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3576. I'll Never Forget That Night

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... when it is interspersed with notes that Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, sometimes, in fact, seemingly as an act of Yahweh. Could not Yahweh have provided a less destructive and deadly exit strategy for Israel? The plagues begin to make sense when they are viewed in the context of Egypt’s climate and culture. After the initial sparring with snakes to show magical skills, the stakes are raised far beyond human ability to merely manipulate the natural order. First the waters are turned to blood; then the ...

3577. When You Drop the Ball, What Next?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the religious authorities, instantly transforming him from an asset into a threat. It cost him the sense of astonishment and awe that had surrounded his words and works in the local synagogues. The more he succeeded, the more he failed, and the more he was viewed with suspicion and alarm. When Jesus returned to his hometown of Nazareth, this turning tide slapped him in the face. Mark’s gospel gives us another glimpse into a Sabbath synagogue service in Mark 6:1-6. Standing in the most familiar of home ...

3578. Jesus Casts Out Impure Spirits

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... signs to look for in your 12-year-old. The movie details this girl’s mother’s desperate attempts to win back her child through an exorcism conducted by two of the priests. And the results are horrific. Before you run home and download it for family viewing, let me hasten to say that, several years ago, “The Exorcist” was named by both Entertainment Weekly and Movies.com as the scariest film of all time. The scene in today’s text from the Gospel of Mark is far less dramatic than that portrayed in ...

3579. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... creature.” Schuller admitted he scoffed at the Secretary of State’s answer. Schuller had just graduated after receiving an advanced academic degree. “We all know man is a rational creature,” he thought self-righteously to himself. It was a point of view shared by many during that era. After forty years of ministry, Robert Schuller changed his mind. The subconscious, he decided, is ahead of the conscious. The head may lead the way, but it’s the subconscious, the emotions, the heart that will ...

3580. Spiritual Marines

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... ] He went on to compare the behavior of the church and the unchurched in a variety of categories—people who call in sick when they are not, people who lie on their resumes, people who cheat on their tax deductions—and found “little difference in the ethical views and behavior of the churched and the unchurched.”[2] No one has said it better than William Barclay who wrote: It’s possible to be a follower of Jesus without being a disciple; to be a camp-follower without being a soldier of the King; to ...

3581. Everything Must Go: “Abandon Ship!”

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... money correctly. Your mind will not be right about money until you get that one foundational truth down in your heart. Nothing you have is yours. It all belongs to God. I am not just taking one verse here and building a whole belief on it. That is the universal view of the Bible. Psalm 24:1 says this, “The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein.” (Psalm 24:1, ESV) God not only owns your stuff, but He owns you. That is good news. Do you know why? If you ever ...

3582. Can One Become Two?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... under all circumstances. Divorce is permitted in some circumstances, but remarriage is not. Divorce and remarriage are permitted in all circumstances. Divorce and remarriage are permitted only under certain circumstances. At the outset, I want to say that there are two extreme views of divorce and remarriage and I don’t hold to either one. There are some people that want to try to “dumb-down” the standard of divorce. They want to make God say less than what God really says. They basically allow ...

3583. Can Two Stay One?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

James Merritt

... . There are plenty of things I do that I don’t like, but if I can love myself without approving of all I do I can also love others without approving of all they do. As that truth has been absorbed into my life it has changed the way I view other people.”[1] Let’s get straight to the point. If you are married today and you are sitting there thinking, “I just can’t love him or her anymore” that is just not true. Love is not a matter of can or can’t; it is a matter of ...

3584. Let's Take This from the Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... same plan. Genetic research has shown that one pair of human chromosomes labeled X and Y determined the gender of our children. All males have both X and Y-chromosomes and all females only have a pair of X chromosomes. From a purely biological point of view what determines maleness is the Y chromosome. If a child inherits an X chromosome from the father it will be female. If it is a Y chromosome is will be male. The father’s seed determines the gender of the child. Genetically therefore it is possibly ...

3585. It's Not Rocket Science

John 8:31-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... They want to keep one away from the other. That really doesn’t solve what people see to be the problem for this reason. Science, history, and theology are not three distinct branches of knowledge. They are simply three different ways in which we view the world around us. Many times they cannot be separated. Take for example the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Was that just a theological event, or was it a historical event, or was it a scientific event? The answer to that question is “yes.” Historically ...

3586. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

Sermon

... saw the crowds and had compassion on them. Jesus taught us this is what the kingdom is all about. Sometimes we can ignore people’s’ needs, but not Jesus. He was moved with compassion by the people’s needs and he sought to help them. He viewed them as sheep without a shepherd, lost and helpless, without guidance, nourishment, or protection. Jesus not only had compassion on the crowd; he was also moved to help them. Many people look on others in need with compassion; only a few are moved to help them ...

3587. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... Freud died friendless,” says Dr. Nicholi. “It is well known that he had broken with each of his followers. The end was bitter.” (2) How sad--to find little that was good in his fellow human beings--to consider most people trash. Freud, of course had a very dim view of religion. No wonder he didn’t find much good in people. I don’t want to sound like I’m blowing our trumpet, but I wish he could know some of the people I’ve come to know in this church and other churches. There is so much that ...

