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501. Know Fear: The Fear of God

Proverbs 1:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... that I will love God more?" Again, the answer is found in Proverbs. "My child, listen to Me and treasure my instructions, then you will understand what it means to fear the Lord and you will gain knowledge of God." (Proverbs 2:1 & 5, NJKV) Here is the first truth. ... can fear keep you from being afraid? How in the world can fear keep you from sinning? As I have already told you, when you understand that you don't have to fear anything else but God, and when you realize the God that you fear is a God that loves ...

502. The Power of Purpose

Proverbs 16:4

Sermon

James Merritt

... fulfill in your life the purpose for which God gave you life, your life becomes not just a purposeless life, but a wasted life. That is why I want to talk today about The Power Of Purpose whether it is you as an individual or a church together. When you understand what your purpose in life is and then you focus all of your energies to fulfilling that purpose, then you maximize your potential to be all that you can be and to do all that you can do. In fact, I can tell you today the secret to greatness and ...

503. God’s Grammar

Galatians 3:23-29

Sermon

John Jamison

... the depth of the misperceptions they held, let's suffice it to say that the disciples were as seriously in error with this as they were with the issue of the Gentiles. But there were more. This group of disciples had very clear understandings of people such as those who were called the "demoniacs." The term refers to a large group of people who would have suffered from a wide spectrum of illnesses, both physical and mental. Their symptoms were seen not as that of illness, however, but as signs of possession ...

504. Do Not Be Quickly Shaken

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... quickly shaken if we keep ourselves free from conflict, free from fear, and continue living in grace. Inner calm is not only when the tension in our neck subsides; it is also the presence and power of the peace of God. It is a peace which passes understanding. We know we should be scared, but we are not. Whether the issue is personal unemployment or global terrorism, depression or loneliness, we are people who are unshaken. We may be shook, but we are unshaken. We live at a deeper level, in a place even we ...

505. Wisdom's Delight

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... world. What's more, in that same chapter, Wisdom, which really is an attribute of God, is personified as a woman. Bear in mind that Wisdom is not really a separate individual, but a characteristic of God on whom the biblical people put a female face to make it more understandable. We do the same kind of thing when we take a characteristic of our own and speak of it as though it were an entity outside of ourselves, such as, "My sense of fair play would not let me do thus and so" or "I had to keep my wits ...

506. Good News about Death

John 11:38-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... that something like that could have happened. Cody’s parents and extended family will never fully recover from his death. Tabb says they didn’t set foot in his room for months after he died. The scars inflicted that cold winter day may never go away. (2) We don’t understand why it happened. We don’t believe it was in God’s plan. But we can see how Cody’s life, as short as it was, could have an impact on many people. We know that God can take an awful tragedy and use it in a wondrous way. Jesus ...

507. Joshua People Study

Joshua 1:7-8, Psalm 119:10-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... faith and our discipleship. Scripture helps us build that foundation of faith in Christ. And the only way we can begin to develop and understand that faith is through Study. If we don't study Scripture we might get skewed views of what faith is all about and who ... than the New Testament. But we want to learn about our faith and what Jesus expects. When we know that, then we can begin to understand how we got to this point. B. So, how do we do this Bible Study thing? If you are a very disciplined person, you ...

508. The Dachshund Dilemma

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... the vital body of Christ God calls us to be. If any of these three are missing, a church regardless of its size, the beauty of its building or the affluence of its congregation is in trouble. The first of these elements is this the church must have a clear understanding of what it is about. When Jesus began his ministry, the first thing he did was to announce his mission: “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has chosen me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the ...

509. Resurrected Obedience (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... abandon children, husbands will abandon wives, families will desert each other in selfish strife, but Jesus says, “I will not abandon you.” You are mine. Mine now, mine forever. Can you trust Him, can you trust Him now? We don’t need more insights, knowledge, and understanding. What we need is more trust. The Christian life in a single word is trust. B. Trust your past to God’s Grace. The reason I like the Methodists is that we are willing to pray about those things which we have done that we ought ...

510. To Be Passed Over

Exodus 12:1-4 (5-10) 11-14

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... . But the point and the concept remain clear. We give sacrificially of ourselves to that which we honor, that which we perceive to be greater than ourselves. On this night of nights, this celebration of being passed over by God, let us reach for a new and deeper understanding of sacrifice. As God prepares in Christ Jesus to give himself up for us, let us prepare to give ourselves to God. As we come to table ourselves this night, let us stand in awe before the love of God and renew our promise to love one ...

511. Small-Minded Christians in a Big World

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... mind and the same purpose"? Yes. But in the context of being "saints, together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours." We all should be firm in our Christian commitment and have a clear understanding of what we believe. But we need to do it in a way that is open to other Christians. There is a saying that is attributed to every great reformer in the history of the church: "In essentials unity, in non-essentials diversity, in all things charity ...

512. Walking in Our Shoes

John 1:1-18

Illustration

John Claypool

... to because I had not walked in her shoes. Let me suggest that if God, in fact, has come to this earth to live as we have to live, if God has experienced life the way we have to experience it, then it means that we can believe that God understands, that none of our experiences are strange to the Holy One, because God has chosen to share the human condition with us. There is no longer a remote sense that God is above and outside us, but there is this incredible sense that God ...

513. How Can This Be?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Robert J. Elder

... in angels these days. I'm not sure that much of it is really from any kind of Christian perspective, but I do suspect that the reason for much of it arises from a basic, human, subrational conviction that what we see with our eyes and understand with our minds cannot be all there really is about the universe and our place in it. There must be some force or power or forces which involve themselves from time to time in our world. Who or what are they? Apparently, the entertainment industry is convinced ...

