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651. How High Is Your Faith Quotient?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have happily charted our kid's percentile standing in relationship to other schoolchildren in his grade. Of course, everybody compares scores and knows where they stand. Yet IQ results are kept secret from us. We're afraid that if kids know they have a lower IQ it will keep them from trying to learn and improve. We are also afraid that kids who learn they have very high IQ's will become intellectual bullies. How many of you know what your IQ is this morning. How many of you have no idea what your IQ is this ...

652. Go Meditate!

Revelation 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... love. The love that stands: stands up, stands by, stands firm, stands out no matter what. Love is what makes and keeps a family, a family. In today's gospel text Jesus offered his rag-tag band of disciples a key to living ... way all his disciples continue to experience the Master and his love once he's physically gone from us. Love is the way the Holy Spirit keeps Jesus alive and vital. Love is the way the world learns about Jesus' love. This new love commandment transformed a hodgepodge of unrelated men and ...

653. The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was a contemptuous one, reserved for criminals, enemies (Josh 7:26: 8:29) and rebellious sons (Deut 21:20-21). The lesson of staying in sin's woods is death. But it is more than that. It is the untold heartbreak of the loved ones of those who ignored the "Keep Out" sign. The overwhelming anguish of David as he hysterically mourns his son's death is one of the most soul wrenching scenes in the Bible. His wail O my son, Absalom! My son, my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you O Absalom, my son, my ...

654. The Smell of Fear

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , nothing-happens days. Second, when you begin to smell the fear, smell the roses instead. There's nothing like a positive to overcome a negative. Even from prison Paul wrote that we should seize every moment to speak a positive word (Philippians 4:8). Or as Helen Keller put it, "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow." Third, don't let your mind or spirit get in a defensive posture. Our hope isn't in the things of this world. Our hope is in God. So what do we have to fear? If there's ...

655. Take On Something for Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... reminder zap. Detect the presence of alcohol on anybody, anywhere, anytime? Big, big zap. But think again. Even in such a “Big Brother is watching” world, the truth is there is just too much temptation, and too strong an urge to misbehave, to ever keep track of everything. In fact, when we tried the “zap” technique on a husky dog we once brought into our family, via an “invisible fence” zapper collar, Kipnuk (the dog’s name) quickly learned that a few seconds of pain were well worth two hours ...

656. What More Can He Give?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

James McCormick

... year after year God blesses us, calls to us, and reaches out to us. Finally, He sends His love to us through Jesus’ death on the cross. But so many hear the story of that and continue to do “business as usual”. So many hear the story of that and keep on living as if it had never happened. We are so careless with that greatest of all loves! The Bible says that “God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Surely if you hear that…surely if you understand that ...

657. Cook Food. Serve Love.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the best way to get to the heart of Jesus’ message is to look at what Jesus did. More than anything else Jesus spent his time, as we used to put it, “eating good food with bad people.” There is a truck stop diner in South Dakota that also keeps it simple, and it too gets the gospel just right. As diners walk in they are confronted with a big sign that reads simply: “Cook food. Serve love.” Hospitality is at the heart of the gospel. Jesus knew that we cannot open our hearts until we first open our ...

658. Freedom Faith Brings

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... be right with God. Today, there are some who say you must be baptized in order to be saved. There are others who say you must keep the Sabbath and go to church on Saturday, and not Sunday, if you're going to be right with God. There are still others who say ... is sin. Liberty is limited by love. First of all, it is limited by a love for the Savior. If you love Jesus, you will keep His commandments. It is limited by a love for the saint. If you are truly saved, you will never do anything to cause a Christian ...

659. The Door Is Always Open

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... father understood that the heart of that boy had been in the far country for a long time, and he knew the boy was going to leave sooner or later anyway. That tells me something about our Heavenly Father. God will never force anyone to obey Him. He will not keep you from making a mistake if you are bound and determined to make one. If you're determined to learn the lessons of life the hard way, that's exactly the way God will teach you. If you want to blow your wealth, lose your health, fill your belly with ...

660. Saving Private Ryan

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... month, Bernard, thirty-two, died in Holland when a German plane bombed his truck. In four short months, Mary and Steven saw the war claim three of their four sons. As each son died, the Campagnones, aided by Representative Thomas J. Lane, asked the Army to keep their remaining sons off the battlefield. But the couple's requests were turned down by Army Brass, because military policy provided that a soldier would stay in the U.S. only if he was his family's sole surviving son. Only after the third son was ...

