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26. Discipleship: Backward or Forward to God

Luke 9:51-62

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Maurice A. Fetty

... is challenging us, said Jesus. We are announcing the kingdom of God. We are proclaiming a new political and religious order where God is king and righteousness and justice prevail. We want to draw people out of old ways of thinking and relating to new ways of thinking. Leave the spiritually and ideologically dead to bury the spiritually and physically dead. Follow me; join up to help create a new world. The late Ernie Campbell, former Riverside Church preacher, liked to point out that many Christians ...

27. The Witness of Being

Genesis 1:1—2:4a

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James L. Killen

... . Religious people, on the other hand, learn a lot from experience and from revelation. Those sources of knowledge have served religious people and society well. Some scientists and some religionists are so imprisoned within their own ways of thinking that they cannot appreciate the other's way of thinking. They are bound to come into conflict. But there are lots of competent scientists who practice the scientific method in their work but who are spiritual persons in their lives as a whole. They are open ...

28. Wrestling for a Blessing

Genesis 32:22-32

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James McCormick

... close to an emotional breakdown. But, in retrospect, it was a time of significant growth, in large measure because of the struggle. There was a time when, at the invitation of a friend, I attended a seminar. Some very polished and persuasive people were presenting some new ways of thinking about God and about the Christian faith. It was a direct challenge to so much of what I believed. I tell you, my world was shaken! I didn’t sleep for a number of nights. I wasn’t sure what I believed or why. But that ...

29. Are You a Crazy Dog?

Mark 10:35-45

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Leonard Sweet

... essence of the gospel is inside-out paradox and upside-down preposterousness: The way up is down, the way in is out, the way high is low. Jesus turns the world upside-down, and invites us to an upside-down way of living, an inside-out way of thinking. Are you brave enough to be a Crazy Dog? Jesus spent most of his ministry promoting "Crazy Dog" thinking - urging his disciples to join with him in the Crazy Dog pursuit of faithfulness and fulfillment. The Kingdom of God, Jesus insisted, would be filled with ...

30. Live Spelled Backward

Matthew 26:14-27:66

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... not necessarily so. Paul instructs us, "Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). In the kingdom good is far stronger than evil. Do you realize that in three years Judas did not succeed in winning a single convert to his way of thinking? Not one! Knowing how the devil operates, we can be sure that it was not for want of trying. Imagine, if you will, Judas on some evenings when the Mediterranean humidity was thick and Jesus and his men exhausted from the intensity of a long day ...

31. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

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Donald B. Strobe

... “Adversary” - God’s adversary and ours. As a professor of mine in seminary said a long time ago, “If there is no devil, there is sure somebody getting His work done for him!” Some years ago people rejected such language as outworn mythological ways of thinking which have no place in our modern world. The famous New Testament scholar Rudolph Bultmann even wrote an essay in which he flatly stated that “Now that the forces and laws of nature have been discovered we can no longer believe in spirits ...

32. Breaking The Negative Cycle

Matthew 5:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

One of the most destructive foibles of human nature is the tendency to lock ourselves into rigid patterns of thinking, ruts of responding, and unalterable avenues of acting. It was this way of thinking that caused Jesus to condemn the Pharisees, admonishing them about straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel. The most common pattern into which we humans tend to move is what I call a negative cycle. I doubt if there’s anything more devastating to daily living, to our effective ...

33. Scandal

Matthew 16:21-28, Matthew 17:14-23, Matthew 20:17-19, Matthew 26:1-5

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Lori Wagner

... words ever to come out of his mouth. Now listen to this one! Get behind me [out of my way], ‘satan’ (tempter/hinderer)! You have become the stick that stumbles the trap for me! Your thoughts are not those of God, but human ways of thinking! How shocking, how scandalous is that statement! But Jesus isn’t addressing the Pharisees! He’s addressing Peter –his “rock” of the church! Wow! Talk about “Scandal,” anyone. Now, that’s scandalous! Peter must have been so hurt! All he did was express ...

34. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

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Donald B. Strobe

... when the Bible speaks of God in living, verbal images. The famous philosopher, inventor, mathematician, designer and engineer Buckminster Fuller wrote a poem in 1940 titled “No More Secondhand God” in which he said, “God is a verb.” That comes close to the Biblical way of thinking. In Hebrew, then, Dabar means both word and deed. Thus, for the Jew to say something is to do something. When one gives one’s word, it becomes one’s bond. The Bible is filled with stories of people who gave their word ...

35. The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

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Brett Blair

... there indeed, once was a God, but that he is now dead. They say that the God of the universe so completely poured himself into the person of Jesus Christ that when Jesus died on the cross God himself died. These views are foreign to the Christian way of thinking. We affirm that the same God who molded the universe also cares about what happens in our life. Indeed, he is actively and mysteriously involved in helping to shape the events of your life. The fact that we refer to the first person of the Trinity ...

36. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

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37. Laughing in Church

Acts 9:1-19a

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Carl Jech

... of St. Paul's preaching and writing was another surprise twist! "By grace are you saved, through faith!" Jesus lived grace by associating with and accepting sinners. Paul developed that theme of grace in theological terms. Grace turns our usual, achievement-oriented way of thinking upside down. Grace converts us from being people who take ourselves too seriously into people who trust God to take care of the ultimately serious things. We come to church to hear about the grace of God, and what we learn is ...

38. Behold The Man Who Taught By The Sea

Mark 4:1-20

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Thomas A. Pilgrim

... some things quite difficult. But, those who have ears to hear -- listen! Would you listen to what Jesus has to say to us today? Would you receive what he says in the sense that you will let it filter through and speak to your heart and mind, your way of thinking, your way of living, your values and ideals, your way of making decisions, who you are and what you have? Would you become good soil that is fertile so a tiny seed of what he says can take root in your life, spring up and bear much fruit ...

39. Accepting the Unconventional in Life

Mark 2:13-22

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Richard Gribble

... -century Israel. Jesus broke all the contemporary expectations and conventions, and because of this he was rejected. We cannot allow such a course of action to continue. We are not all cut from the same mold; there is no cookie cutter human being or way of thinking. That is why the guru became the disciple of the one student who broke convention by being compassionate to others. One simple story demonstrates the need for diversity, our need to see beyond the norm. A young pastor was asked to entertain some ...

40. Giants In Your Way

1 Samuel 17:1-58

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Charles Curley

... require new resources and new tools to do a new job. To wear Saul's armor would have meant fighting Goliath on Goliath's terms and David would have surely died had he tried that. To face up to the giants that oppress us and depress us needs new ways of thinking. Most of the giants life puts in our path are not illusions - they are very real and really threatening. But most of them will fall easier than they would like us to believe. We just need to figure out some new ways of getting at them or around them ...

41. Dynamic Preaching January 2024 Sermons

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King Duncan

... unchanging. It is we who need to change. Jonah learned that lesson while brooding in resentment over God's saving such an undeserving city as Nineveh. As Thomas Carlyle put it: "And Jonah stalked to his shaded seat and waited for God to come around to his way of thinking." Then Carlyle adds," And God is still waiting for a host of Jonahs to come around to His way of loving." It was not God who needed a change of mind, but Jonah. That is our greatest need, too, to bring our lives into such harmony with the ...

42. Why Did Jesus Have To Die?

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Mark Ellingsen

... sense to think of sin and evil as a power or force, which, like the devil, is more than our individual sins. Consequently, some of you may be attracted to this idea of Jesus' death as a consequence of God's struggle against the forces of evil. This way of thinking about Jesus' death is also attractive for the picture of God it paints. It portrays God as more loving than the first explanation of Christ's death does. For while that first view in a sense made God the enemy (God's wrath must be satisfied if ...

