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351. Healing And Forgiveness

Luke 5:17-26

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... the story of Adam and Eve, a close relationship between sin and illness. It was because of Adam's sin of eating the forbidden fruit that all physical evils, including illness, entered the world. Therefore after the Fall, there developed in the Old Testament the belief that physical evil came from God who was the all omnipotent ruler of the universe. For this reason then, disease and injury became viewed as a consequence and punishment of human sin. They are seen as clearly within the realm of God's control ...

352. The Cracking Point

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... jettisoned so we can return to a new appreciation of what God did after he reached his cracking point. There is a tendency for us to go through life mesmerized by our past losses and hurts. We tend to forget what God has done for us. Instead of a firm belief in a loving God, we hold on to a drawer full of religious single socks. We forget that what God did in Jesus after his cracking point was the match to what he did to Adam and Even and the wicked tenants in the vineyard. The New Testament account of ...

353. Shaped by the Future

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... 's visit. This conviction was one of the towering marks of the early church. If we believe that the Son of man is coming, then that belief will determine how we live in the present. But if we do not believe that the Son of man is coming, we will shape the present ... white ascension robes and waited on a hilltop for the Second Coming of Christ. When Christ did not come, they adjusted their beliefs and formed what is now known as the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Jesus said that we should not wait by trying to ...

354. When God's Mind is Spoken

Judges 1:1-36

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... in Jesus Christ. However, not all people have disbelieved. The rejection of the Incarnation has never been universal. In every age, there have been a few who believed that God spoke his Word in Jesus Christ. There have always been those who would not disown their belief that the light has overcome the darkness. There have always been those who have seen a unique revelation of God in Jesus Christ. The decision to believe that God spoke in Jesus Christ is one that each of us has to make. Either we believe ...

355. Three Secrets of A Life Well Lived

2 Timothy 4:6-8

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Brett Blair

... line is: have we remained constant through the good and the bad, feast and famine In the 60’s, the phrase “keep the faith” became somewhat of a period cliche. Those words must mean more to us than a motto. They go to the very heart of our belief in the one who created us and sustains us. In the Broadway play “The Miracle Worker,” we see the story of Ann Sullivan, the woman who taught Helen Keller how to communicate. It was during the 1890’s, in the hills of northern Alabama, that she struggled ...

356. The Stretcher

Illustration

L. Robert Keck

... iron bed into which he would "fit" his victims. If they were too short, Procrustes would stretch their legs until they fit. If they were too long, he would cut off their legs until they fit. We may not be as cruel as Procrustes, but in terms of how our belief structure deals with reality we are a close brother or sister to "The Stretcher." We generally fit reality into our current belief structure and fail to see or hear anything that contradicts it.

357. This God’s For Real!

Matthew 16:13-20

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... that god, the organizing principle, "wound up the clock" of his creation then went away and let it function, like a well-oiled time-piece, but one that would run down in time. I would wager that if Gallup would re-survey all the people who claim to affirm belief in God and ask them whether they conceived of God the way the Deists did, he’d find a great majority of moderns would say "Yes." Not so with Israel nor with Simon Peter. Jesus asked Peter, "Who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "You are ...

358. Telling the Right Story

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

George Bass

... was in her nineties, was still "smoking like a chimney." But Mark Adkins would not be so fortunate as his parents, despite his belief that he would never pay the penalty that he had seen so many people pay for smoking. He had seen the evidence of ... we must all finally face what Paul called "the last enemy" - death - and the only way that we can face death with assurance is in the belief that Christ has overcome death for us and for all people who will ever live upon the earth. And so Mark declares to all of ...

359. Will My Ship Sink or Float?

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... we live in a faithless age. The people of our nation, the people of our world do not think this way. This being true, collapse is visible everywhere. Listen to Max Born in his autobiography, Physics in My Generation. First, he accepted the prevailing belief that science was replacing faith in saving humankind. However, he discovers the fallacy in this stance and turns back to faith as the true center of life: In 1921 I believed ... that science produced an objective knowledge of the world, which is governed ...

360. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... eating. Now that sounds natural enough to most of us, for how many times have we told our children to wash their hands before coming to the table? But the issue here was not hygienic but religious. It was the issue of what constitutes religious purity. The belief of the Pharisees was that man’s contact with the world made him dirty. Jesus disagreed and held that nothing outside a person can enter into him and defile him. Rather, it is that which comes out of a person that defiles him. It is the condition ...

361. A SUNDAY OF THE PASSION [PALM SUNDAY] SERMON-DRAMA

Drama

Tom Eberle

... with the religious leaders, and I am certain that Jesus will stop short of any all-out confrontation. Toga: Wouldn’t it be fair to say that his possible crucifixion would end all speculation that he was your Messiah? Judas: Well, of course, his death would end any belief that he was the one, but I am confident it will not come to that. Scroll: What would you do if it did come to that? Judas: I see no point in answering what I would do in a hypothetical situation until it actually occurs. Scroll: But it ...

362. Jesus Replaced Someone At Calvary

Mark 15:1-15

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Bill Bouknight

... in New York declared, “We don’t need to hear about somebody hanging on a cross, and blood dripping, and all that stuff." And when she made that statement, the interdenominational audience exploded into applause. Thanks be to God, our beliefs are not dictated truth-denying professors. Our beliefs are anchored in God’s holy word. Listen to what the Bible says about the cross and atonement. Listen to what John the Baptist said about Jesus: “Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world ...

363. Lazarus Rising

John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

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... . Jesus replied: “Your brother shall rise again.” Like the disciples, Martha does not catch it. “Oh,” she says, “I know that he will be raised in the final resurrection.” Now what Martha is referring to here is the rather vague Jewish belief, at least a belief held by some Jews, in a life after death. The Pharisees believed that there would be a resurrection of the dead but the Sadducees did not. Martha obviously was influenced by the Pharisees. What Martha is really saying is: “Oh, I suppose ...

364. This Grace In Which We Stand by Dr. Gene E. Bartlett

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... in grace speaks to our social despair, it seems to me. We walk close these days to an abyss of discouragement and despair. The problems of our time, from hunger to ecology to atomic disaster, often seem to leave us hopeless - except for an underlying belief that God’s grace has not abandoned us. Oh, how foolish that biblical faith is. But Paul wrote the Corinthians that the foolishness of God is wiser than men. The Greek is even more expressive, for the word "foolish" in Greek is mowron from which we ...

365. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... or to the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut... the same objective is present: a Christian land governed by Christian principles ... I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it. Freedom of belief, or expression, or assembly, or petition; the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of the home, equal justice under law, and the reservation of power to the people ... I like to believe we are living today in the spirit of ...

366. Fingertip Embalming

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the man who says: "Thank God, I’m an atheist." Or as St. Augustine wisely put it: "He who rejects God has already postulated the God whom he rejects." It can’t be done otherwise. It’s perfectly obvious. The lad in my Marine regiment who professed no belief in anything gave himself away when, in the heat of battle, he threw himself on a hand grenade that dropped into his foxhole to save the life of his buddy who was in the same foxhole. He did it automatically, without thinking. Why? His Christ-like ...

367. Signs Of A Vital Church

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6, 2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . He reported that he had just attended a national convention of social workers. There he discovered this startling truth. All of the social programs that are working have a spiritual component or relate to the belief system of the clients. Raspberry writes, "The transforming power of belief seems so obvious that it may be worthwhile to look for ways to harness it to social purpose. If Spirit-filled, conversion-oriented programs work better than secular humanist programs, perhaps recipients should be free ...

368. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

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Bill Bouknight

... of young Russell, and said, "And I hope you do. And if you look into this Jesus business seriously, he'll get you just like he got me." Today I want us to look into this Jesus business seriously. As I begin a series of sermons on the essential beliefs of our faith, there is no other proper place to begin than with Jesus. There is only one thing distinctive about the Christian faith, and that is Jesus Christ. We are the only major faith on earth to claim that God himself became a human being, died an atoning ...

369. Because He Lives

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... tradition of the church, taught to him by the church fathers in Jerusalem. Let me lift up three vital truths that I find in our text: FIRST: THE DENIAL OF RESURRECTION IS HERESY. We don't use that word heresy anymore. It means false belief. We Protestants have so embraced tolerance of all beliefs that we can hardly recognize heresy when we see it. Too many of us agree with the old truism of our secular society---"It doesn't matter what you believe as long as you're sincere." That truism is a lie which is as ...

370. Why Should I Go On Living?

Matthew 12:38-45

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... I am, All that there is is a lot of emptiness!" And, you remember, our Lord uses the dramatic figure of the empty house in a weird kind of story to put His finger directly on the peril of the empty life. He uses the belief that was popular in His day - the belief in demons. He tells about a demon that has been expelled from a man’s life and wandered through deserts, and wastelands, and ruins, and other places where demons like to spend their vacations. But the demon didn’t find anything to his liking in ...

371. Judgement Day Is Coming

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... hushed them up, saying, “That's ridiculous. If you talk like that, you will terrorize people." Today many Christians are being herded aboard another train of false promises called universalism. It is the belief that all persons are bound for heaven whether they wish it or not. Scriptural verses contradicting this false belief are discarded as spurious additions by early churchmen with hearts full of judgment. But real love does not tell people what they want to hear; real love tells the truth. It does not ...

372. The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

... universe is willing to go all of the way, even to a cross, so that a single person may be redeemed. That’s what God is like. That’s the God we say we believe in when we say we believe in Jesus Christ. III Finally, we affirm a belief in the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? In the Korean Creed we say, “We believe in the Holy Spirit, God present with us for guidance, for comfort and for strength,” The Modern Affirmation words it: “We believe in the Holy Spirit, the divine presence in our lives ...

373. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

374. Looking for Signs

John 4:43-54

Illustration

Larry Powell

... man already believed. Jesus rewarded the official’s faith by saying, "Go; your son will live" (v. 50). Now, take notice of the response: "The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way" (50). He believed before the sign (4:51-53). Is your belief contingent upon a sign? If so, what? A supernatural event, a special feeling, a bush of fire, or on the other hand, is your ...

375. I Believe In Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Robert Allen

... life. He went into prayer in one mood and came out in another. Praying for Jesus was not just a form, but a force, a power. Prayer was vital and influential in his life and they wanted him to tell them how to pray. Watching Jesus awakened their belief in prayer. As they watched his personality grow stronger, they began to see that prayer was more than just begging God for the things they desired. Apparently, their prayers had been limited to asking God to give them this or give them that. But, now they saw ...

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