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3926. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... for the hopeless and sight for the blind To all who've been born of the Spirit and who share incarnation with him; who belong to eternity, stranded in time, and weary of struggling with sin. Forget not the hope that's before you, and never stop counting the cost. Remember the hopelessness when you were lost? Are you hopeless and lost? Then obey God, believe the gospel, and be saved by grace. Are you saved by grace? Then obey God. You cannot separate the two. [1] See Cal Thomas, ...

3927. The Seven Delightful Blessings of the Word of God in the Believer's Life

Psalm 119:169-176

Sermon

Michael Milton

... on going. That is why we are able to forgive.... Mrs. Rita Rhoads, a midwife in the community who delivered two of the slain girls said this: ...if you don’t live in Jesus, and you suffer the loss of a child...you would be in utter despair, without hope, because you would think of your dead child as a pile of dust. But these...children who were killed have gone to heaven. Their families know this. So there may be quiet sobbing at the funerals. But God’s peace filled the girls at the time of their death ...

3928. The One Who Came Still Comes; The One Who Spoke Still Speaks

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... , some who waved palms and shouted Hosanna were going to wave their fists and shout, “Crucify Him!” They were going to be surprised by a Savior on a colt and a Savior on a cross. Everything about Jesus is surprising. But therein is our salvation and our hope. When I was in business, I once was riding in a cab from O’Hare airport to downtown Chicago. I was talking with the driver about the Chicago Cubs and the terrible season they were having. Somehow we got from the Chicago Cubs to hell. I think it ...

3929. A Broken Vessel for Jesus

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... the custom of that day, this woman came to Him to break the bottle of perfume and anoint Him with it. She was, in fact, drawn to Him. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead in John 11:20, this woman, Mary, was distant, far away from Jesus. She had hoped Jesus would come in time to save her brother, but he did not. When He finally came, in His own time, she was disappointed with God. But Christ’s time was better than her time. Her brother was raised from the dead. She was broken of that former self, and ...

3930. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... already do!” (5) Obviously the people whom she identified as Christians would not pass the love test. It’s troubling, isn’t it? Sometimes it seems as if the majority of people who fill church pews each Sunday have missed the whole meaning of what Christ was about. I hope that’s not true, but it seems that way sometimes. Let me say something to you that is very critical: WHEN WE GO OUT TO MINISTER TO THE LEAST AND THE LOWEST IN JESUS’ NAME, WE DON’T DO IT TO SAVE THEIR SOULS, BUT TO SAVE OUR OWN ...

3931. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... years apart. 7. Finally, don’t spend too much. “How do you think we’re going to afford that?” she’ll ask. But don’t spend too little. She won’t say anything, but she’ll think, “Is that all I’m worth?” (1) Good luck, men. Hopefully, this year you were successful. Today we honor our mothers. Not everybody can be a mother, of course. Some women and their husbands try for years to conceive a child and it never happens. And some women choose not to have families. Some women never meet the ...

3932. Now Here Is the Plan

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... year that the Messiah will come. They came expecting this will be the year the Messiah will finally come. Among the pilgrims there are revolutionaries, anarchists, and "sicarii," which means "the daggers." They were revolutionaries, planning to overthrow the government. They hoped that something would happen with the crowd that they can exploit to create a mob that would throw the Roman oppressors out. So for a person who is responsible for governing in a volatile situation as Jerusalem was at the Passover ...

3933. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... monk and asked, "Father, do you still wrestle with the devil?" The monk answered, "Not anymore. I have grown old, and the devil has grown old with me. He no longer has the strength. Now I wrestle with God." "With God?", the man asked, "You wrestle with God? Do you hope to win?" "No," he said, "I ...

3934. Get Up and Go

Isaiah 60:1-6, Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... don't feel like doing them. People say you ought to be honest about your feelings. I believe that. Your feelings are a part of you, and you ought to take your feelings seriously. But there is more to you than your feelings. There are also your hopes, your aspirations, your dreams, your visions, your responsibilities and your obligations, and there is now, because of the gospel proclaimed to you, a new life that is being offered to you. That is a part of your life, too. You ought to be as honest about those ...

3935. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... being, her bearing his burden with him, transformed his life, and probably, given the context of that neighborhood, saved his life. We are priests to each other. We can mediate the grace of God through our concern for other people. We can redeem their lives, give them hope, turn them around, simply by making ourselves a vessel for God's grace to touch their lives. But even more so, we are supposed to be priests to one another in the Church. We sang as the second hymn this morning, "Blest Be the Tie That ...

3936. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... moment in normal life, you usually say to yourself, 'Well, it could be worse; at least I am still alive.' Well I was imprisoned in Iran, and all of a sudden I realized that may no longer be true." That is to say, it was no longer a source of hope to say, "It could be worse; I am still alive," because he knew in that situation of extremity, he was reminded of it by his captors, that tomorrow he could die. He continued. "From that realization came the greater awareness that life is not just for now and here ...

3937. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... plate and say, now I have acquired faith. You can try that, by the way, if you are so inclined. It would certainly boost MY faith. But it won’t settle life’s most important issues for you. You can’t even buy faith with your good works, though I hope you will keep doing these good works. There is only one way you can have faith in Jesus Christ, and that is to receive it. Open your heart. Pray that Christ’s Spirit will come into your heart and then begin living each day trusting God, until the day ...

