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4101. Where do You Live?

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

In the irreverent comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is a send up of the King Arthur tales, there is a scene where one of the knights, Sir Bedevere is confronted by a group of villagers. It seems they have gripped one of the local women and claim she is a witch. It's very obvious that her long crooked nose is fake and has been tied on and she's been dressed up to look like a witch. Sir Bedevere questions the evidence and the people confess that they made it all up. But they still want ...

4102. Seen The Doctor Lately?

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the saints; extend hospitality to strangers. [14] Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse them. [15] Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. [16] Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly; do not claim to be wiser than you are. [17] Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. [18] If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. [19] Beloved, never avenge yourselves ...

4103. Getting It Right

Romans 5:1-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and we're consumed by guilt. Sometimes that guilt gets in the way of accepting God's forgiveness and we get the message all mixed up. When in actuality, the Good News is that all we really need is to trust God and trust the faith that we claim. I don't want it to be oversimplified, but some people are terrified of being justified because they think they might be modified and their lives nullified. Well, you will be gratified and I hope mollified to know that, when we are justified we are not nullified but ...

4104. If Everybody’s Okay, What’s the Problem? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. All the king’s horses, And all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty together again! Like Humpty Dumpty, WE HAVE A PROBLEM. The Bible calls that problem sin. “If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves” (I John 1:8). Forty years ago, Dr. Tom Harris wrote a best seller entitled I’m OK, You’re OK. As a tool for analyzing interpersonal transactions, the book was immensely helpful. As a philosophical statement of the human ...

4105. Why Not Meet in the Middle? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to be in the presence of the great evangelist, the person said, “Dr. Graham, You are a great man.” The ever humble Billy Graham replied, “No, I am not a great man. I have a great message.” I wish the Church of Jesus Christ could claim that word today. There are no great churches, there are no great preachers, there are no great congregations, we simply have a great Christ. “In Christ, all things hold together” (Col1:17). In Christ, we are compelled to love and forgive one another. In Christ, we ...

4106. Follow Your Calling (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... crowd with plenty of leftovers for the disciples to take home. As John tells the story, the whole thing was made possible by a little boy who happened to have a small lunch consisting of five barley loaves and two fish. I suppose all of us dream of some claim to fame, of some point in history where we make a monumental difference in the course of humanity. But that is not how it happens. We make a difference by doing what we can, and giving what we have through ordinary ways. Very few in the crowd even knew ...

4107. Stewardship of All (Series: Stewardship: Discover This Word and Love It!)

Matthew 26:6-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... shine through. III. A Lasting Memory “But Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why do you trouble this woman? She has performed a good service for me” (Matthew 26:10). She discovered the value of the urgent and the important. Life is full of stuff that claims our time. So we must learn to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. Some things calling for our attention are neither urgent nor important. They are just time consuming. A lot of our doing has little impact on our being. We are just doing ...

4108. Rethinking Our Riches (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... encounter we see right away. Zacchaeus emerges to make a four-fold retribution for all he’s overcharged from business and he announces that his philanthropy, which will amount to one-half his assets, will be invested for the poor. That day, Zacchaeus got saved. He claimed an inheritance that was out of this world. He tasted of riches unknown. He moved from the department of the lost into the company of the found. Jesus still makes house calls. He knows the trees we climb and the limbs we hide behind. He ...

4109. The God Who Is, Who Was, and Who Is To Come

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of Jesus the Christ . . . there is no running in circles. Because of Jesus the Christ. . . . You can leave your torpid past, your tormented present, your timorous future. Because of Jesus the Christ . . . You can transcend your past. You can conquer your present. You can claim your future. God has given you the power to do this. You don’t have to wait on anything or anybody. It’s in your power to do this . . . Living out of the past, in the present, and into the future, John declares joyfully “Amen ...

4110. Confirming the Testimony

John 10:22-30

Illustration

Brian Stoffregen

... of my banker, my grocer, and my farm hands. Ask them if I've been saved." There is a sense that one cannot testify to one's self. When Mohammed Ali testified, "I am the greatest," that meant nothing until his works testified to that fact. In a sense, someone claiming, "I am a Christian" is invalid until there is someone or something else that confirms that testimony.

4111. What Difference Does It Make?

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... that you don't have that someone else does. That's covetousness. The point I'm trying to make is that it doesn't make any difference where the Commandments are displayed. The most important place for them to be displayed is in the lives of those who claim this kinship with Jesus. It makes a difference to you. "They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me." IV. It Makes a Difference to Others A. And finally, it makes a difference to others. We were never meant to be alone. In the ...

4112. The Voice of the Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

A father was reading the paper and decided to share what he'd been reading with his teenage son. The article claimed that children today suffered from a lack of attention and which caused low educational achievements at school. Furthermore, the article said that children today are lazy, have little concentration and barely possess any listening skills at all. When he was finished the father asked, "Well, son what do you think ...

4113. They Said 'Yes!'

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... kind of Catholic, who finds himself throttling a nun, you must know the fundamental building block of our society is the family. Whose very model is the holy family; Jesus, Mary and Joseph. How can you, as a single father and as a Catholic, possibly claim to bring up your children without a mother? There is absolutely no precedent for it in the religion you eligibly believe." There is a long pause. The lawyer says: "Cat got your tongue, Mr. Doyle?" Doyle is thinking and finally responds: "There is. There is ...

