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1. Submission: Yield In All Directions

Ephesians 5:21

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Stephen P. Beck

... he continued across the bridge and to his destination. On the way back, he came to the same one-lane bridge, now from the other direction. To his surprise, he saw another YIELD sign posted. Curious, he thought, "I'm sure there was one posted on the other side." When he reached the other side of the bridge and looked back, sure enough, yield signs had been placed at both ends of the bridge. Drivers from both directions were requested to give right of way. It was a reasonable and gracious way of preventing a ...

2. Service Yields Eternal Rewards

Luke 16:19-31

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

Call to Worship Leader: Let all who would follow Christ gather in worship and praise. People: Let our hearts sing praises to God for all of the ways we are blessed. Leader: Yet let us also see and hear those in need around us, and let us help. People: For we are not called just to seek and receive blessings from God, Leader: But to be God's blessings to all in need of a healing word today. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O righteous and merciful God, You have called us to service and warned ...

3. Yielding to Spiritual Maturity

Matthew 7:15-23, James 2:1-10 (11-13) 14-17

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

Peter Drucker has conducted management seminars for both businesses and churches. He says, "Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not making friends and influencing people; that is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations." James is delivering a similar message. A person may profess to be a devout believer and may ...

4. Proper 8

Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Jeremiah 28:1-17, Genesis 22:1-19, Matthew 10:1-42

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Russell F. Anderson

... those who were saying that his gospel of grace was promoting sin. He points out that before faith in Christ, they were slaves to sin. Such bondage results in destruction and ultimate death. After faith, the believer becomes a slave of righteousness but such allegiance yields the fruits of holiness and eternal life. We do not have the choice of not serving any master. We have only to choose whether we will be slaves of sin or of Christ. Choose well whom you will serve. Epistle: Romans 6:1-11 The problem ...

5. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... another, a caring for the quality of fellowship in order that Christ may perform his ministry through his body, a willing to lay down our own interests for the sake of others. When we allow the Spirit to build us into a fellowship like that the harvest yield of our common life in Christ will be guaranteed. And that will not only stir our hearts; it will capture the attention and imagination of this city and even the whole world. The Holy Spirit will be so vitally alive among us that people will seek that ...

6. Sweet Vine

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! When one’s mind and thoughts are bound up in prayer and love of God’s covenant, the mind and the actions that emerge from its thoughts grow sweeter every day. When one identifies one’s mind and heart with the holy One of God, one’s identity yields acts of love, grace, mercy, and forgiveness –the fruits of the Spirit that Paul mentions in his letter to the Galatian church. One’s Jesus DNA determines how one looks, the shape of one’s faith, and how that life bears fruit in the world in action ...

7. Lent 1

Genesis 2:4-25, Genesis 3:1-24, Romans 5:12-21, Matthew 4:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... temptation and sins to the point of total depravity - sin permeates his whole being. Because of this, he needs to be redeemed and reconciled to God that he may live as he was originally created. 2. The nature of sin. What is sin? According to this lesson, sin is yielding to temptation. It is disobedience to God's will: Adam and Eve were told not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Moreover, sin is pride - wishing to be God, not willing to remain human. "I" is the center of sin. Lesson 2 ...

8. Proper 10

Genesis 25:19-34, Isaiah 55:1-13, Romans 8:18-27, Romans 8:1-17, Matthew 13:1-23

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Russell F. Anderson

... she gave birth to twins. That's a good deal of persistent praying. Such praying does not merely seek favors; it is a relationship of dependency and trust in the Lord. Prayer is the life blood of God's people. The struggle. Life is a struggle which yields its fruits to those who know what they want and hang in there. According to our text, the struggle of existence began for Jacob and Esau in the womb. Esau came out first but Jacob was clutching his heel, which symbolized Esau's weaknesses. (Recall the myth ...

