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226. Overcoming Self

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... over on his face, twitching once or twice before he went limp to fall over the pretended cliff. For a moment the game came to a standstill as the cowboys and Indians gathered around to admire Cory’s talent for dying. It might be unthinkable for a captain in real life to choose a man for that kind of talent - yet, Jesus confronts us with this paradox: "Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it." Jesus is interested in people who will die to self, to pride ...

227. The Call to Obedience

Luke 22:42 · Romans 1:17 · John 15:10

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... as thyself." It isn’t that we are ignorant of these things. We just simply forget that they are the words of life. What is God calling me to be, to do? Where do I fit into his work? What is my place of fulfillment and usefulness? Where do my talents intersect with the needs of the world - the world of Christ - "the least of these"? We hear the echo of his words, "If you keep my commandments, you shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love." As a child ...

228. Forever His

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... beings in service even as Christ gave himself for us. That is how we make St. Paul’s words come true that Christ "might be both Lord of the dead and of the living." One way we can do this is using our God-given talents for the sake of others. Each of us has some talents, although we may think they are inconsequential. I remember such a lady in one of my former churches. She was quite elderly and no longer able to get about on her own. She was uneducated and was not able to teach a Sunday school class ...

229. Men of Distinction

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... been with him any longer I would have been compelled to be a Christian, and he never said a word about it at all. The sheer weight of the witness of his soul was irresistible." To witness, means to accept a discipline of time, money, and talents which is the opposite of self-indulgence. It is the use of these blessings, which represent accumulated energy, to help other people who have no claim upon them except that they are human beings whom God loves. The compassion which should be the chief external mark ...

230. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... handle almost anything life deals out when we fully realize that we are God-made, and God-saved, and God-loved. Roy Pearson writes, "He has a work for me to do in the world, and in the doing of that work, you simply have no place. Your talents and assets have no more fitness for my task than mine have for yours, and both my peace of mind and my effectiveness in God’s plan depend not upon my rejecting myself, repudiating myself, hating myself, but upon my accepting myself, rejoicing in myself, using myself ...

231. Something That Will Last Forever

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... said that wherever your treasure is, there your heart will be. Jesus would never approve the keeping of your treasure in a safe deposit box. "Keep it in heaven," Jesus said. Where is your treasure stashed? The most important thing about the commitments of time, talent, and money that we will make to God over the next month is that they indicate where the treasure of our lives is. What a person believes in fully and loves devotedly, he or she will give to sacrificially. Where is your treasure stashed? Jesus ...

232. How to do Extraordinary Things

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... HAVE! Jesus told his disciples that he wanted to feed a huge crowd of people. Immediately the disciples started whining about what they did not have. Sounds just like us. We make far too many statements that begin with the words "If only." If only I had more talent...If only I had more money...If only my parents had reared me differently... The disciples said to Jesus, "It would take $10,000 or $20,000 to feed this mob. Counting women and children, there must be l0,000 people on this hillside. There is no ...

233. Just Common People?

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... reason for going on breathing the air of this world and eating its food and taking up its space? Have you? Come on! What does this world and your Lord in it want of you? You see, here’s where the Church gives us a marvelous opportunity to pool our talents and our gifts and to share our convictions in finding ways to serve Him. I don’t minimize any way that God gives us to use our lives with meaning and with purpose. If a lady who finds joy in it, and opportunity, only sews an apron or hemstitches a ...

234. Chapter I

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... man, king or pauper, priest or layman, is of equal dignity. We have this worth not because of what we own, or can do, or the connections we have, but because of what we are. Because we are men, whether black or white, genius or mentally retarded, ten-talented or one-talented, we are to be treated and regarded as the sacred people we are. No one, but no one, is to trample a man under foot as though he is worthless. Each of us, by virtue of being a person, must be handled lovingly. The Commandments are based ...

235. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... , or earning it from him, both the Old and the New Testaments deny. Everything we have, be it our life-breath, the talents we possess, or the wealth we can accumulate, ultimately belong to God. We have nothing with which to buy anything from him. ... wants, which he doesn’t have the power to take! If he chooses, God can take everything else we have. He can take at will our talents, our health, our goods, our families, and even our lives. But even though he is God he cannot take our love. That is ours to give ...

236. Even The Bosses Wash Feet!

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... of Kallen, something else comes to mind. Almost two years ago a member of our Christ Church prison ministry had the nerve to invite Kallen to go along to the city jail and to sing as part of the worship service there. She did it. Here was a world-class talent, the toast of concert halls around the world, singing a gospel song for free in the Memphis city Jail. So like Jesus washing feet. Jesus said, "I am among you as one who serves." HERE IS A SECOND TRUTH: ONLY THOSE WASHED BY JESUS CAN BE PART OF JESUS ...

237. Aiming at Perfection

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... man Jesus talked about. He was not condemned for anything he did wrong; Jesus was bothered because of what he should have done that he did not. Instead of using that one talent, he buried it. How could you enhance your usefulness for Christ! Could you complete the Disciple course, thereby knowing your Bible better! Could you take the "contagious Christianity" course, enhancing your ability to witness! Could you aspire to become a prayer warrior like Pauline Hord! Could you lead a Bible ...

238. Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... not like it said of him or her: Great is your faith. Think of what it would mean if an aspiring young artist had Picasso place his hand on his shoulder and say: You have a great talent. How wonderful it would be then to a believer in God, if Jesus would place his hand on our shoulder and say: You have a remarkable talent for faith. But how does one qualify for this praise? What does one have to do? To answer these questions let us take a closer look at her story. I. Crossing Barriers First, we can say of ...

239. Forgive Us Our Debts

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... everybody missed the point but Billy ought ot know and we all ought to know that there is forgiveness even if we knock down the wall of Jericho. II The second thing Jesus would have Peter know is forgiveness carries a heavy price. The King was owed 10,000 talents we are told, which, in today’s currency, is well over $10 million. The point is that it was a huge amount of money, quite beyond the reach of the servant to pay. The story is saying to us that forgiveness carry’s a large price tag. Have you ...

240. Servants Without Fiber

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... ..." (Isaiah 42:1 RSV). Clearly the servant is not ever his or her own. There is a givenness about the servant’s character; the servant is endowed with qualifications that come from an order and will beyond self and which lay claim upon every personal talent and power. As Professor G. Ernest Wright expressed it: "[It is] God’s reaching down into human affairs."1 Or, as it is stated more fully in The Speaker’s Bible: The servant of the Lord is useful only because he is used; influential only because ...

241. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... opulent lifestyles. How we’d like to be like them. We could really enjoy having their money, or their influence, or the adulation of the people who crowd around them. How nice it would be to have the athletic prowess of Michael Jordan, or the good looks and acting talent of a Tom Cruise or Geena Davis, the voice of Luciano Pavarotti or Natalie Cole. Is there any one of us who would not like to be cast in the limelight of fame and fortune, at least for a while? And living in a posh house with the choice ...

242. A Shepherd Who Became a Sovereign

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... the life of the sheep he was protecting - once a lion and once a bear (1 Samuel 17:34-37). This is the kind of youth that he was: strong, stalwart, fearless, dependable. He also was a fine musician. He played the harp, or lyre, and was so talented that he was brought into the court of King Saul. The king had spells of madness and depression, but David’s music would calm and relax him. So David became the harpist for the royal court. Every child who has attended Sunday School knows the story of David ...

243. Happiness Is ... the Kingship of Jesus

John 18:28-40

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... this: I am happy in the service of the King, I am happy, Oh, so happy; I have peace and joy that nothing else can bring, In the service of the King. In the service of the King every talent I will bring; I have peace and joy and blessing In the service of the King. Serve the King with every talent you possess. Employ them to help him bring "peace and joy and blessing" to every city and town on our tormented and polluted planet. Seek, for all the world, fulfillment of the post-exilic prophet’s dream of a ...

244. Total Commitment

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Richard Patt

... well throw it out. Jesus is focusing on the gifts you possess as a person. You are a gifted person, and so am I. We have talents with which God has graced every one of us. But what you and I refuse to use we will surely lose. That’s a challenge, isn ... to be used! Our lives are not meant to he "waited out" but to be lived up! Are you and I living up to the gifts and talents God has given us? What kind of commitment do we have to ourselves and to the graces within us? Today all the gifts of God are stirring ...

245. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... the Metropolitan. That same person can have a seat at the opera and enjoy great music to the full - even if personal singing is restricted to the shower. Why not apply the same logic to the form of witness, to the particular ministry? What are our talents? What gives us the greatest sense of satisfaction? Wherein do we render the greatest amount of good? How do we relate to people? How can our skills be best employed in God’s service? "No one is useless in the world," said Charles Dickens, "who lightens ...

246. Slim Pickings

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... , O God, those times we sense the plethora of need yet are caught in droopy enthusiasm? Help us accept that abundance of spirit fluctuates and needs our patience just as our tangible resources at times slip into a spell of slim pickings. Help us to continue stretching our soul, our talents, and our resources. If we are in earnest, what we offer will be acceptable to you. For the sake of Jesus. Amen. Hymns "Lord, I Want To Be A Christian" "Breathe On Me, Breath Of God" "Awake, My Soul, Stretch Every Nerve"

247. A Reason

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Dallas A. Brauninger

... Prayer of Confession We know, God, that when we stop complaining about our weaknesses and cease mourning what we can no longer do, something tender begins to happen within us. We let our frailties awaken alternative ways of doing things. We find other ways to use our talents. We learn patience and hope because we become "can do" people again. The "I can't" keeps us realistic but no longer defeats us. Strengthen our tenacity, O God, so we might sing a new song of life to you. Amen. Hymns "Praise To The Lord ...

248. Preconceived Ideas - Sermon Starter

Mark 8:27 - 9:1

Illustration

Brett Blair

... the real tragedy of the story was not the open rebellion of the younger son or the jealous envy of the elder brother. The real tragedy was that neither one of them really understood the father. This was certainly one of the problems of the one talent man in the parable of the talents. He went to the master and said: “I knew you were a hard man reaping where you did not sow.” He just didn’t understand the master. As it was then so it is now. So few understood Jesus; so few understand him today. Why is ...

249. A Labor of Love - Labor Day

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... count as belonging to just us - and EVERY WEEK has a Sunday. Wow! Jesus talked about visiting the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, and doing it as if we were doing it for him. That takes time, often time we might rather be spending in other pursuits. Our talents are on call as well. Can you teach? Then your Sunday School needs you and ought to have you. Can you sing? Then your church choir needs you and ought to have you. Can you dream dreams in the name of Jesus and catch a vision of creative ...

250. The Freedom in Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... way, a LOT! Then comes this strange story about the king and his slave. The slave owes the king something akin to the amount of the US national debt. (By way of information, the annual tax revenues that King Herod collected were about 900 talents, so the 10,000 talents would have amount to the national revenue for more than eleven years.) The king forgives the debt, just writes it off when the fellow pleads for mercy. Then this stupid slave confronts a compatriot who owes him the equivalent of $16.00 and ...

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