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4301. Hope That Hangs In There

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , too complex. Elijah has had enough. But the Lord finds Elijah in the desert. The first thing he asks is this “What are you doing here? You are not alone; there are 600 faithful on your side. Get up and get out of here.” Do you ever feel like Elijah? Nobody understands. Nobody cares. I am all alone facing this difficulty. Stop complaining long enough to listen. There is another Voice in the wilderness. It is God coming to get you, to lead you to higher ground. God is in the desert. Somebody wrote this ...

4302. Follow Your Failures (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 21:1-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... transform our whole lives. Sometimes it all gets to be too much. As a lady once told me, “I couldn’t keep listening to you preach on Sunday and still sleep with my boss on Thursday. So it just seemed easier to stop coming to church.” If you are feeling all alone in your sinfulness today, hear this word from Romans 3:23, “All sin and all fall short of the glory of God.” “There is none righteousness, no not one” (Romans 3:10). “We err and stray from God’s ways like lost sheep. We follow too ...

4303. Reviewing Our Hungers (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... there a hunger that is left unmet when the world has given you everything you’ve ever hoped for? Such thirst and hunger is from God. Don’t try to satisfy it with anything less. Here are four things that will help you develop a personal relationship with God: 1. Feel the Hunger – Don’t disguise it. Don’t ignore it. Let it rise and make you restless. Psalm 42:1 says, “As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.” 2. Get ...

4304. The God Who Is, Who Was, and Who Is To Come

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... concept or idea of the past, the present and the future: which is both a tremendous advantage and a terrible burden. There is the Past: Because of language, song, and story, we can experience a far distant past. We hear the voices and feel the spirits of men and women who lived hundreds, even thousands of years ago. Then there is the Future: Because of creative human imagination and rational, scientific extrapolations, we can envision the future. Computers can digitally “age” a photo — showing us what ...

4305. A Defeated Babe Ruth

John 21:15-25

Illustration

Brett Blair

... brief moments, the fans saw two heroes: Ruth, who in spite of his dismal day on the field could still care about a little boy; and the small lad, who cared about the feelings of another human being. Both had melted the hearts of the crowd. (Ted W. Engstrom, The Pursuit of Excellence, 1982, Zondervan Corporation, pp. 66-67.) I suspect that Ruth did feel defeated at that moment but it was a tender and moving act for him to pick that boy up. I suppose that is what Jesus is trying to get across to Peter. Life ...

4306. The Color Wheel of Blindness

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in our midst — the green-eyed monster of jealousy and envy. The green eye cannot celebrate the successes of others without feeling left out and lousy. The green-eyed monster sees only what others have and never notices the abundant gifts that surround its ... fire” has left the faithful bleary eyed, wary and weary of heart. When we are pummeled in that place where we are supposed to feel the most secure, the most loved, the damage is the most extensive. One of the worst things we can do as a follower of ...

4307. The Inheritance

Colossians 1:11-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... from the power of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of his beloved Son." [13] That clause, that promise is almost overwhelming. It almost feels too god to be true. But it is. You and I may not have a long rap sheet on file in any law enforcement office ... our sakes. And it's sin that causes us to be lost and separated both from God and each other. We don't like that feeling of being alone. We search in the wrong places for the relationship to fix it because we simply want to belong. B. There's an ...

4308. Time to Get Wet

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is a sure fire way to attract people. Is there any mall in America that doesn’t have a fountain or a pool full of pennies in it somewhere? Hotel lobbies, office complexes, libraries, county courthouses, all spurt water, inviting people in and making them feel welcome. Can you find a doctor's office nowadays without an aquarium? Human beings crave closeness to water. That's why most of the earth's population hugs the shorelines of its continents. Maybe it is because we are made almost entirely of water ...

4309. The Christian Nature of Glory

John 13:31-38

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Scott Hoezee

... his dirty business. How strange that upon predicting his betrayal and upon seeing his betrayer exit the room that Jesus feels somehow "glorified." No mother would claim that her parenthood had been fulfilled upon seeing her son get arrested for cocaine ... country attacked by terrorists. Yet Jesus sees the specter of betrayal and loss and diminishment and so much else that is dire and yet feels glorified. Even in the glow of Eastertide we in the Church do well to remember what the true nature of glory is for ...

4310. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... bus. But the wind made the mother turn back to retrieve the card in the one direction that saved her life and that of her daughter. The passing bus did not create the wind, the young men knew. The wind came from the opposite direction. These two young men feel deep in their hearts that the wind was a breath from God protecting a mother and her child! (2) “The wind blows wherever it pleases.” said Jesus on one occasion. “You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going ...

4311. He Breaks the Power of Cancelled Sin

John 8:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... bound, gadget-bound, noise-bound.” Bring it down to where we all live. The story of meaninglessness can be written out of the setting of almost every home. The characters of the story vary, but the plot is pretty much t same. It is the story of wives who feel no longer needed husbands who have become bread-winners and nothing more, of young people who are frustrated in their efforts at freedom and have found the shackles of the free to be free:’ It is the story of the man in the pin-striped suit who has ...

4312. Take Off Your Shoes...You Are Standing on Holy Ground

Acts 7:1-53

Sermon

James W. Moore

... something of a problem for us in our world today because the very opposite... irreverence is the characteristic of our modern world. Very little is held sacred anymore in our contemporary society… and we wonder why we don’t hear the voice of God more clearly or feel His presence more nearly. Is it because we have forgotten how to be reverent? Third, we see that Moses had a seeing eye and a hearing heart. Burning Bushes are all around us, but we have to have – the eyes of faith to see them – the ears ...

