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651. Epiphany: A Faith to Work Miracles

John 2:1-11

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... and where the sick and handicapped were a burden to be ignored, it was altogether a miracle for someone to be captured by a spirit of unselfish love. Their concern was completely against the tide of the times. It grew out of soil which was hostile to such caring. It was, spiritually speaking, a case of health bursting forth from a plague-ridden atmosphere. Miracle, indeed! But God didn't do it alone. Thalasius, Fabiola, and Apollonius were the servants who bore the water which Christ could then change into ...

652. How May We Come to God?

Psalm 24:1-10

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Maxie Dunnam

... ? Who shall ascend to the hill of the Lord? Who shall stand in His holy place? “He who has clean hands and a pure heart.” Let’s look at our hearts. Can our hearts be called pure when they are full of fear and hostility-- when they are harboring a grudge -- when unforgiveness is there -- when resentment is seething. when bitterness flavors our thinking and feeling -- when our need for security overshadows our willingness to trust? The big question that enables us to discover whether our hearts are pure ...

653. The Gospel

Colossians 1:3-6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... are no longer slaves, but free. II But not only does Christ come to free us, He comes to fit us – He comes to fit us for Kingdom living. Listen to verses 21 and 22 of this first chapter: And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He has now reconciled in His fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before Him. What a possibility – holy and blameless and irreproachable. Have you ever noticed the vast difference that exists between ...

654. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

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Phil Thrailkill

... themselves! It’s called, as we say in the Apostles’ Creed, the communion of the saints. When we meet our beloved in person, we no longer need the book of family photographs. When sin and death are abolished, we no longer need the means of dealing with those hostile powers, and when our hearts are set on God, there is no more need for laws and regulations. What was in the Book will then be written in our hearts. Important as it is, the Bible is a temporary means of grace, and the day will come when ...

655. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

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Phil Thrailkill

... sports events. Flight attendants and pilots report a dramatic increase in problem passengers: 66 incidents in 1997, 534 in 1999. C. Leslie Charles, author of Why Is Everyone So Cranky? writes: “I'm describing a fuming, unrelenting, sense of anger, hostility, and alienation that simmers for months, even years, without relief. Eventually, all it takes is a triggering incident, usually minor, for the person to go ballistic. Cell phones, pagers, and high tech devices allow us to be interrupted anywhere, at ...

656. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

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Phil Thrailkill

... a company commander in Vietnam; it was there that he took a risk and learned the meaning of Jesus’ words: “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, frightened, helpless. He threw mud and kicked with his one good leg when anyone came near. When Paul joined the circle... a soldier asked, "Sir what do we do? He's losing blood fast and needs attention." Stanley looked down and saw the face ...

657. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... place of your next kingdom assignment, should you choose to accept it! Worry and anxiety and vulnerability and dread and apprehension and angst and fears and phobias of all sorts are part of our common fallen condition in an unpredictable and often hostile world.2 What we do with this cluster of unpleasant emotions and mental habits will in great measure determine how we live, whether in an offensive posture of active engagement with life and its challenges, or a defensive posture of protection and steady ...

658. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... want to share with you a statement by a distinguished member of our judicial system. A judge in Philadelphia, speaking of his experiences dealing with juveniles in trouble with the law, said that most of the young people who come before his court for discipline are hostile and aggressive. But their attitude doesn’t bother him nearly so much as the attitude of their parents. Often the child’s father is outraged! “Why do you do this to my boy?” he would ask. “Why bring him in here? Don’t you know ...

659. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

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King Duncan

... as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” Christ wanted his disciples to have a sense of inner peace when he was no longer with them. He didn’t want them to be afraid. He was sending them out into a hostile world. As long as they served him, they would not know any outward peace. Read Hebrews 11, concerning the heroes of our faith. Here is how that chapter describes what some of the followers of Christ had to face: “[Some] were tortured and refused to be released ...

660. Guidance for a Time of Chaos

John 16:5-16

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King Duncan

... that is the invitation of Christ to someone who wants to know God, figure out the inner self, and understand how to live in the real world. Follow Him and stick close. Christ doesn’t miss a turn.” (4) Jesus knew that his disciples were going out into a hostile world. They would need both power and guidance. Jesus himself would no longer be with them in the flesh. But he would be with them through the power of the Holy Spirit. When we speak of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we are in essence saying that we ...

661. Family Tree

Genesis 3:1-7

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons." William Easum says (in Dancing with Dinosaurs) we're living in a crack in history between the time the church dominated our society and its values and the time when the society will be hostile to the church and religion. I wonder how Adam characterized his crack in history? Nicolas Chamfort wrote in the late 1700s: "Had anyone told Adam, on the day following the death of Abel, that some centuries later there would be places where, in an ...

662. Out of Conflict

Genesis 25:19-34

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James L. Killen

... never comes back and a family is left in shambles. Sometimes the conflicts just hover there and have to be lived around, as when two people who really don't like each other are in a meeting and everyone present knows they have to work around their hostility. Sometimes conflicts harm and injure us and our world. We experience the damage when a family gathers without the presence of one who has, for some reason, been alienated or when we miss someone who used to be a friend. You have experienced all of those ...

663. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

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Arley K. Fadness

... 20:14-21 Edom refuses passage to Israel on their way to Egypt from Canaan. Then comes the record of King David's subjugation of Edom (in Samuel 8:14) and the revolt and recovery of independence. In the oracle of Amos (Amos 1:11-12), the underlying hostility of Edom toward Israel is evident. When Jerusalem fell in 586 B.C., Edom rejoiced at the disaster that fell upon Israel, a fact that Israel never forgot or forgave (Psalm 137:7). The command in Deuteronomy 23:7, "You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is ...

664. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

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James L. Killen

... are really talking a foreign language for lots of people. As we look out at life, many of us see something that is entirely indifferent to us. Others see something that just lays there and waits to be exploited. And many of the rest of us see life as something hostile that attacks us and against which we have to defend ourselves. To see life as the gift and embodiment of someone who loves us and wants what is good for us is a real stretch. But when we think of the giver of life as one who loves us enough ...

665. Access Denied

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... , and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint" (Romans 5:4-5). Henry Wadsworth Longfellow said, "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility." Suffering can lead to war, or it can lead to peace, both in the world around us, and within us. When we allow our own suffering to dictate our anger and frustration with life, then it destroys us. It steals life from us, and it ...

666. Are You Feeling Sheepish?

Psalm 23, John 10:11-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in any difficult situation, whether it be in performance, or just going through those terrible times we all have to face, the secret is concentration, focus, and the secret of concentration is confidence in the environment, that it is friendly and not hostile. The ultimate confidence is to feel the harmony between yourself and the God who created the environment. The most devastating thing that can happen to anybody when you are called to do these things is to start thinking about what you are called ...

667. Coming Home

Luke 15:1-3,11b-32

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Mark Trotter

... he works with men's retreats and they have an opportunity to meet in small groups and to share with one another, he said they almost always talk about the same thing. They talk about estrangement from the father. Not alienation so much, not hostility, not rebellion; but distance, and the inability to talk to one another about intimate things, important things, to express their feelings, to open their hearts to one another. It's just very difficult to do this. To illustrate, he pointed out something Robert ...

668. He's Back

Mark 1:1-8

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Mark Trotter

... Judah, destroyed the city of Jerusalem, then took a portion of the population of Jerusalem back with them to Babylon, as sort of an insurance against an uprising. It was cheaper to move potential trouble makers back to Babylon then to garrison an army in a far away, hostile land. That's how the Jew's got to Babylon. They were "ransom captive" in Babylon. The 40th chapter of Isaiah is the announcement that that history is over. You can turn away from that past. You can go home now. God is offering you a new ...

669. Joy to the World

Mark 16:1-8

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Mark Trotter

... Third Kind, the earth is visited by aliens. Which is really something of a benchmark in movie science fiction, because the aliens in that movie were attractive, innocent and almost childlike. Whereas, up to that point, extra-terrestrials were generally hostile and fearsome. They were different in that movie. Their spaceship was brilliantly illumined with light, as if they had come from the kingdom of light into this realm of darkness. Surrounding that spaceship were the most beautiful harmonies, especially ...

670. Like None Other

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

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Mark Trotter

... Baptists and Methodists living in the same towns, side by side. They often were at war with each other. Those days are pretty much gone, we don't fight about baptism anymore. We find other things to fight about. In the past it was baptism. If hostilities should break out again, the Methodists could mobilize a whole lot of allies, because the great majority of Christians from the very beginning have believed in baptizing infants and children. If that is true, then what do you do with a passage such as ours ...

671. In the Darkness of Despair, There Is the Light of Hope

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... of the year, which should bring out the best in us, sometimes the worst comes out. One writer imagined a conversation between Archie Bunker and his son-in-law Meathead, who asked Archie if he knew what Advent meant. Archie said, “Yeah, you add up all your hostile feelings and then you vent them on somebody. It’s people like you that make me enjoy Advent.”2 The darkness of despair can be a common experience even in this season of the year. But the season of Advent we begin today has a message for ...

672. Lent 3

Exodus 17:1-7, Romans 5:1-11, John 4:1-26, John 4:27-38, John 4:39-42

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... a present reality by faith. 2. Peace (v. 1). Peace with God is not by treaty or truce. It is not a human accomplishment; peace is a by-product of God's redemption in Christ on the cross, and our acceptance of pardon by faith. The estrangement and hostility have ended. God and persons are now friends. The result in peace in terms of harmony resulting from reconciling love. Peace of soul is the foundation of peace of mind and heart. Peace with God is precondition of peace among people. 3. Yet (v. 8). We know ...

673. Proper 11

Genesis 28:10-22, Romans 8:1-17, Romans 8:18-27, Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... dreams the night he ran away from home. He made his bed by cheating his brother of his birthright and his father's blessing, and now he must lie in it: the hard, cold ground with a stone for a pillow! It was a stone of loneliness, rejection, and hostility. Even here in this condition God came to him with words of comfort and assurance. In the depth of our existence God comes to us. 2. Ladder (v. 12). It is often called "Jacob's ladder," and youth love to sing, "We are climbing Jacob's Ladder." A Christian ...

674. Proper 17

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Exodus 3:1-22

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John R. Brokhoff

... , and tribulation arouse God to help his people. God knows our troubles, sorrows, suffering, and injustice. He knows and cares enough to deliver us. Old Testament: Jeremiah 15:15-21 1. Persecutors (v. 15). Jeremiah had persecutors. What wrong had he done to deserve their hostility? His crime was that he spoke the Word of God. The truth of the Word hurt the people who wanted to hear words of peace and security. Jeremiah was a victim of innocent suffering, because men prefer evil to good. They hate those who ...

675. Proper 18

Exodus 12:1-30, Romans 13:8-14, Matthew 18:15-20, Ezekiel 33:1-20

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John R. Brokhoff

... the world. He is dealing with church or in-group problems. The "brother" is a fellow Christian. "If your brother sins against you" implies that Christians are not perfect and thus sin against each other. Because of sin, the church can be plagued with hostility and disunity. Because of this, Jesus gives a procedure to be followed when trouble resulting from sin develops within the Christian community. 2. You (v. 15). Who is "you"? "You" may be an individual Christian or "you" may be the group of Christians ...

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