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4876. Lost Baggage: Losing Your Baggage

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... girlfriend calls him to tell him that she has to go to work and she does not know who to leave the 2 year old boy with. He told her to leave him with his mother or her mother. She informs him that both mothers are unavailable and he says, “Quit your job or do whatever you have to do, but don’t just leave our son with anybody.” She calls him back a little later and tells him she is going to leave him with a girlfriend of hers who is very reliable and a very sweet lady. The only ...

4877. Come One, Come All

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... seek and to save the lost.” (Luke 19:10, ESV) Jesus has already found His first missing persons. They were four fishermen: Peter, Andrew, James and John. He invited them to come and to follow Him and they did. He also told them that He wanted them to quit fishing for fish and start fishing for people. He wanted them to start looking for missing persons. There is a question, “What kind of missing persons are we to look for? What kind of fish are we to go after?” What the disciples were about to learn ...

4878. The Knot: Bound

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... is always the husband and the wife. It is not the child to the parent, nor is it the parent to the child. Don’t read more into this than what God said. It doesn’t mean you are to ignore your parents or to disrespect your parents or to quit loving your parents. What we are talking about here is allegiance. Moses is traditionally cited as the author of Genesis. Neither before, nor after Moses was it ever the custom for a man to totally leave his parents when he took a wife. The custom of that day was for ...

4879. Sometimes You Have to Do Something

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

King Duncan

Dr. Robert Sims tells about a retired man in California who made quite a splash awhile back. It seems he decided to tie helium filled balloons to his lawn chair. He wanted to take a ride. After he tied a few balloons to his chair it started to lift off the ground. So he called his neighbors to hold the chair down. He ...

4880. How to Hug

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... 1) Some of you are aware of a worldwide YouTube phenomenon of a few years ago. On December 1, 2004 a man in Sydney, Australia started handing out free hugs in the Pitt Street Mall of that city. The man’s name was Juan Mann, which I think is quite an interesting name. Juan Mann. Can “one man” or one woman make a difference in the world? Well, Juan Mann did. That’s his real name. Anyway, a worldwide movement began when a friend of Mann’s posted a video online of Mann standing in the mall holding up ...

4881. How to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... others. Peter Marshall said, “If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.” After cautioning Simon Peter to forgive one who has done him wrong seventy-seven times, Jesus told a parable quite a humorous parable really, because of the level of exaggeration involved. Jesus told a parable about a man who owed his king ten thousand bags of gold. This is a staggering sum of money. Have you priced gold recently? Someone has estimated that ten ...

4882. That's Not Fair

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... He went out again about noon and about three in the afternoon and did the same thing. About five in the afternoon, the final hour of the work day, he went out and found still others standing around. He told them to work in his vineyard too. When quitting time came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, “Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.” The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and each received a denarius ...

4883. Living “I Don’t Know” While “In the Know”

Matthew 21:23-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in the midst of the most crazy, cranium crushing household conditions you could imagine, who still manage to “know” and act according to the “right thing.” And for everyone who does “act,” there are all those who “know” the right thing, and cannot quite do it yet. But they “know.” Those are Jesus’ people. Those who know there is a wrong way. Those who want to go a right way. Those who “know” there is something more to life than getting ahead and getting along, being “popular ...

4884. Learning to Live Like Jesus

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... men. (1) So there you have it. You, too, can smell like Jesus. Obviously that is absurd, but it does lead us to a much more profound thought by writer Max Lucado. At the beginning of his book, Just Like Jesus, Lucado makes this statement which I believe is quite important: “God loves you just the way you are,” writes Lucado, “but he refuses to leave you that way. He wants you to be just like Jesus.” Now there is a statement you can take home with you. Let me say it again: “God loves you just the ...

4885. An Invitation to a Wedding

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... parables should feature a wedding. The kingdom of heaven is like a king, he said, who prepared a wedding banquet for his son. He sent his servants to those who had been invited to the banquet to tell them to come, but they did something quite extraordinary they refused the invitation. This was most unusual to refuse the king’s invitation. Nevertheless, there were those who refused to come. Then the king sent some more servants and said, “Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner ...

4886. A Lesson from Jay Leno's Mom

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... beloved. So it is with God. That is why saints through the ages have devoted so much of their life to prayer. There is a science fiction writer named Robert Sawyer who is known for including spiritual insights in his novels, which seems to me quite unique spiritual insights in science fiction. In one of Sawyer’s books, people from earth are having their first encounters with alien life from other planets. One of the scientists from the planet earth is surprised to learn that the aliens not only believe in ...

4887. About that Salesman

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... actors on a stage. Since actors often played many roles in the same plays, they would commonly wear a mask to show which character they were playing. Soon the word hypocrite came to denote anyone who wears one face in one situation and quite another face in another situation. Some of you have had unfortunate experiences with such persons. Maybe those experiences have caused you some emotional damage. Pastor Scott Harrell tells the story of a man named Roy. Roy was brought up in the church. Unfortunately ...

4888. Running over the Cat

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a few weeks afterward she was the model of stoic acceptance. Not a single tear filled her eyes, at least not in public. But then, after some time, finally the façade crumbled and she became an emotional wreck. She withdrew into her house, neglected her friends, quit going to her house of worship. Months went by, then a couple of years. Whenever she went out to shop for necessities, the pain was etched on her face. And, finally, after about three years, her heart gave out and she joined her husband in the ...

4889. An Announcement about Our Future

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... two minutes to spare. Dick said all the way to the church, the lines from My Fair Lady kept running through his head: “Kick up a rumpus, but don’t forget the compass, and get me to the church on time.” (1) I hope your Christmas season will not be quite that hectic. But time is at a premium during the Advent season, isn’t it? Our song could be, “Kick up a rumpus, but don’t forget the compass, and get me to Christmas on time.” Welcome on this first Sunday in Advent. Many of us think of Advent as ...

4890. Dust Off The Throne

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... generations and around the globe as the author of one of the most famous and beloved poems in the world (Psalm 23). Finally, the twice-mentioned “rest” from all of David’s enemies is attributed to the Lord. The statement reflects a faith perspective that is quite foreign to the world in which we live. If a political and military leader in our day came to a point where he was free from the harassment of enemies, how would we score that? We might think in terms of his strategy, his military might, his ...

4891. Night of Light

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

... the moment of the king’s coronation the people look back upon his birth as a time of special blessing. The more modern translations have properly recognized the pairing of qualifiers with each title and so corrected the translation of the old and still quite familiar King James Version. Thus, the king is “wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” If it should be objected that some of these titles are not appropriate to a purely human regent, then the objection is to be ...

4892. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... the Romans (8:15). Meanwhile, the only other New Testament occurrence is in Mark’s account of Jesus praying in Gethsemane (14:36). Barclay notes that “the proof that we are sons comes from the instinctive cry of the heart.” The reflex is quite a different matter from the deliberate act. The latter may be a calculation; the former is what comes naturally. And this is the great evidence of our adoption: that it becomes our reflex to cry, “Abba! Father!” Finally, sports fans are fond of borrowing ...

4893. A Reminder to God...and to Us

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to us that God so loved the world that He gave His son for us. Prolific author Lewis Smedes once wrote something that ought to be engraved on every Christian’s heart. It goes like this: “Somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they promised once to see it through. They stick to lost causes. They hold on to a love grown cold. They stay with people who have become pains in the neck. They still dare to make promises and care enough to ...

4894. A Guide to a Rich and a Joyous Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of stopping for the Sabbath day. Winter was approaching quickly, and some among the group began to panic in fear that they would not reach their destination before the heavy snows. Several members proposed to the rest of the group that they should quit their practice of stopping for the Sabbath and continue driving onward seven days a week. This proposal divided the close knit community. Finally it was suggested that the wagon train should split into two groups: those who wanted to continue to observe the ...

4895. The Condemning Heart

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... simply to leave her life of sin. He was completely aware that she had sinned but Jesus wasn’t in the business of condemnation, he was sent to earth to save. It is ironic that the men who condemned this woman caught in adultery had sinned also. Jesus was quite aware of their faults when he made his statement. Why is it that followers of Jesus so often ignore this clear example? Remember the shame that used to be attached to a young woman pregnant out of wedlock. Her sin was public. It was out there for all ...

4896. Who's Your Master?

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... grows out of having a vital mission. That’s the second thing we need to see. When you are driven by a mission, a great purpose, obedience comes naturally. You may not see yourself as an obedient person. In fact, you may view yourself as quite a free spirit. That’s well and good. You were probably raised by one of those more modern Middletown moms with their emphasis on independence, tolerance, and social-mindedness. That’s fine. However, if you have ever attempted anything great in the world, and seen ...

4897. Building a New Team

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... a gift in public recognition (so Persian king, Xerxes, to Mordecai in Esther 3-4). In each case the grant was a one-way act, with no specific reciprocal deed required. The second type of king-subject covenant, the “Suzerain-Vassal treaty,” was quite different, however. It moved on a two-way street, and both gave and expected much. When ratified, kings would provide safety and food and shelter and relief and community building grants, while the people were obligated to pay taxes, offer troops for the ...

4898. Prescription on a Pole

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... were handed down from Grandma. It was hard to trace the science behind such traditional home remedies, but they had the credibility of years, experience, common sense, and love. Sometimes our treatments — whether Grandma’s or the pharmacist’s — are quite distasteful. And, as children, we may have pursed our lips and turned up our noses, in need of persuasion that this curdled spoonful was really ultimately good. Likewise, as adults: the procedures and treatments we sometimes face bring both great ...

4899. I'll Never Forget That Night

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... sores; penultimately, the heavens send down mortar shells of hail, transport in a foreign army of locusts, and then withhold the light of the sun; finally, in an awful culmination, the firstborn of humans and animals across Egypt die suddenly. Strange. But not quite as much when seen in three successive groupings. Among the many deities worshiped in ancient Egypt, none superceded a triumvirate composed by the Nile, the good earth, and the heavens which were the home of the sun. So it was that the initial ...

4900. The Big "W"

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , Peter started dismissing Jesus presentation of a divine scenario of sacrifice that Peter never saw coming. Peter spat out Jesus’ message of a Messiah who would suffer and die even as a “spoiled dog” would spit out a handout that wasn’t quite “good enough.” Jesus rebuked Peter right back: “Get behind me Satan!” Peter, you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things” (v33). Peter thought that confessing Jesus as the Messiah was what Jesus expected of his disciples. Peter ...

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