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426. Victory over Ourselves

Luke 24:36-49

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King Duncan

... if all those destructive thoughts and habits within could somehow be dispelled, then we could handle our circumstances. Then we would be powerful indeed. Dwight L. Moody once demonstrated the principle like this: "Tell me," he said to his audience, "how can I get the air out of the tumbler I have in my hand?" One man said, "Suck it out with a pump." The evangelist replied, "That would create a vacuum and shatter it." Finally, after many futile suggestions, Moody picked up a pitcher and filled the glass with ...

427. A Mother's Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... not misunderstand what I am saying. If you have an accident, even if you were at fault, that is not a punishment sent by God. God doesn’t reach down and punish us for our sins, just like He doesn’t reach down and pluck our car out of the air to save us. Please understand that. God does not select people and punish them. Jesus was very clear about this. God “sends rain on the just and on the unjust” (Matthew 5:45). But neither does God repeal the laws that run the universe when we’ve done wrong. We ...

428. Mark 4: 26-34

Mark 4:26-29

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Leonard Sweet

... if left unchecked in the garden (see Pliny, Natural History, 19, 170-171). Again, Jesus’ comparison is surprising for its commonness and lack of grandeur. As Jesus describes the ordinary mustard shrub, grown into a size large enough so that “the birds of the air can make nests in its branches,” his words echo a similar description found in Ezekiel 17:22-23. In Ezekiel’s text, however, the divinely rooted plant is a towering, noble cedar—-a tad more imposing than a mustard bush, no matter how large ...

429. The Message That WILL Save Your Life

1 Corinthians 15:1-4

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James Merritt

... reply. Dear Mr. Jones: Beat your neighbor with a cat-of- nine-tails with thirty-nine heavy strokes, nail him to a cross, hang him in the sun for six hours, run a spear through his side, embalm him, wrap him up like a mummy, put him in an air-tight tomb for seventy-two hours and you see what happens. Sincerely, The Editor Jesus literally died. Jesus was actually buried. There is a third part to the Gospel that cannot be left out, "He rose again the third day." (I Corinthians 15:4, NKJV) The other two parts ...

430. Growing Up Is More Than Showing Up

1 John 2:12-14

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James Merritt

... to be a compliant student, stayed there for awhile, but soon he began to spit and sputter, and thrash about trying to get air. All the while Socrates held him under the water. Soon the man began blowing large bubbles and thrashing about as wildly as he possibly ... could. Finally, Socrates took his hands off the young man who popped to the surface gasping for air, spewing water out of his mouth. He looked at Socrates and said, "Why did you do that?" Socrates looked at him and said, " ...

431. God's Christmas Tree

1 Peter 2:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... to remember His birth. He only asks us to remember His death, because it is not His birth that saves us; it is His death that saves us. Remember this tree was known as the Christ tree. A tree represents life. A tree takes carbon-dioxide out of the air and through a process known as photosynthesis it produces oxygen which gives us the ability to live. Likewise, the cross, "the Christ tree" gives us the spiritual oxygen that we need to live. I want to say it again. When you look at the life of Jesus, it is ...

432. When the Bills Come Due

1 Timothy 6:6-10

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James Merritt

... and it is not ours to hold. It is His for us to manage. When Lynden Johnson was the President of the United States, he was out on the tarmac of an air force base being escorted to his helicopter. The only problem was there were scores of helicopters on the tarmac and he wasn't sure which one was his. The young air force corporal thought he would help President Johnson find his helicopter and he pointed to one and said, "Mr. President, this is your helicopter sir." President Johnson looked at him and said ...

433. The Clone Zone: The Bible and Cloning

Genesis 1:26-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... without sexuality, it obstructs God's purposes for the family. That purpose is clearly defined in Gen. 1:26-28 "Then God said, ‘Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them ...

