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26. Go Hard or Go Home!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... , so that I can be a big help in the world. Amen, God.’” That Salvation Army worker was trying to help Terry prepare for a good life a meaningful life and a productive one. Most of us have had far more advantages than Terry, but how little we have done with those advantages. It is at the end of today’s lesson that Jesus speaks those haunting words, “Unto whom much is given, much is required.” Do you measure up? Are you using your hands to be a big help to the world? Here is what Christ wants out ...

27. God Forsaken

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Erskine White

... sometimes he would come to a wall which looked too high to climb over. But instead of giving up his journey, he would throw his hat over the wall. Then he had no choice but to keep going. President Kennedy used to say that this is what we have done with the space program. We have thrown our hat into space, and now we have no choice but to go after it. Isn't this precisely how some people overcome the barriers and burdens they meet in life? They propel themselves forward by putting themselves in a position ...

28. Immediately, They Followed

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... upon the beach, warming the backs of two brown fishermen as they worked, knee deep in the water, toiling over their nets…" See? We're off and running on a sermon about the romance of the fishing industry in Israel! Think of what Mark could have done with a good course in creative writing or even the freshman composition course at Duke! "Suddenly one of them stands upright. He shades his eyes from the sun and looks toward the bank. There, a lone figure is silently watching them. The man on the bank cries ...

29. A Great Run

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Samuel Moor Shoemaker

... sit in the study on a beautiful, cool August afternoon, I look back with many thanks. It has been a great run. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. Much could and should have been better, and I have, by no means, done what I should have done with all that I have been given. But the overall experience of being alive has been a thrilling experience. I believe that death is a doorway to more of it: clearer, cleaner, better, with more of the secret opened than locked. I do not feel much confidence in myself ...

30. A Mother's Request

Matthew 20:20-28

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... rescue without any question of a ransom being paid to someone (Beare, p. 409). This has lead some scholars to consider this verse of limited importance for the biblical doctrine of atonement. Barclay calls attention to what “the crude hands of theology” have done with this “lovely saying” and quotes Peter Lombard (as the extreme example), who writes that “the cross was a mousetrap to catch the devil, baited with the blood of Christ” (vol. 2, pp. 234–35). Others call attention to the fact that ...

31. The World Is Not Enough

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... the Civil War, and you had accumulated a large amount of Confederate currency. Now suppose that you knew ahead of time that the North was going to win the war, and that your money would soon be useless. Let me ask you a question. What would you have done with your Confederate money? Well, if you were smart, you would have cashed in all of your Confederate currency for US currency. Because that is the only money that would have value once the war was over. I want you to hear me carefully. We've got inside ...

32. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... live a Voice-activated life. For that’s what discipleship is The Voice-activated life the life that takes you “from glory to glory.” Joan continues: “You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the angelus rings you cross yourself and have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, and listened to the thrilling of the bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.” Bernard Shaw, Saint Joan: A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an ...

33. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... ! I am the king. Why don’t the voices come to me instead of you?" And Joan replies: "They do come, but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field at evening, listening for them. Oh, yes, when the angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it, but if you prayed from your heart and you listened to the trilling of the bells in the air long after the bells have stopped ringing, then you would hear the voices as well as I do." Joan is a vivid example of Christian truth that ordinary men ...

34. It Takes Two to Preach!

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... , "I always know. My voices ..." King Charles interrupts, "Oh, your voices, your voices! Why don’t the voices come to me? I am king, not you." Softly Joan responds, "They do come to you, but you do not hear them. When the Angelus rings, you cross yourself and have done with it; but if you prayed from your heart, and listened to the thrilling bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do." We do hear what we want to hear. If we have the Spirit, we will hear spiritual ...

35. The Extended Family

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... what Jesus would do with Mother's Day. There was no such thing in his time, as you know. And contrary to what some people think, Mother's Day is not one of the holy days in the Church's calendar. But I still wonder about Jesus. What would Jesus have done with Mother's Day? Of course, we don't know. But we do know that there was a command, one of the Ten Commandments, to honor your father and your mother. It is a tradition, we are told, that he did observe. The testimony is in two places, both in the ...

36. Exhortations

Philippians 4:2-9

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... was always a possibility, and the impossibility of membership in guilds which were under the patronage of pagan divinities was bound to involve economic disadvantage. But if the Lord was near, there was no cause for anxiety. Jesus had encouraged his disciples to have done with anxiety because their heavenly Father, who fed the birds and clothed the grass with flowers, knew their needs and was well able to supply them (Matt. 6:26–32 par. Luke 12:24–30). Similarly Paul says, in everything, by prayer and ...

37. Hey, You Can Only Be Young Twice!

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... -absorption. We have more energy because our attitude is more positive, more hopeful. We age better because we do not isolate ourselves in depression and despair. We are involved in church. We are involved with people. We have peace and contentment within, because we have done with those things that cause guilt and inner conflict. We live openly and joyfully. In short, we do all the things that are part of staying young right up until the twilight years of our lives. You know people like that, don't you? Of ...

