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301. Missing the Mark

1 Samuel 8:1-22

Sermon

Charles Allo

... react and respond. We gather together. Call our friends who get us. Sit alone in our cars or houses and scream or think or take a walk or sit down because we don't know what else to do and simply question. Scream or whimper. Yet we question. And I want you to know that these always happen so that we don't get lost in the affairs of this world and the actions of those who follow selfish desires. Now that we got down to reality and realize that these Israel leaders had a problem to which they responded, we ...

302. The Spiritually Incorrect Spirit

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... years from now: "I have no idea. I trust and obey the Spirit." Third, you will be taken in directions you do not wish to go. This is perhaps the greatest test of whether you're living in the stream of the Spirit. Are you always going in directions you want to go? Can you give evidence of certain points in your life that you have veered off the favorable paths for the narrow paths that take you in uncertain places? Think right now: when was the last time you were taken in a direction you do not wish to go ...

303. When Mountains Are Not Moved

Mark 11:20-25 (26)

Sermon

James McCormick

... dream about it, we pray for it, we work to get it, but it doesn’t come. We all know the disappointment of that, don’t we? The disappointment of dreams unfulfilled…of prayers unanswered. Perhaps we hoped for a promotion and it was given to someone else. We wanted to pass a test and we failed. We expected a happy marriage and it ended in divorce. We asked for health and we became ill. We prayed for a loved one to recover from an illness and they died. It’s true. Some prayers are not answered, at least ...

304. Going the Second Mile

Matthew 5:38-42

Sermon

James Merritt

... life down to just the minimum of what they had to do. I heard about a mother who said to her little boy one time, "I want you to eat a little bit of spinach." The boy said, "How little can I get by with?" The Pharisees were always trying to figure out ... me didn't care about people like him, and why couldn't I just give him what he asked for. You see, he didn't want help, he wanted a handout, and those are two different things. The Bible says in Ps. 112:5, "A good man deals graciously and lends; he will guide ...

305. How to Keep Your Head When Others Are Losing Theirs (Fruit of the Spirit: Peace)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... water. But when he took his eyes off of Jesus, he began to sink. The great Christian, Corrie ten Boone, once said: "When I look at the world, I get distressed. When I look at myself, I get depressed. But when I look at Jesus, I am at rest." I want to let you in on a little secret about peace. Peace is not the absence of problems. Peace is the presence of Jesus in the midst of your problems. You see, you cannot always rejoice in your losses, but you can always rejoice in the Lord. Now notice the reason ...

306. A Burden or a Song

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

James McCormick

... hard lesson that there is often a difference between what is supposed to be and what is. I. That’s the first thing I want to say in today’s sermon. The fact is, a great many people do not experience religion as a lift. Instead, it is an ... to experience God as friend - One who is not against us, but for us. He doesn’t just make demands of us – even more, He wants to give to us. Just listen to the encouraging words of scripture: “I have come that you may have life, and have it abundantly.” ...

307. Mind Games

2 Corinthians 10:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... /3 of all current rock music. Studies now show that the average teenager listens to rock music four hours a day.[5] We better learn that the devil is working overtime to corrupt our minds, and he's got plenty of tools available to do it. III. Learn That God Wants To Control Our Mind Now I hope you see why this war that we are fighting and this battle that we are in is one we cannot afford to lose. Because the only way you can control you is to control your mind, for your mind controls you. Woodrow Wilson ...

308. All By Myself: The Fear of Loneliness

2 Timothy 4:9-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... because I had never ever experienced such loneliness. The reason why loneliness is so horrible is because God made us for relationships. He made us to need each other. When God put Adam in the Garden of Eden, you would have thought he had every single thing he could possibly want. I admit he had no shirt and he had no shoes, but he had no problems. There was no stress, no deadlines, not a financial worry in his life, yet in Genesis 2:18 God said, "It is not good for man to be alone." (Genesis 2:18, NIV) The ...