434. Dead Man Walking

John 11:38-44, John 11:17-37, John 11:1-16

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James Merritt

... world was Jesus doing? After calling on God to answer His prayer, He shouts out three words that sent chill bumps up everyone's spine standing around that tomb—the third key statement: "Lazarus, come forth." (John 11:43, NASB) Even as those majestic words hung in the air check this out: "The man who had died came forth, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them ‘Unbind him and let him go.'" (John 11:44-45, NASB) I would give everything I own if ...

435. Like a Good Neighbor – Jesus Is There

Luke 10:25-37

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James Merritt

... one time about a man who was working in a shoe store in Europe. It was during the wintertime and he noticed a barefoot little boy outside the baker's shop next door to the shoe store. He was trying to keep warm by standing on a grate blowing hot air outside the bakery. Here was this shoe store owner surrounded by all of these shoes, but he was uncertain about what he ought to do about that little boy. All of a sudden a middle aged lady walked by. She bent down, spoke some kind words to the child; brought ...

436. A Tradition of Fighting

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

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... now failing, stroked his beard, replied, "No, that is not the tradition, as I recall." "So, the tradition is that they remain seated during the prayers?" To which the old minister responded, "No, that's not the tradition either." The young pastor threw his hands in the air in exasperation, and said, "There must be some solution to this! The way things are now, half stand and half sit and all end up screaming at one another during the prayers." The old pastor's face lit up in a smile; he lifted his finger ...

437. Don’t Sweat the Big Stuff

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

James Merritt

... your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they?" (vv. ... like a bird! But Jesus is teaching us a lesson from nature, and here is the lesson: If God takes care of the birds in the air, don't you think He will take care of you? Ralph Waldo Emerson, the great poet, said, "All I have seen teaches me to trust the ...

438. The Buzzard, the Bat, and the Bumblebee

Mark 7:34

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Staff

... cannot take off from a level place. If it is placed on the floor or flat ground, all it can do is shuffle about helplessly and, no doubt, painfully, until it reaches some slight elevation from which it can throw itself into the air. Then, at once, it takes off like a flash. A bumblebee, if dropped into an open tumbler, will be there until it dies, unless it is taken out. It never sees the means of escape at the top, but persists in trying to find some way out through the sides ...

439. In God We Trust

Proverbs 3:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... cut sign, you don't touch that throttle again or you automatically get court-martialed." [[2]] If you are a follower of God, every day you wake up in the morning, you take off from an aircraft carrier, The U.S.S. God. You have to fly through choppy air, rain, crosswinds, hail and storms. Every single day of your life, until you come to the last day of your life, if you will trust the divine LSO, God himself, He will see to it your trust is rewarded and you will always land safely. [1] www.sweetiedarling.com ...

440. The Driver’s Seat

Proverbs 16:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... in California found that duct tape is not a good product for sealing duct-work. Max Sherman, a physicist, who conducted these experiments to monitor the effectiveness of different air-conditioning and heating sealants said, "What we found was that duct-tape almost always failed. This failure rate has resulted in approximately 30% of the heat or cool air generated in an average home to be lost in the attic or wall space, because of poorly sealed ducts." Although you can tape up a bicycle seat, seal off ...

441. Keeping His Word

John 14:23-29

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Donald Charles Lacy

... desires and yearnings. Jesus, you are going to put us through hell on earth and then you are leaving us! That might be somewhat of a stretch. Yet, knowing human nature, it may be almost exactly some of their thoughts and feelings. Spiritual electricity is in the air and the voltage is impossible to measure. Since John's Gospel is written more in a mystical and devotional fashion, it is hard to perceive the timing of the writing. Of one thing we can be certain, and that is that substantial change is in the ...

442. Counting the Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... other words, it isn't enough to come to faith. The call to discipleship is a call to be faithful as well. William Arndt says, Salt can actually lose its character of saltness. In Palestine one can see lumps of it, which through exposure to the air ... have lost the character and virtue (of salt). Salt which has lost its saltness is fit for nothing, not even for the lowliest service imaginable. Food that has deteriorated can at least be used as fertilizer, but not savorless salt. The use of salt for manure ...

