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926. Deadly Sins - A Matter Of Sutton's Law

Romans 7:14-25

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... the virtuous life as believers and followers of Jesus Christ. As it says in Proverbs, "Without a vision the people will perish" (29:18 KJV). In talking about the seven deadly sins we are seeking above all to proclaim the Good News, the gospel of Jesus ... again. And it makes us feel so good; like we are brand-new." 1. Shirley C. Guthrie, Christian Doctrine, Rev. ed. (Westminster/John Knox Press: Louisville, KY, 1994), p. 212. 2. Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey (Random House: New York, NY, 1959), pp. 37-38 ...

927. It's Your Funeral

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... town shall stone him to death. So you shall purge the evil from your midst; and all Israel will hear, and be afraid (Deuteronomy 21:18-21). The point is, sons did not tell their fathers that they weren't going to work in the fields. The father would be disgraced ... at the lives of great saints. Everyone has feet of clay. Martin Luther was a man who needed enemies like other men need friends. John Wesley was an utter failure as a husband. Almost always, when I do a funeral for a man or woman who has been a ...

928. Acquaintances Or Friends?

2 Samuel 16:15--17:29

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... made the distinction this way. "Some friends play at friendship, but a true friend sticks closer than one's nearest kin" (Proverbs 18:24). This poses a question to us. If you want to make a finger count of your acquaintances, would ten fingers be ... what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father" (John 15:15). "What a friend we have in Jesus," so we sing. But ask this, what kind of friends does Jesus have in us? Are we ...

929. Choosing Your Spirituality

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... positive thought, a vision of better things to come. Visit the Hall of Faith: Abraham and Moses, David and Isaiah, John the Baptizer and the Twelve Apostles believed God was inspiring them to look into the future expecting better and ... Good News Bible, The New English Bible, and others.2. Robert Schuller, Hour of Power, and other sources.3. CBS-TV 5/18/88.4. Frederica Harris Thompsett, Professor of Church History at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has written in depth on these issues ...

930. When Matters Hang in the Balance

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... it his own or his parents’ sin?” And Jesus replies, “His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents’ sins.” (John 9:2-3 TEV) The essence of what Leslie Weatherhead once said to parents grief-stricken over the untimely death of their little son in ... something rash. “How can we tell him that his child is dead? He might do himself some harm!” (2 Samuel 12:18 TEV) Have you ever underestimated the ability of another to cope? Sometimes we overestimate, but I have the sense that more ...

931. Walking Through A Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... children who had come to hear Jesus and to be healed. The sun's glow worked out upon the gently moving sea. It may have been John, the youngster, who was last into the boat. His push was the final one freeing it from the gravel along the shore. Soon a small sail ... controlled by someone's shout off the back end of a boat. But that is the recounting that Mark gives - and Matthew (8:18) and Luke. (8:22) Some students of the Bible and of psychology have suggested that Jesus' word to the wind and rain, giving ...

932. Pathway To God's Kingdom

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... title, is not mentioned in the Old Testament, and is seldom mentioned in the New Testament except in the synoptics. In the gospel of John it is cited only twice. In the book of Acts, describing the beginnings of the Christian church, it is only noted six times. ... . It is not, like that of Jacob the farmer, a make-believe story. This is a true story about another Jacob! On April 18, 1942, into gun-gray sky, sixteen B-25 planes took off from a pitching aircraft-carrier deck and headed for Japan. They were under ...

933. The Politics Of The Saints

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... forcing them to repay the loan? Would that turn the world upside down or what? Do you wonder that Jesus was crucified? John Howard Yoder, a Mennonite theologian, wrote a well-known book back in the early '80s called The Politics of Jesus in ... of this vision. "The saints of the most High shall receive the kingdom, and they shall possess the kingdom for ever and ever" (Daniel 7:18). That same ability to grasp by faith and hope what is hidden from our eyes is what is necessary to penetrate those ironic and ...

934. Memory And Hope

Sermon

Deborah D. Steed

For An Older Couple, Both Widowed Genesis 2:18-23; Psalm 100;Colossians 3:12-17; John 15:9-12 The Bible contains many themes, but two of them that pervade both the Old and New Testaments are memory and hope. The Israelites were constantly reminded by their leaders and their religious rituals to keep uppermost in their minds the fact that God had saved them, had ...

935. The TV Revolution

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... if we fail to take this into account in preaching we will not reach our audience. The Communications Upheaval John Killinger, professor of preaching at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, Tennessee, set out to identify "some of the primary ... time spent in front of the tube is sleeping! The statistics among young people are even higher. By the age of 18 the average youth has spent more time watching television than attending school. Among children, watching television far outranks playing or conversing ...

936. Death Of A Dream - Birth Of A Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... in this unmistakeable way. The mighty breath of God (the Hebrew word for breath is ruach) was moving among them. Breath is life! We breathe 18 times a minute, 1,080 times an hour, 25,000 times a day. At age 40 you will have had 365 million breaths, each a ... and you are dead. No wonder the psalmist declares, "Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6)." On his death bed, John Wesley's last words were, "I'll praise ... I'll praise ..." He was struggling to say the words of the great hymn of ...

937. The Problem With A Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... . Note the three words, "Abraham believed God." Don't you wish it could be written of us, "Barbara believed God." "John - Joe - Betty - your name - believed God." Habakkuk, the prophet, has some good words on this, "If it seems slow, wait for ... For Let us never forget: the promises of God are worth waiting for! In a rather restrained fashion, our text suggests (vv. 17, 18) that somehow the mysterious and unseen presence of Yahweh is engaged in this action. Abraham has prepared a sacrifice of a heifer, a ...

