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3251. Moving On

Lk 9:51-62

Illustration

King Duncan

Some people are not able to enjoy the present or prepare for tomorrow because they are still living in the past. Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe has put it like this: "Do not say, "Why were the former days better than these?' You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you down. We must learn from the past but not live in the past." Or as Thomas Holdcroft once put it, "The past is a guide post, not a hitching post."

3252. As Real as It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

An unforgettable comment was made at the New York City Marathon, and was recorded by a newspaper reporter. When the wheelchair participants came into view and people began to applaud, a man alongside the reporter remarked, "Wait until the real runners come along!" Another person nearby said, "This is as real as it gets!" (Donald J. Shelby, "Unless the Race is Worth Running,") That is where it is today with our scripture lesson. Jesus' call ...

3253. The Power to Rise Again

Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... mist, two old friends get back together again. A relationship is restored. It's Easter. I don't know what calls you need to make, or what letters you need to write. Things happen over the years. Hurtful words are spoken. Different views become disagreements that escalate into conflicts that become feuds. Jesus understands broken relationships. He knows when things become difficult. He helps us mend the fences and when reconciliation is not possible, He grieves the loss with us. He cares, because He's ...

3254. Get Up and Go

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

A primary Sunday school class invited their pastor to view their Christmas art work. On the bulletin board were posted pictures of the Holy Family at the manger, angels singing to shepherds in the field, and wise men bringing their gifts to the Christ child. One drawing, however, puzzled the pastor. It was a picture of the Holy Family boarding ...

3255. By Believing

1 Peter 1:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... sing: There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains. Jesus is more than a good luck charm. He is more than a rabbit's foot redeemer. He is not someone to dangle from your rear view mirror as you search for a parking place. Jesus is not a Monty Hall deal-maker. He is no Aladdin genie where our wish is his command. Jesus is our Savior. With his blood he has saved us; With his power he will raise us; To God be the glory ...

3256. Finding Plenty in the Midst of Scarcity

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... t pray for guidance until we are confused. I am not knocking the prayer of desperation. The Bible says to let our requests be known; to ask and we shall receive. There is another dimension of prayer: prayer does not change things but changes us. Either we take the view that the world needs changing for our sakes or we can ask God to use the world to change us for his sake. We want the circumstances to change but God uses the circumstances to change us. Why are we reluctant to pray? We cannot enter into deep ...

3257. By Humbly Doing Good

1 Peter 5:6-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... deal with trouble. I. BE HUMBLE Humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time (I Peter 5:6). A. To be humble is to understand we are the created, not the Creator. That's a critical view of life. It's Mother's Day and one of the great responsibilities of parenting is helping our children understand they are special without being convinced they are superior. There is a difference between positive self-esteem and arrogance. All children begin life self-centered. When ...

3258. Fanning the Flames of Family

Ephesians 5:8-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the spiritual maturity of adults in America revealed seventy-eight percent of those who attend mainline churches feel average or below in their knowledge of the Bible, and seventy-six percent feel inadequate about sharing their faith. Very few hold a Biblical world view. Spiritual transformation is a life-long process. Habits formed when we are young are the behaviors that define us when we are older. How can I say it more importantly? The formation of a young life has eternal dimension, but on the flip ...

3259. I Certainly Don't Recommend Christianity

Matt 16:21-28

Illustration

C. S. Lewis

I have an elderly acquaintance of about eighty, who has lived a life of unbroken selfishness and self-admiration from the earliest years, and is, more or less, I regret to say, one of the happiest men I know. From the moral point of view it is very difficult! As you perhaps know, I haven't always been a Christian. I didn't go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don't recommend Christianity.

3260. My Back Yard

Luke 10:38-42

Illustration

Arthur E. Dean Windhorn

... . Mike is always concerned for Rich's welfare and tries to entice him with the "good life." He sends Rich photos labeled with messages like "My new sound system" or "My new car." But one day the campaign ended when Mike received a poster from his brother showing a breathtaking view of Wyoming's Grand TetonNational Park. On the back was a message from Rich: "My back yard."

3261. Luke 11:1-13

Luke 11:1-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... as “Father,” praying for the glory of the coming kingdom and the simplicity of daily bread, forgiving others and asking for forgiveness, the disciples are now to pray repeatedly, persistently, boldly pounding on God’s “door” day and night. Prayer is not to be viewed as a “sometime chore,” but as a function of daily life, as necessary to living as breathing or eating. The scene Jesus draws with his parable in vv. 5-8 is familiar and homey. It suggests the real world scenario of a small village ...

3262. Hebrews 11:29-12:2

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... ) experience miraculous resurrections of loved ones at the hands of Elijah and Elisha respectively -although once again the actual “faithfulness” of these women is a first waning and then waxing force. From what the world would see as triumphs to what unbelievers would view as tragedies, the author suddenly shifts to focus on the fearsome facts of a life of faithfulness. Physical tortures, heinous in a variety of ways, are spelled out, as is the fate of those faithful “of whom the world was not worthy ...

3263. Cheering from the Stands

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . We will win, not because of who we are, but because of what we believe, that God is with us. God does not give up on us and we will not give up on God. And at the end, we will be victorious. 1. http://www.day1.net/index.php5?view=transcripts&tid=312. 2. Jack Hayford, The Divine Visitor (Brentwood, TN: Integrity Media, Inc., 2005), pp. 99-101. 3. W. B. Freeman Concepts, The Little Book of Olympic Inspiration (Tulsa, OK: Trade Life, 1996), pp. 58‑59.

