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3551. One For All

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... argue in his defense. The attorneys primarily argued that Eli’s actions were constitutionally protected as “free speech,” but they also noted there was another reason Michael Eli should not be prosecuted and punished for “flashing” his warning to others. “In our views” one attorney noted, “that’s speech that’s protected by the first Amendment and it’s also good for the public because it tells people to slow down, to use caution. That’s never a bad thing.” In February of 2014 (last ...

3552. The Lord Is (More Than) My Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... them, and if he ran out of gas, he would take him to get gas from there, but at least they would be closer. The elderly man agreed and thanked him. They drove more than 20 miles, and Heins watched the older gentleman as he would look in his rear view mirror and wave to him from time to time, as he followed him. The truck never did run out of gas, they made it all the way to the gas station. At the station the old pastor thanked him again, and said, “Just knowing you were behind us, just in ...

3553. Breaking News: God and Government

Romans 13:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... no sense of responsibility at the other. The nine most terrifying words in the English language are these: 'I am from the government and I am here to help.' Government is not a very popular word in our vocabulary today. Six out of ten Americans have a negative view of the government. The only industry in America that has a lower rating than the government is the oil and gas industry. We are in a series we are calling “Breaking News.” There is one thing you can count on being in the news every day and ...

3554. On the Ropes: Round 3 - Defending God

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... down in verse 6 that puts our present in proper perspective. “His ways are eternal.” (Habakkuk 3:6, NIV) You will never ever be able to put the tough times of your life in proper perspective unless you do this one essential thing – Keep eternity in view. Your earthly life is just a very small piece of God’s eternal puzzle. The tough times and the difficult days that you go through are just a small piece of that small piece. Our ways are earthly, flawed, faulty and failing. His ways are eternal ...

3555. Treasure Hunt

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... assurance. If you’re not happy with a thousand dollars in the bank, you probably won’t be happy with a million. As someone has said, happiness is an inside job. When opera diva Beverly Sills was asked if she is happy, she replied that in view of the tragedies that have happened in her life she couldn’t say that she was happy but, she said, “I am cheerful.” Her tragedies included one of her children being deaf and the other mentally challenged. In telling about Beverley Sills’ life, Dr. Michael ...

3556. Ignite: Fight Fire with Fire

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

James Merritt

... men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.” (Acts 4:13, ESV) Peter and John had taken their best shot and they hadn’t budged an inch. The last time these soldiers had seen Peter and John they left them in their rear-view mirror. Today, they aren’t backing up and they are not backing down. Only one thing was different – the resurrected Jesus. I want to reiterate. When you make a decision to stand tall you will also have to decide to stand tough. Dogs don’t bark at ...

3557. One Thing

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... . You’ve got to make a point of pressing on - on a daily basis saying that, “Today if I don’t do anything else, this one thing I will do.” That is where Baby Boomers, like me, have a problem. We have been raised to view success as something easy. Our generation doesn’t know a whole lot about determination, perseverance, and endurance. We have the attitude today when the boss gets unreasonable you just quit. When the subject gets too difficult just drop out of class. When the marriage gets ...

3558. Look and Live

Isaiah 44:24--45:25

Sermon

James Merritt

... during this Jewish holy season for the salvation of the Jewish people. Now some Jews have gotten very highly upset at that and greatly offended. Because we think we need to pray for their salvation. Others have accused us of being religious bigots and narrow minded in our view that Jews need to come to Christ. Well, no less than a Pharisee of Hebrews, one of the greatest Jews who ever lived, the man by the name of the Apostle Paul said in Romans 10:1: “Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for ...

3559. Envision: A Church After God’s Heart

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... break open in your mind and the message is, “Brace yourself. I am about to do something unbelievable in your life.” Maybe it was a phone call you received, or a letter in the mail, or a conversation you had with someone, or a news story you read or viewed, or some other trigger that got the ball rolling in your mind on that “God thing”. [At this point in the sermon Dr. Merritt shares the story of how he came to be pastor of his church. You should substitute your own story or a similar story of God ...

3560. All In: The Winning Hand

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... reach a wide range of people: religious, non-religious, meticulous, moralist, loose-living, immoralist, the defeated, the demoralized – whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ, but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all of this because of the Message. I didn’t want to just talk about it. I wanted to be in ...

3561. Up Close & Personal: Open the Doors

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... Him for anything thank Him for what He has done and praise Him for who He is. You may know that the Hebrew word for “praise” is the word “halal.” It literally means, “to be excited with great joy.” The single half of this verse totally changed my view even about music. I know there are some people who criticize praise choruses and kind of talk down about praise choruses, but I believe our entire life ought to be a praise chorus. When you think about a God who created you when He didn’t have to ...

3562. She Had Great Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... effect, because what happens next is certainly a watershed moment in his ministry. When he breaks his silence, he says something quite disturbing to anyone who is not Jewish. “I was sent,” he said, “only to the lost sheep of Israel.” Is this truly how Jesus viewed his ministry not as the world’s Savior, but only as a Messiah for the Jews? Or is he saying, “Up to this moment my ministry has been directed exclusively toward the Jews, but I am preparing to do a new thing.” The Canaanite woman was ...

