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2576. This Is a Test

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... go if you are going to receive your life back again. When somebody close to us dies, a part of us dies with that person. We want to hold on to that person because we believe that the promise that life holds for us is tied up in our holding on. We don ... life to us once, he can do it again. So Abraham called the name of that place, "The Lord Will Provide." Maybe not the way we want. Maybe not the way we desire. But the Lord will provide. The Lord will give life again. Jesus said, "Ask, and it will be given to ...

2577. Timing Is Everything

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... first time, he said, "This is the one!" He said, "I am not worthy to carry your sandals." In the Gospel of Matthew, John says of Jesus when he see him, "I shouldn't be baptizing you, you should be baptizing me." That's a strong endorsement. But if you want an even stronger one, look to the Gospel of John, where it is said that John the Baptist, when he saw Jesus, said, "Behold, the Lamb of God!" It is clear. John was looking for the Messiah. That was his vocation. There isn't anybody who is better qualified ...

2578. What Time Is It?

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... we have been taught that time belongs to us, time is neutral, time is something we can shape to our own use. We are taught, if you want to be a success, then you make the most of your time. You manage your time. Above all, as your mother told you, do not waste time ... to use numbers. You can't just use single digit numbers. You've got to put a zero in front of a single digit number. I want to know who ordered all of this? Who's making us do all of this? It just further flattened our days. It was bad enough when ...

2579. Trinity

John 3:22-36, Matthew 28:16-20, 2 Corinthians 13:11-14, 2 Corinthians 13:1-10, Exodus 34:1-28, Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... sees only his congregation. A local congregation sees only its community. People need to see that Christianity is a worldwide movement. In like manner, we seldom deal with the whole Trinity. Usually we deal with Christ only to the neglect of Father and Spirit. The sermon wants to get across that it will take the whole person to bring the whole God to the whole world. Outline: The wholeness of our religion a. The whole world for a whole God - v. 19. 1. The task - "all nations." 2. Authority to win the world ...

2580. Proper 8

Genesis 22:1-19, 2 Kings 4:8-37, Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Matthew 10:1-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... . Dying to live (vv. 8-11). It seems simple enough: die with Christ and then live with him. If you die to sin, you are free from sin. Out of this death comes life in Christ. The price of real life is death - death to the old, sinful self. Who wants to pay this price? Our problem is that we are trying to have new life without prior death. No wonder our Christianity has so little joy and power? The butterfly cannot be born except the caterpillar dies and is buried in a cocoon. This is a price of discipleship ...

2581. Proper 9

Gen 24:1-67, Zech 9:9-13, Rom 7:7-25; 8:1-17, Mt 11:1-19, 25-30

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John R. Brokhoff

... a dual nature: a carnal and spiritual nature which are in conflict with each other. It results in one's doing what one does not want to do and vice versa. This struggle between good and evil continues to the point where one exclaims, "Wretched man that I am." It is ... , between the law of the body and the law of the mind. 2. Cause (vv. 17, 23). What makes us do the wrong thing when we want to do the right thing? It is the law of sin, the power of evil that possesses the flesh. It is the unregenerated part of us ...

2582. Worry and Wonder

Matthew 6:24-34

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... the dark, warm, welcome of the womb, our very birth is a descent into anxiety, into the uncertainty of that which we can't understand and can't control. And we quickly pick up the anxiety of our parents, those big, hovering people who want the best for us, who want us to be the best, who project all their unfinished anxieties onto us. Who can forget the anxiety of crying in the night? The anxiety of being abandoned that first day in nursery school or kindergarten? The anxiety of our first spelling test or ...

2583. The 4 LAWS of a Whole Personality

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... traveling kings or wise men at the baby Jesus' bedside. December 12 is NOT the start of Christmas. It is, rather, the halfway mark for the season of Advent. We're still anticipating Christmas, still waiting for the celebration to begin. But most people don't wait well. We want what we want, when we want it. In the mid-twentieth century, when credit cards were first being marketed to the masses, the companies explained the concept to their potential customers by advertising they would take the waiting out of ...

