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2826. Commentary for Matthew 4: 1-11

Matthew 4:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... force God’s hand to “prove” something. For the final test the devil seeks an even greater height, hoping for the ultimate fall. There is, of course, no one “very high mountain” from which “all the kingdoms of the world” could be viewed, so the devil must be offering Jesus a vision of the world and the earthly “splendor” it holds. These “kingdoms of the world” offer a much different reward than the “kingdom of heaven” that Jesus immediately begins to preach about when he returns ...

2827. Changed Lives: The Man Born Blind from Birth

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... life? The choice is yours, but I promise you it will make all the difference in how much joy you discover in your life. 1. Leaving North Haven (New York: Crossroad, 2002). As told by Rev. Debra Samuelson, http://www.day1.net/index.php5?view=transcripts&tid=519. 2. The Tullahoma News (June 6, 1990), Section A, p. 9. 3. http://www.predigten.uni‑goettingen.de/archiv‑8/060423‑6‑e.html. 4. http://clas.asu.edu/newsevents/newsreleases/2006/ FUTURIST UPDATE. 5. http://www.csec.org/csec/sermon/smedes_4411 ...

2828. Must Suffer and Be Rejected

Mk 8:2; Lk 9:22; 17:25

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Brett Blair

... promise of God - the Scriptures must be fulfilled. Next, there is a distinction here between suffering and rejection. Had he only suffered, Jesus might still have been applauded as the Messiah. All the sympathy and admiration of the world might have been focused on his passion. It could have been viewed as a tragedy with its own intrinsic value, dignity and honor. But in the passion, Jesus is a rejected Messiah. His rejection robs the passion of its halo of glory. It must be a passion without honor.

2829. Birth into a New World

Jn 20:1-18

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King Duncan

... remaining unborn twin is saddened, convinced that a great catastrophe has befallen his companion. Outside the womb, however, the parents are rejoicing. For what the remaining brother, left behind, has just witnessed is not death but birth. This, Wolpe reminds us, is a classic view of the life beyond the grave--a birth into a world that we on Earth can only try to imagine. The Easter message is that we have an older brother who HAS traveled beyond the tomb, down the birth canal of eternity and has returned ...

2830. When Losing Your Baggage Is a Good Thing

Hebrews 12:1-2

Sermon

James W. Moore

... say to me, “I don’t want to scare you, but I have a lot of questions about faith.” That doesn’t scare me at all. What scares me is the person who thinks he has all the answers. He won’t listen to anyone else’s point of view. That’s the “scary guy” because he carries with him everywhere the baggage of the closed mind. In the Peanuts cartoon, Lucy is the epitome of the closed-minded person. She will not listen to anybody and she thinks she is always right. One day she gets upset with Charley ...

2831. Matthew 28:1-10

Matthew 28:1-10

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Parkinson tremors, they are paralyzed, frozen in place. Their rigorized presence is of no concern to the angel, for he is there to speak to the women witnesses. All the gospel accounts of Easter morning testify to a contingent of women who are the first to view the empty tomb, the first to hear the “good news,” and the first to see the risen Jesus. In a culture that did not consider women to be reliable legal witnesses, it is remarkable that they are singled out, both to see and hear this miraculous ...

2832. Changed Lives - Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... blessed peace and prosperity of heaven. Of course Jesus would be waiting for him only if he believed in Jesus. Preachers talked about how Jesus saves, and of everyone’s need to accept Jesus, or let Jesus come into their hearts. It was a fiercely independent view of faith. Personal salvation was the theme of almost every sermon. Jesus saves and he wants to save you. “You must be born again.” With that background he went away to college and then to Divinity School. In the academic world he heard about a ...

2833. The Lost and Found Job

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

... crammed full of stuff, - with three kids in the back, - one in a car seat, - and the gas pump reading $4.95. He asked her if she needed help. Was she okay? She said: “I don’t want my children to see me crying. The gas pump was blocking their view. She said she was driving to California. Her boyfriend had left her two months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. In desperation, she had called her parents with whom she had not spoken in five years. They lived in California and said she could ...

