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226. What Is True And Who Can You Trust?

John 18:28-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... proclaimed it done. Then her mom asked that all the sick children in the world would be cured instantly, and once again with a slight wave that request was granted. Since mom was overweight, her third request was that she would have a trim figure. Her daughter began wildly waving the wand up and down saying, "I don't know mom, I may need more power for this one!"(3) Children have a way of speaking the truth. And sometimes we need the truth spoken. Otherwise we become like the widow who was talked into a ...

227. Have You Seen God's Heart?

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Louis where I saw a painting of Daniel in the lion's den. That great man of faith, with his hands behind his back and those wild beasts circling him, was looking up and answering the king, who was anxious to know if God had protected him from physical harm. As I ... was weak and helpless, my God was strong and able. He had saved me, and now He would also be able to deliver me from the wild beasts in my life. O what a rest of spirit that truth brought me!" C. I. Scofield was a fortunate man; he had come to know ...

228. When The Fish Won't Bite

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... were empty nets which needed drying. IT IS IN FAILURE THAT JESUS MEETS SIMON. He lives with a sick mother-in-law. He works for somebody else. And he had experienced a dreadful night on the job. Simon was soul searching, struggling with his identity. Oscar Wilde described this mystery when he wrote from his prison cell, "The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who ...

229. Taking Charge

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... was surprising about the lawsuit was that the out-of-control child was the injured woman's son. The jury awarded her $780,000 for tripping over her own offspring, whom she had allowed to run wild in the store. (1) Could that possibly be true? She tripped over her own son whom she was allowing to run wild? And the jury awarded her $780,000? Have we gone absolutely wacko? It reminds me of something an anonymous poet once wrote: I went to the psychiatrist to be . . . Psychoanalyzed To find out why I killed ...

230. Bearing The Right Fruit

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... harvest. A watch tower has been built, and a winepress has been cut into the rocks. And there are high expectations for the coming harvest. But when the grapes are picked, they are wild and sour--not at all what the owner of the vineyard expected. He is stunned. He has done all he could do to produce sweet grapes, but instead all he gets are wild and sour ones. So what does he do? He tears down his fences and lets his vineyard go to pasture to be trampled by cattle and sheep. He quits pruning it and lets ...

231. The Coat Of Many Colors

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... dragged their helpless younger brother over to an empty well and threw him down into the blackness. Put yourself in Joseph's shoes right now. This started out as any normal day. It ended in tragedy. Joseph's own brothers had turned on him like a pack of wild wolves. He had quite literally hit bottom. He was imprisoned in a dark, stinking, cold well. Joseph's innocence, like his robe, had been stripped away that day, and life would never be the same for him. And now comes the turning point of Joseph's story ...

232. Living The Kingdom Life

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... by both her parents and society to follow her conviction. And so she became a nurse. At one point her mother wrote, "We are two ducks, my husband and I, and we've given birth to a wild swan." But Florence Nightingale's biographer thought differently. She wrote, "The mother was so wrong, for Florence was not a wild swan but an eagle." Then the Crimean War broke out, and Florence decided to go and see if she could help. Her family said that she was either possessed by demons or had suffered a nervous ...

233. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a period of time to the community of "Essenes" down by the Dead Sea. Either way, he would have been removed from such ordinary events as a wedding in a small town in the Galilee. I have a friend who visited a friend of his who had abandoned his wild and dissolute life to enter a monastery. He told my friend, "You know, I used to be a real live wire." To which my friend replied, not too tactfully, "Well, I see that you're pretty well insulated now!" John the Baptist was pretty well insulated from life. Even ...

234. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that Israel has turned into a “degenerate plant on a strange vine.” Speaking on behalf of God (which is what prophets do), he said, “I planted you as a choice vine, from the purest stock. How then did you turn degenerate and become a wild vine?” (Jeremiah 2:21) And Hosea called his people an empty vine. Against the background of these word pictures and ideas with which Jesus’ disciples would be very familiar, He described Himself as the “true vine.” When Jesus called Himself the “true vine ...

235. Believing Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... there be anything more important than meeting the risen Christ on the Lord’s Day? They had a party with Jesus, but Thomas missed it because he wasn’t there! Where do you think he was? Was he off somewhere trying to drink himself into oblivion and forget the whole wild-goose chase he had entered upon with this crazy rabbi from Nazareth? Had he taken a coffee break? Had he gone to the park to feed the pigeons? Where was he? We do not know where he was—any more than we know where the other 60% of our ...

236. On Doing Beautiful Things

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... understand why they might be puzzled at this seemingly wasteful deed. But there is a special beauty in uncalculating love. Here we are confronted with a woman, who, in a moment of wild abandonment, does something beautiful for Jesus. There is a place for cool, calculating, reasonableness in our faith. But there also ought to be room for the wild, joyous, gleeful gift given out of gratitude and an overflowing heart. In one of my first churches, a farmer said to me, “I love God so much I want to begin ...

237. Trouble: A Required Course in LIfe

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... for the first time on its wobbly legs. Then the mother giraffe does the most remarkable thing. She kicks it off its feet again. Why? She wants it to remember how it got up. In the wild, baby giraffes must be able to get up as quickly as possible in order to stay with the herd, where there is safety. Lions, hyenas, leopards, and wild hunting dogs all enjoy young giraffes, and they''d get it, too, if the mother didn''t teach her calf to get up quickly and get with it..." (1) Trials and troubles are also part ...

