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4151. Be Silent

Luke 1:11-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... not speak again until the baby is born. Zechariah says, “How is that possible? When will this happen and how can this happen? We're too old to have children." Sometimes life just leaves you speechless and what we ought to do in those moments is to stay quiet. Instead we start babbling like crazy, asking questions, wondering how, wondering when, and how's it going to happen. Sometimes things are so unexpected, so out of this world, so good that “we just don't know what to say." Have you ever felt that ...

4152. Come and See

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... wants to be held as she points to her picture on the refrigerator and gleefully calls her name. Remember how simple it all was back then? Reveling in the joy of grandchildren, I found myself praying at bedtime the other night: Be near me Lord Jesus, I ask you to stay, Close by me forever, and love me I pray. Bless all the dear children in thy tender care, And fit us for heaven to live with thee there. Isn't that all we really need? To be loved, and to know it. In my business, I get my share of ...

4153. Loosening Up for Better Production

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... blind as those who will not see. A single page out of John Wesley's journal goes something like this: May 5, a.m.—preached at St. Ann's—they asked me not to come back. May 5, p.m.—preached at St. John's—deacons said, “Get out and stay out." May 12—preached at St. Jude's—can't go back there either. May 19—preached on the street—got kicked off the street. May 26—preached in a meadow, chased out of a meadow when a bull was turned loose during the service. Preachers today have the nerve ...

4154. The Gentle Healer

John 9:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

The Gentle Healer came into our town today. He touched blind eyes and the darkness left to stay. More than the blindness, He took their sins away. The Gentle Healer came into our town today. The Gentle Healer of which Michael Card speaks is the Jesus I want to know. The 9th Chapter of John is a kind of showdown for Jesus. He heals a blind man and ...

4155. The Resurrection and Life

John 11:32-44

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Mary and Martha sent word to Jesus that Lazarus was seriously ill. Such is the setting for the Jesus we encounter in the 11th Chapter of John. Come let's take a look. I. JESUS WAITED. In Verse 6 we read, “When he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed two days longer in the place where he was." I know of no one who likes to be put on hold. In a lifetime, the average American will spend five years waiting in line, two years returning phone calls, eight months opening junk mail, and six months staring at ...

4156. By Belonging

1 Peter 2:2-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... who suffers. I've got news for you. Most of us, even those who are hurting deeply, don't need to be fixed. What we need is friendship, somebody to care. A friend is someone who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing, and face with us the reality of our powerlessness. That is a friend who cares. We belong to Christ, We belong to each other, Blest be the ties that bind us ...

4157. Giving Our Gratitude

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... hear the story about a woman who found a forgotten turkey in the bottom of her freezer? It had been there for years. She called the Health Department to see if it might still be good to eat for Thanksgiving. “If you know for sure that the temperature has stayed below zero, the turkey probably won't hurt you," said the kind person on the phone, “but, I would think after all these years it wouldn't taste very good." “That's what I thought," replied the caller. “I think I'll just give it to the church ...

4158. The Broken Body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . He never preached a sermon that got approval from the people. Nobody ever slapped Jeremiah on the back and said, “We are lucky to have you as our pastor." There was never an appreciation dinner held in his honor, and no one came to him saying, “I hope you stay with us for a very long time." Instead they threw him in a cistern where Jeremiah cursed the day he was born. On another occasion he prayed, “O that my head were a spring of water and my eyes a fountain of tears, I would weep day and night ...

4159. The Shocking Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Illustration

Ben Squires

... , we today might have a better sense of the impact Jesus meant to have with this parable. Bailey writes that the Good Samaritan is like "a Plains Indian in 1875 walking into Dodge City with a scalped cowboy on his horse, checking into a room over the local saloon, and staying the night to take care of him. Any Indian so brave would be fortunate to get out of the city alive even if he had saved the cowboy's life."

4160. Three Basic Attitudes about Life

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... have.” Not my problem. Certainly the priest and the Levite who passed by the man in Jesus’ story were religious men. And they were probably very conscientious in their service to God, at least on a professional level. But there’s where it stayed professional. They performed their professional religious duties, but they did not apply their spiritual knowledge to the real world’s needs. This is the curse of my vocation. You understand, of course, that it’s possible to love God and not to like people ...

4161. The King on a Donkey

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the wall And cried for Calvary. (G. A. Studdert Kennedy, The Unutterable Beauty Harper & Brothers, p. 2k) What about it? In relation to you – in relation to you now, does Jesus feel totally loved? Does He feel your loyalty is complete? In relation to you, does he feel you will stay with your commitment to him – that you will be faithful to the end? Let this be the question of each of us during this Holy week. What des Jesus feel about my relationship to Him.

4162. When the Winds Are Against Us

Mark 6:45-56

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to them in their need. The miracle of the afternoon did not last as the basis of confidence for the dark hours on the stormy sea.” (Lloyd J. Ogilvie, Life With out Limits Word Books, p. 139). I am going to come back to that point, but stay with our major focus for another moment. The disciples had seen Jesus’ power at work - just that afternoon - they had seen Him multiply loaves and fishes and feed the multitude. But their belief had not yet become faith, it had not gotten to the point of their own ...

4163. The Prayer Life of Highly Effective Christians

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... James C. McCormick who was stricken years ago with the terrible disease of polio. This was before the advent of the Salk vaccine. Young James was totally paralyzed, totally helpless, and in great pain. He could not move; he could not swallow; he could not breathe; he had to stay in an iron lung. He wanted to die. He even prayed, “Lord, I’m so helpless that I can’t take my own life. Please take it for me.” But God chose to ignore that prayer. Then he prayed, “If I can’t die, please take away this ...

4164. Lessons from a Fool

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... to ear in return and you invite Jesus into your house. “Out comes the best china, the tea and the cake . . . and you and Jesus have a really wonderful . . . evening. Now, good Christian that you are, you invite Jesus into your life and you insist that Jesus must stay with you and become part of your family. And that’s when the trouble starts. Before you know it, Jesus has invited the local homeless person to join in with your household. And then, as if that wasn’t bad enough, one day you come home to ...

4165. Making the Situation Worse

Luke 12:13-21

Illustration

Charles Hoffacker

... ! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; for one's life does not consist in the abundance of possessions." Clarence Jordan's translation of this verse brings out its original earthiness. Here's what Jesus says according to Jordan: "You all be careful and stay on your guard against all kinds of greediness. For a person's life is not for the piling up of possessions." In these few words, Jesus rejects much of what keeps our society humming. He warns us against greed, avarice, the desire to possess more ...

4166. Asleep During the Big Moment

Eph 5:14

Illustration

Wallace H. Kirk

... intellectual leap on the theories of Wallace and Darwin, but Thomas Bell missed it all. He was intellectually asleep and thought that nothing vital had happened in that cozy little group. How we miss the big moment! How we fall asleep just before the great revealing. How we need to stay awake.

4167. The Saddest Story

Luke 12:32-40

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... of stories seemingly. No one spoke up. Then it happened. One fellow broke the silence, "Fellows, here is the saddest story of all. I forgot the key at the reception desk." The key whether a door is being opened, or a door is being closed; the key is that we stay awake. Because we never know when we are going to be surprised by a new possibility; nor, do we ever know when something important is going to be taken from us.

4168. Watching E.T.

Luke 12:32-40

Illustration

Wallace H. Kirby

... been an interest of mine. Tolkien's little creatures bored me. I just knew that a movie about an ugly little creature from outer space could not hold my attention. The first few minutes of the movie confirmed my reservations. But then, after somehow staying awake, I began to succumb to the charms of that movie. It spoke a different message than is usually wrapped around such matters. Beyond a telling portrayal of the openness of children to new truth, it also hinted that the unknown is potentially friendly ...

4169. Cheering from the Stands

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... just as God does not give up on us. And they were people who were often disappointed and sometimes suffered grievously, but they did not give up on God. And neither should we. Here is the last thing to be said about this great cloud of witnesses: they stayed in the race. This is such an important principle. Sometimes in the race of life we stumble. Maybe we betray our own Christian values. Maybe we just do something really stupid. Or perhaps the fault is not ours at all. Life hands us a crushing blow out of ...

4170. Without the Fire the Seeds Will Never Grow

Luke 12:49-53

Illustration

John G. Lynn

Stretching south for hundreds of miles from Glacier National Park lay a majestic mixture of valleys, rushing streams, and gargantuan mountains called the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Backpackers have hiked there for decades looking for elk, grizzlies and golden eagles. Fortunately the grizzlies stay up in the high country, but a golden eagle may be spotted and the elusive wolverine may be tracked. The Bob Marshall Wilderness hosts some 90,000 packers and hikers each year, most of them in the months of July and ...

4171. Mulliganeers, All

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... disappears into thin air, can be erased by a “mulligan.” I love “mulligans.” A “mulligan” is a gift of grace, a “second chance,” a “do-over” that is neither earned nor expected. A “mulligan” makes it possible for a player to stay in the game despite having made a terrible mistake. Christians are all “mulliganeers” — men and women of faith who have been granted the ultimate in second chances through the grace in-our-place of Jesus Christ. We “mulliganeers,” those of us who ...

4172. Who's Who

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... answers that would make sense. "We're looking for spiritual fulfillment." "We're looking for a deeper connection to God." "We're looking for a way to make sense of our lives." Instead, they answer Jesus' question with another question, "Rabbi, where are you staying?" What in the world do they mean by that response? Are they trying to avoid Jesus' penetrating question by changing the subject? How many opportunities for a real encounter do we lose by cracking a joke, or keeping things only on the surface, or ...

4173. A Salvation Army Parade

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Lee Griess

... he asked them to go into the village and find the donkey colt, they went — not as a bunch of tag-a-longs, but as eager followers — not as sometimes servers but as his constant companions. And even though they would sleep when they were told to stay awake, deny him when he needed their loyalty, flee when they were in danger, and even doubt his rising when they were told, they were still his faithful followers, those who had dedicated their lives to him. When Jesus marches past us, he doesn't look for ...

4174. The True Shepherd

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lee Griess

... hire. On an ordinary day, you would never tell them apart. But let trouble approach, or let a pack of wolves appear, and the difference comes out. The counterfeit runs, because it is only a job to him. He has no ownership of the sheep. But the real shepherd stays. The real shepherd risks everything to protect his sheep. The real shepherd lays down his life for them. Isn't that what Jesus says in our text? "I am the true shepherd for I lay down my life for the sheep." For that is the difference between the ...

4175. Wonderful Opportunities for Mission

Matthew 9:35-10:8 (9-23)

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... belong to himself, and how any one who excels the rest of the brethren is apt to despise them all.8 Do you get the point? You and I do not want to see what we have as belonging to God, as belonging to the hotel in which we are staying. What I have is mine! And since you and I have more than the poor, there is a subtle despising and patronizing we feel toward them, even as we undertake or contribute to some project on their behalf. That's what "charity" is; it is not mission. Charity is selfish ...

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