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4001. You've Won the Heavenly Sweepstakes!

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ten million dollar jackpot. They are shocked out of a "processed" life and jolted into a "possessed" life. It may be a possession by money, fame, and things. But it is a possession nevertheless. If even our greedy consumer culture can understand such a possession-filled possession, why does the twenty-first century church seem to have such trouble accepting the validity, the necessity, for a Spirit-filled possession? Why do so many churches find comfort and contentment in just "trusting the process" year ...

4002. Christianity's First Sermon

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... then they “will know the truth and the truth will make you free.” What is the truth that we must know to be free? It’s not the truth of some doctrine, or some body of knowledge. The truth is Jesus himself. The uniqueness of Christianity’s understanding of truth is the subject of Christianity’s first sermon. When I say the word “Truth,” what comes to your mind? Let’s try it right now. Close your eyes. I say “truth.” What immediately pops into your mind’s eye? I guarantee you that for ...

4003. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... her alone...Why do you make trouble for her?" they almost lost it. One did lose it. Mark says Jesus made Judas so mad when he defended this woman, Judas went out and betrayed Jesus. "Messiah" literally means "the Anointed One." There were diverse, even conflicting understandings and ideas of messiahship. But one thing was sure: "All four gospels presuppose that 'The Anointed One' was in common use as a designation of the man whom God was expected to make king of his people at the end of times." (N. A. Dahl ...

4004. Y'all, What's in Your All?

Colossians 3:1-17

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Leonard Sweet

... fulfillment, and meaning only to conclude that 'all is vanity' (Ecc, 1:2). But if Christ is your ALL and IN ALL, then All things are possible, All things work together for good, You can do ALL things, and you can know the peace that passes ALL understanding. A love that lasts is a love that hopes all things, endures all things...and all people. In the early 1800's a wagon train was proceeding west toward the Rocky Mountains. One morning the people awoke to see something strange and uncertain on the horizon ...

4005. Living Outside the Box

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 3:13 NEB). If Jesus instructed his own hand-picked disciples to accept their limitations, to wait for wisdom from on high, to remain open to the new insights and knowledge that time and the Spirit would reveal, on what basis can we claim full disclosure or complete understanding for ourselves? On what basis can we be arrogant and condescending? To be open to the future is . . . to be open to what you don't know. In fact, when it comes to things of the Spirit, it almost seems that the more we know, the more ...

4006. Wherever You Are, You Are Always at Home

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... man engaged in public ministry, Jesus will again cause his family pain and confusion as they fail to understand his mission, today it is the gut-wrenching fear for a lost child that had caused Joseph and Mary pain, and which Jesus did not grasp. Jesus ... the child does not yet understand how desperate and scared human love can become. Parents of teenagers look at the Genesis story of creation as convincing evidence of God ...

4007. Death by Chocolate

Hebrews 9:11-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... s a quality life. Although I've used my best descriptions, analogies, and metaphors to somehow help you anticipate it, it goes beyond anything you've experienced. Trust me." The old argument goes on the same way it did decades before when he was in the womb. "I don't understand what you're talking about. I like it here. I don't want to die. I have a hard time believing that it would be any better!" Once again he's having a hard time trusting someone who really knows better than does he. Holding on to things ...

4008. Drop It!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... must stop investing and spend all of their profits on the salaries of their employees. Such words are totally incongruous with what we expect to hear from our leaders, not to mention from what we understand as reasonable and responsible behavior. Jesus wasn't concerned with what was reasonable. His understanding of what was responsible looked to God's rules, not human laws, as its ultimate authority. When it came to offering comfortable images of how a life lived in faithfulness to God would look, Jesus ...

4009. Conviction with Compassion

John 8:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... the highest moral standards. We are to ask for and expect high levels of ethical behavior from ourselves and from others. We are to ask for that and expect that precisely because we are loving people and because we care about what happens to people. And surely we understand by now that God makes moral demands upon us not to inhibit us, but to give us the fullest possible experience of life. That is why He asks so much of us. So, I repeat, we must not make any compromise with the highest standards. At the ...

4010. The Church on Main Street

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... places that will not be wonderful. But if we also work together in unheavenly places, that will be.” He was right on target. The validation of what we do in here, is what we then do out there as a result. When we are operating on Main Street, we understand that we Christian disciples are on mission in the name of Christ, and always will be! Well, that’s it. The task of the Church is to make disciples. And that means that we belong to God, we belong to one another as the family of God, and together we ...

