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226. Following Summons

Acts 9:32-43

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... 2 Kings 4:32-35) and like Jesus in the Gospel according to John (John 11:38-44), Peter raises Dorcas from the dead. It is not our role as preachers and hearers of the Word of God to question or doubt the event. We are not to make up fanciful theories, supposing that Dorcas was not really dead but in a coma. Nor are we to take the account as a pious exaggeration. No. The story is simply there, and Luke expects us to accept it as an actual event. Indeed, in Matthew, Jesus tells the twelve disciples that they ...

227. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I thought you might be interested in our group of six -- obviously thoroughly enjoying the Lord and each other. One, an alcoholic, given the simple medicine of love -- last drink November, 1973. One, whose husband left her with two boys -- he living here with a “fancy lady” -- she making it alone by the power of Christ. One, who has just won a battle over cancer. One, who has just gone through the anguish of placing her mother in a nursing home due to advanced arteriosclerosis. One, whose husband had an ...

228. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... directed by the Lord so that no movement is wasted and no words lost? This is true effectiveness. To describe the idea that God is not limited as we are by space and time but equally present to everything that is made, theologians have come up with the fancy word omnipresence, meaning that God is everywhere at the same time. God is closer to us than we are to ourselves. With God there is no far or near but only here. But that does not mean that God is equally available, since God must choose to unveil his ...

229. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

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Phil Thrailkill

... all out of proportion to their numbers. Meeting Abuse Not With Retaliation But With Kingdom Service (5:38-42). It is best to admit from the outset that friendship with Jesus Christ means the utter transformation of who we are, and change is always painful. The fancy word is sanctification, which is the process of our becoming more like the Lord in our responses to the world within us and the worlds around us. Because it is so thorough a task of reprogramming, it takes a long time, in fact a lifetime, though ...

230. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... fix of new stuff to keep our mood lifted and neuro-chemistry adjusted. Shopping not for things we need but to satisfy a craving, wandering malls just to see if anything makes an appeal, cruising catalogs or shopping channels in an easy chair to see what strikes our fancy. It is a symptom of spiritual bankruptcy and a lack of attraction to the kingdom of God. We are simply not acquainted with the true riches. It’s not that Jesus was naive; it is that we are out of touch. Jesus and his first followers lived ...

231. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... is the bit we have obeyed.”3 Biblical knowledge without practical obedience is a form of illusion, as Jesus’ brother James reminds us, “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”4 Obedience is therefore an epistemological issue, which is a fancy philosophical way of saying that knowing truth is reserved for those who are willing to do what Jesus says. Two verses from John 7 make this clear, “My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me; if any man’s will is to do ...

232. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... were straight and their heads were never bald and on their faces were beatific expressions that I never saw much of in the faces around me. "Young as I was, though, I had known for a long time a that the catalog lied. I knew that under those fancy clothes there had to be scars, there had to be blemishes and malformations of one kind or the other because there are no perfect human beings." (Donald J. Shelby, "God Rides the Lame Horse", February 6, 1983). Harry Crews is right, and deep down we know it. "Have ...

233. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... the dead because they believed they were not grounded in the books of Moses. They were the rational, wealthy, powerful elite who looked down their noses at the Pharisees and their rituals as well as popular Jewish religion of that time. These men had no use for fanciful ideas of life after death. They might say, “You live, you do what is right, you follow God’s moral laws, and then you die. That’s it.” This group, for all of their supposed intellect, did not know the Word of God. Jesus said this ...

234. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... minister in Toronto. But his most famous bequest was that he would leave his fortune to the Toronto woman who gave birth to the most children in the ten years after his death. This last clause in his will caught the public fancy--concerning the woman who produced the most children over a ten-year period. The country was entering the Great Depression. As people struggled to meet even their most basic economic responsibilities, the prospect of an enormous windfall was naturally quite alluring. Newspaper ...

235. Moving on Up

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... everywhere. It’s endemic. It’s ubiquitous. Status consciousness. Every institution, any grouping of people, will manifest it, including the Church. It’s everywhere. And Jesus condemned it. Listen to our text for this morning from the Gospel of Luke. Jesus is the guest at a fancy dinner. His host is a ruler. He is also a Pharisee. It is the kind of supper that would have been covered by San Diego Magazine. And Burl Stiff, from The San Diego Union Tribune, he’d be there, too. It had that kind of guest ...

236. Until It Dawns on You

Matthew 17:1-9

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Mark Trotter

... to see the light. Saint Peter argues that it is most likely to happen in scripture. The purpose of the letter is to get this church, whatever church it is, to take the authority of scripture seriously, and get rid of "cleverly devised myths," these fancy doctrines and teachings generated by our best feelings. Get rid of those things. It is only through scripture--we would say, mostly through scripture--that the light will dawn upon you. If you study scripture, if you live with it, scripture will be the ...

237. Million Dollar Christmas

Matthew 19:21

Drama

Matthew Powell

... for nothing. The destruction of thousands of young trees has robbed the future of thousands of dollars worth of pine and spruce lumber. A great amount of money is expended on absolutely useless illuminated cards, Christmas tree ornaments, candles, fancy wrapping paper and ribbon, house decorations, holly, mistletoe, and other such extravagant, and useless, vanities. If the money, which runs to waste in these useless channels, were only put in the savings bank, we calculate that every man, woman, and ...

238. The Burglar's Christmas

Luke 15:22-24

Drama

Matthew Powell

... in the streets of the city, his hour came. It was not the first time he had been hungry and desperate and alone. Will: But always before there was some outlook, some chance ahead, some pleasure yet untasted, that seemed worth the effort, some face that I fancied was, or would be, dear. Narrator 2: But it was not so tonight. The unyielding conviction was upon him now that he had failed in everything, had outlived everything. Narrator 1: It had been near him for a long time, that Pale Specter. He had caught ...

