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426. Bearing Fruit

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the same time and in the same yard. The atheist was a very intellectual person, and a skilled debater. He had been promised all sorts of favors if he could just make Niemoller lose his faith. Each of the two men enjoyed presenting his own point of view, and they talked together for four days. On the fifth day, the atheist begged Niemoller to lend him his Bible, a book that had assumed a new meaning to him. The very same day the atheist was moved to another cell. Bearing fruit is essential to Christian ...

427. The Highest In The Lowest

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

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John A. Stroman

... from home with a cardboard box for a bed. Luke in his narrative will not let us escape the scandal of God's actions. From the beginning to the end, Jesus is an outcast among outcasts for the outcast. The story of this birth from Luke's point of view points out that God has chosen to side with the oppressed against the oppressor. If that is true, it would appear that anyone or any church that has lost sight of human oppression and poverty will certainly lose the full impact of Jesus' birth. God Comes To ...

428. Proper 7

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

... his life, when everything was going for him as he planned and expected, the ability of such a dream to lift him to a higher consciousness would probably have been unlikely. Transforming experiences such as these usually come only when the conscious point of view is severely shaken, as through an illness, a catastrophe, or a personal crisis like Jacob was facing. It is interesting and significant that, in his dream, Jacob did not climb the ladder. Only the angels ascended and descended that stairway. Jacob ...

429. What Is Your Mercy Quotient?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... worker and welfare recipient, lawyer and client, clerk and customer, employer and employee, parent and child. I know that it is hard to do, terribly hard. It is almost impossible to climb up out of ourselves and see the world from someone else’s point of view. It requires an enormous capacity for imagination, and yet, how important the effort. That’s what the college president did to some extent through his sabbatical. That is what some sensitive people are able to do at rare moments in their lives. But ...

430. Be Wise In The Spirit

1 Corinthians 2:6-16

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Richard Hasler

... receive new ideas, even if they make us appear to be foolish in the eyes of the wisdom elite of our day. To be wise in the Spirit we need heart. Regrettably, many of us, especially ministers, tend to be so intellectual that we approach everything from the point of view of the mind. The consequence is that we are less of a person than we might be if we gave proper balance between the heart and the intellect in our daily living and ministry. A pastor had the opportunity to attend a week-long conference in San ...

431. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... be a time of wonder or of dread? Some Christians associate the second coming of Christ with the end of the world, a great cosmic battle, or a horrific holocaust in which God will save a small remnant but destroy everything and everyone else. From my point of view, that idea is both nonsense and really bad theology. God created the world and pronounced it good. God loves the world and everyone and everything in it. God sent Christ into the world not to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be ...

432. Share Your Unique Story

Acts 10:23b-48

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Richard Hasler

... it not suggest to us that we too have a unique story of our own to tell? To be sure it is the old, old story that Peter outlined to Cornelius and his household, but remember Peter personalized the story. He told the story from his own point of view. He made plain how this story made an impact on him personally. Unfortunately, some churches do not give the impression that they have a compelling story to tell. Mahatma Gandhi who spearheaded the 1947 independence movement in India lived as a young man in South ...

433. Good Guys And Bad Guys Alike

Genesis 37:1-11, 12-36

Sermon

Steve Burt

... how we judged them -- good guys or bad guys -- because God made them, Jesus and Moses, good guys. If we are to love our enemies, as Christ commands, we've got to see things from the other side, even if just briefly. We've got to change our point of view, identify with a different character than usual. Look at this story of Joseph and his brothers. We usually identify with Joseph, don't we? Today let's try to understand the position of the father and the brothers. Joseph was Jacob's eleventh son, Dad's pet ...

434. THIS MAN NAMED JESUS

Drama

Marcia Miller

This Man Named Jesus is designed to bring into focus certain biblical truths about the Son of Man and his mission on earth. It is a dialogue among three people, each of whom has a different point of view in telling about Jesus. First, there is a person who tells the story of Jesus and his ministry. That story is backed by the second person, who quotes Scripture. The third gives theological insight into what has been said. The Scriptures used are: Matthew 1:21; 3:2, 17; 13: ...

435. Compelled to Carry

Matthew 27:11-26

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Joe Barone

... have moved from the feeling of impending death to death itself. It's easy, in the abstract, to say Jesus died for us, but devastating in the concrete. Today as we walk with him to the cross and stand and watch him as he dies, we do so from the point of view of Simon of Cyrene. Dramatic Monologue: Simon Of Cyrene I've heard it said that what you do can change the way you feel. If you want to reconcile with an enemy, they say, you have to do something peaceful toward him before you have any chance of feeling ...

436. Mark 10:46-52

Mark 10:46-52

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... those who truly see Christ feel overwhelmingly called to follow his pathways and purposes. They become imitators of Christ as they seek to become perfected disciples. Bartimaeus' journey was not easy. He began to follow Jesus just when, from a human point of view, things began to degenerate. Jesus now enters Jerusalem to play his part in the final scene of confrontation, prosecution and execution. There would be little time for a new disciple like Bartimaeus to enjoy approving crowds or balmy days of rest ...

437. Mark 10:46-52

Mark 10:46-52

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

438. The Little Children and Jesus

Mark 10:13-16

Understanding Series

Larry W. Hurtado

... after the passage on marriage may have been prompted by the fact that the two subjects naturally are linked in life. There were some in the ancient church who felt that marriage was evil because they saw sexual intercourse as a fleshly pollution (this point of view seems to be what Paul corrects in 1 Cor. 7:1–40 and was certainly held by some later heretics among those called Gnostics). These same people also believed that the procreation of children was evil, and it is possible that this incident of ...

