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276. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... out the door. Several cautiously peeked into the room; the man was fast asleep. It was now decided that the family doctor should be called. He had known the man since he was a little boy, and besides being a physician with a reputation for patience and skill, he was respected everywhere for his homey wisdom. He came quickly, and after one or two questions in front of everyone, asked the man in a no nonsense way, "Tell me, do dead men bleed?" "Of course not," said the man. "Then," said the doctor, "would you ...

277. Mercy Me!

Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... we are than who we are judging in fact. They reveal our own insecurities, weaknesses, jealousies, issues of control and need. What would happen if we could use our sense of wonder and curiosity about the world and about others instead of our razor sharp critical skills? What would happen if we were to treat others not as objects of our disdain but as subjects and neighbors in God’s world who are beloved as much as we? What if we could let go of rules, regulations, need for order, toxic need for control ...

278. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... But the most interesting thing about escape rooms is that you can’t do them alone. The puzzles are designed to be solved by putting all heads together in a group effort. Each person’s unique skills contribute to the success of the escape. In fact, escape rooms have become the “go to” team-building skill of the current decade. The only way you can escape from your unique challenge is to rely on each other, work together, and walk through the steps of the game in tandem. Once the puzzle is unlocked ...

279. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ideas and attitudes within an enclosed environment, we adults often don’t take seriously their abilities and thoughts. We most often relegate kids’ thoughts and attitudes as being immature, childish, fanciful, and naïve. It’s easy for us to disregard their input and skills as underdeveloped, while we adults strive to create the world we believe is in the best interests of our beliefs and future, whether it be in our culture, or in the church. And yet, Jesus chose a child to be his prime example of ...

280. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... using a curriculum of eighty books chosen by professional educators and the Children’s Defense Fund for their ability to enhance the child’s reading ability as well as teaching other social skills. The afternoons are spent in cultural enrichment, family engagement, intergenerational servant leadership, community involvement, conflict resolution, and social action. Activities may include arts and crafts, dance, music, field trips, sports, rehearsal for a final event, and social action and community ...

281. What's Your Superpower?

Luke 24:36-49, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... church, we have a much bigger definition of “superpower” –that which is endowed with the superhuman strength of the Holy Spirit! For those in the church, doing ministry and mission is not merely a matter of identifying our best skills. It’s even more important to allow those skills to be enhanced by the superhuman power of God. For we believe that we are God-powered. That our ministries and our purpose-driven missions are God-powered. That our prayer, our praise, our sacraments, our baptisms are God ...

There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills.

Jeff Bezos

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

284. Sin

Romans 7:15--8:13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of my ability and effort. I fail because of some other reason. When I win at Scrabble, it's because of my verbal skill. When I lose, "Who gets anywhere in this game with a Q but no U?" (2) You and I suffer from favorably biased self ... on yourself. You did the best you could," others tell us. "Look, I've seen lots of people who are heavier than you." A coach brags about the skill of the opposing team in order to make his team's loss look less like failure. Doesn't the Bible say that we are created in the image ...

285. Can You Deny Yourself?

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... path for him. So Lamb convinced his wife to take pictures of him in a variety of poses as a dead body. Then he set up a website DeadBodyGuy.com (which is now defunct, just in case you’re searching for it on your phone right now) to advertise his skills to TV and movie directors. National TV shows like CNN and The Today Show picked up the story of Chuck Lamb’s website, and he got hired to play a dead body in the TV show “What I Like About You.” Since that first TV appearance, Lamb has appeared as ...

286. What Jesus Saw

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... he would need one month to six weeks to recover from his injury before he could play. But while he was on the bench (and still receiving a paycheck), Carlos would bribe local reporters to write news stories about his amazing athleticism and soccer skills. Fans demanded to see him play. Teams would compete to offer him a better contract. All told, Carlos Kaiser had paid contracts with ten different professional soccer teams without ever having to play a full game of soccer. Here’s what to me is hilarious ...

287. Empowering the Powerless

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... tests are not about self-improvement or even identifying strengths but about weeding out those who don’t conform to certain bars or standards. The legal bar, the CPA test, the SATs or GREs, even competitive sports such as swimming or Shark Tank measure our skills and place us before judges who will determine how we fare on a pre-determined scale. Think about how many kinds of “tests” we have in our world. For some people, it would be nearly impossible to go through a single week without going through ...

288. Nose Hairs And Disney

1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

Sermon

Mary Austin

... level of athletic talent, field day could be a thrilling escape from school or an exercise in torture. If you had some outdoor skills, field day was a diversion from the classroom at the end of the school year. It was hot and everyone was bored. You got to go ... outside and finally show the A-plus math students what real talent was. Or, if you had zero athletic skills, it was just a long hot day of torture in the sun, when you’d rather be reading a book. Love it or hate it ...

289. Unspectacular Faithfulness

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22

Sermon

Will Willimon

... probably thought that she had given away the store, had allowed herself to be so co-opted by the pagan culture that she was no longer a Jew. As a woman, she was powerless, even though she was queen. Yet Esther used what power she had, maneuvered skillfully within the limits imposed upon her by the culture, and did a great thing. What she did was not particularly spectacular but that's good because most of us are not very spectacular ourselves. Fortunately, most of the good that God needs doing is not too ...

