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51. You Can Be Less Worried

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... he poses that question to the 13 million of us who will waste 90 minutes or more worrying today -- 90 minutes that we could have spent living instead. "Why are you anxious ...?" (1) What good will it do? (2) What does it say about our priorities? (3) Whose opinion are we allowing to carry so much influence in our lives? (4) Why are we in such a hurry to deal with tomorrow when we haven't even dealt with today yet? And (5) Where is our faith? Those are good questions, tough questions. If we can find answers ...

52. Fools For The Sake Of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... and using it properly. And this is, of course, an age-old problem in new clothes. "Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich!" the apostle Paul wrote to some Corinthian Christians. They were rich, wise, and strong, held in honor in their own opinion -- or as my mother would say they "thought they knew it all" -- while in their eyes Paul and the other apostles were weak and held in disrepute -- "fools for the sake of Christ." And this brings me to the second thing, or the other side of the ...

53. All Things Hidden Will Be Revealed

Drama

Karren Boehr

... host. What seems to be the problem? (Both SAINTS sheepishly approach the podium) 1ST SAINT: (Quietly) Excuse us, your Excellency ... ah, your Highness ... your Heavenly Host ... Mr. (Ms.) Gatekeeper. It was really nothing. Just a little matter of difference of opinion. 2ND SAINT: (Agrees, puts hand on 1st Saint's shoulder) We were just discussing how excited we were about the prospect of seeing heaven. You know, we're a little apprehensive. GATEKEEPER: (Nods understandingly, though he is not fooled) Okay ...

54. Proper 16 & Pentecost 14

Matthew 16:13-20, Exodus 1:1-22, Exodus 2:1-10, Isaiah 22:1-25, Isaiah 51:1-16, Romans 11:33-36

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... 16:13-20 In the district of Caesarea Philippi Jesus seeks feedback from his disciples. What are folks saying about him? Who do they think he is? The response: John the Baptist, Elijah, Jeremiah, or one of those prophets. The really important question, however, was the opinion of those who were closest to him, "Who do you say that I am?" Peter speaks for the others: "You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God" (v. 16). Jesus blesses Simon and announces that his name shall become Peter (the rock). Roman ...

55. Double Image

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Land's End diaper bag was slung over his other shoulder. His wife stood next to him in the church narthex, holding the hand of a cranky two-year-old with a runny nose. The father said, "We began to worry about raising our children. There are too many opinions about what's right and what's wrong, too many temptations, too many possible wrong turns. We want our kids to learn some positive values, and the church seemed like a place where they can learn them. We want to join the church because the church is one ...

56. Strong Faith For Weak People

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon Aid

Clement E. Lewis

... in us confidence for victorious living and adventurous souls. These things we humbly ask in the name of our Lord Jesus the Christ. Amen. Scripture: Romans 14:1-9 (NRSV) Welcome those who are weak in faith, but not for the purpose of quarreling over opinions. Some believe in eating anything, while the weak eat only vegetables. Those who eat must not despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat; for God has welcomed them. Who are you to pass judgment on servants ...

57. The Seven Last Words of the Church

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... head game with Jesus to find out which side of the issue he supports. "Now, Jesus, we don’t believe in resurrection, and you’re not going to convince us otherwise, so your opinion on it really doesn’t matter, but we’d really like to know what you think about it." (You already know how I feel about opinion polls.) Their question concerned a woman’s marital status in the next life (which they didn’t believe in anyway). Specifically, they wanted to know, if a woman had been married seven times ...

58. The Children

Drama

William Grimbol

... , we don't just say exactly what our father's think. CHRIS: Do you two ever think for yourselves? JULIE: I have my own thoughts; it is just that I respect my father's opinion. JENA: We both have fathers whose opinions are worthy of following. PETER: And we don't? JULIE: No. I'm not saying that. JENA: What is your father's opinion? (To PETER) PETER: He believes that this man Jesus truly believes he is the Son of God. JOHN: Son of who? KEITH: God. Shut-up. JOHN: God's got a son? Great! CHRIS: My father ...

