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3976. Jesus, Our Rock Foundation

John 14:1-14

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... ' words, that he is the one and only way that leads to salvation. Jesus tells Thomas that he is the truth, but this reality also seems to allude our consciousness. We become very adept at convincing ourselves that there are numerous truths, and varied understandings of the Christian message. But there is only one truth and that is the message which Jesus clearly articulates in the gospels. Some may center in on the "Golden Rule," love of God and love of neighbor as oneself. Others may gravitate toward the ...

3977. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... thorn in the flesh (2 Corinthians 12). Nor did he heal young Timothy's stomach disorder (1 Timothy 5:23). He didn't even heal his own wounds of crucifixion on the cross. And in John 5, Christ walked off leaving an entire crowd unhealed except for one. Now, understand this, dear people: The Lord always heals, either right now or in the resurrection. He can choose to heal us, or he can choose to give us the grace to bear it until death and the resurrection when we receive a new body. God can work in many and ...

3978. God, the Enemy

Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... . Henley had a long, close friendship with the great author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who in fact, based part of the character of Long John Silver in Treasure Island on his one-footed, hearty friend. Stevenson wrote of Henley's poem that, "[Henley] wanted me to understand that 'I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul,' not my teachers, family, friends, money, or the 'powers,' that may be. To come 'out of the night that covers me,' I must be 'unafraid,' 'unbowed,' and 'unconquerable.' "2 What ...

3979. A Guide to Christmas

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... and the apostles and pastors and prophets? Why were they persecuted? What did Jesus ever do to make people hate him? Was it because he healed and restored? Because he fed people, raised the dead, and preached the truth? If you try an experiment I think you'll understand man's violent reaction to Jesus. Go into your basement and turn on the lights. What do the bugs do? They run for cover! They seek out the darkness. In John 3:19 Jesus said people are the same way. They are used to living in darkness. They ...

3980. True Reformation

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... everybody actually depend on the way an observer is moving. Two clocks that are in motion with respect to one another don't keep the same time, and if that conflicts with common sense, so much the worse for common sense. On the other hand, it's hard to understand how the speed of a beam of light can always be the same, no matter how fast you chase after it - but it is. The real truths about the world are subtle and often surprising. You have to be willing to abandon preconceived ideas and to work hard in ...

3981. Worship Wars!

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... stand up front, but stood far off, and he would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" Let's move closer now and see if we can interview him. "Sir, sir! Oh, Mr. Tax Collector! I understand you've been to church." "That's right." "Could you tell us what happened in there?" "Oh, that's easy! I saw God. We were singing the hymn, 'Immortal, invisible, God only wise. In light inaccessible, hid from our eyes.' I tell you, I can get lost in extolling ...

3982. A Life Well Lived

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

King Duncan

... Paul said he had kept the faith, he meant that he had endured in spite of all kinds of stress and discomfort. We need to understand this: The life of faith can be hard. Jesus put it like this: “The gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction ... adult. He was a captain because he had learned some hard lessons--lessons he could learn only the hard way. (1) Do you understand that God can take the broken pieces of our former lives and use them to build something beautiful? We often say that God ...

3983. God Will Take Care of You

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , with our supermarkets filled with foodstuffs from all over the world, with a vast selection of meats and produce always available, with dairy goods always fresh and ready, it's hard for us to understand how for centuries the most basic and vital commodity upon which people depended for sustenance was simply bread. Bread, whether leavened or unleavened, was a sign of civilization. For to create bread there had to have been a grain crop, and a place for that grain to be properly processed, ...

3984. Can You Hear Me Now?

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... from the multi-national crowd. It's those Medes, Elamies, and residents of Mesopotamia (and all the rest) who first understand what was going on and the significance what was being proclaimed: God's deeds of power. What sounds strange and ... We love the sound of our own voice. But do we really know what our voice sounds like to the rest of the world? Do we really understand what we're saying, what our words and actions are proclaiming to the rest of the world? 3 billion people live on less than $2 dollars a ...

3985. Open the Eyes of My Heart, Lord

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... make? I make kids wonder. I make them question. I make them criticize. I make them apologize and mean it. I make them write. I make them read, read, read. I make them show all their work in math and perfect their final drafts in English. I make them understand that if you have the brains, and follow your heart, and if someone ever tries to judge you by what you make, you must pay no attention because they just didn't learn." Susan paused and then continued, "You want to know what I make? I make a difference ...

3986. The Purple Church

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is any kind of model for us, opposites don't clash; they conjugate. For some, God is an intimate, immanent God who is present all around us and within us. For others God is a distant, transcendent God who dwells in reaches far beyond our knowing or understanding. For Jesus God was both: Or as he taught us to pray, "Our Father (you can't get more intimate than that) who art in Heaven . . . " (God's transcendence and otherness is honored and insisted on). In the very first words of "The Lord's Prayer," Jesus ...

3987. How to Beat the Devil

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus for. The diabolos isn't testing Jesus for his ability to work miracles. The devil isn't testing Jesus to play to the galleries, to please the crowds. The devil isn't entertained by or interested in bread and circuses. The key to understanding the devilish intent of these temptations is the preface to the tempter's questions: "If you are the Son of God . . ." The one who comes to offer Jesus peirazon (tests) isn't testing Jesus' aptitude for performing various physical miracles. The diabolos is testing ...

