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26. Ode to Wisdom

Job 26:1--31:40

Sermon

Alton F. Wedel

... ! How easily one falls into the trap of charging God with harshness, cruelty, discriminate behavior, and unjust prejudice when all the gears are suddenly reversed. If we reverence God and bless him, is God not bound to bless us in return? Or if God satisfies our estimate of how he ought to bless us, and if he gives us healthy children, peaceful family life, our piece of pie, shall we not bless him in return until...? The weak and immature in faith may curdle at the first faint symptom of distress. But when ...

27. The Ten Commandments #8: No Stealing

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the heavens is that we cannot get our hands on them. There is more than a grain of truth in that. A study by the University of Florida says that one out of 12 customers in a store at any given time could be a shoplifter, and the latest estimate is that each American consumer pays around $400 a year to cover the cost of those losses.(3) Insurance companies say that 30% of all business failures each year are a direct result of internal theft: fraud, embezzlement, and so on. Hotel managers say that one out of ...

28. Blessed Be The Title That Binds

Deuteronomy 14:22-29

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... with family and friends for all God's bounty. Truly, "Blest be the TITHE that binds." If you would, please take your Estimate of Giving cards right now and, as the music plays softly, prayerfully indicate on them what you hope to do for the Lord through ... this church in the coming year, understanding that this is simply an estimate that will be met as God gives you the ability. If you would prefer to have the amount you indicate transferred by automatic bank ...

29. The Lord's Prayer: The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of absolute anonymity. According to the book, One-third of married men and women confess to having had at least one affair; One in seven people reports being sexually abused in childhood, far more than the government estimate of 2.5 per 1000; Sixty percent of the respondents, 600 percent more than official estimates, say they have been victims of a major crime; Twenty percent of the women in the survey said they have been raped by a date; Ninety-one percent of the respondents admitted to lying at times; And ...

30. No Holding Back

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... which you have been entrusted. You will not be asked to make any commitment to a church budget; you will simply be asked to estimate your giving for the coming year. Dr. Joe Mullin will be our preacher that morning, and no doubt he will remind us of ... expectations are, then we will respond. As a climax to our worship, we will make our way to the front of the church and place our Estimate of Giving cards on the Lord's Table. After all the cards are in, your officers will determine what we can do in the Lord's ...

31. Have You Checked On Your Investments Lately?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... know that some people have to struggle all their lives to make ends meet. Researchers asked a group of people to estimate the size of a dollar bill. They found that the poorer a person was, the more likely he or she would overestimate the size of the bill. Middle- ... class and rich people usually gave a correct or close estimate of the bill's size. (2) Money can loom mighty big when it is scarce. But few of us have to worry where the next ...

32. Driven To Serve

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... strangers all around us, aren't there? There are people all around who feel unloved. "All of the lonely people," asked the song Eleanor Rigby, "Where do they all come from?" Based on a landmark study of loneliness, sociologist Robert Weiss estimates that a quarter of the American population feels extremely lonely at some time during any given month. It is a condition that effects people of all ages, including young children, but researchers agree that loneliness soars during the teenage years and reaches ...

33. Change Is Possible

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... the size of the squares, some subjects simply couldn't change their original statements. Even though the size of the squares increased, they kept close to their original estimate. If they told themselves it was two inches square, then that's what they kept telling themselves, even as the square grew much larger. Especially rigid subjects were estimating squares that were actually thirteen inches on each side to be only four inches on a side! Some people simply can't change the original message they give ...

34. Casting Aside His Garment

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... totally accepted it with your mind? It is easy to have misgivings about God's love for us. After all, this world is huge. How could I possibly believe that God cares about me? It is difficult to imagine how vast our universe really is. The current estimate is that our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains about 100 billion stars, many of them in clusters of hundreds of thousands. The Milky Way itself is approximately 600 million billion miles across, and yet it is only a small part of a local cluster made up of ...

35. Recovering The Essence

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the basic raw materials that are necessary for the economy of this country – that’s how many there are, 13. In 1950, we imported one-half of four of these 13 raw materials. In 1960, we imported one-half of six of these raw materials. In 1985, it is estimated that we will be importing one-half of nine of these. And by the year 2000, it is expected that we will be importing more than one-half of 12 of the 13 raw materials necessary to our economy. Is it not increasingly clear that we will live together ...

36. Speak And It Will Be

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... verse 7: "Therefore I did not presume to come to you." What a picture. The centurion did not even feel worthy to come to Jesus, but here we have one of the most revealing sections of the scripture -- a challenging understanding of who Christ is, and a right estimate of ourselves. Let me read some of the text again, beginning with verse 7: "Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But only speak the servant and let my servant be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and ...

37. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... an extreme insult and act of humiliation, likely done in public for maximum effect. I am attacking your character, possibly for being a follower of Jesus. And if you are higher than me in status, my social superior, what am I to do? If I do nothing, I accept your estimation of me and live with the shame. But if I am a kingdom citizen, I turn the left cheek. To hit me now you must use an open hand or fist, but then you will be revealed for who you are, an evil man. There is always a kingdom response ...

38. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’m going than remember where I’ve been.” (3) I want you to see where you’re going and to make the changes required to get there. That’s God’s will for you. “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? For if he lays the foundation and is not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule him, saying, ‘This fellow began to build and was not able to finish.’ “Or suppose a king is about ...

