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Psalm 130:1-8

Sweet

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

4352. The Dividing Line

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... honor that sacrifice. We are to live responsible, accountable lives that bring honor to Christ. If that means we sacrifice many things that are dear to us, so be it. That is what Christ did in our behalf. 1. William Barclay, The Gospel of Mark (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1975), pp. 191-205. 2. Jeremy Taylor, Dr. Nelson Saba, Dr. James Strange, iLumina Gold software (Tyndale House Publishers, 2003). 3. Jan Goldstein, Life Can Be This Good (Berkeley, CA: Conari Press, 2002), pp. 139-142. 4. Dietrich ...

4353. God's Anxiety Reduction Plan

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... hearts and minds: This is an interesting word study. The word for "guard" means to guard before hand or to stand outside the door and kept the intruders out. The peace of God stands before your emotional and intellectual worry habit. Here's the key. Mark it down well: The effectiveness of God's anxiety reduction program and the degree of spiritual peace you will discover is directly related to the degree you work the plan. There you have it. God's anxiety reduction program. A wonderful gift for this Advent ...

4354. Fit for God

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Fountain Inn, S.C., http://www.readersdigest.com/witandwisdom-on@lists.tagnet.org. 3. "T-riffic T’s" by Amy McCrary, July 8, 2003, pp. E1. 4. EurerkAlert! !0 June 2002: "UMass Researcher Finds Most People Lie in Everyday Conversations." Cited in Mark D. Roberts, Dare to be True, Living in the Freedom of Complete Honesty (Waterbrook Press, 2003). 5. Kenman Wong, "Finding True North," Life@Work2, no. 5 (September/ October 1999): 48. Cited in Stephen R. Graves and Thomas G. Addington, The Fourth Frontier ...

4355. The Perfect Man

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . but he couldn’t get anybody to let him give them the medication. Despite the fact that people were dying . . . nobody realized that they were sick. They all had the same rash. There wasn’t anything unusual about it. Since everybody had the same markings on their necks, they just assumed it was normal and nobody realized any difference. Nobody realized it was killing them. (4) That’s a powerful metaphor for our society today. We either have a ready excuse for our imperfection, or we have grown to ...

4356. Epiphany:The Joy of Fulfillment

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... Jesus discredited in the series of trials, and reduced to an apparently helpless, dying form, hanging from a cross. You and I sometimes envy the generation that saw Jesus in the flesh. Perhaps their faith was more tested than ours, for they saw Jesus with all the marks of humanness that we usually blot out. Yet, with it all, they believed with such certainty that they could turn the world upside down. What was their secret? Part of the secret is made clear in the latter portion of our lesson for the day. As ...

4357. At the Corner of Church and Main

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... towns. And we have other kinds of busy and important intersections -- ones that are not just the juncture of roads. Train tracks and commuter traffic made Grand Central Station synonymous with hubbub and activity. Busy airports in cities like Chicago and Atlanta mark the modern intersections of flight connections. (I heard a preacher say years ago that, whether you go to heaven or hell, you'll probably have to make connections through Atlanta.) And recent years have introduced us to a whole new kind of ...

4358. The Best Advice He Could Give

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... time. Finally someone found him an obscure job in the back offices of the Treasury Department in Washington and he finished out his life as a menial file clerk. James Pierpont accomplished nothing he set out to do or be. A small memorial stone marks his grave in Mount Auburn cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The words in the granite read POET PREACHER PHILOSOPHER PHILANTHROPIST. However, in one very important sense James Pierpont was not a failure. He wrote a song, a song not about Jesus or angels or ...

4359. Growing with God

1 Samuel 2:12-26

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... anew. But Samuel is a special child, dedicated to God from the beginning, growing up in the sanctuary of God, serving in the worship of the Lord, learning the traditions of Israel's faith from his childhood on. Indeed, the figure of Samuel marks a turning point in Israel's history. After their settlement in Canaan, Israel had formed a loose confederation of twelve tribes, centered around a central sanctuary that was located first at Shechem and then Gilgal and finally Shiloh. At that central sanctuary was ...

