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401. The Lamb of God

John 1:29-34

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... who was on his way to the cross. Leslie Weatherhead disagreed with those who believe Jesus was destined to die on the cross from the beginning, saying that God's plan was for people to follow Jesus, not kill him.4 The purpose of Jesus, from this point of view, was for Jesus to reveal the love of God, teach about God's ways, and proclaim God's rule in the world. The problem with assuming that Jesus was sent to die is that we don't take seriously the subversive nature of Jesus' ministry. Jesus railed against ...

402. Have You Seen a Buck Flying Past?

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... you could have achieved on your own. 1. https://www.infoplease.com/askeds/origin-passing-buck#:~:text=The%20Answer%3A,with%20the%20responsibility%20of%20dealing. 2. Dan Miller, Career coach and author, 48days.com, September 15, 2021. 3. Our Alternate Point of View, Edward L. Poling, http://www.goomba.com/www2/edpoling/node260.html. 4. Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Pathway to Joy by Larry Crabb, (Waterbrook Press: Colorado Springs, Colo.), 2001, 2010. 5. James W. Moore, Christmas Gifts That Won't Break ...

403. The Heifer that Will Change the World!

Romans 11:1-2a, 29-32

Sermon

Larry Lange

... quake will be particularly devastating. No amount of tuck-pointing appears to be standing in the way of the apocalypse now. But before you pack your rapture bags (no liquids or gels, please), there's some bad news. Or good news, depending on your point of view. Melody grew a white tail. According to some rabbinical authorities, even two white hairs are enough to disqualify any heifer aspiring to be the heifer that will change the world. Lucky for Melody. She was only going to get burned anyway. Now she and ...

404. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl Jech

... should be stretching our society's understanding of what may be possible." It is extremely difficult to become meaningfully engaged in the struggle for a more just society without self-righteously identifying our partisan understandings and commitments as "the gospel" and any other point of view as "evil." But we must learn from Jesus to leave things somewhat open-ended - as when he said, "Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." (Luke 20:25) The church should ...

405. Blessed Are Those Who Believe

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... some of the most illustrious in the fields of science, had ranged themselves on the side of the Gospel, he resolved to let the Bible speak for itself. As a result he wrote a book called Thoughts on Religion, showing why, from a merely human point of view, everyone should be a Christian. He concluded, “Unbelief is usually due to indolence, often to prejudice, and never a thing to be proud of.” (6) He’s right. Unless you have been taught to doubt, the evidence for belief in God is overwhelming. Look at ...

406. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... emotional creature.” Schuller admitted he scoffed at the Secretary of State’s answer. Schuller had just graduated after receiving an advanced academic degree. “We all know man is a rational creature,” he thought self-righteously to himself. It was a point of view shared by many during that era. After forty years of ministry, Robert Schuller changed his mind. The subconscious, he decided, is ahead of the conscious. The head may lead the way, but it’s the subconscious, the emotions, the heart that ...

407. The Story Of The Scandalized Neighbors

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... they are setting a poor example for the rest of us. But let me tell the story from the beginning. My name is Aaron. I live on a farm across the road from Eli and Rachel Kahal. They're a devout Jewish couple, no doubt about it, but from my point of view they have always been too lax on discipline, especially when it came to their youngest son, Judah. He was trouble from the day he was born. I've often wondered how a rascal like that could come from such a good family. He would rob me of figs, scare my ...

408. You Can Go Home Again!

Jeremiah 3:6-4:4

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... he had done continued to eat away at this man. Now he found himself in much better circumstances, and looking back realized the stupidity of what he had done. He wanted to make amends and wanted to be forgiven, and while the check was not necessary from our point of view, it was from his. He wrote a generous one. The transaction completed he asked me if I would pray with him, which I did. Then he left my study and I watched as a tearfully happy man walked - almost skipped - out to his car and drove away. I ...

409. Blessed Are The Believers

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... persons, some of the most illustrious in the fields of science, had ranged themselves on the side of the Gospel, he resolved to let the Bible speak for itself. As a result he wrote a book called Thoughts on Religion, showing why, from a merely human point of view, everyone should be a Christian. He concluded, "Unbelief is usually due to indolence, often to prejudice, and never a thing to be proud of." (4) For most of the world's people, there is certainty enough. This is not to say that faith is to be ...

410. Acquaintances Or Friends?

2 Samuel 16:15--17:29

Sermon

Arthur H. Kolsti

... Chicago Daily News, was right on the button when he commented one day: "Strangers can only be polite; it requires friends to quarrel. When strangers have an argument about politics, religion, or art, they are but defending their personality rather than their point of view. Two friends can come to grips with the subject honestly and rudely. This is why so many social arguments are fruitless and shallow. Each contestant is secretly trying to prove his or her supremacy to the other; logic and reason are only ...

411. The Mud Room

John 9:1-41

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the truth about God’s desire for restoration of all God’s people.He is restored to his relationships, restored to his community, restored most of all, to God. Seeing for Jesus is not about making things clearer in our own point of view, but about making things muddy enough, so that we can see the truth of God’s mystery, revelation, glory, miraculous healing power, and majesty! While hardened hearts promote fragility, intolerance, division, and blindness to God and others, muddiness and messiness allow ...

412. What He Said!

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... beside the point at this stage. But alienation from God is a terrible, tragic problem. For us to realize what scatteredness, what shepherdlessness, what alienation from God means, we might do well to translate all this sheep-shepherd imagery into current terms. From God's point of view every created thing ought to realize that only in God do we live, move, and have being. Of course, there may be some here who do not admit the existence of God. Some of you may not concede that the concept "God" by definition ...