59. No Grey Area

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... first knight. "I am certain that it was white." The debate became so heated that they climbed down from their horses and began dueling with their swords. A monk, who was passing by saw the fierce fight and stepped between them. After listening to their opposite opinions as to the color of the shield, the old monk smiled, as one possessing great wisdom, and said, "Good gentlemen, let us strike a compromise. Let us agree that the shield was not pure white or pure black; rather, it was a delicate shade of gray ...

60. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

Sermon

... not submissively, with all that we hear. So it will be well if you ask yourself today why you come to church and listen to a preacher. What do you want to hear? Is it your wish to be congratulated or to be challenged? To be confirmed in your opinions or shocked into new awareness? To be soothed and comforted or aroused to repentance and action? Can you be counted on for a more sensitive response than Micah found in his audience or than Jesus witnessed in the nine lepers? And now to conclude all this let me ...

61. In Debt Forever!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... the world..." "As I have loved you, so you are to love ..." Jesus and Paul and the whole New Testament revelation remind us that we owe a debt of love to ourselves, for our own sake. We do not pay on this debt by having an exalted opinion of ourselves. We certainly are not to think of ourselves more highly than we ought to think. To do this would be to succumb to humanism, and this is the dominant philosophy in the world today. Socialism and communism are both politicized forms of humanism. Human beings are ...

62. The Deeper Meanings of The Christian Faith by Dr. Bryant M. Kirkland

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... on the diagram we have the tremendous social pressures under which you and I operate. We are deeply influenced by the media. We are influenced even more than we know. In fact, our modalism today is socially determined by newsprint, by television, by radio, and by public opinion. Then up here at the top of our diagram is a fact that some people forget. A personal contemporary God is influencing us, thinking, working, performing, putting his pressure on us also. In between God’s influence upon us and public ...

63. When You Need Help

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Yorkers: Four people are walking down the street ” a Saudi Arabian, a Russian, a North Korean and a New Yorker. A reporter rushes up and says, "Excuse me, can I get your opinion of the meat shortage?" The Saudi Arabian says, "Shortage ” what's a shortage?" The Russian says, "Meat ” what's meat?" The North Korean says, "Opinion ” what's an opinion?" The New Yorker says, "Excuse me ” what's excuse me?" (4) It's like the woman who said to her date: "Tell me, Bob, do you think I'm too aggressive? I ...

64. Needed: A Radiator Cap Solution

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the car, replace the radiator cap, too. In order to have the mind and heart of Christ, that is what many of us would have to do--replace not just our attitudes and opinions, but lift these attitudes and opinions and drive a whole new person under them, then throw them out and replace them with new attitudes and opinions. It's interesting to note how we spend our money to make ourselves better people. According to an article in Ladies' Home Journal (Dec. 2003), Americans spent $38.8 billion dollars on "anti ...

65. Dealing with Criticism

1 Corinthians 4:1-5

Sermon

James L. Killen

... win anything for yourself. You can stay focused on the issues and let people say what they will. The second reason is that you need to be free to ask if you really are right. You need to be able to own your ambivalence, to listen to the sincere opinions of others, and to evaluate the evidence. If you should discover that you have been wrong, you will not be undone. You will still be a beloved child of God. Once you have entrusted your ego to God's keeping, you can freely give attention to your purpose. Ask ...

66. Slaves of a Different Master

Romans 6:12-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... purpose than following his nose or listening to his stomach. He belongs to Jesus Christ. That is his identity. That gives him a purpose. He says this because he knows if the only thing he does is what he wants to do, if the only opinion he listens to is his opinion or his friends' opinions, if the only purpose for his life is to cover his tail or save his skin, then he is in a whole lot of trouble. The power of sin is so pervasive that it can take and twist our best impulses into something foul. There ...