3588. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... the one in his middle years found a mature Christ and the oldest found a Companion for his old age. This old legend contains a profound truth: it suggests that whenever we discover Christ, we discover our own selves, gaining for the first time a full, honest view, both of what we have been and what we can become. In Jesus Christ we meet both God and man. That incarnation, that divinity, is very difficult for us to understand. We just can’t comprehend that twofold nature: both man and God. But he helps us ...

3589. Right Answer - Wrong Conclusion

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... suffering and death MUST happen. In contrast to previously veiled language, Jesus spoke plainly about the need for his death and resurrection. Peter understood his words, clearly, and though he had just confessed that Jesus is the Messiah, he could not reconcile his view of Messiah with the rejection, suffering and consequent death that Jesus predicted. Peter had the right answer, but he jumped to the wrong conclusion about what that meant and so he rebuked Christ. I wonder how often we do that--answer the ...

3590. Peace Comes to Our Hearts

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Unable to see, unable to hear, unable to speak . . . what a dark world it was for this little child. But one of the success stories of the ages is how Helen Keller came out of that inner darkness into a light which you and I can only view with astonishment. Never seeing with physical eyes the light of the sun that we see--never hearing the sounds that we can hear--but she lived a full, rich radiant life. For example, did you know that Helen Keller graduated from Radcliffe College, cum laude? Even more ...

3591. When Walls Shift and the Ceiling Collapses

John 8:31-36

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... circumstance to love one another and to live confidently. The years 1527 until 1529 were particularly difficult for Martin Luther. The Black Death swept through Wittenberg. Although his son, Hans, recovered from the plague, multitudes in the city died. Luther's religious views continued to make him many powerful enemies. A daughter, Elizabeth, was born and died a few months later. Luther is said to have felt so helpless during these years that in the face of grief, turmoil, and controversy he fell into a ...

3592. King Jesus

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... not directly connected with the key governing authority. Then, a Roman centurion assigned to Jesus' execution squad made the remarkable testimony, using language otherwise reserved only for the emperor himself, that "surely this man was the Son of God." Somehow people kept viewing Jesus as a king. The affirmations only continued after Jesus disappeared from the scene. He is above all principalities and powers, Paul wrote, and said that every knee in heaven and on earth would bow to him. John saw him as an ...

3593. Demons, Pigs, and the Economy

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... at the unjust, uncaring, hypercritical world, while bruising and cutting himself in the process. Thus it is with considerable courage that Jesus comes into the presence of this terrifying creature. If the ancient equivalent of a tourist bus might have come within viewing distance of the "local attraction," none, out of fear for their lives would have dared confront this maniac. No one except Jesus. Jesus, the integrated man; Jesus, the man in whom the centering powers of the universe found a home; Jesus, in ...

3594. The Wrong Gift

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... . We pick up prescient clues from the Old Testament prophecies that we recite about Jesus and theology as romantic drama, looking for more details about wedding dresses and royal ceremonies. When the marriage is consummated, we are the first on hand with Luke to view the special days of celebration in the life of the First Family of which everyone is talking. When children play "dress up" they are enacting common social rituals. Lovers dress up for special dates. Spouses dress up to go out for an evening ...

3595. The Good Samaritan (Revised Edition)

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... , defensive, legalistic model for life and to be a loving, caring person. II. In Jesus' classic story the religious types are not held up for admiration either. As representatives of the aristocratic, religious elite, the priest and Levite were not, in Jesus' view, good examples of what it means to love thy neighbor as thyself. The priest and Levite were part of the official religious staff who served the great temple in Jerusalem. Required to serve several weeks out of the year, priests and Levites ...

3596. Antinomy

Illustration

J.I. Packer

... its study of light. There is cogent evidence to show that light consists of waves, and equally cogent evidence to show that it consists of particles. It is not apparent how light can be both waves and particles, but the evidence is there, and so neither view can be ruled out in favor of the other. Neither, however, can be reduced to the other or explained in terms of the other; the two seemingly incompatible positions must be held together, and both must be treated as true. Such a necessity scandalizes our ...

3597. Made In France

Illustration

Michael P. Green

In teaching your child, never overlook the obvious. Remember, they view life differently than you. One teacher told the following story: Some third-graders were studying a unit on patriotism. After a discussion about how France had given us the Statue of Liberty, the teacher asked how many of her pupils had seen the statue. Several children raised their hands. Anticipating ...

3598. Death Is Unnatural

Illustration

Michael P. Green

It has become fashionable in our culture to hold the view that death is a perfectly natural occurrence. The Bible teaches that it is not, and even those who deny the afterlife witness that God “has set eternity in the hearts of men.” The following extract from Charlotte and Howard Clinebell’s The Intimate Marriage (N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1970), p. ...

3599. Christmas

Illustration

John A. Robinson

... the Christmas myth (the invasion of this side by the other side), as opposed to the Christmas history (the birth of the man, Jesus of Nazareth), has to go. Are we prepared for that? Or are we to cling here to this last vestige of the mythological or metaphysical world view as the only garb in which to clothe the story with power to touch the imagination? Cannot perhaps the supernaturalist scheme survive at least as part of the “magic” of Christmas?

3600. Caged By The Cross

Illustration

Michael P. Green

On a trip to the zoo, a boy and his father saw a huge lion. The lion prowled around his enclosure letting out chilling roars. The boy became very frightened and screamed grabbing his father's leg, but the father remained calm and unafraid. The boy saw only the lion; the father saw the lion but he also saw the cage. Christian’s view Satan as a fierce enemy caged by the cross.

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