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576. Giving Dangerously

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , and you know I love you and what this church has become. I care about your relationship to the Lord, and I want you to do right as you deal with this one area of discipleship which for so many is a problem. I want to help you to exercise responsible stewardship of what God has given you to manage, but I do not want you to do it because somebody says they need it. That is dangerous in several ways. First, it is dangerous because it is often possible to give the wrong amount. There is the temptation to give ...

577. Now Is The Day Of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... real. It was immediate and it was intimate. St. Paul's words remind us of the immediacy of what God has done for us and the intimacy of what God has done for us. AND FINALLY ST. PAUL'S WORDS REMIND US OF THE URGENCY OF OUR RESPONSE. "Now is the day of salvation," Paul writes. The Gospel confronts us with a decision that must be made, a declaration that must be voiced. Why? Because God has made an enormous investment in the outcome. A fourteen-foot bronze crucifix was stolen from Calvary Cemetery in Little ...

578. Walk In Love

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... dynamite to its neck and lit the fuse, opening the cage door at the same time. The coyote unobligingly ran under The Insured's pickup truck. The claim is for the truck which is a total loss. (1) Our first response would be that the insured got what he deserved for his cruelty. Our second response might be to acknowledge that often when we give in to anger and bitterness, it is we ourselves whom we destroy. St. Paul writes, "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away ...

579. Determined Discipleship

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Discipleship is not for sissies. It is for persons of drive and daring, persons of courage and character, persons of faith and fearlessness. What are the qualities of a determined disciple? From our text for the day, we can deduce three. FIRST OF ALL, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE. Charlie Brown ™s dog Snoopy is playing tennis. In picture one, Snoopy is shown with a brand new tennis racket. However, things are not going well. He is angry. In fact we see him throw his racket to the court, kick it ...

580. Jesus Goes To School

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... canceling the class. After all, only one student was present. But the determination and dedication of the mother and her daughter moved him. He went ahead with the class. After all, the mother's dedication ought to be rewarded with at least this much response from the church. Ten years later, when the pastor returned to that church, a beautiful young woman came up and introduced herself to him. She was a new teacher, specializing in children with learning disabilities. She was also an officer in the church ...

581. The Cry Of Freedom

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... he also reap." In Galatians he declares, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male or female; for ye are all one in Jesus Christ." Well, freedom is a frightening thing. We all want it, but it has its obligations and responsibilities. When a child is finally set free at eighteen or twenty-two, she or he finds out that it is different being on one's own. And many of them end up back in the nest. Freedom overwhelmed them. The cry that I have heard from the various ...

582. On Forgetting To Do A Business Plan

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... more than loving one’s neighbor. They are a part of a philosophy of life in which competition is more important than compassion. The call of Christ is to get out of ourselves and to minister to others. Worship God. Love people. And one thing more: LIVE RESPONSIBLY. Followers of Jesus are accountable to God for how they live their lives. Ben Kinchlow, pastor and host of the 700 Club, was thrilled when, on a trip to Germany, he got to drive on the famed Autobahn. There is no speed limit on the Autobahn. You ...

583. The Forward Look

Luke 9:51-56

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... child. Have you ever had a really hard job to do? Did you put it off or did you just get after it and get it done? What does it mean to be responsible? Responsibility means you are trustworthy or you can be depended upon to do a job. Our scripture today tells us that Jesus "set his face to go to Jerusalem." This shows that he was very responsible because he knew that he would be crucified in Jerusalem. He had a very hard job to do but he knew that is what he had to do. He could have made excuses ...

584. Maturity In Christ

Colossians 1:27-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Not all of us, but most. It's a common joke among women that men never really grow up. "How is a man different from a savings bond?" goes the joke, "Men never mature." That's a little harsh. Most men do adjust to the demands of increased responsibility, as do most women. St. Paul recognized that just as there is a maturing process in life, so is there a maturing process in faith. He wrote to the Corinthians on one occasion: "I could not speak to you as spiritual people, but rather as . . . infants in Christ ...

585. Discerning The Will Of God

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... hide and seek in which we seek and God hides. I know God is very patient with me. Without that patience I would be lost. But frankly, I have to be patient with Him. With no other friend would I go on seeking with such scant conscious response. Yet I cannot leave prayer alone for long. My need drives me to Him. I have a feeling that He has His own reasons for hiding Himself, and that ultimately all my seeking will prove infinitely worthwhile." The apostles obviously felt that the search was worthwhile. They ...

586. The War of Malchus’ Ear

John 18:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... capital punishment, though I am not so proud of the many attempts to reverse this precedent in recent years.) To the question, “Should we restore the death penalty?” most respondents replied, “Yes,” as I recall, and not a few of them backed up their response by appealing to Scripture. “After all,” they said, “the Bible says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ “Well, yes, it does. In Deuteronomy 19:21, the Bible does say that. That ancient rule which may sound a bit barbarous ...

587. I'll Be Somewhere Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... use only one of these means to communicate to us, or he may choose to reveal his will to us by using all. The fact is, God still speaks! Too often when God speaks, we remain ignorant of the fact that this thought is coming from God, and our response is negative. When God sends us a message, are we available to do what he wants? There is a story that comes out of the Civil War about General Stonewall Jackson. He was at his camp with his troops, miles from the headquarters of General Robert E. Lee, Commander ...

