Sermon and Worship Resources

Antonyms: keep, claim, continue, stick by, self-control, power through, achieve, defend, bear, hope, acquire, quick visit, adopt, continue along, adhere, remain, pursue, support, take up, keep up, reuse, advocate, stay, persevere, cherish, keep going, carry on

Showing 376 to 400 of 517 results

376. How Can I Know God's Will?

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... do not ignore possible warnings of Christian friends or of parents or whomever. They can be wrong, but again I emphasize that feelings when you are head over heels in love cannot be trusted. If you are starting a business, be diligent in your research. Do not act impulsively. Get the advice of people who understand how business works. Again the experts can be wrong, but at least listen to their input. You know the old story about a person who bought a car that turned out to be a lemon. A friend who was very ...

377. I Want My Dollar Back!

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... because of some verses she wrote about giving words she meant from her heart. They went like this: Take my life, and let it be Consecrated, Lord, to thee; take my moments and my days; let them flow in ceaseless praise. Take my hands and let them move At the impulse of thy love. Take my feet, and let them be Swift and beautiful for thee. Take my voice, and let me sing, Always, only, for my King. Take my lips, and let them be Filled with messages from thee. Take my silver and my gold; not a mite would I ...

378. Sister Act(s)

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... 's life. What are those things that keep us from sitting and drinking from the fountain of life? What keeps us from looking and listening and loving? What are the events that distract us from worship? What are the plethora of ideas and thoughts and impulses that obscure the awesomeness of Christ and Christ's mercy and love? A thousand distractions leap into our lap and demand, "Follow me, buy me, go here, go there, do this, do that!" Besides being worried and distracted, the third fly in Martha's soup ...

379. You Provoke Me...and That's Good

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... Triathlon, a major fundraiser for kids with cancer. “I’ve often thought of how different my life would have turned out if Frank had simply jogged by the house that morning, as he had always done . . . ,” Tony reflects. “But on that day . . . he felt a strong impulse to reach out to me . . . As is so often the case, the simple gesture done at just the right moment can be life‑changing. It was for me that day. Those four laps gave a very troubled teen’s life a completely new direction. And so I ...

380. The Radiant Life

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... when the Father confirmed verbally his satisfaction with his Son. When the Father said, "Listen to him," it was not only for those three disciples on the mountain that day but for all people for all time! III. The Glory Of God Is Revealed In Worship The disciples impulsively fell on their faces in awe of Jesus. The "awe" of God was on Moses' face. When we are in the presence of God the most natural response for us is to fall on our faces in worship. Patrick Morely wrote that his family once attended a ...

381. When We Are Tempted

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , desires, lusts, and passions to which the heart of the human inclines from youth. The driver is the wisdom, understanding, and intelligence with which God has endowed human life that we might rule over our appetites and desires and have dominion over our self-destructive impulses. (4) Woe to us if we never hear the voice of conscience, the voice of God, telling us to wake up before we destroy our lives. Temptation is universal and potentially deadly. Here’s the second thing we need to see. With God’s ...

382. When the Drought Gets Really Bad

Isaiah 55:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... against ourselves, and ultimately sinning against God. During the early years of his ministry not long after becoming a Christian, Keith Miller traveled around the country speaking to lots of men’s gatherings about the adventure of life with Christ. At one meeting on impulse he said, “I have the darndest feeling that I came here to talk to one of you guys.” As soon as he sat down he said to himself, “You stupid jerk! Why did you say that?” After the meeting, a handsome, distinguished man named ...

383. A Faith that Will Transform You

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... calling Matthew, another tax collector, to be one of his disciples. Zacchaeus may have begun to believe these reports and to hope that they were true. His efforts to see Jesus and his resulting response to Jesus are evidence that there was some strong impulse driving him toward spiritual growth. So, as Jesus is proceeding through the city he looks up and spots Zacchaeus in this tree. We shouldn’t be surprised that Jesus noticed Zacchaeus. Jesus sees every person, no matter where he or she may be . . . but ...

384. Remember the Rooster

John 18:25-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... slingshot to play with out in the woods. He practiced many times with his slingshot, but he could never hit any of the targets he aimed at. Getting a little discouraged, he headed back for lunch. As he was walking back he saw Grandma’s pet duck. Just out of impulse, he let fly with a rock from his slingshot. As luck would have it, he hit the duck square in the head, and killed it. He was shocked and grieved. In a panic, he hid the dead duck in the wood pile . . . only to see his sister watching. Sally had ...

385. A Global Celebration

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... So Peter and John started for the tomb. Both were running, but John outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and, true to his impulsive character, went straight through the open door into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen and the cloth that had once covered Jesus’ dead body, but the body was gone. The tomb was empty. Finally John also went inside. The Gospel writer says, “He saw and ...

386. Don't Roll It Back

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ours. Here in 1 Peter, “stones” become living things, not just basic building blocks. “Stones” become a metaphor for living people, not just any people but disciples living a resurrection life of Jesus. Peter might have been the most flighty, spontaneous, impulsive, momentarily insightful yet weakest of all Jesus’ disciples, but he must have had a big heart with loads of love. Peter, the loose stone, loose cannon, becomes a key “living stone.” “A living stone.” In the teenage years of the ...

387. Pastor, Don't Talk About That!

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... on a walking tour of Japan. It is said that Japan is a walker’s paradise in cherry blossom time. But the culture was different than young Walter had ever experienced and the temptations to cast off all restraint and indulge in every sort of desire and impulse was great. But something nagged at him. He sat one evening in a hotel room struggling with his memories of his parents and his past, his heritage and his hometown heroes and he sat down and wrote words with which many of us are acquainted because of ...

