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701. The Lost and Found Coin

Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... , he was also known as “Seville” because of his habit of stealing Cadillac Sevilles and then selling them quickly to produce “ready cash” to support his drug habit and his drug business. Seville, “the Doctor,” was a rough, tough, hard and hostile character and when he walked by, people backed away to give him plenty of space… but then something amazing happened that changed everything and turned his life completely around. An attractive young woman minister decided to do something no one else ...

702. The Lost and Found Coin

Luke 15:8-10

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Philadelphia, he was also known as "Seville" because of his habit of stealing Cadillac Sevilles and then selling them quickly to produce "ready cash" to support his drug habit and his drug business. Seville, "the Doctor," was a rough, tough, hard and hostile character and when he walked by, people backed away to give him plenty of space… but then something amazing happened that changed everything and turned his life completely around. An attractive young woman minister decided to do something no one else ...

703. The Lost and Found Son

Luke 15:11-24

Sermon

James W. Moore

... ’s problem. He didn’t want to answer to his father and notice this when you run away from the father you are also deserting your brother! Look next at… II. THE ELDER BROTHER Again, the descriptive adjectives fly: Resentful, judgmental, envious, jealous, hostile, bitter, angry, self-righteous… but again these are symptoms of something deeper! What is his sin?... simply the same as the Prodigal’s except turned around and more subtle – Even to he is a brother, he doesn’t want to be a Brother ...

704. Breathe on Me, Breath of God

Acts 2:1-4

Sermon

James W. Moore

... be problems in the world. Criminologists are discovering now that the vast majority of people who take up the life of crime, violence and drugs are those with low self-esteem. Healthy self-esteem creates happy people. Poor self-esteem creates hostile people. If you find people who are always negative, always complaining, always unhappy, always criticizing their co-workers, … you can be sure that they have a self-esteem problem. Their bitterness is within. They are unhappy with themselves. But, there is ...

705. Love One Another

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

James W. Moore

... program. She spoke to her mother in a cruel vicious tone. She called her mother “stupid,” “clueless,” “an old fool,” an “Idiot” and another profane name that I will not repeat from this polite pulpit. She was arrogant, haughty, rude, and hostile… the very opposite of what she had proclaimed so eloquently only moments before in the sanctuary. I felt so sad, so let down… because we want people to practice what they preach. The outcasts were drawn to Jesus because first, He brought them ...

706. Believe in Jesus

Acts 16:25-34

Sermon

James W. Moore

... want you on my side.” That moment turned it all around for Paul. The whole world didn’t stink anymore. Paul felt loved, accepted, wanted, needed and forgiven… and he became a new person. Saul, the Persecutor became Paul the Missionary. Saul, the man filled with Hostility became Paul the man who wrote the Love Chapter! Why? Because Jesus, the Risen Christ, had given him, “A Self He Could Live With”… and you know, Jesus can do that for you. He can give you “A Self You Can Live With.” II. GIFT ...

707. Parenting

2 Timothy 1:5

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Brett Blair

... of us had inscribed on the walls of our home the words of Dorothy Law Nolte's work, "Children Learn What They Live," and then kept this constantly before us in our daily activities. If a child lives with criticism, he learns to condemn. If a child lives with hostility, he learns to fight. If a child lives with ridicule, he learns to be shy. If a child lives with shame, he learns to feel guilty. If a child lives with fear, he learns to be apprehensive. If a child lives with pity, he learns to feel sorry for ...

708. Renouncing Everything

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Steven P. Loy

... life could be in the labor-camp system. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was permitted publication in 1962 as a result of the personal intervention of Nikita Khrushchev. In subsequent years, however, he was considered to be a dangerous and hostile critic of the soviet system. He was again arrested and imprisoned. He was accused of treason, stripped of his citizenship, and forcibly deported to the West. His deportation in 1974 allowed him to personally accept the Nobel Prize for Literature, which he ...

