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301. Christianity and Conflict: Dual Citizenship (Part VII)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... conflict in the future direction and purpose of her life. Well, Pastor Willimon received an anxious call from Anne''s Daddy. The father, with great excitement, exclaimed: "Do you know what''s happened?" he asked. "Anne just called us to say that she has decided to drop out of pharmacy school." "Really?" Dr. Willimon replied, "What on earth is leading her to do a thing like that?" "Well, we''re not sure, preacher," he said. "You know how much Anne likes you. We thought that maybe you could call her up and ...

302. Titles, Credentials, or Resurrection Power

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... be like a prisoner in Sydney, Australia, that I heard about recently. It seems that a certain prisoner managed to escape from the facility. He hid in a delivery truck that made stops at the prison. A few minutes later, when the truck stopped, the prisoner dropped down to the ground and rolled out to freedom. Unfortunately, he discovered that he was now in the courtyard of another prison 5 miles from the first. The Apostle Paul knew from his own conversion experience that God''s grace and the joy it produces ...

303. The Fox

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... , was King of the Jews. He wasn't even a Jew; he was an Idumean. My mother was a Samaritan, so I don't have a drop of Jewish blood in me. My father's second will named me as his successor, but his final will gave the kingdom to my brother Archelaus, ... girl came back in to the festal hall, and before all my guests, she asked for the head of John the Baptist. You could hear a pin drop. All the guests waited to see what I would say. I had foolishly given my word. I didn't expect the girl to take advantage of it ...

304. What Are You Going to Do with My World?

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... know who holds the future." This becomes increasingly critical at that point in life when we sense that our time is running out. The past gets larger and the future gets smaller, like the sand in the top of an egg timer, until one day the last grain has dropped and none are left. What then of the future? At that point, the fact of Christ's victory over death becomes the most important fact in all human history. Here is the historical event of a man whose friends saw him after he was dead, because in him the ...

305. What It Takes to Do the Job

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... he did then, here and now in our time, what then might that mean in the way we think about what adjustments need to be made in our lives this Lent? Does this put a new perspective on our proud striving to drop a pound or two this Lent by limiting ourselves to only two helpings at dinner and dropping our chocolate intake to only two Hershey bars a day? Does this even give us pause in our proud goal to read a chapter of the Bible a day, if the purpose is simply to know more about the Bible so we ...

306. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... morning, along that line, what is some of the stuff we need to leave behind as we begin the old year? What can we drop off our weary, bending backs to make our trek into the New Year a bit easier and far more exciting and obvious? I. Leaving ... know of a heavier burden that most people carry than self-pity. It’s the kind of burden that most of us are unwilling to drop off. Someone hurts our feelings and we carry our hurt with us forever. We’re treated unfairly and we never forget it. Something happens ...

307. Declaration Of Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... human being -- if it is possible, oh God, let this cup pass from me -- his anguished soul so soul-centered that He sweat drops of blood. Then the crowd came -- the wild crowd -- and took him away. He was jostled back and forth between pilot and the ... don't know that I go running home when I fall down.They don't know who picks me up when no one is around;I drop my sword and cry for just awhile, cause deep inside this armor, this warrior is a child.(words and music by Twila Paris, copyright 1984, Singspiration ...

308. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... off any items that they had stolen over the years. Rust was inspired by the example of British pastor J. John, who placed such bins in his own church. The response has been surprising. The week after Rust’s sermon on the eighth commandment, numerous people dropped by the church to slip their stolen goodies into the bin. Rust has found clothing, toys, tools, gum, hotel towels. As Rust says, “That’s what sermons should be about, applying truth to our lives.” (1) That’s nice, but you and I might be a ...

309. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... global and more individual: “According to an A.P. account, in September 1994 Cindy Hartman of Conway, Arkansas, walked into her house to answer the phone and was confronted by a burglar. He ripped the phone cord out of the wall and ordered her into a closet. Hartman dropped to her knees and asked the burglar if she could pray for him. "I want you to know that God loves you and I forgive you,'' she said. The burglar apologized for what he had done. Then he yelled out the door to a woman in a pickup truck ...

310. Torn Curtain

Luke 23:44-49, Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... will just be obliterated. I can’t believe that we are only bodies passing through. “When I muse about this, I think of all the great moments I had with my father. It’s inconceivable that I had this wonderful period in life with him and then suddenly the curtain dropped. Instead, I want to believe I’m going to meet up with him again. I also want to have the opportunity to catch up with Mary [Iacocca’s late wife], if only to tell her what I forgot to tell her, and to meet all my lifelong friends who ...

311. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... true. Some things just happen. We live in a universe of cause and effect. That’s the way God created it. We live by certain scientific laws. If you drop a book, it’s going to fall. If your toe is in the way, it’s going to get hit. And if it is a big book, it’s ... the burning apartment in the background. They were crying with joy and fear. With a fire behind them and a forty-foot drop in front of them, they had literally made a leap of faith. (3) Robert W. Sutton in LEADERSHIP magazine, gives another ...

312. Pass the Pigweed

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... ride like you. You're complaining about God." In our deserts you can get water from the saguaro cactus and if you're careful you can eat prickly pear. In the Sinai there is a tamarisk shrub that exudes a honey-like juice in heavy drops in May and June. The drops dry out into a flat white flake. Manna, maybe. The Lord provides it. And certain migratory quail fall exhausted in large numbers when crossing the desert. It's meat to eat. The Lord provides it. And water can be found just below limestone. The Lord ...

313. Grace Has Appeared

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... yet, Christians down through all of those years have believed that there was something very special about that birth. We have believed that, in that event, something from God dropped into our world and the circles of significance of that event spread throughout the world like ripples spread across the surface of a pool when a pebble is dropped into it. Those circles of significance are still spreading today. What is the significance of that birth and of the life that followed from it? What have its results ...

