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576. Greatness, Real Greatness

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Editor James S. Hewett

We who sit in history's bleachers are inclined to confuse fame with greatness. We seem willing to let the press, television, and radio determine whom we shall call great. Prominence, however, is a poor yardstick with which to measure greatness. If one would know the truth, he must pull the pedestal out from under the man and see ...

577. The Master Is Always In

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

... in every direction and seeing no one, he crept through the fence. He was just about ready to help himself when the youngster startled him by crying out, "Dad! Dad! You didn't look UP! You forgot to see if God is watching." When temptation besets you and you're inclined to yield because no one else seems to be around, remember, if you're a Christian, your "Master is always in!"

578. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... forget the woman with the topknot who wanted to be baptized all over. “Interesting,” thought Pastor Cox, “most of us are not like that lady. We do not want to be baptized that completely. We want to leave something out when we are baptized--our money, our habits, our moral inclinations, or whatever.” There was a time when denominations in our land would literally come to blows over topics like baptism. That happened in the church at Galatia--though the topic was not baptism, but circumcision . . .

579. The Art of Following

Matthew 4:12-17, Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... really want to play like Tiger at all. What we want to do is admire the way he played the game and go on playing the way we do. We idealize him. That’s Tiger Woods, the ideal in golfing, an ideal that I have neither the talent nor the inclination to achieve for myself, an ideal that is just out of reach for people like me. Normal, semi-talented, quasi-committed, duffers like me. And that’s what we do to Jesus. We admire him and then we count the cost of living our lives the way he lived his ...

580. A Man Under Authority / A Centurion's Faith, An Elder's Love

Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and say: every one of us here this morning has trust issues. Your pastor included. This is one of the reasons why Jesus warned that riches imperil the soul of those who possess them. Paul Piff and colleagues at UC, Berkeley have proven that the poor are more inclined to charity than the rich. In other words, the poor are better at trusting God than the rich. (For more see http://snipurl.com/11sd3x). And our trust issues extend even to God. We are forced to make a decision, either to depend upon God in trust ...

581. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... give our bread continually. And excuse us our offences [do not attach blame to us] as we excuse those who offend against us [do not attach blame to them]. And do not let us enter into the powers of temptation. And protect us from all evil inclinations. So be it [amen].” “If you excuse the children of men their faults [avon], your Father Who is in Heaven will excuse your faults.” “But if you do not excuse the children of men their faults, He will not excuse your faults.” Although some scholars have ...

582. The Bramble King

John 15:1-17, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the sons of Jerubbaal reign over you, or that one reign over you?’ Remember that I am your own flesh and bone.” And his mother’s brothers spoke all these words concerning him in the hearing of all the men of Shechem; and their heart was inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, “He is our brother.” So they gave him seventy shekels of silver from the temple of Baal-Berith, with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless men; and they followed him. Then he went to his father’s house at Ophrah ...

583. The Good Husband

Isaiah 54:1-17, Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , buy, and eat. Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. “Why do you spend money for what is not bread, and your wages for what does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and delight yourself in abundance. “Incline your ear and come to Me. Listen, that you may live; And I will make an everlasting covenant with you, according to the faithful mercies shown to David. “Behold, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a leader and commander for the peoples. “Behold ...

584. Living a Jesus Powered Life

Genesis 9:1-17, Genesis 6:1-8:22, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. The Lord smelled the pleasing aroma and said in his heart: “Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. And never again will I destroy all living creatures, as I have done. “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Then God ...

585. The Alabaster Jar

Mark 14:27-31, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad. The daughters of kings are among your honored women; the queen stands at your right hand, adorned with the gold of Ophir. Listen, O daughter, observe and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty; bow to him, for he is your lord. The daughter of Tyre will come with a gift; men of wealth will seek your favor. All glorious is the princess in ...

586. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... in the middle and bring up the rear. Often a flock contains not just distinctive groups of front-liners and flankers, but their roles can change, depending upon the situation or place. In a healthy flock in fact, any bird or sheep can suddenly develop the inclination to take the flock into a new, unexplored direction, and the entire flock will follow suit. A good flock respects each and every one of its members. A flock is a community that provides security not just in its sameness but in its difference and ...

587. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... down and burdening our souls falls away and we are free. We are free to imagine a new and improved life, free to be the kind of person Jesus always knew we all could be. If you were the President coming to see Phyllis, what would your first inclination be? Would you fire her? Fine her? Confront her? Alarm her? Arrest her? Contest her? But that doesn’t happen. Instead, her highest authority lifts her up into a new and different place, an undeserved place. He puts her at his own table, and he feeds her on ...

588. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Everyone here has probably heard the phrase, “to go against the grain.” The idiom means, to do something contrary to one’s natural inclination, to go in opposition to one’s natural direction, to do something different than the norm. It may mean taking a difficult path, the road less traveled, as Robert Frost said in his famous poem about roads converging in a wood. It might mean going up against the rules or ...

589. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... after all, you. And God is no better than you! Why should you be subject to God when you can be on the same level as God, enjoying the freedom that God has? The Jewish people call this “poisonous voice” lashon hara, the “evil inclination,” the curse of the tongue. It’s a voice that prompts cravings for reward without investment, the awakening of expectant and entitled appetites, and a deceitful self-image –a dissatisfaction with one’s place within the created world. We have a similar story in ...

590. Sheep Just Wanna Have Fun

John 10:1-21, Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... through the fields. They apparently have a sense of community, a passion for assisting each other, and definitely a zeal for fun. Open up the gate, and sheep will find a new way to play! Should we be surprised? The human spirit too has a natural inclination for making the best of new situations and predicaments, for making fun out of fumes. All you have to do is look at the television and the internet right now to see the amazing creativity and innovation sparked by our coronavirus seclusion. We simply will ...

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind, under the influence of the will and grace, to yield firm assent to revealed truths, because of the authority of God.

Adolphe Tanqueray

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

Education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Amy Clampitt

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Aristotle

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation. . . . Why should you be frightened?"

Beatrice Potter Webb

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Ben Hogan

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Bertrand Russell

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself, and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

David Hume

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576. Greatness, Real Greatness

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

577. The Master Is Always In

Illustration

Editor James S. Hewett

578. They'll Know We Are Christians by Our...

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

579. The Art of Following

Matthew 4:12-17, Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

580. A Man Under Authority / A Centurion's Faith, An Elder's Love

Matthew 8:5-13, Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

581. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

582. The Bramble King

John 15:1-17, John 15:18--16:4, John 16:5-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

583. The Good Husband

Isaiah 54:1-17, Isaiah 55:1-13, Isaiah 56:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

584. Living a Jesus Powered Life

Genesis 9:1-17, Genesis 6:1-8:22, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

585. The Alabaster Jar

Mark 14:27-31, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

586. The Flock Paradox

2 Samuel 5:1-5, Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

587. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

588. Against the Grain

Mark 3:13-19, Isaiah 28:1-29

Sermon

Lori Wagner

589. Why Can’t I Have It All?

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Lori Wagner

590. Sheep Just Wanna Have Fun

John 10:1-21, Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Abraham Lincoln

Faith is a theological virtue that inclines the mind, under the influence of the will and grace, to yield firm assent to revealed truths, because of the authority of God.

Adolphe Tanqueray

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

Education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.

Amy Clampitt

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Aristotle

Beatrice Potter Webb

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

Ben Hogan

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

Bertrand Russell

David Hume

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