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51. Mark 12:38-44

Mark 12:38-44

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... proceedings he is witnessing. The worth of a lepton, as Mark himself notes in the text, is minuscule, variously estimated as one-half a Roman quadran, one-eighth of a cent, one-four-hundredth of a shekel, one-one-hundred-twenty-eighth of a denarius, or ... one-seventh of a chalkous. Perhaps the best estimate of what the lepton represented for Jesus' day comes from its literal meaning "a tiny thing." The value was the least amount ...

52. A Very Different Top 10 List

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Together. Every year, US Americans waste billions of pounds of food, which translates into billions of dollars thrown away. In fact, the average household wastes 14 percent of its food purchases, and that’s a conservative estimate. Some say as much as 20% of our food goes to waste each year, with an estimated 130 pounds of food per person ending up in landfills. Roughly 49 million people could have been fed by those lost resources. Conclusion: If you think you’re having a bad day, just remember this: 90 ...

53. Death Has Been Conquered

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... them than for us. Today we are experts at both denying and delaying our mortality. Children born this year will probably have a life expectancy of over 100 years. With recent developments such as the Human Genome Project, one hundred years may be a conservative estimate. We are delaying dying. Now, if we could just solve the problem of aging. You may have heard about the man who was arrested for selling eternal youth pills. He promised his customers that they would never grow old. When he was booked at the ...

54. The Last Breath – The Fear of Death

Hebrews 9:27-28

Sermon

James Merritt

... that I am speaking on one of the three most unpopular topics that people want to hear about. They are death, money, and hell. The truth is you really can't get away from death. Have you noticed how much of our news centers around death and dying? It is estimated that about 75% of what we see on the news is somehow related to death. We are now living in what many sociologists are calling, "the culture of death." There are people who don't like to think about it, talk about it, and who want to live forever ...

55. Room At The Inn: Is There Room For Christmas?

Luke 2:1-7; John 1:1-5

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... time this year as a thank-you for customers. The Millers put an ad in the newspaper. They expected 5,000 to 10,000 people to show up Saturday to collect potatoes, carrots and leeks. However, they received a big surprise when 40,000 people showed up. An estimated 11,000 vehicles snaked around cornfields and backed up more than two miles. About 30 acres of the 600-acre farm, 37 miles north of Denver, became a parking lot. One family was able to collect 10 bags of vegetables. The fields were picked so clean on ...

56. The Miracle of Peace

Psalm 85:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to God that we make the right choice." Is that our destiny? Americans and Europeans spend 17 billion dollars a year on pet food, 4 billion dollars more than the estimated amount needed to provide basic health and nutrition to everyone in the world. Europeans spend 11 billion dollars a year on ice cream, 2 billion dollars more than the estimated cost of providing clean water and safe sewers for the world's population. American men and women spend 8 billion dollars a year on cosmetics, 2 billion dollars more ...

57. The Power of a Personal Commitment

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . Write it down. Why? “This is between God and me,” we say. Not necessarily. All covenants need to be ratified and call for witnesses. Writing it down helps me. I am not making a pledge or entering a prison or establishing a mortgage. I am forecasting an estimate, making a projection, setting a direction, God being my helper, and the future is sound. Writing it down will not only help you, but it helps the church. The last thing I ever want to do in the church is hound people for money. By matching your ...

58. The Sound of a Mighty Wind

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... America. There are 313 million in Asia. There are 360 million in Africa. Central and South America in the last generation have experienced an explosion of Christian converts. In Asia, China continues to be the big story. David Aikman in Jesus in Beijing estimates that there are currently 100 million Christians in China, most of whom worship largely in underground churches. (2) We are a universal movement. It was no accident that the Spirit of God fell upon the church on this particular day when so many ...

59. A One Sentence Legacy

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... is an inspiring one sentence legacy. What will be your legacy? What one sentence would you want to define your life? Are you living right now so that that legacy may be achieved? “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? . . . Or suppose a king is about to go to war against another king. Won’t he first sit down and consider whether he is able with ten thousand men to oppose the one coming against him with ...

60. How to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... to know that, not only did his bank correct the error, they also removed the $15 overdraft fee they charged him. (7) That was nice of them, don’t you think? So Jesus told about a man who owed the king a sum of about $8 trillion dollars. Someone has estimated that if this man were to work 365 days per year it would require between 164,000 and 274,000 years to earn the money needed to repay such a debt! The king was ready to have the man, his wife, their children and all their possessions sold to satisfy ...

61. I'm Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... to God and listening to one another. Most of us will not be hearing mysterious voices in the night. At least, I hope not. I did read recently that, according to recent research, the experience of hearing voices is not all that unusual. Estimates suggest that more than half of the “normal” population have heard strange voices at some time or another, while about 4 per cent of the population hears voices regularly. Mental health professionals usually define hearing voices as a symptom of medical illness ...

62. The Holy Spirit Comes at Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... No doubt they soon returned and were joined by others. Their numbers were further increased by the many families Pompey brought to Rome in 62 B.C. and who received their freedom and settled down, for the most part beyond the Tiber. Though unpopular, they prospered, and estimates of their number in the first century A.D. have been put as high as seventy thousand. The Roman Jews are mentioned in Luke’s list in company with other Romans who had been converted to their faith (see notes on 6:5). It is unlikely ...

63. Peter and John Before the Sanhedrin

Acts 4:1-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... Hecataeus of Abdera, in about 300 B.C., put the figure at 120,000 (Josephus, Against Apion 1.161–212). According to Josephus, it had reached 2.7 million by A.D. 65 (War 6.420–427; cf. 2.280–283), but this figure is far too high. Modern estimates of the population of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus vary between 25,000 (Jeremias) and 250,000 (Hanson). The latter figure may still be too high, but improvements to the water supply effected by Herod the Great would allow for at least 70,000. It may still be ...