3563. That's Not Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... these two eggs closely and observes which of the newborn chicks is the sturdiest and most likely to survive. Then she boots the other chick out of the nest to die. It appears that it was just a spare. “Small children,” writes Ann Crittenden, “view any trace of parental favoritism with the same panic that must be felt by the luckless booby chick. Every parent has heard the anguished cries: ‘Her piece is bigger than mine!’ ‘I want one just like Johnny’s!’ ‘You love him better than me ...

3564. Leave Your Calculator Home

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... one useless man is a shame, two [useless men] is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.” Mark Twain once said, “Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.” Ronald Reagan once said, “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.” And Will Rogers said: “I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the ...

3565. A Lesson from Jay Leno's Mom

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... t like the hymns, the choir didn’t sound as good as they sometimes do. There were too many mistakes . . . the sermon just didn’t speak to me. I just didn’t get anything out of worship.” But Kierkegaard admonished people to change their view of worship. To Kierkegaard, worship is more of a time when the people in the congregation are also actors, as well as the ministers, musicians, and choirs. God is the audience. (5) What if after worship God was evaluating your participation in worship just like ...

3566. Risky Business

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... the amount of wealth entrusted to them. The third man is more timid. He doesn’t like taking risks. He is more afraid of failing than he is excited about succeeding. He buried his bag of gold in the ground. Part of this man’s problem was his view of his master’s character. Note how he defends his inaction in increasing his master’s wealth. “Master,” he says, “I knew that you are a hard man, harvesting where you have not sown and gathering where you have not scattered seed. So I was afraid and ...

3567. Last Impressions

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... his final visit into the Temple in Jerusalem. His first encounter was with the Herodians (who were egged on by the Pharisees) when he was grilled about the question of paying taxes to Rome. His second encounter was with the Sadduccees where his views on resurrection and eternal life were sized up and audited. Now in this third encounter Jesus is confronted by what appears to be an organized, formal assembly of Pharisees. These were those Jewish authorities who were most devoted to imbedding the force and ...

3568. Dust Off The Throne

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... , would be inclined to give the credit to God. After all, he knew, even as a boy facing his first enemy that “the battle is the Lord’s and he will give you into our hand” (1 Samuel 17:47). Romans 16:25-27 Our New Testament lesson may be viewed as either a very short passage or as a very long sentence. It qualifies as both. The length and convolution of the sentence can be off-putting for many readers, and so a part of our task this week may be simply to walk our people through some characteristically ...

3569. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... Judas questions the Lord’s timing, asking why Jesus came in such a “backward time” when there was no mass communication. Yet the timing of God is impeccable — far beyond the comprehension of Judas’ manifest misunderstanding. Moffatt takes a somewhat different view of the timing issue. “But when time had fully expired,” he writes, “God sent forth his Son.” Reminiscent of judgment and eschatological passages, Moffatt sees the matter not so much as the time being right but rather as the time ...

3570. The Two Faces of Thanksgiving

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... into the past, the other face turned towards the future. Hence the hinge month of “January.” While being “two-faced” has now become an insult, for those early Romans who knew nothing about brain science the ability to simultaneously keep one’s past in clear view while focusing forward to the future was seen as a unique, in fact a divine, ability. For Christians to be “two-faced” was to be a prophet, except a prophet was seen in threefold scenarios, not two. A prophet was supposed to have three ...

3571. Who's Your Master?

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to God. Obedience grows out of having a vital mission. That’s the second thing we need to see. When you are driven by a mission, a great purpose, obedience comes naturally. You may not see yourself as an obedient person. In fact, you may view yourself as quite a free spirit. That’s well and good. You were probably raised by one of those more modern Middletown moms with their emphasis on independence, tolerance, and social-mindedness. That’s fine. However, if you have ever attempted anything great in ...

3572. A Family Celebration - Maundy Thursday

John 13:18-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... ?” (1) His confusion is both charming and quite natural. The Lord’s Supper is an event quite unique to the Christian community. As such, it is poorly understood by many people. “This is my body, this is my blood.” No wonder the early Christians were viewed with suspicion by their neighbors. They eat their founder’s flesh? They drink his blood? Taken literally, this would be cause for alarm. And it was alarming to those on the outside looking in. The Lord’s Supper is still a deep mystery to the ...

3573. A Watery Grave

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

David J. Kalas

A photograph of the earth from outer space reveals how much of our world is water. Indeed, that cosmic view prompted folks to refer to the Earth a “blue marble in space.” Scientists report that approximately seventy percent of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. Genesis, meanwhile, reports an occasion when 100 percent of the Earth’s surface was covered with water. This is the familiar story ...

3574. Building a New Team

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... Paul hoped to embark on another mission journey soon thereafter, and this time stop in Rome on his way to Spain and the western reaches of the empire. Paul’s design in the first part of this letter (1:19—3:20) is to give a different view of the origins of evil. God is good; creation is good; and human alienation from the good is a late introduction brought about by our sinful choices. For Paul’s audience in Rome, made up of both Jewish and Gentile Christians, the message communicated is that neither ...

3575. Starting Over

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... all over again. Hebrews 5:5-10 Kenneth Schenck has authored a great introduction to the letter from which our epistle reading comes today. His study is called Understanding the Book of Hebrews: The Story behind the Sermon (Westminster John Knox, 2003). Schenck’s view is that the letter was written to a mixed congregation of both Jewish and Gentile Christians in Rome who were in danger of dropping Jesus from their religion because of imminent persecution. Most prone to this move were those who had been ...

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