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4051. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Jerry’s mother and father have died during the past two-and-a-half years. Some of you will remember that Jerry had to go home from the Marco Retreat last year because of the illness of her father (?). Gerald and Lora were outstanding, precious, committed Christians. They had been active in the church all during my relationship to the family. During their last years, unable to go to church, they became very faithful worshipers on Sunday morning with two or three of their favorite TV preachers. One of them ...

4052. Now Here Is the Plan

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

Our text opens this morning with Philip, a disciple of Jesus, being recognized by someone from his home town. He hadn't counted on that. He thought that he could move around Jerusalem incognito at the time of the Passover, for the city was filled literally with tens of thousands of pilgrims from all over the world who had come to the Holy City on this most holy of seasons. Andrew is with him. Andrew is also from Bethsaida. They expected to pass anonymously in this crowded city, because Bethsaida is a long ...

4053. You Are Somebody!

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

There is a time-honored story which you may remember that comes from the French Revolution. King Louis XVI and his queen were condemned to death. They were escorted to the guillotine in a public square in Paris where they were beheaded. The mob was not satisfied. "Bring out the Prince," they cried. "He is next!!" The young boy was terrified. He was only six years old, but he was next in line to be King. In the mind of the crowd, he had to be eliminated. According to the story, the young prince stood on the ...

4054. No Longer Damned

Romans 8:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

The text for today is Romans, chapter 8, verse 1: "Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." I'm not sure all of you were paying attention, so I'm going to say it again. The text for today is Romans, chapter 8, verse 1: "Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." You know, this is really important, so I'm going to say it one more time. Romans, chapter 8, verse 1: "Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." You know what ...

4055. How to Love God

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

In the rock opera Jesus Christ: Superstar, Mary Magdalene sings, "I don't know how to love him." You see, Christ had saved Mary from prostitution and demonic possession, and now she wanted to live to please Jesus, to offer him her lifelong devotion. But how could she express her love? In her earlier years she had easily known how to please men. But Jesus was different. What did he want from her? How could she serve him? Isn't Mary like most of us? Here we are saved and wanting to be devoted to God, but not ...

4056. The Purple Church

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

If you've ever had the need to enter one of those mega-mart toy stores, you've seen it: The PINK aisle. It's that Day-Glo, cotton-candy, Pepto-Bismol color that sets the Barbie aisle apart from everything else in the store (everything else on earth, actually!). Even if you never have to walk down that aisle you can't really avoid it - its oozing pinkish aura pollutes the light at either end of the aisle, and the ceiling above it fluoresces with a pink haze that can be seen clear down where the bicycles and ...

4057. The Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

There is a time-honored story about four brothers who left home for college. They became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city. The first said, “I had a big house built for Mama.” The second said, “I had a hundred thousand dollar theater built in the house.” The third said, “I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her.” The fourth ...

4058. Murphy's Law and Messiah's Law

Luke 8:26-39

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Leonard Sweet

Anybody here not heard of Murphy's Law? We know it by heart, don't we? Let's say it together: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong." Anybody here know where it started and who Mr. Murphy was? The first reference to Murphy's Law was in the April 1956 issue of Scientific American in the "Amateur Scientist" column. Let me give the quote from which the Murphy's Law phenomenon spread like a virus all over the globe. It all began with three Murphy's Laws: "Dr. Schaefer's observation confirms this department ...

4059. Salted with Fire

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Whether we're five or seventy-five, all of us like the reassuring glow of a night-light. When something goes bump in the night and awakens us, the small, steady illumination of a night light offers comfort and companionship amidst the big, burly darkness. Since we grown-ups are usually less than upfront about our still scared-of-the-dark queasiness, we try to disguise our security-blanket night-lights. Why do you think some of these plug-in air fresheners glow in the dark? Some light switch plates and ...

4060. All Saints

Psalm 34:1-22, Revelation 7:9-17, 1 John 2:28--3:10, Matthew 5:1-12

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

AN APOCALYPTIC LESSON AND THE PSALM Revelation 7:9-17 is the description of all the saints singing before the throne of God in Heaven. Psalm 34:1-10, 22 is a psalm of thanksgiving. Revelation 7:9-17 - "Red Makes White" Setting. The larger context of Revelation 7:9-17 is the opening of the seven seals (Revelation 6:1-8:5), which describe apocalyptic catastrophes that will accompany the close of this age. Revelation 7 is often described as an interlude between the sixth (Revelation 6:12-17) and seventh ( ...

4061. Changed Lives: Judas

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

Author Sheila Walsh tells of putting on a show with her three-year-old son, Christian. Christian wanted to act out Jesus riding a donkey into Jerusalem. He declared that he would be Jesus, and Sheila would play the part of Hosanna. Who was Hosanna? Sheila asked. Why, the donkey, of course! Why else would the crowds yell “Hosanna!” when Jesus rode through the streets? Sheila asked herself whether the crowds understood the word “Hosanna!” any better than her three-year-old did, for just a week later these ...

4062. Can You Tell Time?

Philippians 3:7-11

Sermon

James W. Moore

We have a young couple in our church family who are outstanding in every way. Both the husband and the wife are highly successful business executives. They are devoted to each other, devoted to the church, and devoted to their two beautiful daughters. Their daily schedule is hectic to say the least… and Saturday morning is the only time they have to sleep in. So they have a house rule that the children can get up early on Saturday morning to play if they want to… but they are not to come to their parents’ ...

