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2701. Epiphany:The Joy of Fulfillment

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... them, nothing that a prophet is not honored by his own people, their questions grew into resentment and, at last, into open violence. But Jesus' ministry went on, and grew, and continued to grow after his death and resurrection, even to the present time. As we view what is happening around the world, this twenty-first century might well prove to be the greatest century yet for the Christian faith. But how has it happened? How has the cross of Christ, as the poet put it, continued too "tower o'er the wrecks ...

2702. Commandments of Conduct

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... of conduct that governs our lives. The country is split into a multiplicity of little groups, each pursuing its own values and setting its own ethical agendas. Frequently there is conflict, each little group trying to gain power for its point of view and scorning the standards and lifestyles of other groups. Vainly, government and media and schools try to return to a basic set of "American values" or "family values," but relativity reigns, and everyone does his or her own thing. A sardonic statement ...

2703. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the ground you enjoy all those nice toys. No, there’s much more to life than that. Let me give you an example of a truly successful man. Most of you are familiar with the name Albert Schweitzer. What you may not know is that, in his theological views, Albert Schweitzer was not very orthodox. Today he would be regarded with suspicion as--dare I use the word from the pulpit--a liberal. I need for you to understand that so that you will appreciate a story about this remarkable man. It is a story told by ...

2704. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... lowly either. Neither extreme is healthy. Neither extreme is socially nor spiritually constructive. People with no ego are not apt to contribute much to our world. People with too much ego are apt to be arrogant and to abuse others. HUMILITY HAS TO DO WITH HOW WE VIEW OURSELVES IN OUR RELATION TO GOD. Simon Peter was no shrinking violet. Neither was St. Paul. Nor was Isaiah. These were men who changed our world, but before they could be used of God, they needed to know who they were in relation to God. They ...

2705. A Church Shaped By The Great Commission

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and evangelical spokespersons corrected this “omission” by expressing the close connection between justification and sanctification in our salvation. Salvation is for more than forgiveness; it is also a matter of thorough moral and spiritual transformation. Salvation, in this view, is far more than forgiveness of our sins; it is also a matter of thorough moral and spiritual transformation. The document stresses this point by denying that faith is mere intellectual assent and asserting that it is “an ...

2706. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s one of our primary problems in the church today, especially our mainline churches. The mainline has become the sideline. We have allowed the world around us to squeeze us into its mold. . . . . . intimidated by the prevailing materialistic world-view of the Enlightenment and afraid of being labeled fundamentalists, we have diminished our Biblical emphasis, almost ignoring it altogether; . . . we have smothered the spiritual essence of persons, and left no room for the miracle-working of the Holy Spirit ...

2707. Imitators of God

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... more highly of myself than I ought to think, I remember that experience. Yet, there is a need – a desperate need in all of us – for identity -- to know who we are. As desperate as that need is on the part of any one of us, in the Christian view of reality, the more crucial need is for the people of God to have an identity that is certain and distinct. Scripture makes that clear. Peter puts our personal and corporate identity together in his first letter. In chapter 2 verses 9 and 10 of that letter he ...

2708. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... your way to the Lord; trust in him and he will do this: He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn, the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.” The word “providence” comes from the same root as our word “provide.” The Christian view of reality asserts there is a power greater than our powers and that power is baptized in love. God’s providence is flavored by God’s grace. So, the Psalmist could be confident: “Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of ...

2709. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... problems in the church today, especially our mainline churches. The mainline has become the sideline. We have allowed the world around us to squeeze us into its mold... . . . intimidated by the prevailing, Supreme Court-affirmed, scientific materialistic world-view of the Enlightenment and afraid of being labeled fundamentalists, we have diminished our biblical emphasis, almost ignoring it altogether; . . . we have smothered the spiritual essence of persons, and left no room for the miracle-working of the ...

2710. Fulfill Your Ministry

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of his friend the passion and priority of his life. The authority of Paul to make this sacred charge is Jesus Christ. Listen to him in verse one: “In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of His appearing and His Kingdom, I give this charge.” I If Paul were verbally speaking to us, after this opening solemn statement of accountability and judgment in verse one, he would shout it. The specific commands in verse two would ring out like military order ...

2711. In the Wrong Place At the Right Time

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our minds: “It is not what life does to us that really matters, it is what by the Holy Spirit we do with what life does to us that makes the difference. A lot of it has to do with how we see life and time. In the Christian view of reality there are two kinds of time: preparation and fulfillment. We get this from the Bible, from the Hebrew understanding of time. The Greeks saw time as a series of neutral modules void of any connection or sign or significance -- just one thing after another with no meaning ...

2712. God's Say-So

Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... As she held him there so that he could see, she was overheard saying to him, “Take a long look, honey. That man died for you.” The New Testament and the Christian Gospel have the singular concern to lift us above the things that could crowd it from our view and point us to the cross, saying, “Take a long look. He died for you.” So, “though our sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow -- though they be red like crimson, they shall become as wool.” Because God has said that, then we can ...

