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451. Do You Know What Time It Is?

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... nurture the part of you which does believe and trade CHRONOS time for KAIROS time. This alone will open your life to a new perspective, new attitudes and a deeper source of power. I believe that nothing ever happens in this world until someone gets an idea and stays with it until it prevails. The Apostle Paul, writing in Philippians 3:13 said, "This one thing I do." Bruce Larson, now co-pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, tells the story of a man who retired from forty years of work and catching the 7:30 a.m ...

452. Singing in the Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the power of God. I don''t know about you, but I learn best when someone shows or demonstrates to me how something is to be done rather than giving me an instructional manual, but He demonstrated firsthand the power of God. In his book Stay Alive All Your Life, Dr. Norman Vincent Peale tells about encountering a hurricane while on the Atlantic. The ship managed to sail around the danger. Following the story, Dr. Peale had an opportunity to speak to the captain. The captain shared a philosophy by which ...

453. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... and catch enough air to inflate them, thus creating a crude life jacket. By means of those pants alone they must stay afloat for no fewer than 45 minutes. Those seeking certification sometimes recall those as the longest minutes of their lives. Their ... guilt feelings. Some Christians remain under the spell of the spirit of heaviness. Feelings of forgiveness have never come, or at least haven't stayed. Why does this happen? Far too many of us awake in the morning as if the cross never happened, or as if God's ...

454. The Preacher Was Caught by Surprise

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... heeded the angel's instructions and sent three of his men to Joppa to bring Peter back with them. While the three men were on their journey, something extraordinary was happening in Joppa. This same Simon Peter had gone up to the roof of the house where he was staying to pray and he, too, had a vision. "He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles of the earth and birds of the air. Then a ...

455. Reconciliation: Our Gift And Our Ministry

2 Corinthians 5:14-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of life, no reconciliation of God, apart from Jesus Christ. Now open your mind to what I hope will be a jolting truth. No person need ever stay where he is or the way he is, if where he is and the way he exists is separating him from God. Now if that’s a ... tongue twister, I don’t mean it to be so. It’s a great truth, so hear it again. No person need ever stay where he is or the way he is, if where he is and the way he exists is separating him from God. Let that burn in your consciousness ...

456. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to be hurt by idle gossip without raising a question? Did I write the needed letter or make the helpful telephone call or visit? Was I lustful, covetous, jealous, callous? Did I fail to witness for Christ in any given opportunity? Not only personal confession, we need to stay aware that we are involved in a corporate way? Isaiah provides the model – “Woe is me,” he said, “for I’m undone. I’m a man of unclean lips and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips. For mine eyes have seen the ...

457. The Secret: Christ In You

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... all the strength that God gives me." PRAYER Alan Wheelis, a practicing psychoanalyst in San Francisco also writes books. In his book, On Not Knowing How to Live, he talked about developing a philosophy of life using the "Big Top" of the circus as an analogy. "...stay with the main show," he said. "Do not be drawn off into side shows and diversions...do only what you are most solemnly charged to do...there in the Big Top, a man is hanging by his teeth, twisting, spinning, spotlights playing over him, the ...

458. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the ingathering, the "coming up" of Jews to the modern state of Israel. Note the ordering of the first verse. House is mentioned before city. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. House, here, refers to the House of the Lord. For Israel, that was the dynamic center of community life -- the House of the Lord. Wouldn't it be something if we could recover that dynamic in our day -- the churches of our land ...

459. To the Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Charles Curley

... a declaration of the way the world already is, when God’s people accept the promise and live out the vision. Peter wanted to stay on the mountaintop and bask in God’s glory. Jesus knew that God’s glory was not on the mountain, but down in the ... lived through his last, hard year, were transfigured. The glory of God is all around us, even on the way to the cross. Peter wanted to stay on the mountain and live in the moment of glory forever, but it could not be. Life moves on, and the way of Jesus moved on ...

460. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . I’ll come back to that in a moment—but continue to register the fact with which I began this discussion: God needs us. Be patient now—especially you more sophisticated theological minds—be patient. Don’t turn me off or begin shaping your arguments too quickly. Stay with me as I make my case that God needs us. We pray—we stand in the gap—because God needs us. Again, in no way does this assertion undermine or question the sovereignty of God. God is all-powerful; God is in control! No question ...

461. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... used to pray many times each day; and as I prayed, I felt God’s love fill my heart and strengthen my faith. I had to stay all night in a hut on the mountain, looking after the sheep, and each day I would wake to pray before dawn in all weathers – snow ... . The result? “When I awoke I felt as if I were a slave again – but now God was my Master.” It’s not easy to stay at that point of confidence, is it? Most of us are in and out of that conviction. AT times we feel deserted and alone. The silence ...

462. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... is to compound hypocrisy, the appropriate response to which would be, “What an amazing grasp you have of the obvious. Only human. Did you think that I thought you were a worm or a slug! You acted like one, but that is not what you are.” We want to stay away from the habit of arguing for our sins, because if we do, guess what? We get to keep them! Why would you want to keep an infection? Sin as a habit eats away Christian confidence and leaches away our salty savor. When people point out flaws and sins ...

463. Comfortable Christianity Is a Big, Fat Lie

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... swallow the message because they are in the media or have a book out. Be careful about whose spiritual table you eat at; there’s a lot of junk food out there. Anyone not willing to accept criticism or submit their teaching to review is someone to stay away from. Long rangers are suspect. And if they are popular and have an entourage, you ought to be immediately suspicious. I am. In an old Peanuts comic strip it’s the first day of school. The students are told to write an essay about returning to class ...

464. Achieving Peak Performance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... ordinary folk. In fact, ordinary, sinful folk. Once in a while somebody feels compelled to point that out to me. They say that they stay away from church because the Church is filled with hypocrites. I say, well that's just the half of it. You ought to see ... it. In fact, you don't need to defend it. The Church is a fallible institution. But I say, that is no reason to stay away from it. That is a reason to marvel at it. It has survived 2,000 years of mediocrity, misanthropes, miscreants and muddleheadness. And ...

465. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . The Church is still a hierarchical institution, but it didn't start out that way. If it is going to be reformed, it can't stay that way. In fact, every time the Church has gone through a reformation, it is when they have taken the spirit away from a few ... become a caring community, and to bear the burdens of others. It might look something like this. Dan Wakefield is a journalist, who stayed away from the church all of his adult life. He was sitting in a bar on Christmas Eve. Somebody suggested, "Why don't ...

466. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... has really served to advance the gospel." He is in prison. He has found something to do there. Paul is a preacher. The Romans, to imprison him, had to assign soldiers to guard him. What did Paul do? He preached to the guards. They couldn't leave. They had to stay there. It's a preacher's dream. Besides that, they couldn't go to sleep. They would be court marshaled if they went to sleep on duty. "I want you to know what happened," he wrote to the Philippians, "bad as it is, has turned out to be good. Now ...

467. At War with Myself

Romans 7:15-25a

Sermon

William G. Carter

... out of the mud." The kids look at one another. There's mud? Where's the mud? Next thing you know, they are up to their ears in it. She yells at them, "I told you to stay out of the mud!" But, Mother, they didn't know it existed until you told them to stay out of it. Paul says this is the dark power of sin. Sin takes something good, like the Law of God, and twists it all around. The Law says don't covet. Paul says, "Sin, seizing an opportunity, produced in me all kinds of covetousness. I was ...

468. Beware of Crowds

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... quite astounding. A friend called her and said that she was in depression and considering suicide. Jan and another friend told her she must go to the hospital, but that they would stay with her so that no matter what she had to face, she would not face it alone. And they did that. They stayed with her on eight hour shifts. When Jan stayed with her, they talked and prayed, and Jan shared her story, what she had been through, and how her faith had sustained her. Her friend got better and was released. Twenty ...

469. I Thought You'd Never Ask

John 1:35-46

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... life when he came to visit my father. The bishop was a remarkably selfless and kind man. Those who knew him would not be surprised that in the midst of his own sorrow he would try to bring some grace and strength to a friend. I was invited to stay and be a part of their conversation. They talked about a number of things. Then finally the conversation came around to what was on everybody's mind, the terrible suffering of cancer. And I heard the bishop confess, "I don't know why this happens. I really don't ...

470. What Time Is It?

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... middle of the shrine, the frame of the shrine will be decked with beautiful yellow flowers. The custom is to place food offerings for the dead in front of the shrine, their favorite menu. One of our team members was walking around the town in which we were staying. Some of the shrines had already been set up. He came back and said that the food offering at one shrine he saw was a bottle of Tequila and a box of cigars. I also visited the archaeological museum in Puebla, the beautiful AmparoMuseum. We came to ...

471. You Can't Win them All

Matthew 10:2-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... solo mission, the first time they will be on their own without the Master with them. He tells them where to go, what to do, what to take with them. He concludes with this instruction. And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it, and stay with him until you depart. As you enter the house, salute it. And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it; but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. And if any one will not receive you or listen to your words, shake ...

472. A Pilgrimage To Bethlehem

Matthew 3:1-12

Drama

Matthew Powell

... Russian pilgrim? Storyteller 2: But Gregory was no where to be found. Storyteller 1: Ivan finally gave up looking for his friend. He stayed in the Holy Land for another few days and then started homeward. Storyteller 2: He traveled the same road he had come by. ... us - just such as you. He came in one day to ask for a drink of water, saw the state we were in, took pity on us, and stayed with us. He gave us food and drink and set us on our feet again. He redeemed our land and bought us a horse and a cow. ...

473. The Problem with Busybodies

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... wag has made a list of “10 Ways to Kill a Church.” This list effectively describes the nature of a busybody: The list of “10 Ways to Kill a Church” is Don’t come. If you do come, come late. Never accept an office. It is better to stay in the background and criticize. Nevertheless, get sore if you are not appointed to a committee. If you are appointed to a committee, do not attend any of the meetings. If you do attend a meeting, find fault with the work of the officers and members. If asked by ...

474. Salted with Fire

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Since we grown-ups are usually less than upfront about our still scared-of-the-dark queasiness, we try to disguise our security-blanket night-lights. Why do you think some of these plug-in air fresheners glow in the dark? Some light switch plates and light-switches stay illuminated after being turned off. Have you seen advertised the glow-in-the-dark toilet seat cover to guide us to the right spot at 2 AM? In the boy's bathroom at our house, night-light duty is taken up by an unusual source of illumination ...

475. Jesus' Forty Days, and Ours

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... beginning to the story! Jesus knew, as he must have known for some time, that God was calling him to a special mission. Now was the time to begin it. So, he went into the wilderness to sort it all out, to clarify the nature of God’s call. He stayed in that wilderness, fasting and praying for 40 days (that’s where we get the 40 days of Lent.) And, his time in the wilderness was much like the 40 years Israel spent in the wilderness on their way to the promised land. During that time, both Israel and Jesus ...

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