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476. Only the Lost and the Least

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... the lost Hebrews in the wilderness. They wandered off from God and from their moral traditions. They were lost in the wilderness. Moses was sent by God to go down to Egypt and say to Pharaoh, "Let my people go." The Hebrews were slaves in Egypt. They yearned for freedom and a return to the land of their forefathers. Moses was called by God to lead the people through the wilderness back to the promised land. As slaves, the Hebrews were hopeless and lost. Freed from slavery, they were lost in a different way ...

477. The Hard Sell

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Donald Charles Lacy

... calculated deceit in today’s world stretches our imaginations! Only what we have done for Christ and consequently stored up in heaven is free from such onslaughts. It is a simple, spiritual truth but human nature is often hell-bent on discrediting it. Our saved souls yearn for permanent treasures. Only by living Christ’s ways can they be there at our death. If we place our hearts in this world’s treasures, we have a big problem. It is going to evaporate or worse! The titans of today and the past have ...

478. Let The Children Come In!

Mark 10:1-12

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Michael B. Brown

... quite nice about children. Every family should have one or two They're such a fine race When they're kept in their place: Say, the playground, the park or the zoo. In his place, a child's quite delightful, Full of fun, a most interesting buddy. But his yearning for action Can cause a distraction When he has invaded the study. The office is no place for children. They foul up our work with their fun. So we make it a rule That they must go to school So their elders can get something done. Some children came ...

479. When Desire Goes Bad

1 Kings 21:1-21a

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... and have a big family, too. I do not need a perfect life.1 We might hope that young Nathan, who sounds wise beyond his years, will continue to be that content all his life, but if he is like most of us, he probably won't; the yearning for more than what we have at the moment is very common. And the affluence and advertising of our age encourages it. Of course, wanting is a very necessary part of being human. It is a form of energy and motivation that drives invention, discovery, mastery, improvement, and ...

480. Star-spangled Justice

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... or honest one. In New York harbor, the Statue of Liberty stands as an icon of what America aspires to be. Inscribed in her foundation are words by Emma Lazarus that stir our patriotic spirits: Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, temptest-tost to me; I lift my lamp beside the golden door. But our immigration laws bespeak quite another message: "Only the employed and educated from certain regions of ...

481. Advent 2

Malachi 3:1-4, Luke 3:1-20, Philippians 1:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... to him who was in prison. Popularly, love is an emotion or a feeling. Love is identified with sentimentalism. In this passage we learn what love really is and does. Outline: What love means a. Being grateful for loved ones v. 5. b. Having confidence in you v. 6. c. Yearning to be together v. 8. d. Praying for you v. 9 WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm Of The Day: Luke 1:68-79 "You will go before the Lord to prepare his ways." (v. 76b) Prayer Of The Day: "Stir our hearts, O Lord, to prepare the way for your only Son ...

482. Plenty Good Room

John 14:1-4

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Maxie Dunnam

... to become a butterfly; the flying fish leaping out of the water to transcend himself; and the silkworm, using his own entrails to make silk. He said he felt a mystical unity with them, because they seem to symbolize the imperative of man – the grub’s yearning to become a butterfly. God made us grubs; we must become butterflies. Now I agree with the truth that Conzenzokis is communicating, but I disagree with the analogy. God did not make us grubs. We are the highest and the most noble beings that we can ...

483. Putting Ourselves into the Picture

Exodus 1:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... to support you did not come through? Here’s a ‘be’ attitude you can take with you into the new year – happy are those persons who so profit by their sorrow and their suffering that there will stir in their spirits a pilgrim heart and make them yearn for Canaan and not want to stay in Egypt anymore. And that leads us to the final word, which hopefully will enable us to put ourselves into the picture. In Pharaoh’s wisdom, which really was foolishness, it wasn’t enough that he oppressed the people ...

484. Better Than a Spanking

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s pastor the next Sunday, “that isn’t Susan’s favorite thing to do with her son. Cleaning him up is an excuse to hold him. Absorbing the mess is just part of the process of getting close. And it’s the same with God.” (5) Baptism says that God yearns to hug us close to himself. We are God’s own children. But there is a second thing we need to see. Baptism offers us the opportunity for a new life. Here is where the water of baptism is important. It is a symbol of being washed clean, yes, but ...

485. A Soul Restored

Psalm 23:2-3a

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul." I believe one of the reasons this Psalm resonates with so many people is because there is a deep spiritual hunger in their lives just like there is in America and around the world today. We yearn for and spend billions of dollars each year trying to fix ourselves or conform to some amorphous shifting image of what we should be which society has painted for us. We spend endless hours and countless dollars searching for an uncertain kind of peace and ...

486. Compliments Of The House

Psalm 23:6

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... desires we have or experience on this planet are fulfilled in one way or another. We get tired, there's rest. We get hungry, there's food. We get thirsty, there's water. But the one longing for which there seems to be no earthly satisfaction is our great yearning for home. He says the reason we can't find it here is because Earth is not our home. We all seek a place where we are recognized and loved. Where we can fall into the welcoming embrace of our fathers, mothers and other relatives. C.S. Lewis says ...

487. He Could Have Called Ten Thousand Angels

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... Overholt. At the time Overholt was a nightclub singer, a man who by his own admission, drank too much and smoked too much a man whose life was out of control. He knew he needed to make a change. His mother had been a believer, and Overholt began to yearn for her faith. He began searching the Scriptures. One day he came across Matthew 26:53 in which Jesus told Simon Peter that he could ask his Father and he would send twelve legions of angels. Overholt didn’t know at the time that twelve legions would have ...