661. A Man on the Run

Jonah 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Whenever you run from God, the trip is always longer, always costlier, and always harder. Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay. c. The Disaster From v.4 to the end ... to a point of total faith and trust in Him. That's why the psalmist said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word." (Ps. 119:67) III. Jonah Preaching For God "Now the word of the Lord came to Jonah the second time." (3:1) Thank God ...

662. How to Turn the Ballot into a Blessing Box

Proverbs 29:2

Sermon

James Merritt

... , Theodore Roosevelt, who was at the time the Governor of the State of New York, made this observation: We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure….unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity….No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others can possibly do his duty by the community….‘liar' is just as ugly a word as ‘thief' because it implies the presence of ...

663. Nothing but the Blood

1 John 1:7

Sermon

James Merritt

... filth, but you cannot have both. I was reading about how a sailor is designated at night as the Officer of the Deck. That means he has the watch late at night. He would have to stay awake for a designated period of time, usually around four hours, and keep a watch out to insure there was nothing wrong with the ship. The Officer of the Deck usually would stand on the bridge where the ship is controlled and steered. At night no white lights are allowed on the bridge because they hinder the ability to look out ...

664. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... guy that when you knock him down he gets up; you knock him down and he gets up; you knock him down again and he just keeps getting up." The man said, "Now that's the guy we want, right coach?" The coach said, "No, we don't want him either. What I ... said, "Go get him tiger, he hasn't laid a hand on you!" the fighter looked at the manager and said, "Then I want you to keep your eye on that referee because somebody is beating the daylights out of me!" But we also need to avoid the other extreme of being ...

665. Hazardous to Your Wealth: Myths about Money

Malachi 3:7-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... decide whether or not you are going to begin tithing, if you're not tithing already. (1) Do you trust the person of God that He will keep His word? (2) Do you trust the power of God to meet every financial need that you have? (3) Do you trust the promise of God to ... you focus on making it, you're materialistic. If you try to, but don't make any, you're a loser. If you make a lot and keep it, you're a miser. If you make it and spend it, you're a spendthrift. If you don't care about making any, you're ...

666. Your Word is Your Bond

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... United States. In fact, they call that "taking the oath of office." Everyday people go to a courtroom and take the witness stand and "swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God." That is an oath. Now an oath does not keep you from perjury, but it makes you liable if you commit perjury. But that is not the type of oath that Jesus is dealing with here. The Pharisees felt that an oath taken to God had to be kept. In other words, if you swore something was true by God ...

667. Repeat After Me

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... , I was not referring to him, I was referring to me." The pastor said, "What do you mean?" The judge said, "That burglar knew how much he needed Christ to save him from his sins. But look at me. I was taught from childhood to live as a gentleman, to keep my word, to say my prayers, to go to church. I went through Oxford, took my degrees, was called to the Bar, and eventually became a judge. Pastor, nothing but the grace of God could have caused me to admit that I was a sinner on a level with that ...

668. Why You Should Study the Bible

Psalm 119:105

Sermon

James Merritt

... well educated, and he who is not acquainted with the Bible is an ignorant man regardless of what knowledge he may possess.” Furthermore, we are told in v.100 that the Bible gives more insight than experience. “I understand more than the ancients, because I keep Your precepts." Have you ever heard the old saying, “Experience is the best teacher?” Well, that really isn’t true. The word of God is the best teacher. The psalmist here says that someone who knows the word of God may be young, and yet ...

669. Abraham and Sarah: Backing Into the Future

Hebrews 11:1-3; 8-11

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... Miss Sarah's 70." "What's the word from the rabbit? Any sign of a pregnancy yet?" "No, but you see we're trusting God, and God keeps his promises." Come back 15 years later and ask Abe what he believes, and he would still say, "See these hills? One of these days, these ... past, so the most sensible thing in the world is to place our hand in his and move out in faith. And it's the fool who keeps his hand out of the hand of God and tries to walk it by himself." Our Lord Jesus Christ knows the end as well as the ...

670. A Circle for Dorothy

Ephesians 2:11-22, Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... enough so I never get lost again. Because I can get lost, you know. I can wander off into who knows what without the guiding, restraining influence of the circle. I need the sustaining circle of God's people to surround me in grace and hold me in love and keep me on the right track. Hymn writer Robinson knew what he was talking about when he said: O to grace how great a debtor daily I'm constrained to be; Let thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it ...