3264. A God Who Suffers with Us

John 9:1-41

Sermon

Lee Griess

... your taxes; I've seen you skipping church. So I've decided to make the precious baby of yours be born blind." What kind of God would do that? Why would the disciples think that way? And yet as shocking as it sounds, many people view God in precisely those terms. The ancient Jews dealt with illness and suffering much differently than we do. In fact, it was common belief that illness and especially physical deformity were evidence of sinfulness and so upon seeing the blind man, the disciples naturally asked ...

3265. The Cross No One Wants To See

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

Lee Griess

... citizen. And even though the practice seems grisly to us today, crucifixion was commonplace in the ancient world, and death by the cross was made even more degrading by the fact that in many cases, the victim was left to hang on the cross in public view until the body rotted away. The cross was a place of suffering — it was designed to be so. That is the meaning of the cross itself — an instrument of capital punishment, an executioner's device, like the electric chair or a hangman's noose. Death on ...

3266. Hunger and Politics

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... birthed and commissioned Messiah of the Jews. With this in mind we are helped to understand why Matthew can quickly toss off to us the story of Jesus feeding the crowds in what might appear at first to be an almost cavalier way, from our point of view. If Jesus is indeed the Messiah, as all the signs indicate, he obviously wields divine power and purpose. Therefore, if the God of ancient Israel made it a concern to feed those who came out into the wilderness to experience God's leading and provision, people ...

3267. Religious Balkanization

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... him like a god, ready to fight at his side in the next genetic clash over turf and social dominance. The story winds to a tragic conclusion in which all of the prejudices come back to haunt and bite and disrupt. So that's the movie my daughter had been viewing. And now, in tears, she needed to talk to me. "Why do we treat each other the way we do?" she asked. What could I say? What would you say? What answer is there to give? The reality is that we all harbor peevish prejudices, but most of the time ...

3268. Mistaken Identity

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... writings of the New Testament, and reflect on the variety of ways in which people think about Jesus. Each time I teach this course, I ask my students to write a paper which requires that they talk with their parents about how Mom and Dad view Jesus. Invariably, I get some papers still wet with tears from students who never before knew the Jesus of their parents' religious devotions. Too long they had passed by one another snickering at the religious folly of others while never having to face the question ...

3269. The Road No One Wants to Travel

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... of passionate lovers. Behind them, in the void left as they shuffled, the slow two-step to the left, the camera caught a life preserver hanging on the galley wall. It carried the name of the ship: Titanic. Maybe, in our soap-operish television viewing, that is enough for them: one night of romantic passion. That is the stuff of legends and fairy tales, where everything is compressed to the great hour of heroism or the night of intense love. Prince Charming kisses Sleeping Beauty and everything else gets ...

3270. Political Pardon

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... was the general rule for the truly devout. So Peter must have felt very good about his inquisitive request, and quite confident that Jesus would commend him for it. Along with the other disciples Peter was well aware of Jesus' less-than-complimentary views about the practices of the religious leaders of the day. If they thought three times of forgiving were enough, Peter doubled it and added one for good measure. This, surely, will resonate with Jesus' high hopes for his followers. A word of praise ...

3271. Kingdoms in Conflict

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... out of Pandora's mythical box. Others still believed divine perfection was trapped by a mean-spirited creator into the corrupt and forgetful stuff of human flesh, waiting magical gnostic liberation. Jesus' design in his sweeping tale is to give a different view of the origins of evil. God is good; creation is good; and human alienation from the good is a late introduction brought about by our sinful choices. For Jesus' audience of religious leaders, the message communicated was that all of humanity had ...

3272. Dressed for the Banquet

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Chris Ewing

3273. Ready for God’s Reign

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... to live life where we are and not where we aren't. But when we start to imagine that these conditions are "The Way It Is" and "The Way It Should Be" — or, perhaps more accurately, when we fail to imagine that there could be any other way of viewing the world — then the light in us is darkness, and great is our darkness indeed. The length and breadth of scripture, and the living Spirit of Jesus, soak us in a whole different light, a rich-as-oil vision that we're invited to draw up into the fibers of ...

3274. From “Uh-oh” To “Ah-hah!” — An Axe, A Stump, And A Shoot

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Tony Everett

... God." "Ah-hah!" Destruction of the gulf region was immeasurable. Nevertheless, a "stump" of hope remained strong in this God-given vision of promise and encouragement. Today, this second Sunday of Advent, God gives us "discouraged stumps" a vision of God's promised love as we view the cross, the altar, and see God's gathered people surrounding us. "Ah-hah!" Third, from out of that stump of Jesse, Isaiah reminds us, will come a shoot, a king from the line of David. Do you begin to see the Advent promise here ...

3275. The Holy Way

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Tony Everett

... eyes that just can't seem to see God's presence in those times of overwhelming fear, anxiety, confusion, and doubt. God opens ears so stopped up that they are deaf to God's word of promise and guidance (Isaiah 35:5). God empowers those who view themselves as trapped in their own wilderness; disabled by their own fears. God will increase their energy and send them leaping like a deer along God's holy way (Isaiah 35:6). To those whose voices can only speak pessimistic, contagious, doom and gloom about their ...

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