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3326. Getting in S.H.A.P.E. for Ministry

Ephesians 4:1-7, 11-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and stirs you with such passion that you can’t wait to see it become a reality? That is God’s calling for you. What is your S.H.A.P.E. for ministry? What are your spiritual gifts? Where are your passions? Where does your heart lie? “Love the Lord with all your heart,” says the Bible. Use your abilities for the good of God. Sometimes I lay awake at night, asking the Lord to give me the wisdom to tap the talent, awaken the abilities, and spread the knowledge represented in this congregation. With the ...

3327. The Uniting Peace of Christ

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... ask to know What I was walling in or walling out And to whom I was like to give offense Something there is that doesn’t love a wall That wants it down. On August 13, 1961, almost over night, a 96-mile wall of barbed wire and concrete was built to separate ... cold war era. It not only separated a city, it separated families, a society, a country, a world. But there is something that doesn’t love a wall that wants it down. And I hold close to me a little piece of concrete that a friend gave to me from that ...

3328. How To Triumph Over Terrorism

Ephesians 6:10-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... God has willed, His truth to triumph through us. The prince of darkness grim, we tremble not for him. His rage we can endure, for lo his doom is sure. One little word shall fell him. Put on the armor of hope. IV. AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE. On the Sunday after the bombings last September we had a whole Sunday School class visiting us from a previous pastorate. They are dear friends of ours. We played golf in the afternoon and then had dinner together on Saturday night. They know me well enough to be ...

3329. Engaging the Master Designer

Psalm 139: 1-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . Make me a blessing to someone today!” God’s plans are for our good. “Plans to prosper you and not to harm you.” God is not an enemy to be feared but a friend to be followed. You can trust Him and not be afraid. How is it the best loved of all hymns, Amazing Grace, says it? The Lord has promised good to me, His word my hope secures, He will my shield and portion be, As long as life endures. God’s plans include hope and a future. God wants you to live, not merely survive. He wants you ...

3330. The Door of Hospitality

John 12:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... virtue that allows us to break through the narrowness of our fears and open our lives to the rich influence of others. Hospitality is an attitude of the heart and I am pitching for a change in your life and mine. III. HOSPITALITY IS AN ACTION. It is love in action. It doesn’t have to be organized or programmed or formulated. Hospitality is expressed in random acts of kindness. That is why we have asked you in these forty days of discipline to work daily toward one random act of kindness. I went to pay for ...

3331. The Family As Church

2 Timothy 1:3-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... think you are great. But they don’t have to live with you. I do.” Feeble as we may be, we need to live the faith. B. We can tell the story. The stories of our faith need to be imbedded in our hearts and often on our lips. Children love a good story. The stories of faith are pleasant to repeat. It seems each time we tell them, they become more wonderfully sweet. Caleb was intent on telling us the story of Adam and Eve recently. “And what does that story teach you?” I asked my four-year-old grandson ...

3332. The Road of Peace

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... what they believe and how they live remain miles apart. The road to peace is integration of the self, so what I say and what I do, will become one, not two. II. IF WE WANT PEACE, WE MUST MOVE FROM THE HOUSE OF HATE TO THE HOUSE OF LOVE. In a Peanuts cartoon, Lucy strikes out on a tangent saying, “I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world." Charlie Brown tries to intervene by saying, “Lucy, I thought you had inner peace." To which Lucy retorts: “I do have inner peace, but I still ...

3333. Come and See

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... The peace of God comes from peace with God. Meet the Prince of Peace tonight. He will give you a self you can live with, a love you can relate with, a hope you can dream with. Come and see the Prince of Peace. II. COME AND SEE THE LIGHT OF LIFE. “Get ... loading me down. Because of that baby I can face tomorrow, not asking “What if" but rejoicing in “Who is." III. COME AND SEE LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. Our granddaughter Ella is a bundle of energy and an ...