309. At Your Service Lord

Ephesians 4:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... on themselves and become bogged down in bureaucracy. The most crucial decision any church will ever face is this decision: Who is going to give leadership to the church? and, Who is going to do the ministry of the church? If Cross Pointe is going to be all that God wants it to be, I have to give up something and you have to give up something. You have to give up control of the leadership of the church, because that is what God has called me to do—to lead. On the other hand, I must give up the ministry ...

310. Finishing Strong

Nehemiah 9:38--10:39

Sermon

James Merritt

... God's word is going to be our constitution. We are going to live by it. It is going to have the final say in our lives." I want to make a proposal to you. If God is God and if the Bible is God's word, then it ought to determine two things about us: ... close them even if he made less money. The reason he does it is because he is surrendered to the will of God for his life. I want you to remember this above all other things I tell you today. The only place where God can bless you is in the center of His will ...

311. Sitting at the Big People Table

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, 1 Timothy 2:1-7

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... hair, "He's got yams North and South, "And there's food everywhere "But inside of his mouth!" "Then there's Sarah and Icky "And Jimmy and Franz "Mixing peas in their milk! "Eating with their bare hands!" "This is NOT what the Pilgrims "And Indians did, "I DON'T WANT TO SIT HERE "AT THE TABLE FOR KIDS!!" Then mom said, "I think your Thanksgiving's all through, "And I think that it's time "You go up to your room." "In my ROOM?!" my brain thought, This just couldn't be true! In my ROOM?! Why, WHY, WHY?? What ...

312. On Speaking Terms

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Argile Smith

... we travel abroad, we would be wise to carry a tourist manual that is complete with all kinds of information about the cities we will visit, including maps. We consult the manual every time we turn the corner in search of tourist sights. The map helps us get where we want to go so we can see what we traveled there to see in the first place. To be honest, most of us probably prefer a tour guide over a map. Instead of stumbling along trying to read the map and see the sights at the same time, following a tour ...

313. Ignite: Fire and Water

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

James Merritt

... 12, ESV) Here is why the method of baptism is so important. If you change the method you change the meaning. You don’t take the Lord’s Supper with beef-jerky and a diet coke. Likewise, you don’t baptize any other way other than by immersion. If I want to see a picture of your dog, don’t show me a picture of your cat. Baptism is to picture the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ and that can only be done by immersion. You cannot separate the meaning of baptism from the method of baptism. To put ...

314. Do You Have Any Leftovers?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... God for the opportunity to demonstrate the law of the leftovers. What you are seeing is the way that God operates. Jesus asks for what He wants. We should give to Jesus what He asks. Jesus will then use what we give. Are you ready for this? God loves to use the little ... would have eaten if he kept it all to himself. How do you explain that? It is the law of the leftovers. Jesus asks what He wants. We give Him what He asks. He uses what we give Him and He blesses what He uses. Why do you think this miracle is ...

315. The Knot: Frayed (Part 1)

1 Peter 3:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Not only that, but he talks to the wife most. We are going to spend six verses looking at the wife and only one verse looking at the husband. Before your blood pressure goes up, Peter is actually paying the wives a compliment. I have learned first hand if you want something done and done right give it to a woman. In every family I’ve ever known, the glue that holds that family together is not the dad, but the mom. It is not the husband, but the wife. There is another reason as you will see shortly why ...

316. The Joy of Christmas

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... Bethlehem and see what has taken place…” They got there and saw the scene. It was not spectacular. To any other eye it was worse than ordinary, but the shepherds were amazed. They were able to see Christ. Most of us don’t see this well. We see what we want to see. We go about our lives passing by holy events and we don’t even notice. We rush through life and are unaware of where Christ is in our midst. We walk right by situations where God is active and working. We just don’t see it. The great ...

317. Hosanna! Please Save Us!

Matthew 21:1-11, Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... you have seen me you have seen my Father” (John 14:9). Life would be so much simpler if we could just make Jesus into whomever we want him to be. He could be a prophet, a guru, a role model, a buddy. But Jesus made the truth crystal clear: he is God incarnate. ... sacrifice and cooperation on the part of the participating nations. And after a devastating world war, these countries and their citizens wanted to focus on their own needs first. We see the same forces at work in the world today. The world is ...

318. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of prayer as something WE ask God to do! Think of the way most of us pray. It’s a shopping list of things we want. Now sometimes, our prayers are for others too. We call that intercessory prayer. But most of the time, we are praying David’s kind of ... grow in our relationship with others. In our “secret” rendezvous with God, we become more…and more the kind of human beings Jesus wants us to become. Secret prayer is secret sanctification. You know how a plant grows. You can’t see it, but all of a ...

319. An Encounter with Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... We Would See Jesus” has been the title of books, songs, and most likely hundreds of sermons. It is a great phrase loaded with dozens of directions that a preacher can go with a sermon. It is a temptation for any preacher to take the phrase where he wants it to go but the truth is that staying inside this story, without leaping in countless directions is the very best way to teach and understand what is happening. Let’s look at this biblical account and try to see the real story as it unfolds. It begins ...

320. Overflowing Joy and Rich Generosity

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... that they increase their giving. He hopes that they will see that giving is a natural consequence of Christian devotion. Giving is a natural expression of our love for God. In Paul’s terms, it is a test of the sincerity of our love for God. I want to offer some reasons this morning why generous giving is critical to the devotional life of a Christian. The first reason concerns the seductive nature of wealth. This is not a sermon against money. In just a few moments we are going to be talking about some ...

321. The Steady March Forward

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... to stay. As he told them, however, there were other lost sheep that needed to hear his word. “I must proclaim the good news of the kingdom of God to the other towns also, because that is why I was sent,” he told them (Luke 4:43). People wanted him to stay for many reasons. He was a man of compassion, and he was a man of power. Put those two traits together and you get miracles of healing and tenderness. They weren’t used to being treated like that by anyone with authority. The miracles, however, weren ...

322. Are We Living In The Last Days?

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... years to five years. Those who attended this retreat were then asked to make up a menu for the rest of their lives. What do I have an appetite for? What do I want to taste again and again or for the first time? What do I not want to stomach any longer? What for me, would be a healthy diet for living? Here are some samples from their menus: Want to sing more. I want to visit sacred places, to complete my master’s program, to visit the moon, to mentor young men, to be more playful and more prayerful. I ...

323. Proper 12

Psalm 85:1-13, Colossians 2:6-23, Hosea 1:1-2:1, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... v. 4). 3. Persistence in Praying. (v. 8) The need for constant prayer. A. To Meet the Needs of Others. B. To Be Constantly Aware of the Source of Life. C. Regardless of Convenience or Inconvenience. 4. Ask, Search, Knock. (v. 9) A. Asking. Not so much to bring our wants to God, but to let God make us aware of our real needs. B. Searching. Looking to know God's will and way for our lives. C. Knocking. Seeking to remove the barriers that block us from real living in the presence of God. 5. A Fish or Snake, an ...

324. Grapes Of Wrath Or Grace?

1 Kings 21:1-29

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... to show himself a worshipper of Yahweh -- so he refused to sell his vineyard. And therein is the problem: Naboth had the land; Ahab wanted it. Ahab offered to buy; Naboth refused to sell. When he didn't get his own way, Ahab went home to pout and sulk ... we accuse the minister of bringing us terrible tidings. A girl in a beauty shop told me once, "I am a Christian, but I don't want to hear about the cross, or sin, or any of the bad things. Just give me the 'smiley stuff'!" Elijah's words had often warned Ahab ...

325. Wisdom for the Living of These Days

Proverbs 2:1-22

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... claimed the same living child as their own. Solomon ordered the baby to be cut in two with each mother receiving one half. The one woman begged Solomon not to do it, to give the living child to the other woman. Wisely Solomon recognized the one who did not want the child killed as the true mother. As Solomon needed wisdom in that difficult case, we, too, are in desperate need of wisdom for the living of these days. Who has the wisdom to determine a person’s right to die, as in the case of thirty-two-year ...

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