671. The Twenty-Ninth Chapter of Acts

2 Timothy 4:1-22

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... new members, we remind ourselves of the commitment "to support the church with our prayers, presence, gifts and service". It's not an option, but an obligation. Preach the word. Be urgent in season and out of season. Do the work of an evangelist. 2. And Paul reminds him to keep the faith. I can't tell you how many times I have quoted St. Paul's epitaph over the graves of saints in the life of the church. It is Paul's last word, the final summary of his life and work: "I have fought the good fight, I have ...

672. The Ride of Your Life

1 Peter 1:17-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... stay in one place. 3. The roller coaster. One minute we're high (with life, with work, with God). The next minute we're plunged down low. One minute we're "on top of the world." The next minute we're on skid row. Our body says it can't keep up, but we ignore it. We don't like routines they are too dull and deadly. Gamblers by nature, we love the fast track we say we like pressure. Do we like the ulcers, migraines and high blood pressure as well? 4. The uncontrollable escalator. Despite success, we can't ...

673. What about Laws and Rules?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... is the fundamental conviction that life is sacred. It is a gift. The Giver has loaned it to us. Our stewardship of it is determined by the Giver’s will. There are relationships beyond the home. The same honor we give to parents and the same covenant we keep with those in the family extends to the larger community. We honor our neighbors by speaking the truth about them, not by slandering them. We honor our neighbors by not stealing from them. We are not even to want what is theirs. We are to be content ...

674. Any Given Sunday

Acts 2:41-47

Sermon

James Merritt

... , you should be enthusiastic. Unbelievers should see joy in our worship. They should see how hungry we are for God's truth. They should see how much we enjoy being with each other. I am convinced if someone from the community gets in to the crowd and keeps coming back to a spirit-filled worship service, week after week after week, it will just be a matter of time until that person receives Christ. There is a precious couple that is very dear to me that was in the community. About four months ago, they began ...

675. We Are At War

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... guy that when you knock him down he gets up; you knock him down and he gets up; you knock him down again and he just keeps getting up." The man said, "Now that's the guy we want, right coach?" The coach said, "No, we don't want him either. What I ... said, "Go get him tiger, he hasn't laid a hand on you!" The fighter looked at the manager and said, "Then I want you to keep your eye on that referee because somebody is beating the daylights out of me!" But we also need to avoid the other extreme of being ...

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651. How High Is Your Faith Quotient?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

652. Go Meditate!

Revelation 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

653. The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

654. The Smell of Fear

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

655. Take On Something for Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

656. What More Can He Give?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

James McCormick

657. Cook Food. Serve Love.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

658. Freedom Faith Brings

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

659. The Door Is Always Open

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James Merritt

660. Saving Private Ryan

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

661. A Man on the Run

Jonah 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

662. How to Turn the Ballot into a Blessing Box

Proverbs 29:2

Sermon

James Merritt

663. Nothing but the Blood

1 John 1:7

Sermon

James Merritt

664. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

665. Hazardous to Your Wealth: Myths about Money

Malachi 3:7-12

Sermon

James Merritt

666. Your Word is Your Bond

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

James Merritt

667. Repeat After Me

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

668. Why You Should Study the Bible

Psalm 119:105

Sermon

James Merritt

669. Abraham and Sarah: Backing Into the Future

Hebrews 11:1-3; 8-11

Sermon

John E. Harnish

670. A Circle for Dorothy

Ephesians 2:11-22, Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

John E. Harnish

671. The Twenty-Ninth Chapter of Acts

2 Timothy 4:1-22

Sermon

John E. Harnish

672. The Ride of Your Life

1 Peter 1:17-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

673. What about Laws and Rules?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Mike Ripski

674. Any Given Sunday

Acts 2:41-47

Sermon

James Merritt

675. We Are At War

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... guy that when you knock him down he gets up; you knock him down and he gets up; you knock him down again and he just keeps getting up." The man said, "Now that's the guy we want, right coach?" The coach said, "No, we don't want him either. What I ... said, "Go get him tiger, he hasn't laid a hand on you!" The fighter looked at the manager and said, "Then I want you to keep your eye on that referee because somebody is beating the daylights out of me!" But we also need to avoid the other extreme of being ...

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