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426. Put Your Best Foot Forward

Isaiah 52:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... 's the strange part. You don't really believe you're falling. You think that you must be caught in some type of updraft; you're just aren't getting any closer to the ground at all, or at least you think. Skydivers learn to recognize this little mind trick and to guard against it. They know that as they near the ground, it will suddenly—very suddenly—appear as if the ground is rushing up to meet them at terrific speed. If they haven't pulled the ripcord and deplored their parachute in time, it will be ...

427. The Only Guide You Need

John 16:12-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... He remembered one time hearing an older preacher get up and say, "The happiest days of my life were spent in the arms of another man's wife." Then he paused for dramatic effect, and added the words "my mother." Well, this young preacher thought that would be just the trick to start out his message. The only problem was he forgot to tell his wife, who was a hot-tempered redhead, what he was going to say. So he got up, nervous enough as it was, and said, "The happiest days of my life were spent in the arms of ...

428. Your Word is Your Bond

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... you had to keep it, but if not, you didn't have to. If you didn't invoke God's name in the oath you didn't have to mean it, and you didn't have to keep it. When I was a kid we used to have a little trick that we would use when we wanted to lie—we would put our hand behind our back and we would "cross our fingers." Well, this was their way of crossing their fingers. It was more than just being dishonest, it was being deceptive. What was even worse, they weren't ...

429. The True Feng Shui Life

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , the biggest opposite is our being both “saint” and “sinner” at the same time). Air and water are fluids with very different properties. The one is a mixture of gases, at all natural temperatures on earth. The other occurring in all three phases (solid, liquid, gas) and with the strange trick of possessing a lower density when solid than when flowing freely as a liquid.

430. An All-Night Wrestling Match

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

One of my heroes in the faith is Chuck Colson. I have just finished reading his latest book, “A Life Redeemed.” Colson was President Nixon’s attorney and special assistant. He was a notorious leader of “dirty tricks” during the Watergate scandals of the early 1970’s. He was rumored to have said that he would walk over his grandmother if it helped President Nixon. He went to jail for his crimes. But today at the age of 75, he is one of the most prominent evangelical leaders ...

431. Why Is Life So Unfair?

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is not about unfairness but about victory. God is love, and if we keep the faith, nothing is all creation will be able to separate us from his love. Here is step number two: STAY CLOSE ENOUGH TO GOD TO LET HIM HEAL YOUR WOUNDS. One of Satan’s favorite tricks is to slip up to a hurting person and say, “If God really loved you, he would have prevented your pain. So, you ought to despise God.” Satan had a good mouthpiece in Job’s wife. She urged her husband to “curse God and die.” (Job 2:9) She was ...

432. Hearing the Voice of God

Matthew 16:13-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... you really heard the voice of God? Once there was a man who had the habit of going to a barn every evening, taking off his hat, and saying, "Howdy God, I am here." Then he would begin to preach to an empty barn. Some pranksters plotted to pull a trick on him. They hid in the barn, and when he said, "Howdy God, I am here", with a deep voice they answered, "Howdy, Jim, I am here." Well, Jim dropped his hat and took off, and never again was he seen at the barn. When we confront the holiness of ...

433. Forgiving As God Forgives

Matthew 18:21-35

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Scott Hoezee

... our in turn forgiving others tells us that we must forgive. This is not some weird demand on God's part, however. This is not some hoop we must jump through to earn our salvation or to perform like some trained dog just because God enjoys watching us do tricks. No, the reason for the connection between God's forgiving us and our forgiving others is because of the sheer power of God's forgiveness. It is so great that it simply must and will change us. The reason God expects us to forgive as a result of our ...

434. Losing Authority

Mt 21:23-32

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King Duncan

... . Finally one of them submits a second request to the computer: YES WHAT? Instantly the computer responded: YES, SIR. The Pharisees, like these generals, were accustomed to people saying "Yes, sir" to them. They were the religious authorities. Jesus' popularity threatened their authority, so they chose to threaten his with trick questions.

435. Jesus and the Ferris Wheels

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... oldest of the group. She’s five. All the others are less than two and are only able to talk to each other. “Angelica is always making trouble for the babies who she repeatedly calls dumb. Angelica makes up stories to mislead the babies and trick them into thinking untrue things simply for her own entertainment. For instance, one time she convinced the babies that they would all become chickens because they had come down with the chicken pox. Angelica is often mean to the babies, but only when the grown ...

436. Caring for the “Little Ones”

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

George Reed

... How often have we looked at the things someone was buying at the grocery with their food stamps and clucked our tongues, declaring them unworthy to receive our help? How many folks begging along the road have we passed by assuming that they were just trying to trick us out of our money so they could go and squander it on drugs and alcohol? We know there are people who take advantage of the help programs offered by our government and our churches, but our response should not be to paint every recipient as a ...

437. Tricky Questions

Matthew 22:15-22

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Johnny Dean

... for California to make a new life for herself and her children. Naturally, Mother objects. And as mothers sometimes do, she tries to lay a load of guilt on her daughter in order to force her to reconsider this foolish notion. The daughter, however, has learned a few tricks from mother dearest over the years. She tries to turn the tables and put mom on a guilt trip for a change. She accuses her mother of never being interested in what was going on in the daughter's life unless it was something that posed a ...

438. Does Easter Make a Difference?

Acts 4:32-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , powered by the Holy Spirit, with a purpose to glorify God's name by selfless service to the needy. We began with the story of the bully and the wise man. The bully asked the question, "Is the chicken behind my back dead or alive?" He thought he had tricked the wise man because he believed he could fool him no matter how he answered. But as is often the case, the bully got trapped in his own trap. "Well," said the bully, "Is the chicken dead or alive? Let's hear your answer." The wise man replied, "That ...

