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301. Handling the Harshness of Life

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... calculators. Many Christians fail to remember that Satan has already been judged and defeated. When Jesus Christ died on the cross our sin debt was paid in full. Satan was defeated. We don''t fight the good fight to achieve the victory but we fight from the victory that Jesus Christ has achieved for us. If God at times confronts and challenges us, let us never forget that he also "comforts us as a mother stills her child." THIRD, BE PART OF THE SOLUTION. DO WHAT YOU HUMANLY CAN DO. Some people discover ...

302. Living with the Aches and Alleluias

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of the Holy Spirit. Many Christians fail to remember that Satan has already been judged and defeated. When Jesus Christ died on the cross, our sin debt was paid in full. Satan was defeated. We don''t fight the good fight to achieve the victory, but we fight from the victory that Jesus Christ has achieved for us. If God at times confronts and challenges us, let us never forget that He also comforts us as a mother stills her child. Don''t lose heart--don''t let your aches get in the way of your alleluias ...

303. Easter Transportation

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... bizarre adaptations to survive severe cold, pressure, and lightlessness. We are the Easter people, called "out of darkness into his marvelous light" (1 Peter 2:9).4 There are times when we rightly strain to achieve what we want. Easter is not one of those times. God, in and through Christ, is the achiever. We are the beneficiaries. There is no transportation to Easter because it isn't required. God, at this very moment, is rolling away stones and calling into tombs: Come out! Come out! Alleluia and alleluia ...

304. Grace in the Midst of Unanswered Prayer

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... the sum of what God desires for us. We may wish happiness to arrive as soon as possible at the least personal expense. But the Son of God didn't come to make us merely happy. He came to make us like himself -- and identifying with Christ is never achieved apart from suffering. Paul knew that. "To keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan" (v. 7). The reference to this "stake" or a "skewer" clearly indicates a serious degree of discomfort. Commentators have never ...

305. Death Leads to Life

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... any way. Years back there was a television commercial which proudly boasted, "Who says you can't have it all!" That attitude remains pervasive in our world, especially the prosperous American society in which we live. Society celebrates achievement and winners; losers and non-achievers are cast aside as unproductive, unimportant, and certainly not worthy of our time or attention. It makes no sense at all to people today to suffer intentionally, especially when for most there is absolutely no need. Besides ...

306. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . He was a trained Pharisee, blameless in keeping the law, zealous in persecuting the Christians. What he was by birth and what he had become by conviction and achievement were enough to tally a high level of superiority compared to anyone who might be preaching circumcision and righteousness by the law. Privileges of birth and human achievement, however noble, count nothing. All these things which were gained to me, Paul said, ‘these I counted lost for Christ.’ Everything is rubbish compared to gaining ...

307. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . First, let’s get a perspective on the yearning for immortality that is ours. Most of us are like Woody Allen. Now I don’t quote Woody Allen as a great theologian, but most of us are like him, he said he didn’t want to achieve immortality through his work, he wanted to achieve immortality by not dying. And that’s the way we are. And that’s the sentiment of the man who said, growing old isn’t so bad, when you consider the alternative. Let me state it this way, one of the marks of being human is ...

308. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... lives in a daily rhythm of work and rest.... "For the man who trusts in the Almighty, sleep is a gift from God. The Psalmist spoke it for us all when he said, "He giveth his beloved sleep." (So, let me emphasize it. Sleep is a gift.) We do not achieve sleep, we receive it. The Latin root for the word "sleep" is _labi_, which means "to glide or slide". Oh, we play some small part in composing ourselves for sleep. We may refuse to drink coffee after 7 p.m. (and abstain from eating too heavy a meal). In a ...

309. The Primacy Of Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... are words which have to do with the heart. They express an experience which comes to us unsought, and, in a way, inevitably. We cannot help loving our kin; blood is thicker than water. We speak about falling in love. That kind of love is not an achievement. It is something which happens to us and which we cannot help. There is no particular virtue in falling in love. It is something with which we have little or nothing consciously to do; it simply happens. But "Agape" is far more than that. Agape has to ...

310. All This And Heaven Too

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

311. Christmas and the New Family

John 1:1-18

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... words it reported that their venture had succeeded, and concluded, "Home for Christmas." Whether they knew it or not, their achievement had ushered in a new age. Along with that, their "coming home" announcement might seem very mundane. But any of ... do what he alone could do: prepare the way for you and me to become children of God. The Bible wants us to realize that this is God's achieving. We must be born, the writer says, "not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God." I'm ...

312. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , the Stoics proposed to eliminate all emotion, all feeling, until he had come to a stage when he did not care what happened either to himself or to anyone else. His aim was to abolish every feeling and emotion of the human heart. So, in order to achieve contentment, the stoic abolished all desires and eliminated all emotions. Love was rooted out of life and caring was forbidden. As T.R. Glover said, the stoics made of the heart of desert and called it a peace. So, we see at once the difference between the ...

313. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... again as he spoke, he emphasized that there is no true peace apart from the peace found in Jesus Christ. There will never be peace if we believe we are able to achieve that peace with our own hands. All we are able to do is manage conflict, not bring true peace. It is beyond us as human beings – sinful human beings – to achieve true peace, because that can only be found in Jesus Christ. Throughout his time with us, President Trajkovski radiated peace and joy. In the midst of the struggles of his country ...

314. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... tradition. Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach once said to a student, "Full experiences of God can never be planned or achieved. They are spontaneous moments of grace, almost accidental." The disciple responded, "Esteemed Rabbi, if God-realization is just accidental ... in the secular world. He writes: “Now, here is my secret. I tell it to you with an openness of heart that I doubt I shall ever achieve again, so I pray that you are in a quiet room as you hear these words. My secret is that I need God—that I am sick ...

315. Thank God for Dads

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... we receive from Christ, and that is the love we seek to transfer to our children. If somehow you never received that kind of unconditional love from your parents, I hope you will receive it today from Christ. You don’t have to be a super achiever. You don’t even have to be a super-Christian. God loves you because you’re you. Rev. Richard Fairchild tells about a story that appeared years ago in the Christian Reader. It was called “Priceless Scribbles.” It concerns a father who touched his child’s ...

316. Access Denied

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... . We've been given the password, the key that unlocks the door. And now, as Saint Paul says, we can even boast about it. It's not a secret and it's not something we have to keep hidden. We boast not about ourselves, for we have done nothing to achieve this grace, this forgiveness of sins. But we boast of God who has succeeded in bringing it about through Jesus. He showed it to the world when on the third day, Jesus rose again from the dead. We can boast that Jesus was victorious. Let us live in the peace ...

317. Temptation of the Palms

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... about the ends they desire. And we have adopted the philosophy that the ends do indeed justify the means, as long as the ends are in our favor. Jesus didn’t give in to that philosophy ... or did he? For Jesus, the means to the end that he wanted to achieve was the path to Calvary; a road less traveled. For Jesus, it was a trail of complete self-denial and sacrifice. To us, it was a mysterious walk that took Jesus from the adulation of the crowds to the glorification of God. When you look at it that way ...

318. The Day of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Rick Brand

... be found in the conclusion of history given to it by God. We do not know the end of the story until God brings it to an end, and the end is not necessarily included in the story. "There are no achievements or partial realizations in history, no fulfillment of meaning or achievement of virtue by which man can escape the final judgment. The idea of the 'last' judgment expresses the biblical story's repudiation of all conceptions of history by which history believes it can redeem itself, or evolve to the place ...

319. An Enclave of Resistance

Hebrews 1:1-14; 2:5-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... unprecedented heights, and to allow huge spaces within the walls into which you can place stained glass, and filter the light into this sacred space. The cathedral was for the age of faith what the computer has been to the age of science, a crowning achievement of the age. Every so often somebody will criticize the construction of cathedrals. In fact, they do it all the time. They go to those countries where there are cathedrals, particularly in Latin America, and talk about how much money this has cost and ...

320. Being More than Civil

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... what constitutes the Church is not our merit or our accomplishments, not even our spiritual accomplishments. But what constitutes the Church is what we all have in common, the grace that we have received from Jesus Christ. Our merits, our achievements, even our spiritual achievements, separate us. Grace is what unites us. And grace is what separates the Church from any other institution in this world. We all believe we are here not by our qualifications, but by God's grace alone. I remember Groucho Marx ...

321. Have You Heard about Grace?

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , it was believed, was follow the Law. Now it will mean that you've got to get some discipline in your life, and work hard, make sacrifices, but you can do it. If you do it, then you will find salvation. A Law is something that if we could only achieve it, we would find what is missing in our lives, and all these blessings would follow. We don't follow the Old Testament Law, but we live with something we would call a Law, something that says if you measure up to this standard, then life will unfold for you ...

322. Have You Heard?

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... his plane crashed in the North African desert. He survived the ordeal, but it changed his life. He came out of it with a heightened expectation of what life can be, of what we are capable of, of what heights we can achieve as human beings, and what little time we have in which to achieve it. After the crash he returned to France. He took a train from Marseilles to Paris. He wrote about the faces of the people on the train. "All I can see in these faces is the silent misery of wasted lives." He described ...

323. The Source of Self Esteem

Romans 8:14-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that God was impressed with. That's why he chose me." You can't say that God conferred this high honor upon you because of the achievements you have made in this life. You can't say that. All you can say is, "Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a ... teacher recognized it as such. When the class returned to the room, the teacher commended the boy for his behavior. In that class achievement is rewarded. Good behavior on the playground will get you a medal. So at the end of the day this boy, who had ...

324. Uses of the Past

Philippians 3:4b-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... time, especially the greed that is so rampant in our time, than St. Francis. Or, the saints of this church. I was so pleased that we persisted in building the MemorialGarden, behind me here. It took seven or eight years of patience for us to finally achieve it. I go out there now, I walk through that Garden, and I know most of those people memorialized there. I can tell you wonderful stories of those people. Their lives are a part of the history, the tradition, of this church. I hope someday the children ...

325. What Will They Think Up Next?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . Instead of siding with a great empire, a great power in this world—which is what you would expect God to do, and which is what they thought God did—God sided with an outcast people, a despised people, who had no land of their own, and who had no achievement that anyone could point to. God chose them, and said, "You will be my people, and I will be your God, and I will give you a great future, a land flowing with milk and honey." Can you imagine such a thing happening? On their way to possess their ...

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