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4251. Life's Little Instructions

Mark 10:17-31

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... hat. No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. He also offered some really good advice and insight as well: Making a good grade on a test you studied hard for is a glorious feeling. The greatest teacher is not the one who talks all the time, but the one who listens. When you pray, you get a happy feeling inside like God just walked into your heart and is warming Himself at a cozy fire. It's funny how God uses simple people to do great things. Nothing hurts more than guilt. My three favorites from ...

4252. Worship Services that Seek to Accommodate Rather than Dictate

Mark 10:35-45

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Timothy Wright

... married in our church, even though he was not a member. We talked details for a few moments, and then he said, 'Please forgive my shaking. I've never been in a church before, and I'm a little nervous.'" Wright goes on to say: "Seekers often enter our churches feeling the same way. They do not know what to expect. They are apprehensive, if not actually frightened. I am unsure what they think will happen to them, but whatever it is, they think it could be awful. Visitor-oriented congregations take those ...

4253. Walking in the Light

Isaiah 60:1-6

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... he had hoped not to meet any of them tonight. In the darkness, only one small point of light gleamed, the glow of the vigil candle, the eternal light. This light, which hung above the chancel, gave him focus. As he walked forward, comforted by the familiar smell and feel of the room, he lowered the weight of his body and life into a pew near the front. There, he sat and wept. In the comfort of God's house and in the anonymity of darkness, he let himself be honest and hurting before God. In the darkness, he ...

4254. Washing in Old Jordan

2 Kings 5:1-14

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... • and the like ... We may well say to ourselves, "Why, I've heard those things ever since I was a child. They are okay, but my problems today are too big for such simplistic advice. I need some real help." And even if we don't feel that way ourselves, we can certainly understand why a person might take such a position. After all, most of us have already discovered that a life of faith, even when supported by a regular devotional life and consistent church attendance, just does not solve all our problems ...

4255. Living the Vision

Habakkuk 1:1-4, 2:1-4

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... again and again what was going on all around him. He had prayed over what was happening, pleading with God to make things right, but it seemed his voice was not being heard. Sound familiar? Don't all of us feel like God does not hear us when we pray? Honestly, don't you, like Habakkuk, feel left out from time to time? In desperation, Habakkuk demands that God explain what is going on. Think about that for a while. Habakkuk is tired and probably more than a little frustrated and he dares to demand that God ...

4256. In the Waiting Room

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... to the policeman, and then she told him firmly, “You can let me out now. This is my church, and I can always find my way home from here.” Anne Lamott writes, “And that is why I have stayed so close to mine because no matter how bad I am feeling, how lost or lonely or frightened, when I see the faces of the people at my church, when I hear their tawny voices, I can always find my way home.” (2) Be faithful. Remember Albert Einstein’s words after the Second World War: “As a lover of freedom, when ...

4257. A Day of Singing

Zephaniah 3:14-20, Luke 3:7-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... could not escape. It was as if the people were singing in between the notes, weeping and joyful at the same time, and I felt like their voices or something was rocking me in its bosom, holding me like a scared kid, and I opened up to that feeling‑-and it washed over me.” (1) Maybe sometime music has done something like that to you. Our Old Testament lesson from Zephaniah begins like this: Sing, “O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem ...

4258. Simeon and Anna: The Quiet of the Country

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... has written a book addressing this problem. He titled it Helplessness: On Depression, Development and Death. Seligman is convinced that a defeatist attitude is both highly contagious and insidious. The more helpless we feel, the more hopeless we become. Can you identify with that? The more helpless we feel, the more hopeless we become. Seligman has demonstrated how a different attitude can easily overtake us, reducing our will to persevere and eroding our hope. In certain studies, he has used control groups ...

