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601. Influence!

Matthew 23:1-12

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Stephen M. Crotts

... ." They consider themselves spiritual consumers out bargain hunting for the things of Christ. They walk into a church saying, "Here I am! Court me! Entertain me! Meet my needs! Or I won't be back!" Some of us are addicted to the process. We love being singled out, pursued. We thrive on the new and being in control - "Maybe I will. Maybe I won't." Jesus discussed this type of "Here I am!" person in the text. "They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not ...

602. Faith's Curious Dynamic

Matthew 5:1-12

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Stephen M. Crotts

... pleased to see your daughter becoming a responsible young woman but are sad because you won't have the little girl around the house any longer. * Or maybe you are eager to get married and start a family, but concerned that once you do, you won't be able to pursue every whim or opportunity that comes along. * Imagine what it is like to be one of those people waiting for a heart transplant. On the one hand, you are hoping for a heart to become available, but on the other hand you don't want someone to have to ...

603. The Man in the Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

There is something odd about the sight of a grown man up in a tree. The Reuters news service carried a story sometime back about a Polish man who climbed a tree to avoid a taxi fare which totaled just a few dollars. Pursued by the irate taxi driver, the passenger climbed a tall tree, jumped from branch to branch and hurled bananas from a shopping bag at a crowd which soon gathered at the scene. More than a dozen firefighters were called in and spread out an air-bag under the tree as ...

604. How to Beat the Devil

Matthew 4:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... s wilderness experience that also informs Jesus' retort to the devil's second temptation. Keeping physically intact was a high priority for the Israelites wandering in the barren, open vastness of the desert. Big productions - getting out of Egypt, destroying the pursuing Egyptian army - wouldn't mean anything if the next generation couldn't be provided for and protected. So it was that Israel in the wilderness was continually uneasy, petitioning God again and again for something safer and better. At Massah ...

605. Eleven Plus One

Acts 2:1-13

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Leonard Sweet

... it is you drive, Jesus would ask if he could use it for his mission. Will you give Jesus your vehicle? Will you give Jesus your life? Will you put him in the driver's seat? Jesus relativized everything else. The disciples were busy pursuing their own dreams. The Sea of Galilee Fishing Fleet Dream. The Rebel Dream. The Silent Millionaire Dream. But once they met Jesus, all their dreams – whether it was the Sea of Galilee Dream or the Great American Dream – were rendered inconsequential by the Jesus ...

606. The Miracle Molecule

John 4:1-26

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Leonard Sweet

... they'd betrayed. · Jacob/Israel establishes the holy place of Shechem at the site of a life-giving well in the desert according to the Lord's commandment. · Hebrew slaves escape through the water, and that same water crashes down and destroys Pharaoh's pursuing army. · Moses struck a rock and brought forth water to quench the people's thirst and save their lives. Here's the miracle molecule at work in the Second Testament: · John the Baptist baptized with the waters of the wilderness in order to open ...

607. The Real Winning Attitude

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... fall into temptation and are trapped by many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction." (verse 9) Instead of succumbing to the temporary pleasures of life, the Pauline author lists those qualities possessed by true winners. "...pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, gentleness." (Verse 11) These qualities don't guarantee worldly success. They don't even make you a winner every time. In fact, winning isn't the goal at all here, the epistle proclaims. What ...

608. Life's Four Big 'Ds' and One Bigger 'D'

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we'll never own, worlds of possibility we had never imagined. With so much more so near at hand, we long for more, we desire more, we endlessly quest after more, more, more. And it's when we become lost in those mores (and lose our mores pursuing those mores) that we fall from desire into the four D's of depression, doubt, disappointment, despair. Sometimes desire can be disguised in the most innocent robes. Often the desires that push us over the precipice aren't for material things we can touch or hold or ...

609. Be Ready!

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

King Duncan

... of playing the piano. Of course, her troubled childhood in Russia, and her exile to Germany, put that dream on hold. After her marriage, Helen and her husband bought a piano. But the demands of working and raising a family left little time for Helen to pursue her own dreams. For the last few months, Helen had been saving up her money so that she could begin piano lessons. But what was more important than telling young people about the love of Jesus? Helen pledged that night to give up her piano lessons ...

610. Be Kind

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James McCormick

... , she took a child’s book from the bag, got up on the bed with Vivian, and held her in her arms while she read, “The Runaway Bunny.” These two eminent scholars were comforted by a child’s book about a mother bunny who assures her child that she will pursue him wherever he goes, because he is her little bunny. Of course, when you hear it with the ears of faith, you know the book is really about a God whose love will never let us go, wherever we are, and whatever we are going through. So, holding her ...

611. It Was for Us

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

James McCormick

... wouldn’t work. God knows us too well to bully us. That would never accomplish God’s purpose. You can’t force someone to love you. But God will never give up on us. The story of the Bible is the story of a God who, century after century, keeps pursuing us. He has reached out to us with prophets, priests, messengers. He has tugged at our hearts by his Spirit. He has whispered in our ear again and again, “You are mine, don’t you know that? I love you. Won’t you come home to me where you belong ...

612. Are You Getting Hymns Out of Your Lions?

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

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Leonard Sweet

... in his wings:" Sometimes a light surprises the Christian while he sings; It is the Lord, Who rises with healing in His wings: When comforts are declining, He grants the soul again A season of clear shining, to cheer it after rain. In holy contemplation we sweetly then pursue The theme of God's salvation, and find it ever new. Set free from present sorrow, we cheerfully can say, Let the unknown tomorrow bring with it what it may. It can bring with it nothing but He will bear us through; Who gives the lilies ...

613. Our Sin Against God

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... limits on our existence. And those limits are symbolized by that tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden that God planted for Adam (vv. 8, 16, 17). The fact that God forbids us to eat of that tree does not mean that he forbids us to pursue scientific knowledge or even to go to the moon. Rather, the tree stands for the fact that we are not gods and goddesses, that we cannot construct our own right and wrong, that we cannot run our own lives and plan our own futures, but rather that we are ...

614. Through the Wilderness

Exodus 17:1-7

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Elizabeth Achtemeier

... realm. She blames Moses for her difficulties. He has led her out of slavery into her trouble. He is blamed for her thirst and privation. His purpose is to kill the adults and children and cattle. He is at fault. Here is a people who has been delivered from the pursuing troops of the Pharaoh and led safely on dry land through the Reed Sea, not by Moses’ power but by God’s. Here is a folk who has been guarded at front and rear by God’s protection in pillar of fire and cloud. Here is a company that has ...

615. Baptism of the Lord

Psalm 29:1-11, Isaiah 42:1-9, Acts 10:23b-48, Matthew 3:13-17

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