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2826. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... told us that he never met a man he didn't like. In the musical that celebrated Rogers' life, there is a song by that title and in that song Rogers admits that one man "put him to the test," but never pushed him finally to the point where his ability to like evaporated. I don't know what your response is to Rogers' disclosure, but I am led to think he was to utilize an overworked phrase "in denial." Come now, can any of us stand and say that we have, without exception, always liked every single person with ...

2827. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Charles Swindoll writes about the courtship and marriage of Charles and Anne Lindbergh. Although he was a world-renowned aviator, Charles Lindbergh was not content to have his wife stand in his shadow. He encouraged Anne to develop her own gifts and abilities. As a result Anne Morrow Lindbergh became one of America’s most popular authors. According to Swindoll, “Here was a husband’s love that was strong enough to reassure, yet unthreatened enough to release. Tight enough to embrace, yet loose enough ...

2828. At the Intersection of Heaven and Earth

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... statue to an exact scale but much reduced. Then humanity could see what the greater statue was like. Origen went on to say this is what God has done in Jesus Christ. He shows us what He himself is like within the bounds of our human ability to understand. Here, then, is the first glorious truth about Advent and Christmas. God has come down in Jesus Christ. Christ is an exact replica of God reduced to human size. Al Lindgren, a professor at Garrett Evangelical Seminary, tells about taking his junior-high ...

2829. What To Say When You Roll Out Of Bed

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . The Gospel of Mark implies that Jesus added them. This gospel was written for a world that spoke Greek, in a culture with a deep respect for the human intellect and its capacity to think. If we are called upon to love God with every possible human ability, the implications are clear for the first audience of the Gospel of Mark: we are to love God with our minds. This has always been a Jewish notion as well. A minister was getting acquainted with the newest clergyman in town, who was a rabbi at the ...

2830. Holy Happiness

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... have time to think about sadness, injustice, suffering, or vulnerability. I was just too busy creating success in my life. And yet I remember feeling sad from time to time, sad, because I couldn’t muster the tears. I couldn’t access my feelings and I had lost the ability to be vulnerable. I felt very far away from God. These days, tears come frequently and easily to me as much in times of joy as in times of sorrow. And often my tears flow for the pain of others, not just for myself. I certainly don’t ...

2831. Known By Our Love

John 13:31-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... same way, Jesus did not say that the faithful will be known by the fact we have read the Bible from cover to cover or that we believe everything in the Bible from Genesis right on through the maps. Jesus did not say that they will know us by our ability to recite the Apostles’ Creed both forward and backward. Our Lord did not say they will know us by the way we go to church regularly, because we have the outline of a fish on the bumper of our car, or because we claim to believe all the approved doctrines ...

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Sydney J. Harris

2833. Growing in Courage or Might

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Editor James S. Hewett

A man by the name of Mallory led an expedition to try to conquer Mt. Everest in the 1920s. The first expedition failed, as did the second. Then, with a team of the best quality and ability, Mallory made a third assault. But in spite of careful planning and extensive safety precautions, disaster struck. An avalanche hit and Mallory and most of his party were killed. When the few who did survive returned to England, they held a glorious banquet saluting the great people of Mallory's ...

2834. To the Third and Fourth Generation

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Editor James S. Hewett

... $420,000. They made no contribution to society. Jonathan Edwards lived in the same state, at the same time as Jukes. He loved the Lord and saw chat his children were in church every Sunday, as he served the Lord to the best of his ability. He has had 929 descendants, and of these 430 were ministers; 86 became university professors; 13 became university presidents; 75 authored good books; 7 were elected to the United States Congress. One was vice president of his nation. His family never cost the state one ...

2835. Handicapped and Sporting

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... take on Arnold Palmer for a round of golf; and just to make it interesting, was willing to bet Palmer ten thousand dollars he could beat him. Well, this just blew Palmer's mind. He pressed him, but the man insisted he was willing to bet that amount on his ability to beat Palmer. So, the deal was struck. Palmer said, "OK. What time do we tee off?" And the blind man said, "10:30…tonight!"

2836. Rasputin

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... Rasputin's power over the royal family became so great he could, with a word, obtain the appointment or dismissal of any government official. He had men appointed or dismissed on the basis of their attitudes toward him rather than their abilities. Consequently, the whole Russian government reeled under the unwise counsel of this evil man. Seeds of revolution were planted and watered with discontent. It erupted into the murder of the royal family, internal war, and the Communist takeover. Alexander Kerensky ...

Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from the others.

Lao Tzu

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Ann Landers

2839. Luther and Myconius

Illustration

James Montgomery Borce

... , this is my will, and may my will be done, because I seek only to glorify the name of God." The words are almost shocking to us, as we live in a more sensitive and cautious day, but they were certainly from God. For although Myconius had already lost the ability to speak when Luther's letter came, in a short time he revived. He recovered completely, and he lived six more years to survive Luther himself by two months.

2840. The Little Secrets of Snowflakes

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Chad Miller

... to earth. The falling ice crystal is sculpted by the varying temperature and humidity—lengthening here, a spiky branch pushing out there-until it grows into a shape as unique as a person's fingerprint. But in the past few years, as our ability to study these beautiful flakes has improved with the development of new technology, a great mystery has emerged. Scientists have discovered that very few snowflakes contain a speck of dust or any other particle which has long been believed to be necessary for ...

