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3376. They Call It Grace

2 Peter 3:8-15

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... for one purpose, so that you may hear and believe that this God of grace has a place at the table for you. "I don't deserve that, Father." You're right. You don't. This delay in his coming is not about you being good enough. It's a gift. It's a gift called grace and it's unique to Christianity. Now, come and eat. Amen. 1. Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace? (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan, 2002).

3377. It’s about Grace

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... by God's grace that we've been saved. You don't have anything to brag about so far as your salvation is concerned; it's a gift from God to the undeserving. It is like the prodigal son who rehearsed his apology over and over again as he headed back home with his tail ... hear it. He was so overcome with love for his son who had come home that he swept him up in his arms and showered him with gifts. The son didn't deserve any of it, but it's about grace. There is nothing you do to earn it. You don't have to ...

3378. On The Night When He Was Betrayed

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... with those who betrayed him. Lest any of us think ourselves unworthy of receiving the body and blood of Christ, we need to go back to the night when Jesus gave us this holy meal. From the very beginning, it was shared with people who were unworthy of the gift. And that's what makes it a sacrament, because it is all about God's grace poured out for the undeserving. No matter how strong or weak your faith may be, no matter how much you read your Bible or pray, no matter how many commandments you have kept ...

3379. Flesh and Spirit

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... to God and to one another. God has made us so that we need God and one another, so that we nurture one another, learn from one another, challenge one another, and take care of one another. However, we have taken God's created order — God's good gifts to us — and made it a problem. We have allowed our sense of dependency to be seen as a weakness. We have allowed our individual consciousness to become alienation. We have become dominated by anxiety, by the sense that we are lost and lonely. In our sense ...

3380. Eyes on the Prize

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... and dangerous at the least. Paul asks us to reconsider our cultural captivity, to consider that life - and our lives - are much deeper than our materialistic age has led us to believe. To say this is not to attack science - it is to recognize the many gifts of science to human life while acknowledging that science, too, has its limits. Fortunately, that captivity is beginning to break down in our post-modern age.1 Yet, it is still difficult to imagine a realm of the spirit that is intertwined with and that ...

3381. The Vision of God

2 Corinthians 12:2-10

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... up," again indicating that he didn't accomplish this. It is not a vision that he can conjure up at will — it is rather a gift of God. In the vision on the road to Damascus in Acts 9, Christ comes down to Paul, but in this vision in 2 Corinthians, ... me, but Paul's words in chapter 12 of 2 Corinthians and my friend's wise counsel have opened new doors for me to receive God's gifts. I've never been carried up to the third heaven — indeed I've gone down to the lower depths — but there, too, I have found a ...

3382. Welcome to the Center of Life

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... us find a new way of living in God's presence. On this particular summer day in the mountains, we thanked her for all her gifts to us, and she reminded us that life is meant to be lived in praise of God and in loving God and loving one another. ... plan that we are supposed to be following. It means that God is at the center of our lives, and that God has given us the gifts to live in that definition. As a pastor in the Reformed tradition, I'll share our vision of the purpose of our lives from John Calvin' ...

3383. The Ear, the Tongue, and the Temper: A Lesson in Spiritual Anatomy

James 1:17-27

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... thank you? How much of the day do we spend in praise of God and those who have blessed our lives? Think twice before you speak, and then stop to reconsider. This high dignity that we are given as Christians, the greatest of the gifts that come from above, the gift of speech, carries with it obligations. Christians must live up to their heavenly origin. The first test comes in speech. The writer of Proverbs says: "He who guards his mouth preserves his life. He who opens wide his lips comes to ruin" (Proverbs ...

3384. The Tongue Is Mightier than the Sword

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... who are praising God in church on Sunday are cursing those in the fellowship on Monday. "Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing" (v. 10). Men and women have been made in the likeness of God. To curse a fellow human being is like cursing God. The gift of speech is one of the greatest faculties God has given us. With our words we can compliment someone, we can teach our children, we can give directions to someone who is lost, we can give hope to someone who is despairing, we can express love or fear or ...

3385. Admitting the Real Truth

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Patrick J. Rooney

... only Son, Jesus the Christ. Listen again to the words of Paul this morning: "They are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God put forward as a sacrifice of atonement by his blood, effective through faith ... of life with God. Yet even this faith of ours is not something we do but rather it is that which we receive as a free gift from the Holy Spirit. I cannot boast and say that my life is better than that of another. I cannot claim that I am somewhat less ...

3386. The Perfect Sacrifice

Hebrews 10:11-25

Sermon

Patrick J. Rooney

... . Through this action of Christ, the holy people of God now live a new and holy life. Called into being by the work of Christ, this holy people of God no longer live under the rule of the old law which demanded the appropriate sacrifices. The external actions of bearing gifts to the temple and the daily repetition of sacrifice are now put aside by a new law that is written in the hearts of God’s holy people. In this new life in Christ and cleansed from their sin, the holy people of God live with a new law ...

3387. Romans 12:9-21

Romans 12:9-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... once again used “body” imagery to celebrate and affirm the differences among the various “members” of Christ’s body. In last week’s text in Romans Paul emphasized that “we have gifts that differ according to the grace given us” (Romans 12:6). He then went on to enumerate many of those unique gifts. But as today’s text opens Paul moves away from what distinguishes one believer from another, what distinctive qualities individuals may possess, and instead begins to describe the attitudes and ...

3388. The Ball Game

Mark 13:1-31

Drama

Arley K. Fadness

... . I want to see the whole thing. Frank: That’s right, and it wouldn’t be a ball game if it wasn’t the whole thing, say if they cut out the middle innings now would it? Being able to wait for something really is a gift. Bill: A what? Frank: A gift. I mean you can see waiting as an opportunity. Bill: An opportunity for what? Frank: An opportunity to enjoy something at its fullest for instance. Like this game. Or an opportunity to step back and take stock in yourself or your situation. See where you are ...

