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376. First Things First

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... claim that success and fulfillment belong to those who set and achieve their goals. Make a list of goals and then find a way to achieve them that’s the secret to happiness. But best-selling business author Spencer Johnson disagrees with this theory. In his book The One-Minute Sales Person, Johnson claims that true success and fulfillment come from fulfilling your purpose in life. Once you’ve discovered and stated your purpose, then you can choose goals that will achieve that purpose. As Johnson writes ...

377. Through the Eyes of an Eagle (Introduction)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... One, sent by God to redeem the world. Today, many scholars look at the Gospel as the product of a group of people, a community of people gathered around John the Evangelist. In other words, it may have been written by a committee! In recent years the theory that the Fourth Gospel came very late in the Christian game was knocked into a cocked hat by a couple of amazing archaeological finds. One was a fragment of a papyrus discovered in Egypt which contained a few verses of Chapter 8 of John with indications ...

378. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to “step down” the power so I can use it. Just so, in Jesus Christ God “stepped down” the Divine Glory so we could see it in human form and seeing it, rejoice. A man once wrote to Albert Einstein asking him if he could possibly describe the theory of relativity to him in simple terms that a lay person could understand. Einstein replied that he could not do as the man requested, but if he would care to call on him in person at Princeton University, Einstein would play it for him on the violin. God ...

379. Aren’t All Religions Basically Alike?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is “Salvation” for any particular religion? And here there are many divergent views. In Evanston, Illinois there is a famous structure called the Baha’i Temple. It is a fantastic piece of oriental-looking architecture, with, as I recall, nine sides, with nine windows. The theory behind it is that while there is but one sun, that sun can shine through nine different windows, and just so each of the nine great world religions point to the One God. That sound nice, until you begin to compare the views of ...

380. That Would Be Some Miracle!

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... through a program called “Focus: HOPE.” A few years ago I heard Father Cunningham preach on this story of Jesus’ feeding the 5000. He said that as a young priest he believed the story literally, and then he went away to seminary where he heard a theory put forth by some German scholar that what really happened that day by the seaside is that everybody had actually brought along their lunch, but they were not about to share any of it with their neighbors. But the wonderful example of the little lad who ...

381. Son of Thunder, Son of God

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to Jesus. “One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was lying close to the breast of Jesus.” (John 13:23) The oldest tradition says that this disciple was John. In ancient times there was absolutely no doubt of this. However, in recent years some other theories have been advanced. Most of them are quite fanciful, but the one that must be taken with the most seriousness is that “the disciple whom Jesus loved” and who reclined next to Him at the Last Supper was Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha ...

382. Secretary to Saint Peter

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... no Gospels. Period. It is an intriguing thought. And I am indebted to the late Prof. Barclay for many of the ideas in this opening sermon in my series on the Gospel of St. Mark. I. HOW DO SCHOLARS KNOW WHICH GOSPEL WAS THE FIRST? They don’t. Their theory is based on a highly-educated guess. It is a complicated process and I have no desire to bore you to death with the technical details of what is called the Four-Document Hypothesis developed in the early part of this century by Prof. B. H.Streeter in his ...

383. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... said that if Peter were really such a coward, why did he not stay back in the shadows, instead of coming right up to the fire to catch the gossip of the day? It is an intriguing thought. There’s not much evidence to back up his theory, but it is a thought. The Church of St. Peter in Gallicantu, (“St. Peter of the cock-crowing”), near Mt. Zion in Jerusalem, is the traditional site where the events of our Scripture took place. There is strong archaeological evidence for the place because a system of ...

384. Holy Thursday

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... did not agree in every detail, and they left it to those of us who came later to sort out the details. Thus the dating of the Last Supper is a problem for scholars. Was it a Passover meal, or was it not? Here I am indebted to a theory put forth by Dr. James Fleming, former director of the Jerusalem Center for Biblical Studies. He notes several things about the event as recorded in Mark, the earliest Gospel. The room of the last supper seems to be in an institutional building of some sort. The disciples are ...

385. Bread for Everyone (I am the bread of life)

John 6:1-15, John 6:25-59

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in the Bible. People invest the word bread with special meaning and even with religious significance. For the Jews, bread was a symbol of the Torah, the Law and God''s covenant with His people. The word bread has amazing powers. Abraham Maslow developed a theory which he called a hierarchy of needs. What he said in essence was that the physical needs of our bodies are among our most powerful drives. Unless these needs are satisfied, we probably will not search in earnest for satisfaction of our higher needs ...

386. The Test of a True Testimony

James 1:19-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... rocks. Her anger is intense. She finally falls to the ground from exhaustion. Forrest Gump reflects, "Sometimes there just aren't enough rocks." When I was in Psychology class, it was popular to say, "vent your anger." The problem most of the time with that theory is that you beat and bruise yourself. You see, anger is not a pure emotion. When you are angry, you most often close yourself off from outside help--especially help from God. I know some of you have heard the biblical phrase--"righteous anger or ...

387. Just Speak the Name

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... alive in the Lord''s Supper we observe today. That is why the cross is the foundation of the Christian faith. If you remove the cross from the Bible all you have is a nice book--not the saving Power of God. Without the Cross, you have only a theory about "atonement," not the real thing. The cross is not a morbid thing--it is the only authentic sign of love our world had ever known. Christ did not withhold his love from his enemies--his love converted them and lead them to the truth. Second, Christ''s love ...

