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601. The Accounting

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Although doing mitzvot benefits both others and self because they forge relationships and bonds, the end is God’s pleasure. Likewise, when you turn to God and pledge loyalty to God instead of to the world, you feel an urge and compelling desire to carry out mitzvot (to live this halakha) in your life. This is the “way” of Jesus. To embrace mitzvah in your life is to embrace an entirely different world view: not to serve yourself, the world,or its goals, but to serve God and God’s vision for self ...

602. A Trick Resurrection

Luke 20:27-38

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... to her, taking her in marriage and performing the duty of a husband’s brother to her and the first born whom she bears shall succeed to the name of the deceased brother, so that his name is not be blotted out of Israel. But, if the man has no desire to marry his brother’s widow, then his brother’s widow shall go up to the elders at the gate and say, “My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.” Then the ...

603. Wrestling with God

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... all alone, engages in a wrestling match with an angel of God. And this brings us to the first thing we want to say today: It is in our wrestling that we confront what it means to trust God with our life. Jacob’s naked ambition and self-centered desires were rooted in fear and a need to control his own future. That’s the motivation for stealing his brother’s blessings. Until his humble prayer at a place named Peniel, Jacob had never trusted God to guide him or provide for him. What would change in his ...

604. Herding Cats

Matthew 9:35-10:8-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... immediately and at once, all sweet and eager, ready to eat. Now cats are not the only creatures with minds of their own. Parents, you know the challenge of getting your toddler to eat broccoli or your teenager to clean his or her room. If the desire and motivation isn’t there, no amount of coercion will turn their heads to the benefits of either broccoli or cleaning! How do you deal with these kinds of parenting issues? You entice, you invite, you present, you explain. You show the benefits of doing that ...

605. Living In The “In Between” Time

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

Ronald Love

... godly lives, because supporting us is the presence of Jesus. Paul wrote that the Holy Spirit will teach us, “to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in this present age…” And once we discover the joy of living a life in the Spirit, we will have no desire to return to a life lived in the flesh. So, as his grandma dragged young Devon Still to her Baptist church each and every Sunday, she gave us all words of advice, “The Lord speaks to all of us, Devon, but you’re never going to hear him ...

606. Come to the Feast

Isaiah 25:6-9

Eulogy

George Reed

... be a huge meal just as long as it is special. A couple of really good cheeses with fresh fruit can make for a feast especially when shared with someone that means a great deal to us. Isaiah taps into this part of our humanity when he describes God’s desire for us. God is going to throw a banquet for us. It will be a feast with rich, delicious food and wondrous wines. It will be the kind of feast that most of his audience could only dream about probably. It will be a feast that they couldn’t prepare ...

607. Not a Religion

Hebrews 10:5-10

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Scott Bryte & Kimberly Miller van Driel

... have prepared for me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings you have taken no pleasure. Then I said, ‘See, God, I have come to do your will, O God’ (in the scroll of the book it is written of me).” When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, “See, I have come to do your will.” He abolishes the first in order to establish the second. And it is by God ...

608. Courage to Break

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Jesus’ wilderness time is a time of deep inner struggle, of personal tumult, self-questioning, self-doubt, and the agony of wondering if he’s truly doing the right thing in starting on this mission. Is the voice in his head of God? Or of his own selfish desires? Is his hunger and thirst deluding him? Or is he embarking on a foolish path? This time of discernment must end in a time of “brokenness” for Jesus, in which he declines the “easy way out,” digs in the heels of his faith in God as his ...

609. Famine of the Heart

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that region, and he began to be in need.” He began to be in need. His spiritual and emotional tank was empty. Now we don’t need to be an addict to understand this kind of emptiness and the desire to fill it. We’ve all experienced this at some point in our lives. Whether we’ve gone through a tough adolescence, a divorce, a death, loss of a job or purpose, or simply some big changes in our lives, we can find ourselves trying to fill that ...

610. Good News / Bad News

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... decided for love are the enemies of those who have decided for hate. It’s never easy being the enemy. It’s natural to desire the approval and affection of those around us. We all want to be liked. But Jesus calls us to a life that holds other ... God has weighed us and judged us, and by the grace and love of Jesus Christ, has found us acceptable. The Creator of all that is desires for us to come and sit at a banquet table that has been prepared for us and be God’s adopted sons and daughters. The Lord ...

611. Give Me Your Word

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... national pastime and demonizing as easy as a share or a post, this would be a radical departure for us. But man, would it be freeing. What if we took a page out of the Jesus’ play book and stopped hoping people would get what they deserve and instead desired mercy for everyone and extended grace to all. A few weeks ago I heard a story on the radio about a woman whose prison sentence was commuted.[1] The announcer said: And let’s hear now from one woman who had her sentence commuted just over a year ago ...

612. Living A Triumphant Life

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... is so easy for us to get caught up in our own achievements, our own successes. We are so easily impressed with ourselves. God wants us to recognize our need for God. God also wants us to grow and mature to the point that our prideful desires and interests become secondary. If we can subordinate our agendas and make the commitment to pursue God's plan, we will discover a life that is rich and rewarding beyond belief. The Israelites had grown accustomed to the manna in the wilderness. But their faithfulness ...

613. Suffering And Service

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... and weary, she attempted to slip into church unnoticed. Someone approached her though, and told her, "You are not the kind of person that people can just leave alone." She felt Christ was reaching out to her at that time to let her know, "Even when you desire to be alone, people will surround you with love because you are important to me. I want you to know that." Some time later, the young woman was still feeling the pain of a childless home. A member of the church gave her a magazine article titled ...

