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1. Refusing to Quit

2 Timothy 4:5-8

Sermon

James McCormick

... rope if you don’t want to lend it!” Excuses. Usually, the reality is that the going has gotten tough and we want to quit. Look at some of the more popular excuses. I have an exhaustive file that I have accumulated through the years! I don’t have ... only good guy left. And, it you think I’m going to carry on alone as a faithful servant of yours, you’re mistaken. I quit!” God said to him, in effect, “Listen Elijah. I’ve got seven thousand people in Israel who have not bowed down to Baal. So stop ...

2. Winners Never Quit and Quitters Never Win (Fruit of the Spirit: Patience)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Longsuffering is a positive response that dares to trust God to help you solve a problem. I cannot guarantee you that you will be a success, but I can guarantee you that if you are not longsuffering, you will be a failure. You are not a failure until you quit, but when you quit you are a failure. Tammy Wynette, the country singer, who recently died, once sang a hit song with a title, D-I-V-O-R-C-E. Well, unfortunately, that is really not how you spell divorce. Divorce is really spelled F-A-I-L-U-R-E ...

3. Not Yet Quitting Time

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Larry R. Kalajainen

... achievement within us and through us. That's what grace is: God giving to us what we need to do what God requires us to do, quite apart from any achievement or qualification of our own. But the problem for many of us is that we get weary in well-doing. We get ... so we need the truth of the second advent to enable us to run our race with patience and hope and endurance. It's not yet quitting time. The road is long, the way is hard, we will get tired to the point of exhaustion, but the end is in view, Christ is ...

4. More Than A Mannequin; Not Quite A Masterpiece

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... , church is not a bad place to be. We see our friends. The music's uplifting. Every once in a while we learn something new. And occasionally we get inspired to be better people. However, it is probably true that our church is not quite as exciting as the first body of Christian believers. THE PICTURE THE WRITER OF ACTS GIVES US OF THE FIRST CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY IS OF A CHURCH THAT WAS VERY MUCH ALIVE. These early Christians met together, ate together, studied together, sang together, rejoiced together ...

5. I Quit

John 6:60

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... ," he says. They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him back in and ask for his two words. He clears his throat and says, "Bad food." They nod and send him away. Seven more years pass. They bring him in for his two words. "I quit," he says. "That's not surprising," the elders say. "You've done nothing but complain since you got here." This gentleman at the monastery had something in common with the followers of Jesus: it's just too hard.

6. A Faith that Does Not Quit

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... the stream, and was gone. “As the bee disappeared,” Glenn later wrote, “I realized that I was still on my knees, and I remained on my knees for some time.” (8) Friends, that bee demonstrated a faith that you and I can only envy. Some of us quit even before we really get started. When that happens remember that bee. When that happens remember the woman whom Jesus told about who kept demanding justice until she wore a crooked judge down. Don’t miss out on one of the real secrets of life: Hang in ...

7. Refuse to Quit

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Adoniram Judson sweated out Burma's heat for 18 years without a furlough, six years without a convert. Enduring torture and imprisonment, he admitted that he never saw a ship sail without wanting to jump on board and go home. When his wife's health broke and he put her on a homebound vessel in the knowledge he would not see her for two full years, he confided to his diary: "If we could find some quiet resting place on earth where we could spend the rest of our days in peace. . ." But he steadied himself ...

8. Quite a Shock

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Tom Carter

In Ralph Emery's autobiography, Memories, the country-music D.J. and host of TV's "Nashville Now" relates one of his early experiences in radio: An exuberant man of the cloth came into the studio one day with his wife, another woman and a guitar with an electrical short in its amplifier. I could tell it was defective by the loud hum in his speaker. I walked from the control room into the studio to exchange pleasantries, and then assumed my position on my side of the glass separating the rooms. I raised the ...

9. Not Quite Cured

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Kevin Shay

"Doc, you've got to help me!" came the frantic call to the psychiatrist. "The guy next door thinks he's in an opera. He sings day and night at the top of his lungs. It's driving me crazy!" "Send him to me," said the shrink. A week later, the caller phoned again, sounding much calmer, "Doctor, I don't know how you did it, but he's not singing anymore. Did you cure his delusion?" "Not exactly," the psychiatrist replied. "I just gave him a much smaller part."

10. Not Quite the The Lord's Prayer

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A new Sunday school teacher had to iron out some problems with the Lord's Prayer. One child had to be corrected after repeating, "Howard be thy name." Another youngster prayed, "lead us not into Penn Station." Still another surprised the teacher with, "Our Father, who art in heaven, how'd you know my name?"

11. Endurance

2 Corinthians 11:24-27, 2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... make grandma's special sauce? You want them to do well and be ready. These are things they should know. There are things we should all know whether it is entering kindergarten or college. On the top of that list is endurance. What do you wish you hadn't quit? College? Do you wish you would have finished that degree? How about the piano? Do you wish you had not stopped those lessons? What about exercise? Did you give up too early? What about a job that would have led to something or a hobby that once brought ...

12. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... for they shall cause strife and divisions that please me. Blessed are they who are easily offended—for they will soon get angry and quit. Blessed are they who do not give their offering to carry on God's work—for they are my helpers. Blessed is he who ... it's fair for the hogs." I know that there are hypocrites in the church. I know I preach to some every Sunday. I've baptized quite a few. But you should never let a hypocrite keep you away from the house of God. I'm like that old country bumpkin who said ...

