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4326. For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... in debt. Yet, despite his financial woes, this man slept peacefully. So impressed was Augustus when he heard about this man who was heavily in debt and yet slept peacefully, that Augustus went to the man . . . and offered to buy his bed. Think about that. Augustus thought he would sleep better if he changed beds. I’ve known people like that. “My life will be completely better if I just change jobs, if I move to a better community, if I just had a different spouse.” And they find out that nothing ...

4327. Great Balls of Fire!

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... John continues a story that started with the words “In the beginning,” that continued “in the garden,” then culminated in the Olive Garden of Gethsemane and Golgatha then a story with a surprise ending in a garden with his first appearing to someone who thought he was a gardener. Pentecost is the capstone of the surprise ending. Usually for the observance of Pentecost, we focus on the dramatic moment described in Acts 2:1-12, where there is big time wind and fire and stuff that makes movie directors ...

4328. Good News about Sparrows

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he ran across one of those machines you used to find in airports selling flight insurance. This machine offered $100,000 in the event of an untimely death aboard his flight. The policy was just three dollars. The man looked out the window at the threatening clouds and thought of his family at home. For that price it was foolish not to buy such a policy, so he did. He then looked for a place to eat. He settled on his favorite food, Chinese. It was a relaxing meal until he opened his fortune cookie. It read ...

4329. Second Nature through Spirit Nurture

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cry out, through love cry out; whether you correct, through love correct; whether you spare, through love do you spare: In all things, let the root of love be within, for of this root can nothing spring but what is good. When the love of God rules, all of life thought, word and deed will be yielded to that love. If our love of God is real and growing, deep and wide, then truth flows naturally from that love. As Paul put it in 1 Corinthians 16:14, “Let all that you do be done in love.” That means we are ...

4330. The Parable of the Careless Farmer

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... says Dr. Graham, this Baptist pastor was full of enthusiasm and love for Christ and others. “I don’t have two pounds to my name,” he said with a smile, “but I am the happiest man on this island.” Billy Graham asked his wife Ruth after he left, which she thought was the richer man the man with the yacht and private plane or the pastor without two pounds to his name? She didn’t have to reply because they both knew the answer. (4) Some of the seed falls on the path where the soil is hard and it is ...

4331. Breaking News: The Middle East

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... me.” (Genesis 16:4-5, NIV) Nothing was more shameful to a woman in those days than to be barren and every time Sarah saw that baby-bump in Hagar, she got furious. You’ve got to love what Sarai did. She blames Abraham for an idea that she thought up! Husbands, have you ever had that happen to you? (Don’t answer that question!) What you are about to find out is this is when all the problems in the Middle East began. Sarai treats Hagar so terribly, she makes Hagar flee out into the desert to die along ...

4332. The Gift That Keeps On Giving

Acts 20:13-38

Sermon

James Merritt

... therein lies a principle we need to learn today that will change our whole perspective on giving versus getting. Key Take Away: Giving does not take from you what you should not have. It gives to you what you would never have if you did not give. I thought through what Jesus said and I asked myself this question, “How is it more blessed to give than it is to receive? How does giving leave you better off than getting? What does giving give you that getting never does?” As I began to study the scripture ...

4333. God Is Not Dead

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... and, yet, the most blatantly broken. In case you doubt that idolatry is alive and well right here in America, picture a newspaper article entitled, THE DEIFICATION OF ELVIS: Those who worship ‘the king’ practice their own form of religion. This newspaper writer thought at first it would be just a joke to “study Elvis worship as a religion.” Then she made this observation: Perhaps it was the cross-shaped floral tributes lining the walk to his grave, or the women shedding tears over the Presley family ...

4334. Ignite: Man on Fire

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

James Merritt

... in mind Paul had never met Jesus in his life. He just knew he hated Him. He wanted to wipe out His followers, His faith, His family, and His fame from the face of the earth and yet, the first thing he calls Him is, “Lord.” Immediately, this one thought flashed through His mind, “Jesus Christ is alive! He is not a dead liar. He is a risen Lord!” We see it again and again all through the Book of Acts and all through the New Testament. The game changer is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It wasn’t ...

4335. Ignite: Fire and Water

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

James Merritt

... today who have struggled with this all of your life, because you know deep down, maybe you walked down the aisle of a church when you were a child, signed a card and got baptized because you thought it was the right thing to do or maybe you were baptized because your buddy got baptized or you thought it would make your parents feel good, but you know deep down you have never truly experienced Christ. You have never been born-again and never really received salvation. Then just like the first group, we are ...

4336. One Thing

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... all the difference in the world, “one thing.” Paul understood the power that comes in concentrating on just one thing. Have you ever thought about how important those words are in the Bible? When the rich young ruler came to Jesus and asked him how to receive eternal ... I am going to do.” This is one thing I have never done, but I am going to do it this year. This is one thing I never thought I could do and I am going to do it this year. This is one thing the devil does not want me to do, but I am going ...

4337. The Glory of the Cross

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... to respond, the guard would probably take his own shovel and beat him to death, for he had seen it happen many times. As he was sitting there waiting for the death that he knew was going to come, his head down, he felt a presence over him. He thought it was the guard. Slowly he lifted his eyes, to see standing over him an old man with a wrinkled utterly expressionless face. This man had been in this gulag many years, much longer than Solzhenitsyn. He was hunched over from the back-breaking labor and work he ...

