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2526. Does God Give A Damn?

Exodus 5:22--6:12

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... I want to shorten or ruin it by overwork or overindulgence, what is that to God? But God does care what we do with ourselves. Our lives are not our own; we were bought with the price of Christ’s blood. Our bodies are the temples of the Holy Spirit. What we do with our lives and what we make of our lives is of maximum concern to God, for we are his children, his property. Also, God cares when we sin against others. Humanity’s first two brothers had a strained relationship which was tragically ended when ...

2527. Two Bodies for Two Worlds

Isaiah 26:1-21

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... to recognize each other. Another reason for God’s giving us a spiritual body is that in heaven we may communicate with each other. Heaven is a place where we will be together in God’s family. We will be with the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the angels and arch-angels, the prophets, martyrs, and saints of all time. If we did not have bodies, how could we communicate with each other? On earth we know how important body language is, and we know that communication is necessary for good relationships. Some ...

2528. The Spiritual Fitness Demands of the New Age

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... we declare: "High moral and ethical standards don’t really exist." So we have fallen back into the drains. We don’t even admit hope. But high moral and ethical standards do exist. They exist in creation. They exist in the mind of God. They exist in the spirit of Jesus. They exist in love. They even exist deep in our own nature. That makes life exciting and worth the climb and the struggle, even though we might stumble in the journey. We still hear the call, even when we are doing what we would not and ...

2529. Journey To The Cross III: Jesus And The Extravagant Woman

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and tell my story… and you can tell them for me that I am so grateful for what I’ve already had… but I’m keeping my fork because I know that something even better is coming!” Let me ask you something: Do you have that kind of victorious spirit? Do you have that kind of deep faith? Do you have that kind of extravagant gratefulness? If not, why not? Because Jesus taught us that it’s O.K. to be extravagant in our generosity and in our gratitude. III. Third And Finally, It's O.k. To Be Extravagant ...

2530. YOU’VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES

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John H. Krahn

... it takes. The New Testament says it this way, "Surely you know that you are God’s temple, and that God’s spirit lives in you!" Just think of it - we are the temple of Almighty God and his spirit is in us. How can we then say, "I haven’t got what it takes to meet a problem that is ... facing me?" We must never give up, never. If we believe the truth that God’s spirit is in us, we will never give up. For with God’s help we are equal to anything the Devil or life throws ...

2531. The Necessity of Moral Commitment

Gen 3:1-24 · Is 28:15

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... to moral order. You cannot have eternal life without commitment to moral order. In essence, rebellion against order is hell. The rules of life, the rules of truth and love, are made "living" by the spirit of life, the spirit of truth, the spirit of love which is the Spirit of God - the Creator as seen and revealed in Jesus Christ. Meaningful behavior, truthful behavior, loving behavior, creative behavior, clean behavior, God-inspired behavior - this is reality. Psychologists are beginning again to tell us ...

2532. When the Church Is the Church

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... knew that his fledgling church could "make disciples of all nations" only if they were together, sharing the same hope, the same faith, the same baptism, and the same Lord and Savior. Jesus urged his disciples to wait together to receive the power of the Holy Spirit; and he knew that they could be effective as his "witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the end of the earth" only if they worked together. The amazing growth of the New Testament church described in the early chapters of ...

2533. Are You Still Frightened of the Dark?

Genesis 1:1-5 · John 1:4-5 · Psalm 139:11-12

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... my house.’ So it goes back and finds the house, empty, clean, and all fixed up. Then it goes out and brings along seven other spirits even worse than itself and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than he was ... for darkness is as light with thee. (Psalm 139:11-12) The Psalmist is answering there the question, "Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?" and the answer comes that even the darkness will not hide us from God. Indeed, let it be said that God sent his Son into ...

2534. Don't Be Afraid of the Future

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... will sustain you.” (Psalm 55:22) On November 19th of last year, a great lady of faith in Christ Church, Mrs. Julia Atkinson, transferred from earth to heaven. I remember visiting her in October of last year. Cancer was stealing her strength, but not her confidence of spirit. She said, “I don’t want any chemotherapy. I’m not afraid to die.” Then with a smile and twinkling brown eyes she added, “I have lived a full life here, and now I’m ready for the rest of the story.” The Easter Good News ...

2535. Three Witnesses

1 John 5:8

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... favor with God and that we will be as He wants us to be. That was a good thing to learn, wasn't it? Let me show you something else that we don't always understand but is very important to know. The Bible says there are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water and the blood. These three witnesses say that Jesus is the Son of God. Why are there three witnesses, and what are witnesses? I have brought some of my friends with me again this morning and I hope they will help us understand. First of all I brought ...

2536. It Takes Two to Preach!

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is like a grade school graduate going to a learned lecture on astrophysics. He is there and he is listening, but it is all "Greek" to him. He does not have the background to understand what is being said. When God’s Word is proclaimed, for those without the Spirit, the Word is only man’s opinions. He does not feel God’s presence. Nor does he hear God’s Word coming in a man’s words. In Shaw’s play, Saint Joan, an archbishop asks Joan, "How do you know you are right?" Joan replies, "I always know ...

2537. Christianity Can Be Fun

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... to men who were in good health and had the bulk of their life span before them. In a very direct way, "the good news" was an invitation to a life-style that was finer than any of the harsh, rule-oriented religions before it. Man had made the Holy Spirit a caged bird. What had come to a shepherd named Moses in the fields and had directly led the children of Israel through speaking to common men and women had been caged up through centuries of trying to out-god God. The Holy ...

