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401. Can't We All Just Get Along?

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

King Duncan

Gordon Melton scours the country trying to count the number of major denominations in the United States. It has been estimated that there are more than 33,000 denominations of Christianity in the entire world. There are not nearly that many in the U.S., but some of the groups that Melton discovered are kind of interesting. For example, he discovered one group called, “The Church of the Kennedy Worshippers.” ...

402. The 300th American

Mark 10:17-31

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In 2006 America welcomed her 300 millionth citizen. To put this in perspective, we hit the 100 million citizen mark around 1915. Current estimates are that every eight seconds, a child is born in this country. Every 47 seconds we gain an immigrant citizen. We should each take a few moments this month to give thanks for the comfort we enjoy in this country that makes such amazing growth possible. It is our privilege ...

403. Preaching God's Reformation

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... assigned to the Levites (1 Chronicles 6:60), three or four miles northeast of the city of Jerusalem. The Bible tells us that the Word of God came to Jeremiah in the thirteenth year of the reign of Josiah (1:2), which was in 627 B.C.E. If the estimate that he was born in 645 B.C.E. is correct, it would mean that he was eighteen years old when he began his ministry. This may seem young, until we recall that a Hebrew boy was considered to be an adult at twelve. At any rate, he was preaching ...

404. It All Started with 10 Commandments

Mark 12:28-34

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of one of the shelves is a sign, which reads, "Law Library." Franks turns and says to Ernest: "It's frightening when you think that we started out with just Ten Commandments." It is sort of frightening isn't it? We started out with 10 and now we have an estimated 35 million laws on the books in the United States alone. Some of them are very good and deeply needed. But there are some that probably need to be repealed. For example: Did you know there is a law in Florida that makes it illegal for a woman who's ...

405. Mark 13:1-8

Mark 13:1-31

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Leonard Sweet

... the grandiosity of the structure. Herod the Great’s obsession with flamboyant architectural statements led to dramatic and extensive additions to the temple mount buildings. Although the utter destruction of the temple has made archaeological reconstructions mere estimations, individual stones located north of the “Wilson Arch” have been unearthed measuring forty-two feet long, eleven feet high, fourteen feet deep, and weighing in at over a million pounds. Truly these were “large stones and large ...

406. The Perfect Gift

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , the teenager said, but she’ll probably never get enough money to. The bus driver, a man named John Williams, said that the pregnant woman was about 35 years old and she got on the bus wearing a tattered coat and ripped socks with no shoes, and he estimated it was about 10 degrees outside. The bus driver said that she told him she had just enough money to purchase shoes for her eight children, but not enough for herself. As Williams and the woman were talking, this 14-year old boy, Frank Dailey, got off ...

407. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the only time he ever took his foot out of his mouth was to change feet. Peter, one of the reluctant disciples. We know he was married. We know he was a kind man who took care of his mother-in-law and made sure she was comfortable. It's estimated that Peter owned a whole fleet of fishing vessels and may have been one of the wealthiest fishermen in the area. When he left to follow Jesus, the guilt must have been overwhelming and at war with his faith. Leave his wife and the business he had worked so hard ...

408. Shadrach, Meschach, Abeddnego: Unexpected

Daniel 3:1-30

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ? 100 years? Maybe 200 years? Would you believe the marshmallow was around before Columbus discovered America? There's a very real possibility that Jesus, Mary and Joseph might have actually eaten marshmallows while in exile in Egypt. You see, historians estimate that the marshmallow came into being over 4000 years ago. Marshmallows date back to ancient Egypt. Some historians claim marshmallows got their name when pharaohs discovered that by squeezing the mallow plant which grows wild in marshes, a sweet ...

409. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

410. Harmony and Humor: The Ties That Bind Christianity’s Many Christianities

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... don’t, you are hearing our organist/pianist/keyboardist play it right now as I’m talking. On the PC-USA webpage, there was posted a hymn written a week ago by Carolyn Winfrey Gillette. It addresses in song the Haitian disaster where, according to the most recent estimates, between 100,000 and 200,000 Haitians perished. The words are sung to the tune of “Beneath the Cross of Jesus.” I invite you to sing this song with me as we begin worship. Let us pray these words to God. And as we do, let’s join ...

411. Like the Cry of a Mother

Luke 13:31-35

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Glenn E. Ludwig

... ' own voice. It is the cry of a mother who is worried to death about not only Jerusalem, but about all of us. Like a mother, Jesus sees far more clearly than do we, the children, the danger we are in. Like a mother, Jesus knows we tend to over-estimate our powers and are prone to go off on our own, leaving the protective wings, to seek our own excitement and adventure. And like a mother, Jesus chases after us. Do you see the image? Like a mother, Jesus' love is so great that his all-consuming passion is to ...

412. Wesley’s Resolve

John 12:1-11

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Robert Beringer

... preached whenever possible at seven, and was often on the road again at eight. Sometimes he followed his morning sermon with five others in the same day. In fifty years, he preached over 40,000 times! That's an average of fifteen sermons per week. It is estimated that he traveled more than 250,000 miles all on horseback! Even when he was eighty-three years old, he recorded with some regret that he could only write about fifteen hours a day before his eyes hurt too much to continue. At eighty-five, when his ...

413. Celebration (Series: Fundamentals of Family)

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to families to have greedy siblings. It’s harmful to communities when people are content to consume the corn, eat the fish and leave behind a dirty dish. Did you see in the paper on Thursday, how emergency room doctor turned environmental evangelist, Matthew Sleeth, has estimated we can cut energy use by 14% if we only kept the Sabbath day holy? Take one day a week to stop driving, shopping, working and actually rest. It might not only save the environment. It might save us! Life is a trust. Invest it ...

