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301. What Are You Tied To?

John 14:15-21

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... to Jesus, then we will run out of spiritual energy. And just like a cell phone without any energy doesn't work right, a Christian who's run out of spiritual energy won't work right either. The best way to stay connected to Jesus is through prayer, and worshiping Him, and reading the Bible, and doing good things for others. That's how we stay connected to Jesus and recharge our spiritual energy. Let's pray and ask Jesus to fill us up with His spiritual energy, so that we can live the way He wants us to.

302. The Bethsaida Boys

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

John Jamison

... , guests were welcome in the home for three days, after which they needed to move along and find a new place to rest their weary heads. So, can you see the look in the eyes around the table as Simon Peter mentions in passing that his friends plan on staying and making this home for a while? This was Peter’s family and they must have known him well, so perhaps they were prepared for another one of his surprises like this — perhaps. I wonder if they were also ready for some of the things that would happen ...

303. The Week

Mark 14:1-15:47

Sermon

John Jamison

... me.” He paused, and we can imagine he took a slow, deep breath, and then said, “But, it’s not important what I want, but what you want.” Jesus got up from the ground and went back to the three disciples, who were sound asleep. Jesus asked them to stay awake and pray about the trial that was about to come, then he went to pray. When he came back they were asleep. This happened a third time. We have to be fair to the disciples here. First, they really didn’t understand what was going on, nor what ...

304. Have You Been Pruned?

John 15:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing . . .” Again, the message is clear. The secret to bearing fruit is staying connected to Christ. Recently I read a devotion from a woman in a tropical area of our country who had a guava tree in her yard that bore some large juicy fruit. Twice a year, in April and July, she would look forward to enjoying the fruit of her guava ...

305. In Need of a "Rally Monkey"

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lord wants you on the mission field, He’ll get you there. And if I were you I would much rather spend ten years of dedicated life on the mission field where there are many who have not yet heard the gospel message, than choose to stay here in the States and perhaps live a longer life ministering among people who have heard it many times already.” With this confirmation, John Beekman and his wife, Elaine, headed to Chiapas in southern Mexico to minister to the Chol Indians. The Beekmans walked through ...

306. Precocious

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the bird sings, all the better. J] The church today is behaving like a confined bird. A bird in a cage. But a self-imposed cage. The church has so loved its silence, and its safety, that it has locked itself inside of heavy walls. And when the church stays inside of its walls long enough, it becomes afraid of the world. Once afraid of its mission field, it forgets how to sing. Has the church lost its song? Has THIS church lost its song? Our churches must again learn to find their song of praise. The church ...

307. Higher Ground

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Messiah will suffer and rise from the dead on the third day, and repentance for the forgiveness of sins will be preached in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. I am going to send you what my Father has promised; but stay in the city until you have been clothed with power from on high.” When he had led them out to the vicinity of Bethany, he lifted up his hands and blessed them. While he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven. Then they ...

308. The Catch

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... stared at him in fear. “What is it, Lord?” he asked. The angel answered, “Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea.” When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa. About ...

309. Dressed for Success?

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

310. You are Anointed

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... s sense of peace. If the smell is bad, the opposite can happen. Anyone smell something left in the refrigerator several weeks too long? Or left out on the counter –that fuzzy green and black rot that makes you want to puke? It seems like that smell stays with you a long, long time, right? What about the smell of skunk? Black mold? Or the pervading smell of Eau de Diaper when you lift that diaper pail after a week of deposits? Some smells are fleeting. Others last a very long time. Pleasurable smells leave ...

311. Almond Joy!

Numbers 17:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... life and abundance. We see no better example of God’s enduring love and our fickle response than in Jesus’ time He spent praying in Gethsemane. Jesus is overcome with grief at what He knows He must endure. And He asks His disciples to “watch” with Him. To stay awake, and to keep watch over what will come. None of them do. None of them recognize the severity of the situation, nor do they foresee the road Jesus will travel. Even though they’ve been with Him for three years, still, they do not see it ...

312. Doorkeepers for Disruption

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... hardships and pain on his behalf, they will be vindicated and rewarded in the end. His advice to them is to “keep awake, to stay alert, that God will win in the end. Look, Jesus says, for the disruptive presence of God to break through into your current reality ... alertness that Jesus tells us is so vital to our role as disciples of Jesus in this world. Be alert, Jesus says. Stay awake, he tells us. Be ready for your mundane and ordinary life to be disrupted by sacred and sacramental things, by extraordinary ...

313. The Love Cloud

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... love story, there’s a time when we all have to come back to earth, to step out of the clouds and deal with real issues of life, the real issues of relationship, and the hard work at times of loving when loving is hard. We don’t stay in the clouds. But the cloud was an important step to bonding for us in love. Those who have a strong loving connection prevail against whatever comes their way. Those whose connections are weak will falter, and love will seem to slip away. Strong connections flourish at ...

