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3901. How Not to Become Distracted

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... all the work by myself? Tell her then to help me" (Luke 10:40). I'm sure we've all had moments like this when we thought we were left with the short end of the stick. It can happen at home after a party when everyone goes to bed and we're ... charge of mowing the lawn, I disagreed. Each and every Thursday during the summer, unless it rained, we had an argument about this philosophy. My grandfather thought I should mow the lawn over a three-day period of time. "It's too big a yard to do in a day!" he would say ...

3902. Faithquakes

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of the church sins against me, how often should I forgive? As many as seven times'? Jesus said to him, ‘Not seven times, but I tell you, seventy-seven times.' " Peter thought he was being generous. The rabbis of his time taught that under certain conditions of repentance you might forgive a person as many as three times. Peter thought he'd be commended for more than doubling that amount. He was all shook up when Jesus told him, "Not seven times, but seventy-seven times." Other translations say, "Not seven ...

3903. Lean on Me

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... bring it back to me." The man took it back and, for two weeks, labored over the report. Finally, he brought it back and gave it to Henry Kissinger. Once again, without looking at the report, Kissinger asked, "Does this represent your best effort?" The man thought for a moment and said, "Well, some things aren't too well documented. I could spend some more time in research." Kissinger said, "Take it back, work it over, and bring it back when it represents your best effort." A week later, after working almost ...

3904. Building God’s Kingdom: The Christian Challenge

Romans 10:8-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... decent one of the lot. Nobody did the parish census; Nobody joined the Parish Council. One day there was an announcement in the parish bulletin for people to apply for a position as a teacher in the Sunday school program. Everybody thought Anybody would apply; Anybody thought Somebody would apply. So, guess who applied? You are right, Nobody! Let's not be Everybody, Somebody, or Anybody. Rather, let us seek to be a Nobody, working not for ourselves but for others. Let us take up the challenge of building ...

3905. Minding the Store of Our Lives

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to do with the coming of the kingdom. The man from the cottage, who was a stonecutter, went up to the cross one dark night. One of those stone arcs, he thought, would fit exactly the hole in his wall. He would come the next day with a hammer and a chisel and remove it. He smiled, perhaps uneasily, as he thought of how much warmer his house would be without the perpetual drafts. Almost satisfied with his decision, he turned toward his homeward path, but his plans were rudely interrupted. In the distance ...

3906. Sharing God’s Love

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... brokenness and weakness. Saint Paul knew this well and thus could confidently write: "I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities for the sake of Christ; for whenever I am weak, then I am strong" (2 Corinthians 12:10). The youngest brother thought he had nothing of value to give to the kingdom, but he really had everything. It was his gift of love, shared with the people, that won the day, not only for his ascension to the crown, but more fundamentally in bringing a new ...

3907. New Creations in Christ

Revelation 21:1-6

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... was not ripe enough. He left, disgusted, but as he did, the fruit seller said, "I wish you new eyes, sir, child eyes." "New eyes," thought the old man as he walked away. "I have never used glasses; my vision has never been sharper." A week later, he again stopped at ... not to think of the fruit seller's story, but no matter how hard he tried he could not shake it off. The more he thought about it the more he wished for new eyes for himself. He began to think about the stranger hoping that he would return. If ...

3908. The Dream

Galatians 1:1-10

Sermon

John Jamison

... could talk. We sat in the yard chairs and had a beer." His eyes apologized for the beers, but the pastor shook his head and said, "No problem. Go ahead." "Well, my son started telling me about this dream he had the night before, and wondered what I thought about it. In his dream, he was riding his motorcycle home from work, but was taking a different way home than he usually did, riding down Route 17. Anyway, he was just riding along, there by the grocery store, where the railroad tracks cross the road, you ...

3909. Unlocking the Power of God

Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... Whatever your will though, I love you and trust you. Amen." After praying, he lay quietly listening to the enemy begin to draw close. He thought, "Well, I guess the Lord isn't going to help me out of this one." Then he saw a spider begin to build a ... listening to the enemy searching for him all the while, the spider layered strand after strand of web across the opening of the cave. "Hah," he thought, "What I need is a brick wall and what the Lord has sent me is a spider web. God does have a sense of humor." ...

3910. Humor: We're Getting a Divorce

Mark 10:1-12

Illustration

... you. However, I don't want to discuss it. I'm merely telling you because you're my oldest child, and I thought you ought to know. I've made up my mind, I'm divorcing Mama." The son is shocked, and asks his father to ... divorce Mama just like that after 54 years together. What happened?" "It's too painful to talk about it. I only called because you're my son, and I thought you should know. I really don't want to get into it anymore than this. You can call your sister and tell her. It will spare me the pain." " ...

3911. Becoming as a Child - Sermon Opener

Mark 10:1-12

Illustration

... opening up the annual children's Easter party to the community. Their reasoning went something like this: We don't know who these kids are, they will run wild through the building, they will damage the building. Now, doubtless they thought they were doing the right thing. The disciples thought they were doing the right thing. Yet, Jesus took a very different position. Suffer the little children to come unto me, for to such belongs the Kingdom of God. He then went on to proclaim: Unless you become as one ...

3912. Good News about Ambition

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... ever lived, you will need to learn to serve others and to serve God. Another movie came out this past year that makes this point in an interesting way. It’s the film The Soloist. The Soloist is a powerful movie that will cause you to think new thoughts about people who are homeless. The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. It is true story based on the real life experience of Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez, played by Downey. As the movie opens, Lopez’s life is a wreck. He drinks too ...

