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576. Choices

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , why did the Spirit drive Jesus into the wilderness to be tempted? Like the process of tempering steel makes it stronger, JESUS HAD TO FACE A TIME OF CHALLENGE AND CRISIS IN ORDER TO PREPARE HIMSELF FOR MINISTRY. Satan was offering Jesus a choice: surrender or significance? This was Jesus' "crossroads moment." A woman named Rudy Galdonik shares how God encouraged her at a "crossroads moment" in her life. Due to her partner's mismanagement, Rudy's business was on the verge of collapse. She and her husband ...

577. Can We Really Trust God?

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... God is able to do what God has promised. What does faith look like? A white-haired old man with a goofy grin on his face as he delights in his squirming baby boy. What does faith look like? You and me setting aside our own fears and surrendering our lives to a Savior who has promised to return for His faithful. I pray that in the "crossroads moments" of life, you will choose the way of faith also. 1. Ravi Zacharias. Deliver Us From Evil (Nashville: Word Publishing, 1997), pp. 191-194. 2. "The Real Truth ...

578. What Must I Do?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... request from our Lord. It's ironic, isn't it? He couldn't afford it because he was too wealthy. What is it that is keeping you outside the kingdom? Money? Fatigue? You just don't want to be bothered? You feel unworthy? I pray that you will surrender whatever is keeping you from experiencing all that Christ has to offer. He wants to add to your life--not take from it. He wants to free you, not imprison you. Step into the new life of his kingdom today. 1. William Poundstone, Biggest Secrets (New York: Barnes ...

579. A Visit To Millennium Manor

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... people think about prayer. They give God His orders. "Here God, this is what I expect for you to do for me today." No wonder our prayer life is so ineffectual. We forget who is the master and who is the servant. Prayer is communion with God in which we surrender our will to His. We offer Him the burdens of our hearts, then we trust God to do with them what He will, knowing that His way is always the best way, though we may not see it at the time. He sees the big picture; we see only a ...

580. Immanuel

Isaiah 63:7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Isaiah speaks to us as surely as he spoke to King Ahaz. This, too, is our sign: A young woman has conceived and borne a son. That son is Immanuel, "God with us." During World War II, after Hitler blitzkrieged his way across France, demanding unconditional surrender from Allied forces in Europe, thousands of British and French troops dug in along the coast of northern France in a last-ditch effort to hold off the German forces. They knew they were trapped and would soon be obliterated by the Nazis. As they ...

581. Love And Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... who never allowed his wife Edith to have a thought or conviction of her own. And Edith certainly didn't have her own bank account or cell phone. They ponder some of the selfish, immature men they have known. Surely God didn't mean for them to surrender to the likes of these. First, submission is a central teaching of the New Testament faith, especially that of St. Paul. The verse that says, "Wives submit yourselves to your husband," is verse 22. Verse 21 reads like this: Paul is telling all the followers to ...

582. Clearing Back The Jungle

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... it: We are, after like lumps of clay. There are brittle pieces, hard pieces. We have little shape or beauty. But we need not despair. If we are clay, let us remember that there is a Potter and His wheel . . . We have only to be yielded--that is, willingly surrendered--and He will do the rest. He will make us according to His pattern for which, in His love, He designed us. And it will be good--for our own good--and for His glory." That is why there was more hope for those early disciples than there was for ...

583. Living Between D-day And V-day

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... was eventually elected mayor of his village. Then one day he read about an old man who had been captured in a nearby town and was being accused of being the Jean Valijean who had stolen a coin from a child. After a great struggle in Valijean's soul, he surrendered himself to save the innocent man. (2) The story of Jean Valijean is the story of a man who was the object of mercy--the mercy of a kindly bishop--and could not forget it. My friends, you and I are objects of mercy too. It's sometimes hard for ...

584. What Kind Of God Is That?

John 9:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... forces against the dam, the stronger it becomes. So let it be with us. When heartaches come, as they will, let us not cry out, "Why has this happened to me? Why has this happened to someone I love? What have I done to deserve this?" Rather, let's surrender our need to a healing God. Let's allow our hurt to wedge us ever more surely into the solid rock. 1. Kathryn Lindskoog, "What do You Say to Job?" Leadership (Spring 1985), 93-94. Quoted in Ron Lee Davis, Healing Life's Hurts (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1986 ...

585. God's Witness Security Program

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... identity. It is instantaneous. And it takes a lifetime to live up to. Author Maxie Dunnam writes,”The dynamic process of saint-making is to work out in fact what is already true in principle.” (3) But there’s another title we earn at the moment of our surrender to Jesus. It’s a title we’re more comfortable with, and it’s equally important to claim it as our identity: Children of God---that is what we are. You are a child of God. The Bible says that all those who believe in Jesus Christ as their ...

586. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... 8 gets to the real heart of the issue. It says, "First they gave themselves to the Lord." That''s the real secret of abundant life. That''s the real secret of joyous giving. The Lord gave himself for us. When we give ourselves freely to him, in commitment and surrender, we will not have trouble with our giving. The needs of the church will be met and the Gospel will be richly provided for people everywhere.

587. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... the absolute need for self-control and the inevitable approach of judgment day. God is speaking to our hearts this evening. He''s speaking to America as through Paul he proclaims the words of righteousness and our need to find that righteousness in Jesus Christ as we surrender our lives to him; our need for self-control, that control which none of us can exercise on our own, but we must have the working of his powerful Holy Spirit within to achieve; that word of judgment which one day we will face, there to ...

588. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... forgive others you must be willing to pay a price. When Paul said, "I am crucified with Christ," he meant that we must let go of all those things to which we cling. We say yes, I will serve the Lord but only so far. We say yes, I will surrender to him but just so much. These things I''m going to hang onto, this selfish pride, this spirit of vindictiveness, this unforgiving spirit, I''m going to hang onto these things. We must crucify that pride, if we are truly going to be able to forgive. We must be ...

