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576. The Lord Has Need

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... are things which the Lord does need. On Palm Sunday He needed a donkey. Why, I wonder? Here is this big, burly Carpenter who had walked on foot all the way from Galilee in the north, down along the east bank of the Jordan through Perea, who now stops within sight of the Holy City to borrow a donkey for the remaining two-mile journey. Why? Because riding into Jerusalem on a donkey was a Messianic statement. Nowhere does Jesus say out and out, “I am the Messiah.” He did not use the title because people ...

577. Sine Qua Non

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... 1985 Madrid marathon, 4000 runners began the great race. At the end, two 36-year old runners who were very close friends were leading the pack. Near the finish line, one of them was seized with terrible cramps and could not finish the race on his own. Whereupon the other stopped and picked up his buddy and carried him across the finish line. It’s a parable for us, isn’t it? None of us can make it on our own. But we have a Friend who wants to carry us into the kingdom in His arms. For heaven’s sake ...

578. The Lord's Prayer: Thine Is the Kingdom

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... and moved aside to let him go first. Forgetting the gales that would blow across those summit rocks, the young man leaped to his feet. But the chief guide dragged him down. "On your knees, sir!" he shouted. "You are never safe here except on your knees." Yes, when we stop and think for just a moment in our journey of life, we realize anew just how great and grand is the God that Jesus reveals to us in this Perfect Pattern Prayer. All we can do is fall down on our knees and give him the glory and honor that ...

579. Emptying and Exalting (Part XI)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... its body. It was just the remains of a cat. It was a horrible sight. The children said, "Stop!" "Why, children? Why stop?" "We want to get the cat." "No, we are not going to get the cat." The father continued driving. The children leaned over the back seat, beginning to ... sing in unison, "Daddy''s a meany!" He stopped and backed up. "Well, we are going to look at the cat." He looked at it. He could not believe that it had ...

580. Tired of Trying?

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , and his life ended tragically. What about you? How long has Christ waited for you to become a full-fledged Christian-- living out fully your gift of Salvation? How long has God waited for you to stop complaining and simply love his church and serve it? Stop running away from a job or task. How long has God waited for you to tithe--and stop robbing Him? How long has God waited for you to do ______________ (fill in the blank)? How long has God waited for your "yes" to be "yes" to Him and your "no" to be "no ...

581. The Tender Touch (Part 2)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... who had been arguing about everything for years. Both spouses were tired of living in a perpetual state of conflict. Finally, the wife tipped off her husband about the prayer she was petitioning to God. She said, "I''ve been praying for God to help us stop all of this arguing by taking one of us to heaven. When He answers my prayer, I''m moving in with my sister." This is not in the best tradition of intercessory prayer as demonstrated by Elijah in our lesson today. Intercessory prayers are always governed ...

582. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part IV)

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the Goliath-like problem of world hunger, but a priest in Iowa once said, "It takes a lot of little people in a lot of little places, giving a lot of small gifts, to solve the BIG problem of our time." Please make a positive response today--stop talking about the problem. About two months ago, a couple with two children in our church came to see me about how to find an authentic ministry that sponsored children in need of help in a foreign land. I gathered material on two or three credible Christian ...

583. Things That Make Jesus Angry

John 2:12-25

Drama

Angela Akers

... enough alone. So we add in a few basic ingredients for Trouble. First, let’s try a cupful of spiritual dryness. Nothing makes a healthy Church go stale as fast as spiritual dryness does. Just let the people stop worshiping together, stop doing good works in their community, stop living by Biblical precepts, and dry rot takes over in no time. Next, squeeze the juice of a judgmental spirit over everything. Judgment tends to squelch love and acceptance, accelerating the rotting process. You know on this show ...

584. Lethal Weapon

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the telling of gossip. There are too many bored, inferior-feeling, attention-seeking, insecure people in the world. Gossip will continue to be told. And there's little we can do to stop hearing it. People will gather together and talk. But we don't have to retell what we hear. We can stop its spread. And to do that, the scriptures can help us. A Christian person should never be bored with life. To be given the gift of life is the image of God. We have a purpose in life -- to finish off God's creation. We ...

585. Resting at the Mediocre Inn

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... world will keep it for eternal life.” And deep in our bones we realize that Jesus is talking about a way of life that doesn’t stop at the Mediocre Inn. Most of us would prefer a life of excellence. That’s true, isn’t it? None of us sets out to be less ... is the same as it was before, but the rock isn’t there anymore. “Rabbi, I’ve hardly slept at all since then. I can’t stop thinking that it could happen to me, that one day it will happen to me, and a few days later I will be forgotten as if I ...

586. How May We Come To God?

Psalm 24:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... upon the rivers.Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?And who shall stand in his holy place?He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false, and does not swear deceitfully. And always -- it never fails -- she stops at that point in her reading, and says to me with earnest conviction, "Son, I've got clean hands and a pure heart." It's one of those rituals of home and parents that adds stoutness to my soul. Intuitively, Mom knows this is a great Psalm, a premier piece ...

587. A Love For All Seasons (i)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , took him back to the house, and put a beautiful, clean robe on him, and shoes on his feet, and the signet ring of the family on his finger, and announced that the fatted calf was to be killed and a great celebration was to be held. The story stops there -- stops with that Prodigal son back at home, having been welcomed into the family. But imagine. What if, on the morning after the party, the Prodigal son heads for the field to lift his share of the load? And what if, after a few sun drenched days on the ...