3389. The Christmas Message of Hope

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... on his chosen people. Yes, God sent Jesus, his Son, into our world to fulfill the promise to send a Messiah. We must, therefore, respond to the God who first loved us by considering what is necessary in our lives to be the person God wants us to be. The gift we bring to the Lord will cost us nothing in a monetary sense, but it may cost us much in a spiritual sense. However, the one and only thing that Jesus desires is our hearts. Let us not disappoint him. On Christmas Day, when we welcome the light and ...

3390. Responding to God

1 Samuel 3:1-10 (11-20)

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... He was one of the most famous men who ever lived. Each of these men received an invitation. One invitation was to music, another was to science; the third was an invitation to greater service of God. These invitations were always present, because they were gifts from God. Once the gift was found, it became a permanent part of who these people were. The lives of these three famous people present a good illustration of how it is necessary to respond to God. A sense of openness allows one to hear the call in a ...

3391. Do Not Forget Your Servant

1 Samuel 1:4-20

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... Joseph; Elizabeth waiting for John the Baptist. Facing infertility puts us in a hard place — to relinquish control and look to God. We are asked to believe that, in the midst of barren hopelessness, we can still know fruitful waiting and God's ultimate gift. The issue is presented today through the story of the birth of Samuel. There is the Israelite Elkanah, with his two wives, Hannah and Peninnah. Elkanah loved Hannah, but because she did not conceive, Elkanah had taken a second wife, Peninnah, who bore ...

3392. The Science of Happiness

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the tapestry of our life as an infusion of grace. Happiness is not something we “find.” Happiness is something we cultivate on a daily basis, not for itself, but as part of a larger mission, a mission which, joyfully, sometimes gifts us with an unexpected bumper crop of happiness. In the eighteenth century, when that “pursuit of happiness” phrase was coined, the buzzword “happiness” was loaded with meaning and merit. While Enlightenment figures applauded the pursuit of life, liberty, and the ...

3393. The Pursuit of Happiness

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Illustration

Leonard Sweet

... into the tapestry of our life as an infusion of grace. Happiness is not something we “find." Happiness is something we cultivate on a daily basis, not for itself, but as part of a larger mission, a mission which, joyfully, sometimes gifts us with an unexpected bumper crop of happiness. In the eighteenth century, when that “pursuit of happiness" phrase was coined, the buzzword “happiness" was loaded with meaning and merit. While Enlightenment figures applauded the pursuit of life, liberty, and the ...

3394. No Instructions Needed

Illustration

King Duncan

... , my mother was playing bridge with a friend and confessed her inability to get that microwave oven even to boil water. 'To get this darn thing to work,' she exclaimed, 'I really don't need better directions; I just needed my son to come along with the gift!'" This same experience has been repeated a million times in our generation with computers and smart phones. I know a lot of you would like a son to come along with the device. Sometimes I feel like this life we live is one big complicated device and ...

3395. Dedication - It Will Cost You

Illustration

Gary Inrig

... of Donatello, the greatest sculptor of his time, and he was the teacher of Michelangelo, the greatest sculptor of all time. Michelangelo was only 14 years old when he came to Bertoldo, but it was already obvious that he was enormously gifted. Bertoldo was wise enough to realize that gifted people are often tempted to coast rather than to grow, and therefore he kept trying to pressure his young prodigy to work seriously at his art. One day he came into the studio to find Michelangelo toying with a piece of ...

3396. Discipline: An Unfinished Mind

Illustration

... without a degree. He began a paper called "The Watchman" which lived for ten numbers and then died. It has been said of him, "he lost himself in visions of work to be done, that always remained to be done. Coleridge had every poetic gift but one the gift of sustained and concentrated effort." In his head and in his mind he had all kinds of books, as he said, "completed save for transcription." But the books were never composed outside of Coleridge's mind, because he would not face the discipline of sitting ...

3397. A Final Tribute

Illustration

Herbert Chilstrom

... 's remarks at the burial of one of his generals comes to mind: "If he had known he'd get a funeral like this, he'd have died much sooner." It is our vexing temptation, isn't it, not only in death but throughout life. We think we are a gift to God himself instead of remembering that ordained ministry is a ...

3398. King of the Poor

John 1:1-18

Illustration

Staff

... lived in a cellar. He ate the coarse food the poor man ate. He spoke cheerful, kind words to him. Then he left. Later he visited the poor man again and disclosed his identity by saying, "I am your king!" The king thought the man would surely ask for some gift or favor, but he didn't. Instead he said, "You left your palace and your glory to visit me in this dark, dreary place. You ate the course food I ate. You brought gladness to my heart! To others you have given your rich ...

3399. Monster Rehab

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , but be humble and a servant. Not claim a title and take a tone, but accept the one teacher, one father, one Messiah, as the one and only authority. Jesus did not collect resumes or sift out from a list those who were the most gifted at handling people or dealing with administrative details or unsnarling legal entanglements. Jesus invites his disciples, in the first century and in the twenty-first century, to do nothing more than “follow him.” Jesus is the leader. We are his followers. Jesus is the one ...

3400. One of the Least

Illustration

Jon Johnston

... a slow learner. His mother died this year. 4th grade: Ted is very slow, but well-behaved. His father shows no interest whatsoever. Christmas arrived. The children piled elaborately wrapped gifts on their teacher's desk. Ted brought one too. It was wrapped in brown paper and held together with Scotch Tape. Miss Thompson opened each gift, as the children crowded around to watch. Out of Ted's package fell a gaudy rhinestone bracelet, with half of the stones missing, and a bottle of cheap perfume. The children ...

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