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276. When The Economy Goes South

1 Kings 17:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... poverty, put in everything--all she had to live on." Two widows--caught in the midst of their own private times of economic hardship. Some of you have known such times. More than twenty-six million Americans today live below the poverty level. One sociologist recently estimated that one of every three young families in America today is only one paycheck away from bankruptcy. It's tough! As one fellow said, "I used to live in the lap of luxury--then luxury stood up." Even those of us who have secure jobs are ...

277. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... not phrases that fit into most peoples' secular world-view. Let me see if I can translate them into today's realities--with language more suited to today's world. Let's begin with a word we all understand. It's the word, "risk." What, in your estimation, constitutes an acceptable risk? There's a humorous story about a woman who was reading a letter at breakfast. Suddenly she looked up suspiciously at her husband. "George," she said, "Mother says she isn't coming to visit us. She says that it appears we do ...

278. God’s Body Language

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ,” and it was popularized by a book of that title written by Julius Fast. The book highlights the well-known fact that we are known by others as much by how we look and act as by what we say. One researcher has come up with the estimate that feelings are expressed to others 7% through words, 38% through vocal tone, and 55% through facial expression. (I always wondered why I hate telephones so much. Now I know: I can’t see what people are saying!) “Body language.” That’s what the author of the ...

279. Jesus Came Preaching

Mark 1:14-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to God, and creates the church and sends it into the world. Whew! That is some responsibility to place on the shoulders of preaching! But they are able to bear it. And have done so. Herman Melville in his classic Moby Dick gave what is perhaps the highest estimate of preaching ever written.He said: “The pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear; the pulpit leads the world.... Yes, the world’s a ship on its passage out,....and the pulpit is its prow.” (Would that that ...

280. On the Threshold: From Law to Gospel

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

David Busic

... that virtue is not true virtue if it is done, simply as an avoidance of punishment. Nor is virtue, virtue, if it is done for a reward. There is something higher, something deeper, something wider that must motivate the human spirit to do good, at least in Plato’s estimation, if it is to be truly good. Let’s use our own language. I think it is fair to say that holiness is not holiness if our motivation is simply to avoid punishment. I also think it is fair to say that holiness is not holiness if our ...

281. The Lord's Prayer: A Surplus of Meaning

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills...When they meant to pray for courage, let them really be trying to feel brave. When they say they are praying for forgiveness, let them be trying to feel forgiven. Teach each of them to estimate the value of prayer by their success in producing the desired feeling." (C. S. Lewis, THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS, New York: The MacMillian Company, 1943, p. 29.) We do not pray when we feel like it. We pray because we need to have communication and relationship ...

282. The Lord's Prayer: Thine Is the Kingdom

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... The pattern is always known and shaped by the pattern maker. Jesus is reminding us that in order to do what we have just prayed for we must keep our focus on God. Now, to examine the words: FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM. It is estimated that about 500 million Christians recite this prayer every Sunday and throughout the week. People from every nation, tribe, color, class and station of life; people from every denomination. God must be happy when this takes place. Once when John, Jennifer, and I were vacationing ...

283. The Other Side of Christmas

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... conference year. Preachers are notorious statisticians. A preacher''s count is usually a generous count. As each preacher gave his report the bishop was astonished. Finally, the good bishop counted all the conversions reported by the pastors and declared, "I would estimate from tallying your records of conversions that you have converted more people than there are in the entire state of West Virginia." One of the preachers then stood up and said, "Brother Bishop, down here you have to covert these people ...

284. Depression: When the Spirit Is Faint

Psalm 142:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... ever present problem that knows no educational, cultural or financial boundaries. Depression is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. One of the major health problems of America in the 1990s is depression. The National Institute of Mental Health estimated in their report in January, 1991, that 5.8 percent of all adult Americans--about 10 million --suffer from depression annually. This costs the nation more than $27 billion dollars in lost productivity. It is not a laughing matter. History ...

285. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part II)

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... you.'' The other girls looked at her as if to say, `You''re just modeling. This isn't any statement about your morality.'' "Sandra said, `I''m sorry. I can''t model this. I''m through.'' "That was the end of her modeling career. When she told me that, my estimation of her and the way I valued her as a person went sky high because I''d found a woman who cared more about what God thought than what the world thought. I knew that''s the kind of woman I wanted to marry. And that''s the kind of ...

286. Life: From the Inside Out

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... and forfeiting those lives, and that happens, Jesus suggests, when we live life from the outside in. The pressure to live from the outside in is strong indeed. This pressure is something advertisers have long known and is why, according to one estimate, the average adult encounters 3,000 advertisements each day. Advertisements cover the gamut, all the way from products that address personal hygiene to plans for covering the cost of your funeral so you won't be a burden to your children. Professor James ...

287. Bearing the Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Drama

Angela Akers

(4 readers spread out across the stage. Each person steps forward to deliver her lines, then steps back. Must be delivered forcefully and with conviction.) Reader One: “Four hundred and fifty: the estimated number of Christians killed daily around the world for their faith.”1 Reader Two: “Thirty-nine: the age of German pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer when he was executed by the Nazis during World War II. He once wrote, ‘Cheap grace is a grace without discipleship, grace without the cross.’” 2 Reader ...

