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3776. Precious and Privileged Children

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... and an understanding of his children totally unique, and the angelic hosts sing with divine joy! His pursuit never relents, even at a death's door. We have known those who regularly put off the requirements of the Christian life. God remains faithful. So, you thought you got away? Does that sound just too pedestrian and secular? I hope not. Why? Because there is a profound truth here and it will not be cancelled out. It has to do with the innate preciousness and privilege we have. One thing God is not ...

3777. Plea for Discipline

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... so with genuineness. There is to be much more than New Year's Eve's resolutions that diminish and die! Remember a significant part of the word to us is that after we have proclaimed the gospel, we should not be disqualified. It is a sobering thought and indirectly pleads with us to make spiritually good use of our time. Wandering about, after telling others about the good news, can cause pastors painful grief. To tell your people about the Savior and then allow yourself to become an unsettled wayfarer is to ...

3778. Gift of Positive Thinking

2 Corinthians 1:18-22

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... generated is obvious, secular and less than desirable ways of life have utilized it. It is frequently taken from a Christian basis and becomes a means to achieve ends that at a minimum are questionable. Of course, there are those who would find this line of thought simply narrow. Saint Paul wants you and me to know and be convinced there is an idea and person far more profound than the common understanding of the "power of positive thinking." There is this gift of our Savior that makes our lives "Yes" under ...

3779. From Father Failure to Divine Father

Romans 8:12-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... our childish notions, are imperfect. A friend remembered well an incident in that process of discovery in his own life. He always thought his father was the perfect driver and that he was absolutely safe riding with him until one day he almost hit the side ... sign of higher maturity to acknowledge ultimate dependence upon the universe, upon God. Therefore, thanksgiving for life and love and thought is a fundamental act of worship. However, mature dependence does not mean, as we have seen, a retreat to ...

3780. Why We Need to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... of people I plan on biting before I die.” Our subject today is forgiveness. How many times must I forgive someone who has hurt me, abused me, exploited me? That is Simon Peter’s question. How many times? Would seven times be enough? Peter thought that he was being generous. After all, the rabbis of his day taught that only three times were required. They said, “Forgive three times, but not the fourth.” That was how they interpreted passages like Amos 1:3 (“For three transgressions of Damascus, and ...

3781. When Life Isn't Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’clock he had his foreman line up the laborers to be paid. He began with those who had worked but an hour. He paid them for a full day. Watching this were those who had worked since six in the morning. They rubbed their hands in delight. “Wow,” they thought to themselves, “If he pays them a full day’s wage for working just part of a day, think how much he will pay us!” When their time came, however, they also received the standard wage for one day’s work. They were mad. They had worked all day ...

3782. Forgiveness

Romans 3:21-31

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... you? "Don't you dare touch that banana pudding." Well Bill tried to resist that pudding. But it looked so good. Finally he thought to himself, "If I eat just a little bit around the edges no one will notice." So that is what he did. But after he did that he knew ... that his mother would know that he had been in the banana pudding, so he thought to himself, "You know, if I'm going to get punished anyway I might as well eat some more." Which he did. In fact, he ate ...

3783. Christ the Righteous Judge

Revelation 20:11-12

Sermon

Shirley Gupton Lynn

... evil that separates us qualitatively from the societies of all preceding ages." Isn't that an awesome thought! Our generation has the power because of technological and scientific knowledge to do more GOOD than any ... frame Dagwood is asleep on the couch, broom idle beside him. In the last frame a disgruntled Blondie steers Dagwood toward the cellar as he protests, "Well, I thought you gave me a choice." Like Dagwood, we really don't have the choice about life to "do it right or not at all." Life is here. We ...

3784. Jesus the Iconoclast

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Dale Chihuly? He totally changed the "blown glass" art world after he was totally changed by a mid-career accident which took the sight from one of his eyes and forced him to "reframe." Suddenly Chihuly discovered symmetry wasn’t as necessary as he thought. His new perspective made him into an "iconoclast" . . . and one of the world’s greatest living artists, the Michelangelo of glass. Have you heard of Howard Armstrong? He invented FM radio. He had to set up his own FM antennae when the reigning czar ...

3785. Don’t Fear the Wait

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... than he — Tomorrow A friend who was troubled and weary, he knew Who'd be glad of a lift, and who needed it too, On him he would call and see what he could do — Tomorrow Each morning he stacked up the letters he'd write — Tomorrow And the thought of the folks he would fill with delight — Tomorrow But hadn't one minute to stop on his way, "More time I will give to others," he'd say — Tomorrow The greatest of disciples this man would have been — Tomorrow The world would have hailed him if he had ...

3786. Discipleship: The Beauty and the Cross

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... discipleship. While there, however, the cross of her role as the mother of God was first revealed. Simeon was very clear, "This child is destined for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be opposed so that the inner thoughts of many will be revealed — and a sword will pierce your own soul, too" (Luke 2:34b-35). This was, however, only the beginning of Mary's spiritual martyrdom. Like her son, Mary never shied away from her call nor doubted in her role as a disciple. She ...

3787. Where Are You From?

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

David T. Ball

... heaven (John 13:1-2). In Jesus' case, the answer to where he was from revealed one of the most important things about him. "Where are you from?" We can ask this of ourselves. What would it reveal? In the long-ago culture of ancient Palestine, it was thought to reveal the most important aspect of a person's identity. In our own, we have discounted the significance of the answer to this question. It no longer determines whether or not we'll be treated fairly, and respected. Now we are tempted to look to other ...