4360. Timing

Ecclesiastes 3:1-22

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... , but that we are mortal; that we are not the Creator but his creatures; and that there is an everlasting Love beyond the span of our years that holds our lives in his merciful hands. The Lenten season always emphasizes that fact when it includes the ritual of marking our foreheads with ashes. We are told by the minister in that ritual, "Remember that you are dust." And what the rest of our passage in Ecclesiastes tells us as we begin this new year is to make the most of our years. In the words of Ephesians ...

4361. Evaluating Our Names

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... husband of his people is frequent in the scriptures. Already in earlier prophetic writings, Israel was spoken of as the bride of God (Jeremiah 2:2; Ezekiel 16:8; Hosea chs. 2-3). And our Lord took up that language in his teachings to refer to himself as the bridegroom (Mark 2:19-20 and parallels; Matthew 25:1, 5, 6, 10; cf. John 3:29; Ephesians 5:32). Thus, the Apostle Paul's hope for the church is that it will be presented as a pure bride to Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2), and the future vision of Revelation ...

4362. Old and New Commandments

Exodus 34:29-35

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... mind, and with all your strength." And to that central commandment to love God, Jesus adds the second from Leviticus 19:18: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." In similar fashion, Jesus affirms the validity of the Ten Commandments for our Christian life, and Mark 10:17-21 tells us that Jesus loves the one who keeps such laws. The question to ask ourselves when we read -- and I hope we often read -- the commandments of Moses in the Old Testament is, "Are these commandments reaffirmed for us in the ...

4363. Return to the Father

Joel 2:12-17

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... from those. That from which no one can recover, however, and that which no one can escape is God's final judgment on his day of "darkness and gloom" (v. 2). Some Ash Wednesday liturgies of the church remind us of those facts by the ritual of marking our foreheads with ashes, while the minister says the words, "Remember that you are mortal." "Remember that you are mortal," that is, remember that you are going to die. Death comes to all of us, and the question is, "What then?" We Americans glibly think, of ...

4364. Living by a Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... , for we too have been given lots of promises by our Lord. "Lo, I am with you always, to the close of the age" (Matthew 28:20). "Whoever would save his life will lose it; and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel's will save it" (Mark 8:35). "Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom" (Luke 12:32). "I will not leave you desolate; I will come to you" (John 14:18). "He who believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and whoever ...

4365. Purpose-Driven

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... a story about this remarkable man. It is a story told by Dr. Fred Craddock: “I think I was twenty years old,” writes Craddock, “when I read Albert Schweitzer’s Quest for the Historical Jesus. I found his Christology lacking--more water than wine. I marked it up, wrote in the margins, raised questions of all kinds. And one day I read in the Knoxville News-Sentinel that Albert Schweitzer was going to be in Cleveland, Ohio, to play the dedicatory concert for a big organ in a big church up there ...

4366. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... and it’s not you, and until you humble yourself before God and ask God for the mind of Christ, you will never know true peace. However, if you will humble yourself and align yourself with God’s purpose for your life, you will leave your mark on your world. And you will know a satisfaction that you will not know any other way. 1. Larry Crabb, The Safest Place on Earth (Nashville: Word, 1999), p. 63. 2. Stories of the Heart and Home (Word Publishing, Nashville, 2000). 3. Philip Yancey, "Humility’s ...

4367. Get Rid of the Junk

Jeremiah 16:1--17:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... who appears to be wholesome and carefree, but at night, when he’s on the road, alone in a strange hotel room, addicted to porn. On the surface people who are glistening with possibilities, but underneath, is junk. In a sense, this is the human condition. Mark Twain once said, “No man, deep down in the privacy of his own heart, has any considerable respect for himself!” Martin Luther once declared, “When a man like me comes to know the plague of his own heart, he is not miserable only, he is absolute ...

