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3401. Changed Lives: The Man Born Blind from Birth

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... retired farm couple in their 80s. For the most part, they enjoy his company as well. It’s Halloween. James bursts into Angus and Minnie’s living room. In deep anguish, he complains that his mom bought him a Teenage‑Mutant Ninja Turtle costume to wear. “No one cares about Teenage‑Mutant Ninja Turtles anymore,” he says desperately. “My mom should have known that! I’m going to die if I have to wear that! What am I going to do? I can’t wear that costume. Everyone will make fun of me. What am I ...

3402. John 11:1-45

John 11:1-16

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... to “Come out”? What could possibly be a greater testimony to Jesus’ identity than the stumbling appearance of a man who had been four days in the grave, his shrouds and stench still clinging to him? Yet, if we read the John’s Lazarus story with careful attention to the layers of detail, this miracle also reveals as much failure as success: 1) the failure of faith from the disciples, Martha, Mary, and “the Jews;” 2) the failure of Jesus to enable those around him to see more than a miracle worker ...

3403. The Lost and Found Elder Brother

Luke 15:25-32

Sermon

James W. Moore

... in her child-like way had simply, but profoundly, put her finger on the good news of our faith. God is love. God is our Friend. God cares about each one of us. God is on our side. God will never desert us. We may run away from Him or turn away from Him, ... passing day. They never talked bad about other people; they never acted “Holier-than-Thou.” No… they were grateful, tender, caring compassionate, merciful people. They were God-like people who had received God’s Amazing Grace and who then spent their ...

3404. Looking Into the Eyes of the Risen Christ

John 20:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... borrowed grave. And then on Easter Sunday morning, Mary Magdalene came to the tomb… to do what had to be done… to care for His dead body. But, when she arrived she discovered that the stone which had been covering the opening to the grave ... loving… and He wants us (His disciples) to be loving like Him. He wants us to live daily in that Christ-like spirit of love and caring and compassion. He wants us to receive His sacrificial love and then to pass it on to others. He wants us to emulate His love in ...

3405. When Do You Feel God's Pleasure?

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

James W. Moore

... new and offered to show me around. He gave me a tour and we talked a few minutes, then parted company. That made a lasting impression! I was just a high school kid who came in to “listen to Dr. Moore talk,” and he showed me a great deal of caring and genuine warmth. Over the next year and a half, I realized that so many people at the church showed the same qualities… I mentioned it to a friend in the Pure Sound Youth Choir and he told me… ‘Patrick, that’s what faith is.’ (Finally) I joined the ...

3406. Love One Another

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

James W. Moore

... years!” It was quite a speech, but John was still in the hole! John continued to cry out for help – more desperately now. Next, a couple of politicians came by; and saw John’s plight… and they were upset. They said, “This is awful. This should have been taken care of years ago!” So they went into town, got the city council together… and they passed a law and they came out and put up a sign: “Twenty-five dollar fine to fall in this hole.” And it was a good law, they said. It needed to be ...

3407. Don't Look Back, Remember Lot's Wife

Genesis 19:24-26

Sermon

James W. Moore

... now. I have already got three hits tonight. I have done my part, so don’t expect too much now.” First of all, Craig Biggio would never do that because he has the heart of a champion, but if he did, how would the crowd feel? They wouldn’t care at all about his earlier success at the plate. They want him to deliver now. They want him to come through now. They want him to drive in the winning run now. They are not even thinking about his earlier hits… and you know what, Craig Biggio would not be ...

3408. The Bridge over Troubled Water

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Lord of the Sparrows wants to thank you. The One whose eye is on the sparrow wants to welcome you to heaven.” When we reach the Gates of Heaven, I don’t think we will be asked about our accomplishments. I think we will be asked if we cared for our neighbors and helped those in need in the Spirit of Jesus Christ. When it comes to trouble, there are three things to remember… Remember that God is always with us. Remember that God can redeem our troubles. And, remember that God can use us to help others ...

