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3901. Don't Bury the Talents

Illustration

Stuart Briscoe

... someone else's talents, particularly those bestowed on women. Accordingly, I have tried to scrutinize my views, the place of tradition, the thrust of theology, and the force of my prejudices. Repeatedly, I have come back to this fact: If the Lord has given gifts, I had better be careful about denying freedom for their exercise. More than that, I need to ensure that the women in my life have every encouragement from me to be what He called and gifted them to be. A major part of my life must be spent as a man ...

3902. Christmas Is a God-Thing

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... now, 2100 years after the birth of Christ, we know what God wants of us. God wants us to love one another. God wants us to take care of the least and the lowest. God wants us to lay down our lives for others, even as He lay down his life for us. But time ... and this final Hispanic gentleman was almost “one homeless person too many” for him. Mark knew that his commitment to being a “caring” pastor had put him in this position, but he was starting to feel sorry for himself. On the way to the shelter, ...

3903. Being Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... sitting. “You are wrong,” she said as she passed. “I actually teach children who are deaf how to lip read.” (6) Whoa. They learned a lesson in a hurry. They thought no one would guess what they were doing, but one woman did. She read lips. Better be careful who’s listening even if they are not within range of the sound of your voice. There will be a time when all secrets will be revealed. Of course, there is One before whom no secrets are ever hidden. Are you prepared to give an accounting to the ...

3904. A Tooth For A Tooth

Illustration

Albert L. Hock

... yard and riding their bicycles over his lawn. One night the leader of the teenage group had a bad toothache. The boy's mother sent the young fellow to the dentist to be examined. The dentist found the tooth in need of expensive repair and offered to take care of it. The boy refused. He said his family could not afford it. The dentist finally persuaded the lad to let him do the repairs and the dentist never sent a bill. That summer the dentist left town for an extended vacation. When he returned, he found ...

3905. It Pays To Tip

Humor Illustration

... or make sure it got on the right plane. But the man standing just in front of us took a different approach. He didn't offer a tip, but sternly lectured the skycap about taking special care of his two bags. He swore loudly when one of his bags tipped over accidentally, then angrily stalked off toward his gate. As we stepped up to take our turn, the skycap's broad grin caught our attention. We asked him how he was able to keep smiling given the ...

3906. The Rinse Cycle

Humor Illustration

... said, "Ell, son, that Tide detergent is pretty strong for washing a little dog." The little boy said, "That's what I want." The clerk said, "Alright," and he sold him the Tide and he said, "Now, you be careful when you wash your dog. That detergent is very strong; it might kill him." the little boy said, "I'll be careful." He took the box of detergent home. About a week later the little boy came back to the store and the clerk recognized him and said, "Son, how's your dog." And the little boy said, "I'm ...

3907. A Brown Thumb

Humor Illustration

I got a chuckle out of a story about a young woman who went away to college in the fall, leaving her plants and her goldfish in the care of her mother, who had a tendency to be forgetful. Some of us may know somebody with a "brown thumb." This mother had one. The plants that the daughter left behind in the care of her mother died at the end of the month. The mother dutifully broke the bad news to her. When the young woman called a week later, her mother confessed that the goldfish had died too. There was a ...

3908. Cellophane Prison

Humor Illustration

... 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 ...

3909. A Mother's Advice

Humor Illustration

... spent on braces, Mona, that's the biggest smile you can give us?" HUMPTY DUMPTY'S MOTHER: "Humpty, If I've told you once, I've told you a hundred times not to sit on that wall. But would you listen to me? Noooo!" COLUMBUS' MOTHER: "I don't care what you've discovered, Christopher. You still could have written!" BABE RUTH'S MOTHER: "Babe, how many times have I told you quit playing ball in the house! That's the third broken window this week!" MICHELANGELO'S MOTHER: "Mike, can't you paint on walls like other ...

3910. Signs of Life

Humor Illustration

... a minute. In a bakery window: Shortcake take it home and berry it. In a radiator repair shop's advertisement: Take Us To Your Leaker. On a car in Kansas City, Mo.: Pass with care driver chews tobacco. In a Memphis maternity shop: We carry everything but the baby. On an optometrist's window: We're the best in sight. On the funeral home: Drive carefully we can wait! On a shoe repair shop: We bring back departed soles. On a motel: Our King Size Beds are a lot of bunk. At reducing salon: Let us help you win the ...

3911. Matthew 25:31-46

Matthew 25:31-46

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... the scene its familiar parable flavor. Perhaps what is most interesting? The response of the two groups to the king’s declarations of blessedness or accursedness is also exactly the same. If “the least” who were fed, watered, welcomed, clothed, cared for, and visited by those being blessed does refer to Jesus’ disciples, those who offered this aid apparently did not recognize those they helped as representatives of the Christ. Likewise, those who are “cursed” because they failed to offer aid ...

