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26. The Apostles' Creed: Maker of Heaven and Earth

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , not the judge. Rather than send the case back for further action, however, the court said forget it: "Nothing is to be gained by prolonging the life of this bizarre case." Yes, there are still folks who say that teaching evolution or the "Big Bang" theory or anything else that does not follow the outline of Genesis, chapter one, is nothing less than a fiendish attack that comes directly from the devil in Hell. I disagree. Despite what many of us grew up believing, Genesis, chapter one, was never meant to ...

27. A Niche For Every Itch

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... can be seen in advertising campaigns for the financial firm of Merrill Lynch, whose slogan is: "We're bullish on America." At one time, Merrill Lynch had a TV ad that showed a herd of bulls running. Arnold Mitchell, the researcher who developed the theory that differentiates between belongers and achievers (among others), argued that this herd image was all wrong for an ad designed to attract wealthy investors. "A herd is a belonger symbol," he said. "Rich people with money don't want to think of themselves ...

28. Time to Pull the Weeds

Matthew 13:24-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... becomes more dilapidated, there is a growing assumption of lawlessness by the residents. People assume that they can lower their standards of behavior, because no one will notice or care. The mayor of New York City used the Broken Window theory in the 1990s as a guide for reducing the crime rate. He had work crews cleaning up vandalism and repairing crumbling buildings. He assigned officers to patrol neighborhoods and cite people for even minor infractions. Littering, public drunkenness, vandalism and ...

29. That Believing Ye Might Have Life

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... physicists at Oxford University in England in 1974. When he finished, the session moderator blurted out, "Oh, this is rubbish." Physicists attempt to prove the size, shape, and workings of the universe with mathematics. Everyone has heard of Einstein's theory of relativity, which attempts to prove that light traveling through a field of gravitation is slightly distorted. Einstein knew that there was another force somewhere in the universe that had to be identified before we could completely understand the ...

30. Good Friday

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... happened at Calvary. 2.) Peter Abelard lived from 1079-1142, and he came up with what we might call the “Moral Influence” theory of the atonement. Abelard said that Jesus’ death on the cross was simply the supreme example of God’s love for us. ... was that in the cross, Christ entered into a battle with the forces of evil on our behalf, and won the victory. All of these theories express part of the truth, but perhaps our hymns say it best: We may not know, we cannot tell What pains he had to bear; But ...

31. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it is, I’m going to ask my chauffeur to step forward and answer your question.” What I’m asking you to consider is not anything as simple as the theory of relativity. Do you think I said that wrongly? I repeat. I’m not going to talk today about anything as simple as the theory of relativity. Now I don’t know much about the theory of relativity really, but I know it’s something we can learn. We can learn it with our minds. I’m talking about something far more difficult, something we can’t ...

32. Constantly Abiding

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Christ is alive today. He is a now reality. This reality must become personal. Christ is alive in me! There is an old story about Albert Einstein. He was going around the country from university to university on the lecture circuit, giving lectures on his theory of relativity. He traveled by chauffeur-driven limousine. One day, after they had been on the road for awhile, Einstein’s chauffeur said to him, “Dr. Einstein, I’ve heard you deliver that lecture on relativity so many times, I’ll bet I could ...

33. The Near Edge of God

Jn 1:1-3, 14

Sermon

... universe in more ways than we previously believed. Let me try and explain, knowing that in doing so, I am skating at the naked edge of my knowledge zone, and (quite possibly) your comfort zone. It all has to do with what the scientists call "Chaos Theory" ... .which is anything but what the name would seem to suggest. So work with me, here. Until very recently, we believed in a world that could be understood and managed. In fact, we believed that way since 1686 when Sir Isaac Newton wrote a startling book ...

34. Being Open to the Impossible

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... just how simple it is, I’m going to ask my chauffeur to step forward and answer your question.” I’m not going to talk today about anything as simple as the theory of relativity. Do you think I said that wrong? I repeat. I’m not going to talk today about anything as simple as the theory of relativity. Now I don’t know much about the theory of relativity really, but I know it’s something we can learn. We can learn it with our minds. Most of us could if we determined to do so. I’m talking about ...

35. The Home Court Advantage

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... phenomenon …Somehow playing at home breeds a sense of solidarity, or what used to be called team spirit, which means that players have more confidence in each other and work better as a unit.” Runciman conclude his critique by admitting, “I can’t prove my theory, but I can defend it. It chimes with what you can see happening in any team sport — the away players don’t quite believe in themselves in the way the home players do.” Team spirit. A spirit that binds together a bunch of individuals ...

36. Having a Good Name

Proverbs 1:20-33

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... room and we will sit on it. Let me redefine what I mean by creed: It is our name and its measurement, our epistemology, our theory, our ideology, our script, our screen, and our filter. It is not all these things at the same time but can be any of them ... of choosing our own names. Americans think we are self-made. We are not. We are made by each other. In Thomas Friedman's new theory, one I happen to buy, the price of oil and the pace of freedom move in opposite directions. We are made by the price of ...

37. Unity in the Body of Christ

Ephesians 4:1-16

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... list seven “ones” that relate the unity of the church to the unity of Christ and God. There are a number of theories about the origin of this passage. Scholars have found striking parallels with forms of Hellenistic Judaism and Stoic philosophy. Beare, for ... for one specific congregation may not have applied to all the other churches. It is a fairly well accepted theory that the “charismatic” leadership of the early church was gradually replaced by regulated offices (e.g., elders, bishops, deacons). ...

