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3976. Hit The Ground Running

John 20:19-23

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Brett Blair

The Chairman and CEO of Home Depot is reported to have said the following: Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up: It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning, the lion wakes up: It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle: When the sun comes up, you'd better be running. When your feet hit the floor running in the morning what motivates you? Fear or a sense of mission?

3977. Called to a Higher Standard

Acts 9:1-19a

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Douglas J. Deuel

A minister had a special teacher, named Mr. Thompson, when he was in the fifth grade. Not only was he an excellent educator but he also went to great lengths to build the confidence and the sense of self-worth of the student. He showed interest in the boy's family life and he encouraged the boy's participation in sports. This teacher was rare in the passion and the caring he brought to his students. Then the boy went on to the sixth grade. He began ...

3978. Is It Well With Your Family? (Mother's Day)

2 Kings 4:8-26

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Brett Blair

... as we eat together we participate in a basic support group. Here is the key. We need to feel secure, a part of a family where there is acceptance. Moms, you well know, there are no manuals that come with parenting, but it does seem to make common sense that we need to get back to some basics like listening and being there for one another. I don’t care what experience Hannah (our daughter) goes through, whether it is a tennis game, spelling B, or church play, she will grow up remembering that Mom and Dad ...

3979. Sermon Opener - A Strange New Math

John 17:20-26

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... Discourse of Jesus. This last speech, if you will, that Jesus makes to his disciples concludes with these verses from the 17th chapter. It is really a prayer of Jesus to his Father in heaven and has often been called the High Priestly Prayer of Jesus. In a sense, it is Jesus' last will and testament, his parting shot, his last effort to teach, to exhort, to encourage, to empower his disciples. Now for the math part. Listen to Jesus' words: "I ask not only on behalf of these, but also on behalf of those who ...

3980. God, The Enemy

Luke 12:1-12

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... reading the whole poem, she challenged us to look again at the last lines, "I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul," and to discuss whether they could indeed reflect the true state of affairs. She even asked whether in any sense, those words could be considered bravado, a posturing of courage in the face of frightening things we cannot control. In any case, it's worth noting that when the poet Henley wrote those words, he probably was not thinking of setting his own standard of morality, as ...

3981. The Demons Within - Sermon Opener

Luke 8:26-39

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Staff

... battle for human souls. Power is a demon. And it not only affects individuals, people who must have power to prove their worth, be the power guns or political influence or the power of terror, but it also affects nations. Nations seek to control and maintain without a sense for the need of justice and mercy. And when that power rises to a crescendo, we see the results in a Hitler or the Klan, or other groups that thrive on hatred and fear. There are the skeletons of many burned-out churches in our land that ...

3982. The Friend At Midnight

Luke 11:1-13

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Brett Blair

... to back track and they ended up in the cookie aisle again. “Mom, can I please have some chocolate chip cookies?” She said, “I told you that you can ’t have any. Now sit down and be quiet.” Finally, they arrived at the checkout. The little boy sensed that the end was in sight, that this might be his last chance. He stood up on the seat and shouted in his loudest voice, “In the name of Jesus, may I have some chocolate chip cookies?” Everyone in the checkout lanes laughed and applauded. Do you ...

3983. Storing What We Do Not Need

Luke 12:13-21

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Staff

... has ample goods. He does not have to live in the moment. He has barns for his future. They may not be as big as he would like, but he has plenty to eat, drink and be merry. The man already has enough wealth to enjoy Shalom. He has a sense of well-being and security because God has generously blessed his land with fruitfulness. Fortune has smiled on him and he has been able to accumulate a sizable portion of this world's goods. The point of the story is not that there is something wrong with amassing some ...

