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26. What's a Human Book?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the church? Would you jump up with a smile and run up to the front? Or would you cringe and slump down in your seat and avoid eye contact? Most people aren’t comfortable getting “called to the front” of any gathering. And Jesus calls a woman who is so bent over that she can’t stand up straight at all. Put yourself in her shoes. What must she be thinking? Who is this man? What does he want with me? I wonder how she felt as she made her way through the crowd of worshipers to stand beside him. I ...

27. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... God. The woman in Luke’s story had been dehumanized. She had been reduced to little or no value to others. The laws of Moses had become more important in people’s eyes than a disfigured woman. As much as the woman’s back was bent, a legalistic spirit bent someone’s soul even more. Nothing can choke the heart and soul of our walk with God like legalism. I will be the first to admit that Christians should be disciplined. However, we can become so rigid in our beliefs that our disciplines can cripple ...

28. The Prodigal Nation

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... depths of personal ruin. Look hard at anyone who is ruined by obsessive, compulsive behavior, and you will see people "hell-bent" on personal destruction because they hate themselves. More particularly, they hate what they have become. They have become the prodigal ... gone for many years - his father still recognized him. The son's clothes were ragged and he had no shoes on his feet. He was bent over under the weight of labor and shame. But even then, his father knew who he was and was glad to see his long- ...

29. Peace Through Sacrifice

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... over at right angles. There were some fragments of wood on the spike, but most startling was the fact that the spoke had been driven directly through an ankle bone. Apparently, when the victim was crucified, the spike had struck a hard knot in the upright beam and had bent over. When his family went to retrieve the body for burial, they could not pull out the spike and had to cut off the beam and bury a portion of it with the spike still in place through the ankle. It is doubtful that any of us could be ...

30. Who Keeps Getting in My Way?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... churches in Copenhagen, Denmark. According to the story, just after the artist had finished molding it, something happened. Because of either improper temperature or material, the head of the statue bent forward. The decision was made to go ahead and place the statue without restoring the head to an upright position. The statue stands now in that Copenhagen Church with the head bent forward. The only way you can see the face is to get on your knees. A man is never so tall as when he is on his knees before ...

31. The Level Ground Beneath The Cross

Romans 3:21-31, Romans 3:9-20

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... word translated here "under the power of" is the same word used to describe the authority that a Centurion or Roman company commander had over his 100 troops. They were under his command. This means that all persons in their natural condition have a bent to evil, a bias toward disobedience, a propensity toward selfishness, a tendency to rebel against God. Like automobiles with the front end out of line, we are tilted toward the ditches of sin. A few years ago, Chuck Colson, President of Prison Fellowship ...

32. Recognizing The Hidden

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... those who worked at the craft of the leather workers were respected persons. In a small English town an old craftsman bent hard over his bench. The sunlight that streamed into his small workshop was diminishing, and the lamps were not yet lighted ... a place to sleep in the barn? He will receive a hard thrashing for not being near at his master’s call. Suddenly the old man bent double, his tool and pieces of leather dropped to the crude wood flooring. A pain in his chest - such pain he never knew. He lay still ...

33. The Shepherd Who Loved His Sheep

John 10:1-21

Sermon

George Bass

... theme of this gospel for Good Shepherd Sunday, and does it quite well. But this section of John’s "Good Shepherd chapter" seems bent on taking us behind Easter to the Passion and death of our Lord. Jesus not only calls himself the Good Shepherd, but he ... always stands in contrast to - and, in a sense, in condemnation of - the world in which we live. Human beings seem bent on destroying one another, not only through the threat of the Bomb, but particularly for reasons of self-interest. Richard Cohen, of ...

34. When Ten Equals Two

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Larry Powell

... on Sinai. Moses later became enraged at the idolatry of his people, smashed the tablets, and engraved them onto other stone tablets. It has long been commented by preachers that the Commandments were appropriately carved into stone to prevent them from being "bent." They could be broken, but not bent. The Israelites housed the tablets in a wooden box called the "Ark of the Covenant," which, in addition to being kept in a special place, was borne ahead of Hebrew armies into battle as the sure sign of God’s ...

35. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... in, I went over to meet him. He was a large man, soft-spoken, articulate, friendly, and blessed with a lovely family. But already, a hidden agenda was being pursued by one of his own members, an agenda quite unknown to him. His member was so bent upon carrying out his own intentions that nothing could stop him. The new minister lasted six months, despite the fact that he was a good preacher and "mixed" even sooner than they had anticipated. However, one man, a man following in the footsteps of his father ...

36. Swimming With The Sharks

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... came back to the States to meet with his young bride, Brenda. Just before Brenda arrived, Roever watched the wife of another burn victim tell her husband that she wanted a divorce. Then Brenda walked in. "Showing not the slightest tremor of horror or shock," Roever writes, "she bent down and kissed me on what was left of my face. Then she looked me in my good eye, smiled, and said, Welcome home, Davey! I love you.' To understand what that meant to me you have to know that's what she called me when we were ...