4368. All This and Heaven Too

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... you will have treasure in Heaven; then come follow me.” That’s tough—very tough. I can understand—and so can you—the commentary Luke makes at that point of the story, verse 23, “When he heard this, he became sad; for he was very rich.” Mark puts it more dramatically, chapter 10, verse 22: “When he heard this, he was shocked and went away grieving for he had many possessions.” It’s a tragic picture and Jesus doesn’t leave it there. He makes His point clearly. It’s hard, very hard for ...

4369. Constantly Abiding

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... my life in terms of my ministry. Yet I think I’ve grown as much spiritually during this time as any other. I’ve learned to be dependent on the Lord and to trust Him. I’m a Type A, do-it-yourself sort of person. I’ve had a marked level of what the world would call success, and I’ve always been able to do the job. But there comes a time when you have absolutely no control over circumstances. I do not believe for a moment that God has orchestrated these circumstances: 9/11, the failure of Enron ...

4370. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... 9 before Holy Communion. So, my mother down in Perry County, Mississippi, who knew nothing about liturgy and probably could not even spell the word, had been touched by this word which for 3,000 years has taught people the absolute priority of God in their lives. Mark that down. That’s what the psalm is all about: the absolute priority of God in our lives. Let’s take a closer look at the psalm for ourselves. I Notice first, as is almost always the case, the psalm begins and ends with God. Isn’t ...

4371. Last Words Are Important

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Habits fame, has popularized the phrase, “Beginning with the end in mind.” The bottom line of the Great Commission is discipleship. That’s the “end” we must keep in mind. Both mainline and evangelical churches have missed this to a marked degree. Forgive my blatant generality – but register the truth that is here. The liberal mainline church pays little attention to the Great Commission. The conservative evangelical church attends to it in a distorted way, guilty of making “converts” but not ...

4372. We Who Are Many Are One Body

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... also of resident aliens who had no civil rights. The disenfranchisement and deprivation was made more graphic by adding the word “strangers.” Gentiles were aliens who were not even resident but outsiders altogether. The layout of the temple in Jerusalem dramatically marked the estrangement of Gentiles. Inside the temple walls were a series of courts. The innermost court was the hallowed “holy of holies” into which the high priest could go – and that only once a year. Then came the court of priests ...

4373. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... is true, but that’s the tradition. Ash Wednesday falls on different dates from year to year, according to the date of Easter; it can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10. Traditionally on this date a priest or minister marks the forehead of each participant with black ashes, in the shape of a cross, which the worshiper traditionally retains until washing it off later in the evening. Ashes are symbolic of repentance. The symbolism echoes the Near Eastern tradition of throwing ash over one ...

4374. A Chosen People

Isaiah 43:14-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... teammates. Then one of the assistant coaches gave the head coach a placard representing the national coach-of-the-year award he had won for the team’s play. He accepted it proudly. Then, as the applause subsided, the coach walked to a trash can which was marked with the year of their outstanding season, took an admiring glance at his placard, then dumped it into the trash can. In the silence that followed, one by one, the team’s stars dumped their awards on top of the coach’s. The message was clear ...

4375. Lessons In How To Give, Pray, And Fast

Matthew 6:16-18

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... : and make us willing to obey you. Collect Almighty God, we come before you in the quiet of this sanctuary, and in the company of friends and loved ones who are part of our fellowship, to offer our prayers of contrition. We bow in your presence to receive the mark of these ashes as a sign of our mortality and repentance. We want this to be a time of close communion with you, and we are not interested in making a show for our neighbors and acquaintances. Let your Holy Spirit be upon us as we remember that it ...

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4351. Proper 8

Psalm 130:1-8

Sweet

Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD. Lord, hear my voice! Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications! If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, Lord, who could stand?

4352. The Dividing Line

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

4353. God's Anxiety Reduction Plan

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

John P. Jewell

4354. Fit for God

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan