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3401. Son of Man; Son of God

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... young generation could find inspiration in my work. Our country needs more doctors, especially from the disadvantaged community,” he once said. “Look at me.” he continued. “It can happen!” (4) Who would have thought that the school gardener assisted Christiaan Barnard in his world-shaking heart surgeries? Who would have thought that a baby born in a stable with donkeys and cows and sheep would be the hope of the world? God emptied himself and became a human being. Eugene Peterson, author of The ...

3402. Praise the King with a Song of Joy

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... , if they decorated one, didn’t shelter a mountain of gifts. The centerpiece of their Christmas celebration was a family party full of music. (3) Why is singing so important at this time of year? Because singing is the best way to communicate our deepest thoughts and emotions. Sidney Lanier once said that music is love in search of a word. Charles Kingsley said that music is the “speech of angels,” but then he added, “I will go further and call it the speech of God himself.” (4) According to the ...

3403. What Would Bill Do?

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... level, at least ask what Bill Porter would do, a man with cerebral palsy who never allowed himself a pity party, never gave up believing that he could make a difference. I don’t believe our Lord would mind if this one time we ended with this thought, WWBD, what would Bill do? 1. Shelly Brady, Ten Things I Learned from Bill Porter (New World Library, 2002.). 2. REV Magazine, May-June, 2000. 3. Chet in My God Story, compiled by Bob Coy (Fort Lauderdale, FL: Calvary Chapel Church, Inc., 2001), pp. 122-128. 4 ...

3404. More Than "Turkey Day" (New) Thanksgiving

2 Chronicles 9:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... told the class about a missionary’s son in Chile who had contracted hepatitis. The teacher wanted the class to buy the boy something to cheer him up. The children voted to buy the missionary’s son a bicycle. Amanda’s little heart broke at the thought of giving up her bicycle money, but she knew that the missionary’s son needed it more than she did. So she gave every hard-earned dollar to the Sunday School teacher. Years later, Amanda fell in love with a college classmate named Phillip. Amanda’s ...

3405. Is There Hope for the Hapless Wedding Guest?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... 3:18). Made alive in the Spirit? Well I guess! Up from the grave he arose, With a mighty triumph o’er his foes, He arise a victor o’er the dark domain, And he lives forever with his saints to reign. He arose . . . Hallelujah, Christ arose!” I thought I had died and gone to heaven when my pastor—my friend, my model, my hero—upon hearing that I didn’t have a place to stay for the summer between my freshman and sophomore years in college, invited me to live with his family. They fixed a corner ...

3406. The Scariest Drug on the Market

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... was taken he gave a nickel. On the way home a storm came up and his car was turned over. He was trapped inside. Thinking of all the many things he had as he lay trapped and about to be crushed to death, he thought of the nickel he had just given to the poor missionaries. As he thought of this he became so small he easily crawled out from under the car. (2) The love of money is addictive. THE SECOND DANGER OF THIS DRUG IS THAT IT IS DEADENING. Just as novocaine dulls the nerves in the mouth so that ...

3407. Proving Your Love

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... God which cost me nothing." David felt an obligation to God. He knew that man wouldn’t value very much what cost him little or nothing. His attitude was much different from a certain family that was driving home when the worship service was over. Dad thought the sermon was terrible, mother was criticizing the choir and sister criticized the hymns they sang. Then little junior piped up and said, "But it was a pretty good show for a nickel, wasn’t it, Dad?" Ancient Jews believed that the tithe was a kind ...

3408. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... on in the world and blame others for them. But what we do not understand is that what''s going on out there is what''s coming from in here, out of our individual hearts. Jesus said, "For from within the heart of man come evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All of these evil things come from within." What is in your heart, and in my heart, is what we see out in the world. When we pray this prayer Jesus taught us ...

