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576. The Work of An Evangelist

Colossians 1:1-14

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 ...

577. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... o’clock in the morning, I was in a sweat and I was worn out. There was no logic to the dream and the sequence made no sense. Again, it was the same old thing. I had to preach at a great convention attended by a lot of people. I had not had time to ... matter of wrestling with God against that which opposes God’s will. It really becomes a matter of spiritual warfare. We sense that there are forces within our world which are opposed to God’s will: sickness, hate, meanness, narrowness of spirit, fear, ...

578. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

579. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , willing to wait on God before driving ahead with some project. This too is rooted in the experience of Jesus. His confidence was in God, not in what he could make happen. A.W. Tozer said this: “The meek man (or woman) is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared ...

580. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... name for it is demonic, and it means that people have, through the habitual misuse of anger, given Satan so many open doors that he now breezes in and out of their psyche with no barriers whatever, a master of destruction and finally death. Hunter said of himself, “I sense it first, and before I have completely turned around he is there. He is me." You don’t want to become that kind of person. You don’t want to built a house of anger and then have someone come occupy it as a permanent guest. I have ...

581. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... so much about mastery as about being mastered, not so much about leading as about being led, not so much active voice as passive in the sense of allowing something beyond you to happen through you. I keep asking the Lord, Will I ever get it right? Do I ever get to win ... be, making many errors, but if we take Jesus’ program seriously, that he has the power to make us loving in this spectacular sense, then we will find ourselves with a share of the divine that can be found no other way. You become a sharp tool ...

582. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... know this God, and does it show? As soon as you have said the word God you have already set up the plot of two worlds: this one and the next, earth and heaven.4 And if you go beyond that to say the word Jesus in any genuinely revelatory sense, you are already deep into a whole range of commitments that bear on every issue in life, including how we think about and use money. And if you say Holy Spirit and Church to complete the doctrine of the Trinity and the community liked to that truth, then you affirm ...

583. A Place of Honor

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... encounter someone like this who is so desperate for attention, so desperate to be recognized, don’t you wonder about his or her sense of security? Why should it matter if you sit at the head table or not? A secure person carries his or her status ... starve, and every year millions of children are dying of hunger. I am too old to change all that. The only thing I can do which makes sense is to be present. I must simply be in the midst of them. So, just tell people in Canada that you met an old priest. I am ...

584. Surprised by God

Genesis 28:10-19a

Sermon

James L. Killen

... to push the new consciousness back or try to shut it out. But if we don't, if we let God into our lives, that will add a new dimension to our lives, a dimension that will give life new meaning and purpose. That experience can give you a sense of never being alone, and knowing that there is someone at work out there who is greater than yourself adds a new dimension of possibility to life. We may not receive specific promises like Jacob did. But knowing God is at work out there can generate a new expectancy ...

585. Worthy of God

1 Thessalonians 2:9-13

Sermon

Rick Brand

... an entirely different direction than the rest of the world, but as the saints have shown us, it will take us in a direction of contentment and joy, it will take us in a direction where we are at one with ourselves and our gifts. It will give us that sense of being on a level and going in the same direction as the will and purpose of God. To lead a life that is worthy of the God who called us will bring us to end with the saints into the kingdom of our God. To use the gifts that ...

586. Get a Charge

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... We haven't been able to produce leaders the quality of which we saw in the 18th century. Why is that? And Commager listed a number of reasons. But he said that the one common denominator of all the 18th century leaders was that they had a sense of obligation to posterity. He cited Benjamin Rush, the founder of American medicine, who was also a signer of the Declaration of Independence, who said after signing that document, "I was animated by a belief that I was acting for the benefit of the whole world and ...

587. The Cathedral Within

II Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... what life is all about. Those were the days when communities were united with a common purpose. Each individual experienced a sense of worth because they contributed something to the whole. He listed five principles of cathedral building. I will lift up ... back, admire and enjoy our accomplishment, point to it, and say, "I did that. I reached my goal. I can retire now. I have a sense of satisfaction that what I set out to do I accomplished." Cathedral builders don't work that way. They don't start small. They ...

588. In the Darkness of Uncertainty, There Is the Light of Wonder

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... side of Christmas, with the feeling that it has come and gone. It is something we have done, and unfortunately for many of us, there is a sense of relief that it is over and also a bit of a let-down that nothing more has come about in our lives because of it. On ... of wonder still shine upon you. For those people who gathered there in Bethlehem on that night so long ago, there was a sense of wonder at the things they had heard, seen, and experienced. It was a night like no other, one they would never forget. ...

589. Do You Get It?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... about being rejected by the leaders of the nation and says that he's going to suffer and die, it doesn't fit with the confession of faith that Peter had just made. Jesus' words seem to contradict what it means to be the Messiah and don't make any sense. When Jesus starts talking that way, Peter figures that he's mistaken and wants to correct him. That's a very natural thing for Peter to do. When Peter said that Jesus was the Messiah, he meant that Jesus was the Lord's anointed, the long-awaited king who ...

