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676. The Catch

John 21:1-14, John 21:15-25, Acts 10:1-8, Acts 10:9-23a, Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... was about choosing tilapia over trout or herring. Jesus is using a metaphor, a powerful one, that Peter can understand, to help him see what it means to “feed my sheep!” ALL my sheep! From there, Peter goes to see Cornelius, and his vision, his outlook, his view on things has changed. It’s hard to change those deeply embedded biases. Isn’t it? We all have them. We’ve all been brought up in ways of thinking and acting that become challenged by the world in which we now live. Some of us were raised ...

677. Seeking Joy

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... ago, Ken’s team lost in the final round of a national Paddle Tennis tournament. Ken was determined to learn from this disappointment. So he decided to go up into the stands and watch the winning team play a few rounds. Ken got an entirely different view of the game and of his opponents when he saw them play from up in the stands. From up there, he could see the Big Picture. He recognized the other teams’ techniques, their strategy, their weaknesses. As Ken sat there and soaked up a whole new perspective ...

678. Dealing with Grief

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... s why we’ve got to talk about it. That’s why we’ve got to figure this out. Because at some point in your life, you will be grieving a loss so painful that it will change the course of your life, and you need to be able to view it from God’s perspective. Because there are people in the pews around you, and people outside these doors, who have no idea that God has promised us eternal life through His Son, Jesus Christ. Promised us. Guaranteed it by the sacrificial death of himself on the cross. Death ...

679. The Gospel We Preach

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... Whether or not Calvin ever actually wrote the hymn, and whether or not he was a blood-thirsty reformer who eagerly sought the death of Servetus, we may never know. But this we do know. The words of the hymn attributed to him lift before us a gracious view of God that should guide and govern our beliefs, especially when we are tempted to forget them: Thou hast the true and perfect gentleness, No harshness hast thou and no bitterness: O grant to us the grace we find in thee, That we may dwell in perfect unity ...

680. Together In One Place

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... yet at, the temple. They had come together in some other place, a house — maybe for a meal, maybe just to chat, or maybe to bathe in that experience of being together with people who have the same experiences, the same outlook, the same point of view. We have all had that experience, haven’t we? We seem to know, instinctively, that while there’s nothing wrong with being alone, being together is better. Perhaps you have received good news while you were alone and you just had to call someone to share ...

681. Uncontainable Faith

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Don’t drown in your sorrows. Don’t procrastinate. Get to it. Just get it done.” These are all kinds of meanings that the original phrase suggests. As culture changes, language changes, and this phrase is a good example of a move in our culture from a positive view of taking risks to a negative view of taking risks….and back again. While our grandparents or even our parents may have warned us to be more cautious because “curiosity killed the cat,” today’s culture has returned to a more healthy ...

682. Yes, You Can Work Yourself to Death

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... your life, pray that God will show you that reason. That’s what I mean when I say that we need to catch God’s vision for our life. Pastor Mike Slaughter once noted that people have a tendency to view life through either a microscopic lens or a telescopic lens. If you view life through a microscopic lens, then you’re focusing on your current circumstances, your current challenges, your current stresses. You’re focused on the details of the now. And that can get pretty overwhelming. But people who ...

683. You Will Always Have The Poor With You…

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... said, “We don’t agree with it.” My puzzled look deepened. “Then you have read this?” The response was quick. “No! He is a conservative! We don’t agree with him so we won’t read this book!” Friends, we must learn to experience points of view beyond our own if we are to keep our eye upon the Christ who calls us, not to division, but into relationship with one another. The temptation to sequester ourselves in the cloistered room of our own opinions turns us into that Judas who jumped on Mary ...

684. Life Between the Times

Revelation 22:7-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... with Jesus and his past. That means that like we heard Karl Barth say at the beginning of this sermon, all time belongs to Jesus. With a lifestyle like that you are never alone, always with Jesus and his heritage as well as with his future in view. When you see yourself as living between the times (the time between Jesus on earth and his second coming), then all history, and so your whole life has been surrounded by Jesus and his love for you. With the present, future, and past all held together, Christians ...

685. Stay Awake

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... it. The second lesson we learn from Jesus’ daily life is that he paid attention to the needs right in front of him. This is another key aspect of living in hopeful expectation of Jesus’ return. Jesus paid attention to the needs right in front of him. He viewed every moment of life as an opportunity from God to use his resources and influence to change people’s lives. This was Jesus’ nature and his calling. How can we make it our nature and calling? That goes back to praying in such a way that we ...

686. The Challenge Of Simplicity

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John Jamison

... to be. They approach you as a friend and watch for ways to attack you. They speak of justice and love and then pounce on you when you slip- up. They talk about God’s love, and then angrily attack you when you disagree with their views. Some people are always planning and plotting. Everything they do is a step to position themselves for some next step on their list. They may truly care about someone or something, but there are reasons. They may have hearts of compassion, but that compassion is there ...

687. A Good Name

Proverbs 22:1-2, 8-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... in college, I was told that your ethics isn't much good unless you think about it, unless you learn (preferably in college ethics classes) to rationally, intelligently think through each situation and then to decide and act. But that, I have come to feel, is a much too limited view of ethics. We don't live like that. Most of us live, not by abstract thought, but by habit. Most of us don't steal out of habit. Most of you have not had to agonize over whether or not to steal the wallet from the person who sits ...

688.

