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551. Our Unmanageable God (The Second Commandment)

Exodus 20:1-21, Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... are genuine or fabricated. They use marbles in their voting procedure. If a passage is genuine, they drop a red marble into a box; if it's probable, they use a pink marble; a gray marble if it's doubtful; and a black marble if in their opinion the passage is without historical basis. This august crowd of intellectuals has decided that only 18 percent of the words attributed to Jesus are genuine, and that the resurrection did not happen. Now, I believe that the grace of God can cover any sin. But I would ...

552. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... artist Leonardo DaVinci began to paint his immortal vision of the Last Supper. Working slowly and with great care for detail, he spent three years completing the painting. When he had finally finished he called a trusted friend to see it. "Give me your honest opinion," said DaVinci. "It's wonderful"' said his friend. "In fact, that cup is so real I cannot keep my eyes off it." Immediately, DaVinci took a brush and drew it across the sparkling cup, removing its glow. He said, "If it affects you that way ...

553. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that no human being has the right to terminate life. Christians are well advised to prepare living wills, instructing those who care for them not to use extraordinary means to keep them alive. But that momentous next step--hastening death because in our opinion life no longer has any quality--is not our prerogative. A THIRD BATTLEFIELD IN THE WAR AGAINST MURDER IS THAT CONTROVERSIAL SUBJECT OF ABORTION. From the moment of conception, a miracle is happening within a woman's body. There is at least the ...

554. The Bite of The Lying Tongue

Exodus 20:1-21, James 3:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... gaps. Resumes are padded with non-existent accomplishments. Some people who think of themselves as truthful will sell a lemon of an automobile without a single word of warning to the buyer. Some time ago Time magazine reported the results of an opinion poll which revealed that 75 percent of the citizens believe there is less honesty in government now than there was ten years ago. President Clinton, in a wide ranging interview, stated, "Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances." Seldom ...

555. But Men Loved Darkness

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... Cain asked that question, it was a valid question. He wanted information. WAS he his brother’s keeper? But now light has come. Christ has pointed out that every person in this human family of ours, whether we like it or not or regardless of our opinion, is our brother. Every human being is our brother, and WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR HIM! Oh, our good, old, Bible-believing, Christian, John Birchers will tell you, of course, that for us to sell any surplus food to any nation in the Communist block is sinful ...

556. Well, What Did You Expect?

Acts 12:1-19a

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that this is probably true." You see, when God becomes the third party in our disputes in prayer, then strangely enough, it’s never necessary to decide who is right or wrong. Let God in the middle of your argument, and then see how small your opinions begin to seem in the light of His will. Certainly we have the right to pray for that which will increase and improve our fellowship with God. This is something that we have the right to expect, and this prayer is ALWAYS answered, absolutely and immediately ...

557. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... be great for children’s Sunday school lessons, but you have to be nutty to believe it when you graduate into adulthood. To admit that there are such people does not mean that you have to agree with their convictions. Though they often are convinced that their opinions alone are based on solid evidence, the truth of the matter is that whether one concludes that there is a God, or rejects him out of hand, ultimately is an act of faith. The young physicist could no more prove his contention than I can prove ...

558. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... though we don’t have all of the answers about anything, parents should not be afraid to influence their children to go this way instead of that. Raising a child is not a "hands-off" proposition. Some people have advocated a "hands-off" policy. In their opinion, any restraints applied to a child by anyone, parents included, are deforming. "Let a child have his head, and where he ends up is where he should be," seems to be their philosophy. Hence, no value system, no moral code or norms, should be imposed ...

559. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... as a guest preacher. After the services the congregation and I met for informal discussions, usually centering around the sermon subject for the day. Following one of those sermons a mother button-holed me and took me into a corner of the room. "I want an opinion from you," she said. "I have a fourteen-year-old daughter who has been asked to the senior high school prom next week. Do you think I should give her contraceptives?" So, whether it is the social room of a church, or on the super-wide screen ...

560. Chapter IX

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... out your punishment. When men respond to love, and its positive pull, their efforts go on when you are nowhere in sight. This is true wherever it is that you work with people. Believe the best about your fellows, and more often than not they will live up to your opinion. That doesn’t always happen, I know. I have had people in whom I trusted forge that trust into an axe and plant it in the back of my head! But more often than not, so often in fact that I am now willing to base my lifestyle on its ...

561. A Real Pepper-Upper

Sermon

Michael J. Anton

... . Sometimes it’s really hard to imagine that being Christian can be exciting and vibrant, so exciting it can catapult a person out of his chair and into action. It’s hard to imagine because so often the Word of God becomes just another word, just another opinion, the words of the Church ring dull in our ears. But it has happened and does happen that being Christian is very exciting. Men are not thrown to lions or burned at stakes for something that means very little to them. They are not ostracized from ...

562. HUNTER

Genesis 25:27; Proverbs 6:5

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Stephen Stewart

... the Old Testament: Nimrod and Esau. There are few references to the hunting of four-footed beasts, but the fowler, with his nets and snares, is frequently mentioned, probably because Palestine lies on the main flight routes of the migratory birds. But a low opinion of hunting in general seemed to be the vogue in Israel, perhaps because Esau was a hunter, and uncivilized, and Jacob was a herdsman and quiet, and of course, a patriarch. Three principal methods of hunting are mentioned in the Bible: 1. shooting ...

563. INTERPRETER

Genesis 42:23

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Stephen Stewart

... an interpreter between them." I suppose that most of us have had occasion to visit the United Nations assembly building, or, at least, are familiar with the idea of the convention. All of the representative nations send delegates, who present their countries’ opinions and, sometimes, requests, to the general assembly. Now, obviously, there are very few people in the world who are sufficiently gifted in languages to be able to understand more than one language other than their own native tongue. So, it is ...