290. Unspectacular Faithfulness

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10; 9:20-22

Sermon

Will Willimon

291. A Day of Passion, Praise and Prophesying

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... that this cab driver didn’t realize they speak English in Scotland. If you are looking for a new challenge, though, and have some time on your hands, then you might want to consider learning another language. Who knows how God might use that skill to help others? During the 2020 Olympic Games held in Tokyo, there was a heart-warming scene in which a Japanese surfer lost a surfing event to a Brazilian surfer. The Japanese surfer handled his defeat with grace, however. In an interview after the competition ...

292. Have You Seen a Buck Flying Past?

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . But God gives us the choice of letting Him be the Master of our lives or choosing a lesser master to shape us. Imagine you have an architect who is highly skilled at designing the finest homes. A true visionary and expert. But imagine, clients line up to hire this architect. But instead of letting the visionary, highly skilled architect actually design the home, the clients hand her their own amateur house designs and ask the architect simply to approve them. Pastor J.R. Miller compares this situation to ...

293. God's Ridiculous Commitment

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... up the Body of Christ, the church. The Holy Spirit equips us to do the work of Jesus far beyond what our own limited vision and capacities would ordinarily allow. Many years ago, Rev. John Hesselink served as a missionary in Fukuoka, Japan. His language skills were still limited, so he was nervous when a missionary colleague asked him to teach three Bible classes a week at the local prison. Two of the classes would be for prisoners who were scheduled for execution. As if this weren’t intimidating enough ...

294. Leaving an Empty Chair

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... . We devote ourselves to things that are challenging and carry high value in our lives. We devote ourselves to our relationships. We devote ourselves to some achievement, like completing a project, or to a personal development goal, like learning a new skill. We devote ourselves to the most important things in life, to the things with lasting value. Devotion requires commitment and humility and self-sacrifice. And that’s what these early Christians did to create a healthy Church, a healthy community that ...

295. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Ronald Love

... as a shepherd to defeat Goliath. The task of the shepherd is one of servitude, which is to be embraced as a spiritual leader. Books have been written on all of the tasks and skills of a shepherd and how they parallel the expectations of Christian discipleship. This has become most prominent in literature regarding Jesus. Having referred to himself as the Good Shepherd, Jesus underscored the significance of this imagery. This was then adopted by the first-century authors, most notably Peter and Paul, ...

296. Afraid at the Thank God Ledge

1 Kings 3:5-12

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... on God’s power instead of his own. (3) If we had the perfect ability to listen to God and to see life through God’s eyes, wouldn’t it eliminate all kinds of confusion and anxiety and stress? Wouldn’t we find meaning and joy in using our skills and opportunities to glorify God? Finally, Solomon’s story reminds us that our life is not about us. Our life is a testament to the world of what can happen when God adds His awesome power to our average abilities. St. Teresa of Avila was a Spanish Carmelite ...

297. Easter Is True

Luke 24:13-35 · 1 Peter 1:17-23

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Jesus in the tomb, were shocked, surprised, scared half out of their wits on Easter morning is a scandal which I cannot help you to avoid. Sure, the story of the resurrection of Easter may transform our attitude about life. If that story is told with great poetic skill by some well endowed preacher, the story may even make you feel better, even if you do not believe God raised Jesus from the dead. But a great deal more is said than this. In the Christian faith, the emphasis is on what God reveals, not on ...

298. A Courageous Leader

Judges 4:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... with what I said, but I'll stand by what I said, whatever it was.” (1) We have all made a mistake like that, so we can’t be too hard on them. But good leaders need to be effective communicators. That’s an essential skill for inspiring confidence in your followers. Ken Downer is a former Army Colonel and a leadership coach. In one of his articles, he highlights what he calls “crutch phrases,” common phrases that leaders use that weaken their communication. The first crutch phrase that Downer says ...

299. Bread and Call

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

David Coffin

... account of Jesus’ childhood at age twelve. Most scholars believe that John had access to the same sources that Mark had about Jesus. In Mark 6:1-6, Jesus was identified as the “carpenter, the son of Mary” Mark 6:3 (RSV). He was a tradesman or skilled worker, not trained temple rabbi. He was not groomed for seminary. Using bread as a metaphor, Jesus affirmed he was the word made flesh stated in John 1:14. Other known forms of bread such as that provided in the wilderness in Exodus 16, also resulted in ...

300. Badger or Bonobo?

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus Leadership Development Program” meant that you needed to widen your umbrella, broaden your view, put your territorial instincts aside, and become a collaborative leader, working together, even with those who may not be part of your inner circle, to share skills and build a kingdom of love, peace, and value for all. Territorialism claims a deep-seated place in our psyches. Our instinct for defending and protecting our “territories,” no matter how we define them, comes from our human desire for ...

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276. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

277. Mercy Me!

Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

278. Deliverance

Isaiah 49:8-26, Isaiah 44:24--45:25, Exodus 15:22-27, Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

279. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

280. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

281. What's Your Superpower?

Luke 24:36-49, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Jeff Bezos

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Tom Stoppard

284. Sin

Romans 7:15--8:13

Sermon

Will Willimon

285. Can You Deny Yourself?

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

286. What Jesus Saw

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon