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4651. The Most Important Question

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... he nuts or is he Lord of lords? Those are the only two choices we have. Who is Jesus to you? How you answer that question will determine your destiny, your choices, your purpose, the quality of your life and relationships, your joy, and how you view death and dying. You see, the question is personal. It is very personal. It’s about whether or not you want a relationship with Jesus that will strengthen, encourage, and sustain you the rest of your life. Maybe you are thinking, “I believe in God.” That ...

4652. On the Mountaintop

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts“ (2 Peter 1:19). In other words, Peter said, “Listen!” Perhaps you’ve experienced a literal mountaintop in your life, like taking a long, hard hike up a mountain to a breath-taking view of the valley and trees below. Or your mountaintop may have been less literal, like finally completing a tough assignment at work. Perhaps it was the love and beauty of your wedding day or a soaring time of worship. Perhaps it was the birth of a ...

4653. Moksha

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... with on a daily basis. Indeed, this may be a small kingdom, and a kingdom that will never make us the star of a reality TV show. So it is a choice to be flamboyant on the Bachelorette, Real House- wives, Survivor, Dancing with the Stars, a guest on The View, or to be a discreet member of the kingdom of God? To which do you aspire to be recognized by — Mark Burnett or Jesus? However you count, be it six or seven or eight, sin is an act of disobedience to God. A sin is often measured as little or ...

4654. Pontifex

Hebrews 10:16-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... ? For we know that forgiveness comes only through confession. This is why climbing Pilate’s stairs was one of Luther’s final acts before declaring the Protestant theological doctrine of justification by grace alone, coupled with the denouncement of the Roman Catholic view of works-righteousness. Jesus became the high priest on the cross on Good Fri- day. We know that Jesus was sinless, but on the cross he experienced sin. On that cross he experienced the feeling of sin and the pain of estrangement ...

4655. All We Are Left With...

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... including his songwriting. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Bono talked about the album he wrote after his health scare. It opens with a song titled “Love Is All We Have Left.” Bono says, “I thought it would be interesting to write a song from the point of view of a person who maybe wouldn’t sing another song. One of the things I ask myself on this album is, ‘If you have one thing to say, what is it? If this is all we are left with, I am content with it – love.’” (2) This was the ...

4656. God's Ridiculous Commitment

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... .org/blogs/trevin-wax/this-guy-preached-the-worlds-longest-sermon-the-whole-bible-in-53-hours/. 4. “Studies in the Book of Acts” by Paul Kroll, edited by Michael Morrison, PhD. Copyright Grace Communion International, https://learn.gcs.edu/mod/book/view.php?id=4475&chapterid=55#:~:text=It%20is%20their%20rejection%20of,a%20change%20of%20worship%20practices. 5. “4 things you should never do when you meet a member of the royal family” by Talia Lakritz, Insider.com, Dec 26, 2017 https://www ...

4657. The Mud Room

John 9:1-41

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... truth about God’s desire for restoration of all God’s people.He is restored to his relationships, restored to his community, restored most of all, to God. Seeing for Jesus is not about making things clearer in our own point of view, but about making things muddy enough, so that we can see the truth of God’s mystery, revelation, glory, miraculous healing power, and majesty! While hardened hearts promote fragility, intolerance, division, and blindness to God and others, muddiness and messiness allow us ...

4658. Broken

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... various ways, still many doubted. And yet, a movement was born. That movement depended upon what happened in these post-resurrection experiences and the witnesses who saw firsthand the impossible made possible, the promise fulfilled. As they processed their experiences, their view of life, death, God, and Jesus needed to change. The entire theology of the early church was founded on encounters in which Jesus defied mortal wounds and grave and stood before his disciples alive with the gaping holes to prove ...