3988. What Names Are You Naming?

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . In fact, the Book of Revelation teaches that God has a secret with each one of us: not only does God know the number of the hairs on our head; God has a white stone with our name written on it that only you and God understand (Revelation 2:17). In recent weeks we've been inundated with numbers, with statistics, with death tolls, and dollars signs, that are supposed to communicate to us the magnitude of the destruction and devastation that was the Great Tsunami of Christmas 2004. When the projected loss ...

3989. What Is Your Accent?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 2004 Presidential election George Bush's Texas twang and John Kerry's New England nasal tones clashed every bit as much as did their political views. When relatives from "Lon-Gisland, New York" visited last summer, our west coast kids could barely understand them. Students hoping to make it in TV journalism often invest in voice lessons specifically directed at helping them eliminate any regional accents or inflections in their speech. They hope that a vanilla-toned voice will enable them to be marketable ...

3990. God's Resolutions

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... at the moment midnight is chiming we sing the traditional "Auld Lang Syne" the song which everyone knows the first five words to ("Should old acquaintance be forgot . . .") and nothing more, and which no one seems to understand. Can anyone here finish it? Even when Guy Lombardo was leading it we couldn't understand it. Yet Auld Lang Syne, is sung at the stroke of midnight in almost every English-speaking country in the world to bring in the New Year. At least partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's ...

3991. Low Carb Christianity

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... whom you would marry? No, your family did. It was that very influence, that essential hold on heart and head, that Jesus called his disciples to reject, to hate. Jesus' harsh words shocked and shook up that crowd of would-be disciples. For he called them to understand love and loyalty in a whole new way. These earthly connections that we all feel make us who we are - a father, a mother, a husband, a wife, a brother, a sister, a son, a daughter - are only secondary identities. What we are, what we must be ...

3992. The Problem with Busybodies

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... be a few zealous workers in the church, make a tremendous protest against the church being run by just a few people. I don’t know if this list reminds you of anybody you know or not. Of course, they’re not in our church, but I understand that many other churches are plagued with such people . . . This list, however, paints a pretty good picture of a busybody. Notice how St. Paul links being idle with being a busybody. Someone has defined a gossip as “one who would rather listen to dirt than sweep it ...

3993. The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... has been tough, but the good times outnumber the bad. I’m grateful.” The person with a sense of gratitude understands that they are not the center of the universe. When something good happens to them, it is a gift to be treasured and for which to ... be profoundly grateful. The person with this understanding of life is grateful for their health, for their family, for their faith, for the people they meet each day. Life is a ...

3994. Thanks for Nothing!

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... groaning with food, or a single Spartan serving, disciples need to open themselves to Christ and give thanks for...nothing. How did the Apostle Paul put it when he wrote from prison to the church at Philippi? You want the peace that passes all understanding? Then this is how you get it. Master these nine words: Anxious in nothing. Repeat after me: Anxious in nothing. Prayerful in everything. Say it after me: Prayerful in everything. Now here's the hard one: Thankful in anything. Repeat it after me: Thankful ...

3995. Conversion to Christ

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... in the garden, it slipped back beneath the ground. The snow and frost were the only ones who were happy about this situation. "Spring has forgotten this place!" they exclaimed. The snow covered the ground and the frost painted the trees silver. The Giant could not understand why spring had not come to his garden; he was confused. The spring came and went to the land, but not to the Giant's garden. Summer passed and autumn came, but the garden remained in winter. One day the Giant awoke to the sweet song ...

3996. Experience the Mystery

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is that in order to unravel the mystery you must enter the lives of all the different characters. You must learn their quirks, their habits, their secrets, their shortcomings. You must enter into a relationship with the characters, inhabit their lives until you understand them, unravel them, become one with them if you want to uncover the mystery that they hide. The New Testament is our mystery text. It tells a dramatic story. It gives us all sorts of colorful characters. It offers a complete set of ...

3997. Four Cornerstones

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , no play of light and shadow, and no stained glass splendor. Only row upon row of mammoth rocks holding the full weight of the cathedral on their backs. As one tour guide explained this dark, stark view to her cowed crowd: "You have to see this to understand the beauty and power of what is above. The church cannot soar toward heaven without a foundation this deep and this strong." With this new vision of a foundation it's easy to see why Jesus compared himself to a cornerstone (not, as it is sometimes ...

3998. From Black Holes to Red Holes

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... this text?" remember this: each one of you have singularities within your own souls. For each of us there have been events or persons that have so challenged us or changed us that encountering them changed our whole perspective on life, our whole understanding of our self, our perception of God and the church. Who are those singularities in your life? Who are those people that magnetized the scattered filaments of your life into some kind of ordered design? Who are the people whose influence changed you ...

3999. Let Familiarity Breed Contentment

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ); · "All things are possible to him who believes." (Mark 9:23). · "For as many received him, to them gave he power, even to become the sons and daughters of God." Or hear again how you can experience the Peace that Passes Understanding: · "Be anxious in nothing . . . · Be prayerful in everything . . . · Be thankful in anything . . . · Then . . . the Peace . . . " (Philippians 4) Or pick up the Bible and open it lucky-dip method and let your finger all on lesser known verses like these "They admitted ...

4000. No Self-Respecting Christian

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Of course, the church has always sponsored mission-outreach programs and extended invitations to those who fall below the respectability-bar. The poor, the homeless, the mentally disabled--they all get the church's prayers and helping hands. But there's always an understanding--and sometimes a not-so-subtle subtext--that the church's handout was also a "hand-up." After all, anyone seeking to become a good Christian would see it as part of their good Christian duty to get some self-respect and start ...

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