4313. Is It Okay To Laugh In Church?

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Phillips Brooks walked down newspaper row and all was bright.” We see it in the great Austrian composer Joseph Haydn. A friend once asked Hayden why his church music was so full of gladness and Haydn replied: “I cannot make it otherwise. I write according to the thoughts I feel; when I think upon my God, my heart is so full of joy that the notes dance and leap from my pen; and since God has given me a cheerful heart… I can do no other than serve Him with a cheerful spirit.” Joy is our heritage as ...

4314. On the Road with Zacchaeus

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... a sycamore tree in hopes of getting a glimpse of the great teacher. When Jesus saw him, He knew who he was and what he had done (He called him by name)… but Jesus in His perceptive way also sensed the loneliness, the estrangement, the alienation that Zacchaeus was feeling that day… and the Master’s heart went out to him. Jesus went over and in essence he said this to him: “Zacchaeus, I know who you are. I know all about you. I know what you’ve done, but I want to spend some time with you. Hurry ...

4315. On the Road with the Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... and teachings and the spirit of Jesus and not realize the importance of love, mercy and grace. Our Lord’s bigness of spirit, (our Lord’s love)… is a constant call and challenge to us to be compassionate, gracious people. But, you know, it’s not enough to just feel it. We have to do something about it. Compassion can’t sit still. Jesus shows us that over and over. Compassion is love gone to work. It is active! Remember how the poet put it: “A bell is not a bell till it’s run; A song is not a ...

4316. On the Emmaus Road with Cleopas and His Friend

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

James W. Moore

... pain… Cleopas and his friends were hurting that day as they plodded down the Emmaus Road… And then suddenly Christ was there with them to give them strength… and to meet their need. That’s the way it works. It seems like it would be easy for us to feel the presence of Christ with us when life is bright and beautiful and all the breaks are going our way… but the truth is that Christ is never nearer to us than when we are hurting. Time after time, I have heard people say it: “This is the hardest ...

4317. Holiness of Heart and Life

Romans 2:21-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in twenty minutes she had to rush by a patient curled in a corner before she had a moment to stop and gently urge him to his feet. “Doesn’t this ever depress you?” a visitor asked. “Not really,” she replied, with a smile. “If I ever begin to feel depressed, I remember that I may be the only person who cares what happens to these men. And then comes the strength and patience to keep going, to keep loving them.” That was the woman’s job you say, and you are right. But the question is, do we ...

4318. The Essence of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... life, but you know that the life you now have is not providing you the meaning and joy you want. For others, in fact for many more of you — I’m sure the case is not so dramatic. You’re not victimized by glaring sins. You don’t feel bound or imprisoned by your sins. But you know the gnawing restlessness that keeps you moving hither and yon, jumping from one effort and finding meaning to another…the vague but painful stirrings within that don’t go away when you get that new car, or that new job ...

4319. The Burning Bush

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation; I want the warmth of the womb, not the new birth. I want a pound of eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy three dollars' worth of God please.” (Wilbur Rees, “Three Dollars Worth of God,” When I Relax I Feel Guilty. Tim Hansell, Elgin Illinois; David C. Cook Publishing co., 1979, p. 49, Quoted by Charles R. Swindoll, Improving Your Serve, p. 29). But God doesn’t come in a sack. We can’t have just a part of Him. If we are going to have Him at all ...

4320. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

Sermon

... . It is the realization of the presence of the Living God. Intimacy with God. That’s what the Holy Spirit brings to our lives. And herein lies a danger. We must be careful lest we identify the work of the Holy Spirit with our own deep feelings and impulses. Virtually every conceivable error of judgment or breakdown in intelligence within the church can, and has been, attributed to the work of the Holy Spirit. Whether it’s the capital punishment of heretics as was done in the middle ages or the moving of ...

4321. Updating Some Ancient Laws

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... – that your in the wrong place at the wrong time? But there’s no cosmic right that is ours to have an equal share of what everybody else has. If you’re prone to leaning in that direction, consider how you would feel if you were averaged out with the world’s two billion starving people. You see we always want to be averaged up, and not down. But we also fall into a second illusion, and therefore we begin to covet. That illusion is the age-old fallacy of thinking that happiness ...

4322. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... She hated to see her daughter leave. She pleaded with her daughter not to go - and she cried. Listen to this woman tell her own story: “As I pulled away from the train station, out my window I could see her there weeping. I sat back in my seat, really feeling alone and depressed. Leaving my mother was a wrenching experience. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder. The black hand of the porter. And he said “Now you go to dinner and get something good to eat, and I’ll get your berth ready so you can have ...

4323. Just When We Think We're Safest, There's a Sunset Touch

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... who was at the point of death - and Jesus responded. We would have read that marvelous story of faith, a woman who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, pressing through the multitude and touching just the hem of his garment, and Jesus feeling that touch and responding to that woman’s faith - “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace and be healed of your disease.” Following that period of intense ministry, and his sending his own disciples out to minister, Jesus realized that all of ...

4324. When You Have Everything You Need, Except What You Need (Managing Money)

Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our lives than caring for someone and making a difference in their lives. I’m certain that there is no greater joy than the feeling that you have when you have been used by God. It’s interesting that Jesus talks about laying up treasures in Heaven. When Ken ... to want more for ourselves and our family. We begin to measure our wealth by those who have more than we, and to feel pride that you have more than others. Look at your checkbook. Do you spend more on entertainment, for instance, than you give to ...

4325. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , the Kingdom breaks open with a peace that passes all human understanding. That’s what reconciliation is all about. That’s the ultimate meaning of the freedom Christ gives: To be reconciled. Listen friends, if there is anyone from whom you feel estranged, if you are burdened by the awful feeling that you are separated from God or some other person, if you are holding a grudge, or bearing a great burden of guild for some sin or failure, you have not yet claimed the full grave available to you through ...

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