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4426. Remember to Say Thank You

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... at all. (2) If we think about it, most of us are greatly blessed. Listen then to this word of warning Moses gives to the people of Israel: “When you have eaten and are satisfied, praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large ...

4427. Mustache Men

Humor

Dear Abby: I'm 19 years old and not very experienced, but my mother told me to be careful of men with mustaches. Is there any truth in this? Dear Anita: Yes...and also be careful of men without them.

4428. The Jesus Straightway

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... 5 ft thick. They “graded” the surface until absolutely smooth, that is, they smoothed and leveled it with equipment made for these kinds of roadways. Underneath the roadway, a combination of stones in various sizes allowed for water and air to filter through. They measured carefully and provided drainage on the sides of the roads. The Romans were not the first to build roads. The earliest road in the holy land dates back to Ur in 4000 BCE. In 2000 BCE the Minoans built a paved road from near North Crete ...

4429. About That Anger

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He couldn’t accept the injustice anymore. So he ordered his band to get back on the bus and leave Georgia. The concert organizer threatened to sue him. The state of Georgia banned him from making any public performances within state lines. Ray Charles no longer cared. He was going to stand up for equality and justice no matter what it cost him. And twenty years later in 1979, in one of those great reversals of history, Ray Charles was offered a public apology by the state legislature of Georgia, and his ...

4430. The Clues Are There

Luke 2:22-40

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... gives us a story about two elderly seekers who frequent the national shrine of the Jewish church. That in itself is a clue. Luke cares about vulnerable people. No one is more vulnerable than an aging man and an equally aged woman, nearing life’s end. One could view ... second book of scripture, the Acts of the Apostles, where the first faith community, in Jerusalem, devises a system to care for aging widows.) But the story of Simeon and Anna contains another clue to this gospel writer’s priorities. Luke ...

4431. Be Healed

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... . There are countless stories of wellness resulting from their visits. There is another aspect of healing not mentioned in this text. There is an ongoing need — and possibility — for the healing of relationships. Any caring Christian can be a part of such a ministry. Pastors enable it through counseling (and members who are hurting should not hesitate to contact their local clergy for help). But lay folk can also be instruments of healing. Broken relationships abound. Individuals who know how to listen ...

4432. Here

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... gospel as "radical obedience to God's program of justice, righteousness, and peace for the whole world." One of my colleagues responded that somewhere in a little town in Ohio, early morning, a woman is getting out of bed, looking for strength for another day of caring of her retarded adult daughter before she goes to work at the local diner. For this woman, the greatest act of radical obedience to Jesus Christ is when she says a little prayer, just before she gets out of bed, asking a loving God to help ...

4433. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Will Willimon

... I longed to be home, again with her, located. But there was no home. Today, there is still the house, but its contents, long ago dispersed, and the one who made the house that home is gone too. Hebrews has it right. Here "We have no abiding city." So be careful of loving too much the contingent. Here, is not our home. We get these momentary, passing glimpses of home, but not home. We are on the way. It is as if God has implanted within us both the desire for home and the frustration of knowing that this is ...

4434. Bringing Life to a Party

Luke 24:36b-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... prints in the hands and feet of the Master should have been ours. But God so loved the world that he sent his own Son to bear the burden brought about by the iniquities of us all. Can you deal with that? Can you believe that God really cares about you that much? A few years ago, the Christian Century magazine carried the story of a young student at Yale Divinity School named Lou Marshall. Marshall moved into a poor and violent neighborhood in New York City to work with gang members. At one point, Marshall ...

4435. How Does Your Garden Grow?

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... be attached to the vine. Jesus is that vine. Without him, you have no spiritual life. Without him, you will produce no fruit of the spirit. Remember your tomato plants. Occasionally you would bump a branch and it would bend and break part of the way through. A caring, nurturing person would lift it into place, maybe even put a stick under it to hold it up but in reality, the full strength of the ground’s nutrients would never get to the buds or the small, green baby tomatoes. It would die. As a pastor, I ...

4436. Love Is a Verb

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... – age 8. Here’s one of the best from another source. Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia judged a contest to discover the most caring child. This is what he said about the winner. “The winner was a four-year-old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly ... times come we sometimes need someone to help us cry. When good times come we need to celebrate with people who actually care about our joy. In his excellent book, The Mark of a Christian, Francis Schaeffer writes, “All men bear the image of God. ...

4437. Because We Are Chosen

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... laundry room. The baby’s body temperature was dropping, and she was turning blue. Patrick grabbed the first student he saw, a nursing student named Esther Raiger, and asked for her help. Providentially, Raiger had just completed a course in infant care. She cared for the baby until paramedics arrived. The hospital staff named the newborn Baby Jane Doe. When the story hit the news outlets, numerous people around the country offered to adopt her. Among those who contacted Child Services were Sam and Helene ...

4438. Not Your Lips, but Your Life

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... them service. Why wouldn’t anyone take their checks? Pastor Dunn’s wife had to tell numerous store clerks, “We are not the Ron Dunn you are looking for!” Sadly, the Pharisees should have told people up-front, “We are not the God you are looking for! We care more about religious traditions than we do about the mind of God, the heart of God, the priorities of God.” Pastor Dunn wrote of this situation, “Now it’s okay for someone else to have my name; I do not have a copyright on it. But what ...

