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26. The Perfect Gift

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God’s great gift, the perfect gift. He loves us so much, that’s who he is; he loves us so much that he gives us himself. And that leads to the second big point about gifts: the first purpose of an appropriate gift is to reveal the capacity and affection of the person giving it. Now the second purpose is that it suits the personality and the needs of the person receiving it. Let’s test God’s Christmas gift by that measurement. Isn’t our greatest need for someone to be with us? I mean, isn’t it ...

27. What We Do, We Do to Others, Too

Matthew 18:1-9

Children's Sermon

Marti Kramer Suddarth

... ? The people at the bank are hurt. They’ll feel stress. They’ll be interviewed by the police and have reports to fill out. They may need to clean the bank, they’ll have to learn a new security system, and someone might even lose a job. Many people are affected by the insurance payment, too. The insurance rates will go up if the company pays very many claims, or our taxes may go up if the bank is covered by the government. Even if all of this wasn’t true, there is someone else who is hurt by the bank ...

28. Up Close & Personal: Coming Into Focus

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... you, if I cheat you, I can go to God all day long and confess that sin. God, I cheated her. God I stole from him. God, I gossiped about her. God I hurt his feelings, please forgive me. If I do not go to the one who has been affected and I do not go to the one that has been offended, then I am still not right with God and I still can’t get up close and personal. When you confess your sin vertically to God that leads to restoration, but when you confess your sin to others ...

29. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... runs like this: "I don't like me. And God is my creator. Therefore, I will have nothing more to do with God. He messed me up the first time. I won't give him a chance to foul me up again!"\n Low self-esteem can also adversely affect your family life. A teenager who has difficulty with self-love might begin to overdress and run up some high clothing bills. Or she might begin to "underdress." Her dad begins to notice and complains, "You're not going to school dressed like that, are you?"\n Self-loathing ...

30. Changing Nature

Colossians 1:9-10

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... us. If the people in your house are always fighting with one another that will make you feel unhappy inside and it will show in the way you look and act. The things you watch on television can affect how you feel about what is important in life and that can affect what you do. The type of friends you have can also affect the way you behave. We all need to be careful about the conditions that surround us as we live each day, for they can influence how we feel inside. And how we feel inside can change how we ...

31. The Sadness Of God

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... . We're free to decide. But God paid the price of sharing our sometimes painful life situations in the hope that we'd make the right decisions. Here's what we need to understand. Our choices do matter. What kind of person I become does matter. My moral conduct does affect other people, and therefore it affects God. It's up to me to choose what sort of person I shall be, but God has decided to bet on me, as it were, to pay the price which that entails. If I make the wrong choice, it will ...

32. Striking Silversmiths Start Riot

Acts 19:23-41

Sermon Aid

CSS

... a public burning of magic books and charms. Many people also donated their silver statues of Diana to Paul’s synagogue. One source placed the value of this donated silver at 50,000 pieces. The Chamber of Commerce said that the new movement had not affected attendance at the Shrine of Diana, since most of Paul’s followers are Jews who would not worship the true goddess anyway. No figures are available on the sale of statues. The temple priests and priestesses receive half of the profit on such sales, but ...

33. Childs of Center Point

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... whose husbands work for EIC? EVIE CHILDS: Not only that. Half the families in our church depend on EIC for their jobs. This petition asks the company to be required to shut down operations until a safer dumping site can be found and until all families affected by the epidemic are compensated by EIC. BILL CHILDS: (quietly) Yes. I know. EVIE CHILDS: But, if they shut down, look how many people will be out of work! BILL CHILDS: Evie, people are dying! The company isn’t listening to complaints. They act as ...

34. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... crazy world!Still we dream. We share with St. Paul that idyllic hope of a world patterned after the life of Jesus himself. Listen to St. Paul's words: "So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any incentive of love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves. Let each of you look not to his own ...

35. Family Survival

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Stephen DeFur

... ground before you?' So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept this matter in mind." We'll stop the story right there for now, because we want to talk for a few moments about the robe. The robe is an expression of a father's love and affection for his child. The robe says this child is special, prized and valued by me. When a child learns that he will never wear the robe, never light up his father or mother's eyes, something inside that child dies. When the robe is handed out to only one child ...

36. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... environment. The Alaskan oil spill, spills in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere are examples, as well as the deliberate despoiling of the environment in the Persian Gulf by Saddam Hussein. The Chernobyl nuclear explosion which occurred years ago is still affecting the lives of people far removed from the scene. English sheep growers can''t market many of their animals because their flesh is contaminated with radioactivity. Names such as Times Beach, Love Canal and Three-Mile Island have become familiar to ...

37. Is Suffering Punishment for Sin?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... What are we to make of such a statement? Well, perhaps those words are not so much a statement of what God does as they are a statement of how life works. We are all tied up together in the same bundle of humanity. What one person does affects other persons, for good or for ill. The deeds that we do have their “fall out” far beyond themselves. If one generation rebels against God and God’s will for the world, then future generations will suffer for their misdeeds. Who is to doubt that “the iniquity ...

38. A Tireless and Timeless Image

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... you in shops, and all of us in neighborhoods and homes. Into those places you will not carry rods and staffs. But you can carry with you the rod of informed judgment and the rod of language; and you can carry with you the staff of affection and caring. There are sheep out there needing care; you have skills that can make you a modern-day shepherd. Please take upon you this tireless and timeless image. You will be surprised how warmly, welcomingly, and gratefully you will be received. And your exertions will ...

39. The Supreme Worth of the Second Birth

John 3:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... knew the answer. Charles Colson has been born again. I looked at Chuck Colson, I listened to Chuck Colson, and I was reminded again that regeneration is not just psychological; it affects more than the soul. It is not just intellectual; it affects more than the mind. It is not just emotional; it affects more than the feelings. It is spiritual; it affects the heart. III. The Obligation of Regeneration "Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.'" (v.7) The new birth is not an option, it is ...

40. The Fellowship of Joy

Philippians 1:3-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... in your heart. This church was a treasure to Paul, for where a man's heart is, there will his treasure be also. That explains two things about Paul: a. His Longing For The Church For God is my witness, how greatly I long for you all with the affection of Jesus Christ." (v.8) Philippi was his favorite place to visit, his favorite pulpit in which to preach, his favorite people to be with. As a husband and a father, I had rather be with my immediate family, my wife and my children, than anyone else on earth ...

41. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... would live where there are no churches, but so many of us live as though there were no churches." Well, I want to stand up this morning and tell you, "I thank God for this church, and I love my church. I love it enough to give it my loving affection. I love it enough to give it my loyal allegiance. I love it enough to give it my lasting attendance. At sixty-six years of age Winston Churchill became the Prime Minister of England. He served from 1940 to the end of the war in 1945. They were dark days ...

42. About Sex

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... couple is unable for physical or other reasons to have a complete sexual relationship, they can still have an affectionate relationship, and thus fulfill God’s purpose for these commands. On the same idea . . . the wife is not to withhold marital affection from her husband. Paul strongly puts forth the idea that there is a mutual sexual responsibility in marriage; the husband has obligations towards his wife, and the wife has obligations towards her husband.” (2) In other words, persons who are married ...

43. Marriage 101

Ephesians 5:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... able to identify the body." Many times what a wife needs is just a husband that will give her his ear and his eyes and his full undivided attention. Secondly, they need our affection. Men, when I talk about affection don't think about the "s" word. I'm talking about just affection—a touch, a hug, a kiss. They need verbal affection. You need to tell them consistently that you love them. One man was very unaffectionate with his wife. She was looking out the window one day and saw a honeymoon couple who were ...

44. Here I Am To Worship

John 4:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... her alone. On a daily basis, sometimes in big ways and most of the time in little ways, she and I together demonstrate our affection for each other. In that same way, we are to do that as our worship. III. Worship Is Deploying My Abilities For God You ... heaven, let me tell you what we are going to be doing. We are going to be directing our attention to God, demonstrating our affection for God, and deploying our abilities for God. One last thought – the best worship in the world is no worship at all if it ...

45. What Would Jesus Say About the Media?

Mark 9:1-9

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... every night and somebody over at that station makes a decision about which stories will be told. How do you do that? Mr. Mueller: We cast a big net. We look at global stories with all the impact being, the most important fact being, do they affect the community that we live in? Are they important to the people of Middle Tennessee? Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don’t. Sometimes it’s obvious what the news story of the day is—war on terrorism, the shuttle disaster— or local issues—a big school ...

46. From Lust to Love

1 Corinthians 13: 1

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... them, you don't need ten, but you need one or two, a friend who sticks with you closer than a brother or a sister, a friend who is steady. We need friends like that. Do you have a friend you can count on? B. LOVE-it is the affection of a parent for a child-storg?. It's the friendship that runs deep; when you get together you just immediately understand one another -phileo. You know what that is. Love is romantic, physical, erotic - the word is eros. Christians ought to retrieve that wonderful word from the ...

47. Hamburgers Don't Grow on Trees

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... the patterns in my life today are the fruit of choices I made years ago. The books I read, the people I spent time with, the way I responded to authority, the way I spent my free time, my study habits--all those things affect me now. “In the same way, the choices we make today will affect us down the road. Every sinful, selfish, or indulgent act is sowing a seed that will reap a multiplied harvest. But every act of obedience is [also] a seed that will bless us and those around us.” God is at work in the ...

48. Boasting

2 Corinthians 11:1-15, 2 Corinthians 11:16-33, 2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... forced him into boasting (12:11). Furthermore, Paul uses this technique as a heuristic tool to expose his opponents as frauds and to win the Corinthians back to his cause. 11:17 Paul stresses that the boasting in which he is about to engage is really illicit. He is affecting a role that is totally out of character for a true apostle of Jesus Christ, for he is not talking as the Lord would (lit., “according to the Lord”). In other words, Paul is not boasting in the Lord as he should (cf. 10:17). 11:18 In ...

49. Paul, Phoebe, Patronage, and Spain

Romans 16:1-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... to the inexperienced . . . more true than truth itself” (Haer. 1.2).5 The best way to resist false teaching is to know well the truth of the gospel. Quote: Franz Kafka. Essayist and educator George Steiner (b. 1929) wants to read books that operate on his affections: “To read great literature as if it did not have upon us an urgent design . . . is to do little more than make entries in a librarian’s catalog.” He then quotes from a letter that the renowned novelist Franz Kafka (1883–1924) wrote at ...

50. God Subjugates Judah under Babylon

Daniel 1:1-21

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... : “All for one, and one for all.” This expression of loyalty and interdependence bonds them together through their many perilous adventures. But it also shows us why we must address sin in the community of God’s people. The sin of one affects all, and sin by many affects each one. Because of this, we must learn to think of ourselves less individually and more interdependently. We must repent of individual sins for the sake of all and repent of communal sins for the sake of each one. Look for God in ...

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