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2726. Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jews who had become Christians wanted to embrace the new faith, but they also wanted to preserve the traditions of their fathers. They wanted to maintain the ceremonial laws and rituals that had come down from Moses. Even more important, they wanted to force their views on all other Christians. They insisted on circumcision of all males as a requirement for being part of the church. Paul wanted a clean break from the past. He wanted people to know that Christianity was a matter of the inner spirit, not the ...

2727. A Cloud of Witness

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... extremists and held hostage for sixteen months. During that time he was locked in a barren room and unable to see another human being. His hands were manacled. He was blindfolded most of the time. Even when the blindfold was taken off he had no view from his tiny cell. But this did not defeat him. An electric light cord dangled from the ceiling. The bulb had been stripped off, leaving three fragile filament wires exposed. For Weir, these wires became a symbol of hope. They reminded him of the life ...

2728. Honest Abe

Genesis 12:1-4a

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... honesty, just as God is big enough to take our questions. True faith can withstand honesty, but it needs to be trained. Lots of times it would be very convenient if Christianity were not true. Lately we've heard quite a bit about leaders who take the convenient view. They did not take the trouble to train in their faith, like an athlete trains in his sport. Faith is something you do. If you never worked your muscles they would become weak and useless. The reason so many fall away from the faith is not that ...

2729. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... the one that has opened for us." Can these bones live? Of course! More doors open for us all the time. Hope and joy can spring from loss and pain -- it only takes a willingness to step away from the apparent loss and grow with the situation -- take the long view of life. Ezekiel has a message of hope for people who have lost all grounds of hope. There is a God who can achieve the impossible. But the human end of it is to continue in the knowledge of that God. Can these bones live? O Lord, thou knowest. We ...

2730. Chimps, Mount Saint Helens, and the Holy Gust

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Bill Mosley

They didn't get a TV Guide so they planned their television viewing by the commercial previews. Sometimes the networks don't tell you everything in the previews, like, this particularly good adventure is a two-part mini-series, and you need to watch tomorrow night, too. And the most dreaded words in the English language flash across the screen: To be continued. ...

2731. Blinders

Acts 17:22-31

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... says sheepishly, "Just testing." And the voice from heaven replies, "So was I!" If we were sea turtles, Paul would say, "Keep your eyes on the water and don't get distracted by those sand castles. Take the blinders off and look at the big picture, the eternal view. God has given us the sea. Don't seek only the sand castles." You know people who are distracted by the sand castles and think of God like this. We call this "gimme religion." A person who has "gimme-religion" only ever asks God for what he or ...

2732. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... 4). "As an upward, holy, heavenly, shared, and hopeful call, God's invitation calls us to himself and his purposes. God invites us to share his joy and his purpose. Central to that purpose is the salvation of the world."2 "The New Testament does not take an institutional view of God's call. The call is not to a task or an office, but to a joyful relationship with God. In the New Testament, there is no concept of a â€˜calling' apart from the work of salvation."3 As Moses was called, so are we called, for ...

2733. The Model of Success

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... side of Wesley. He lists the things that you should not waste your money on, including those things that are pleasurable to the eye and to the palate. I wish he hadn't said that, but it's there. Besides that, and more importantly from my point of view, he says you shouldn't invest in those things simply that are there to gratify the desire to gain the admiration of other people. We call that "status symbols" today. Christians don't do that. Furthermore Wesley made it clear that there is not much that we ...

2734. Honest Abe and Sarai

Genesis 18:1-15

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship The view is long when we sit in the heat, resting beneath the oaks of Mamre. We can see all the way to heaven and back, watch travellers emerge from the haze of the desert, and come to know that God's promises are sure. Collect Three travellers, one God, the New ...

2735. Letting Go

Genesis 22:1-14

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... Friends move away. People die. Yet you are the constant in our lives. In our obedience we seek to magnify your glorious name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession What lesson can we take from this story? What can we learn about you, God of mystery? We study together and view your word from many angles during our life. Reveal to us the majesty of your will. Protect us and guide us as we care for others. In the presence of mystery and awe we pray. Amen. Hymns "A Charge To Keep I Have" "Go To Dark Gethsemane" "Children ...

2736. A Hope for Peace

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

James L. Killen

... work things out"? What would happen if every time you hear someone depersonalizing and berating members of another race or group, you would say something like, "They are people just like we are"? Or "Have you tried to see things from their point of view?" You might take some flack for doing that, but then, you might do some good, too. Look for every opportunity to help people work out their conflicts. Christian people and Christian churches ought to be actively involved in working for peace in communities ...

2737. Light Is as Light Does

Ephesians 5:8-14

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... that these gray areas exist to give us choices, we know deep down inside that the right choices always lead to the light, not the darkness. From inside those gray areas we can see that the right choices are not hidden from us, but are in plain view. The Ephesians text tells us: "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." Those gray areas are described as sleep from which we can awake, or even death, from which we can rise. And when we escape those gray areas, Christ will shine ...

2738. Taking You Up with Him

Colossians 3:1-4

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... lives have been changed, not because of anything in particular we have done or are doing, but our lives have been changed because Jesus has changed them. And because we are eternally connected to his life, we have the power to change the lives of others. When others view us in our "resurrected" lives, they are able to see Jesus. Joey was six years old and wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with his mom's chocolate chip cookies and a couple of small ...