3409. When We Are Caught in a Storm

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and storm. In such a storm, the lake took on the threat of a big sea… and people on the water needed to be very, very careful. Crossing the lake could be a simple venture if the wind were with you… and your sails were turned to catch it… but if there were ... , I see the people go along the sidewalks row on row. And each one on his shoulders bears a coiling shell of heavy cares, the spiral of their own affairs… some peer about, some creep on blind, but not one leaves his troubles behind.” Now, here is ...

3410. The Three Approaches to Life

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

... We expect to be pampered when we go to a restaurant and if we are not treated with excellent service we are very disappointed. It’s part of what we call our “Cater Culture”… and that’s fine. We all enjoy that. However, we have to be careful to not let that “cater-culture-mind-set cloud our understanding of the real purpose of the church. We join the church to become – not God’s privileged people, but God’s servant people… - not God’s pampered people, but God’s work force. Recently, I ...

3411. A Church with Nothing to Offer

John 20:19-23

Illustration

Thomas Long

... today. Here, we get our first glimpse of the disciples gathered together after the resurrection, the first glimpse, in other words, of the church in its earliest days, and, all in all, it is not a very pretty picture. Near the end of his life, Jesus had carefully prepared his disciples to be a devoted and confident fellowship of faith. They were to be a community of profound love with the gates wide open and the welcome mat always out, but here we find them barricaded in a house with the doors bolted shut ...

3412. Recognizing Christ

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... . (3) It is always amazing to me that a generation that takes for granted the wonders of science is so quick to dismiss the power and the purpose of the Creator who set it all in motion in the first place. God is alive. God is personal. God cares about you and God desires to reveal Himself to you just as Christ revealed himself to those two disciples on the road to Emmaus. Of course the place that this is most likely to happen is in worship. Notice how this story ends. “Then their eyes were opened and ...

3413. To Be a Christian

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

James McCormick

... to belong to Christ. It begins with a relationship and then expresses itself in a lifestyle. In the tenth chapter of John, we see a beautiful picture of a loving, trusting relationship. Jesus says that he is the good shepherd, and the good shepherd knows his sheep by name. He cares for them even to the point of laying down his life for them. The sheep know his voice. They trust him. They follow him. So, that’s what it means to be a Christian. It is to know and trust Christ. It is to follow Christ. It is a ...

3414. The Gift of Newness

2 Corinthians 5:17-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... and I feed off their faith until my own is strengthened again. It means so much to belong to a community of faith. We really care about one another here, so that we rejoice with those who rejoice and we weep with those who weep. We identify with one another, so ... those who will lovingly share the experience with us. The good news is that God’s mathematics works like this: when we are in a caring community, our joys are doubled and our sorrows are cut in half. I can’t tell you how much it means to have a ...

3415. Ten Days of Prayer

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... where else(?) Kenya. It was the largest orphanage in that country. When she discovered how excited Bob was about Kenya, she invited him to pay a visit to her orphanage. When Bob arrived in Kenya, he was appalled by the poverty and the lack of basic health care. Upon returning to Washington, he couldn’t get the place out of his mind. He began to write to large pharmaceutical companies asking them to send some of their surplus drugs to Kenya. And some of them did. This one orphanage in Kenya received more ...

3416. We Need Help

John 14:15-31

Illustration

Brett Blair

... of veterans and nationwide press coverage. He began to describe the plight of the veterans. "I'm concerned for you. I have a heart for you. I am deeply convinced that this country needs to take care of its veterans. So, today I am proposing a seventeen point plan that includes the city, state and federal government, to care for the veterans of this country." Now by this time everyone, including Mayor Daly, was on the edge of their seat to hear what the proposal was. He turned the page and saw only these ...

3417. EXEGESIS: 1 Peter 4:12-14; 6:6-11

1 Peter 4:12-19

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... time." This humility is not born of helplessness. Nor does it suggest a passive posture vis a vis the world. Rather it locates strength in an assurance that God "cares" for them. Why can Christians have confidence before the challenges, the abuses, the rejections of the world? Because they can cast all their anxiety onto the God who cares so completely for them (v.7). Far from being passive, Christians are called to "discipline" and counseled to "keep alert" as they confront the world (v.8). The suffering ...