2834. What in the World Are We Doing?

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . I. FIRST OF ALL, SOME SAY: “REJECT THE WORLD!” Escape from the world, run away, bail out, leave it. The idea here is that the world is evil with all its temptations and enticements and pressures… and the body is weak, so according to this view the only hope is to flee, to forsake the world, to reject it. There are many dramatic illustrations of this in history. (1) For example, remember the Monastic Movement. As early as the Fourth Century, monks (by the thousands) began running away from the world ...

2835. It's Thanksgiving Time!

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James W. Moore

... minute to stop on his way: More time he would have to give to others, he'd say – Tomorrow. The greatest of workers this many would have been – Tomorrow. The world would have known his had he ever seen – Tomorrow. But the fact is he died and he faded from view And all that he left here when living was through Was a mountain of things he intended to do – Tomorrow." If there is something you need to do. Don't put it off! Don't wait! Do it now! Now is the moment! It's Thanks-Giving Time!"

2836. Professor Boltloose

John 20:19-23

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Carl Jech

... is a factual story. There once was a seminary student who was having a hard time accepting this idea that the writers of the New Testament Gospels took poetic license with their accounts of the life of Jesus. He was particularly bothered by the extreme view of some scholars that Jesus might not have been an actual historical person at all! One day as a fellow student was playing around with his tape recorder, the two suddenly fell into a spontaneous mock interview with the troubled student pretending to be ...

2837. New Doors Will Open

Luke 24:13-35

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Wayne Cordeiro and Robert Lewis

... with milk, since chronic stomach problems kept him from drinking the local water. To his dismay, the chief took the goat. In return, the chief gave him a carved stick, shaped like a walking cane. Livingstone was most disappointed. He began to gripe to God about what he viewed as a stupid walking cane. What could it do for him, compared to the goat who kept him well? Then one of the natives explained, "That's not a walking cane. It's the king's very own scepter, and with it you will find entrance to every ...

2838. How to Live a Sizzle-When-It-Drizzles Life

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ever for weather was the intermittent wiper blade on a car’s windshield. When the rain is coming down, but not a steady downpour, the every-few-second wiper settings are perfect. Intermittent wipers are slow, occasional, low key, not hot shot. They give you a clear view, but do so by taking life at a different pace. Sometimes the down and drizzly times in the abundant life are caused by allowing the world to set our pace, to set our agenda, to set our standards. Sometimes we need to clean off our grimy ...

2839. Wide Enough for All (Mother's Day)

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... A. Ampah. Cited by Douglas L. Meyer, http://www.holyspirit‑elca.org/SERMONS/2006%20Sermons/120306.html. 4. J. Edwin Bacon, http://www.allsaints‑pas.org/sermons/3‑24‑02.pdf 5. (Fleming Rutledge, “The Love Olympics Go to Jerusalem,” February 22, 1998). 6. http://www.day1.net/index.php5?view=transcripts&tid=496 7. Russell E. Mase, “Love People, Use Things.” Cited by Leslie Schultz, http://www.lesandhelga.com/sermons/2001/112101.htm

2840. Acts 17: 22-31

Acts 17:16-34

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... in righteousness. This man’s “presence” testifies to the miraculous power of God, for God alone has been responsible for “raising him from the dead.” It is this wholly new situation, this wholly new expectation, that makes it so imperative that Paul’s Athenian audience move beyond their own world view and instead embrace a new world life, a new vision of God and the possibilities that lie before them.

2841. Someone Who Loves You

Eph 6:1-4

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King Duncan

... two young sons banned from the hospital due to the severity of his illness, he had asked his wife for pictures of her and their two boys. Because he was unable to move even his head, the photos had to be jammed between metal knobs so that they hung within view above him--the only thing he could see. The last four months of his life were spent looking at the faces he loved. Philip Yancey writes, "I have often thought of that crumpled photo, for it is one of the few links connecting me to the stranger who was ...

