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51. A Faith to Move Mountains

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... the first man that the sight was amazing. The first man agreed and they sat there for a few minutes in rapturous wonder. “This is happening because the sun is low,” said the second man, “and so the light has to make its way through more atmosphere. As it does, it refracts into colors, kind of like a rainbow.” The first man was annoyed by the second man’s explanation. “Actually,” he said, “It’s not really refraction. The water droplets in the air act like prisms, and this is what causes the ...

52. An Announcement from Our Lord

Isaiah 61:1-11

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King Duncan

... do, quite obviously, with the Kingdom of God that Christ was introducing, a time when God would reign in every heart. But it also suggested the concept of grace that Christ made available to humankind. Humanity’s whole relationship was moving from an atmosphere of fear to an atmosphere of love. As we noted, Christ’s words came from our lesson for the day from Isaiah 61. But, it’s interesting, he didn’t complete Isaiah’s thought. Listen as I read from Isaiah and see if you hear something that Jesus ...

53. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... geology. This is the word that John uses. We live in a world that is polluted. It is polluted physically and it is polluted spiritually. A perfect God lives in a perfect world and a perfect God wants His people living in a perfect world. Everything around us – the atmosphere, the planets, even our own resurrected bodies are going to be upgraded beyond what you and I can imagine. A couple of years ago a man in our church made it possible for me to go to Scotland on a 10 day trip to play golf. One of the ...

54. Solomon Asks for Wisdom

1 Kings 3:1-15

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... worship of the LORD. Yet we are bound to ask: what kind of “love” is this, that does not issue in the keeping of the Law? Certainly not a love that involves all of Solomon’s heart and soul and strength (Deut. 6:4). As in 3:1–2, the atmosphere is rather that of divided loyalties. And in a way the choice of the word love (ʾhḇ) itself reflects that—at least within the context of the book of Kings. It is certainly a word that has been carefully chosen; Solomon is the only king in Kings, in fact ...

55. “As the Deer Pants for Streams of Water, So My Soul Pants for You, My God”

Psalm 42:1-11, Psalm 43:1-5

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... from complaint to confidence, a movement powered by faith and guided by hope. His circumstances, foreign to his former way of life (42:4), have been exacerbated by the mockery of his compatriots, enhancing the agony of his soul. Yet he cannot permit the scornful atmosphere of the alien circumstances to triumph over the power of faith that someday, not merely in memory but in reality, he will return to the sanctuary and experience the intimate presence of God (42:5, 11; 43:5). It is so easy for circumstances ...

56. The Image of Gold and the Fiery Furnace

Daniel 3:1-30

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... his behavior in 2:12—perhaps speaking to his sense of insecurity—and contrasts with Darius’s concerns for Daniel in 6:14–19. The use of the Judeans’ Babylonian names without their significant Hebrew counterparts (cf. 1:6–7, 11, 19; 2:17) creates an atmosphere of isolation from their heritage, making them appear more vulnerable in this crisis.5 3:14 Is it true . . . that you do not serve my gods or worship the image . . . ? The Hebrew term for “worship” (s e gid) is also used in 2:46, where ...

57. Widows and Their Worries: Back to Bethlehem

Ruth 1:1-22

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... future, not to mention the painful effects for Ruth and Orpah. The deaths of Mahlon and Kilion signal death for the continuation of the family name and inheritance, essentially a loss of a home and identity. Thus a heavy and mournful atmosphere obtains at the outset, due to famine and three deaths. Furthermore, the likely cause of famine (national disobedience), the move to Moab (perhaps a display of fear not faith), and the marriages to Moabite women (relationships not sanctioned by Israelite law) create ...

58. What Do You Bring to the Table?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Tom Garrison

... Though we do not like to talk about it or to focus our attention on it, by day and by night we live in an atmosphere that is seasoned with guilt. Paul Tournier, Swiss physician, author, and pastoral counselor, tells about a pathetic man who was so burdened by his ... to feel that their ideas are out of date and their continued presence a burden. There are all kinds of anger in the atmosphere today, and in all honesty, this is part of what is brought with people that enter sanctuaries all over the world. Then ...

