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4401. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . In fact, grace is not only how we are saved, but it is also how we continue to relate to God and to each other. Grace is the power that leads to our adoption as sons, and grace keeps us in that relationship. The reason so many of us are concerned about grace is that for too long in evangelical Christianity it seemed that right moral living was the way we related to God. It seemed that this gave us our standing before God and, thus, our standing before others. If I don’t smoke or drink or chew, then I ...

4402. A Broken Vessel for Jesus

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Michael Milton

... , Judas, planned to betray Jesus while a woman, Mary, planned to bless Jesus. Money will be used as the currency of sin, and money was used, in this woman’s case, as a currency of faith. As the nard was pure, so was her heart, but the concern of the disciples was impure, just like their hearts. She came to Jesus to show her faith, and she anointed Him with a tangible expression of her love, her possessions. They found it impractical and wasteful. Some time ago, in this church, a Japanese student attended ...

4403. Identifying a Christian

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... , television performers, real estate agents, lawyers, Republicans, and lesbians. The only group that scored lower in favorable ratings than evangelical Christians was prostitutes! Now, whether you identify yourself as an evangelical Christian or not, this attitude ought to be a matter of concern to you. Somebody’s missing the target in their witness for Christ. It’s like that woman who read that dogs were healthier if fed a tablespoon of cod liver oil each day. So each day she followed the same routine ...

4404. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... to have a sense of inner peace when he was no longer with them. He didn’t want them to be afraid. He was sending them out into a hostile world. As long as they served him, they would not know any outward peace. Read Hebrews 11, concerning the heroes of our faith. Here is how that chapter describes what some of the followers of Christ had to face: “[Some] were tortured and refused to be released . . . Some faced jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned; they ...

4405. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... in Toronto. But his most famous bequest was that he would leave his fortune to the Toronto woman who gave birth to the most children in the ten years after his death. This last clause in his will caught the public fancy--concerning the woman who produced the most children over a ten-year period. The country was entering the Great Depression. As people struggled to meet even their most basic economic responsibilities, the prospect of an enormous windfall was naturally quite alluring. Newspaper reporters ...

4406. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... pilot responded. He found the lost plane and pulled up beside it. He called on the radio and told the pilot to look out to his left. There the pilot of this small plane saw the powerful fighter jet, and the man burst into tears. As far as he was concerned at that point his life was about over. He would soon run out of fuel and crash. “Don’t worry,” the test pilot said. “Everything’s going to be OK. I’m going to pull in front of you several hundred yards. Do everything I do. When I turn, I ...

4407. Thank God for Dads

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t have to be a super achiever. You don’t even have to be a super-Christian. God loves you because you’re you. Rev. Richard Fairchild tells about a story that appeared years ago in the Christian Reader. It was called “Priceless Scribbles.” It concerns a father who touched his child’s life in an unexpected way. A young boy watched as his father walked into the living room. The boy noticed that his younger brother, John, began to cower slightly as his father entered. The older boy sensed that John ...

4408. All Keyed Up

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to find new life, salvation, consuming. The world has changed. The nations that have called themselves Christian are where secularism is the fastest growing religion. Here is still another test. It can be called the "rebarbarization" of our cities. One of the concerns the churches in Christendom had was the safety of sending missionaries around the world. They feared that if someone went into the jungle, or to the bush, they would end up "missionary stew." It was commonly believed in Christendom that evil ...

4409. How Is Your Memory?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... about a nation that can't remember what happened thirty, fifty, a hundred years ago? If a person who lives in an illusionary, shimmering, ever-changing world without depth, may have lost his soul, what about a people who live on the surface and who are concerned only for the gratification of the moment and have no sense of history or tradition in their lives? Are they in danger of losing their souls? Can you say of a whole nation, of a whole people, "They have lost their soul"? America, like all nations ...

4410. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... be the way God wants it to be. So we understand how Mrs. Spaulding is able to go forth victoriously, in spite of the terrible harshness of her life. And we can understand why she took in an outcast, and why she cared for the homeless, and why she had concern for the blind and the lame, and why she didn't feel sorry for herself, in spite of what life had done to her. Because she had her eye on the future, not on the past; on what was coming, not on what had been. We know, also, why that ...

4411. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of people in the world, can have personal communication with the Father. The dominant image of God in the New Testament is father. This was Jesus’ descriptive word about Gods nature. In the Sermon on the Mount, He used this figures to help us get our concerns into perspective. Matthew 6:25-26: “Therefore, I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink, nor about your body, what you shall put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing ...

4412. The Restaurant in Downtown Jericho

Matt 3:1-17

Illustration

John Jamison

... started out, "Some of you folks are from around here, aren't you? Born and raised right here? Well, that don't count for one blasted thing in God's book. Your ancestral tree might take you all the way back to Abraham himself, but as far as God is concerned, that won't pay for that cup of coffee you got sitting in front of you." He went on for quite some time, made his way from one table to the next, even the big round one in the back where the Pharisees sat at their weekly noon-time alliance ...

4413. Divine Dinner Party Decorum

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... Joe Cohen moved his name tag from near the bottom of the table to up near the host. The butler signals "Dinner is served." The rabbi offers a much too long invocation. People find their places and the meal begins. Most of the polite table talk concerns the new director of the symphony, the recently announced leverage buy-out of the local matzo ball factory, and how the neighborhood took a nose dive when the Roman governor bought the house down the street. During dinner's third course, Jesus says in a voice ...

