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276. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... carry over into your leisure hours. Because you may be performing a routine sort of task, doesn’t mean that your free hours can’t be full of meaning. When I think of the financial resources of this congregation, when I think of the wealth of talent with which we have been endowed, the level of education and training that is reflected in the membership of this church – my mind boggles at the thought of ministry we could perform in this city. And don’t think like lightly about your money. There are ...

277. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... try -- singing the Lord's song was not even an option, we thought. Let Maggie Savoy tell her story. Maggie was a talented newspaper woman -- Women's Editor of The Los Angeles Times. Six years earlier she had undergone surgery for abdominal cancer and recovered ... try -- singing the Lord's song was not even an option, we thought. Let Maggie Savoy tell her story. Maggie was a talented newspaper woman -- Women's Editor of The Los Angeles Times. Six years earlier she had undergone surgery for abdominal cancer and ...

278. The Art Of Borrowing And Lending A Donkey

Luke 19:28-44

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Maxie Dunnam

... and graces from God are needed by God. We are to offer what we have and who we are with courage and trust, and to follow through with prayer and perseverance. While God needs the five talented genius and virtuoso, the expert and the giant, God also needs one-talented followers. God needs ordinary people and the modestly endowed. The brilliant architect cannot make the cathedral come to life without the day-laborer and stone mason. Prominent acadamadicians cannot create a university without people who sweep ...

279. God's Call To Preach The Good News

Acts 16:11-15

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... understanding of your love. May each of us gathered here be granted a vision of your call to us to witness to the Good News to people everywhere regardless of their race or nationality. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we have refused to recognize the talents you have given us. We have held back from witnessing to the Good News of Christ's resurrection because we didn't think we were properly equipped. Forgive our backwardness, and open our eyes, our minds, and our hearts that we may realize the gifts you ...

280. Maximizing Your Potential

Isaiah 5:1-7

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Richard Gribble

... school? Or do we demonstrate our faith and trust God, as did Abraham, Moses, Isaiah, and the other great biblical figures of faith? Do we share our great gifts of faith with those not as privileged as ourselves? We have all been given many talents -- in the classroom as students and teachers, on the athletic field as players and coaches, in the arts as musicians or painters, in the professional world as physicians, engineers, or architects. How would we answer Jesus when he says, "From everyone to whom much ...

281. Letting Go

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... do you hear about heaven outside of a funeral? C. S. Lewis asked this question in his 1940 work, The Problem of Pain. Professor Lewis was an atheist. But in searching himself with intellectual honesty, he became a Christian. He used his great intellect and talent for writing to produce some of the greatest modern Christian classics. One of the problems of believing, he says, is that heaven sounds like "pie in the sky, bye and bye." In the modern age, it's embarrassing to talk about heaven. To imagine a ...

282. Forgiveness and Reconciliation at Last!

Genesis 45:1-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... ." The second purpose of God is to create human creatures in God's own image. We are created for relationships and for stewardship. Our role is to discover who we are and what purpose God has in store for us. We are gifted with spiritual gifts, talents, abilities, passions, dreams, aspirations, and needs. Yet, as Oliver Wendell Holmes sadly observed, "Most of us go to our graves with our music still inside of us." The third purpose of God is to find the lost. Jesus' parables of the lost coin, the lost sheep ...

283. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

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Arley K. Fadness

... , or fractured, we need to listen to Paul again, "Consider your call...." God calls and gifts us. How we are wired is the clue to God's call for our lives. Vocatio is found in our gifts, our temperament, our personality, our passion, our bliss, our talents, our work, and our leisure. There is a Hasidic tale that reveals, with amazing brevity, both the universal tendency to want to be someone else and the ultimate importance of becoming one's self: Rabbi Zusya, when he was an old man, said, "In the coming ...

284. A Radical Faith

Matthew 6:25-34

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Mark Trotter

... that next week. Eisenach is also where Johann Sebastian Bach was born two hundred years later. It is a wonderful, beautiful city, and a center of music. Luther, himself, was a musician of no mean talent. It is believed by historians that when he was living in Eisenach with his aunt, he developed his talent for music. When Luther was 18, his father sent him to the University at Erfurt. In those days it was the most prestigious university in Germany. Luther went to Erfurt in 1501. The university had already ...

285. Leave No Child Behind

Mark 10:13-16

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Mark Trotter

... to challenge this congregation to get involved where you think you can be of service. We have defined the need and narrowed it down to what we think we can manage as a congregation, and now we need to determine if we have the resources, the people, and your talents, to do this job. We are inviting you to a meeting this Thursday night, an orientation meeting. We hope that you will come, even if you are just interested and not yet sure if you want to do this. Come anyway, and sign up after the service in the ...

286. Now Try Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

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Mark Trotter

... in your life, but it is a way of life. To drive it home, Jesus tells the parable of the unmerciful servant. A king wants to settle accounts with one of his servants. He discovers that the servant cannot produce the ten thousand talents that he owes. We know that King Herod collected 1000 talents a year in taxes from his people so that he could maintain his lavish lifestyle. This is ten times more than what Herod collected in taxes. It is an impossible sum. The man begs the king that he be allowed time in ...

287. Now What Do We Do?

John 1:1-18

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Mark Trotter

288. The Cathedral Within

II Corinthians 9:6-15

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Mark Trotter

... The first is: Devote your life to something so big that you will never see it completed. Most of us do just the opposite. We work with something manageable. That is what we look for in a job, or career, or a project to give ourselves to. We invest our talent and our money until it becomes something big, or until it is completed. Then we step back, admire and enjoy our accomplishment, point to it, and say, "I did that. I reached my goal. I can retire now. I have a sense of satisfaction that what I set out to ...