59. Chaos and Solitude

Mark 6:30-44, 53-56

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... people who were looking for an authentic relationship with God came to him. The people who wanted to hear the truth about life came to him. Jesus was a man people flocked to like tiny pieces of metal attracted by a magnet. That caused a mob atmosphere much of the time. That caused chaos. Nobody could protect Jesus from the crowds. Everyone wanted a piece of him. The poor and downtrodden wanted him to help them. The sick and suffering wanted healing from him. The lonely wanted fellowship with him. That made ...

60. Getting Rid of the Rodent

Matthew 6:25-34

Illustration

Clovis G. Chappell

... on the ground and under the ground. Therefore the pilot began to climb. He went up a thousand feet, then another thousand and another until he was more than twenty thousand feet up. The gnawing ceased. The rat was dead. He could not survive in the atmosphere of those heights. More than two hours later the pilot brought the plane safely to the next landing field and found the dead rat. Brothers and sisters in Christ, worry is a rodent. It cannot live in the secret place of the Most High. It cannot breathe ...

Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.

Virginia Satir

62. Spirit Signs

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to the issues he needed them to see. And yet, they couldn’t or wouldn’t. They couldn’t see the problems. And they certainly couldn’t see God’s coming intervention that would serve to tear them literally apart. Today, we live in a charged cultural atmosphere not that unlike the one Jesus was describing in first century Israel. Not just our country, but our world is divided, and those divisions are continuing to tear through any hope for unity we may have had in the last 50 years. Not only do we not ...

63. The Flow

John 7:37-39 · 1 Corinthians 12:3-13 · Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... known as the aurora borealis. The beautiful colors of the aurora are actually moving waves of light, energized particles from the sun that have bombarded earth’s atmosphere at approximately 44 million miles per hour. When they hit our magnetic field, they are pulled toward the poles and depending on the gases in the atmosphere, they form colorful, wavy lights that shimmer and shine. Strangely and ironically, this beautiful phenomenon is caused by violent solar storms or “solar wind” as some call ...

64. We Need Another Miracle

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and my sweetie’s prayer urging God to kill the perpetrators. This was a generation ago. The truth is we have the ability to fix things. Back in the 1970s we got the word that there was a hole that had developed in the ozone layer of our atmosphere and it was caused by, of all things, the chlorofluorocarbons in our hairspray and our refrigeration systems. We learned of the problem and we fixed it. A miracle? Perhaps. But the truth is we have the smarts to do that sort of thing, to make miracles happen. As ...

65. The View from Cloud Nine

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... accumulations. When they saturate to the maximum of what they can hold, gravity causes the liquid to fall in the form of rain, ice, or snow, depending upon the temperature and conditions.Fog and clouds are made of the same water-logged atmospheric “stuff.”Clouds are simply elevated fog![1] But whether fog or clouds, the manifestation of this state of weather taps into our metaphorical imagination, infusing us with a sense of fascination, mystery, and a sense of the supernatural. Watch a suspense movie ...

66. One Bride For Seven Brothers

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... priests, the scribes, and the leaders of the people kept looking for a way to kill him; but they did not find anything they could do, for all the people were spellbound by what they heard" (Luke 19:47-48). In such an atmosphere, conflict is inevitable. There is attack and counterattack. The representatives of the establishment question Jesus' authority to rearrange the furniture of the Temple or to teach in its confines. He counters with a question they cannot answer and a story which makes them extremely ...

67. Bearing The Cross

Luke 14:25-35

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... other problem was that she just didn't like some of the doctors with whom she worked. They were just not nice people she thought. Friction was in the air at the clinic all the time because of the personalities that worked there. It was not a good work atmosphere. She hated to go to work each day. The whole situation was just awful. The situation got so bad, in fact, that Dr. McDermott just had to talk to somebody about it. At her church she had met and made friends with another woman about her age, Doris ...