439. Tasting the Gruel of Love

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... from God. I believe this love has something to do with the willingness to eat gruel served in the primitive conditions of a Russian prison. The conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees reaches its pinnacle in Matthew 22. First, the Pharisees seek to trap Jesus with a trick question. They send some of their allies out to ask him, “Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?” Talk about a loaded question! You get in trouble any time you mix religion and politics. But Jesus was up to the test, of course ...

440. A Sense of Urgency

Mk 1:1-8

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King Duncan

... church his children would chide him. "Pa," they'd say, "it isn't Zacchus. It's Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus." "I don't have time to say Zacchaeus," Moody would bellow, "there's too much work to be done!" And later on in his life, his heart began to play tricks on him while he was in England. He had a checkup there, and the doctor told him to take it easy. So an upcoming campaign in Chicago was promptly canceled, and he headed for home. On the way, the ship developed engine trouble and wound up drifting helplessly ...

441. Making Christmas Last - Sermon Starter

Luke 2:21-40

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Brett Blair

... that quickly? Let us be candid that as we take down the decorations for another year, there is a sinking emptiness and an emotional let down. My Mom long ago gave up live Christmas trees in favor of artificial. I remember trying as a child trying all the tricks to keep it alive. We put aspirin in the water, then we would try sugar, but regardless of the solutions the tree would always wither. Why? because it had been cut off from its roots. May be that is our problem this morning. Maybe we have trouble ...

442. 2 Kings 5:1-15ab

2 Kings 5:1-15ab

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... little slave girl. But there are even more astonishing actions to come in this uniquely beautiful healing story. After the king of Israel is confronted by Naaman, bearing his official letter and his load of riches, the king despairs and suspects a trick. The slave girl's prophet from Samaria, Elisha, now enters the tale to bail out the panicked king. From the outset Elisha is in control of this situation - relieving the Israelite king of any responsibility. He chastises the king for his cowardly response ...

443. Hebrews 12:1-2, 12-17

Hebrews 12:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the first-born was a special right, but as Genesis describes it, Esau "despised" it. Once the deal was made with Jacob it was gone forever, completely unrecoverable. What is more, in Genesis 27 the story of these brothers continues, with Jacob tricking Isaac into giving him, not Esau, his first blessing. Thus Esau loses both his chances to enjoy what was rightfully his, the status of first-born. The point of the Esau illustration is to dramatically demonstrate the finality of some events. Like Esau ...

444. 2 Kings 5:1-15ab

2 Kings 5:1-15ab

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

445. James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a

James 3:13-4:3, 7-8a

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... those whose trade was in their correct grasp of knowledge. At the very outset of his words to teachers, James cautions that few could qualify, few could meet the strict requirements demanded (James 3:1). Now James challenges these potential teachers with a kind of "trick question." "Who is wise and understanding among you?" (v.13). To any who might pipe up too quickly, the epistle writer is ready with a warning. If envy or ambition makes up any part of your desire to act as teacher, then "do not be ...

446. The Father’s Blessing

Genesis 27:1-40

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... He talked Esau into trading his birthright as the eldest son for a bowl of soup. Then when their father was nearing death, Jacob took advantage of his father’s blindness to gain the blessing that belonged to Esau. When Esau and Isaac discovered they’d been tricked, Esau begs desperately for his father’s blessing. Isaac tells him that he has only one to give. That’s the good news of Jesus Christ: there are enough blessings to go around to all God’s children. And the purpose of the church is to make ...

447. Worship on the Mountaintop...And Everywhere Else

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... . We are usually disappointed. God doesn’t do command performances. The disciples looked up and Jesus’ clothes were the same color as when they started up the mountain. Moses and Elijah were gone. So what happened? Was it real worship or only their imagination playing tricks with them? IV. The test of true worship The story of the Transfiguration tells us that true worship occurs when we leave and do what that Holy Voice tells us to do: “Listen to him.” And then, having listened, we do what he tells ...

448. Epiphany 6

2 Kings 5:1-27, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, Mark 1:40-45

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John R. Brokhoff

... be cleansed was to be healed. Dirt is associated with sin. Lepers were required by law to warn people to stay away by crying, "Unclean." In our day we refer to sin as something unclean: dirty stories, polluted values, cesspools of iniquity, filthy minds and dirty tricks. Since God is sinless, no one can approach him with unclean hearts and dirty hands. Only the pure in heart see God. In approaching God we must come clean. 3. Pity (v. 41). Jesus felt sorry for the leper. In Jesus' day lepers were so numerous ...

449. Mark 4: 26-34

Mark 4:26-29

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus’ own disciples apparently had no better hearing than the general population. They simply got a second chance to “hear” when Jesus “explained everything in private to his disciples” (v.34). Even so, it becomes increasingly evident as Mark’s story progresses, that Jesus’ “Cliff Notes” never quite did the trick. The disciples remained excruciatingly hard of hearing when it came to Jesus’ parables.

450. Stilling Storms

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... firmly maintain our own integrity? It’s tough. We can acommplish this enormous task only one way by walking as closely to him as we can. Sometime back the BBC produced a television series called “Walking with Dinosaurs.” It seems that dinosaurs had a good trick to improve their own safety. They would always walk in single file, each one following in the footsteps of the one before. That way, any other creature that came across their trail would be unable to tell whether there were only one or two of ...

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