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4001. Life in the Sunbelt

Malachi 4:1-6

Sermon

... upon all such trying circumstances as opportunities to bear witness. By virtue of faithful endurance, moreover, they will gain their lives, or come into full possession of their souls. Clearly, Jesus is calling upon his followers to be realistic about life. In a sense he is instructing them as to what life is all about. They are to expect trials and tribulations, but they must live responsibly in the midst of them, testifying always to their confidence in God and his love. And through that testimony the ...

4002. Life's Greatest Treasure

Matthew 13:44-46

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... the treasure is buried. Why is the treasure so elusive? Why does religion become such a drag? Why is our salvation through Christ at best often something we merely assent to? I think it's because we've often lost the reality of amazing grace. Our child sense of surprise has escaped us. Our 20th century sophistication has allowed our joy of salvation to go to our heads - frozen in polite religious talk and proper holy music. The sheer heart joy of being bowled over by God's grace in Christ is no longer our ...

4003. Arise, O Church of God, Arise!

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... them, hear their sighing." It is admittedly hard to look at that. But we must dare to focus on the world's and not cop out. We must know all about the world in which we are operating. We must be a watchful church. But not just watchful in the sense that we look at and listen to the ills of the world in general. We are called to have a heart for the individual souls who are living through these ills. The newspapers and TV reports often have too cumulative an effect on us. We tend to see a conglamorate ...

4004. The Challenge of God's Harvest

Matthew 9:35-38

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... , a message that is able to move people, a message that is able to make people's hearts over so that they begin to have meaningful, creatives lives again. This message centers in the fact that God once moved to love us and to make us his own. In a sense Jesus Christ is the only laborer in this harvest. He alone could do it. He alone has made it possible for our sins to be forgiven. He alone went the ugly way of the cross, loving us to the end as he suffered and died for us there. He alone ...

4005. Don't Try So Hard!

Mark 8:31--9:1

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... look around in my daily ministry I notice that many people are struggling to win God's favor. They have sins and human failures that burden them. They are weighed down by guilt. They do not feel as though they have measured up in a religious, spiritual sense. Often their solution is to try harder. They focus almost exclusively upon what they must do, what they must achieve, to be acceptable in God's sight. Plainly their relationship with God is based upon what they think they are doing for God. It's the old ...

4006. Called by Name

Ephesians 4:4

Children's Sermon

... calling and then what do you say? (See if you can get someone to say that you ask for the person that you are calling). You say, "Is Mike or Janet or Fred at home?" It’s important that you know who you are calling. It wouldn’t make much sense to say, "Hello, I’m Jim. I want to talk." You want to talk to someone or call someone special. Well, God made kind of a phone call when he asked you to be a Christian. He gave you a name and called you by that name and said that ...

4007. How Was Jesus' Death Different?

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

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... cannot help but adore him even as he is. We say: O sacred head now wounded, With grief and shame weighed down. Yet, though despised and gory, I joy to call thee mine. If Jesus is God on the cross suffering and dying for us, there comes a deep sense of gratitude that calls us to follow and be his slave forever. Such love demands all we have and are. Gratitude wells up within us and we cannot be satisfied until we surrender all. Count Zinzendorf was not a "holy" youth, but one time he visited a palace where ...

4008. Cross Purposes

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

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John R. Brokhoff

... to self. The path of blood is the road to the cross. And the world just is not interested in that style of life. Plain Nonsense In addition, the world hates the cross as folly because the cross goes against all reason. To the world, the cross makes no sense; it is nonsense. Take the saying of Paul: "God was in Christ reconciling the world." God was in Jesus when he was on the cross bringing the world back to God. The secular man listens to that and utterly rejects it as not being reasonable. This says that ...

