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4076. Come and See

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... give you a self you can live with, a love you can relate with, a hope you can dream with. Come and see the Prince of Peace. II. COME AND SEE THE LIGHT OF LIFE. “Get a life!" Exactly how do we accomplish that imperative? Mack Wayne Metcalf thought money would give him a life. He won 65.4 million dollars in a Powerball Jackpot. He left his wife, built a big home up in Corbin, Kentucky, and proceeded to live a life full of trouble. Shortly before dying from unknown causes Mack lamented to a friend “Money ...

4077. Rejoicing in God’s Saints

Philippians 1:1-6

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Vaxby is here today to enrich that partnership. There is a Middle Eastern story about a man riding a donkey when he came upon a sparrow lying in the road. The bird was flat on his back with both legs thrust in the air. At first, the traveler thought the bird was dead, but upon closer investigation, he discovered the bird to be very much alive. “Are you all right," inquired the traveler of the bird? “Yes," replied the bird. “Then why are you lying here on your back with your legs in the air?"“Well ...

4078. Sharing God’s Blessings

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... said the meek, the merciful and the peacemakers are blessed by God. Meekness is neither shyness nor self defeat. Meekness is having your feet planted firmly on the ground. The earth belongs to the meek. I got to thinking the other day about some things I have learned since I thought I knew it all. I have learned: 1) I am not the center of the universe. 2) There are more things I do not know, than things I do know. 3) The greatest truths of life are mysteries. 4) I was born not to get, but to give. Mercy ...

4079. Living in Gratitude

Philippians 4:4-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in a twenty-year old and intolerable in a sixty-year-old. Paul said it well: When I was a child, I talked like a child; I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became an adult, I put childish ways behind me. I constantly find adults who have missed that ... desirable virtues. He took it from the Roman world in which the Philippians lived. Even unbelievers aspire to the finer thoughts of life. Whatever is just, right and pleasing, set your mind of things like that. Great British preacher, John ...

4080. The Nearest Willing Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Illustration

Carveth Mitchell

... woman gently laid her hand on the folded hands of the friend at prayer. She responded as most of us would do. She jumped and said, "He did it! He touched me." Then, after a moment's thought "But that felt an awful lot like your hand." "It was my hand," her friend replied. Disappointment was on the other face. "And I thought God had touched me." "He did touch you. How do you think God touches people? That he comes down like a fog blanket or a pillar of fire? When God touches people he takes the nearest hand ...

4081. Being Open to the Impossible

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... those days and would get rolls of coins from the bank and go through them to fill out my collection. We had little money and I thought we might need those coins on our trip that day. When we finished our pastoral work in mid-afternoon, we decided to go to the ... knew my resources to help and heal were not enough. I stood in that pulpit that night, looked at on those strange faces, thought about the woman I had just met, and said to myself: “How presumptuous! Here I am, 800 miles from Memphis — what have ...

4082. When the Winds Are Against Us

Mark 6:45-56

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to death, clam and grasping at the slippery sidewalls of the grave. But he couldn’t get out earlier. deOvies thought he would have some fun. In the deepest voice he could muster, he said, “Can you let a man enjoy his grave in peace? You can’t get out ... of here.” But he did. He thought he couldn’t get out, but he discovered quite suddenly that he could. There is a sense in which that’s the difference between belief ...

4083. Mary, Martha, and the Martha Stewart Church

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to be a member of the Jesus family is one Jesus wants us all to make. Over twenty years after Pedro Arrupe died there was an “uproar” in Christendom over the influence of the novel The DaVinci Code. When I read Dan Brown’s book, I thought to myself: “Well, at least he got one right.” Do you remember the great heresy at the center of that book? It was the suggestion that Jesus had offspring. The bigger heresy for twenty-first century Christians should be the suggestion that Jesus does NOT have ...

