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276. Did You Leave the the Door Open? (I am the gate)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the day of his own crucifixion--this murderer recognizes who Jesus truly is and has the audacity to ask Jesus to open the doors of paradise to him and Jesus does exactly that. Before he could be baptized or join a church, this man, who was hell-bent, finds himself being transported to the pearly gates. Talk about the power to open doors. One night a Pharisee named Nicodemus comes to Jesus in the misty night air asking about the door to life. Jesus tells him about the door, but that night Nicodemus does not ...

277. Facing Difficult Decisions in Life! Part VI

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... them lay a Bible on his lap. I watched his stiff fingers force open the pages. And I watched people in the audience wipe away tears of admiration from their faces. Robert could have asked for sympathy or pity, but he did just the opposite. He held his bent hand up in the air and boasted, `I have everything I need for joy.'' "His shirts are held together by Velcro, but his life is held together by JOY." (1) This real life story from one of God''s special saints demonstrates that the source of joy depends ...

278. The Powerful Fragrance of Sharing and Caring

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... wasn't the player he once had been. The ball looked awkward in his aging hands. He wasn't throwing well. In one inning, his misplays made most of the runs scored by Cincinnati possible. As Babe Ruth walked off the field after making a third out, head bent in embarrassment, a crescendo of "boos" followed him to the dugout. A little boy in the stands couldn't tolerate it. He loved Babe Ruth, no matter what. With tears streaming down his face, the boy jumped over the railing and threw his arms around the knees ...

279. Waiting

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more drugs. There careful use of resources. By the time she got back to the counter, she had a long list. Jesus looked over the list, then smiled at her and said, "No problem." And then he bent down behind the counter and picked out all sorts of things, and finally stood up, and laid out the packets on the counter. "What are these?" the woman asked. "Seed packets," Jesus answered. "This is a catalog store." "You mean I don't get the finished ...

280. Heaven's Applause

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... Jesus, by contrast, is a piety that is misused and therefore becomes misshapen. People occasionally use a tool for a purpose other than its stated one. For example, if one uses a screwdriver as a crowbar, it is highly likely that the screwdriver will become bent. When that happens, it cannot be used for its intended purpose unless it is first straightened out. Likewise with piety. Matthew tells us about people who practice it "before others in order to be seen by them," and that's not piety, but misshapen ...

281. Placard Faith, Complex World

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the next, where a presidential contest ends in unsettling uncertainty and where technological change occurs at a radically accelerating rate, people hunger for that which is clearly stated and easily digestible. John's statements about Jesus appeal to those who have a reductionism bent. In effect these people say: "Look, we live in a world where there is enough uncertainty and confusion and so when it comes to my faith, I want it straight and simple." John, in these verses, obliges. Sometimes we yearn for a ...

282. Easter Transportation

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... . It wasn't the gardener! In these and a trillion other circumstances, it was the spirit of God in the risen Christ creating those resurrections. Marilyn Oden put it beautifully: As we stumble though the cobwebs in the midnight mist, filled with loneliness and despair and bent double by our burdens, the whisper of God's love can penetrate the mist -- even from the underside of the soul. We know the outcome of the Story. We do not have to remain entombed in the dark night. We do not have to wrap ourselves ...

283. Deliverance: The Forgotten Third of Jesus' Ministry

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... be invaded, lived in, and controlled by evil. This can happen to people (Mark 5), animals (Mark 5 and Genesis 3), and even nature, as in lightning, wind, and storms (Job 1-2). In using his three powers of tempting, oppressing, and possessing, Satan is 100 percent bent on destroying Christ and his works. He follows no rules and is no gentleman. How? The third question: How did this demon get into this child? Verse 26 mentions, "Cast it out." Who put it in in the first place? The text simply does not tell us ...

284. In the Hot Seat

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... forgive, heal, and rule eternally. Instead, his suffering and death actually demonstrated the reality -- the shape, nature, and scope -- of his reign. Mull that over slowly. It's important. It's also almost inconceivable. Jesus tried to simplify it when his disciples got bent out of shape because James and John had the Fastest Fingers among them. He addressed their desire to share his authority in ruling and judging nations and peoples. "Are you willing to share my cup of pain and baptism into death? That's ...

285. What a Resume!

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... of authors, you will not find a single entry. Thousands of books have been written about Jesus, but he himself wrote no books, not even a pamphlet or tract. He was able to write, we know. When a woman accused of adultery was brought to him, Jesus "bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger" (John 8:5). Giovanni Papini suggested that he chose the sand on which to write "expressly that the wind might carry away the words." Our Lord wrote his words of truth on material more permanent than ...

286. Sowing Good Seed - Father's Day

Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... time on a visit to his mother who had been widowed years earlier, in the month of Philip's first birthday they spent the afternoon together looking through a box of old photos. A certain picture of him as an eight-month-old baby caught his eye. Tattered and bent, it looked too banged up to be worth keeping, so he asked her why, with so many other better pictures of him at the same age, she had kept this one. Yancey writes, "My mother explained to me that she had kept the photo as a memento, because during ...

