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3276. On Your Mark, Get Set, Hope!

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ; it’s a life you live Shall anything less than Paradise restored satisfy our hungry souls, where one day the wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra and the young child will put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain ...

3277. Follow Your Questions (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . Paul said, “If Christ has not been raised from the dead, our preaching is useless and your faith is futile. If only for this life we have hope in Christ, we are to be pitied more than all others.” It is not about human bones and ancient ossuaries that bear the name of Jesus. It is about winning the war over death. It is about tears being wiped dry. It is about knowing everlasting peace. III. Faith Is the Courage to Carry On Life is not a riddle to be solved, but a relationship to be lived. When Jesus ...

3278. Radical Love is Reconciling (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the church is more than turning prayer meetings into gossip sessions and the parking lot into rumor mills. God save us from that. If the church is a community of faith, if there are ties that bind us together enough to share each others woes, and bear each others burdens, then breaks in the body call us to prayer, confession, and discernment. Let us never forget that all prayers begin with “Our Father.” The same God who loves us, loves them too. III. Let It Go Verse 17b says, “If the offender refuses ...

3279. Why Should I Read The Bible? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . Therefore, He sent the “Living Word” into our midst to show us the way. “Christ is the way, the truth and the life.” The primary way we come to know Christ is through the study of the Scriptures. O make your Church, dear Savior, a lamp of purest gold, to bear before the nations, your true light of old. O teach your wandering pilgrims, by this their path to trace, till clouds and darkness ended, they see you face to face. Brought to you by FaithBreaks.org

3280. We Believe in the Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in lieu of the Holy Spirit — for the three are one. When we mess up, miss the mark of our high calling, trespass on another’s personhood, or transgress against the laws of God, we need a Savior. We find a friend in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. But the mercy seat of Jesus is no different from the mercy seat of Jehovah made present by the power of the Spirit — for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are One. Sometimes these dry hearts of ours become thirsty for the fresh water of the Holy Spirit ...

3281. Am I My Brother’s Keeper? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of a gentlewoman to visit the poor in their wretched homes, Wesley would have none of it. He wrote her back and said, “Take up your cross, woman! Remember the faith! Jesus went before you and will go with you! Put off the gentlewoman; you bear a higher character.” We do good by “ADDRESSING SYSTEMIC CAUSES.” John Wesley not only visited the sick, he also wrote books on promoting health. He worked tirelessly for the end of slavery and advocated major prison reform. We live in a country where poverty ...

3282. A Fireside Conversation

John 21:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... to say, “This is what I think the Lord wants you to do: I think that Jesus wants you to get out of bed every Sunday morning and go to the Ozzie and Harriet church and just sit there for one hour, being bored. Do it for him. Call it ‘bearing your cross’ if you like. Just do it.’” (3) Worship, Bible study, and all the little things we do in church, they’re not all that exciting, though we try. But they are all essential to feeding Christ’s sheep. Of course, some of Christ’s most prized sheep ...

3283. Why Were You Ordained?

John 21:15-25

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Scott Hoezee

... , has forgiven her, to which this other member replies, "But she doesn't know God forgives her. That's the only power you have, pastor: to tell her that. Not just that God forgives her for her adultery. Tell her that God forgives her for the faces she cannot bear to look at now. Tell her that God forgives her for being lonely and bored, for not being full of joy every day in a household full of children. Tell her that her sin is forgiven whether she knows it or not, that what she wants more than anything ...

3284. Will 2012 Be the End of the World?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... present God’s future kingdom. See, for example, Isaiah 11:6‑9: “The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear; their young will lie down together and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for ...

3285. Outside of God

John 10:22-30

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Donald B. Strobe

... from the rough and tumble of 45 years in the Christian ministry, but the one outstanding thing he learned was this: "Life will only work out one way, and that is God's way. (God) made it like that. Every other way has across it a barricade bearing a notice which says No thoroughfare this way.' If you surmount the barrier, there is a precipice. (We) will not learn the truth of a half dozen words: OUTSIDE GOD THERE IS ONLY DEATH!'" (Key Next Door, New York and Nashville: The Abingdon Press, 1941, pp. 88 ...

3286. Don't Settle for Half A Glass

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... .'" [5] Then the devil took him to the holy city and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, [6] saying to him, "If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down; for it is written, 'He will command his angels concerning you,' and 'On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.'" [7] Jesus said to him, "Again it is written, 'Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'" [8] Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of ...

3287. The NFL of Grace

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... start over, right at the very beginning! The object I am holding in my hand is a football." One of the players, a jokester of the bunch, is supposed to have said: "Coach, please don't go so fast." (1) It has been told that the Chicago Bears were losing a football game at half time. They were in the locker room receiving some words of encouragement from Mike Ditka, their coach. To graphically illustrate his concern for them to learn to be tough and tenacious, Mike reached his hand into a bucket. He removed ...

3288. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... :4-8 (NRSV) [4] Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant [5] or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [6] it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. [7] It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. [8] Love never ends. B. Love is a commitment to do good to one another. Love is living the Golden Rule. A salesman called his wife from a coin-operated phone in a distant city, finished the ...

3289. Cosmic Embrace

John 13:31-35

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John Gibbs

... everyone to myself' as he hangs from His cross with outflung arms, thrown out to clasp all, everyone, and everything, in a cosmic embrace, so that all, everyone, everything, belongs" (p. 265). "Cosmic embrace." There's our answer to the sort of "purity laws" and taboos, even in Leviticus, that bear no gospel for man or beast. In cosmic embrace we rediscover the depth and scope of holy love.

3290. Love and Obey (Mother's Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... slogan, FLY THE FRIENDLY SKIES?” Joe answered with the correct airline. “Brenda, can you tell me which company has the slogan, DON’T LEAVE HOME WITHOUT IT?” Brenda answered quickly with the correct credit card company. “Now John, tell me which company bears the slogan, JUST DO IT?” “That’s easy,” John answered, “It’s my Mom.” (2) The shoe company surely stole their motto from someone’s Mom: “JUST DO IT?” Why? “BECAUSE I SAID SO!” Jesus said to his disciples, “If anyone ...

3291. A Place of Peace

John 14:15-31

Illustration

Lee Griess

... South America. There at the very tip of the continent, in its icy waters he encountered some of the worst weather anywhere on earth. Raging seas, towering ice floes, and a mutinous crew plagued his efforts. When he finally made his way through those straits (which today bear his name the Straits of Magellan), he entered into a great body of water that lay beyond, and as he and his men lifted their faces to heaven and gave thanks to God, he named the new ocean the "Peaceful Ocean." The word pacific is from ...

3292. What Things Are Perfect Joy

John 14:23-29; Gal 6:14

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St. Francis of Assisi

... These are but importunate rascals, I will deal with them as they deserve'; and taking a knotted stick, he seize us by the hood, throwing us on the ground, rolling us in the snow, and shall beat and wound us with the knots in the stick - if we bear all these injuries with patience and joy, thinking of the sufferings of our Blessed Lord, which we would share out of love for him, write, O Brother Leo, that here, finally, is perfect joy. And now, brother, listen to the conclusion. Above all the graces and all ...

3293. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... given as to why the Californian, which could have reached the Titanic before it sank, never got there and never rescued a single soul. No fire, no power, no one rescued!” (6) Could that be said about us that we have the form of religion, but not its power? We bear the name of Christ, but we lack the power to be his people in the world today because we have neglected that third person of the Holy Trinity the Holy Spirit. Come into our hearts, Lord Jesus, by the power of your Holy Spirit. In the name of the ...

3294. No Fire

Acts 2:1-13

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King Duncan

... given as to why the Californian, which could have reached the Titanic before it sank, never got there and never rescued a single soul. No fire, no power, no one rescued!” Could that be said about us that we have the form of religion, but not its power? We bear the name of Christ, but we lack the power to be his people in the world today because we have neglected that third person of the Holy Trinity the Holy Spirit. Come into our hearts, Lord Jesus, by the power of your Holy Spirit. In the name of the ...

3295. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... passage with an if. The if is not used the way we normally use it – as the condition upon which what follows depends; such as, if there is good weather, adequate rain, and sunshine, and if the frost doesn’t come too early, the trees will bear an abundance of fruit. He turns that around, first naming the harvest and then the conditions that will produce the harvest. So, let’s do that today putting our emphasis on the harvest of our common life in Christ. I. LOVING CONSOLATION The first harvest yield ...

3296. Living While You Wait

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... as they are - are characteristics of life. How we need to appropriate Paul’s word, “Be anxious for nothing.” Anxiety in the way Paul is using the term, and the way we most often experience it, is the futile, frustrating, debilitating attempt to bear the burdens of life, and especially the burdens of the future by ourselves, alone. The Christian answer to anxiety is confident prayer which issues in “the peace of God which passes all understanding.” Now this is no glib word, no pious cliché, no ...

3297. Dealing with Stress Creatively

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... . But, where’s the joy? Where’s the zest? Where’s the enthusiasm? Where’s the excitement? For these people the celebration of life faded and died long ago… and now life for them is drudgery… they cope, they withstand, they persist, they bear up… but surely God meant life to be more than an endurance test. Life is God’s wonderful gift to us… even with all its stresses and problems and pressures. And God wants our lives to be full, meaningful, abundant, creative, productive, joyful. In ...

3298. When You Have To Face Your Own Personal Goliath

1 Samuel 17:1-58

Sermon

James W. Moore

... out to challenge the mighty giant,… but finally the king gave in and consented when he saw and heard David’s resolute determination. Look at Verse 37… “And David said, ‘The Lord who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.’” Trying to be helpful, King Saul called for his best armor and put it on David: But that didn’t work at all. It was - Too big, - Too heavy, - Too cumbersome, - And David could barely move in it ...

3299. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... your mortal bodies also through His Spirit which dwells in you.” Verses 15-16 — “For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of Sonship. When we cry ‘Abba! Father!’ it is the Spirit Himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.” Now to be true to our situation we have to admit one fallacy in the image. The birds may have forgotten the raven as they sang; Christian sings - but he does not forget the raven. The ...

3300. Born Again

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... message. Many are turned off by hyper-evangelicals, for whom “born-again Christian” is a label used not unlike the craze that is on in our designer name Polo and Dior. Unfortunately the label “born-again Christian” sometimes carries with it from the one who bears it the same kind of condescension for the non-bearer as designer label-wearers have for those happily any old sort of brand. I won’t press that too far — only to make the point that our labels may be pure in intention but our intentions ...

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