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51. Fever Pitch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and minds both now and in years to come. Still, despite our desire for change, for us, it can’t come fast enough. Hospitals remain filled to the brim with patients, both ill and dying. Urgent care centers and testing centers continue to try to keep up with cases. We continue to wear masks and to socially distance, but we are growing weary. We are in urgent need of reprieve, and so our scientists and manufacturers continue to work feverishly in order to deliver the maximum amount of vaccines in record time ...

52. Water Won't Quench The Fire

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... no books on prayer or studies on the Sermon on the Mount. A sales clerk said, "Have you found what you're looking for?" "Not exactly," she replied. "Well, we're proud of our section on spirituality," the clerk said. "We do our best to keep up with the latest ideas." That seems to describe the current fad for spirituality. Here in America, people are perpetually hungry for something new. With all of the current talk about spirituality in our culture, the church is in an awkward position. The church keeps ...

53. When Is Enough...Enough?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... that there’s not enough money, not enough work, not enough sex, not enough narcotics to ease the pain of an empty and unfulfilled heart? Sir William Beach Thomas said, “To achieve happiness by a succession of pleasures is like trying to keep up a light all night by striking successive matches.” Happiness comes not from pleasure but from purpose. The happiest people I know are people who have given their lives completely and unreservedly to God. The disciples were amazed at Jesus’ words about the ...

54. Be One

John 17:20-26

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... noise. They're still a bit of burden though. Remove the nickels from the tray. I thought it would be easier if the dollar could be carried around like this. Start dropping the dimes. Drop a dime at a time. They don't make as much noise, and I can keep up with them but occasionally I lose one. They aren't nearly as heavy though. Remove the dimes from the tray. Finally it occurred to me that this would be the best way to keep my dollar together. Drop the quarters one at a time. There's only four of them ...

55. What the Lord Does Best

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s practically no way to distinguish the church from the world, or the individual Christian from anybody else. Late in the novel, a member of the congregation asks a question that really brings the whole congregation into judgment. The inquiry is – how do you keep up the standards that you believe in? How do you keep from being corrupted when nobody is around to symbolize the higher things? That’s always the question society is pressing upon us. How can you keep from being corrupted when there’s nobody ...

56. How Much of an Honor?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... of Jesus had driven many farmers from their land and shepherds from their flocks. The failing economy that favored the very rich at the expense of the poor and forced people to seek loans to keep their operations afloat. When both farmers and shepherds proved unable to keep up with their loans they lost farm and flock. When Jesus spoke about day laborers it was to an audience that included many of them, people forced to hire out their services on a day-to-day basis with no guarantee of future work or of ...

57. Ready for Change

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... financially strapped and feeling the anxiety and expectations upon them to serve up Christmas cheer, gifts, and all of the trappings of a sufficient, commercialized Christmas experience. They feel time-crunched with shopping, preparations, and too many responsibilities, while keeping up the ones they’ve had all year round. They feel pulled in several different directions. They grieve those they’ve lost. In fact, more people suffer from depression and anxiety at the holidays than any other time. Fresh ...

58. Children of the Eighth Day

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... don’t have the slightest idea.’ " Years ago I had a brillant young friend. He could have done anything, could have been anything. God had filled him with talent. In college, he got into the drug scene. He and a friend robbed a small "Zip Store" to keep up with their drug expenses. He was sent to prison, and I visited him periodically over a year’s time. He had a Christian experience, became a beautiful person. He is helping others. The tragedy is that he is now an orderly in a hospital where he could ...

59. Team Work is Dream Work

Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... rotates back in the "V" and another goose flies up to take his place. That's why we need to learn that we need to take turns doing the hard jobs in the church. He also discovered that the reason geese hawk, is they are encouraging those up front to keep up their speed. By the way, be careful when you hawk at the lead goose, make sure it is a positive hawk and not a negative hawk. Finally, when a goose gets sick or tired, and falls too far back, two other geese will fall out of formation and follow it ...

60. Augustine, Defender of the Faith

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and St. Paul’s struggle is our struggle: "Let us conduct ourselves properly, as people who live in the light of day ... and stop paying attention to your sinful nature and satisfying its desires." Our Human Nature Says: • Cheat if no one will know. • We must keep up with the neighbors. • Everyone else is doing it. • Get wealth any way you can and keep it for yourself - that’s happiness. • Get even no matter what - that’s what it means to be a man. God Says: • You and I will know. • Pride ...

61. I Love A Parade

Matthew 21:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Robert Allen

... inchworm, an entry number on Jeff’s back, and he was entered in the parade. All along the parade route, people were pointing out the three-year-old on a green inchworm. They were watching him jump up and down, trying to get his inchworm to keep up with the other children. They were urging him on. They were having a good time watching him take part in the parade. When the prizes were announced, Jeff won second prize in the children’s division. There is something about parades which attracts our attention ...

62. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... know His touch in our lives? Isn’t it because we can’t make it on our own? We don’t always want to admit it, but in our dark nights and in our lonely hours that’s the thing that bothers us. We’re so strong at work. We keep up such good face for our friends. We can argue theology and politics with the best of them. But who can stop the cancer from spreading? And who can keep a child in safety? And who can take the sting out of tragedy? Too often we’ve sung along with that ...

63. The Weakest Link

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... we are going to study today, you must answer some questions: Do you think God is more impressed with what you do for Him, than He is by the time you spend with Him? Do you come to church out of habit because of family pressure, for business considerations, to keep up an image, or as a social activity? Do you ever look at people who don't go to church, and think you are better than they are because you do go to church? Do you ever look at people in prison and think you are better than they are because ...

