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326. How to Turn the Ballot into a Blessing Box

Proverbs 29:2

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James Merritt

... : A number of people around me think I'm leaving you a note that includes my name and address, but I'm not. To me that is a picture of what is wrong with much of the leadership we have in this nation. Publicly this man gave the impression of decency, goodness, and honesty. Privately he was a liar, a cheat, and a coward. Increasingly we are hearing many people running for political office who say, "What matters is not the private life, but the bottom line." But there is an even greater problem than the ...

327. What Church Is All About

Psalm 100:1-5

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James Merritt

... . That's why a Christian ought to be one big hallelujah from the top of his head to the sole of his feet. Peter Bohler once said to Charles Wesley, "If I had a thousand tongues, I would praise Jesus Christ with everyone of them." Wesley was so impressed by this statement, that he wrote the matchless hymn, "O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise." I can honestly say that I would rather you bring your thanksgiving and praise to church and leave your money at home, than to bring your money ...

328. No Place Like Home

Psalm 128:1-6

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James Merritt

... the question: “What is your greatest accomplishment in life?” Now think of all the things that he could have said. He could have replied that he was a fighter pilot in World War II that was shot down and yet survived. He could have given an impressive resume of being the U.S. Ambassador to China, the Director of the CIA, the Vice President of the United States, even the President of the United States. But do you know what he said? He said, “My greatest accomplishment in life is this—“my children ...

329. Zechariah I: Stuck Like a Dope With a Thing Called Hope

Zechariah 9:14-17

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John E. Harnish

... in his present struggle against cancer, he witnesses to the audacity of hope in the face of death. One of my favorite pieces of public art is at Stone Mountain in Georgia, but it is not the huge carvings of the confederate heroes on Stone Mountain which impress me. It's a small statue in a little garden around the side of the mountain of stone. There you will find a memorial to the ordinary foot soldiers. The statue is a young soldier, without shirt or shoes, pants tattered and torn. He holds high a broken ...

330. A Humbling Moment

Matthew 23:1-12

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... to the cemetery he began to turn in his Bible to the passage he was to read at the grave side. While he was turning to I Corinthians 15, the funeral director interrupted him and asked him a question. Pastor Hartwig could tell the funeral director was impressed with the message he had brought at the funeral. The funeral director asked several questions, and he answered each one. Hartwig was proud of himself and the job he had done. Here was a man who had listened to hundreds of funeral services, and his was ...

331. The Problem of Unanswered Prayer

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

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Leonard Sweet

... who we are and to tell the truth about ourselves, which changes our prayers. Have you ever noticed, as did Huck Finn, that "You can't pray a lie"? When you pray, listening to God speak to you, you are forced to deal with yourself: no roles to perform; no impressions to keep up; no masks to hide behind. Maybe this is one reason we are so afraid of prayer. For in prayer, we learn to tell the truth about who we are and what our motivations are. We learn to criticize our whole way of being in the world, to ...

332. Connect the Dots

Luke 4:14-21

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Leonard Sweet

... that passed them in the street or the eye color of a salesclerk who had waited on them three weeks ago. Even when we're not consciously aware of it, our minds are taking in thousands of little pieces of information, processing them and creating from these fragments our general impressions of life, our basic concepts of reality. When Jesus rose to read the Scriptures in his home synagogue in Nazareth, the people gathered there were seeing a lot more than they thought. Even though these worshipers were ...

333. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... those to whom he appeared. Luke breaks with Matthew and Mark's tradition of placing the call of the first disciples at the earliest stages of Jesus' ministry. Rather, Luke waits until Jesus has an established reputation, considerable fame and an impressive following before he has Jesus call his first 'official' disciples. As Jesus approaches the Sea of Galilee, or what Luke calls "the lake of Gennesaret," he is surrounded by a large crowd anxiously awaiting some word from him. Jesus improvises, transforming ...

334. Luke 21:5-19

Luke 21:5-19

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Leonard Sweet

... . Josephus describes it as being covered in front with huge plates of gold, bedazzling all who looked upon it. Even travelers viewing the temple from a distance were impressed; from far away the rest of the building, composed of brilliant white stone, positively glowed. But all this drooling on the doorsteps doesn't impress Jesus. His response in verse 6 must have struck his listeners as shockingly disrespectful and patently false. Yet surprisingly, the crowd of followers surrounding Jesus here respond to ...

335. 1 Corinthians 15:1-11

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

336. Luke 21:5-19

Luke 21:5-19

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Leonard Sweet

337. Ephesians 1:15-23

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Leonard Sweet

... inheritance is the unfathomable greatness of God's power working on our behalf. This is the very same power, Paul insists in verse 20, that was capable of raising up Christ from death. If Paul's talk of "call" and "inheritance" made a point before of impressing on the Ephesians the abundance of God's gifts, the apostle now focuses on trying to get these believers to grasp how vast is this divine power exerted on their behalf. This is a power "above all rule and authority and power and dominion" (v.21 ...

338. Acts 2:1-21

Acts 2:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... But in Acts, Luke's version of the Holy Spirit's dramatic descent into the midst of the disciples was not intended as some vain vaunting of the church's erstwhile power or importance. In actuality, details of the Holy Spirit's arrival however impressive constitute the smallest part of today's lectionary reading. Luke is far less concerned with the Holy Spirit's awesome manifestations than he is about how the disciples respond to this life-altering gift. For Luke, the Holy Spirit arrives in Jerusalem during ...