39. Family Matters

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... half a million dollars already to the operating and benevolence outreach of this church. This is wonderful--but we have a way to go. The leadership of this church also has a lot of work to do, because budget requests are way over what the finance people estimate our income will be next year. Which is the way it should be. Those requests represent vision, what we ought to be doing to expand and improve our ministry to this community and to the world. So the requests are in, the forecasts from the finance ...

40. A High FLOSS Church

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... use of all this information. The contributors aren't paid; they don't receive any kind of remuneration for the work they have accomplished and made available to all. One of the most innovative companies in the US, 3M, has estimated that "innovations by lead users . . . have been estimated to be eight times more valuable to the company than innovations made by the company itself." (For more on FLOSS, see Lawrence Lessig's review of Steven Weber's The Success of Open Source (Harvard, 2005) and Eric von Hippel ...

41. Kudzu Frittata

James 3:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... hack away at this pernicious plant with little effect. On steamy southern days and warm nights, the kudzu vine can add another six inches to a vital vine in 24 hours. The USDA statistics show that kudzu spreads over 120,000 acres a year and estimates that losses as a result of trying to curtail or contain this growth are about to reach $360 million annually. All because the kudzu vine is overwhelming its environment with its over-life. Our own over-living can be traced back to similar good intentions ...

42. Proper 20

Exodus 16:1-36, Matthew 20:1-16, Philippians 1:12-30, Psalm 105:1-45

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... unnecessary fever because they never considered the character of their employer. They made themselves the best judges of their needs, and so they should have had no quarrel with the one who hired them on the basis of their own estimation of their worth. But when they saw the employer's estimation of the others, then they could not be satisfied with their own. Christian freedom is based on the knowledge that God adequately meets our needs each day. This kind of trust keeps us humble, so that we can never act ...

43. The Sin of Robin Hood

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... trading," "misappropriation of funds." Did you know that businesses and retail establishments usually have more to fear from their employees than they do from the outside public? Security officials estimate that 75% of all employees in retail establishments steal, to some degree, taking three times as much as shoplifters. Current estimates are that internal theft cost American companies more than $60 billion a year. Half of the new small businesses that fail within the first year, do so because of internal ...

44. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... and seventh on the list in 1940 were getting out of line, wearing improper clothing, and not putting paper in the waste basket; today they are rape, robbery, and assault.20 If that is not enough to rattle your cage, consider this: There is an estimated 525,000 attacks, shakedowns, and robberies in the public high school every month. Each year nearly three million crimes are committed on, or near, school property 16,000 every school day. About 135,000 students carry guns to school daily; 1/5 of all students ...

45. With Jesus No Mission Is Impossible

John 6:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... alone numbered five thousand. Matthew tells us that there were also women and children. (Mt. 4:21) Bible scholars conservatively estimate that at a minimum the crowd numbered at least twenty thousand people. Nobody wanted to fast, every-body wanted to ... did not come just to add years to your life, He came to add life to your years. Furthermore, He is the sufficiency of life. It is estimated that it would have taken fifteen tons of food to have fed that crowd. In light of that, look at a phrase at the end of v ...

46. The Family That Prays Together Stays Together

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... in 1970, to 16.8 million in 1990. Married couples with children now make up only 26% of US households, down from 40% in 1970. 36% of children said their chores included making their own meals in 1993. Only 13% said the same in 1987. An estimated 70% of juvenile offenders come from single parent families. The average child has watched 8,000 televised murders and 100,000 acts of violence before finishing elementary school. One in six youths, between the ages of 10 and 17, has seen or know someone who has ...

47. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... very simple; there are only two choices we teach our kids to drink "only in moderation" or teach them (and lead by example) not to drink at all. I want to say respectfully, but firmly, to every moderate drinker reading this chapter. In my estimation, moderation is not the answer to the alcohol problem, but I believe a major cause of it. Two hundred years ago, Dr. Benjamin Rush said, "Many persons are destroyed by alcohol who were never completely intoxicated during the whole course of their lives." Recent ...

48. Why?

Job 3:11-12, 16, 20, 23

Sermon

James Merritt

... no evil. I'm not sure what your question is!" The student then replied, "Well, what am I asking you?"2 You see, evil, in my estimation, does not say we should run from the idea of God, but we should run to the idea of God. You think about this. We never ... pains; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."6 But this raises a question. To what God should we turn to? Well, in my estimation, there is only one God we can turn to, and it's certainly not a god who would reward cowardly murderous attacks by a heaven ...

49. Hazardous to Your Wealth: Myths about Money

Malachi 3:7-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... Examiners reports that about $435 billion is ripped off from businesses by their own workers every year; about 6% of an average firm's revenues and three times the estimated rate of such fraud in the 1960s. About 25% of Americans admit to some form of tax cheating, and that cost $100 billion annually. Fraud in the Worker's Compensation Program estimated $5 billion in 1995 according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.5 The second tip is invest it wisely. God expects you to be thrifty. He expects you to ...

50. An Unidentified King

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... be similar to what actually happened on the first Palm Sunday in Jerusalem. In the year 27 A.D., about this time of year, the city of Jerusalem was bursting at the seams with religious pilgrims there for the annual Passover Festival. It has been estimated that some 2.5 million people were in or around Jerusalem. If you want to feel what that was like, try to imagine four COGIC-sized conventions meeting simultaneously in Memphis on Elvis's birthday! The crowds were enthusiastic but, as the politicians would ...

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