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Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... who only asked, "What about me?" Instead, this teacher was teaching the children to be a WAY, or people who asked, "What about you?" (1) If there is one text in the Bible that lends itself to certain abuse, it is this great text from Romans: "If God is ... US, WE CAN ALSO TAKE CONFIDENCE IN GOD'S PURPOSE FOR US. "Once we were no people, but now we are God's people." (I Peter 2:10) In the Scriptures much stress is laid on "calling." When Abraham left the land of his forefathers, and went forth, not knowing ...

1452. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... is equal to a golden belt around the world 97.2 miles wide and 33 feet thick. Since 650 B.C., there have also been 1,656 arms races, only 16 of which have not ended in war. The remainder ended in the economic collapse of the countries involved. (5) If ... At the peak of the country's 17-year civil war, George and his family were among 600 people who sought refuge in St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia. The military raided the sanctuary, and George saw most of the refuge-seekers killed in front of him, ...

1453. Clearing Back The Jungle

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... of man have suddenly begun to emerge again and it looks as if the jungle is about to take over again." (1) These penetrating words point to the stormy relationship that has always existed between God and humanity. The jungle strangles the garden ... is the one who can do the job as no one else can. He is the counselor's Counselor. (7) He is the Wonderful Counselor! As Peter Marshall once put it: We are, after like lumps of clay. There are brittle pieces, hard pieces. We have little shape or beauty. But we need ...

1454. Piercing A Hole In The Darkness

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

King Duncan

... message of the book of Job in a nutshell. God can use the dark moments in our lives to "pierce a hole in the darkness." (1) When we left Job last week, he was complaining over the injustice of his situation. "Even today my complaint is bitter," he says, "his hand ... questions throughout the Scriptures. He asked Eve, "What is this you have done?" He asked Ezekiel, "Can these dry bones live?" He asked Peter, "Who do you say that I am?" And here God asks Job, "Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation . . ...

1455. A Memorial Forever - Memorial Day

Proverbs 1:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... hurts too much to go anywhere that day. Freedom also can be as quiet as a whisper inside a cabin door in 1863, "Mr. Lincoln said we are free."(1) Our past is vital. It provides identity and the dreams that have guided us individually as a nation, and as a faith community. There was a story about a ... deeds of him who called you out of darkness and into his marvelous light." (I Peter 2:9) You're the King's son. You're the King's daughter. Remember that. "May that be our Memorial Forever." Amen and amen.

1456. Holy Vexation

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... . The worship leader in this litany lists those times of vexation. They go as follows: Lord, you who were angry at Simon Peter and called him Satan, Lord, you who were angry at the super religious and compared them to whitewashed tombs full of death, ... prey to a sense of rote void of meaning. This is why Paul counseled the Corinthians to "... do everything for the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). Ultimately we are here not to do all that we do as ends in themselves; we do them because we understand them ...

1457. If You Are Willing

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... tension between our inadequate understanding of the why behind suffering and the great plan God has for us, we call faith. The writer of Hebrews defines faith as “the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” (Hebrews 11:1) And so it is. Philosopher Peter van Inwagen puts it this way: “I have never had the tendency to react to the evils of the world by saying, ‘How could there be a loving God who allows these things?’ My immediate emotional reaction has rather been: ‘There ...

1458. Servants Of The Servant Who Was Lord

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... time of Jesus, this was the case. James and John, the brother disciples of Jesus, were bitten by the bug of winning - of being # 1. So they asked Jesus for the privilege of sitting one of them on his right and one of them on his left hand in ... but to minister, and to give his life, a ransom for many. I wonder, I wonder if Paul had heard that story about Jesus responding to Peter and James in that fashion. I wonder because in verses 3 and 4 of Philippians II, he laid the claim upon the Christians at Philippi, ...

1459. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... never had a chance to put that in a letter. The call came, offering me the opportunity to take this responsibility, and I accepted.” -1 Isn’t that the way life works? We need to stay awake, because we never know when we are going to be surprised by ... see the connection? Whether it’s the opening of a door, or the closing of a door, the demand is that we stay awake. Bishop Peter Storey from South Africa tells a story of three men in town for a convention. They were assigned rooms on the 51st floor of the ...

