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2601. The Power of the Stone

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ! BOOM! The power of absolute authority. The power of the Word of God. The stone is the witness, and God has opened and released even the guards’ sentence of death. Everything they thought they knew, believed, could be sure of, were certain of about their authority, belief system, power, and control –gone in one flash of a second, as the stone was rolled from the tomb. The guards knew what they saw. Later they would hedge, because the story was so fantastic! But in their hearts they knew, and in a sense ...

2602. Sola Fide

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... that Jesus and the Holy Spirit were equal expressions of God. The doxology we sing in worship today, the Gloria Patri, was made the official statement of orthodox theology for the church at the Edict of Thessalonica of 380. It was composed specifically to disavow the beliefs promoted by the Armenians. The words of the Gloria Patri should be familiar to us: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son: and to the Holy Ghost; As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen. The ...

2603. Broken

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... broken to remade, dead to alive, lost to reinstated, infected to healed, wounded to restored, natural to supernatural, God is master of the new and renewed. Both the Potter and the Breath. Just as we confirm our very faith and belief through the witness of Jesus’ post-resurrection appearances to his disciples, we also confirm the basic, undeniable, unequivocal, inevitable, and immutable truth born only of the Christian faith: that Jesus’ sacrifice (his woundedness, brokenness, and death) and subsequent ...

2604. With Burning Hearts

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... the best time for traveling, even though it was seven miles between Emmaus and Jerusalem. This couldn’t wait until morning - they had to get back. They had to tell the others. The good news of Jesus’ resurrection and living presence was not just a personal, inner belief. It was meant to be lived out. It was meant to be shared. And so they hurried to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they found the other disciples just as excited about the good news - while the two of them had been on the road between Emmaus ...

2605. More Fully Understanding Christ

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... social support through the help of the 1U Project and its supporters around the world. (7) In his best-selling book Atomic Habits, James Clear writes, “Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity.” (8) What kind of person do you wish to become? If you wish to become more like Jesus, then your faith must be put into action. And the final thing we learn from ...

2606. Herding Cats

Matthew 9:35-10:8-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... then (his evangelistic method if you will) works the same today as it did those years ago. We live in a divisive culture. As always through the ages, people will think independently, will have their own ideas, their own religions, their own beliefs, and their own goals and agendas. You will never succeed in “convincing” them of your way, the church’s way, Jesus’ way, or a common way. Because Jesus’ message is not about convincing but about convicting––through demonstration, through gifts of ...

2607. The Last Laugh

Luke 24:1-35

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , all about birds. When at last the final exam came, he studied all night. He walked in for the exam, and, when the professor handed it out, it was nothing but a sheet full of feet, bird feet and legs. "Identify these birds," it said. He couldn't belief it. An exam with nothing but feet! Disgusted, he went up to the professor's desk and said, "This is the dumbest, stupidest, exam I have ever seen." The professor was enraged. "You upstart! You impudent student! I'm going to report you to the Dean! What is ...

2608. Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

William G. Carter

... of my favorite philosophers.” Brooks said, “What do you take away from him?” With a rush of words, Obama said, “I take away the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. We should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard. We cannot swing from naïve idealism to bitter realism.”21 I was thinking ...

2609. You've Got Spirit

Luke 3:15-22 · Acts 8:14-17 · Psalm 29 · Isaiah 61:1-4

Sermon

Will Willimon

... goodness pass before us in the realm of nature and in the varied experiences of our lives. When justice burns like a flaming fire within us, when love evokes willing sacrifice from us when, to the last full measure of devotion, we proclaim our belief in the ultimate triumph of truth and righteousness, do we not bow down before the vision of Thy goodness? Thou livest within our hearts, as Thou dost pervade the world, and we through righteousness behold Thy presence."[1] Ed Arnett says, "I never hear about ...

2610. The Reckoning

Matthew 14:13-21, Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Jesus –messiah and Lord, Son of God, God himself with the ability to heal, do miracles, rectify, and save the world through his sacrificial act. This man, this teacher. This is who he really is. The disciples’ primary reckoning is with their own lack of belief, with their own roles as disciples and what it means to be a disciple of this unusual man, who calls himself God. Will they succumb to doubt, or will they believe? In order for them to create disciples, they actually need to be disciples. These ...

2611. A Woman Dancing

Exodus 15:20, 21

Sermon

Will Willimon

... her sister slap the tambourines and make them sing. Watch their feet kick up the dust, watch them rise and break free of earth. "Soar we now, where Christ has led," you just sang of Risen Jesus, Lord of the Dance. Can you believe it? Don't ask yet about belief or disbelief. For now, just .listen to the tambourine. Let its beat minister to your cynicism. Come away with us and stand on the edge, particularly on this day. I know, even as I preach, that many of you have come here mainly for the music. You don't ...

2612. Dying, We Live

1 Corinthians 15:51-58

Sermon

Will Willimon

... this project] brings about the preservation of health, which is without doubt the chief blessing and the foundation of all other blessings in this life" (Discourse on the Method, Part VI). Behind this great project of science, begun in Bacon and Descartes, was the belief that we held in our hands the conquering of mortality, that life can be lived without limits through human effort. In the middle ages, a great deal was made over the ars moriendi the "art of dying," literature. It was alleged that this was ...

2613. Jesus' Final Exam

Luke 20:19-40

Sermon

Will Willimon

... time widow marries a third brother. He dies without issue. This one unfortunate bride works through a total of seven brothers and seven funerals. Question - whose wife will she be after the resurrection? This one wasn't on the study sheet. It's a toughey. It makes belief in the resurrection seem dumb. The poor woman can't be married to all seven brothers at once. It doesn't seem right for her to be married only to one. What's the answer? Jesus again throws the whole thing back in the face of his examiners ...

