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401. On the Road with the Little Children

Luke 18:15-17

Sermon

James W. Moore

... that brought such high prices in the markets of the world. Meanwhile, the man who had bought the old farm from him happened to be crossing a small stream on the property. Suddenly there was a bright flash of blue and red light from the stream’s bottom. He bent down, picket up an unusual looking stone. It was a good-sized stone. The man admired it so much that he took it home and put it on the mantle of his fireplace as an interesting curiosity. It turned out to be… one of the largest diamonds ever ...

402. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to the poor all of his money except that which was absolutely necessary for his own living, almost neurotically preoccupied with the right use of his time. He was a man desperately seeking salvation and an assurance of his salvation. He was tirelessly bent upon achieving that, and drove himself as a merciless taskmaster in all the religious disciplines and services that could be imagined. He even came to America as a missionary to the Indians — serving for a time in South Georgia near Savannah. But all ...

403. The Church: The Dwelling Place of Wonder

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in 1954. Karsh writes that as he was setting up his equipment, Casals began playing Bach on his cello. Karsh was so enthralled by the music that he says he almost forgot why he was there. He took his portrait of Casals with the little bald-headed man bent over his cello, frozen in time against the plain stone wall of that chapel. Karsh said that he it that way to capture the loneliness of the truly great artists and the loneliness of the exile. Years later, when the portrait was on exhibition in the Museum ...

404. Redemption: A Wide Angle Picture

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... under the command of General Longstreet attacked the army of the Potomac entrenched along a ridge. A handful of men, Pickett’s Charge, a few hundred at most, pierced the Union line. Amidst the noise and confusion, they briefly tasted victory, but the northern line, bent back by the assault, rebounded with greater strength than before. In a swirl of smoke, fear and death, this small band of men that had broke through the line knew the grim truth their attack had failed. For every three men who began the ...

405. Let God Be God - As if It Could Be Otherwise

Exodus 7:14-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... million of unwanted children aborted each year. By far the majority of these abortions have nothing to do with physical health, with rape or incest. The pregnancy is the result of sin and immorality run rampant. Sex has become the plaything of selfish people bent on satisfaction and pleasure, the symbol of a world that has lost any sense of the sacredness of sexuality and the preciousness of persons. People use each other, then cast each other aside almost as casually as throwing away the wrapper of a candy ...

406. Exodus and Easter

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... today, our picture, of what the crossing of the Red Sea in Exodus teaches us on this Easter Sunday. Let that picture be the connecting point between Exodus and Easter. Let’s get that Exodus picture clearly in mind. Pharaoh, fickle man that he was, was bent on power. The plagues had eventually gotten to him, especially the death angel claiming the firstborn of all the land. He’d had enough of God’s intervention in his life so he had summoned Moses and Aaron in the middle of the night, and commanded ...

407. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is a common center for their lives.” The power that comes to people who live with others around Christ Lord of their lives is not a bullying power. It is not a power that has to prove or display. It does not seek control, thus it isn’t bent on always testing who is strong and who is weak. People who sense this power have about them what John Ruskin called “an under sense of powerlessness.” Martin Luther King witnessed to this. He described the power dynamic of the shared life of the people of God ...

408. Damaged Goods

Luke 7:36-50

Illustration

Mickey Anders

... them back to the manufacturers. Bass Mitchell adds, "It seems to me that a lot of people feel like this. Whatever the reason, things they've done, things life has done to them, things beyond their control, have made them feel like damaged goods...bent out of shape, crushed, of little value to themselves or anyone else." Rev. Mitchell once saw a woman being interviewed on television. She was a single parent with two children and had been divorced several years. She was being asked what it was like being ...

409. When It's Time to Reconcile

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and a dignified look. When he started walking down the aisle toward Billy, the preacher and every person in the congregation cringed at what might be about to happen. But the old man came to the front of the church and when he got to Billy, he bent his creaky knees until he could sit down Indian-style beside him. He reached over and said, “We’ll enjoy this together.” Together they sat on the floor in the front of the church until the service ended. That day a self-righteous church understood what it ...

