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26. When Christians Pray

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... the devotional, Our Daily Bread, tells about a friend of hers who understands why we are to pray. She notes that most people own a calendar or an appointment book in which they record details of future commitments. She says this friend of hers uses one in the opposite way. He doesn’t record key activities until after they’ve taken place. Here’s his approach: Each morning he prays, “Lord, I go forth in Your strength alone. Please use me as You wish.” Then, whenever he accomplishes something unusual ...

27. The Tabernacle

Exodus 26:1-37

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... of this phrase.) Most likely the twisting describes the process of spinning flax into the thread to then use in weaving. “Blue, purple and scarlet” describe three different colors of what was probably linen thread used in the weaving. The weavers could have used one color for the warp and two colors alternating in the weft (perpendicular threads) in a pattern. The result would be a regal tricolored cloth into which they wove, or worked in by some other method, the cherubim design. The dimensions of each ...

28. Proper 14

Genesis 37:1-11, Matthew 14:22-36, Romans 9:30--10:21, Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon Aid

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

... young Joseph's struggle with his brothers and how they sold him into slavery); Romans 10:5-15 (Paul's great affirmation that salvation is for everybody); and Matthew 14:22-33 (Peter walking on the water). Please let us know if you would like to use one of these, or if you prefer to use another text, let us know which one to substitute (Old Testament, epistle, or Gospel)." In this way the church performs a teaching function for guest preachers and also observes the practice of reading the lesson that is to ...

29. The Burnt Offering

Leviticus 1:1-17

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... . The laying of one hand is also required for the fellowship offering that is nonatoning for sin (Lev. 3:2). Perhaps the use of two hands represents the transfer of something, whether sin (Lev. 16:21–22) or authority (Num. 27:23), whereas using one hand implies identification between the person and the sacrifice.5The leaning of a single hand on the animal indicates that the animal belongs to and is being offered on behalf of the worshiper. and it will be accepted. This phrase should instead be rendered ...

30. Eschatological Discourse: Being Faithful and Merciful

Matthew 25:14-30, Matthew 25:31-46

Teach the Text

Jeannine K. Brown

... in preaching the parable of the talents (bags of gold) to simply transfer the meaning of “talent” (i.e., a skill or aptitude) in English to the traditional rendering of talanton as “talent.” In that scenario, the parable becomes about being faithful in using one’s talents for God. The story of the parable, however, is about a master’s servants being faithful (or unfaithful) with money invested. In the metaphor, money stands in for all that a person has and what has been entrusted to the church ...

31. Transformed in Christ

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... recognizes that Jesus is not simply one of the prophets of old, for he addresses him as rabbi, a title used by Jesus' disciples only after they recognize him as the Christ - the anointed one. It is certainly not accidental that the Johannine author uses one of the most prominent men in Jewish society as an example of one who seeks to be transformed to Christ. If the Jewish leadership can see the correct path, then others should follow. In his conversation with Jesus, Nicodemus is confused on what is ...

32. An Everyday Theology

Luke 11:1-13

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Wallace H. Kirby

... III The conclusion of this sermon is to lift up the vital necessity of both learned and everyday theology. It is wisdom to know that most of the truth of God and man is both/and, not either/or. It is both a learned and an everyday theology. To use one to the exclusion of the other is to simplify the tension at the loss of depth, richness, and truth. We will continue to need a learned theology. It is part of the apologetic task of our day. Let us remember that the sound, intellectual preaching of Ambrose of ...

33. Wrestling With God

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... the being with whom Jacob wrestles does not prevail over him. Jacob is like a grand stallion. It is not God's desire that Jacob grovel at his feet. God has no use for one who is continually groveling. God wanted a grand stallion, but one who could be useful, one who could be saddled, one who would know who his Master is that he might fulfill his intended purpose. That is what God desires from us, as well. Our lives are useful only to ourselves and only for a season if we refuse to give him the reins. The ...

34. Can We Love Too Much?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... because he did not think of his mortality. When a person turns to astrology to get direction from a distant dead star a million light years away, that is plain foolishness, even if the guilty person once lived in the White House! To blame everything on God is not using one’s head. To say a tragedy is God’s will can be foolish. When a drunken driver runs into a church bus and kills twenty-seven youths, it is stupid to say that their deaths were God’s will. It is possible not to love God with the mind ...

35. Spiritual Resuscitation

Romans 8:6-11

Sermon

David O. Bales

... determine and dominate the direction we face in life and the values we hold. We're either in the healthy, fresh air or in a tragically smoke-filled house. Different people express different meanings by the same word and an individual in different contexts uses one word to mean different things. A friend of mine gave an introduction to new Boy Scouts in his group by talking about "the spirit of scouting." One boy's father, a religious zealot who seemed unable to understand a dictionary, protested the use of ...

36. On the Ropes: Round 2 - Debating God

Habakkuk 1:12--2:1

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James Merritt

... calling the shots. God is seeing to it that every piece of the puzzle is falling into place. God sees to it that all of history is headed exactly into the direction that He wants it to go. Yes in His sovereignty God uses evil to accomplish good. God can use one nation more wicked than the other nation to get the attention of the less wicked nation. The bottom line is when times are the toughest and days are the darkest the only thing that will matter in your life is that God is in His holy temple and you ...

37. Getting The Facts

1 Corinthians 15:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... How much do you think this one weighs? [Hold up a package.] Ten pounds, you say? O.K., how much does this one weigh? Five pounds. And this? Well, you might be pretty close. But you know that kind of weighing would never work. The Post Office makes me use one of these. [Hold up scale.] I must know exactly how much each package weighs. Let's just see how close you were. [Weigh each package and compare.] That's getting the facts. Two and one half pounds, one half pound and one pound. Those are the facts. Well ...

