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Luke 7:36-50

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... ? (response) This is no laughing matter, young man. This is a lot of money. (response) What am I going to do with you dead beats? Pause and look at the debtors. Tell you what. I'm going to forgive all these debts. Take the invoices one at a time and mark on each of them "Paid In Full." You might use a red pen or purchase some stickers that say this. As you hand each of them their cancelled debts, say the following: You no longer owe me $1. Your $5 debt is cancelled. Your $20, consider it paid. For you ...

3377. Wine from Water: The Wedding

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... , "Your mother and your brothers are outside, asking for you." He replied, "Who are my mother and my brothers?" and looking around on those who sat about him, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother." (Mark 3:31-35) Now this is a beautiful saying for those who try to do the will of God. That even goes for you and me. If we try to do God's will, Jesus calls ~us his brother and sister and mother. That's really exciting. That makes us ...

3378. Saved From Water: The Storm

Luke 8:22-25

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... you on the water wagon. Anyway, the storm thing was a miracle. I think we were all so glad not to be swamped and drowned that we actually didn't think much about it until we got to shore the next day. I know I didn't. It says in Mark's book that we all said, "Who is this that the wind and sea obey him?" Nobody said that in our boat. We might have been thinking it, but nobody said that or anything else for a long time. We were all too busy bailing. In our boat, when we ...

3379. Serving With Water: The Washing

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... was apt to say such things as: "Whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave." (Matthew 20:26) Or: If any one would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all. (Mark 9:33) Or, he might tell them the parable of the seating arrangements at the banquet, or the parable of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Again and again, Jesus taught them lessons of humility and service. But what did they do after they ate that beautiful, meaningful ...

3380. Herod

Matthew 2:1-12

Drama

Dale Bringman

... . From my grandfather, Antipater, and my father, Antipas, to my own seed and their offspring - Archalaeus, Philip, Agrippa, and Felix - our House of Herod ruled wisely and well. We gave crucial help to Julius Caesar when he was in Egypt. It was I who warned Mark Anthony against involvement with Cleopatra. For thirty-three years, I reigned as Rome's client king in Palestine. I must have done some things right to have stayed in power so long. Half Jewish through my mother, I did much to groom and to beautify ...

3381. Charity and the Great Adventure

Gen 1 & 2:4-25

Children's Sermon

Louise Ulmer

... . You must not fall in love with the island and want to stay there. Your home is with me because I love you." "When can we come home?" asked Charity. "When your adventure is ended, I will call you home one at a time. You will come through a door marked Death. I will take you by the hand and lead you through. Then you will see me face to face." As the boat sailed out into the crystal sea, the king waved from the shore. "I'll try to be brave and make you proud of me," promised Charity. "I ...

3382. Bold Talk Of Faith

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John P. Rossing

... God. Job never asked God for mercy, or help, or love, or grace, only for a verdict. Yet even though Job may have asked the wrong questions of God, and made the wrong assumption about how God acted, at least he asked. His challenge to God was the real mark of Job's faith. He never doubted that God was there, that God was in control of the situation, or that God listened and responded to human cries. We experience the same doubts, the same nagging absences of God that Job did. But we have some advantages. We ...

3383. L. T.: The Lonely Terrestrial

Drama

Edward Long

... other time? (SUSIE ignores this hint and leaves.) Have a good holiday ... (To himself, sadly.) "Have a good holiday, Lee/L.T." (Picks up books and begins to leave.) "L.T., the lonely terrestrial" MRS: ROGERS: Lee, I'm truly sorry about the class. But, mark my words, this shall not happen again. Do try to understand, and have a nice Christmas ... LEE: Thanks, Mrs. Rogers. (With bravado, mocking John Wayne.) Shucks, ma'am, it's only a flesh wound ... Merry Christmas to you ... (exits) (MRS. R. dabs a tear ...

3384. Step Eleven - Spirituality

Mt 26:36-46 · 1 Thess 5:12-22 · Ps 25:1-15

Sermon

John A. Terry

... just programmed can be lost. But if you hit the right buttons and do not lose power, the computer can do amazing things. God cannot be thought of like that. There are no programs laid out for us like AAA will plan our trips with all the routes and exits marked. Especially when trouble strikes, I have a lot of difficulty calling that God's will. I do not think it is God's will that people are killed in war or that school buses fall off cliffs. I do not believe it is fair to say that the tragedy is ...

3385. Step Seven - Humiltiy

Mt 23:25-36 · 2 Ti 2:20-26 · Ps 51:1-14

Sermon

John A. Terry

... private slapping a general. The second word is "iniquity," which is the sin of injustice. That is when the boss recommends a 40 percent raise for himself and five percent for those under him. The third word is "sin," which literally means missing an aimed-at mark. That is like promising ourselves, our family and God that we will spend 10 hours a week with our family, but ending up spending only 30 minutes a week. So the psalmist pleads for cleansing. There are three words he uses for forgiveness. The first ...

3386. So You Want To Go To Bethlehem, Do You?

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... John the Baptist. You ask him how to get to Bethlehem. If you want to get to Bethlehem, you have to start there at the Jordan with John. He’s the only one who can help you get there." They all say the same thing, all four of them – Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They all say that if you really want to go to Bethlehem, first you have to encounter John the Baptist. The season of Advent belongs, not to Jesus, but to old weird John, munching on grasshoppers, dressed in his camel’s hair shirt. As much as ...