2842. With or Without People?

Mt 10:24-39

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King Duncan

A second grader once asked his teacher how much the earth weighed. The teacher looked up the answer in an Encyclopedia. "Six thousand million, million tons," she answered. The little boy thought for a minute and then asked, "Is that with or without people?" Viewed from one perspective, it might very well seem that people don't really matter very much. After all, we are but microscopic inhabitants of a tiny planet or biting a relatively obscurestar in a small galaxy among the billions and billions of stars ...

2843. What's Your Hospitality Quotient?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... hospitality puts Southern hospitality to shame. An American journalist named Afshin Molavi traveled through Iran a couple of years ago gathering information for a magazine article on the changes that are sweeping that country. The fear of terrorism causes us to view Iranians with suspicion, but Molavi reports that the Iranian people he met were gracious and welcoming. The Iranians are famous for their hospitality to strangers. When Molavi mentioned to his taxi driver that he would love a cup of the fresh ...

2844. Worship: Time to Cool Down

Matthew 11:25-30

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Richard J. Fairchild

... on the tops of long hills. I know that near where I grew up on the old Island Highway, there is a restaurant called the Malahat Chalet - still located at the top of the longest grade between Nanaimo and Victoria. It was not located there for the view, nor were most of the others you can still find around North America at the tops of hills and mountains. These locations were for the convenience of people who needed to stop and let their overheated radiators cool down. That is one of the functions of Worship ...

2845. Pro-Life Answers to Pro-Choice Arguments

1 Peter 3:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... first victim. c. A child is a child regardless of how that child is conceived. It is interesting that pro-choice advocates always say that the unborn child is really the mother's and not the father's until she's raped. Then all of a sudden the child is viewed as the father's and not the mother's. A child that is conceived by rape or incest is just as precious as a child conceived by love, because a child is a child. The point is not how a child is conceived, but that a child is conceived. d ...

2846. The World Needs Less Mother Goose More Mother Teresa

Isaiah 58:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... major in principles and minor in relationships. As the head of a rescue mission said to me not too long ago, “Our biggest problem with Christians is that they all want to take stands for the poor, to come here and visit the poor and view the poor, and to “hand-out” food to the poor — especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas. But you can shake a stick at the number of Christians who come here wanting a relationship with the poor.” In our “social justice outreach,” we need less Mother Goose ...

2847. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... a report entitled, A Nation at Risk, released by the U. S. Department of Education in the 1980s. It said: "If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war....we have, in affect, been committing an act of unthinking unilateral educational disarmament."15 All of this is not to say there are not some wonderful students, teachers, principals, and administrators in our public school system ...

2848. The Truth about Truth

John 8:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... what is even more alarming is that the percentage of youth in our evangelical churches who do not believe in absolute truth, is the same percentage as the youth who do not even attend church.3 Steve Turner, a noted British journalist, wrote a tongue-in-cheek view of what might be called, "The Apostle's Creed" of the humanist. He has captured the spirit of our age perfectly: We today believe in Marx, Freud, and Darwin (the holy trinity). We believe everything is okay, as long as you don't hurt anyone, to the ...

2849. The Lord of the Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

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James Merritt

... Me, I also send you." Jesus Christ is still the Lord of the harvest, and He is still calling for laborers to join Him in sowing the gospel seed and reaping eternal souls for the glory of God. I want you to see how the Lord Jesus viewed people as a harvest to be gathered. I. The Ministry Jesus Shared With People "And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people." (v.35) I want ...

2850. Out With the Old - In With the New

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... , aspiration, and perspiration that will get you to where you need to go; it will take determination. You must keep pressing on. Now I am a baby boomer, and I want to say a word to my fellow baby boomers. We have been raised to view success as ease, and our generation doesn't know a whole lot about determination, perseverance and endurance. When the boss gets unreasonable, we have learned to quit; when the subjects get too difficult, we have learned to drop out; when the marriage gets unbearable, we ...

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