4084. Luke 12:13-21

Luke 12:13-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... 1:52-53; 6:24) and greediness has been clearly coupled with “wickedness” (11:39). In Jesus’ parable the rich farmer’s first reaction to his bumper crop is not to praise God for the bounty or to offer his surplus to the poor and hungry. Rather, his first thoughts are wholly self-centered: “What should I do, for I have no place to store my crops” (v.17). Despite the size of his harvest the farmer obviously plans to store, not sell, his bounty. Perhaps this is in order to sell at a later time when ...

4085. Leaping Where You Cannot Look

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... a man who was such a poor speaker could ever have such enormous influence. Says Walesa, “I was incapable of saying anything in public. My tongue used to outrun my mind. I was unable to keep track of the words I said. I would always speak before I thought and was therefore a poor public speaker.” But, says Harold Ivan Smith in his book No Fear of Trying, Walesa had a brain and he had friendships with hundreds of other workers. And he had a conviction that the Communist government of Poland was corrupt ...

4086. Exactly How Wide Is It?

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... or a Samaritan? We don’t know? His question is an interesting one, though. “Lord,” he asks, “Are only a few people going to be saved?” We don’t know anything about this person, but I would be willing to wager that he thought he would be one of the few who did make it in. He thought he had it all worked out. What he wanted to know was whether there would be any others who would make it beside him and Jesus? Ever know anybody with that attitude? “Me and Jesus, got our own thing goin’,” sang ...

4087. A Shepherd's Story

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... amazing thing happened. An angel showed up — no kidding. I know what you're thinking: late at night, a little wine to keep warm, we only thought we saw an angel. Let me tell you, it was a real angel! We all saw him. None of us had ever seen an angel before, ... look on the mother's face when we told her about the angels. You could tell she knew something was up, but you could tell she thought long and hard about what we told her. It's been a few days since this happened, so it's still sinking in. It doesn't ...

4088. Letting Go of Our Nets

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... had called golfers, he would have called them when they were at the top of their backswing. We don't know what went through their minds, but they let go of their nets. We don't know what the four disciples thought, but we know some things about what Matthew thought of Jesus' mission. Jesus came to bring light to those who had sat in darkness. Part of that darkness was political oppression. Isaiah had talked about the darkness caused by the Assyrian domination of the new disciples' ancestors. Now, it was ...

4089. Faith to Follow

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Lee Griess

... a reprimand. He doesn't get demoted. He gets a $100 bonus. I read about an executive for a company called Sara Lee Direct who thought he was getting a great deal on a shipment of belts, so he acted quickly and bought a whole warehouse full. Only later did he ... stories, I had two reactions. My first was: Are these businesses nuts? Have they gone crazy, or what? And then my second thought was that maybe I could talk the church council into adopting a similar policy. Maybe there could be a bonus for the worst ...

4090. Set Free for Life

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Lee Griess

... let go of the lifeline. As he lay there in the mud, unable to move, he remembered the last thing the Navy ensign told him. "Sir, whatever you do, don't let go of the lifeline. And if you need help, just give it a tug.” "This is it," Webb thought. "I'm going to die down here, stuck in the mud, face down on the ocean floor. This is how it ends." However, after several minutes, which seemed like an eternity, Webb felt a gentle touch on his shoulder. The crew, sensing that he was in trouble, had sent down ...

4091. A Salvation Army Parade

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Lee Griess

... to panic. When he radioed for help, he couldn't tell the control tower where he was because the snow had blotted out the landmarks for miles around him. Then suddenly from out of nowhere, the man saw a glowing cross in front of him. At first he thought it was a hallucination. But when he described the cross, the traffic controller immediately knew where he was and was able to guide him to safety. "That cross saved me," the man told Dave as they reached the hilltop. "I would never have found my way without ...

4092. If Your Sense of Purpose Ever Becomes a Burden, Remember Your Value

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... Lord. But what you and I do is not eternally significant in the sense that it unambiguously contributes to Christ's mission. That's too arrogant, too much of a burden, and not biblical enough for me. I don't know about you, but if I thought that my words must contribute to Christ's mission, that my interaction with others must contribute to that mission, the pressure would be unbearable — a guilt-trip. Besides, such a view would contradict Saint Paul's contention that we remain trapped by sin (Romans 7:17 ...

