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251. Our Bridge

Hebrews 5:5-10

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

... over the other, forming a cross.) I guess you could say that the cross reminds us that Jesus is a bridge from us to God and from God to us, as well as a bridge from ourselves to others and from others to ourselves. That’s a neat way of thinking about the cross, isn’t it? Let’s glue these two sticks together here this morning to remind us of our priest ― our bridge ― Jesus. Next Sunday, I will wear this cross around my neck, to help us all remember that Jesus is our priest ― forever. (If you ...

252. Predictable Surprises

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the first Sunday of Advent is directed toward a conversation on end times, end things. Isn't this a season of new beginnings? But in today's gospel text Jesus is directing his disciple's attention away from endings and towards a whole new way of thinking about the divine hold upon time that theology calls eschatology. Eschatology isn't the study of end times for Jesus. Eschatology is the beginning of a lifetime of faithfulness, a lifetime dedicated to trusting that God is in charge, the world is in good ...

253. The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 18:1-9

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... . The Greek strephō means “to turn around.” As long as they were pursuing rank and status in heaven, they were heading in the wrong direction. Before they could even qualify for entrance into the kingdom, they would have to change completely their way of thinking. The answer to the disciples’ question is that the greatest in the kingdom of heaven is the sort of person (Gk. hostis should be taken qualitatively) who will humble himself and become like the little child who stood in their midst. Since ...

254. The Cost of Being a Disciple

Luke 14:25-35

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... 7; 9:1, 10, 19, 26, 38, and many more). The word comes from a root meaning “to learn.” A disciple, therefore, is a “learner.” But the word connotes more than the idea of a student/teacher relationship. A disciple is one who follows the lifestyle, habits, and way of thinking of his teacher (or master). The goal of the disciple is to become as much like his teacher as possible (see Luke 6:40). 14:28 a tower: a look-out for the purpose of guarding a vineyard (see Isa. 5:2), the land, or a house. If the ...

255. Saving the Best for Last - Sermon Starter

John 2:1-11

Illustration

Brett Blair

... Jews attached great importance to the high moments of life. Thus a wedding was not just a brief ceremony, but an experience shared by the entire community. The typical wedding feast could last up to seven days. That sounds strange to our modern way of thinking, but this offered a bright interlude in an otherwise dreary existence. The ceremony would begin on Tuesday at midnight. After the wedding the father of the bride would take his daughter to every house so that everyone might congratulate her. It was a ...

256. It Isn’t How the Journey Starts, It Is How It Ends

Matthew 21:23-32

Illustration

Michael A. Sherer

The great wit, C. S. Lewis, started out a doubter. He saw British Christianity a pale and bloodless business. It did not excite him. In fact, to his reasoned, calculating way of thinking, Christianity made very little sense. It smelled of superstition and made promises about the future he was sure it could not make good on. But C. S. Lewis came to see that he was missing something. He began to slide into a cynicism about life that frightened him. He wanted ...

257. Peter Listens to His Heart

Mark 8:27-38

Illustration

David A. Van Dyke

... for people who listen to their hearts? Who aren't afraid of their own emotions? Who are passionate about the things he was passionate about? People who are downright uninhibited and unafraid? Because if left merely to the rationale of our human ways of thinking and being, we'd always look for an out. We seem to be most comfortable when we are in control, when we're organizing and ordering, qualifying and categorizing, being efficient and expedient. But there is a huge difference between showing emotion ...

258. Accepted Warts and All

Matthew 3:13-17

Illustration

John Bedingfield

The next part of Matthew's description is, to my way of thinking, one of the most wonderful statements in the Gospels. A voice rings out from heaven, and for everyone to hear, says, "This is my Son, the Beloved, with whom I am well pleased." Everyone in this church this morning is someone's child. And if you've been alive very ...

259. Jesus Startles Us

Matthew 18:21-35

Illustration

Joel D. Kline

... miss the heavenly banquet… The kingdom surprises us again and again by turning our world upside down. And indeed, a story in which those who labor only one hour receive the same reward as those who toil all day long confounds our usual ways of thinking. Philip Yancey asserts that there is an "atrocious mathematics" at the heart of the gospel. Writes Yancey, "Jesus' story makes no economic sense, and that was his intent. He was giving us a parable about grace, which cannot be calculated like a day ...

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Deepak Chopra

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Elayne Boosler

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Grenville Kleiser

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

William Hazlitt

267. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Darrick Acre

Have you been out to see the Christmas lights yet? It is time for the annual excursion, when you pack the car with people on a chilly December evening, and drive around to all the neighborhoods and parks made beautiful by cities or neighborhood associations with lights, lights, and more lights, in a variety of colors and hues. There are bright reds, blues, and greens; beautiful, pastel pinks and yellows; and of course the brilliant elegance of white. As you drive along, there are elves and carolers, Santa ...