4009. Born Naked With A Cross

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... to be a cross bearer. One time Jesus said, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me." A cross is not one that deals with your own needs, burdens, or problems. Jesus did not bear his own cross in the sense that he was suffering and dying for his sins, for he was sinless. He died not for sin, but for our sins. To bear a cross means to bear the burdens of others. This means that a Christian is expected to be and do more than other persons. If a ...

4010. A Crippling Spirit

Luke 13:10-17

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Brett Blair

... next day. Both of these cases could have waited to the next day. These were not emergency room situations. On the other hand, if Jesus had healed say a child who was burning up with fever and in imminent danger of dying, it would have made perfect sense even to the synagogue ruler. But that kind of healing would have undermined the point he was making. You see this was a test. Jesus was purposely and flagrantly breaking scribal law to make a point, and that point was: people are more important than rules ...

4011. If Only We Would Do The Obvious ...

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Wallace H. Kirby

... is what a Christian is supposed to do," but, at times, she felt alienated from God. I suggested biblical readings that would give insight into God’s pursuit of us and his love for us, and other books that I had found to be personally helpful when I sensed that feeling of alienation. With some of these Ann experimented, but only on a short term basis. I realized, after three or four sessions with Ann, that she was trying to decide if she could trust me with deeper things. I allowed her to move at her own ...

4012. If Only We Would Let God Mold Us ...

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

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Wallace H. Kirby

... the hospital, and loving attention from his older brother and sister prepared John for his ordeal. That was nineteen years ago. John never again had to undergo the procedure, and now our twenty-two-year-old college senior has no earaches, but rather a keen sense of hearing. Jeremiah, out of an everyday experience, tried to explain to his people how Yahweh would use their suffering to mold them, to help them become the whole persons their creator envisioned. The prophet felt led to go to the potter’s house ...

4013. If Only We Could Remember ...

Genesis 32:22-32

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Wallace H. Kirby

... I wonder what kind of stories lie behind them. What happened to John and Cathy, to Bill and Sue, to Joe and Betty? I can almost picture the high moments in their lives as they made plans for their weddings, almost sense all the expectations that they carried into their marriages. Now, because of disillusionment, disenchantment, distrust, disloyalty, disagreement, dissatisfaction, those pledges of faith and those vows of love are shattered. The commitment, the covenant they made on their wedding day has been ...

4014. If Only We Would Be Open To The Spirit ...

Joel 2:18-27

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Wallace H. Kirby

... with our belief about the movement of God’s Spirit in our lives. Those feelings defy explanation. They are so private to some of us that it is impossible to share them with others. When I affirm my belief in God’s Spirit, I am saying that I feel, I sense, I know that God is in the world and in my life. Belief in God’s Spirit means that God is not far from any one of us. It’s comforting to know that God is near. It’s also frightening to realize that he knows all my thoughts and ...

4015. Prayer

John 3:22-36

Bulletin Aid

... not perfect, Not by any means! I enjoy life too much ... All parts of it! I like to have fun Enjoy myself Not spend all day praying Or trying to work miracles! I'm not pure enough Or pious enough Or good enough. I'm not a "saint" in any sense of the word, And I don't think I want to be! Yet Paul calls the Corinthians (and others) Saints, And they don't sound any better than me (In a lot of ways, they were worse!) Maybe there is something about being a saint - Without the robes and halos ...

4016. Prayer

Matthew 21:1-11

Bulletin Aid

... loves a parade! The noise The excitement The crowds! Whether it's the high school band And a handful of students The elephants and clowns of the circus Or the pomp and pagaentry of the Rose Bowl. Everybody loves a parade! It appeals to my sense of drama. The colors assault my eyes. It gets me "up" for whatever is to follow. (Parades almost always anticipate something ... A game A performance A celebration A festival), But a funeral procession is also a parade - A string of cars with their lights on ...

4017. Maundy Thursday

John 13:1-17

Bulletin Aid

"He knew who was to betray him" Judas, of course, But In another sense - Practically everybody! Judas, by "selling out" Leading the arrest party; Peter, by his denial Not once, but three times; The others who fled Afraid for their own liberty Even their own lives - And, Also Me. My betrayal is not as flamboyant as that of Judas Or even that of Peter. ...