3409. Transforming Tragedy into Triumph

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... , precious memories? When Ulysses, during his wanderings, was leaving the enchanted isle where Calypso lived, Calypso came down to the beach where Ulysses was departing on his raft and said to him, "Say good-bye to me, but not to the thought of me!" There is no danger we will say good-bye to thoughts of _______________. One thing that gives us comfort in our time of grief is the memories we have of happier times spent with the one we say good-bye to today. ANOTHER THING THAT WE CAN DO IS TO DETERMINE TO ...

3410. Jesus, Our Hope

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... , and held Him in your heart this Christmas season? You know that night only a group of shepherds on a hillside saw, and came, and received, and went away praising God. There were lots of other people in the vicinity. I am sure there were some in Bethlehem who thought they were seeing the Aurora Borealis in the night sky. None went and found the Christ child, however. Would that be true of any of us today? The hope of the world is in our midst, but we miss Him. We are in the vicinity of the greatest gift ...

3411. CLEANING IT ALL OUT

Drama

Angela Akers

... Okay, these are all the boxes I dragged up from the basement. Let''s get to it." Husband: "I can''t believe it took just one year to collect all this stuff." Wife: "Yeah, and some of it''s just junk! When we bought some of this stuff, we thought it was necessary or valuable, but now I can see that some of it is just garbage." Husband: "Old letters, this iron I picked up at a garage sale, the stamp collection album I swore I was going to start." Wife: (in fun, sarcastic tone) "Ah, but look at ...

3412. Father? Almighty?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a moving figure coming toward him in the semi-darkness, not knowing whether it was friend or enemy. Suppose he whispered, Who goes there? Would the answer be a bullet or a friendly word or silence? Just so, he felt that night on the moor, alone with his thoughts beside the sea. Suppose he called out to that Other-than-himself, Who goes there? Would there be any answer, or would there be silence—nothing but the boom of the waves and the whisper of the wind in the heather? He decided to risk it. “I made ...

3413. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... joined it, it would be perfect no longer! Have you heard the story about the small satellite that NASA put up in orbit some time ago. It is unusual in that it only beeps when it passes over a truly righteous man or woman. Have you heard it? No, I thought not. Neither have I. It must not have passed over Ann Arbor yet. A week or so ago I received in the mail a brochure describing a spiritual retreat on Humor and Laughter to be held in Traverse City next month. The main speaker is Dr. Floyd Shaffer, pastor of ...

3414. Jesus and the Divorced Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . Bad blood had flowed between Jews and Samaritans for so long that nobody could see an end in sight. And so, when Jesus started off for Galilee by the shortest route through Samaria, the disciples must have shook in their sandals. They must have said, or at least thought, “If we have to go this way, then let us go quickly; let’s not stop along the way.” However, by the sixth hour (noon by our reckoning), Jesus was tired from the long journey, and so he decided to pull into a rest stop by Jacob’s ...

3415. To Who Can We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that he stopped there in the village square and began to think. That boy trusted him because he wore the uniform of someone who represented trust to him. He believed that Guinness was his father in God and trusted his life in his hands. Surely, Guinness thought, there must be a greater Father, in whose hands he could trust his life. From that little incident, he said, he became a man who henceforth trusted his life into the hands of the God who had revealed Himself as his heavenly Father in Jesus Christ ...

3416. Lazarus Laughed

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... themselves well. (Of course, he never did explain just how Jesus knew so much about “psychosomatic medicine” which we are just beginning to discover.) At any rate, this chap insisted that the people Jesus met in the Gospels were not really ill; they just thought they were ill. One day in class I remember asking, “How about Lazarus? Did he just think he was dead?” The professor quickly dismissed the class before any more embarrassing questions could be asked. It seems to me that some of our attempt ...

3417. One Commandment, Slightly Used

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... God keeps replenishing the source. Because God is love. As an old saint of God once said about his efforts to pass love on to others: “I keep shoveling out, God keeps shoveling in, and God has a bigger shovel!” Just so. Well, just a few more thoughts in conclusion. This kind of love is risky business. Remember: it took Jesus to a cross. He did not stand on Calvary and say, “I feel for you.” Instead, He said, “I love you,” and then he died for us. It is risky business following Jesus, loving ...