289. Where Can I Find the Church?

Acts 2:1-8; 4:32-37

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Mark Trotter

... 25th chapter of Matthew is about the end of the world. It tells us how we will be judged. The message of the three parables is clear. The first is that we should be faithful in waiting for Christ to come. The second parable says that we should invest our talents in the world and take risks in investing them. The third parable says that we should serve the needy as if they were Jesus. For it is in that parable that Jesus says, "If you have done it to the least of these, you have done it to me." Harold ...

290. Proper 19

Exodus 13:17--14:31, Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 18:21-35

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John R. Brokhoff

... . Forgiveness is the oil that makes human relations move smoothly: Is the trouble with the church today the lack of forgiveness resulting in cliques and divisions? 3. Mercy (v. 33). The basis of forgiveness is mercy, not justice. Since a person with a debt of 10,000 talents ($10,000,000) cannot possibly pay, God in mercy forgives. It is worthy of note that in both cases the debtor did not ask for the forgiveness of the debt, but only for patience to give him time to pay the debt. The king (God) goes beyond ...

291. Building Our Foundation on God

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Richard Gribble

... , for our reward will never be found in what others think. The Lord speaks of the three great works that have, over the Christian era, become the hallmarks of Lenten action - almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. When we give alms, that is share our resources of time, talent, and treasure with others, we must do so in a way so that God and God alone knows what we are doing. To demonstrate in an external way that we are a great philanthropist, that we willing give to others, is not the problem Jesus describes ...

292. Completing The Master's Work

Luke 24:44-53

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Richard Gribble

... died without his master work completed, his disciples gathered together and finished the work. In a similar way, we who bear the name Christian must do our share to bring Jesus' work to completion in our world. God has given all of us many talents and we must use them to bring the kingdom to come. Some, like Puccini are gifted musically, others are writers, still others are gifted speakers. Some of us excel in science and others are wonderful teachers. Some people have been given great athletic ability ...

293. By God’s Spirit

Zechariah 4:1-14

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James McCormick

... people. And again and again, His power has seen us through. And He isn’t through with us yet! As we move into the future, it is important to remember that the history of the Chapel is not just the story of what has been accomplished by intelligent, talented, generous, and hard-working people. That’s only part of the story. Primarily, the history of the Chapel is the story of what God has done in and through the lives of people who have made themselves available to Him. That’s the way it always happens ...

294. The Imperishable Dream

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... audition room vowing to continue their dream. They seem undaunted by this experience of complete failure and utter rejection. Having drunk too long and too deeply at the fountain of self-esteem, these contestants refuse to acknowledge their complete lack of talent. They stubbornly swear that no one will dissuade them from their self-appointed goal of greatness. What these American Idol rejects have forgotten is that there are very real results in any competition. Athletes know better than most that at the ...

295. The Lost and Found Elder Brother

Luke 15:25-32

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James W. Moore

... is an outstanding singer – but he has not sung in church for more than 30 years. Thirty-three years ago, he was active in his church’s music program, sang in the choir… and was the church’s main soloist. People praised him often for his great talent… and all was beautiful… until a new singer moved to town and joined the choir. The choir director asked the new man to sing a tenor solo one morning and he was magnificent! When the main soloist heard the new man sing… he recognized that this new ...

296. Foundations for the Future

1 Corinthians 3:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... do it for one reason. You expect a return on your investment. Well, so does God. God has invested in you. He has invested His life, and His love. He expects a return on His investment. In Mt. 25:14-30 Jesus told a parable of the talents. A talent in Bible days was not just an ability, it was a monetary measurement. Jesus expects a return on the money He gives you the power to make. Now building the right financial foundation is the key to achieving financial freedom. The foundation of giving is the tithe ...

297. Focus on the Finish

Galatians 6:7-10

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James Merritt

... labor is not in vain in the Lord." (1 Cor. 15:58) Ray Croc who founded the world famous MacDonald's hamburger chain, said this: Press on: Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful individuals with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. III. Don't Give Out In Sharing "Therefore, as we have opportunity ...

298. Great Is Your Faith - Sermon Starter

Matthew 15:21-28

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Brett Blair

... not like it said of him or her: Great is your faith? Think of what it would mean if an aspiring young artist had Picasso place his hand on his shoulder and say: You have a great talent. How wonderful it would be then to a believer in God, if Jesus would place his hand on our shoulder and say: You have a remarkable talent for faith. But how does one qualify for this praise? What does one have to do? To answer these questions let us take a closer look at her story. 1. Crossing Barriers 2. Refusing to Be Put ...

299. Dots on a Screen

Hebrews 9:24-28

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... willing to lay personal relationships on the line for the sake of authentic love and true intimacy? Share your faith story! • Are you ready to risk it all in the realm of high finances? Learn to tithe! • Do you want to show off your hidden talents for all to see? Use them in Christian service! • Do you want to experience life-altering drama? Volunteer at a crisis-counseling center! Let us not be distracted by dots on the screen, caught up in mere images and reflections of life. Let us instead focus ...

300. Ten Million Dollar Winners

Matthew 18:23-35

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Shirley Gupton Lynn

... told a parable about a man whose hostile heart killed his relationship with his king. You recall the story. A king called in his servants to settle accounts. They were probably governors of his provinces. One owed the king 10,000 talents. In Jesus' day, a king's annual income was only 900 talents, so we quickly see the debt is an amount impossible to pay. In fact, it was $10 million. Not because the slave deserved it, but because the king was the king and was merciful, he forgave the slave the entire debt ...

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