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3151. Finding Calm In The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... up to the piano and sing a song. After a bit of hesitation they came to the piano, pushed aside the popular song the group had been singing, opened the hymnbook and began to sing, "Standing On The Promises of God." Dr. Lord said that after the quartet had sung, he led the group in prayer. Lord told the Alliance: "I have never been in a church service where the presence of the Holy Spirit was more evident." In the midst of war, with bombs falling all around them, four young people sang about the peace of God ...

3152. The Get-ready Man

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... seasickness, he could have walked a few feet to land at any time during the previous 12 hours. That, likewise, is how close God’s help is, whether we take advantage of it or not! * Listen to the words of the get-ready man: "Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Repent and believe the Gospel." The future is uncertain. Life is fragile. All of us have preparations we need to make. But do not be afraid. The God of the Bethlehem star, the God of the angels singing of peace on earth, goodwill to men, the God of the ...

3153. Rushing And Realizing

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... we already surrounded the throne of God. But how does such a transformation take place? I know of only one way. It is to invite the Lord of Advent into our lives. When we do that, we discover anew what God has to give us and what God wants from us. There is ... hearts. Even amid the rush of Christmas preparations, we realize the fruition of God's plan. "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in his paths." 1. Edward K. ...

3154. Blessing, Testing, Response

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... a sign in front of it. The sign read as if Jesus were saying, "Your hands are my hands." And how true that is. We are the Lord's hands in the world today by which He feeds the hungry. We are His eyes to see the oppressed. We are His mouth to proclaim ... the good news of salvation. We are His arms to lift up the downtrodden. We are the body of Christ in the world. When we pray, "Lord won't you do something to feed the starving and help the elderly?" He responds to us, "Yes, I will send you. For I have given ...

3155. Meeting Jesus Along The Way

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... PAGES OF OUR BIBLES. Have you ever had a Sunday School teacher who made the Bible come alive for you? Have you ever been reading the Bible and come upon a word that seems to have been written just for you? At such times we meet the risen Lord. As they continued on their way to Emmaus Jesus began teaching Cleopas and his companion what the scriptures said about the Messiah. As he interpreted to them the Word, their hearts burned within them and they began to discover who it was that walked with them. A man ...

3156. How Do You Act In The Presence Of The Queen?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the LORD Almighty.'" (NIV) In our lesson from the Gospels Jesus is speaking to Simon Peter, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a ... to dawn on Simon Peter that this carpenter from Nazareth was more than just a man. He fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!" How you act in the presence of a queen is one thing. How you act in the presence of God is ...

3157. The Repentant Heart

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Timothy Smith

... The poor man's children were crying as their pet was led off to slaughter. The lamb was served as dinner for the rich man and his guest. King David was appalled by this. Who would do such a horrendous thing? David told Nathan, "I swear by the living LORD that the man who did this ought to die!" The case touched David's emotions in a powerful way. That was exactly the reaction Nathan hoped for. Remember, David was a shepherd. David spent a lot of time with sheep before he became king. David's heart went out ...

3158. Do You Have A Forgiving Spirit?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... can is getting further and further away." If you find that your ability to forgive is getting more difficult and further away from the will of God, perhaps it is because you are not as close as you should be to the heart and mind of the Lord Jesus Christ. GOD'S FORGIVENESS OF US IS CONTINGENT ON OUR FORGIVENESS OF OTHERS. The Bible is very clear here. If we do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will our Heavenly Father forgive us. We must forgive in order to be forgiven. There is a good reason ...

3159. Thanksgiving: Where Are You Looking For It?

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... young Bart sits down with his family to a meal. When it's his turn to pray and give thanks, he says something to this effect: Lord, my dad earned the money to pay for this food, and my mom worked for hours to cook it. What did you do? Thanks a lot ... your flocks multiply, and your silver and gold multiply, and all that you have multiplies, then your heart becomes proud, and you forget the Lord your God who brought you out from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery." (NRSV) We are called to remember to ...