3334. Three Basic Attitudes about Life

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... there’s where it stayed professional. They performed their professional religious duties, but they did not apply their spiritual knowledge to the real world’s needs. This is the curse of my vocation. You understand, of course, that it’s possible to love God and not to like people. It’s a constant temptation of clergy persons. We’re comfortable in our studies, comfortable with our books or our computers, comfortable studying the scriptures. We’re not as comfortable in the messy world where real ...

3335. Connected to God

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Lee Griess

... to Jesus. And because they were connected to him, they were also connected to God — not just to him physically as they had been to Jesus, but in Spirit. It must have been a scary time for them. Jesus had been crucified for preaching his message of God's love. And now, he leaves and tells them to finish the work he has begun. You would think they would be afraid! But they weren't! The historical account tells us that just a few days later, at Pentecost, the Holy Spirit indeed was given to the disciples and ...

3336. When You’re Free (In Christ), Sacrifice Is No Burden!

Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... a total renunciation, which we can't really execute. Who can give up mother, father, child, and spouse the way Jesus teaches? It is not natural. It can only be done when your self is totally saturated by the only one who is worthy of love, whose love has so overwhelmed you that you forget about and get free from yourself. God clearly does not intend our sacrifices to be so burdensome that there is no joy. I have shared with you previously that we are biologically geared to happiness when we find ourselves ...

3337. The Hungry Monkey

Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... to impossible! That is, if we think we can do this alone. Look at the text again. God says that indeed holy lives are possible. Why? "... For I the Lord your God am holy" (Leviticus 19:2). It's not about our actions. It's about God's promised love. Note well that in each section where God describes the "don'ts" and prescribes the "do's" God declares "I am the Lord" (Leviticus 19:10, 12, 14, 16, 18). Five times we read God's saving declaration. Five times, God proclaims that because God is the Lord (and we ...

3338. Losers, Weepers

Isaiah 49:8-16a

Sermon

Tony Everett

... forget us. Here is the good news, friends. Pay attention to God's reply to Zion's complaint: "Can a woman forget her nursing child, or show no compassion to the child of her womb?" (Isaiah 49:15). Did you hear how the Lord persists with faithfulness and love in spite of the pessimistic doubts of the people? Do you know that God is patient with our own suspicious "buts" and "what ifs"? Listen to one of the most wonderful promises God gives in all of scripture: "See, I have inscribed you on the palms of my ...

3339. Forty Days and Forever

Exodus 24:12-18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... old angels in her congregation. Many times, the choir director had the children practice walking to the chancel steps from their seats beside their parents. "When all the people sit down, you leave your parents in the pew and come up here. Then we'll sing ‘Jesus Loves Me' so loudly that people can hear us out in the parking lot." The anthem was a joy to behold! At the proper time in the service, eleven cherubs, including Jasmine, made a glorious noise to the Lord. The next Sunday, "when all the people sat ...

3340. Finder's Keepers

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Because, in actuality, there are only two kinds of people in the world. Those who know and have the experienced the forgiveness of God and those who haven't. We're not called to judge. Instead, we're called to Seek and Rejoice because someone else has found the love and grace and forgiveness that we've experienced. III. The Party That's why God throws the party. It's a Birthday Party. Or a New Birth day party. Tony Campolo, who I've talked about before, in his book The Kingdom of God Is a Party, tells one ...

3341. Come

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... a gift. [20] The one who testifies to these things says, "Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus! [21] The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all the saints. Amen. In this passage we're invited to Come, Drink and Invite. I. Come A. I love the simplicity of this invitation. No list of qualifiers. No hoops you have to jump through. No baggage at all. Through one word, Jesus throws open the door and throws open the gate with one simple word: "Come" If your thirsty, "Come" If your hungry, "Come" If your ...

3342. There Will Be Singing

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... city of God. For them this will be a time of great joy and so they sing. For Christians, Zion is that city of God which is heaven. And again, when we enter that place of eternal promise, there will be singing. For those of us who know Christ’s love in our hearts, there is a need to say thank you to God for what God has done for us. Charles Duke, a former astronaut, came to Christ some years after walking on the moon. After his time with NASA he had lacked purpose and meaning in his life. His ...

