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26. Movable Stone, Portable House

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... before he can lead. A true disciple must be dedicated not to his own journey, path, agenda, but to Jesus’ mission in the world, even when it feels unreasonable, hard, or tedious. How adaptable are you? How easy is it for you to put aside your own wants, desires, opinions, agendas, preferences, control in order to allow the Holy Spirit to guide you in a direction that you may not want to go? How easy is it for you to defer to God’s mission in the world, to love the people God wants you to love? To serve ...

27. Proper 24

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Luke 18:1-8, Psalm 119:1-176

Bulletin Aid

William E. Keeney

... .2 Peter 3:9, 15 -- God is patient with you; therefore, regard the patience of the Lord. CONTENT Precis of the Parable Jesus tells a story to illustrate that his disciples should pray constantly without becoming discouraged. A city judge ignored both public opinion and religious principles. In the same city a widow came before him seeking justice. At first, he refused to consider her case. Later, because of her repeatedly coming before him, he decided to grant her justice. He just wanted to be rid of her ...

28. Pride: The Deadliest of the Seven Deadly Sins

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Curtis Fussell

... they were to get along with, 25 percent said they were in the top one percent, sixty percent said they were in the top ten percent, and absolutely no one said he was below average in being easy to get along with. Obviously high school students have a very high opinion of themselves; they have pride in themselves. Now is this the kind of pride that says, "I have something to offer this world to make it a better place," or is it the kind of pride that says, "I'm better than you"? The exam doesn't say. We hope ...

29. Pruning Season

Luke 13:1-9

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... , then? TREE: What if we just do the fertilizer and that digging thing. That sounds much less painful. H.G.: Fertilizer and digging without pruning won't do it. We have to go the whole way. I have to cut. TREE: Can I get a second opinion? H.G.: No. You can't get a second opinion. There's bad wood there. Dead wood. It has to be trimmed away. TREE: (Moaning) Ooooh! H.G.: Even some of the live wood has to go. (Poking the TREE) You're all lopsided here. TREE: Ahhhh! H.G.: (Poking) And these upper branches are ...

30. The Remote

John 14:5-14

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... but maybe empty-headed. Listen, if you do not agree with good, sound reasoning, then you must be inconsistent in your own reasoning, which is a definition of being empty-headed. SUSAN: You're wearing me out. FLY: Ah, yes. That is because you do not have an opinion of your own. Your opinions are all shallow and are not based on logic, just emotion. SUSAN: Why don't you leave me alone. FLY: Because there might just be hope for you. Now maybe I can get to work on you. SUSAN: What are you going to do to me? FLY ...

31. A New Perspective

Deuteronomy 7:1-26

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... feels like the world is tilting beneath you, well, that’s appropriate. To be a believer is to have a different way of looking at things. It’s not a matter of adding some new opinions to the opinions you already have, even if these opinions are about God. Your mind is not like a bulletin board, where you can tack up new opinions about God and maybe take down a few old ones. It’s not like that. It’s a shifting of your frame of reference, of allowing Christ to capture your frame of reference like the ...

32. Make Up Your Mind!

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... to meet on Mount Carmel. There is perhaps no more telling evidence of it than the response of many to the ugly crisis in the White House and Congress just two years or so ago. Attempts to replace the Constitution with the latest popular opinion polls were telling evidence of how our nation is spiritually adrift. We saw that many of our leaders have, in Stephen Vincent Benet’s words, “no fixed stars.” God’s standards of morality and truth possess little relevance or authority for many people in ...

33. Jesus Came Preaching

Mark 1:14-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... people are aimed when they leave the church, the effect can be beyond all calculation.” What people think determines everything. Lincoln said: With the public sentiment nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed. Consequently, he who moulds public opinion goes deeper than he who enacts statutes or pronounces decisions. (Sweazey, op. cit., p. 9) Physicians and farmers labor to keep people alive. Preachers labor to make their lives worth living. And that is infinitely worth doing. Joseph Conrad said ...

