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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

It hurts more to have a belief pulled than to have a tooth pulled, and no intellectual Novocain is available.

Elmer Davis

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love. There are some things only learned in a fiery furnace.

Oswald Chambers

Greed is the logical result of the belief that there is no life after death. We grab what we can while we can however we can and then hold on to it hard.

Sir Fred Catherwood

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him very long.

A.W. Tozer

2531. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... laughter, the ultimate defiance to hopelessness and death. Laughter takes us by surprise. Laughter is an “anti-gravity” miracle. Levity. It “levitates” your spirit, your mood, lifts you up out of your grounded reality and into a place of hope, belief, faith, and the demand for a different truth. Laughter can sometimes be deep joy resonating and bubbling up from the depths of the soul in the face of trouble, sin, sadness, and hopelessness. It can sometimes be our equally absurd, nonsensical ...

2532. Modern Man

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Jim Peterson

James Engel summarized the belief system and the presuppositions that commonly prevail among what he calls modern man: God, if He exists at all, is just an impersonal moral force. Man basically has the capacity within himself to improve morally and make the right choices. Happiness consists of unlimited material acquisition. There really is no ...

2533. What Do You Beleive?

Humor Illustration

Staff

The content of belief is important: A local pastor was talking to coal miners in England. He asked, "What do you believe?" "Well, I believe the same as the church." "And what does the church believe?" "Well, they believe the same as me." Seeing he was getting nowhere, the pastor said, "And what is it that you both believe?" "Well, I suppose the same thing."

2534. The First and Last Things

Luke 23:26-43

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Brett Blair

... Mr. Britling is a surrogate for Wells. The character expresses a simple but clear faith, leaving no doubt as to the meaning. At first, his religious views are passionate, but not strictly orthodox. Mr. Britling makes this confession, giving us a window into Wells' on beliefs: "Religion is the first thing and the last thing, and until a  man has found God and been found by God, he begins at no beginning, he works to no end. He may have his friendships, his partial loyalties, his scraps of honour. But all ...

2535. Marinating in the Spirit

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... receive it joyfully, but because they have no roots, their joy only lasts for a little while. As soon as they experience distress in their lives or someone gives them a hard time because they are a Christian or believe in God, they immediately retract their beliefs and fall in with the common crowd. Their faith falls away, because it never took root in their hearts at all. It was a superficial joy rush, not a deeply-seeded faith. This is the description of the weekly Christian. This is the story of today ...

2536. A Personal Question Deserves a Personal Answer

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... Jesus asked Peter, “Who do you say that I am?” he was asking about his allegiance to him not about his general religious knowledge. When you declare Jesus to be the incarnation of God, you are declaring your own place in the universe of spiritual beliefs and practices. Without such a commitment it is all too easy to construct your own religion that leaves you at some distance from the living God. That distance is the definition of lost. Strange as it may sound, it is possible to be lost without even ...

2537. What's In a Name?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Names define us. Our entire identity is caught up in the names we bear. Think about it. If a child is raised being called sweet, good, beautiful, and kind, that child will think of him or herself as sweet, good, beautiful, and kind. If a child is raised being called worthless, stupid, ugly, or bad, that child will begin to think of him or herself as worthless, stupid, ugly, or bad. The human capacity for language association allows us to perceive ourselves conceptually and emotionally according to the ...

2538. Your Wake-up Call

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. If you want to honor God with your life, if you want to make sure that you don’t waste the precious gifts God has given you, then the best thing you can do is create some worthwhile goals for yourself. Goal setting comes from the belief that your life has purpose. If your life were random and meaningless, then setting goals wouldn’t make sense. But if your life has purpose, if you have the opportunity to make an impact in your sphere of influence, then setting worthwhile goals is the best way ...

2539. Seeking Joy

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... there is—and if that God is all-powerful—which He is—and if He is the embodiment of love—which He is—then what in the world do we have to worry about? Listen, I’m talking to myself as well as to you. Worry comes from two sinful beliefs: The first is that God’s character and God’s purposes cannot be trusted. God’s character consists of goodness and love. When we doubt God’s goodness and His love and then doubt His plans and purposes for us, then we get twisted up in worry and anxiety. It ...

2540. Words Are Not Enough

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Roy Howard

... to say that without risking ourselves on the gospel as we understand it, there is no Christian discipleship. Then what is Matthew’s peculiar purpose in writing his gospel? It can be summed up as the moral formation of a people of faith gathered around their belief in Jesus as the saving one of God. Matthew’s gospel in particular has a moral earnestness that is deeply concerned that the gift of salvation we have been given issues forth in lives reflecting the way of the giver. There can be no separation ...