238. Hissing in the Garden

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... so deadly." I was reminded of the power of sin. We see something that seems beautiful, but when we reach out to touch, it becomes deadly to us. (5) In verse one of the third chapter of Genesis, it reads, "Now, the Serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made." However, in my research this week I discovered that in the original Hebrew account it does not say that there was a snake in the Garden of Eden. The Hebrew word used is "nachash" which means literally to shine or the ...

239. The Marvelous Meaning of the Cross

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the Christian faith. From horror--to holiness. He wrote about this dimension of the cross''s message when he penned the words to a lesser known hymn he wrote: In evil, long I took delight, Unawed by shame or fear, ''Til a new object met my sight, And stopped my wild career. I saw One hanging on a tree, In agony and blood, Who fixed His languid eyes on me, As near His cross I stood. Sure, never to my latest breath Shall I forget that look, It seemed to charge me with His death, Though not a word He spoke ...

240. It's Happening!

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... means a lot to those around you." It seems like such a little thing, but it was a witness. The seeds of the kingdom are little, and we are called to scatter them. The seeds may be little acts of kindness which take root and bear fruit. Oscar Wilde tells of an incident that had profound meaning for his life. He was being brought down from his prison to the Court of Bankruptcy, between two policemen, when he saw an old acquaintance waiting in the crowd. "He performed an action so sweet and simple that it has ...

241. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ever present in the world. If you read carefully, you can't miss the fact that temptation to disobey God came to Eve from a voice outside herself. It was a clever voice. The first verse of our text says, "Now the serpent was more subtle than any other wild creature that the Lord God had made." How the serpent came to be there, and how evil got into the human environment, is not the concern of this sermon. Our concern is to recognize that evil is there. It's obvious that Satan assumes many forms. We think of ...

242. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... horses from the hills.This time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. Again, he said: "Good luck, bad luck, Who knows?" Then when the farmer's son was trying to tame one of the wild horses, he fell and broke his leg.The neighbors once again gathered around and sympathized over his bad luck. Again the farmer said: "Bad luck, Good luck, Who knows?" Some weeks later the army marched into the village and conscripted every able-bodied youth they found. When they saw the ...

243. The Church Of Our Dreams

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Side" cartoons. It pictures a female caribou or elk answering the phone. She says to her male friend who is drinking and watching TV, "It's the call of the wild." Despite Larson's off-the-wall, far-side humor which I often miss altogether, I thought "how appropriate for such a note." My friend has heard the call...the call of the wild, exciting, exhilarant, challenging Spirit of Christ who makes the church the Church. And when it's Christ's Church, it will be a Church that touches our hearts but stretches ...

244. At The Fork In The Road

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about it. You are the king of the jungle!" And then the lion came upon a mighty elephant, huge, massive, towering many feet above the lion! And once more he asked with a ferocious growl, "Who's the king of the jungle? Who's the greatest beast of the wild?" And the elephant didn't say anything. He just picked up the lion with his trunk, whirled him around several times, and smashed him into a tree. As the lion got up, broken and bleeding, he said to the elephant, "Look man, just because you don't know the ...

245. The Cross Question: Am I Not To Drink The Cup?

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , "The other night while I was praying, the Lord gave me some good news and bad news." The good news is that the Lord is going to return by next Sunday." The people applauded wildly. Then the Pope said, "The bad news is that he is real mad." At the Cross, we are assured there is more love in God than sin in us. That is what Oscar Wilde had in mind when he said, "Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." Armando Valladares wrote the following words in his own blood from the Cuban prison where he ...

246. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... if you preach practice only, they will become Pharisees. But if you preach all these and do not enforce discipline, Methodism will become like a highly cultivated garden without a fence, exposed to the ravages of the wild boar of the forest.” We are seeing it happen. The wild boar of the forest has been loosed in the highly cultivated garden of the Wesleyan movement – and all mainline churches, for that matter. So there is: - experimenting with pagan ritual and practice - consuming the world’s goods ...

247. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and if you preach practice only, they will become Pharisees. But if you preach all these and do not enforce discipline, Methodism will become like a highly cultivated garden without a fence, exposed to the ravages of the wild boar of the forest.” We are seeing it happen. The wild boar of the forest has been loosed not only in the highly cultivated garden of the Wesleyan movement but in all mainline churches, So there is - experimenting with pagan ritual and practice - consuming the world’s goods without ...

248. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ; and if you preach practice only, they will become Pharisees. But if you preach all these and do not enforce discipline, Methodism will become like a highly cultivated garden without a fence, exposed to the ravages of the wild boar of the forest.” We are seeing it happen. The wild boar of the forest has been loosed in the highly cultivated garden of the Wesleyan movement – and all mainline churches, for that matter. So there is: experimenting with pagan ritual and practice consuming the world’s goods ...

249. A Chosen People

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t despair, Isaiah says to them. “Don’t remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. “The wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself so that they might declare my praise.” The imagery is striking. God will ...

250. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... , don't, don't. Soon, after all those rules, something inside of us begins just to want to break one, just to do something wild and reckless. There are so many rules that we find ourselves longing to rebel, and so sin is often defined as rebellion, as the ... we acknowledge that Christ is our Master and that we need his help to obtain life more fully, then that sin which is defined by the wild, reckless lawlessness of life is over for us. We may not always like it. We may not be able to fulfill what we know we ...

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