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551. Does Christmas Make Any Difference?

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... spiritual dinner, then you have come to the very spot to find the wondrous grace of a God who fails us not. Here sins can be forgiven. Here God and sinners are reconciled. Here people bent beneath life’s heavy loads find the courage to carry on. College students, business persons, homemakers, friends—In the name of Jesus Christ, you are forgiven. I remember a discussion I had a long time ago with a colleague over the necessity of Holy Communion for Christmas Eve worship. His wife who was appalled by the ...

552. Broken Lives and Broken Chains

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... but I happened to be the first one that knew a little bit about farming and ranching and knew the difference between heifers and cows. I was the young buck. It was a curious place. Here we were, two preachers, sitting in a room full of old reprobates, carrying on and drinking coffee like one of the boys. I pictured Jesus sitting and eating with the tax collector's and sinners. And that's where we were. But there was curious thing about our relationship as it developed. We all sat at the tables in the middle ...

553. Take Your Job and Love It

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... beyond endurance, she went into her kitchen, filled a pail with water and began to scrub the floor. She went on with this humble task until some of her pain subsided. Psychologists tell us that part of the secret of dealing with grief is to carry on with the daily routines of life. The person least likely to deal successfully with the grieving process is the person who shuts himself or herself off from the world of responsibility and relationships. Most of us understand that work is vital to our lives ...

554. Mimosa Pudica

Luke 10:1-10, 16-24

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... be satisfied from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight from her glorious bosom. For thus says the LORD: I will extend prosperity to her like a river, and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream; and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm, and dandled [bounced] on her knees. As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. We are those who love Jerusalem because we are people of The Book. Their story is our story; our fate is ...

555. Empowering the Powerless

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... living parents or brothers, or if her husband divorced her. Women could not ask for a divorce. Only a man could divorce a woman. The usual reason a man might divorce a woman was due to infertility. Because of the emphasis on bearing children in order to carry on a family name, and a family business, this quality was all-important. People in those days understood nothing about male and female fertility, and so if a woman could not get pregnant, the fault was set at the woman’s feet. Often a charge would be ...

556. The Stewardship of Money in the Modern Church

2 Corinthians 9:11, 12

Sermon

Dr. John Thompson Peters

... popular idea started by the Kennedy administration. It was clearly inspired by such church movements as "Cross Roads Africa" led by the Reverend James Robinson and others. But the Peace Corps is continually seeking more personnel and additional funds to carry on its program. Its opportunities to do good soon outmatch its ability to meet them. A similar situation has long faced the church, and long after the Peace Corps has been forgotten will still face her. Recently when the labor unions indicated ...

557. Who Will Be Crying At Your Funeral

Luke 12:22-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... they knew was that they were to have the house ready when he did. Now put yourself in the place of these servants. They had a choice to make, didn't they? They could have said, "While the cat's away, we will play." Or they could have carried on with their responsibilities. You and I can't relate to servants. But we can imagine being teenagers whose parents have gone away for a holiday. These teenagers could party, party, party, and hope they can get the house put back in order before their parents get back ...

558. Missing The Real Miracle

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... and promises of God in the flesh. Amy Carmichael was a missionary to India for fifty-six years. During the last twenty years, however, she was confined to her room because of injuries suffered in a terrible fall. In spite of being daily wracked by pain, she carried on her work for the Lord and composed thirteen books. In 1948, as she neared the end of her life, Amy wrote this note: "Not relief from pain, not relief from the weariness that follows, not anything of that sort at all, is my chief need. Thou, O ...

559. The Competitor

Genesis 25:19-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... who has sold his birthright for a bowl of stew. So neither brother really measured up to their inheritance--one with an excess of ambition, the other with an excess of apathy. And that just may be why God chose Jacob instead of Esau to carry on the covenant relationship. Between ambition and apathy, most of the time, apathy is the more deadly spiritually. Who can forget those scorching words that the Spirit speaks to the church in Laodicea: "I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish ...

560. With a Song in Your Heart

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... him that God is God and that God loved him and cared what was happening to him. He kept remembering those songs and either humming them or singing them when he could, and they helped him to keep everything in perspective and to find the strength to carry on. A Choctaw Christian woman was dying of cancer in a hospital far from her home and from her people. But her daughter was there, and her daughter stood by her bed during the last hours singing Christian hymns in the Choctaw language, and the woman was ...

561. The Twenty-Ninth Chapter of Acts

2 Timothy 4:1-22

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... denying the power of it." And into that kind of a world, Paul commissions Timothy with his final message in Chapter four. St. Paul is turning the work over to the next generation, the passing of the task and the torch, the commissioning of Timothy to carry on the unfinished work of Christ in the world, to write the next chapter in Acts. 1. Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry. The task is passed on to Timothy, then down the generations ...

562. Genesis 11:1-9

Genesis 11:1-9

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... that through the disciple's words and work new generations of believers will join with them. This is our "greater work." But even as Jesus promises the disciples this ongoing power, he confirms their fears - he is going and they will be left to carry on. As further consolation to his disciples, Jesus reveals the gift he will leave with them, a gift that comes from the Father but through the Son. That gift is of course the Holy Spirit, the enabling force behind the disciples' ability to continue Jesus ...

563. This Is Where We Come In

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... where we came in” obsolete in the movie world. Defining the moment of a “beginning” was something both Alfred Hitchcock and John the gospel writer had in common. The beginning words and beginning scenes they chose had enduring power and presence to carry on throughout their whole story. John’s story was focused on nothing less than, “In the beginning was the Word.” It was the first public expression of the power contained in this “Word,” the Logos, the Christ, that is revealed at the wedding ...

