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2876. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Others

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... people you can, as long as you ever can." When we do, as God intended, we are making a better world. When the Love of God and our Love for God lives in our hearts it naturally flows from our actions and others with see God In The Ordinary in us. Which ... the question it asks is: "What or rather WHO do others see in us? Do they see Compassion Without Embarrassment, Hope Without Strings and Love Without Limits?" We're called not only to look and see God In The Ordinary, we're also called to help others see God ...

2877. Same Table, Different Chairs

John 15:11-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name. [17] I am giving you these commands so that you may love one another. I. Friends The phrase that has always stuck out for me is "I no longer call you servants, now I call you friends." That ... at her sister's wedding. Watch. B. What I want you to know is that Mary and I carry your hearts in our hearts. We love you and we always will. Conclusion Years and years ago when I was a teenager, whenever we went to the grocery store, my little ...

2878. The Wedding Was Saved, but the Marriage?

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... awake? “. . . do you agree to take me shopping once a week without complaining?” Davies’ next instructions were to have the bride take the groom by the hand, look into his eyes and repeat the vows the groom had written for her: “I, Pamela, agree to lovingly serve you breakfast in bed every Saturday morning and to learn how to bake homemade pies and cobblers. I will also never insist that you go shopping with me for more than one hour at a time.” Afterwards, Davies commented: “They don’t need a ...

2879. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “Life Matters”

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... won’t work? In this throwaway society, think of what we are losing by tossing people along the roadside to failure and leaving them to rot. IV. Live the Questions Rainer Rilke writes, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart, and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.” It is human nature to ask questions and seek answers. Take a walk with any child and you will be bombarded with questions. Why is the sky blue? Why ...

2880. The Challenge, The Call, The Cure

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and closer when we feel broken and abandoned because God's heart breaks for us. And God desires for us to be healed and whole and back home with Christ where we belong. When we are in need of healing, God is ready to work His miracle, through the love of Jesus. Jesus has the Cure. It was purchased on the cross and began to be dispensed the moment of the resurrection. And He's passed it on to us. Through our faith in Christ, through His entrusting us with His message of salvation and healing, we now have ...

2881. John 21:1-19

John 21:1-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... directive is immediate. As their net suddenly bulges full with fish, the eyes of the “beloved disciple” are opened. He makes what is clearly a post-Easter confession of faith, “It is the Lord” (“ho kyrios estin”). But while the disciple “Jesus loved” declares his faith in the risen Christ through words, Simon Peter’s response to that realization is one of action. With typical exuberance, Simon Peter tucks up his outer garment (“diazonnynai”) so that he can swim, and jumps into the sea ...

2882. Cast All Your Anxiety on Him

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . "Did not!" "Did too!" "DID NOT!!" Having had it with the two of them, God's punishment was that Adam and Eve should have children of their own. Thus, the pattern was set and it has never changed. But there is reassurance in this story. If you've persistently and lovingly tried to give your children wisdom and they haven't taken it, don't be too hard on yourself. If God had trouble handling children, what makes you think it would be a piece of cake for you? (1) Today is Mother's Day. A day we celebrate the ...

2883. The Voice of the Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... did. All the heads of the sheep in his flock came up. He hollered something else, and here they came. I wish I'd had a video camera. Because there was the truth of this passage right before our very eyes. The Voice of the Shepherd is there whispering His love for us. Calling us and wooing us into an ongoing relationship. The Voice of the Shepherd Goes Before Us, The Voice of the Shepherd Guides Us, The Voice of the Shepherd Protects Us and The Voice of the Shepherd Tells Us Who We Are. All we have to do is ...

2884. More Than a Book

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the Bible. This chapter has been called the “Gospel in the Gospel,” because it contains the distilled essence of the Good News. It’s the ultimate in Jesus’ teaching of a seeking forgiving God who gives everything, goes to the limits to extend his invitation of love. And if you miss the invitation in Jesus’ teaching, you can miss it in what he does. He writes the invitation in his own blood. He goes to the Cross, bleeds to death for our sin, every drop of blood an expression of sacrificial ...

2885. Bearing the Marks of Christ

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... m sure you will think of others. I. FIRST, THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE. This is a dramatic mark of discipleship. Christians understand full well that we are the servants of Christ… and that we are incomplete apart from God. We understand that God loves us, that God cares about us, and that God can use us and work through us. Some years ago, I worked at a Youth Camp for senior highs. On the final night of camp, we had a consecration service that dramatically underscored this mark of discipleship ...

2886. Samaria and Our Spiritual Journey

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... did forsake me”, she said, “and the Lord did take me up. I was stunned. I knew mother was an orphan, but she never talked about it. And I had never heard that story before. Here she was, an 85 year old woman, remembering her first experience of the love of God in an orphanage! I’d never heard that Bible verse, but I found it in Psalm 27: 10, (King James Version). She went on to say that all through her life, God had always provided for her, and still was. She felt she had always been surrounded by ...

2887. That The World May Believe

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... profession. When they see Christians who will not cheat on their income tax, who will stand up for peace with justice, who will love even when it costs, who will stand with the poor and oppressed, knowing that “In as much as you have done it unto ... , and thou in me that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that thou hast sent me and hast loved them even as thou hast loved me.” Now if these words sound a bit clumsy, the truth stated is this: Christ has given himself to us that we may ...