388. Do You Believe In Miracles?

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

James Merritt

... the blind seeing. And they glorified the God of Israel.” (Matthew 15:30-31, ESV) I believe you witnessed a miracle just in reading those verses. You say, “What do you mean?” The simple act of reading those few words involve millions of impulses firing across billions of synapses. While you were reading, your heart went about its business circulating 5 quarts of blood through a hundred thousand miles of veins, arteries, and capillaries. It is amazing you could even concentrate since you are on a planet ...

389. We Are Not The Light

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... conclusion of human history is beyond doubt. There is no need for any theological jury-rigging, “for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.” However, the Thessalonians seem to have given into the impulse to live as if they are completely in the dark. According to the first part of the chapter 5, idleness and drunkenness, as well as quarrelsomeness have broken out as a way of passing the time until things become a bit clearer. In our own times, the ...

390. Moving On Up

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... is not saying to his disciples that it is wrong to want to be the greatest. He is saying, “If you want to be first, if you want to be great, here is what you must do . . . be willing to serve.” He is not condemning their ambition. Ambition is an impulse given to us by God to help us better our lives. A person with no ambition is a drag on society. I derived the title of today’s message from a theme song from a television show of the 70s and 80s many of you will remember, “The Jeffersons.” Do ...

391. The Peaceable Kingdom

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... , just a little bit. The water of our very selves dribbles away. We may look like the same people, but who we are inside has begun to change. This is why John comes pointing the way to another kingdom. Here there will be no separation between the impulse of the heart, the thought of the mind, the word of the mouth, and the action of the hands. Somehow, everything about the coming kingdom is integrated. That's the meaning of the word "integrity," isn't it? Pure in heart! When the one of integrity arrives ...

392. Demons, Pigs, and the Economy

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... and that evil could be eradicated by education. In our psychologically enlightened times we have avoided the more ancient religious and mythological language of devils and evil. We have instead preferred words like repression, impulses, sublimation, drives, complexes, phobias, regression, neuroses, psychoses, manic-depressive, schizophrenic, and schizoid — to name a few. If we have been suspicious of religious healers, exorcists, and spiritual counselors, we have been implicitly trustful of psychiatrists ...

393. Ethics Rooted In...?

Illustration

Michael P. Green

"But one has to have an ethical base for a society. Where the prime force is impulse, there is the death of ethics. America used to have ethical laws based in Jerusalem. Now they are based in Sodom and Gomorrah, and civilizations rooted in Sodom and Gomorrah are destined to collapse” (The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Time, Nov. 21, 1977). So it is also with individual lives.

394. The Gravity of Sin

Romans 6:6

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... effect on the book. For the Christian, the Holy Spirit is like that table and our sin nature is like gravity’s pull. As long as we allow the Holy Spirit to hold us up, which places our dependence on his power to give us victory over sin, our sinful impulses have no power to pull us down.

395. Little Savages

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... a baby these “wants” and he or she is seized with rage. Babies have no morals, no knowledge, no skills for survival. All children, not just certain children, are potential delinquents! If permitted to continue in the self-centered world of their infancy, where they gave free rein to every impulse and had every want instantly gratified, all children would grow up in that mold of depravity. That is the stuff out of which are made criminals, killers, and rapists.

396. Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 22:30--23:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Paul’s quotation of Exodus 22:28 was half apologetic (and also another tacit assertion of his respect for the law). 23:6 Events now took a fresh turn, with Paul aligning himself with the Pharisees. It seems unlikely that he did this on a sudden impulse, as would appear from our text. And it is even less likely that he only now became aware of the presence of Sadducees and Pharisees in the council. Rather, something must have happened to bring these divisions to his attention. In this connection we should ...

397. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... freedom as one of the virtues of the soul along with self-restraint, justice, courage, and truth (Phaedo 115a). The philosophers thought much about how one could be free, especially about how one could be free of the internal passions and impulses that enslave each human being. Philosophies promised happiness and freedom through conversion to different approaches to life. Philo wrote: “slavery then is applied in one sense to bodies, in another to souls; bodies have men for their masters, souls their vices ...

398. The Living Stone and a Chosen People

1 Peter 2:4-12

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... s warning is that evil desires war against the soul, and consequently against a believer’s best interests, which concern eternity, rather than time, and the spiritual, rather than the natural life. 2:12 To heed the warning not to yield an inch to impulses to engage in self-indulgence is necessary not only for the Christian’s own well-being, but as a positive witness to unbelievers. Peter’s readers are instructed to live such good lives that opponents can never have any well-grounded justification for ...

399. Prophecy of Scripture

2 Peter 1:12-21

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... came about by the prophet’s own interpretation. The words they read are not what a prophet has thought up for himself. True prophecy never came about as a result of some individual’s personal ideas: it never had its origin in the will of man. The impulse came from the Holy Spirit of God. When the OT prophets spoke, they were not passing on some understanding or view of their own. They were revealing a message from the Spirit: they spoke from God. It was for this reason that their words must be closely ...

400. Moses Flees to Midian

Exodus 2:11-25

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... Sinai and Israel, and would receive a legacy of rule by law, not by might, in the Sinaitic laws given by God. These incidents, then, briefly foreshadow Moses’ need for authority from God and God’s law in the wilderness. Moses’ kinsmen would be impulsive and reactionary. They would refuse to listen to him, have disputes among themselves, accuse Moses of trying to kill them, and question Moses about his abilities to lead (see also Num. 14, 16). The time was ripe for God’s intervention. Then Moses was ...

Showing results