4114. Pursue the Life That Really Is Life

1 Corinthians 13:4-8, 1 Timothy 6:6-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the Grace given to us by Christ, we commit ourselves to a lifestyle that always seeks to do the right thing. In Paul's words, we commit ourselves, "to keep the commandment without spot or blame...." This is a commitment to right living. You can't claim a righteous relationship with God without commitment to living God's way or right living B. It was a small adjustment that could make a huge difference. Sure, it was against NASCAR rules, but almost everyone else was doing it. So crew chief Tim Shutt crawled ...

4115. The Christian Nature of Glory

John 13:31-38

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

... just happened in the fact that Judas had fled the upper room to go forward with his dirty business. How strange that upon predicting his betrayal and upon seeing his betrayer exit the room that Jesus feels somehow "glorified." No mother would claim that her parenthood had been fulfilled upon seeing her son get arrested for cocaine possession. No politician would declare victory upon seeing his country attacked by terrorists. Yet Jesus sees the specter of betrayal and loss and diminishment and so much else ...

4116. Condition Yellow Christians

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . In 1961-62, Martin Luther King Jr. taught his only course. It was a course on Social Philosophy he offered at Morehouse College, his alma mater. There were eight students who took the course, six men, two women. These eight people can claim they were the only students Martin Luther King, Jr. ever taught. Periodically they get together and swap stories, refresh memories, and wring their hands. Why the hand-wringing? Because these eight students never kept their notes. They never took a picture. They ...

4117. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the age.” Jesus would be with them in the power of the Holy Spirit. Friends, we need the power of the Holy Spirit today. Look at the complexity of the world today with rival faiths including radical Islam, as well as secularism making claims on people’s lives. Consider the enormous problems the world faces terrorism, economic hard times, environmental devastation, water shortages, famine. Do you think that we possibly could make any dent in any of these problems with only our own power? If ever we ...

4118. Chosen by God

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... happy are those who know what sorrow means, for they will be given courage and comfort! What does this say about our efforts to isolate ourselves from pain and suffering, especially the pain and suffering of the poor and dispossessed? 3) How Happy are those who claim nothing, for the whole earth will belong to them! What does this say about our insatiable desire and preoccupation with things. 4) How Happy are those who make peace, for they will be known as children of God: What does this say about our trust ...

4119. The Christian Gospel in a Nutshell

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... experience, and the incredibility of the Christian experience, and the incredibility of the Christian witness. Let’s probe these soundings of the Gospel and rehearse their meaning for our lives. FIRST, THE INCREDIBILITY OF THE INCARNATION. This is Christianity’s unique claim: the radiant shines in the face of Jesus Christ INCREDIBLE - God’s ultimate revelation in Jesus Christ. Jesus’ own life and word are the convincing evidence. There was a ring of rightness in his words, but more ring of rightness ...

4120. Being Christ by Affirming and Forgiving

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . That is the end toward which we all move – to be Christian in full degree, to be a Saint and that means to be alive in Christ. Jacopnone da todi put it clearly: “a saint is one in whom Christ is felt to live again.” Mother Theresa would not claim it, but her life is a transparent witness of it, and her words ring authentically because of who she is and what she does. Listen to her testimony: “Because we cannot se Christ we cannot express our love to him; but our neighbors we can always wee, and we ...

4121. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... - but deep in our inner souls where we struggle alone that which matters most, most of us have asked, “Where is God?” We ask it when a loved one dies – One a person like our own Sandra Brady is ravaged with cancer. We ask it when a bus accident claims the life of a dozen children. We ask it when our children turn to drugs and alcohol and live that contrary to everything we believed and teach. We ask it when starvations ravage the poor and no help comes to the needy. We ask it when we sink into ...

4122. Where Do We Grow from Here?

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... beyond number.” (Samuel Miller, Life of the Soul, pp. 136-7). What an electric word - and with it I want to begin the sermon today. Last Sunday we considered the eternal question, “What will you do with Jesus?” We were talking about faith commitment to Jesus Christ - claiming him as Saviour and crowning Him as Lord of our lives. Though we didn’t use the language, we were talking about new birth. Today we build on that for birth is not an isolated event. It is a process. To be fully born is the aim ...

4123. A Guide for Growth

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... need to discover a sense of what is vital. Something at the heart of life keeps reminding us that it is God “in whom we live and move and have our being.” This is what Malcolm Muggeridge witnesses to in his beautiful autobiography: “All I can claim to have learned from the years I have spent in this wonderful world is that the only happiness is love, which is attained by giving, not receiving; and that the world itself only becomes the dear inhabitable dwelling place it is when we who inhabit it know ...

4124. He Breaks the Power of Cancelled Sin

John 8:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... It isn’t that we have not been forgiven. The problem is in our unwillingness to trust Christ, to do what he says he will do. So, it is a big issue of faith. Again, we live as “half - prisoners.” We are not in complete bondage. We may have claimed our salvation in Christ. We may have experienced joyful good news of forgiveness. But something holds us back, keeps us down - and we are not the Dynamic Disciples we are called to be and could be. So, I want to talk about that today as we continue our sermon ...

4125. Freedom to Set Free

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... upon our mind. It is the essence of wholeness - the foundation for Dynamic Discipleship - freedom. We are to freedom freed. We are set lose by Christ to be free men. So, let’s look at this in detail. Christ frees us from something from meaninglessness. That was the claim of the sermon last Sunday. Now the other aspect of freedom. Christ frees us to something. I. THE FREEDOM TO BE First, it is the freedom to be. Now that is not just a play on words, nor is it an excuse for the kind of free expression ...

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