413. The Fifth Sunday of Easter

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... them they weren't going to die, or if I were to draw a veil over the issue and ignore it altogether. I suppose the problem we have with funerals is we think they have to do with death and the end of life. From the Christian point of view, of course, that is to miss the point entirely. Our Roman Catholic brothers and sisters got it quite right when they started referring to their funeral services as masses of the resurrection. What more appropriate time is there than Easter to hear again this Gospel we so ...

414. When Payday Comes

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Steven Molin

... were represented those who only worked nine hours, six hours, or one hour in the vineyard, and yet the employer provided the same reward to them as to those who were there from the very beginning. It’s not fair. It’s not equitable. From a worldly point of view, it makes no sense at all. But again, this is the kingdom of heaven we’re talking about. I was troubled twenty years ago when Randy determined that he had earned the reward of confirmation day, but Mike didn’t do enough work to earn it. Says ...

415. Bread for the Journey

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... , in our hearts we were always asking, ‘How long until we get there?” “Getting there is half the fun” is a good slogan for Presbyterians, because we take great care whenever we make a decision. We insist on hearing as many points of view as possible. As a denomination, we do not jump to quick, simple answers. Instead we believe that the Holy Spirit works through congregations, task forces, committees, and ruling councils. We believe that decisions we reach together — guided by the Holy Spirit ...

416. Two Thieves

Luke 23:32-43

Sermon

Erskine White

... the Jews. Whatever these two men on Calvary were called, they were certainly political prisoners, since we know from history that the Roman punishment of crucifixion was saved not for common crimes, but for crimes of rebellion against the state. From the Roman point of view, they executed three revolutionaries that day: two who believed in violence and the more dangerous One who did not, the more dangerous One whose kingdom was not of this world. So here are three men dying on a cross. And even though he ...

417. The Unity Of The Church

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Erskine White

... church? Yes, we have one Lord, as Paul says in our text from Ephesians, but we have many faiths, many bodies, many baptisms. Moreover, churches seem to be moving even further apart today and there is a growing intolerance among Christians for differing points of view. This is the great tragedy of the Christian world; it is an offense against Christ which reaches all the way to the heavens. Paul is pleading with us: "Treat each other with all lowliness and meekness, with patience; forbear one another in love ...

418. All In: The Winning Hand

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... to reach a wide range of people: religious, non-religious, meticulous, moralist, loose-living, immoralist, the defeated, the demoralized – whoever. I didn’t take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ, but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I’ve become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all of this because of the Message. I didn’t want to just talk about it. I wanted to be ...

419. Easter Fear

Mark 16:1-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . To our assured ''Christ the Lord is Risen Today, Alleluia!'' he alone said, ''I don't know. I just don't know." I think that young man's name was Mark. I know that you have come to this Easter service from many different places, many different points of view, differing needs and attitudes. Some of you have come because someone asked you to be here. Others have come out of habit. You are always here on Easter. Still others have come for the music. Or you are a parent visiting a daughter or son at Duke ...

420. Paying Taxes to Caesar

Mark 12:13-17

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... a group known as Zealots, a group not mentioned by name in the NT (but see the note on 3:16) that became more visible after Jesus’ time. But many other Jews were quietly resentful, and the Pharisees probably represent this latter point of view. The description of Pharisees and Herodians working together against Jesus (similar to 3:6) gives us therefore an extraordinary example of conspiracy. The opening words of the questioners (v. 14) are obviously insincere, as verses 13, 15 indicate (see note on v ...

421. Strategic Kindness

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... his life. No arrest was forthcoming, for the statute of limitations on the crime was long past. But fortunately the statute of limitations had also run out on Chris's hatred and bitterness. He said, "While many people can't understand how I could forgive my kidnapper, from my point of view I couldn't not forgive him. If I'd chosen to hate him all these years, or spent my life looking for revenge, then I wouldn't be the man I am today, the man my wife and children love, the man God has helped me to be." (5 ...

422. The Triumphal Entry

John 12:12-19

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

The next day the scene changes. The narrator picks up the story from the point of view of the growing Passover crowds in Jerusalem. The crowd received news that Jesus was on his way into the city (v. 12). How this news reached them the text does not say—until later (vv. 17–18). Not even the reader has been told in so many words that Jerusalem ...

423. No Appeal

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

The case went to court. For our purposes, "the whys and wherefores" do not matter. The case went to court because someone believed he was being treated unfairly. The court, he believed, would be persuaded to his point of view and he would be proven right. He would get justice after all. He told his neighbors he was sure the court would be bound to see it his way. He knew it; and as if to drive the point home, he would clench his fist and pound the table whenever ...

424. The Highest In The Lowest

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... from home with a cardboard box for a bed. Luke in his narrative will not let us escape the scandal of God's actions. From the beginning to the end, Jesus is an outcast among outcasts for the outcast. The story of this birth from Luke's point of view points out that God has chosen to side with the oppressed against the oppressor. If that is true, it would appear that anyone or any church that has lost sight of human oppression and poverty will certainly lose the full impact of Jesus' birth. God Comes To ...

425. Reassessing Our Laughter (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... onto our knees before Almighty God seeking mercy and peace. “Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.” Trouble happens. Sometimes we bring the trouble on ourselves. II. Crying Helps “Blessed are you who weep now.” From a physical point of view, tears are essential to health. If our tear ducts dry up, we are in a peck of trouble. Tears keep the eyes moist and clear of dirt. Tears also contain substances that fight against infection. When a foreign substance invades the eye, tears come ...

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