3160. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... organist smiled and said, "For OUR first selection WE will play a piece from Mozart." Then great music was heard by all. The church of Jesus Christ always plays its best music when we realize that it is "we" and not "I." Perhaps this is why our Lord Jesus Christ put a table--The Lord's Table--at the center of our faith. THE TABLE TEACHES US THAT WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF FAITH. We gather here like a family assembled to break bread. At his table we are one. In the summer of 1966 a Boy Scout troop, en route to ...

3161. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jeremiah, "Do not say, "˜I am only a boy'; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall speak whatever I command you, Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord." Then the Lord put out his hand and touched Jeremiah's mouth; and the Lord said to him, "Now I have put my words in your mouth . . ." Only a boy. And yet, a messenger from God. Here's a good word to eliminate from your vocabulary--it's the word, "only." Only a teenager, only a woman, only ...

3162. "Head" Lines

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... the church is a prayer of thanks. In fact, Paul writes, "I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers." That's a lot of thanks. What causes Paul's sense of gratitude and joy to overflow? It was this new church's faith in the Lord Jesus and their love "for all the saints," their love for one another. How many of you have been drawn to God by the faithful example of a mature believer? How many of you have experienced God's love through the love of a brother or sister in Christ? That ...

3163. Winners And Losers

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Paul writes to the believers in Ephesus that he prays they will be able to grasp, "how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know that this love surpasses knowledge . . ." And in II Peter 3: 9, we are assured that the Lord doesn't want anyone to perish, but all to come to repentance. Just when we think we have got the saints and the sinners sorted into their own separate boxes, Jesus comes along and praises a tax collector and spends an afternoon with a Samaritan woman. We can never ...

3164. Money Matters

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... and the way he has mishandled his resources. He pleads to be able to send Lazarus to talk to his brothers. One thinks of the rich fool, the man who built great barns to hold his grain and said, "Now I'll eat and drink and be merry." But the Lord comes to him and says, "Thou fool! Tonight is thy soul required of thee. Then whose will these things be?" One thinks of the passage in our Scripture lesson for today from the gospel: "It is easier for a camel to go through the end of a needle than for ...

3165. At The Edge Of Broken-ness

Job 1:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... own life. But stretch out your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face." (2:4, 5) The LORD said to Satan, "Very well, then, he is in your hands; but you must spare his life." (2:6) Male 1: "I was just getting ... t seem real. And having to deal with a death certificate makes it so real." (10) Reader: So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD and afflicted Job with painful sores from the soles of his feet to the top of his head. Then Job took a piece of broken pottery ...

3166. MONEY MATTERS

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... and the way he has mishandled his resources. He pleads to be able to send Lazarus to talk to his brothers. One thinks of the rich fool, the man who built great barns to hold his grain and said, "Now I''ll eat and drink and be merry." But the Lord comes to him and says, "Thou fool! Tonight is thy soul required of thee. Then whose will these things be?" One thinks of the passage in our Scripture lesson for today from the Gospel: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for ...

3167. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... encourage responsible use of the earth''s resources. There is one thing more we can do. We can be ministers of reconciliation and redemption. The fall of humanity brought a curse on the earth and on nature. "Cursed is the ground because of you," says the Lord. This is to say that both humanity and nature need redemption. Christ came to bring about that redemption. "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation," says the Apostle Paul. Here is the ultimate solution to all the earth''s problems. A redeemed ...

3168. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... with others to worship the God of all joy! The Psalmist had the spirit we could all use when he declared, "This is the day the Lord hath made. I will rejoice and be glad in it," just to say that each day will open the door of our hearts to gratitude. Time ... . No time is wasted when that happens. We fulfill God''s purposes for us when in the words of that great hymn, we "walk with the Lord in the light of His word, and trust and obey." In return God asks of us only what He knows we have the ability and time ...