488. The Wedding Was Saved, but the Marriage?

John 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... doesn’t write. John‑Boy is a writer. He has to write.” Kurt Bruner goes on to say, “God is love. Therefore, he has to love. He can no more keep this love to himself than John‑Boy could keep his ideas off the tablet page. It was a deep yearning to express his love to share his heart with another person that drove God to create [humankind]. He didn’t make us so that we would love him but so that he could love us. We were not made to be a race of servants but to be the object ...

489. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “Prayer Matters”

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , than Almighty. He is our Father, not my father and His name is not Howard as so many young people seem to believe. His nature is hallowed. To pray is to adore. Father, we adore you and we lay our lives before you. Adoration is the yearning of the heart to worship, honor, magnify, and bless God. Ask for nothing but to cherish Him; seek nothing but His exaltation; focus on nothing but His goodness. Sometimes prayer needs words, but not many. Some adoration is private. While I would not wish this illness ...

490. When We Get Where We’re Going, Where Will We Be? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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J. Howard Olds

... What sells as religious fiction and catches the imagination of many Americans is nothing more than a passing footnote in the Scriptures. Let me tell you something that is on every page, since Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden. It’s the yearning for a home-coming. It’s about getting back to where we belong. It’s about a New Creation. John Wesley was interested in the universal restoration that superseded any universal destruction. So, the children of Israel wandered 40 years in the wilderness ...

491. Follow Me (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

Luke 24:1-12

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J. Howard Olds

... the land to proclaim the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. We will announce that life is stronger than death. “Christ is risen; He is risen indeed!” Countless others around the world will join the hallelujah chorus. It’s quite a celebration and I find myself yearning for it more and more each year. It is Easter! Thank God, it is Easter! Of course, the first Easter knew none of this hype. A few women went to the tomb and found it empty. When they told the eleven frightened disciples, they considered ...

492. John 10:22-30

John 10:22-42

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Leonard Sweet

... festival. As Jesus walks, his audience still the same, he is confronted by “the Jews.” The initial question in this encounter is not overtly negative, but the motivation behind their query is not yet spelled out. “The Jews” could simply be yearning for a clear declaration from Jesus about his messianic status. But their question is posed during this time of Dedication, a festival that in part celebrated a military triumph. This suggests that the kind of “Christ” these Jews are looking for is ...

493. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... want a Sunday kind of love. I want a love that's on the square, Can't seem to find somebody to care, I'm on a lonely road that leads me nowhere, I need a Sunday kind of love. What makes a “Sunday love” so special, so desirable, so yearned for? It’s the kind of love you find in church on Sunday morning. It’s the kind of love you find preached about on Sunday morning. It’s the kind of Trinity Love that we celebrate this Trinity Sunday. A Sunday Love is a Love Triangle. Not the bad ...

494. The Ark of the Covenant

Exodus 25:10-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... in days when bushes burned with fire, when voices spoke from the mount, when the angels seemed visibly to precede the hosts, and one like the Son of Man walked the glowing embers with his faithful witnesses? There’s no need to cherish such back ward yearnings. There is a presence with us - a divine companionship, the angel of the covenant, the Christ of God! Like a voice ringing down a mountain-ravine, we hear his imperishable words, “Lo, I am with you all the days, even unto the end. (Shall we have ...

495. Three Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... men not only know their wisdom is incomplete they know they can’t save themselves. And that their salvation is beyond their science and their system. Why did the wise men start on their quest in the first place? The need of their life, the deep yearning for meaning, drove them to it. They had not found salvation and meaning in their studies, their systems, their science even in their stars. So, in their wisdom, they started looking for Christ. Oh for that sort of wisdom. We’ve run the gamut haven’t ...

496. Pastoral Prayer

Illustration

Brett Blair

... of war. For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home. Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom. And for us at home fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men ...

497. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.” Paul is saying to the Galatians that both he and they were once prisoners, he and they were once slaves. He and they once looked longingly across a river, yearning for freedom. He and the Galatians were once imprisoned by the law. Paul writes, “Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.” Now it is important for us to see that there was nothing intrinsically ...

498. Why Join a Church?

Acts 2:42-47

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J. Howard Olds

... in Jesus’ name will never forget it. We believe that transformation of a life is possible. We are in the people serving business. We find a need and try to fill it. We see a hurt and try to heal it. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. We need to put those words of Lady Liberty on our front door and then put our feet behind them in action. That is what the Church is about. Why be a part of a church except that somewhere down in the depths of your heart you ...

499. Foundations are Critical

Matthew 7:24-27

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J. Howard Olds

... steeple, and at the heart of our worship. When some of us survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, we still get a lump in our throat, and cold chills up our spine. By His grace, we have been forgiven. By His stripes, we are yearning to be healed. III. FOUNDATIONS MAKE ALL THE DIFFERENCE. The house on the rock stood firm. The house on the sand fell with a great crash. Paul said, “No one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid which is Christ Jesus.” The solid Rock is ...

500. Whose Child Is This?

Matthew 1:1-17

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J. Howard Olds

... down, and say once more to all the world that we have more to gain by being kin to one another than we do in killing one another. Children of Abraham have more in common than they have apart and I have a sneaking suspicion that the world is yearning for an understanding like that. Jesus Christ the Son of Abraham. B. Jesus Christ, the Son of David All of us would like a little royalty in our heritage. Queen Elizabeth reportedly said at some point that she would like her son Charles to marry a woman with a ...

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