589. ONE SHRED OF SOUL

Drama

Angela Akers

SUBJECT: Surrender, confession, prayer CHARACTERS: Don, custodian SETTING: Church PROPS: Four folding chairs set up to represent rows of pews Don: "Well, I''m here." Custodian: "So you are." Don: (startled) "Man! I didn''t know anyone was here." Custodian: "Sorry. Do you need to see someone? I can get the pastor ...

590. To Hell and Back

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... He sorrows for lost and wayward sheep who are still outside the fold. What I want to affirm today in my sermon on this difficult clause of the Creed, is the faith that God never gives up on anybody. Whether or not all of us will ultimately give up and surrender ourselves to God still remains to be seen. We still have the freedom to say to God, Thanks, but no thanks! For the life of me, I don’t see why any of us would want to do that, but I see it happening every day! One can only hope ...

591. It’s Hard to Eat While Lying

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... stretched out to Judas the hands of fellowship and forgiveness. We ask: Why did not Judas repent and turn around and receive Jesus’ love? Why don’t we? Probably because it requires a certain humility, a certain willingness to change, an openness to surrender ourselves to the Lord. It wasn’t sin that ruined Judas...only sin without repentance. Once in a while ministers come across people who are afraid that they may have committed the “unpardonable sin”. But the best answer to their fear is, “If ...

592. Slippery Rock

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... great pianist began to weave a melody around the discords, and made the whole thing into harmony. Didn’t Christ do something like that with Peter? Doesn’t He do things like that with us? There are so many discords and imperfections about us, but if we surrender our lives to Him, He makes beautiful music out of them. The novel “Treasure Island” is the story of a little boy who was always doing things wrong, but somehow everything seemed to come out alright in the end. Is that not a good picture of ...

593. Radical Surgery

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of Pharasaic birth and learning. He said: “...what things were gain to me these I counted loss for Christ...”(Philippians 3:7) St. Augustine parted with his favorite sins, saying: “...what I feared to be parted from me was now a joy to surrender. For Thou didst cast them forth, and in their place didst enter in Thyself, sweeter than all pleasure.” (Augustine: “Confessions” ix.I) For such treasure who would not willingly abandon every lesser good? The name of E. Stanley Jones is familiar to most ...

594. The Ultimate Thirst Quencher (Alternate Addition to the "I Am" series: Living water)

John 7:25-44

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... castle at Nicaea and cut off their water supply, the beleaguered Christians suffered terrible hardships, eventually drinking their horses'' blood and each other''s urine, and burying themselves in damp earth in hope of absorbing the moisture. After eight days without water, the Christians surrendered, and were killed or sold as slaves. Water is essential to life. However, we take it for granted. We just go to a faucet and turn it on. The problem arises when we think we can do that in our spiritual life. Our ...

595. Love's Redeeming Work Is Done: The Sixth Word

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... obvious that they would soon lose the battle. Then one of the men within the fort happened to go out beyond the wall, was seen by the enemy and captured. As his comrades watched from the fortress walls, they saw that he was given mercy. Everyone in the fort instantly surrendered. (2) The good news of the Gospel is that when we turn to God and confess our sins we receive Grace. Guilt is most often the Devil''s work. But Grace is the sole work of God. When you and I come to Christ we obtain the right to share ...

596. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... comes to alter Peter''s plans to resign as a disciple of Christ and return to fishing. In a sense Jesus says to all of this, "I object! I object! I object!" I recently read the story of a young woman who after years of struggling with alcoholism surrendered her life to Jesus Christ. This woman experienced victory over this power that had brought death and failure to her life. She said, "Every day I am in awe of the grace of being sober. God has preserved my life on at least four different occasions. I have ...

597. An Eye-Opening Experience

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... presence and power of God made in the lives of Cleopas and the un-named disciple and the small Austrian village when they realized they needed to lean on the everlasting arms of God. What a difference Christ could make in our lives today if we too would surrender our hearts to him and life up our eyes and hands to the heavens and lean on the everlasting arms. Perhaps knowing that God loves you and I unconditionally will open up our eyes to see him anew, and what a difference that would make. We could begin ...

598. Joy: The Echo of God's Presence In Us! (Part I - Introduction)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... complaining about the great victories and bright lights that seemed to be missing from his life. He writes a letter of thanksgiving, testifying that for the follower of Christ there is a source of joy that is greater than the source of despair. Paul simply refused to surrender to despair, and that is what I want to examine as we study our way through this splendid book of Joy. I hope by now you can see why the Apostle Paul has something to say to your life. Paul''s message is credible. It is authentic ...

599. The Destructive Power of Dis-Unity

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... man bumped into each other. A few moments later the young man had occasion to reach for his wallet, and it was not in his pocket. He ran back and found the young man who had bumped into him. He demanded a wallet. The other young man was scared and surrendered the wallet. The first young man felt good, he had stood up for himself. When he got home, the first thing he saw was his wallet on the work-bench. Yes, we must be careful how we address rights and wrongs in the church. PAUL KNEW ENERGY AND ENTHUSIASM ...

600. Tackling Troubles Triumphantly

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... troubles we can avoid. b. The troubles we cannot avoid. c. The troubles we must not avoid." Some troubles are there for a reason. Zig Ziglar tells the story of a general who found himself completely surrounded by enemy troops. Instead of panicking or surrendering, he simply turned to his soldiers and said, "Men, for the first time in the history of this military campaign, we are in position to attack the enemy in all directions." Have there been moments in your journey of faith when you have felt surrounded ...

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