43. Catch the Fever

Mark 1:29-34

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James Caldwell III

... God sometimes calls us outside of our comfort zone, to think outside the box, to push and even tear the edge of the envelope. All the world isn't just a stage, it's a mission field. Jesus' fever of the Spirit shows us that his way of thinking of relating to God and doing ministry is totally foreign to our nature, our intuition, and our traditions. Jesus turns our worldly notions topsy-turvy: To follow Jesus means to expect the unexpected; There's freedom in obedience to God and servanthood to our neighbor ...

44. Take Up Your Cross

Luke 8:1-15

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Robert V. Dodd

... only way to live. He said, "If anyone wishes to be a follower of mine, he must leave self behind; day after day he must take up hiscross, and come with me." (Luke 9:23 NEB) That old self with all its fears and prejudices, its antiquated and deadly way of thinking, would like to hold us back. It would have us seeking to preserve our flesh and therefore cause us to lose Life Eternal. But our Lord said that we must deny that old self by following him on a regular daily basis. We cannot adequately deal with our ...

45. Life From God's Perspective

John 12:12-19

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King Duncan

... Many...were deserting and were believing in Jesus," we are told. Something had to be done. If they could just get rid of this troublemaker and destroy the evidence of a dead man coming back to life, then they would win the crowds back to their way of thinking. So they plotted against both Jesus and Lazarus. The next day the "great crowd that had come to the festival heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem." They grabbed palm branches and began shouting, "Hosanna! Blessed is the one who comes in the name of ...

46. Bildad Again Beats the Retribution Drum

Job 18:1-21

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... . Teaching the Text As Bildad presents his second speech, it is evident that his theological system leaves no room for a righteous person to suffer as Job has. Bildad thinks in clearly defined, black-and-white categories. To his way of thinking, the retribution principle is a fixed formula that always applies in every situation. Thus, wicked people always receive adversity, and adversity only comes upon wicked people. To Bildad, Job is simply another case that can easily be categorized. Bildad uses ...

47. Suffered under (Saint) Pontius Pilate

John 18:28-40

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David O. Bales

... to the truth listens to my voice” (8:37). This mystifies Pilate. So, Pilate just gives up and allows public opinion to pronounce the verdict against Jesus. Pilate doesn’t understand what Jesus says about truth, and it’s foreign to our way of thinking also. Jesus and Pilate are speaking Greek, the common international language. Pilate doesn’t have a Berlitz phrase book or Rosetta Stone recordings to polish his Aramaic. He and Jesus use the same Greek words, but whoa! the space between them. Pilate ...

48. The Healer

Matthew 4:23-25, Luke 4:14-30

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Lori Wagner

... to talk about what we are thinking, how we are feeling, and what we are doing. And they often are intermixed. When our thoughts are wrong, our feelings are also frequently altered for the worse. This is why in therapy often you have to change someone’s way of thinking about something in order to convince their heart that it can be saved from hurting so much. Think of it this way. An abused spouse will frequently return again and again to an abuser. It feels bad, and she or he feels hurt. No doubt about it ...

49. The Bloodline of Christ

John 20:19-23

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Leonard Sweet

... is a rippling keloid scar across the landscape, a wall that screams to the stars, “There is an Us, there is a Them.” That is not a red letter/bloodline way of living. That is a “black and white,” or a “Code Blue” emergency, way of thinking. One more thing before I let you go: the bloodline Jesus created when he breathed upon the disciples is not an exclusive club. As Bishop Stephen Cottrell writes, “On the cross Jesus does away with all the rule-keeping, debt-collecting, point-scoring, merit ...

50. Surprised By Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

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Donald Dotterer

... to all of the workers in his kingdom, regardless of when they come in to live and to work.3 All people are created equal. That, my friends, is the way that God thinks of us, no matter what our opinion is of this very unconventional way of thinking about and assessing human value. There are those who think they have earned what they have, rather than seeing their opportunities and accomplishments as gifts from God. There are those who may think that they have earned a special place in society or even in ...

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