614. God's Vision For The Church

Acts 11:1-18

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Douglas J. Deuel

... a church with people who have such divergent views regarding the church's mission. That unity comes from our relationship to Christ and a desire to please God. If each one of us genuinely seeks God's purpose for the church, our vision of what the church should ... Christ, who was I that I could withstand God?" (Acts 11:17). Who are we to stand in the way of God and God's desires for the church? So often our biases prevent us from opening our lives to the renewing presence of God. We are fearful of changes that ...

615. Love And Money

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

William G. Carter

... is not the master of states, of armies, of the masses, or of the mind except by humanity's consent to its authority. Money would be absolutely nothing, materially speaking, without human consent."3 The bad news in our gospel story is there are occasions when the desire for money for having it, holding it, keeping it becomes more important than anything else. D.H. Lawrence tells a story about a family with a boy and two little girls. They lived in a nice house with a garden. Yet the family felt an anxiety ...

616. Living By The Calendar Instead Of The Clock (New Year's)

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... of leisure can be more important than diet and exercise in preventing heart attacks. Obviously a balance among all three is most desirable. I have observed many people who have paid attention to the body and diet and have neglected the spirit and are dying ... Yard, but invited him by the calendar to a new way of life. V. Jesus heals us in ordinary time. The human family has a hidden desire for one special event in life to clear up a problem or a pain that it carries. Seldom if ever is there a word or event ...

617. Anticipation Proclamation

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Tony Everett

... bring an immediate, permanent, and total change in the practical activities of their lives -- according to their own wants and desires ... and right now. This was definitely the situation of the people at the time of our text in Zephaniah. Great ... Kingdom, right now. They anticipated that God as warrior-king would bring about a golden age according to their own wants and desires, right now. Success in our time according to our own definition is still a major theme in our society today. However, God ...

618. A Christian With A Conflict Of Interest

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

James McLemore

... it came time for godly acts, you acted ungodly. Maybe you are my people, but you have this conflict of interest." The apostle Paul identifies this characteristic in Romans 7:18-19: "I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good that I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do -- this I keep on doing." Paul was saying, "I want to do right, but I keep on ...

619. The Blind Guiding The Blind

Psalm 92:1-15, Luke 6:46-49, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Isaiah 55:1-13, Luke 6:37-42

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... not honor Jesus as Lord in their personal and public life. They have succumbed to other temptations that govern their desires and actions. Teachers are expected to mold the lives of future generations. If they are false teachers they affect ... interests. Christ has not become master of our motives. C. Unresolved Problems. Areas of our lives where we keep hidden sins. We nurture false desires that are not dealt with honestly. 3. Eye (I) Surgery. (v. 42) More critical of others than we are of self. A. Recognize ...

620. Proper 20

Psalm 79:1-13, 1 Timothy 2:1-15, Jeremiah 8:4--9:26, Luke 16:1-15

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... can be as greedy as the person who seeks to become a billionaire. Their obsession with following the behavior of the rich and famous, their envy of those who have wealth, and their obsequious attitude toward people with money shows where their real interest and desires are vested. They are as much possessed by riches as those who have them. Homily Hints 1. Squandering His Property. (v. 1) This raises the issue regarding the question of ownership of material goods. A. The Earth Is the Lord's B. Given Us in ...

621. Making Our Feelings Known

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... with a dilemma: he does not know how to find his way into God's presence.1 Previously, Job felt that he was blocked in his desire to have a hearing with God by God's overwhelming power. For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that ... )Then Job senses God's dread.Would he contend with me in the greatness of his power?No, but he would give heed to me. His desire for trial is blocked by God's elusiveness.If I go forward, he is not there; or backward, I cannot perceive him; on the left he ...

622. Miracle Nine: Healing A Deaf-Mute

Mark 7:31-37, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... ?" Their idea was to let people know they were in the vicinity, but also to rouse the curiosity of people who would come out of their houses to see what the peddler was selling. It might be something they lacked and needed, or simply something they desired. "What do you lack?" might well be a question we should ask ourselves. We may have sight and hearing, but what do we lack? Take an honest inventory of yourself. Have you found contentment? Are you close enough to God to receive his guidance and strength ...

623. The Waiting Place

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

William L. Self

... carrying a child in her womb; she waits for the baby to be born. It is like parents waiting for a teenager to become an adult, or a child waiting for Christmas. Ours is not a culture that wants to wait. We have been pushed ever faster in our desire to hurry up by the advances in technology. For instance, from the year Christ died until the year 1900, the fund of available information for people to know doubled one time. From 1900 to 1950, it doubled again. From 1950 to 1960, it doubled, and it has doubled ...

624. No Shortcut To Glory

2 Kings 2:1-18

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William L. Self

... ." Most of us know they do not want to usher, feed hungry people, teach children in Sunday School, or build shelters for the homeless. They really have no intention to give a cup of cold water in Jesus' name. They do not wish to "take the towel." Their desire is to become the chairperson of the governing board, or in some other way "sit at the head table." They are like the rich young ruler, in that they do not wish to make any sacrifice. The kingdom should be glad to have them. There is something that ...

625. The Giver Becomes The Receiver

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... support all elements of life, both social and individual. David's recognition that God needed no house was a fundamental aspect of his being allowed the honor of the "Davidic ideal" which ultimately produced the Christ child. Only as David was willing to "let go" of his desire to bring a gift to God and let God bring the gift to him, was the revelation made complete. The text is more than a rhetorical inversion. It is a powerful message for today's Christian. We, too, are called to let go and let God bring ...

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