3343. Matthew 5:38-48

Matthew 5:38-42

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of the letter of the Torah law. Yet when he clarifies the reason for this directive, it is squarely based on the unique covenantal relationship with God that made the Torah a reality in the lives of the people. Jesus insists his listeners “love your enemy” so that they may fully embody their identity as “children of your Father in heaven” (v.45). Being designated “sons” or “children” of God had already been established by the covenant relationship (see Deuteronomy 14:1). It is a status ...

3344. The Ad Vent Wheat

John 1:1-18

Drama

Frank Ramirez

... short. Krystal: And we’re going to show our Ads through this Vent. That’s why they call it Ad — Vent! Kristin: And you’re supposed to have an Ad Vent Wheat. Alexis: Why? Kristin: (shrugs shoulders) Maybe so the Baby Jesus has some bread to eat. Garrison: I love fresh bread! Alex: Let’s try out the Ad Vent with our pudding song. Pudding is like bread! All: (sing into the Ad Vent) We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas, And a Happy New Year. We ...

3345. On The Night When He Was Betrayed

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... closest friends? After opening yourself up and becoming vulnerable to another person, to have them abuse the trust you placed in them and stab you in the back can cause more pain than if that person had beaten you to a pulp. If a person who claims to love you turns around and hurts you deeply, you probably do what most of us do in that situation — you hurt them back. Certainly, you wouldn't choose to spend your last night alive with that person. Especially if you knew it was his betrayal that was going to ...

3346. The Home Court Advantage

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... t made possible by indulgent officials. It isn’t aided by any special knowledge of the terrain. The Christian “team spirit” is based on an unrelated bunch of believers embracing an ideal of “agape” — of “genuine love.” Believing in the life-changing power of that love — the love that brought Jesus into our midst and to the cross and out of the tomb — gives Christians a “home court advantage” anywhere we go. Our “team spirit” is Holy Spirit inspired. Paul declares that a Christian ...

3347. The Bridge Over Every Troubled Waters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... horizontal dimension. And the first of the six is “Honor yer Ma and Pa.” For those who needed to think in terms of laws and commandments, Jesus even reduced the 10 to 1, which was really a summary of the 10: Love God, Love Others. Of course, love is a relationship more than a commandment. But in the Philippian church Gentile followers of Jesus were being told they had to become “Jewish” before they could become “Christian.” There were laws to follow. Hoops to jump through. Painful procedures to ...

3348. Where's Dad?

Matthew 2:13-18

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... 1994, I won the state sailing regatta title. I was elated. And my friends were dumbfounded. A guy ran up and kissed me on both cheeks. “I love you,” he said. And I said, “Who are you?” He shouted, “I’m the guy who bet five bucks on you in the race and you ... big as a Mack truck. (points to heart and wipes tear from his eye) Stranger: I see you desperately wanted to be noticed and loved. Like all of us, you want to be cared for and cared about. It’s natural for any child. Adults, too. I still want ...

3349. Dancing in Holy Places

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... scripture says that he went up to the gateway and wept and wept. He covered his face and wept like families who have lost loved ones. The widow I talked to said she cried so much that her eyes had nearly swollen shut. The first dance is the dance ... old ways of doing things, a way that said, "The world is not about death and murder, but about new relationships where we love God and love neighbor as ourselves." Of course, in his time this was a radical message. It was a message that said death will not dictate ...

3350. Having a Good Name

Proverbs 1:20-33

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... but the Hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day he rose from the Grave.1We believe in One High God, who out of love created the beautiful world. We believe that God made good his promise by sending his Son, Jesus Christ, a man in the flesh, a Jew by ... the Hyenas did not touch him, and on the third day he rose from the Grave.1 I have said that I like (don't love) creeds because they give a shade, a collective comfort, to the issue of being born Christian and being part of this living room as opposed to ...

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