2614. Hark, The Herald... What?

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... air harping about something.” (Sorry about that; I couldn’t resist — grin.) So saying, if there is such a thing as a universal idea, one that cuts across cultures and religions, common through the centuries, it is this belief in angels. Not only do Christians, Jews, and Muslims (the monotheistic religions) have angels, but Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism do too; winged figures appear in primitive Sumerian carvings, Egyptian tombs and Assyrian reliefs. Angels litter the metaphysical landscape from ...

2615. God Bless Santa!

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... period of Advent was added to the Christmas cycle and the first Sunday in Advent from then on became the start of the new liturgical year, a practice which, as you know, continues to this day.3 Along the way, Christian beliefs combined with existing pagan feasts and winter rituals to create many of the long-standing traditions of Christmas celebrations which we continue to observe. Christmas trees, decorations, parties, gift giving, and so on. Mistletoe? Ancient Europeans believed that the mistletoe plant ...

2616. The New Family

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Will Willimon

... for my family?" We have thereby papered over, indeed forgotten, how deeply ambiguous, even negative, the early church was about family. In his book, The First Urban Christians, Wayne Meeks notes that pagan Roman society had no more cherished value than its belief in the primacy of the family. Every Roman institution had its basis in the Roman family. Except for the military, there was no means of social advancement in ancient Rome other than marriage into a family, because your family determined your status ...

2617. Keeper of the Keys

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... grant access, based not on his own thoughts, but according to God’s will. This in fact is Peter’s most admirable quality, and no doubt the quality that Jesus admired in him the most. Peter is firm in faith but not immovable or rigid in his beliefs about God and God’s people. Peter is a great leader. But Peter is also teachable. The greatest teachers you’ve ever known have most likely been also the most teachable –those who, when faced with a new situation or unknown element, will stop and learn ...

2618. Get Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... insurrection. Of course, Jesus said that would happen. At the same time, the tiny Christian community was being severely persecuted. The times were dark, so dark that most Christians believed that Christ would surely return in their lifetime. There is much evidence of this belief in the New Testament. But it was not to be. Instead, Christ instructed his disciples not to be afraid. This is not to say that we should ignore Christ’s words about his return. He wants us to live expectantly, but it would be ...

2619. God's Will for Your Life

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... thorny ways; I love the small pleasures of life, If the doors are too low, I bend. If I can remove a stone from the path, I do so; If it is too heavy, I go around it. I find something in every day that pleases me. The cornerstone, my belief in God, Makes my heart glad and my face shining.” An unknown author adds, “Who could put it any better than that? Christian joy comes from the simple and beautiful pleasures in life. It comes from loving and being loved. It comes from walking daily with God. It comes ...

2620. Imperfect Pastors

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... of Jesus. He recalls the day he studied John 5—Jesus’ healing of a man at Bethesda—that completely refuted his family’s teaching about healing. He writes, “I wept bitterly over my participation in greedy ministry manipulation and my life of false teaching and beliefs, and I thanked God for his mercy and grace through Jesus Christ. My eyes were completely opened.” Today, Costi Hinn serves as a pastor in California. (6) We can spend our lives in church and still not know the God who created us in ...

2621. No Other Gods

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... we throw away every lesser god that competes for control of our lives. In her book No Other gods, Kelly Minter writes, “For so much of my life I worshipped God: showing up for church, singing hymns, helping in the nursery, reading my Bible, confessing my belief in him. Yet if you could have witnessed what I was controlled by, what motivated and moved me, you would have seen that in many cases it was not God at all, but my idols. Not carved images, but people, career paths, materialism, acceptance, and ...

2622. Walk the Talk

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... told in today’s scripture was meant primarily for the chief priests and elders of the Temple, who refused to believe who he was. They would not pay heed to God’s messages. They, more than any others Jesus had encountered, held fast to their own beliefs, rituals, laws, and self-serving rules. They had lost track of what God had tried to tell them for years through the scriptures, the prophets, the kings, and others. They continued to see the world as their idol, believing in an alternative view of God ...

2623. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Then an amazing thing happens. All the people of Nineveh repent. From the king in his palace to the lowly man sweeping the streets, they all turn from their sin. When that happens, God changes his mind. He decides not to destroy Nineveh. This embarrasses Jonah beyond belief. He has told the people of Nineveh that God is going to destroy them. Now God is not going to do it. Jonah feels utterly humiliated. Besides, he didn't like the people all that much anyway. Angrily he says to God, "I knew it! I knew ...

2624. Nothing Special Friday

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

Mary Austin

... are more bills than money, and stress is eating away at you. For others, God seems far away. Whatever it is, you’re in good company. All around us, other people are suffering in mental hospitals and prisons …somewhere, someone is being tortured for their beliefs …a young person is being bullied, and feeling their spirit wither …a frazzled parent is hitting a child in anger …a migrant worker is feeling an ache in their back, and it’s just the start of the day. There’s nothing special about any ...

2625. A Letter in Time

1 Peter 3:18-22

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... of the people in the church had once been active and important members of the community. But when they became Christian, the community turned against them and no longer associated with them. They were no longer welcome in the community. Because of their beliefs, the Christians disagreed with many of the things the community was doing and disagreed with many of the institutions of the community. The Christians were seen as dangerous, as members of a group that was out to destroy the community and what it ...

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