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501. Faithquest: Directions For The Journey Of Life

1 John 3:16-24

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... has given us. John reminds us of two things. He says we are called to Love and Believe. Those are the two essential ingredients of our Faith Journey Of Life. Love and Believe. Each one begets the other. Love, God's love being lived out in us begets belief in Christ and belief in Christ begets God like love. I. Believe First, let's look at Believe. If you were to ask a hundred people the question, what must I do to be saved? You'ld probably get at lest 50 different answers. Some would say you had go through ...

502. Amazing Authority

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... that?" Impressed, Walter replies, "That was a good speech." Hub says, "You think so? Thanks." In a convoluted sort of way, Hub is trying to teach Walter a lesson like Jesus taught. A lesson that is deeper than historical facts. He's talking about virtues being worth our belief even if other people don't hold to them to be true anymore. In an age when power and money seem to be the predominant value, honor and virtue are still more important. In a time when it appears that evil is overcoming good, we have to ...

503. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “God Matters”

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... work in creation. If we believe in God, then the big bang theory is not mysterious. If we believe in God, then the fine tuning of the universe is understandable, and the laws of nature explainable. Since God made us we are able to form true beliefs and knowledge. Since God exists, our intuitions about the meaningfulness of life can be trusted. The beauty of the earth can be celebrated. “We believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth.” When we believe, we see His handiwork in the stars ...

504. Why Not Meet in the Middle? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 Peter 3:8-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... no part of it. So he preached and practiced a religion of love. He navigated the high road of missionary zeal coupled with open-mindedness. He was neither rigid nor indifferent and he gave this instruction to this followers: “In essential beliefs, let us find Unity. In non-essential beliefs, let there be Freedom. In all things let there be Love.” On this World Wide Communion Sunday, let us find a meeting place. I. Let Us Meet At the Cross, a Place of Humility “Be compassionate and humble” (I Peter 3 ...

505. Follow Your Questions (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... are the marginal when the risen Christ makes his presence known? People have been raising that question about the disciple Thomas for over two millennia. Where was Thomas when the risen Christ appeared to the disciples? What right has he to be so timid about belief and so doubtful of his friends? We call him Doubting Thomas - but the Bible never uses that term - and Jesus circles back a week later to make a personal resurrection appearance to relieve his doubts. So, in defense of Thomas, I would like to say ...

506. Kingdom Values According to Jesus (Series: Questioning our Values)

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... our values, debate our values, vote our values, teach our values, and hopefully, live our values. Values are the personal qualities that sustain us in the big picture of life. Values are a set of guiding principles that help us make decisions. Values are beliefs and attitudes about what is good and right and desirable and worthwhile. People with fuzzy values live fuzzy lives. So, I invite us to use these forty days of Lent to examine our values. I want us to lift up the floorboards of our convictions ...

507. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... That’s tough, isn’t it – but that is what is required if our common life in Christ is going to yield anything to stir the heart. It is interesting that Paul is not asking for uniformity of belief, not is he talking about doctrinal orthodoxy. You see these can be diversity of doctrinal belief and emphasis. He is calling for harmony of relationship, mutual concern and love for one another, a caring for the quality of fellowship in order that Christ may perform his ministry through his body, a willing to ...

508. The Church: The Dwelling Place of Wonder

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the Church which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all”. Wesley would like that definition of the church — the Dwelling Place of Wonder. I like it. So let’s pursue it today as we continue our series of sermon on the beliefs of a Methodist Christian. I Consider first that the Church is the Dwelling Place of the Wonder of the Gospel. Wesley defined the visible church as a congregation of faithful people, “in which the pure Word of God is preached.” For Wesley, “the scriptures are a ...

509. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

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... universe is willing to go all of the way, even to a cross, so that a single person may be redeemed. That’s what God is like. That’s the God we say we believe in when we say we believe in Jesus Christ. III Finally, we affirm a belief in the Holy Spirit. What is the Holy Spirit? In the Korean Creed we say, “We believe in the Holy Spirit, God present with us for guidance, for comfort and for strength,” The Modern Affirmation words it: “We believe in the Holy Spirit, the divine presence in our lives ...

510. Jesus' Baptism: Affirmed by God

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Janis for Parade. Listen to the verbatim word of this great virtuoso. “What helps me the most, I cannot explain. You see, I developed a very personal relationship with God. I think prayer is important. I think that belief in God is healing. No one knows what its like for other people, but I know that unless I had found a belief in God, I would never have been able to say what I say. God works with us, and we with God. (From Neaves, Church of the Saviour) That should inspire us what would happen if we were ...

511. You Are Invited

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... felt his people's pain. His hand can save us! So as simply and profoundly as I know how to say it today, “Come to Jesus." The invitation that I extend to you is not to a building, not to a church, not to a system of beliefs, not even to a company of people. The invitation I extend to you is to an authentic, dynamic, relevant, redemptive, relationship with Jesus Christ. You who are weary, come. Long before the haunting, horrible, defining day of September 11th, Scott Peck opened his popular book, The Road ...

512. Soaring with Christ

Matthew 28:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in this world with all kinds of people and then dared to say to us, will you love other people like I have loved you? Who could ever be bored with a mission like that? I am pleading with you today not to set your beliefs to match your life. Set your life to match your beliefs. The risen Christ is here. Soar high. Life is an adventure to be lived. Understand what meaning and significance is all about. Be all you can be. Be a loving person. Don't settle for anything else. Life. I love it. One more thing about ...

