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601. A Sure-Fire Way to End Burn Out

Isaiah 40:21-31

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Schuyler Rhodes

... jobs, burn out is a growing phenomenon. As a people, we seem somehow to have bought into a hyper-exaggerated version of the old Protestant work ethic. While this work ethic has always been in our culture to some degree or other, there is now a pervasive sense that people are evaluated by the tasks that they accomplish. What's the first question anyone asks you when you meet someone? No one asks, "What's your favorite color?" or "Do you like Indian food?" People don't ask questions about your life when they ...

602. Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

Proverbs 8:1-4, 22-31

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Leonard Sweet

... . Genesis 1, "And God saw that it was good"). Wisdom thus is seen not only as present at creation but a participant in creation. Yet, the ambiguity inherent in the Hebrew vowels makes the translation of "craftsman" (NIV) questionable. Other readings supply a different sense, that of a young, dependent child, gleefully applauding Yahweh's creative genius. All this recalls the presence of the "logos" in the prologue to John's gospel, 1:1-3 and Colossians 1:15-16. Wisdom and the Word had a creative presence at ...

603. Epiphany 6

2 Kings 5:1-27, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, Mark 1:40-45

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John R. Brokhoff

... sin in obedience to God's command to be baptized. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 1. Race (v. 24). Paul does not say that the Christian life is a race, but it is like a race. He uses the athletics of his day to illustrate his point. In once sense, the Christian life is a race because we race throughout life. Salvation is a continuing process. In this life we never "arrive" nor do we attain perfection. The prize is given when life is ended. On the other hand, the Christian life is not a race, for in a race ...

604. A Life of Trust

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

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King Duncan

... life: Trust vs. Mistrust, Autonomy vs. Shame & Doubt, Initiative vs. Guilt, Industry vs. Inferiority, Identity vs. Role Confusion, Intimacy vs. Isolation, Generativity vs. Stagnation, and Integrity vs. Despair. But the most basic of all is the establishment of a sense of trust. Some of us never achieved this basic foundation of being able to trust trust God, trust others or even trust ourselves. Something about our genetic makeup, or our relations with our parents, or, perhaps, difficult life experiences ...

605. God Where Are You? - The Problem of Evil

Genesis 3:1-6, Judges 6:13

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James Merritt

... have not only the ability to choose good, but also the ability to choose evil. That doesn't make God responsible for evil; it makes us responsible. He created the fact of freedom. We perform the acts of freedom. He made evil possible. We make evil actual. [[4]] In that sense, God is pro-choice. The only way that God could create a world with free will is to also create a world with a potential for evil and suffering. God loves us so much and wants us to love Him so much, that rather than make us into robots ...

606. Hell under Fire

Matthew 5:22; 28-30

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James Merritt

... really do if you die having refused Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Incidentally, don't get the idea that if people in hell had a second chance they would do the right thing about Jesus Christ. C. S. Lewis said, "I willingly believe the damned are in one sense successful rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside." [[5]] Even in hell people would not choose to go to heaven, because in order to do that they would have to do the one thing they definitely did not want to do on ...

607. When Nothing Is Sacred

Isaiah 6:1-8

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... power in the region, and Judah now came under the shadow of the Assyrian threat. Sometime in that year, young Isaiah found himself in the temple, and there he had a vision in which he saw God seated on a throne. That sight overwhelmed Isaiah with the sense that he was in the presence of absolute holiness. The seraphs he saw were heavenly beings whose function was to attend and praise the deity, but their pose tells us even more about holiness. They had six wings, and used two to remain aloft, but the other ...

608. A Pair of Ducks and Abundant Life

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... hear at a funeral are: I wish I had done more for him or her while there was time. Now some of that grows out of a sense of guilt that all of us feel when we lose someone close. And often we do not need that guilt because we had a wonderful relationship with ... hear at a funeral are: I wish I had done more for him or her while there was time. Now some of that grows out of a sense of guilt that all of us feel when we lose someone close. And often we do not need that guilt because we had a wonderful relationship ...

