your life? Malachi speaking the word ...

857. The Glorious Company

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... pre-Christian and probably go back to the ancient Druids who, with ceremonial fires and legendary visits of ghosts and gremlins, marked the first day of winter on November 1. Others hold that people in the Middle Ages believed that the souls ... you that laugh now ...Blessed are you when men hate, revile, and cast you out...Woe to you when all men speak well of you.(Luke 6:20b-26a) Were the faithful of God asked to be no more than the poor, the hungry, the weeping and the victims of prejudice and persecution, ...

858. Can A Nation Repent?

2 Chronicles 34:14-33

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Erskine White

... money," is not a nation ready to repent. Can a nation repent? More recently, just a few years ago, in fact, Senator Mark Hatfield stood up in the Senate to propose a National Day of Prayer. Now, everyone in Congress love to vote for ... it's good politics, and good business, to "grind the face of the poor" (Isaiah 3:15), and "oppress the fatherless family" (cf. Ezekiel 22:6-7). This is not a nation ready to repent of its selfishness and materialism! This is not a nation ready to hear the Master speak, " ...

859. Seeking What Matters

Matthew 13:44-46

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... priceless pearl to be sought. "Seek the Kingdom," says Jesus in Matthew 6:33. Seek it first, he says. Yet in this same chapter of Matthew he teaches us to pray, "Thy Kingdom come ..." (Matthew 6:10). Somewhere between our seeking and the Kingdom's coming, we ought to ... of God. The Kingdom is what we need. The Kingdom is for me, for you, for each person of humankind. Jesus once said (Mark 2:27), "The Sabbath was made for man ..." Well, the whole Kingdom is - made in our interest, made for our highest good. ...

860. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

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... eight-hour-a-day job like our father used to have! Or to put it in financial terms, we're not always satisfied with $6.70 an hour. Surely, I'm worth more than that, we feel! There is the meaninglessness and frustration that can overtake us in ... quite in earnest, but nothing happens. Prayer doesn't work, they claim. It is not effective. That always reminds me of the passage in Mark Twain's unforgettable story of Huckleberry Finn. At one point in the story Twain puts these words into Huck's mouth: Miz Watson ...

861. One Commandment is Enough!

Exodus 20:1-21

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... the world, and separated the Jews from all other people. For them, their one God, (Hear, O Israel, the LORD our God is one LORD - Deuteronomy 6:4), the great "I AM," was not a wooden or stony impersonal something, but a living Being. Somehow they came to know that it is ... down to two. "Thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind (Mark and Luke added, "and with all thy strength" This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou ...

862. The Daniel Diet

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... as change at a local business establishment. The motto "In God We Trust" had been changed. The word "God" had been marked through and printed above it is the word "reason." So, it reads, "In Reason We Trust." Just below the motto ... you decide to follow Christ and his word, the Bible, IT SHOULD BE A HUMBLE DECISION. Notice that Daniel did not broadcast his righteousness on the 6:00 o'clock news. He did not post a sign on his door reading, "Here lives a righteous man, not like the common trash of this pagan ...

863. A Glory Revealed in the Cross

John 8:12-30

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... and believe and understand that I Am; before me there was [never] another God. I (am) God, and apart from me there is no other Savior."6 We come to know (believe and understand) the true identity of Jesus - and thus to see him exalted to the place of all authority in ... people and provides for their needs. But must we assume that the failure of provision and blessing (as they use the word) mark the withdrawal of God’s love? God forbid! In times of trouble, the Theology of Glory "doesn’t make it." It holds ...

864. A Glory Revealed in Truth and Faithfulness

John 19:28-37

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... my most basic need] is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish [or finish] his work" (v. 34), also, in John 6, "I have come down from heaven not to do my will but the will of him who sent me." (v. 38) Sometimes I wonder what would ... of men and as was prophesied and proclaimed in Scripture through the prophets. Therefore everything is fulfilled and finished." We are to mark this well: Christ’s suffering is the fulfilling of Scripture and the completing of the redemption of the human race. It is ...

865. In The Lion's Den

Daniel 6:1-28

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... okay, but I can’t walk worth a hoot, and I can’t hoot worth a walk!" The conspiracy of Daniel’s enemies begins in verse 6. They went to King Darius and fawned over him a while. Beware when a group of folks is too complimentary; they’re usually up to something ... , Prayer Should Be Our Source of Strength. It was obvious to Jesus’ disciples that prayer was a major source of his power. Mark 1:35 describes how our Lord started the day: "Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, ...

