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301. Building A House

Luke 6:46-49

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to God's grace. Her posters were very popular and communicated the Gospel in a mind-grabbing, heart- touching way. One of those posters carried this message: "There are three things that keep life from being so daily -- to make love, to make believe, and to make hope with the everyday common stuff and people around us." Isn't that it? The answer to keeping life from being so daily -- but far more than that -- this is what mothers and fathers are to do with children in the home: Make love, make believe, and ...

302. Oskar’s Cruelty

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... the hose, and the prisoners were reaching for the water, the Colonel said, "Oh, Oskar, you are too cruel! You're giving them hope!" Of course there were people like that Colonel. There still are. For the truth is, not everyone cares if they are right with ... live?" is to reach the point of the birth of faith -- or the rebirth of new faith. It is out of the death of hope that the hope of life springs. We're not always ready for it. As Alexander Graham Bell said, "When one door closes, another opens; but we ...

303. The Candles of Advent - Year A

Bulletin Aid

Richard J. Fairchild

... Christ. John the Baptist, and all the prophets remind us, that to receive peace we must be prepared for it. VOICE - We light this candle today to remind us that Christ is the Prince of Peace, the one promised from the beginning of the world. We thank God for the hope he gives us and for the peace he bestows. Light the First and Second Candles VOICE - Let us pray --- O God of Peace, Emmanuel, we pray you to send your light into our hearts at this time. Help us to be ready for the day and the hour of Christ ...

304. Floating on Your Back

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... That’s so important in any task. Don’t give up. Keep working, keep loving, keep believing keep floating on your back, as it were and sooner or later things will look up. This kind of endurance is possible, of course, only if you have a reasonable hope that things will get better. Back in 1998 there was a little film that touched the hearts of millions of people around the world. It was titled Life Is Beautiful. It was a heartbreaking but inspiring film about a young Italian Jewish father named Guido who ...

305. A Lovehope Faith

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... imitation of what happens when God brings together the most powerful entities that exist and allows them to explode within our lives. This sermon arranges and argues for a collision between your people and the greatest forces in the universe: faith, hope and love. At his retirement, a college professor was asked what he considered the most important contribution of his career. The professor said, "I have spent my career being a traffic officer. Most people who direct traffic are trying to avoid collisions ...

306. Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Journal, 21 [January 1995], 77-78.) For the writer of Hebrews, immersed in ancient apocalypticism and Jewish cultus, it is the invisible heavenly world that is real. The visible earthly world is temporal. Or as Kittel puts it, "Faith is the reality of what is hoped for in exactly the sense in which Jesus is called the [representation] of the reality of the transcendent God in 1:3. The one formulation is as paradoxical as the other to the degree that the presence of the divine reality is found in the ...

307. Seen The Doctor Lately?

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... verses could be the basis for sermon in and of itself. But there are a few I'd like to lift up today. I. Rejoice In Hope A Prescription is usually given in response to some need or for the prevention of something. In our case, this Prescription is given to remind us ... lost," she said, "I've ruined my life and every life around me. I'm headed straight for the hot place. There's no hope for me." The minister saw a framed picture of a pretty girl on the dresser and asked, "Who is that?" The woman immediately ...

308. When It's Time to Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... do not know a lot about Simeon. Everything there is to know about him in the Bible is recorded in Luke chapter 2:25-35. He was a righteous and devout priest who spent his life waiting for the consolation of Israel. He lived and survived by the constant hope that he would not die until he could see the Messiah. Simeon was an expert at waiting. On this in-between Sunday, maybe we can find a clue about how we can wait, too. I. SIMEON WAITED WITH PURPOSE The ultimate dream of his life was that someday, before ...

309. Paul's Chains Advance the Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... —that he should remain in the [mortal] body (Gk. en tē sarki). 1:25 His knowledge that his survival would be for the benefit of his fellow Christians, and his confidence that God would do whatever was necessary for their growth in grace, combined to give him good hope that he would indeed be granted a further spell of life and apostolic activity, for their progress and joy in the faith. His I know here, as in verse 19, is the expression of faith (cf. 2 Cor. 5:1). This is more probable than that he had ...

