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626. Tripping the Tempter

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... there is a power at work in the world whose work and mission is not of God''s design or desire. You may call it the Devil, Satan, the Serpent or simply evil, but whatever you call it, it''s real. Even Jesus had to wrestle this power hostile to God''s working on the human scene. Temptation is powerful, and we all face it, but how we deal with it distinguishes the Christian from the non-Christian. Our faith boldly declares, unless you have a living relationship with Jesus Christ, you will be a victim, not ...

627. Taxes and Tightwads

James 5:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... times of the year, they camped next to a very swift and swollen river. The current was so strong that if someone happened to fall in or stumble into it, they could be swept way down stream. One day the tribe was attacked by a hostile group of settlers. They found themselves with their backs against the river. They were greatly outnumbered and their only chance for escape was to somehow cross the rushing river. They huddled together and those who were physically strong picked up the weak and wounded and ...

628. A Rod And A Staff

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... staff was sufficient when Moses leaned on the everlasting arms of God. As I close today, I''m going to share a writing that I penned about two weeks ago as I sat at my desk. I wrote the 23rd Psalm the way an atheist, pagan or someone who is hostile to our faith tradition would view it. It is one of the most pathetic writings I have ever seen: "The Lord is NOT my shepherd--I am the Captain of my soul. I shall always want, but since I am a self-made person I will make out okay when ...

629. The Longest Table in the World

1 Corinthians 10:14-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to implement their agendas on the church that they turn their eyes from Jesus to narrow agendas and push their view on other people by pointed communication rather than communion. Recently the Secretary General of the United Nations said, "There is more conflict, hostility, and open division in the world today than there has been at any other time in history." Deep down we know that there is need for deeper communion and "one table." One of the great needs of any local church, especially one our size ...

630. Reverse Direction

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... God and from someone else?" For some of us, it is working too hard. For some of us, it is too much ambition. For some of us, it is too much greed. For some of us, it is a negative attitude and outlook. For some of us, it is inner hostility and resentment. For some of us, it is a chip on our shoulder. For some of us, it is a hatred that we won't let go of. For some of us, it is even too much religion in the form of false piety and arrogant self-righteousness. The specifics ...

631. You Are Free to Fail

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... had been at their respective weddings, where he was asked to foot the bills and was given the honor of giving them away. However, before and since, the daughters had not wished to see him, and whenever he tried to establish contact by telephone, they were verbally abusive and hostile. The advice of the radio host was that all he could do was to wait and hope that the girls would one day accept his overtures. There are times when we do what we can, and after that it is out of our hands. A member of a local ...

632. Birthing the Kingdom

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... the world and, more particularly, of his followers. He holds out no easy comfort. How could he, who agonized in a garden and on a cross before entrusting his will and his life into his Father's keeping? Those who follow him can expect no less hostility and tumult. And yet Jesus himself emerged from a tomb as from a womb, which unexpectedly and gloriously ushered an entirely new sort of life into our world. He is the firstborn of a new creation, and the old creation groans in labor pains for our redemption ...

633. First Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... will be based on divine love and care. 4. Prince of Peace: Isaiah's concept of peace is so different from the frivolous way the word is thrown around today. It meant for Isaiah "wholeness, harmony, completion" and was not confined to the absence of hostility. For Isaiah "peace" offered people the hope that they could live in harmony with God, each other, and nature. In Jesus we can find true "shalom." He is the Prince of Peace. The source of Isaiah's light was God himself. Isaiah however, moves to ... The ...

634. The Challenge of God Brings Hope

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , the hope and promise of God were granted to him. We remember as well the test given to many of the judges and prophets, men and women called to lead Israel and to proclaim God's word, although they may have felt unqualified, to often hostile and unreceptive communities. Yet, these people too responded to the challenge presented them and God's promise was once again demonstrated by Israel's victory in battle and the return of the people to a closer relationship with God. Finally, on this First Sunday in ...

635. Have We Kept Our Contract with God?

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... and on other occasions we are too tired to meet our commitments. There are times as well, if we are honest, when we simply are lazy or see no value in what we are asked to do. There are even those occasions when people are hostile to their responsibilities and openly reject their duties. We are asked to do many things -- tasks and responsibilities -- which in some ways are contractual. These duties may be formal or informal, written or verbal, understood and acknowledged or assumed, but when they are not ...

636. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the flesh, but those who live according to the spirit set their minds on the things of the spirit. To set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the spirit is life and peace. For the mind that set on the flesh is hostile to God, and it does not submit to God’s law, indeed it can not. And those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh, you are in the spirit. If in fact the spirit of God dwells in you, anyone who does ...

637. Miracles In Contrast

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... between the bricks. This daisy is a thing of color and beauty to Ruby, and to me. Ruby does not destroy it or injure it. She puts her hands around it as though to ward off the dangers of an environment which she has come to believe is hostile and destructive. She moves closer to the wild daisy, inching forward on her bare stomach, putting the wild daisy against her face, feeling the texture of the petals, smelling its fragrance. Ruby will let this flower grow until it is cast in the oven, for there is ...

638. A Star, A Stable, and A Song

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the loveliest experiences we can know. The wise men didn’t expect their star to lead them to a stable, but it did, and there they found Mary and Joseph and the babe lying in a manger. But there’s more to this stable than the confirmation from hostile and unpropitious experiences come life’s highest. I remember my first trip to the Holy Land. Naturally, Bethlehem was high on the priority of places to see and experience. I can only imagine how it was in Jesus’ day, but I know how it is now. There’s ...

639. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in Christ, but also of suffering for his cause. The cross is at the center of the Christian life – not just Golgotha’s cross, though that is our salvation, but the cross as a way of life. Prior to Golgotha, Jesus suffered persecution, rejection, hostility, and misunderstanding. He promised his followers nothing less in their ministry in his name. In the world you will have tribulation, he said, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. Paul in prison and suffering, yet with a vision of the ...

640. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is evil. A distant emanation of God, not God Himself, created the world, because God could not touch evil. This general understanding issued in some specific expressions. (1) The creating god is not the true God, but a distant emanation ignorant of and even hostile to the true God. (2) Jesus was not unique, but merely an emanation, one of the many intermediaries between God and man. Jesus may stand high, even highest, in the series of emanations from God, but still He was one among many. (3) Jesus ...

641. The Game Is For A Team

Colossians 4:7-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Let's call him the unknown disciple. We know absolutely nothing about him. The amazing thing is that he is mentioned at all. Maybe he had been of some special help to Paul. Maybe his faithfulness to Christ, in spite of the rejection of the hostile Jews in Rome, inspired Paul. He was certainly taking a risk -- because if the Jews learned that he was involved with this Roman prisoner -- they certainly could have arrested him for that kind of complicity. Maybe it was his courage and his devotion that earned ...

642. A Confidence for All Seasons

Psalm 27:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... can provide power, rather than make us powerless victims. "Much as we hate trouble, complain about it and try to avoid it if we can, what we are most thankful for as we look back over life are precisely those things which, at the time, seemed hostile, hard to take, but which by their very challenge saved us. "Dr. Marie Ray, ( a psychiatrist of some note some thirty years ago), after making a wide study of the relation between handicaps and achievements, and going down the list of notable men and women, came ...

643. Pack Up Your Troubles

James 4:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... there sure was such a thing, but it had one prerequisite: All important tasks must be completed. He asked her what she meant and she told him a true story about one of her former patients, named Bill Restin: When Bill was admitted I sensed his anger. He was hostile and abrupt. And very restless. I asked him if everything was O.K. He didn't answer. So I asked again. No response. It was then that I knew he had some unfinished business that needed to be completed if he was to die a good death. His physical ...

644. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... At a sales meeting of the Western Insurance Companies, he told about a man driving home from a party one night when he was pulled over by a policeman. The policeman said, "Sir, were you in a hurry? You were driving 77 miles per hour." The man turned hostile, "You're crazy. I wasn't driving anywhere near that fast. I had it on cruiseamatic, I was driving 55!" "Sorry, Sir", said the policeman, "my radar checked you at 77." The man responded angrily, "You are stupid and incompetent. I'm going to report you to ...

645. The Stone Was Rolled Away (easter)

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... straight forward and honest about our ups and downs. The first step in moving beyond defeat is to admit and accept defeat for what it is."All of us have failed in friendship. We have lost some good friends perhaps more by our indifference than by our hostility. We just have let them go. Others we have lost through differences that we have allowed to fester, and there are some people we just don't speak to anymore because the anger is so deep, and our emotions are so sore. (We've failed in friendship.) "Many ...

646. Who Loves More?

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... mind, her ecstasy of love, show that something great has already happened to her. And nothing greater can happen to a human being than that he or she is forgiven. Forgiveness means reconciliation in spite of estrangement; it means reunion in spite of hostility; it means acceptance of those who are unacceptable; and it means reception of those who are rejected. Forgiveness is unconditional, or it is not forgiveness at all. Forgiveness has the character of “in spite of,” but we righteous ones give it the ...

647. Come To The Party!

Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... morning. But then it just felt like the right thing to do. He prayed for Agnes. I prayed for her salvation. He prayed that her life would be changed and that God would be good to her. When he finished, Harry leaned over the counter and with a trace of hostility in his voice, he said "Hey! You never told me you were a preacher. What kind of church do you belong to?" In one of those moments when just the right words came, Tony answered, "I belong to a church that throws birthday parties for whores at 3:30 in ...

648. Strategic Kindness

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , it is a colleague at work. Unresolved anger and resentment destroys relationships. Unresolved anger and resentment can destroy our souls. The solution? "Be imitators of God . . ." Lay down your anger here at the altar. Return love for hatred, kindness for hostility, acceptance for rejection. Be the adult to someone else's child. Break the cycle. "Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other ...

649. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... walk of life have discovered this truth: the picture on the box is Jesus. When will you and I discover that truth for ourselves? GROWING UP IN A CHRISTIAN CULTURE MAY BLIND US TO CHRIST'S CALL. It's true. If we lived in a culture that was hostile to Christian values, we might see the stark difference Christ's coming has made. Suppose we lived in a culture in which girls counted for so little that girl babies were slain at birth. Or if we lived in a culture in which people of other faiths were considered ...

650. Preparing for Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... around them, resisting any attempt by the soldiers to control them. They had surrendered physically but not mentally. On one occasion after the enemy had withdrawn, Stanley came upon several soldiers surrounding a wounded Viet Cong. Shot through the lower leg, he was hostile and frightened, yet helpless. He threw mud and kicked with his one good leg when anyone came near him. When Stanley joined the circle around the wounded enemy, one soldier asked him, "Sir, what do we do? He’s losing blood fast and ...

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