68. Which Way To Jesus?

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

Great commotion was created in the holy city of Jerusalem at the time of the Feast of the Passover. On that occasion worshippers came from all over the Mediterranean world to fulfill their obligations at the Temple. A carnival atmosphere filled the precincts of the Temple with the commercial traffic that was created with the sale of animals for sacrifice and the exchange of foreign currency. Today the Holy Gospel takes us to the city during the festival. We are not in the court of the Temple but somewhere ...

69. The Fear Of Taking The Plunge

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Richard Patt

... bordered on paranoia. Frankly they appeared scared to death for this man and his wife. In her book called Dakota, Kathleen Norris, a best-selling writer and poet, tells how she and her husband, also a writer, moved away from the heady literary atmosphere and advantages of New York City to one of the most remote towns in America, Lemmon, South Dakota. She relates how most of her friends were shocked by their contemplated move. The prospects for even reasonable survival as thinking persons seemed as remote ...

70. Peace And The Peacemakers

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

Richard Patt

... ; very few are peacemakers. The peacemaker is willing to do one of two things, and both are painful: to live with the uprooting that making authentic peace often requires, or to subjugate willingly one's own retaliatory instincts in order to establish an atmosphere where productive negotiating can emerge. There will, for instance, be no authentic spiritual peace in a person's heart until sin is dealt with. Sin must be uprooted and cast out. Christ bore that upheaval (and pain!). He gives us the grace to ...

71. Keep Things Flowing

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Patt

... of life that cleanses, enriches and makes things new. The leaves of autumn will gradually flow into the soil of a future springtime. We are learning that unless our throwaway society begins to effectively recycle what it discards, we will clog the flow of our waters and atmosphere until we're literally choked to death. You and I don't have to be financially rich people to apply the force of what Jesus is saying in this story. There are many levels and dimensions of life at which you and I have been greatly ...

72. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... success with a large compensation in salary and bonuses, Coale said the happiest day of his life was when he left G.M. When asked if he would do it again, he answered no. Why this bitterness from one who had reached the rarefied atmosphere of the pyramid-top Camelot? "It's no fun anymore," said Coale. "Governmental regulations are immense and burdensome. There's an awful lot of enterprise in America," said Coale. "But because of governmental intervention, very little of it is free enterprise." If Coale was ...

73. Love And Resurrection

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... hearts. You see, only one who loves understands the resurrection. But you still want to understand the resurrection. You want to know what happened on that first Easter. Theories abound. Let me suggest a few. 1. Jesus fainted on the cross. The cool, damp atmosphere of the tomb revived him, so he simply escaped. 2. The disciples broke in and stole the body to prove that Jesus was the Messiah. 3. The Jewish leaders had the body removed from the tomb to show everyone that Christians were crazy and therefore ...

74. The Results Of Resurrection

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... II. A Result Of The Resurrection Is The Giving Of Peace To The Frightened. No word could have better been spoken to that frightened group of disciples than, Peace be with you. Huddled in a room behind closed doors sat the disciples. Fright was the prevailing atmosphere in that room. At any moment the Roman soldiers might come to take them to court. Already one betrayer had been found in their group. They all wondered about each other, hoping that no other betrayer would give them away. Any knock at the door ...

75. Bowing Before The Mystery

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... at several hundred cps -- that's characters per second for you who are unlettered in the marvelous ways of the modern world. Sometime back we sent two tons of metal and plastic to the farthest reaches of the solar system, penetrating the mystery of Pluto's atmosphere and Uranus' tiniest moons, but we have not learned how to love each other more. We will soon begin the construction of a work station in space, and we continue to pursue the deployment of a giant star wars shield, but we will not have learned ...

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