Sermon and Worship Resources

Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on

Showing 3651 to 3675 of 4972 results

3651. Where God Can Be Seen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to anyone)." Scott Donaldson, in a study of Hemingway, says that that really was his philosophy. Hemingway once fired a babysitter because his sons were starting to care for her too much. Hemingway said that you could only love a person so much, but then you had to stop or you'd get hurt. C. S. Lewis pretty much had that same attitude until he gave his heart to his beloved Joy. Some of you saw their story in the movie, SHADOWLANDS. Lewis would later write: "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything ...

3652. The Real Leap Of Faith

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... forty," somebody would say. "Boy, it's dark," Joe would say. And a little later: "What time have you got? "Six," someone would answer. Then Joe began to get concerned. "Shouldn't it be getting light soon?" By the time his watch said 6:40, he had stopped fishing. He just sat there staring into the darkness. Finally, his voice cracking in genuine terror, he cried: "I'm telling you, something is wrong! It's not getting light today! It's not getting light! "It's the end of the world," his buddies hooted. "Doesn ...

3653. God's Job Profile

Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the graduates sat expectantly, eager to find out who had won the award. The envelope was opened, and the winner was announced. After the program had ended, the winning senior was marching in the recessional. As he came to a row of seats near the back, he stopped briefly by a middle-aged couple who were seated by the aisle. They were quite poor, a fact that seemed obvious from the old-fashioned clothes they were wearing. The young man bent down, placed the medal in his mother's hands and kissed her on the ...

3654. Coming For The Right Reasons

John 6:25-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... his way of announcing it. And it went well for a while. He gave up his bad habits. He began going to church every week. He began reading his Bible and praying daily. He even enrolled in a mail order Bible college. But then one day, without any warning, Billy stopped going to church. He disappeared, and no one knew what had happened to him. But several years later Billy ran into his pastor in a store. All he had to say was, "I really gave it a try." (1) Billy wasn't the first person to ever lose interest in ...

3655. Advice For Soldiers At The Front

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

There is a humorous story about a young soldier who was experiencing his first battle. The frightened recruit inched his way backward, and backward and finally just turned and ran. He had gone quite a ways when he was abruptly stopped by an officer. The officer was pointing a revolver at the man's head. He threatened to execute the soldier if he took another step. The soldier pleaded with the officer, "Oh, please Captain, don't shoot me; please give me another chance to prove myself." The officer felt ...

3656. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... in three years. (5) Carpe diem! Seize the day! Someone else has noted that if you get up just one hour earlier each morning you will add the equivalent of over two additional months of productive work days each year. Someone's thinking to himself, "Stop pastor, you're making me tired." Listen, I need to take that risk for just a few moments. There are some of you who are concerned about your future in the marketplace. The world is rapidly changing. Companies are downsizing. Middle management is disappearing ...

3657. Catching The Thanksgiving Spirit

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the land and waters below. Today there are only a dozen of the cedars of Lebanon left. An iron fence has been built around them to preserve them from tourists, in a kind of museum. Four hundred years later, Plato warned the Greek people to stop cutting the trees. They went on cutting and cutting to make boats for commerce and war. Today the area is one of the most environmentally damaged and stressed parts of the world. (4) Environmental battles are nothing new. And some people get very emotional when ...

3658. Jeremy And Jesus

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... every day of your life. You may have already received the richest blessing life can bestow. And if you have children of your own, make these years count. Sam Levenson tells a wonderful story about the birth of his first child. The first night home the baby would not stop crying. His wife frantically flipped through the pages of Dr. Spock to find out why babies cry and what to do about it. Since Spock's book is rather long, the baby cried a long time. Grandma was in the house, but since she had not read the ...

3659. A New Look For A New Year

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... , even praise can be abused. According to Parade magazine, William Linkhaw, a North Carolina man, was convicted in 1873 of disrupting church services with his singing. His Methodist brethren said they had put up with him for years. Even when everyone else had stopped singing Linkhaw kept on. When Linkhaw was asked to be quiet, he refused, saying that singing was part of his duty to God. But the courts found him guilty of a misdemeanor and ordered him to keep quiet. However, when he appealed the conviction ...

3660. How Do You Act In The Presence Of The Queen?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... males) objected. After all Eve was told, "in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children," as one of the punishments for eating the forbidden fruit. In 1853, however, Queen Victoria allowed herself to be chloroformed while giving birth to her seventh child, and all criticism stopped. None of the churchmen had the nerve to criticize the Queen. Some Christians have that attitude toward worship. They do not have the freedom of Jesus. Indeed, they see him as a bit of a liberal in how he approached God. He was also ...

3661. Searching For A Lost God

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

King Duncan

A woman had two little boys who were driving her to the edge of despair. They were into everything, non-stop. And they were mischievous as well. One day she decided to take them to her pastor. Maybe he could succeed where she had failed. The pastor wanted to see the older boy first. The younger one sat outside. The older boy was frightened. The minister looked so austere in his ...

3662. Our Damascus Road Experience

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the dash of a car. This warning light glows red when your engine overheats. Now, one thing you can do if that light comes on is hit it with a hammer. Then you keep right on driving. This will work for a while. But soon the car will stop and you'll look under the hood, and kick yourself for attacking the wrong problem. This is how most of us go through life ” hitting the warning signs with a hammer while ignoring the real problems. In his book, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH, Commentator Paul Harvey tells about ...

3663. Like The Love Of A Mother

John 10:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... "how's" and "why's," it was plain to see by the expressions on their faces that they wondered: "How does she stand it?" But when she answered her son's next question, she answered theirs too. "Why," he asked, "doesn't God ever get tired and just stop?" "Because," she replied after a moment's thought, "God is love; and love never gets tired." (3) That's true. If you or I were God, we would tire of giving, particularly when we get so little gratitude in return. A pastor was visiting some of his parishioners ...