410. Does Christmas Make Any Difference?

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... have limped in here a tired, old sinner, hungry for a spiritual dinner, then you have come to the very spot to find the wondrous grace of a God who fails us not. Here sins can be forgiven. Here God and sinners are reconciled. Here people bent beneath life’s heavy loads find the courage to carry on. College students, business persons, homemakers, friends—In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. I remember a discussion I had a long time ago with a colleague over the necessity of Holy Communion for ...

411. The Power of a Helping Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... taking inferior fish like sheepshead and porgies and selling them as much more expensive red snapper. They were marking up the prices by packaging them well. Do you ever feel the need for greed? In the movie Wall Street, Gordon Gekko is a business tycoon bent on success at any price. During his takeover bid at a paper company’s stockholder meeting, he lays out his perspective. “The point Ladies and Gentlemen is that greed is good, greed is right, greed works.” Do you ever feel the need for greed? Let ...

412. What Can Christians Learn from Buddhists?

Romans 8:18, 28

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... world so, according to legend, he started slipping out at night with a chariot and driver to see the rest of the world. Legend has it that these excursions confronted Siddhartha with the harsh realities of human life. He sees an old man, bent over, obviously frail and uncomfortable. Siddhartha asks, “Is this the fate of all people?" The driver of the chariot answers, “Yes." He sees a person suffering from a terminal illness, broken, disease eating him away, and he turns to his chariot driver and says ...

413. Greed or the Gospel?

Acts 8:9-13, 18-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of what I am trying to say. Greed is desire that has gone amuck. Actor Alan Alda says, “It’s not necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich." Gordon Gekko, the business tycoon in the movie Wall Street is bent on success at any price. During his takeover bid at a paper company stockholder meeting Gekko says, “The point, ladies and gentlemen, is that greed, for lack of a better word, is good; greed is right; greed works." Greed has a way of slipping into our ordinary ...

414. By Humbly Doing Good

1 Peter 5:6-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... your cares on Christ. Jim Moore in one of his books says “We are all stressed up with no place to blow." A plaque in a bookstore says, “Why pray when you can worry?" A Greek proverb states, “The bow that is always bent will soon break!" The National Mental Health Association released some startling statistics a few years ago. Twenty-five percent of all Americans suffer from mild to moderate depression, anxiety, loneliness and other symptoms related primarily to stress. Four out of five adult family ...

415. A Thousand Points of Light

Isaiah 60:1-3; 18-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is going out. If I don't throw these starfish back into the ocean they will all die." “But, young man, there are miles and miles of beach and starfish are everywhere. You can't possibly make a difference," insisted the old gentleman. Unconvinced, the kid bent down, picked up another starfish, threw it into the sea and said, “It makes a difference to this one, Sir!" “Arise and shine," said the prophet Isaiah, “For your light has come." It's time to make a difference. No one can do everything, but ...

416. Hebrews 11:1-2; 8-16

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... his own life as one long “sojourn” (Genesis 47:9). Yet none of these faithful ones ever shirked their status, nor tried to return to some past “homeland.” Their faith in God’s promise kept them uprooted, but it also kept them upright, never bent with doubt or despair. Indeed, for the Hebrews’ author not even the “promised land” was the promised land. The only true homeland of the faithful is “a better country, that is, a heavenly one” (v.16). As he continues his sermon the Hebrews ...

417. A Career in The Kingdom

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... been captured by the tourist mindset. Religion is understood as a visit to an attractive site to be made when we have adequate leisure. For some it is a weekly jaunt to church. For others, occasional visits to special services. Some, with a bent for religious entertainment and sacred diversion, plan their lives around special events like retreats, rallies, and conferences. "We go to see a new personality, to hear a new truth, to get a new experience, and so, somehow, expand our otherwise humdrum lives. The ...

