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3376. Don't Mess with the IRS

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... circles. His name was Charlie “Tremendous” Jones. Some of you know about this dynamic sales personality. Charlie “Tremendous” Jones died in October of 2009 and there was quite a remarkable “Homecoming Celebration” held in his behalf. You can view that moving service in full on the Internet. Charlie Jones had a “tremendous” attitude about life. Mark Sanborn called Charlie “Tremendous” Jones one of the most philanthropic people he knew. Throughout his life, Sanborn says, Charlie Jones gave ...

3377. Jesus Brings New Life

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... was in various ways repeated by opposition groups throughout eastern Europe. Men and women of great faith and courage, inspired by what they observed from Solidarity, pushed for human liberty in their own nations. The map of eastern Europe, as we view it today, reflects the victory of liberty and human justice over totalitarianism and human oppression. It was a new day for eastern Europe; it was necessary to rejoice. The Solidarity movement and the consequent end of Communist oppression in eastern Europe ...

3378. Baptism: The Light Shatters the Darkness

Genesis 1:1-5

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to his controversial positions on many issues, including his denunciation of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy, "Peace in Our Time," signed with Adolf Hitler at Munich in 1938. When Britain declared war on Germany in 1939, however, Churchill's views became quite popular leading him to succeed Chamberlain as prime minister in May 1940. Churchill was the man to whom the British people and many in Europe looked to bring solace and comfort in the continent's darkest hour of the twentieth ...

3379. No Litmus Test for Jesus

2 Kings 5:1-14

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... on a regular basis must often pass a litmus test to be found acceptable. While our admission requirements are not as obvious as passing a literacy test, they are, at times, even more restrictive. Some people are in and others are out in our view of the world. This attitude, however, is inconsistent with the message of Christ who welcomed all, but preferentially sought those who needed him most. The Christian life is filled with many challenges, most of which we probably would choose to avoid. Yet, it is ...

3380. Thanks for the Memories!

Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... of his blood. But there is more: Keep on adding the countless hosts of those past, present, and future, who stand before the throne of the Lamb in heaven. Thirdly, the exodus memories are more than memories about our future. From the biblical point of view, history is linear. It runs in a straight line. The Jews gathered around the Seder table to look back and see themselves tagging along behind Moses and the elders herding them toward the Red Sea and the safety beyond. Christians "remember" at the Lord's ...

3381. A Death on a Long Friday

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... , spitting saliva, and flashing its teeth, blocking the path in front of a hiker in the dark forest. "What was it?" asked the pastor rhetorically. One little girl frantically waved her hand, "It's Jesus! It's always Jesus!" From the post-resurrection point of view, the suffering servant in Isaiah's song is Jesus. For Isaiah and his readers it was the nation of Israel, perhaps, or maybe an individual who gave his life as a guilt offering. (This is the only Old Testament passage that suggests that a person ...

3382. Death Meets The Lord

Isaiah 25:6-9

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... irretrievably and in actual fact at my end.3 No Christian can begin to win the struggle against death without first realizing the finality of death. A curious friend of a deceased man was invited by the mortician to linger after the funeral service to view the embalming process in the back room. To his horror, the friend recognized the remains on the embalming table. He didn't even know that his friend, Gus, had passed away earlier that day. As he watched the embalming process, the friend realized that Gus ...

3383. Ascension Answers

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... spontaneously said to her, "I admire your attitude." She replied, "Attitude, yes, perhaps, but don't look underneath, pastor; I haven't a thing to hold on to." The impending death of her son was an unintended and unwanted intrusion into the mother's linear view of her life. Mothers are supposed to die before their sons. But the witnesses to the ascension of Jesus saw a heavier line moving through all the fine lines of personal human histories. It was the heavy line moving forward to the event after the ...

3384. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... bottom of Niagara Falls? The memory of a rescue on a battlefield? Isaiah couldn't see anything else going on that day except this luminous vision of God. Oh, he saw the smoke from the incense, smoke that gets in your eyes and changes your view of things. I remember worshiping at St. Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, that dark, mysterious place, a gilded hall crisscrossed with shafts of light as bearded Greek Orthodox priests chanted ancient tunes while smoky incense swung back and ...

