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26. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hell!

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... didn''t want to. I don''t want to sound naive now, I knew what I was doing was wrong. I knew that. Okay?I don''t know how to put this, maybe except to put it in religious terms. Once you start sinning, you either stop or you just keep going and going, and then you carry this guilt around, subconscious perhaps, but it''s always there and there''s always tension. It''s one of those things that you push back inside you but you know that it makes you the worse for it." Arthur Walker was experiencing his little ...

27. Winners Losers

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... As long as the loved one is there for us we can, in the words of countless love songs, “move mountains,” “travel unexplored deserts,” “conquer all obstacles,” “in all times to be content.” The recognition of love empowers a person to keep going with good will, courage, and confidence, almost no matter what. 2.) Courage is another quality that grows through continuing. Courage is not just a single act of grand sacrifice. It grows out of daily practice and gains strength and assurance as time ...

28. Don't Give Up - He Hears!

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Every time he prayed about something significant in his life, he seemed to be talking to a wall. Later in his life, however, he said, "God did not always answer my prayers, but he answered me. He gave me the courage, the faith and the perseverance to keep going, to keep believing and to keep working." This widow that Jesus told about did not give up. Some of us are crying out to God night and day. Often just hanging in there is our most difficult trial. But there is one more critical thing to be said ...

29. Running with Perseverance

Hebrews 11:29 – 12:2

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... ! We don't run this race alone. Abraham, Moses, David, Samuel, and even Rahab the redeemed prostitute, are rooting for us to keep going. I've talked to people who run the Susan Komen Race for the Cure every year. Cancer survivors will line the streets ... and bickering? Let us not give up. God still works through the church in spite of all of its problems. Let us persevere. Let us keep going. Are we ready to give up in the fight for justice? Does it seem as though we never get anywhere trying to help the poor ...

30. THE RECEPTIONIST

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... out, my brother should have died twenty years ago with what he’s been through. He’s even got a plastic tube in his heart; and he says he’s got a metal plate in his head. Of course he could be lying about that; but just the same he keeps going, he gets resurrected one part at a time. And so what’s to stop him from living forever? And even if he is my own brother, I think that’s a very unpleasant prospect. Because he could take over the world if somebody gave him half a chance. With a ...

31. Liminal Space

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... fear, doubt, and the unknown may pop up like hills to climb, or rocks to trip over, in a long way from one place to another, but a journey that you keep making, because you believe in your destination. And you believe in your journey. Faith always keeps going forward. Faith keeps the face looking upward and the feet moving forward. And faith believes in the process, and the “walk” of the journey –as well as the person you journey with. In our scripture for today, we see Mary and Joseph in a kind of ...

32. Luther of Wittenberg

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... admitted more than once that he had conscience struggles about having taken the steps he did. He worried that he might turn out to be spectacularly wrongheaded, instead of doing God’s work. But once you burn your bridges, you have to keep going. ANTAGONIST: Maybe he should have burned the 95 theses instead. PROTAGONIST: And let the church go on believing God was a destroying, wrathful monster? ANTAGONIST: (Considering it thoughtfully) No. No, I guess he couldn’t. Sometimes maybe you do have to burn ...

33. Unfinished Journeys

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... work ever done? When will all the hungry be fed? When shall there be no more poor among us, or no more need to struggle for equal rights for women and minorities? When people choose a project in life which is larger than themselves, how do they keep going when they know that no matter how hard they work, the task before them is endless? It's been said that, "Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in one lifetime" (Reinhold Niebuhr). And because that is true, we need a way to continue our journeys in life ...

34. Hope For The End Times

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... seen people care for their elderly parents, for brain damaged children, for wives in wheelchairs, for years, even decades, and I have asked myself, where do people get the strength to keep doing that for so long? Where do they get the resources of love and loyalty to keep going? The only answer I come up with is when we are weary and out of strength, we turn to God and God renews our strength, so we can run and not grow weary, so that we can walk and not feel faint." (3) In times of persecution, in times ...

35. Five Mission Killers

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... better a positive attitude than high aptitude people with negative attitudes. Attitude always trumps and triumphs over aptitude. A negative spirit will spread like kudzu, and kill a dream faster than you can say disaster. 2) Run on empty .. . . You need fuel to keep going. When you refuse to get off the highway and refuse to make pit stops for refueling and recharging, you are killing your mission no matter how much of a martyr you may feel like. 3) Monitor constantly ... Nothing kills a mission faster than ...

36. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... bit of trouble believing this stuff about the miracles; I am not a naturalistic skeptic; what I have enormous trouble with is getting in on it! 9 I wake up in the morning wondering: Is this the day? Along the way God sends me enough encouragements to keep going. I think they call it hope. It was only then, when the time was ripe and circumstances in place, that Jesus pulled back for a full disclosure of what he was about. Here atop the mountain there is one center, Jesus, and two audiences, one after the ...

37. Paul, The Great Missionary

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... Christ and to experience the power of his resurrection; to share in his sufferings and become more like him in his death, in the hope that I myself will be raised from death to life. "I do not claim that I have already succeeded or have already become perfect. I keep going on to try to win the prize for which Christ Jesus has already won me to himself. Of course, my brothers and sisters, I do not think that I have already won it; the only thing I do, however, is to forget what is behind me and do my best ...