564. PROPHET

Hebrews 11:32

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Stephen Stewart

... him. It was this idea of the prophet as giving ecstatic predictions that has colored and misinterpreted our understanding through the centuries. While it is true, as stated above, that the meaning of the Hebrew word is obscure, the most generally accepted scholarly opinion is that it merely meant "to announce;" but this announcement was on divine order, and so, finally, the prophet was one "who utters a God-given message." This could be, and often was, a prediction of future events, usually a warning of ...

565. A Kudzu-Kind of Kingdom

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... God when first planted here or there looks tiny and vulnerable; but it grows like kudzu. Some years ago in Charlotte, North Carolina, the ministerial association decided not to support a city-wide revival because the invited evangelist, in the opinion of the pastors, was lacking in sophistication. But a Presbyterian Sunday School teacher ignored the ministerial association and encouraged his students to attend. In response, the lanky son of a dairy farmer attended the revival. There he surrendered his heart ...

566. I Love You But I Don't Like You

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... has three phases. First, there is the honeymoon phase when husband and wife are in beautiful harmony. The second phase comes between the fifth and the tenth years of marriage when partners become acutely aware of each other's faults and their differences of opinion. Whereas both partners find each other attractive most of the time, that first glance at each other each morning following the dawn's early light can be a bit tough. Her voice can at times degenerate into a whining nag which makes even the ...

567. How to Handle Criticism

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... no bartering. Whatever the price tag said, that was the firm price. As long as someone is talking about your house or your habits or your politics or your work, let it be like Israelis prices, open to negotiation and bartering, subject to diverse opinions. But when the subject is your fundamental worth as a person, let that be like Greek prices. It is non-negotiable. Let me suggest a second way to keep criticism from immobilizing you; sift each criticism for precious grains of truth, even as a prospector ...

568. Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... write this epitaph an enemy or a loved one. It might also depend, you might say, on how well this person knew and understood you. If a newspaper critic wrote of a concert pianist the four words: "He was a failure," you could always say: That was his opinion. But if one of the world's great musicians wrote, "He was a genius," then you are apt to take the remark more seriously. There was a character in the Gospel who Jesus once described with four immortal words: Great is your faith. She was a Canaanite woman ...

569. Who Do You Say I Am?

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... am? The world has turned on the heels of the answer to that question. By answering Elijah, John the Baptist and Jeremiah, the people paid Jesus compliments of the highest order. They were exalting the man Jesus. But it was the wrong answer, and so Jesus asks their personal opinion: “But who do you say that I am?” In other words, you have told me what other people think, but I want to know what you think. Who do you say that I am? I would suggest to you this morning that that is the most urgent, the most ...

570. Service Without Witness

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... ). In our serving, do we give greater attention to those who are well and whole rather than to those in genuine need? It was said of Plato that his message was for the "noble and good." His theory of the ideal State was good, but in his opinion it could be created only by cultured, refined, well-bred people. He had little use for the poor, the ignorant and the sinful. Indeed Judaism, too, leaned in a similar direction. It worked well with the morally righteous but not with the broken, outcast, publicans and ...

571. An Easter Dividend: The Courage To Be and To Do

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... and spiritual. It is not the absence of fear; it is the conquest of fear. It is not a physical endowment nor a matter of merely being built that way. To risk one’s reputation for the sake of duty, "to stick to your guns" when public opinion is against you, to blaze a new trail when everyone else glides along the path of least resistance, requires a moral and spiritual quality that is gained only by moral and spiritual means. And if there is anything this generation must learn - and learn quickly - it is ...

572. Easter Turns ONLY into ALSO

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... person’s substitute for thinking." On the other hand, tolerance is one of the most lovable qualities any one of us can possess. It is the attitude that helps us see things from another’s viewpoint and concedes others the right to their own opinions. It is interesting to note how these two human attitudes were exercised and exerted early in the life of the Christian church. Their presence and the apostles’ handling of the situations created thereby are made clear to us in the drama which our Scripture ...

573. In Search of Self

Judges 2:6-3:6

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Larry Powell

... have apparently fallen victim to a low self-esteem. Robert Schuller has written a new book titled Self-Esteem: The New Reformation, in which he proposes that the reason we are willing to settle for second and third best is because we have such a low opinion of ourselves. We will not pursue that observation here, but will simply remark that low self-esteem is a contradictory attitude to the picture of humanity presented in the Scriptures: "created in the image of God," and "the child of a king." 3. We have ...

574. Some Rules Need to be Broken

Mark 2:13-17

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Larry Powell

... in town, totally unrelated to the time-honored clinic, independent of the guild. He seeks out the diseased, actually associates with them, and proceeds to cure their ailments. Immediately, the professional guild begins to question his credentials and stirs up public opinion against him. Now read Mark 2:15-17. Jesus has invited certain tax collectors and "sinners" to dinner in his own home. The scribes and Pharisees, no doubt chaffed because Jesus had not invited them instead, raised a question which is ...

575. Song of a Prophet

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... peace. The end of strife is not necessarily the end of striving, and open warfare may only give way to wars of the heart. As Samuel Butler was to put it centuries later, he recognizes that He that complies against his will Is of his own opinion still. Accordingly, the poet follows the prophecy with an invitation to friend and foe alike to join a Kingdom greater than the kingdoms of this world, one in which all people will be equal subjects of a merciful Monarch who seeks nothing but their good and asks ...

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