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526. Lying By the Side of the Road

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... . And so it was only natural when he saw this player injured he would pause to try and help him. The result was that Frank was chewed out by his coach for “giving aid and compassion to the enemy.” Suddenly life as an NFL player was not quite as important to Frank. At that moment he decided to hang up his cleats. He decided to go full‑time to medical school. And today John Frank is a practicing physician. “Walking away from pro football seemed silly to everyone, but Frank says he is happier now in ...

527. Campground Commode

Illustration

King Duncan

... the following reply: Dear Madam: I regret very much the delay in answering your letter, but I now take pleasure in informing you that the “B.C.” is located nine miles north of the camp site and is capable of seating 250 people at one time. I admit it is quite a distance away if you are in the habit of going regularly, but no doubt you will be pleased to know that a great number of people take their lunches along, and make a day of it. They usually arrive early and stay late. The last time my wife and ...

528. A Taxing Encounter

Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 2:13-17, Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... shore? Did Jesus pick him out of a crowd watching him in Capernaum? Did he see him outside of the Synagogue? We don’t know. But we do know that Jesus walked up to the tax booth and called Matthew to follow him. And Matthew left his job, quit presumably, and became a disciple of Jesus. Matthew, a Jewish man, would constitute as a “lost sheep of Israel” by means of his occupation. He was an outcast, known as a crook, and just plain distasteful in others’ eyes. Those Jewish men who nuzzled up to the ...

529. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... what reason was brought to bear against his position, no matter how sensible the argument, the man maintained that he was dead. He parried their thrusts with ingenious skill. He seemed to have a way of constantly putting the burden of proof on the other. He never quite came right out and said, "Prove it." But that was the message implied, not so much by how he answered as by how he avoided giving any answer at all. Every now and then someone thought, "Now, I've pinned him down," having brought evidence so ...

530. God Gives the Pharisees the Finger!

John 7:25-44, John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is not pledged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the bride-price, and she shall be his wife. If her father absolutely refuses to give her to him, he must still pay the bride-price for virgins.” (Exodus 22:16-17) All of this was quite risky at times. When Jesus has a conversation with the Pharisees about divorce, he is criticizing the ease in which men can discard women with virtually no proof at all, or almost at whim. The law sides with the men. But the women have the most to lose, as they ...

531. Why I Believe In The Resurrection

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Brett Blair

... tell the story to others. They were resurrection people. The Apostle Paul wrote: I have died to sin and have been raised with him. This is what I am talking about. The resurrection is an historical event, but it must become more than that to us. It is quite apart from the Battle of Waterloo and man's landing on the moon. The resurrection is an ongoing event, an event shared by every generation. More than that it is an event we are invited to participate in. We are to become resurrection people. It will be ...

532. Priceless!

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... for nearly five decades At the time he bought it, the watch cost $345.97, which was a lot of money to pay for a watch in 1974, especially for a military man whose salary was between $300 and $400 a month. But it turned out to be quite a good investment. While appearing on an episode of "Antiques Roadshow" filmed in Fargo, N.D., this veteran learned his watch, which was unworn and came with its original box, certification and a guarantee could fetch between $500,000 and $700,000 at auction. (1) Upon learning ...

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

William J. Clinton

534. Are You Troubled by Demons?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... all. They were troubled people who were more trouble to themselves than they were to anyone else. Take the man known as the Gerasene demoniac (Mark 5:1-17). He was living in a cemetery and, evidently, he was no danger to anyone but himself. He was quite disturbed, however. “Night and day among the tombs and in the hills, he would cry out,” says the Gospel of Mark, “and cut himself with stones.” What a sad man. When Jesus asked him his name, he responded, “My name is Legion, for we are many.” If ...

535. Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley

Luke 19:28-40 · Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... One Irish friend, he explains, while visiting New York City, used the subway system rather late one night. As he exited his train and walked toward the escalator, he spotted a sign that read: DOGS MUST BE CARRIED ON THE ESCALATOR. Pausing for a moment, this Irishman was quite distraught. He thought to himself: “Where the heck am I going to get a dog at this time of night?” (2) I should have stopped when I was ahead, shouldn’t I? How many of you are dog owners? How many of you are cat owners? How many ...

536. Shameless!

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... each Sunday. It has been pushed aside as we seek to have the Lord bless the things we’re already doing. The call is clear. The instruction is simple. But the results are unknown. And that may be the very reason we’ve pushed this instruction aside. It’s quite safe to ask for our daily bread. It’s comforting to address the Lord as Daddy. It’s a bit scary to ask him to fill us with his Spirit. After all, what might happen when the awesome resurrection power of God resides within us? The answer is a ...

537. The Challenge Of Simplicity

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... than the Pharisees and Sadducees. They made a note of that one too. In my imagination, it was at this point that Jesus noticed the movement in the crowd. Many of them had come a long way and started out really early this morning to get here. They were quite a distance from a town, and some of the group was clearly getting hungry and thirsty. In my mind, one of the Pharisees opened a bag one of his aides had picked up at the Tiberius coffee house and pulled out a nice pineapple scone he started to munch ...

538. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 8:1-9

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... the position lies somewhere between the All of Christ and the None of Christ approaches, which we could call the Some of Christ approach. Judging from the fact that the book of Psalms is the most quoted Old Testament book in the New Testament, it is quite clear that the New Testament writers believed their messianic hope was written in the lines of the Psalms, not merely projected on to them at a later time.4 The messianic hope in the Psalms falls into at least three paradigms. One is the royal paradigm ...