339. Mark 4:35-41

Mark 4:35-41

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Leonard Sweet

... that focus on the welfare of others, the disciples' response is recorded by Mark. They are "filled with great awe" though not, we need to notice, with faith. It is ironic that Jesus' power over the wind and sea seems to make more of an impression on the disciples than does his ability to cast out unclean spirits. But according to Jewish tradition, the powers Jesus has just displayed put him in a whole other category of being. Jesus has decisively demonstrated his absolute and divine powers. He is certainly ...

340. Mark 12:38-44

Mark 12:38-44

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Leonard Sweet

... legal training, Jesus' accusation may stem from incidents of mishandled or misappropriated estates, which left the legal helper, the scribe, well-off and the widow herself quite destitute. Jesus then accuses these same corrupt and heartless officials of offering up long, impressive prayers, supposedly in the synagogue or temple or some other highly public place, merely for the "sake of appearance." Their prayers are not offered to God's ear but are uttered with great force and flourish in order to further ...

341. God's Workmanship

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God not by works, so that no one can boast.” We are not called to be “do-gooders,” impressing others with our acts of mercy. Neither are we trying to impress God so that we can win God’s favor. It is much deeper than that. The grace of Jesus Christ has come into the world. We are to so connect ourselves to him that his life is lived out through us. Robert E. Reccord and ...

342. Death Has Been Conquered

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... talks about the first worship service he led in his first pastoral charge. He was young and very green. It was the first Sunday in August a hot summer day in a small country church, some sixty odd people gathered for worship. Wanting very badly to impress his new congregation, naturally he gave it his all. At the end of the sermon, he thought to himself, “Well, not bad.” But just before could catch his breath, a woman sprang up from a pew, and began screaming. Paterson froze in place. His first thought ...

343. Why We Do What We Do

Matthew 6:1-4

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Mike Ripski

... Jesus takes up fasting, ascetical practices of self-denial. He says that fasting is our offering to God. God knows our hunger, our emptiness, the cost of our sacrifice. Don’t act like you’re suffering in order to gain the sympathy of others. They may be impressed with your martyr complex. God isn’t. Why do we do what we do? Tuesday is Veterans Day. Many of you served your country because you were motivated by what your country needed and the world needed. You showed that it is possible to be motivated ...

344. Getting Rid of Anger

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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King Duncan

... cleaners and expressed his anger quite forcefully. He realizes now that he probably did not leave the manager with a very favorable impression. He knows that because recently he put a red ballpoint pen in the breast pocket of his white shirt and forgot ... then looked sideways at Bob’s wife and said quietly, “Good shot.” (1) I would say Bob probably didn’t make a very good impression on that manager. I won’t ask if any of you have ever gotten upset and said anything you should not have said. Maybe you ...

345. Back to the Future

Luke 9:28-36 (37-43)

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Gary L. Carver

... other gospels - Matthew and Mark. Preachers, teachers, scholars, and theologians are all aware that something significant happened. I'll join with the ignorant and say like most of them that I don't know what happened, but something special and very unique made an indelible impression upon the minds of those who experienced it. It is as if there is almost a shroud of mystery surrounding this experience. What did it mean to Jesus? What did it mean to the disciples both then and later on? What did it mean to ...

346. Mary Magdalene’s Day

John 20:1-18

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Donald Charles Lacy

... he would execute justice and take his killers to task by destroying them. So, there she is awaiting answers. Does our dear Lord ever call you or me by name? We have known people who claimed as much. We are impressed by those who profess exactly that. Some build denominations and others followings which often are impressive. When we are called by our names, it makes a difference. By and large, we all like to hear them. The truth of the matter is, we not only like to hear our names but to sense a strong, even ...

347. What Must I DO to Receive Life? - Sermon Starter

Mark 10:17-31

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Brett Blair

... . He understood the Law and he understood Jesus' teaching. But in the end love of money kept him out. We see him as a moral coward. But that conclusion is too simple. The fact is there are a lot of good things that can be said of him. I'm impressed with the fact, for example, that having talked with him only a few minutes, Mark tells us that Jesus looked upon him and loved him. That doesn't sound like a scathing criticism to me. And, I think that we also need to remember that to this young boy Jesus ...

348. Only Jesus

Mark 9:2-9

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... listen to God and to focus their lives on Jesus only. A few years ago there was an article in the "Faith and Inspiration" section of the Star Telegram one Saturday titled, "Impress a teen....go to church." According to the Princeton Religion Research Center publication, Emerging Trends, a survey conducted with teenagers shows that teenagers are impressed by adults who go to church or other places of worship. 81% of the youth polled said that "With all the talk of the need to instill a sense of values in ...

349. He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels

Luke 23:26-43

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King Duncan

... come out to hug her. Each time the sister held Flannery to her body, the cross that the nun was wearing around her chest would press into Flannery’s cheek and leave its imprint . . . That’s one cross that made quite an impression. Sometimes, however, you wonder if the cross has made any impression at all. Did you know that one of the few weekdays when no trading takes place on the New York Stock Exchange is Good Friday? If you go to the Visitor’s Center at the Stock Exchange and ask “Why,” they ...

350. Christ Arose

John 20:1-9

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King Duncan

... Pentecost Peter told the story of Christ’s death and resurrection with such conviction and power that three thousand people became believers (Acts 2:41). How do you explain such a change in a person’s demeanor? It’s incredible. Even more impressively, none of those who claimed to have met Christ after his resurrection ever recanted. They were persecuted, tortured, even martyred, and right to the very end they stayed true to their testimony. He is alive! Father Basil Pennington, a Roman Catholic monk ...

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