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551. Dirty, Rotten Scoundrels

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... added, "And some of you are more upset that I said [blank] than you are about the fact that people are starving." Now, Tony was not advocating using four-letter words. He was trying to make a point and he did so in quite a shocking way about our misplaced sense of values. Some of us who would never use vulgar language can walk right by a person in need and not bat an eye. One does not justify the other, but one thing you can say from Jesus' teachings is that placed on a scale, feeding needy people certainly ...

552. Loved By The Father

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... is so important. Many persons who try to follow Christ have never opened their lives to God's unconditional love. They can never receive the abundant joy that Christ brings because they never felt worthy of that joy. Let me give you an example of how important a sense of self-worth can be. It comes from the book, Take This Job and Love It, and I believe it will hit home with someone in here today. Ethan is one of the best-liked managers in his company, unfailingly supportive of his people and always willing ...

553. Something To Brag About

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... laws of nature in order that they would all be on the ice at the same time to win a hockey game. That makes sense. Of course God is on our side--in hockey as in everything else. Writer Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote a little fable that went ... hear what I'm saying? Christ has set you free. But what kind of person would you be if you didn't feel a sense of obligation, a sense of call, a sense that you should live life on a higher plane because of what has been done on your behalf? You and I have so much ...

554. Standing Outside Graceland

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... a level at which we are not even aware, all our lives we have been trying to measure up to our parents' expectations. And the sad thing is that we never can. And so many of us have this deep sense of unworthiness. And you know something interesting--it's some of the finest people in the church who have this sense of unworthiness. And it's robbed us of our joy. We've tried to do the right thing all our lives and all it has gotten us is that we are standing on the wall looking longingly into Graceland. Do ...

555. Being Alone

Genesis 2:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... I must have done something wrong. I must be inadequate. Where have I failed?" Single people often have guilt from other sources as well. After all, there is a great deal of subtle pressure, most of it well intentioned, from both family and friends against aloneness. There is that sense, not only of failing one's self, but also of failing others when you are a single adult. Those of you who have lost a life's partner to death know what guilt is too. "If only I hadn't let him work so hard . . . If I had only ...

556. An Empty Cup

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." (Job 23: 1-9, 16-17) How can a God this great and awesome not be found? Have you ever gone looking for God and found nothing? Have you demanded answers from God and received only silence? Reverend Barbara Taylor Brown writes, "One thing is for sure: there is no sense of absence where there has been no sense of presence. What makes absence hurt, what makes it ache, is the memory of what used to be there but is no longer . . .You cannot miss what you have never known, which makes our ...

557. To Who Can We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... when the worshipers partook of the feast they were literally eating the god, taking the god within themselves. In addition, in the ancient Mystery Religions also offered communion with, or identity with, some god. All of the Mystery Religions were, in a sense, passion plays. They were mythological stories of a god who lived and died and rose again, mythologies which prefigured the actual event which later took place in the death and resurrection of the Jesus Christ. These Mystery Religions offered a form of ...

558. It’s Hard to Eat While Lying

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... dining hall. It is indeed hard to eat while you are living a lie. We must not imagine that Judas was some sort of monster. Truth told, he was more like most of us than we care to admit. Betrayal of Christ cannot be laid on Judas alone. In a sense, all of us are his accomplices. At times we are all guilty of betrayal of Jesus and His cause. Judas’ act terrifies us because he did boldly what manner of us have done timidly. Perhaps Judas is not that much different from the rest of us. When we hear the ...

559. Only the Neighbors’ Kid

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” (Luke 2:49) I like the older translation better: “Did you not know that I must be about my Father’s business?” - but there is stronger textual support for the new version of His words. In a sense, this was Jesus’ declaration of independence from His parents. Sooner or later it comes to all of us. That child of ours, that little boy or girl soon is little no longer, and each must strike out on his or her own, and discover his or her own special ...

560. Angels in the Wilderness

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... who drove Jesus out into the wilderness. The very Spirit that came upon Him at His baptism now pushed Him into the wilderness for His testing time. Next winter I have plans to study for ten days in the Wilderness of Judea. I am looking forward to it in one sense, and dreading it in another. It is a bleak place...the place where Bishop Pike got lost and died, the place where it took the Israeli Army a week to find him! I’m going to stay close to my teacher, believe me! Jesus, says Mark, was “driven out ...

561. Dealing with Our Doubts

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the phrase “going downhill.” It is usually applied to people in a condemnatory or pitying manner. When we say of anybody, he (or she) is “going downhill” we mean that that person has seen better days. But, says Luccock, “there is a nobler sense of the words as well - the sense in which Jesus spent his whole life going downhill from the high and lonely places, where he held communion with God to the level, crowded places of human need. There are those who spend much of their time on the fine art of ...

562. God's Timing or Our Timing -The Tension of Time

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the hands of wrist watches and those events locked away in the mystery and providence of God. We live in that tension between our sense of timing and God''s timing. We know it is better to seek Kingdom time, but we often fall prey to clock time. It ... recognizes that so often our understanding of time is limited to the clock and therefore, is fragmented and finite compared to God''s sense of time, which is eternal. I believe the Bible teaches us in this scripture lesson and in other places of sacred scripture ...

563. Preparing for Something Big

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... preparing for that grand and wonderful day when there will be no more pain or sorrow or suffering or death. We are getting ready for an event which has no equal in human experience and for which we wait with eager anticipation. As I tried to picture this sense of eager anticipation, I remembered what it was like for me to wait for Christmas morning when I was a child. That is when my family opened our gifts. The closer it got to Christmas, the more excited I became. On December 24, my enthusiasm reached its ...