418. Investing in God’s Future

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... person has cared for — raised, perhaps, or guided, mentored — people this person has laughed with, played with, worked with ... changed. And, though you don't usually find them at the funeral, there are the people this person has hurt, the lives that have been injured or bent out of shape by the failings, sins, and errors of this person in their life. Every human being who ever lived has the kind of impact a quarter of a million dollars has. And some of us have much more. That's a frightening thought ...

419. A Living Hope (If It Hadn’t Been for Easter)

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

David O. Bales

... chatter away saying, "Everything's going to be all right." Many other people turn away from an uncertain future toward the past with a fit of nostalgia. Weren't things better in the old days? Well, yes, if you liked carrying water a mile and spending all of Monday bent over a tub with a washboard. Yes, at the turn of the twentieth century life was better if, contrary to our today's working forty hours a week and living until eighty, you'd rather work eighty hours a week and die at forty. Gosh, weren't those ...

420. It Was Only Fair

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Larry Lange

... of snowballs. Little Mikey wiped the blood off his nose. I felt like all my ribs were broken. Justice was done, we were thinking. We paid him back, an eye for an eye, fair and square. Yet, as we stood there like World Wrestling Federation wrestlers who had just bent a metal chair over someone's head, the cry of pain we heard when Little Mikey jumped on Michael's back — well, it was a bit unsettling. Maybe we had re-broken his legs or ripped up his weakened leg muscles. Michael was the last guy in the ...

421. Made Perfect In Weakness

2 Corinthians 12:2-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it won't move." The father asked, "Are you sure you have tried everything? Are you sure you've used every resource at your disposal?" The boy looked up and shot Dad one of those looks and grunted out a "Yes!" With a smile kindness on his face, the father bent over and softly said, "No, son, you haven't. You haven't asked for my help." (2) How many times are we like that young man? We struggle with our problems but we're unable to solve them. We don't ask for help because we don't want to ...

422. Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross

Mark 15:16-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... in Peter's place, shod in shoes of shame having denied our Lord simply by not speaking up or by not acting. John couldn't stand it so he looked down. When he dared look up again, Peter was already retreating into the pre-dawn darkness, his shoulders bent and stooped with the burden of his faithlessness, fear and sorrow. G. That was when John heard the loud raucous laughter, laughter filled with cynicism, mockery and belittlement. We can be so cruel to each other can't we? We can be so cruel to the weak ones ...

423. Whose Wife Will She Be?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

A little girl walked into a pet shop. She went up to the shopkeeper and asked in a sweet little lisp, “Excuthe me, mithter, do you have any wittle wabbits?” The shopkeeper bent way down and put his hands on his knees so he would be on her level, and asked, “Do you want a wittle white wabbit or a wittle bwack wabbit? Or maybe that cute wittle bwown wabbit over there?” The little girl thought for a moment, put her hands on ...

424. The Post-it Note

Matthew 24:36-44

Illustration

... ready for lunch? This is the day you promised to take me out to Applebee’s for my birthday.” “Oh, yes indeed, Sharon!” said Mary as she tried to cover herself for having forgotten Sharon’s birthday. Sharon was a sensitive sort who got her nose bent out of shape at any perceived slight. Mary thought everything was just fine as they got into the car. But then, as she settled into her seat, Sharon, in a very sarcastic voice shouted, “Thanks a lot, Mary!” Mary asked, “What’s wrong now?” Her ...

425. What to Give Jesus

Matthew 1:18-25

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

... give Jesus?" "Oh, I'm too embarrassed," said Sally. "I shouldn't tell you." "That's O.K. What is it?" "A kiss," she said. And the night of the pageant, that is what she gave him. All the other angels brought their gifts of toys and animals. But Sally bent over the manger and gave the little baby a kiss. A loving sigh went up from the congregation as they watched. Sally knew the secret of giving. And she gave the baby Jesus exactly what God was giving us when God gave us Jesus in the Cradle, something that ...

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