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4576. To the Rescue

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... And I will put enmity Between you and the woman, And between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise him on the heel.” (Genesis 3:15, NASB) That verse carries within it the hope for the entire world. To the people of Israel, this would become a ray of hope in a world of darkness. To Satan, it was God’s declaration of war. To Adam and Eve, it was God’s word that from the very ones who made things wrong, He would bring out of their descendants the birth of ...

4577. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... not there. This place is going to be so dramatically different from anything we’ve ever experienced that rather than tell us what we are going to have there John tells us what we are not going to have there. After you see what is not going to be there hopefully it will make you want to make sure you don’t miss going there. First of all, there is no sorrow in heaven. I have walked into too many homes of parents who were told their son was killed in an automobile accident or their baby died of crib death ...

4578. Start at the Epicenter

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... and began to shake it. I was asleep and Teresa woke me and said, “Did you feel that?” I said, “What?” She said, “I believe we just experienced an earthquake.” I said, “Seriously?” What really got my attention was when she said, “I hope it did not damage the foundation of our house. To which I then asked the most spiritual question I could think of: “Does our insurance cover earthquakes?” As you can imagine I immediately went back and studied earthquakes. I found that earthquakes are ...

4579. Surviving the Big One

Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... -spirited toward them or even refuse to speak to them. What it does mean is you cut off fellowship with them. You let them know there can be no more social or relational contact with them until the problem is resolved. The purpose of that is, hopefully, to drive that person to come to the point where they are finally willing to admit their wrongdoing and do their part to restore the relationship. Let me tell you something. Matthew 18 works. It works in a marriage, a friendship, business, with neighbors, and ...

4580. You Are God's Child

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ink is the name of the little boy to whom he belongs. Seeing the image of his owner, Buzz breaks into a smile and takes on a new determination and confidence. He knows the little boy who owns him treasures him deeply. (6) As we leave this place today, I hope that we will do so with a new determination and confidence because of the One who has adopted us as His own children. “For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God. The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you ...

4581. Dealing with Cantankerous People

Ephesians 4:30-5:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... was Christ like? He never looked down on anyone, never called anyone a sinner, he welcomed all into his family. He was never exclusive, always inclusive. He was a friend like no other. To be in his presence was to be in the presence of love, healing and hope. As a friend, he lay down his life for those he loved. No greater love has any person for his friends than to lay down his life in their behalf. What was Christ like? Use your imagination and try to see pure unconditional love walking among us. That ...

4582. Poem: The First Spring Day

Eulogy

Christina Georgina Rossetti

... Sing, robin, sing: I still am sore in doubt concerning Spring. I wonder if the springtide of this year Will bring another Spring both lost and dear; If heart and spirit will find out their Spring, Or if the world alone will bud and sing: Sing, hope, to me; Sweet notes, my hope, soft notes for memory. The sap will surely quicken soon or late, The tardiest bird will twitter to a mate; So Spring must dawn again with warmth and bloom, Or in this world, or in the world to come: Sing, voice of Spring, Till I too ...

4583. Moving On Up

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... more. “Now I wish that I had said 30 years instead of 33,” he said in 2011. “I’ve wisened up.” (1) Well, I hope so, but some sports fans are truly fanatic. And one thing they are fanatic about is, who is the greatest in any particular sport. ... sermons,” says Miller, “. . . were not reputed to be great. It was her life that called for transformation and conversion.” (8) I hope, as you look ahead to what remains of your life, that you will determine to make this your legacy: whatever else you ...

4584. Wanna Fight?

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... 6) To me, that admonition isn’t just for pastors, but for the whole Christian community: “. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do?” We are those whom Christ calls to be light to a dark world. If, rather than bringing light, we bring more darkness, what hope then is there for the world? “. . . if gold rust, what then will iron do? For if [Christians] be foul in whom we trust/ No wonder that a common man should rust. . . .” Jesus said to his disciples, “For whoever is not against us is for us ...

4585. Be Careful What You Ask For

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... the correct tickets . . . only to see it being towed away. (1) I guess it is a little different being the King and Queen of Sweden and being, say, the Queen of England. The job obviously comes with fewer perks. How about your job? Are you at the place you had hoped to be at this stage of your life? We spend our whole lives pursuing dreams and goals. The aim is to go higher, to become greater. To have more perks, as it were. That is the mark of success. It even affects our families. We want our children to ...

4586. A Man with No Name

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... mercy on me!” And what happened when he made his cry? Many in the crowd began to rebuke him, that he should hold his peace. Pushy beggar! Why can’t he accept his fate like the rest of us? What right does a blind man have with hopes and dreams? How often in life when a person tries to make a meaningful change do others try to discourage him? But Bartimaeus cried out even louder, “Son of David, have mercy on me.” And something interesting happened. Jesus stopped. How beautiful are those words in Mark ...

4587. A Man Named Many

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... So she tired of her husband’s cheery note And she stuffed a tea-tray down his throat. He remarked from the floor, where they found him reclining, “I’m just a MacLeod with a silver lining!” I hope you have come to this service today with a genuine sense of Thanksgiving for the things God has done for you. I hope that you have found the silver lining that accompanies any cloud that may have come into your life. Our lesson from the Gospel is about a man who, at one time in his life, would have been the ...

4588. The Peaceable Kingdom

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... can't be there for us if the king should execute you!" She's right in so many ways! Yet her father answers her this way: "Meg, when a man swears an oath, he holds himself in his hands like water, and if he opens his fingers, how can he hope to find himself again?" You know what he means, don't you? When our lives begin to fragment, it's like holding our lives like water in our hands, and then letting our fingers come apart, just a little bit. The water of our very selves dribbles away. We may ...