34. The Church Is Alive and Well

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... to study what our Lord had to say about the church. I. The Glorious Foundation of The Church Jesus' teaching on the church came as a response to a question and answer session that He had with His disciples. First, he asked a question concerning public opinion: "When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, ‘Who do men say that I am?' So they said, ‘Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.'" (vv. 13-14) Now there were all ...

35. The King and His Castle

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... There were some who said that Jesus was a great preacher like John the Baptist. There were others who said that Jesus was a great person like Elijah. There were others who said that Jesus was a great prophet like Jeremiah. But Jesus is not concerned about public opinion. All he cares about is personal conviction. So he asked the second question: "But who do you say that I am?" (v.15) Now that is the key question. Who do you say that Jesus is? You see it is irrelevant what your parents think about Jesus, or ...

36. Style: Some Distinctive Marks of a Methodist

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he continued to admonish his Methodist Brethren: “I beseech you, brethren, but the mercies of God that we be in no wise divided among ourselves. Is thy heart right, as my heart is with thine? I ask no further question. If it be, give me thy hand. For opinions, or terms, let us not destroy the work of God. Doesn’t thou love and serve God? It is enough. I give thee the right hand of fellowship.” (From the Works of John Wesley, London, The Epworth Press, 1950 edition, pages 7-15). We need that — not ...

37. Small-Minded Christians in a Big World

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... institutions where you may be the only one teaching a given course year after year. The danger, he said, is that you may begin to think that the topics you choose to put in your syllabus really are the most important topics in that area and that your opinions and the questions you put on your test really are what people should know. Many of us can think of sad cases where a professor's courses have become hopelessly out of date or out of touch with practitioners in that field and research in that discipline ...

38. Can You Be Popular and Serve Jesus?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... . I’m going to get a hot dog.” When he returns with a hamburger, his friend asks, “What are you doing with a burger?” “Well,” he says, “I met this fellow . . .” (4) Some of us are worse than others, but all of us are susceptible to the opinions of our peers. We are influenced by the culture of which we are a part. Here’s the second thing we need to see: Christ and culture are not always in agreement. Even our culture a supposedly Judeo-Christian culture is not always in agreement with the ...

39. Love That Surpasses Knowledge

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Thomas Lentz

... mindedness, and ignorance than to stand apart from those who think differently from us." Too often, we allow differences to grow walls among us. How helpful it would be for us to remember that the one for whom we harbor bitterness, the one who holds a different opinion, the one who has different values, the one who dresses oddly ... all these are individuals whom Christ loves and for whom he died. God grant you strength in your inner being to grasp the depth of this love of Christ, so that you may attain to ...

40. A New Point of View

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... want the approval of our spouse and children but also the neighbors and coworkers who will see us in that shirt. Their opinion matters. We choose to associate with people who are like us because they are safe. Safety counts. We hang around with people ... in God (as most Americans do), we live most of our lives as functional atheists, as if God doesn't exist or as if God's opinion of us doesn't matter. We live with this huge disconnect between Sunday morning and the rest of the week. However, if your life is ...

41. Flip the Switch

Psalm 119:105

Sermon

James Merritt

... complained if a man’s hair touched his collar. They got hung up on the way people dressed – whether or not you ought to use hymnals, whether men should wear suits and women should wear dresses. Everybody has a right to their opinion, but when those opinions take on the authority of scripture you fall into the pit of legalism. There was also the “leaven of the Sadducees”. That represents liberalism. The Sadducees did not believe in the resurrection and that is why they were “sad you see.” Keep ...

42. Ignite: Fire Extinguishers

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... and the greatest fire-extinguisher of all… IV. Pushing Preferences Over People Now James, the brother of Jesus, stands up and does the most important thing. He simply goes to the Word of God. He basically says, “It really doesn’t matter what my opinion is or what your opinion is. It doesn’t matter what I think or what you think. What matters is, “What does God’s Word say?” He quotes a prophecy from Amos where Amos predicted that Gentiles would come to God just like Jews and that they would all ...