388. Up and Running

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... eventually "turn and take their journeys." It's not to keep people in school. And to ease the transition from academia to the work-a-day world, most educational programs involve hands-on experiences that go on shoulder to shoulder with the presentation of theory. Of particular note in our text is the fact that Jesus was tempted by Satan, the personification of evil. In every calling, there is present the opportunity to exploit, misuse, and abuse. Sadly in every calling there are those who succumb to these ...

389. Easter for Thomas, Too

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... celebrates the salvific work of Jesus and it contains a line that runs, "I scarce can take it in ..." Events can be so powerful and moving, that for a time we are in disbelief and "scarce can take it in." I commend what we can call the "elevator theory" of doubt. I deem it a mode of transportation that can either take us downward to a level of deeper truth, or upward to a level of higher awareness. Doubt is faith's employee, not faith's nemesis. What's more, just because we are historically removed from an ...

390. The Healing Touch

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... be gotten from these two incidents, but what I want to focus on in both of them is the power of touch. People have long felt that touch is important in healing. Bruce Larson tells about a program at Syracuse Upstate Medical Center where they operate on the theory that well people have a reservoir of power that can be tapped to bring healing to the sick. A course is offered in the laying on of hands on the premise that healthy people have a life force called "prana" that can be transferred to persons who are ...

391. Have You Gone Far Enough?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... toy with the fancy of a 'Christ-myth,' but they do not do so on the ground of historical evidence. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar. It is not historians who propagate the 'Christ-myth' theories." The fact is, no serious scholar has ever yet ventured to say that Jesus Christ never lived. Actual evidence that Christ was a real man is found in 27 different New Testament documents. And non-biblical proof of his existence is to be found in ...

392. Birthing the Kingdom

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... these hard words of our Lord in the last week of Jesus' life, when everything he says and does is brought to its sharpest, most piercing peak. Jesus wasn't a mere armchair speculator offering his opinion about what is to come. He wasn't spouting theories for examination and argument. Instead, he was preparing his followers for the challenges they'd face after his own death and resurrection. The forces of sin and evil aren't going to roll over and play dead because Jesus broke their back upon the cross. With ...

393. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... know that, don’t we? Life hangs heavy on our hands. Our days drag drearily on if some purpose doesn’t pervade our lives. Out of the harrowing years of Nazi prison camps, one of the great psychiatrists of our time, Victor Frankl, developed a theory which he called logotherapy. While others have talked about the power principle or the pleasure principle as the key to behavior, as a result of these hellish experiences in prison camps, Victor Frankl contended that the striving to find meaning is the primary ...

394. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... they asserted that God was separated from the world, distantly so, and had not directly created the world. Rather, creation took place as a result of emmanations -- each more distant from God, until those farthest from him created the material world. This theory preserved a rationalization that matter was evil and spirit was good. Since God was spirit and therefore good, the evil material world could have no contact with him. One can immediately see what a challenge this was to basic Christian understanding ...

395. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... one another. If we are going to love close up, we are going to have to be patient. Not I know there are those who are ready to criticize the over-patient and the long-suffering for putting up with more than they should tolerate. Modern psychological theory often places great emphasis on the need to show one's anger and acknowledge one's impatience. My own belief is that there is too little patience in the world today and too much impatience. And I have nothing but admiration for those who, with infinite ...

396. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I want to say is a corrective one as far as I'm concerned. Some would have you believe that the sacrifice of Jesus Christ somehow changed the mind of God about humankind -- changed the divine heart and disposition of God concerning our sins. In a word, this theory of the atonement says that God loves because Christ died. That's not it at all. It's the other way around. Christ died because God loves. That's precisely what Jesus himself said. "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that ...

397. God's Hello People

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of God's people is always a welcome. A welcome mat is always out at the door of a Christian's heart. T. R. Glover once said that "the Gospel of Jesus Christ began in friendship." Think about it. Jesus did not win people to himself by spinning theological theories, or by setting up an institution. He won people to himself through friendship. One of the most beautiful stories in the Bible for me as it relates to winning others to Christ, is that story of Andrew. The Gospels tell the story of the call of the ...

398. How Is It With Your Soul?

Luke 6:37-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... A second kind of hypocrisy is to see a failing in someone else that you don't recognize in yourself. Modern psychologists call this projection. The "beam in your eye" analogy which Jesus used predated this modern understanding. In modern psychological understanding, "projection" is the theory "that the things I condemn in others are probably the things that I don't like in myself", (we usually think that) having a beam in our eye keeps us from seeing the beam in another's eye. Not so. Having a beam in our ...

399. Turn in an Account of Your Stewardship

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... keep on believing, and you keep living your life to the full, even in the face of a crisis. It is interesting to note that the early Christian theology, we would call it “primitive theology”, actually pictured Jesus as a trickster. It was in the first theory about what happened on the cross. It said the Jesus fooled death by trusting God. The message of the cross ever since then has been that death has no power over those who trust the Promise. That’s why Paul said, in his letter to the Corinthians ...

400. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... . All of these are important. However, if any of these are the one critical reason you're here today, you are probably not going to have a truly uplifting experience. Such reasons for worship, in G.K. Chesterton's words, reveal that our religion is "more a theory than a love affair." I hope you are here today because you have a love affair with God. I hope you are here because you have found that Christ has the words of eternal life. Malcolm Muggeridge accompanied a film crew to India in order to narrate ...

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