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2701. The Dangers of Wealth

James 5:1-6

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... describes the combination of economic and religious persecution that many early Christians suffered at the hand of the upper classes. Such persecution had long been practiced in Israel (cf. Amos 2:6; 5:12; Mic. 2:2, 6–9) and was all the worse in that the innocent had little ability to resist the machinations of the rich.

2702. The Womb of Amazing Grace

John 4:5-42

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... little boy that some things, such as growing a garden can take time and one has to do the work then leave it alone for God to go to work. That is exactly what happens when we set about leading someone to faith in Jesus! To the best of our ability we can prepare the heart and sow the gospel seed but nothing will happen until God goes to work. It all takes time. The prophet Jeremiah prophesied for almost half a century with little sign of success. Some people would look at Jeremiah's life and say it was a ...

2703. No Greater Love

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... :16 but from 1 John 3:16: "We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us -- and we ought to lay down our lives for one another." Surely the closer we walk to Jesus, the more we will want to follow, to the best of our ability, the model of his life and ministry and love as he loved. Then this love develops further again as we model it, and see it modeled, among the people of the church. "Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good deeds" (Hebrews 10:24). This statement ...

2704. New Year's Resolutions

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

James L. Killen

... from fear, guilt, self-deprecation, and all of the other bondages of our lives. God is at work to equip us with the desire and enablement to move out into the real world where we are to live the life of love. God is trying to love us into the ability to love as God loves. Are you willing to let that kind of salvation happen in your life? Go home now and look under your Christmas tree. I suspect that there is another gift there that you have overlooked. It is a gift from God. It is the gift of ...

2705. What Was That All About?

Matthew 3:13-17

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James L. Killen

... a human decision to make in order to play his appointed role in the saving work of God. He must have spent a lot of time brooding upon that and thinking things through with the very best critical thinking he could muster, while praying his way through to an ability to trust God to enable him and a willingness to say yes to whatever God would require of him. This must have been a deeply human struggle, an endeavor not unlike the ones we go through to make the big decisions in our lives. It must have taken ...

2706. Which Parade Are You In?

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... for others? It is a choice we make more often than we think in the way we treat those we come into contact with each day. I hope we will choose Jesus. I hope that we will choose him by opening our own hearts and praying, “Lord, give me the ability to love others as much as Christ loved me. Help me to live a life of service as he lived a life of humble service even though he was Lord of all creation. Help me to make whatever changes that you would have take place in my life that I ...

2707. The Life You've Always Wanted

Acts 5:27-32

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... the biggest, toughest, riskiest task ever. I believe, with your help, I can make a difference!” This is the attitude of a determined disciple for Jesus Christ! For many of us, attitude is the problem. Sometimes we have less than desirable attitudes about our ability to be disciples for Jesus Christ. We complain about our busy schedules. We moan about being tired. We can’t participate in a church event because that’s the weekend we planned to go to the beach. We are good at making excuses. However, one ...

2708. A Vexing Vision

Acts 9:1-6 (7-20)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... complained that it looked nothing like Gertrude Stein. Picasso responded to the criticism by saying, “Everybody thinks she is not at all like her portrait, but never mind; in the end she will manage to look just like it.” Picasso, with his uncanny ability, had portrayed Stein’s inner essence, not her facial characteristics. More importantly, he portrayed Stein, not as she had been, or as others saw her in the present, but as she would become in the future.[4] Dostoyevsky once said, “To love a person ...

2709. When All Is Said and Done

Acts 16:9-15

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... felt like quitting. Yet Paul knew that God had given him all the resources he needed to succeed. You are no different from Paul. God has given you all the re- sources you need: a mind, a dream, and, most of all, the Holy Spirit. You have the resources and ability to be as determined as Paul. Perhaps you just need to remember the determination you had be- fore you knew what it meant to give up. For instance, when you were a baby, you did not know what it meant to quit. When you were one year old and trying ...

2710. I Wonder Why Bad Things Happen to Good People

Romans 8:28-29

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Charley Reeb

... times into glory is the story of Joseph in Genesis. Joseph was the favored son, and his brothers were jealous. In a jealous rage they beat him and sold him into slavery as a youth. Through an amazing turn of events, as Joseph grew older, his abilities impressed the authorities of Egypt and the Pharaoh made him second in command in Egypt! Joseph had the power to get revenge on his brothers, but he didn’t. Instead, he forgave them. His brothers approached him, scared to death, and Joseph said, “Don’t be ...

2711. Elephants in the Room: Sexploitation

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

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Charley Reeb

... exploits another person. Take a look at what our text says next: “That each of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God.” Okay, here is a concept! God gave us the ability to control our urges. God did not create us to be dominated by our hormones. So here we find a definition of lust. If sex as God created it is holy and honorable, then lust is sexual desire that is misdirected and uncontrolled. You see, it is not about ...

2712. While You Wait

Mark 1:1-8

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Charley Reeb

... important decision about your life and you are searching for a sign, something that will tell you which way you should go, and you have come up empty. You keep looking and you can’t seem to find anything from God. Perhaps you have been praying for the ability to lose weight and get in better shape but it doesn’t seem to be any easier and you can’t make progress. Maybe you are in a funk in your life — unmotivated, sad, maybe even depressed. You’ve asked God to give you a new spirit, more energy ...

2713. Nothing Is Impossible with God!

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... blessed be-cause you are beautiful. Mary, you are blessed because you are intelligent. Mary, you are blessed because you are sophisticated.” No! Mary was blessed because she believed God would do what he said he would. God does not bless us because of our ability; God blesses us because of our availability. We see this confirmed through-out the Bible. Have you ever taken a look at the people God uses? Most of them belong on the island of the “Lost and Misfit Toys” yet God did powerful things through ...