938. Redemption Near And Dear

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Erskine White

... promised that those who follow Him will have more than their share of problems in this world. Our Lord compared Himself to a cornerstone which the builders had rejected (Mark 12:10). He told His followers that they would be persecuted for His sake and even crucified (John 21:18), and that this would be a blessing to them (Matthew 5:10). He promised that the world would hate them (Mark 13:13), that they would be delivered up into courts and councils to go on trial for their lives (Mark 13:9). He even warned ...

939. The Nearness Of A Faraway God

Isaiah 40:12-18

Sermon

Erskine White

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with Him? (Isaiah 40:18) O Lord my God! When I in awesome wonder,Consider all the worlds Thy hands have made,I see ... . Isaiah asked, "To whom would you liken God, or what likeness would you compare Him with?" and Jesus rose up to say, "Those who have seen Me have seen the Father" (John 14:9). Or, as Paul said in Philippians: even though Christ was "in the form of God, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness" ( ...

940. How To Deal With Suffering

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Erskine White

... but Jesus said to them, "In the world you have tribulation, but be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world" (John 16:33). Jesus did something for someone else. In His own moment of need, He ministered to the needs of others. There' ... Paul, again, from his letter to the Hebrews: "Because [Christ] Himself has suffered and been tempted, He is able to help us when we are tempted" (2:18). Think of how you suffer in the summer's heat and use that as a metaphor for all the other ways you have suffered in life. ...

941. Blind Beggars All

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Erskine White

... mercy on me!" (Luke 21:28) The town of Jericho was already 8,000 years old by the time Jesus and John the Baptist walked its streets. Think of it! Here in America, we were all excited a few years ago about our ... If ninety-nine sheep are safely in the fold, the Good Shepherd will come after the one who is lost, even if that lost sheep is you or me (Matthew 18:12-14). If we are humble and honest enough to cry out to Him like Bartimaeus, He is concerned enough to stop and respond - to treat us at that moment ...

942. The Public Effect Of Private Living

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... of House rules. The public effect of these alleged ethical violations mesmerized the nation and led to his resignation. John Tower was considered by many to be the ideal candidate to be the Secretary of Defense, but when the ... with him. He punched the button for the 18th floor and asked her which floor she wanted. In a seductive voice she said, “I’ll go to 18 too if you’re looking for a good time.” He politely declined the invitation of this “Lady of the Evening.” As he told the story, he said ...

943. An Our Good Works And Generosity

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... infected by the tint of selfishness and evil. This is Jesus' point also at the end of our gospel lesson (also see Romans 7:18). He proceeds to warn us not to lay up treasures on earth for ourselves, because moth and rust consume and thieves break in and steal ... freedom, because good works just come spontaneously, not as a result of constraint or scheming for power, position and a good reputation. (John 8:36; Ephesians 2:8-10, Psalms 110:3). The freedom of this new life, which is given at Easter and the joy ...

944. Dust And Ashes

Genesis 18:16-33

Sermon

Erskine White

... taken upon myself to speak to the Lord, I who am but dust and ashes. (Genesis 18:27) Tonight begins the forty-day season of Lent: forty days which correspond to the time Jesus ... the more honest, more spiritual assessment of who we are in this fallen world? Yes, the spirituality we find in scripture requires honesty in oneself. In fact, the first letter of John says it with unavoidable clarity: "If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us" (1:8). But our confession of sin also ...

945. The Significance Of An Insignificant Man

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Erskine White

... after Me, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow Me" (Matthew 16:24). And Jesus was also to tell them, "Truly I say to you ... you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go" (John 21:18). The very first one to do this - the very first one to pick up a cross and follow Jesus Christ - was an African who happened to be passing by, an ordinary man named Simon of Cyrene. You and I are rather ordinary people like Simon, so perhaps we can ...

946. Chosen For Good News

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... certain sunny-heartedness about him which prim minds did not easily associate with religion. “The thing indeed became a scandal! ‘Now John,’ they said, ‘with his lean, austere life in the desert, is patently a saint of God. But this other mingling in ... am glad and rejoice with all of you -- and in the same way you also must be glad and rejoice with me (Philippians 2:17b, 18).” God Chooses Us For Love Not only are we chosen for joy, but we are also chosen for love. “This is my commandment, that you ...

947. One Flock, One Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... is, there are many organizations of Christians. One of them is certainly as legitimate as another. So we have United Methodist, United Presbyterian, Christian, United Church of Christ, Church of God, Nazarene, Lutheran, Pentecostal, and Roman Catholic. Jesus prayed for his disciples in John 17:18-20a: “As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth…. That they may all be one.” Yet it is true ...

948. Walking the Valley of the Lost

2 Samuel 1:17-27

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... you to stretch yourself, to become more than you are. You are a Christian. You have experienced the love and support of God before. Depend on him now! To his grieving disciples, Jesus said, "I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you." (John 14:18) He says the same to you now. To the Romans, the apostle Paul wrote, "For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation ...

949. The Demons and the Counselor

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... in the Bible about demons being called out of a person. For example, a Samaritan woman who was married five times met Jesus at a well (John 4). She was living with a man not her husband. When she spoke, Jesus really heard the demon-malady in her soul - she was a loveless ... : "In the thought of the Bible, evil - for the devils represent the source of moral evil as well as sickness (Revelation 18:2) - is not the absence of good, or some simple, natural failing, it is an active personal power, with its order ...

950. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... sand Samson was arrogant. Solomon was worldly, David was stricken by seizures, Job was afflicted, Thomas, doubted, and the Samaritan was despised. John Wesley did battle daily with cockiness; Captain Webb, a great revivalist preacher, wore a patch over his eye, and one of ... , as well as American sailors, from American ships to be forced into service for the British navy. On June 18, or seventeen days following Madison's appeal, Congress issued a Declaration of War. However, unknown to Congress, Britain had ...

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