268. Just Who Does This Guy Think He Is?

John 6:56-69

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

"I think he's speaking in metaphors," Stephen said. "I don't care if he's speaking in Chicago, he's getting downright spooky," replied Andrew, not one of the twelve. Jesus had been speaking for what seemed to be days to a crowd made up of his disciples, hundreds of them, as well as his twelve nearest and dearest disciples. Bread, bread, and bread... it was all he seemed to be talking about. It was enough to make a person hungry. They all knew stories about how God provided for his people who had escaped ...

269. The Way For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-14

Sermon

April Yamasaki

A young mother said that she was worried about the kind of world her children were growing up in. When her own mother was a child, her mother walked by herself to school; now, like all of the other parents she knows, this young mom always drives her children. New technologies at school and home seem to bring new pressures and new problems. In her nice suburban neighborhood, there was a stabbing in a nearby high school that left one student dead and another seriously injured. Concerned mothers like her are ...

270. Who Do You Think He Is?

John 6:51-58

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

A number of years ago a priest, who happened to be a woman, moved to a more conservative diocese after her husband, who also was a priest, died. I knew Mary (not her real name). She was a wonderful priest, loved by her congregation. We were all sad to see her leave our area. After she got settled she scheduled an appointment with the local bishop. After a little polite chitchat she began the conversation by telling him when she had been ordained, who ordained her, where she had served as a priest, and what ...

271. The Way of the Lord

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

April Yamasaki

For Lent, one year, our worship committee planned to focus on a different name or title given to Jesus in scripture. When we read the story of Nicodemus, I was immediately drawn to Jesus as Savior, sent by God not to judge the world, but to save it. For Jesus’ triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, my sermon highlighted Jesus as king. When it came to the story of Jesus washing the disciples’ feet, I first thought of Jesus as servant. That’s definitely part of our reading for today, which tells the ...

272. Praying All the Way

John 17:1-11

Sermon

April Yamasaki

If you could ask Jesus to pray for you, what would be your prayer request? One on-line prayer wall invites anyone to pray and lists the following requests: Please pray for jc and lb. They need to communicate and have forgiveness. Direction for my family, mental health completely restored, protection for my son, and direction for a job where God wants me to serve. Please pray that my mom gets better and gets out of her wheelchair soon, and she gets her mind back, and starts to remember who we all are. ...

273. The Way Of The King

1 Samuel 8:1-22

Sermon

Charles Curley

This sermon is built around a question, a question which I am not even going to try to answer. If this kind of sermon, one of questions not answers, disturbs you, then we are in trouble. But I'm prepared to leave you disturbed, for you are in good company. The question I find so hard to answer has disturbed and troubled the people of God since the time of Samuel the prophet. The way the question is put in the passage from 1 Samuel which was our scripture reading today is: "Is there any other way, for the ...

274. On His Way

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

See in your mind’s eye a city that has doubled in population almost overnight. The city is Jerusalem and faithful Jews have converged upon the holy city from great distances to celebrate the Passover. They have come from every country district and all the lands of the Diaspora. The Jewish historian, Josephus, recorded that as many as 1,000,000 pilgrims came annually to the feast. Families were reunited, friends renewed acquaintances, spirits were high, and from the Temple priests down to the simplest ...

275. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

Great commotion was created in the holy city of Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of the Passover. On that occasion worshippers came from all over the Mediterranean world to fulfill their obligations at the Temple. A carnival atmosphere filled the precincts of the Temple with the commercial traffic that was created with the sale of animals for sacrifice and the exchange of foreign currency. Today the Holy Gospel takes us to the city during the festival. We are not in the court of the Temple but somewhere ...

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251. Our Bridge

Hebrews 5:5-10

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

252. Predictable Surprises

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

253. The Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

Matthew 18:1-9

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

254. The Cost of Being a Disciple

Luke 14:25-35

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

255. Saving the Best for Last - Sermon Starter

John 2:1-11

Illustration

Brett Blair

256. It Isn’t How the Journey Starts, It Is How It Ends

Matthew 21:23-32

Illustration

Michael A. Sherer

257. Peter Listens to His Heart

Mark 8:27-38

Illustration

David A. Van Dyke

258. Accepted Warts and All

Matthew 3:13-17

Illustration

John Bedingfield

259. Jesus Startles Us

Matthew 18:21-35

Illustration

Joel D. Kline

The symbolic language of the crucifixion is the death of the old paradigm; resurrection is a leap into a whole new way of thinking.

Deepak Chopra

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Alvar Aalto

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

Carl Sagan

When women are depressed, they eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. It's a whole different way of thinking.

Elayne Boosler

Learn to depend upon yourself by doing things in accordance with your own way of thinking.

Grenville Kleiser

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Marcus Aurelius

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.

William Hazlitt

267. A Way Made Ready