2841. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

... in turn engenders success. Start each new day with the positive affirmation, “God is making me into a new person. He is with me.” He gives us a new confidence. But He also gives us a new perspective. One of the greatest gifts that we can receive is the ability to step back and look at our lives realistically. It is so tempting to be defeated by those inner voices that tell us that we can’t. It is so common to exaggerate the difficulties that confront us. How often we say or feel, “This is the worst ...

2842. Grabbing the Bull by the Horns

Luke 9:11b-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... husband was so great that she had planned to commit suicide while on this cruise by jumping into the ocean. Clements’ care and attention gave the woman hope, and she changed her mind about ending her life because of their conversation. Susie’s remarkable ability to recognize others’ pain came from her own grief over losing her husband just a few years earlier in a tragic accident. She knew what grief and confusion and anger and emptiness looked like because she had dealt with them herself. Even though ...

2843. Are You Suffering from FOMO?

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

I hate to admit it, but I admire advertisers and their ability to sell us products we didn’t even know we needed. Some of these advertisers are geniuses at convincing us that if we just had their product, it would fill some hole in our lives and would bring us complete satisfaction. One of the more famous ads along these lines ...

2844. A Prayer to a Good, Good Father

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... that we have the confidence to pray, believing that he hears our prayers and is sympathetic to our concerns. We trust that whatever answer we receive is in our best interest. Indeed, the entire foundation of this prayer is trust—trust in the Father’s love and trust in His ability to provide for His children. “He’s a good, good Father, it’s who He is, it’s who He is, it’s who He is . . . And we’re loved by Him, it’s who we are, it’s who we are, it’s who we are . . .” Amen. 1. http ...

2845. Jesus' Guide to Wise Investing

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... day we will stand before God and give an accounting of how we used all our resources, including our financial resources. That should not surprise us. Does it not make sense that the great God who granted us the great gift of life, who gave us talent and abilities and opportunities should hold us accountable for the use to which we put them? Wouldn’t it be foolish to assume otherwise? God called the rich man a fool. Maybe he paid too high a price for his wealth. Perhaps he put off living until it was too ...

2846. No One Over 12 Inches Wide Need Apply

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... of wedlock. One lost sheep was out on the hillside and the Good Shepherd left the 99 sheep who were safely in his care and went to retrieve the one that was lost. However, there is a difference between a sheep and a human being. God has given us the ability to decide our own destiny. It is up to us to choose to enter that narrow door, but if we choose to do so, by His grace, it is open wide. Sometime back a cartoon appeared on the editorial pages of many newspapers around the country. The occasion was the ...

2847. About Unclaimed Luggage

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... rarely did wrong. There was a time when clever press agents and acquiescing journalists would hide the weaknesses of our best-known personalities—but no more. Now we see them, warts and all. We are still inspired by their athletic prowess or their acting ability or their political acumen, but we no longer look to famous people for moral or spiritual inspiration. Indeed, who do we look to? Everyone in our modern world seems to be confused. It’s too risky to simply follow the example of someone else ...

2848. Making Your Life Count

1 Timothy 2:5-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... fifty dollars a week. A news reporter subsequently tracked him down and asked him about his life of crime. Here is how Arthur Barry summed up his life: “I’m not very good at drawing morals,” he said, “but when I was young I had intelligence, charm, the ability to get along with people, and guts. I could have made something out of my life, but I didn’t. So, when you write the story of my life and tell people about all these robberies, don’t leave out the big one. You can tell them that Arthur ...

2849. Who's the Fool?

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

George Reed

... ahead of God and ahead of people. Most of us probably feel that while we are not perfect, we certainly would not put wealth before God. We are not idolaters who worship a golden calf. We would not steal land from people and deprive them of their ability to provide for themselves and their family. Or would we? Do we? One does not need to read very much from the Hebrew prophets to understand that God is very much interested in the plight of the poor and the underprivileged. God takes it personally when the ...

2850. Less Fear; More Fruit

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... with goat people. Wolf people get along with lamb people. Cow people and bear people sit down and eat together. And, dare I say it? Even elephant people and donkey people love and respect each other. Whoa! In short, we live in peace because we have found the inspiration and ability to put our own needs, our own desires, our own egos aside and that inspiration comes from what Isaiah called “the fear of the Lord.” But the fear he speaks of is not fear as we know it, as it is sold to us nightly on the 11 o ...

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2826. Called to Love, Not Like

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Robert Noblett

2827. The Year of the Woman

Genesis 2:18-24

Sermon

King Duncan

2828. At the Intersection of Heaven and Earth

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

2829. What To Say When You Roll Out Of Bed

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

William G. Carter

2830. Holy Happiness

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

2831. Known By Our Love

John 13:31-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.

Sydney J. Harris

2833. Growing in Courage or Might

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2834. To the Third and Fourth Generation

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2835. Handicapped and Sporting

Humor Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

2836. Rasputin

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

Leadership is the ability to hide your panic from the others.

Lao Tzu

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Ann Landers

2839. Luther and Myconius

Illustration

James Montgomery Borce

2840. The Little Secrets of Snowflakes

Illustration

Chad Miller

2841. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

2842. Grabbing the Bull by the Horns