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3601. Who Do You Put On?

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the armor of light; [13] let us live honorably as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy. [14] Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ" I. Putting On The Ritz Putting On is not necessarily a good thing. We know people who are never straight with us. They don't know who they really are. They are constantly "putting us on" trying to be something ...

3602. Dare To DV8

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... music. Because he couldn't sing or play an instrument, he often found himself alone and so he whittled. He could whittle almost anything. His friends kidded him because it seemed that his only talent was whittling. But he didn't give up on his desire to make music. One day Antonio learned that a world-famous violinmaker named Niccolo Amati, son of Andrea Amati lived in Cremona. The next morning Antonio went to visit Amati and begged to serve as his apprentice. For many years he studied and worked. Antonio ...

3603. How Does Your Garden Grow?

Matthew 13:1-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... flagrant rebellion, one which has said no to God. No one or nothing is getting in. This is the wounded, bitter heart, totally surrendered to the world and anything NOT of God. In the Stony Heart, the seed of God's Word gets gobbled up by the desires of world before it even has a chance to even settle. In the movie Secondhand Lions, young Walter, played by Haley Joel Osment is dumped with his only relatives by his flaky husband seeking mother, who goes from one bad relationship to another. His mother heads ...

3604. When We Get Where We’re Going, Where Will We Be? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... will be awful. What seems like a promise can become a prison. I have a colleague who says to me Sunday after Sunday, “Howard, preach the hell out of them today.” That’s what I try to do. Wesley’s only requirement for admission in the Methodist societies was a “desire to flee from the wrath to come.” It is the will of God that all might come to know the riches of his grace. Don’t let the devil have you. Not now! Not ever! If you are going through hell, hang in there until God reveals to you a ...

3605. On Finding Pentecostal Power

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to proclaim that as long as life and thought and being lasts, or immortality endures. III. The Holy Spirit Empowers Us to Be Saved “And everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord will be saved” (v.21). Theologian Walter Bruggman says all who desire to be saved must live through the vulnerability of Good Friday, the despair of Black Saturday, and the surprise of Easter Sunday. Peter says the same thing, only a little plainer, this Jesus whom you were stupid enough to crucify, is ordained by God to ...

3606. Where There’s Hope, There’s Life

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and it’s where Solomon built the temple. It is where the laws of the Lord were kept and the ways of the Lord were practiced. Let us go up to the mountain, the highest mountain of all. Oatman Johnson wrote over 100 years ago: My heart has no desire to stay Where doubts arise and fears dismay; Tho’ some may dwell where these abound My prayer, my aim, is higher ground. May your aim be higher ground, this December. A couple of months ago, I radically changed my prayer life. Instead of praying to get well, I ...

3607. Kingdom Values According to Jesus (Series: Questioning our Values)

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , teach our values, and hopefully, live our values. Values are the personal qualities that sustain us in the big picture of life. Values are a set of guiding principles that help us make decisions. Values are beliefs and attitudes about what is good and right and desirable and worthwhile. People with fuzzy values live fuzzy lives. So, I invite us to use these forty days of Lent to examine our values. I want us to lift up the floorboards of our convictions and examine them in the presence of Jesus. I want us ...

3608. Radical Love at Home (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... s children got shoes. Kill the fatted calf and let us eat and celebrate, for this my son was dead, but now is alive; he was lost, but now is found. Here’s the question. Have you any interest in being a parent like that? Have you the desire to give and forgive and welcome others home with the open arms of compassion? The world has an abundance of prodigal sons and stubborn brothers, but what about the radical love of this extravagant father? Can there ever be enough of that? Which brings me to a question ...

3609. Stewardship of the Earth (Series: Stewardship: Discover This Word and Love It!)

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... effort. People of that great generation valued hard work, modest consumption, consistent giving, and frugal spending. They lived by a simple motto: “Buy what you need and make it last as long as you can.” What has happened to that great American Spirit? Have we the desire to leave the Earth in better shape than we found it? Are we willing to put in more than we take out? Are we willing to do little things for the good of all? Change our light bulbs Recycle our plastic and paper Change our thermostats a ...

3610. Am I In Shape Spiritually? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... a time for prayer and thoughts of the poor. II. Some Spiritual Exercises Are Primarily Public Among them are Holy Communion, Christian Conferencing and public worship. A. Holy Communion is a means of grace. Wesley said in a sermon, “Let everyone who has either any desire to please God, or any love for his own soul, obey God… by receiving communion every time he can.” “Do this in remembrance of me,” said Jesus. Lest I forget Gethsemane, Lest I forget Christ’s agony, Lest I forget God’s love for ...

3611. Follow Your Failures (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 21:1-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... your sinfulness today, hear this word from Romans 3:23, “All sin and all fall short of the glory of God.” “There is none righteousness, no not one” (Romans 3:10). “We err and stray from God’s ways like lost sheep. We follow too much the devices and desires of our own hearts” (Isaiah 53:6). People who pray like that are my kind of people. Why do we fail? The reasons are as numerous as the sands of the seas. But a few seem all too common. Power intoxicates us. Peter was a natural born leader. He ...

3612. Led To Follow

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... important than all the television and radio and promotions that we do in the life of this congregation. Gossip about good things. If somebody wants to find the Lord, will you give them an answer? You see, there is a hunger in our hearts, there is a desire in our souls that may lead us traveling a long way to find it satisfied. They came following; they came seeking. II. They Knelt Seeing Verse 11 On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. What ...