3912. Using Our Own Burdens as Excuses

Matthew 25:31-46

Illustration

David Zersen

... . But Abel is too busy with his own appreciation for acceptance, his reverie in piety. He has no time. It's a common theme in the parables of Jesus. There are always those who don't care about the other and have to bear some responsibility for driving the brother or sister to actions we find it all too easy to judge. Wiesel says that the Cains of the world become what they are because of us—because we had no time to listen, to understand, to ...

3913. Doing Your Own Thing

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... have any dogs. He went on to explain that he was starting The Purina Diet . . . again . . . although he probably shouldn’t because . . . the last time he’d ended up in the hospital . . . However, he had lost 50 pounds on the diet . . . before he awakened in an intensive care unit with tubes coming out all over the place and IVs in both arms. He told her that it was essentially a perfect diet and that the way that it works is to load your pants pockets with Purina nuggets and simply eat one or two every ...

3914. The Handiwork of God

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... he might fashion us into his handiwork. He did it so that we might become world-class parents, world-class spouses, world-class employees and employers, world-class servants of God. I like to think that we have some world-class members of our church people who give more, care more, help more. You can be a world-class member of a committee. You can be a world-class usher or a world-class choir member. That doesn’t mean you’ll be invited to sing at the Met. But it does mean that you’re not a slacker ...

3915. How Odd of God

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... . There is no question that it has been used many times throughout history to justify persecution of the Jews. And that is unforgivable. After all, Jesus himself was a Jew as were all of the original Christians. To be anti-Jewish is to be anti-Christ. But a careful reading of the New Testament shows it to be anything but anti-Semitic. Take, for example, today’s lesson from Acts. It follows one of the most beautiful scenes in the scriptures. One day Peter and John were going up to the temple at the time of ...

3916. 1 John 3:16-24

1 John 3:11-24

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... for all who are within the community of faith must exist. The love that comes from God is expressed by compassionate care for others, most basically in giving some of our worldly goods for their welfare. Although the actual authorship of 1 John might ... once was whole. By emphasizing the uniqueness of those still in the faith community, as those whose “love” takes the form of active care and compassion for others because of God’s love, the author gives those who remain a daily course of action they can ...

3917. Candidates for God’s Candid Camera

1 John 3:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

3918. Practicing the Presence

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , as did the Unabomber. If only the church “practiced what it preached,” we say, then the community of faith that confesses “Jesus is Lord” would be the #1 purveyor of love and peace in the world. But once again, we need to consider carefully what is being “preached” and who is doing the “preaching.” When we get wrapped up in preaching a doctrine or a direction or a divine plan, we end up practicing things like “spiritual laws” or “strategic plans” or “target quotas.” But is that ...

3919. The Sound of a Mighty Wind

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... who was chosen by the casting of lots to replace Judas in Acts 1. They were rather obscure figures, but undoubtedly they paid a price as well. Only one of the twelve disciples probably died a natural death the beloved disciple John, the one to whom was given the care of Jesus’ mother. It is said he died in 98 A.D. According to Jerome, John was so frail in his final days at Ephesus that he had to be carried into the church. One phrase was constantly on his lips: “My little children love one another. It ...

3920. Stand by Me

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , deeply sleeping on the cushioned seat; the panicked and prickly wake-up call of the disciples (“Don’t you care that we are perishing?!”); Jesus’ simple, decisive words; the sudden silence of the storm, the anxious awe of the ... I had scarcely a hair on my head. Look at me now. I have a full head of hair. I jog five miles a day. I can take care of myself as well as anyone and, as you may have noticed, I have no trouble talking.” The tourist was impressed. “That’s an incredible story,” he said ...

3921. Why Are You So Afraid?

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the other side. Suddenly a furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it was nearly swamped. Jesus was in the stern, the back of the boat sleeping on a cushion. The disciples woke him and said to him, “Teacher, don’t you care if we drown?” Jesus got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm. Then he turned to his disciples and asked, “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” Then, says ...

3922. The 4 Spiritual Flaws

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the subtle and not-so-subtle parallels that John draws between Moses, who was Israel's first "redeemer," and Jesus, whose ultimate act of redemption is yet to come, is evident. The Sea of Galilee, so prominently present in Mark's gospel, has to be carefully identified in John's text, where the region of Galilee is not a focal point. Jesus crosses over the water (although he does not "part" it) and immediately ascends "the mountain" with his disciples. Yet the crowds follow them up to this wilderness retreat ...

3923. John 6:1-21

John 6:1-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

3924. The Coat Off Your Back

Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... to God. The result? Blessings that have been given to all generations. His example of trust and faith in God, who cares and provides for faithful followers, still stands before us. Abraham didn't look at the current situation, but looked forward to God ... you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me. I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me ... Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these who are ...

3925. Only the Best

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... . The guests were many, since everybody in town was invited. It was considered an insult to refuse. Today we have a reception after a marriage ceremony and limit those invited. Imagine having to furnish food and beverage for a week for your guests! Arrangements had to be carefully planned. How embarrassing it would be for the host to run out of wine. It was not just a slip up, but it broke the laws of hospitality. If this happened at one of our receptions, we would do all in our power to resolve the problem ...

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