2541. God’s Quality Control Crew

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , when we please, and how we please governs much of American life. In fact, more than any other country, the US is known for its emphasis on individualism. Each generation for the past 50 years has become more and more diverse in its opinions and beliefs–and the conviction that what we believe is equal to authority and truth. In fact, we as a culture have lost respect for authority, that is, any other authority besides our own thoughts and truth. When you mix extreme diversity of opinions together with ...

2542. Stamped with God’s Own Image

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... as religious — demanding your loyalty every time you used it — the emperor is the Son of God, there is no other. No faithful Jew would ever willingly call Caesar a god or Tiberius “Son of God.” Such statements flew in the face of their most cherished belief: “Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord alone” (Deuteronomy 6:4). What then did Jesus mean when he said, “Give to the emperor the things that are the emperor’s, and give to God the things that are God’s”? While some people think ...

2543. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... heaven, as we pray in the words of the Lord’s Prayer. When we celebrate Holy Communion we say that we proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes again… and we are waiting for that day to come. When we say the Apostles’ Creed we affirm our belief in the one who will come to judge the quick and the dead. Much of our waiting, therefore, is waiting for Christ to return to earth, something that the church calls the second coming. In one of his books, Marcus Borg points out that expectation about the second ...

2544. Are You Troubled by Demons?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Nazi Germany—then all of us are potentially susceptible. That is why we should be careful about how much passion we allow ourselves in taking up controversial causes. Ordinary people can become swept up into doing awful things by a demagogue with simple but mistaken beliefs. How do we explain how monsters are created? Is it something that comes from within or without? I don’t have an answer for that. I suspect the answer is more complicated than most of us can comprehend. The truth of the matter is that ...

2545. Holy Matryoshka!

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... did in the age-old tale, “The Christmas Carol,” that our dreams must be the stuff of an undercooked piece of beef or a fanciful dream that fades with the light of day. But Christian faith is rooted in dreams. And the root and kernel of our faith is belief in the miracle of Christ’s birth, God’s dream for humanity, realized in the birth of Jesus on that long-ago Christmas night. So, today, I challenge you to let go of all you know is true and real, to dispense with your logic and all that tells you ...

2546. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Ron Love

... 2 Timothy, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.” Adoniram Judson was a Deist while attending Providence College, which is now Brown University. After graduation, he realized that Deism was an aimless religious belief and he converted to Christianity. Deism denies God’s revelations and maintains that God does not intervene in the lives of individuals. Judson realized that this was not true for one who believes in the Christmas message of the incarnation. The ...

2547. A Nod of Recognition

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... human form. He told Nicodemus that the Father had sent him to be lifted up so mankind could have eternal life. Much like that serpent raised by Moses on a post, those who recognized they would die once bitten, had to look at it with belief in their hearts. Nicodemus struggled with this simple explanation. He struggled because he was in darkness. Some have said that when Jesus illustrated that men do their deeds in the dark, that he was referring to Nicodemus coming at night in the veil of darkness. Although ...

2548. It’s Sunday…But Friday’s Comin’

Mark 11:1-11 · John 12:12-16

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... body and cast lots for it. On Friday they watched as he was nailed to a cross. On Friday they watched him die a cruel death. On Friday their lives had been ruined. On Friday their faith had been stripped away from them. On Friday their trust and belief was rocked as they watched him placed into a tomb. On Friday they wept great, bitter tears as the stone was rolled in front of it. Yes, they were crushed on Friday. Hope was lost on Friday. Everything they screamed for on Palm Sunday was true but now their ...

2549. Suffering Leads to Victory

1 Peter 3:18-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... in today’s society, will require us to suffer. It may be the loss of a friend or opportunity, rejection by a colleague at work or a neighbor down the street, or even having our opinion on other matters placed on the sidelines, with our religious beliefs, as irrelevant, outdated or even not applicable. Jesus warned us on numerous occasions that being one of his followers would not be easy. Rather, he made it very clear that being rejected or even hated by others could easily be our lot. He summarized all ...

2550. Rising to New Life

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Damascus (Acts 9:1-19). Because Paul understood what it meant to move from death to life in Christ Jesus, he exhorts the Corinthians to seek a similar transformation in their own lives. For Paul the essential nature of not only the event of the Resurrection, but belief in its power to transform the lives of people prompts him to write and present this challenge to the nascent church in Corinth. The resurrection of Jesus and the hope that it brings to the Christian community must be for all of us a source of ...

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Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief, while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.

William Shenstone

It hurts more to have a belief pulled than to have a tooth pulled, and no intellectual Novocain is available.

Elmer Davis

Oswald Chambers

Greed is the logical result of the belief that there is no life after death. We grab what we can while we can however we can and then hold on to it hard.

Sir Fred Catherwood

The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him very long.

A.W. Tozer

2531. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

2532. Modern Man

Illustration

Jim Peterson

2533. What Do You Beleive?

Humor Illustration

Staff

2534. The First and Last Things