513. We Believe in Jesus Christ

John 20:19-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... intended to be. Had God sent a set of ideas, we could debate them and agree or disagree. Had God sent a system of beliefs, we could accept them or reject them. Instead, he dared to send us His own Son, “For God so loved the world he gave ... we live, how shall we die, how can we bear the cross of grief who have not yet the eyes of faith or the courage of belief? “I am the resurrection and the life, and those who believe in me, though they die, yet shall they live." Christ, Himself, is Christianity. IV. HE ...

514. What Would Jesus Say About Modern Churches?

Mark 1:4-11

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J. Howard Olds

... , “Up here we go strictly by results. When you preached, people slept. When he drove, people prayed!" A kind of pragmatic secularism has crept into the Church. While people continue to profess a belief in a supernatural God, they proceed to order their lives in ways that short circuits that belief. One of the hardest things to find in church is a prayer meeting. Look at your church bulletin. We offer sermons, seminars, receptions, studies, workshops, blood drives, auctions, choirs, and even super undie ...

515. The Door of Prayer

1 Timothy 2:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... and help us." The prayer is more meek than mighty, more timid than towering. It contains no pretense, no boasting, not even much belief. But Jesus responds and immediately heals the boy. The power of prayer is in the one who hears it, not the one who ... it from you. We make excuses. “That's just how it is with me," and we say it as if we have given up on the belief that there may be plenty for everyone. So here we stand, with balled-up fists trying to protect what time will ultimately take away. To pray ...

516. What Can Christians Learn from Muslims?

Genesis 21:1-20

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J. Howard Olds

... Allah will hold us all accountable. There are two things that all Muslims believe: all humans are to do what is right and get away from what is evil for the day of reckoning will come. O that Christians could keep it so simple and straightforward. Belief is important. B. PRAYER: Muslims pray five times a day facing Mecca, heads bowed all the way to the ground, prostrating themselves before God. As I listened to Pasha, the president of the mosque, describe the prayer life of a faithful Muslim, I was ashamed ...

517. A Strange Way in and a New Way Out

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... strangeness of this passage. The Old Testament authors ridiculed the idea that the stars had any influence on life. The future unfolded with God's providence and our own choices. The belief that the stars exerted power over people originated with the Babylonians, the staunch enemies of the people of Judah. Astrology, then, was a foreign belief system, one that the Old Testament writers tried to steer the people of Israel and Judah away from. In the first chapter of the Bible, Genesis 1, the author describes ...

518. Why We Need the Pledge of Allegiance

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in terror under his covers. He had heard the minister say that God answers prayer, so he begged God for his mother's deliverance. But to no avail. She died gasping and screaming, and his belief in God went with her. Years later, when as an Oxford professor he began to rationally think through the possibility of Christian belief, Lewis finally understood what was going on in his mother's painful illness. He came to see that this world is a battlefield between the kingdom of God and the powers of evil, and ...

519. Martyrdom Chic

Acts 7:55-60

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... same as being a martyr. In fact, I would say that the prospect of martyrdom is not illuminated by a question that asks if you'd be willing to die for the cause. My own viewpoint is that the question should be, "Are you willing to live your beliefs without compromise no matter what the cost?" Now there's a question worth considering. How deeply are we committed to our Christian faith? How far are we willing to go, not in risking our lives — though that may be the outcome — but rather in living the life ...

520. Whosoever Will

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... started him rethinking his life. He eventually accepted Christ, and later, after being paroled, he began studying for the ministry. As you can imagine, not everyone in the church was in favor of admitting him into the clergy ranks, but Nelson appealed to the church's belief in salvation for all who turn to God. In the end, he was admitted by a special vote of the church's general assembly.3 When we are affirming the doctrine of free will, we are acknowledging that regardless of what we have done wrong, the ...

521. Showing Up

Ephesians 3:1-12

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... who became a Christian clergyman and author of the hymn, "Amazing Grace," would suffice. That is not what happened to Saul/Paul, at least not in his understanding. He had been a zealously devout believer and remained one, it is just that the focus of his belief changed. Second, and perhaps the more compelling reason not to call this Paul's "conversion" experience, is that he didn't call it that. Here he refers to it as his "commission" of God's grace in the NRSV, or his "administration" of God's grace ...

522. All About Me?

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-31

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... is not all about me, I am not saying — as many modern people have said — that it is irrelevant to me and my needs. No, they are all there. Nor am using that old ploy, "Only if I had lived back in Bible times, belief would have been so much easier." As far as I can tell belief was pretty tough back then, too. But as much as I, with all my weaknesses and foibles, might show up in the various biblical narratives, the thrust of the story is never about me and my kind. It is fundamentally about God and God ...

523. Knee Deep In Alligators

Matthew 11:2-12

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Johnny Dean

... must have felt as he stared at those damp, cold walls of Herod's dungeon, day after day, knowing in his heart that only a miracle would allow him to leave that place alive. Wouldn't you be scared in that predicament? Wouldn't you begin to question your "core beliefs" if you knew that those very beliefs were responsible for your impending doom?

524. The Great Physician

Matthew 4:23-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... well unlock streams of healing within the body. But that brings us to the real question: What about those people who believe in Christ whose bodies are not healed? The truth of the matter is that this is more often the case than not. More than simple belief must be at work in cases where healing does occur. Of course, every good doctor will tell you that there are simply things with regard to healing that they do not understand. They have seen people whom they would never expect to leave the hospital do so ...

525. K.I.S.S.

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... meant says author Kent Crockett when he said, “To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I may by all means save some.” (1 Cor. 9:22). “He wasn’t talking about compromising his beliefs,” says Crockett, “but he had learned to communicate the saving power of Jesus to others by speaking on their wavelength.” (4) “For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and ...

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