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501. How to Love God

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... 5 Paul wrote, "God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us." My daughter once showed me a sticker from her grade school collection. It was a gray butterfly, one of the plainest looking of her entire holdings. "Touch it, Daddy," she said. I did, and the butterfly became a lovely iridescent rainbow of colors. Something about the ink reacted to the heat of one's fingers and unleashed hidden beauty. This is something like what happens to us when the power of God ...

502. I'm a Chunk of Coal, but I'm Gonna Be a Diamond

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and strengths. There is no person more sick, more inhuman, more pathetic, more to be pitied, more mentally ill, than the person who refuses to get cut. The person who refuses to get hurt is the person who refuses to live. Do you respond to the touch of others? Or do you exist self-sufficient and unchanged regardless of the people and problems that confront you, regardless of the conflicts or consequences that affect you. It's one of the chief mysteries of life: where you're cut the most is where your ...

503. The Miracle Molecule

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink or taste and see that the Lord is good. We can offer the cup of living water, but each and every one of us must decide for ourselves whether or not to drink it. Some will never touch their lips to the living water. Some will drain the cup whole-hog. Others will strain at gnats while swallowing camels. All we can do is offer them the pure living water, the miracle molecule that can turn their life into a miracle. 2) Water doesn't rise higher than ...

504. You've Got Mail!

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of those we haven't heard for years instantly draw a picture in our mind of a familiar face, a crooked smile, bushy eyebrows, or an imposing stance. It only takes a word or two and we can envision the whole person. One word and we feel touched by their whole presence. In today's gospel text Jesus reminds those who are quizzing him that "my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me" (verse 27). Vulnerable and defenseless sheep depend on the guidance and guardianship of their shepherd to keep them ...

505. ASAP

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... music, and chatted with her other girlfriends. But Dad never left the house on the east coast. The daughter was on her first big solo adventure. Yet because of their joined-at-the-ear, cross-country cell phone connection, father and daughter were never out of touch. No one was really ever completely on their own. The dad got peace of mind (sort of). The daughter got her independence (sort of). And no one had to face being completely alone, isolated from what was happening to the other. Thanks to cell phones ...

506. Catch the Fever

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

James Caldwell III

... heals the fever is unexpected. The Talmud set forth an elaborate process for healing a fever, which called for repeatedly tying an iron knife to a thorn bush by a braid of hair. But Jesus throws the rule book out the window. He goes do her, lifts her up, and touches her. And she's healed. On the Sabbath, mind you. This is the first healing reported in Mark's Gospel. Don't tell me that Jesus is telling us that healing begins at home. That is the last place we want to do it. All too often, the healing words ...

507. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... me say, “We can never say completely what God is…we can only say what God is at least.” For that God to express Himself uniquely in a baby born in a manger boggles the mind. And for there to be a power at work in that baby that has touched millions of lives and made them new is something I cannot fully understand. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to make the Incarnation sound like the simplest and most natural thing in the world. I don’t want to reduce the Christian gospel to something ...

508. A New Attitude

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... is still speaking, a bright cloud envelopes them, and a voice from the cloud says, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!” When the disciples hear this, they fall face down to the ground, terrified. But Jesus comes and touches them. “Get up,” he says. “Don’t be afraid.” It is amazing how often fear is mentioned in Scripture. There is a reason for that. Fear is the biggest obstacle we face. Many bad attitudes can be explained by fear. A few years ago a book was ...

509. Take On Something for Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... on a pile of cheap, fatty, over-processed food. The beauty of the Internet? . . .It contains everything. The curse of the Internet? . . .. It contains everything. At the touch of a button, good information is available. At the touch of a button, here is an endless supply of garbage, gossip, pornography, violence, and hate. Cell phones keep us in touch no matter where we are. Yet cell phones tempt us to never be anywhere except on the phone. A first car gives its recipient freedom, responsibility and great ...

510. God's Dirty Job

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... out and take when he leads me home. And with my hands He will lift me to His side and there I will use these hands to touch the face of Christ.” I will never look at my hands the same again. But I remember God reached out and took my Grandma’s hands ... children and husband I think of Grandma. I know she has been stroked and caressed and held by the hands of God. I, too, want to touch the face of God and feel God’s hands upon my face. Here is one of the questions I suspect we will be asked at Judgment Day ...

511. When Extravagance Is Beautiful, and When It Is Not

John 12:1-8

Sermon

James W. Moore

... was Sam Rayburn. He served in Congress for over 50 years, the last ten or more as Speaker of the House. But the real greatness of Sam Rayburn was not in the public positions he held or the political power he wielded. It was in his common touch and his love for people. One day he heard that the teenage daughter of a Washington reporter had died. This reporter had on occasion been critical of Sam Rayburn. Nevertheless, early the next morning, Mr. Sam went over to that reporter’s house and knocked on the ...

512. Don't Sweat the Sin Debt

John 19:30

Sermon

James Merritt

... do the work and come back and say, "Tetelestai It is finished!" It was used by artists. When an artist was painting a portrait and touched the canvas for the last time, applied the last drop of paint with the last stroke of his brush, he would step back and say ... confirmation, catechism, good works, to the work of Jesus Christ, all you will do is ruin it. When a work is finished you don't touch it, all you do is enjoy it. V. The Power of Satan Was Finished Jesus was looking ahead to the cross when he said in ...

513. Saving Private Ryan

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Chief Tariri, and to what would seem certain death. But in the inscrutable providence of God, for some reason the Chief looked upon them with favor. Apparently he realized they were no threat to him at all. They showed him a strange and unknown form of love that touched his heart and got his curiosity. They learned his language and began to speak to him about the One who had loved the world with such a love that had never been seen before; a love that took him all the way to the cross, and all the way ...