38. Stewards and Our Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and abilities; we are stewards over them as well. The main idea is that each of us has special abilities given to us by God. God lets us manage these. We get to be in charge and one day will report to God what and how we have done with our abilities. Much of our Christian discipleship and stewardship comes about as we identify and use the gifts given to us by our Creator. Jenny Lind identified her gift as the ability to sing, and her prayer always was that she would glorify God whenever she used that ...

39. Manasseh

2 Kings 21:1-18

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... try to make friends with him rather than God. Obviously, he has the upper hand. "Your husband is in heaven." Yes, but I need him now, and I want him here on earth to be a father to his little boy. "Just have faith." Certainly, but how? Let us have done with package answers, tired cliches. Let a Christian be honest and realistic. Manasseh is a grim reality. He is part of life. A CROSS At the heart of the Christian faith is a cross - a big, rough, ugly instrument of death. One who knew no sin was nailed to ...

40. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... God''s creation. We are completely dependent upon the earth--its soil, water and air. The third is that we are stewards of all the earth''s resources. We are to till the earth, according to the writer of Genesis, and to keep it. The former we have done with diligence. The latter we have regarded with dangerous neglect. INDEED A VERY GOOD CASE CAN BE MADE THAT WE ARE DESTROYING THE VERY LAND, WATER AND AIR UPON WHICH WE DEPEND FOR SURVIVAL. Unless you have been living on a desert isle the past few years, you ...

41. The Power of a Vision

2 Corinthians 5:11-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the country. My final report will not be made to an annual conference or to a reporter surveying the religious landscape of a growing county. To God and God alone, we must be accountable. If the Bible is right, God will want to know what we have done with what we have been given. So let me try to build a Biblical foundation for Touching Hearts and Transforming Lives. As Paul says to the cosmopolitan church at Corinth, one with much diversity and many problems in the midst of it, “Our firm decision is to ...

42. Whether We Live Or Die

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Sims Robert

... the forward-looking years when we don’t think much about time, its length or its brevity. In those years time is always ahead of us but at 60 or 70 years time is more precious. We find ourselves looking back as much as forward. We reflect upon what we have done with time rather than what we will do. Do not take time for granted. Do not assume that it will forever stretch out before you. Will Rogers once wrote a poem about time. The clock of time is wound but once And no one has the power To tell just when ...

43. A Double Share of the Spirit

2 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... his master's shoes. He took that double measure of the spirit and went on to his own journey of greatness and service to the Lord and the people. To we who have had the benefit of great teachers and friends like this, the question comes as to what we have done with the great gifts we have received. What will we do with the gift of spirit, double measure or not that we have received as pure grace? Are we to go on and try to fill the shoes of our benefactors? Are we to take the gift and use it on ...

44. Augustine, Defender of the Faith

Children's Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... so we could discover what God would have us do in our community and in our own individual lives each day. I hope you’ll remember over the next few weeks what it means to be a reformer. A reformer is one who re-shapes the church, just like I have done with this lump of clay.

45. Watch!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... love, new kindness, new mercy, and new compassion. As the birth of Jesus was the beginning of the Christian life, so the unselfish joy at Christmas shall start the spirit that is to rule the new year." That is indeed the spirit that we need. We need to have done with our waddling in the muck and mire of despair. We need to begin watching the heavens for a star, for a Savior, for one who will redeem us from our faithless ways. The Master has thus instructed us: "Watch therefore, for you do not know on what ...

46. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... your voices. Why don’t the voices come to me? I am king, not you.” Joan replies, “They do come to you, but you do not hear them. You have not sat in the field in the evening listening for them. When the Angelus rings . . . you cross yourself and have done with it. But, if you prayed from your heart and listened to the trilling of the bells in the air after they stop ringing, you would hear the voices as well as I do.” (4) Joan heard the voice of God; the king, if he heard anything at all, heard ...

47. Faith

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... us through each \nday. \nSAM: I thought it was some big, complicated, involved, \ntheological thing. \nWILL: No. It's not. If it were, then a little child couldn't \nhave faith. \nSAM: True. Just trusting God to get me through the day, eh? \nWILL: As all the saints have done, with whatever He has planned \nfor your day. Just doing the simple things He has prepared for \nyou to do. And one of those days planned by Him, He will want \nyou to go to church and then it will be right and it might not be \neasy ...

48. The Rich Man and Lazarus

Luke 16:19-31

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... children, Father, but it is so easy for us to let our nominal attachment to your church be the extent of our discipleship. And when we do get active, we become more concerned with maintaining buildings than ministering to human lives. Forgive us for what we have done with your church, when you desire just the opposite. Renew us to a vital faith that will make us your living church at work in our world. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Hymns "God of Grace and God of Glory” “Where Cross the Crowded Ways of ...

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Georgia O'Keeffe

50. We Are An Army

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Staff

Did you ever stop to think what an army of people we represent? Our parents each had two parents, those four had two parents each, and so on, marching back into the past. All these people had to live before we could. Would they be proud of what we have done with their gift?

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