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2526. Honor Graduate

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... ) That is pretty plain English. When you are a child you are to do what your parents say, willfully, pleasantly, immediately and lovingly. As long as you are under their roof you are to obey them. If they are paying for your food, your clothing, your ... family portrait where my sons have their hands in my pocket so it will look natural?" I have a t-shirt that I wear that I love that is called "the amazing dad" [I may wear this t-shirt to church]. On the front it says, "The amazing dad - hard earned cash gone ...

2527. Keeping His Word

John 14:23-29

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... are not to play the part of a guru dispensing esoteric wisdom. We are to be sympathetic and pray for the time they, too, will experience what we know in our lives. Truly, it is not because of our superior goodness. It is not because God just doesn't love them. Only the infinitely wise Creator of all has the answers. Let us humbly admit there are times we know little of that peace and we plead for its return. When it returns, how blessed we are! As far as our hearts being troubled, we know plenty about that ...

2528. Claiming Our New Life in Christ

Colossians 2:6-15 (16-19)

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... life that pleases God simply out of our gratitude and desire to please him. We can live a good life simply because we want to. A friend of mine sent me a story that Bill Bright, founder of Campus Crusade for Christ, used to tell about the transforming power of love. It seems that there was this woman who was married to a tyrant of a husband. She could never please him no matter how hard she tried. He didn't like the way she kept house. He didn't like the way she did laundry. He didn't like the ...

2529. The Shepherd King

Jeremiah 23:1-6

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... pointed toward another day, a better day. Today is that better day. Christ The King is in our midst. The Shepherd King, Jesus, called Peter to action and instructed him to show his love for Jesus by tending to the sheep. Just as Jeremiah saw it, those who love God will love the flock and that love will hold the flock together. We cannot say that we love Jesus while hating the world. We cannot say that we respect the king and continue to be a people that hate. Jeremiah knew, and Jesus showed, that a lack of ...

2530. I Am the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that was a tough task for a simple woman, but with the courage of a great Christian, she walked across the hall, sat down by the bedside of Johnny, took his frail hand between her calloused palms, looked him in the eye and said, listen Johnny, God made you, God loves you. God sent his son to save you, God wants you to come home and live with him. Johnny lifted himself feebly up on his elbow, a smile, a faint smile came on his face and he said, say it again. And the old woman repeated it. Johnny, God made ...

2531. LOST? Finding Meaning

Genesis 1:1-5, John 1:1-5

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . God created us in God's image. God didn't make us little rag dolls or automatons who could only respond in certain ways. No, God created us with the same creative spirit God has. We call that free will. Which means we have a choice whether to accept the love God offers or reject it. And like children, we tried to do both. We wanted freedom and a relationship. But because we disobeyed that relationship was torn and broken and we couldn't find a way to mend it. I think it's this search for the way back home ...

2532. LOST? Pursuing Purpose

1 Peter 2:9-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of us here for a reason. We have all been born into this world for a purpose. We all have a higher purpose, which is to love and serve God. But I also believe that we each have an individual purpose in life. And because of that belief, I think there are really ... : she did not want to be No. 1. She did not want to hone a killer instinct, or become an all-time great. As much as she loved to play tennis and hone all the skills to make her the best, she did not want to do it at someone else's expense. She thinks ...

2533. Compliments Of The House

Psalm 23:6

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... up. We'd play some Ping-Pong. But we always made sure to raid the freezer. We thought we were getting away with something. We'd open Aunt Viola's freezer and sure enough, there was always a new half gallon of Neapolitan ice cream. Danny loved strawberry, Bruce loved vanilla and I loved chocolate. It was perfect. We'd grab spoons and snarf that down and then hide the empty container. I don't know when it started probably when we were about 10. And we'd all feel guilty about it but excited that we'd gotten ...

2534. A Chance To Start Over

John 8:3-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... night of sleep?" Simon says, "Last good one I had." Monty then asks, "What's that shiny white one?" "A woman. The one. The one true love. Yep, each stone tells a story that I want to remember. All I do is put them in my hand and rub them and abracadabra, ... burden of judging and being judged and as you let go of the guilt of unforgiven sin. Accept this Kiss of Greeting, Love and Forgiveness from God. Literally, taste and see how good and sweet forgiveness and grace truly taste. Drop those stones of pain and ...

2535. Cross Eyed: Glory

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ] In the same way, anyone who holds on to life just as it is destroys that life. But if you let it go, reckless in your love, you'll have it forever, real and eternal. [26] "If any of you wants to serve me, then follow me. Then you'll be where I ... in so doing, God pulls out our chair, welcomes us back home and is glorified once again through this Cup and through this Loaf. Conclusion God loves us so much that God sent His only Son to give His life for us on the cross. God offers us New Life and Eternal life. ...

2536. The Family Album

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to. Our passage of Scripture for this morning does exactly the same thing. It reminds us who we were, who we are and who we're connected to. Three simple verses with a deep encompassing message for the people of God. 1 John 3:1-3 (NRSV) [1] See what love the Father has given us, that we should be called children of God; and that is what we are. The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. [2] Beloved, we are God's children now; what we will be has not yet been ...

2537. Future Perfect

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... that the stone had been removed from the tomb. [2] So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." [3] Then Peter ... a wonderful future ahead of us. We no longer have to fear death. Nor do we have to live a life of sin, separated from the love and grace of God. We have been set free. The chains of sin and death that bound us and separated us from God have been broken ...