564. Radical Love is Forgiving (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... how you receive it. Verse 50: “And he said to the woman, ‘Your faith has saved you, go in peace.’” Faith is the rare courage to act on that which you cannot yet prove to be true. Faith is leaving a fresh grave with enough hope to carry on. Faith is writing a song of thanksgiving when the rent is due. Faith is accepting forgiveness when it seems nothing more than a distant dream. Faith is proclaiming peace while you still feel the turmoil inside. Faith is letting your hair down enough to receive the ...

565. Luke 13:10-17

Luke 13:10-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... , bones and muscles of young children. There are long-term studies underway to follow up the muscular-skeletal effects that may result from years of hauling around pounds and pounds of books, sports gear, computers, and all the other portable “necessities” our kids carry on their back ten months out of the year. In later life, the back-packer may develop the newly named syndrome of “backpackilepsy.” Being bent over by the burdens of life is the focus of this week’s gospel text. As we age, gravity ...

566. We Must Finish The Work God Has Given Us

Luke 13:31-35

Bulletin Aid

H. Burnham Kirkland

... . We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Offertory Prayer Heavenly Father, your love for us has been demonstrated by the gift of your Son, Jesus Christ. With these gifts we would show our love for you. Bless the gifts and those who gave, we pray, that they may be used to carry on your work. Amen. Hymns "A Charge To Keep I Have" "Ask Ye What Great Thing I Know" "Behold A Broken World"

567. Ask With A Thankful Heart

Philippians 4:2-9

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... . Fill us with your Holy Spirit that our hearts may overflow with thanksgiving, and may we never take our blessings for granted again. Amen. Offertory Prayer O Lord our God, with gratitude for your many blessings, and with a strong commitment to carry on your ministry, we present these gifts. May your Church, bolstered by our commitment of time, talents, and money, be strengthened, and by your Holy Spirit empowered to carry the gospel into the world. Amen. Hymns "For The Fruits Of This Creation" "Praise ...

568. Daring To Trust The Roots

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... are deep in the heart of God. Isaiah didn't wait around for evidence of hope in order to hope (cf. Romans 8:24-25; Hebrews 11:1). His hope came from a deep and abiding trust in God. And he knew that God would send leaders who would carry on God's message. You and I have the advantage over Isaiah of knowing the ultimate leader, the ultimate shoot off the stump of Jesse: Jesus Christ. And that branch connects us forever with an undying hope, which is foolishness to the wise and life itself to those who give ...

569. Holy Hype

Matthew 11:1-19

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... the wine miracle and feeding the five thousand but you have got to stop doing the healing stuff. Healing the blind, and the lame and cleansing lepers, and the deaf hearing. It's a bit too much. If the people are there live they believe, but it just doesn't carry on T.V. People know we can edit the tape. And raising the dead -- forget that one altogether. No one, but no one, will ever believe that even if they are there. I tell you what we could do. Sure, we could have you turn some water into wine and feed ...

570. Dodging the Thrust

Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... way. A third dodge might be to talk about people, to point the finger of scorn, like the Pharisees did. For example, we could talk about the three young men who live in a nearby apartment. My goodness! The way they talk, the things they do! Such carrying on! A woman who lived in a small town often went shopping in the big city some distance away. She assured her children that she couldn’t get lost. She had certain landmarks. She always knew the way home, and how close to home she was getting. Then they ...

571. The Fourth Sunday of Easter

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Kendall K. McCabe

... sheepfold the way everyone else does. By the grace of Jesus Christ. And the minister stands in our midst from week to week not only to assure us we have been forgiven, but also to hear from us those same words of pardon she or he needs, in order to carry on the work of Christ in our midst. Christ is the door for the shepherd. But Christ is also the door for the sheep. It is through Christ we all have entrance into the kingdom of heaven. But we must be careful in how we understand that. The temptation to ...

572. The Master Has Come - And Calls Disciples

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

... struck by the fact that among the first things Jesus did was to gather around himself a group of disciples. While he was in the wilderness praying, thinking, planning, strategizing, he apparently decided that his method would include training intensely a small group who would carry on the work he was beginning. He came out of that time of seclusion, and announced the theme of his campaign: "The time is fulfilled, and the Kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the Gospel." Then, he chose twelve to be ...

573. Faith, Love, and Fakers at Ephesus

Acts 18:18-28

Sermon Aid

CSS

... that part of the world customarily worked from dawn until the heat of the day. They then ate and rested during the next few hours, resuming their labors about 4 p.m. when the air again became cooler. The account given by Luke hints that Paul carried on a daily routine of this sort for two years. It had a big effect on Ephesian life. The text simply says that Paul’s public preaching was heard "by all the residents of Asia." Paul’s daily presentations must have become important community events. Visitors ...

574. When the Guest Becomes the Host

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

George Bass

... by Viet Cong soldiers: "Our four children saw their dad taken away. All we could say was ‘We’re praying for you.’ " They haven’t seen him since that day in 1962. The Mitchells had gone to Vietnam in 1947, thus they had carried on their ministry there for some fifteen years before Mitchell’s arrest; there was no reason for Mitchell’s being taken prisoner. Some time later, Betty Mitchell was arrested, spent eight months in prison and lost fifty pounds before she and others were released to ...

575. Who Will Wipe Away Their Tears?

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... and Nabokov himself. So it is with those of us who cannot hear the cries of children at our door. If tears are wiped from their eyes, it will be because the church of Jesus Christ got busy. We are his ambassadors. We are those entrusted with carrying on the ministry he began 2,000 years ago. Where there are children who need tears wiped from their eyes, that is where Christ means for us to be. And you know what? THERE IS NO GREATER SATISFACTION IN LIFE THAN HELPING ANOTHER HUMAN BEING. That's true ...

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