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3326. Handling Objections

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... do you understand the Bible teaches about how a person may have eternal life and go to heaven?" Objection 2: The Bible is just a book written by men and full of contradictions. The first thing to do in this situation is to agree with them that they have touched the heart of an important issue which is, "Is the Bible God's word to man or man's word about God?" Always then ask this question, "Would you give me an example of a contradiction in the Bible?" Ninety to ninety-five percent of the time they will ...

3327. I’m Movin’ On

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... , or indifferent—with the Lord you can always say, "I'm movin' on." 1. Copyright 2000, by Rascal Flatts/ASCAP, "I'm Movin' On" 2. Adapted from Charles Stanley, The Source of Strength, p. 165. 3. Based on the poem "Start Where You Stand": by Benton Brayley, in Poems that Touch the Heart, compiled by A. L. Alexander (Garden City, New York: 1956).

3328. Don’t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow

Proverbs 16:1, 9, Philippians 3:12-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... mountains. There are always going to be people around you who will cloud your vision, who try to destroy your determination, because they are always looking at the future in a rearview mirror. A great man once said, "A blind man's world is bounded by the limits of his touch; an ignorant man's world by the limits of his knowledge; a great man's world by the limits of his vision." Mark it down—you're going to have foes when you try to reach goals and dream dreams. But there's one other obstacle you'll face ...

3329. In God We Trust

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... War World II, put it this way, "The LSO gives you a cut sign or a wave off. The cut signs mean you can land. The wave-off means you give it full-throttle and circle around to try again. Once he gives you the cut sign, you don't touch that throttle again or you automatically get court-martialed." [[2]] If you are a follower of God, every day you wake up in the morning, you take off from an aircraft carrier, The U.S.S. God. You have to fly through choppy air, rain, crosswinds, hail and storms. Every ...

3330. The Dark Side Arrives

Sermon

James Merritt

... are burned. Listen to these words in Proverbs 6. "Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? So is the one who goes in to his neighbor's wife; whoever touches her will not go unpunished." (Proverbs 6:27-29, NASB) Don't ever think that sexual sin is a harmless sin. Children of unwed mothers are more than twice as likely to repeat a grade in school than children who live with both parents. They are more than three times ...

3331. When Nothing Is Sacred

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... of unclean lips"; even worse, in that unclean state he had come before the king, the Lord of hosts, which was an offensive act toward any royalty. In response, however, God provided a ritual of cleansing. A live coal was brought from the altar of incense to touch Isaiah's lips, and his sin was "blotted out." Thus his sin was no longer an impediment to standing before the holy God. Although Isaiah now had clean lips, he continued to live "among a people of unclean lips." Still, this was not his sin, and the ...

3332. Misled By Beauty

1 Samuel 15:34-35, 16:1-13

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... case, the researchers found a 4-year-old boy whose nose, part of a cheek, and one ear had been bitten off in a dog attack. When that happened, the child's parents began to behave differently toward him. They didn't hug or touch him as much as before and seldom smiled at him. adults tend to rate the more serious transgressions of attractive children as temporary departures whereas they rate the same transgressions in unattractive children as basic character flaws. schoolteachers tend to give more attention ...

3333. Leaping from Recognition Point

2 Samuel 11:26—12:13a

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... , and coming near Jesus, she began weeping on his feet. She then dried his feet with her hair and anointed them with ointment. Simon, disturbed by this whole business, says to himself that if Jesus were really a prophet, he'd know the character of the woman touching him. Jesus is able to discern his dinner host's thought, and then tells him a parable about a man who was owed money by two debtors. One owed him a small amount and the other owed him a substantial sum. The man forgave both debts. "Now which ...

3334. The Thick Darkness

1 Kings 8:(1, 6, 10-11) 22-30, 41-43

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... wholly other than we are. He is not bound by our limits or stymied by the barriers that confine us. He's bigger than we are or can even conceive of. But since God chooses to be present with us, that means that when we trust him we are in touch with one who has power and love beyond anything we can imagine. That's a God adults can believe in, and that's awfully good news for us! 1. I have added verse 8:12 to the lectionary reading. The sermon can be preached without it, by referring to the ...

3335. Mrs. Proverbs

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... their mothers home all the time. It turns out that getting back in is not so easily done. Despite strong skills and impressive work experience in the past, many of these women are finding that their fields have changed so much that they are out of touch or that potential employers are put off by the long gap on their resumes. The sluggish economy and even some age bias is working against them as well. Also the networks of contacts they had when working have mostly dissolved. Those who do find jobs often ...

3336. The Underlying Mercy

Job 1:1, 2:1-10

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... . Apparently some mental disturbance took hold of his mind, although we cannot know if it was in any way related to his sorrow over the loss of his children.4 But the fact is, most people of faith who undergo such terrible losses do not lose touch with their sanity, and many discover that it is in exactly such terrible circumstances of pain and loss that their reliance on God comes to mean the most. More than a generation ago, one of Scotland's finest preachers, Arthur John Gossip, put this rather clearly ...

3337. If You Really Want to Be Number One

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... We can also see that in our community. The people we honor are those who best serve the community. That’s why the funeral homes are crowded with people who come to pay their last respects when their sojourn on life is over. In serving others, they touched many, many lives. The key to a successful life is service. It is also true, of course, of churches. Those churches are most attractive to others who genuinely serve their communities. If we are going to have a great church, we are going to have to serve ...