3385. Getting Through the Grief

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... the presence of the almighty when he was a little shepherd boy. God filled his life from beginning to end. God so filled David's life that even when he transgressed God gave him another chance. The good news is God does the same for us. God takes the long view of our lives and, when we come to the end, erases the sins and welcomes us in because of the one we call the Christ. Contrary to what some might think, God isn't a giant frown in the sky. David's eulogy is a prime example of God's ...

3386. Finding the Good Woman Part in Us All

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... Behind was Disinvited from Meeting — Patricia Polacco, a popular author of children's books, was disinvited from her $5,000 gig at the International Reading Association annual meeting in Chicago because she would not agree in advance to stay away from her views on testing in her talks. McGraw-Hill canceled her contract, saying it only sought to stop an author whose political agenda might interfere with her book exhibit." Fascinating. I wonder what Mary Magdalene would think about the power of ideas. I ...

3387. Death Is Swallowed Up Forever

Isaiah 25:6-9

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... says, "For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; the palace of aliens is a city no more, it will never be rebuilt" (Isaiah 25:2). The death of the symbolic city is not to suggest that we are given instead some romantic view of rural isolation or independence. The rise of urban life was meant to be for the good of the whole. It was meant to beat back the darkness and gain control. People built cities, put walls around them, and moved into their protecting shadow to keep themselves safe ...

3388. A New Perspective

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Staff

... two friends untether the craft, which he had dubbed "Inspiration I." He took along a large bottle of soda, a parachute and a portable CB radio to alert air traffic to his presence. He also took a camera but later admitted, "I was so amazed by the view I didn't even take one picture." Walters, a North Hollywood truck driver with no pilot or balloon training, spent about two hours aloft and soared up to 16,000 feet three miles startling at least two airline pilots and causing one to radio the Federal Aviation ...

3389. If-By-Whiskey Speech

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... voting their local option on permitting the sale of liquor. Asked for his position on wet-versus-dry, he would say: "If by whiskey you mean the water of life that cheers men's souls, that smooths out the tensions of the day, that gives gentle perspective to one's view of life, then put my name on the list of the fervent wets. But if by whiskey you mean the devil's brew that rends families, destroys careers and ruins one's ability to work, then count me in the ranks of the dries.

3390. Study of the Bible

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Amos Wells

... at Bible, Dip and dabble, here and there, Just before you kneel, aweary, And yawn through a hurried prayer; You who treat the Crown of Writings As you treat no other book, Just a paragraph, disjointed, Just a crude, impatient look, Try a worthier procedure, Try a broad and steady view; You will kneel in very rapture When you read the Bible through.

3391. What's Wrong With Grownups?

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J.A. Petersen

When the 10-year-olds in Mrs. Imogene Frost's class at the Brookside, N.J. Community Sunday School expressed their views of "What's wrong with grownups?" they came up with these complaints: 1. Grownups make promises, then they forget all about them, or else they say it wasn't really a promise, just a maybe. 2. Grownups don't do the things they're always telling the children to do ...

3392. With a Repentant Heart

1 Cor 11:9

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Charles W. Colson,

... offense many have fallen ill or died. Any pastor who takes the Word of God seriously should never administer Communion without adequately warning partakers. Those who are unrepentant should flee the table rather than trivialize the sacred. And God does not view this sacred act lightly. Pat Novak, pastor in a nonsacramental denomination, discovered this when he was serving as a hospital chaplain intern just outside of Boston several years ago. Pat was making his rounds one summer morning when he was called ...

3393. Collecting Compliments

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The brilliant physician and writer Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and his brother John represent two radically different views on the subject of flattery. Dr. Holmes loved to collect compliments, and when he was older he indulged his pastime by saying to someone who had just praised his work, "I am a trifle deaf, you know. Do you mind repeating that a little louder?" John, however, was unassuming and ...

3394. How to Spark a Feud

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Ron Kraybill

... evidence you can find that shows the other person is merely jealous of you. Judge the motivation of the other party on any previous experience that showed failure or unkindness. Keep track of any angry words. If the discussion should, alas, become serious, view the issue as a win/lose struggle. Avoid possible solutions and go for total victory and unconditional surrender. Don't get too many options on the table. Pass the buck! If you are about to get cornered into a solution, indicate you are without ...