3418. The Play's Playbook for the Game of Life

1 Peter 4:12-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... who was prepared for the unexpected, ready to take the ball and run with it. The power of a community of faith can move the presence of Christ into places a singleton could not. But the game is not the huddle. In fact, spend too long taking care of each other’s needs, holding hands and gazing into each other’s eyes, and you will be penalized for “delay of game.” You will find yourself moving the wrong way down the field. In any contest victory is gained through a combination of strength, skill, and ...

3419. Paying Attention to Your Mission

Matthew 28:16-20

Illustration

Phil Roughton

... pie. Now IBM's a great company, and it was smart enough to fix that problem and regain a whole lot of their strength and market share. But it's a classic case of not paying attention to business; of shifting away from the assignment, and worrying more about taking care of yourself than paying careful attention to your whole reason for being.

3420. A Call to Action

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... our lives to sing Thy praise.” We’ve been singing the praises of those red and green lights for far too long. It’s time to start singing the praises of the Light of the World, the First and Last Light. It’s time to stop caring about appearance and start caring about substance, reality and truth. It’s time to learn how to play our own song, even when the notes are fragile and faltering and sometimes fall flat. It’s time to learn how to play our own instrument that God gave us, to blow our own ...

3421. The Healing Power of Touch - Sermon Starter

Mark 5:21-43; Matt 9:1-8

Illustration

Brett Blair

... surge. "I felt power flow from me." Whatever happened the important matter of course is that in the midst of the crowd, Christ felt the touch of a single person. Don't ever say that in the enormity of the cosmos God cannot care about my concerns and me. Not only does God care, he actually solicits our concerns "Come unto me all ye who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you peace." Daughter, said Jesus (and I might add parenthetically at this point that that is the only recorded time in scripture that ...

3422. Ministry to People in Need

Matthew 9:35-38

Illustration

E. Carver McGriff

... . On their way, they passed an injured man and Francis promptly stopped, saw to the poor fellow's needs and arranged medical care for him. They went on and soon passed a homeless man who was near starvation. Again, Francis stopped his journey and ministered to ... the hungry, homeless man. So it went, through the day: people in need, Francis lovingly caring for them as best he could until the sun was low in the sky. He told his novice friend it was time for ...

3423. God Is Like a Father

Mt 6:25-34

Illustration

King Duncan

... play with maybe a few redbirds and a squirrel or two. Thy will be done. Amen." I don't know what heaven will be like. But I know what God is like. He is like a Father who notices a little sparrow fall from the sky and cares for us much, much more than he cares for sparrows. That means even though we still must face obstacles and crises, we do not face them alone, and someday, somehow all that which is hurtful will be turned into that which is helpful, and we shall live with joy in the Father's house ...

3424. A Choice for Righteousness and Not Evil

Matthew 10:40-42; John 15:12-13

Illustration

Wayne Peterson

... Through the Valley of the Kwai, he reflects on the difference between two Christmas seasons he spent in prison. He says that in Christmas 1942 there were thousands of American soldiers in that prison who robbed the sick among them, mistreated one another, and did not care whether the other prisoners lived or died. During the following year, a healthy American soldier began giving his food to a sick buddy to help him get well. In time the sick prisoner recovered, but the buddy who had given him food died of ...

3425. Tending to Christ

Matthew 10:40-42

Illustration

Samuel Zumwalt

... she could continue to tend the sickest and most wretched of the poor in the slums of Calcutta, India. Mother Teresa said that as she looked at each person for whom she was caring she tried to imagine that she was tending the Lord Jesus' wounded body – His nail-scarred hands, feet, and side. And so it was that in each act of caring, the Kingdom of God embraced and even reached out through Mother Teresa as she welcomed Christ in her neighbor and as she embraced the neighbor as if that person were the Lord ...

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