443. Getting Even

Mark 10:1-12

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... his new girl, and all was bliss for the first few days. Then it started; slowly but surely. Clueless, the man could not explain why the place smelled so bad. They tried everything; cleaned & mopped and aired the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents, carpets were steam cleaned, air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in, the carpets were replaced, and on it went. Finally, they could take it no more and decided to move. The moving company arrived and did a very professional ...

444. Who Will Go?

Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... a position comparable to today's Senate chaplain. Isaiah's call comes in temple splendor, preceded by a six-winged rustling in the air. Isaiah feels a strange numbness in his lips as he watches the seraph descend with a live coal in its hand. Isaiah's ... his charred lips. The seraph places the dying ember in Isaiah's hands and it becomes an ordinary coal. The seraph returns to the air and the six-winged rustle, like a gentle breeze through an oak tree, disappears. Isaiah has not yet proclaimed the Word of the ...

445. What's in a Name?

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... father of all of us was a wandering Aramean, so, too, the Son of Man complained that, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head" (Matthew 8:20). And the Apostle Paul once shared his glittering ... of the rest of the world. Certainly even the richest who lived in Jesus' day would have thought that with our heat and air conditioning and microwaves and satellite television and cell phones that we were the richest people who ever lived. And so we are. And, ...

446. If This Is Your Faith, Tell Me Your Stories

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... be available. The lower floor was used for ordinary daytime living and where the animals were kept at night. A separate stable for livestock would only be found among the more well-heeled elite. With the animals down below the heat from their bodies would warm the air, which would then rise to the upper sleeping quarters. Think of it as a very early form of “radiant floor heating.” So it was probably into the lower level of a relative’s home, a house already over-full with family, that Jesus was born ...

447. I Am the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Slung from the helicopter is a kind of rope halter in which there is a statue dressed in robes with arms outstretched. Now and then it becomes rather amusing as the camera focuses simply on that statue, and it looks as though the statue is flying through the air alone. It passes a field where some men are working in tractors. They look up and see this sight and become very excited. They begin shouting to one another and pointing and then one of the fellas recognize who it is a statute of and says, hey, that ...

448. Seeing God In The Ordinary: Others

John 6:1-15

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... it. (1) Matthew's story reminds me of another young man, 13 years old at the time, who read about Dr. Albert Schweitzer's missionary work in Africa. He wanted to help. All he had was enough money to buy one bottle of aspirin. He wrote to the Air Force and asked if they could fly over Dr. Schweitzer's hospital and drop the bottle down to him. A radio station got wind of the letter and broadcast the story about this young fellow's concern for helping others. Others responded as well. Eventually, he was flown ...

449. Set An Extra Place

Ephesians 1:15-23

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... to what you pay for coffee at Starbucks, Central Market or the grocery store. 2. My favorite coffee, though, is Saints Coffee at www.saintscoffee.com. Here's why. It's $11.00 a pound or 5 lbs for $50. It's Fair Trade and organic. It is ‘fluid bed' air roasted not pan roasted. It is fresh roasted, usually within 2 days of your order. And one third of the net profit goes to feed some of the poorest children in the world, orphans, many of whom are HIV positive. The profit from each pound of coffee will feed ...

450. Joshua People Obey and Serve

Joshua 1:6-8, 24:14-15

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... of that plane and the rescue of all the passengers was the Obedience of the Pilot and the Captain of that Commuter Ferry. Pilot Chesley B. "Sully" Sullenberger, who some are calling "Captain Marvel" is a former Air Force fighter pilot who has flown for US Airways for 29 years. He has over 19,000 hours in the air and runs his own safety consulting firm. After 29 years of flying, after 29 years of pre-flight checks, safety checks and all the minutia of flying, you would think maybe someone might begin to take ...

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