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3826. License to Steal

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to get things done and do things right. That Pharisee couldn’t see beyond his human abilities to the divine possibilities that God had waiting. What do your prayers reveal about you? Most of us have two kinds of prayers. First, we have the carefully crafted prayers we’ve memorized and mouth back in formal services or established prayer moments. Those prayers utter lovely language and polite praise. Second are our “Hail, Mary” prayers — the prayers we blurt out when a loved one is sick or injured ...

3827. You're Not Home Yet

Illustration

Ray C. Stedman

... , "Dear, something is wrong. Why should we have given our lives in faithful service for God in Africa all these many years and no one cares a thing about us. Here is a man who has been on a big-game hunting expedition and when he comes back everybody makes over ... is not treating us fairly. Why should we give ourselves like this and have no one to meet us, no one to help us, no one to care. We don't even know where to go. If God is a faithful God, why doesn't he meet our need and send someone along?" And his ...

3828. Can You Be Popular and Serve Jesus?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... over . . .” “What’s the trouble, officer?” the bewildered youth asked. The policeman did not answer. He jumped into his patrol car, slammed the door while muttering something about “smart mouth women,” and squealed off in anger. “Son, be careful. Slow down and be careful,” Peggy said as she started her car and drove on. “This,” William Willimon concludes, “is how saints are made . . . Saints are made by listening to the call of God and saying, yes . . .” (6) Saying yes to God often ...

3829. Totally Immobilized

Luke 19:1-10

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King Duncan

... place a drop cloth over the floor and secure it with the tape. Having succeeded in placing the tape around the entire surface, she went back inside the house to get a drop cloth. Returning to the porch sometime later, she found that all of her carefully placed tape was gone. She was completely mystified. Where could it be? Who would possibly have taken the time to pull up that tape and why? As she was surveying the situation and mulling over her puzzling predicament, she noticed something moving in her back ...

3830. An Example of God’s People

Matthew 28:16-20

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Edward F. Markquart

... brilliant man. Then he went to Arusha, Tanzania, there with immense suffering. He used his brains and resources to work in that area of the world. Each year, his hospital takes care of 35,000 patients, and they pay a dollar a person, or $35,000 income, paid by the patients and their families for their medical care. The patients feel good and self-respecting about paying their medical bills. Dr. Jacobson could have used his resources to escape suffering; he could have used his resources, brains and education ...

3831. Love Lifted Me

Psalm 40:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... understand a word of English. It would have been funny, had it not been so dangerous. One sweating MP quickly found a map of the field that gave the location of the mines, and his squad beat a careful route to the children. Grabbing the children, who were writhing and screaming in terror, they carefully began to retrace their steps back to the end of the minefield. At about the same time the children’s parents arrived to see their kids flailing insanely and being hauled off the field by a squad of hefty ...

3832. The True Nature of Happiness

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... their loved ones. Blessed are those who mourn, for they have the potential of being more sensitive, more open to God, more caring individuals. What about you? What loses have made you more sensitive? Blessed are those who mourn for the children of broken homes ... have yet to deal with the issues that plague their growth. For if you mourn there is still hope for you. It shows that you care about something that is beyond yourself. In the end it is not the mourners who are to be pitied, but rather those who do ...

3833. Daring Thomas

John 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the sanctuary it’s a teacher! . . . It’s an usher! . . . No! . . . It’s a PEW POTATO.” And Pontius is snoring away! You’re familiar with couch potatoes. This is how one observer described a pew potato: “A Pew Potato wants to be cared for but doesn’t know how to care. A Pew Potato wants to be visited but never visits. A Pew Potato wants the benefits of Bible study but leaves the [work] to someone else. A Pew Potato catalogs the mistakes of others but misses his/her own. A Pew Potato has not ...

3834. Living a Well-Storied Life

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... won’t automatically lead people on a walk with Christ. There are two different ways an ornithologist can study a bird. One method takes a “specimen,” a dead bird, and pins it out in a pan. The study of that bird takes the form of a dissection, a careful, layer-by-layer peeling away of all the structures and organs that enabled the bird to live, to eat, to fly, to reproduce. The dissected body can provide the researcher with a lot of information, but it still just a dead bird in a pan. The other method ...

3835. Matthew 21:1-1

Matthew 21:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... s own mode of transportation back to Jerusalem after Absalom’s rebellion was quashed (2 Samuel 16:2). Unlike the powerful armored warhorse used during conflicts, the donkey was the mount for a king who rode during peace time. Matthew takes typical midrashic care to make a literal match of animals with the prophetic text. Zechariah’s description of the king riding “on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey” becomes two separate creatures in Matthew’s telling a “donkey” and “a colt.” The ...

3836. The Five-a-Day Rule

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... on your most “Doubting Thomas Days.” Sometimes you have to go through the motions, even when you doubt. Sometimes the only thing that you can do is keep moving and doubt your doubt. Go buy groceries for the food bank. Hold NICU-infants [Neonatal Intensive Care Units] who need human contact. Deliver some meals on wheels to those who can’t get out. If you have a day when you cannot feel your faith, do acts of faithfulness instead. Praise: Even on “Low Sunday,” it is still spring. The world is ...

3837. From Temple to Table

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... as special lambs. Each newborn lamb was wrapped in “swaddling cloths” to prevent harm and wounds from thrashing about after birth. After being placed in a manger or feeding trough where they could calm down and not harm themselves, they were carefully inspected. Any “spot or blemish” (Exodus 12:5), no matter how slight, meant instant rejection (i.e. slaughter). The Hebrew word tamiym, (translated for lambs "without spot or blemish") means complete, whole, entire, sound. It is the same word used as ...