67. The Church: The Health of a Godly Family

Hebrews 10:22-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... . It is vital to our faith, it is vital to our future, and it is vital to our family. Now this is more than just the opinion of a preacher. The fact that the church is vital to our health is now being touted as a scientific empirical fact. Two new work crews ... emotional charge you can out of church, you ought to go to a conservative Bible-believing church. That again is not an opinion. An article from U.S.A. Today entitled, "Strict Religious Faith Lifts Mind as Well as Spirit" gave the following analysis: ...

68. Power in the Pulpit

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... As I speak on the power of the pulpit today you must understand that I have to address the topic as one who believes in absolute truth; as one who believes that there is a standard of right and wrong that is unchanging, and not subject to polls, opinions, legal briefs, shifting mores, or focus groups. Outside of all I have read in the Bible, the greatest single statement I have ever read or heard in my life, was made by the great Quaker, William Penn. This is what William Penn said: "Right is right even if ...

69. I Believe In God The Father Almighty

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... hand and invite you to guess what it is. You respond that you think I have a coin in my hand. Now that’s your opinion. But faith is not the same as opinion. Now I’m going to tell you that I have a quarter in my hand. Do you believe me? I hope that you would respond, “ ... lost their super-power status. Senator Nunn picked up on this fact and made this very diplomatic statement: “In my opinion, there is only one super-power in the world, and that is God Almighty.” Though most of the Russian leaders ...

70. Church Slugs

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and more difficult to earn a PC stamp of approval. Political correctness has come to be associated with an increasingly rigid ideology which might best be described as a "new fundamentalism." Militant PC advocates will tolerate no disagreement, allow no diversity of opinion, brook no open-ended, "more light" stances. Those not stamped PC are "slugs." What is unique about this single-minded quest for political correctness is that it comes from the left, not the right. Although PC is not a single phenomenon ...

71. Culture Shock

1 Kings 18:21-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... prophets of Baal and 400 prophets of the Asherah, who eat at Jezebel's table. So Ahab sent a message among all the sons of Israel and brought the prophets together at Mount Carmel. Elijah came near to all the people and said, "How long will you hesitate between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people did not answer him a word." (I Kings 18:19-21, NASB) Up to that time, the feet of the people had been firmly planted in mid-air, but Elijah forced them to make a ...

72. Be Real

Colossians 1:3-8

Sermon

John Jamison

... our children that as they search the internet to try and find out who is actually writing the information they are reading. Is it someone who has the real expertise to understand what they are writing about, or are they just some unknown person giving an uneducated opinion. It is an important skill to learn. The same approach works for our questions of faith, and this is the one thing that sets Paul apart from the other faith vendors we face each and every day. Paul is not asking us to follow some God that ...

73. 1 Corinthians 1:10-18

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of “the name of Jesus Christ.” The apostle’s admonition seems straightforward enough: these contentious Christians must “be in agreement,” have “no divisions” and “be of a same mind and of a same opinion.” “Mind” (“nous”) and “opinion” (“gnome”) are sometimes distinguished among Hellenistic writings as identifying the theoretical vs. the practical. But coming from a Semitic background, where all knowledge is never strictly theoretical but is always both practical and ...

74. Change Your Course

Humor Illustration

New Yorkers are rude and impolite: Four people are walking down the street a Saudi Arabian, a Russian, a North Korean and a New Yorker. A reporter rushes up and says, "Excuse me, can I get your opinion on the meat shortage?" The Saudi Arabian says, "Shortage what's a shortage?" The Russian says, "Meat what's meat?" The North Korean says, "Opinion what's an opinion?" The New Yorker says, "Excuse me what's excuse me?"

75. Festus Consults King Agrippa

Acts 25:13-22

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... (died A.D. 48). At the same time, the emperor transferred to him from the procurators of Judea the right of appointing the high priest and the custody of the sacred vestments. Agrippa was therefore a man to whom Festus would naturally look for an expert opinion on matters relating to the Jewish religion. In A.D. 56 Agrippa received from Nero, in exchange for Chalcis, the territories once ruled by Philip and Lysanias (see disc. on 12:1) and with this larger domain the title of king. Agrippa did his best to ...

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