866. Don't Let the Parade Pass You By

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... been used as a beast of burden. Old Testament instructions required such an animal for sacred purposes. (Numbers 19:2, I Samuel 6:7) Why did Jesus decide to ride a donkey into the city? I would have preferred a spirited stallion. The donkey was the ... said, "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God," (Mark 10:25), he was not revealing that he was a closet socialist or even a Democrat. He was simply observing that affluence can make us dependent ...

867. Doctor Thomas Dooley

Matthew 9:1-8

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... financially rewarding career as an orthopedic surgeon in the Unted States in order to return to Southeast Asia. That return was marked by a two-fold frustration brought about first because Dooley did not have access to naval supplies, and secondly, because he ... Keep, (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, 1962) p. 98. 3. cf. Matthew 9:12. 4. Agnes Dooley, p. 102. 5. Monahan, p. 35. 6. Agnes Dooley, p.166. 7. Barclay, Daily Celebration Vol. 1, p. 157. 8. Monahan, p. 274. 9. cf. Matthew 9:12. 10. Agnes Dooley ...

868. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... and the enlightenment of the mind in the knowledge of Christ. The narrative which follows displays to us the transition by well-marked steps of a human soul from total darkness of an innocent ignorance to a firm and rock-like assurance of Jesus as ... problem was complicated by the fact that the man had been blind from birth. How is it possible for him to have sinned? Barclay,6 dealing with this question, comments that some Jews believed that it was possible for a person to sin in the womb before he was ...

869. The Only Fact That Really Matters

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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Raymond Gibson

... prophesied, "After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him" (Hosea 6:2). He knew this - and he believed it! He knew also that the psalmist had sung. Therefore my heart is glaf, and my soul rejoiceth ... death and life after death, we must become familiar with the recorded facts about the Resurrection as they are written in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and the other books of the New Testament. We cannot afford to be illiterate about Jesus Christ. Many of ...

870. Dessert in the Desert

Deut 32:10-12 · Ez 37

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Robert Noblett

... that it is from the wilderness that John the Baptist emerges, and it is to the wilderness that Jesus is led following his baptism. Mark, too, the fact that Jesus emerges from the wilderness stronger than when he went into it. Writes Maxie Dunnam: The desert is a place ... to write - I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. 6 when far too many of us see only a maple or an oak? Why is it that a Jesus can look up at the birds of the air ...

871. In Which Direction Do You Travel?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the direction of their lives through examining Jesus’ method of "relating" himself to others. The fifth chapter of Mark contains an account of an unusual experience. Jesus encountered an extremely hostile person one day. This man was ... . As he had struggled to get out, he had traveled in one direction after another. Finally it dawned on him that he was more like 6,000 people instead of one. In characteristic fashion Jesus related to him as one single human being who needed to put himself together. "Let the ...

872. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

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Herchel H. Sheets

... miracle. One tries to treat them as the miracles they are, while trying to protect oneself against the disasters they’ve become."6 It is what "they’ve become" which keeps persons from experiencing life as Jesus knew it to be. The trouble with many ... 1963. 4. William Barclay. The Gospel Of Mark, p. 239. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1954, 1956. 5. Albert Camus. The Stranger, p. 142 (translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert). New York: Vintage Books, 1946. 6. James Baldwin. No Name in The ...

873. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

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Herchel H. Sheets

... two names; and we call it by its flattering and minimizing one when we commit it, and by its ugly one when our neighbor does it."6 That is looking around a log to see a speck! Somerset Maugham said that it is only on first sight that it is curious that our ... wrang, To step aside is human. One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it; And just as lamely can ye mark How far perhaps they rue it.8 When Helen Keller was still quite young, she read Macaulay’s Life Of Samuel Johnson. She said ...

874. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... biblical injunction, "Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it" (Proverbs 22:6). Although we can see that the second part of the Proverb does not always hold true, its basic thrust is one that has proven itself ... porch, with blood running down my face. A patch fixed the lip, and my mother took care of the tears, but I carried the mark from the spring for years. How lucky I was that the scar from that lesson was so insignificant. Some refusals to learn from others ...

875. The Vicarious Servant

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... lines: "As one from whom men hide their faces he was despised ... We have turned every one to his own way" (vv. 3, 6). Do these words not alert our attention to one of the most prevalent of our human faults today, namely, indifference? Are we so ... touches his heart. "For the Son of man also came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many," (Mark 10:45 RSV) he said to his disciples. His was sympathy with, and only as we catch his spirit will our indifference be put down. A Roman ...

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