13. Changed Lives: Adam and Eve

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sin became so dense, such a reality in Jesus, that “he who knew no sin became sin . . .” for the sake of all humanity. And that, of course, is the only cure for sin. Let Christ take care of it. There is something in the human heart that is not quite right. That something, which we call sin, can destroy us, if we let it. Our only hope is to take responsibility for our lives and to present them to Christ. Only Christ can take away the sins of the world. 1. Bud and Lolo Delaney, The Laugh Journal (New York ...

14. The Doubting Sum

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

... will allow us to be full. We want love not criticism. We want action, not sermons. We want help. We feel empty and we want to be full so we try to stick some "thing" inside. I have heard people who don’t smoke say: Why don’t you just quit? I have heard thin people say to heavy: Why don’t you just diet? I have heard calm people say to the nervous: Why don’t you just calm down? It is easy for us to tell others what to do, isn’t it? But if you and I want ...

15. Complete Joy

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... with Christ. In the greater scheme of this letter, the desire of Paul for death is only a little thing, something that can be ignored quite easily. It is easy to overlook the little things. The lesson today begins with another little thing, a phrase it is easy to drop or ... other completely because we are all a part of the Body of Christ. This sounds very difficult, and it can be quite a challenge. But Paul does not leave things there. He does not simply present some hopelessly optimistic statements of how ...

16. Peace Be With You

John 20:19-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... hold me,” just as his son had asked his Dad to hold him. Barry reports that as soon as he became aware of God’s presence, he could relax and even begin to enjoy himself. (8) That is the true secret of peace within. Isn’t it time you quit running? Isn’t it time you nestled yourself in the arms of your Heavenly Father? Jesus stood in the midst of his disciples and said, “Peace be with you!” Jesus wants his followers to have peace. Peace is our greatest need. Peace comes when we lean on the arms ...

17. Silent Sinning

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... has also become prevalent in this culture is “Silent Firing or “Quiet Firing.” In this case, an employer or boss will deliberately demoralize, mistreat, pressure, pass over for promotions or raises, or underchallenge an employee in order to compel that person to quit. These bosses appear to be staying within HR guidelines, but they surreptitiously will do anything within those limits to leave an employee out of the loop and ostracize them from social events in an attempt to push him or her out. Like ...

18. How To Fail Successfully

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... not solid instruction here in our Scripture lesson -- and from Jesus himself -- instructions that there may come a time when it's really time to quit? We can try too long. At least Jesus is saying that there are moments when in order to keep on keeping on we need to ... to run away." Do you feel the impact of that? You do, if you've ever been tempted as I have been -- to run away -- to quit. Have you ever been in that kind of place? I have. When I desperately wanted to throw in the towel, to throw up my hands. I ...

19. The Paralysis of Analysis – The Fear of Failure

2 Corinthians 4:8-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... standard of absolute perfection because nobody is perfect. II. Reject The Fear Of Failure Listen again to Paul's words in verses 8 and 9, "We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going." (II Corinthians 4:8-9, NLT) Paul fell and Paul failed, but he did not fall to the fear of failure. This is so very important. In America we ...

20. Winning the Grand Prize

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... a voice say to him, “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” From that day forward, St. Paul was determined to do and to be what he believed Christ had called him to do and to be. There was no turning back once he had this vision of Christ. Quitting for him was not an option. “But one thing I do,” he wrote, “Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.” For St. Paul, his journey ...

21. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... Brother, the One whom no one would dare take away from him. But Thomas was a realist. Having experienced the power of death, he was unable to forget it. He knew that death always wins in the end. He was achingly aware of the Master's mortality, but quite deaf to the music of his promises. Thus, when the others were ready to take Jesus at his word with the relative unconcern of people who had never clashed with death head-on and been left bruised and bleeding, Thomas showed a more perceptive, a more heroic ...

22. The Rich Young Ruler

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... impetuous. III There was something else about this young man. He was Humble. "He knelt before Jesus," writes Luke. Thank God his status in the establishment had not made him arrogant and consequential. He fell down on his knees in the middle of the road. I'm quite sure that he knew the consequences of his action. He might become the target of every lewd joke in every wayside tavern along the road the next day. He didn't care. Nor did it concern him that the sinister eyes of Ciaphas' secret police might be ...

23. The Day God Repented

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... it would be in our best interest to do so. It is interesting that John Mahaffey, who won the Bob Hope Desert Classic in January, 1984, decided three years earlier to get rid of some of his bad habits in order to be a better golfer. He says that he quit drinking, smoking, and carousing and at thirty-five years of age began to feel better than he did at twenty-five. It is always in our best interest to get rid of unhealthy habits. But most of us are more like the old lady who said she "ain't been ...

24. Body Parts and Pride

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... . Further, as most people are aware, doing some unfamiliar activity often leads to the comment, "I'm using muscles I didn't know I had." If this is the case, you will likely be aware of them in the next few days, when the newly-discovered muscles are quite sore. Perhaps what the Body of Christ needs more than replacement of the parts that aren't working is an exercise that puts all the parts of the Body to work, particularly the parts that aren't working very hard. Rather than trying to drive out the more ...

25. Rise Above It

John 21:15-19

Sermon

James W. Moore

... what had to be a preacher’s nightmare… but this preacher rose to the occasion that day and he said: “As I have often told you, the journey to heaven is not easy. It has lots of twists and turns… and we can get knocked around quite a bit… and except for the grace of God, we would never make it!” And miraculously, amazingly, incredibly at that precise moment somehow that third balloon got released from that fan… and it floated gracefully up to the ceiling. And, the minister said, “Let us pray ...

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