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2576. The Blind See!

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... sighted volunteers registered to assist them. (1) Sometimes, the person asking for help ends up giving help instead. Stephen, a blind man from Idaho, shared his experience with using the Be My Eyes app a few years ago. While bending down to pick up something he’d dropped on the floor, Stephen banged his face on the countertop. He felt that his nose was bleeding, but he couldn’t tell if he needed stitches. So he tapped the Be My Eyes app, and a volunteer on video chat assured him that his nose was just ...

2577. The Gift Of — Darn It! — Waiting

Hebrews 10:5-10

Sermon

Mary Austin

... can call us to their hearts’ content, but there’s no actual phone attached to it. We get a text when someone leaves us a message. But there are flaws in this relationship of ours. I feel that the balance of power is off. Sometimes the phone drops calls, or there’s an odd delay before I hear the other person, leaving us to talk over each other. Experts call this gap before we hear the other person “cell phone latency.” I call it annoying. The season of Advent in the church calendar has a ...

2578. It's A Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... could ever get them. Clorox, Tide, Bold, Wisk, none of them could hold a candle to the whiteness of Jesus and his robes. It was as if he had suddenly become light itself. Peter, James and John stood there in utter amazement and wonder. Their jaws dropped in surprise and their eyes bugged out in astonishment. Jesus was transformed and stood there in all of his heavenly glory. It was a wonderment to behold. And if that wasn't enough, suddenly standing with him were Moses and Elijah, the two most influential ...

2579. Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross

Mark 14:1--15:47

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... lead them to the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane so he could pray. On the way he asked Peter, James and John to go pray with him. They did but they had difficulty staying awake. While they were fighting sleep, while Jesus was praying great drops of blood, a commotion broke out. All of a sudden the garden was filled with Temple Guards, priests, and Roman soldiers. The chief priests and elders were there, too. And right in the middle of them all was Judas. He stepped out of the crowd, walked up ...

2580. Faith and Freedom

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the hemorrhage and Jairus' family the freedom of new life. CONCLUSION: An artist was visiting a dear friend. When he arrived, she was weeping. He asked why. She showed him a handkerchief of exquisite beauty that had great sentimental value, which had been ruined by a drop of indelible ink. The artist asked her to let him have the handkerchief, which he returned to her by mail several days later. When she opened the package she could hardly believe her eyes. The artist using the ink blot as a base, had drawn ...

2581. Fathers Need A Giant Sized Faith

1 Samuel 17:1, 4-11, 19-23, 32-49

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... faced off. But then the Philistines sent out their secret weapon. They'd come equipped with a ringer. As the two armies lined up, the ranks of the Philistines split and out came Goliath of Gath. The Israelites saw Goliath and their hearts sank. Their jaws dropped open in shock, their eyes popped out and the color drained out of the faces like the old cartoon characters. You could hear the collective gulp of fear from the Israelite army. They sometimes did sort of a strange but noble thing back then when ...

2582. In the Wilderness of Temptation

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... or bobsled. With this look of fear in his eyes, Calvin says, "Well, here we are, poised at the precipice of 'Pallbearer Peak' on a flimsy, unsteerable sled! The mind recoils in horror to imagine the awful descent! Yes, it's a thousand foot vertical drop onto a boulder field lined with pricker bushes! It's a journey calculated to exceed the human capacity for blinding fear!" He turns to Hobbes and says, "Are you ready to go?" Hobbes simply says, "Ready." And in the last scene you see Calvin and Hobbes ...

2583. It's a Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

2584. The Readiness Potential

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... up, you know it’s morning. When the sky gets dark and the wind balmy, you know it’s going to rain. When the moon is red, it will be a sunny day the next day. When grain sprouts, you know it’s time for harvest. When the temperature drops, you know we are entering into the season of fall. When advent begins, you know Christmas is coming. When the stores put out red and green décor, you know Halloween is near. (Ok…that was deliberately snide). There are so many others. We recognize signs every single ...

2585. More Certain Than a Tom Brady Pass

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “All I really want to do is open a safe house for the children at Jefferson High School.” Her friend answered, “Then do it.” And then the panic set in! Debrah began listing all the reasons she couldn’t open a safe house for kids. She, herself, had dropped out of high school. It would cost too much money. She didn’t have the education or the work experience. And Debrah’s friend looked her in the eye and said, “You can do it. And you must do it.” That conversation led to the founding of a ...

2586. What Are You Bananas About?

Philippians 3:17-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... area between San Diego and Tijuana. The trainees would be spending the next 15 hours in ice-cold mud up to their necks. Fifteen hours. Imagine how that felt. However, there was a way out. The instructors announced that if five men from the training cohort dropped out, then all the trainees could get out of the mud and go home. Just five men needed to give up for all of them to escape this long night of pain. Then something wonderful took place. In response to the instructors’ taunts, one of the trainees ...

2587. Winning the Grand Prize

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... a few minutes, the driver turned around and said, “I feel like I’ve got to tell you something. God’s telling me to tell you that He loves you, and He has a plan and a purpose for your life.” With that, Peter became emotional and asked to be dropped off to collect himself. The next car picked him up, and the driver had basically the same message. God loves you and He has a plan and a purpose for your life. And so did a third driver in the next car! It’s hard to believe, but three times ...

2588. Spirit Powered Anointing

Luke 4:14-21 · Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of Luke 4 is necessary to understand the entire impact of Jesus’ words and the synagogue’s reaction that day. In today’s reading, Luke tells us that Jesus was praised by everyone. Stay tune….a drastic shift is coming just a few lines later when Jesus “drops the bomb” about the “gentile mission” in Luke 21-30.You are “blessed to be a blessing,” God tells Abraham in Genesis 12:2-3. From the time of Abraham to every time in the future, the role of Israel has been to bless all other nations ...