3418. It’s Hard to Eat While Lying

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of His power, then perhaps the religious authorities and the political authorities would sit up and take notice and become convinced that He really was the Messiah. Judas cheered when Jesus overturned the tables of the money-changers in the Temple. “At last!” he thought to himself, “Jesus is beginning to make some sense. He is waking up to the fact that force is the only language some people understand.” What Judas may have missed at the time of the overturning of the tables is that while Jesus used ...

3419. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... his head, he felt instinctively that the man standing behind him was Christ. At last emotion, curiosity, and awe overcame him, and he turned and looked at the man behind him. He saw a face, he said, “...like all men’s faces. What kind of Christ is this?” he thought. “Such an ordinary, ordinary man. It cannot be.” But it can be...and it is. Philip asked for the Father, and got the Son. We ask for God, and get a Man. An ordinary Man. And yet.....a Man in whom the presence of God dwells. In Jesus we ...

3420. Aren’t All Religions Basically Alike?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... saying. “No one comes to the Father except through me.” We may come to some ideas of God apart from Jesus, but it is through him specifically that we have come to the notion of God as the divine Parent of us all. Before Jesus, most people thought of God as King, Ruler, Majesty, or even perhaps Parent of a certain segment of the human race. But Jesus taught us to pray “Our Father...” That was, and is, a revolutionary prayer. During the First World War someone in India suggested that all of the world ...

3421. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... our vast potential upon this planet to hurt and destroy God’s children and God’s creation. Shortly after the first atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, British preacher Leslie Weatherhead said, “Truly, the world would be a wonderful place if all that man has thought and discovered and invented could be linked up with the loving purposes of God...but cut off from love they count for nothing. in spite of all his efforts, apart from God man cannot turn prowess into progress.” There are all sorts of metaphors ...

3422. Is Conscience the Best Guide?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . One of the primary things that distinguishes us from the animal kingdom is that we have a sense of "ought." No dog or cat awakens on Sunday morning and says to himself or herself: "I really ought to go to church this morning." Yet I would hazard a guess that thought went through the minds of millions of people this morning, whether they ever acted upon it or not. As human beings, we are not only confronted by what we are, but by what we ought to be; not only with what we do, but with what we ought to do ...

3423. The War of Malchus’ Ear

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... His word.” (New York: Macmillan Co., 1978) But the president does not share the Pope’s faith. Neither does the Pope’s Church, nor most of the professing Christians of the world. Soon Pope Francesco is murdered. That gets him out of the way, just as Judas thought he could get Jesus out of the way. And I must confess that I am often of two minds about who is right in that conversation. But then I come back to the Gospel: “So Judas brought a detachment of soldiers together with police from the chief ...

3424. Slippery Rock

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Peter had made a terrible blunder. He confessed Jesus as Messiah, but he expected a very different kind of Messiah, a powerful Messiah, not a suffering Messiah. So Peter took Jesus by the arm and said something like, “Whoa, now, I didn’t sign on for any suffering. I thought you were going to give us twelve thrones to rule over Israel. You are the Messiah, God’s anointed One. This can never happen to you!” That is when Jesus had to tell him that he was a devil, and a hindrance to His cause. Some rock ...

3425. Believing Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in the midst of our shattered and broken world of doubt and despair. He knows our doubts, but He comes to us anyway. One final note: THOMAS MISSED CHURCH...AND LOOK WHAT HE MISSED! The risen Christ was present, but Thomas was away somewhere, doing something he thought more important. But can there be anything more important than meeting the risen Christ on the Lord’s Day? They had a party with Jesus, but Thomas missed it because he wasn’t there! Where do you think he was? Was he off somewhere trying to ...

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