3913. Who Will Go?

Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... vanished beyond the pickled okra, back into the secret recesses of the doors marked "Employees Only." What security force would not be delighted to have such a huge embodiment of dedicated loss control on its staff? Later as he was reliving that disturbing scene, Ken thought to himself, "Shoplifting is a serious crime, but that security guard is a man uniquely suited to his calling."1 We are all aware that a call does not always come at a convenient time in our lives. Think about those annoying sales calls ...

3914. The Possible Dream

Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... fair. Father Jacob had been jealous of his own twin brother, Esau, and had stolen Esau's blessing from their father Isaac by trickery, and then ran away from home. Later, when Jacob had to face Esau again, he had been terrified of the retribution he thought lay ahead for him. Now that he's a parent, Jacob seems to have developed a full-blown case of amnesia where sibling relationships are concerned. He is clueless about the rivalry among his own sons, and the part he has played in encouraging their jealousy ...

3915. He Will Abundantly Pardon

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... not only renewed, it is extended to cover a greater number of people. What should our response be? It should be immediate. "Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake their way and the unrighteous their thoughts; let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon" (vv. 6-7). In a way this makes no sense. We're used to insurance firms restricting coverage, companies reducing their liability, fine print on ...

3916. Wisdom's Delight

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... sound as if he has kept up his reading of other religions, or has found the wisdom he seeks. Perhaps most of us can identify with David, at least at some point in our lives. There may have been a time, especially in your youthful years, when you thought that at some point you'd have life figured out, that the answers to the deepest meaning of existence would be yours. And if you have sincerely embraced the way of Christ, you no doubt found that that commitment did settle some things, especially in the areas ...

3917. Choosing to Believe

1 Kings 18:20-39

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... . Afterward, I felt new and changed. Later when I was in my late teens, and I had learned more, including many of the arguments against Christian faith, the emotional experience of my early teens was no longer sufficient. I remember things coming to a moment where I thought, "I have a choice. I can believe in God and Christ or not. What do I choose to believe?" Well, I chose to believe that God exists and that Jesus is the one I should follow. There was very little emotion involved in that decision. It took ...

3918. Song Sung Blue

Lamentations 1:1-6

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... and public aid — not for a few days or even a week — but for a year and a half. Imagine the condition of the Super Dome after eighteen months of the leaky roof, clogged toilets, and scarce supplies. Well, let's not — the thought is too traumatic to even conceive! But the similarities are striking: Jerusalem and New Orleans, Judea and Mississippi or Alabama. Cities and people divided by time and geography, yet united by their experience of suffering and destruction — destruction not only of lives and ...

3919. A Voice in the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... it was not a test but an authentic emergency, still broadcasters ignored it. Only one broadcast station, a television station in Chicago, shut down as required by federal law. Obviously, this false alarm demonstrated major flaws in this system. (1) I thought of the Emergency Broadcast System when I thought of the role of John the Baptist in the Advent drama. John was assigned by God the task of alerting the people of Israel that the Messiah was on his way. Some listened and some did not. We think of John ...

3920. A Day of Singing

Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... being taken care of, tricked into coming back to life. But I had to leave before the sermon. (One day), she writes, I went . . . to church . . . so hung over that I couldn’t stand up for the songs, and this time I stayed for the sermon, which I just thought was so ridiculous . . . but the last song was so deep and raw and pure that I could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in ...

3921. No Room for Jesus

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... weary smile and handed them their menus. Harriet looked around. She felt a little bit like a snob and out of place. Her family had just come from a beautiful Christmas Eve service. And soon they would be heading to their lovely home for the night. She thought one day they would look back with a laugh and say to each other: “Remember the Christmas we ate breakfast at that truck stop? That awful music and those tacky lights?” She was staring out the window when an old Volkswagen van drove up. A young man ...

3922. Good News about Death

John 11:38-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?” And that is the question we struggle with. We know God cares, but why doesn’t God prevent bad things from occurring? Mark Tabb, in his book, Greater Than Unconventional Thoughts on the Infinite God, tells a heartbreaking story that poses that question in a stark way. It is about a young boy in a rural area of Kentucky named Cody. Cody wanted to be a preacher when he grew up, just like his dad who was a pastor ...

3923. The Good News about the Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... she began to explain to him what was happening. But the explanation didn’t seem to make much impression on him. She says he clearly took his mission to have been fulfilled when he had called her to warn her. “Well yes,” he said, “it may be so. But I thought that you had better get up in case it was God coming.” (3) Well, someday God will come. We don’t know when. But of even more relevance to each of us, there will come a time when God will come for us personally. Maybe you would like to know ...

3924. “Unto Us A Child Is Born... Next, On Omar”

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... a king. Wise Man 2: All those animals ... and he was sleeping on hay. Not a fitting place. Wise Man 3: Oh, I don’t know. I thought it was kind of warm and cozy. And the innkeeper and his wife made sure it was very clean. The hay was freshly pitched, not the same ... to find the words) What do you know friends? For once in my life, I’m speechless. I put this show together because I thought it would be good for a few laughs. I mean, come on ... all these visions, and angels and stuff. We’re all so ...

3925. Miracles? No Problem!

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... the way he’s kicking, he’s going to be a handful when he grows up. With my luck, he’s going to end up as some wild man who eats locusts. Mary: Elizabeth, you’re my favorite cousin and I love you, but you think really strange thoughts sometimes. Elizabeth: It comes with my condition ... or maybe my age. Anyway, I have my own dinner to fix. I’ll probably see you tomorrow. Mary: Walk slowly, please. And thanks for the veggies. (Elizabeth exits stage right. Mary picks up the bowl, moves the sack next ...

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