64. Paul and Silas In Prison

Acts 16:16-40

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... tellers and other charlatans. Something of this may be implied in Luke’s phrase “the python spirit.” But more than mere ventriloquism is implied, for it would seem from the narrative that some prophetic power was claimed for the girl, so that the phrase may reflect the popular estimate of such power, namely, that she was inspired by Apollo, the god of prophecy, called by the Greeks Pythian Apollo because he was supposed to have killed the snake that guarded the Delphic Oracle. Luke accepts this ...

65. Not Because of Israel's Righteousness

Deuteronomy 9:1-6

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... 5 denies part of it (not because of your righteousness or your integrity), but affirms part (but, yes, as you say, on account of the wickedness of these nations). The Israelites would be right in their estimation of the Canaanites, but utterly wrong in their estimation of themselves. The wickedness of the Canaanites did not prove the righteousness of Israel. To this correction of their false inference, Moses adds two other reasons why Israel could never attribute the conquest to their own righteousness ...

66. Jesus’s Entry as the Messiah Who Triumphs through Suffering

Mark 11:1-11

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... odds of a blindfolded man, heading out of Dallas by foot in a random direction, actually picking up the one specifically marked silver dollar on his first try is 1 out of 100,000,000,000,000,000. These are the odds for just eight of the estimated sixty prophecies. Imagine the odds of one man, Jesus of Nazareth, fulfilling all of the Old Testament prophecies! The humility of a king History: At the time of Jesus, Rome was the center of power in the Western world. The Roman emperors often demanded that they be ...

67. “In Your Heart You Devise Injustice”

Psalm 58:1-11

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... Josef Stalin’s genocide against the Ukraine by forced starvation (1932–33). Scholars believe that 4 to 5 million Ukrainians were killed.19 The Khmer Rouge were members of the Communist Party who from 1975 to 1979 led a reign of terror in Cambodia that included the murder of an estimated 2.5 to 3 million Cambodians, or 21 percent of the population.20 In 2014, the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights accused the Pyongyang regime in North Korea of “crimes against humanity.” Specifically, an ...

68. Elephants in the Room: Abuse – I Have a Secret

Matthew 11:28

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... just to help you get a sense of how big this elephant is listen to the statistics we do have: CDC reports that 15 million children are abused each year. "More than 2 million cases of child abuse and neglect are reported each year in the United States. An estimated 150,000 to 200,000 new cases of sexual abuse occur each year." One in four girls and one in six boys will be sexually abused before the age 18. 80 percent of violent juvenile and adult prisoners were raised in violent homes. Each day in the U.S ...

69. Elephants in the Room: Sexploitation

1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... beings created by him. I think God is pretty upset that about this statistic. The International Labor Organization estimates that there are 20.9 million victims of human trafficking globally. 68% of them are trapped in forced labor. 26% of ... them are children. 55% are women and girls. The International Labor Organization estimates that forced labor and human trafficking is a $150 billion industry worldwide. Do you think misdirected sexual desire is a ...

70. Elephants in the Room: Addiction

Romans 7:15-22

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... problem with alcohol or drugs, with 40 percent of the group having a "dual diagnosis," or concurrent mental/nervous disorder - Approximately 27 million Americans either use illicit drugs regularly or are "heavy drinkers." Of these almost 16 million are estimated to need immediate treatment - By age eighteen, almost 12 percent of all young people are illicit drug users - An untreated alcoholic's medical costs are approximately 300 percent higher than a non-alcoholic's medical costs - Approximately 70 percent ...

71. The Real Thing

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... passage is to remind us that a principal characteristic of his followers is service. He says, "The greatest among you will be your servant." The Pharisees whom Jesus criticized wanted to be great so they could be served. Jesus' followers are told that, in his estimation, greatness comes from rendering service, even something as small as giving a person a cup of cold water (Matthew 10:42). When we help a needy person, when we offer food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty, we are actually serving in the ...

72. Job Speaks

Job 3:1-26

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... but exposed to the elements and left to die. Job suggests that it might have been kinder in the long run to have allowed him to die, than to nurture him to endure an adulthood fraught with frightful suffering. 3:13–15 Death at birth, in Job’s estimation, would have brought peace and rest. Despite the fact that elsewhere in Job the abode of the dead is a place to be feared and avoided, here its terrors pale in comparison with a life of suffering. The point is not that death is so wonderful, but that ...

73. Eliphaz's Third Speech to Job

Job 22:1-30

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... ’s claims of innocence and righteousness, Eliphaz casts aspersions on Job by using the conditional particle ki, “if.” It becomes increasingly clear that Eliphaz has no doubt that Job’s claims are patently false. 22:4 Eliphaz begins to reveal his own estimation of Job’s character in the next pair of sarcastic questions. Having established that God is beyond the influence of Job’s presumed righteousness, Eliphaz can only conclude that Job’s suffering is in fact the just rebuke of God who brings ...

74. Such a Little Thing

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... point to a giant Sequoia in California’s Sequoia National Park. One such tree, the General Sherman, has been called the most massive living thing on planet Earth. The General Sherman stands nearly 275 feet tall with a girth of more than 102 feet near its base. It is estimated to weigh 2,756 tons. And yet the seed of the giant Sequoia is about the size of an oat flake. According to the Guinness Book of World Records a Sequoia seed weighs only 1/6,000 of an ounce. Talk about a mighty plant from a tiny seed ...

One might estimate the weight of the world, tell the size of the celestial city, count the stars of heaven, measure the speed of lightning, and tell the time of the rising and the setting of the sun—but you cannot estimate prayer-power. Prayer is as vast as God because He is behind it. Prayer is as mighty as God because He has committed Himself to answer it.

Leonard Ravenhill

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