3664. Who Will Wipe Away Their Tears?

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... to enlarge his collection of butterflies and moths. One evening at dusk he returned from his day's excursion of chasing butterflies. He said that during hot pursuit near Bear Gulch he had heard someone groaning most piteously down by the stream. "Did you stop?" Laughlin asked him. "No," answered Nabakov, "I had to get the butterfly." Fadiman adds, "The next day the corpse of an aged prospector was discovered in what has been renamed, in Nabokov's honor, Dead Man's Gulch." (1) There were two dead men ...

3665. Isn't It Time To Get It Right?

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... practiced his line diligently, trying out various intonations to give it different shades of meaning. Finally, he was satisfied. The night of the show arrived and his moment came. "Listen!" he exclaimed dramatically. "I heard a postil..." and he stopped befuddled. Remember, this was live television. "What?" Dent's friend ad-libbed. "Did you hear it?" the actor babbled frantically. "A shistel pot!" At that point, mercifully, it was time for a commercial. Everybody ” except the red-faced actor ” collapsed ...

3666. Change Is Possible

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Daniel concentrates fixedly on every single detail of the tree. Miyagi asks him if he has got the tree in his mind. "Then," Miyagi says, "open your eyes and begin." Daniel starts slowly to trim the tree. Every move is deliberate and focused. Then he stops, unsure, and asks, "How do I know if my picture is right?" And Miyagi replies, "If the picture comes from your heart, then it must be right. Just trust your picture." People who study human behavior tell us that visualization is a powerful tool for ...

3667. One In Christ

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... seated. She took her place at the rear of the bus, in the front part of the colored section. Rosa knew as more whites boarded the bus, moving their seats closer to the rear, she would soon have to stand so a white person could sit. Two stops later what she expected happened. No longer were there enough available seats for the white patrons, so Rosa was told to stand. She refused. The bus driver came back and swore at her, threatening to have her arrested. Still, she would not relinquish her seat. She was ...

3668. Traveling Light

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Caroly R. Gibson

... of all the conflicting schedules. Many seem so "strung out." Everyone's running in different directions. No meals together, no time to communicate, no alone time. A pastor tells about a woman in his congregation. She is one of those overcommitted types, always frantically busy, never stopping to catch her breath. "I'm too busy" is her constant cry. The pastor finally asked the woman, "How do you ever expect God to get hold of you if you never stand still?" It's a good question. Do you remember a little poem ...

3669. A New Vantage Point

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... way of life. That's what Paul's talking about here. If you believe Jesus is in charge, if you confess that he's Lord over Creation, then live as if that's the case! Live as though he matters! Live as if his perspectives were your own! Stop being chased around by the dogs of anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language! (vs. 8) Instead, let the new you come alive, the new you that wears Christ's clothing: compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience. (vs. 12) Put off the old man, the man of ...

3670. Lessons From The Locker Room

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

Lowell D. Streiker

... by a stray shot on the eighth green." Liz: "Oh, that's awful." Gil: "It surely was. For the rest of the game it was hit the ball, drag Roger, hit the ball, drag Roger." If we are to get anywhere in the event known as life, we have to stop dragging Roger! We have to divest ourselves of anything that slows our progress toward our ultimate goal. At the finish line waits the all-time world record holder and judge. If we just keep our eyes on him, we will be all right. If we just run the race as ...

3671. A Faithful Follower I Would Be

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... ," Ian says. His parents look at each other. (2) Sometimes being a disciple of Jesus Christ causes misunderstandings or even hard feelings among family members. Jesus wanted his would-be followers to consider the risks involved in following him. But Jesus does not stop there. "Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot be my disciple." BEING A MODERN DAY DISCIPLE OF JESUS CHRIST ISN'T SOMETHING TO TAKE LIGHTLY. This is what Jesus wanted the people to understand. Being a disciple of Jesus Christ ...

3672. What Goes Around Comes Around

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... makes some friends among the homeless and discovers that they are not bad people ” just people down on their luck. On a rainy night one of his new friends, Sailor, dies on the street and the next morning is found on the sidewalk. No one cares. No one even stops to see if he is dead or alive. At the end of the thirty days Goddard Bolt is a changed man. No longer is making money his only goal in life. Now he wants to build new homeless shelters where he once planned luxury condominiums. Like the wealthy man ...

3673. Pray Constantly

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... want to hear it in his own home. So the judge told her to go away and never come back. "Leave me alone," he shouted at the widow. But the widow was not discouraged. She wasn't about to give up. She was no quitter. Every day she stopped by hoping he would change his mind. Finally, the judge agreed to hear her case, not because he was filled with compassion, but "because this widow keeps bothering me." "I will grant her justice," he thought, "so that she may not wear me out by continually coming." In telling ...

3674. Setting The Record Straight

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... moment in his life when he felt the living presence of God. Twenty-two years ago he and his family set out for a family vacation in Canada. As they were driving through New York state he noticed a woman on the side of the road waving a handkerchief. He stopped to help. The woman had a flat tire. As he was jacking up the car on the side of the highway, another driver who had fallen asleep behind the wheel struck the car. The impact dragged Jim Loder underneath the car for fifty feet. He was badly injured. He ...

3675. Life From God's Perspective

John 12:12-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... who joined them for dinner, Paul, would ask Margaret out on a date. Months passed and in early autumn Paul asked Margaret to marry him. They went for a walk along the shore of Lake Erie. "The waves hissed into bubbles at our feet," she recalled. "Paul stopped suddenly and pointed back at our tracks in the sand. `See our footprints, Margie? On the day we marry, they will become like one set, not two.'" That night, the image of footprints stayed with Margaret. She could not sleep, so she began writing in her ...

Showing results