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1. It's Just A Little Thing

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 've talked a lot about giving this year and sometimes that is a real pain. But the simple truth is this; we're called to give like the widow. Not just a mite, but our all. It's just a little thing but if we all give REVERENTLY, REJOICINGLY AND RECKLESSLY like the widow can you imagine what God can do? Look around you at what God has already done with what we've given. It's just a little thing but that's what equal sacrifice, not equal giving can do. That restless little boy at the beginning of the ...

2. Time To Walk On The Water

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... would be a good motto for us as we kneel in the presence of God to commit ourselves anew to His service and the service of the world. "Have read your book and have come to help." Such is the motto of those ready to walk on water. To live recklessly for Christ. To have the kind of faith Simon Peter hadthe kind of faith about which Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build my church." That's us. That's who we arewho we are called to be. Not lazy hens lying around the barnyard but creatures meant for ...

3. Homecoming

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , and our grief itself is testimonial to what a gift God gave us in the lives we love. There is grief because the loss is real and death is definite. Yet our grief is set in the context of our conviction that the same God who so recklessly, extravagantly, overflowed in giving life shall give life even in death. The Father waits, confident that the far country of death shall not be the last word. The Father waits, ready to give life and that abundantly, to give more than we deserve, life eternal, not because ...

4. Defended By the Divine

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... , in recollection of all Christ suffered on our behalf, who of us can ever say: "I’ve done my share?" You don’t have to be reckless for God. There is always a way to get out of doing or giving if you really want to. You can find a way to be ... feel right unless I could give that which is the dearest I own!" No wonder Jesus called Mary’s devotion beautiful; the recklessness of it must have gladdened him greatly! IT WAS BEAUTIFUL IN ITS UNIQUENESS What Mary offered to Jesus was certainly different! No ...

5. Choose Life

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... home to fend for himself in the world. All of his life, Max had had these “self-destructive tendencies” which often caused accidents and injuries. Ultimately, he ended up in Rachel Remen’s counseling office. “I don’t know why I do these reckless, crazy things,” he said. “I have ‘pushed death’ for as long as I can remember.” Dr. Remen said to him: “Max, maybe you do these things because you are still trying to decide.” “Decide what?” Max asked. And Dr. Rachel Remen said: “Maybe ...

6. I Knew You’d Come

John 6:16-24

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... fool. Because of this he became the big fisherman. And when he saw the Lord walking on the water, impulsively he threw caution to the wind - the very wind which was to defeat him. There is no thought of self-consciousness here. He didn’t care how reckless or foolish his actions would appear to others. He simply saw his Lord doing a marvelous thing and he was so overcome with naive wonder, he went overboard, feet first. Now note there are three accounts of this story in the Gospels, but only the one which ...

7. Increasing Our Standard of Giving

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

... number of followers are gathered around. He tells them about a steward who handled the business affairs of a wealthy man. But the steward has squandered his master’s money; he was reckless and wasteful. Notice that this story follows another story about a reckless young man who squandered his father’s wealth, the prodigal son. But in this story the reckless young man does not come to his senses in time and he is fired from his job. Then he does something so shrewd and so conniving. As he is cleaning out ...

8. Increasing Our Standard of Giving - Sermon Starter

Luke 16:1-15

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Brett Blair

... of followers are gathered around. He tells them about a steward who handled all the business affairs of a wealthy man. But the steward has squandered his master's money; he was reckless and wasteful. Notice that this story follows another story about a reckless young man who squandered his father's wealth, the prodigal son. But in this story the reckless young man does not come to his senses in time and he is fired from his job. Then he does something so shrewd and conniving. As he is cleaning out his desk ...

9. Second Thoughts

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... music she is singing. Who would ever have written a piece of music like that?" And the second man said quietly, "I did!" No, I can think of so many times when my second thoughts have helped me bite my tongue, curb my anger, and saved me from reckless danger. But as a pastor for many years, I have also seen that testing bureau of second thoughts robbing people of those impulses to Christlike love and action. Like the Levite in Jesus' story, many of us want to do the Christlike thing in the face of hunger ...

10. The Path of Maturity

Drama

William Grimbol

... feared enemy? We are ashamed, Lord, of our laziness ... our lack of courage our lack of hope ... our lack of faith. We are embarrassed with how little time we actually devote to the art of loving ... how seldom we strive to fulfill your call to love with reckless abandon, but Lord, we just don’t love our Selves, we just don’t believe that our lives are really worth that much ... we just don’t believe that life has all that much to offer, except the good life, and that is so bankrupt ethically, because ...

11. Temptation Island

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... to impress your friends. Ninety-nine per cent of the time, nothing happened. But every day in this land there is someone who loses his or her life because someone was driving foolishly. We can read smugly about celebrities and politicians who are reckless with their sex lives. "Cluck, cluck," we think. "How terrible." We can thank God that our own sins do not make headlines--sins like envy and pride and self-righteousness. We're lucky that no one makes headlines because of their sinful attitudes, though ...

12. Believing Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... from the Holy City. The disciples knew that in going to Bethany, Jesus was putting Himself perilously close to His enemies who were plotting to kill him. To go there seemed suicidal and reckless. What made it worse is that word had come that Lazarus was not only ill, he was dead. So now the journey was not only reckless, but pointless. When Jesus said that He was going anyway, the disciples came close to deserting Him. Then there came the voice of one who was normally silent: Thomas, who said, “Let us ...