2584. Choose Four

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... once again, time can be wasted, but it can never be recycled." (I think it's from Glen Martin, Beyond the Rat Race (Broadman & Holman, 1995), 95). Fourth, START. An Easter-evidenced faith starts some things new. Here are two new starts that you might want to incorporate in your life. "These three . . . " The phrase constantly occurs in the New Testament. I've started a new "These Three" in my life after reading Lorraine Kisly's literal translation of this section of "The Lord's Prayer" (The Prayer of Fire ...

2585. But Wait! There's More!

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... married to her?” Quite a question. My first thought is, Men, stay away from that woman! She’s bad luck. It makes you wonder if perhaps she was poisoning all these husbands. Seven times a widow! But that’s beside the point. Theoretically, what the Sadducees want to know is, Whose wife will she be in heaven? Again, the Sadducees didn’t believe in heaven in the first place, as the text plainly notes. They were trying trick questions on Jesus to see if they could get him to say something that they could ...

2586. Move Life from Duty to Destiny

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... technology” and there is “pull technology.” Pull technology is where you are “pulled” into cyberspace. To follow Jesus is to not be pushed from behind into the future; to follow Jesus is to be pulled from in front into the future, where Jesus already is. Jesus wants to pull you forward into your future . . . . but that means you meet him in front of you, coming to you from the future, pulling you out of boats and comfort zones and havens of refuge to walk by faith and not by sight. Push or Pull ...

2587. Don't Be a Turkey (Thanksgiving)

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... to rain, and it’s mouth is open, it can die. They’re often not smart enough to close their mouths in the rain, and so they can drown standing up. Eating and drinking can put a strain on turkey intelligence. No wonder, a few years back, when teenagers wanted to insult each other, they would call each other a "Turkey." But at least the turkey has an excuse for being "bird-brained." It has a bird’s brain! There is less excuse for human beings. Take the nine lepers Luke writes about in the lesson I read ...

2588. The Real Winning Attitude

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... his son Shaya: One afternoon Shaya and his father walked past a park where some boys Shaya knew were playing baseball. Shaya asked, "Do you think they will let me play?" Shaya's father knew that his son was not at all athletic and that most boys would not want him on their team. But Shaya's father understood that if his son were chosen to play it would give him a sense of belonging. Shaya's father approached one of the boys in the field and asked if Shaya could play. The boy looked around for guidance from ...

2589. When Self-esteem is Snake Oil

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... as well as mental health: "I'll tell you my screw ups if you'll absolve me of guilt and let me keep on doing what I want." Therapy can be used to silence others. A person under pressure from his family may respond, "My therapist said I'm doing the best I can." Or ... in that day-old child that was left at the convent door who needs a life and an education, or that leper who comes to me and wants to be of some use in the world. I see Christ in that child and that leper. I can't do enough for my beloved. And so ...

2590. Attics, Basements, Closets

Psalm 130:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... doing the show and tell either with your closet or someone else's you've invited to be a part of this sermon. You might also want to get people to talk about their worst closet, where it is, and when's the last time they cleaned it out.] How does all that ... serve the same purpose that dark thoughts, hidden agendas, and secret desires do in our lives. They hold those things we don't want exposed to plain sight, those things that are part of us, but not the part that we put on public display. Our Puritan ...

2591. Maker's Mark

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , basketball players and fashion models sport on their arms tattooed-on barbed wire, and classical cellists play concerts with pierced tongues, the message isn't that clear. They may still be trying to project an image, but it's a hazy one. Now is the time to decide how we want people to think about us. Who will we let brand us? Who will we let shape us? And to what image? Are you wrapped up in making your mark in the world before you reach 30 or 40 or 50 . . . or 100? Have you slipped up along the way and ...

2592. All God's Children Can Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . When healing comes, the psalmist knows that God is all he needed. In my favorite words from Larry Crabb's vast corpus of writings, "Brokenness is realizing he is all we have. Hope is realizing he is all we need. Joy is realizing he is all we want." (Lawrence J. Crabb, The Safest Place on Earth: Where People Connect and Are Forever Changed [Nashville: Word, 1999], 39.) Do you have that joy this morning? All God's children can dance. What will it take to shake you free of guilt and fear and turn your soul ...

