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4126. What To Do When Everyone's Doing It

Judges 6:1-40

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Harold Warlick

... to protect him from one little man? You have to plead for the god of the majority of the people? Let Baal take care of himself. If he is so great, let him plead for himself because one little minority person has pulled down his altar." That seemed to make sense to the people. From that day on they called Gideon, Jerubbaal, which means, "Let Baal take care of himself if he can." I repeat: If everybody's doing it, and it's so great and powerful, why can't it take care of itself? Why do they try to pressure ...

4127. Power

2 Corinthians 6:7

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... by one more selfish millionaire." The boy jumped up and angrily spit the words into the face of the recruiter like hot rivets being pounded into a steel girder: "That's okay, one day I'll have the power to bury sentimental saps like you." I had a strange sense of deja vu. As he walked angrily away from us, in terms of knowing who he was, his amnesia was as great as Big Al Geddie's aimlessly walking the streets of Atlanta. He was paralyzed by a memory that reached back no farther than his own current life ...

4128. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

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Harold Warlick

... people sleeping in garbage cans, more people destroying themselves through death-dealing drugs, more people treating children as if they asked to be born in poor neighborhoods, and more penalties for indigent adults who grow old and get sick. You and I need to recover a sense of human compassion if any society ever did. And "real" is not how you are made; it is something which happens to you. That is indeed the hope of the world - that enough people can become "real" to enable this earth to be a better ...

4129. The Housing Problem

Luke 11:14-28

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Harold Warlick

... problem. One of the clear claims of the New Testament is that the devil also goes house-hunting. In a rather direct way, the spirit of evil starts poking around our neighborhoods looking at your household and mine, seeing if it might be ripe for take over. It makes sense. If there's evil in the world, it's got to live somewhere. Jesus actually told a parable about the devil going house-hunting. An unclean spirit was thrown out of a house, but since it had nowhere to go it returned to the house from which it ...

4130. Don't Give Up Too Soon!

Acts 15:36-41

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Harold Warlick

... the moles, the tiny scars, the dirt under the fingernails, the wear of the years in the corners around the eyes, the wrinkles on the face and even the hardening blood vessels. The pictures seemed to be more alive than the other paintings. In a vivid sense the Bible is a book that is very much alive. It is the Rembrandt of religious experience because it tells life as it really is, with scars and moles and dirt under the fingernails. It chronicles not just the pious events of religious history, but the ...

4131. The Shortest Distance Is Not A Straight Line

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Harold Warlick

... are not God. We are humans. There are things we may not know for centuries. Faith is not in what we know, but in what we do not know and yet believe. There is ambiguity in the world and we cannot play at being God. Yet it does not make sense to turn from God's strength just because there is ambiguity in life. It takes more faith to trust God in the blackest midnight when there appears to be no answer at all than to fit God into a formula. Jesus has told us that God is a presence in ...

4132. The Collateral Damage of Our Attitudes

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

We continue to gauge how our lives are effected by all this. It has been difficult taking in all the things happening over these past three weeks, much less make sense of it all. Occasionally you read something in the paper or you see something on TV which helps you put things in perspective. I remember Thursday September 13th all of the sporting events that weekend had been cancelled. One of the NFL athletes was asked about playing on Sunday. He ...

4133. The Master Has Come - And Calls Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

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... working with the miners in South Wales who he said, had been rotting in misery for years. He had no success, and felt defeated. But one night, overwhelmed by defeat, he had a vison of the Cross. And he realized it was the only thing which could make sense out of life. When he finished school he was asked to give one year of service to the British Student Christian Movement. That was all - just one year. But, he wound up in the ordained ministry. He became bishop of the Church of South India. That happens ...