414. God's Whatever

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... doctor's appointments exemplifies “God’s Whatever" being lived out in their lives. D.[SHOW CLIP: Harvest of Hope] According to the USDA, more than 3,000 pounds of food per second is wasted in the United States. They also report that 1/5 of American food, an estimated 130 lbs. per person ends up in landfills. 49 million people could be fed with our wasted food. According to Bread for the World, One in 10 people in the U.S. lives in a household that experiences hunger or the risk of hunger. And 7.3% of ...

415. Who's Working In You?

Philippians 2:1-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . One of my favorites is, Elvis is Dead and I don't Feel so Good Myself, but he wrote another one titled Shoot Low Boys, They're riding Shetland Ponies. It's a book full of short stories of ordinary people who chose to serve others. In Lewis' estimation they were heroes. His point was that the real heroes in life aren't the ones who ride in on the charging white steeds dressed like the Lone Ranger or the White Knight. Instead, they're the ordinary people who will humble themselves, reach out their arms and ...

416. We Are Weak, But He Is Strong...

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of Christ. B. Years ago a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore assigned his class to a city slum to interview 200 boys. "On the basis of your findings, predict their future." Shocked at what they saw in the slums, the students estimated that 90 percent of the boys interviewed would someday serve time in prison. Twenty years later the same professor asked another class to locate the survivors of the 200 boys and compare what happened. Of the 180 boys they could find, only four had ...

417. There Is a Price for Everything

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... seen anything like it and he wanted to become a part of a church that thought in that fashion. That’s also the reason we ask every person to express their Christian faith in the way we use our money. We’ve been asked to bring our estimates of giving to worship today. In a few minutes we are going to receive those. Three weeks ago I talked about financial stewardship. You who were here may remember we considered second thoughts about giving: one, not giving ‘til it hurts, but giving ‘til it helps ...

418. Audacious Faith

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , faith never says: “We cannot” or “Impossible.” Let me illustrate. Back in October or early November, of 1986, the New York marathon was run through the boroughs of that great city. Thousands and thousands of people competed, somewhere over 50,000 according to one estimate, but only 19,413 actually finished the race. One man in that race, who finished dead last, is a picture for us as we think about audacious faith. “His name is Bob Wieland, and it took him four days and two hours and seventeen ...

419. Deciding To Excel In Everything

II Corinthians 8:1-7, 11-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... are going to write the budget based on what you have to say. Let me say that again - we will write the 2003 operating budget of this church based on what you have to say today. What do you want in ministries for the next year? Your estimate and declaration becomes absolutely critical to the finance committee and the responsible parties in this church to make it happen. I can tell you that we need 4.1 million dollars to hold our own and Missional Apportionments went up 14%. I can tell you all the statistics ...

420. What is the Future of Marriage?

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Marriage is not for everyone and need not be. Paul was quite clear about the value of singleness. Jesus was a single adult. Let those who enter this union find the grace to be faithful. The greatest enemy of marriage, according to Jesus, is adultery. Experts still estimate that 40% of married women and 50% of married men are having affairs these days. If you are sleeping with someone besides your spouse, let me urge you by the mercies of God to break it off, repent of your sins, turn your heart toward home ...

421. Finding Plenty in the Midst of Scarcity

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the other 20 percent. The world has 840 million chronically malnourished people, most of them women and children. Seven million children in the world under the age of five die each year from malnutrition. The Department of Agriculture in our own country, estimates there are 3.8 million families who experience hunger and up to 12 million families concerned about having enough food to feed their families. Hunger is real. The disciples say send them away. Do we not offer similar suggestions? Let the government ...

422. Our Father...

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... raising children on their own today are women. Medical advances have made childbirth safer, and have raised women’s life expectancy above that of men. But good hygiene and antibiotics haven’t helped keep families together. In any given American classroom a conservative estimate finds at least one-third of those kids living in a home without a father. Whether by death or divorce, choice or chance, more and more children are growing up in a home that has no consistently present father figure. Along with ...

423. A Kingdom that Cannot Be Shaken

Hebrews 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... was a reminder to us of how vulnerable our world is to natural disasters. While these earthquakes were terrible, almost beyond imagination, they were not the worst earthquakes that history has known. The deadliest earthquake in history struck Shaanxi, China, in 1556, killing an estimated 830,000 people. (2) We live in a world that can all too easily be shaken. We all know that’s true. For example, within the past two years we have seen the earth shake beneath some of our largest financial institutions. As ...

424. Always with Us

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Lee Griess

... ." I will not leave you alone. I will not abandon you. Orphans ... Now that's a word we don't hear very often any more. It's not a popular word. In fact, we try to avoid the thought that orphans even exist any more. And yet, it is estimated that the South China Sea tsunami that struck at Christmas time a couple of years ago left as many as 1.5 million children orphaned. Just think — one point five million children left without parents from that one tragedy. And there's more children like them who are made ...

425. Surprises

1 Peter 4:12-14; 5:6-11

Sermon

David O. Bales

... -sized evil. In the entire village no one ever betrayed the effort to the authorities. The methods of their rescue operation included not allowing themselves to hate either the Germans or the French who collaborated with them. By the war's end it is estimated they'd helped save between 3,000 and 5,000 Jews, many of them children. Doing so, they risked their individual lives and the lives of every person in town. Whereas evil is contagious, spreading and infecting people, so the Holy Spirit fills people ...

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