2593. Weak Sauce

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and panic, and they predictably gulp down milk or stuff slices of bread in their mouths to attempt some relief of their agony. But everyone wants the number one. Why try number two or number three or number eight or nine, if you can boast you have a bottle of ... Being number one is such an American fixation that even if number one is useless, or even if #1 is ER painful, we still want #1. We like being number one, whether that number one is #1 Super Power, #1 Super Bowl, #1 consumer, #1 producer of greenhouse ...

2594. Changed Lives - Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... they can lose. And what I feel is the joy of life, the gift of life, the freedom of life, the wonderment of life!” (4) Leonard wasn’t exactly experiencing the kingdom of God, but he was awake and aware of how precious life is. In the same way, Jesus wanted Nicodemus to wake up and to be aware that God’s Spirit was alive and at work in the world. We don’t know if Nicodemus answered Jesus’ call to a new life. The story ends with him puzzling over the rabbi’s instructions. Here’s what he may have ...

2595. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... her if she was OK. She raised her head and looked at me and smiled. “Yes, I’m find, thank you for asking,” she said in a clear strong voice. “I didn’t mean to disturb you, Grandma, but you were just sitting here staring at your hands and I wanted to make sure you were OK,” I explained to her. Have you ever looked at your hands?” she asked. “I mean really looked at your hands?” I slowly opened my hands and stared down at them. I turned them over, palms up and then palms down. No, I guess I ...

2596. Changed Lives: The Man Born Blind from Birth

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of following Jesus: you’re suppose to be able to see. Not physically, perhaps. Many outstanding saints have not had physical sight. But you’re suppose to be able to see spiritually. Spiritual vision is an important characteristic of living in Christ’s kingdom. So I want to give you an eye test today--a spiritual eye test. Here’s the first question on the test: How do you see other people? Jesus came upon a man blind from birth. Probably hundreds of people passed by this man each day. They probably ...

2597. One Spirit, One Direction

Philippians 1:27

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... , begin to blow on it. Ready set go! Do this for only about ten seconds, or as soon as the balloon goes in different directions. What happened to the balloon? Did it go just one way? (response) Right, it went this way and that way, didn't it? Now I want to try something else. Everyone face the same way, and get very close together. This time when I drop the balloon, blow on it. Ready, set, go! Allow them to blow the balloon in one direction. Why did it go in one direction that time, but the first time it ...

2598. The Lost and Found Sheep

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

James W. Moore

... I tried to tell him that I passed out. I didn’t call the ambulance. He told me, “that’s no excuse and he never, ever wants to see me again.” She cried some more. Jane and I hugged her and at the same time we said, “Helen, forget about him, come ... right into my eyes” and said: “Jim, I’m so ashamed. I’m so embarrassed. How could I have been so foolish and so gullible? I want to come back to our church, but I don’t know how the people at the church feel about me now or how they will treat ...

2599. Give Thanks in All Circumstances

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

James W. Moore

... spread thin. - We are so stretched out and so stressed out. - We are so frazzled with all the things we have to do, need to do, want to do… that we just can’t find the time to stop and say thanks to our Lord for what He has done for us. Stopping ... t have the Church? I am so grateful for the Christian Church and for all the good the Church does in our world and I wanted to stop this morning and say thanks for the Christian Church. II. SECOND… I’M GRATEFUL FOR THE CHRISTIAN FAITH. There is a story about ...

2600. Don't Look Back, Remember Lot's Wife

Genesis 19:24-26

Sermon

James W. Moore

... next day, the coach called me into his office and he said: “Jim, I am proud of the way you ran yesterday in the 220… and I’m going to let you continue to represent us in that race… but you made one terrible mistake that I don’t ever want to see you do again. You almost lost the race because of it.” “What was that coach?” I asked. I honestly didn’t know what he was talking about. The coach said: “In the last twenty yards, you did it twice! You looked back over your shoulder twice… and ...

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