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301. Everybody Loves a Parade!

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... , social or political activity. I was successful, men said. I became a well-known and wealthy wholesaler. But I was so busy making a living that I never found time to live." He was majoring on minors, an addiction toward which too many of us are inclined. This season, so close to the New Year, is saying to us, "Major on majors, minor on minors. Discriminate. Distinguish between the vital and the trivial, the important and the inconsequential." Our Savior showed us the way when he laid down his life for each ...

302. The Day Is Not For Sleeping

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about the Christian faith have you read in the past year? So, one edge of the sword of our being asleep intellectually is that there is no growing edge to our life -- no convincing witness. The other edge of that sword is that we are not even inclined to grapple with the gigantic dilemmas of our time to which the Christian faith could and should speak. II. That brings me to a second point. The Day is not for sleeping. We dare not go to sleep morally. Among the amazing things that are happening in Eastern ...

303. Who Are Christians?

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... have been talking about that during this series of sermons on Practical Christianity. It is certainly what we see in this last section of James' epistle. It's James' word portrait of the church, who we are as Christians. If any artist here today is inclined to create an invitational poster for the church, you'll have to include three dynamics: Praying, celebrating, caring. Now, you who are not artists will have to settle for my word picture today as we wait for some artist to get inspired, maybe to create ...

304. A Long Obedience In The Same Direction

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... about God, can be sold if it is packaged freshly; but when it loses its novelty, it goes on the garbage heap. There is a great market for religious experience in our world; there is little enthusiasm for the patient acquisition of virtue, little inclination to sign up for a long apprenticeship in what earlier generations of Christians called holiness.Religion in our time has been captured by the tourist mindset. Religion is understood as a visit to an attractive site to be made when we have adequate leisure ...

305. The Divine Opportunity

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... experienced only by a select few on special occasions. But again, John made clear, it is with a price. Our Lord is coming with a winnowing fan, to separate the wheat from the chaff; and he will burn the chaff "with unquenchable fire." We may be inclined to discount John's vigorous language on the grounds that he was a dramatically emphatic man, so that he would speak of even Jesus in terrifying terms. Perhaps we should remind ourselves that Jesus often spoke of himself in the language of judgment. We are so ...

306. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... you and I say about the wealth and power which is in our own individual hands? Have the proud imaginations of my own heart been humbled before God? Am I attentive to matters and people who are of low degree in the eyes of the world; or am I inclined to give special attention to those who have this world's goods? Am I impressed with life's real values, such as patience, humility, gentleness, compassion, and love? Am I ready to share? Mary envisioned a day when God would exalt those of low degree. You and I ...

307. Epiphany: The Tragedy of Rejection

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... to Jesus with open, unprejudiced minds, and were filled with awe; while the people of Nazareth found it necessary to discredit him, and then, in bitterness, to seek to destroy him. The Nazareth tragedy is compounded by the fact that the people were at first inclined to hear Jesus appreciatively. But then something in them made them want to cut Jesus down to size. Specifically, their size. They wanted to be able to "manage" him, by remembering that he was the boy they had seen through the years in the ...

308. Return and Be Forgiven

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... us that loving fellowship, that deep sense that we are finally home, returned to the family of God, where there are joy and laughter, and honor and goodness, and the peace that the world cannot give. God offers us nothing less than life abundant in his company. "Incline your ear, and come to me," he says in our text, "hear, that your soul may live" (v. 3). And more than that, he tells us he will never abandon us. "I will make with you an everlasting covenant," he promises. Death itself will not separate us ...

309. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... success. We start climbing the ladder, looking for a bigger church, a bigger salary, and greater recognition. Later in ministry, we realize how we’re strayed. It’s not that we have ignored spiritual growth and character completely, but we’ve not had the time or inclination to concern ourselves with it. Somewhere along the way, most of us wake up to the fact that we have not kept perspective. If we have not forsaken our first love, we certainly have not kept that love alive. We’ve not given it first ...

310. Abraham and God's Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... him better. So she drove up into the San Gabriel Mountains and found what she thought would be the perfect location. She talked to God about how much it was needed. Then she talked to the man who owned it, and although he hadn’t been inclined to sell it, he never really had a prayer. It grew into Forest Home, one of the premier spiritual conference centers in the country. Henrietta Mears was frustrated by not having a good single-volume introduction to the Bible that could help her students understand ...

311. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... medicine, business, the arts, in our neighborhoods and around the world. Light and salt are both absorbed through exposure. And if the overall moral and ethical climate of our town and county and state and nation and world is declining downwards rather than inclining upwards, where does the chief responsibility lie? On the 9th of August in 2000 Matt Friendman’s account was published in the Clarion Ledger: ‘Several months ago I was on a TV show to discuss with other panel members recent problems plaguing ...

312. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually.” children of Chernobyl... something happened, and we are walking around holding our wounds.”4 This is what it means to believe in the doctrine of original sin and the space it clears to understand the coming of the Son ...

313. How to Look Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is the world that Mr. Rogers Neighborhood tries to create on television. Actually, I am surprised at myself, really, for mentioning Mr. Rogers Neighborhood in a sermon. I am a little embarrassed really for using it. I am more inclined to choose professional sports analogies for sermon illustrations, or people winning against all odds, business successes, going from rags to riches, heroic deeds, and other singular accomplishments. Those are the most common sermon illustrations, and the most popular. When ...

314. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... real and God loves me.” It won’t happen. Faith can’t be appropriated like that. It can’t be bought. You can’t put a million dollars in the offering plate and say, now I have acquired faith. You can try that, by the way, if you are so inclined. It would certainly boost MY faith. But it won’t settle life’s most important issues for you. You can’t even buy faith with your good works, though I hope you will keep doing these good works. There is only one way you can have faith in Jesus Christ ...

315. Blinders

Acts 17:22-31

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... , he came to church seeking "manifestations," powerful spiritual experiences signified by a tingle in the spine -- or (we could say) by a feeling of fullness. When the young Lewis didn't receive those feelings every time, he felt cheated, and was inclined to doubt the whole of Christianity. Mature Christianity recognizes that spiritual experience is not God, but is rather a sign, something which points beyond itself to an utterly free and inscrutable God who cannot be confined in any human experience -- of ...

316. The Witness of Being

Genesis 1:1—2:4a

Sermon

James L. Killen

... all of this into being and keeps it working. That in itself is not all that we need to bring us into a life-fulfilling relationship with God. But it is a starting place. At least it helps us to see, when we are inclined to doubt, that there is something -- or someone -- out there, someone with whom we must have some kind of a relationship. The apparent conflicts between science and religion continue to torment many people. Scientific method demands that scientists require empirical evidence, proof based on ...

317. Once More, With Feeling

Matthew 26:14—27:66

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... this horrible truth. Let us stand with the women at the foot of the cross. Let it become real to us. Lord, we are yours. Amen. Prayer Of Confession In you, O Lord, I seek refuge; do not let me ever be put to shame; in your righteousness deliver me. Incline your ear to me; rescue me speedily. Be a rock of refuge for me, a strong fortress to save me. You are indeed my rock and my fortress; for your name's sake lead me and guide me, take me out of the net that is hidden for me, for ...

318. Undoing Babel

Acts 2:1-21

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

319. All Working Together

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

320. Thirsting for the Spirit

John 7:37-39

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

321. Backwards Day

Matthew 10:24-39

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Two: Preserve my life, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you. Three: You are my God; be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all day long. ...

322. The Law of Life

Romans 8:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... judgments. My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. The wicked have laid a snare for me: yet I erred not from thy precepts. Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart. I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes always, even unto the end. (based on Psalm 119:105-112) Collect One: Lord we come together as your people. All: Our goals are different. Our aim is one. We come to worship you, O Lord, in the beauty of holiness. One: In ...

323. Rocky Water

Exodus 17:1-7

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our ancestors have told us. All: We will not hide them from their children; we will tell to ...

324. A Gift for You

Romans 1:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... represented in statues in some churches. It also conjures up some images that are totally unattractive and also totally inaccurate. A saint is not someone who is perfect. Read the stories of the biblical saints. They were very human. Even Paul himself was headstrong, impulsive, and inclined to be a little arrogant - and he had a temper. But God accepted them as they were and worked with them and used them in the service of God's high purpose. A saint is not some super-human being who lives up to a standard ...

325. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

James L. Killen

... what the message of the cross says about God and about all reality, we have an even harder time taking in what it tells us about how we ought to live. It calls us to live in ways that are exactly opposite to the ways in which we are most inclined to live. The message of the cross calls us to live trustingly. To live in faith means to live trusting the love of God that was demonstrated in the suffering and death of Christ. The wisdom of our day tells us we had better not trust. We had better not ...

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