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4676. Like a Waving Flag

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... heart. For the King is in residence there. [If you’d like to hear the music behind these lyrics, here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4TgLYh4UU ] Is the flag of the King of Kings, the flag of faith, the flag of joy, the flag of love, flying at maximum height in your life, for all to see, whatever you are doing, wherever you are? One of the most popular songs in the world today, and a song that has become almost the second national anthem of Canada, is the song “Like a Waving Flag.” The ...

4677. The Beginning of the Story

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... than myself. The question is, does it know that I’m here?” (J. B. Shute, The Story of a Small Life, p. 100, E. P. Dutton, New York, 1971.) The answer of the Gospel is yes. Yes! God knows we are here. God knows and cares. God knows and loves. He loves so much that He comes Himself - as Jesus of Nazareth - not to bring the good news - to be the Good News. So we should hear this word of Mark as though it came at the rolling of drums rising to a crescendo and then stopping in order that the proclamation ...

4678. Peter, Our Folk Hero

Mark 14:27-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , Expositions of Holy Scripture, St. Mark, Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, Ml, pp. 208—209). The one thing to remember about Peter is that his heart was in the right place. Unlike Judas, Peter came coming back, receiving forgiveness. He loved Jesus, and he knew Jesus loved him, so he trusted that love. I know very understand that in music there is a term called a “grace note”. “As I understand it, a grace note is not essential to the harmony. The piece can get along with out it. It’s a little ...

4679. The Christ Connection

Colossians 1:9-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... are full of lust, hate, and greed. We are only human. But, Christ said something dramatically different. Christ said, human nature being what it is, just a little lower than the angels, is created in the image of God. Why don't you rise to love one another, just like I have loved you? Why don't you rise to forgive one another, just like I have forgiven you? Why don't you rise to serve one another, just like I have served you? Human nature being what it is, realize the heights and potentials within you. In ...

4680. Is There More Than One Way to Heaven?

John 4:19-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... because all that really matters in this conversation is that Jesus the Christ, the Just and the Merciful One, has the final answer. In the meantime, do not draw the road too narrow. Every image I read of heaven is the image of one that is wide and open. I love the story in Revelation about the twelve gates on every side. All are open. You do not have to have a code to get in. What is John the Revelator trying to say? The great Holy City is an open, welcoming place. The missionary, John R. Stott said, “I ...

4681. The Holy Spirit and You

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of the earth, we discovered God is for us. When God came to us in the person of Jesus Christ, who lived, died, and rose again, that we may have life everlasting, we discovered God is with us. When that same God sweeps over our spirits filling us with love and binding us together as one, God is in us in the person of the Holy Spirit. On this Pentecost Sunday, let us be filled with the Holy Spirit. What difference would that make for you? Let me suggest some things. I. THE HOLY SPIRIT AFFIRMS US Paul says ...

4682. A Very Present Help

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... But, Friday he was full of fear. “Dr. Olds,” he said, “Would you tell your people not to hate my people? Someone pulled a knife on my brother at school today.” When we give in to hate we do exactly what the terrorist want us to do. Asad said, “I love this country. This is my land; I’m a part of all that is happening here. Don’t let the enemy win by separating us one from another.” For Asad I say to you today, my friends, whatever your anger, whatever your rage, let us not stoop to the ethics ...

4683. We Believe in Life Everlasting

John 11:17-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... are breaking, soon the storms of life shall cease; In God's likeness we awaking know the everlasting peace. If God has the power to raise Christ from the dead, could he not also provide a resurrection for me? Just as 3 x 3 will always be 9, just as love is stronger than hate, just as goodness is more lasting than evil, just as no trouble is immortal, so there is inherent in the “now" a quality of life that is eternal. Golf pro, Paul Azinger, put it this way while he battled cancer, “We are not in the ...