4439. Driven to Complete

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... go, to the neediest members of his community, to share the love of Jesus with them. And the second rule of greatness is that greatness isn’t about you. It’s about God working through you. Read through the Bible from beginning to end and look very carefully at who God used to do His work. God didn’t choose the strongest, the most powerful, the bravest, the smartest people to change the world. In fact, almost everyone God chose to use for His work would have been voted “Least Likely to Succeed.” So ...

4440. Out of the Saltshaker

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... earth. Martha is a twenty-six-year-old woman with ALS (sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Martha needed help. When this group of women from Evanston, Illinois, heard about Martha, they jumped into action. They began giving Martha round-the-clock nursing care. They bathed her, fed her, prayed for her, and witnessed to her. Martha, who had not received Christ as her Savior, couldn’t understand how a loving God could let her get ALS. But when she saw God’s love in these women, eventually she ...

4441. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... every five, 60% of all personal bankruptcies in the United States were caused by medical bills and I thought of this story and I said, “Yeah, I get that.”1 There is nothing I wouldn’t sell, hock, or leverage if it meant getting necessary health care for my children or grandchildren. Nothing can drive us to desperation faster than our love for our family, and that’s where Jairus was. He was desperate. Jesus saw his desperation and agreed to go with him but his journey was briefly interrupted. As they ...

4442. Holding On

Job 1:1; Job 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... . When Marion asked Johnny about his own needs, she was struck by his answer. He said, “Here’s the way it works. Every morning me and Cheeseburger step out of our tent and look up at the sky. And I say, ‘Lord, we belong to you. We trust you. Take care of us another day. Thank you.’ And then at night when we lie down to sleep, I look out at the stars and say, ‘We still trust you, God.’” And he smiled at her. As Marion drove away, she couldn’t stop thinking about the deep faith and peace that ...

4443. The Days Are Coming

Jeremiah 33:14-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the meaning of this word. A few years ago, his car’s fuel-injection system was malfunctioning, so Dr. Qualben took his car to a mechanic. The mechanic happened to be an orthodox Jewish man. He listened carefully to the engine, then took apart the fuel injection system, carefully cleaned each individual piece, and put the whole thing back together again. The car worked perfectly now. The mechanic closed the hood and announced with a satisfied smile, “Zaddik!” The fuel injection system and the engine ...

4444. Preparing for the King

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... or cover up racist or hateful graffiti in public spaces. In 2020, he has also served as a middleman, helping connect tattoo artists with those who want to rid themselves of such tattoos. Fleischer says of the people who reach out to him, “I don’t care what your backstory is. I care about tomorrow. You want to erase it then I’m going to be there for you . . . And we’re just going to move forward and I’m going to give you a new way in life.” (4) A commitment to right living is a commitment to ...

4445. Jesus' Tears

John 11:32-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Jesus’ tears not only help us relate to him, but it shows us how able he is to relate to our experience when we lose someone we care about. It hurts when we stand by the grave of someone we love. Dr. Robert M. Bowman tells a story that comes from a nurse in a ... bad things happen to his people. It also demonstrates a human side to Jesus, she said, that helps her when she cares for sick people. Eighteen months later it was evident that the treatments Rebekah was receiving were insufficient to stop the ...

4446. It Helps If You Laugh

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... clean up the toxic waste in our family bathroom. I really think she laid awake at night thinking of things to make my life miserable. And when I became a teenager, it got worse, she went from mean to cruel. First I had to learn to cook and help take care of my two bratty brothers. She made me tell the truth even if it killed me --- and sometimes it nearly did, especially when my Dad found out. My friends couldn't honk their horns for me, Mom always wanted to meet them and made them come in the house. She ...

4447. It's A Wonderment

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and how much you love him. Tell him you haven't forgotten him." Landon wrote the letter. A long one. The completed paper was a work of art. He wrote each line in a different color and carefully drew an elaborate border around the edge. It was a love letter . . . a message from earth to heaven. Landon folded the paper carefully, and together they asked God to give Luke its message. But somehow, that wasn't enough. "What I really want to do is tie my letter to a balloon," said Landon. "I know it can't really ...

4448. Public Sex

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... consequences for the subjugation of women in a society where men hold most of the power. Something social, political is at stake in sex. One of the worst legacies of political liberalism is the unbiblical assumption that sex is a purely private, personal matter. ''Who cares how he behaves in a bedroom as long as he votes right on the floor of the Senate?'' That kind of thing. Was this what the church was getting at back in the fifteenth century at the Council of Florence when it condemned ''private marriage ...

4449. For The Love of God is Creative

1 Corinthians 2:6-12 · Psalm 8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of your fingers, the moon and the stars that you have established; what are human beings that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them? Yet you have made them a little lower than God, and crowned them with glory and honor." (Psalm 8:3-5) When you ... the image of God. We have the qualities of God. And we are called to be like God, we're called to be as loving, giving, caring and creative as God. III. JESUS, THE FULL IMAGE: A. The problem was and is, that we didn't want to be like God. Instead, we ...

4450. If It Helps You Laugh

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

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