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2701. The Full Advent: Whoa! No Way? Wow!

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . . . “shepherds?” The revelation of the glorious coming of the son of man to shepherds was like giving the first stock options of Facebook to the person sleeping under a box in the middle of Detroit. It was not “common sense.” But then, nothing about Advent is common sense. Instead of bringing in a mighty and military Messiah to cordon off and clean up the riff-raff of the world, God sent something spectacularly different. Instead of choosing to show off raw power, God chose to engage humanity, to ...

2702. A Call for Repentance - Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... Andy. Andy is a fellow believer who has called him on the phone. They hadn’t spoken in some time. Suddenly the young man blurts out, “Where is God, Andy, where is the God we sing about and pray to all the time?” Then he reveals why he senses God’s absence. He is broke. He hasn’t eaten a complete meal in two weeks, his rent is behind, the water and electricity are disconnected and on top of that he has no money to fill his prescription and he is bipolar. Andy listens with compassion. He wonders ...

2703. Why He Did It

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... student,” White said. “Big deal,” said the nurse, “You got it the same way as everybody else; now you can stand in line like everybody else.” White writes: “In the end I managed to explain to her why I was there, but I can still feel the sense of shame that made me balk at standing in line with the . . . men who [actually] had a venereal disease. Yet Jesus shunned shame as he [went to the cross]. And the moral gulf that separated him from us was far greater than that separating me from the men ...

2704. Building a New Team

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... goal (like dieting), but rather as a counter-cultural missional testimony. Those who travel this Lenten road are not first of all focused on Easter but on Good Friday; they do not presume a glorious outcome that gathers the media like paparazzi vultures, but sense that the journey of service brings light in darkness, hope in despair, healing for pain, and faith where power corrupts and destroys. It is important to remember, though, that the Sundays in Lent do not belong to Lent. They are not Sundays of Lent ...

2705. Jesus Casts Out Impure Spirits

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his book Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life uses the example of a camel. He says that camels may build up a pressure cooker of resentment toward their owners. Finally that resentment will explode and the camel goes berserk. In Asia, when a camel driver senses trouble, he will give his coat to the animal. The camel takes out its resentment on the garment jumping on it, biting it, tearing it to pieces. When the camel feels it has blown its top enough, man and animal can live together in harmony again ...

2706. Christians and Grits

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had . . .” “That’s socialism!” some people will say. No, socialism is when the state orders that property to be shared. But this is Christianity in its purest sense when people feel the presence of God’s Spirit so strongly that they feel a responsibility for everyone’s well-being, and they share what they have with one another so that no one is needy. Let me contrast this attitude with a true, and ...

2707. The Good Life

John 10:11-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... not very flattering. For one reason, you won’t find a dumber animal than a sheep. You can train dogs, you can train cats, you can even train fleas, but you’ll never go to a circus to see a trained sheep. They have poor eyesight, they have no common sense, left to their own they’ll walk into a stream and drown, they’ll walk over a cliff and die. And just as sheep is the one thing that makes a shepherd a shepherd, the one thing every sheep needs simply to survive is a good shepherd. Now there’s ...

2708. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... four days.” (John 11:39, ESV) Now if you have an old King James version it says, “Lord, by this time he stinketh.” (John 11:39, KJV) Now when you stinketh you’re dead. You see there was no such thing as embalming back in Bible days in the sense that we know it. Whenever you wrapped a corpse in cloth and ointments it was not primarily to embalm is was to quell the smell. There’s no doubt Lazarus was as dead as disco. That sets up this unbelievable “I Am” statement. “Jesus said to her, ‘Your ...

2709. Let's Take This from the Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... wants to reconnect with us. Why? Because He wants us to have a personal relationship with Him. That is the story of the Bible. Over the next four weeks, I want to tell this story to us so we can understand it and then tell it ourselves. Common sense logic tells us that every watch has a watchmaker. Every building has a builder. Every structure has an architect, every arrangement has a plan, every plan has a designer, and every design has a purpose. The very first part of the story tells us exactly the same ...

2710. You Are God's Child

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the two pieces of paper on which those lies were written. She says she ripped them into pieces, and threw them on the floor to show herself and everyone in the room that the power of God was removing those lies from her life. (5) Can you sense the power in that little exercise? The world tells us many, many lies about who we are loser, unlovable, unworthy, incapable, deficient. And before long we are telling those lies to ourselves. We need to replace those lies with God’s truth about us we are children ...

2711. Moving On Up

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... of others freely and willingly. This is quite in contrast to “doulos” which refers to one who acts in servitude and under obligation and compulsion. This is an important distinction. We are to serve God and others freely and joyfully out of a sense of love and not a sense of obligation. It is interesting how Jesus made his point. He set a child among the disciples (it has been suggested that this might have been Simon Peter’s child). Taking the child in his arms, he said to them, “Whoever welcomes ...

2712. A Man Named Many

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... : So she tired of her husband’s cheery note And she stuffed a tea-tray down his throat. He remarked from the floor, where they found him reclining, “I’m just a MacLeod with a silver lining!” I hope you have come to this service today with a genuine sense of Thanksgiving for the things God has done for you. I hope that you have found the silver lining that accompanies any cloud that may have come into your life. Our lesson from the Gospel is about a man who, at one time in his life, would have been ...

2713. A Cry in the Dark

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour!' " Courage, as faith's activator, is the call in Jesus' words to us today. He sits with his shell-shocked disciples in the temple precincts, sensing the profound disturbance at his words that this marvelous place of holiness and beauty will soon lie in rubble, but pointing them to a larger cataclysm that will shake the whole earth as eternity finally sears into time. We've been there with the ...

