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3201. What Close-minded People Don’t Do

John 12:1-11

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James W. Moore

... nations of the world to sit down and talk things through?" And then, "Pow!" Lucy slugs him and says: "I had to hit him quick, he was beginning to make sense!!!" That's what closed-minded people do. They don't want to listen to another person's point of view. So, they hit them quick. They think that anybody who disagrees with them is the enemy... the enemy who must be silenced. And some, sadly, even go so far as to think that anybody who disagrees with them is the enemy of God.

3202. Christ Arose

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... today. I ran across a beautiful story recently about a woman named Rosemary who works in the Alzheimer’s Unit of a nursing home. Rosemary and a colleague named Arlene brought the residents of the home together one Good Friday afternoon to view Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed production Jesus of Nazareth. They wondered whether these elderly Alzheimer’s patients would even know what was going on, but they thought it might be worth the effort. When they finally succeeded in getting everyone into position ...

3203. We Believe You

Jn 20:1-18

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King Duncan

I ran across a beautiful story about a woman named Rosemary who works in the Alzheimer’s Unit of a nursing home. Rosemary and a colleague named Arlene brought the residents of the home together one Good Friday afternoon to view Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed production Jesus of Nazareth. They wondered whether these elderly Alzheimer’s patients would even know what was going on, but they thought it might be worth the effort. When they finally succeeded in getting everyone into position, they started ...

3204. We Believe You

John 20:10-18

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King Duncan

I ran across a beautiful story recently about a woman named Rosemary who works in the Alzheimer’s Unit of a nursing home. Rosemary and a colleague named Arlene brought the residents of the home together one Good Friday afternoon to view Franco Zeffirelli’s acclaimed production Jesus of Nazareth. They wondered whether these elderly Alzheimer’s patients would even know what was going on, but they thought it might be worth the effort. When they finally succeeded in getting everyone into position, they ...

3205. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “God Matters”

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the origin of the universe an accidental collection of atoms coming together over billions of years. Is rigidity a way to interpret poetry and is chance a way to explain the precision of the universe? Is there not another way? If we believe God exists, then our own view of the universe gives us a basis for believing that God was at work in creation. If we believe in God, then the big bang theory is not mysterious. If we believe in God, then the fine tuning of the universe is understandable, and the laws of ...

3206. Resurrected Peace (Series: Living on the Resurrected Side of Life)

John 20:19-23

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , what you’ve done, whoever you’ve betrayed, or let down, or how far you have roamed away from your true home, “Peace be with you.” Wouldn’t you like to hear those words today? Garrison Keillor says, “We always have a back stage view of ourselves. We let the audience see only the neatly arranged stage, but behind the curtain all kinds of things are lying around – old failures, old hurts, old guilt, and old shame. Into this world of pain, Jesus comes offering forgiveness. Forgiveness is God’s ...

3207. The Gift Unwrapped

Luke 2:1-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of people's hearts. "Where's Jesus?" That's the question on God’s heart tonight. I doubt that we could ever improve on what happened that first Christmas but we always try don't we. Why is that? I think it's because, from the world's point of view, everything about that first Christmas was wrong. I. Wrong Gift First of all, it was the wrong gift. If you were to ask people what they wanted for Christmas, I'll bet there wouldn't be anyone who said: "I want God to enter into human history. I want God ...

3208. The Gift of Purpose

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... gingerly across the glassy rocks to a lookout point very near the falls from which they could see the water drop off. The footing was slippery, and the spray was cold, but they were closer to the waterfall than either of them had ever been before, and the view was fantastic. Mike wanted to go just one step farther onto a rock that was just a few feet nearer the rapids. But as he eased himself onto the wet rock, worn smooth from years of running water, his feet slipped and he tumbled into the foaming river ...

3209. Jesus Saves, We're Called To Invest

Matthew 25:14-20

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Remember Jesus Saves, We're Called to Invest in a life that honors Him and brings glory to God. 1. William H. Willimon, Remember Who You Are, (The Upper Room, Nashville, TN, pp. 27-28) 2. Adapted from The Parables In the Olivet Discourse by HamptonKeathley IV. It may be viewed at http://www.bible.org/docs/nt/books/mat/mat25.h™. 3. Andrew M Greeley 4. Parables, Etc. (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651; 970-785-2990), March 1998

3210. Where do You Live?

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . They both realized at the same time that this wash was sparkling white, just as white as any wash could ever be. The truth began to dawn on them that it wasn't the neighbor's wash which was dirty, rather it was the window through which they had viewed the wash. (4) How clean are your windows? Where Do You Live? Which house do you live in? Judgment House or Grace and Mercy House? You and I have been challenged to deviate from the world, to be abnormal. We've received a prescription for holiness and we've ...

3211. Reassessing Our Laughter (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

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J. Howard Olds

... our knees before Almighty God seeking mercy and peace. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.” Trouble happens. Sometimes we bring the trouble on ourselves. II. Crying Helps “Blessed are you who weep now.” From a physical point of view, tears are essential to health. If our tear ducts dry up, we are in a peck of trouble. Tears keep the eyes moist and clear of dirt. Tears also contain substances that fight against infection. When a foreign substance invades the eye, tears come to ...

3212. Radical Love is Forgiving (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... I Receive It? By grace. By the unmerited, unearned, unconditional love of God. Verse 48 —“Jesus said to the woman, ‘Your sins are forgiven.’” This gives a lot of people trouble because everybody can’t be going around forgiving people’s sins. They had a high view of that so they had problems when Jesus did that. But don’t miss the phrase, “Jesus said to her your sins (your sins) are forgiven.” For most of us who sit in this Sanctuary today, if we could earn forgiveness, we’d have a lot ...

