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301. Gathered Around The Throne

Revelation 7:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... God. BUT WE ALSO CELEBRATE THE PROMISE THIS DAY SIGNIFIES. See how beautifully John puts it, "For this reason they are before the throne of God, and worship him day and night within his temple, and the one who is seated on the throne will shelter them. They will hunger no more, and thirst no more; the sun will not strike them, nor any scorching heat; for the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of the water of life, and God will wipe away every tear from ...

302. Excited, Motivated, Changed!

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... for a little more excitement--a little more enthusiasm. The word `enthusiasm' comes from the Greek word ENTHOUSIASMOS which means `the God within you.' Is there anyone in this room who does not hunger for a greater sense of God's presence within? Maurice Boyd tells about a book called THE ENTHUSIASMS OF ROBERTSON DAVIES. Davies' enthusiasms described in the book range all the way from Mozart to figgy-pudding. "Do you have any enthusiasms?" Boyd asks. He tells about Eugene Ormandy who dislocated ...

303. Who Is Jesus Christ?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... .” (John 1:14) I also find it interesting that in the Apostles’ Creed there is only one word to describe the entire life of Jesus Christ. It is the word ‘suffered.’ He was born, and grew up as other human beings grow up; He was no stranger to hunger and thirst. In His final hours on the Cross He said, “I thirst.” He was truly human. But was He more than human? If the early Church had its problems with those who wished to deny Jesus humanity, in recent years we have been more troubled with those ...

304. Waiting

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and down the aisles, make a list, see what it is you want, and then come back and I'll see what I can do for you." Well, she did just that. She walked up and down the aisles, writing furiously. There was peace on earth, no more war, no hunger or poverty. There was peace in families, harmony, no dissension, no more drugs. There careful use of resources. By the time she got back to the counter, she had a long list. Jesus looked over the list, then smiled at her and said, "No problem." And then he bent down ...

305. A Friend in High Places

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... from the ravages of a tempest. Little wonder that people of earlier generations used to warm to Augustus Toplady's hymn, "Rock Of Ages," and gladly sing, "Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee...." We desperately hunger for what is forever. This hunger is so commonplace that it goes unrecognized for what it is. The insecurity of children, the childishness of adults, the behavior of hedging -- all these are reflections of our hope to be connected to what is permanent and our disquietude when ...

306. The Hillside and the Basket

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... situation is hopeless. Nothing can be done." Meanwhile there is Andrew. In the crowd he discovers a lad with five barley loaves and two fish. This he carefully explains to Jesus. Then he despairs, "But what are they among so many?" To be sure, Andrew sees the crowd, the hunger, the expense. But he also sees Jesus. To be sure he sees the daunting task, but he also sees a way to begin. Andrew could say, "I am only one. I can't do everything. But I can do something. And just because I can't do everything, I ...

307. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... Where he stood perplexed and still.1 Whatever the poet may have intended by these lines, surely this much we can say: it expresses a hunger in numerous lives for the assurance that a Father's heart beats in their behalf somewhere, but somehow they have not found him. Perhaps, ... low that I am not his brother? Who is so high that I have no path to him? Who is so poor I may not feel his hunger? Who is so rich I may not pity him? Who is so hurt I may not know his heartache? Who sings for joy my heart may never ...

308. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... and poverty stalked them. When Pandita was in her early teens, most of her family died of starvation. She and her only surviving brother set out on a pilgrimage that would carry them over four thousand miles across India. Along the way, they suffered from hunger and exposure to the elements. Although Pandita prayed to the idols, like her father had taught her, she could find no relief. But one day in Calcutta, she heard a talk on Jesus, the Messiah who loved and accepted all people, even women. She became ...

309. Seeing the Good News

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... the gospel of Luke courtesy of John the Baptist brings to mind the words of Jesus to his disciples, "For mortals it is impossible, but for God all things are possible." [Matt. 19:26] Try to imagine what it would be like: War is just a memory. Hunger and poverty a thing of the past. Every human being experiences love and caring community. Sounds like heaven doesn't it? And... when you look at the state of human affairs these days, it sounds impossible... For mortals. Nevertheless, this is a time of year for ...

310. The Best Advice He Could Give

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . There was only enough food and water to keep them all from starving, but not enough to satisfy their hunger. They were in constant danger from enemy fire. But as they sailed for a safe port, Captain LaRue took comfort in the thought that Mary and Joseph ... and Jesus had also known hunger and cold and danger. In the midst of hardship, Captain LaRue also reported a change in his men’s attitudes. They gave away their ...

311. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... an angel once and he knows what you like, for you it might be money, for me it might be fame, better cover up your ears now, when he whispers your name.” “10,000 lures.” It reminds me of something John Piper writes in his book, A Hunger for God, “The greatest enemy of hunger for God is not poison but apple pie. It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven but endless nibbling at the table of the world. It is not the X-rated video, but the prime-time dribble of triviality we ...

312. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v1

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in the sight of all men. If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Therefore, If your enemy hungers, feed him; If he thirst, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head.” Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:1-21) Now let’s go back through the passage and pick out some ...

313. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... every day, “Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, be merciful to me a sinner.” This is the way to fulfill a heavenly calling, and after thirty years I feel as if I am starting over from scratch. It is extremely awkward, and I am fast becoming a desperate man, hungering and thirsting for righteousness in my own life and in the church and every more dissatisfied with what I see going on around me. Yes, I know Christ, but not as well as I want to. Yes I live for him, but not as completely as I promised. I want ...

314. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... must win. My guess is that Dan Brown’s DaVinci Code, lusty Jesus is more like Dan Brown than the Jesus of the Four Gospels.7 Just as greed is the shadow side of enjoying any particular thing, and just as gluttony is the perversion of the satisfaction of hunger, and just as sloth is an excess of rest without labor, so lust takes what God intended to be a permanent bond of soul-to-soul and makes it into a temporary contact of skin-to-skin. What is intended as holy becomes merely hooking up. The lustful ...

315. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to be put into practice and proved true by people just like us so that we have more and more stories in which to brag about and draw attention to Christ. This is life abundant, life bursting with the fullness of grace. Testimonies are the appetizer to stimulate hunger for the person of Jesus. If it happened to them, could it happen to me? It is one thing to read the Bible for religious knowledge and quite another to have it proved in your life. In Jesus the Word became flesh, and in living testimonies the ...

316. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... they are unable. Then a little seven-year-old child comes along and understands and believes. It is not of our power, but of God’s work in us. The Sadducees approached God’s Word all wrong. You do not come haughtily. You come humbly. More than that, you come hungering. You come needing the meat of the Word to live, to be saved from sin, and to know Jesus and eternal life. No Power To be suffering from the sad-you-see syndrome is also to have no power. Jesus said that they lacked power. To fail to know ...

317. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... are convinced that I have seen several. A new age began in 1989, and you may have missed it. But that's the way it goes. As Amos Wilder put it in the poem I quoted in the Words of Meditation this morning: Behind these ruins and these hungers lurk unsurmised and secret trends... In other words, something is going on, quietly, slowly, behind the scenes where you can't see it. In the background of events, something is going on. Then all of a sudden, one day the world changes. You may not have noticed it ...

318. Blinders

Acts 17:22-31

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... the sand and struggle along the beach seeking the ocean waters that wash upon the sand wave after wave. It's a hunger that is born deep within them to seek this sea water, for it is life -- even living water. If they don't find ... moat around a sand castle, it goes round and round and gets disoriented and never reaches the water. It dies. Born deep within all of us is a hunger for living water as well! God created us to be fed by the Bread of Life and nurtured by the Spring of Living Waters, the one God ...

319. Surprised by God

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon

James L. Killen

... and always present, and the life that our religion talks about is a real possibility in our real world. Knowing that, we should make it our purpose to go there and to experience that reality. In his letter to the Romans, Paul speaks of a deep yearning, a hunger, a hope that is there in the very life and body of the whole creation as it reaches out to come into relationship with God. "We know that the whole creation has been groaning in labor pains until now, and not only the creation but we ourselves, who ...

320. A Peek at the Resurrection

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... hold the tenderest promises of all. These verses promise healing of body and soul. In the resurrection, our physical bodies will no longer be a burden. John expresses this by saying that we will no longer hunger and thirst. Our bodies are part of God's good creation, but our bodies are weak and needy. Part of our neediness is our hunger. We need food to survive, but very few of us have a good relationship with food. Our need for food and water is so great that we schedule much of our lives and many of our ...

321. Fathers in Their Generation

Psalm 103:13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . Richard Rohr speaks all over the world, and is called upon to lead spiritual life retreats. He says that wherever he goes, he's asked to address the issue of male spirituality. He recognizes it as one of the deep growing hungers of people in our time, especially men. He says that that hunger stems from the fact that we no longer initiate boys into the wisdom of the Fathers. He said that has been the source of male spirituality in every society throughout history. Every society saw to it that the boys were ...

322. Two Christmas Dinners

Luke 21:3-4

Drama

Matthew Powell

... comes the old guy who treats that same bum to a meal every Christmas. Storyteller 1: Mr. Cabot sat across from the table glowing like a pearl. The waitress heaped the table with holiday food. Storyteller 2: Snuffy Pete, with a sigh that was mistaken for hunger's expression, raised knife and fork and carved for himself a crown of imperishable laurel. Mr. Cabot: (With a big smile) Don't be bashful, Mr. Pete. Dig in and eat heartily! Storyteller 1: No more valiant hero ever fought his way through the ranks of ...

323. The Burglar's Christmas

Luke 15:22-24

Drama

Matthew Powell

... show myself there again. (Young Man exits) Narrator 1: He was miserable enough to want to be quite alone. He wanted to think about himself. He had avoided this final reckoning with himself for a year now. He had laughed it off and drunk it off. Will: Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection. It is a tragic hour, that hour when we are finally driven to reckon with ourselves, when every avenue of mental distraction has been cut off and our own life and all its failures closes about us like the walls of ...

324. Lessons for Year A Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12

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John R. Brokhoff

... -and-on experience, but a condition that continuously prevails as long as the habit is maintained - the habit of practicing certain spiritual qualities. All humans experience the need for happiness. Are Christians happier than non-Christians? Outline: Form the habit of happiness - a. By hungering for righteousness - v. 6; Psalm 1. b. By showing mercy - v. 7. c. By making peace - v. 11. d. By suffering for Jesus - v. 11. 2. If You Wanted To Be Blessed (5:1-12). Need: Who does not want or need God's blessing ...

325. Go to Heaven?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... mouth to preach, he said, "Blessed are the poor in spirit ... those who mourn ... blessed are the meek ... and those who hunger and thirst ..." (Matthew 5:1-12). We call these sayings the Beatitudes. And they tell us plainly what sort of ... He can talk to me and I will listen. He can teach me and I will bend my will to his. And, "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness." When God makes provision for my salvation, when he offers me himself who is become my righteousness, I receive him gladly. I ...

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