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226. Swimming With The Sharks

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... wanted a divorce. Then Brenda walked in. "Showing not the slightest tremor of horror or shock," Roever writes, "she bent down and kissed me on what was left of my face. Then she looked me in my good eye, smiled, and said, Welcome home, Davey! I love you.' To understand what that meant to me you have to know that's what she called me when we were most intimate; she would whisper Davey,' over and over in my ear . . . By using her term of endearment for me, she said, You are my husband. You will always be my ...

227. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... he could be alone to pray. Jesus, who had given so much of himself to others, needed some time alone with the Father. He who had given so much; needed some time to receive. That's also true of us. Some people are so superficial when it comes to their understanding of prayer. "Hey, Father," said a man talking to a priest. "You got it all wrong about this God stuff. He doesn't exist. I oughta know." "Why's that, my son?" asked the priest. "Well," the man said, "when I was ice-fishing in the Arctic far from ...

228. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... the Lord to give us our place and heal our wounds. It is time we acknowledge the “God-shaped vacuum in all of us” and allow the Savior who comes to fill us with himself until He is exalted in our lives. The Samaritan woman seemed to understand. John the Baptist obviously knew. The Baptist’s disciples were too indignant for their due to grasp who Jesus was. Nicodemus was too concerned about protecting religious territory to receive. But what about you and me? What is to be said of us? I want to close ...

229. A Converting Presence

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . That brings me to the final point. Conversion must be an ongoing dynamic reality in our lives and the indwelling Christ is a converting presence. When we are honest, most of us readily confess with Paul that there is a war going on within us. Paul said, I don’t understand my own actions. I don’t do what I want to do, but I do what I don’t want to do. I can will to do what is right, but I end up not doing it, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me. For some of us ...

230. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , giving us our head. Jesus told parables for this reason; stories have a way of shifting responsibility from the narrator to the hearer.Christians have to listen to the world as well as to the Word. And do not all of us learn more when we do not try to understand too soon?" (The Courage to Love, Harper & Rowe, Publishers, San Francisco, p. 7). So we don't look to the Bible to close a discussion, but to open one. 4. We are to see the Bible not as a hitching post, but as a sign post. Please hear me clearly ...

231. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of magic. The faithful were sitting out in the nave, where you are sitting, and up here, what was called the "east wall" in gothic architecture, the priest faced the altar, his back to the people, reading the service in Latin, a language the people couldn't understand. They knew, though, that a miracle was taking place up there. That is why they had come to church, to witness a miracle. It happened when the priest lifted the host, and said in Latin, "This is my body given for you." Hoc est corpus meum is ...

232. Stick to the Knitting

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... I think, probably better than anybody else in our time. Like all historical figures, he will be interpreted from different perspectives. But the way he would want to be interpreted is that he was a "servant of Christ." I suppose that will be the hardest for our age to understand, because in our consumer-oriented society, we look for those things that will help us. We look to Christ to support us. We look to Christ to help us be a success. We look to Christ to help us to be happy in this life. But Paul says ...

233. What If God Was One of Us?

Philippians 2:1-11

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... you talk to a baby? (response) Let me hear you talk to a baby. (response) Sometimes, the only thing that a baby will understand is baby talk. It helps to have a toy, like a doll or a rattle to get their attention. When my children make ... ? (response) We talk to babies with baby talk. We shake rattles and make silly faces to play with them because that’s what they understand. How can great God talk to us little people? (response) The Bible tells us that he became a person. Who is that person? (Jesus) He ...

234. The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the body of Christ. It is hard to be a “new” anything. Including being a new, or I should say, an “always new” disciple of Jesus. Yet as we go along in life, even new beginnings take on a rich patina from our past. After two years we do understand gravity. After five or six years we do know how to read. After a few more years we do figure out a few things about interacting with other human beings. The most basic skills for dealing with these new beginnings are part of our childhoods. In the nineteen ...

235. You've Gotta Believe

Hebrews 11:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... heaven to your soul." God Himself said, "And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." James 4:8 says, "Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you." Do you know why faith is so important. Do you understand why the single most important thing one generation can do for the next generation is to pass to that generation the baton of the gospel of Jesus Christ? Because only the feet of faith takes a family to heaven. You cannot please God without faith because you cannot know ...

236. The Ministry of the Holy Spirit

John 16:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... themselves to be Catholic, and yet 90% of the population no longer believe in sin, and only 4% accept the concept at all. France is simply typical of a world at large that scoffs and mocks the notion of sin. But even those who do believe in sin do not understand it. The world sees sin as something that is external—what a man does. But God sees sin as something internal—what a man is. Man is not a sinner because he sins, he sins because he is a sinner. A man is not a thief because he steals, he ...

237. Come On Baby, Light My Fire

Matthew 3:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... is omniscient. Isa. 40:13-14 says, "Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord, or as His counselor has taught Him? With whom did He take counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of justice? Who taught Him knowledge, and showed Him the way of understanding?" 1 Cor. 2:11 says, "For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God." The Holy Spirit is omnipresent. "Where can I go from Your Spirit ...

238. Easter 5

Acts 8:26-40, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... seen in the giving of his only Son to die for us. Love today can be seen when it is manifested in the lives of Christians through their understanding, kindness and unselfish service. Since God is love, God can be seen in the love life of his faithful ones. 2. God is love (v. 2). It ... 2. Gospel: John 15:1-8 1. The Christian of the abiding presence (15:1-8). Need: The average church member hardly understands what it means for Christ to abide in him and he in Christ. The crux of our problem is in the lack ...