3984. Learning to Walk on the Water

Matthew 14:22-36

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... clock Jesus came to them, emerging out of the mist and shadows. Believing they were seeing a ghost, they cried out in fear. But Jesus said, "Take heart, it is I; do not be afraid." A miracle, we may say. Yes, perhaps. And surely so, in the sense that a miraculous event is simply one which we do not understand. Miracle: an occurrence which cannot be explained by processes known to the observer. This is as good a definition as any. Of course, whether an event is a miracle may depend upon time and circumstance ...

3985. The Lord's People Together

Matthew 18:15-20

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... in the two Christian communities they represent, the ways their brothers and sisters cope with the hostilities that surround them. They talk about the wonders of Christ and the meaning of their faith. At last, as they part, each goes his way with a sense of new strength, with a new courage for hard tasks, with vision lifted and the flame of hope burning more brightly than before. Those primitive Christians really needed one another. Being together was the very heartbeat that kept them alive. Of course, the ...

3986. An Everyday Theology

Luke 11:1-13

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Wallace H. Kirby

... you act this way toward your children?" - the answer becomes quite clear: no, my role as a human parent would not allow me to do this to my sons and daughters, even for supposedly good purposes. An everyday theology, imbedded in the realities and good sense of everyday life and relationships, is a very valuable piece of spiritual equipment. III The conclusion of this sermon is to lift up the vital necessity of both learned and everyday theology. It is wisdom to know that most of the truth of God and man ...

3987. The Two Fires

Luke 12:49-53

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Wallace H. Kirby

... to take up the message and work of Christ again. Without fanfare, the second fire of Christ’s spirit had done its work of change. If we have any gospel good news at all, it will not neglect to speak about this. So Christ is "fire" in a double sense. He is the fire of God’s judgment. He tells us that we are living dangerously, that without God we are part of no lasting future, and that we have no real present joys and satisfactions. Christ is also the warming fire of the transforming power of the spirit ...

3988. Watching Jesus

Luke 14:1-14

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Wallace H. Kirby

... peculiar faith that claimed the Jew. Half a loaf is always better than none. This was understood by almost everyone, from High Priest down to the poorest of the poor. But Jesus didn’t seem to understand the peril of such talk. He didn’t seem to sense what his people could lose if he didn’t curb his tongue. So they watched Jesus. They also watched him because he insisted that faith is a matter of the human heart rather than outward actions and ceremonies. Some of the prophets had made this point, but ...

3989. Museum or Mission?

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10

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Wallace H. Kirby

... that it is none of the church’s business; sometimes they are told it by the very persons being hurt the most. Yet real mission by the church will mean to reach out for ideas and judgments that initially are disturbing. In a sense, these are "the lost" thoughts and perceptions that must be brought into our Christian outlook. Peace, corporate justice, national humility, and the integrated society are among the issues that challenge our comfortable mental museums. The question is: will there be mission or ...

3990. Lovers Never Ask, 'What's the Least I Can Do?'

Luke 17:1-10

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Alvin Rueter

... up for their faults, then we don’t have to stir up our stomach juices about their defects. What a relief to live forgiven! As we grow in our appreciation of that, we grow in our love for the Lord. We begin to feel Jesus was indeed talking sense: "So you also, when you have done all that is commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants; we have done only what was our duty.’ " Perpetual responsibility? Yes. It’s only natural. "We have done only what was our duty." II And just what is our duty? In terms ...

3991. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

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... how short he might have been, this was a grown man. Luke doesn’t say what motivated Zaccheus but it must have been something pretty strong. Whatever it was that pushed him to scramble up that sycamore, I’m calling this second part "Shattered Dreams," the dull sense that his life was empty, that for all his striving to be a somebody, he was still a nobody. Was the crowd laughing at him? Let 'em laugh. He was sick and tired of himself. He’d heard of this man who befriended sinners. He wanted a peek ...

3992. Christ Has Set Us Free

John 8:31-41

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... and be worldly and mature and sophisticated - and free. But whenever we yield to the big lie and reach for the forbidden fruit, we gag on it, and we’re left with the same brown aftertaste that whoopee always brings. Just like Adam and Eve we feel a sense of being exposed and we also try to cover up. But alibis and passing the buck don’t work any better than fig leaves. To all who are slaves without realizing it, Jesus serves notice that "everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin." The big lie captures ...

3993. The Witness and the Witnesses

John 15:18--16:4

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... risen Christ. Jesus knew that his disciples could not make it on their own after his death; even the resurrection would not be enough to sustain them in the faith. When his final departure from them took place, wouldn’t they be likely to sense his absence far more than his presence? Death has a way of making us aware of separation, of distance between loved ones and ourselves that cannot simply be bridged by thoughts or hopes - or, sometimes, even prayers. Memories of the good times and happy experiences ...

3994. A Mission and a Message

Luke 10:1-24

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... . There he might find a little chapel in a restored stone house purported to be the home of the Virgin Mary after Christ’s resurrection and ascension. There he would discover a solitary Christian priest keeping his lonely vigil on top of that mountain, poised - in a sense - for the day when he could descend from it, gather disciples, and preach to that nation once more. One of my students this year is to become a missionary to Japan. I hope he can travel by way of Rome so that he can visit the Church ...

3995. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

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... career are vital, and we might make numerous contributions to humanity, but these ought to be connected to our relationship to God in Jesus Christ and not simply as "my work," "my career." Work and career might be the key to personal satisfaction and a sense of worth in life, but they don’t sustain in crises. And a long and successful career can suddenly be cut off through illness, economic recession, and, as so many fifty-five to sixty-year-old persons have experienced, by forced early retirement. Then ...

3996. Time to Get Ready

Luke 12:32-40

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... recovery. Chemotherapy gave her some degree of normalcy - for someone who knew she was going to die. She said: "I feel like I’m in a free-fall from an airplane. It’s an other-world feeling. I don’t feel part of anything. I have no sense of vocation." As one of five women on the eighty-member Board of Educational Ministries of the American Baptist Church, she discovered that her causes no longer had the same meaning for her. "The issues I’ve been deeply involved with I now can do nothing about ...

3997. The Day You Were Healed

Luke 17:11-19

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... morning. And to detail the leper’s situation as the human outcast, confined not in aseptic isolation wards or nursing homes, but in the dirty caves and off the beaten paths, separated from family, synagogue, and friends - that might be more than our enlightened sense of sympathy could tolerate, for we have learned much better ways of isolating people. But Luke, who was himself a doctor and a partner of the good physician brings us face-to-face with the realities by simply telling us that these ten lepers ...

3998. Emancipation Proclamation

John 8:31-41

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... . We have felt the icy sweat of hopelessness that comes from finding our feet caught in traps of our own making. A young lady who is vivid in my memory said she had to take control of her own life. Good thought! There is, indeed, a measure of good sense we have to exercise. But after her divorce, in the midst of problems that divorce creates, she asks, "Who did this to me?" And, of course, she finds an easy answer. Or is this the answer? "We confess that we are in bondage to sin, and cannot free ourselves ...

3999. The Sermon on the Level

Luke 6:17-26

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... creation was on the horizon. The invasion of the demon empire had begun. As his fame was gossiped across Galilee and into Syria and to the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, many came to hear him and be healed of their diseases, and to touch him as they sense the power that he breathed on them. But as Jesus leveled with the crowd, he made it clear that Kingdom values were the opposite of every value that humanity has known, and that the Kingdom life, life wholly lived for God in all of our relationships including ...

4000. No Snap Courses

Luke 17:1-10

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Carveth Mitchell

... of the Christian life we tend to emphasize its joy, its peace of mind, its awareness of forgiveness. This is a stern warning that following Jesus is not simply being a kindly personality and joining a happiness cult. There is a joy, a sense of forgiveness, a peace of mind that comes from believing in Jesus as our personal Savior. There is a certain winsomeness as we see the Christian life in action - its patience, its kindness, its love, its forgiveness and its generosity. However, there is another ...

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