564. A Friend in High Places

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... , sit with me when I look in the mirror. Forgive me for falling for the market's cheap tricks, for I have given them my sense of worth along with all my money. Help me believe again that I am beautiful, that you have made me good, and that there may ... when I'm gone.2 The ascension is not the province of physics; it is, however, the province of theology. It speaks to the sense of permanence we ardently seek, and the worship we would gladly give. It announces that we have, so to speak, "a friend in high places ...

565. The Achilles' Heel of the Church

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... away from the truth, we tend to wait on them to "come to themselves" before making a move toward them. If they never "come to their senses," we just leave them alone in the name of "tolerance." Then, if they come around on their own, we run down the road like some silly clown ... understandings of life that make the covenant people who they are. Robin Lovin, I think, is correct: "Unless we have ... some sense of mission in our institution ... we probably will not have much of a moral life, even though we may not ...

566. In The Kingdom Now

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Damascus road experience. Rarely have I seen the power of Christ demonstrated in the life of a person, in such a radical transforming way. She was brought out of a debauched life of drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, and perverted values. The change was incredible – her sense of being pardoned and cleansed was exhilarating and overflowing. She was a clear picture of what we might call the twice born. She was a songwriter and on her way to the top. Her closest circle of friends were already at the top – so ...

567. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... That's the date we get from the book of Haggai. Yet, this Psalm bears the heading "Of Solomon". Solomon flourished in the middle of 900 B.C. What we need to know is that the word "of" in this instance, "of Solomon", can also mean "Allah" in the French sense of "in the style of". So, the probability is that that's the designation. It's in the style of Solomon. That seems reasonable when we see in verse two the words "His beloved". In Hebrew that sounds very much like the name given to Solomon. Again, verse 2 ...

568. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... there are times when we can't sing -- or we think we can't. And it doesn't help us to pretend. Don't lie about it. Be honest. Find someone, or a few persons, with whom you can share. Let them know the emptiness you feel, your pain, your sense of being betrayed. There is someone who will understand and will listen and will stick with you and accept your raging, or your withdrawal, or your questioning silence. So, don't lie about it. Don't try to sing when your singing is going to mock your feelings. At the ...

569. Loving Close-up

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... went downstairs, calling over my shoulder. "When you're ready to discuss this calmly like an adult, I'll be in my study." I'm sure a big hunk of Jerry died that day, and a big hunk of our relationship died, too. I wasn't alive enough to sense the pain, but Jerry was, and she felt it. Well, it was years later that I learned just how traumatic that bedroom experience had been, and how my failure to accept her as a feeling person had thwarted her personal growth. For years, memories of that encounter shut down ...

570. The Dayspring From On High

Luke 1:5-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of awe swept over him." We'll come back to that in another sermon -- but it helps to register it now. Anytime God is around -- anytime we get close to Him, or He gets close to us -- we might better be afraid -- afraid not in a negative sense -- but aware of the awesome situation in which we are -- that the Almighty is visiting us. III. Note this second thing about Zachariah's response: He didn't believe the Angel's message. And you know, I believe that's the reason Luke tells the story, and why he goes ...

571. In The Beginning And The End...God

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... for its signals to reach earth. Incandescent amazement! The first verse of the poem with which I began this sermon took on even more meaning for me. "A fire mist and a planet, a crystal and a cell, a jellybean and a sorrey, and caves where cavemen dwell, and a sense of law and beauty and a face turned from the clod some call it evolution; others call it God." But I don't call it evolution and a lot of folks have quit calling it that I call it Creation God's Creation. In the beginning, God God is eternal ...

572. Speak And It Will Be

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and singing and glorious celebration. The grandmother heard all of this and observed it, and when she was reflecting with her grandson about it, she made this observation: "Son, it's not how high you jump, but how you walk when you hit the ground again." There is a marked sense in which we are what we do, and I'm going to talk more about that next Sunday. But here is the place we are likely to err -- to think that our worthiness in God's sight is dependent upon what we do or what we achieve. That was the ...

573. Reflections On A Calling (ten-year Anniversary Sermon)

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hook? that's what I mean by powerlessness." (Ritter, ibid.) That's one of the things that makes the ministry so overwhelming -- a sense of powerlessness. Then, two, there is the pace of it all. The pace is horrendous. I appreciate the fact that many of you ... that this extraordinary power belongs go God and does not come from us." I could talk about this in a lot of different ways. One, my sense of calling. I have no doubt about it. God's call has been confirmed over and over again in my life. And, had I not ...

574. The Book that Changes Lives

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... a theologian whose works are read all over the world. He is best known for his ground-breaking book The Theology of Hope. To this day Jurgen Moltmann carries that New Testament with him as a reminder of what God can do through his word. Does this make sense to you? The Bible not only provides us with a structure for our lives, but when we wrestle with the Word prayerfully the Bible actually shapes our lives, if we will let it. I want to encourage you to adopt a personal discipline, if you have not already ...

575. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , forgive me, I begged. I felt soiled and cheap. Me, a minister of the Gospel… I had wanted simply to get rid of him, when he was crying out for the help of Christ I had just preached about. I swallowed hard as God’s love flooded my soul. David sensed the change in me. He moved toward me and fell on my chest, burying his grimy head against my white shirt and tie. Holding him close, I talked to him about Jesus’ love. These weren’t just words; I felt them. I felt love for this pitiful young man. And ...

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