3213. Winning the War Over Worry (Series: Winning The War Over Daily Life)

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ’s frustrating! When I have no where to go, I am comforted by the prayer Reinhold Niebuhr taught us to pray: God, grant me the serenity To accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can And the wisdom to know the difference. Take the longer view. Verse 31 says, “Seek God’s kingdom first, and all these things will be given to you as well.” Fifty years from now it’s not going to matter if you get the grass cut, the laundry done or the beds made. Your golf score is not going to ...

3214. A Year of Rehearsals

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Johnny Dean

... church more often than that, and I will never forget his reply. He said, "Johnny, you know how I hate rehearsals. Why should I sit through 51 rehearsals? I want to see the real thing, and that's what happens on Easter Sunday!" An interesting point of view, isn't it? Think about it. Easter is without a doubt "show time" for the church! Church choirs spend months in preparation for that one Sunday when we celebrate what is for Christians the central event in the history of the world, the resurrection of Jesus ...

3215. The Voice of the Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Shepherd's] voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out." Mary and I saw this played in right before our very eyes one afternoon in Israel. It was a beautiful spring day and after lunch we went to the roof of the restaurant to see the view. As we looked out over the city we noticed a large patch of pasture, 3-5 acres. All of a sudden, from two directions, we saw a couple of shepherds bringing their flocks. Both had about 25 or 30 sheep apiece. The sheep went into the pasture to graze and ...

3216. To Live Is to Choose

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to copy the words down because I couldn’t understand them all. Listen to this commentary on the lifelessness of indecision. He’s a real no-where man, Sitting in a no-where land, Making all his nowhere plans For nobody Does not have a point of view Knows not what he wants to do Isn’t he a bit like me and you? Indecision is poisonous because our powers are scattered in pointless existence. Do you remember the record of Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost? In at first Christian sermon ever preached ...

3217. To Live in Joy

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , I have no other choice than to beam in at what I believe is the core of the Gospel, and seek to communicate that as the Big Story too many of us are missing. The Gospel is the proclamation of an event - the event of Jesus Christ. In the Christian view of reality, Jesus is final. Not only is He the revelation of God, He is the revelation of persons. In this event, God has come to us, has been present in our midst and has made known his love. Prodigal persons, a long way from the Father’s House, some ...

3218. Freedom to Set Free

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to cut himself free from his dependence on things. He struck a sensitive nerve in the soul of the Samaritan woman and led her to seek meaning on a higher and holier level than sex. So with us. He challenges our false attitudes toward ourselves and our unrealistic views of life. It is only as we shed our false self that our true self is released to life. The shedding of our false self is not a once and for all act. So - our freedom to become. At the heart of the Christian experience is change/transformation ...

3219. Being and Doing as the People of God

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... both. To seek to separate the two is like severing a plant from its root. Various interpretations of the Sermon on the Mount illustrate this. In the early church, the requirements of the Sermon on the Mount came to be viewed as a ‘council of perfection. It soon followed that these requirements were reserved for Monastic Orders – those who had made a deliberate decision to completely separate themselves from the world. Following Luther and the Reformation which ejected the double standard, Orthodox ...

3220. Discipline and Means of Grace

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , but sensible reflection is an essential and healthy element of Christianity - a mirror held up to our spiritual progress. If we never take stock of where we are, years can fly by without any advantage being gained from them. Thomas a’ Kempis urged us, “View life as a journey, with heaven as our destination; each new season is another step in our travels, and we can use it to make sure we’re headed in the right direction. “From festival to festival we should make some good resolution, as ...

3221. Evangelism Jesus' Style

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to be a friend. It is not everything evangelism is, but it is enough to go on, to enable use to practice evangelism in a personal and relational way. The final thing I would say is evangelism Jesus-Style emphasizes Gospel, not law. In a book entitled, The View from a Hearse, Joe Bayly, who lost three of his children, tells this story. He was sitting, torn by grief, over his wrenching loss. Someone came and talked to him about God’s dealings, of why it happened, of hope beyond the grave, the fellow talked ...

3222. Some Second Thoughts about Giving

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was having a big expansion program and financial campaign so they resolved to visit him. In order to succeed where they had so often failed, they appointed a committee to study the situation. Finally the committee called on the prospect and told him that in view of his resources they were sure that he would want to make a rather substantial contribution. “I see,” he said, “that you have considered it all quite carefully. In the course of your investigation did you discover that I have an aged, widowed ...

3223. The Blood Shall Be a Token

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who is our judge. Only then, when we see that our destiny is dependent upon whether or not God resolves to save us from our sins — and that is a decision God makes, and that He doesn’t have to make it – only then can we grasp the Biblical view of grace, the extravagant, undeserved, mercy of God extended to us. Now let’s look specifically at that grace. We see it in the Angel of Death sweeping over the land with piercing eyes, looking hither and yon and finding occasionally a door on which there was ...

3224. Ministering Angels

Exodus 23:20-33

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... courage is a man with a gun in his hand, courage is when you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway, and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all 98 pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew.” (p. 105, quoted by Robert A. Rains, To Kiss the Joy, pp. 111-112) That’s what God was saying to the Israelites. They would have nothing between them and him. They would be ...

3225. Taught by a Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-33:6

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Maxie Dunnam

... Here people would gather, and eat, and talk in small groups before the roaring fireplace on Canadian winter evenings. But the most memorable thing there was a sign over the fireplace. It said “Do You Want to Be Right or Well?” That sign summed up the point of view of the director and ministry of that whole place. The director was sure that most people had to make a choice. They could struggle to be right in the eyes of others and in their own sight. That would take a lot of energy. Or they could decide ...

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