609. More Time

Luke 13:1-9

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Donald Charles Lacy

... truly grateful and can hardly wait to get up every morning to see what the day brings. Woven into all of that, of course, is God's justice. We are called to perceive and utilize each and every opportunity. Pastors are privileged in the highest and best sense. For example, people trust us with their weddings and funerals. Usually, we are paid a sum of money. Not everyone thinks we should take it but many of us do because we can take whatever amount it is and give it away, hopefully in cash and anonymously ...

610. Holy Extravagance

John 12:1-8

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Donald Charles Lacy

... God, the truth is in his hands and beyond our puny comprehensions. The episode can grow complicated and a project for academics. In the meantime, you and I are inspired to live the Christian life. We know it is wrong to pose for good and our depths sense the hypocrisy gravitating to the forefront. We are taught the cries of the poor must be heard, but Jesus comes first. Jesus orders Mary to be left alone. Furthermore, he says the costly perfume is to be used for the day of his burial. His strange statement ...

611. A Frightening Friday

John 18:1-19:42

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Donald Charles Lacy

... . Try — for a fleeting moment — to put yourself in her place. She carried him inside her body like any other mother and gave birth to him. He was a part of her body and after the birth, when she could hold him in her arms, there was that powerful sense he belonged to her. In a way she died, too. Her baby, little boy, teenager, and adult man was gone. She is the blessed Virgin Mary to much of Christendom. What an appealing and magnificent name! She was a sublimely favored one and full of grace. The Lord ...

612. Recognizing His Disciples

John 13:31-35

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Donald Charles Lacy

... sometimes in our own strength that we want to be and do things that can be hurtful. Jesus sets the example for loving. His words are without complexity. Just as he has loved us, we are to love one another. We can even reduce this to commonsense teaching — in a sense — in any secular classroom in the country. He points out, "Look, I have done what I am commanding you to do." Isn't it great instruction? You bet it is and we are not left in the dark! Our Savior and Lord is so easy to follow, at times, that ...

613. What Price Must We Pay?

Luke 6:20-31

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John Wayne Clarke

... in Luke provide us with an astounding idea. That idea is simple; the value of your life will not be determined by how many years you live. It will be determined by how you used the years you were fortunate to live. I use the word, "astounding," in the sense that the normal life span for a male in the time of Jesus was under 35 years of age. So, it was easy to think that how long you lived was the single most important factor in life. And, although longevity has its place, longevity without value attached to ...

614. Mary and Joseph: His Obedient Servants

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , grace gifted, blessed people, called to share in the continual showing forth of Jesus Christ in our age – to be a part of a kingdom that shall know no end. “I think we have to understand a very important principle of biblical interpretation at this point. There is a sense in which our Lord is dealing with a once and for all event upon our planet. Jesus Christ, the son of God, the Word of God made flesh, was born at a particular time and place upon this earth. That happened once and for all. There is a ...

615. More Than We Are

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... ; youth of the time when they will mature to adulthood; and adults continue to burn with desires, expressed and unexpressed ambitions. From cradle to crematory it’s the same story: we want to be more than we are. The question is, how can we? In the healthy sense of the word, how can we be more than we are? IN IMAGINATION IMAGINATION Imagination will help. It’s amazing what a sanctified imagination can do for us. A person is in bad shape who does not have it, and who does not develop it in its fullest ...

616. The Wise Men: Going Home Another Way

Matthew 2:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... broken by some special phenomenon, it did look as if God was breaking into His own order, and announcing some special thing (William Barclay, The Gospel of Matthew, Volume 1, The Daily Bible Study) So, we could spend our time tonight talking about the extra ordinary sense of expectation that pervaded the day in which the Wise Men saw the Star and followed it, the fact that men were waiting for God,” or that there was an anguishing longing for deliverance and hope. We could talk about the fact that, in the ...

617. From Pride to Humility

Luke 18:9-14

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J. Howard Olds

... child that gets a pat on the back for doing a lesson well is receiving worthy praise. Families are smart to be mutual admiration societies. Of all the places in the world we ought to be able to go and get a hug and a word of encouragement and some sense of affirmation to make it through the day, we ought to be able to go home and find those kinds of things. Self-respect is one thing. Self-infatuation is another. Pride is somehow this deep inner part of ourselves that always has the desire to be better than ...