4338. Trust

John 4:43-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... man wanted him to do it. This man wanted Jesus to come to his house, lay hands on his son and heal him. He evidently thought that Jesus had a certain “healing range” and he had to get close enough to do it! What he didn’t understand was that with ... comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.” (Romans 10:17) You see this man had to learn a very valuable lesson. He thought “believing is seeing.” He said, “Lord, you come to my house and touch my son, let me see with my own eyes you can heal ...

4339. All In: Betting the Ranch

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... worse, for the rest of my life.” There was a man that was getting married who was standing before the pastor taking his vows and the pastor said, “Will you take this woman for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness or in health?” He thought it was multiple choice and he said, “I’ll take better, richer and health.” As you know, that is not the way it works in marriage. In marriage it is “all in” when it is good, when it is bad, when you are happy, or when you are not. It ...

4340. Lost Baggage: Flying Standby

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.” (Matthew 7:5, ESV) You see the word “hypocrite?” You remember that hypocrisy was one of the three things young people thought about when they heard the word “Christian?” Do you understand now what Jesus means by that word? A hypocrite is someone who looks out the window, but never looks in the mirror. Notice what Jesus said. He did not say, “You are wrong to look out the ...

4341. God Will Provide the Resources

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... contact with was present at the feeding of the 5,000. In this disciple’s telling of what happened that day, it was not that there wasn’t enough food. There was plenty of food. Most of the people who had followed after Jesus that day had thought to make provision for their pilgrimage. However, they kept their private bounties of fish and bread hidden. It was not until a young boy stepped forward with his two fish and five small loaves that people started offering to others what they had brought as well ...

4342. Do You Believe In Miracles?

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

James Merritt

... not he had made a mistake about who Jesus was. He sent His disciples to ask Jesus specifically this question, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” (Matthew 11:3, ESV) John was having second thoughts and he just wanted to make sure that Jesus was who he thought he was. Listen to the answer of Jesus. “And Jesus answered them, ‘Go and tell John what you hear and see:the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised ...

4343. The Journey Begins

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... rather go another time. Can we do this later?” She doesn’t say a word. She just gives me that look and I say, “On second thought, I think that’s a great idea.” So Simon says, “At your word, I will let down the nets.” (Luke 5:5b, ESV) Don’t ... could open up restaurants all over Israel. We could call them something like “Long John Savior” or “Jesus’ Crab Shack.” Then the thought hit him, “Why would Jesus, a poor carpenter, who didn’t own a home and had no money of his own, travel ...

4344. For the Hearing Impaired

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... ”, “Not going to affect me,” “I’m not going to do anything about it.” These are people who come to Jesus for the wrong reason. They come for health and wealth. They come for success and satisfaction, but the first time trouble hits they disappear. They thought they were joining God’s army as a four-star general who could sit behind a desk and give orders, but the first time they hear a bullet go by their head or a bomb explode they desert. The first time they realize that following Jesus means ...

4345. The Knot: Tied

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... to “put up with” and “to protect.” Like a roof, it will shelter the marriage from the storms that come and patiently it will put up with those irritants and flaws that we always manage to find in the other person. Love doesn’t look over the thoughts of your spouse; it overlooks the faults of your spouse. “Love believes all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7, ESV) That means you will believe the best about your spouse. You won’t assume the worst. You will look for the good in your spouse and try to ...

4346. Sometimes You Have to Do Something

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t the kind of individual to sit around and reflect on a situation. He was the kind of man who acted first and thought about the implications later. That sometimes got him into trouble. But, at least, he lived out his convictions. At least he was in ... a long, long time. And I’ve seen every problem there could possibly be in a church. And I’ve learned that if you fix your thoughts on the people and the problems in the church, then you won’t last very long in it. The church is never just what it should ...

4347. The Question that Will Change Your Life

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the little airstrip. The passenger, an American who had been visiting the Indians, had never taken off from a jungle airstrip. Looking up, all he could see were the onrushing trees filling the windshield. Why doesn’t the pilot pull back on the controls? he thought in terror. Fearful they were going to crash, the passenger tried to help. He grabbed the controls and pulled back, trying to help the plane clear the tall trees looming at the end of the strip. But it doesn’t work that way, says Buckingham ...

4348. How to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... there’s a final dong and it stops. I believe the same thing is true of forgiveness. When we forgive, we take our hand off the rope. But if we’ve been tugging at our grievances for a long time, we mustn’t be surprised if the old angry thoughts keep coming for a while. They’re just the ding-dongs of the old bell slowing down.” This was just the advice Corrie needed. She writes, “And so it proved to be. There were a few more midnight reverberations, a couple of dings when the subject came up in ...

4349. That's Not Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... .” (2) It’s the oldest contention in society, “That’s not fair.” Remember Adam and Eve’s two boys, Cain and Abel. They brought their offerings to God. For some reason, God accepted Abel’s offering, but not Cain’s. “That’s not fair,” Cain thought in his heart and his resulting anger was the source of humanity’s first murder. We hear it not only among children, but among adults as well, “That’s not fair.” That’s one of the reasons we have lawyers and judges and, if things get ...

4350. Learning to Live Like Jesus

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of apricot, with a dash of frankincense and myrrh, which, of course, were given to the baby Jesus by the three wise men. (1) So there you have it. You, too, can smell like Jesus. Obviously that is absurd, but it does lead us to a much more profound thought by writer Max Lucado. At the beginning of his book, Just Like Jesus, Lucado makes this statement which I believe is quite important: “God loves you just the way you are,” writes Lucado, “but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just ...

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