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4251. A Law Against Dying?

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Jesus saw as an opportunity. Jesus was just days away from his arrest and crucifixion. He was days away from an agonizing death. He couldn’t care less about winning arguments; in this moment, he cared deeply about showing us the truth of God’s character and purposes. A major part of Jesus’ ministry involved challenging our limited view of God. That’s one of the reasons Jesus so often answered a question with another question, or with a story. Rather than giving us a set of rules to live by ...

4252. Put On Your Apocalypse Jacket

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... as an opportunity to witness to the truth of God. A faith that has been tested is a faith that can be trusted. Hard times and opposition to our faith both serve as testing grounds to excavate what we really believe, whether we truly base our hope on the character and promises of God, and whether we put our faith into action when it costs us something. If our faith is not a source of hope, peace and strength in difficult times, then others have good reason to question whether Jesus is real. In the country of ...

4253. The Foreigner

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and its flaws. As any good restorer knows, to truly restore a painting to its original form, one cannot “perfect” it; but one must restore it flaws and all. What appear in fact to be flaws to us, often make a painting most unique, exquisite, character-building, and meaningful. To honor what lies beneath the surface of every one of us was important to Jesus. He knew that God made every single person special, whether Jew or Greek, native or foreigner. God’s grace knew no boundaries, not a boundary ...

4254. To See and Be Seen

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ” so they can further hide. Maybe it’s some kind of camouflage attempt to blend in with the forest. But it’s definitely a metaphor for the “layers” we pile over ourselves, hoping that no one else will see our bad decisions, bad character, bad choices, or bad obedience. The good news of Genesis? God forgives. God loves. God clothes Adam and Eve with something better –the protection, forgiveness, love, and righteousness of God. And yet, even now, when we talk about Genesis, we talk more about ...

4255. Time to Listen

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... fan. She couldn’t give her the ending to the story while she was alive. But she could immortalize Natalie by making her a part of the story that meant so much to her. When Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire was released in 2000, there was a new character added to it. On page 159, a new witch joined the House of Gryffindor. Her name is Natalie McDonald. (6) In his Transfiguration, Jesus let Peter, James and John have a sneak peek at the ending to God’s story for humanity. It is a story of healing our ...

4256. A Life-changing Question

John 9:1-41

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... Jesus is the Messiah, the Anointed One, who has come to restore us to God? Because this truth will transform your life. It will separate you from your old life and from the people around you. The rest of your life will be a journey of growing into the character of Jesus Christ. And that bring us to our final question, the question that starts us on our journey of restoration to God. Jesus hears that the healed man has been kicked out of the synagogue, so he goes to find him. This man has not yet seen Jesus ...

4257. The Succession

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... born of women no one has arisen greater than John the Baptist; yet the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.” Chess strategy check: Jesus declares John the most amazing human being who ever lived. His message and character is flawless and to be trusted. To this, Jesus defines himself clearly as John’s missional successor. Chess strategy checkmate: Jesus initiates the messianic prophecy. Everyone who now becomes part of God’s kingdom through following Jesus will receive such an amazing ...

4258. The Most Important Question

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... or not you want a relationship with Jesus that will strengthen, encourage, and sustain you the rest of your life. Maybe you are thinking, “I believe in God.” That is not enough. What kind of God do you believe in? We must define and know the character of the God we believe in. Colossians says that “Christ is the image of the invisible God.” John 1:14 proclaims, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” (NKJV).Only the Christian faith makes that claim about God — God became one of us to ...

4259. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... be a court trial sentencing him to a long prison term. This was an issue Owens realized he had to accept, failing to personally oversee his business ventures; but instead, allowing other individuals to do it for him. He had not scrutinized the character of the men who represented him, wrongly trusting his business partners to file his personal income tax returns. Ashamed, afraid, and anxious, Owens grabbed his jacket and rushed into the kitchen to kiss Ruth, his wife, good-bye. Not even pausing to explain ...

4260. All We Are Left With...

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... eventually turns toward someone you loved. And you start sharing stories about this person. Stories about their quirks and silly side. Stories about their habits or hobbies or advice they shared. And with every story, a little more of that person’s character is revealed. I read an interesting article from an Irish journalist who interviewed folks on the stories behind their tattoos. Kim and Tarah Harte are sisters who both have spoons tattooed on their left upper arms. Their father died of cancer during ...

4261. People of the Rolled Stone

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . From a distance they could see the stone had been rolled away. That surprised them and spurred them on. John was the first one there. He skidded to a stop and bent down to look in. What he saw really surprised him. The tomb really WAS empty. True to character, Peter barged right on past John. He didn't even bother to bend down and look. But for John, that glance into the empty tomb was the biggest surprise of his life. It set him on his heels. Until that moment, the stone which had sealed the tomb had ...

4262. Shut the Back Door!

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... his disciples this to ensure the security of their homes and animals. This is not Shepherding Class 101. He’s using the example metaphorically. The people of Israel (God’s hapless sheep throughout scripture) have been misled by some pretty unsavory characters in the past, and in the present. In fact, throughout the Hebrew scriptures and now in Jesus’ time, the shepherds (Kings, Priests, Pharisees, and other Leaders) have too often caused God’s people harm rather than protecting them, guiding them ...