3395. One Nation Under God?

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Brett Blair

... agnostics and atheists (7.5 percent). The survey has an important message for the religiously and politically conservative who are interested in reversing the downward cultural spiral. It is unlikely that the 19 percent whose faith affects their lives and world view can change the moral and social conditions of our country through political means alone. 2019 The religious landscape of the United States continues to change at a rapid clip. In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019 ...

3396. Symptoms of Groupthink

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Irving L. Janis

... rationalizations in order to discount them. Participants of groupthink have an unquestioned belief in the inherent morality of their in group actions, inclining the members to ignore the ethical or moral consequences of their decisions. Participants of groupthink hold stereotyped views of the leaders of enemy groups. They are seen as so evil that there is no warrant for arbitration or negotiation or as too weak or too stupid to put up an effective defense. Participants of groupthink, says Janis, apply ...

3397. Don't Fear Your Decisions

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H.W. Andrews

While an open mind is priceless, it is priceless only when its owner has the courage to make a final decision which closes the mind for action after the process of viewing all sides of the question has been completed. Failure to make a decision after due consideration of all the facts will quickly brand a man as unfit for a position of responsibility. Not all of your decisions will be correct. None of us is perfect. But if you get into ...

3398. The Danger of Delay

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Dr. George Sweeting wrote in Special Sermons for Special Days: "Several years ago our family visited Niagara Falls. It was spring, and ice was rushing down the river. As I viewed the large blocks of ice flowing toward the falls, I could see that there were carcasses of dead fish embedded in the ice. Gulls by the score were riding down the river feeding on the fish. As they came to the brink of the falls, their wings would go out, ...

3399. So Close Yet So Far

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J.M. Boice

... they been unable to take the place by nightfall, thousands were doomed to die of thirst. "We fought that day," writes Gilbert, "as men fight for their lives... We entered Sheria station on the heels of the retreating Turks. The first objects which met our view were the great stone cisterns full of cold, clear, drinking water. In the still night air the sound of water running into the tanks could be distinctly heard, maddening in its nearness; yet not a man murmured when orders were given for the battalions ...

3400. Informing and Inviting

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J.I. Packer

... .T., evangelism is just preaching the gospel, the evangel. Evangelizing, therefore is not simply a matter of teaching, and instructing, and imparting information to the mind. There is more to it than that. Evangelism includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught. It is communication with a view to conversion. It is a matter, not merely of informing, but also of inviting.

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3376. Don't Mess with the IRS

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

3377. Jesus Brings New Life

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

3378. Baptism: The Light Shatters the Darkness

Genesis 1:1-5

Sermon

Richard Gribble

3379. No Litmus Test for Jesus

2 Kings 5:1-14

Sermon

Richard Gribble

3380. Thanks for the Memories!

Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14

Sermon

Ken Lentz

3381. A Death on a Long Friday

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Ken Lentz

3382. Death Meets The Lord

Isaiah 25:6-9

Sermon

Ken Lentz

3383. Ascension Answers

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Ken Lentz

3384. The Many Faces of God

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

3385. Getting Through the Grief

2 Samuel 1:1, 17-27

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

3386. Finding the Good Woman Part in Us All

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

Donna Schaper

3387. Death Is Swallowed Up Forever

Isaiah 25:6-9

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

3388. A New Perspective

Illustration

Staff

3389. If-By-Whiskey Speech

Illustration

3390. Study of the Bible

Illustration

Amos Wells

3391. What's Wrong With Grownups?

Illustration

J.A. Petersen

3392. With a Repentant Heart

1 Cor 11:9

Illustration

Charles W. Colson,

3393. Collecting Compliments

Illustration

3394. How to Spark a Feud

Illustration

Ron Kraybill

3395. One Nation Under God?

Illustration

Brett Blair

3396. Symptoms of Groupthink

Illustration

Irving L. Janis

3397. Don't Fear Your Decisions

Illustration

H.W. Andrews

3398. The Danger of Delay

Illustration

3399. So Close Yet So Far

Illustration

J.M. Boice

3400. Informing and Inviting

Illustration

J.I. Packer

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