4659. The Flow

John 7:37-39 · 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 · Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... peace, energy, and motivation. Some would say, this is our reaction when we are touched by the Spirit. In our scriptures, we’ve seen reactions like these –when Moses descends from the mountains after communing with God. His face glows. When the disciples view Jesus’ transfiguration, they are overwhelmed and don’t know quite how to react. At Jesus’ baptism, His entire head is enveloped in light. After the resurrection, the guards literally fall to the ground as an angel of light moves the rock from ...

4660. Trusting God When You've Been Hurt

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... most-creative-and-funniest-ways-people-have-gotten-revenge/. 3. Shattered Dreams by Larry Crabb, (Waterbrook Press: Colorado Springs, Colo.), 2001, 2010. 4. Alan Cross is pastor of Gateway Baptist Church. http://www.readjourneymagazine.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=578:meet-ray-and-ruth-bozeman-an-inspiring-story-of-sacrificial-and-lasting-love&Itemid=104. 5. “Love your enemies” by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., preached November 17, 1957, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama. https ...

4661. Seeds

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... we’ve been in church,” they confess. “Our weekends are just so busy.” The Bible says, “Cares of the world, the lure of wealth, it yields nothing.” It’s easy to evaluate by the results. That may have been how John Calvin developed his views on predestination. Calvin was preaching the gospel twice a day, every day. He noticed that some people got it and others fell asleep. Some people grew in the faith while others daydreamed. Calvin said, “Obviously God has turned on the lights for some and ...

4662. Welcoming Jesus

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

William G. Carter

... – if we do not know the stranger, we might grow fearful of the stranger. But to have an open heart, to welcome someone with an open heart, is to take a significant risk: that stranger might change me! The stranger may have different view on matters that seemed settled, and that pushes me to enlarge my understanding. They could have significant needs, and that challenges me to care more deeply. They may come from a set of different life experiences, which presses me beyond my assumptions and privileges ...

4663. Seeing Is Believing

Isaiah 9:2 · John 1:14-18

Sermon

Will Willimon

... reveal himself. John Calvin once said that God never forgets that we are creatures and so uses creaturely things through which to love us. One of the main differences between Christianity and the world's other great religions is its view of material things. Archbishop Temple said that Christianity is "the most avowedly materialistic of all the great religions.'' The difference between Christianity and religions which have no incarnation is the difference between receiving a letter from someone you love and ...

4664. Rest

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Sermon

William G. Carter

... stupid stunt of some public figure, then we’re missing what a wonderful blessing it is to be together, to pursue the dreams we have in common, to work for the benefit of all of us. Maybe the saddest addiction of all is to be consumed only with myself – my views, my fears, my worries, my hurts, my anger, my wounds. I don’t know if there is a heavier burden than that. There is only one way to have that burden lifted from our shoulders. It is to come to Christ, who alone is saving the world as an ...

4665. God's Little Acre

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... is required. It is not time, for it is up to God to do the harvesting, the judging -- not you or me. Against, all holier-than-thou, exclusivism, which would turn the church into a kind of upper crust country club for super saints; against all smug, arrogant views of the church, our Lord says to us, this is the way it is: The church is not some manicured, formal, pristine, perfect garden of pruned shrubs and Astroturf. The church is a rough field, in the world. It is the church's difficult vocation to bear ...

4666. Failure

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Will Willimon

... off to reveal a countenance which speaks without having to speak. Was the operation a success? No, I don't need to ask, do I? It's packing up and moving from the house to separate apartments, packing last the book of wedding pictures that won't be viewed again because they are too painful. It is the morning after the election...the unused boxes of buttons and bumper stickers, the balloons and confetti not needed, the desperate attempt to smile as if it doesn't hurt. ''I want to thank all of you for all that ...

4667. Fearful, But Not Afraid

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

William G. Carter

... ? The first time I ever gave a speech, three hundred high school classmates spread out in long rows before me. The families of all the graduates sat behind them, filling up our football stadium. When I stepped up to the podium, I took in that view and gasped. As I looked down at my one page speech, carefully edited by the vice principal and filled with adolescent platitudes, every word on the page had its hand in the air, begging, “May I be excused?” Public speaking can be a fearsome moment, perhaps ...

