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2576. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ringing in his ears and holding onto the thought that if he lived until sunrise, he would get well. He looked toward the east to watch as the stars vanished and the horizon gradually brightened, heralding the dawn of a new day. As the sun came into full view, he remembered the doctor's promise that if he lived until sunrise, he would get well. He thought about his home, the shady lane, the mossy spring, and his wife who had shyly slipped her hand into his years ago, and thought, "I will live to look once ...

2577. An Empty Cup

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... who cheats his customers. Because if righteousness does not automatically earn blessings, then none of us is safe. If evil things can happen to good people, then what is our goodness for? We aren't earning any return on our investment. This is the world view that puts the holy, holy, holy God on par with a gumball machine. Put in good deeds, and out pop good results. Insert a prayer, receive a blessing. This way of thinking leads us to believe that God is predictable, manageable, under our thumb. This ...

2578. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... both. We must take off the old patch of worldliness before we can put on the new patch of life in the Spirit. What does it mean to die to our sinful nature and to be alive to God? Those are not phrases that fit into most peoples' secular world-view. Let me see if I can translate them into today's realities--with language more suited to today's world. Let's begin with a word we all understand. It's the word, "risk." What, in your estimation, constitutes an acceptable risk? There's a humorous story about a ...

2579. Preparing the Way

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... woman on an airplane flight. The woman freely talked about her drug use, her live-in boyfriend, and her pursuit of self-gratification at any cost. Hybels asked the young woman to consider how her lifestyle must look to God. He was not surprised by her response. In her view, God was a loving but distant figure whose job it was to take care of her. God made no demands on her life. Her behavior didn’t matter to God. She could do what she wanted, and God would always be in the background taking care of her ...

2580. Why Shepherds?

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... in prison cells, Aids-sufferers watching their strength seep away, hospice dwellers who know this is their last Christmas on this earth. I don’t want to bring you down on this Christmas day. Not that at all. In fact, I want to lift you up, to God’s view of Christmas. Christmas is good news, most of all, for those who do not have much else to hold on to. It’s best understood in a story that former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn used to tell. A reporter was covering the tragic conflict in Sarajevo a few years ...

2581. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... agents were getting ready to sign land treaties. The old chief wanted to say something about the land, about how it is sacred to his people, about how in his words, "All things are connected like the blood which unites one family." What he said strongly echoes the Bible''s view. "How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land," he asked. "If we do not own the freshness of the air, the sparkle of the water, how can we buy or sell them?" The chief went on to say, "Teach your children what we have ...

2582. Maturity in Stewardship

2 Corinthians 9:6-15, 2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... lay at his own door. So it is with us. We are held responsible for our stewardship of all of life. THE CHRISTIAN STEWARD ALSO TRIES TO DISCOVER AND FOLLOW GOD’s PURPOSE FOR EVERY MATERIAL POSSESSION IN HIS LIFE. The key scripture for understanding the Christian view of material things is Colossians 1:16 where Paul says, "All things were created by Him and for Him." God made us for Himself and gives us material things to fulfill His purpose and plan for the world. His purpose is that all persons come to ...

2583. The Question That Will Not Go Away

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... , he spent many years in prison, hated and cursed by those around him. Near death, a friend came to visit him. The friend leaned over to speak to the dying man and ask him how he was doing. Baxter responded, "Friend, I am almost well." (2) Viewed in this sense, death is more a friend than a feared foe. William Sloane Coffin once shared, "Consider the alternative--life without death." Life would be forever locked into the daily grind of our existence --a horrible thought indeed. He further shares, "We'd take ...

2584. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... lives once more around His presence and mercy, revelation and law. The Lord pushes His people toward the desert to unclench fingers and set prisoners free. The Lord calls His people into the barrenness of wasteland, so worldly distractions might fade into the rear view mirror. The promised land is good and on the horizon, but cannot be experienced until we journey into the wilderness. So John the Baptist calls us to get ready for the coming Christ by making the trek out into the desert. Brother and sister ...

2585. Father? Almighty?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... TO HAVE THE APOSTLES’ CREED BEGIN WITH JESUS CHRIST AND THEN WORK IT’S WAY TO GOD. If it had, the Church might have been saved a lot of foolish theology down through the centuries. It would have been saved the embarrassment of sometimes proclaiming a view of God which makes Him look more like the Ayatollah than a loving, personal, Divine Reality whose name and nature are love. But if we start our theology with Jesus Christ, then I find it hard to see how some popular notions of God can possibly ...

2586. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... believe in the holy catholic church, we say. Sometimes we feel like the cynic who said, I believe in the holy catholic church...and only wish that it existed! The Church, as we know it, does not seem too holy. And if it doesn’t seem so to you who view it from the outside, think of those of us who are on the inside! I remember the story of the man who woke up with a hangover. Your eyes look terrible! a friend said. The suffering fellow said, You should be looking out from this side! To those who would ...

2587. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... !" But John seems concerned about something even deeper here. Something more than merely a "miracle." For John, this was a "sign," that is, a teaching aid, something which points to something else, something deeper. We must look at the story from the Jewish point of view of the writer. In the Fourth gospel we often find that beneath the simple stories there lies a deeper meaning which is only open to those who have eyes to see. Sometimes it seems as though in all his Gospel John never wrote an unnecessary ...

