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3326. The Problem with Promises

Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... in which we stand; and we boast of our hope of sharing the glory of God" (Romans 5:1-2). Lots of people have much too small an idea of what that means. For one thing, they confine its meaning to one carefully defined little part of their lives called "religion," which they keep carefully separated from the rest of their lives so that it won't get in the way. Then they make it into a single transaction by which a person claims the forgiveness of sins and a place in heaven after death. Faith is something ...

3327. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... raise all over again, I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later. I'd finger paint more, and point the finger less. I would do less correcting and more connecting. I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes. I would care to know less and know to care more. I'd take more hikes and fly more kites. I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play. I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars. I'd do more hugging and less tugging. I'd see the oak tree in the acorn more ...

3328. Seeing Just Enough of God

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... cancer. The once carefree young woman was now making frequent trips across state to a children's hospital. Through good medical care, and God's grace, the young girl beat her cancer. Both of the woman's two daughters are now fine. The ... may have been "only human," but it was still a lack of faith. When Moses needed the people to be strong, they caved. We have to be careful reading the minds of biblical characters, but Moses seems to be at the end of his rope. After all he has been through, from Pharaoh to ...

3329. Filling Moses’ Shoes

Joshua 3:7-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... implores them to have faith in God (Numbers 14:6-10). Joshua has a lot going for him. The question is: Can Joshua take over for Moses? Moses has been the leader all along. When the people ran out of food, water, and patience, Moses has taken care of things. He has dealt with snakes, uncooperative kings, and the people's own unfaithfulness. Moses has carried them through. Can Joshua take over from here? Won't they face just as many hardships once they actually get into Canaan? Don't major battles lie ahead ...

3330. Preaching to a Stone

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... give our congregations enough strength and courage to live out the pledge we all have made. It is not easy to be the church. We have questions, doubts, and distractions. We get tired and frustrated being the church. We get angry at the world and don't care if it hears the message of redemption. Nevertheless, God has called us to be the community of faith, and we have said yes. We need to keep our commitment fresh. As Old Testament scholar Jerome Creach says, "At no time can the relationship with God be put ...

3331. Just Due Charity

Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18

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Frank Ramirez

... . The leftovers gave life. Ruth was an ancestor of King David - and King Jesus. Does Ruth walk in our midst, ignored, today? Collect Your law gives life, and fills that life with abundance. Your love is just and shields us from vengeance. Thank you, Lord, for the way you care for your community. Amen. Prayer Of Confession If we are tempted to look down at those who need help we have turned our back on your family, Lord. If we are too proud to accept, too proud to ask for help when it is needed then we have ...

3332. But Some Doubted

Matthew 28:16-20

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Frank Ramirez

... you have founded a bulwark because of your foes, to silence the enemy and the avenger. When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor. You have given them dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under their feet, all sheep and oxen, and also the beasts of the ...

3333. With a Song in Your Heart

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... to endure the ordeal was the songs he had learned in Sunday school when he was growing up. He really had not been much of a churchman but he remembered the hymns and gospel songs that assured him that God is God and that God loved him and cared what was happening to him. He kept remembering those songs and either humming them or singing them when he could, and they helped him to keep everything in perspective and to find the strength to carry on. A Choctaw Christian woman was dying of cancer in a hospital ...

3334. Removing Obstacles

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... supposed to be going on in the church." In another place, when an issue came up about the Christian's freedom to do certain things, Paul said, "Yes, we ought to claim our freedom. But we ought to use our freedom in loving concern for others and be careful not to do anything that will be a hindrance to others" (1 Corinthians 9 and 10). Again and again, Paul reminds the people that they should put their mission first and be of one mind and purpose. Paul provides us with three beautiful images of what it means ...

3335. Temptation of the Palms

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... , gave him a name that is above every other name. He made it so that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bend, not just on earth, but under the earth and in heaven as well; and every tongue should confess that Jesus is Lord. We have to be careful not to be lured in by the temptation of palms. We have to be cautious not to jump on every bandwagon and cheerleading squad that puts Jesus up on a pedestal and hails him as the driving force behind whatever cause they have determined him to be “for” or ...

3336. The Church that Jesus Built

1 Peter 2:2-10

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... into his marvelous light." We don't read anything here that talks about a sleeping church, or a stagnant church, or a church built with inanimate materials that are held together with mortar or nails. The church that Jesus built was built with carefully chosen building materials that, like the material of no other building, are alive and vibrant and continue to build themselves. Materials that will not become brittle and break apart, but that will continue to breathe new life into the church. We are "a ...

3337. Irrevocable Gifts

Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... said she had potential. And she did. But she was deeply concerned that she might misuse her potential, or that it might somehow be taken from her, or that if she used it, it would somehow be diminished and go away. So she hoarded the potential very carefully. Mary Alice never actually used any of her potential, but she knew that no matter what else might be said of her, people would always say, "She has potential." The story of Mary Alice is, all too often, only an extreme example of the ways we avoid ...