4011. Vanilla, Chocolate, and Strawberry

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James McCormick

... to the matters which were not central to the gospel, he was intentionally flexible. He said, “To the Jews I became as a Jew - to the Gentiles I became as a Gentile - I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.” Understand, he never compromised that which was at the heart of the gospel. But in all other matters, he was willing to do Jewish things if that made the Jewish Christians feel good. And, he was willing to do Gentile things if that made the Gentiles feel good. He ...

4012. Lord, Teach Us How to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... in virtually every place. The one thing I am sure of is that if you take prayer seriously, it will change your life. When I was a boy, my mother hung a plaque on my bedroom wall. It said, “Prayer changes things.” At that time, I didn’t understand that. I’m not sure I even believed it. But I believe it now. Often prayer is able to change the situation in which we find ourselves. But always prayer is able to change the person who is praying. In prayer we receive love and guidance and strength. What ...

4013. Sing the Resurrection Song

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... keep the good news of Jesus bottled up. You just can’t. If you have met the risen Lord and recognized him, if you understand what God has done for us through his life, death, and resurrection, there comes to us such a joy, such an excitement, such enthusiasm ... keep from singing? Once we have come to see, we must go and tell. And we must do it with joy and with song. Do you understand, then, why I say I like the short version of Mark’s Easter story? It is an unfinished gospel. But it is our privilege to ...

4014. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

John 16:17-33

Sermon

James McCormick

... me a great many years to learn that without struggle there is no growth, and without pain there is no depth. I still do not fully understand why the struggles and difficulties are an essential part of life. But I do know that once they occur, God can work with us to ... . When we have been hurt, we can get close to others who have been hurt and be supportive of them. We know. We understand. We have been there. I love the quote: “In love’s army, only the wounded soldiers can serve.” I don’t like the ...

4015. Two Worlds

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

James McCormick

... to be exercised within the context of God’s dominion over us. But, free we are. We are free not to do it His way. So, when we use our freedom unwisely, or even rebelliously, God allows His world to go in a direction He never intended. So, do you understand the truth that seminar speaker was getting at? “You and I are living today in a world God did not make. He allowed it, but He did not make it.” I. What kind of world am I talking about? First, it’s a hungry, sick, and hurting world. Thousands of ...

4016. John 1:43-51

John 1:43-51

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... the general godliness of an individual and not identifying the son of God with divinity (hence Jesus proclaims peacemakers to be sons of God in Matthew 5:9). Nathanael's "King of Israel" title for Jesus reflects the traditional Jewish understanding of the Messiah, a moniker that carries military and political connotation along with its spiritual inferences.So in spite of the grandiose sound of Nathanael's exclamation, theologically he is still operating according to old expectations and concepts. Jesus ...

4017. A New Vision

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , was derived from the old Semitic root, “mag,” the same root word from which magi originated. This Sunday is called Epiphany on the church calendar, and it is a celebration of the coming of the magi. In our secular language, an epiphany is a new way of seeing or understanding. It is so appropriate that we should begin a new year with an epiphany, a new way of seeing, a vision, an image of what our world can be, of what our lives can yet be. Like the magi of old, we need to open our minds, stretch our ...

4018. Which End Is Up?

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a dozen in just a few minutes. What’s your secret?” The boy mumbled an answer but the man didn’t catch a word of it. Then he noticed a large bulge under the boy’s left cheek. “Take the bubble gum out of your mouth so I can understand what you’re saying,” the man demanded. Whereupon the boy cupped his hands and spat it out. “It’s not bubble gum,” he said. “It’s my secret. You’ve got to keep the worms warm.” Here are a couple of powerful images you might want to explore further ...

4019. Such a Transformation!

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... in the secret heart of God, until it was the will of God to shine the dazzling light of revelation upon it and to embody it in the person of Jesus Christ. Ever since our Lord walked this earth, this passage has helped us understand Jesus Christ, and he in turn has helped us understand this passage. So if we want to know our Lord and the meaning of his history, then this Suffering Servant Song can help us to attain that knowledge. The text begins with God speaking in verses 13-15 of chapter 52. God announces ...

4020. Easter 2

John 20:24-31, John 20:19-23, 1 Peter 1:1-12, Acts 2:14-41, Psalm 16:1-11

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