2538. John 17:20-26

John 17:20-26

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... all the world. Revealing God, and God’s glory as it is present in the Son, to this world is both the opening and closing theme of the real Lord’s Prayer (see vv.17: 3, 8, 20, 21). In vv.25-26, continuing to reveal God’s love is Jesus’ final promise and prayer. By referring here to God as “Righteous Father” (“pater dikaie”), Jesus’ words remind the reader of the kind of judgment that such a Righteous One could mete out to a world that “does not know” God. But there is still an ongoing ...

2539. Being Christ by Affirming and Forgiving

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... words ring authentically because of who she is and what she does. Listen to her testimony: “Because we cannot se Christ we cannot express our love to him; but our neighbors we can always wee, and we can do to them what if we saw him we would like to do to ... relationship, or listen to a confession more intent on curing than caring we will not be a channel f Christ’s forgiving love. If we care we will listen nonjudgmentaly, and allow the Spirit to work the miracle of repentance and forgiveness in the life ...

2540. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what God was doing. “I didn’t have my Bible, but I had my God.” And there is our cue. Even in the desolation of our souls when God is on our feeling level absent. We remember that God is wherever any person is obedient to God takes the rich loving; whatever the cost and we try not to forget that the presence of God is not determined by or measured by the whole of movement of our life and victory. Then, our faith enables as to move beyond the despair of “My God, My God, why boast those forsaken me ...

2541. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of God that we be in no wise divided among ourselves. Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thine? I ask no further question. If it be, give me thy hand. For opinions, or terms, let us not destroy the work of God. Doesn’t thou love and serve God? It is enough. I give thee the right hand of fellowship.” (From the Works of John Wesley, London, The Epworth Press, 1950 edition, pages 7-15). We need that — not only us Methodists —— the world needs it - the catholic spirit lived out in the different ...

2542. Fresh Every Morning - A Test

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... before. “I know the pain will lessen - every body tells me it will - but I’m not sure I want it to - the lessening of the pain will mean distance from love. When we think about it, we know what he is feeling - the loss of a love that is fresh every morning. That ought to teach us. Don’t think you can store it up. Love must be kept alive in word and deed daily. It must be fresh every morning. Psychologists and marriage counselors usually agree that the three biggest problems in marriage are sex, money ...

2543. Fresh Every Morning - A Token and a Truth

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... So, this man wrote about the satisfying, sufficient, sustaining provision of God. It’s not great poetry, but it expresses deep faith and great hope. My prison house is cold and gray And made of rock and steel It’s filled with tears both night and day, There’s little love to feel. The sick and sad and broken men Who suffer here with me Cannot recall the joys of when They last were gay and free. Yet I am happy, and I’m free Though tombed within this hell For mighty acts of God I see Through the cold ...

2544. The Gospel Through the Person

Galatians 4:8-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... All that I am I owe to Lizzie Johnson.” That night he went to see Alice Johnson. The next morning he went to the cemetery to put flowers on the grave of a woman who could not leave her bed, who was weak and helpless, but who stitched up her love in bookmarks and quilts, refusing to let her limitations limit. Limitations do not have to limit. Paul taught us about the power of the person and the personal, that limitations do not have to limit us – and now a third lesson. III Paul showed us that we can be ...

2545. Praising God All Day Long

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... father cared for people.' When I was preparing my first sermon I went to my daddy and I asked him, ‘What should I say?' My father said, ‘Don't try to show off. Don't try to make people think that you know something. Just tell them that God loves them and that will be enough.'" From generation to generation to generation, faithfulness is there. On a day like today, I just want to serve the Lord with gladness. I just want to come into His presence with singing. I just want to remember that I belong to God ...

2546. Behind Closed Doors

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lee Griess

... exactly what he did. He gave them peace. He set them free. He made them whole again. That's what the peace of Christ is all about — being restored to the goodness that God created us in, being made whole to dream about the future, being restored to live and love and laugh again. That's what Christ gave them because that's what they needed the most. Fear not, he said. Fear not. How many times do we need to hear that? How many times do we find ourselves in the clutches of fear? Did you know that one Bible ...

2547. One in Faith and One in Service

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Lee Griess

... the cow, than of me?" To which the cow replied, "My friend, perhaps it is that I give of myself while I am still alive." We are one in faith and one in service and in serving those around us, our faith becomes real and the message of God's love is shared with all. In the early 1800s, there was a New Englander by the name of John Chapman. One morning he appeared in Licking Spring, Ohio, and taking some seeds from a burlap bag slung across his shoulder, he began to plant them. When he was finished, he quietly ...

2548. The Road No One Wants to Travel

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... others were feeling when he blurted the words for the first time. "We think the world of you, Jesus! You're the Son of God! We love you! We didn't know who we were until you came along!" When they talk that way, they want to sit around for a while and ... burger. But Jesus says, "No." Jesus says that life isn't found in the moment, not even if it is a moment of insight or love or passion. Life is a journey, not a destination. It is always tempting to settle down into that special moment, though, and try to make ...

2549. Captive Free!

Romans 7:15-25a

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... do about it. Our sin starts with the fact that all of us, by nature (as the Augsburg Confession reminds us), have no fear and love of God. We, by nature, from the moment we come into this world are unable to totally trust God. We need to be constantly ... with God. He may have a pretty good record of humanitarian kindness, but when it comes to his relationship with God, he is more in love with himself than with God. What Jesus does next exposes that. He tells him to sell all that he has, give the money to the ...

2550. Life in The Spirit

Romans 8:22-27

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... with pain and hope. It is not clear what the baby will look like or act like. Though he has never given birth to a baby, he has given birth to many churches, churches such as the one in Corinth that has given him so much trouble and yet he loves so dearly. In the midst of this kind of birthing process, Paul asks the Romans and himself (and us) to trust in this process of the Spirit of God producing that which we need and desire: to be grounded in the presence of God. In these verses, Paul emphasizes that ...

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