2714. The Joy of Christmas

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... . They had no reputation to protect. They had no fear of being called crazy. More than anyone they were open to the impossible — God was being born among them! What did the shepherds have that no one else had? What did they possess that gave them this ability? What can they teach us about how to be impacted by the joy of Christmas? One thing we notice is that the shepherds had eyes to see. After they had heard from the angels, they said, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see what has taken place…” They ...

2715. Defeating Discouragement

Mark 1:21-28

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Charley Reeb

... . We have to make room for God’s strength. Now, what in the world do you think we would have to give up in order to gain God’s strength? Can’t we just get God’s strength? Would you believe there are obstacles in our lives that hinder our ability to receive God’s strength? Would you believe there are things that clutter up our souls so much that there is no room for God’s strength? For some it is pride. For others it is control. Still, for some, it is a sinful habit which diminishes them but they ...

2716. Learn To Play Again

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... and down, clapping his hands saying, “Do it again! Do it again!” We have a God of joy, fun, and play! But something happened to our world. We lost our joy. We lost our sense of fun and laughter. Sin and cynicism crept in and caused us to lose our ability to play. God wanted us to get our joy back, so he decided to come to us in Jesus Christ. One of the things God said to us in Jesus was, “I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly” (John 10:10). In Jesus God was showing ...

2717. Pop Verses: Isaiah 40:28-31

Isaiah 40:28-31

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... just false hope? Is Isaiah just waxing poetic about God to make us feel better, or is he really telling us something we can grab on to today? Yes, Isaiah 40 is a beautiful read, but how exactly do we find renewed strength? How do we find the ability to rise above our problems like eagles? How do we get the courage to walk through life unafraid? Well, not only is this passage from Isaiah beautiful, it is also very practical. The prophet doesn’t just tell us that God can give us power and strength. He ...

2718. The Beatitudes

Matthew 5:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... desert regions without water. Thirst as an image for spiritual longing is seen in passages like Psalm 42:1–2, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul … thirsts for … God.” The righteousness for which men and women long is the ability to live out one’s days in conformity to God’s will. This includes the final vindication of God’s redemptive mission openly acknowledged by all at his triumphal return (cf. Phil. 2:10–11). The complete satisfaction of God’s people is pictured as ...

2719. The Man With Leprosy

Matthew 8:1-4

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... stand out more distinctly. 8:1–2 As Jesus came down from the mountainside where he had been teaching, he was followed by a large group of people. A man suffering with leprosy approached Jesus and, falling to his knees, acknowledged Jesus’ ability to cure him. True leprosy (caused by Hansen’s bacillus) would probably have kept the man away from the crowd that surrounded Jesus. According to Jewish law, lepers lived in isolation and warned all who approached by crying out “unclean! unclean!” (Lev ...

2720. Divorce

Matthew 19:1-12

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... intention in creation (Gen. 1:28). It is better to take Jesus’ statement in verse 11 as referring to his teaching on divorce and remarriage in verses 3–9. Not everyone is able to accept his strict position on the subject, but only those to whom it [the ability to accept] has been given. It is not a question of whether or not a person should refrain from marriage for the sake of evangelism or because the end of all things is not far off. The issue has to do with true disciples who have had to divorce ...

2721. Signs of the End of the Age

Matthew 24:1-35

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... of the Antichrist (2 Thess. 2:9–11), as does John in the Apocalypse (Rev. 13:13–15). Little wonder, since the first contact of Satan with the primal pair was one of subtlety and deceit. The miracle-working power of false prophets reminds us of the ability of the Egyptian magicians to match the early plagues of Moses (Exod. 7:22; 8:7). The followers of Jesus will not have to depend upon “prophetic voices” to tell them of the arrival of the Parousia! When Christ comes there will be no more doubt about ...

2722. Gratitude and Coping

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... fireplace with this saying: "Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered, and no one was there." This is so true of every stress-filled situation. What one finds is that facing up is often not as fearful as what you expect when you are tempted to back down. The ability to start acting, then, even when it seems partial, is an utterly crucial step in any problem-solving, and once again Jesus was able to do this. He took the five loaves and two fish in hand and began to do something. And so could we, if by his ...

2723. Playing One Hand

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

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Tom Garrison

... in his ministry, Jesus had come home to the fact that about three out of four of the things he would like to see happen would not materialize because of factors beyond his control. Here is the humble recognition that the reach of human aspiration does exceed our ability to grasp or achieve. Three out of four of the seeds that left the sower's hand in hope did not come to flower. It is interesting to note Jesus' numbers at this point. They parallel rather accurately what is true in the realm of baseball. If ...

2724. Captains or Parties

Matthew 21:33-46

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Kristin Borsgard Wee

... shortcomings or our friends or our sensitive emotional makeup. Ultimately we even blame God for some of the bad things in our lives. In our story, the tenants claim everything as their own, even though they are simply renting. They pride themselves on their ability to work, the fruit they produce, and even the vineyard itself. They are like the poem "Invictus" written by William Henley: It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain ...

2725. Talented People

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... gifts. In the parable, one person is given five, another two, and another one talent. And some persons' gifts are intensified because they have received them all in one field. Surely Shakespeare must have received five in literature, Michelangelo five in art, Edison five in inventive ability. Faced with these kinds of persons who are so richly endowed, the one-talent person is apt to feel "What can I do? I am so poorly endowed I can't make much of a contribution to life." But in fact, every talent is needed ...

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