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26. Remember Your Baptism

Acts 19:1-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... symbol of Jesus being at God’s “right hand.” God’s work that can only be accomplished through Jesus’ presence in the Holy Spirit. Only Jesus saves, but Jesus doesn’t save only by himself. Jesus needs us. It is the Church, the windblown, air-borne, Spirit-filled body of Christ, that gets this work underway, everyday. The Holy Spirit is like manna. It cannot be hoarded or saved-up for another day. “Saved-up” Spirit doesn’t become better, or richer, or more potent. Unshared Spirit grows stale ...

27. What the Trinity Does

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Christ. He lay down his life to reconcile us to one another and to God. He is the bridge, in C. S Lewis’ words, that crosses the chasm between who we are and who God wants us to be. Winston Churchill was honoring members of the Royal Air Force who had guarded England during the Second World War. He recounted their brave service and he declared, “Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.” A similar sentiment appears on a memorial plaque in Bastogne, Belgium. That is the ...

28. Waiting in Life's Waiting Rooms

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... trusting in something beyond physical dynamics. Soaring is not so much about skeletal structure or wing to body ratios as it is about trusting something unseen, trusting what you know by faith, not by sight. For birds this is the warm thermal streams of air that can keep them aloft and headed in any direction they wish to go for hours at a time. For those of us who remain faithful and “on watch” during this season of Advent and beyond, our “thermals” are our “rejoicings,” our “prayers” and ...

29. Don't Worry--Give Thanks

Matthew 6:25-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... are not to worry? It is because we are valuable to God. Do you believe that you are valuable to God? The God who created the heavens and the earth and everything that exists upon it cares about you. What are you worried about? “Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.” Then he adds a very practical admonition: “Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” No you can’t, but you can sure take many hours ...

30. The Keys To Happiness -- Purity Of Heart

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Alex Gondola

Most Americans are increasingly interested in issues of purity, aren't we? We want to drink pure water. And there is a legitimate, growing concern about the quality of our groundwater. We want to breathe clean air. So Congress has passed (on our behalf) stringent Clean Air Acts. We want to consume pure foods. "Natural" foods are big sellers right now, aren't they? So much so that one supermarket, probably selling foods with preservatives and additives, still calls itself "Purity Supreme." We would like our ...

31. Inner Warmth

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... happy when they know they are loved; and this happiness will be seen. When we have felt the love of God and we realize how wonderful he has been to us and what he means to us, then we will want to share that love with others. Like the warm air in the bottle, God's love within us will warm our heart and it will expand, so to speak; then the result of that expansion will be seen. We sometimes say that a generous person is one who has a big heart. In the letter of John, we are reminded ...

32. The Christian's Tears of Failure

Matthew 26:69-75

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... may, but not us! It is like the boy who considered himself to be an excellent batter. One evening he asked his father to come to the backyard that he might demonstrate his skill. He held the bat in one hand and with the other threw the ball in the air. He swung as hard as he could but missed it. The lad shouted, "Strike one!" Again he threw up a ball, took a mad swing, and missed it. He yelled, "Strike two!" With confidence, he threw the ball up for the third time, swung at it for all he was ...

33. All Filled Up

Ephesians 5:18

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... are all things that help us to live, Hold up the balloons with pizza, money and the shoe. but they don't give us true life. But when we pray for and depend on God's Spirit, which is like the breath of God, tap the filled balloon into the air, we will always be what God wants us to be. Let's Pray: Thank you God for giving us your Spirit. Help us not to worry about food, money, or clothes, but to always depend on your Spirit to make us who we need to be. In Jesus' name. Amen ...

34. Are You a Scraggly Balloon?

Colossians 1:21-22

Children's Sermon

... us who were sinners and lost people. We looked and acted a little bit like the scraggly balloon. We did not have much life and we were dying fast. But when Jesus gave his life for us and forgave our sins, he was like a great big bunch of fresh air. We were blown up to look like God wanted us to look. We were forgiven and we were not held down by our sin. We began to live again like we had never lived before. We were free, and we all felt free. This is what Jesus did for us ...

35. Out of Doors: Nature and Supernatural

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... of this world which we human beings do not see, perhaps cannot see, except as we are touched by His hand. So we do not acknowledge his Lordship because we have not seen in nature what Jesus of Nazareth reveals. The lilies of the field, the birds of the air, the seed in the farmer’s hand, even the weeds and brambles that crush out the grain, all speak of eternity as we walk with him. He lived with nature, and he brought new meaning to both its simplicity and its beauty. But there is more than that. He ...

36. A Ministry of Encouragement

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... out love in a world of hate, hope in a world of despair, kindness in a world of cruelty. That’s who we are and what we’re about. Oh, I know. Some churches have been known for the foul smell of criticism and negativism that has permeated the air, the stinkin’ thinkin’ we were talking about earlier. But usually it’s just a handful of people who are the most critical. A farmer went to a restaurant owner to find out if he wanted to buy a million frog legs. When the proprietor asked where he could find ...

37. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... , about how in his words, "All things are connected like the blood which unites one family." What he said strongly echoes the Bible''s view. "How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land," he asked. "If we do not own the freshness of the air, the sparkle of the water, how can we buy or sell them?" The chief went on to say, "Teach your children what we have taught our children, that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth, befalls the children of the earth. If we spit upon the ground ...

38. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was, "He's a Jew!" Soon afterward, the war broke out in Poland and Turski escaped to England where he joined the British Royal Air Force. One day as he was returning to England from a war mission, his plane was hit and he crash-landed just after he ... field near the border, I made my way to Warsaw where a friend helped me escape to Scotland. I found that you were in the Royal Air Force." "But how did you even know my name?", Turski asked. "Well," said the man, "I saw it written on the corner of the flight map ...

39. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... settles, the fog evaporates, and we get a clear glimpse of the Son who is the spitting image of the Father. In his presence the air is clean and crisp; we breathe freely again for the first time. In Jesus, and through the Holy Spirit that enlivened him, God has ... from that boyhood drama. On horseback, the trail boss would lift his hand, index finger up, make a rapid circling motion in the air, then point ahead with these words, “O.K. boys, head ‘em up, and move ‘em out.” It was a call to a long ...

40. The World's Greatest Cover Up

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... thought about the ritual. "The sight of a portly old poop baring his blubbery butt (at least) is not most folks' idea of a great way to start the day." (With thanks to Howard Hanger, "Elementalism," Vision, 1 February 2002, 1.) But Old Ben was convinced that the body needs air. And one of the reasons we get sick in mind and body, he surmised, is that too much of our life is spent covered and clothed. He contended that because the body is alive, like every other living entity, it needs ...

41. Come On Baby, Light My Fire

Matthew 3:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... you twenty-four-seven. You cannot hear Him, but He hears your innermost thoughts. You cannot feel Him, but He never leaves your side. Air is a force with incredible strength. It can snap a tree into. It can demolish a building in seconds flat. Energized by a hurricane ... you can't smell it, you can't really measure it or weigh it, but it keeps you alive every minute of every day. You take air away for five minutes, at best you will be brain damaged; at worst you will be dead. We can't live without it, and yet ...

42. Good News about Ambition

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... university opened that was devoted to the education of the descendants of slaves. It meant a walk of five hundred miles, but Booker T. Washington got to that school. Can you imagine that? Five hundred miles! Some of us wouldn’t make that trip if the air conditioning was malfunctioning in our car, must less on foot. But Washington walked all the way. When he got there he discovered that the last place in the school had been filled. He was denied admission. All they could offer him was the job of a servant ...

43. Show and Sell or Show and Tell?

Hebrews 9:11-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Pop. If you're too young to remember Jiffy Pop, it is just popcorn packed into a flat aluminum “frying pan” and sealed with a light, thin foil covering. The frying pan was put over a hot burner and as the popcorn inside heated up and hot air was generated, the thin foil-covering puffed up into a big, shiny balloon. To eat the popcorn, you punctured the balloon and peeled the tin foil back, revealing the steamy popcorn. [If you can demonstrate/animate this with a hot plate and Jiffy Pop, all the better ...

44. Nehemiah: The Fix

Nehemiah 1:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... can't see it. However, it does hold up the ping pong ball. It's the same way with our faith and trust in God. When we talk about faith what we're really talking about trust. Trusting God, who we can't see just like we can't see air, to hold us up in the midst of trials and troubles. We trust that God is there. Nehemiah had to trust God to lead him in what to do to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem so the people there would be protected. III. Listen Third, Nehemiah had to listen so ...

45. What Is Man?

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas. O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the ... over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet: all flocks and herds, and the beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, all that swim the paths of the seas.” We are stewards of this earth. We are to tend the ...

46. Worry Not

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... ever read the words of Jesus? “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies ...

47. All In: Calling Your Bluff

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... something we send a message to our brain at 124 MPH (for those of us who are A.D.D. - that sounds a tad slow!) We are about 70% water (that is why most of us are all wet!) Our nose is our personal air-conditioning system: it warms cold air, cools hot air and filters impurities. In one square inch of our hand, we have nine feet of blood vessels and 600 pain sensors, 9000 nerve endings, 36 heat sensors and 75 pressure sensors. We have copper, zinc, cobalt, calcium, manganese, phosphates, nickel and silicon in ...

48. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... gone, where all things wise and fair Descend; – oh, dream not that the amorous Deep Will yet restore him to the vital air; Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair. IV. Most musical of mourners, weep again! Lament anew, Urania! – ... thee The spirit thou lamentest is not gone; Ye caverns and ye forests, cease to moan! Cease, ye faint flowers and fountains, and thou Air Which like a mourning veil thy scarf hadst thrown O’er the abandoned Earth, now leave it bare Even to the joyous stars ...

49. Job's Third Reply to Bildad

Job 26:1--31:40

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... eyes of every living thing recalls and summarizes the argument put forth in verses 12–19. Compare in particular the opening statement of this section in verse 13b: “It cannot be found in the land of the living.” Further, concealed . . . from the birds of the air clearly refers back to verses 1–18, which described how humans are able to dig out precious ore located in inaccessible places: “No bird of prey knows that hidden path; no falcon’s eye has seen it” (v. 7). Wisdom is no less hidden, but ...

50. Mary Gives Her Perfume

Matthew 26:6-13

Children's Sermon

Donald Neidigk

... in your house? Here, let me spray some of it for you. What does it smell like? Right, it smells like flowers. Where do you use air freshener? Yes, in the bathroom, in the closets, and in the area where the dog sleeps. Why do we need air freshener? That's right, to cover up bad smells with good smells. In Bible times people didn't have cans of air freshener. They had perfume. They used perfume to make themselves smell good, just as we do. They also used perfume on the bodies of people that were going ...

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