588. Have We Kept Our Contract with God?

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... times challenging us to be all we can be in the eyes of the Lord. God and the community of the faithful have met their commitments to us; have we been as faithful to God and the church? The Christian life gives us many privileges, but there are significant responsibilities that we must meet in order to uphold our end of the contract with God. The most basic element of our agreement with God is something I suspect most of us don't think much about. We are all called to be holy; we have a common vocation to ...

589. To Live Is To Dance

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the symphony of life, not to run or fight or whimper, but to dance. So let’s look briefly at these options, for they’re common responses that we make to life. I. Running Someone told me a story recently about a woman who sought to look one way. She had problems with ... tough calls upon our lives by running. II. Fighting Some of us don’t run, we fight. Now this is a very common response to life. We’ve seen it in the violent militancy of many minority groups here in the past three decades. We’re seeing ...

590. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... hope. You’ve heard that too many times. How many times have you sought guidance in prayer only to experience a despairing silence. Let’s be honest now. How many times have you sought guidance in prayer only to experience an empty voice within, no response from God, no certainty of direction. What happens then? Sometimes we panic, because we feel so alone, and so without hope. Sometimes we pretend, and I see people doing this all the time, sometimes we pretend that we are led, that guidance is ours. So ...

591. A Life Hidden With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , we are new persons. Now our condition, the actual life that we live, must be brought into harmony with our new position. A man once said to Dwight L. Moody, "Sir, I am a self-made man." Moody replied, "You have saved the Lord from a very great responsibility." It is the Lord who made us and who remakes us. Two things happened in the fall, and in our own fall: 1. We became estranged from God;2. His image within us was broken, distorted, defaced. Two things happen in our salvation: 1. We are reconciled to ...

592. The Rest Of The Story

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... shown, there seemed hope for the world." (A. J. Cronin, Adventures in Two Worlds, McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, London, Ontario, 1952, pp. 294-296). We can always choose. We can choose not only what we do in relation to God -- we can choose what we do in response to what life may do to us. II. But let's move on with the rest of the story. Here we see how sin gets at us. Outlining that lesson, note first that evil is ever present in the world. If you read carefully, you can't miss the fact ...

593. Responding to the Story

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... up their own rules for the ethics and morals by which we should live. There are some forms of faith in our day that are such products of human imagination and construction. But that is not true of the biblical faith of the Christian Church. No. Our faith is a response to a history of God's words and deeds, a history that is now preserved and passed on to us in the scripture. So it is that when we confess our faith in the Apostles' Creed, for example, we tell the story on which that faith is based, and the ...

594. To Live Is to Dance

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

595. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , crying, "We were better off in Egypt as slaves, than we are now free, wandering this desert." Finally Moses, stressed out, had it up to here. He complains to God, "Why have you done this to me? Am I the father of all these people that I should take responsibility for looking after them? I've had it. You can take your 'exodus' and finish it yourself. I'm going back to the ranch." I remember Senator Alan Simpson said once, "Up in Wyoming we have more cattle than people. We like it that way." That must have ...

596. Worthy of God

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Sermon

Rick Brand

... would be appropriate to the gift of liberty we have been given is to vote. We have been given the amazing gift of the right to vote. Long years of sacrifice and struggle have made possible the gift of democracy, the right to choose our own leaders, and the only response appropriate and fitting to that gift, the only obligation demanded by that gift to us, is for us to vote. To lead a life that is worthy of the gift of the ballot is to become an informed citizen and to vote. The great sadness in the land is ...

597. Proper 18

Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20, Ezekiel 33:1-20

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... in the government's credibility. On the other hand, Paul teaches that the state is to be served because it is of God, sent by God for the good order of society, and its authority comes from God. This sermon is needed to build up the sense of responsibility Christians have to the state and to show how they can be discharged. Outline: How a Christians can serve the state. a. Respect government officials as ministers of God - vv. 2, 7. b. Pay your taxes - v. 6. c. Obey the laws out of love - vv. 8-10. Epistle ...

598. Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired?

Matthew 9:35-10:8

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... too, don't we? Here we have our loved ones, a home of sorts, and a familiarity with the way things are. When a sickness unto death comes upon us, we struggle against it like an unborn child. Yet our death is but a birth into heaven. Your Response To Sickness There are many different kinds of sickness and there are many ways of responding to sickness as well. James says, "Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church." Here, we are told to seek spiritual assistance in our afflictions. Here ...

599. Casting Cares

1 Peter 5:7

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... , my wife…. I even worry about the church. That reminds me. The Bible says that we can give God all our worries. What are some worries we can give to God? Lead the children to give a few examples. Do you ever worry about monsters? (response) What else do you worry about? (response) It’s hard trying to carry all that stuff around in our heads and hearts. Let’s turn to God and he will take our worries so we don’t have to carry them around. Let’s Pray: Thank you, God, for holding our worries and ...

600. Dirty Hearted People

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... seeds sticking out--and now we are ready to grow these seeds. Boy, I don't know what I'd do without you all! Again, pause and look at the tray and then look at the children. Is there anything else we need? (response) Dirt? There you go again with the dirt thing. What's wrong with the clay? (response) Ok, we will use the dirt. Take out the clay and pour in the dirt. There's the dirt and now I will pour in the seeds, mix it up a little bit, and now we are ready to grow! Look at ...

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