13. The Waster

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... wasteful." "Prodigal" is derived from the Latin word prodigere, which is translated as the verb "to squander." Therefore, a prodigal son is literally a wasteful son, one who throws away opportunities recklessly and wastefully. The younger son in this famous parable is a waster. He is one of the most famous rogues in the entire Bible. In our soap opera imaginations we can read between the lines and pencil in all the sordid ways he must have wasted his inheritance. He had ...

14. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... don't. Soon, after all those rules, something inside of us begins just to want to break one, just to do something wild and reckless. There are so many rules that we find ourselves longing to rebel, and so sin is often defined as rebellion, as the putting of ... that Christ is our Master and that we need his help to obtain life more fully, then that sin which is defined by the wild, reckless lawlessness of life is over for us. We may not always like it. We may not be able to fulfill what we know we should ...

15. Do Politics and Religion Mix?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... godless and wrong in its direction. President James Garfield's words from 1877 still ring true. "Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature ... if the next centennial does not find us a great nation ...

16. A Life Well Lived

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... behaved the first time around. But here’s what’s interesting. When Q takes him back to the present under this new scenario, instead of being captain of the Enterprise, Piccard is a lowly technician in engineering. It turns out that those experiences of his youth, as reckless as they had been, were a part of who he became as an adult. He was a captain because he had learned some hard lessons--lessons he could learn only the hard way. (1) Do you understand that God can take the broken pieces of our former ...

17. Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... done for him, yet he has asked (and received) nothing in return. Next, this son divulges information that was heretofore unknown _ perhaps neither to the reader nor to the father. Whereas we have only been told the younger son squandered his inheritance away recklessly, the older son professes to know all the sordid, seedy details. He reveals that the father's money was spent on nothing but prostitutes _ about as worthless and sinful a way of frittering away that inheritance as there could be. The father ...

18. Leaving ‘Last Chance’ Heading For ‘Needmore’

Romans 12:9-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... name of Jack McDermott. He was a writer and movie director. McDermott's favorite gag was to take his guests for a ride in his Model-T Ford. Taking them into the mountains, he would careen around curves at perilous speeds. When a guest would complain about his recklessness, he would yank the steering wheel from its post and either hand to them or toss it over the mountain side. What his panic stricken riders didn't know was that he had installed foot controls for steering. (1) B. A lot of people have no clue ...

19. When We No Longer Recognize Ourselves

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... relationship with God. We were made in God’s image. But when we wander too far from God, when we follow our own reckless and self-centered desires down a path of destruction, we one day reach a place where we lose touch completely with the person we ... chosen by God, anointed to lead God’s people, a king whose relationship with God was so intimate that he danced before God with reckless abandon. But sin led him so far from God’s original purposes for him that when he was confronted with the story of his ...

20. Welcome Home

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... of his heart falling to the ground, he sends his son on his way. At first everything goes as planned for this boy. “Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living.” (Luke 15:13, ESV) The good times are rolling, and he’s sleeping by day and partying by night. If it felt good, he did it. He could have anything he wanted, and he got it. He bought the beachfront condo, drove the Ferrari, had a Rolex on ...

21. False Teachers and Their Destruction

2 Peter 2:1-22

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... desire to grasp more than one’s due. The Greek word can involve coveting other people’s money or goods, engaging in illicit sexual indulgence, or lusting for power, all of which speak of going after selfish gain at the expense of others and of a reckless disregard of the moral order. These men have become “experts in greed” (2:14). The method of the false teachers is to exploit you with stories they have made up. To be effective, any evil propaganda must be a mixing of truth with falsehood. This is ...

22. Balaam’s Donkey

Numbers 22:21-41

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... who is saved only by the actions of his donkey. These three events anticipate Balaam later three times blessing Israel.3 22:32 Why have you beaten your donkey . . . ? The question is an implied rebuke. your path is a reckless one. The Hebrew word yarat, rendered “reckless,” is of uncertain meaning (“perverse” [ESV, NRSV], “slippery”),4 but the general sense is that Balaam’s actions are wrong and can lead to his downfall. 22:34 I have sinned. Balaam’s admission seems appropriate. 22:35 ...

23. Ask Jacob!

Matthew 6:25-34, Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... than worship, more important than prayer. They make us anxious. They make us turn away. It is in the moment of turning away that we lose sight of God. The word “despised” (bazah) as in “Esau despised his birthright” means to dis-esteem, to scorn, to be reckless or careless with, to disdain.* The birthright of Esau is a sacred right to bear or carry the covenant forward. But Esau doesn’t not seem to care much about that. He easily gives away that honor with God in order to seek that “red stuff ...

24. Giving Comfort

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the prophets. If we are in Christ, the punishment for our transgressions has been taken away from us. However, that does not mean we are home free. If you drive out of the parking lot of the church this morning at 90 miles an hour, run red lights, drive recklessly in every way possible—even if you escape the judgment of law enforcement—there is the judgment of the laws of physics that says that if you take a turn too fast in a car there is a price to pay. There is a certain amount of pain involved in ...

25. One Tough Master?

Matthew 25:14-28

Sermon

Will Willimon

... the master? Who is the master? Is he a hard-hearted, tough, exacting miser of a master who expects to reap where he hasn't even sown? Or is he an extravagant, reckless, wheeler-dealer, whose faith in his servants is exceeded only by his generosity? He gave them all that he had. Every cent. Is it hardhearted of him to expect them to be as reckless as he? And when they come back to render account, you think that, if he is pleased, be might let them keep some of the interest they have earned. No, he tells ...

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