9. No Other Gods

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... There is a powerful prayer by a man named Joe Seremane that expresses how much we miss out on when we hold back from yielding our hearts to the Lord. Seremane writes, “You asked for my hands that I might use them for your purpose. I gave them ... me out as a usable instrument that I might take seriously the meaning of your cross.” (6) So how do you know if you have yielded your heart to the Lord? Your values and actions will align with the values and actions of the kingdom of God. And here’s another clue ...

10. Invincible Harvest

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

... to four kinds of listeners. The path soil, the rocky soil, and the soil filled with thorns are non-productive. Only the good soil brings forth grain. "You must be good soil," I was told. "You must listen. You must let the words you hear take root. You must yield grain." There was no doubt in my mind that my pastor knew what he was talking about. He knew firsthand about rootless seeds, about words that seemed to fall on deaf ears. "If you have ears to hear," I heard him plead, "hear!" I am not sure that I ...

11. Scissors, Paper, Rock

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... break. The ability to be soft makes the leader a leader. This is another paradox: What is soft is strong. (As printed in John Heider, The Tao of Leadership [Atlanta, GA: Humanics New Age, 1985], 155.) Fluidity, the ability to "flow" and "yield," has been weakened and degraded in recent times by confusing this strength to bend with a rootless, undirected, "anything goes" ideology. God never intended us to drift about in a water world without purpose or perspective. Twentieth-century mystic David Spangler ...

12. Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

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Leonard Sweet

... of tremendous proportions 30, 60, even 100-fold increases. The parable remains unclear about whether it is the power of the sower or the seed itself that produces such outlandish results. But clearly, only divine power God's own hand could bring about such incredible yields. The 'interpretation' of this parable offered in verses 18-23 does not add new information to the text (as in the case of the 'explanation' for the parable of the weeds and the wheat in verses 36-43). Rather, it expands the focus of the ...

13. A New Hope

Jeremiah 18:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... itself God can't use it and if the vessel is dirty God can't use it. God has to clean the vessel and empty the vessel before He can ever get to it. The other problem with the clay is this - it can become hardened, set and refuse to yield to the potter - that was the problem of the Nation of Israel. "So now then, speak to the men of Judah and against the inhabitants of Jerusalem saying, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold, I am fashioning calamity against you and devising a plan against you Oh turn back, each of ...

14. Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Matthew 13:1-23

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... shallowness is the second stanza of seed failure. The thin, rocky soil of Palestine is the momentary-rush of enthusiasm by which a mob accepts Jesus’ message. The enthusiasm and excitement felt within a crowd mentality evaporates when good times yield to “trouble or persecution.” Those “sunny day” disciples are sun-baked by the challenges and confrontations of a combative world, leaving easy enthusiasts “stumbling” in the mid-day heat. If what the harshness of this world can dole out keeps ...

15. Traffic Signals

Colossians 4:2-6

Children's Sermon

Teresa L. Major

... be asking God for something that is not good for us or for something that is not in God's plan for us. We may not like getting a red light from God, but when that happens, it's for our own good. Other times when we pray, God says, "Yield, slow down." God is not saying, "No," but he is not saying, "Yes," either. When God gives us the yellow light (point to the yellow light) he wants us to take it easy and slow down a bit. Maybe it's not the right time for what we want. We ...

16. John the Baptist Beheaded

Mark 6:14-29

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Richard A. Jensen

... the cares of the world, and the lure of wealth, and the desire for other things come in and choke the word, and it yields nothing" (Mark 4:18-19). It is certainly a plausible hypothesis to see Herod as a model of this kind of behavior. Herod had a ... keep his word. And so it was that the cares of the world choked out the word he had heard. The seed that John had sown yielded nothing! We must have some genuine sympathy for Herod. He has heard the word. He heard it gladly. But it was choked out by worldly cares ...

