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1. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... discount the way he died by declaring that he allowed Peter to carry a sword. No, we have learned not to be too greatly disturbed by any of these specific expressions of Jesus’ ethical demands. We can neatly nullify them one way or another. But his style - that rebukes us, bothers us, irks and irritates us no end. This is the truth that gives such spiritual potency to that generally ignored, extra beatitude which we have chosen for our first text: "Blessed is the man who finds nothing that repels him in ...

2. The Way, The Truth, And The Life Style

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Thomas Long

... around you and take you where you do not wish to go" (John 21:18). Jesus was speaking, John writes, of "the kind of death by which [Peter] would glorify God" (John 21:19). Being led captive to your own death is not to have much of a life style; offering one's all for the glory of God, though, is to have life, and to have it abundantly. In his memoir about his career as a physician and a professor of medicine, Lewis Thomas recalls his early memories of Bellevue Hospital in New York City. One early morning ...

3. Invitation to a New Life-Style

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... profits! A New Mind Coming to Jesus would result in a new man with a new heart and mind resulting in a new life-style. A second aspect of this style is a new mind for life. In our text Jesus brings this out when he says, "Take my yoke upon you and learn from ... responsibilities. We talk in terms of "must" and "ought." Indeed, this kind of living is tough and rough. But this is not the Christian style of life. Jesus’ way of life is easy because it is motivated by love. It is not hard to love, is it? You love ...

4. That Horse Called Style

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... saddle. Nothing can stay on its back." "Well," the man asked, "Is he a driving horse?" "Nope," said the owner. "He was hitched up once to a cart, but he tore it all to pieces." "Well, what is he good for?" the man asked. The owner replied, "Style, man, style. Just look at the picture he makes." That same man attended a church the following Sunday. He saw lots of people clad in fine clothes sitting in the sanctuary. Afterward, he asked the pastor, "Do many of these folks visit the sick and the elderly?" "No ...

5. Evangelism Jesus' Style

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... .” (John 1:38-39 R.S.V.). I hope you feel the winsome sensitivity in Jesus. No hard sell here. No buttonholing. No pushing of a formula for salvation. An invitation to a relationship — Come and see, Jesus invites. There’s a beautiful instance of Jesus’ inviting style in the book, The Horse and his Boy (p. 79), one of C. S. Lewis’ stories of Narnia. Aslan, the great lion, is the Christ figure in those stories. The lad Shasta is walking on a steep mountain pass in the middle of a dense night fog. He ...

6. Leadership Styles For A New Millennium

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... with self or others." (3) That sounds like Herod: "too much authority and too little comfort with self or others." Are there any Herods in your experience? You don't have to hold up your hand. The answer may lie too close to home. That's one style of leadership. Insecure, intolerant, inflexible, dictatorial. Many people have a picture of God that doesn't vary too much from this profile of Herod. God is a god of whom they live in constant fear of offending. God is a God whose disapproval is deadly and whose ...

7. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is with thy heart? … If it be, give me thine hand.” So today, at we draw to the close of this series on Beliefs of a Methodist Christian – we have only one other sermon to go. I want to talk about the style of a Methodist — some distinctive ingredients that make up that style. As I do this, you need to hold in your mind the fact that these distinctive marks are said in context of all the essential things we’ve been talking about during the past seven weeks. First, let’s talk about the catholic ...

8. A Style in Mistakes

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Illustration

Kent Moorehead

... strain of music that you have never heard before, but in just a minute you say, "that's Brahms," or "that's Beethoven." How do you know? That's their style, the way they do it. No one else does it quite that way. We had quite a controversy some time ago when somebody gave two wonderful Rembrandts to the art ... and they pondered and they finally came and said, "Yes, they are fakes. This copyist just didn't make the mistakes that Rembrandt always made." A style in mistakes. We know the great masters by their ...

9. Changing Styles

Romans 12:1-8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... time ago people would not go outside unless they had a bonnet like this or a wide tie like that or a pair of beautiful looking shoes like this? Everyone had to wear the same kind of thing or it was just terrible. We are still like that about our styles. We still think that we must wear the same kind of clothes that everyone else wears. We are also like that about our sinning. Very often when one boy does something bad another boy thinks he should do the same thing. One little girl tells a lie and her friend ...

10. A Christian Style Of Being And Doing

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... without a picture of that man coming into my mind, and the memory of his words stirring in my heart. Words stir, sustain and encourage. They create and heal -- so remember "speak the word of grace." IV Now the final instruction for a Christian style of being and doing. _Be motivated by prayer_. In our scripture lesson, this is the first instruction Paul offers. In verse 2 of Chapter 4, he says: "Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving." Paul is talking specifically about the ...

11. What's Your Style of Evangelism?

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Brett Blair

... world is made up of a variety of people: young, old, rich, poor, educated, uneducated, urban, rural, with different race, personalities, values, politics, and religious backgrounds. It's going to take more than one style of evangelism to reach such a diverse population! So what is your style? Confrontational? Repent and be baptized, save yourselves from this corrupt generation. (Acts 2) Intellectual? Paul debated with the philosophers on Mars Hill to convince them. (Acts 17) Testimonial? One thing I do know ...

12. Jesus’ Recipe for a Kingdom Style Feast

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus’ discipleship lessons.This week in our scripture lesson from Matthew 13, we see him dishing out advice to his inner posse not just about what to teach but about how to do it. I like to call it, “Jesus’ recipe for a kingdom style feast” or maybe more pointedly, “Jesus’ disciple-winning fish recipe.” For Jesus, with his usual parabolic flair, is giving his disciples six pointers on how to take the scriptural interpretations he is teaching them and infiltrate them into the world in a way ...