64. The Golf Shot That Destroyed an Airforce

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... , suffering from low self-esteem, reaches out to a man who is not her husband. No big deal. It’s only a harmless flirtation. But then . . . The business man feels his corporation doesn’t appreciate his hard work. Also, he’s having more and more trouble keeping up with the lifestyles of his neighbors. And an opportunity comes to take a little extra out of an account that’s under his guardianship. Just a little. It will never be missed. But then . . . Few of us look down the road to see where our acts ...

65. The Needle’s Eye

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... , when and how were you saved?” The other looks blankly, so the reply comes, “Aha! You are not really saved if you don’t recall the precise saving experience.” Jesus counters, “There are lots of people out there doing kindly deeds in my name. If they keep up these good works, soon they will be unable to speak ill of me. After all, if the person is not against us, he is for us.” Jesus calls for his disciples to be reasonable. They should show common sense. “How can you expect the cause to grow ...

66. God’s Dwelling Place

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... of the ark. When the Israelites settled down in towns and ceased to be nomads they became zealous to do as their sophisticated neighbors. The Canaanites had been urbanized centuries before the Israelites. David, in a passion of devotion and probably a desire to keep up with the Canaanites, went to Nathan the prophet with the prospect of building a permanent Temple for God’s dwelling place. "Here I am, living in a palace of cedar, and God dwells in a tent." He wanted to build a magnificent temple suitable ...

67. What Do We Do Now That We’re Happy?

Isaiah 62:1-12

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... that no gift given or received can touch the deep needs of the soul. We are the same person. The other does not glow in a new way toward us. The special gifts have not transformed the people involved nor their relationships. It’s hard to keep up an expected miracle when we are only human. No matter the grandiose event, we get tired, feel slighted, and the glow fades as our energy lessens. Christmas expectations are much like my minister friend. They lay a reality demand upon us. We are to look at what ...

68. Preparing for the Unexpected

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... your reflexes respond instinctively. If you have to think before you act, you're in trouble. People who excel in any field know how crucial it is to prepare. A guitarist who is still thinking, "Now where should I place my fingers on the frets?" is not going to keep up with the band. The surgeon who has to think, "Now where did my textbook say that artery is supposed to be?" is not the person you want operating on you. You want someone who is beyond thinking, who is so proficient at what he or she is doing ...

69. Opposite the Treasury

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . But I have kept up my offering envelopes, and I wonder if you would be so kind to take them back to the church and place them in the offering plate this coming Sunday for me? My husband and I always tithed during his lifetime, and I have tried to keep up the practice since he has been gone.” I confess I was a bit embarrassed. This woman’s income could not have been more than a few dollars a week...and her offering could not have been more than a few cents. I was tempted to tell her, “You keep the ...

70. Getting a Handle on Our Faith

John 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... hours (5:30-8:30). But for some of us the mere thought that all 7100 Starbucks in North America were closed was enough to jumpstart trembling hands and throbbing heads. Not even the knowledge that Dunkin Donuts was offering 99 cent “joe” to keep up community caffeine levels was enough to calm the no-Starbucks jitters. Why did Starbucks take a three hour coffee break? To clean up their pump handle. The pump handle that had first turned on the Starbucks phenomenon had been so changed and corrupted that ...

71. The Waiting Father

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... three parables in the fifteenth chapter of Luke. One is about a lost sheep, one is about a lost coin, and the third is about a lost boy. It is important for us to see that in this parable Jesus was not interested in teaching us something about shepherding or keeping up with our money or even being good parents. What he was trying to do was to give us a snapshot of God. He is seeking to answer the age old question, "What is God like?" In the first place, Jesus shows us a father who loves enough to let go ...

72. Putting Ourselves into the Picture

Exodus 1:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... been elected president of your company and you’re not certain of your position in that company anymore. Modern technology is so phenomenally fluid, so dynamic, that your skills in your vocation may seem archaic, and you’re nervous about whether you’re going to be able to keep up or not. Or the change may be at other levels of your life – death has come to your family as it came to Israel in the death of Joseph. Your family has been left without a father or a mother, and that means a whole new way of ...

73. Fighting Back Against Falling Back

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... obsession is easy to find and define. We validate it endlessly. It is the “work of being the busybody” instead of the “work” of doing any genuine “work.” We glorify and glamorize the idleness of busybody work. For example, our kids are offered “Keeping Up With The Kardashians,” “Jersey Shore,” and “The Real Housewives of . . . . (L.A., D.C., N.Y.C.–-you pick) as the new social pathways to patronage and privilege, as the alternative to working for your bread and working for Christ’s ...

74. The Lifesaver App

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” is really shorthand for “application” — that is, “a use to which something is put.” An “app” isn’t a “thing.” An “app” is an activity. An “app” is not a noun. An “app” is a verb. As we struggle to keep up with a language and lifestyle that is ever changing, we should keep in mind this original definition of “app” — because application makes a world of difference between the “real” and the “hypothetical.” Disciples of Jesus are called to give application to ...

75. King Ahaz,Idolater

Drama

Peter C. Garrison

... protector. You know who to pay off. Other: That sounds pretty handy. Also, it keeps the gods in line. Ahaz: What do you mean? Other: Well, what good is a god without worshipers to be a god of, or a place to be god at? If your god doesn't keep up the good work, then you can move to a different place or take up someone else's god. It keeps gods humble -- in their place, if you get my meaning ... Ahaz: Yes. None of this, "You shall have no other gods before me," stuff. When I was king ... Other: Oh ...

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