4684. Crying Out of the Depths

Psalm 130:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... things beautiful in His time. “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my cry." With the Lord there is UNFAILING LOVE (Psalm 130:7). Henri Nouwen puts it this way. “The Lord kneels before me holding my naked feet in His hands and looking up at ... done to you.' - Slowly I let go of my fears, distrust, doubts and anguish in time to simply let you wash me clean and love me with a love that has no bounds." “Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. Lord, hear my cry." With the Lord there is FULL ...

4685. The Bread We Daily Need

Luke 11:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . Great is thy faithfulness, Lord unto me. We pray with the open hand of receptivity.: But drops of grief could ne’er repay The debt of love I owe. Here, Lord, I give myself away, tis all that I can do. Why is it so hard for us to ask for help? My ... for prayer, to trade competition for community? Give us this day our daily bread. Give us bread. II. BREAD Americans have a love affair with food. Statistics tell us Americans eat 75 acres of pizza, 53 million hotdogs, 167 million eggs, 3 million gallons of ...

4686. We Believe in the Holy Spirit

John 14:15-18, 25-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... GOD WITH US. On Friday of this week, I visited a dear friend of mine who is hospitalized with severe mental depression. This fun-loving, church-going, former bank president who is like a father to me, was sitting motionless on the side of his bed. His eyes revealed ... made you a friend of all good causes? Has your education made you a Good Samaritan to the least? Do you see anything to love in a little child? Would a lost dog follow you in the street? Do you enjoy being alone? Do you believe in the dignity ...

4687. The Church As Family

Matthew 12:46-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the will of God that justice roll down like rivers and righteousness as a mighty stream. 3. It is the will of God that we love one another, even our enemies. 4. It is the will of God that the poor be served, the widows not forgotten and the imprisoned not ... those of race and clan. In Christ there is no east nor west, In him no north or south But one great fellowship of love Throughout the whole wide earth. I know that right is right, that givers shall increase, That duty lights the way for the beautiful feet ...

4688. The Lord's Unanswered Prayer

John 17:20-23

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... pray a lot are usually united in mission and heart. It is more natural for people to fall out and fight than to unite. It is more human for people to fly apart than to pull together. Fears and doubts separate us. They'll know we are Christian by our love. Make us one, Lord, Make us one. Holy Spirit, make us one. II. CHRISTIAN UNITY IS A REFLECTION OF THE TRINITY Look at the text a little further. So they might be one in heart and one mind with us. Then the world might believe that you, in fact, sent ...

4689. The Road Home

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... its meaning. Our three-year-old granddaughter called us the other night. She wanted to sing us a song. This is what she sang: Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to Him belong They are weak, but He is strong. Remember when ... I know, church people are far from perfect. Sometimes we want other people to do for us what only God can do, that is love us unconditionally. Being in a community is not always easy, but community is essential for survival. So, we gather at the table for ...

4690. From Pride to Humility

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... deadly sin or embracing a worthy virtue? My father lived by the motto “Never tell him he's good, it might go to his head." Did my father save me from pride or damage my self-esteem? We do not encourage pride by expressing warm-hearted admiration. Conditional love does not create humility. It sows the seed of humiliation. A child that gets a pat on the back for doing a lesson well is receiving worthy praise. Families are smart to be mutual admiration societies. Of all the places in the world we ought to be ...

4691. Work

1 Corinthians 3:9-15

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... pig built his house of brick, the precious stones, the gold, the costly stuff. While wood is consumed by the fire, gold is refined by the fire. Remember Paul's advice in I Corinthians 13 “There are three things that abide. They are faith, hope, and love." That's the right stuff. Every time I get sick, I develop a little ritual that gets neglected in healthier, busy days. I come home from work early. I relax in my favorite chair, and prayerfully read each card, e-mail, letter, prayer, that we receive ...

4692. Brightening the Corner Where We Are

1 John 1:5-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... be comfortable because they break the purpose of God in our lives. In John 3:19, he says, “Light has come to the world, but we loved darkness instead of the light because our deeds were evil." Are you brightening the corner where you are? IV. WE CAN WALK IN THE LIGHT If ... on. If we are going to talk the talk, we need to walk the walk. When we walk with the Lord in the light of his love, what a glory he sheds on our way. Will we practice His divine presence through the routines of the day? When you go out to ...

4693. In Whose Likeness?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... , because we have someone much greater to keep up with: Jesus Christ, who counseled would-be followers to cut off whatever might come between them and God, be it their wealth or their arms and legs, so that they could be wholeheartedly dedicated to embodying God's reconciling love in the world (Philippians 3:14; Luke 18:22; Matthew 18:8; Matthew 5:38-48; 2 Corinthians 5:18). Jesus reminds us, by his answer to the question about taxes, and by his own life and death in full obedience to God, that we are, body ...

4694. The Holy Way

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Tony Everett

... of Ebenezer Scrooge. Exhausted and frustrated with the "busy-ness" of this season, I wanted to crawl into bed and pull up the covers until January second. In our wilderness, there is never enough time, never enough money, never enough understanding, and never enough love. Our hands are weak. Our knees have grown feeble. Our hearts have become so fearful (Isaiah 35:3-4) that a way out seems truly impossible. Where are those scary, wilderness spaces deep inside your souls? Where are those spaces in which your ...

4695. Why Did You Bring Us Out of Egypt?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... by the lack of community and the trust that makes such joinings possible. We hunger for a vision and a direction, and yet are unable to move because we are unable to trust. What happens, we ask, if we trust someone and they betray us? What happens if we love someone and they hurt us? What happens if we follow a leader and that leader turns out to be leading us where we cannot go? What happens then? Let me say this. If you trust, your trust is certain — sooner or later — to be betrayed. But life without ...

4696. Preaching Peace By Jesus Christ ...

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... brought with Jesus out of the tomb, we can look to a new kind of unity that is forged, not in blind agreement, nor in an anarchy of relativism, but instead, in the gentle life-giving, grace-filled ebb and flow of God's love. I learned the quote as one offered by John Wesley, but have found through study, that its essence came from Saint Augustine, and it goes like this: In necessariis unitas, In necessariis unitas, In essentials unity, In essentials unity, In dubiis libertas, In dubiis libertas ...

4697. Hearts on Fire

Jeremiah 31:31-34

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... describes the transformation that both their church and individuals experienced: "People were giving four or five hours a week to the church and complaining that it was way too much. After we expanded our program, there were some people spending twenty hours at the church and loving every minute of it. When we were trying to be something we weren't, everyone was exhausted, but when we began living out of our gifts it was like we had energy to burn. You have never seen such passion."3 God was about to do ...

4698. Headed in the Right Direction

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... -filled, Christ-transformed life the world would be a different place than it is today? Christian teachings about the second advent of Christ are not meant to be a distraction, but a reminder of God's ultimate victory that allow us to truly focus on loving and serving God in the present moment. The lesson wants us to be filled with encouragement and hope not to escape from the vicissitudes of life in the real world, but, "to live in harmony with one another, in accordance with Christ Jesus, so that together ...

4699. Spiritual Resuscitation

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

David O. Bales

... touchable — this Spirit that's like air around us and within us. The Spirit is Jesus' contact with us. It's our experience of God now, as God summons us to Jesus' higher, better life. God's Holy Spirit animates us with hope and energizes us with love to live as Jesus did. It oxygenates with faith that part of our lives that's created to respond to God. It directs and redirects us to cooperate with God, as it displaces that evil orientation within us, which Paul names the "flesh." Have you been through ...

4700. Humility: We Know It When We See It

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

David O. Bales

... affectations, like one of us, yet not mediocre, a person we can identify with, and yet still view with respect, awe, or love — that grips us. In this world where sham is bought and sold, and where, if we're honest, we're not always ... was spiked to a rail for our sin. He died as a slave; yet as our text says, God has super-exalted him, proving that selfless love governs the universe. The slave who was always concerned about our well-being is now Lord. After Jesus' resurrection we see what was truly behind ...

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