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676. Through the Lens of God

John 4:5-42

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... abundance. Lent is a time when we seek to be transformed and to be renewed. Jesus provides the perfect example and today's celebration is the ideal environment to enter fully into this process. Let us, therefore, be renewed by breaking down the barriers of hostility, hatred, prejudice, and exclusivity. Let us build bridges of friendship, love, peace, and justice. Let us do what we can to build God's kingdom in our world this day. If we can, our reward in heaven will be great. 1. Paraphrased from "Maum Jean ...

677. Pentecost! Slow ... and Sure!

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... to is the word "Shalom." Christ could have said "Love be with you!" or "Faith" or "Prosperity" or "The Holy Spirit" be with you. But, of all things, Jesus says, "Peace be with you ... Shalom be with you." Now, "Shalom" means more than a cessation of hostilities. It also means the presence of everything required for your full development as a human being. For example, take a greenhouse. Inside a hothouse is the absence of all things which might harm a plant. There is no frost, no drought, no disease, no busy ...

678. In Our Pastor's Success, So Is Our Own!

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... -skinned, or those without endurance. It is a tough occupation! And it's getting tougher! I love the cartoon that shows a man saying, "I don't get America's fascination with the television show 'Survivor.' I've occupied an island of strenuous and dangerous activities with hostile cohorts with a chance of getting voted out. I've been a pastor for thirty years!" It used to be, people came in the door of the church over here, and for a small amount of energy, you could grow them in Christ to the farthest side ...

679. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... and worshiped as one. As an adult, Jesus continued to draw all humanity unto himself - rich Lazarus, a poor widow of Nain, harlots, Pharisees, soldiers, scholars, priests, and businessmen. It is written of Jesus in Ephesians, "He has broken down the dividing walls of hostility and made us both one." Galatians announces, "In Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek, male nor female, but one new man in Christ." Indeed, no one has done more to unite the infirm, the orphan, the student, the poor, the rich, and the ...

680. How to Love God

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... ours because Paul loved God with his brain. Today, the Christian church is struggling with a mood of anti-intellectualism. Some people say the mind is of little importance in loving God. Scholarship is belittled. Seminaries are considered dens of liberalism. The mind is seen as hostile to the faith. Yet God gave us minds as surely as he gave us our emotions, and Jesus told us to use our brains. He said, "Seek, ask, and knock." Great rewards can come from loving God enough to study. When we give our minds to ...

681. The Spirit of...Winter?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , "isn't this kind of giving the real spirit of . . . of . . . of . . . winter." Too late he realized he was about to say the "C" word and hastily substituted the lame sounding "winter." The spirit of winter, huh? Winter is cold, dark, harsh, bleak, and hostile. Before central heating and food storage, winter was a time to hunker down and try simply to survive. In the animal kingdom it's the hardships of winter that cull out the weak, the old and the sick from the population. Charity, compassion, self-less ...

682. Show Me Your Passport

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the world there are hate-filled forces that keep their eyes out for that little e blue book. As the numbers of slain US civilian contractors and workers in Iraq testifies, in many places our citizenship marks us as targets, instead of offering us a shield against hostile enemies. A US passport now is a bulls-eye target. It clearly identifies its possessor as a member of a way of life, a system of government, a code of conduct, that jihadists and other terrorists seek to wipe off the face of the earth. One ...

683. A Talent for Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... structure we call the human body has its limitations. Without breathing apparatus we can't journey under water. In fact, if we go deep enough, our fragile lungs need the pressurized protection of a ship's hull. The deep sea environment is hostile to our human physiology. Likewise anytime human beings try to go HIGHER in altitude than that for which our bodies were designed, technological assistance is required. Scientists studying the upper arboreal region of the rainforests get about on a system of pulleys ...

684. Cross Purposes

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . When crossing from the Mexican border into the heat-blasted desert of southern Arizona, the dangerous, bubbled-tar roadway has been dubbed the Devil's Highway. Boundary lines are where those on either side glare and glower at each other, throwing hostility and mistrust across the divide. Boundaries create a no-man's-land that divides the healthy from the sick; the "acceptable" from the "unacceptable"; the successful from the failures; the loved from the unloved. Going back and forth across those boundary ...