4263. The Cost of Commitment

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... God is good. Please understand this. God never intended for Abraham to sacrifice Isaac. The God revealed to us in Jesus Christ would never ask something so horrendous of one of his children. This was only a test of Abraham’s faith. Think about it. The very character of God is at stake. God, by His own nature, could never ask such a thing of us. The Bible teaches us that God is unconditional love. If God is uncaring, irrational or capricious, then our only hope is to desperately seek to appease Him. The ...

4264. Wrestling with God

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... which earned Jacob his name, which means “supplanter.” The kind of guy who cuts in line. The kind of guy who is always looking for an advantage over other people. In Paul Harvey’s book The Rest of the Story, he tells of two men who were discussing the character of a third man. “Let me describe him this way,” said the first. “He’s the kind of guy who follows you into a revolving door and comes out ahead of you.” (4) That sounds like Jacob. He was determined to be in control of his fate, even ...

4265. When Everything That Matters Has Been Torn Away

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... t be taken away from us. In his worst moments, when Joseph had lost control over everything in his life, he could still control one thing: he could honor God in his current circumstances. And Joseph displayed a godly, wise and trustworthy character while in captivity in Egypt. A government official’s wife tries to seduce Joseph, then makes false accusations against him. Joseph is thrown into prison, where he helps Pharaoh’s officials by interpreting the Pharaoh’s dreams. In everything, Joseph trusts ...

4266. The Pale Blue Dot

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Illustration

Carl Sagan

... There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the ...

4267. The Cocktail Party

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

One of T. S. Eliot’s characters in “The Cocktail Party” describes what happens to a person by his choices. Edward is pictured groping through the darkness of his own soul. He agonizes: There was a door And I could not open it. I could not touch the handle. Why could I not walk out of my ...

4268. Life's Clock

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Do you remember the character Miss Havesham in Dickens’ Great Expectations, who 25 years before had been jilted by the only man she ever loved? She received a letter from him calling off their wedding twenty minutes before nine while she was putting on her wedding dress. Something died inside. She stopped all the clocks ...

4269. Affirmations

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

The use of positive affirmations has been a source of strength and renewal to many people. Affirmations discipline the mind into a chosen channel and become ingrained into the memory and eventually the character. You may constantly tell yourself that you are no good and will never achieve anything worthwhile. When you started telling yourself this, it was not true. But by believing in your inability to do anything worthwhile, you achieve nothing. If you think that you are a nobody, you will act ...

4270. Immediately, They Followed

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... re not interested in filling in more geographical details in Mark's terse story of vocation. We want to know more about psychological detail. See, he tells us virtually nothing of Simon, Andrew, James and John. There is no character development, no interiority. What inner, psychological dynamics motivated them? What inner, psychological dynamics motivated them? What hierarchy of psychic need accounts for their response to Jesus? We wonder. Perhaps there was sibling rivalry between the brothers. Simon, Simon ...

4271. Failure

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Will Willimon

... remains a coach only when the win-loss record is in his favor. The corporate president stands up before a drooping sales graph and says to the shareholders, "Well, we lost six million this year but we're calling it a moral victory, a year of character building for our company." A week later, there's a new name on the front door. I sit on the University's Commencement Committee. To my knowledge, we have never knowingly nominated anyone to speak to our graduates who has been a failure. We look for people ...

4272. In Love's Service

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Thornton Wilder has a three-minute play entitled The Angel That Troubled The Water. It’s based on the story of Jesus at the pool of Bethesda. In it there are three characters: a doctor with a secret burden, praying that the angel may come; a confirmed invalid who has waited long for healing and upbraids the doctor for seeking healing for himself; and the angel who stirs the water to bring about the healing. The angel says to the doctor, “Draw back, ...

4273. Stay—Tuned

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... s son in the same way that we think of ourselves as God’s children. The point is that we would have missed a lot. To the story… Yes, the title says it is the story of Jesus, but the first person we meet is a strange and interesting character, one whom we have come to know as John the Baptist. Actually, the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John also introduce us to John and they help us to get to know him even better. Mark simply introduces him with some Old Testament references, from the prophets Malachi (3 ...

4274. Hark, The Herald... What?

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , we do not begin to have all the details available to us. But if you are interested in angels, be glad - it is a sign of a healthy hunger for the answers to the great mysteries. Listen for God’s messengers and messages, even from a wild-looking character from out in the desert who is the last one we would ever imagine at this time of year when we raise our voices with “Hark, the herald angels sing.” Remember, “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of...” Hamlet (1.5 ...

4275. Will God Be With Us?

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... compassion on whom I will have compassion.” In spite of their unfaithfulness, in spite of their sins, God shows them mercy and compassion. And God does the same thing for us today, even though we don’t deserve it any more than they do. God’s character never changes. That is why more than 1,400 years after God led the Israelites into the Promised Land, God’s glory would be revealed again in the person of Jesus Christ. As the apostle John would write about Jesus’ coming into the world, “And the ...

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