2888. Whatever Happened to Respect?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... parents need. One of the saddest experiences I have as a pastor is visiting in nursing, retirement, and convalescent homes. Persons wasting away emotionally as shriveled in spirit as they are in body in setting like that because of lack of attention from those who should love them most. To honor our parents means to be attentive to them. How they need to attention as they grow older and are removed from the setting of their home and family, are cut off from place and persons in which they had lived and ...

2889. The Geography of the Christian Experience

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , “We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now, to be happy with him at this very moment.” Then she added a challenging word: “But being happy with him now means: Loving as He loved, helping as He helped, giving as He gave, Serving as He served, rescuing as He rescued; being with Him for all the 24 hours, touching Him in his distressing disguise. That is one of Mother Theresa’s favorite phrases – “his distressing disguise.” That’s the ...

2890. Liberated Women

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... many of us are in this room today. Christ has done something wonderful in our lives. He has liberated us from the power of sin. He has liberated us from pride and self-righteousness. He has liberated us from feelings of unworthiness. And we have come to show our love and support so that he can touch other lives through us. It is probably no accident that the story of these women follows right on the heels of the story of the woman who anointed Jesus’ feet. That is also part of our lesson for the day. You ...

2891. When You Want to Run Away

Psalm 11:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s read on in the psalm 4 verses 4 and 5: “The Lord is in his holy temple, the Lord’s throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids testj the children of men. The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence. One of our failures in the church is the little thought we give to the righteousness of God. That’s the reason we lose perspective on life. That’s the reason we give into despair and become hopeless. I think our problem is that we have misunderstood ...

2892. Fish or Cut Bait

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we are talking about here. Faith begins, not when we accept a set of teachings, nor when we embrace a particular lifestyle, nor when we subscribe to a certain ethic. The Christian faith and our discipleship begins when we meet Jesus in our own heats, pour out our love to him from the depths of our being, and begin to walk with Him. Some years ago, Dr. J. Edwin Orr was speaking to a group of college students at the University of Chicago on precisely this subject. When he got through, a young woman stood up ...

2893. Light a Candle

Matthew 5:14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ? The light must come from the outside in order to light a candle. Oh, my friends, when are we going to learn? The source of our light is outside of us. The paradox of time is that we have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We have learned how to make a living, but have we learned how to make a life? We have been all the way to the moon and back, but we still have trouble crossing the street to meet our new neighbors. We have conquered ...

2894. We Hold These Truths To Be Essential

1 Peter 3:8-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... reshape your mind and your thoughts." And it was the same Church who began to say, “Let this mind be in you, which was in Christ Jesus, our Lord." It was the Church who said, “Let the peace of Christ rule in your heart even as I have loved you. So, learn to love one another." It is here in the text that we read together today, “Let them keep their tongues from evil and their lips from speaking deceit. Let them turn away from evil and do good. Let them seek peace and pursue it, for the eyes of the Lord ...

2895. The Miracle of Peace

Psalm 85:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... am going to say about that." Ralphie, who put Flick up to it in the first place, leans over to his friend and comments, “Adults love to say stuff like that, but kids know better. Kids know it's always better not to get caught than to admit anything." If we ... home, I thought about a story Bishop Arthur Moore used to tell about his own father and in so doing learned the pardoning love of God. Bishop Moore said, “When I was a boy, I used to stop at the neighborhood store every afternoon after school and ...

2896. Why Am I A United Methodist?

I Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Wherever you are in the journey of life you can have the blessed assurance that you belong to God. You can know where you are going. You can live in the sure and certain confidence that God will see you through. “There is no fear in love,” says the New Testament, “for perfect love casts out fear.” You do not have to live in guilt, you do not have to live in fear. You can live in faith as a child of God. That is our belief. There are many wonderful expressions of the Christian faith on earth. We are ...

2897. The Power to Rise Again

Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... HELP US LIVE FOREVER Brad Paisley has a new song with lyrics that say: When I get where I'm going, There'll be only happy tears. I will shed the sins and struggles I've carried all these years. And I'll leave my heart wide open, I will love and have no fear. When I get where I'm going, Don't cry for me down here. So whatever you are facing today, don't be defeated. Don't wave the white flag of surrender. The same power that raised Jesus from the dead will give you eternal life ...

2898. Colossians 1:1-14

Colossians 1:1-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... that it is nothing less than Christ who awaits the eschatological fulfillment of time at the right hand of God. While this hope will not be fully realized until Christ’s return, it is still the basis for the faith and the love those in Christ express to one another every day. Faith, love and hope may be waiting for Christ’s return for their complete fulfillment. But for all those who are truly “in Christ,” now there will be an expression of all these graces in the community of faith and in the world ...

2899. Wonderful Opportunities for Mission

Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... I have is mine! And since you and I have more than the poor, there is a subtle despising and patronizing we feel toward them, even as we undertake or contribute to some project on their behalf. That's what "charity" is; it is not mission. Charity is selfish love. It is selfish because it is giving to the poor on our own terms, giving them what you and I think is really ours. John Calvin's observations are right in line with the insights of a twenty-first-century French scholar, Alain de Botton. He has done ...

2900. Kiss The Chef! Thanksgiving Day

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... light into daily life, it warms and encourages the heart, and it gives us an opportunity to kiss the chef, as it were, to recognize that God is still there and "wanting to share a good thing." When you go home today, when you gather with those you love around the Thanksgiving table, take a few minutes to kiss the chef. Look at each of those precious people who has gathered with you around the table, and thank each one for being there. Admire the food that has been laid out, and thank each person who helped ...

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