2739. The Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... , left the disciples in one, dramatic moment. Ascending to his new home with his Father in heaven, Jesus is taken up in a cloud while angels inform the disciples that one day he will return in the same manner. Jesus crossed over. After his death and resurrection, the disciples viewed Jesus with the eyes of their hearts. They saw him in a new way, with a new kind of body and a new spirituality. He represented what they would become. And he was telling them that it was the way of God, and that it was good. To ...

2740. Effective Suffering

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... quite rational and comforting, it is a terrible, gruesome interpretation of this verse when it is applied to things such as sudden, accidental deaths, incurable illnesses, debilitating diseases, and the long list of things which abruptly change people's lives. It is also not a correct view of a loving God who listens to the Spirit rather than us to imagine that God sends or allows the bad things to happen so we can appreciate the good. Rather than a God who is with us, this is a picture of a remote God ...

2741. Families in Christ

Romans 9:1-5

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... home from Sunday school. One of the girls asked, "Do you think there is a devil?" The other girl responded, "No, of course not. It's just like Santa Claus. He's really your father." That is almost certainly a misunderstanding, not an accurate view, of a black sheep in the family. The church has often been referred to as the family of Christ. And the church seems to come with the same problems and difficulties we find in our biological families. Joy, anger, frustration, disappointment, care, concern, and ...

2742. The Day of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Rick Brand

... destruction. Human history will come to a conclusion by the will and intervention of God. And at that moment when history is fulfilled, the Jesus who was crucified will stand as the one who is Lord and Redeemer. 1. Reinhold Neibuhr, Faith and History: A Comparison of Christian and Modern Views of History (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951).

2743. Thanks Be to God

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Rick Brand

... new blessings and joy in the worship of God. Giving is an act of praise and worship. Giving is an exercise of the heart. Giving is a measurement of our vision of life. Our giving shows the size of our hearts. There is a narrow view of life, a stinginess of spirit, a miserliness of perspective that sows sparingly, cautiously, tentatively. There is a bigness of the heart that sows widely, sows broadly, sows recklessly. It was a casino night for the American Heart Association and some friends took a minister ...

2744. A Tale of Two Dancers

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... God speaking to us in these two stories. Let us begin with the Old Testament story of David, the new king, dancing in the streets before the ark of the covenant. The fascinating detail in this story is the reaction of Michal, David's wife, who views the spectacle from the window of the king's palace. The text says that Michal observed her husband, David, dancing in the street, and "despised him in her heart." Some interpret that to mean that she is embarrassed by her husband's behavior, for dancing wildly ...

2745. Family Matters

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in the New Testament. And from them we've culled three rules for dealing with controversial issues, which I offer this morning--not only as a way to resolve conflict in the church, but also in your home, or between any two people or more who have differing views, but who have a desire to be reconciled. And here they are. The first rule is to have humility about what you know. Beware of anyone who claims to have absolute truth: From what I can ascertain, there are only two absolute truths. The first is that ...

2746. How about Something Different?

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in thanksgiving, and give thanks. "For it is seemly so to do." Now go to the Old Testament lesson. It is a wonderful companion story to the story of the Samaritan leper, for it is about another foreigner. It is not a Samaritan this time, but from the point of view of the Jews, it's just as bad. He is a Syrian. Like the Samarian, he has leprosy. Naaman is his name. He is the general of the Syrian army. He hears there is a prophet in Israel, named Elisha, who can heal him. He goes to Elisha, humbles himself ...

2747. Landing Instructions

Isaiah 40:25-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... called "Stoicism." They said the lesson is that we are human beings, therefore we do not belong in the heights. We are limited. We are not gods. If we soar too high, then we will inevitably crash, and we will experience pain and tragedy in our life. According to that view the practical advice for daily living was: Don't wish for very much. Don't hope for very much. Don't strive for very much. Don't love very much. Don't get outside of yourself and reach out to others too much, because if you do that, you ...

2748. Let Us Pray

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... rationally and consistently, no exceptions, so everything must have a natural explanation. But the trend now in the natural sciences is to discover the inter-relatedness of all things. Quantum theory, as I understand it, has presented a more organic, rather than mechanistic view of the world, so that what happens in one part of the universe can affect what happens in another part of the universe, far, far away. That realization has given rise to the science of ecology. One way to look at ecology is simply ...

2749. Pre-Game Analysis

I Corinthians 9:19-27

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Commager pointed out that the founders of this country were motivated by the Greeks. Some years ago he wrote this: "Gone is that sense of citizenship gleaned from the classics, which animated the Founding Fathers. No longer are we inspired by Pericles extolling the Athenians to view this busy spectacle of our great city, life as we have it before us day by day, falling in love with her as we see her and remembering that all this greatness, she (the city) owes to man, with the fighter's daring, the wise man ...

2750. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... for his glorification. John believed that time would be when he is lifted up on a cross. Glorification means that you will see his divine nature. Jesus, himself, said later in the gospel, "When I am lifted up I will draw all people to myself." The point of view of the Gospel of John is, that before that time not everybody will see his glory. Which means, not everybody will see who he really is. I'm not sure that even when he has been lifted up that everyone can see his divine nature. Obviously, they cannot ...

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