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426. God's Battle Against Sin

Zephaniah 1:1-3

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... chaos. God is he who gives us all the good gifts of life, of food and clothing, teaches Jesus, and even of our ability to have children and our families, adds Hosea (9:11-14). God is the Lord of love, who accompanies us daily, who constantly ... , he sometimes gives us the power to soar up on wings like eagles and to run and not be weary. But always he gives us the ability to walk steadfastly forward, day by day. In his loving action, we find our security, and in his promises we have our hope for the future, ...

427. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... and handle are the only realities; and we are instinctively skeptical of that which we get by faith. We always say that love is blind; but a thoughtful woman who was very much in love once replied, "No, love isn't blind. Quite the opposite. It has the ability to see some things others cannot see." The same can be said for faith. True faith does not blind us to the realities of life; it simply enables us to grasp and understand some things which are otherwise beyond us. The Gospel of Mark has a fascinating ...

428. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... thing. After hearing God tell him to “stand on his feet” so that he might speak to him, Ezekiel says. “As He spoke, the Spirit came into me and raised me to my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.” (verse 2, NIV) The lesson? It is not our ability to do what God calls us to do, but our willingness to respond, to yield, to attempt what He calls us to, that releases God’s power. God called Ezekiel, “Stand on your feet,” but then as He says, “A Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet ...

429. In the Wilderness With Moses

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... being human. But there is another angle to being human and that is we are able to choose. We don’t have to give into our baser instincts. We can choose that which is right and good. If we turn to God, God will give us the ability to resist the Tempter. This is serious business. Our very souls are at stake, as well as the influence we have on others. Have you ever heard the name William Mulholland? Mulholland was an engineer, a man with many engineering feats to his credit. Unfortunately, history remembers ...

430. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to speak about this stuff eloquently is itself enough. No. We have to first obey it ourselves and model it for you. It is not enough to talk it; you must walk it, even though there will always be a gap between the realities you point to and the ability to live them out fully. I will always be a hypocrite, not because I am deliberately fraudulent but because we are talking about a very high standard. Loving God with all you are, all the time, and your neighbor as yourself? Have you actually tried to do that ...

431. The Holy Spirit Came Upon Them

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... be clothed with the power of the Spirit from on high. Here now, at Pentecost, the Son of God keeps those promises, as he always keeps his promises. We can count on that. We modern Christian disciples of our Lord are never left on our own, dependent on our own abilities and power to spread the gospel. Rather, God in Christ grants us the gift of himself in the third person of the Trinity, in the Person of the Holy Spirit, and he is with us to the end of the age, as he promised he would be (Matthew 28:20 ...

432. Divine Dinner Party Decorum

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... from being a loved family member, not from having a better seat at the dinner party. You are a member of the family of God. A hundred years ago, Ralph Waldo Emerson noted three qualities he deemed marks of true "success": the ability to discern and appreciate beauty, the ability to see the best in others, and a commitment to leaving the world a better place.3 Notice that Emerson does not say that success comes in having the best seat at the table, acquiring more material possessions, or in belonging to ...

433. Experiencing the Reality of God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... be different. But how can that happen? There is no easy formula for making it happen, no magic word that you can say and, presto, there will be God. Our lives are unique and complex. Our life experiences have led us into many different places in life. Our abilities -- and disabilities -- to perceive and to relate are all different. The experience of the reality of God is likely to come to each of us in a way that is uniquely our own. It is always a mistake to try to have a religious experience just like ...

434. Someone Is Trying to Get Through

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

James L. Killen

... is in and behind all of the little things that surround us in life and that someone is God. God is great and powerful beyond our ability to imagine and God loves us like a parent loves a child. If we learn to trust that great someone and to love that great ... shoulder or spoken into our ears. Or maybe God's message has gotten drowned out in all of the static that confuses our ability to receive. After all, there are an awful lot of voices whispering - talking - shouting in our ears and trying to tell us what ...

435. Thank God for the Church

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... taught the Christian way of life here? And have you not seen to it that your own children and others who came into the church were enabled to learn those things, too? What are the special gifts that have been given to your church that give it unique abilities to serve God? What makes your church special? What is unique about the community in which your church lives and works? What are the unique stresses it puts upon the lives of those who try to be faithful? What are the greatest needs of the community to ...

436. Removing Obstacles

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... been freely given to us and to others, none of us ought to feel superior to others. We are all parts of one family. Second, Paul reminds us that the real sign of Christian maturity is not some kind of intellectual or spiritual or cultural sophistication, but the ability to love. The most beautiful chapter in this letter is chapter 13, the chapter that starts with the words, "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal" (1 Corinthians 13:1 ...

437. Are You Trying to Prove Something?

Genesis 12:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to do, especially standing in a pulpit. But he would do that. He even stressed that there may not be answers to some difficult questions, and that is just something we have to live with. In fact, he suggested that the art of living is the ability to live with unanswered questions. Listening to him preach, you got the impression that he knew you, he understood what you were struggling with in your own life. He wasn't the expert, up there giving advice, nor was he proclaiming truth in absolute terms that ...

438. God's Delight

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... sisters through the historic laying on of hands. Now these folks that we are setting apart have already demonstrated their discipline and their ability to work hard. Otherwise they would not have been elected by you to serve as elders in this congregation. But like the student ... of the community become the hands of God, passing on the power of the Holy Spirit, passing on the gifts and the ability to use these gifts, passing on the power to become God's presence on earth - yes, hands blessing us so that we ...