239. Bethlehem: Where Extremes Meet

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... arisen. When the Wise Men of the East appeared, his frenzy grew and expressed itself in a bloodbath of all the infants in Judea. The same event that carried the shepherds to the heights of joy carried Herod to the depths of fear, and this is not too hard to understand. For after all, are not each one of us ambiguous in our deepest feelings about God? We are at once attracted to him and yet repulsed by him. Part of us wants to know him — and to be guided by his truth; yet other parts of us rebel against ...

240. Three Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is blind to. It doesn’t have the eyes to see. Let’s look at our three wise men. Tradition connects them with astrology and astronomy. So note this is about them. They used the very best science available to them. They didn’t abandon their way of understanding the world in order to get to Bethlehem. They followed a star, convinced from their studies that it would lead them to the place where a new king was born. Do you see what I’m saying? It was their science that led the wise men to Bethlehem ...

241. Expressing The Inexpressible

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... shut his mouth. "I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips" (v. 5). Can we learn that lesson? Can we come to the place on our spiritual pilgrimage where we are content to let God be God, greater than any possible human understanding, realizing that even when we, on Trinity Sunday, say "God in three persons," or at any other time when we are about to make some dogmatic statement about God, no matter what we say, we cannot begin to say it all? You may have heard the story before of ...

242. Filling the Hole in Our Hearts

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Here is what we need to know about the Holy Spirit it is God present with us today. It is that part of the Godhead that fills the empty hole in our lives. It is the Holy Spirit that helps us make sense out of our lives and helps us understand God’s purpose for us. Life is confusing. Sometimes life doesn’t make sense. We have good days when we think that everything is going to work out beautifully, and then suddenly, out of the blue, we get a phone call, and our world is turned upside down. We go ...

243. On the Ropes: Round 2 - Debating God

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... can’t do anything evil and that God hates sin and cannot do anything wrong, God tells Habakkuk and us how to stand when we don’t understand. I. Wait On God – He Keeps His Word You are not going to like what I am about to tell you. When you are in the ... you hear Him, but you don’t like what He said, or you see Him and you don’t like His looks and you really don’t understand what He is up to, the first thing you have got to do is wait. “I will stand at my watch and station myself on the ramparts ...

244. Can One Become Two?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... snake caused a divorce. We are in a series called “I Do Math.” We are looking at what Jesus said about the three largest issues facing the family today: marriage, divorce and remarriage. Last week we looked at what Jesus said about marriage. You have to understand that before you can understand what he said about divorce and why he said it. As we begin this message I want to say first of all to those who are divorced, there is no need for you to dread what you are going to hear. Nobody is trying to put ...

245. To the Rescue

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... and Eve were forced out of the Garden of Eden. There has been one question that has been floating out there for thousands of years and it is this one, “How can God undo what Adam did and still be God?” The problem is we don’t understand forgiveness. We don’t even know how to apologize. It is amazing how we can complicate something as simple as saying, “I did wrong. Forgive me.” I want you to listen to this correction that was published in a Canadian newspaper. “The Ottawa Citizen and Southern ...

246. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... came and destroyed human civilization. Now, what would have happened if the astronaut had seen that the spider was smiling, instead of seeing it as a monster about to eat him, and responding out of fear? We all make the mistake of failing to reach out to understand another. We tend to forget Edwin Markham’s words: There is a destiny that makes us brothers. None goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others, Comes back into our own. Now, each of us has different needs. I recognize that some ...

247. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... David of an eternal kingship. Judah and Israel (and even other nations and empires) form part of All-Israel only insofar as they seek this God and humble themselves before this God. All-Israel is defined in terms of a particular understanding of the relationship between Yahweh and his people. b. That Yahweh is the God of All-Israel becomes evident particularly through his involvement in Judah’s battles. The Chronicler’s battle accounts are not military histories but rather theological appraisals. There ...

248. Body / Ambassador

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... to raise up the tribes of Jacob and to restore the survivors of Israel; I will give you as a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the end of the earth” (Isa. 49:6). This is the passage that is so determinative to Paul’s understanding of his own apostolic commission to the nations (cf. Gal. 1:15–16). As a text on the restoration of Israel, Isaiah 49:1ff. coheres with Paul’s emphasis in 2 Corinthians 5:16ff. on the new creation (Isa. 65:17–19; 66:22–23), which has been inaugurated ...

249. Life by the Spirit

Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... contrary to the sinful nature. 5:18 Earlier in the letter Paul affirmed the Galatians’ experience of the Spirit (3:2–5), which, along with his connecting of the promise to Abraham with the promise of the Spirit (3:14), suggests that the Galatians’ self-understanding was as those who were led by the Spirit. The sentence structure in verse 18 also suggests that the Galatians regarded themselves as those who knew the Spirit. The consequence of this fact is that they are then not under law. The subtext is ...

250. Jesus Teaches Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... has chosen to be his children. No one can come to Jesus unless God draws that person to him (6:44). The one who comes is the one who has first listened to God and been instructed (6:45). Only the person who “chooses to do God’s will” will understand the message of Jesus (7:17). All people will one day be divided into “those who have done good” and “those who have done evil” and judged accordingly (5:29). But the test of whether one has done good or evil is whether or not one comes into the ...

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