588. Repentance: The No That Is A Yes

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Isaiah: "Prepare the way of the Lord." For Luke, then, the person John is talking about is none other than the visitor predicted by Isaiah: It is the Lord God, Yahweh Himself, coming to his people, incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ. But Luke doesn't stop there. He continues with Isaiah's metaphor. The ancient Hebrew ran: "And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together" (Isaiah 40: 5). Luke is saying here, and it is a marked theme of his Gospel, that our Lord Jesus ...

589. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... color I want, then place them around the pasture. Now that I have had cows for two years, I admit that she was probably right again. At the stockyard, I walked by a group of older "real" farmers and I overheard one of them mention something about kudzu. I stopped and asked the apparent authority on kudzu what could be done to get rid of the pesky vine. After a spit of tobacco juice, the older farmer made this statement. "Kudzu is tougher than sin to get rid of." I agreed with him whole heatedly but I told ...

590. The Baby Leaped

Luke 1:39-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... jailers who were guilty. It was the prisoners who were suffering, but the jailers who were defeated. It was the prisoners who were in a position of weakness, but it was the broken and bigoted world of the jailers . . . that was perishing." (4) Friends, you can’t stop God. Once God begins moving, the best you can do is get out of the way. God was at work at the manger of Bethlehem. God was at work redeeming the world to Himself. No wonder the baby leaped. Christmas is an exciting time. God has come into ...

591. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . Hope for the hopeless and sight for the blind To all who've been born of the Spirit and who share incarnation with him; who belong to eternity, stranded in time, and weary of struggling with sin. Forget not the hope that's before you, and never stop counting the cost. Remember the hopelessness when you were lost? Are you hopeless and lost? Then obey God, believe the gospel, and be saved by grace. Are you saved by grace? Then obey God. You cannot separate the two. [1] See Cal Thomas, God, Satan, and the ...

592. In the Cross of Christ We Glory

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Michael Milton

... . Within a short time they would witness the resurrection and some who were there, including Peter, would see the resurrection power of Jesus Christ and His kingdom coming into the church at Pentecost. There is no other power on the face of the earth that can stop the kingdom of God, and behind the power of the kingdom is the cross of Christ. Yesterday, I preached a funeral message for a dear saintly woman in our congregation. I spoke of the obvious. She had an unusual joy and optimism about her life. I ...

593. Achieving Peak Performance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , and you are at home with your neighbor. Christopher Parkening is a concert guitarist. At age 30, he was at the top of his profession. His concert schedule booked years in advance. His CD's were best sellers. And then it all stopped. For three years he just disappeared. He stopped recording. He stopped performing. He said he was burned out. He did what all of us, I think, have been tempted to do from time to time in our life. He just chucked it all and went away. He had resources sufficient enough to buy ...

594. All Keyed Up

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... that we are here in the Church, now, in this age, able to reshape the Church to meet the needs of a coming age. That means, stop focusing on all these depressing statistics of decline, and start looking, instead, for opportunities that God has given to us to be in mission in ... statistics of decline, and wondering why we are not like other churches. Maybe God is sitting up there, waiting until we stop worrying about who we are relative to other churches, and get the thermometer out of our mouths, so that we ...

595. Discipline

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... keys to success in life. But that’s not the kind of discipline the writer of Hebrews is talking about. He is using the word discipline much as we might when we say “we discipline our children.” We could have some fun right now if we stopped for a moment and shared with our neighbor how we were disciplined as children. Some of us had harsh discipline; some of us had less. And, of course, each generation thinks the other was a little misguided in their discipline. Older members of our congregation will ...

596. The Witness of Being

Genesis 1:1—2:4a

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . There is someone who is invisible, who is even more real than the things we can see and touch because that someone gave being to the things we can see and touch. That is a place to start in our relationship with God. No, it is not a place to stop. It is not enough. If we are going to move into a relationship with God that will meet the deep spiritual needs of our lives, we will need more. We will need to find ourselves in relationship with that great invisible other. We will need to discover that our own ...

597. The Problem with Promises

Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... decided to take matters into their own hands. That is really almost a definition of temptation, the loss of faith that causes us to stop trusting God and to try to fix things by ourselves in our own way. Their failure was not in their decision to act decisively ... lose both. Abe had a decision to make -- and it had to do with whether or not he could keep on living in faith. We will stop the story here and let you write the ending. Now I suspect that some of you are wanting to ask: Just what does all of that ...

598. Free Living Water for All

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... the cross assures us that God is wherever there is human suffering and tragedy. God suffers, too, and God cares about our dilemmas. We find consolation and strength in word and sacrament, prayer and praise, community and purpose. One day when Jesus travels through Samaria and stops by Jacob's well near Sychar, he meets a woman from Samaria. Jesus is tired and thirsty. He asks the Samaritan woman for a drink and engages her in conversation. The woman is puzzled because Jesus, a Jew, asks her for a drink, an ...

599. View from the Mountaintop

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... makes us feel like giants peering over entire cities lying beneath us. Many of us have our favorite memories of a mountaintop view. One of the joys of visiting Virginia in autumn is the drive between Richmond and Charlottesville. All along the way are stops that overlook valleys below with trees bursting in fall colors. Some people love the mountains so much they move to states like Colorado or Utah, just to be near them. In the Bible, mountains are more than just breathtaking scenery. For the biblical ...

600. The Gifted

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... gift of discernment. If I dare say so, most of us have more of these gifts than we realize or ever develop. We are God's gifted people, and there are varieties of gifts that come from the Holy Spirit. There are varieties of gifts.... But Paul doesn't stop there. He goes on to add, "There are varieties of service but the same Lord." The one way to tell whether a spiritual gift or experience has come from the Holy Spirit - and I mean the only way to tell - is whether that gift or experience is in service to ...

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