4134. The Master Has Come - And Is Calling For You

John 11:38-44

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... coming to Bethany at the death of Lazarus is filled with beauty and despair, drama and pathos, joy and sorrow. It is a human story which touches our human hearts. It sweeps us up in this suffering we see - and we know we have been there. In a very real sense it is the story of all of us. The Master has come, - and is calling for you. Word came to Jesus that his good friend Lazarus was ill. Jesus was close to this family. He, no doubt, had spent much time with them. Jesus loved Martha, Mary, and Lazarus. It ...

4135. The Miracle Comes at the Breaking

Luke 24:13-35

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Various Authors

... does not read, "You that are perfect," or "You that have been sanctified." As a matter of fact, it doesn’t even say, "You that are saved." The invitation comes to those who know that they are sinners, and who want to be saved from their sins. In a sense, there is a sign over this Table which reads, "For Sinners Only." Now in truth, that includes everyone, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. But of course it is effective only for those who can read it. That is, for those who can ...

4136. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

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Thomas D. Peterson

... as she had; but, she was extremely self-protective. In every instance she managed to put a barrier between her and a confrontation with Jesus and his gift. To evade receiving the communion he was doing his best to offer took all her skills. 4. Jesus, sensing these qualities in her, moved in closer. "Go, call your husband." She: "I have no husband." Jesus: "You are right; you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband." Now we can understand why she was so defensive, resisting every ...

4137. More Real Than Food

John 6:25-59

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Carl Jech

... the nature of the Christian hope, Saint Paul describes resurrection in terms of a "spiritual body" in 1 Corinthians 15. The material reality of flesh and blood is profoundly important. And yet Jesus offers something that is even more real, more important than flesh and blood. The sense of what Jesus says in John 6:51-55 is this: "My body is more real than flesh; my blood is more real than any earthly drink!" The great theologian Paul Tillich put it this way: The Sacrament is not Just a symbol - it is a ...

4138. Strength to Overcome Suffering

Romans 5:1-11

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James R. Tozer

... " (Romans 5:3) The word endurance means steadfastness or perseverance. As Paul persevered through beatings, imprisonments, and sickness he gained perspective on these afflictions. He could see God working through these hardships to accomplish the divine will. A person who senses what God is doing and remains steadfast in God’s purpose is able to keep all of life’s events in perspective. Abraham Lincoln’s strength arose from his conviction about the just and benevolent purposes of God. Lincoln trusted ...

4139. The Sermon in the Supper

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... in later times would forget the original reason why the cross was placed on the east wall. They did not know that it was an emblem of the future from which "the bright Star of Dawn" (Revelation 22:16, NEB) would appear. Because they had lost this sense of the forward look, they made the cross exclusively a memorial of Christ’s death in the past. The Sacrament of the Holy Communion tells us about the Promise of Christ to return. Though men may forget that the Cross has this future aspect, God made sure ...

4140. Filled Up!

Acts 2:4

Children's Sermon

... get the exact year, but I think that it is almost 1,960 years old. That is pretty old isn't it? It was a day like this long ago when the Holy Spirit came to people like you and me, and made them Christians by filling them with a sense of joy and belonging to God that they had never known before. Do you remember that Jesus said he would send the Holy Spirit to the people after he had gone back to his Father in heaven? He did say it, and he kept his promise. I want to talk ...

4141. Repentance

Matthew 3:1-12

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... bind, or wants to start with a clean slate. In fact, John the Baptizer gave a strange twist to repentance. In most of Scripture, repentance expresses a variety of ideas: (a) a change of mind, (b) the feeling of regret or remorse, or (c) in the ethico-religious sense, the act of turning away from and back to God. The last of these is the most prominent and most significant in the Bible. In both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament, repentance refers to humankind's need to "turn away from" and to "turn back ...

4142. Responding to What We Hear and See

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... beyond and above the noisy crowd. If we get caught up in the busy trivia of this season, then we will rush headlong into oblivion. Only when we are alone, quiet and listening to the other Voice, does the inner rhythm begin to flow. Only then do the senses come closer to realization. Only then does one begin to hear the Voice beyond the screaming voices of mass culture. But, there is an even greater danger than the risk of looking in the wrong places and listening to the wrong voices. It is the danger of not ...