2538. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

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T. A. Kantonen

... author to establish the Pauline content of the letter, it only proves that Paul’s own emphasis was well known. There are variations also in the greeting with which Paul closes his letters. In Galatians it is "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." In Ephesians it is "Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love undying." In Colossians it is a simple "Grace be with you." The fullest form is in Second Corinthians: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and ...

2539. Justification and Reconciliation

Romans 3:21-31

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T. A. Kantonen

... and putting one’s trust in his own human strength. Flesh, for Paul, as Karl Barth puts it, "stands for the complete inadequacy of the creature before his Creator." The opposite of living according to the flesh is "living by the Spirit." "To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace" (Romans 8:6). Law Man needs to be delivered not only from bondage to sin and the flesh but also from the yoke of the law. The law is the Torah, interpreted not only as the law ...

2540. Unlimited Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... that person. We want our own life to contribute to the other’s highest good, and we want to live in a relationship of love with him or her. This is the nature of the forgiveness which must have no limits. It calls for the exercise of love, for the spirit and the activity of love, even towards the person by whom one has been injured. And this is to be the case regardless of the nature of the offense or the number or frequency of it. Its Wisdom Jesus believed this to be the course of wisdom. Sometimes it ...

2541. The Christian’s Style - 1960

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... recognize and respond to his style, but it is a far more difficult thing for subsequent generations to do so. The former could see him in the flesh and witness the wonders he worked. But the latter, and particularly we of the modern scientific spirit who are more perplexed than impressed by miracles, are bereft of such advantages. However plausible this contention may appear at first blush, maturer thought would seem to reverse such an opinion and contend for its opposite. Actually it is far easier to get ...

2542. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... Universal Servant. God is the greatest of the great, not because he is the Boss of the universe, but because he is the infinite Spirit of Service. Now the conception we have of God subtly reacts to shape our character more than any other idea we possess. When we ... possible. This is our common emphasis. But Jesus completely reversed that idea. To him the ultimate realities were all of the spirit. The only way to find real life is by obedience to the laws of spiritual life. Such obedience implies losing one’ ...

2543. A Vital Night Call

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... news I declare today is that any person can be born again. One need not be haunted by mistakes of the past or fears of future judgment. One can be marvelously fulfilled and vibrantly creative today. The Holy Spirit is the obstetrician for second births. But our wills are involved. In order for the Holy Spirit to make a new person out of someone, that person must make two prior decisions. First, One Must Repent. That means to get honest with God, to admit that we have violated his standards and have sought ...

2544. The Waters of Your Baptism

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... we made earlier on his behalf. Let's compare infant baptism to a check one might write. The baptismal check is truly wonderful. It promises for the child forgiveness of sin, a place in heaven, membership in the church family, and the power of the Holy Spirit. In order for that check to be good for the child, it requires only one endorsing signature. Our Lord Jesus provided that endorsement when he died on a cross and arose on Easter morning. When that child becomes a teenager or adult, that baptismal check ...

2545. Suffering

John 19:28-37

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... is good, and matter, the physical, is evil. So, they denied that Jesus was a physical being, but instead was a phantom in human form, in which the Spirit of God had taken shape. This would mean that, if Jesus was pure spirit, then he could not have suffered pain or even death. As pure spirit, they declared that when Jesus walked through the sand he left no footprints. Jesus, the Gnostics insisted, went through the whole ordeal of the cross without any real suffering. In fact, in their gospel, they preached ...

2546. Putting Lent into Focus

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... basics and teach laypersons what Lent is all about. This would involve mainly our getting rid of the many misunderstandings which people continue to foster; e.g., someone says, "I’m giving up cigarettes for Lent" or "Beer is off my list during Lent." The Lenten spirit is not a catalog of negatives! Or, what is equally off-beat: some preachers get the sequence of Lent all mixed up. They sing and preach about the Cross on Ash Wednesday and go on talking about it for forty days. Round and round in a circle ...

2547. A Perspective on the Ascension

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... in one’s own Christian experience? What is the meaning of the Ascension from this perspective for twentieth-century thinkers and believers? And is not that meaning clarified when we see the Ascension as an intermediate link between the Resurrection and the gift of the Spirit at Pentecost. Let us now carry our thinking upon this event through three stages: 1. Luke tells us that the Risen Lord charged the disciples to "wait" (v. 4). What for? "The promises of the Father," he said. This can be a problem for ...

2548. The Path of Creativity

Drama

William Grimbol

... means of affirming that there is something BEYOND ... not as a means of acknowledging that there is an escape hatch to Death’s door, but we celebrate because the Resurrection can so radically and totally rearrange ... renew ... restore ... revamp ... rekindle, our spirits - our dreams - our hopes - our lives. READER 2 The Resurrection isn’t some religious theory to free us from the anxiety of dying, or to offer us a guaranteed immortality. The Resurrection offers us the freedom of becoming brand new in ...

2549. A Man With a Scalpel and a Pen

Acts 16:6-10

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... on his second missionary journey (Acts 16). Paul wasn’t quite able to make up his mind which direction to carry the Gospel. He started in one direction, then said, "I was forbidden to go that way." He turned in another direction, and then repeated, "The Holy Spirit interfered and wouldn’t permit me." Finally, he ended up at the seaport town of Troas, on the shore of the Aegean Sea. We remember this town, in other historical references, as the city of Troy. Helen of Troy came from Troas; it was the city ...

2550. Let’s Climb a Mountain

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... . We’ve surveyed them all on our climb today. The ridge that we took to the lookout that gave us such a clear view of the nine, in their cluster of threes, is a highway of happiness. Oh, how happy are the meek, the poor in spirit, the merciful, the pure in heart, the peacemakers, those who mourn, those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake. Happy? Oh, yes. Just ask any one of them. If they can have that happiness, that blessedness, you can have it ...

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