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476. Possession is Nine Tenths of the Fall

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

D. Wayne Burkette

... is conflict. God’s grace is always a lurking threat to the conviction that people must earn salvation through ownership of the truth and control of the one and only way. God’s grace opens the gates of the Kingdom to those who, from the possessors’ point of view, do not deserve it. The gospel of grace denies our ownership of anything and boldly proclaims that even faith itself is a gift. So what makes God’s claim upon life the good news that it is? Nothing less than the mystery that the God who ...

477. Paul of Tarsus

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Drama

Michael L. Sherer

... in a minute. ANTAGONIST: Sure, Paul could take a chance on getting thrown in prison. As far as we know, he wasn’t even married. I doubt he had a mortgage to pay, and besides, he probably really did believe the world was ending. Heavens, with a point of view like that, of course he’d take a lot of chances - and end up risking his life. But what about us ordinary Christians who have families to support? PROTAGONIST: I wonder whether any family folk were ever thrown in prison in Paul’s day? I’ll bet ...

478. Persistence And Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... the opposite wall. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eye, as they stared into mine, has never left me.”[4] Now let us look at World War II from a different perspective, namely from the point of view of a German officer who participated in this horrible war. Lewis B. Smedes who taught at Fuller Theological Seminary for many years called our attention to Michael Christopher’s powerful play called The Black Angel. The story was about a former German officer who tried ...

479. The Surprising Twist to the Story

Ruth 4:1-12

Sermon

... grandmother of King David, which seems strange indeed. Here the story of Leah and Rachel is not merely repeated but is given new direction. Moabite blood flows in the royal lineage of David and his successors on the throne of Israel. From one point of view, the blood of Israel’s royalty was forever tainted by the blood of heathens, which Ruth contributed by conceiving and giving birth to Obed, David’s grandfather. The storyteller and the Israelite people, regarded this as an act of God. "The Lord gave ...

480. How about Something Different?

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... come back in thanksgiving, and give thanks. "For it is seemly so to do." Now go to the Old Testament lesson. It is a wonderful companion story to the story of the Samaritan leper, for it is about another foreigner. It is not a Samaritan this time, but from the point of view of the Jews, it's just as bad. He is a Syrian. Like the Samarian, he has leprosy. Naaman is his name. He is the general of the Syrian army. He hears there is a prophet in Israel, named Elisha, who can heal him. He goes to Elisha, humbles ...

481. Ten Healed of Leprosy

Luke 17:11-19

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... prayers (loud ones, to be sure). Master: See note on 5:5 above. have pity on us: Is it a request for charity or for healing? From the perspective of the lepers, it is not easy to say (perhaps they hoped for both). But from the point of view of the narrative a miracle is clearly anticipated. Hence, Jesus commands them to go and show themselves to priests in order to confirm their healing. 17:15 Fitzmyer (p. 1155) suggests that the statement, one of them, when he saw that he was healed, should be understood ...

482. Where the Scary Things Live

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... at night, when the lights are out and the children are safely tucked into bed to wrestle with THEIR fears, our own monsters come to life and torment us yet again. Am I am caring husband? Am I a loving wife? Do I really try to understand my spouse’s point of view? Are we raising our children the right way? What about my parents? Am I doing all I can to make their later years as pleasant as they made my early years? Can I be sure my children aren’t experimenting with drugs? When will I ever be able to ...

483. The Promise and the Task

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... is no more reliability about it than Jesus himself. We come together to celebrate Christ’s Ascension as people who have found him reliable, or with the hope that maybe that reliability is in our lives without which everything flows uncertainly in relativity, fads, points of view, fashions of mind. Take hold of what he has left us. He has left us in our humanity lifted up to the Father’s presence, no longer trapped in the downdraft of fate or the inevitability of defeat. We have his promise. We have ...

484. Sleeping through the Alarm

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... , learn how to rend our hearts and look past the carefully constructed numbness of our lives. Forget, for a moment, any impulses toward defensiveness. Let go of the temptation to retreat into ideology or rigid orthodoxy. Dispel the smog of our own narrowly held points of view and pose the questions that beg the asking. What things are we doing that we need to stop doing? If we lift the veil of our own unconsciousness, the answers are right there, waiting, yearning for us to embrace them. How are we, as ...

485. God Soaked

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... them –watch out….for your own sin already has a stranglehold on your neck. Or as Jesus might say in another setting: when you set out to judge the sins of others, watch out for the giant log in your own eyes, distorting your point of view! But Jesus does not leave his listeners either to inflict endless judgement upon themselves either, but teaches them God’s ultimate lesson about the nature of sin –all sin can be redeemed! ALL sin…can be redeemed. Even the sin of judgment. Never write anyone ...

486. His Own Knew Him Not

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... I labor so to sound, “special”? New. Unusual. You've heard me before. Worse, you've heard this story before. Now let me see, what new can I say about this? Yes, I've got a sermon, “The story of the Prodigal Son seen from the point of view of the fatted calf.” That’ll get 'em. I bet they never heard that before! When things are new, unfamiliar, strange, we react with excitement. “How odd” we say, “how utterly fascinating!” I've never thought about it that way before. Yes, I shall have to ...

487. Mary - Weeping Woman or Bold Believer

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

In the name of Jesus Christ, who is indeed the Resurrection and the Life, dear friends: During the past six weeks of Lent, some of you know that I have been preaching in the Wednesday services from the point of view of one who was there, at the scene of the suffering and death of Jesus. This morning again I wish to speak to you in a first-person style, taking the part of one who was there, Mary Magdalene. Please listen, then to what I say, not as a sermon ...