439. God, the Enemy

Matthew 10:24-39

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... was not. And in a letter written just a day before his death, he demonstrated how little he understood that. He wrote that if it turned out that there was an afterlife, he would "improvise, adapt and overcome."1 As if he or any of us will have the ability to affect our environment after arrival in the world to come! Once we are at the judgment seat of God, none of us is any longer master of our fate. One man, hearing of McVeigh's reference to "Invictus," said that it made him recall Mrs. Johnson, his eighth ...

440. The Cry for Help

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... sin. I could say, "Yes, I'm a sinner but I'll clean up my act and make up for my past mistakes." I have the ability to be a righteous person in God's sight and to make the entrance requirements for belonging to God's people. Maybe I'll need some ... is not placed in some general idea of deity but in the God of Israel and his Messiah. She continued to trust in him and his ability to help even when it looked as if her appeal were going to be turned down rudely. God's character is fundamentally one of love and ...

441. A Guide to Christmas

Matthew 21:23-32

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... their nature ours? We, too, have little trouble finding the truth. It's facing it that is difficult! If we are to find God, face him, and live in his light, we must accept our guide to Christmas. We must take him seriously. A man's ability to accept Jesus is directly related to his ability to accept John the Baptizer. If you don't listen to John, you won't listen to Jesus. If a man won't obey John, neither will he be a disciple of Jesus. If John's authority and word are rejected, so is Jesus'. This is ...

442. Night Vision

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... vision. First, you need owl eyes. Have you ever noticed that an owl's eyes are also it's ears. The eyes are even shaped like a satellite dish. The owl hears into sight, and has the ability to discern shapes, to tell lighter grey from darker grey, without the benefit of sunlight. But you also need the ability to keep focused on the road when the bright, blinding lights of an approaching vehicle glare into your face. Night vision isn't just about seeing in the dark. Night Vision is about letting the dark and ...

443. A Sourdough Sprirituality

Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , but was used to describe the frontier cooks' themselves, who zealously guarded the sourdough starter and used it to keep the whole camp supplied with their daily bread. Since each starter is a unique population, every starter has its own unique smell and taste, rising abilities and power. So distinct are the flavors and textures imparted by each starter that when a really outstanding glop of sponge comes along, it is its own form of viscous gold. There is a story in Los Angeles about a baker who made the ...

444. Let's Dance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... movement, watching such an out-of-step, out-of-sync struggle is agony. How can they not feel the downbeat? How can they not want to move at the right moment? How can they not vibrate internally with the external rhythms that surround them? It seems that the ability to dance, to move in harmony with life's surrounding sounds, is both an instinctual and a learned response. Watch very small children cavort to music of any kind and you will see them move in-and-out of rhythm, catching the beat for a while, then ...

445. Can You Smell the Perfume?

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... MRIs with heliotropin (vanilla) scents to ease patient anxiety. 2) The sense of smell is an almost infallible trigger of memory. In fact, smell is the most powerful releaser of memory there is. The science of "olfactory-evoked recall" is the study of the ability of scents to transports people to pleasant faces and places. Smells are the presences that create absences. Smell chalk, and most people will recall school days memories that are good. One whiff and an entire episode in one's past is brought back to ...

446. Who Put It There? (Mother's Day)

1 Peter 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... endless sports tournaments in faraway cities. Travel expenses not reimbursed. Extensive courier duties also required. RESPONSIBILITIES: Must provide on-the-site training in basic life skills, such as nose blowing. Must have strong skills in negotiating, conflict resolution and crisis management. Ability to suture flesh wounds a plus. Must be able to think out of the box but not lose track of the box, because you most likely will need it for a school project. Must reconcile petty cash disbursements and be ...

447. By Heart

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Deuteronomy 30:11-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ? Better start those language lessons around the time language skills are blossoming, between ages 2-4. Want a musically gifted child? If you don't start those music lessons before age seven, the window for the greatest learning and absorption of musical ability has already closed. Want a kid that can do their own math homework? Ditto what I just said about music. Music and math skills are closely connected. On top of learning everything necessary in order just to survive in this world talking, walking ...

448. Inward, Upward, Outward

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . I am not tempted to redesign the spaghetti freeway intersection I must travel through because I'm not an engineer and I have no concept of what such a task would entail. I may be tempted to fudge figures on my endless and convoluted income tax forms. The ability to drop a zero or "forget" to add up a column is entirely within my puny math skills. I'm not tempted to take advantage of insider-trading information to pump up my stock portfolio first because I don't know anyone who could give me any inside ...

449. Innercizing Your Shopping List

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 's nothing more enraging than someone exposing your faults and being right." ("Wanted: Fanatical Moderates," The New York Times, 16 November 2003, WK 13.) In an end-of-the-term self evaluation, our third grader Soren wrote with more enthusiasm than spelling ability that she lacked school and lacked all the subjects she had been studying this fall. Very clearly what she liked was also what she still lacked all the learning she could get!!! Although an impromptu tutorial session now insures that Soren will ...

450. Tiny Pencils

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to "love one another" is still limited by the same small-mindedness, the same hard-heartedness, the same self-absorbed spirituality, that drove our ancestors to commit atrocities in the name of Christ. But our greatest lack of love is revealed by our apathy, our ability to tune out the cries of the world that reach our ears, but not our hearts. Clayton W. Johnston teaches a course on ethics at Brentwood College in Canada. He asks his students to answer the following questions: 1. If a girl or boy was ...

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