288. Have You Gone Far Enough?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... world over have volumes written about him. Who is he? Who is this man who made such strange claims? "I am the door." "I am the light of the world." "I am the bread of life." He was born in a stable. His parents were peasants. Yet who can ever estimate his influence on the human race? His name? Jesus. Jesus of Nazareth. Ever wonder who he really is? Isn't it about time you found out?

289. Grace in the Midst of Limited Resources

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... Jesus says, "Don't you believe it." A lot of people would like to play basketball like Michael Jordan. Even more people secretly dream of enjoying a Michael Jordan-sized income. During one of his recent years in the NBA his combined salary and commercial deals were estimated to be at least 58 million dollars. How much money is that? Michael Jordan earned $106 every minute of every hour of every day that year. Whenever he went to an average-length movie he spent $7 for a ticket, $5 for the popcorn and drink ...

290. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... father of a teenager whom he had come to know through a youth ministry. The father had been emotionally and physically abusive to everyone in his family. Yaconelli determined not to be cheated or pushed around by this fellow. He demanded (and received) a written estimate in advance -- $350 for three days' work. When the work was finished the tiler said, "I need to talk to you about the money." Yaconelli braced himself for a battle royal. He writes: I was ready for him and glanced at my wife with the ...

291. No Other Name

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... asks Michael Guillen in his book Can a Smart Person Believe In God? We know what atheism has given us, because for most of the twentieth century, many of the world's people lived under officially atheistic regimes. According to conservative estimates, from 1917 to 1991, atheist governments massacred close to 100 million people! The three worst offenders were the USSR: 20 million killed, China: 65 million killed, North Korea and Cambodia: 2 million killed in each. The savagery of these governments . . . was ...

292. Such As I Have

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... choirs. It’s also Circuit Rider Sunday. A time when we recognize and express appreciation for the stewardship that God has made us responsible for in terms of the material resources that are ours. A time when each one of us will be asked to share an estimate of giving commitment to the Church for this year. I think those two things are tied together. The fact that we dedicate people are using special gifts, as well as the fact that we all make our common gift unto the Lord – all tied together. Who we ...

293. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the world because they have been beaten up at home. They need to see persons who Paul said has put on "humbleness of mind." Persons who know who they are in relation to God and to others. Persons who have perspective, soundly estimating their strengths and weaknesses. Persons who flaunt neither their strength nor weakness, but take their place in God's kingdom without fanfare. Persons who know their source of power. God's presence and power in their lives gives them certainty and confidence -- certainty ...

294. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... -grade operatives more extensively. "There seemed to be too much repetition of some musical passages. Scores should be drastically pruned. No useful purpose is served by repeating on the horns a passage which has already been handled by the strings. It is estimated that if all redundant passages were eliminated the whole concert time of two hours could be reduced to 20 minutes and there would be no need for an interval or intermission... "It was noted that excessive effort was being used occasionally by ...

295. From Russia With Love

Acts 3:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Methodism, must repent. Must repent of our failure to do anything to protest that nation, when that nation were sending millions of people forced starvation, for instance, for seven million of them. Sending millions of people into the gulags. Slaughtering millions of others. Estimates as high as seventy million. And we in the Church, and we in this nation were doing very little to protest what they were doing in the name of their new society. Back in October of 1991 a delegation of evangelical Christians ...

296. Choices

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In the beautiful but desolate mountains of southeastern Utah, a twenty-seven year-old mountain climber named Aron Ralston, made a desperate decision. An avid outdoors man, Aron was rock climbing one day when his right arm became trapped under a boulder, a boulder estimated to weigh at least eight hundred pounds. He saw immediately that he was in deep trouble. Unable to budge the rock at all, Aron took out his pocketknife and chipped away at the rock for 10 hours, managing to produce only a small handful ...

297. The Hinge of History

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... of spirit in John the Baptizer, demonstrated not so much by his wardrobe and diet as by a mind that could say, "I don't give a hang what happens to me, if only I do the job I was called to do." Someone has said that no one can estimate how much good could be done in our world if no one cared who got the credit. Any local congregation can testify to the truth of that sentence, and so, too, can any community enterprise -- from a scout troop to a peace caucus. But it isn't easy to be ...

298. Christmas and the New Family

John 1:1-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... , to rejoin the heavenly family. Nor dare I give up on myself. On those days when I look at myself more harshly than I would ever look on any other human being -- and when I can see no measure of worth in me because I am obsessed with hell's estimate of unworth -- I must remember that my eternal roots are in the family of God, and that God wants so much for his family to be whole that he sent Jesus Christ to give us the power to become children of God. This is a word to throw in the ...

299. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... he was stretching a point when he suggested three tabernacles, thus putting Jesus on a level with Moses and Elijah. Something in him may have said, "The Master will be pleased that I honor him so." It's always so difficult for us to estimate the greatness of someone near at hand, particularly when compared with notable historic figures. But even more so when they were looking upon one who was in a completely different category from all their previous judgments. Some Bible scholars feel that perhaps this ...

300. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... : “In the early days of communism,” he said, “many churches were blown up and the priests, monks, and nuns were executed. (Parenthetically, one of the worst holocausts of the ages was the slaying of Christians in the early years of Communism—some estimate that during the Lenin/Stalin regime, over 40 million Christians were killed.) Lenin argued that once the grandmothers died, nobody would remember that there had been a church in Russia. But now, the priest said, Lenin is long dead, and the church ...

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