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4576. The Call of God

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... compulsion to respond to the call that God lays on the heart, a deep compassion that others are in need of the God that they share, a directed concern for the lost who are in desperate need of God's redemption, a diligence that drives one to understand and study the word, and a depth of accountability for their own spiritual well being. Whether we are pastors or lay persons, we carry the responsibility of listening and responding to the call of God. II. God Knows The Person He Has Called (Jeremiah 1:6 ...

4577. Strengthening Your Grip On Prayer

1 Kings 8:22-23, 41-43

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... changed drastically ... I found myself having to face the frightening facts of reality. We cannot drift on the ship of aimless indifference very long without encountering disaster.[1] One of the frightening facts is that we have drifted away from a biblical understanding of prayer. Swindoll continues, "... for too long, too many of them have been buried under the debris of tired clichés and predictable talk of yesteryear." He then tells his readers that they need biblical fixed points to hang onto that are ...

4578. Birthdays and Marriages

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stephen P. McCutchan

... members and between members and their pastor. Each acts on assumptions and customs that they believe to be true and cannot understand any reason for changing. It is only as they learn to value the presence of diverse assumptions that they will begin ... and as a time for renewing our commitment as individuals and a community to being a part of the people of God as we are given to understand it. We rededicate ourselves to try to listen to the word of God, to try to hear how God is trying to express himself in ...

4579. When God Measures The Church

Amos 7:7-17

Sermon

Stephen P. McCutchan

... attacked Amos for being an outsider, suggested that he was a paid troublemaker, and questioned whether or not he was a traitor to the society. We aren't told whether they arrested or even killed Amos when he refused to shut up, but we can certainly understand that, at best, he might be dismissed as a crackpot and, at worst, a threat to the well-being of a prosperous society. So I return to the question, "What are we to do if God is measuring us as a church against God's standards of faithfulness ...

4580. When The Fruit Is Spoiled

Amos 8:1-12

Sermon

Stephen P. McCutchan

... within this particular migrant worker. It was as if God was saying to Amos, "What do you see?" Amos responded with the obvious, "A basket of summer fruit" (v. 2). And there was silence as the words played over in Amos' mind. To understand what happened next, you must understand that Hebrews loved to play with words. Punning, rhyming, and word associations were normal for them. The Hebrew word for summer fruit was quayits, and it had a rhyming quality with qets, the word for end. It would be similar to Amos ...

4581. A Marriage Made In Heaven

Hosea 1:2-10

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... Israel back home to God without requiring Hosea to marry a faithless wife? We are human, and we are going to ask questions like these of God, but at best, we may have to make peace with the reality that the answers may be well beyond our capacity to understand. Through the words of the prophet Isaiah we are reminded, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your ...

4582. Put Within Us

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... relationship to God and others. Now the law can be summarized down to its core as follows, " ‘I am yours, and you are mine,' says the Lord. That is the language of love and faithfulness."[2] For us as followers of Jesus Christ, we understand God's new covenant as having been inaugurated in Jesus and made available to all people through faith in his life, death, and resurrection. The Reformation is often understood and interpreted as a time in which great theological doctrines were formulated and explained ...

4583. When We Are Tempted

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... side, thus saving his own life and those of his animals. Plato says the moral of the story is this: the fiery steeds are the appetites, desires, lusts, and passions to which the heart of the human inclines from youth. The driver is the wisdom, understanding, and intelligence with which God has endowed human life that we might rule over our appetites and desires and have dominion over our self-destructive impulses. (4) Woe to us if we never hear the voice of conscience, the voice of God, telling us to wake ...

4584. When We Are Uncertain about The Future

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... his life. (9) It is sad that our faith, rather than giving us comfort, can sometimes add to our distress. As a child that pastor had not yet experienced the love and comfort that God would one day bring into his life. So he was afraid. A mature faith understands that though life is difficult, we are never beyond God’s loving and gracious care. Dr. Thomas G. Long tells of talking to a minister of a church in a dangerous part of the city. This pastor said he was always amazed by a certain woman, a member of ...

4585. The Servant Leader

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... just my feet but my hands and my head as well!” That is SO Simon Peter! When he had finished washing the feet of all those who were present including the feet of Judas who would betray him, Jesus put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. I have set you an ...

4586. Belonging to Christ's Flock

John 10:22-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... i or a,” for the last letter. However, no word for love ends with “u.” In other words, the two words for love are dvi, d-v-i and dva, d-v-a. There is no dvu, d-v-u. Lee Bramlett asked the Hdi people for help in understanding this discrepancy concerning the word love. He asked, “Could you ‘dvi’ your wife, [d-v-i]?” “Yes,” they said. That would mean that the wife had been loved but the love was now gone. Then he asked, “Could you ‘dva’ your wife, [d-v-a]?” “Yes,” they said. That ...

4587. Acts 2: 1-21

Acts 2:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... and Gentile population that had migrated to that city from all over the middle-east and beyond. Luke notes “visitors from Rome” and “Cretans and Arabs” are part of the crowd. Those present for the auditory outpouring the Holy Spirit inspires, hear and understand the message of a divine miracle and presence. From wherever they hail they hear the story of God’s “deeds of power” in their own language, their own dialect. In the first century it is only in Jerusalem where this message could be ...