287. Building a House (Mother's Day)

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the service where the congregation stood together and began to sing boldly the "Gloria Patri"...Dick Murray said he felt a tug on his coat. Martin was doing the tugging and motioning for his granddad to bend down so he could tell him something. Dick Murray bent down and four-year- old Martin said excitedly in his ear, "Poppa! Poppa!, they are singing our song. They are singing our song." (Dr. Jim Moore, "What Are the Best Things We can Give Our Children?", June 18, 1989). How beautiful! Dick had taught his ...

288. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... will share their bread and work to reverse the causes of hunger. In a world of false glamour and moral confusion, He needs persons who seek first the kingdom of God, persons who stand for righteousness and beauty and integrity. In a world seemingly hell bent to commit nuclear suicide, He needs persons who will say, the risk of continued nuclear development and stockpiling is suicide. In a world where the color of one’s skin and economic status are still the chief factors which lead to oppression, He needs ...

289. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , he’d a taken to wild she cats in his poor twisted hand. Now you’ve done seed fit to take him where bein’ crooked in mind and limb don’t matter. But Lord, it pleasures us to think that you’ve done straightened out them legs and that poor bent body, and those twisted hands. It pleasures us to think on him, moving around as easy as e’ry one. And Lord, give him a few red birds, and maybe a squirrel and a coon and a ‘possum to keep him company, like he had here. All of us is ...

290. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who we are or what we are like -- God acts in love toward us. Love is the heartbeat of God. Look at the man who wrote this hymn of love -- Paul himself. You know his story. We meet him in the book of Acts as the fellow who was hell-bent on destroying this new movement -- these followers of Jesus. He went on a mission to Damascus to seek to stamp out the church -- to put to death all those who, in his mind, were blaspheming God by claiming Christ as the Messiah. That this man, Paul, could probe the essence ...

291. A Love For All Seasons (i)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... endures all things." I. First, love bears all things. "Love is not a moral weakling. It does not indulgently sink at wrong and pretend that it does not exist. Love is not anemic and pale. Love will stand up and be counted. It is so strong that it is not bent by the fickle winds of social pressure. It has convictions that will not crumble in the face of adversity. That is why love will bear all things. Love knows that when you are dealing with the soul of a person and redemption is at stake, it does no good ...

292. God Does The Unexpected

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... setting up his equipment to work on the portrait of Casals, this magnificent musician began playing Bach on his cello. Karsh was so enthralled by the music that he almost forgot why he was there. He took his portrait of Casals as a little bald-headed man, bent over his cello, frozen in time against the plain stone wall of that Chapel. There is a story that, years later, when that particular portrait was on exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, another old, bald-headed man came day after day to ...

293. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... has been captured by the tourist mindset. Religion is understood as a visit to an attractive site to be made when we have adequate leisure. For some it is a weekly jaunt to church. For others, occasional visits to special services. Some, with a bent for religious entertainment and sacred diversion, plan their lives around special events like retreats, rallies and conferences. We go to see a new personality, to hear a new truth, to get a new experience and so, somehow, expand our otherwise hum-drum lives ...

294. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

295. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... poet, Robert Frost, coined the metaphor, “The Road Less Traveled.” Listen to him: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood. And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then, took the other, just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them, really, about the same, And both that morning equally layin leaves no step had ...

296. The Life Question: What Are You Looking For?

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... four years old! Yeah! And I have a new prayer for me this year. I went to the hospital yesterday to see Dorris Smith. I spent about an hour with her. I shared with her that she has been the most influential spiritual model for me in my life. I bent down to her and I asked her, 'What can you teach me about loving Jesus?' She thought for a moment, opened her eyes so wide, smiled so big and said, 'Love Jesus with all your heart.' I desire to do just that. I told her that if she sees Jesus ...

297. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

298. Two Small Coins

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... enclosure enraptured with the squirmy little critters while their moms and dads shop. A few minutes later, Simmons turned around and saw Helen walking along behind him. He wondered if she preferred the hardware department to the petting zoo. Recognizing that was not it, he bent down and asked her what was wrong. She looked up at him with giant limpid brown eyes and said sadly, "Well, Daddy, it cost fifty cents. So, I gave Brandon my quarter." Then she said the most beautiful thing Simmons says he ever heard ...

299. The Conversion Of Saul

Acts 9:1-19a

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... a joyful dance. People: You have taken away my sorrow and surrounded me with joy. Leader: I will not be silent; I will sing praises to you. People: Lord, you are my God. I will give you thanks forever. Collect O Lord, as you appeared to Saul while he was bent on persecuting your followers, come to us as we, too, pursue those who do not believe as we do and ridicule those who seek peace in our time through the path of love. Blind us to the folly of our ways, and make clear to us the path you would ...

300. The Price Of Evil Deeds

Isaiah 5:1-7, Isaiah 5:8-30

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... reconciliation. We pray that we may be used by you to spread your gospel of peace and goodwill to every nation. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord God Almighty, we present these gifts that through your Church the nations of the world may hear the gospel of peace and goodwill, that those bent on evil may turn from their ways, and that all may know you are the ruler of the earth. Amen. Hymns "Dear Jesus, In Whose Life I See" "Out Of The Depths I Cry To You" "Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult"

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