38. Framing Values – Part Two

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... of right and wrong. It is a matter of believing that certain things are right, regardless of how we may feel, what we may think or what we may want and certain things are wrong regardless and those can only be defined by God Himself. c. Courage Daniel used one of the greatest words you can ever teach your teenager to say, "no." Do you know why Daniel could say, "No?" Evidently his parents had taught him first to say, "Yes." He could say "no" to the world, because he had first said, "Yes" to God. Even though ...

39. Will This Be On The Test?

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the important point to grasp is that we are to love God with our whole being. And really this takes care of everything. It isn't enough to learn this verse and believe this thought and think you'll be OK. The Christian life means using one's might, or all of one's energies. It means to use one's mind to learn the verses of the Bible and deduct God's will; and then to use our hearts to discern what the emotional involvement of all of this is, while we use our souls, our very beings, to live it out. Now ...

40. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to the end when he names the two masters that compete at a higher level for our loyalty, “You cannot serve God and Mammon.” Mammon was a neutral word for stuff or property; it had no negative connotations.16 Mammon was not a bad word but a useful one. But if it is capitalized, as I think it should be, and if it is paired with the word God as an alternative deity, then Jesus is saying that possessions and our attitudes toward them is not a matter of indifference. Behind apparently innocent things is an ...

41. Making a Clean Sweep

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... them so that they could recognize the miracle in their midst. Jesus' words reverberate today. Has your life been swept clean of all that's preventing the New Temple from being built in your home, your life, this church? [You may want to want to end your sermon using one of the images introduced above: giving them broom seeds or straw, having them come forward to take the broom you've been using as a prop and sweep something with it, or placing a broom at the exit doors so that they can jump the broom in the ...

42. Not Because of Israel's Righteousness

Deuteronomy 9:1-6

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... justice in the international arena. The “rod of God’s anger” (Isa. 10:5) did not have to be straight. This brings us to the question of whether there can be a modern-day “just war.” It may well be the case that God can use one nation (or several) as the agent of divine judgment on another nation through war, for the restraining of evil (“defending the bad against the worse,” as it has been called) or the relative (and usually highly ambiguous) righting of wrongs. But even where such a ...

43. Social Responsibility

Exodus 22:16-31

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... , that is, gestures that demonstrated contempt for God or a ruler. By comparison, the expression “blasphemes the name” (Lev. 24:16) comes from another word root (naqav) that means “utter a condemnation.” The “curse” against the ruler can also refer to using one’s power to bind the ruler’s ability. Since all of these activities undermine the rule of God in the world, the law prohibits them. The last three laws deal with acknowledging God as the source of income and life itself. Deuteronomy ...

44. John Mellencamp and the Danger of Procrastination

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... how Jesus came across to people, but it also says much about them. And perhaps it says even more about the task he had called them to. Mark shows us a Jesus who is in a hurry; a man with a sense of urgency. Someone has noticed that Mark used one word in his Gospel more than any other. It is the word “immediately.” This word is used forty times in those brief 16 chapters of Mark’s Gospel. The last thing Jesus wants is procrastinators. That’s clear in Mark’s Gospel. But this is not the only place ...

45. The Lost And Found Collection

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... me.” He did misspell “grip.” He spelled it “g-r-i-p-e,” but it was a nice thought just the same. Umbrellas are left quite often. If folks must leave them, I wish they would leave nice ones. Occasionally in a pinch, our staff has to use one of those lost umbrellas. And, of course, people leave Bibles at church. That’s a shame, because going out into the world without your Bible is like a soldier going off to war without his M-16 rifle. “Lost and found”—those were categories that Jesus used ...

46. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of it). As I grew older, and began to write compositions in school, I hated that, too. Again, the problem was not knowing quite what to say or how to say it. Our teachers taught us that an outline might be helpful. It was, and, to an extent, I use one for much of my writing to this day. I think back to another generation of campers, not campers as I and my friends were campers, but campers in the sense that they too were away from home. They too had been told over and over again that communication between ...

47. Guided by the Spirit

John 16:12-15

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... is based on the same basic teaching assumptions. All those skills and merit badges may be questionable to some scouts when they take them, at least to those scouts who are not in the mood to collect all those awards. But one day they might be called upon to use one of those skills, and then the skill would come in very handy. After all, the Boy Scouts' motto is "Be prepared." Being able to swim some day might not only save your own life, but perhaps the life of someone dear to you. It's too late to learn ...

48. Family Re:Union - For the Love

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... to mean the same thing when in reality it is not. Let me give you a few examples in my life and your life. I love God I love my wife I love my children I love my grandchildren I love great food I love my football team! I used one word to describe something that means something different in practically every situation. I also purposely put “loving God” at the top, because if my heart is right then I love God unlike I love anyone or anything else. My love for anything and everything else must flow out of ...

49. Come Home

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... for gold, silver and copper. We do know it was not a specific value of currency or wealth. We do not know exactly what the weight was that a “talent” measured. We do know it was recognized as the largest weight in normal everyday use. One “talent,” then, was a considerable amount, especially when it expressed the weight of such valuable commodities as gold and silver and copper. In this week’s gospel parable these weighty “talents” are distributed by a master to his servants in varying amounts ...

50. The Song of Moses and Miriam

Exodus 15:1-21

Understanding Series

James K. Bruckner

... ; you are like a monster in the seas thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet and muddying the streams.’” (Ezek. 32:2) Pharaoh and the sea are both chaos threats in Exodus (see Jer. 46:7–8). The Lord ironically used one to drown the other. The sea crossing sets Leviathan/Rahab (danger of a water catastrophe) within the perspective of God’s control (see also Ps. 84:4; Isa. 30:7). There is the sea, vast and spacious, teeming with creatures beyond number—living things both ...

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