3613. The Real GPS: Gospel Positioning System

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... grandstanding, high-fiving, look-at-me, chest-beaters. Jesus’ disciples follow the One whose footsteps take us up a Via Dolorosa to the cross. Jesus’ disciples follow the One whose life and death and resurrection were directed by a power outside of his own desires. If Christians can claim any GPS guidance it is not a “global positioning system, it is a “Gospel Positioning System.” And when we engage the Christian GPS, we never know where the Spirit will send us. By the way, to her dying day, which ...

3614. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ; [7] for we brought nothing into the world, so that we can take nothing out of it; [8] but if we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. [9] But those who want to be rich fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. [10] For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains. [11] But as for you, man of God ...

3615. Loving as Jesus Loved Us

John 13:31-38

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

... great transformation of your life when you are focused on just one thing focused to the point that bad traits disappear even as the performing of normal tasks becomes all the more meaningful and remarkable. Something like that is our Christian goal as we travel with Jesus. Our desire is to love one another—to love the whole world finally, I suppose—as Jesus loved us. To do that, we need an infusion of a kind of love that does not arise naturally from the context of the world as we know it. So as we lose ...

3616. Transmitting Love

John 13:34-35

Illustration

King Duncan

... . We give blankets to the homeless because they're cold." Do you understand the difference? If we are motivated by the idea that we're going to make our church a bigger church, then our witness will ring false. If, on the other hand, we are motivated simply by the desire to transmit the love we have received from Jesus, then the world will gladly receive us.

3617. Love and Obey (Mother's Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Moms are human. They make mistakes, but 99% of the time, they make those mistakes in love. They really want your well-being. The only difference between God and a loving mother is that God doesn’t make mistakes and God’s love is limitless. God desires that His children shall all live healthy, fulfilling lives. So, God gives us instructions on how we are to live our lives. Over time, these instructions lead to life abundant. God doesn’t make mistakes and God’s love is infinite. It never ends. God is ...

3618. A Place of Peace

John 14:15-31

Illustration

Lee Griess

... Magellan), he entered into a great body of water that lay beyond, and as he and his men lifted their faces to heaven and gave thanks to God, he named the new ocean the "Peaceful Ocean." The word pacific is from the word pacify. In his words this morning, Jesus desires to lead us in the same way to a place of peace. It is his hope to direct our feet and steer our lives from the paths that would lead to hell to his place of peace. "Let not your hearts be troubled," he says, "neither let them be afraid ...

3619. John 17:20-26

John 17:20-26

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me” (v.23). It is not theology or conviction or obedience that unites believers. It is the experience and expression of love. Jesus’ prayer continues, but recalls his earlier petition in v.5, where his desire is to be glorified “with the glory that I had in your presence before the world existed.“ Here Jesus prays that all who follow him in faithfulness may gain a glimpse of the full glory that he shares with the Father. Jesus’ petition is memory ...

3620. Chosen by God

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... this say about our efforts to isolate ourselves from pain and suffering, especially the pain and suffering of the poor and dispossessed? 3) How Happy are those who claim nothing, for the whole earth will belong to them! What does this say about our insatiable desire and preoccupation with things. 4) How Happy are those who make peace, for they will be known as children of God: What does this say about our trust in military might and our support of She continuous nuclear buildup the most blatant sound evil ...

3621. The Broken English of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was suddenly a sound that sounded like “home.” No matter how many languages you might master in your lifetime there will always be one that is your “mother tongue.” Your “mother tongue” is the language that first expressed your feelings and fears, your desires and dreams. When traveling in distant lands, nothing perks up your ears quite so much as hearing a sudden snatch of conversation in your mother tongue. When you’re away from home, hearing the language of home inspires you to strike up a ...

3622. Where Do We Grow from Here?

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... fear of failure drawing from me more and more energy, and serving as a demanding taskmaster of my life. Along the t I had to admit to myself and others, and of course, to God, that this was a neurotic effort on my part to prove myself to others, a desire to be accepted by them. At a particularly crucial time, an aspect of the Gospel became very real to me, and I gained a whole new lease on life. When you really accept the acceptance of God, when his love and forgiveness really come alive in your life, you ...

3623. A Priesthood of Believers

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that we can’t accept. Do you know what I am talking about? The rage that is triggered by some minor incident, the near—hate or the actual hate we feel when our spouse spurns our love, the loss that boils up, the jealousy that comes on unexpectedly, the desire to hoard, to hold on to rather than to share. We could go on and on. The morbid fear of death or the future. Sometimes we are so fearful of these feelings. They are so against our being, so ugly and distasteful to us, so deep and mysterious that ...

3624. No Longer Strangers

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... one spirit to the Father.” The Greek word translated “access,” is a technical term for the right of free approach into the presence of a king. In the Persian royal court, there was an official called the prosagogeus. His function was to introduce people who desired an audience with the king. The image is beautiful and the truth is clear: Christ is our prosagogeus. We have open access to the Father. On the cross Jesus flung the door open - in fact, nailed it open so that it could never be closed again ...

3625. More Than We Are

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Jesus Christ. Most of us want to be more than we are, don’t we? It’s true throughout life. Little children dream of the day when they will be youths; youth of the time when they will mature to adulthood; and adults continue to burn with desires, expressed and unexpressed ambitions. From cradle to crematory it’s the same story: we want to be more than we are. The question is, how can we? In the healthy sense of the word, how can we be more than we are? IN IMAGINATION IMAGINATION Imagination will ...

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