239. Demonstrating the Divine

John 1:10-18

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Susan R. Andrews

... any of us, exist. But exist we do with great variety and texture. When I served as Moderator of National Capital Presbytery, it was a pleasure to wander through the churches across the metro area - big churches and little churches, churches with fancy choirs and churches with slightly out-of-tune organs, churches with velvet cushions and stained glass, and churches with clean, clear windows and with worn wooden pews. Every congregation was wonderful. And no congregation was perfect. The energy and joy was ...

240. Unchained Melody

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... their message one of victory in spite of any suffering and opposition they might endure. Knowing the power of the truth entrusted to them, the writer of Second Timothy implored all leaders to keep it simple, to trust in the convicting power of the truth. No fancy debates, no verbal wrangling, no nuanced nitpicking improves the gospel basic: If we've died with him, we'll also live with him, if we endure, we'll also reign with him (verses 11-12). The message of salvation, of life's ultimate triumph over death ...

241. Dolphin Drops

Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with God. With this unshakable spiritual interior, the exterior can be remarkably variable. According to Isaiah the exterior can as easily be a eunuch as a patriarch, a foreigner as an Israelite. And no one has to worry about striking a fanciful or faked up pose – as long as the interior guide of mishpat (justice) and tzedekah (righteousness) remain straight and unshaken at the center of their being. John Moriarty is one of Ireland's leading scholars of Celtic spirituality and folklore. Moriarty ...

242. Are You Turned On to Christ?

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ? Studies show that American are working more and more hours at their jobs, but that we are also spending more time participating in leisure-time activities. There are more community baseball, soccer, basketball teams than there have ever been. We flock to fancy, state-of-the-art, workout equipment gyms. In my home wet Washington state, people wait for the opening day of boating season like nineteenth-century millennialists used to wait on mountain-tops for the Second Coming. Not-so-active activities turn ...

243. What's Your Status Symbol?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... secretary, a member of the Seraphic Society. · For humanities professors, status is being post-Paglia and adjectival: Bloomian, Freudian, Jungian, Derridian, etc. · For orthodox Jews, status is studying, studying, and more studying. · For native Americans, status is fancy footwork – tribal dancing. "The Current Status of Status: Status Is...," New York Times Sunday Magazine, 15 November 1998, 77-98. Which raises the question: Do Christians have their own status symbols? We do...but the world may find ...

244. The Naked Christian

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... heard as audacity, even treachery, against those in positions of authority. In Jesus' new world order he called the kingdom of God being in blessedness isn't being dressed up in fine clothes, or affirmed by first-class status, or found at a fancy address. Jesus declares that blessedness is determined by divine prerogative. Jesus declares that blessedness is available to all those who suffer "on account of the Son of Man" (verse 22). Jesus declares to his new disciples that their commitment and loyalty to ...

245. The World's Best Hearing Aid

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... officials to the objection that such rules will make classical music unplayable is "Orchestras should give musicians ear plugs." [Reason, 34 (May 2002], 14.) Obviously, a good example of a lack of horse sense! On the other hand, refined sensibilities don't always mean fancy or ornate. John Killinger tells the legend about "the simple shepherd's pipe once played by Moses when he kept his father-in-law's flocks. When the pipe was discovered, many years after Moses' death, it was decided that it should be put ...

246. Such a Transformation!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... the suffering, the scorn, the isolation and death of the servant, there has been the unseen hand of the Lord God, working out his purpose of forgiving us all and of restoring us, despite our sin, to righteousness once again in his eyes. It is not a fanciful story, good Christians, for there are many in our world and in fact in this congregation who regard God’s servant, Jesus Christ, as really of very little consequence for their daily lives. He was a man, they think, who got in trouble with the Roman and ...

247. Cha-cha-cha Christians: The Dance that Advances

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... (Tune: 261 ["Lord of the Dance"],words VCH) Bring praise to the Maker, who abides in heaven, Bring praise to the Son, gift of God to sinners given, Bring praise to the Spirit in whose name we are one ‑ A Trinity of praise is begun! Dance, Spirit, fanciful and free, Dance to the rhythm of eternity! Oh dance, and praise a world without end In God’s holy love, Amen, Amen! --Virginia C. Hoch *** There is an old WWII story that come out of the invasion of Western Europe by allied troops on OmahaBeach. A ...

248. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... history of humanity. Paul gives us the dirt about this dirt in today’s epistle text: “while we still were sinners Christ died for us,” and “while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son.” The Incarnation is nothing but a fancy way of saying that God got down and dirty with us, sending Jesus to stand down the stench of sin, embrace our brokenness, and heal the fractured human form. The hands that were nailed to the cross were cleaning up a mess of our own making. I ...

249. Prison Break

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... would not sell it. Keenly disappointed, Kreisler was about to leave, when he had an idea. “Could I play the instrument once more before it’s consigned to silence?” he asked. Permission was granted, and the great virtuoso released the violin from its fancy casket and filled the room with such heart-moving music that the collector’s emotions were deeply stirred. “I have no right to keep that to myself,” the collector exclaimed. “It’s yours, Mr. Kreisler. Take it into the world and let people ...

250. The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... instructed to stop at the perimeter and wait. According to tradition, the chief would come out to meet him there. Livingstone could go forward only after an exchange was made. The chief would choose any item of Livingstone's personal property that caught his fancy and keep it for himself, while giving the missionary something of his own in return. Livingstone had few possessions with him, but he obediently spread them all out on the ground–his clothes, his books, his watch, and even the goat that provided ...

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