3338. Can't We All Just Get Along?

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... teammates could help Sara. The umpire said there was no rule against it. So Holtman and shortstop Liz Wallace put their arms under Sara’s legs, and she put her arms over their shoulders. The three players headed around the bases, stopping to let Sara touch each base with her good leg. The three-run homer would count. Here’s what’s amazing. Listen up all you sports addicts. This act of sportsmanship by the Central Washington team contributed to their own elimination from the playoffs. There was a price ...

3339. Bethlehem: Where Extremes Meet

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... , I hope Christ is the truth about God, and I am afraid he is not." At other times he felt like saying: "I am afraid Christ is the truth about God, but I hope he is not." So is the ambivalence of the human heart — we hunger to be in touch with the mystery of Godness, yet at the same time we fear such ultimacy. Phillips Brooks was right about Bethlehem: "The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight." And this is as good a place as I know to leave you with the Christmas story ...

3340. The Baptism of the Lord

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... of Jesus, not only with the Father, but also with those who are in need. Our relationship with Jesus shines brightest when we learn that it is a multi-relationship. The human need that is filled is not only ours, but whomever we touch. I recall astory that Fred Craddock told about the southwestern Oklahoma community with which he was very familiar. The village had a population of 450 and four churches. All the churches were Christian denominations and they all shared the people of the town. Sometimes ...

3341. The Bible: Head and Heart

Luke 4:21-30

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... say, "Don't move into my neighborhood and cause my property value to go down!" We know that God cares and loves everybody and gives to us the ministry to love and care for everybody - the homeless, the poor, those with AIDS, but we say, "Don't make me touch one of them!" We know in our heads, but to know in our hearts is completely different. Jesus was trying to give to them a new version of reality. Jesus was trying to enter into their imagination and help them see a different world. Things did not have to ...

3342. No Intimidation

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... him par excellence. We worship a Lord who is mystical by his very nature but not esoterically removed from us. While we must not make the error of reducing him to our levels, likewise we must not push him so far into the clouds that we lose touch. What an incomparable faith we have! It absolutely refuses to be intimidated and put on a level where compromises crowd out its essential nature. Of course, this is what we learn or relearn during the purifying and nourishing season of Lent. In a sense, today we ...

3343. Fish and Sheep

John 21:15-25, John 21:1-14

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... even die! As you and I receive this powerfully relevant text into our very souls, we relearn the amazing genius of the holy scriptures. The Lord Jesus Christ tells us the truth and expects us to appropriate it in ways benefiting every life we touch. We walk by faith but, like Saint Peter, we are given a glimpse now and then. Those precious moments are signposts, making our pilgrimages somewhat easier. Our faith, how gloriously precious and indispensable to our well being it is! Stop tending to feel sorry ...

3344. A Good-bye Topping All Others

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... given to us by the grace of God and buttressed by much prayer and serious Bible study carries the day for most of us. The ascending scene calls forth worship of him and a return to Jerusalem with great joy. So, our Lord puts the finishing touches to his ministry by an ascension which was unparalleled. In innumerable ways artists have tried to capture the momentous occurrence. It's fair to admit accuracy in all details will have to await another day and time. There are no living witnesses among us, but why ...

3345. Only the Lost and the Least

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... story. He was spiritually shortsighted. He didn't see that we should look at the need for God in everyone's life. The lost and the least have the same need for God that all of us have. The distressed, displaced, and despised of this world may be better in touch with their need for God than the successful. The down-and-out may be more open to the call to repentance than the up-and-out. In addition, whatever we do — or don't do — for the lost and the least, we are doing — or not doing — for God ...

3346. Gratitude: A State of Mind

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... were treated in the time of our Lord. These poor souls were forced to stand at a distance from Jesus or anyone else. They had to announce their sickness and they had to do so loud enough so that no one would accidentally rub up against them or touch them in any way. Again we see the biblical instruction, "the person who has the leprous disease shall wear torn clothes and let the hair of his head be disheveled; and he shall cover his upper lip and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean' " (Leviticus 13:45). We can ...

3347. A Tax Collector Becomes Rich

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... even more important. Jesus and his association with Zacchaeus marks the last recorded incidence of Jesus' openness to the religious outcasts of his day. He had demonstrated repeatedly that the least of these really are important to God. He has walked, talked, and touched all those who were deemed unclean by the authorities in his time. Jericho was an important border town and it was a center of commerce for that region. As such, it required someone to collect the revenue that was owed the government. It ...

3348. Carrying the Burdens of Others

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... of the game, but imbue youth with the virtues and qualities necessary to be active and contributing members of society. Children are called to sacrifice some of their desires and possibly their needs so a classmate or friend will have the basics. Who has not been touched by such an act as a child sharing her sandwich at lunch with a friend who has none? Our great challenge is to take Paul's message in today's lesson and relate it to similar ideas which Jesus articulated on many occasions during his public ...

3349. Repairing Our Lives

1 Corinthians 15:19-26

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , hearing about the great diamond, also came and they, too, felt some sense of pride simply by gazing upon the unusual gem. One day a soldier, whose task it was to guard the diamond, came to the king and reported that although the gem had not been touched by human hands it was now cracked. The king ran to investigate and sure enough there was a crack right through the middle of the rare gem. He immediately summoned jewelers from across the land to examine the diamond and see what could be done to repair ...

3350. Caring for Others: The Christian Vocation in the World

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... home. Mrs. Smith told Bobby that she had found Mrs. Hildebrand in bed; she had died peacefully in her sleep. On her night stand was found, still illuminated by a light, a solitary Christmas card with an old country church on the cover. This very touching story, while centered on the season of Christmas is, nonetheless, a perfect example of what it means to be a Christian. It serves, therefore, as a message for our celebration of Ascension Sunday. Jesus ascends to the Father; he returns to the one from whom ...

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