709. Matthew 10:24-39

Matthew 10:1-42

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... cut through the “life-as-usual” despair and brokenness that characterizes the human condition. The powers and principalities established on the world’s fractured foundation will fight to the death against the radical restructuring of existence that Jesus’ messiahship offers. Conflict, hostility, rejection, and even death will be the experience of those who confess the name of Jesus and continue his mission. The allusion to Micah 7:6 made in 10:21 is now made explicit in v.35. The family itself will ...

710. Cook Food. Serve Love.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ). When we open the door for a disciple, we open the door for God. As soon as that welcome is extended a new link in the chain of divine “sending” and “receiving” is forged. A new “disciple” is created every time hospitality overcomes hostility. By opening the door the householder begins his or her own participation in the work of the gospel. Cook food. Serve love. After the crucifixion, when two of Jesus’ disciples were walking from Jerusalem to the village of Emmaeus, they were joined by the ...

711. A Not So Simple Story of Demons and Pigs

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

... internally. A quiet businessman, reacting to a career's worth of slights and overlooked injustices, suddenly attacks his colleague with a verbal rage that catches everyone by surprise, including himself. His name is legion. A fed-up mother says to her teenage daughter: "How hostile and mean you are. Every word that comes out of your mouth is spiteful. How do they stand you at school?" To which her daughter replies: "It would probably surprise you to learn that I am quite a different person in school." Her ...

712. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... giving them much more of an advantage when they attack. That is why Satan's best and favorite tool is fear. That is also why God says in His word 365 times, once for every day in the year, "fear not." c. Be Steadfast Against The Devil's Hostility "Resist him, steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same sufferings are experienced by your brotherhood in the world." (v.9) Now the Bible does not guarantee that you will be spared from attack, but it does guarantee you can be spared from defeat. James 4:7 says ...

713. Try a Little Kindness (Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... in a society in which kindness is becoming an increasingly rare commodity. Not long ago, the front page cover story of U. S. A. Today began with this observation: A surly driver cuts into your lane. Your teen-ager brings home a CD with lewd hostile lyrics. A political candidate in a TV ad Morphs into a convicted murderer. A star baseball player spits at an umpire. A radio talk-show jockey insults the President while he's sitting right there…it is impossible to ignore the growing rudeness, even harshness ...

714. Why Were the Wise Men Wise?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... , better known as Babylon. That was a three hundred mile journey through a hot barren Syrian desert. Keep in mind, they probably came by camel; not by airplane, not by train, not by car. There were no restaurants, hotels, or rest stops. They had to face hostile tribes, they had to cross the swirling Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They had to fight the hot desert sun, serpents, vipers, gnats, and locusts just to get to Jesus. I think about today how we have to make everything just right for people to come to ...

715. How to Lower Your Temper (-ature)

Proverbs 16:32

Sermon

James Merritt

... killer in America is heart disease. But it would interest you to know further that the number one cause of heart disease is you guessed it anger. Dr. Redford Williams, Director of Duke University's Behavioral Medicine Research Center, has stated: "The hostility and anger associated with Type A behavior is the major contributor to heart disease in America."(5) People who have problems with anger are five times as likely to suffer coronary heart disease as the average person. People with heart disease more ...

716. Friends

Proverbs 27:6, 9, 17

Sermon

James Merritt

... cold, through good, through bad. There is a friend who "sticks" closer than a brother. Charles Colson tells the story of how soon after being released from prison, he was the guest speaker at George Washington University. He was speaking to a very hostile crowd there in Washington, DC. Questions were being thrown at him rapid-fire, and the crowd was becoming increasingly angry. One student stood up and referred to a vicious criticism that Henry Kissinger had leveled at Richard Nixon. Then he asked Chuck ...

717. What Is A Christian?

Acts 11:26

Sermon

James Merritt

... friend of mine in Africa who told of one missionary family who was robbed at gunpoint and had their car and all their belongings stolen just outside their home. Then e-mailed me about another missionary who was trying to get through a crowd of hostile people, and someone deliberately pushed a man in front of his car and he is now on trial for murder. Now that raises a question. Why do Christians suffer? The answer is very simple. Because every person is either for Christ or against Christ. You need ...