17. Lent 3

John 4:1-26

Sermon Aid

... 3:1-15; 1 Corinthians 10:1-13; Luke 13:1-9 The Trouble I'm In. Need: Trouble is a universal experience more or less, sooner or later for every person. The Lessons deal with this problem. Outline: In and out of trouble - a. The way into trouble - yielding to temptation - Lesson 2 b. God's concern about our trouble (v. 7) - Lesson 1 c. The way out of trouble - repentance - Gospel Gospel: Luke 13:1-9 1. Repentance is definitely the theme of the gospel lesson. The theme is supported by (1) verse 1: "At that ...

18. The Devil Quotes Scriputure, Too

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

... can eat"), next the devil tries to tempt him with power - power to do good. "You can have all the power you want, think of all the good you will be able to do with so much power." Even the church has felt this temptation, and has often yielded to it. But it is so tempting to think you might be able to shape the destiny of the world, change the course of history. It was tempting to medieval popes and their armies, to 19th century missionaries, to social justice advocates of the left and the moral majority ...

19. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

... that used to tempt me are still tempting." Again, Bishop Sheen smiled and said, "Well, I have been a priest for over half a century and I still struggle with the same inner desires. Just remember that there is no sin in being tempted, but in yielding." We all face the inner struggle with temptation. This is the battleground where every human being is first confronted with temptation - in the innermost thoughts and desires of our hearts and minds. The one thing we need to remember is that there is no sin in ...

20. The Lord's Prayer: Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... life and the raging battle of temptation with the resource of faith rather than the power of fear. Place smaller emphasis on our own human resources and tap more fully into the divine power God is more than willing to share with us for the journey. If you must yield to anything or anyone, yield to God and his plan for human life. "Lead us not into temptation!" Shhh! Shhh! Whose voice are you listening for at this moment? Is it the voice of the ETERNAL? Yes, listen for this VOICE. You will be glad you did.

21. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... enemy. There has been a stirring going on. A restlessness of heart, a wrestling deep within. He knows, and I knew almost as soon as we began to talk, that Christ is working in his life. He is near – very near the point when the Spirit will enable him to yield his will to Christ, that he might say, Jesus is Lord. I’m convinced it will happen, and I’ll be able to tell you the whole story. But here’s the reason for sharing this fragment. One of the primary forces that has brought him thus far, in his ...

22. Engage Mind before Putting Mouth in Gear

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... occur. He provides examples from nature that show that the tongue need not participate in both good and evil. He says a spring does not yield both fresh and brackish water nor does a fig tree yield olives nor a grapevine figs. The challenge of Saint James is highly significant. The laws of nature govern the reality that apple trees do not yield grapes nor do seeds for squash yield carrots, but the tongue is under our control; it is not governed by the laws of nature. Personal choice, one of the two ideas ...

23. The Parable of the Soil

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... mentioned is “good.” The “parable of the sower” is really all about the soil, or dirt. And the “soil” is us. Any wonder that we would rather name this parable after the blameless sower? Any wonder we would rather focus our attention on the various “yields” of the successful seeds. Nobody likes to get down and dirty to dig down into the “dirt” of this story. But we are the dirt. We are the recipients of the sower’s seed. It is how we reject, embrace, nurture, and nourish the seed the ...

24. Jesus Would Do What?

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... both obeyed the law, neither of them would move forward. There would be a perpetual stalemate. We need to apply our reason here, but we also ought to recognize the danger if both cars try to cross the bridge at the same time. Somebody has to yield. It’s like a story that Max Lucado tells about the reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Zwingli promoted unity during the time of the Protestant Reformation. At one point he found himself at odds with the father of the Reformation, Martin Luther. Zwingli did not know what ...

25. Garden Gone Bad

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... concerning his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill. He dug it and cleared it of stones, and planted it with choice vines; he built a watchtower in the midst of it, and hewed out a wine vat in it; he expected it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes. Isaiah 5:1-2 As we hear the love song that Isaiah sings for his beloved and his vineyard, perhaps we feel a similar sense of awe and respect for this diligent gardener. It's obvious that he has put a great deal of effort into ...

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