618. Living on the Edge

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

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Timothy J. Smith

... living like nomads for so long. As Moses climbed the mountain for what would be the last time, he must have felt a clear sense that his life was not lived in vain. All of his struggles had been worth it as he sought to communicate once again ... the foot of the promised land. No one would think ill of him if he paused to enjoy the moment. Moses might have also felt a sense of disappointment. He had spent the last forty years of his life leading the people to this place, the promised land, and now at the very ...

619. Hearts on Fire

Jeremiah 31:31-34

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Timothy J. Smith

... God, and they shall be my people." This covenant could not be broken; it would become an integral part of their identity, written on their hearts. The new covenant will affect both the minds and hearts of the people. This new covenant will bring forth a newfound sense of wholeness and joy. This was clearly good news for the people. When we are forced to do something, often we feel some resentment. At the least, our hearts are not interested in whatever we are asked to do. While we might think we are fooling ...

620. Headed in the Right Direction

Romans 15:4-13

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John N. Brittain

... for the birth of the Messiah, the prophetic utterances about what the Messiah would be like, and then the unlikely birth of the baby in the Bethlehem manger. This is the historical coming of the Messiah two millennia ago. But there is also the present tense, the sense in which we need to open our hearts and minds to the presence of the eternal Savior today in the eternal now as we make decisions and live out our lives as disciples. And there is the future, a future that we feel lies within the providence ...

621. Eyes To See, Ears To Hear

Matthew 13:1-23

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James McCormick

... listening for, I suspect you will have a long wait. I don’t think that’s the way God does it. No, the still, small voice the Bible talks about is more the sense of a presence, not ourselves, but someone. It is an overall sense of well being, close akin to the experience of being held. Perhaps we are impressed with a sense of oughtness: we ought to do this, or we ought not do that. Maybe we have been struggling with something and suddenly there is clarity. Perhaps someone or something pops into our mind ...

622. Luke 18: 9-14

Luke 18:9-14

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Leonard Sweet

... stood out as particularly “bad” or “good.” For this tax collector, toady of the Roman rulers, there was only an overwhelming sense of spiritual short-comings, and a congenital failure to live up the standards of God’s kingdom. Jesus’ judgment upon these two ... not a successful confederate with governmental powers. His self-identity was not as a shrewd money handler. Rather, at the most basic sense of himself he knew and he confessed that he was “a sinner.” And as a sinner he was wholly in need ...

623. Adopted! Thank God!

Ephesians 1:1-14

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King Duncan

... so proud as he laid his report on the altar . . .” (2) That young man would certainly understand the metaphor of adoption. He now had a new life. He had been pulled from darkness into the light. He had been brought from spiritual poverty to spiritual plenty. In a sense, he had been blind, but now he could see. Some of us, on the other hand, just don’t get it. We’ve been in church all our lives. The Christian life is just a synonym for respectability, decency, fitting in. We don’t quite get it when ...

624. This Gospel Is for Our Children

Mark 10:13-16

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... Jesus and the gospel, they betray their lack of understanding about the gospel's vital application to children. We can fall into the same trap if we are not careful. "A little child will lead them" (Isaiah 11:6) has application not just for the last days in the sense of the second coming of Jesus. It has application for these days. The reality is that we do not all arrive at a good understanding of the things of Christ at the same time or in the same way. We all know people who are well along into adulthood ...

625. The Home Court Advantage

Romans 12:9-21

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Leonard Sweet

... there is an unbeatable “team spirit” that makes the whole greater than the sum of its parts. An elderly Father Ambrose put it like this in a conversation with Jon M. Sweeney: “This is the only real Christian truth: it doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. But it is love all the way down.” (Cloister Talks: Learning from My Friends the Monks [Brazos Press, 2010]). Jesus came all the way down to tell us that “it’s love all the way down.” Can we be a community that really believes what doesn’t ...

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