3169. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... and receive the gift the coming Savior brings. It is time to stop fighting for our rights and influence and survival, and allow the Lord to give us our place and heal our wounds. It is time we acknowledge the “God-shaped vacuum in all of us” and allow ... is in full gear. The promises of hope fill the airways. God is imparting the blessings of His heaven to human hearts. The Lord is coming to us. Are there any meek souls, who recognize their place, how needy and dependent they are? Are there any meek souls ...

3170. Believing Isn’t Easy

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... chariot rides. What naivete, if not downright arrogance, to imagine that the only tragedies in Christian history occurred in our own time. Do we think that Christians who came before us did not have to deal with such questions? Did they not have their own Lord’s last words from the cross to remind them: “My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?” Just remember the words of James Russell Lowell’s poem/hymn: By the light of burning martyrs, Christ, thy bleeding feet we track Toiling up new Calvaries ...

3171. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.” (II Cor. 13:14) Now, that may sound simple and even trite, but I would suggest that that sentence contains the essence of the Christian Faith. It is through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ that we come to know the love of God, in the fellowship (or community) of the Holy Spirit: the Church. As I began this series of sermons on the Apostles’ Creed, I said that I really wish that the Creed had started with Jesus Christ and worked ...

3172. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... culmination of God’s favor came when “The Word became flesh and lived among us,” but in the entire Bible, from first to last, God’s grace is proclaimed. It is no accident, I think, that the last verse of the Bible contains the words, “The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints.” (Rev. 22:21) God’s grace is pure, unmerited, divine favor. It is like the shining of the sun. Does the sun shine because the flowers deserve it? No. It shines because it is in the nature of the sun to shine ...

3173. Lazarus Laughed

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Gospels missed it. This may not be as far-fetched as it sounds at first sight. We do know that in many places the Fourth gospel seems to draw upon a separate tradition from the Synoptics. The author has knowledge of some events in the life of our Lord which they do not have. Jesus did many things (as John’s Gospel admits) which were never recorded in any Gospel! Cf. John 21:25: “...there are also many other things that Jesus did; if every one of them were written down, I suppose that the world itself ...

3174. The War of Malchus’ Ear

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... many of us are trying, however unsuccessfully, to measure our lives by Christ’s life. And many of us have found it easy to forget that our Lord said, “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ But I say to you, Do not ... world might prevail upon us to put our swords back into their sheaths, even if we are not willing to do so simply because our Lord commanded us to do it. We are supposed to be followers of Jesus. A few years back I read a novel called “the Vicar of ...

3175. Life Begins at Thirty-Eight

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... water’s surface. No doubt Jesus had been conversing with some of them. Then it was that this most pathetic case of all was pointed out to Him. There was a fellow who had been there as long as anyone could remember. Thirty-eight years! A lifetime! Longer than our Lord Himself would live! And yet he still came to the pool, day after day. You’d think that he would have given up by now. But no, he was still there, after nearly 14,000 days of disappointment. And he had no friends. And so it was natural that ...

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3151. Finding Calm In The Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

3152. The Get-ready Man

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

3153. Rushing And Realizing

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

3154. Blessing, Testing, Response

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

3155. Meeting Jesus Along The Way

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

3156. How Do You Act In The Presence Of The Queen?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

3157. The Repentant Heart

2 Samuel 12:1-31

Sermon

Timothy Smith

3158. Do You Have A Forgiving Spirit?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

3159. Thanksgiving: Where Are You Looking For It?

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

3160. Why We Gather At The Table

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

3161. I Am Only . . .

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

3162. "Head" Lines

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

3163. Winners And Losers

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

3164. Money Matters

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

3165. At The Edge Of Broken-ness

Job 1:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

3166. MONEY MATTERS

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... and the way he has mishandled his resources. He pleads to be able to send Lazarus to talk to his brothers. One thinks of the rich fool, the man who built great barns to hold his grain and said, "Now I''ll eat and drink and be merry." But the Lord comes to him and says, "Thou fool! Tonight is thy soul required of thee. Then whose will these things be?" One thinks of the passage in our Scripture lesson for today from the Gospel: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for ...

3167. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

3168. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

3169. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre