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4901. When The Economy Goes South

1 Kings 17:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... for the water, he called out, "And bring me, please, a piece of bread." This was more than the widow could handle. "As surely as the Lord your God lives," the widow replied, "I don't have any bread--only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in ... that Elijah came to this widow and helped her through the drought. We read in I Kings 17:8, "Then the word of the Lord came to [Elijah]. "˜Arise, go to Zarephath . . . and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow there to feed you." Elijah, this holy man ...

4902. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... , but most of all he cheated himself. There is joy in giving. A FINAL REASON FOR GREAT GIVING IS TO PROVE OUR LOVE TO THE LORD. In verses 8 and 9, Paul says that our giving proves that our love is genuine. We make love concrete and tangible by what we ... A lot of people broke their hearts to give it to you." And this is true about the church. A lot of people, including our Lord, gave their all So, these are four great reasons for great giving. First of all, as our joyous response to the grace of God. Secondly ...

4903. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... people a great favorif he had stood up and said in the words of the Scripture: "Shun immorality, for every other sin which a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord and the Lord for the body." Instead of saying that, he is devoting his life now to telling young people that safe sex is the way to go. But we are not helped by that kind of testimony from leading figures in the sports world, nor are we helped by the ...

4904. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... truth will set us free. God wants you to know his will. That''s one of his greatest desires. Proverbs 3:5 says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding; in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path." What a ... up our cross daily as Christ says, we get focused on our desires and our pleasures and our wants. We just forget what the Lord wants. And then there is the sin of silence. We could reach out to others with that message of the Savior who saves to ...

4905. The Gift of Me

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... and the power of the Most High will over shadow you. So the Holy One to be born will be called the Son of God.” Suddenly Mary’s amazement changes to faith. Mary speaks one of the most beautiful lines ever uttered in the history of humanity, “I am the Lord’s servant. May it be to me as you have said.” Do you know what gift Mary gave on that very first Christmas? She gave the gift of herself. The children have sung about how the wise men gave the gift of themselves, and Mary’s story is in keeping ...

4906. How Do You Explain the Resurrection?

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . That is what gives us the courage to stand beside the grave of a loved one and solemnly but joyfully intone the words of our Lord, “I am the resurrection and the life, the one who believes in me shall never die!” He also said, “I will not leave you orphaned ... and now. The writer of the first Epistle of Peter said to the first Christians, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ ...

4907. Whatever Happened to those Mansions?

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ; and in between—we are to live in love, love with God and with one another. On this we can bet our lives. “If it were not so, would I have told you I go to prepare a place for you?” For the past twenty centuries Christian have answered the Lord’s question with a resounding: “No! You would not lie to us!” Over a hundred years ago that remarkable lady from Amherst, Emily Dickinson put her quiet faith in the form of a poem: I never saw a Moor— I never saw the Sea— Yet I know how the Heather ...

4908. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and invented could be linked up with the loving purposes of God...but cut off from love they count for nothing. in spite of all his efforts, apart from God man cannot turn prowess into progress.” There are all sorts of metaphors in this saying of our Lord, “I am the vine.” Let me conclude with one more. Jesus’ metaphor of the vine and the branches point up a connectedness with Him and with one another. We are simply not designed to “go it alone” in this world. John Wesley was right when he said ...

4909. If Christ Had Not Come

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... news of great joy for all the people: to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is the Messiah, the Lord.” (Luke 2:10-11) Christ has come to us. The real question remaining now is: Have we come to Him? Are we really and truly living ... punishment as well as other moral issues of our day, a great many Christians have not yet heard the words of their Lord. They often blithely mimic the attitudes of the world around them, and see no contradiction whatever between their professed faith in Christ ...

4910. That Would Be Some Miracle!

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... at least three views of what happened. Some say that a literal miracle happened. Jesus changed five barley loaves and two fish into enough food to feed a multitude. He multiplied the food, magically. I have no particular problem with that view, for I believe that Jesus is Lord of life and Ruler of all nature, and so He can do whatever He wants to do with it. C.S. Lewis, in his book “Miracles” says that this is simply God doing in microcosm what God does all of the time in macrocosm. God takes the seed ...

4911. Losers Keepers

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . He caught the difficulty of this true life situation when he said, perhaps with tongue slightly in cheek: “To give my life for Christ appears glorious.. To pour myself out for others...to pay the ultimate price for martyrdom - I’ll do it. I’m ready, Lord, to go out in a blaze of glory.” Commenting on these words, Presbyterian preacher Tom Hilton says, “What a glorious ‘up’ that would be. The only trouble is that for most of us the blaze of glory never comes. We are ready to give everything ...

4912. Are We Able?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of Jesus. III. BUT WAIT A MINUTE: THEIR CRASS REQUEST REFLECTED A DEEP FAITH, DIDN’T IT? I am indebted to David H.C. Read for this insight. Yes, James and John did desert Jesus just a few days after they made their brash promise. Peter did the same thing: “Lord, even though they all fall away, I will not!” (Mark 14:29) We know how that came out, don’t we, as we remember Peter warming himself before the fires of Jesus’ enemies, swearing that he did not know the man! But that wasn’t the end of the ...

4913. Opposite the Treasury

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of her gift; but she was desperately in need of giving. There was not much else she could do for the church, but she could do this. And her love for God was so great that she felt she had to do something. And then I remembered that our Lord never turned away any gift because it was small, or because the giver could ill afford to give it. That scene in Mark’s Gospel came to my mind. Almost two thousand years ago Jesus sat opposite the treasury, watching people making their offerings in the Temple. Wealthy ...

4914. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and swear with the best of them outside in the courtyard. By our words and actions people haven’t a clue that we have been with Jesus of Nazareth. What was Peter doing there in the courtyard, anyway? Leslie Weatherhead says that he was not denying his Lord, but instead was acting as a “spy.” He believed that Peter followed Jesus and His captors into the courtyard seeking information. And if you were to ask a spy, “Are you a spy?” it would have been simply dumb to say, “Oh, yes, of course. I am ...

4915. Sealed with a Prayer: The Seventh Word

Luke 23:44-49

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... an art gallery where a famous religious painting was being displayed. It was a graphic picture depicting the Crucifixion of our Lord, Jesus Christ, on the Cross. There was something about the picture that gripped him in a special way. He stood and studied ... God, and the truth about himself--and the power of the Cross. It reawakened in him a desire to recommit his life to the Lord Jesus Christ and the ministry of the Church. We have probed the meaning and the mystery of the Cross. Now, let the "Cross" do ...

4916. Don't Let Your Tongue Bite You

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... be a voice through which Christ can speak words of encouragement. Almost every Sunday in every pulpit around the world, the preacher pauses to pray what I prayed together. "Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of all our hearts be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." Our words--not only the preachers--need to be dedicated to God. I think we can all agree that from the moment we awake to the moment our heads touch the pillow again we talk a lot--words are used frequently. I ...

4917. The Power of Remembrance (Part III)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... by the faith that is in me." Paul never tired of telling of his purpose in life: that he was a servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. It was after that conversion experience that Paul made it the orientation of his life to take the Gospel to every ... to use him for in this place. Paul always knew why he was going to a certain destination--to witness for the work of our Lord, Jesus Christ. Like the Picasso pictures, even when he could not see the final product he knew that God knew, and that was good enough ...

4918. The Taming of the Tongue

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... of talking, but the true test of faith is whether or not that talking is consecrated by God. Almost every Sunday in every pulpit around the world, the preacher pauses to pray, "Let the words of my mouth and the meditations of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer." The tongue is a tremendously powerful tool. You can make a person feel like a zero--or lift them to the zenith of life. May God tame it--that we may always speak the truth in love. If the Holy Spirit had all the ...

4919. Goodness and Mercy

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the blankets, I sat on the edge of his bed to pray, as I did each night. "Before I prayed aloud, I silently petitioned the Lord for the best way to ease the tension. Should I turn my prayer with Jay into a mini-lecture, trying to get in one last ... his big, brown eyes turned to size up my expression. With that I wilted, and I had my answer from God. "I closed my eyes to pray: `Dear Lord, thank You for Jay. You know how much I love him--he means the world to me! Thank You for giving him to us. May he always ...

4920. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part II)

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that." The writer Elizabeth Barrett Browning had great insight on our need to be still and silent before the Lord when she wrote: Earth''s crammed with Heaven and every common bush afire with God and only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit around and pluck blackberries. In the writings of E. Stanley Jones I discovered that this great Christian ...

4921. Good Friday: The First Word

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... declares in the famous passage we read at Christmas, "For to you is born this day in the city of David, a Savior, who is Christ the Lord." As we ponder the solemnity of this day, we can see why we are tempted to keep the baby in the manger and not allow him ... without the incarnate love of God expressed in Jesus Christ. It is so easy to become cool, cold, calculating that the image of our Lord is also one that is very cold. The greatest message that the Church has to offer is that God has provided a way out ...

4922. What a Difference a Day Makes

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... and play when there is no music in your soul?" (1) That really is the question on the hearts of many of you as you sit in this sanctuary today. You ask in the private and deepest place of your heart today, "Is there any word from the Lord today?" I know before me today are people who are struggling and striving hard to believe. They want to be a better Christian than they presently are. There are those afflicted with sickness, disease, and medical hardships for which the field of medicine has no known cure ...

4923. Thanksgiving: Where Are You Looking for It?

Psalm 103:2, 1 Thessalonians 5:17-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , young Bart sits down with his family to a meal. When it''s his turn to pray and give thanks, he says something to this effect: Lord, my dad earned the money to pay for this food and my mom worked for hours to cook it. What did you do? Thanks a lot ... the biblical writer found it necessary to issue a corrective for the ingratitude found amongst his own people, as he writes, "Bless the Lord, O my soul, and do not forget all his benefits." That''s right, only those who pause long enough to remember can be ...

4924. Just Speak the Name

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... that thou, my God, shouldst die for me?" That is love! That is the real thing! That is what is found and kept alive in the Lord''s Supper we observe today. That is why the cross is the foundation of the Christian faith. If you remove the cross from the Bible ... Heaven, named Mrs. Tilly. According to Brother Campbell, Mrs. Tilly was small in stature but mighty and loving in the service of the Lord Jesus Christ. She weighed less than l00 pounds and was so old in years that she was only a few years younger than ...

4925. When Life Seems to Be Going in the Wrong Direction

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... admirer of Jesus Christ and a faith-filled servant of Jesus Christ is how we handle the pressures of life and how we allow them "to color" our lives. Christians are those who can cope with the changing circumstances of life because of the constant presence of the Lord Jesus Christ in our lives. I want to give you three ways to respond when you seem to be going in the wrong direction in life. First, keep the dream alive. The word "dream" is in Webster''s dictionary. One of the many meanings of "dream" is to ...

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