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376. The Invisible Robe of Righteousness

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... professional attire for low-income women, to help support their job-search and interview process.”[1] By teaching women how to dress professionally and providing them with quality clothing, the nonprofit can help women find well-paying jobs, raise their self-esteem, help them support their families, elevate their standard of living, and give them tools to succeed independently in life. Interestingly enough, one of the first images we have in scripture is of God providing suitable clothing to the fallen ...

377. Be Reconciled with the Lord

2 Corinthians 5:20b--6:10

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to the Lord, being reconciled, yet understanding that the process will not be easy. Reconciliation, however, must begin with oneself. Too often people cannot forgive themselves for things they have done, either to themselves or to others. A sense of low self-esteem absorbs many, trapping them within the confines of their own person. Such an inability to free oneself and be forgiven stunts the process of reconciliation before it can ever fully develop. Thus, we must begin the journey of reconciliation by ...

378. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... four seconds of silence makes us feel insecure and uncomfortable. A member of the research team summarized the study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: “Conversational flow is associated with positive emotions, and a heightened sense of belonging, self-esteem, social validation and consensus. Disrupting the flow by a brief silence produces feelings of rejection and negative emotions.” (2) Our Bible passage for today doesn’t tell us how long Jesus’ friends, the disciples, had to wait until ...

379. Jesus' Vacation

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . So the issue before us cannot be IF we shall be burdened, but to what shall we be burdened? Not IF we shall be yoked, but to whom? Jesus appears to have no interest in unburdening us so that we can be free, or liberated, or self-esteemed or all those other modem infatuations which are themselves such debilitating burdens. Jesus lifts one burden off our backs so he can place another, removes the harness we forge for ourselves so that he can place around our necks his own yoke. Jesus' idea of a ...

380. For Men Only?

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... doing so fulfilled the law, as he put it elsewhere. Remember the Sermon on the Mount? Jesus said “You have heard it said...” and told those listening that while the law forbade murder, those who insulted their brothers and sisters were murdering the self-esteem and integrity of another human being, through their verbal abuse. He said that the law forbade adultery, but those who lusted in their heart were committing adultery as well. He said that the law told us to love our neighbors, and that even our ...

381. A New Identity for a New Year

John 1:(1-9), 10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... ways that are contradictory to our values, it causes a mental state therapists call “cognitive dissonance.” Cognitive dissonance is a life out of alignment. A life without integrity. It’s a situation that is guaranteed to cause you stress and a loss of self-esteem. So, a healthy identity is an essential foundation of a healthy life. That’s why the promise found in today’s Bible passage is so important. John opens his book by giving us a picture of Jesus’ identity. According to John, Jesus is the ...

382. Jesus In Ministry — Us In Ministry

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... live in their makeshift “homes.” The families who lived in their neat little houses and yards were families who had come to know and experience Christ in their lives. What gave me a lasting impression that day was that these people had a self-esteem that developed from their relationship with Jesus. I understood that Christ took the “poor me” out of them and replaced it with a “rich me” in the heart. Still poverty stricken…still with financial problems…they had a new outlook and perspective ...

383. Roots and Wings

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... , but a place for persons to feel secure in being who they are. Not only roots -- wings. The goal of parenting is to affirm the fact that each child is a unique, unrepeatable miracle of God. When children realize their own worth, they gain self-esteem. They can act independently and accept responsibility. They can soar on strong wings, loved into being by their parents. Roots and wings are the two most important things parents can give their children. But not only children. Isn’t this what we all need ...

384. God Soaked

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... behind that question for them –and for us. Because in the “ruler mentality” we assume that if something bad happens to us, we must have deserved it. This is often the root not only of our bias toward others, but the way we undermine our own self-esteem. Jesus replies in an interesting way. NO! Jesus says emphatically. They were no different than anyone else. They sinned no more or less than you. In fact, sins don’t compile in degree on a ruler. Sins are all equally sinful. In fact,…Jesus adds, you ...

385. A Lamp Shining In a Dark Place

2 Peter 1:17-21

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , what was permissible. Infatuated with existentialism, Bultmann laid that modern interpretive grid over the Bible, filtered out anything that didn't confirm his modern prejudices, and read the Bible that way. Noting that Americans are in the market for self-esteem, Robert Schuller sifts the Bible through that sieve, and renders Jesus into Leo Bascaglia. Feminist fundamentalists erect feminism as the hurdle which the entire Bible must clear, and then reject whatever doesn't. If the Bible collides with our ...

386. Job Hears the Whispers of God’s Works

Job 26:1--31:40

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

Big Idea: When Job considers God’s greatness, he realizes how little he himself knows. Understanding the Text When Bildad says in Job 25:6 that humans are mere maggots and worms before the transcendent God, Job apparently interrupts him. Although Job agrees with much of Bildad’s lofty view of God, he draws different implications from their shared theology. Bildad claims that God’s greatness means nothing can thwart his justice, so life in God’s world is thoroughly predictable, but Job declares that God’s ...

387. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

Sarcastic Introduction Job’s response to Bildad’s third speech is extended (six chapters long)—even for the usually loquacious Job! Many commentators divide up the chapters attributed to Job to supply an extension to Bildad’s brief speech, as well as to wholly reconstruct a missing third speech for Zophar. Such reconstruction, however, can only proceed on a presumptive assumption of what each speaker would have said—and is thus controlled ultimately by the reconstructor’s theory rather than challenged and ...

388. Be Holy

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

The Believers’ Response in Conduct 1:13 Do the readers now appreciate the magnificence of God’s far-reaching salvation plan in which they have been caught up? Then their response has to be a wholehearted commitment to their new life in Christ. They are to prepare their minds for action, that is, they must put away any distractions which would hinder their growth in grace and their being available to carry forward God’s work of salvation in whatever way he may indicate. The Greek is literally “gird up the ...

389. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

Maybe both the best and the worst of us in humanity are far better preachers than we are doers and deliverers of what we preach and teach. And maybe maturity has everything to do with our genuine willingness to bring a greater congruity between our esteemed words and those actions compatible with, not contradictory of, those words. Jesus, fully divine and fully human, loved and valued not just the right deeds, but also the right motives and attitudes. We, being fully human and ever spiritually in need of ...

390. Romans 12:9-21

Romans 12:9-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

Paul's discussion of spiritual gifts in Romans 12:3-8 is immediately followed by the apostle's litany of true agape-inspired Christian characteristics. For Paul, Christ is fullness (pleroma). Agape love is the necessary component if the fullness of spiritual gifts is to be activated and exercised within the Christian community. Romans 12:9-21 makes up a unit of Christian "sententiae," similar to ones found in Hebrew wisdom literature. Some scholars have suggested that Paul even had at his disposal a kind ...

391. A Gospel that Fills the Glove

Sermon

James Bjorge

I was sitting in my office staring blankly into space. Then my leather gloves which had been thrown on my desk caught my glance. They were limp and lifeless. I reached over and picked one of them up and slipped my right hand into it. The gloved filled out. I flexed my hand - the glove moved. It was filled with life. My mind began to dance with the thought of God coming to earth to slip into the gloves of human lives. He came to fill them out so they would pulsate with life ... so they could be and do ...

392. What Would It Take?

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

One fellow was bragging to another about his grandfather: "My grandfather," he said, "knew the exact day of the exact year when he was going to die. Not only that, he knew the time he would die that day as well." His friend said, "Wow, that's incredible. How did he know all of that?" The first fellow said: "Because a judge told him." An old man looks out from prison bars. This is a view he's seen before. He's been arrested many times. He has suffered numerous beatings. Funny how life turns out. He was once ...

393. A Not So Simple Story of Demons and Pigs

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

"This is a strange story," declares J.M. Creed. "Fantastic and grotesque," adds Joseph Fitzmyer. "Unsophisticated, with enough preposterous material to invite the scorn of the skeptic," concludes J. Pesch. These men are all esteemed New Testament scholars. Their statements refer to the story I just read (Luke 8:26-39). If you want a more local opinion, take it from the lady who edits the church page. In response to hearing the title of this morning's sermon, she simply said: "Yuk." But it is a good story. ...

394. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... firm, seeking never to fall in the ditch ourselves in order to help the sinner, but we are gentle, recognizing that the stakes are high—— in fact, eternal. We don’t burst down doors to make our case. We respect privacy and dignity and self—esteem. We know that what is worthwhile is not accomplished by mere denunciation and rebuke. Our duty is not to condemn but to restore. One of the most dramatic instances of this ministry of support, guidance and restoration I can recall came in the congregation ...

395. Spiritual Marines

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

A few years ago there was an eye-catching commercial on television sponsored by the United States Marine Corps. They had one that shows a young man fighting, and then slaying a fire-breathing dragon with an Excalibur-like sword. At the end of that commercial, with that sword gleaming in the light, decked out in that resplendent dress blue uniform, the commercial ends with these words: “The Few-the Proud-the Marines.” Do you know what the Mission Statement of the Marine Corps is? On their Website that I ...

396. Sacrifice Leads to Life

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Richard Gribble

In the fifteenth century, a rural village in Germany was home to a family with eighteen children. The family was poor, but despite the difficulty of making ends meet, two of the boys still held a dream, namely to pursue their talent as artists. With the financial situation bleak, the two boys came up with their own solution to the problem. They agreed to toss a coin with the loser going to the local mines to work so he could support the other while he attended art school. When the first was finished with ...

397. Imitating Christ's Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

Call for Mutual Consideration Paul’s concern for unity of mind and mutual consideration among the members of the Philippian church need not imply that there was an atmosphere of dissension there. The fact that two members are singled out by name and urged to agree in 4:2 could suggest (unless 4:2 belongs to an originally separate letter) that theirs was an exceptional case of conflict. We do not know what Epaphroditus had told Paul about the state of the church, but at this time Paul found sufficient ...

398. Pride Is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

The gospel reading for this week is the parable about two very different men, a Pharisee and a tax collector who went to pray at the Temple in Jerusalem. It is a familiar story. In fact, it is so familiar that some of the surprising edge has worn smooth with the retelling. To grasp its meaning more fully, we need to listen again with fresh ears and open hearts. A little background information might be helpful. In the first century, tax collectors were considered the dregs of society. Taxation in the far- ...

399. God's Righteous Judgment

Romans 2:1-16

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

The discussion of the guilt of humanity in 1:18ff. presupposes the Gentile world, that is, humanity without special revelation from God. The prominence given to homosexuality in 1:26–27 and the list of vices in 1:29–31 typify Jewish prejudice against “Gentile sinners,” as Paul once referred to them (Gal. 2:15). We noted how clearly 1:18–32 echoes the Jewish indictment of Gentiles from the Wisdom of Solomon (chs. 11–15). Gentiles could have known God from creation. “They live among his works,” says Wisdom ...

400. Chapter VIII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

"You will not steal" Exodus 20:15 A long time ago, when the broadcasting of baseball games was just beginning, a sports announcer was describing one of the contests over a local station. In the late innings a Detroit Tiger runner got on base, representing the game’s tying run. With two outs, and no order from the bench to do such a thing, the runner took off for second base, only to be thrown out, ending his team’s chances for victory. To defend the player and soothe the hometown fans, the announcer tried ...

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