37. You Can't Please Everybody

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing. That's amazing, isn't it? Not the miracle but the reaction to the miracle. Jesus healed a poor little lady who was all bent over. Helped her stand straight and tall for the first time in eighteen years. And the leader of the synagogue criticized him for it. First of all, we shouldn't be surprised that this criticism was voiced by the leader of the synagogue. Now don't misunderstand ...

38. Peace or Pieces

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... There is a rabbinic story about a burdened old man who, along his difficult journey in life, met an angel. The old man was bent under the enormous weight of a great burlap sack across his shoulders and on his back. The angel said, "What have you got in ... man looked at it for several moments but had no idea what point Aesop was trying to make. Aesop explained, "If you keep a bow always bent, it will break eventually; but if you let it go slack, it will be more fit for use when you want it." People are also like ...

39. The Longest Table in the World

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... hands and efforts are needed but can only be "elevated" to higher ground by faith in God''s decisive salvation act in Jesus Christ. Like the woman portrayed in Luke 13:10-13 as being crippled and bent over and not reaching her full potential, the church of Jesus Christ is also crippled and bent over (and not in prayer), because we so often solely rely on human hands and human thoughts. In June, 1991, during one of his magnificent presentations, Dr. Fred Craddock shared: "It has been said that there are ...

40. Humans, Inc.

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... congregation used to stand and testify to what the Lord had done for them. "On one occasion," he said, "they were holding such a meeting in one of the churches, and old Uncle Ephraim Swink, a South Mountaineer whose body was all bent and distorted with arthritis, was present. All the older members of the congregation except Uncle Ephraim arose and gave testimony to their religious experiences. Uncle Ephraim kept his seat. Thereupon the moderator said, 'Brother Ephraim, suppose you tell us what the Lord has ...

41. Atlas or Jesus?

1 John 1:1-4

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... rested or relaxed. Sounds like a great job, huh? In New York City's Rockefeller Plaza, right at the heart of that self-absorbed, self-reliant city that calls itself the greatest city in the world, there is an enormous steel likeness of Atlas, back bent, head down, arms outstretched, muscles rippling, steadfastly holding up the world. The statue is huge, his muscles are huge, his ongoing effort is quite obviously huge. [Show the image of Atlas if you can.] Here's Atlas, strong enough to take on the world ...

42. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and shook when I buried my parents and spouse. They have held children, consoled neighbors, and shook in fists of anger when I didn’t understand. They have covered my face, combed my hair, and washed and cleansed the rest of my body. They have been sticky and wet, bent and broken, dried and raw. And to this day when not much of anything else of me works real well these hands hold me up, lay me down, and again continue to fold in prayer. These hands are the mark of where I’ve been and the ruggedness of ...

43. Changed Lives - Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... life. If God used evolution to achieve His goal, so be it. Science deals with how; faith deals with why. There are some people in our modern world who believe that everything happened by chance. If you get into a discussion with someone like this, don’t get bent out of shape. They’ve been taught that this is an enormous universe, and that in a universe of such enormity, anything is possible. And they’re right. This is an enormous universe. We don’t serve a small God. But ask them, if they believe we ...

44. A Violent Wind

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... California,” said one, “I saw the fiercest wind in my life. You know these giant redwood trees? Well, the wind once got so strong, it bent them right down.” “That’s nothing,” said the other. “Back on my farm in Iowa, we had a terrible wind one day that blew ... me. Cut the strings from their legs and turn them loose. Set them all free.” With a shrug, the old farmer bent down and snipped the strings off the quail. They were freed at last. What happened? The birds simply continued marching around ...

45. Weary in Well Doing

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... close again, after conflict, weariness ends. Joy sometimes begins. The epistle advocates a style of conflict management that is more than biological. It is fundamentally spiritual. It is the strategy of humility. Humility is not so much a strategy as a bent, not even so much a bent as a posture, not even so much a posture as a habit. Christians try to be humble people. Even when someone we love is hurt, we maintain humility. Even when we are scared to death, we maintain humility. This spiritual habit will ...

46. A Father's Heart Cry

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... positioned to grasp the heartache of God amidst Israel's spiral toward disaster. While the airwaves are loaded with "cheatin' heart" songs, we hear very few broken-hearted parent songs, quite likely because such anguish most often runs too deep for lyrics. "My people are bent on turning away from me," God says. As we examine our own world we could well ask, "Are we any different?" Our own nation, like Israel, was called into existence by God, or so we say. Although not the military underdog that Israel was ...

47. A Stone’s Throw From: New Life

John 8:3-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... down and wrote with his finger on the ground. [7] When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said to them, "Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." [8] And once again he bent down and wrote on the ground. [9] When they heard it, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders; and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. [10] Jesus straightened up and said to her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?" [11] ...

48. Easter: Seeing Is Believing

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him." [3] Then Peter and the other disciple set out and went toward the tomb. [4] The two were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. [5] He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. [6] Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, [7] and the cloth that had been on Jesus' head, not lying with the ...

49. A Chance To Start Over

John 8:3-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

50. Cross Eyed: Triumph

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

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