3938. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... and meaningful life I have lived’? Do you desire your relationship with your spouse and children to grow closer and stronger right to the very end? Do you want to leave a rich legacy of material and nonmaterial treasures for your heirs? Do you hope that friends and coworkers who attend your memorial service are filled with gratitude for your contribution to their lives?” If you answer in the positive to each of these questions, then you need a plan for bringing these to fruition. Foster suggests a very ...

3939. Traveling to the Mountain

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... to the force of evil in the world. Is that force finally just going to have the last word in human life and overwhelm us all? If we believe that the course of nations and persons is determined solely by human endeavor, then we do not have many grounds for hope. Human sin has corrupted God’s good creation and turned it into the scene that we see today. But if we believe, as the prophets believed, that God is the Lord who is finally in charge of the lives and course of all of us, then there is every reason ...

3940. Honest Abe

Genesis 12:1-4a

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... "faith," only the verb "to believe." God's righteousness is what he does for you: his numerous saving acts, creation, the Exodus, the sending of messengers of his grace; but mainly it is most clearly demonstrated in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This is our hope and our trust. We are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and it is reckoned to us as righteousness. If we are honest enough to admit that we can't save ourselves and that all that is comes from God, then we can do no ...

3941. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... 3:14), a holy call (2 Timothy 1:9), a heavenly call (Hebrews 3:1), and, throughout the New Testament, a shared call (1 Corinthians 1:26; 2 Timothy 1:9; Hebrews 3:10). Followers of Christ are also called in hope (Ephesians 1:18; 4:4). "As an upward, holy, heavenly, shared, and hopeful call, God's invitation calls us to himself and his purposes. God invites us to share his joy and his purpose. Central to that purpose is the salvation of the world."2 "The New Testament does not take an institutional view ...

3942. A Peek at the Resurrection

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... reach them. No antenna is powerful enough to enable us to talk to them. What is their existence like? What happens after we die? If we turn to this strange sounding passage in chapter 7 of Revelation, we get a vision of life in the resurrection, the hope of all Christians of what happens after death. This is not a precise, "just--the-facts" answer to our questions about what happens after death. This passage is part of a vision. It gives us the language of poetry, of liturgy. The book of Revelation uses the ...

3943. Genuine Love

1 Peter 1:17-23

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... or blemish. One: He was destined before the foundation of the world, but was revealed at the end of the ages for your sake. All: Through him you have come to trust in God, who raised him from the dead and gave him glory, so that your faith and hope are set on God. One: Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart. All: You have been born anew, not of perishable but of imperishable seed, through the living ...

3944. Gradually Slipping Away

Genesis 2:15-17; 3:1-7

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... their Creator. So many sins - and one cross slapped down to bridge the abyss. Collect This First Sunday In Lent we come to consider a sin we might claim as our own, the willful disobedience of God's good will for our lives. Even here there is hope. It is in that hope that we gather to praise the name of the Lord. Amen. Prayer Of Confession May we learn from the sin of our parents not to blame each other, but to take responsibility for our sins, to confess before God, and to believe in the possibility of ...

3945. It All Depends On Faith

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... all people and your ministry is for all people. Challenge us so we might widen the circle, so that we might learn to live and care for others more than ourselves. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, in this season of Lent we confess our sins, with the bright hope of forgiveness before us. Hear our confession as individuals, as a community, as a nation, and most of all as your church. We have sinned in both what we have done and in what we have failed to do. This season we will focus our hearts upon the cross ...

3946. Why? Sigh.

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... . I do not want to hear you cry. I want it to be over, the waiting, the watching. Today as we contemplate your death we offer up special prayers for caregivers and those for whom they care, in their hour of trial, in their waiting and watching as well. Our hope is built on nothing less than this cross, your cross, our cross. Amen. Hymns "Man Of Sorrows" "When I Survey The Wondrous Cross" "My ...

3947. Surprised by God’s People

Romans 9:1-5

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Sisters and brothers, let us come together as God's people confident in our salvation through faith in Jesus Christ. Like the Apostle Paul, we know that suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, and character produces hope. This hope based on the love of God does not disappoint us. Therefore we gather confident that the Holy Spirit will be present with us today. Let us gather together today, bearing not only the marks of our suffering, but the badge of our salvation. In ...

3948. Surprised by God’s Bounty

Matthew 14:13-21

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

3949. Credit Where Credit Is Due

Psalm 43:1-5, 1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... me to your holy hill and to your dwelling. Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise you with the harp, O God, my God. Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. (Psalm 43) Collect Lord, when we consider the diversity of your people, and the beauty you have invested into every face, every body, our response must be: How great you are! Amen. Prayer Of Confession Father, the ...

3950. Using the Word as a Blunt Instrument

Matthew 23:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Hope in Christ. Hinder no one who wishes to worship with us. Have faith. Collect Father in heaven, gather us in, the haughty and proud ... burdens on others that we might have carried for you. We ask your forgiveness when we accepted the popular cant and taught condemnation when we might have studied your words and given hope. Patient God, we praise you for your forgiveness and ask for guidance as we seek to pastor each other in your holy name. Amen. Hymns "Here In This Place" "Lord, I Want To ...

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