1460. Can a Rich Person Go to Heaven?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . What does that mean? Studies reveal that the more money you have, the more likely you are to take your own life. Peter Kreeft captured the alarming reality in a recent article of his own: “The richer you are, the richer your family is, and the ... how she did, he was delighted that she had kept good records. But he came across several items that were listed as TLOK. In fact, about 1/5 of her money was listed this way. He asked her what TLOK meant. She said, “Well, it’s this way. Sometimes I did not jot ...

1461. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... primary question, how do you identify a Christian? I guess we could wear plastic signs. But would that really do the trick? (1) This is an important question. A few years, the Barna Research Group released the findings of a nationwide survey of people who ... will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” 1. http://grace-lutheran-church.com/sermons/2006/03/1. 2. Barna Research Online, Dec. 3, 2002. Cited by Dr. Peter Barnes, http://www.fpcboulder.org/Transcripts/10-5-03.html. 3. http://www ...

1462. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the personal and the human has begun, a world in which human uniqueness and human action, and the human spirit, will be rehabilitated. 1 You probably didn't realize that all that happened in 1989. It was remarkable that so little was made of it. I ... is to eliminate that idea from our mind, that repentance is for people who do bad things, evil things, or dumb things. Peter and Andrew, James and John, were good guys. They were decent, hardworking folk. Being fishermen, they probably lied a little bit, but ...

1463. You Are Somebody!

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Guillen tells about being part of a famous experiment in cooperation with the former anchor of ABC news, the late Peter Jennings. The subject of the study was racial prejudice. In one of the segments, they did an experiment featuring a ... those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven." (1 Corinthians 15:46‑48) Those words were written by the apostle Paul to the church in Corinth nearly 2,000 years ago. We’ve heard that we were ...

1464. Why Not a Christian Live 8 for the Environment?

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of its existence, the new-born Christian church was teeming with differences. Paul himself had a face-to-face with Peter over the issue of Gentiles. Paul found opponents to his doctrinal views in such solid Christian outposts as the Corinthian ... primarily to bring God pleasure. And why isn't Christianity taking the lead to remind everyone that when God commissioned us to have dominion in Genesis 1:28, it doesn't mean to do what we want to do with what God has created, to treat earth, wind, sea and fire as if ...

1465. By Heart

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... how many of these songs you can identity as theme songs for Bible characters. I'll name the song. You tell me the Bible character/story. 1. "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" 2. "Strangers in Paradise" 3. "The Second Time Around" 4. "I Feel Pretty" 5. "I've Got a Right ... Up and Away" 19. "Stayin' Alive" 20. "Crazy" Answers: 1) Noah; 2) Adam and Eve; 3) Lazarus; 4) Esther; 5) Job; 6) Moses; 7) Jezebel; 8) Samson; 9) Salome; 10) Daniel; 11) Joshua; 12) Peter; 13) Esau; 14) Jeremiah; 15) Shadrach, Meshach and ...

1466. You Shall Name Him Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... bye Fruit Stand, I’ll see you tomorrow,” she turned over his bus tag‑-and there, neatly printed, was the word, “Anthony.” (1) Names are interesting. A woman named Jewell and her husband, Myron, bought a computer program with a spell‑check function, which they decided ... had been unfaithful to God. Names are important. In the New Testament we discover Jesus changing Simon’s name to Peter (Rock) because he was the rock upon which Jesus would found his church. And still later Saul, the persecutor of ...

1467. Ten Days of Prayer

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... more and flew back to Kenya, where he asked God to give wisdom to the leader of the nation as he selected his government. (1) Wow! All that from one man praying for six months! Next Sunday we will celebrate one of the most important days on our church ... day’s walk from the city. When they arrived, they went upstairs to the room where they were staying. Those present were Peter, John, James and Andrew; Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew; James son of Alphaeus and Simon the Zealot, and Judas son of ...