314. Good-Bye

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... by his disciples. Even a place as big and thick walled as Duke Chapel can't capture him. It's the end of Easter. Jesus is getting, ready to go, to ascend to his Father and our God. Where are you going? Can we go to? Who is going to stay with us? These are the questions, good normal, post-Easter questions of disciples. In response, Jesus doesn't promise us that we'll never feel alone, doesn't say that the times of absence, the dry valley of loneliness, is not hard. He doesn't assuage our fears with cheap ...

315. The Power of the Staff

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a worm, and most importantly, they didn’t know how to fly! And it was a long way down. They had never used their wings. They had formed, but they were still small and barely developed. The sky out there looked wide and vast. Yet they couldn’t stay where they were. The space was growing tight. If they wanted to live, grow, and flourish, they would need to leave their nest. One by one, they moved to the edge, fluttered their wings wildly and suddenly took off. Except the last bird. He moved to the edge ...

316. It's A Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... experiences and the one thing that they all have in common is that just like Peter we don't want them to end. We want to stay and live and relive the moment for as long as possible. When we have a mountain top experience we're like children who want every day ... to be Christmas. We don't want it to end. Neither did Peter. Peter didn't want to leave but he wasn't allowed to stay on the mountain top and neither are we. The transfiguration wasn't meant to last, but it was meant to be remembered. It was given so ...

317. It's a Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

318. Mountaintop Moments

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that person again. And we value mountaintop moments, miraculous Godstruck moments, because we know we have come face to face with something divine and more powerful than anything we have ever experienced in our lives, those experiences don’t happen everyday, and that experience will stay with us forever. Here is the great thing about the way we work as humans. We don’t need “peak end” experiences each and every day. We only need a few to define who we are and what is valuable and meaningful to us ...

319. Human Things

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . God’s wisdom before our wisdom. God’s judgment, not our judgment. The goodness of God, not the determinations of humankind. These make for a “good” world. May God’s will be done….on earth, as in heaven. May our eyes stay focused on him. [1] Acton-Creighton Correspondence, OLL, https://oll.libertyfund.org/quote/lord-acton-writes-to-bishop-creighton-that-the-same-moral-standards-should-be-applied-to-all-men-political-and-religious-leaders-included-especially-since-power-tends-to-corrupt ...

320. Remember...

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... giving you this day . . .” Pastor Ray Pritchard reminds us of a term from the colonial period of American history. The term is, “Stay in the traces.” This term comes from a time when few roads were paved and people traveled by horse-drawn wagons. Over ... I am giving you this day.” This is why we study God’s word. That is why we worship God’s Son. That’s why we stay connected to the community of faith. That is why we take time each day to bow our heads and listen for God’s guidance. All these ...

321. Spirit Soaked

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ” that God will provide in our lives and future. Jesus knew how hard it would be for his disciples to go on without him physically present. He knew that his time would be approaching soon enough when he would need to leave them. He knew he needed them to stay faithful and strong, so that the mission would not die with him but would go on to spread, so that God’s love could light up the world again and all who live in it. He needed them to listen. Today, we too need to hear Jesus’ message, encouraging ...

322. Keep On Moving

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... time to wait for those who have other “first priorities” other than his mission. If they want to join the “force,” they have to stay the course! And keep on moving. We sense the urgency in Jesus at this point in Luke’s gospel. His mind is set, and ... that those disciples he leaves behind will need to prioritize the mission once he has gone. He needs them to focus. He needs them to stay on track. He still has much to teach them, and he knows he has little time. After this passage, in Luke 10, he will ...

323. Becoming A Faithful Witness

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... . His faithfulness and the strength of his faith in the face of great adversity made his witness stand out as a beacon of radiant light. Isaiah used this opportunity to affirm that God is the one who sustains God's people. God is the source of our strength and our staying power. Listen to how he expressed it: "For the Lord God helps me; therefore I have not been confounded; therefore I have set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near" (Isaiah 50:7-8 ...

324. A Maturing Faith

Acts 16:16-40

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... hour and a half this young man poured out his heart. In tears he shared all the sordid details of how he had been sucked into a life of cocaine addiction and now the cocaine was sucking the life out of him. He desperately wanted to quit. He wanted to stay straight. But he needed help. Gary was married with three children. He had grown up going to church. He wanted to do the right thing and he could not understand why, no matter how hard he tried, he kept slipping up. He could not bring himself to tell his ...

325. Factions

Luke 20:9-19

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... ? DARIEN: That's what I said, embarrassing. JILL: I'll tell you what's embarrassing -- listening to all of you talk. MYRA: Well, if the pastor goes ahead with this wild scheme I'm just going to stay home. JILL: Is that the way you're going to protest -- stay home? MYRA: I've done it before. But I'm not protesting. I'm just staying home so I can be alone and pray for the pastor. JILL: Right. MYRA: Who's to say I'm not praying? Certainly not you. JILL: Certainly not, but if you're praying so much, where's ...

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