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3251. Find Joy Again!

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... play and to enjoy the life he created. I believe one of the reasons Christians and churches burn out is they lose their sense of play. They lose their joy. Jesus tells us so. Remember that scene in the gospels when Jesus was teaching while a bunch ... Tell You a Story, pages 12 and 13, Nashville, Word Publishing, 2000.) But something happened to our world. We lost our joy. We lost our sense of fun and laughter. Sin and cynicism crept in and caused us to lose our ability to play. God wanted us to get our joy ...

3252. Missing!

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... missing for years and has only just been recovered. Your child may cry rivers of tears on the loss of a cherished stuffed bear or rabbit. But all of these pale in comparison to losing someone dear to you. Think about it. How many of you can recall the sense of panic when you’re in a store, look around, and the child who was behind you one second ago has seemed to simply vanish! It’s hard to explain the kind of anxiety that kicks in immediately while searching frantically for that child. What do you do ...

3253. The Last Coca Cola in the Desert

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t speak at all to the size of one’s jeans. Rather it refers to someone who is over-confident or full of self-importance. Or if something is not complicated, we say, “It’s not rocket science!” Every language has its own idioms that make perfect sense to its own people. There are two particular idioms, one from China and one from Spain, that apply to our scripture lesson for today. There is an idiom in Chinese which is translated, “A crane among a flock of chickens.” It refers to someone who is ...

3254. Put On Your Apocalypse Jacket

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... you learn in a crisis is that good leaders absorb fear. They're not accelerators of fear — they know how to manage a sense of calm while still being really clear about the challenges ahead . . . You learn to hold two truths. You learn to say, ‘Things can ... years. Then one day during his prayer time, Ibrahim decided that if Jesus really was God in the flesh, then it didn’t make sense to live in fear any longer. He said, “I was tired of fear, and I asked myself a question: ‘If I believe in Jesus and ...

3255. Into the Light

John 1:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to understanding that we have no conception of the vastness and complexity of the universe. We have no idea how else anything like this could possibly come into existence. It’s complex. It’s astoundingly beautiful. It’s mysterious. Much of it still makes no sense to our best minds. But we do know the power of forces such as light and sound and realize that these somehow control everything that exists. Now, in this time of winter, our seeds have been planted. They lie below the surface of the ground ...

3256. Imagine This

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... Pharisee, became Paul, the disciple. I’m not trying to deny that story, but back in that world of my imagination, I wonder if God might have taken a different approach. I wonder if God had kept Saul lying awake over the past few nights trying to make sense of what Gamaliel had said and done? I wonder if, as certain as Saul was about his work, Gamaliel had somehow caused Saul to wonder. I wonder if Saul had awoken that morning, looked up at the heavens that had given him the laws, and said something like ...

3257. Moksha

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... also come to be called the “Four Ends of Human Life.” A young man should transcend from a lower level to the next until he discovers the true meaning of life. The journey begins with kama or pleasure. It is to dis- cover purpose by gratifying the senses. At this stage Kama-sutra may be a familiar phrase to us having become a part of the English language lexicon. Kama-sutra is the often quoted text for its descriptions of sexual intimacy. It is here, at kama, as a hedonist, that one begins the journey ...

3258. Mandatum

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... you have been openly harsh to? Is there someone who you still hold a grudge against? Has anyone done anything really that bad as to cause you to be unremorsefully vindictive? Was the individual really that offensive or are you just being spiteful? Does your sense of revenge trump any noble disposition? Is the real reason that you just don’t like that person? Is there any place in the church for this kind of venomous attitude and behavior? Can you come to the altar without first seeking reconciliation with ...

3259. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... standing on the spot where he once lived. The 53-year-old man, an Olympic track and gold medal athlete, fell to his knees. He dug his hands into the dirt that he and his family once farmed, and he started to pray. He prayed in such agony that he sensed only one last drop of blood was left in his spirit. Then he realized, “True prayer means nothing else but giving the final drop of your soul’s blood to reach God.” At some point all of us are going to find ourselves in a seemingly hopeless and helpless ...

3260. The Sawdust Trail

Colossians 3:1-4

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... experience. In the name of Jesus you can surmount the problems of daily living. This is one of the “I am” sayings of Jesus. There are 54 “I am” sayings in the fourth gospel. In John’s gospel when Jesus uses “I am” in an absolute sense, he is identifying him- self with God. In the Greek the word eimi is translated as “I am.” Eimi means “to be” or “to exist eternally” or “to have timeless being.” Thus, the “I am” saying declares the eternal nature of Jesus and his oneness ...

3261. How Does Prayer Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... praying. Jesus taught us what prayer is by his own example. He prayed at every turn in his life. He prayed as he sensed God’s call on his life; he prayed before choosing his disciples; he prayed as he served and healed other people; he prayed as ... only your own needs but also the needs of others. Then take a moment to listen in your heart to God, and write down what you sense God is saying to you. Before you end your prayer time, pray, “Lord, I want to please you. I want to do your will. Whatever it ...

3262. The Light from the Cliff

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven. But the light in Jesus’ metaphor comes not from one’s own sense of self or from an external or physical source, but from the glow of God illuminating the spirit from within. When Jesus lives in your heart, your face shines, everything you say and do feels warm and inviting. Just as Moses’ face shone when he came down from ...