439. Kings of Israel

1 Kings 15:33–16:28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... execution of idolatry. Second, his dismissal begins with rumor, and when Omri (the commander of the military) is crowned, it appears for a moment that there are two kings in the north. Third, Zimri’s incendiary end is recorded from his own point of view (“when Zimri saw that the city was taken”), yielding a suicidal finish to the shortest reign in Israelite history. For more information on the conspiracy he wrought, we are referred to the northern annals, and primary attention turns to Omri. Although ...

440. Citizenship

Philippians 3:1-11

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... theory, you know. In other words, he is not personally involved in human affairs. CHRIS: Really? Hmmm. Well, I don't think that's true. Those men were all Bible-believing Christians. Probably Baptists. TERRY: Well, that's certainly an interesting point of view. CHRIS: Still, you have to admit that America is founded on Christian principles -- separation of church and state and so on. TERRY: Is that provision supposed to be for the benefit of the believers or the non-believers? CHRIS: For the believers ...

441. Wedding: Eternal Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Bulletin Aid

Derl G. Keefer

... who were discovering that it is easier to talk about love than to live it. It wasn't that they hated one another. They each just got so concerned about proving that their way was right that they forgot to give leeway for anyone else's point of view. They needed a reminder of what brought them together in the first place. Not their own opinions, good as they may have seemed. Not just nice feelings about each other. What brought them together was something outside themselves, and that was the love of God in ...

442. Solomon's Activities

1 Kings 9:10-28

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... was built with freewill offerings of God’s people; by contrast, the permanent temple in Jerusalem was procured through international trade and forced labor. Hiram’s “payoff” in the end is a number of villages in northern Israel; from the exilic point of view, land for gold is not a good investment. Real estate deals are beyond the king’s purview. In addition to partnership with Hiram, Solomon has also made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh, who proves to be a meddlesome father-in-law. The ...

443. Job's Reply to Zophar

Job 12:1--14:22

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... addresses God (13:20–14:22). Job is sharply sarcastic toward his friends as he opens his mouth (12:2–13:19). Oh, yes, they understand everything! But Job is no dolt. He knows no less than others. He seems to recognize that, from others’ point of view, his situation has turned him into a laughingstock. Contempt quickly replaces respect among those who witness the fall of a respected person (12:5). Job further digs at his friends’ notion that they know more than he (12:7–10). In parody Job parrots ...

444. The Last Word

John 18:33-37

Illustration

Steven E. Albertin

... to the discussion. Students will often look to the teacher to settle the matter. The teacher has the last word. If you ever watched Ted Koppel on the late night television show Nightline, you saw him struggle with trying to be fair in dealing with two or more opposing points of view. It is also obvious how important it is to have the last word on that show. The last one to speak always seems to have the most lasting impact. To have the last word is to be the final authority. To have the last word is to have ...

445. Easter 6

John 14:15-31, Psalm 67:1-7, Acts 15:22-35, Joel 2:18-27, Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... period of time, but also that his ascension means that Jesus' resurrection is completed; the ascension marks the climax of the resurrection event. Therefore, this Sunday remembers Easter from one perspective, and it anticipates the conclusion of Easter from another point of view (although the Sunday following the Ascension is now known as the Seventh Sunday of Easter, instead of the Sunday after the Ascension, taking its cue from the great 50 days of the Pasch, from Easter Sunday through Pentecost.) The ...

446. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

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Donald B. Strobe

... all acts which injured one’s neighbor. Anyone having unlawful sexual relations with a married woman was, in fact, violating her husband’s property rights, for back then it was considered that she belonged to him, was his property. From a strictly legal point of view, the Pharisees were on solid ground. The case against the woman was airtight. This woman was an adulteress. The penalty for adultery was clear. In Leviticus 20:10 it is death. Deuteronomy 22:23 says that the penalty must be administered by ...

447. Simeon and Anna: The Quiet of the Country

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... when we think they should. How to wait is one of the most important lessons we can learn. Unfortunately, most of us, after we have waited for awhile - waited for the career break that we deserve, waited for the other person to come around to our point of view, waited for our spouses to see things from our perspective, waited for our children to come to their senses, waited for the investment to pay off, waited for that dream which is the heart of our hearts to be realized - after we have waited for awhile ...

448. Pentecost ... Again!

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

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Steven E. Albertin

... his love to the world? Can't you hear the voices in so many different languages? Our world speaks a multitude of languages, not only languages like English, German, or Chinese, but also the language of different cultures, different values, and different points of view. As you go from this place out into the world and translate the love of Christ into a myriad of different cultures, worldviews, values, and perspectives, you are just like those disciples who spoke in so many different languages on that first ...

449. Lent 4

Lk 15:1-3, 11-32 · 1 Cor 1:18-31 · 2 Cor 5:17-21 · Isa 12:1-6 · Jos 5:9-12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... us to do our part in providing for ourselves. Lesson 2: 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 1. Regard (v. 16). Because of his being in Christ, Paul has a new attitude and perspective on Christ and people. Before Christ, he looked at them from a human point of view. He saw Jesus as another human being; people were people. Being in Christ, he now looks at Christ from a divine perspective. Christ is God's Son, the Messiah, Lord, and Savior. People are now regarded as God's creation and potential children of God. This ...

450. Bothered and Bewildered

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

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Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... the gospel helps to focus on what is important, and it is a reminder to believers and preachers in every age of our own limits. We need one another for edification, for comfort, and for caring. When we begin to see the gospel as confined to our point of view, we are proclaiming ourselves, not Christ. These words from Paul are both astonishing words of grace - God's work is not confined to us or totally dependent on us - and careful words of caution to us - don't try to capture God. He reinforces this with ...

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