43. Imitating Christ's Humility

Philippians 2:1-11

Understanding Series

F. F. Bruce

... : Gk. hina to auto phronēte, … to hen phronountes, with repetition of the verb phronein, a verb specially common in this letter (which accounts for ten out of its twenty-three Pauline occurrences). It means “to think” in the sense of having a settled opinion or attitude, having one’s mind set in a particular way. 2:3 In humility: Gk. en tapeinophrosynē, or “in lowly-mindedness.” A good first-century example of this word’s currency to denote a vice, not a virtue, comes in Josephus, War 4 ...

44. Marriage, Sexual Intimacy, and Spiritual Devotion

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... to marry than to be distracted by passion.” 7:10–11 To the married I give this command (not I, but the Lord). Paul’s correction of himself (“not I, but the Lord”) does not set up a contrast of authority, as if Paul in 7:8 simply states his opinion, something they can take or leave, while in 7:10 he delivers a prophetic statement from God. Rather, in 7:8 he has no direct Jesus saying to quote; in 7:10 he does (Matt. 5:32; 19:9; Luke 16:18). This also explains his rhetorical change from “I ...

45. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... speak, but they do not realize that many words do not necessarily equal sound wisdom. People like Elihu end up saying a lot, but they may contribute less of substance to the discussion than they suppose. When so many seem eager to offer their opinions, sometimes very passionately, we need to be careful to measure all that they say by the truths of God’s Word, because true wisdom comes from God. Illustrating the Text Even when counselors and public figures are confident, they may be wrong. Television: Late ...

46. Jesus Sends Out the Twelve

Matthew 10:1-42

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

... . At the final judgment Jesus will speak for or against a person on the basis of whether that person has been a fearless advocate or a silent witness. One’s involvement in spreading the message of the kingdom has eternal consequences. 10:34–39 The prevailing Jewish opinion was that when Messiah came he would usher in a time of universal peace. Not so, says Jesus. I have come, but not to bring peace to the earth. I bring not peace but a sword. In this context the sword symbolizes that which divides a ...

47. Elihu

Job 32:1--37:24

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... wrong path in life (Prov. 3:7; 26:5, 12; 28:11; Eccl. 2:14; Isa. 5:21). As wisdom and righteousness are often synonymous in the Wisdom literature, it appears that this statement levels a charge of pride and self-deception at Job. These words certainly express the opinion of Job’s friends at this point, as well as that of the new speaker, Elihu. It is unlikely, however, that this evaluation of Job also represents the narrator’s point of view. In Proverbs 3:7, the call not to be wise in one’s own eyes ...

48. Who Do You Think He Is?

John 6:51-58

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... though the meaning is crystal clear, the bishop leaned over his desk, stared at her and said, "I don't know what you think happened when your bishop placed his hands on your head, but I can tell you... nothing happened." In other words, she, in his opinion, was not a priest, because women cannot become priests in his theological framework, and even if they think they've been ordained, it was nothing but a day to play dress-up, to pretend that God had changed her through the laying on of hands. She was ...

49. The Advocate

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... you think north is. Now open your eyes and see where others are pointing. Strange, isn't it, how people differ on where they think true north is to be found? I have a compass here which shows which way is true north. It is not just a matter of opinion. The Bible is our compass. Jesus is our compass. The words of Jesus convicting the world about wrong and right point us in the right direction. Not only is it the job of the Holy Spirit, our Advocate, to convict people of sin and righteousness; it is also our ...

50. Before The Sun Sets

Ephesians 4:1-16

Illustration

Staff

... to one's self. People didn't care what you thought. That's what she'd been taught by her parents. For all of her life she had followed their instruction. She couldn't remember a time when she had stated an opinion publicly. Granted, in their own home she would express herself but not in public. And now her husband had spoken once too often. She intended to let him know. Whispered words can also be intense words. They didn't raise their voices. They didn't have to. She told him; ...

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