4143. When God's Mind is Spoken

Judges 1:1-36

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... side might be that those youth, like a lot of us, have quit listening to the Word that became flesh. Listening to the Word made flesh must always be voluntary if it is to do any good. On the whole, people do not attain strong spirituality out of a sense of duty. We cannot compel others to listen to the Word made flesh; nor can we be compelled. Being shaped by the Word made flesh depends upon a pull more than a push. We cannot be pushed into hearing the word that God has spoken in Christ. Cheap scolding ...

4144. The Poor in Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

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... right answers." Jesus did not say, "Blessed are the people who have it all wrapped up, tied in bow, so that they understand it." Jesus did not say, "Blessed are the people who are certain of themselves." Jesus did not say, "Blessed are the people who have made sense out of everything." He did not say, "Blessed are the people who have their hands full of themselves." He did not say, "Blessed are the people who think they have it right on target every minute all of the time." He did not say, "Blessed are the ...

4145. The Primacy of Human Relationships

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Joe Pennel

... to decide with less than perfect knowledge. But, nothing should be of higher value to the Christian than to see the triumph of truth. We should pray passionately that it will prevail. And, we are called by Jesus to love it more than our own prestige or sense of security. Christianity teaches that to love the truth and to love God are one and the same. It is so crucial that none of us wants to see truth overcome by our hands. Without it, relationships are broken; and we, as individuals, are compromised. But ...

4146. The Doubting Sum

Matthew 28:16-20

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... to things, feelings and ideas. One of the writers in the Philoklia, that classic of Orthodox Christianity, said somewhere that our own ideas are like children. We have produced them. We love them. And we protect them when these ideas seem threatened. In other words if we sense that someone does not agree with our ideas, we take this as a threat just as if someone had insulted or attacked one of our own children. So we are afraid of being wrong because we feel threatened in our very being. I think we hang on ...

4147. Jesus’ Hospital

Matthew 9:9-13

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... used in Jesus’ time period. We have all heard of the balm of Gilead, which some say was an aromatic substance taken from an evergreen tree. (A guess, by the way!) And we know that wine mixed with myrrh was used to relieve pain by dulling the senses. This mixture was offered to Jesus upon the cross. But apart from this we know very little about early Hebrew medical practices. However, we do know about that Great Physician named Dr. Jesus who healed at that time and still heals today. Sometimes he heals the ...

4148. Searching for Peace

Matthew 10:1-42

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... we are challenged over and over again to stretch and grow beyond our complacency into more and more of what God intends us to be. In a strange way peace is connected with growth. Peace is an attitude of openness and reaching out and forward. In one sense Jesus brought no peace at all. He was a revolutionary. He rocked the social order of the day while he ate with sinners and outcasts. He had a concern for the poor that the religious establishment lacked. Those who thought they knew that religion was about ...

4149. Advent 2

Isaiah 11:1-16, Psalm 72:1-20, Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon Aid

... Gospel. 2. The complication: his message, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand," is popular to the crowds of people, but offensive to the religious leaders of the people. The tone of the judgment he declares threatens not only their personal sense of worth before God, but also stirs up self-righteous indignation over the threat that he represents to their legalistic religious system of sacrifice and good works. 3. The resolution: John "gets off the hook" with the Pharisees and Sadducees, to some ...

4150. Ash Wednesday

Joel 2:12-17, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon Aid

... really directed to God, is hypocritical and, therefore, worthless. Fasting, which is the last of the three acts of piety in Jesus' teaching, and is almost unknown among Americans, is also a spiritual exercise that has no merit unless it is performed to heighten one's sense of self-denial and the quest for the presence of God. In his forty days in the wilderness, Jesus engaged in two of these disciplines and did so in a one-on-one relationship with his heavenly Father. This, no doubt, sustained him when the ...

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