514. Who Will Vouch for Me?

2 Corinthians 3:1-6

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... that your words are his words? Your face, his face to someone like me? Please be who you say you are. Please God don't let this be another trick. Please let this be real. Please. Do you know, do you understand that you represent Jesus to me?1 It is an awesome responsibility, isn't it, to vouch for Jesus? And it won't be done with fading ink or empty words. It can only be done through the heart that has been renewed, restored, and forgiven. He has vouched for ...

515. The Place beyond Revenge

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... their salvation. On the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the month they are to send gifts of food to one another and presents to the poor. Oh, God, help me to understand violence! Help me to understand vengeance. I am pretty good at the other sins, like lust and greed, pride and gossip, but violence I just don't understand. I also don't really understand the tribalism that is beyond it. Is that because I am an immigrant myself and know that I have lived among many tribes and don't really belong to any one ...

516. All in God’s Time

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... was a long time. Yes, three hours on the cross was a long time, especially after you have first been beaten until the white of your backbone and white of your ribs shows through the mangled flesh that once covered them. Yes, God's time is difficult to understand. And, as if to heighten the confusion even more, what Jesus seemed to call an injustice ("My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?") was the ultimate working out of justice. This was God finally keeping his promise. And he did it in a way that was ...

517. The Assurance of Things Hoped For

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... Faith keeps us going when the hope is not yet realized. Our faith can be strong because the hope is so well grounded in Christ. Faith feeds our hope and hope feeds our faith. In looking back to the Old Testament, Hebrews begins with creation, "By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible" (11:3). Sometimes the creation can inspire us. That anything exists at all is a miracle. Looking at God's creation can give us new ...

518. The Glow of a Star

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... you had an Aha! experience? There’s a word for an Aha! experience, of course. It is epiphany. When we have an epiphany, we discover something new, something exciting. As we begin this New Year in worship we hope to have some Aha! experiences regarding our understanding of God. Impossible, you say? You believe you already know as much about God as you’re ever going to know? How sad. It reminds me of a Calvin & Hobbes cartoon years ago in which Hobbes, Calvin’s stuffed tiger, asks, “Did you make any ...

519. Credible Witnesses

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... to God’s Word found in the scriptures. The Bible becomes for us, “a lamp shining in a dark place.” We hold onto that Word as we would a light in the darkness for it provides direction, focus, and hope. Peter wanted the people to understand that there was a difference between the prophets of old and the false teachers who were leading the people astray. Think for a moment of some of the Old Testament prophets. Some were reluctant to speak the word of the Lord. Some felt unworthy — remember Isaiah ...

520. The Bridge at Sychar

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David O. Bales

... all, needs to know about God and about herself. It’s as though Jesus says, “You’re so important that God sent me to you.” Not all of her problems are solved that moment, but a whole bunch are. She heads off to the village to share her imperfect understanding of Jesus, and she’s not only on the way to town, she’s on the way to recovery as God’s beloved creature. That’s what happens when Jesus shows up, meeting us at a well, at work, at a party, or a picnic — even encountering us in worship ...

521. Envision: The Great Commission

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... going to help you do just that thing both today and in the future. We are going to give you a tool—a simple tool. It is your story, your testimony, that we want you to write down, in hopefully, one hundred words or less that is simple, clear and understandable that simply conveys four things: What my life was like before I met Jesus How I realized I needed Jesus How I surrendered my life to Jesus The difference Jesus has made in my life To give you just one example of this let me share with you one story ...

522. A Few Remaining Tremors

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... a happy, joyful, radiant, enthusiastic, bitter person. Listen to the last thing Jesus says, “So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart.” (Matthew 18:35, ESV) I want you to understand what Jesus was saying and don’t misunderstand what He was not. God’s forgiveness is unconditional, but it is not unproductive. When God sows the seed of forgiveness in us, we will bear the fruit of forgiveness for others. Forgiven people forgive people ...

523. Brushing Your Teeth with Oreos

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... for staying in Jerusalem. Mary was worried, perhaps a little frantic. For a while she thought that she had lost her son or that perhaps he had been abducted. If you have ever had a child wander off while in a large shopping mall, you may understand. Of course Jesus was twelve years old, which in that culture meant he was nearly an adult, ready to take on adult responsibilities. In today’s world 12-year-olds do not face the challenges that children did then, so we can allow them a prolonged adolescence ...

524. Preparations for Building the Temple

2 Chronicles 2:1-18

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... is probably related to the practice in the ancient Near East whereby a king would lay claim to a site by placing his name there. The Chronicler adopted this name theology here in order to reflect his understanding of the status of the sanctuary, namely, as the place chosen by Yahweh. Although the palace of King Solomon is also mentioned in this context (and is therefore closely related to the temple), the focus is rather on the building of the temple itself. 2:2 and 2:17–18 ...

525. Israel Rebels Against Rehoboam

2 Chronicles 10:1--11:4

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... differing in Hebrew). Since the Septuagint and Vulgate translations of 1 Kgs. 12:2 also have the equivalent of “he returned from,” this is probably the more original reading. However, the change in vocalization and preposition to read “he remained in” is understandable in light of the beginning of 2 Chron. 10:3, which states that they sent for Jeroboam. This may, however, also mean that, while he settled somewhere else after his return from Egypt, he was summoned to accompany the people to Shechem ...

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