3838. Someone to Call Us In

John 10:1-21

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... others would have to go. The girl said, "They would all go. It would get dark and I would be there all alone, waiting for my father or my mother to call me in. They never did." How sad. There are children who don't know the voice of a caring parent, who never get called in or called home. They can do whatever they want as long as they don't get into any trouble or inconvenience the parents. When what they really want, what they really need is someone to ...

3839. Because I Live (Memorial Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... body were numb and paralyzed. He fell to the ground and, through nothing but sheer will power, crawled to the door and managed to get help. Through the efforts of the film crew, doctors, and even a stunt pilot, he was flown to a hospital for emergency care. His wife Janet rushed to his side. He was becoming weaker with each moment. Janet refused to accept the graveness of his condition she knew that Martin needed strength so she smiled brightly at him and said, “It’s just a movie, babe! It’s only a ...

3840. Those Kissing Christians

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ’t personal,” Hank’s explains, “it was just business.” Ryan protests and proclaims, “That just means it wasn’t personal to YOU! Whatever anything is, at the very least, it should be personal!” In other words if you care enough to “kiss,” you should care enough to “tell.” “Kiss and tell” was the watchword of the first century church. The “kiss” was the “holy kiss” that Paul urged the Corinthian Christians to greet each other with in today’s Epistle reading. The “tell ...

3841. Living for Christ in Daily Life

Matthew 10:1-42

Illustration

James Kegel

... light; what is whispered, proclaim from the housetops. It is in and through suffering that we grow in love for God and our neighbors. And we as followers of Jesus are called to be with the sick, to comfort the dying, to console the grieving, to understand the troubles, to care about others as God ...

3842. What to Do with the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... . If you plant bad seed, no use praying for a good harvest. Most of the time you’re going to get what you sow. Or, as someone has said, “If the grass looks greener on the other side of the fence, it may mean they take better care of their lawn.” What is dangerous is trying to figure out what other people are going to reap. Some people, I’m sorry to say, delight in separating people into acceptable and unacceptable, worthy and unworthy, good and bad, wheat and weeds. Notice what happens in this ...

3843. The Ad Vent Wheat

John 1:1-18

Drama

Frank Ramirez

... out a string of lights) Look at this! This will brighten the room. Bradley: (in a bossy manner) Now you be careful. Children should never play with electricity without adults. Garrison: Well, of course not. I will lay this aside until the ... Be near me, Lord Jesus, I ask thee to stay Close by me forever, and love me, I pray. Bless all the dear children in thy tender care, And fit us for heaven to live with thee there. Courtney: This advertising thing isn’t so bad. The grown-ups are going to love this. ...

3844. He Ascended Into Heaven

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... take a fast trip through the Sermon on the Mount. Angry words, insulting words are out. Our sexual behavior will be in control. We will be honest in our business dealings. We will go above and beyond the call of duty in response to appeals for help. We will care for the welfare of, not only our neighbor, but our enemy as well. We will be religious, but not showy about it. Possessions will have their rightful place in our lives, not the be-all and end-all of existence. We will not be judgmental, but we will ...

3845. Power!

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... older and could understand more of what they were doing. They were disappointed. Sometime later, the teacher talked with the girls about baptism again, and shared with them how she knew they were looking forward to it, someday. But the girls said they had already taken care of it — the two of them had gone down to Buffaloe Creek and baptized each other. Sounds very much like an old episode of All in the Family. Archie Bunker thought his new grandson ought to be baptized and he told his daughter and son-in ...

3846. The Healing Touch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... our prayers and anointing, healing does not come in the way we ask — sometimes there has been too much physical damage, and God's most gracious act will be to let life mercifully end. Those decisions are not ours; rather they are rightfully in the hands of a caring and loving God. There is much to learn about our ministry of healing because the subject has been neglected for so long. Of course, we can study the subject to death and use our incomplete work as an excuse for inaction. No, if the church is to ...

3847. Handling Freedom

Exodus 20:1-17

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and their neighbors more harm than good. No — no idols. Commandment #3: "You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God" (v. 7). Or in the language of the King James Version, "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain." Be careful of misunderstanding this one. Despite what your grandmother told you and that billboard to which we referred earlier, this is not a rule about not using God's name as an expletive. This is one more description of a truly liberated life. You see, in bygone days ...

3848. Peace In the Midst of the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... through it all. A little child is hit by a car and crippled for life and the family wonders if perhaps God might have been taking a nap at the time. A home is broken by a painful separation and divorce and the wonder comes as to whether the Lord cares at all. We have all felt it. Everyone in your little boat feels it now, and all eyes have gone back to that figure sleeping on the cushion. Suddenly, almost with one voice, you begin to yell back to Jesus: "Teacher, wake up! Teacher, look what's happening here ...

3849. Sex, Sex, and More Sex

Song of Songs 2:8-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... love poems were the best of the bunch. Not only the passage given above but the whole book is an ode to the joys of erotic love. It is so giddy with the intoxicating charms of sensual attraction that, like young lovers kissing in the mall, it seems not to care who else is around or what they might think of such carrying on. The book is comprised of the love songs sung by a man and a woman who can see only each other. And see each other they do. They linger over every inch in voluptuous celebration, savoring ...

3850. Ephphatha...Be Opened

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... back and forth between Jesus and the woman was merely the Lord's way of teaching something. By his initial reluctance to care for any Gentile, he was simply giving voice to the not-so-quietly harbored feelings of his Jewish followers. By finally acceding ... on his part and brought the house down. From then on we had no trouble with the Harijans hanging back from seeking medical care.[1] Bingo! There is our true explanation of this story. We must read this text through the culture of the Middle East or ...

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