4668. Redeem the Time

Matthew 24:36-44 · Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... dissertations, giving lectures on chemistry, studying in the library for exams. The flood caught them unawares, like a thief in the night, and swept them away. How trivial all that eating, drinking, lovemaking, childbearing, dissertation writing, and exam taking appears when viewed under the threat of the great flood! This appears to be the point of my nuclear professor. That manuscript you've been working night and day on, those children you've been raising, that wedding you've been planning will seem ...

4669. The Little Loser

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Will Willimon

... those tall adults, empathizes with little Zacchaeus. But Zacchaeus is the pushy type. (He got into the tax business because he cared more for himself than other people's opinions.) So he runs up ahead and climbs into a sycamore tree for a good view of the parade. But when Jesus' entourage reaches Zacchaeus, Jesus surprises everybody by pushing his way through the crowd and shouting, "Zacchaeus, hurry up, get down out of there; I'm having dinner with you today." Zacchaeus is utterly thrilled. The crowd is ...

4670. Who Are These?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... to be said in our time for not getting with it. There is a peculiar relevance of the irrelevant. Tradition, the past, gives today's Christians not only roots, order, wisdom, stability, conservation, but also options. Tradition, far from limiting our focus to the rear view, has a way of enriching the spectrum of our vision. And many of us are dying for want of options. For many modem people, religion is mainly a matter of narrowing life's focus. "I considered one or two possible responses to this problem and ...

4671. Master Teacher

Matthew 15:10-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to identify him immediately as Lord, Messiah, Son, and Healer. But Jesus also knows, his disciples will not expect this, so he waits at first, and watches for their reactions. He needs them to react first, so that he can “twist” their point of view as the interaction unfolds. An astute and wise teacher, as the Canaanite woman approaches and cries out to him clearly identifying him as “Lord, Son of David” and pleading for mercy for her daughter, clearly believing that Jesus has the power to heal her ...

4672. We Have All Become Nicodemus

Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

Ronald Love

... Reformation that rejected many of the theological positions and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. This led to his dismissal as a professor at Oxford University in 1381. In 1384 he died of a stroke and was buried. The Catholic church continued to view Wycliffe as a heretic because of his challenges to the doctrines of Roman Catholicism. Condemned as a heretic, at the Council of Constance in 1415, Pope Martin V ordered that Wycliffe’s body be exhumed and burned, the same punishment for all heretics ...

4673. The Inverting Promise

1 Corinthians 1:27-29 · Genesis 25:21-34

Sermon

Will Willimon

... older brother, the heir, the first born, bead of the family. Subvert the entire pattern of Near Eastern social arrangement, the foundation upon which a whole culture is based, to hell with primogeniture, give me your birthright. Esau was incapable of taking the long view. "What good's a birthright when I'm starving? Let me eat; you'll have the birthright. "And Esau ate and drank, and rose and went his way," (verse 34), a way considerably downhill after that fateful exchange with little brother. End of Jacob ...

4674. Revising The Agenda

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

William G. Carter

... words to mean that we should put ourselves down for the sake of the gospel, that we should deprive ourselves to the glory of God, even to the point of denying our God-given dignity. In my experience, the people who get most upset about this point of view are smart, capable women, and with good reason. Historically, a lot of women have been subject to a systematic put-down. They have been told they are second-class citizens, that they are expected to serve everybody else. A friend went to pay a call on a ...

4675. Get Ready

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... headline: “Dow Jones Plummets as World Ends.” Sports Illustrated might use this simple headline: “Game’s Over.” Discover magazine might feature a more sophisticated headline: “How Will the Extinction of All Life as We Know It, Affect the Way We View the Cosmos?” Ladies Home Journal might try this appeal with its subscribers: “Lose 10 lbs. By Judgement Day with our New Armageddon Diet.” Inc. magazine could offer this appeal to their business-minded subscribers: “Ten Ways You Can Profit ...

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