4588. No Substitutes

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... God. Accept no substitute for freedom in Christ. With all his heart, Paul wanted the church at Galatia to escape their outdated form of thinking and to experience living under the guidance of the Spirit of Christ, not the Spirit of the Law. Now we should understand, there was nothing wrong with the Law. The Law was God’s gift to the Jewish people. It helped them establish civilized relations with their neighbors, and with God. For many Jews the law was a delight. It was obedience to the Law that had kept ...

4589. Are You in Labor?

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... not based on the desire to cram our values down someone else’s throat. The world desperately needs what only the church can give it a Savior. Someone has said that the church is not a museum for the saints, but a hospital for the hurting. If you understand that the church above all else is a place for people who have problems, then you can easily see what Jesus meant when he said the harvest is plentiful. Pastor Jeremy Houck put it this way: The church is designed for the single mother who works two jobs ...

4590. The Two Ultimate Questions of Life

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... book Civilization And Its Discontents, Freud wrote that love is a valuable thing and must not be thrown away. Love imposes obligations and sacrifices. The loved person must be worthy of love. Freud wrote that it is understandable for one to love a person who is like himself because he loves himself in that person. It is understandable, too, to love a person who is better than oneself or a person who happens to be the son of a friend. But, Freud adds, if there are no specific reasons for loving, to love will ...

4591. The Gift that Matters

Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... to fall out of favor with people. He must have felt disappointment, especially when his chosen disciples did not grasp his objective. Like us, he might even have felt discouraged from time to time. Jesus understands us because he shared all these experiences. We can identify with someone who knows and understands what we experience. Jesus is not “ashamed” to call us his brothers and sisters. The author of Hebrews claims, “For the one who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one Father. For ...

4592. The Best Gift of All

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... . There are times when we need to be reminded of who we are and what we believe; that is one of the reasons we are gathered here tonight. “For the grace of God has appeared,” Paul wrote, “bringing salvation to all.” According to Paul’s understanding it was God’s intent from the very beginning to bring salvation to all people. Christmas serves to remind us that Jesus came for all people. The angel told the shepherds, “I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.” “Great joy ...

4593. Grow Up!

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... of our church when we surrender our will to God’s. “For we are God’s servants, working together,” we work together to the glory of God and not to receive human recognition or applause. This was what Paul hoped his friends in Corinth would soon understand. It was time for the Corinthians to grow up! The church, just like the field in Paul’s metaphor, belongs to God. Individual leaders who come and go are insignificant; they are simply field hands. The church belongs to God. Amen. 1. Greg L. Hawkins ...

4594. Praise and Blame

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... opposition firsthand. It seemed that everywhere he went he found himself in trouble. Whenever he spoke there were people who were offended or upset. Paul’s devotion to Jesus Christ found him frequently arrested and in jail. Still, Paul had a clear understanding of his life mission; he was called and commissioned by Jesus himself. He passionately proclaimed the good news of Jesus Christ everywhere he went. With that strong sense of mission Paul traveled throughout the ancient world sharing the good news of ...

4595. On Speaking Terms

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Argile Smith

... in knowing that he hears us when we pray (1 John 13-14). We can talk with him about anything and everything. In his deep and abiding friendship with the Lord, Moses made a serious request. He appealed to the Lord, “Show me your ways” (v. 13). We can understand why Moses would make such a daring request. He wanted to know what God expected of him and the people who had followed him out of Egypt. He seemed to be asking God, “Show me your intentions.” If Moses only knew what God had in mind for them ...

4596. Choosing

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Argile Smith

... that when people make their decision to follow the Lord, they need to take their commitment seriously. How do we reflect the reality that we take our walk with God seriously? We invest in our decision, and we do it in way that’s simple to understand but sometimes difficult to put into practice. We embrace God’s ways and determine that we will live according to them. We take his word seriously, for in the scriptures we learn about his ways with us. We take prayer seriously too, but in conversation with ...

4597. Powerless People

Judges 4:1-24

Sermon

Argile Smith

... He wondered what a book about Will Rogers, Uncle Remus, and Minnie Pearl would be about, and he pondered for a moment the meaning of oral culture. Not too many pages into the book, however, he began to see what oral culture meant, and he could begin to understand how the people identified in the subtitle fit into what Sample was trying to say. The more pages Fred turned, the more he could see himself in the book. He had been brought up in a family composed of people who had earned their living by hard work ...

4598. A Faith to Move Mountains

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Dr. King and the other civil rights workers did not think that mountain out of existence, someone has said, they prayed it out of existence. It was their faith in God not their faith in themselves that proved triumphant. Jesus wanted his disciples to understand that faith is a powerful force. The disciples, though, felt their faith was too weak to ever accomplish all the things Jesus was asking them to accomplish. Jesus assured them they did have enough faith they simply needed to exercise their faith and ...

4599. Hope from a Stump

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... hope in God. And under the leadership of God’s Holy Spirit Isaiah was able to write, “A shoot will come up from the stump of Jesse; from his roots a Branch will bear fruit. The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of might, the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord and he will delight in the fear of the Lord. “He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears; but with righteousness ...

4600. Nicodemus: A Young Old Man

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David O. Bales

... needed time, as a prince needs time to assess the damage a storm has caused a province. He’d be awake all night again, not sorting through his doubts, or reliving the lonely agony of Tamar’s death, but sifting through the evening’s conversation, trying to understand better what happened in talking with Jesus. Ahead in the dim light of a moon no longer obscured, a gust of wind gathered a wave of dust. It set him back a step as it swept down the street. Jesus’ words returned, “The wind blows where ...

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