718. The Prosecutor Perry Mason Can't Beat

John 16:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Why? The answer is found in v.8, "And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." The word "convict" is a technical word in Greek lingual language. It can refer either to the cross examination of a hostile witness, or to a judge or jury that brings in a verdict of guilty. In fact, the word could be translated "pronounce a verdict." The Holy Spirit is God's public prosecutor who brings His case against the human race. Now there is a warning in order here ...

719. The Perfect Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... all the water that it needs. Therefore trees in the rain forest are poorly anchored and can be blown over by just a moderate wind. On the other hand, out in Texas there is a mesquite tree that is planted in a dry desert. It's threatened by a hostile environment. It has to face unbearable heat, tremendous winds, sometimes extreme cold, and it can only survive by sending its roots down 30 feet or more into the earth seeking water. But because it sinks its roots into the soil so it can stand against all of the ...

720. The Near Edge of God

Jn 1:1-3, 14

Sermon

... Note: I am indebted to Leonard Sweet's book The Jesus Prescription for a Healthy Life and Barbara Brown Taylor's essay "Preaching Into the Next Millennium," found in a collection of essays entitled Exilic Preaching: Testimony for Christian Exiles in an Increasingly Hostile Culture. In a post-sermon conversation with Bob Pierce, I learned that, as a result of the Hubble space telescope, astronomers now estimate the number of galaxies in the universe to be at least 50 billion (and, with some 200 billion stars ...

721. And the Angel Said to Harry Potter

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

... nick of time. But the bad guys merely retreat, rather than disappear. And every reader knows they will be back. For as evil goes, there will be more. This is so familiar. Children's literature is filled with stories of wicked stepmothers, bad parents, hostile siblings, dark forests, gigantic enemies….complete with lessons to learn, trials to overcome and courage to summon. By the time any child is 11 (and usually long before), he or she knows that the world is not always a safe place….and (sadly) that ...

722. Great Is Your Faith - Sermon Starter

Matthew 15:21-28

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Brett Blair

... , "He was a genius," then you are apt to take the remark more seriously. There was a character in the Gospel who Jesus once described with four immortal words: Great is your faith. She was a Canaanite woman who came from the country to the north of Palestine, a country hostile to the Jews. She was presumably married, she had at least one child; but that's all we know about her. We don't know whether she was a good woman or a bad woman. We don't know her name. All we know of her is that in this ...

723. Ministry By Faith: Does She or Doesn't She?

I Corinthians 16:14, James 2:14-26

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... many white folks, both north and south.) More than once, Tyson says, his daddy was confronted by angry parishioners who freely used a dreadful expletive to attack him. Tyson says: In response to the inevitable "n-lover" epithet, I recall hearing my father telling a hostile critic, "Yes, I guess you've got a point there, because I really do try to love everybody." He writes: Daddy was patient and rarely showed anger toward his adversaries. He held his ground like a sweet-gum stump, trying hard to live in a ...

724. Strong in Faith: A Little Dab'll Do Ya

1 Corinthians 16:13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... of the Christian faith. Not literally written by the apostles, it grew out of the early days of the church and has been in its present form since about the 14th century. It evolved during times of persecution and against the backdrop of pagan worship and hostile opponents. Those who dared to confess the faith were telling the world that they were willing to risk their lives for this faith. It was not just a statement of what we believe "about" God, it is a statement of what we believe "in." The creed ...

725. Unlikely Election

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... an openness to other religions. He was a lover of American democracy, but deeply committed to the common humanity of all the people of the world and the need for world peace and brotherhood. How we need his voice amid the religious tensions, the sectarian violence, the hostile rhetoric of our day. I've been collecting his writings (all of which are out of print), and a good friend found a copy of his book on Pentecost and the book of Acts, The Christ of Every Road, in a church rummage sale. I cherish it ...

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