38. Paul, The Great Missionary

Philippians 1:1-11

Drama

Jerry Eckert

39. When God Is Silent

Psalm 35:1-28

Sermon

Erskine White

... was silent. There were times when Dr. King got so discouraged, so tired and frightened, that he felt he couldn't go on. He wanted to quit what he was doing. That's when God would speak to him, in a voice that he could hear and tell him to keep going. "Lo, I am with you always," God would say, "even to the end of the age." Maybe you've also known those moments where God has spoken when you most needed to hear His voice, when you most needed to know that He was there and that He cared. Those ...

40. Something to Sing About

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the horizontal line. When he was flying straight ahead, the little plane was right on that horizontal line. That is what Paul lived by, an artificial horizon. The horizon that only the eyes of faith can see. The horizon that enables you to keep steady in a storm, to keep going even when you cannot see the future. You keep on going. That is why he could sing in prison. He could see not only the boundary of this life, he could see the beginning of an even greater life, and why he could say: For me to live is ...

41. LOST? Pursuing Purpose

1 Peter 2:9-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it sounds crazy. 4 weeks ago I wouldn't have believed it myself. But you and I are here for a reason. There's something that we were meant to find something that's going to help us get into the hatch. I know it. But we've got to keep going." Boone says, "Okay. Can you move your legs?" Locke says, "Just help me up, son." (2) If you remember the clip I showed a couple of weeks ago, Locke voiced that same opinion to Jack. He said, "We were brought here for a purpose, for a reason, all of us ...

42. Stopping the Spread of Hell

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... because harmony is more important than truth or feelings. Jesus says that the Christian family does not work well with silence. In the household of God, when your sister sins against you, you must go and talk to her. If that doesn't work, you must keep going back, taking others with you, doing everything in your power to get your sister back again. Barbara Brown Taylor points out two interesting things about Jesus' advice.[1] The first is that he puts the burden on the victim, on the person that has been ...

43. The Greatest Sin

Luke 13:6-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... pretty nice guy. But being a nice guy or a nice lady isn’t nearly as important as making your life count for something. And how do you make your life count? By using what you have for God’s glory and making the world a better place. I could keep going on with this theme right through lunch and beyond. [I can see that some of you are worried I’m going to do just that.] For example, remember the story of the rich young ruler who turned back rather than giving up his wealth and following Jesus. By his ...

44. Be an Energizer Bunny

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ads featuring that perpetual-motion machine, the Energizer Bunny, you've been living on another planet these past few years. No matter how many obstacles are put in his path or how ingeniously the opposition plots against him, the Bunny just "keeps going, and going, and going,..." Have you ever wondered why the battery company uses the "Energizer," this intrusive, in-your-face, bass drum-beating, sometimes even destructive pink rabbit as its logo? According to the laws of physics, the more havoc this ...

45. The Assurance of Things Hoped For

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... circumstances? From Abraham we learn that faith grows best in a soil of risk. We also learn that we may not see results right away. We may not know until the resurrection how God was working to use and redeem our efforts. In spite of the uncertainty we keep going. Being willing to wait until God's time to see the results is the assurance of things hoped for. Faith is maintaining confidence in God, even when we are still hoping. When we wrestle in our heads with what we believe and step out in faith, our ...

46. In The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... some success and are feeling more confident. "Now the birds," God said. "Hey, that was hard work," God said. "Can't spend all my time making critters. Make yourselves, you all!" God shouted. "And do it with My blessing!" "Got a problem," God said. "How can all these critters keep going without food? I sure haven't got time to go out there and scrounge enough food out of the waters to keep them going, not if I got other things to do. I know! They can help each other out. The birds can eat some of the seeds ...

47. By Enduring

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... IS TO KEEP ON KEEPING ON. When I was hospitalized for a stem cell transplant a little over a year ago, a friend sent me a quote from Winston Churchill that I have held close ever since. The simple statement is this: “If you are going through hell, keep going." Nurses copied it and shared it with other patients. I have given it to countless other fellow suffers, and it still hangs on our refrigerator at home. The message is clear. Hell is no place to get off the bus and give up! Perseverance is the wisdom ...

48. Jingle Bells at a Funeral

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... especially my mouth and share it with others. And I tell you, sometimes I feel very rich. Don’t have nothin’, not much money in my pocket, but inside I feel like I have done my best and God has given me the wisdom and the strength to keep going.” (4) Cabby Percival Bryan is with God now, but those autograph collections in the Smithsonian speak of a man who knew how to rejoice always and to pray continually. God rode with him in his cab. God was the major influence in how he conducted his life. His ...

49. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the heaviness. We know where Emmaus is don’t we? We have been there in one way or another at sometime in our live. Emmaus is whatever we do, or wherever we go to salvage and sort out our feelings, to summon the desire and courage and desire to keep going on, to try and forget. Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to reclaim our sanity when our world goes to pieces; when our ideals and dreams are violated and distorted. I’ve shared with many of you the way I practice prayer for our students, staff ...

50. That's All I Want

Psalm 23:1

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and we start talking like everybody else. At first the street names are important because we're new to the community. But then we start getting to know everybody and we get used to direction like, "Let's see, take 917 to Old Betsy and take a right. Keep going past Dr. Lehman's place...." This Psalm has become so familiar that we miss some of the depth and richness that is there. And we miss some of the relationship which God offers to us. Over the next few weeks we're going to revisit this familiar Psalm ...

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