2714. The Peaceable Kingdom

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... In fact, said Naylor, this was their request of the business faculty at Duke University: "Teach me to be a money-making machine!" A money-making machine! A machine with no heart! That's the fragmentation of our lives taken to the extreme. So here we are, in a sense, on the brink of another year, the liturgical year, the year of expectation of God's doing something good once again, the year of the coming of the kingdom announced by John. As they say, "Today is the first day of the rest of your life!" Let's ...

2715. In Praise of Perseverance

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... that time. He claimed the lesson was simple yet profound. His advice to those who would be the leaders of the next generation was "Never give in. Never. Never. Never. In nothing, great or small; large or petty, never give in; except to convictions of honor and good sense.” If there is a problem for which you seek a solution, pray as if everything depended on God and work as if everything depended on you. If you have a worthwhile goal or project, pray to God, get started on it, and don't give up. Expect to ...

2716. When the Dragon Wins

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... the mechanic about the pinging sound in the engine of your automobile, ordinary English is more appropriate. If you are facing an Internal Revenue audit, the faith language of prayer is more appropriate to preparing for the visit than during the visit. There is a sense in which the principle of speaking a language appropriate to the situation lies at the heart of today's gospel lesson. It comes from Luke 21. It sounds strange to our modern ears because it is written in a different language. Of course, it ...

2717. Getting at the Truth

John 14:16-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... arguments she uses that very information to berate him and tear him down. However, other people have experienced something different. The twelve-step groups such as AA know that when they entrust their lives to a higher power and bare their souls to that power, they sense they are beginning to get in touch not only with themselves but with ultimate reality. One young man told me about a small group of men from his church who meet once a week to share whatever is on their minds and hearts. They must agree ...

2718. The Challenge to Forgive

Luke 7:36--8:3

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... as he reclined at Simon's table. She had been grasped by God's higher power, accepted by his inclusive grace, and forgiven by his unconditional love. She poured the expensive perfumed oil of her profession on him, repenting of her past. She was, in a sense, forgiving all the men who had used and abused her, all the women who had condemned her, and all the hypocrisies of religion and society who had shunned her while secretly admiring her profession. She could forgive much because she had been forgiven much ...

2719. Discipleship: Backward or Forward to God

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... you step into the river it is flowing and changing and so are you. Life is flux and change and process. Perhaps it is because life is constant change and flux and process that we try to go home again to get our bearings, especially if we have a strong sense of place as do I. I don't know about you, but I do try to "go home again." I like to revisit familiar places to recall wonderful happenings and to bask in sentiment and nostalgia. I like to return to my Wisconsin hometown to hike the hills and valleys ...

2720. I Don't Get No Respect

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... us. We hunger for people to take our ideas seriously . . . or to care how we feel. When we are disrespected, we lose our sense of self-esteem or worth and feel dishonored as a person. Some of us are granted that respect. Others of us are not. ... difficult to win the respect of others. Conduct yourself professionally, and hold yourself to high standards and before long, you will sense that people respect you. Tommy Nelson in his book, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success, tells about Oscar Hammerstein, who was ...

2721. Sunday's Here

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... me ask you a second thing. Can you laugh at all the funny stories that you heard, all the hilarious things that you’ve witnessed, and the good things that have happened?” He began to think about all of the goodness and mercy that he’d experienced. A great sense of laughter began to well up deep from within him and it seemed as if God Himself was laughing about him. But then when the laughter had died down the voice said, “I have another question to ask you. Do you want any more of it, this life that ...

2722. Solomon Asks for Wisdom

2 Chronicles 1:1-17

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... David, and Solomon and Huram-Abi as a new Bezalel and Oholiab. The second-David motif is quite obvious and may even be inherent in the Deuteronomistic version. The parallel between Solomon/Huram-Abi and Bezalel/Oholiab is less obvious but makes literary sense. Bezalel built the tabernacle, the temple’s architectural ancestor (Exod. 31:1–11; 35:20–36:2; 38:22–23), and 2 Chronicles 1:5 credits him with making the bronze altar that stood before the tabernacle in Gibeon. Huram-Abi, the skilled craftsman ...

2723. The Believers’ Prayer

Acts 4:23-31

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... , see notes on 1:13 and the discussion on 12:12. Their specific mention of the chief priests and elders again points to the Sadducees as their chief opponents (see disc. on vv. 6, 8). 4:24 The seriousness of what they had to tell and their sense of dependence upon God were such that the whole group fell to prayer. The expression they raised their voices together has been taken to mean that they were all inspired to say exactly the same words, but that implies too mechanical a view of inspiration. They may ...

2724. The Church Persecuted and Scattered

Acts 8:1b-3

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... doubt the Hebrew Christians were also affected. Some may have fled with the Hellenists. But we need not understand by the word all that every member of the church left the city; verse 3 shows that they did not. Luke is prone to use “all” in the sense of “many” (see disc. on 9:35). But even of those who left, many may soon have returned; and of those who remained or returned, the greatest number were Hebrews (see discussion on 15:1). Meanwhile, whoever else fled the city, the apostles did not (on the ...

2725. Saul’s Conversion

Acts 9:1-19a

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... form of his name (Shaul) is used in each of the three accounts—a reminiscence, surely, of his actual experience. For the solemn repetition of the name, compare Genesis 22:11, Matthew 23:37, and Luke 10:41; 22:31. At first he must have been utterly confused, sensing only that he was in the divine presence. Hence the address Lord in his question. The reply came, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting (v. 5; cf. 22:8, “I am Jesus of Nazareth”), and with it the first lesson that Paul had to learn, namely ...

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