685. The Seven Deadly Fears

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to every possible shift in the circumstances surrounding us. We're control addicts, control junkies. 3. Fear of Newfangledness. Instead of welcoming advances in science and technology as promising benefactions and betterments, these discoveries are viewed with hostility, with closed-mouth, closed-minded negativity. Any new technology is suspicious. Any technology or science that has existed for more than a century is viewed without criticism, without debate. 4. Fear of Oldfogeyness. Instead of openness to ...

686. Low Carb Christianity

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... loyalty was fractured between family and faith could never hope to bear the burden of the cross each one of us must carry. Jesus knew that just as he would be rejected, abused, and killed by the world, that his disciples would also face extreme hostility and hatred. But if disciples could hate, that is reject, the earthly ties that bound them to human allegiances and loyalties first and foremost, then they could focus their faith and draw their strength from God's power, God's love, God's kingdom. Jesus ...

687. God's Original Seatbelt (Mother's Day)

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of a new celebration in 1868 called Mother's Friendship Day. The plot was simple: each member of the club would bring her entire family, and mix that family throughout the crowd. This way there could be no splitting of the community into hostile camps. On the appointed day a huge crowd gathered. What everyone feared most started to happen: armed Blues and armed Grays occupied opposite corners and glared at one another. The authorities decided to disband the crowd and cancel the event, but Mrs. Jarvis ...

688. Jedi Christians

Matthew 14:22-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... spouse. It's another thing altogether to accept being on-call for 24 hours over Christmas Eve/Day; it's another thing studying for and taking the bar exam three or four times; it's another thing facing a roomful of bored, destructive, mistrustful, even hostile teenagers; it's another thing picking up after and putting up with all the annoying, unappealing habits that come along with your beloved. Believing can give you dreams. Following can give you blisters. Or as Peter finds out in today's gospel text wet ...

689. Others

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... at towels and then offering three different routes through china, crystal, and toys, as you continue to seek out your department. When dragging along – or frantically running after your child, this forced circuitous path becomes like an excursion through a hostile jungle. First, there is the terrifying lure of all those forbidden fruits – the delicately balanced stacks of wine glasses, the orderly parade of shoes and boots, the conveniently child-height displays of stuffed animal and toys. But the most ...

690. Are You Turned On to Christ?

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... leaves us financially reeling, physically careening, and frantically searching for some new auxiliary switch. In today's epistle text 1 Peter acknowledges that there will be times in the lives of all Christians when they will experience trials. The reality of a hostile world was never far from that writer's mind. But despite setbacks, persecutions, times when the lights of success seem to grow increasingly dim, 1 Peter proclaims that for those live resurrection it is always time to rejoice. Filled with the ...

691. The Christian's Wild Card

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and trust and reverence on our shameful, pitiable, compromising, knee-jerk . . . dem dry KNEE bones. Now hear the Word of the Lord: God's Back. Because Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life, he puts the flesh of harmony and peace and self-control on our hostile, angry, violent . . . dem dry THIGH bones. Now hear the Word of the Lord: God's Back. Because Jesus is the Resurrection and the Life, he puts the flesh of modesty and decency on our sexy, bawdy, swinging . . . dem dry HIP bones. Now hear the Word of ...

692. The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... vines. We played cowboys, knights, and Tarzan. We marveled at God's creation, and soaked up the beautiful scenes created by the world's greatest artist. What fun we had in the woods. But there was a dark side to the woods. They could be hostile and unforgiving. Thickets of briars. Acres of poison ivy. Ticks. Chiggers. And worse, snakes! We fell out of trees. We had sudden encounters with older, antagonistic kids we didn't know. Once we stumbled on a swarm of bees and paid a painful price. While prancing ...

693. Easter 5

John 14:5-14, John 14:1-4, 1 Peter 2:4-12, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Psalm 31:1-24

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