590. Lord, Teach Us How to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... right idea. What do we listen for? Well, if we are waiting for the kind of voice that could be recorded on a tape recorder, we might have a long wait. The “still, small voice” the Bible talks about is more the sense of a presence, not ourselves, but Someone. It may involve a sense of well being, closely akin to the experience of being held. Perhaps we feel an “oughtness,” I ought to do this, or I ought not do that. Maybe we have been wrestling with a problem, trying to make a decision, and suddenly ...

591. Team Work is Dream Work

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... be in the same family. What is true in the physical realm is just as true in the spiritual realm. To be brothers in the spiritual sense, you must have God as your Father. If God is your Father, then you are in God's family, but you must be born into ... formation and takes advantage of the lifting power of the bird immediately in front of him. Now, if we as a people, can have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation and so will those who are headed the same way we are. When that lead goose finally ...

592. How to Handle the Mess of Stress

Exodus 18:23-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... was right when he said, "A wise man knows his limitations." There are limits to what any one person can do, and a wise person must sense those limits. Now Moses was not lazy. He was getting into the office at the crack of dawn, and he was not leaving until the ... If you get overcommitted and overloaded it can knock you out of tune and rob the music from your life. So, first of all, sense your limits. II. Share the Load Let me make something plain. Stress is not totally bad. We all need some stress. We all need ...

593. His Way is the Right Way

Psalm 23:3

Sermon

James Merritt

... of a sheep is it is stupid. Once a sheep has gone astray it cannot find its way back home. Now it becomes a matter of great urgency that that sheep be restored to the flock, because, first of all, sheep don’t even have a keen sense of smell, and left to themselves they’ll eat poisonous weeds or they’ll drink polluted water and they’ll die. Furthermore, sheep are defenseless. Tigers claw, bears crush, mules kick, snakes strike, but sheep are defenseless. So it becomes a matter of urgency for the ...

594. The Song of an Awe-Filled Life

Psalm 138:1-8

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... O may this bounteous God through all our life be near us, With ever joyful hearts and blessed peace to cheer us; And keep us in his grace, and guide us when perplexed; And free us from all ills, in this world and the next. To live with a sense of awe is to know the confidence that comes from an awareness of an eternal God, a bounteous God, whose grace underlies all of life, a God whose steadfast love endures forever. Sure enough, we live in a day of uncertainty: Uncertainty about the meaning of our current ...

595. Training for a Purpose

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... through us. When this happens, what a great day it is! All at once what appeared so average or even sub par comes to life and we are thoroughly reminded God has not abandoned us. The validation for which we were looking virtually stuns our senses and thought categories. Christmas wrappings and the gifts contained therein go together in cohesive beauty. Being zealous in the right ways is a pure work of art to watch. Demagoguery doesn't rear its ugly head. Our works are free from egotistical yearnings. Our ...

596. Getting It Straight

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... begins by our recognition of the gift coupled with the responsibility for it. Regardless of our sizes and shapes, beauty or lack of it, and physical prowess, it is ours and we are supposed to take care of it. That is not only a spiritual directive but common sense. Most of what is needed to apply this art can be learned, unless we run into major health problems or accidents. There is no need to make something difficult when, for the most part, it isn't. Money may or may not be needed. Physicians and other ...

597. Proclaiming Jesus Christ

2 Corinthians 4:3-6

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... the saints in their words and actions make abundantly clear that the most completely powerful way to proclaim Christ is by being absorbed by his love that knows no bounds. When we examine our lives with full honesty, we probably make a discovery that brings a sense of failure. We want Christ as Savior and Lord with all our hearts, minds, and souls but are unable or mostly unwilling to move beyond that. The way things are is just fine. Others note our exemplary lives and we feel fulfilled. When we are making ...

598. Birthpangs of the New Age

Romans 8:22-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

599. Transformation to the Light

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... he was to receive a bath in the light. The diamond was initially afraid, but as the light began to pour over him he felt a great sense of relief. The women told him, "Not only can you enjoy the light, but you have the ability to reflect the light to many others." So the ... whose minds were closed, Jesus chose those who sought the light in their lives. These men knew their need for God. Jesus sensed this and chose them to be his apostles. Jesus called the first disciples, but there had to be a response to that ...

600. Momentous Moment

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

David T. Ball

... was having with alcohol, he hated himself for it. He knew how disappointed his parents would be in him, if they knew how much he was drinking. And although he was managing to stay in school, and to keep his career goals on track, he had a bothersome sense that his ability to do so was slipping away, and it might all collapse in disaster. He resolved to quit drinking, but he just couldn’t stick with it. And every time he’d get drunk again, he only hated himself more. He felt he had so deeply disappointed ...

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