514. Seeing the End from the Beginning

Numbers 13:1-2, 17-33

Sermon

James Merritt

... Mrs. Walt Disney and said, "Isn't it a shame that Walt didn't live to see this?" Mrs. Disney replied, "He did see it, that's why it's here." Disney World is there because of one thing—vision. It is amazing how much of our everyday life is touched by someone's vision. The medicine that you take, the car that you drive, the planes that we fly, the TVs that we watch, the computers that we use, are all the result of someone's vision. Somebody has astutely observed that the blindest person in the world is not ...

515. The Other Side of Worship

1 John 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... investigate. What John said was, "I saw Jesus just like you would see a movie or a theatrical production. I am an eye witness." Then he goes on to describe Jesus as one "our hands have handled." John said I have seen Him, I have heard Him, and I have touched Him, I have felt Him, and I am telling you He is real. But Jesus is also real in expression. "The life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us—"(v.2 ...

516. Fatal Attraction

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... , "I have a bone to pick with you. As a Christian and as a monk we have taken vows not to look on a woman, much less touch her body. But back there by the river you did both." The other monk said, "My brother, I put that woman down on the other side of ... a word that gives us the English word scandal. It was used as a bait stick that would spring a trap whenever an animal would touch it. In other words, anything that morally would trap you or cause you to fall into sexual sin, should be eliminated. The Lord is ...

517. Why You Should Come Clean With God

Psalm 139:23-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... my mirror image. All I see in the mirror is a flat two dimensional reflection; the same thing you find in a photograph. You see, no camera can capture your soul. No mirror can show you your heart. That is something only God can do. Only God can truly touch the heart. Laws are not designed for the hearts of men, it’s designed for the heads and the hands of men. Dr. Samuel Johnson had a little couplet that went like this: How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which kings or laws can cause ...

518. Blessing or Curse?

Matthew 13:44-46

Illustration

John Marks Templeton

... would be changed into gold. Yet his golden world came to have a hollow ring to it. He discovered he couldn't eat because his food would turn to gold as it touched his lips. He couldn't embrace his young daughter because that would turn her to gold. As long as he had the Midas touch, the king could not have life or love. He soon realized the boon of materiality was in fact a curse of death, and begged to have it removed so he could once again enjoy more genuine blessings. The good you want will never come ...

519. Healed By The Great Physician

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Gradually our perceptions, values, and priorities are changed. Peace and joy replace guilt, anger, and selfishness. We really do become new. That miracle is the true source of real healing. God is the Great Physician. He alone heals totally, touching spirit, mind, and body. As my old Scottish teacher James S. Stewart used to say, “If there is any healing for humanity’s hurt, it must come, not from man’s side, but from God’s.” (3) God alone can give us new hearts ...

520. Great Joy

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... God-hungry souls, refreshing waters break forth and the dry dust of our spirits begins to blossom with joy and gladness. Great joy: deeper and stronger than the desert itself, springing up to eternal life. Can we allow the beauty of Isaiah's poetry to touch the depth of our souls this Christmas with the promise of new life and abundant joy? Great joy, like the current of a great underground aquifer, bursting out in living streams in the desert. We're not talking about mere happiness here. Happiness is often ...

521. Keeping Shut About the Good News

Acts 3:1-10; Acts 4:13-20

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... it anymore. And every social worker and care-giver, doctor and nurse will tell you there are times when you have to steel yourself if you are going to do anyone any good. But if our hearts have been strangely warmed by the flame of Pentecost, if we have been touched by the wind of God's spirit, if we have been with Jesus, there are also those times when we need to look the needs of the world right in the eye—to "gaze directly at them." To really see. You know, they are still there—those who are lame ...

522. Apostolic Instruction

1 Thessalonians 5:16-24

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... is the chef and Saint Paul is the waiter. Taste and see that is good! 3. It is in the give and take of living that saints are born. During my doctoral program, a special and lasting lesson was learned. Simply stated: Preachers must be in touch with the living concerns of their parishioners in order to be effective. The finest homiletical and theological works of art will fall on deaf ears, unless such concerns are addressed. Paul must have been an expert at correcting this! By his own admission, he was not ...

523. Looking Out for Others

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... . Shades of the Wesleys and the Church of England! So, let us give thanks for the wonders of our day and time, despite the very real potential for unimaginable holocausts. May the will of the Father be done! 3. We are to make a contribution to every life we touch. Well, that sounds like a big order, doesn't it? There is a profound truth here that may not dawn on us until we are well along in years. Is it too much to expect? Definitely not, that is, if we seriously believe that all things are possible with ...

524. Parades and Crosses — The Challenge of Ministry

2 Corinthians 4:5-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... when I talked with them about Jesus and God and how they should commit their lives to them, they responded in a new way. I mean, it was like I touched a dimension of their lives nothing else and no one else could touch. You know I really love sports and get a great thrill out of winning and being popular. But when I talked with these kids, I seemed to be touching them in ways sports could not. It was like I was filling an emptiness or void in their lives. I was giving them a reason for life or a purpose ...

525. Where Is Your Trust?

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

George Reed

... to swim to shore in a dead calm and here the waves are high and breaking over them while they are still in the boat. It is only prudent for them to be afraid. To not be afraid in this situation would be proof that they are not in touch with reality. And yet Jesus asks the question, "Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?" Jesus was a master teacher. He used the common, everyday things that people were familiar with to teach them about God and spiritual realities. When he told parables about sheep and seed ...

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