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51. It Just Doesn't Work That Way

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... t produce anything. So the only safe time to separate the weeds from the wheat would be at the harvest. At least, that’s what the farmer said. But what kind of farmer is this? Is this the same farmer we talked about last week, the one who recklessly wasted his seed, throwing it in all directions? There was a lot of waste – remember? - a lot of failure as seed fell among thorns and rocks and got eaten by hungry birds. Now there seems to be failure again as weeds grow with his wheat. "Somebody must have ...

52. Exasperating Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... score about 2,000 years ago, gathered up all our IOUs, marked them "paid in full," and nailed them to the cross of Calvary. The only way to "get saved" is to accept the invitation to the party, to forget about our accounting and let God be as reckless, as generous, as indiscriminate with grace as God wants to be. Do you know what the most scornful, derisive thing the Scribes and Pharisees could think of to say about Jesus was? "This man eats and drinks with sinners." He’ll party with ANYBODY! He’ll have ...

53. How Soon Is "Soon"?

Sermon

Rolf E. Aaseng

... Timothy we read, "In the last days distressing times will come. For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, inhuman, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power ... Indeed, all who want to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. But ...

54. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... and Ponce de Leon, consider the quest of Francis di Bernardone, more popularly known as St. Francis of Assisi. As the only child of well-to-do parents, his every whim and desire were more than adequately satisfied. He was spoiled, brash, reckless, abrasive, and worldly. However, quite unexpectedly, a series of rather mystical religious experiences began to overwhelm him and direct him toward the pursuit of the spiritual life. He came to understand the universe as the mirror of God, all life sacred, and ...

55. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... of the Lord's Supper included the phrases, "This is my body, take and eat," and "This is my blood," which led the uniformed to charge the Christian community with, of all things, cannibalism. There were, of course, many other curious, reckless accusations hurled at the early Church, the majority of which stemmed from nothing more than misunderstanding. Such serves to show that knowledge is a good thing, but partial knowledge is sometimes little better than no knowledge at all. Any knowledge is always ...

56. When Life Closes In

Matthew 26:17-30, Matthew 26:36-46

Sermon

Robert Allen

... each day On the small, foolish insects he enticed as his prey. Growing ever more arrogant and smug all the while He lived like a "king" in self-satisfied style. And gazing one day at the sheer strand suspended. He said, "I don't need this," so he recklessly rended The strand that had held his web in its place. And with sudden swiftness that web crumbled in space -- And that was the end of the spider who grew So arrogantly proud that he no longer knew That it was the strand that reached down from above ...

57. Take Up Your Cross

Luke 8:1-15

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

It'll make you undefeatable! In Luke 8:4-8, our Lord tells a parable about "the sower and the seed" to illustrate the proclaiming of the Word and human response. It is curious to note the audacious, almost reckless way in which the seed is sown. The sower must have been really throwing wildly, because we are told that some seed fell on the footpath, some on shallow rocky ground, some among thistles, and some in good soil. To many people the sower's haphazard way of sowing would ...

58. Proper 4

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... that we will have the opportunity to grow into the stature of the sons and the daughters of God. The order of the children of Abraham created history. Beginning with Abraham and going through the prophets, they went on and up until there finally came the most reckless pioneer of all, Jesus of Nazareth, who broke wholly new ground, walked a brand new trail and was bold enough to say, "You have heard that it was said by them of old time ... But I say to you ..." Any advances of Christianity in the future will ...

59. Labor Pains

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

... with all of his faults David did try to rule his kingdom with justice. For all of his sins David did trust in God, and not himself, as the helmsman of the ship of state. Absalom incarnates the spirit of a bullying, bragging, and reckless agitator working like a cancerous growth in the body politic. Our age has not been immune to Absalom-minded politicians and preachers. The word "demagogue" comes from the Greek. "Demos" meaning "people" and "ago" meaning a "leader." In our parlance, though, a "demagogue" is ...

60. The One Who Made His Cross

Drama

... , give me my share of the property now." So the man divided his property between his two sons. After a few days, the younger son sold his part of the property and left home with the money. He went to a country far away, where he wasted his money in reckless living. He spent everyting he had. Then a severe famine spread over that country and he was left without a thing. So he went to work for one of the citizens of that country, who sent him out on his farm to take care of the pigs. He wished he ...

61. For Christ’s Sake, What’s Going On?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... because if it is Christ’s will, it is his Father’s will as well. This means that in our work together we will sometimes struggle with the Scriptures, with the way we understand the mind of Christ. We will not lightly ratify a plan of action, reckless of the gospel Jesus taught and where he said it ought to lead us. Sometimes Christians wonder whether prayer is worth the effort after all. If we ought not to pray for something that is not God-pleasing, then our prayers will all be limited with the ...

62. Do It For the Joy of It!

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

... my neck. I’ll need to keep track of the IOUs I’ve tallied against you. I’ll have to hope you make good on what you should be repaying me. But if I can start to love you unconditionally, without regard to any sort of repayment, but with reckless, for-the-joy-of-it love, then I can be released from all that. Then the miracles can start to happen, because I can love without selecting likely targets of my love with an eye to maximum possible return. I can afford to take greater risks, since no repayment ...

63. The Agony and Ecstasy of Sight

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... should concern us, and not the theological ramifications of the problem. At the scene of an accident, if a person is lying in the road bleeding from injuries, we don’t begin by finding out who caused the accident. Was the injured person’s recklessness responsible for the accident, or was the driver of the other car the culprit? No! Our response should be to the injured person and his need - not the legal issue of responsibility, or the scientific curiosity of cause and effect. The appropriate reaction ...

