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426. Silent Sinning

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... mistakes. They felt because they had not done anything wrong, that they were in fact all right! They could take it easy. Strut about with confidence. They had it in the bag. They were “good with God.” And so from the vantage point of that ego trip, they could look down their noses at anyone else who was not… well, them. The Greek word for despise here is exouthenountas, a very long word that meant, they treated people with contempt, treated others as though they were worthless and nothing, the same ...

427. Moksha

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... kingdom, and thus his actions rebuked the temptations of Satan. Satan tempted the basic human needs of Jesus by offering to turn stones into bread. Satan tempted the authority of Jesus by challenging him to jump off the pinnacle of the temple. Satan tempted the ego of Jesus by offering to rule the kingdoms of the world. In each case, as difficult as it was, Jesus refused to participate because of his attitude, his mind, was God-centered. We must always remember that first and foremost the Bible is a book ...

428. The Contestant

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s hand to help. Both stories bear witness not only to our foolishness as contenders with God and God’s (and Jesus’) power to still our hearts and minds when we finally ask for help. The story is the witness to a “contest” between our human egos, desires, and stubbornness and God’s sovereignty and power. Trust is probably the most difficult thing we humans have to do in our lives. It’s hard enough to trust each other. But it’s even harder for us often to trust in God, in Jesus, particularly ...

429. No Other Gods

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... time, your skills and your passion? We cannot serve the Lord with all faithfulness until we throw away the lesser gods that compete for our service. And the lesser god that distracts us the most is our self. It is our own happiness, comfort, pride, security, and ego. That’s why it is so difficult to confront and conquer our idolatry. It is almost as if Jesus knew our dilemma when he said, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.” (Luke 9: 23 ...

430. Divine Things

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . For some, that’s when our faith kicks in. Others never get it and will continue to strive forward alone for the rest of their lives, never realizing what they’ve forfeited in their lives in order to sell their soul for that little bit of ego and power. Human beings again and again, throughout the scriptures and still today, love to believe that we can be masters of our own ship. Jesus however would have us think differently. Some time back, a popular bumper sticker graced many a car and truck in ...

431. Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , self-therapy. In their view, prayer is mainly of value in helping us to get our heads straight about what we ought to do: Prayer is a time for quiet meditation so that we might enter ever more deeply into our own already inflated egos. Note how many of our prayers are addressed to ourselves, rather than God. “Make us ever more mindful,” we say. Our prayers become thinly disguised preaching, practical atheism in which God doesn't really matter because we are only talking to ourselves. This makes ...

432. “The Words of the Lord Are Flawless, Like Silver Purified in a Crucible”

Psalm 12:1-8

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... of the lie.”13 It is about both Israel and the world where lies and deceit displace truth, a time that qualifies for the adage, “Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a-begging.” The rhetorical powers of individuals sometimes inflate their egos and make them feel that they are the master of their own souls (“By our tongues we will prevail; our own lips will defend us—who is lord over us?” 12:4). In fact, the word “lord” is the same word often used in place ...

433. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 28:1-28, Proverbs 29:1-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... improper behavior continues in the following verses. Like a child, a servant needs discipline (29:17, 19), but mere words may not suffice, especially if people have previously indulged that servant (29:19, 21). Those who cannot control their tongue, temper, or ego are prone, respectively, to folly, sin, and humiliation (29:20, 22, 23). And partnering with the wrong individuals, such as thieves, is self-destructive, pressuring one to refuse one’s duty to offer legal testimony out of fear of others rather ...

434. Schadenfreude

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is the opposite of empathy. Schadenfreude presents itself when empathy is absent, when our motivation to self-identify waxes greater than our motivation to identify with someone else! That doesn’t mean we should shun self-identity. It does mean that our egos can go on some pretty serious individualistic trips when we focus more on our tribal “win” (on seeing others as “other”) than seeing ourselves and others as a connective and relational part of a universal interaction or goal. That sounds like ...

435. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 29:1-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

436. The Captain's Voice

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... eyeballing my words. With a start, she glared at me as if I were crazy. “This is mine!” she said. “I just bought it at the bookstore.” I apologized, and then explained to her that I was the author of the volume she held. She was amazed and my ego was stroked, and she even wanted me to autograph her copy. Then, she wanted to know why I had written it. The Story Of The Bible There is always a story behind the story, isn’t there? Every book is crafted in passion, hammered out in hope, or scripted in ...

437. Motives Matter

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

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Lori Wagner

... what we do but why we do it matters. Because the “why” will always sooner or later direct and determine who we are and will then change what we do or how we do it. Another way of saying this is simply, “beware the perils of power and ego!” It’s possible to become high on success to the point that you think it’s all because of you! Remember Jesus’ wisdom about serving two masters? When you’re “high” on yourself, you’re generally low on God! That means, God is no longer directing your ...

438. A Lamp Shining In a Dark Place

2 Peter 1:17-21

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Will Willimon

... sehr modern. But our main problem with the Bible is that we come to church, as to most anywhere else, to get a better glimpse of ourselves, to receive help with ourselves, to continue the only trip modern people take, namely, deeper and deeper into our own egos. But the Bible is almost everywhere first about God and only secondarily or derivatively about us. We come to church thinking that our problem is how to be better boys and girls in the dorm next week only to be assaulted by the Bible which asserts ...

439. Where Is God?!

Illustration

Mark Elliot

A couple had two sons, ages 8 and 10, who were very mischievous. These two were always getting into trouble and their parents knew that if any misconduct occurred in their town, their boys were probably involved. The boys' mother heard that a clergyman in town had been successful in dealing with children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The clergyman agreed, but asked to see them each individually. So the mother sent her 8-year-old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the ...

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