4093. Why We Need the Pledge of Allegiance

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... , nor will people say, ‘Here it is,' or ‘There it is,' because the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-2 NIV). Even the apostle Paul seemed to echo that when he wrote about the rule of God as being "in your heart" (Romans 10:8). Another thought we sometimes have about the kingdom of God is that it is really the same thing as the church. One of the great hymns puts it like this: I love Thy Kingdom, Lord, the House of Thine abode; The Church our blessed Redeemer saved with His own precious blood ...

4094. Ready for God’s Reign

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... have oil is to burn bright in this world with the nature of God. That's how we welcome God's kingdom. When Matthew recorded this parable, he did so for the sake of a church that was getting off-track in its anxiety about the future. The first Christians thought Jesus was returning for them soon; and when he didn't, when years dragged into decades and the end still hadn't come, many began to get caught up in trying to read the "signs of the times" and figure out when Christ would come — in spite of Jesus ...

4095. Burned Beef

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

Tony Everett

... to an empty house and listened to Jenny's voice mail asking Terry to "warm up the beef stew that's in the casserole dish on the top shelf of the refrigerator. Keep the lid on to preserve the flavor." Terry followed the directions perfectly ... or, so he thought. Placing the dish on the front burner of the stove, Terry turned on the heating dial and proceeded to make a salad. Then he began to read the paper as he waited for the boys to arrive home from soccer practice. About thirty minutes later, his sons ...

4096. Backseat Drivers: Named, Claimed, Commissioned

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Tony Everett

... far too quick to criticize and far too slow to praise. He would look over the shoulders of each student, and find fault with each project. "Just like I did with Nancy," he thought. After a few days of Harold's "backseat driving," the students rebelled and as a group, walked out, "just like Nancy did," Harold reminded himself. "I thought that I had learned my lesson." Then Harold rushed down the street to beg forgiveness and make a promise to enroll her in a driver training course the very next day. Many of ...

4097. Forty Days and Forever

Exodus 24:12-18

Sermon

Tony Everett

... God think about you?" It's not about us; it is about God. Today, Transfiguration Sunday, celebrates what God thinks about us and what God does among us in forming us as God's people. Indeed, it is not simply a matter of what God has thought and has done. The transfiguration also declares what God is thinking and doing among us, and promises to continue thinking and doing among us in the future. Let's look at our Old Testament lesson for Transfiguration Sunday. The text immediately follows a gathering of ...

4098. I Love a Parade

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... obedience? Could it be because, in the end, this is all about obedience? Sure, it's about Jesus who in his humanness had to have some second thought, but in the end gave it all up for us. And in turn, the obedience is offered to us, not as a collar for a puppet God ... our own salvation. In a world like the one in which we live, the idea of obedience is a hard one to absorb. We bristle at the thought. We rebel. Most of us don't like the idea of anyone being "the boss of us." We'd rather go our own way and make ...

4099. Whosoever Will

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... . Here's something that Graham's son, Franklin, said: Some people believe [I] ... was born a Christian. I was not born a Christian. I was born into a Christian home, I have Christian parents who set a Christian example, but I was not born a Christian. For a while I thought I was, but as I got older, I realized that I had to choose ... Jesus Christ for myself and that no one could do it for me.4 Some people believe [I] ... was born a Christian. I was not born a Christian. I was born into a Christian home, I ...

4100. God, What Are You Up To?

Genesis 12:1-9

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... driven Cowper all over the city, pretending not to be able to find his way so as to charge a bigger fare (as some cabbies today have been known to do). Then, after an hour and a half, he deposited Cowper back at his front door. Although Cowper apparently thought arriving back at home was an act of God's providence and wrote this great hymn to express that, we could just as easily conclude that the hymn came about because of the deceitfulness and greed of a London cab driver. But even if that's the case, it ...

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