3338. Are You Trying to Prove Something?

Genesis 12:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... was to make him miserable and mean. But then he experienced love, the love of God. And I want to emphasize, he experienced it through Christians, the people he was persecuting. They loved him, even though he was the enemy. He was hurt, wounded, taken to Damascus. There they cared for him, helped him in his healing, told him, "The Lord Jesus has sent us to you, and he loves you." He couldn't get over that. He was the enemy, and they loved the enemy. They loved, he said, the way God loves us, in spite of our ...

3339. Being More than Civil

1 Corinthians 1:1-9, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... ." It is one of the most treasured words in the Christian lexicon. It is the word that is used by one of the classes in this church as their name, Koinonia. Koinonia is like shalom, it is a community in which there are right relationships. Where we care for one another, where we accept one another, we support one another, we love one another. "All our mutual burdens bear." All of this is based on grace. As Paul says elsewhere, "We love because Christ first loved us." So as I said before, there is only ...

3340. Even God Can Change His Mind

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . That God is the God of the philosophers. The God of the abstract idea, the prime mover, the first principle, the ground of being, some idea, some abstraction. That is not the God of the Bible. The God of the Bible is a God of compassion and love, of caring and of grace, caring for us so much he gets upset with us, and is tempted to chuck it all. But because he is also a God of mercy and of grace, manifested in the covenant he has made with us, the promise always to be with us, God changes his mind ...

3341. Eye Exercises

Matthew 6:25-33

Sermon

Mark Trotter

3342. Get Lost

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is, we can't get outside of ourselves. During the second World War there was a young woman who lost her husband. He was a doctor in India. He died from some tropical disease. The shock of it sent her into despair. She lost all interest in life, didn't care whether she lived or died. She booked passage on a ship to come back to America. On that ship she met another survivor of a tragedy, a seven year old boy who had lost his parents in the fighting in Burma. The little boy was attracted to the woman. Perhaps ...

3343. How about Something Different?

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... thirty-six he went to an AA meeting, like the ones that we hold here in this church. After the meeting, as is the practice in AA, someone called him and invited him to come back. Streater said, "No. I've got some business that I have to take care of." The caller was wise in the way of alcoholics, and he had heard that before. He said, "If you don't do something, you ain't going nowhere." Then he added this. "If you want something different, you have to do something different." Streater resented that advice ...

3344. Laugh It Off

I Corinthians 1:18-20, 26-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him? Yet thou hast made him little less than God, and dost crown him with glory and honor. Thou hast given him dominion over the ... time to come and live with you getting near?" And God said, "Yes. But be not afraid, for I will always be with you and take care of you." And Natalie said to God, "But I will miss my family and my friends, and they will miss me." And God said, "I ...

3345. Now Try Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... he doesn't like Christians. He doesn't trust them. He thinks they are evil. This Christian's name is Ananias. Saul says, "What are you doing here?" Ananias says, "I have come to care for you, to help you get well." "Why?" Saul must have asked. "If this hadn't happened to me, I would be hunting you down. Instead you have come to me to care for me. Why did you come?" Ananias said, "The Lord Jesus sent me." Which is to say, I don't do this because I am particularly fond of you. In fact, I really don ...

3346. Now What Do We Do?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

3347. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... can't be a Christian and store up wealth for the future, and ignore those people who have nothing in the present. You can't dine sumptuously everyday, and not be concerned about those who are hungry. You can't laugh and have a good time, and not care that there are people in this world, especially children, who have never smiled. Someday that is going to be different. In the meantime, we as Christians are somehow tied to the poor. We can't escape that. And I have wrestled with what that means. It has been ...

3348. Reflections on a Bumper Sticker

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the story saying, Jesus is the great diagnostician. He just looks at this guy and he knows immediately that he is laboring under repressed guilt. So Jesus forgives him, and he is healed. The problem is, that's not what the story says. You have to read it carefully. The story says first he forgives his sins, then he enters a dispute with the scribes, and then he heals the paralytic. So there are really two miracles here. One is the forgiveness of sins, which is what the story is all about. That's what gets ...

3349. When to Be Extravagant

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... ignoring the poor. His instruction to us is to pay attention to the poor. "Sell all you have and give it to the poor." "If you have done it to the least of these, you have done it to me." Over and over again the message of Jesus is, care for the poor. What this means is, there are times when the need of someone at hand is more urgent than the need someplace else. There are those like Judas, so principled, so committed, so dedicated to loving the neighbor in general, someplace else, overseas, or across town ...

3350. The Problem Is Not Faith

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... you hear those ultimate words of commendation, “Well done, my good and faithful servant. Come, share my joy.” That’s who we are--servants. We serve because there was One who first served us. We are not seeking to work our way to heaven. That is already taken care of because of what Christ did on the cross. But our salvation came about because once long ago the Lord of all the universe was willing to take upon Himself the role of a servant. Now God calls us to service. Not because it will look good on ...

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