2713. God Has Come To Save His People

Luke 7:11-17

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Father, we confess that we have been guilty of sowing seeds of discord and disunity when we have failed to listen to the concerns of others. Give us open minds, we pray, that together with those who have different views than our own we may seek common ground that will enable us to show forth your love to the world. Amen. Offertory Prayer O God, accept these our offerings, we pray. Bless those who gave them, and so follow them with your blessing that they may ...

2714. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... them on what the law and the prophets meant historically, how they were formulated and how they were interpreted, but we Christians go one step further because we simply have to. We have been gripped by the revelation that Jesus is God in the flesh and that his views have supreme authority on how Scripture is to be read. We do not read the book of God apart from the Son of God. It is fulfilled only in him, which means that while it is of great importance, he is of greater importance, and between the two ...

2715. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... thought life without pouring gas on the fire. Every Annual Conference we kick out pastors for breach of trust in the area, and it is a sad sight indeed. A dose of holy fear is good for us all, particularly when one poll says that forty percent of pastors viewed porn in the last year.8 The figure is ten percent higher for laymen, and thirty-four percent of the readers of Today’s Christian Woman magazine admitted to the same. The problem is not just out there in a wicked world but in here in a compromised ...

2716. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... of shrimp with food stamps. So what? My husband had been working at a plant for fifteen years when it shut down. The shrimp casserole was for our wedding anniversary dinner and lasted three days. Perhaps the grocery clerk who criticized that woman would have a different view... after walking a mile in my shoes.” Another woman wrote: “I'm the woman who bought the $17.00 cake and paid with food stamps. I thought the check-out woman would burn a hole through me with her eyes..... The cake was for my little ...

2717. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... say Lord, Lord and trot out my resume, “Did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?” To which the answer is Yes. I live in a world of orthodox Christian faith with a supernatural world view and lively spiritual walk in which I fully expect to see more and more of what I read in the Bible made real in experience. About half my life is a to-do list of duties; the other half consists of divine appointments and utter surprises. If you followed ...

2718. To Live Is to Dance

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we can escape much of the balance of reality. Immersing ourselves in fun and entertainment, giving ourselves to a whirled wind social life so that we never have the time to sit down and face ourselves as we actually are. Losing ourselves in hours of television viewing, thus refusing to face up to the deterioration that’s taking place in the relationship of spouse and children, because we don’t give the time that we need to give to that relationship. Also we run and hide from the hard social issues of ...

2719. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... , they assigned the freshman the task of blocking one of the seniors. They picked the meanest, toughest senior they had. In fact, that particular senior went on to star as a professional defensive end. The attempted blocking assignment took place in full view of all the coaches and players. The freshman was completely run over by the senior. After four or five devastating square-offs, the coaches called off the massacre. The freshman never came back to another practice. He left the school, and PennState ...

2720. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... those other nifty cosmic laws, then backed off to watch how it would all come out. (1) Here’s what’s interesting: these differing conceptions of God, the pollsters found, are ultimately more important to people’s political and social views than their party registrations or church affiliations. How you think about God affects how you think about life. That explains a lot about our political environment today. Where would you place yourself in this spectrum of ideas about God? Authoritarian, benevolent ...

2721. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... antagonistic toward them. They disappear from the scene at the destruction of Jerusalem in a.d. 70. But with the few things we know, we can deduce that they were an aristocratic, priestly group who supported the sovereignty of Rome and had a limited view of Scripture. They held that only the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, were legitimate for faith and life. Thus, they opposed popular Jewish beliefs in angels and in the resurrection from the dead because they believed they were not grounded ...

2722. The Blessed Promise

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... on his own. Nothing can prepare him for this new life which must be, quite simply, unimaginable. “Had there been a companion watching my child’s journey from the womb side, he would certainly have seen that process as death, not life. Only when viewed from this side do we recognize and name it as birth. “The transformation my son has experienced can only be matched by that other great passage in our lives--our death. Death must be this same complete, unimaginable change of physical state . . . “We ...

2723. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... M fans stand ready, as a body, to show their willingness to play if needed, to be the twelfth man. (3) It’s a wonderful story, but I think it can have a misguiding lesson for the church. I sometimes wonder if many church folks don’t already view themselves as the twelfth man. They come dressed up every Sunday morning standing ready, as a body, to show their willingness to play if needed, to be the twelfth man, but they never get on the field. They never volunteer [to teach a Sunday School class, work on ...

2724. Achieving Peak Performance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... not very often anyway. We have to write a new sermon every week to preach to the same audience. I am sure there are some liabilities to being a professional speaker. Every profession has its downside, the grunge work it has to do. From a preachers point of view, I can tell you it looks like a pretty soft job. One of the superstars in that professional speakers circuit is a man named Charles Garfield. He is a psychologist from San Francisco. He makes up to 150 speeches a year, he says. Actually, if the truth ...

2725. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , the faith, the hope and the love? I know where she gets it. It is as plain as it can be, right there in the movie. But what amused me was that the critics who reviewed that movie, never saw it. Which is further proof to me that the Christian view of life is a unique way of seeing the world. They saw the movie in terms of a class struggle. They said that it was a struggle between the rich and the poor. Or, they saw it as a commentary on the plight of the small farm in America. None ...

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