539. “The Words of the Lord Are Flawless, Like Silver Purified in a Crucible”

Psalm 12:1-8

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... : “misuse”). To give “false testimony” is a violation of the ninth commandment (Deut. 5:20 [shaw’]; cf. Exod. 20:16 [sheqer]). The phrase “harbor deception in their hearts” is literally “with a heart and a heart,” which means “double-minded.” The Septuagint translates the expression quite literally (“with heart and with heart”). The Greek dipsychos (“double-minded”) of James 1:8 and 4:8 (it does not occur in the LXX or elsewhere in the NT)5 renders the sense of this expression ...

540. Body

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... the main type of containers in most Near Eastern cultures. Yet the vessels were fragile and their usual life spans were probably a few years at the most. Therefore, when Paul refers to his body as a clay jar, he may be regarding himself, on one level, as quite ordinary and transitory (cf. Lam. 4:2; Song Rab. 1:19: “Just as water does not keep well in a vessel of silver or gold but in the commonest of vessels, so the Torah resides only in one who makes himself like a vessel of earthenware”). Paul’s ...

541. For Someone Who Heroically Suffered, Yet Spread Good Cheer

John 19:25-27 · 2 Corinthians 6:1-10

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... job and she mustn’t be late. Then there was a nun that came by at about 10:30 every morning, always with another nun. One morning she came by with a gentleman. They were engaged in earnest conversation. The two patients talked about that one for quite some time and decided that he was her brother visiting from out of town. The man who could see out the window reported on how the paper boy was gaining better accuracy tossing his papers. And he also told about the little children and the games they played ...

542. The Lost Is Found

Luke 15:11-32

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... what he was hearing. Ten long years! Could it really be that his daughter, now 33, was still alive? Had God heard their prayers? "Well, yes," he finally answered, "we do have a missing daughter named Kathy." As they spoke further on the phone Pastor Dave was quite sure that it was, indeed, his Kathy who had been found. Arrangements were made for Dave and his wife to come to the hospital as quickly as possible in order to identify Kathy. They made the trip in a state of excited anticipation. And it was true ...

543. Paths Of Desperation

1 John 5:1-12

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... offered some hope for cancer treatment. A doctor about an hour's drive away claimed to have a cure for this type of cancer. Before long Dick's mother was housed with that doctor in the far away town. Dick made the drive with his father to see his mother quite often. This trip was this family's only hope. They knew of nowhere else to go with their hopelessness. They had to drive an hour to get there. They would have gladly driven any amount of miles it took to nurture hope for a mother and wife with cancer ...

544. A Great Prophet Has Arisen Among Us

1 Kings 17:8-24; 2 Kings 4:1-37

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... and had a bite to eat at the home of a wealthy woman. Since there were no fast food restaurants in Elisha's day, he stopped quite often at the house of the Shunammite woman to get something to eat. The woman sensed that Elisha was a holy one of God. So she ... his servant Gehazi to ask the Shunammite woman what gift he might give to her. Gehazi went. He discovered that the woman was quite content with what she had. She asked for nothing. "But there must be something we can give this woman," Elisha insisted to ...

545. Bearing The Cross

Luke 14:25-35

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... on the clinic staff. The other G.P. was a man with a few years' experience. It became clear to her quite soon that he was getting far more referrals than she was from the other physicians at the clinic. What was even worse, however, was that when ... she referred patients to some of the specialists they would quite often check out her referral with the other G.P. Her peers clearly did not trust her judgment. Laura did not know what to ...

546. Easter Power

John 20:19-23, John 20:24-31

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... became all too casual and light-hearted with no more significance than a passing greeting, Jesus came to give it new meaning. At Bethlehem God announced that peace would come through the gift of God's unique Son. The mission and ministry of our Lord made it quite clear that Jesus had come to introduce the rule of God and to order peace for the world. However, this rule stood in stark contrast to the warring factions of the world which seek to find their own peace in other ways. Jesus came to witness to ...

547. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... the dead. They rise because he is the Resurrection even before he himself rises -- because, in other words, he is the grand sacrament, the real presence, of the mystery of a kingdom in which everybody rises.4 Lazarus died. Jesus raised him back to life. Lazarus died again, quite possibly at the hands of those who killed Jesus.5 And the Risen Lord raised him once again. This is the good news: in all of our deadness and death, God-in-Christ raises us up and fills us with the life of eternity. Our hope is not ...

548. How to Rise above Discouragement

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... child. "But the child is almost grown and gone, and besides he thinks you should get out of the relationship," I said. She then stated she could not afford to move out. "But," I said, "you already are gainfully employed, and from what you have told me, earn quite a good income." "But," she replied, "without his income, I would have to live at a lower level than that to which I have become accustomed." And so it went. She was indeed very unhappy in the marriage and had been for a long time. She was very ...

549. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... had a balanced perspective and good religious behavior. Yet the point of Amos', and Jesus', and Berger's critique is that quite the opposite is true. In the Jewish and Christian faiths, love for God must be followed by love for neighbor -- a ... a huge balloon or blimp and then just sort of float around. Initially we can take in a rather huge volume, but otherwise our intake volume is quite limited. We can be full of only so much wind or spirit. I believe the church is called to be more of a jet plane than a ...

550. Proper 19

Psalm 14:1-7, 1 Timothy 1:12-20, Jeremiah 4:5-31, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... inside, even in the daytime. The woman has to light a lamp to be able to see the coin. This is not intended as allegory though it has been used that way. 12. "Sweep the House." (v. 8) The woman did not venture outside the house typically. Therefore it was quite certain that the coin would be somewhere inside the house. The floor might be either stone or dirt. A coin could be easily mixed in the dirt and hidden from view in a typical house. Sweeping would bring it to the surface and isolate it so it could be ...

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