314. Still Under Construction

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... a doctor's degree and have written books, I still consider myself spiritually a work in progress." He went on to say that this had meant the most to him during some really bad times in his spiritual life when some major disappointments had caused him to drop into anger and depression and to live in a secret gloom for a long time. He said those experiences had forced him to reckon with the shallowness and limitedness of his own spiritual life. He had known people who had lost their faith in times like that ...

315. Complete Joy

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... out that dead men don't bleed. After some time to consider the possibilities, the man who said he was dead agreed. At that point his friend took a pin and stuck the man's finger. Blood began to flow slowly from the wound, and the man stared at the drops of blood forming on his finger. Then, quietly, he said, "Well, what do you know? Dead men do bleed." In this letter Paul speaks of death as something he regards favorably. Not in some strange way like that man who was convinced he was really dead, but in a ...

316. Proper 8

Genesis 22:1-19, 2 Kings 4:8-37, Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... the high priest. Jesus passed the test of faith, for he was obedient unto death. Because we fail the test, Christ died for us and became our vicarious offering. Lesson 2: Romans 6:3-11 (E) 1. Baptism (vv. 3-4). According to Paul, baptism is more than a few drops from a tank of water, more than a sentimental ceremony of dedication of a child, more than a custom of the church. It is a drowning of a sinner. The old self is crucified and a new person is raised into a new life. Baptism is a mystical experience ...

317. Try This on For Size!

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... tired. Tired of puppets instead of people, of people with green hair and pierced tongues, rave parties and casual sex, people who drop soliloquies carefully labeled intelligence. I'm tired of people who play the dating game like tips at the racetrack. I'm tired ... ?" he asked. "I'm chasing my tail," the young dog replied. "You see, happiness is in my tail. When it wags, I'm happy. When it drops, I'm sad. Happiness is in my tail. If I catch it, I will always be happy!" So again he spun round and round trying to ...

318. Three Ways to Know a Saint

Sermon

King Duncan

... His shocked brother responds by committing suicide. Lucy then takes her own life. A profoundly guilty Ian receives spiritual guidance from Reverend Emmett of the storefront Church of the Second Chance. Emmett suggests to Ian that to make amends for his wrongdoing, he should drop out of college and raise his brother’s children, and so Ian takes on the care of three children. It is his burden to bear, his penance for the tragedies he has brought about. And because he sees these children as his penance, Ian ...

319. Four Cornerstones

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to it. . . . Then we became pregnant with our second child . . . When our first pregnancy test came up positive, I called a hundred of my closest friends. When our second pregnancy test turned pink, I called my therapist." "When a first child drops his pacifier, we boil it for ten minutes. When the second child drops her pacifier, we tell the dog to fetch." But: "When I pray for my children at night, my affection for each is the same. I suspect that's how God must feel, too. For God, every child is a first ...

320. From Ha-Ha's to Ah-ha's

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... I have ever experienced. What had been unintelligible cryptic information had miraculously revealed itself to me and was as easy to understand as my own name. We've all had those "Aha" experiences when an unexpected, out-of-the-blue, gift-of-grace has dropped right into our lap, or even better right into our head. Whether it is something as basic as figuring out how to finish a geometry proof or as complicated as envisioning the DNA triple-helix, they are watershed events that stay with us and transform ...

321. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... -trunk oil helps them through the pit in the p.m., etc. One study of keypunch operators, for example, indicated that when the office air was scented with lavender, the number of errors per hour dropped by 21 percent; a jasmine fragrance produced a 33 percent error reduction and the rate dropped by 54 percent when a lemon scent was used. However, with the lemon scent, work also slowed down, which may mean that the fragrance relaxes while simultaneously making workers more alert. "Fragrance is decorating's ...

322. My Precious, My Precious

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... our lives. And like the lucky lotto ticket-holder, a 68-year-old cleaning woman from Massachusetts who recently won almost 300 million dollars, every now and again there drops a benevolent bombshell to reaffirm our belief in attic fortunes and lottery treasures. The Antiques Roadshow was originally a BBC program. In 1986, a couple from Barnstaple, Devon, dropped by the show while taking their dog for a walk. They took with them an old picture from the loft which neither of them liked, and were dumbfounded ...

323. What's Left Is Right

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... your dignity and made yourself a laughingstock. Outside the limbo party atmosphere, nobody ever wants to know how low can you go. How much further can your family income drop? How much more dismal can morale get in your work place? How much more strained can the relationship get between yourself and your teenager? How far down can you drop into depression? How much more stupid can you feel at school? How unprepared can you be emotionally, mentally, fiscally for retirement? We spend our whole lives, and huge ...

324. The World's Greatest Cover Up

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... They stayed in there. $21,000. $22,000. $23,000. All the while, I couldn't believe what I was watching. $24,000. $25,000. $26,000. $27,000. $28,000. $29,000. $30,000 dollars. They looked at each other with pain and anguish on their faces, and dropped out at $30,000. The title [the piece of paper] eventually sold for $33,000. She put her head on his shoulder, and they walked out holding each other, heads bowed in sorrow and disappointment. They never returned to the auction. I'm still not believing this: Do ...

325. Conviction with Compassion

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... . This was at the height of the Cold War. When this matter was brought to light, Profumo made the matter worse by lying to the House of Commons. Later, he had a change of heart, went to the Prime Minister, confessed, and resigned from the Cabinet in shame. He dropped from public notice and quietly went to work in the slums of London, attempting to be of help to the lonely and the lost. For him, I suppose, it was a kind of personal penance. Years passed. Then, when he was sixty years old, at the honors party ...

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