4018. Prayer

Matthew 28:16-20

Bulletin Aid

... is strong; But in relationships, It's threatening! I'm supposed to be a Trinitarian Christian Believing in God the Father God the Son God the Holy Spirit, But that's so confusing! Three in One One God in three Persons. How do I explain it? How do I make sense of it? - Or do I have to? Can I just relate to God In the way that meets my needs now, And leave the mystery The description To the theologians? What difference does it make to me, If God is one Or God is three? Lord, forgive my confusion Over ...

4019. Prayer

Matthew 15:21-28

Bulletin Aid

... you will!) But she didn't get mad. She didn't (If you'll pardon the expression), "Bitch"! She made an appropriate joke A pun: "Even the dogs can eat the crumbs That fall from the table!" And Jesus changed his mind. I wish I could do that - Keep my sense of humor when I don't get what I want What I think I need - Maybe I'd come out better too! Lord, forgive me when I take myself too seriously, And help me to see the world More as a comedy than as tragedy, (And while you're at ...

4020. Prayer

John 8:31-41

Bulletin Aid

... know the names Much less what they said What they "protested" about What made them "Protestants". It's enough that I'm a Protestant (To me, it just means "not Catholic"). What do I care if it's Reformation Day? - Big Deal! - Lord, forgive me for my lack of a sense of history For forgetting where I come from And so, not knowing where I'm going. Help me to honor the past So I can affirm the future, And seek your Kingdom in its wholeness. For Jesus' sake. Amen

4021. Proper 4

Genesis 12:1-8

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... , that's the rational way to look at it; since we in the twentieth century like the rational, we tend to choose that perspective. At the same time, there could have been another factor, too. Kipling's poem, "The Explorer" states it rather well. "There's no sense of going further - it's the edge of cultivation." So they said, and I believe it - broke my land and sowed my crop - Built my barns and strung my fences in the little border station Tucked away below the foothills where the trails run out and stop ...

4022. Proper 5

Genesis 22:1-19

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... refers to himself as the slave of Jesus Christ. It's a term modern people do not wish to use; it's repugnant to them. However, the word expresses clearly the relationship Abraham and other great followers of God have had with the Almighty. In a very literal sense, they believed themselves to be the property of God, just as a slave is the property of the master. Before we become too repulsed by the concept, let us be reminded by Dr. James Smart (p. 69), the same term was used for the Prime Minister of the ...

4023. Seeking Hands

Psalm 141:1-10

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... our hands in the act of prayer. I would suggest to you that the way we use our hands in prayer may also communicate something. It is most common for us that when we pray we fold our hands and clasp them tightly together. Folded hands communicate a sense of humility. Our folded hands are reminiscent of the story that Jesus tells in the New Testament of the publican going up to pray. It says, "He smote his breast, bowed his head, and knelt down saying, 'Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.' " I can imagine that ...

4024. Nervous Hands

Psalm 139:1-24

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... of our fears. "O Lord, you have searched me and you know me, and you know when I sit down and when I rise up; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you're familiar with all of my ways." In one sense, that is somewhat frightening in itself, that the Lord knows all of our ways and all of our thoughts. The Lord is well aware of all of our fears. Yet, the Psalmist says that the Lord, in knowing all of our fears, still cares for us. "You know it completely ...

4025. Estranged Hands

Psalm 143:1-12

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... of his error, so we, too, recognizing that we are sinners, find guilt to be a barrier between us and our God. I feel certain that the person who wrote this note had gone through many days of anguish, feelings of loneliness and rejection. You can sense it in her wavering penmanship as she said, "This small thing has cut off my fellowship with my Lord." What a terrible burden! All the efforts of humankind cannot excuse such guilt. You can see in this brief note that the person writing it admits she tried ...

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