3387. Repent Your Way To A Merry Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... Just listen to what I am saying. Repent! I would like to suggest this morning that Repent was the first component of John’s message. There are two others. Let’s take a look at the first. I John's message called people to repentance. One of the towering marks of this age is the absence of guilt. Not many people would deny that fact. Some are pleased that guilt has been dethroned; others see it as a bad sign. The absence of guilt in today's society makes it very difficult to talk about repentance. For if ...

3388. Altered Expectations

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

... of information about Joseph, do they? In fact, there is more space devoted to discussion of the Wise Men and the shepherds than there is to Joseph. Matthew is the only one of the four Gospel writers who has anything of substance to say about Joseph. Mark overlooks him completely, Luke mentions him only in passing, and John’s only reference to him is simply, "Jesus of Nazareth, son of Joseph" (John 1:45). It could be that the early church was afraid that if Jesus were associated too closely with Joseph the ...

3389. The Upside-down Kingdom of God

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... is to give our children an alternative way of looking at life, a view they won’t get from society, where their values will be the values of Jesus and their vision of what life is about will be his vision. We need to help them recognize the marks of the church that Jesus lays out. We need to help our children grow up to be uncomfortable when society tells them that the best blessings are money, good looks, possessions (name brand, of course), and power. As they deal with the need to be popular, we need ...

3390. Just Who Do You Think You Are?

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... doesn’t know what to say to this woman, then he responds with a cruel insult. In the years which followed Jesus’ death and resurrection, this story of the encounter between Jesus and the Canaanite woman was repeated among our Lord’s followers. Eventually, Mark and Matthew came to include it in their accounts of the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of God. Why did they choose to include this particular story? Quite frankly, it is an embarrassing story to the church. It’s certainly ...

3391. Life on the Roller Coaster

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... right! You HAVE been paying attention, haven’t you? That’s the kind of faith I’m going to build my church on – rock solid, just like you." And the roller coaster soared to a height Peter had never experienced in his life. Peter’s confession marks a turning point in Jesus’ ministry. Matthew writes, "From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and undergo great suffering at the hands of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and on the third ...

3392. Reality Check

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... a while," we say. But to freeze that one moment in time shuts off the possibility of the next moment. In the Gospel reading for today we hear the writer of Matthew give his version of the event which we call "The Transfiguration of Jesus." Mark and Luke also contain an account of this strange occurrence, with some minor variations in the telling. It’s one of those rare moments we were just talking about, one of those mountaintop experiences of life, which somehow defy adequate descrip- tion and challenge ...

3393. Exasperating Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... God, wrote to a friend, "There is no more repugnant Christian doctrine than the affirmation that we are saved by the grace of God through faith." God gave up on salvation by the book and quit keeping score about 2,000 years ago, gathered up all our IOUs, marked them "paid in full," and nailed them to the cross of Calvary. The only way to "get saved" is to accept the invitation to the party, to forget about our accounting and let God be as reckless, as generous, as indiscriminate with grace as God wants to ...

3394. Get Ready, Get Set...Wait!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Johnny Dean

Today marks the beginning of the season of Advent, a time of preparation, a time of going toward the coming again of the Messiah, a time of great expectation and great anticipation. But exactly what is it that we anticipate? What are we getting ready for? What do we expect to happen? ...

3395. So You Want to go to Bethlehem, Do You?

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Johnny Dean

3396. Don't That Just Beat All?

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... should be alone” (Genesis 2:18). To one degree or another, we all need other people around us to share our joys and to help us bear our sorrows. As the song says, “That’s what friends are for.” The reading from the Gospel of Mark for today tells us about a friend in need. This incident will set off a series of confrontations between Jesus and the religious leaders of the synagogue - controversies that will eventually lead to Calvary. Here’s the story: Finally Jesus has come back to Capernaum. His ...

3397. And Who is my Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... knew all to well the law…but he wanted to debate the law and justify his life style. He did not want to be confronted with the task of keeping the law. A businessman well known for his ruthlessness, not a nice fellow at all, once announced to writer Mark Twain, "Before I die I mean to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. I will climb Mount Sinai and read the 10 Commandments aloud at the top." "I have a better idea," replied Twain. "You could stay in Boston and keep them." Moody Bible Institute's Today in ...

3398. The Invisible God?

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... event" sort of celebrations. But I think it’s important that we observe the events of the calendar of the Christian year all year long because it helps us remember whose time we live in. It’s not the government’s time, even though our schedules are marked by federal holidays and tax deadlines (don’t get me started on that). It isn’t our employers’ time, even though we do depend heavily on that paycheck arriving on a specific day each month. Sometimes we forget that we really live in God’s time ...

3399. Trying to Face the Strain

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... , even though I was not content with it. And now? Now I had only a vague notion of what lay ahead for the family and me. I knew that there was a world of possibilities awaiting us here in Virginia, but nothing definite. There was an abundance of question marks. I was in transition, "trying to face the strain" of the changes that were taking place. It was more than a little bit scary, being on the road between one place and another. Maybe Jacob was "trying to face the strain" that evening as he came to this ...

3400. Good News Or Bad News?

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... began a good work among you will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6). Life with the dimensions God intends for us is depicted graphically in Revelation. In contrast to the fate of the unrepentant who have eternal torment marked by weeping and gnashing of teeth, those in Christ's presence will no longer experience any sorrow or crying or pain. The blissful existence intended in God's creation has now come in its completion. It is necessary that God's salvation be perfected in ...

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