310. “Weak and Strong” Should Get Along

Romans 14:1--15:13

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... would quote from it in this context. Just as Christ was willing to be scorned for God’s honor, so also the strong should forsake their liberty for the weak. 15:4 through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the encouragement they provide we might have hope. Paul further appeals to the Old Testament as a whole to motivate the strong to be sensitive to the weak. Paul believed that the Old Testament witnessed to Christ and his church (see, e.g., 1 Cor. 10:1–11). Here Paul says that the Scriptures ...

311. “May Your Unfailing Love Be with Us, Lord”

Psalm 33:1-22

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... the world he redeemed, the world he loves, and he puts these plans into place. We can take confidence from that and renew our hope through that assurance. Psalm 2:4 tells us that the Lord just “laughs” at the cocky plans of those people who have no ... for his own sake, to love him no matter what.[11] “But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him, on those whose hope is in his unfailing love” (v. 18). God reaches out to us in grace. True Story: Anne Graham Lotz (daughter of Billy and Ruth Graham) ...

312. “As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water, So My Soul Pants for You, My God”

Psalm 42:1-11, Psalm 43:1-5

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... expect to find in the non-Elohistic psalms.10 43:5 I will yet praise him.The psalmist, for the third time, expresses his hope that he will yet worship in the sanctuary in Jerusalem. Theological Insights There is a pattern of prayer in Psalms 42 and 43 that ... love (hesed), like a master his servant (42:8). So God is totally in control of the pilgrim’s circumstances, making his hope secure. The psalmist, presently in the region of Mount Hermon rather than Mount Zion, thinks of that moment when he will again ...

313. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... and offer sweeping condemnation of such entrenched evil. However, Job is, at the core, concerned with whether or not God is worth holding onto in faithful committed relationship, even when we do not see or experience the benefit of our faith in this life—or have any hope of it in another life. Our own concerns are legitimate and we need to explore them, but they ought not to cause us to dismiss the response the book of Job offers to this key issue that still remains a vital one for our contemporary human ...

314. Turmoil Brewing, Herod Stewing, Prophecy, and Porridge

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... who had been integrated or lost through the years. The awaited messiah would be an “inter-national” messiah, not just a tribal messiah of Judah. Asher, a tribe of high priests, would be the prophetic voice to welcome the messiah and spread the word that the messianic hope had been fulfilled. Anna, one of the many women of the New Testament to witness to Jesus is a true prophetess in the vein of old, as a new era is welcomed in, in which God again is moving and speaking to His people. Anna spread the ...

315. The Lighted Path

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , back roads can be challenging in the dark, especially when the moon is new or clouds obscure the stars. That kind of pitch blackness is something most of us are not used to. For those of us used to city lights, we cling our hope on our headlights as we make our way slowly through. This December, meteorologists and astronomers tell us, we will experience a “Christmas Star” –an enormously bright celestial event that hasn’t occurred in hundreds of years, not since 1226. For the “star” to shine ...

316. In Times Of Need

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... for Elijah, as well as a time of need for the widow. Several points are significant in this text about how God acts in times of great need. At a time of desolation, God can bring consolation to those in need. In the midst of hopelessness, God can provide hope. The scriptures say there was drought in the land. There was not much food to eat. The inhabitants of the land prayed and prayed for rain, to no avail. The woman had lost her husband. Her son was "dead" and she had no prospects for the future. But even ...

317. What It Takes To Be A Winner

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

William L. Self

... gymnasts are too tough for us to do alone. It is the clear message of the Bible that human beings cannot make it through life under our own power. Even the youth will grow weary and the young (people) will utterly fall. Isaiah then moves into a rhapsody about waiting hopefully on the Lord. This is the same kind of waiting that occurs while a mother waits on a baby to be born. Or like the farmer who has planted and is now waiting for the harvest. It is the same idea we find in Galatians when Paul says, "In ...

318. Marked For Community

Sermon

George Bass

... Russell Lowell understood this and said: That love for one from which there doth not springWide love for all is but a worthless thing. Baptism is an initiation into the Christian faith, no mistake about that, but it is admittance to the Body of Christ, a caring and hopeful community, in which we are all called to entrust our lives to God and to love each other as we have been loved as well as to allow loving actions to move beyond the bounds of our community and touch those outside by our love, so that they ...

319. The Heart Of The Gospel

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... to face the living God? That’s the first thing I guess I’d want to say today. In a strange sort of way, we can take hope in our own grief. If **’s ministry had not been so effective, we’d not have so much to grieve about. It’s not that he ... that’s what Paul says in 1 Corinthians 13. Then I think he’d add: Feel fully. Grieve fully. And always cling to the hope we have of resurrection through the Savior. “So it is with the resurrection of the dead,” Paul told the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 15: ...

320. God's Christmas Greeting

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... a king from the house of David whose gifts come directly from God and under whose leadership, all life will be changed. Now this hope is good news for the poor, the meek and the oppressed, and bad news for the unrighteous, the sinful and the oppressors. It reminds ... no hurry. The Lord's new king won't be coming for years and years! I wonder if it is not our human tendency to push hope into some far distant future that causes us to miss the fulfillment of so many of God's great promises to us. So often God's ...

321. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

George Bass

... in my name, believing, he will give it to you’?" He was utterly convinced that the Father hears prayer, cares about us, and always answers the prayers of his people. That’s why he could face the cross and the tomb, isn’t it? That’s why he had hope when all hope seemed to be running out for him and for all people. For Jesus, God had a plan for the recovery and renewal of all people on earth, and his mission was - he believed and staked his life on this - to initiate that plan to bring in the fullness ...

322. Ordinary 32

Lk 20:27-38 · Zech 7:1-10 · 2 Thess 2:13--3:5 · 1 Chron 29:10-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... prays for his people and he asks them to pray for him. Here is an ideal situation between a pastor and his people. it would also work in the family and on the job. Outline: Pray for each other. A. Like Paul pray for others - vv. 16, 17, 5. Comfort, hope, and love. B. Like Paul ask for prayer - v. 1. Speed and triumph of the Word. WORSHIP RESOURCES Prayer of the Day: "Stir up, O Lord, the wills of your faithful people to seek more eagerly the help you offer, that, at the last, they may enjoy the fruit of ...

323. Life in The Meantime

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

D. Wayne Burkette

... the person in Christ which he or she can be; all of us have rough edges and cluttered corners spiritually speaking. But, we do have a Lord, a Teacher, and his teachings are for now. And, to a large degree, the realization of whatever it is we hope for hinges upon our living in the present as though that future had arrived. A few summers ago, I was a participant in a summer institute at St. Andrews University in Scotland. The last week of the institute coincided with the week the British Open Golf Tournament ...

324. Advent 2

Isaiah 11:1-16, Psalm 72:1-20, Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon Aid

... as Year A - brings all of this into sharp focus through John's announcement and exhortation, "Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." Matthew 3 articulates the message in this total context. The bottom line, for the faithful, is one of expectation and hope. The Prayer of the Day Another of the Advent "stir up" prayers related to the Lord's advent and, this time, asking God to prepare our hearts to receive him: Stir up our hearts, O Lord, to prepare the way for your only Son. By his coming ...

325. "Why Belong to Church?"

John 14:15-31

Sermon

... what she may become and be worthy of her." With equal enthusiasm we might say of the church, "think what the church has been and can become and be worthy of her." So I join and support the church, its Pastors and programs, where we have the hope of peace and love and social justice and where we can see the possibility of a world community; where marriage and family and sex and possessions are put in a proper prospective. In 1830 Benjamin Constant, the French philosopher, received a message at the hands of ...

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