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1. A New Point of View

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... new world, of what can only be called a "new creation." "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see everything has become new" (v. 17). That means that we no longer look at the world from a "human point of view" but from the way God looks at it ... in Christ! The pages of the New Testament are filled with examples of what that new creation looks like. A man born blind, who was thought of as nothing more than a beggar, an outcast, a sinner condemned to live his ...

2. Taking the Long View

2 Peter 3:8-15a

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... truth emerges. It has a way of explaining both our Lord's first and his second coming. In all cases it has to do with "holiness and godliness." Our hope is encompassed in an eternal love that can give us untold joy, as generations pass. No one is above this view and in one way or another all are ultimately subjected to it. There is a call for celebration not because we emerge as people of hope but as the Holy One reveals himself both as God and man. All of this leaves us with more open doors than we can ...

3. View from the Mountaintop

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... from God. Moses will not cross over himself, but God assures him that his descendents will possess the land. In any case, by chapter 34, Moses appears to have accepted God's decision not to let him enter the land. On this trip to the mountaintop, Moses sees a view like no other. The narrator tells us that Moses saw all the way to the north as far as Dan, west as far as the Mediterranean Sea, southwest to the Negev, and down to Zoar, on the southern tip of the Dead Sea. What the narrator tells us that ...

4. Being A View Master

Romans 2:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the stained glass and replied, "A saint is a person who the light shines through." Believe it or not, that's what made me think of the View Master. You see, you have to hold it up to the light in order to see the marvels of the pictures inside. Unless you had one ... does that have to do with being a saint? Jesus said He was the Light of the world. You and I are called to let others View the Master, the Son of God, through how we live our lives of faith. In other words, we're called to let the Light of Christ ...

5. The View from Cloud Nine

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the wilderness and across the sea, the clouds in Ezekiel’s vision, the imagination of Job, the prophecies of Joel, Nahum and Jonah and the whirlwinds in the storms, the descriptions in the psalms, the coming of Revelation. And in the gospels, many more. To view God within the “clouds” gives us a sense of God’s transcendence and yet imminence. God both hidden and revealed –the knowledge of God we can’t ever hope to understand and yet the depictions of God that descend into our everyday lives in ...

6. The View from Michal’s Window

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

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Stan Purdum

... by the biblical principle of loving my neighbor. That often means trying to see things from the other person's point of view — see things from their window, as it were. That's not agreeing necessarily, but it is trying to understand what a position ... ourselves, we need to look for a window on our relationships that is large enough that we see more than Michal's limited and self-centered view. We can't expect to see things as God does, for his window is bigger than any we will ever have, but we can do better ...

7. The View from Jesus' Pew

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... money because I was not preaching about MY money, but GOD's. I am older now, and whether I like it or not, the fact that my family and I are financially supported by what comes in the offering plate, for me to preach about tithes and offerings can be viewed with some legitimacy as feathering my own nest. I do not want people to think that, and the easiest way to avoid it is to avoid the subject as much as possible. From all that I have been able to learn over the years, most folks are quite content with ...

8. A Womb With a View

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... "journey" motif, sending Jesus'' disciples towards Jerusalem and Golgotha. This week's theme reminds us that if we faithfully intend to follow Christ, we must be willing to step outside the door. We must be willing to leave our safe sanctuaries, our "wombs with a view" and risk entering the world naked and vulnerable, clad only in our faith. Mark portrays Jesus spending a good deal of his time and energy on the trip to Jerusalem preparing his disciples for what lay ahead. But each of the three incidents of ...

9. The Others Point of View

Mark 7:1-23

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Staff

... to delegate authority 17% Arrogance 17% Arbitrariness 19% Lack of frankness and sincerity 24% Lack of leadership 34% Failure to size up employees correctly 36% Failure to show appreciation or give credit 68% Failure to see the other person's point of view The fault cited most often, as the survey shows, was failure to see the other person's point of view. Leaders have a great responsibility to listen and understand those they lead. It was mentioned nearly twice as often as appreciation or giving credit.

10. Dante's View

Luke 4:1-13

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... called Bad Water. But from that same spot, you can also look up to the highest peak in the United States, Mount Whitney, rising to a height of 14,500 feet. One way leads to the lowest and the other way to the highest. From that point, called Dante's View, any movement must be in one or the other direction. There are many times in life when we stand where the ways part and where choices must be made. It is often easier to trip along downhill than to walk the steady, or maybe rocky, uphill path. But the path ...

11. The View From Jesus’ Pew

Mark 12:38-44

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David E. Leininger

... my family and I are financially supported by what comes in the offering plate, for me to preach about tithes and offerings can be viewed with some legitimacy as feathering my own nest. I do not want people to think that; and the easiest way to avoid it is ... . They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything — all she had to live on." The view from Jesus' pew: He "sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the ...

12. His Point of View

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Staff

... is crucial when difficult things happen to us. A great example of a person transforming calamity by his Christ-like point of view is David Watson. Watson, a minister in England, died of cancer before these words of his were published: "It's sometimes only through suffering that we begin to listen to God. Our natural pride and self-confidence have to be stripped painfully away and we become aware, perhaps for the ...

13. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in the North. A Presbyterian defender of scripture and of traditional confessions, he was even more orthodox than Beecher. During the war Dabney served on the staff of General Stonewall Jackson; afterward he presided over seminaries in South Carolina and in Texas. Yet from wherever Dabney viewed the conflict, his opinion was the same. The war, he thought, was “caused deliberately” by evil abolitionists who persecuted the south “with calculated malice.” When fellow southerners asked him to soften his ...

14. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... nifty, Deb's turning ...). Am I in trouble? Here is one that is safe: on Tuesday, it is Abraham Lincoln's. Had he lived, Mr. Lincoln would be 193 (and, no, I don't have a jingle for that one). Lincoln has always fascinated me. In my view, he was our greatest President. Others feel the same. In fact, he is now seen as so important a figure that one contemporary historian notes that there are currently more books in the English language about Lincoln than about anyone else except Jesus and Shakespeare.(1) It ...

15. How Do You View Your Possessions?

Matthew 21:33-46

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Peter J. Blackburn

Howard Hendricks writes, "My wife Jeanne and I once dined with a rich man from a blueblood Boston family, and I asked him, 'How in the world did you grow up in the midst of such wealth and not be consumed by materialism?' "His answer: 'My parents taught us that everything in our home was either an idol or a tool'. So how do you view your possessions?"

16. A Backstage View

John 20:24-31

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Craig Barnes

Garrison Keillor said, "We always have a backstage view of ourselves." We let the audience see only the neatly arranged stage. But behind the curtain all kinds of things are lying around: old failures, hurts, guilt and shame. We hear that we are living in a shameless society, and that people are no longer bothered by shame. I don’ ...

17. Rebuilding a World View

Luke 14:25-35

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Wallace H. Kirby

... of Alfred North Whitehead, Whitehead tells how his personal and intellectual world came apart when the system of Newtonian physics proved inadequate to new research and experimentation. It was a time of great anguish and crisis for Whitehead. Anytime our world-view crumbles, it is a shattering experience. But we know that out of Whitehead's shambles came a new philosophic vision of the universe that has proved more satisfying and useful than the one that crumbled. Life's personal sufferings, hurts, defeats ...

18. Four Views of the Gospels

Luke 15:1-32

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Jerry Goebel

In this single chapter there are four views of the same God: A coin lost through no choice of its own; a sheep that strays because it hasn't the sense to know better; a boy who chooses to get lost but learns the hard way what real love means; and a brother who rejects pure love and ...

19. The Wrong View

Humor

One lady tells how, after years of persuasion, her mother was finally talked into having a cataract operation. Returning home from the hospital, the mother sat down in front of the picture window, which looked out onto a lake. "Do you notice any difference in the view, Mom?" the daughter asked. "I certainly do," her mother replied. "Don't you ever dust?"

20. Religious Views

Humor

It stumped the prospective employee when he ran across this question on the employment application: "Have you any religious views?" He thought for a minute and then wrote: "No but I've got a couple of nifty shots of Niagara Falls by night."

21. A View From the Other Window

Genesis 6:1-8:22

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When the whole world was threatened with destruction, Noah built an ark. His big boat had just one window. Where was it? Not in the bottom where he would have to look into the dark and muddy water. Not on the side where he would have to look out into the surrounding storm. But on top where he could look up. Up - to where, as the storm would abate, he could catch the first available glimpse of blue. Up - in the direction of hope. Up - to God. From our point of living, we look out through various windows. ...

22. A Different View

Luke 2:41-52

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Brett Blair

It is entirely possible, and even more probable, that people see you in several different ways. Some may see you as a patient man while others may see you as hot headed. Only you really know the truth. Why do we tend not to not recognize the nature of other people? Perhaps, most of the time, it is a simple case of forgetting. Mary, Jesus' mother, was upset with her son for leaving the caravan and staying behind in Jerusalem. In a moment of anger she lost her head, and said to him, like any mother, "Wait ...

23. How We View Our Fathers

Ephesians 6:1-4

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4 years: My daddy can do anything. 7 years: My dad knows a lot, a whole lot. 8 years: My father doesn't quite know everything. 12 years: Oh well, naturally Father doesn't know everything. 14 years: Father? Hopelessly old-fashioned. 21 years: Oh, that man is out-of-date. What did you expect? 25 years: He knows a little bit about it but not much. 30 years: Must find out what Dad thinks about it. 35 years: A little patience, let's get Dad's meaning first. 40 years: What would Dad have thought about it? 50 ...

24. View From A Height

Isaiah 40:21-31

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. Collect We have known. We have seen. We will proclaim God's lordship to the ends of the earth. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord of the downtrodden, God of creation, Father of humanity, descend we pray, into our midst, and accept our offering of our brokenness, our infirmity, our weakness. Build us up together in your love with ...

25. A View From Above

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Edward Buxton

Robert Wood Johnson, the former chairman of Johnson & Johnson, was known to be a terror when he inspected his plants. On one such unannounced visit, the plant manager had a fortunate 30-minute tip prior to his arrival. Hastily he had things spruced up by ordering several large rolls of paper transported to the roof of the building. When Johnson arrived, he was furious. "What in the hell is all that junk on the roof?" were his first words. How were they to know that he would arrive in his personal ...

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