13. The Marvelous Style Of Jesus: Truth And Love

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

Jesus' use of parables is his way of communicating a striking truth with significant love. In my own journey as a Christian person, the most amazing quality of God which has been so instructive to me, is that He approaches us with equal doses of love and truth. How different He is than us. When I see someone in error and that error has personally hurt me, I go for that person's jugular, to deliver the truth, but little or no love accompanies it. Hence, the person becomes defensive and flatly refuses the ...

14. Leadership Styles For A New Millennium

Matthew 2:13-23

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: an ear of corn Good morning, boys and girls. Do you like corn? I sure do. I like corn-on-the-cob, popcorn, corn casserole, just about everything you can make that has corn in it. Corn is a very interesting plant. All during the day, the corn stalk soaks up sun, and nutrients from the soil, and fertilizer. The corn needs these things to grow. So all day the corn soaks in all this stuff that it needs to grow healthy and big. But the corn doesn't grow during the day. Instead, the corn only grows at ...

15. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

I had heard of the place for years, but never seen it until Tuesday in Chicago- The Pacific Garden Mission. Lori and I were on the way from a science museum to an art exhibit (I believe vacations are for learning!), and there it was on the left side of the street. I first knew it through the dramatized radio program Unshackled which tells the stories of those whose lives were turned around by faith in Christ and the help of the mission. Down-and-out to up-and-on is a story line with endless variations. ...

16. WWE Raw, Jesus Style

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

When pop culture transforms a “holy day” into a “holiday,” it almost always manages to focus on the wrong side of the equation. For example: *The number of shopping days left til Christmas is NOT as important as the 12 day period between the Christmas day miracle and the season of Epiphany. *A huge party, Mardi Gras, on “Fat Tuesday” is NOT as important as the forty days of Lent that follow. *Eating all your chocolate bunnies before breakfast on Easter morning is NOT as important as rejoicing over living a ...

No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly.

Montaigne

18. For Future Generations

Psalm 22:1-31

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

We thought you might like to see the oral style in which Wayne Brouwer prepares his messages. INTRODUCTION (1) In 1976, Gail Sheehy wrote a book about the changes we go through in our lives. She called it Passages (Bantam, 1977). And it opens with a scene from one of the most terrible days in her life. She was a ...

19. Christmas Every Day

John 1:1-14

Drama

Matthew Powell

Cast Storyteller 1 Storyteller 2 Little Girl Everybody - plays the Christmas fairy, the other children, Mother, Father, the police, and so on. (If the director wants to use more actors, he or she can divide this into two or three roles. However, it works very well if one actor does all the roles and changes voices.) (The actors are standing or seated from stage right to stage left: Storyteller 1, Little Girl, Everybody, and Storyteller 2) Storyteller 1: Once there was a little girl who liked Christmas so ...

20. Never Satisfied

John 14:8-17, (25-27)

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

Phillip said to him, “Lord, show us the Father and we will be satisfied.” Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you all this time, Phillip, and still you don’t know me? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. (John 14: 8-9) How is Philip like the Rolling Stones? Right! They can’t get no satisfaction. Remember those lyrics from the mid ‘60s? No matter how much they tried, they ‘can’t get no satisfaction’”. He and the other disciples had been following Jesus around for about three years, watching him heal ...

21. Strength for The Journey

John 16:12-15

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own, but will speak whatever he hears, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. He will glorify me, because he will take what is mine and declare it to you. (John 16:13-14) Today is Trinity Sunday. Founded by Pope Pius X in 1911, it is the only feast day on the church calendar that does not celebrate a person or an event, but rather a doctrine, and some say, a reality. Trinity Sunday is ...

22. A Portion of Thyself

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

At a graduation ceremony, the president of a Christian college stood at the podium and looked out over the huge crowd of people. He shook his head and said to himself (right into the microphone, of course!): “All these Christians in one place, and no one’s taking an offering!” We take offerings a lot, don’t we? Every Sunday at worship services, the money plates are passed. In fact, we can hardly think of a meeting of Christians where there is not some suggestion about offerings, donations, or contributions ...

23. The Main Thing

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. Luke 12:34 “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”[1] The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. That’s important. You might want to write it down. I’ll say it again: The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. It’s one of those seemingly self-evident rules that is absolutely essential if you want to succeed at anything. My Uncle John had a colorful way of illustrating the essential truth of it. Uncle ...

24. The Art Of Transition

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

Another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:61-62) Someone once said that people do not voluntarily change until their level of discomfort is greater than their level of fear. I have a good friend, a fellow baby-boomer, who was required by the company he worked for to move to a different part of the state. The move meant a promotion and a sizable ...

25. Sheep

Matthew 18:10-14, Matthew 18:15-20, Luke 15:1-7

Drama

Dave Marsh

Director's Notes: God pursues lost people with a vengeance. He cares about us so much that He will passionately seek us out to bring us home. This drama shows the difference between how God might pursue us (Donna) and how we humans normally view the lost (Jim). Cast: Donna: a good shepherd Jim: a not-so-good shepherd Props: 2 staffs (staves?) A laptop computer a bag (to hold the laptop) A picture of a field (projected behind them if possible) Ambient field noises (if possible) Setting: A field (LIGHTS UP ...

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