4259. Muggeridge Encounters Mother Teresa

Mark 12:41-44

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Brett Blair

... These are my people. These are the ones my Lord has given me to love." "Do you ever get tired? Do you ever feel like quitting and letting someone else take over your ministry? After all, you are beginning to get older." "Oh, no," she replied, "this is where the Lord ... wants me, and this is where I am happy to be. I feel young when I am here. The Lord is so good to me. How privileged I am to serve him." Later, Malcolm Muggeridge said, "I will ...

4260. A Squirrely Holiday

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 've at least driven once more around the square.' Then with some hesitancy, I headed back into town. As I turned the square's third corner, I saw him. He was standing on the steps of the store front church, going through his sack. I stopped and looked; feeling both compelled to speak to him, yet wanting to drive on. The empty parking space on the corner seemed to be a sign from God: an invitation to park. I pulled in, got out and approached the town's newest visitor. 'Looking for the pastor?' I asked. 'Not ...

4261. I Am the Ressurection and the Life

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is in the far country and is spending his or her substance in riotous living. Your heart is broken and the pain is well now unbearable. A wall is there, it may be any kind of wall. And young people, it may be walls that you feel too, between you and your parents, you feel that they don’t understand or listen or even try to understand and listen. That they’re most interested in your performance than they are in you as a person. A wall is there, and between you young people and your friends. You’ve come ...

4262. The Intimate Gospel: The Word became Flesh

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hidden behind the noble idea of our own or our children’s security; allowing an issue like abortion to be reduced to someone’s right to their own body; selling divorce as an easy option that would be more satisfying to our own needs and our own feelings; putting others down, even trampling on them for the sake of number 1 in the name of self actualization and realizing our human potential. All of us are guilty at some level. We all give into satan’s seductive enticements. And the point I’m making is ...

4263. Deliverance through Thanksgiving

Psalm 50:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... frequently during the day. It’s a picture of an old man, who looks to be about 100, but I have an idea he’s about 50. And on his back is the stereotypical emaciated little starving child, probably his grandchild. Three generations starving to death. Now I would feel better if I didn’t look at that picture, but I wouldn’t be better. One of the things I think about when I look at that picture is, I could have been born in Ethiopia. Has that thought crossed your mind during the past two or three weeks ...

4264. A Miracle Child

Exodus 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that word that is written on the plague in memorial to John Wesley in Westminster Abbey – God buries the workman, but he carries on his work. What does that say to us today? Let me repeat it, at least this. You are important. No matter how anonymous you may feel, you are a part of God’s drama of redemption and covenant. And we never know, we never know how God is going to use our obedience and faithfulness in his grand design, and that’s the reason I want to focus now on the anonymous persons in this ...

4265. God’s Great Grace to Each of Us

Luke 1:39-56

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Mark Trotter

... day a priest walks into his room. He didn't invite him in, he just walked in. The priest asked him, "Do you want to be anointed?" That is the Catholic rite for the sick. The man said, "Yes." Then he wrote this. "Lying on my narrow, hospital bed, feeling the oil of gladness and healing, I knew I had little time. More importantly though, I felt by a wondrous grace that this was the first time in my memory that the Church was paying attention to me, individually, by name, naming me, praying for me to deal with ...

4266. Every Day God Enables

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... partner about it. He says: "I'm getting way to comfortable lying and sneaking around all this spy stuff, okay. I'm starting to feel that that is my real life." His partner says: "It's all to be expected. It's an existential spy crisis of sorts." Chuck ... ." I just love those words, "I'm so busy praising and serving Jesus that I ain't got time to die." That's exactly how we feel what we are called to do when we've overcome adversity. And Every Day God Enables us to Praise Him. III. Enables Us to Proclaim Once ...

4267. Every Day God Encourages

Acts 4:36-37; 11:22-24

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 'd taken an interest in him. She'd helped him to discover a love for poetry he didn't know he had. She made him feel as if he might be worth something after all. He wrote her a simple letter. Three days later, he received a reply. This long retired ... give Bruce the ribbon. The little girl responded "It's no big deal. I know I won it and giving it to Bruce made him feel better." That little girl understood what Grace and encouragement are all about. You've received two blue ribbons today. One is for you. I want ...

4268. Braveheart

John 20:24-29

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... labeled a doubter but I think Thomas got a bum rap. Thomas was a pragmatist and an empiricist. If he couldn't see it, touch it or feel it, he had a hard time believing it. That was the source of his doubt. But there was more to Thomas than just doubt. Thomas was ... than he already is? I don't think so. And then there's the miracles and the final miracle: 'he was raised from the dead.' I feel the same way about that as I do about his birth. So what? Jesus was a great man, a great teacher. I don't need all ...

4269. Living In The Spirit Of Love

Galatians 5:22-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... lot. People forget." "When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth." "Love is when someone hurts you. And you get so mad but you don't yell at them because you know it would hurt their feelings." "Love is what makes you smile when you're tired." "Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen." And my favorite one of all: "God could have said magic words to make the nails fall off the cross, but He ...

4270. God IS In The Ordinary

Romans 12:1-2, 9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... In our minds we name them all. But we never let the words enter and penetrate our own heart and soul. So, we continue to harbor hard feelings toward each other. And the sad truth is we do it to family. We do it to friends and at work. And worst of all we ... His. Jesus comes first, not us. We're called to play second fiddle to Christ because when we do, when we push aside our feelings and seek only to let Christ shine through, a wave of harmony emanates. And when the world sees and hears that harmony they are ...

4271. You Are Mine

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

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Mark Trotter

... . She talks about what she can do now. They talk about all this. At the end the parents say, "We wish we could do something." She says, "You have done a lot just being there. I can feel your love. It helps. Thanks for being there." I think it must have been like that when Jesus prayed to God in those critical moments in his life. His identity was confirmed, "You are my Son." He was assured that he is loved, "You are my beloved." He was assured ...

4272. Room For A Savior?

Luke 2:22-33

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... talking about Jesus, the Messiah, the Son of God, Prince of Peace, Emmanuel, God with us. B. An old piano man ran his fingers up and down the keys of a run-down instrument. He sang a few sad notes to himself. It was Christmas Eve and old Amos was feeling pretty sad. He was all alone, with nowhere to go. He once had a wife and a beautiful little girl but somehow they'd slipped out of his life. While walking through the streets of downtown he saw a little girl, dressed in clean but ragged clothes. She was ...

4273. Count the Stars

Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... mentally handicapped person in his family. This family member calls Roberts, “Dada.” Roberts doesn’t give this handicapped person’s name, but he does say that “his love is one of the most potent healers in my life.” Roberts recalls once when he was feeling quite alone and was staring out the window at the rain. Quiet, slow tears were creeping down his face. Suddenly an arm was around his shoulders and a voice was saying, “Don’t cry, Dada. I still love you.” On another occasion Roberts had ...

4274. Spiderman: Saved To Serve

Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... ask that question in Church, would you? But the truth is we don't all come with pristine purposes. I'm not trying to make anyone feel guilty but we may not even know that we are at cross purposes with God. That was certainly the case in the life of the Apostle ... guides all that we do so that the love of God in Christ emanates through everything we do. We aren't saved so we can feel good about ourselves. Just like Paul and Peter Parker, we're "Saved To Serve." You see, it really is like Uncle Ben told Peter, " ...

4275. Altar Your Prayers

Mark 1:29-37

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... and have and ever will be at God's Altar. I. Stewardship A. This morning we begin our Stewardship Series. I have some strong feelings about Stewardship. I personally think that once we accept Christ as Lord and Savior of our lives and give our life to Christ, all ... B. Personally, I think I'm a little ADD and if I don't spend time in prayer I can easily get distracted. I don't feel like my day is focused unless I begin with prayer. You see, in prayer I find my best friend and my greatest advocate. In prayer ...

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