1468. Is Your Conscience Clear?

1 Timothy 1:18-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... a single penny to $139,000, the largest contribution ever recorded in the funds one hundred and eighty-six year existance.1 I read the other day about one of these conscience-stricken individuals who wrote the following letter to the IRS: Dear Sir ... to fear criticism, what anybody says about you or says to you, if you have a truly clear conscience. I want you to listen to what Peter had to say about this matter of a clear conscience. He said in I Pet. 3:16, that it is important to "have a good conscience ...

1469. Seeing the End from the Beginning

Numbers 13:1-2, 17-33

Sermon

James Merritt

... say at the end, the dream came true. When we see the end from the beginning, and give ourselves totally and wholly to God's vision for us, any dream can come true. 1. George Barna, The Power of Vision, p.28. 2. Pat Williams, Oh for the Magic, p. 110. 3. Gleaned from John Maxwell, Developing the Leader Within You, pp. 108-109. 4 Peter Marshall, The Light of His Glory, p. 17. 5 Charles Swindoll, The Finishing Touch, p. 471. 6 Chuck Swindoll, The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart, p. 606. 7 Chuck Swindoll, Living Above ...

1470. Turn Right with the Right Turn

Luke 13:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... So they went out and preached that people should repent." In the very first sermon preached at Pentecost, after Jesus sent the Holy Spirit, Peter said, "Repent, in the name of Jesus Christ, so that your sins may be forgiven." (Acts 2:38) Paul stood on Mars Hill ... Jack Eckerd gave his life to Jesus Christ. After he had given his heart to the Lord, he walked into one of his 1,500 stores and saw Playboy and Penthouse magazines on the bookshelves. He immediately fired off a memo to every manager of every store ...

1471. God's Way or the Highway

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... heaven?" only two out of a hundred agreed. In other words, 98% of Americans believe that when they die they are going to Heaven.1 I believe that most people either don't understand what the Bible says about going to heaven, or they don't believe it. They ... by Me, he will be saved…" Listen to what Peter said in Acts 4:12, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." Listen to what Paul said in 1 Tim. 2:5, "For there is one God and ...

1472. I Believe That Jesus Suffered Under Pontius Pilate

John 1:29-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... deeds. Many teachers have spoken wisely across the centuries. The heart of Jesus’ purpose and mission is revealed on the cross. (1) For this reason, St. Paul declared, “I have determined to know nothing among you but Christ and him crucified.” (I ... because of the fearful ambition of Pilate or the jealousy and hatred of the Jewish leaders. The real reason was declared by St. Peter in his great Pentecost sermon. He told the Jews that “Jesus was handed over to you by God’s set purpose and foreknowledge ...

1473. Tongues, Ears, or Too Much to Drink

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... business. The world is largely unchurched. There is no shortage of people seeking God. The question is, "Are they getting the message?" [1] If we are going to reach others with the Gospel today, we need to speak in tongues, the language of technology, the ... much to drink? Well, that was the assumption of the folks on the street—"These guys have had too much to drink"—to the point that Peter had to address it directly in his sermon, "These are not drunk as you suppose, since it's only 9:00 a.m." Now I am ...

1474. The Revelation Code V: Cruisin' Toward the Dream

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... of Him who bears the scepter of all the universe and everlastingly makes all things new, here and hereafter; and therefore, I am safe forever. [1] That's John's final vision…the vision of a wedding. The vision of Christ's final victory, God's kingdom come….One day…. 2 ... of their journey through the land of Narnia. Lewis writes: Suddenly they shifted their eyes to another spot, and then Peter and Edmund and Lucy gasped with amazement and shouted out and began waving: for there they saw their own father ...

1475. Breakfast on the Beach

John 21:1-14

Sermon

John E. Harnish

Another week passes after the events of Easter day. Simon Peter says, "I'm goin' fishin'." And the other disciples join in, "We will, too." Well, what else were they ... business was. Now I know. [6] We know what our business is. Our business is fishing. Sometimes you just have to be willing to fish out of the other side of the boat. 1. J. Collins, Built to Last, page 81 2. 2004 Book of Discipline, Paragraph 125 3. Rev. Stanley Bailey, First UMC, Mt. Clemens, Nov. 1978 4. J. Collins, Built to Last, page 81 5. ...

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