38. Excuses! Excuses!

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... of that panel stood up, stomped his desk and declared that Hawking’s presentation was nothing but “rubbish.” Hawking remained unruffled. Hawking knew he was right. You will remember that thirty years earlier Albert Einstein had formulated his theory of relativity. Later, however, Einstein discovered something was missing from his phenomenal theory. For his theory to make complete sense, he had to figure out a hidden force which influenced the universe. For years Einstein toiled hard to connect his ...

39. Why 153 Fish?

John 21:1-14

Illustration

Brett Blair

... 153 fish? Have you ever wondered about that? No? Well others have. Cyril of Alexandria in the 5th century said that the 100 represented the fullness of the gentiles, the 50 symbolized the remnant of Israel and the three of course was there for the Trinity. Augustine’s theory (5th century) was a little more complicated. He said, there are 10 commandments and 7 is the perfect number of grace and that’s 17 right? Now if you add all the numbers from 1 to 17 together, you know 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 all the way ...

40. Why Aspire to Sainthood?

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

... Jews were associated with Jesus and involved in his crucifixion, and have also been competitively present with Christians in community life, they have served as a convenient scapegoat. On them the hostility can be more safely released. Whatever one thinks of this theory, it is clearly indicative of an unfortunate misconception concerning the spirit in which Jesus set forth the high ideals for Christian living. Does this kind of misconception account for the fact that we hesitate to say we are trying to be ...

41. Christ The King

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... to plunge the depths of all Paul is trying to say to us. It does remind me, though, of a passage in Dr. Robert Schuller's book, BELIEVE IN THE GOD WHO BELIEVES IN YOU. He is dealing with Dr. Stephen W. Hawking's concept of "The theory of everything" ” called TOE for short. Stephen W. Hawking is a professor of mathematics at Cambridge University and one of the world's most brilliant people. "My proposal," Hawking says, "is the statement that the universe is a closed system. We don't need to suppose there ...

42. Christ The King

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... he gave his life in our behalf. A writer named John Hendee once used a powerful analogy of Christ's sacrifice in our behalf. All of us know the name Louis Pasteur, the man who revolutionized the practice of medicine with what was once called "germ-theory." We are probably not as familiar with his co-worker in these experiments, Dr. Felix Ruh, a Jewish doctor in Paris. Dr. Ruh's granddaughter died of black diphtheria. Ruh vowed that he would find out what killed his granddaughter. He locked himself in his ...

43. Made For The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

44. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... exultant, joyful, shout of the soul to the God who brings order out of chaos who speaks and it is done. With his word, Creation happens. Incandescent amazement! Now the other word about the debate. For secular education people to insist that only evolution, as a theory of the origin of the earth and man be taught in public schools, is as much a fundamentalist mentality as to take the position that the Bible teaches us that the earth is between six and seven thousand years old. Our secular schools, if they ...

45. Now Here Is the Plan

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . You don't have to say anything. You don't have to explain anything. You don't have to have all those theories about what the cross means. Those are called the theories of the "atonement." There are several of them. I am reluctant to say what I am about to say because of the ... something you grasp. God is someone who grasps you. It is the same with the cross. There are these doctrines, these theories, about what happened on the cross. To put all the "surfers" on the Internet at ease, I know all of those ...

46. True Reformation

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... and destruction of others is one of those common sense ideas that, like it or not, seems to be true of the way the world is. The idea that the one who will be condemned by Pilate and crucified is the truth seems absurd. As with Einstein's theory, so here: The real truths are not those of common sense. Empires and tyrants who have relied on domination and destruction have passed away, while Christ crucified is, as Paul said, "the power of God and the wisdom of God." Jesus Christ is the truth in a double ...

47. Honor To Whom Honor Is Due

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... who are honorable. Now I want to say something that every parent already knows. It is not easy to be a parent. I heard a man say one time, "There was a time when I had six theories on how to raise children, but I didn't have any children; now I have six children, and no theories." Well, I don't want to give you theories, I want to give you truths. All three of these truths begin with the letter "T"; truths from the word of God, that will help you to teach and train your children to honor you, and ...

48. Honor Graduate

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... one job as a parent - to teach your children to honor you. I realize that parenting is one difficult job. I heard a man say one time, "There was a time when I had six theories on how to raise children, but I didn't have any children. Now, I have six children and no theories." We are not dealing here with theory; we are dealing with reality. You must teach your children why they are to honor their parents. The word "honor" literally means "weighty"; to "treat as something with great weight". Don't go to your ...

49. What Would Jesus Say About War?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... policy or principles of personal piety remains a matter of public debate. Jesus may or may not have been a pacifist. Nobody really knows. In between those two poles, moral people of the past have developed what is called a Just War Theory. The Just War Theory is a complex set of criteria established for the purposes of morally restraining any resort to war. Introduced by St. Augustine in the 4th century, after Christians had abandoned their pacifist stance, and revised in the Middle Ages by St. Thomas ...

50. The Place beyond Punishment

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... a six-week-old fetus. Think of it as taking the high road in Lilliput.2 Note also how important it is to punish sexuality. It is not just about death. Of course we are to suffer for a long time before we die, in this theory of life. Enter Turbo Slut, meticulously scheduling her abortions between manicures and sex in the city. To slander their moral courage (of the poor) in defense of moral dogmatism is one of the shabbier tactics of the right.Enter Turbo Slut, meticulously scheduling her abortions between ...

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