488. Easter Journeys Out and In

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... what can be equally harmful is the manner in which the Bible is often read. Some read it merely for proof texts to underscore notions they already hold. Others who are narrow traditionalists read it with a closed mind and refuse to raise questions regarding points of view that are outdated or absurd. And some others pick up snatches of verses here and there with little connection before or after. But this Ethiopian was a reader of a different kind. He was an inquirer, and as such he was teachable. He was ...

489. The Seven Year Switch

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... what they call a conversion experience, but it causes them to look down on others and to avoid others ” even to despise others. If our experience of Christ is real, exactly the opposite will occur. St. Paul says, "...from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer." When we become a new person in Christ, we see others in a new way. We see them as persons to whom God is reaching out as He once reached out to us. This time, however ...

490. Luke 3:1-6

Luke 3:1-6

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... much about the gospel's author and narrative style. Verse 3 moves on to the next important character in Jesus' life - John the Baptist. Here, as Luke reintroduces John and articulates his ministry, the text subtly demonstrates the author's point of view. First, it is evident that Luke is speaking to an already established community of faith. He uses "insider" language, comfortably assuming that his listeners recognize the code phrases and their implications. In verse 3 Luke defines John's call and mission ...

491. The Call

Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 1:14-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... solemnly warned: If there is no intellectual difference between sanity and insanity, reason and unreason, truth and falsity, then the lunatic who believes he is a poached egg is to be condemned solely on the grounds that he is a minority. This is a desperate point of view and it is to be hoped that there may be some way whereby we can escape it. Russell is reduced to this rather emotional plea because, logician that he is, he knows that there is no free-standing, independently valid means whereby what we ...

492. Death of a Twenty-nine-year-old Athlete

Ephesians 6:1-4

Eulogy

Palmer L. Gedde

... , about him. Somehow, some way, he touched all of your lives. Therefore, it is good for us to remember that it is not necessarily the number of years that one lives, but the quality of those years and the number of lives touched by them. From that point of view, he lived a lifetime. I also want you to know that I will pray for you so that you will have the strength you need to face the days ahead. They will be days of adjustment, of sadness, and of wrestling with unanswered questions. But I also believe ...

493. The Defining Moment (A Sermon for New Year's)

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

King Duncan

We're only a few days away from the New Year, and I can feel the anticipation--or dread, depending on your point of view--growing. I heard one guy say he already dreads the new year. He said, "The holidays aren't quite over and already I'm about 90 days ahead on my calories and 90 days behind on my bills." Some of you can identify with him. Our calendar did not come ...

494. The Gift Unwrapped

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... a lot of people's hearts. "Where's Jesus?" That's the question on God’s heart tonight. I doubt that we could ever improve on what happened that first Christmas but we always try don't we. Why is that? I think it's because, from the world's point of view, everything about that first Christmas was wrong. I. Wrong Gift First of all, it was the wrong gift. If you were to ask people what they wanted for Christmas, I'll bet there wouldn't be anyone who said: "I want God to enter into human history. I want God ...

495. The Message Of The Morning Light

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Erskine White

... the new has come. See how much I loved the world, that I gave my only begotten Son, who now lives and reigns for ever more." "I have torn down the greatest barrier which stood between you and Me. From now on, you need regard no one from a human point of view. From now on, you may see all things, even death itself, in a brand new way. All of this is the meaning of the empty tomb you see this morning." "Your time on earth is short and your memories even shorter, but My time and My memory go on forever ...

496. All We Are Left With...

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... life, including his songwriting. In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Bono talked about the album he wrote after his health scare. It opens with a song titled “Love Is All We Have Left.” Bono says, “I thought it would be interesting to write a song from the point of view of a person who maybe wouldn’t sing another song. One of the things I ask myself on this album is, ‘If you have one thing to say, what is it? If this is all we are left with, I am content with it – love.’” (2) This ...

497. A Chance To Drink

John 4:5-29

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... out on this one. The One who is throwing this party is loving, gracious, generous, merciful and forgiving. We're all invited even though there is nothing in this world we can do to repay our host. All that's asked is that we accept the invitation. From a worldly point of view, there's not much in the way of refreshments. There's no cake and ice cream, no BBQ, no hot-dogs and hamburgers. No, there's just a little bread and little wine to remind us of both the sacrifice the host made for us and the deep the ...

498. Achish Sends David Back to Ziklag

1 Samuel 29:1-11

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... Philistines to challenge him in Gilboa. It may be that the Philistines were trying to prevent Saul from organizing a takeover of the northern area and thus gaining the strength to defeat them in the south. Saul’s disorientation at this new, and from his point of view catastrophic, turn of events would then be easily explained. The willingness of the Philistine army commanders to take their forces so far out of their own territory is an indication of how confident they were at this time. 29:2–5 As 28:1 ...

499. As We Take Our Rest

Matthew 26:17-30

Drama

Joe Barone

[Note: This week we walk with Jesus to the Garden of Gethsemane, and as we do, we look through the point of view of James, one of the sons of Zebedee.] Dramatic Monologue: James I don't suppose you can ever understand what it is that really touches me when I think about the Garden of Gethsemane. When you think about it, you might think I would feel a sense of my own ...

500. Calling Out in the Darkness

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Steven Molin

... else saw. But the real miracle that day is that, when the man gained his sight, he chose to follow Jesus. He was not satisfied to merely see the sights, to find familiar faces and places in his hometown. He wanted to see the world from Jesus' point of view ... to see the people and the places and the problems and the possibilities that Jesus saw. So he chose to leave behind what would have certainly been a notorious reputation ("I once was blind, but now I see!"). And we never hear from this man again in ...

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