2588. Jesus and the Divorced Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a soul at all. And in the pagan world of the time the numbers of female infants exposed at birth by the father’s whim give grave testimony to how little women were regarded. In one of the so-called “Gnostic” gospels, the apocryphal Gospel of Thomas, a common view of womanhood of that time was set forth: “Simon Peter said to them (the risen Christ and the disciples) let Mary go out from us, because women are not worthy of life. Jesus said, See, I shall lead her, so that I will make her male, that she ...

2589. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to discover that what many of us need is something more than another pill or operation. We need the right spiritual frame of mind, Our minds affect our bodies. We call it “psychosomatic medicine,” and think we’ve discovered something new...but the Biblical view is that we are a combination of psyche (spirit) and soma (body). Those are two good Greek words which are found in the New Testament. In Biblical times they were wise enough to know that our minds affect our bodies, and that God affects our ...

2590. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... which injured one’s neighbor. Anyone having unlawful sexual relations with a married woman was, in fact, violating her husband’s property rights, for back then it was considered that she belonged to him, was his property. From a strictly legal point of view, the Pharisees were on solid ground. The case against the woman was airtight. This woman was an adulteress. The penalty for adultery was clear. In Leviticus 20:10 it is death. Deuteronomy 22:23 says that the penalty must be administered by stoning ...

2591. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Jewish month Nisan, and eaten on the 15th day, which began at sundown. According to the Fourth gospel, Jesus was crucified on Friday and the meal which Jesus ate with His friends the night before was not the Passover meal unless the view of some scholars is correct that there may have been more than one religious calendar observed in Jerusalem in Jesus’ day. (Some scholars suggest that what we call “Maundy Thursday” may have really been “Maundy Wednesday,” or “Maundy Tuesday,” but I digress ...

2592. Some Said It Thundered

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Biblical God is a hidden God. And there is mercy as well as majesty in that hiddenness, for how could we stand to look directly at God? But we do catch glimpses of God once in awhile. St. Francis believed that the red-breasted cardinal flashing into his view was not an accident but was rather God’s deft brush-stroke perfectly timed to take his breath away. And who can say that he was wrong? British Methodist Colin Morris, in a book titled Mankind My Church, tells of a West African creation myth which puts ...

2593. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... religions which have attempted to do so. There was that English Bishop named George Berkeley about whom you may have read when you studied philosophy. He lived in the 18th century and he believed that nothing existed except in one’s mind. This view is called solipsism, and it has had very few adherents over the centuries. Most people believe that something exists, something is real. The real question is: what is the nature of that something, and is that something a Someone? Harry Emerson Fosdick once ...

2594. The War of Malchus’ Ear

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Protestant or otherwise, can support modern warfare. He is called on the carpet by the President of the United States, an old friend, and himself a Catholic. “Holiness,” the president says, “I cannot tell you how seriously, how perilously, our government views the implications of your speech yesterday at Princeton.” Pope Francesco speaks quietly, “We have only Christ’s message. We do not know how military service in the context of modern weaponry can be reconciled with the commands of the Gospel ...

2595. A Terrorist among the Twelve

Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... around the campfire. The Church is not a group of “like-minded” people. Just the reverse. It is a band of cut-throats who might well be enemies were it not for the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ. Too many people have a saccharine-sweet view of the church. Once in awhile I hear someone say, “I’m against organized religion.” Well, brother, come join us—you’ve never seen such a disorganized bunch of clowns in your life, tripping over each other trying to do their Master’s will. As Frederick ...

2596. The Thirteenth Apostle

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... they used to be; customs are changing. But I once served a church where a dear lady in the congregation actually told my wife that she thought the fact that few women wore hats to church anymore was a Communist plot! And as far as his views on the ordination of women, he said nothing about it. He did have problems with women as teachers, stemming from his own paternalistic background. Those who quote Paul to oppose the ordination of women fail to realize that if his words are taken literally they would ...

2597. Family Reunion

Mark 3:31-35

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... our real history. President Donald Shriver of Union Theological Seminary in New York in a recent address, said: “We are...a television saturated age. We greet the news night unto night and Today show unto Today Show; but we are so battered by a splattering of facts that we view as odd anyone who pauses, at the end of Dan Rather, to ask, ‘Where did all of this start? To what is it tending? Does it mean anything that can be counted on to last from one evening news time to the next?’” (Ibid., p. 8) The ...

2598. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is almost scandalous in the culture in which it is spoken.... (this is ) because we think of the shepherd as a noble profession, worthy of high regard and admiration.” The fact of the matter, however, is that “in first-century Palestine...the shepherd was viewed not only as a humble occupation but also as one of the most despised trades.” (Ibid. p. 4)Contrary to our romantic images, shepherds were generally considered to be thieves. They were know to graze on other peoples’ lands and to pilfer their ...

2599. A Sign for a Sign

Mark 8:11-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... probably refers to some incontrovertible proof that Jesus is the Messianic figure who would usher in the end-time.Jesus’ authoritative words and deeds (what we call miracles), are not really “signs” in the sense of incontrovertible proof. They, too, must be viewed with the eyes of faith. For example, scholars still argue what happened at the dinner by the sea-side. Was it a genuine miracle of multiplication or perhaps only getting folks to share what they already had. Did I say “ONLY?” In ...

2600. On Not Knowing What to Say

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... as a flat plain floating on a bed of water and protected from more water overhead by a dome-shaped firmament, or sky. Beyond the firmament and the water it held back was heaven and the throne of God. With that ancient three-storied view of the universe, it was only natural that mountaintops would achieve mystical significance. We recall that the Law was given to Moses atop Mt. Sinai. Immediately following the unveiling of the idea of the Suffering Messiah by Jesus, follows the vision of the Transfiguration ...

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