4414. Traveling to the Mountain

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... in how to behave. To learn God’s “ways” and to “walk in his paths” means to be taught by God, to have him explain how to conduct oneself, to be shown the way in which to walk. So “torah” in this verse has its basic meaning of “teaching.” It concerns not just the law, but the whole of God’s will about how to live one’s life. And the nations, in our text, have realized that true wisdom about how to think and believe and act comes not from human beings, but from God alone. We need the ...

4415. Loch Ness, Locusts, and Bread

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... the power of the cross, why not add something? Add a contemplation of the cross and what it means. Add a renewed effort at reading the Bible, and taking to heart what God gives us there. Add times of prayer and meditation to your daily routine. Add concern for others less fortunate. Add the servant life, the spirit led, faith-filled life that for Jesus ended on the cross and for us ends at his feet. "Fear not, be glad, rejoice," Joel says. God will restore the bounty, no matter how bad it looks, suspended ...

4416. Chimps, Mount Saint Helens, and the Holy Gust

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... most certainly did work. What was it? "They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers." This happened day by day. Daily they intertwined their lives with study of the gospel, with friendly interchange sharing their concerns and troubles and caring for each other in fellowship, in worship including the Lord's Supper and the kind of prayer that gets results. I suppose most of us think of the church as something we do on Sunday. It hardly ever matters ...

4417. Bear Love

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... Jesus' mother and brothers as being among the believers. Before this, they opposed Jesus' teaching. In fact, once when Jesus was teaching in a house and there were crowds all around him, his family came to have him locked up. They were embarrassed by his actions or maybe concerned for his safety, or his health, and they wanted to have him committed. But the crowds were so thick they couldn't get in to see Jesus. They sent word in to him, and when he heard that they were there, Jesus said, "My mother and my ...

4418. Discovering that It’s Not about You

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . God has indeed given us everything we have. Imagine yourself alone, naked, and empty-handed; a creature who, only a short time ago, did not exist and who, in a time much shorter than we like to imagine, will not exist again so far as this world is concerned. Our lives are only a minute in the history of the universe, and less than a second in eternity. Yet, there is a greater reality, who has no beginning and no end, who surrounds us and gives our lives meaning by loving us. That great other who surrounds ...

4419. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... the meaning of the vision and the audition at the bush and declares God's purpose for Israel. The Israelites have been groaning so loudly that the Lord of the heavens and the earth hears their groanings and acts. God's hatred of oppression and concern for justice runs through the Old Testament like a recurring theme in a symphony. The Psalms sing of it. The prophets decry it. The greatest salvation act in the Old Testament -- the freeing of the Hebrews in bondage -- is born out of the crimes of oppression ...

4420. Bloody Lintels — Broken Bread

Exodus 12:1-14

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... and fairness to the poor, the underdog, and the marginalized. Ruth Youngdahl Nelson, a National Mother of the Year, takes on a nuclear submarine in a little outboard boat in Puget Sound. This is an act of her faith in Christ and her convictions and concerns about the future of all children of the world in a militarized, nuclear-drunk culture. Here is a mouse staring down a lion. The tug-of-war between mighty Pharaoh and God's Moses battles through ten terrible plagues. The combatants gain and lose, then ...

4421. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... old. I attended church regularly, served on the board many times, sang in the choir, and gave ten percent of my income to the Lord." "My, that is truly remarkable, another point for you," said Saint Peter. "Tell me more." The man, growing a bit concerned, said, "I tried to live the Christian life, obeyed the Ten Commandments, and welcomed strangers." Saint Peter said, "That is wonderful and that is another point. Go on." By this time the man was becoming desperate and a bit irritated, and he blurted out to ...

4422. Free Living Water for All

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... in the sanctuary, to the hot issue of homosexuality. Conflict is normal and often offers opportunity for change and growth. It is also risky and can lead to negative results. Disagreements, quarreling, pettiness, failure to listen, pumping up minor issues into major concerns could be neutralized and channeled into constructive, positive changes if they were seen as "a test of the Lord's faithfulness." "Give us water to drink or else ..." -- the Israelites are ready to stone their CEO Moses! Like road rage ...

4423. Writing the Law on Our Hearts

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... . We experience God as far away, sometimes just when we need God the most. God experiences the distance as our sinfulness keeping us apart. God experiences our sinfulness as breaking the relationship. At one point in the book of Jeremiah, God seems genuinely concerned that the people of Israel are incapable of obedience. God wonders if the people are so thoroughly sinful that it goes to the core of their being. God asks through Jeremiah, "Can Ethiopians change their skin, or leopards their spots?" (13:23 ...

4424. Swords into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5, Psalm 122:1-9

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship One: The word that Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem. All: In days to come the mountain of the Lord's house shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; all the nations shall stream to it. Men: Many peoples shall come and say, "Come, let us go up ...

4425. So Who Did You Think It Was?

Matthew 25:31-46

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... 100) Collect Lord, we are thankful that we do not need a photograph to see your face. In the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick, and the prisoner we see Jesus. May we treat them as we would treat you. Accept the offering of our concern and care as we praise your name. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Let us not be surprised that we missed you, Lord, not seeing your face in the suffering around us. Challenge us this day to seize the moment before it is lost, abandoning even our time of worship ...

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