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351. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... goes the opposite way to self-pity and envy. It's the feeling, the conviction based on the false feeling that we are better than others. It's not that we think that we have not been given a fair shake; it's the opposite. We have an overdose of pride which inflicts us with a subtle assumption that we are better than others. In my devotional reading of Scripture a couple of weeks ago, I read the story of Elijah in the 19th chapter of I Kings. Jezebel was after Elijah, and Elijah was fleeing for his life. He ...

352. Songs of the Season

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... pomp and pageantry? Or would she think of us as some of the "proud" who must be scattered, the rich who will be sent away empty? Somehow our denominational assemblies find it easier to apply the words of Mary to governments and corporations than to our own prides and prejudices. But you and I will still miss the point of Mary's song if we pay attention primarily to the church as an institution. It is almost as easy to wax outrage for the church as for corporations and the distant rich. What shall you and ...

353. Epiphany: The Tragedy of Rejection

Luke 4:14-30

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... at Jesus as outsiders might. But he pressed the issue in way that offended them. Jesus reminded them there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's day, but, for some reason, God chose to use a widow in Sidon to care for Elijah. That stung their national pride and their sense of chosenness. Then Jesus underlined the point by recalling that in the days of Elisha there were many who suffered from leprosy, but that the one who was healed was Naaman, a Syrian. I can easily imagine what they said, and so can you ...

354. Saints in Shorts

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... perhaps more of a blow to my ego than my body. It is not so much that my life needs to be defended as it is my pride that wants to be avenged. You and I may not live in settings where we are likely to be physically struck, but we are almost certainly in ... in kind. It seems that the reasonable ethic for Jesus to teach, then, might be that I should just walk away. Swallow my pride, bridle my tongue, sheathe my desire for vindication, and just walk away. I was in a small fellowship group recently where folks were ...

355. By Faith We Are Healed

2 Kings 5:1-27

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... study war no more and neighbors will learn to live in harmony and peace. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God of justice and mercy, we bow in contrition before you, for we have sinned against your will. We seek your forgiveness for pride and greed that have kept us from loving our neighbors. Be merciful to us who have let anger control our actions, and contributed to the building of walls that separate people rather than seeking your peace. Free us from past mistakes, and enable us to show ...

356. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... patience and kindness, and we learn through painful correction to leave such verdicts to God. P.J. O’Rourke was right on the danger of having a critical spirit, “It is a small step,” he wrote, “from looking down on others to looking up to oneself.”2 And pride, we are told by church tradition, is what made a once loyal archangel into the devil he now is. Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun became a movie of the same name. It explores the dreams and struggles of a 1950' s black family in ...

357. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... not having what you need and God having everything you need, you will never learn to pray. Praying is a posture of humility that makes beggars of us all. Nothing to offer and needing everything. It is not a picture of American success and isolated self-sufficiency. Honest prayer kills pride. On Tuesday 8:30pm as I walked out the door after a meeting, God sent me a beggar. As I came down the stairs he walked in front of me. It was a divine appointment; I knew it as soon as I saw him. God was testing me at ...

358. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to the power, and full of love and wisdom. But it is not always so. Which is why the prophets Jesus rejects did not list love and the other eight virtues on their resumes. How could they since they were full of self-confidence and pride? “Did we not... did we not... did we not?” Instead, the offered theology and miracles. You see, great anointing of the Holy Spirit and holy character are not necessarily the same thing. The Pentecostals and Charismatics have numerous examples in their history of powerful ...

359. A Friend in Low Places

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . That is when we lose our innocence. We start independently making decisions on our own. We will make some decisions out of ignorance, and we can't be blamed really for the consequences of those decisions. But we will also make many decisions out of pride, or fear, or hatred, or selfishness, or jealously, or revenge, and there will be consequences to those decisions. Somebody will pay for those decisions. Sometimes we will pay for them. But as often as not, somebody else will pay for them, and that is when ...

360. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... , O God, and our hearts are restless till they rest in you.” The truth is, we will always be restless, always know the hunger, because our resting in God is always of limited duration. We are sinners who too often prefer our way to God’s way. Our pride does not allow us to be totally dependent on God. We move in and out of a trustful relationship with God. Even though we experience “rest” and meaning, purpose and joy in times of yielding to God’s will and way for our life, something within us, our ...

361. Shalom Shattered

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... never." Envy is a sin against the ninth and tenth commandments. Exodus 20:17 says, "You shall not covet." Envy also appears as one of the seven deadly sins in Dante's Inferno. Of the seven deadly sins (lust, sloth, wrath, avarice, gluttony, envy, and pride), only pride was considered deadlier than envy. With envy such a curse, we try to repress it and ignore it. The source of envy is alienation from God and from one another. Envy comes from our low self-esteem, from our fears and our insecurities. It comes ...

362. A Tale of Two Dancers

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of grace. Christians talking to one another humbly, Christians listening to one another sensitively, Christians admitting, "We do not agree, but we will listen to one another and see if the Spirit working through us will not produce something new." That is the antidote to pride. It is called humility. The second is service. Not only did Jesus say that the true mark of a disciple was humility, but even more so, the true mark of a disciple is service. The Christian does not so much have the truth, but he ...

363. The Sin of Being Less

Colossians 3:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of your life. You can do that now. You can choose to live that way. I want to suggest that if you don't, then it is a sin. "Sin" is most often described as "pride." That is the way classical theologians have described it. But ironically, that is the way the Greeks described sin. They called it "hubris." "Hubris" means "pride." Hubris means trying to be like God, trying to be something more than who you really are as a human being. Hubris is trying to break out of the human limitation. The theologians read ...

364. Lessons for Year A Epiphany 4

Micah 6:1-8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-31, Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... : Zephaniah 2:3; 3:12-13 God's coming judgment and how to escape it. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:18-31 Divisions in the church are caused by the pride of wisdom and Christians have no reason to boast except in the Lord. Last Sunday Paul wrote about the divisions in the Corinthian church. Here he points to the cause: pride in their wisdom. Since they became Christians, they are boasting of superior knowledge and spiritual wisdom. Then Paul reminds them that most of them were not wise, healthy, or prestigious ...

365. Epiphany 5

Matthew 5:17-20, Matthew 5:13-16, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, 1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, Isaiah 58:1-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... , a believer in God will still be joyful. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16) Paul's preaching was not with words of human wisdom, but with the hidden wisdom revealed by the Spirit. We are still with the problem of church division caused by pride of the people's wisdom. The Corinthian Christians claimed they had a special knowledge that made them free from the law, enabled them to eat meat sacrificed to animals, and gave them the right not to marry by embracing asceticism. They had "knowledge" in terms of ...

366. Proper 21

Exodus 17:1-7, Ezekiel 18:1-32, Philippians 2:1-11, Philippians 2:12-18, Matthew 21:23-27, Matthew 21:28-32

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John R. Brokhoff

... to have the mind of Christ. His mind was one of humility demonstrated in his taking the form of a servant and dying on a cross. Humility is expressed by considering others better than yourself and being concerned more about others than yourself. Arrogance and pride divide and cause trouble while humility draws together into a unity. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32 1. What Kind Of Sinner Are You (21:28-32). Need: The Bible testifies to the fact that all are sinners, whether in the church or ...

367. Trash Cans or Treasure Chests

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... shame the strong. God has chosen things low and contemptible. Things that are not, to overthrow existing order. And so there's no place for human pride in the presence of God for you are in Christ Jesus by God's act. For God has made Him our wisdom. He is our righteousness, ... He recycled his passion and became the greatest of the kings. Peter was a boastful, swearing fisherman. He recycled his pride and became the rock upon which Christ built his church. Mary Magdalene recycled her love and became a saint. ...

368. WaterFire Disciples

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of millions of dollars. The image that best captured their history and heritage was the "Cow." Since Borden's seemed to abandon Bessie the Cow, Chicago decided to embrace her and use her to highlight the city's pride of ancestry, both as a slaughterhouse city and as a city that prides itself in its art and architecture. So they commissioned 300 artists to design unique cows, and placed these "artworks" in various architectural locations throughout the city. At the end of the year they auctioned off the 300 ...

369. Greeting and Meeting Jesus

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... John Kareles. In 1518 his neighbors reported him to the Archdeacon of Lincoln and recorded his offense. He was accused of taking for himself too large a piece of the communion bread. His offense was not gluttony. He was brought up on charges of pride, or usurping the principle place in the community and depriving his brothers and sisters of their rightful share in the body of Christ. (Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England c. 1400-c.1580 [New Haven: Yale UP, 1992], 127 ...

370. The Day of the Lord

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... have multiplied and we have been heedless of our God. Even now when not one of us has the goodness to stand in the judgment of our Lord, and not one of us measures up to what God intended us to be. Even now, when our weakness, our pride, our selfishness, and our terribly human mistakes have earned for us nothing but the censure of our Lord, we can nevertheless know his forgiveness and be restored to fellowship with him, to give us the certain hope of eternal life in his kingdom. We are called to repentance ...

371. To Be a Christian

Acts 11:19-30

Sermon

James McCormick

... , stood helplessly as his youngest daughter boarded a plane and flew off to Uganda to build houses. And there, at the conference, half in jest, and half in fatherly pride, he concluded, “I always wanted her to be a respectable Christian…not a real one!” And there, at the conference, half in jest, and half in fatherly pride, he concluded, “I always wanted her to be a respectable Christian…not a real one!” What kind of Christian are you? A respectable Christian, a conventional Christian, a “sort ...

372. The Christian Life's Three Concentric Circles

Matthew 28:16-20

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Francis A. Schaeffer

... theological position, true biblical orthodoxy and the purity of the visible church. This is first, but if that is all there is, it is just one more seedbed for spiritual pride. In the second circle must be good intellectual training and comprehension of our own generation. But having only this leads to intellectualism and again provides a seedbed for pride. In the inner circle must be a humble heart--the love of God, the devotional attitude toward God. There must be the daily practice of the reality of the ...

373. Sleep With the Lions Without Being Eaten

Daniel 6:1-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... said we're going make you "the god of the month." For thirty days all worship and prayer was to be directed to him. His pride allowed him to accept that as a great idea. But they also used a dangerous fact. "Now, O king, establish the decree and sign the ... a law was passed it could not be revoked. So now, a law had become a trap Darius had set for himself baited with his own pride. These men now knew that Daniel's doom was a done deal. III. The Conviction He Disclosed What would Daniel do? After all, this was ...

374. An All-Night Wrestling Match

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... home in suburban Boston. Tom was a new Christian. That night Tom shared his faith with Colson and gave him a copy of C.S. Lewis’s classic book, “Mere Christianity.” Phillips read to him portions of chapter 8 of that book, about the sin of pride. Those words, empowered by the Holy Spirit, nailed Colson right between the eyes. Colson left the Phillips home that night under real conviction. As he drove away, tears started to flow. So, he pulled over and stopped on the side of the road. With his head bent ...

375. Mary, Did You Know?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... a little toddler rushing towards him, crying out, ‘daddy, daddy.’ Right behind the toddler was its mother. All three hugged as a family. Then I saw the soldier’s mother bursting into tears. His father hung back, hands in his pockets, a face full of pride and joy, fighting back the tears. Suddenly I forgot about meeting my friend. When that soldier’s eyes met mine, I said, ‘Welcome home, son.’ Tears were slowly building in my eyes as he walked away with his family. My older son asked why everyone ...

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