Psalm 82:1-8

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... parallel to Psalm 82, where the gods are on trial, lies in the trial speeches against the nations in Isaiah, especially 41:21–29. Here, in a courtroom setting, Yahweh challenges the gods of the nations to present evidence that they are gods, and in view of their apparent silence he declares, “See, they are all false!” Another indication that the ʾelohîm of Psalm 82 are not Israelite judges is that verses 5b and 8b give it an international, and even cosmic perspective, not one confined to the land of ...

689. “I Will Sing the Lord’s Praise, for He Has Been Good to Me”

Psalm 13:1-6

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... of the loving countenance of the God of love, and earnestly desires that this loving countenance may once more be unveiled to it.”13 Of course, this face of God can be observed only by the eye of faith. Sometimes our piety obstructs rather than clarifies our view of God. That is not a censure of piety but an acknowledgment that, though it is the believer’s Godward motion, it is still earthbound. In its latter quality it tends to censure us when we ask the hard questions of God (“How can one be so ...

690. Family Ties And Unties

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

David Coffin

... sinner at the same time. The story in Mark 3 continues with Jesus’ identifying his true family. They are also a part of the kingdom of God. In our modern times, quite often people of faith are at odds with one another based on their particular view of sacred scriptures and how they apply to daily life. Our lives are already framed with a background or worldview that has shaped us. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were many popular movies about how getting into college and obtaining the goal as the leading ...

691. Loving Against the Grain

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... much easier to exclude than to include, much easier to fear than to love. Loving is hard. That’s what makes it all the more valuable when we receive it. But it’s one thing to be unloving and another to “demonize” those who disagree with our own point of view. We seldom demonize those close to us. It can be hard for us to hate those we are in a relationship with. However, those we are not in a relationship with –well, it’s fairly easy to move them in our minds from people like us, to people like ...

692. New Life Goes On

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David Coffin

... She immediately (use of that euthos word again) got up and walked. All were overcome with amazement. New life for this girl was similar to that of Lazarus in John 11. In John’s gospel for Jesus to have such a power over life and death was viewed as a threat to the Judean authorities. In Mark, people were amazed. The girl was given a meal to eat and Jesus ordered strict secrecy of this miracle. We already see a glimpse of resurrection teachings here in Mark’s gospel. Scholars have often pointed to the ...

693. The Case of the Hardened Heart

John 6:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... science contains elements of bias. This is part of our human condition. It’s the way our brains process not only information but ourselves and our relationship to our reality. We all operate out of a kind of root identity or worldview. This view contributes to what we are willing or not willing to believe.[1] Psychologists call this “motivated reasoning.” Our brains “tip” toward accepting something as true if we want to believe it. Jesus was well aware of this human condition. How many times has ...

694. The Art of Reflection

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... movement. Things changed, because they had changed. Today still, Jesus calls us as disciples and followers to reflect upon our blessings, to allow him to heal the fractured ways in which we have been looking at ourselves or in which we have allowed others to view us, and instead to allow him to heal the eyes of our hearts –so that no matter our background, our mistakes, our economic situation, our burdens, hurts, and difficult experiences –that we can remember who we are. Each one of us is a beautiful ...

695. On Not Meeting People's Needs at Church

Mark 6:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... its cue from business and be more “consumer oriented.” Pastors are enjoined to create “user friendly” worship, worship in which people have their needs met. Churches should devise their programs after they have first defined folk's “felt needs.” In this view, worship is a product that congregations offer for consumption, with the primary concern being how to attract and satisfy more customers (or how to keep the ones you've got). The supermarket doesn't tell you that you should prefer Romaine ...

696. Return To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... . They experience tremendous warmth and love and grace in the presence of this light. As a part of that experience, they see a very rapid and very vivid pictorial review of their life. They describe the experience as creating the feeling of shame within them as they view the events of their life in the presence of the light of warmth and grace. Picture yourself sitting right next to Jesus. As you sit beside Jesus, the two of you watch a detailed movie of your life. You must sit there while Jesus watches a ...

697. Witnesses For The Lord

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... to Joseph, "Your father gave this command before he died, 'Say to Joseph, Forgive, I pray you, the transgression of your brothers and their sin, because they did evil to you' " (Genesis 50:16-17). Joseph's words presented a sharp contrast between the view of those who seek to serve self and the view of those who seek to be faithful to the will of God. He put into perspective the whole sordid mess of their past together by saying, "As for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, to bring it ...

698. Whom Shall We Obey?

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... faithfully carry Christ's message into the community, we risk confrontation with those who would oppose it. Choice The second experience is one of choice. When we experience the confrontation between the views of this world and the teachings of Christ we seek to promote, we are faced with a choice. We cannot be true to both. The views are in direct conflict. Even if we try to take a position that would appease both we will experience the tension from within. Eventually we will see our need to make a choice ...

699. Take Up Your Cross

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... of Massachusetts at Boston, has written a book titled, The Political Meaning of Christianity. While the author acknowledges that what he offers is an interpretation, he also believes that he represents a view that could be common to many Christians. He unabashedly confesses that he is beholden to a unique point of view. What he sees as different is that his stance is less optimistic than some Christian perspectives. This is not to say that the Christian operates without hope. However, the hope must be ...

700. No Box Seats In The Kingdom

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Fort Worth neighborhoods as a door-to-door salesman. A lot of people say he's a failure. Joel Gregory says otherwise. "For the first time in my life, at 46, I'm learning what it means to be a servant," he says. "It gives me a different view of Christ, and a different view of the real needs of human beings."5 Jesus said, "Are you able to drink my cup? Are you able to share my baptism? Are you able to walk with me, giving yourself to others in a life of service?" If we dare say yes, we must ...

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