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3626. Why Not a Christian Live 8 for the Environment?

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... gave a sense of power and genuine possibility to the staggering task they had set for themselves. Wipe out poverty? Why not! Thanks to Live-8, the continent of Africa is now high on the world's agenda. In watching the Live-8 drama unfold, I thought I was back in the 19th century. Except then it wasn't rock stars like Bono and Paul McCartney leading the way. It was Christian businessmen and clergy. In the hey-day of nineteenth century evangelical activism, voluntary societies were on the vanguard of what ...

3627. Why Are Christians Such Bad Tippers?

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cold, and ignored your frantic flailing for more coffee, you can return the insult with a puny pittance of gratitude. But a tip says as much about the customer who leaves it as it does about the person who receives it. Are you generous, compassionate, thoughtful, precise, calculating? Or just plain cheap? It's disturbing to learn, then, that at any average restaurant what the wait staff typically dreads is being on duty Sunday after church time. In the waiting-tables world, it is a well-worn word of warning ...

3628. Soren's Heart

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... pocket or purse some sort of talisman - a small something that reminds you of something much bigger? We often call these things we carry around with us keepsakes or mementos or jewelry. But they're really talismans. According to the dictionary, a talisman is a trinket or piece of jewelry thought to afford some protection against danger and evil. Maybe you wear a locket that holds inside it photos of loves ones. Maybe you keep a worry stone (or a rosary?) in your pocket for your anxious fingers and anxious ...

3629. Unchained Melody

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Certain, Of Not Knowing and Never Knowing (De Arte Dubitandi et Confidendi, Ignorandi et Sciendi , Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, 29 [Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1981]). Church historian Brian Gerrish tells Castellio's story and excerpts his unpublished book. ... a day? How do you do that? Do you talk to yourself when no one's around? I asked Lori how this could be possible. She thought about it for a minute, and then said, 'It's pretty clear to me. Women talk twice as much as men because we have to ...

3630. But Wait! There's More!

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lord. She was warm and candid. “I’ve lived a good life,” she said. “The Lord’s been good to me but my husband’s gone, my children are grown; its time to rest, to go home, be with God and with my husband.” Alexander, with the inexperience of youth, thought she was afraid of surgery. So he reassured her. “Oh,” she said, “these are fine doctors and the nurses are great but I’ve had a good life, a full life, I’m ready to go home.” The young pastor-to-be was baffled in the face of her ...

3631. The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... You notes. She wrote: “Milton, the house you built is so huge I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway.” “Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home; I have my groceries delivered, so I never use the Mercedes. The thought was good. Thanks.” “Michael, you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound; it could hold 50 people but all of my friends are dead, I’ve lost my hearing and I’m nearly blind. I’ll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just the same ...

3632. Eleven Plus One

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Quick to ask for forgiveness and quick to sin. He had the capacity to be in the same day "brave and cowardly, wise and foolish, accepting and rejecting, fearless and fearful, a man of doubt and a man of faith." He talked before he thought; not satisfied by mere talk, he required action. Devoted to Jesus, even though he denied him. His presence among the disciples illustrates what God can do with the ordinary man because Peter overcame his many weaknesses. Impetuous and sanguine, practical and realistic, but ...

3633. Generations

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , and they want a healthy, happy home life. They refuse to sacrifice the latter for the former as boomer women did. Psychology Busters don't want to be typed or hyped. Busters are a generation crying out for definition. They hate the very thought that they even belong to a generation. Averse to generational generalizations, busters gag at the tag "busters" because it names them. If anything, they prefer "Generation X" because the name does not name them and they remain unknown. Busters prefer a letter to ...

3634. Obstacles as Popsicles

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... God prompted virtuous behavior on their part, but helped rouse Pharaoh to such anger that he proclaimed the horrible official death sentence upon all Hebrew baby boys. But what else could the midwives have done?] God's ways are not our ways, and God's thoughts not our thoughts. God is full of surprises, and knows what is best for us. Trust the basket to take you where God is leading you. The Protestant Reformer Martin Luther called faith "the 'yes' of the heart." Can your heart say "yes" even when your head ...

3635. Poison Control

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . No matter what we do, no matter how hard we try to keep ourselves clean, we're so permeated by the poison of sin – the bacteria cafeteria of selfishness – that we can never escape their presence. We can never fully wipe out poisonous thoughts, toxic intentions, or polluted behaviors from our life. Our sinful nature is so predictable and pernicious that Paul calls it a law. Like the law of gravity or the laws of thermodynamics, it's an inescapable force governing human actions and behaviors. According ...

3636. The Lamb's Book of Life

John 1:29-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... also discovering that there's much more going on at the gene level than a daily grind of splitting, copying, and reassembling. For example, a human being contains almost 1,000 immunity genes, vs. about 100 in worms and flies. Or take another recent discovery: At first we thought that it was the genes (made up of DNA) that contain the secrets of life. Now the more we look, the more we discover that it's the proteins (made up of amino acids) within the genes that interact on the genes that give the body it's ...

3637. DodgeGod

Amos 8:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... I learned that a hawk is no match for a hummingbird. It's also where I learned about the bowerbird. Can you believe that a bird can build a house? Well, there's one that does. When explorers in New Guinea first saw these houses, they thought children had built them. But bowerbirds had built them. What wonderful bowers they are! Many have roofs. Some even have rooms. There are different kinds of bowerbirds. They build different kinds of bowers. One kind makes a garden of moss around a tree. Then he builds ...