2589. Provoked

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... by his words. He’s prophesying Jubilee. This is awesome! It’s time to party! No more foreigners. No more Rome. Listen to our boy. This is Joseph’s son, our guy! He’s going to make things good for us! Yay Jesus. And then he drops the bomb. I can just imagine the sudden silence that must have filled the room. One moment, people are laughing, smiling, praising, joyful. The next, their eyes widen in shock. “What did he just say?”Their anger rose to the surface…and quickly bubbled over! Did ...

2590. Moving Heaven and Earth

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... of a crisis. The previous night, Neal came home from a business trip to discover Connie with another man. He asked Connie for a divorce. The next day, they began discussing the affair and the end of their marriage, when Neal picked up the book Colleen had dropped off and began flipping through the pages. As fate would have it, or better yet, as God would have it, he came across Peter Marshall’s sermon on the woman caught in adultery. You can find the story in John 8:1-11. Neal read the sermon through ...

2591. Feed My Sheep

John 21:1-19

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... back and forth between Jesus and the rest of the disciples. His interior monologue wouldn’t quit. “So far so good. Maybe this won’t be so bad after all. Maybe this will be okay? Then, as Peter completed his thought, Jesus leaned into the group and dropped the big one. He put his hand on Peter’s shoulder and he posed this question. “Do you love me?” Of course, we know from scripture that this went down three times with the same answer issuing forth. Thanks, though to our own inept and agenda ...

2592. More Than a Popularity Contest

Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... world. In Luke 12, he’s teaching his disciples, “Don’t let your current circumstances blind you, or your current comforts bind you to this world. Saying ‘Yes’ to me means saying ‘No’ to this world and its comforts and priorities and value systems.” Have you ever dropped in on the middle of a conversation and thought, “Wait a minute—did I hear that right?” That’s how we may feel when we read this passage from Luke 12. Jesus is the love of God in the flesh. He is the Prince of Peace ...

2593. A Miracle of Grace

Philemon 1:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... responded to every outrage with love and humility. He almost seemed to enjoy the threatening calls from Johnny Lee. Johnny Lee finally attained his goal of Imperial Wizard status, but suddenly his Klan activities repulsed him. He was sick of his own hatred. He dropped out of the Klan and wandered aimlessly for the next few years. One night, while contemplating suicide, Johnny Lee picked up a Bible and began to read it. That night he gave his life to Christ. He joined a multiracial church and began studying ...

2594. Depart from Me

Luke 5:1-11 · Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

I enjoy watching people enter this Chapel. Nearly half a million each year, enter that portal, as you did moments ago. And (if they are here for the first time) I like to watch their eyes turn upward, their mouths drop open, overwhelmed by the glory, the majesty of this place. And that's exactly what the Gothic architect intended--that these soaring arches and brilliant windows should overwhelm us with the glory of God. It's an emotion one doesn't have often in contemporary religion with our pre-fab, ...

2595. Find Joy Again!

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... threw down the plates and said to us, “I’ll be in the car!” I don’t know if that Shoney’s still exists. They may have gone out of business the next day. If they are still around, I am sure they are still talking about the man who dropped his pants in the middle of the restaurant. Such laughter and fun has always been a part of my family history. I love to laugh, and you need to know that I have a very loud laugh. I do a lot of things loud. If I think something is funny ...

2596. Have Your ID Ready

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of God’s love for us? Sometimes I wish this conversation between Jesus and John’s disciples had turned out differently. When they asked, “Are you the one who is to come . . .?”, Jesus could have said, “Yes, I’m him!” He could have performed some jaw-dropping miracle or sent an angel to bust John out of prison to prove it was true. Instead, he pointed to God’s presence and compassion among the sick, the disabled and the poor. He gave John a glimpse of the coming kingdom of God. Even better ...

2597. Lesson from a Prosthetic Toe

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.” Wouldn’t that solve all our problems, if Jesus just filled us with a faith that erases all our questions and doubts and gives us superhero powers to do jaw-dropping miracles? But faith isn’t a personal power source that can be plugged in whenever we face a difficult challenge. Faith is an ongoing relationship of trust with the God whose Spirit lives in us. That’s the second insight we get from this passage ...

2598. He Loves You Anyway

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... that this man planned to commit suicide in the church, to die in a peaceful and beautiful place. But the man was so moved by Rev. Ted’s acceptance that he changed his mind. Not everybody in his church was ready to accept this man. Attendance dropped drastically. But when the dust settled, twenty-one members of the church remained and committed themselves to caring for this man until his death. He died knowing that he was accepted by a community and surrounded by the love of God. (3) And that brings me ...

2599. "Head" Lines

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... more than one meaning. Sometimes the unintentional meaning is hilarious. For example: “Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge” — that’s strong tape! Here’s another: “Local High School Dropouts Cut in Half” — that seems like drastic punishment to me just for dropping out of high school. Here’s another: “Miners Refuse to Work After Death” — you have to watch those mining companies. They’ll make you work on and on and on . . . “Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead” — Well, if they ...

2600. Do You See Lazarus On Your Doorstep?

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... figure of the story is given a formal name. Lazarus means “God is my help.” He was described as a poor man sitting on the doorstep of the rich man. He was covered with sores. He was constantly hungry and begged for the crumbs that were dropped from the rich man’s table. We also are told that the dogs of the street came and licked his sores. Keith F. Nickel in his commentary on Luke has this rather lengthy summary: “Luke surely expected his community to connect the conclusion of this story with ...

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