3263. Why Doesn’t God Prove Himself To Doubters?

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... me; if you seek me with all your heart (Jeremiah 29:13 NRSV). A relationship with God must be based on trust, not proof. Belief in God based on proof is a science experiment. Faith in God based on trust is a relationship. Maybe this is starting to make sense, but you still have your doubts and you don’t know what to do with them. Let me lift up a passage of Scripture for you from the gospel of John, chapter 6. People are hearing Jesus teach and preach and they find his teachings difficult. More and more ...

3264. The Power of the Stone

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to face with a true force of nature storm will know a fraction of that feeling of immense power that “puts you in your place.” In the direct face of a hurricane, tornado, tsunami, or earthquake, we realize how little control in our world we truly have. In a sense, this event was much like this. Power Roman guards? Not in the face of God’s power! The image of the Angel having rolled away that bounder and then sitting on it is one of such power, might, majesty, and “in your face” victory that it’s ...

3265. Seeing is Believing…or Is It?

John 20:19-31

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... flourish in his or her relationships, find hope in everything, and see good in the world around him or her. That doesn’t mean that this person never doubts anything. But he or she has the courage to ask questions of what he or she sees. So in a sense, doubt is not the opposite of faith, but the confirmer of faith. In our scripture for today, we see Jesus’ first appearance to his disciples from within a locked room. Notably, Thomas is missing. We don’t know why he isn’t there. Did he go for food? Did ...

3266. The Fork in the Path

Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... come to a fork in the path. You must choose which way to go. No one can help you. You must rely on your own devices and the protection you’ve been given. You hope you’ve chosen well. You’ll find out on the other side. In a sense, this is what it’s like to choose Jesus’ “way,” his mission, his call, to accept his invitation to be part of a kind of wilderness adventure of the soul. Even if you do not run into assassinations, tortures, threats, or toils, you will encounter challenges. You will ...

3267. The Reckoning

Matthew 14:13-21, Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... important times of “reckoning.” We heard about a few of those last week: stories of harvest, of nets full of fish, of weeds and tares, and others. Today, in our scripture, we again have examples of “moments of reckoning.” In this sense of “reckoning,” we can get a full sense of the definition: to struggle, to count, to make right, to judge, to narrate, to decide, and to come at last to terms. We have heard two dynamic scriptures today. The first has to do with Jacob’s wrestling match with ...

3268. Imperfect Pastors

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... not know the God who created us in His image, the God who loves us with an everlasting love, the God who gave His own life to save us and restore us to Him. There are plenty of shallow substitutes we can choose to give us some sense of control or happiness or security. But when fear or trouble comes, those substitutes will be revealed for what they really are—empty facades. We will only find abundant and eternal life in our relationship with the one true God. 1. “Twenty-five Really Weird Things Said ...

3269. Remember...

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... our parents lived in. We drive cars that cost as much as our parents’ first home. We are a prosperous people. We need to be reminded. The greatest need we have on the Thanksgiving Day is to rekindle our sense of dependence on God. Where people forget their need for God, they also lose their joy and their sense of purpose. That is why we have set aside this national day to reflect on what our blessings mean and to remind ourselves how much we owe to God. On the verge of entering the Promised Land, Moses ...

3270. The Subject Is Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Steve Molin

... is a word that the people of this world need to hear, see, and experience. The subject is forgiveness. May God bring it to you fresh today, as we seek to be forgiveness in a needful world. Now somehow we know that we are called to forgive. Somehow we sense that forgiveness is innate to the fol- lowers of Jesus. But we also know that we are human, and we are aware of how difficult forgiveness can be. When people hurt us, when people do injustices, when people and institutions fill our lives with pain, we ask ...

3271. Gracious

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God, the more fervent your energy and desire to show grace to others. In our current world of dissension, arguments, polarization, and criticism, it’s all the more important that Christians cultivate a close and intimate relationship with God, that they feel a sense of gratitude and love in their hearts as a result of that relationship. For only in this way can they begin to build the kind of alternative communities that Jesus envisioned. This past week, families all over the United States gathered for ...

3272. Simeon (A Monologue)

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... a marriage for me, I almost felt that the only true marriage I could have would be to the Torah. However, I felt a certain sense of obligation and was joined to my wife as our families had planned. I can say now that I am grateful that such an arrangement ... with the blessing, but that strange something inside me led me to share my feelings: Joy, to be sure, but mixed with a sense of disquiet. I looked at the young woman and said, “This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel ...

3273. Passover Or Passalong?

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... they went now, people were shouting to them; some cheering them on and some demanding they be arrested. This room they sat in tonight felt so quiet, so safe, it allowed them to relax. The seder was familiar. The seder was something that gave them a sense of comfort, a sense of being a part of God’s people Until Jesus came to the part of the seder called the Yachatz, the breaking of the bread. The person leading the ritual had a plate in front of them, holding three flat pieces of matzah. The middle matzah ...

3274. Casters and Menders

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s call to repentance: “Prepare your hearts! Make your path to God free of tears and debris! Clean up your act and get things in shape! Adjust your heart and prepare for the coming of Messiah! Make ready your soul for the presence of God!” In a sense to “repent” is to repair your life to the degree that you can be used by God in a spiritual and missional way! James and John are not the ones going out and aggressively hauling in fish. But their job is vitally important. They are the ones behind ...

3275. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... people suffer! Lincoln suffered too. He had his own private war with depression which he battled with a widely-recognized sense of humor. There was a story that circulated around Washington during those years concerning him and Jefferson Davis. Two pious Quaker ... that all would go well, and that he would decide for the right.”[15] Abraham Lincoln had his honest doubts (as anyone with any sense would — there is no shame in that), but he was a man of more faith than perhaps even he knew. One of the best ...

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