64. Cross-Bearing

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... here the recipe for life as compared with existence. It’s one thing to have a heartbeat and breath in our lungs - it’s quite another to be alive. Playing it too safe stagnates our lives. But to throw ourselves into the cause of Christ with a certain recklessness, is to become alive and thrill to it. In our day and generation, it is not the question of martyrdom as it was for those early Christians; but it is still true that if we run our lives safely, securely, with comfort and ease as a top priority ...

65. Hindering Riches

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... one wants. This increases selfishness. One becomes more and more concerned that his or her wants be satisfied, and becomes less patient with delays or obstacles in the way of their satisfaction. W. Robertson Nicoll said once, "There is perhaps no hostility so violent and reckless as that roused by the exposure of brutality, cruelty, and filth by which money is made."7 This is true because money tends to blind to true values and to become valued far beyond its own worth. As all of this happens, the springs ...

66. The Narrowness Of The Christian Way - 1950 (date estimated)

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... called Christianity is all about. This sad, sick, old world has been smitten with a blinding, deafening, desensitizing disease. Most human beings are groping about in the dark, bewildered, disillusioned, desperate. They have gone down the broad way of their own selfish, reckless, wanton indulgence. The doom of destruction looms up before them, and a paralyzing sense of their impotence has seized them. But there is one all-important fact so many seem to have forgotten. There is a Teacher at hand seeking to ...

67. Our Inclusive Christ

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... , including the sick, indigent ones. Don't you know that God would do almost anything to help his sick children? We Americans should not do for our people what they can do for themselves. Our over-spending has already obligated our grandchildren in a reckless manner. We cannot guarantee every American a job. We cannot make right the sins of our forefathers. But there are two things we can and should do: guarantee every citizen basic health care and enough education to be a social asset. What possible excuse ...

68. The Greatest Story Ever Told

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... parable that has little or no relevance for you, but then, suddenly, you see yourself in the story. Sometimes you identify with the father, often with the wayward son, and sometimes as the critical older brother. The word prodigal, of course, means wasteful or reckless extravagance. Luke is the only one of the four gospel writers to include this story. So great is this parable that even if Luke had written nothing but these 15 verses, his work would have been priceless. This parable has been called a gospel ...

69. Reviving Our Moral Responsibility

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... what you sow." And if this order cannot be trusted, the idea of a good and righteous God is nonsense. Look at it this way: if it were not for the dependability of such a moral and spiritual order, and if people and nations could continue to live selfishly and recklessly and still end up at the Gates of Life, then who could have faith in God? Is this not what our pericope from the Book of Chronicles is all about? It’s a drama in which a people are being held responsible for the disorder of their times. Who ...

70. The Mirror of Judas

Mark 14:1-11

Illustration

Larry Powell

... the propagation of his message, the extension of his ministry, faithfulness to our vows. Shall we too betray his confidence? 2. Judas knew how to be discerning. He was not without practical judgment. The care of the treasury would hardly be entrusted to a reckless, emotion-driven individual. Judas was present in the house of Mary and Martha when Mary anointed the feet of Jesus with an expensive ointment. His protest of the anointing is not without merit, inasmuch as his concern was not for himself, but that ...

71. Song of a Shepherd

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... with a God who gives. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies. (Psalm 23:5a) The Palestinian shepherd always made ready the grazing land to which he led his flock. Disciplined and orderly in his surveillance, he did not recklessly turn his sheep loose into the oasis. Instead, aware of the concealed hazards that could so easily claim their lives, he went ahead to assure them safe pasture. With his familiar crook - his staff - he uprooted poisonous plants and burned them to prevent the ...

72. Rules For Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Robert Allen

... commandment affirms the supremacy of God by declaring, "You shall have no other gods before me." The second commandment declares the dangers of worshiping gods that we make when it says, "You shall not make for yourself a graven image." The third commandment forbids the reckless use of the name of God in promises, pledges, and vows when it declares, "You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain." And the fourth commandment reminds us of the sacredness of the Sabbath when we have the opportunity ...

73. A Man Who Wanted to Burn a City

Luke 9:46-50

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... of his hasty, impulsive, risky actions (and again, we don’t think of John in these terms). For example, when Jesus was arrested in the Garden of Gethsemane, the disciples deserted and fled (Matthew 26:56). But John turned and came back. He was the disciple who entered (recklessly) the palace of the high priest, and even dared to make it possible for Peter to get into the courtyard (John 18:15, 16). It was John (and apparently he was the only one of the twelve) who was at the very foot of the cross while ...

74. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... acknowledged his own cleverness as the others restrained their amusement. Nicodemus was aware of the implication of the Sadducee’s manner, but tonight he did not care. Even the slight chuckles of appreciation of the others in the group served only to aggravate his reckless anger. "It was the reward," another explained, as though talking down to one who did not understand such things. "The chief priests had given a commandment that if any man knew where he was, he should show it, that they might take him ...

75. When Ten Equals Two

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Larry Powell

... Bishop proceeded to warm to his assigned topic and presently waxed eloquent, showing signs of brilliance. In time, however, he began to run short of material and digressed to the theme which he had been asked to avoid. A number of misstatements, reckless accusations, and prejudice-filled outbursts followed. In desperation, perhaps attempting to seize a place to conclude, he pointed a finger at Huxley and said, "I wonder if the learned gentleman in the front of me is willing to be regarded as the descendant ...

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