3788. Caring for the “Little Ones”

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

George Reed

... at any cost. It is no wonder that when Jesus stopped the procession and ask who touched him that she was afraid to answer. Yet, the fact that she had felt healing power rush through her from Jesus gave her the courage to own up to her act. She probably thought that she was in for a good tongue lashing and she would be glad if that was all she received for her rash act. When the woman came trembling and fell at Jesus' feet confessing her deed, she was not met with harsh words of rebuke but instead addressed ...

3789. Anywhere But Home

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

George Reed

... and how they are trying to live that out not only helps us to better understand what they are going through but it helps them to think it through more completely. When we see problems with their choices we need to respectfully inquire if they have thought through what might be the consequences of the actions in regard to certain issues. We won't help the situation by telling them what terrible, drastic things are going to befall them if they keep following their stupidity. None of us want to be wrong and ...

3790. The Passion of the Servant Leader

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... six dozen cookies, tell her to make sure first that the kids don't want to tell her about a dream or a hope or something. Thoughts are important to small kids, even though they don't have so many words to use when they tell about what they have inside them. I ... Beneath lies confusion, and fear, and aloneness. But I hide this. I don't want anybody to know it. I panic at the thought of my weakness exposed. That's why I frantically create a mask to hide behind, a nonchalant sophisticated facade, to help me ...

3791. Yesterday, Today, and Forever

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... was fashionable, grass was mowed, coke was a cold drink, and pot was something you cooked in. Rock music was Grandma in a rocking chair humming a lullaby, aids were helpers in the principal's office and mother was one word -- not two! And we were the last generation that thought you needed a husband to have a baby!-- Anonymous In the midst of all this change, isn't it a good thing to hear the words of Philip to the Ethiopian about the good news of Jesus and his love that took him to the cross that we might ...

3792. Baby Blues

1 Samuel 1:4-20

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... to be encouraging, and to let her know how much he loved her, but all she could hear was the ticking of her biological sundial. "Honey, you've got me. What more could you possible want?" Elkanah humbly chirped. A loving husband just wasn't the same, thought Hannah. After all, he had children by Peninnah, his other wife. Hannah didn't. Peninnah was a big problem, too. Hannah knew Peninnah looked down on her. She could just hear Peninnah chanting behind her back, Nah, nah, nah, nah, nah. I've got children and ...

3793. Taking the Risk

Illustration

Mickey Anders

... to assassinate him in 1972. He once wrote to Bremer in prison, telling him, "I love you." On September 13, 1998, George Wallace died at age 79. Alabama Governor Fob James, Jr., said, "Governor Wallace was prepared to do battle where he thought it necessary at the time and where he thought it was right, and then he had the courage to change and say, 'There were times I was wrong.'" A day prior to his funeral, an estimated 25,000 mourners, almost as many blacks as whites, walked reverently past his coffin in ...

3794. Jehovah's Witnesses Error

Mark 13:1-31

Illustration

Staff

... , and listen to this explanation, "When we reflected on the scriptures, we decided that he was talking about his generation rather than ours." Really? That's what you decided? You mean, you thought, that when Jesus said "This generation will not pass away until...," that that meant our generation and not his. You really thought that, for decades. You don't even need to know how to interpret the bible to understand that. It's basic grammar. I'll now ask your forgiveness for that bought of theological ...

3795. Yellow Wind

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... May/June 1991:113) This brief father/son conversation demonstrates a number of the fears and foibles that populate apocalyptic thought. For some the whole literature and tradition of "end times" is part of such an ancient and obscure mythology that ... it as a kind of eschatological excuse for doing nothing. Finally, there are still others so far beyond the pale of biblical thought and tradition that upon hearing about apocalyptic predictions and images they can only roll their eyes and respond "You're weird, ...

3796. A Lovehope Faith

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a copy of this in preparation for this sermon. Indeed, your sermon could be nothing more (nor less) than citing how many of these people talk of love as the fount and foundation of meaning in life, and quoting from them. Among these thoughtful, thought provoking, sometimes amusing answers we find the meaning of life embodied beautifully in Martin E. Marty's response: What is the meaning of life? Love. To love. To be loved. No surprise there. Philosopher Max Scheler reminds us, and our experience confirms ...

3797. Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... (58). As "cognitive" therapists it comes as little surprise that Freeman and DeWolf find the cognitive response tightly interwoven with the emotional and behavioral as well. "Because how you feel," they insist, "is affected by how you think...you can let your thoughts get carried away by emotion or, by thinking more clearly, change the emotions you feel." Finally if we feel like failures and think we are failures, we are likely to act out our lives as failures too. Freeman and DeWolf note the tendencies ...

3798. Christ the Snake

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , though he prevented their doing so when they were under his eye, they did it when out of school; so that, notwithstanding all the pains he had taken, it appeared to be a growing evil, and he did not know how to cure it. I told him I thought I could cure it; and added, "If you will take care of my school next week, I will take care of yours, and try;" which he readily consented to do. Accordingly, on Monday morning I went into his school without either stockings or shoes. The children looked with surprise ...

3799. The Problem of Unanswered Prayer

2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... praying we sometimes become entry points for God's power to enter situations in order to redeem and heal them. There was a little girl who had been sent to her room to "think things over" after some irresponsible behavior. After a while she emerged all smiles and said, "I thought and I prayed." "Fine," said her mother. "That will help you to be good." "Oh, I didn't ask God to help me to be good," the girl replied. "I asked God to help me put up with you." If you're really praying, you seldom get the answer ...

3800. FaithRace

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... should have ambition or not. The issue is what we have ambition for - after what foods do we hunger? The difference between Christians and nonbelievers boils down to the difference between the thoughts they think, the hungers they crave, the hopes they die for. The typical, grade-A American Christian has hungers that are so cheap, thoughts so pint-sized, hopes so timid, tepid and thin that they could all be fulfilled at a White Castle. Contrast the answer clergy used to give to John Wesley's question: "What ...

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