4063. Love One Another

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

James W. Moore

A man was driving home from work one day when he saw a group of young children selling lemonade on a corner near his home. The kids had posted the typical Magic Marker sign over their lemonade stand: “Lemonade – 10 cents” The man was impressed with the enterprising young children, so he pulled over to the curb to buy a cup of lemonade… and to give his support to the children’s financial effort. A young boy approached his car and the man placed his order for one cup of lemonade… and he gave the boy a ...

4064. Love Came Down at Christmas

Luke 2:15-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

Several years ago, Tom Southerland spoke here in Houston. His schedule was so hectic at the time that the organizers of the event had to schedule his speech for 7:00 in the morning. Fifteen hundred people turned out at 7:00 a.m. to hear him speak. Tom Southerland… do you recognize that name? Let me refresh your memory. Tom Southerland had been a prisoner and had just been released. He had been held captive for four years by Shiite Muslims in the Middle East… and much of the time Southerland was in solitary ...

4065. Changed Lives - Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

There is a story that has been making the rounds for some time now. It is about a group of scientists who got together and decided that humankind no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell God that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, “God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don’t you just go on and get lost?” God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After ...

4066. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

As you know, the Louvre is one of the most famous art museums in all of Europe. They once ran a contest in a newspaper, providing a prize to the person that gave the best answer to this question: "If a fire broke out in the Louvre, and you could save only one painting, which one would it be?" Well, Tristan Bernard, a French novelist, won the prize with this reply: "I would save the one nearest the exit."1 That is not quite the type of courage I want to speak about today. I am speaking about the courage we ...

4067. Castaway

2 Corinthians 5:18-21

Sermon

James Merritt

One of my favorite actors is Tom Hanks. He recently starred in a movie that I have yet to see called Castaway. It is the story of a man who survives a plane crash over the ocean and lands ashore on a deserted island. He spends years there not only trying to survive physically, but primarily emotionally and mentally, as he is totally separated from the outside world. Every person on earth is born a "castaway." We have all crashed landed on an island called sin. Because of our sin we, too, have been ...

4068. Holy Habits

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

For better or for worse, we are creatures of habit. I learned this early when I was a newspaper delivery boy. A customer would tell me that he was going to be on vacation for a week and would not need a paper. Nevertheless, out of sheer habit, I would fling a paper up on his porch each day and then have to pay for that paper myself. Habits can be frustrating. Have you ever done this? You need to stop by the grocery store on the way home. But as you drive homeward your mind is on other things, and you drive ...

4069. This Little Light of Mine

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

We’re getting closer to Christmas. Our boys and girls are excited about the presents they will be receiving. Maybe some of us adults are excited, too. I don’t know if you heard about a mother and daughter who were shopping at the mall. The mother spied an expensive fur coat. “This year,” she said, “I think that I will buy my own present instead of making you and dad shop for me.” Her daughter nodded in agreement. “And I think this fur coat would be perfect,” the mother concluded. The daughter began to ...

4070. Claiming a Do-Over Faith

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

What do you think of when you hear the word "jubilee"? If you're like me, the first thing that comes to mind is sales. There's the big sales jubilee at the Chevy dealer, or the jubilee marathon sale of freezers and refrigerators at the local Sears. Those are just the things that come to my mind, but there are quite a few things that bear the jubilee label. Let me just list a few that came from recent search on the Internet. There is the annual Calaveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee in Angels Camp, ...

4071. The Passion of the Servant Leader

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Ron Lavin

The ancient prophet/servant of the Lord (sometimes called Second Isaiah) spoke these words in the context of his own suffering and the suffering of Israel. But like other words of prophecy in chapters 40 through 66 of Isaiah, these words especially apply to the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. These words speak of the Passion of our Lord and his servant leadership. Jesus is the prime example of a leader. A leader is the one who is willing to serve others, not self. A leader says the ...

4072. The Ride of Your Life

1 Peter 1:17-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

With Jesus in charge, you get a white-water-rafting kind of experience throughout life not a dull float downstream, but a hang-onto-your-hat exhilarating, get-wet ride. Jesus offers us a life-substance, not a lifestyle. How much do you have invested in your "lifestyle"? This "investment" counts not only the money, time, energy and enthusiasm spent, but also the satisfaction gained. Think you aren't "rich and famous" enough to have a "lifestyle"? (Ever watch "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous"?) Think again ...

4073. The Lord Needs You

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

God chooses the weak and unlikely people of this world to do God's work. The Bible is filled to bursting with the most astounding, incredible, powerful demonstrations of God's involvement in this world and in human lives. But perhaps the most amazing miracle that Scripture reveals to its readers is not that God created everything in the cosmos, or that God brought a tremendous flood to the earth, or that God helped the Hebrews escape from Pharaoh, or that God rescued Israel through feats of supernatural ...

4074. Out of Nazareth

John 1:43-51

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Are you tired of the “10 Best” or “10 Worst” lists yet? For some reason, January is the month for every “10 Best” and “10 Worst” list imaginable. January editions of every magazine, plot lines on tabloid TV, even articles in “serious” news coverage finds it mandatory to include a feature on some “Ten Worst” or the “Ten Best.” The ten best movies, the ten worst videos, the ten best books, the ten worst dressed, the ten best trends, the ten worst investments, the ten best colleges, the ten worst places to ...

4075. Where a Cross Should Be Worn

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

The Rev. Timothy J. Kennedy tells a wonderful true story that is perfect for Ash Wednesday. It was told to him by a colleague, Pastor Chris Mietlowski. It concerned a baptism that Mietlowski once performed on an infant named Eric. Mietlowski took Eric in his arms and traced the cross of Christ on Eric’s forehead using a special anointing oil. Following worship, Eric’s family celebrated with a big backyard party. Family and friends ate burgers and chips and played volleyball under a summer sun. Eric, being ...

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