3638. A Case for Living Together

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... place with fire. My heart was broken for these young people who are being starved of the word of God that was shown in their appearance and in their actions. I do hope that you don't think this is a mean spirited message but one of love, I thought that you might want to know before your church's testimony is ruined. You have the people now; share the message. One day it could be too late. With Love, A Fellow Christian Friend All the right words are there. But nothing of Christ is there. Although my friend ...

3639. Inward, Upward, Outward

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... pounds. The interview was presented in the boy's voice, like a series of journal entries. The kid read his thoughts on being overweight, how his average teen-age dreams didn't fit with his over-sized body. The kid revealed his feelings on how he viewed ... himself and how he knew others viewed him, and most revealingly, his thoughts about food. In the boy's musings he read a journal entry written at 2 AM. Laying in his bed in the middle of ...

3640. The Longest Distance in the Universe

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . The young man gently placed on the bed the lifeless hand he had been holding. Then he went to notify the nurse. The nurse began to offer words of sympathy to the young man, but he interrupted her. "Who was that man?" he asked. The puzzled nurse replied, "I thought he was your father." "No," the young man replied. "I never saw him before in my life." "Then why didn't you say something when I took you to him?" the nurse asked. He replied, "I sensed that he really needed his son, and that his son just wasn ...

3641. Transmission

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... celebrates the final success. It is love that determines a family garden will be planted, tended, watered, watched, and harvested by everyone together. It is love that sits the family down together to say grace, eat a meal, talk about the day, hear each others' thoughts. It's not surprising, then, that author Jerry E. White observes that what we learn best as children are lessons that are transmitted rather than taught. He asks us then to consider closely what it is we hope to transmit from our own lives to ...

3642. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... and answer as many questions as we can. We must never stop searching for the truth. But, once we have reached the end of our mind’s leash, we must acknowledge that there is more to life than what we understand. As God has said, “My thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways.” After we have wrestled with the great issues of life, there will always be an appropriate time to kneel in reverence and humility before that which is mystery. H.G. Wells dealt with it in his story, “The Soul of ...

3643. The Church on Main Street

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... the creation of a “Center for Human Values.” The President of the University, Harold Shapiro, in announcing the gift said, “I hope this center will create a presence on campus to promote a lively discussion of the things that really matter.” I read that and I thought to myself, “That’s what the Church is supposed to be.” We’re supposed to be a group of people who belong to God, and who, consequently, deal daily with the things that really matter! It’s when we do that that we move onto Main ...

3644. What Is That in Your Hand?

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

James McCormick

... question: “What is that in your hand?” It is something, you know. You have something that God can use. And success or failure in life is determined by the extent to which we allow God to use what he has entrusted to us. Have you ever thought how insulting it is to God to assume that we have nothing worth contributing, or that what we have to give will make no difference? I cannot believe that God would create anyone without the capacity to contribute. I believe deeply that you have something which God ...

3645. Being Christian in the Family

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

James McCormick

... , we always tried to express our love, support, and pride when they made good grades, when they played or sang in a concert, when they received an award, or when they were models of good behavior. That is important. But at such times I wondered if they thought they were receiving love because they deserved it. That worried me, because the corollary of that is that if they receive love only when they deserve it, then when they don’t deserve it, they won’t receive it. That is why we took special care to ...

3646. In Life Nothing Works but the Impossible

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... distance to the next ragged metal building. Then, still in a panic, the cat proceeded to climb the sheer, smooth, aluminum siding straight up for at least twelve feet—until he reached the roof peak, and was “safely” away from all those who had thought they would “rescue” him. Now in total darkness and utterly defeated, the camera crew left. A check of the same site the next day found the flood waters had receded, and the superman cat had disappeared. Sometimes we will do anything, including the ...

3647. The Day of the Lord

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... hosts of God’s armies (2:2), of God’s “foe from the north,” as Jeremiah calls them (Jeremiah 4-6). Chapter 3 of Joel vividly pictures the judgment taking place on the Day, and Joel 2:28-32 portrays the events that will precede it. The thought of the last judgment on the Day of the Lord continues into the New Testament. “We shall all stand before the judgment seat of God,” writes Paul (Romans 14:10), and throughout the New Testament, the Day of the Lord is consistently connected with Christ’s ...

3648. Seeking a Shepherd King

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... think that God has little hand in the round of our daily lives and world. We may think that all of our fortunes and misfortunes stem from our own efforts and actions. But this story, and indeed all of the biblical stories, give the lie to such thoughts. God is the real Ruler. He chooses and establishes leaders, or he brings them to disgrace and fall (cf. Isaiah 40:23-24; Jeremiah 1:10). He searches the hearts of individuals and blesses them or curses (cf. Psalm 139:23; Jeremiah 17:10). Indeed, human history ...

3649. Such a Transformation!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... signifies blessing from God, and the servant did not seem to be blessed. No one regarded him as important (v. 2). He was a man subjected to blows and scorned, humiliated and isolated and sorrowing (v. 3). As a result, the unknown speakers continue, we all thought he was rejected also by God. Yet, now we realize that the servant suffered because he was bearing our sins and that God was subjecting him to the punishment that should have been ours (vv. 4-6). “All we like sheep have gone astray,” and the ...

3650. A New Beginning

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... How would they react if they knew you were coming for a baptism of repentance? Would they say, “Boy, it’s about time.” More than likely, they would say, “Wonder what she’s hiding?” Would any of them try to keep you out of the water because they thought you were so sinless that you didn’t need to repent? Jesus obviously didn’t need to make a new beginning; many of us do. However, the rite of baptism did mark a new phase in Jesus’ life; he used it to prepare for his ministry. No longer would ...

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