4589. A Dance in the Desert

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... , they couldn't find even one happy person! Everyone had experienced days of sorrow and times of mourning. Many might laugh for a moment but sooner or later each person would settle back to reflect on the pain in his or her life. Almost beyond hope, the messengers suddenly happened upon a beggar next to the road leading back to the palace. He wore a smile. He giggled uncontrollably. He laughed at life as it surrounded him. Here was a truly happy man! "Give us your shirt," the messengers demanded. "The ...

4590. Tranquil: The Blessed Village on a Hillside

John 6:25-59

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... much." John 6 opens with an account of Jesus feeding the five thousand. You know the story well. When the meal was over, Jesus and the apostles leave for the other side of the lake. The next day, some of those who got the free lunch come to Jesus in hopes of a repeat. The Master chastises them. "Very truly, I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life" (vv. 26 ...

4591. The Wrong Gift

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in look as much like home as we can." That's what we do with our lives, isn't it? We have so many goals and dreams and hopes in life, yet so few of them pan out. We get old before we've done half of what we wanted. Somehow we never become what we thought ... frightful swing around the sun is like the distant voices on the last amusement park ride, and the song of the dawn is hope and joy and expectation. You can see it glowing on the faces of those in the First Family! Our culture seems gossip hungry and ...

4592. Shall We Waddle or Fly?

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... world . . . Yours are the feet with which He walks to do good . . . Yours are the hands with which He blesses all the world . . . Yours are the hands . . . Yours are the feet . . . Yours are the eyes . . . You are His body.” You are his body. You are the hope of the world. It’s time for us to lift up our wings and fly. 1. Wikilectics, http://www.wikiletics.com/display/SERMONS/Drop+It%21. 2. Cited in a sermon by Dr. Donald Tuttle. Source unknown. 3. Chafin, Kenneth L. The Communicator’s Commentary, #7 ...

4593. The Happy Hypocrite

Matthew 6:1-4, 5-6, 16-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... ) So, underneath the ashes we will put on this night, there will be a mask. It will not be the mask which the world thinks we are wearing, seeking to appear to be something we are not. No, it will be a mask that says, this is what I hope to become. I want to be like Jesus. And, as we wear that mask, we pray that God will transform us until we become the person we are pretending to be, a person like Jesus. 1. Lionel Mata, https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?id=225558320921065&story_fbid=286327311510832. 2 ...

4594. The Word According to Superman

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... ourselves in a troubling place. And then, just at that moment when we were inclined to give up, God has come through with some act of hope and promise. And for a while we felt a renewed sense of faith and joy. But, as time goes by, we forget. And then we find ... his wife would cling once more to those important words: “The boat will not sink; the storm will not last forever.” (3) I hope you and I will remember those helpful words as well. Earlier in Abram’s life God had promised him that he would be ...

4595. A Complicated Disciple

John 18:15-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... you and I--just a human being. But Christ died for men and women like us, and Peter himself later died for the cause of Christ. Like Peter whom Jesus called Petra, the Rock, our hope is in the Rock that never fails, Christ Jesus our Lord! As Edward Mote in the well-known Gospel tune once wrote: My hope is built on nothing less . . . Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, but wholly lean on Jesus’ name. On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking ...

4596. Ahaz King of Judah

2 Chronicles 28:1-27

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... for the reader of Chronicles that the kingship of Judah would survive, the present narrative about Ahaz (ca. 743/742–727/726 B.C.) would destroy that hope again! It marks one of the most negative portrayals of a king in Chronicles. Whereas many of the previous royal narratives (e.g., Asa, Jehoshaphat, Joash, Amaziah, and Uzziah) reflected some ambiguity about the virtues and vices of the kings, the present narrative provides a wholly negative account. The Chronicler ...

4597. Jehoahaz King of Judah

2 Chronicles 36:2-4

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... text in 2 Kings 25:27–30 mentions that he was freed from prison by Evil-Merodach, who was then king of Babylon. In the Deuteronomist’s construction, the liberation of Jehoiachin becomes a symbol of hope and restoration. The Chronicler ends his narrative, however, with another symbol of hope and restoration, namely, Cyrus. 36:11–14 The final ruler over Judah (who ruled approximately 598/597–587/586 B.C.) is Zedekiah, Jehoiachin’s uncle and therefore another son of Josiah. Although he ruled for ...

4598. The Fall of Jerusalem

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... to them that good rulership implies that Yahweh be sought? The book therefore ends with the invitation from Cyrus: anyone of his people among you—may the LORD his God be with him, and let him go up. The Chronicler’s work ends on the hopeful note of pending return and restoration, something that had already been realized in his own day but that remains necessary to hear in every new era in history! Additional Notes 36:15–16 Erhard Gerstenberger (“Prophetie in den Chronikbüchern: Jahwes Wort in ...

4599. Peter Addresses the Crowd

Acts 2:14-41

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... expressing his confidence that God would not abandon him to the grave (v. 27; cf. Ps. 16:10). Now whether this meant that he hoped to be spared an untimely death or, in the event of death, to be shown the paths of life after it, is unclear (v ... to Jesus being sent “first” to the Jews does not necessarily imply “then to the Gentiles also” in the Pauline sense, but only the long-cherished hope that in the new age the Gentiles would flock to Mount Zion to join in the worship of God (see, e.g., Ps. 22:27; ...

4600. Peter Heals the Crippled Beggar

Acts 3:1-10

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... had told him about them. So faith in Jesus may have been aroused, if not already present. 3:5–6 The beggar had expected money, and in this he was disappointed. Peter and John had none (by chance or by choice? cf. Matt. 10:9). But they gave him hope of something better, for Peter’s second word of command was this: in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk (v. 6; cf. 1 Pet. 1:18, where silver and gold are contrasted with the far more precious gift of salvation, that is, healing). The premise upon ...

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