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51. Living in the Future Present

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Thomas Long

... wonderful moment, and a frightening one as well. Wonderful because I had seen my daughter as a mature woman. Frightening because I anticipated what it would take to live toward that day. She would not be a child forever, and I must be willing to relinquish that. Every present moment must now be arched toward that future when I would no longer be her protector and guide in the old and familiar ways. Every experience in the present must nurture the adulthood already growing within her. In Jesus Christ we have ...

52. What Must I DO to Receive Life?

Mark 10:17-31

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Brett Blair

... a sacrificial and self-effacing way was beyond him. I think he knew all along what was missing. He knew where his heart was. He did not want to give up his life style. He did not want to part with his wealth. And when he retained his wealth he relinquished eternity. Amen.

53. Praying for a Whole New World

Luke 21:5-38

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William G. Carter

... asks if we are ready and open enough for a newness to be given. It asks if we know the name of the Father to whom we belong, of the Lord whom we confess, of the coming one for whom we wait, and if we trust that one enough to relinquish the old world.3 A whole new world is at hand. All the promises of Scripture will come true. The poor will be filled with good things and the selfish brought down from their thrones. The nations shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. No ...

54. The Promise of Baptism

Isaiah 43:1-13

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Harry N. Huxhold

... exchange for your life.” The prophet lists the nations that were conquered by the Persians so that Israel could be free. Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sheba would be among them. God also promises that nations to the east or west, north or south would have to relinquish Israelites so that they could be returned to their home. We can only imagine how much the Hebrew people have had to rely on these promises as they have endured exile and persecution one after the other until the worst Holocaust of them all under the ...

55. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

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Harry N. Huxhold

... from their complacency. If there were those who had drowned their faith in sorrow, thinking that God had completely abandoned God’s people, the prophet would call them back to the faith in the faithfulness of God. If there were still others who had relinquished all thoughts about God, the prophet would revive their dead faith into a living hope. All those whom the prophet addressed would be asking for evidences to which they could point that the words of the prophet could ring true. The way things were ...

56. One In Christ

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... . Two stops later what she expected happened. No longer were there enough available seats for the white patrons, so Rosa was told to stand. She refused. The bus driver came back and swore at her, threatening to have her arrested. Still, she would not relinquish her seat. She was arrested, and thus began the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. Years later Rosa Parks was asked why she would not stand when ordered. She responded it was because of her mother and her Christian upbringing. Rosa Parks declared, "I ...

57. Caught Between God And Caesar

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... violent, the law of forgiveness . . . In view of all this, I laid the gold coin struck with the effigy of my father King Theodenos at the child's feet. It was my only treasure, my only proof that I was the legal heir to the throne of Palmyra. In relinquishing it, I renounced the kingdom [into which I was born] to search for the other kingdom promised me by the Savior." (5) You and I were born into one kingdom, but we belong to another. Let us never forget that they are not one and the same. And, as citizens ...

58. Where Heaven And Earth Meet

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... his ministry. He immediately knelt in prayer and asked God to teach him humility and servanthood. He prayed that God's Spirit in him would increase, while his own nature would decrease. That night, Richard Exley felt a burden roll off his shoulders as he relinquished his own ambitions and gave himself wholeheartedly to the Lord. (5) Like Richard Exley, Jacob awoke from his dream a changed man. He gave up his own ambitions in order to take on God's vision for his life. He responded to this vision with ...

59. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... notorious in those days. It is possible Paul quoted to that couple the words from Proverbs 25:28 which say: "A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls." Promiscuity and all manner of wrong take over when we relinquish self-control. Financial scandals and corruption of all kinds have rocked America and the world these last few years, and they''ve come out of that greed that flourishes when self-control and essential righteousness are tossed out, and no one cares about right ...

60. The Impossible Option

Mark 10:17-31

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Cathy A. Ammlung

... small and great. Does that sound too up-in-the air? Then imagine the "impossible" options for those who might dare to trust our Lord's promises. A rich man does donate all his fortunes to charity and works in a drug addiction program. A woman relinquishes a wealth of resentment and for Jesus' sake forgives her estranged sister. A teenager gives up a chance to play in the championship soccer game to take part in his youth group's Habitat for Humanity project. A family decides to simplify its lifestyle as a ...

61. The Lions Are Shackled

John 18:1-19:42

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King Duncan

... the ensuing chaos, the president of one of the television stations was kidnapped. The kidnapped man was the son of a wealthy businessman living in the U. S., a Mr. Lopez. Mr. Lopez received a phone call shortly thereafter and was given a choice: relinquish his rights to all of his Philippine holdings or his son would be killed. The old man makes his decision quickly. The assets were transferred to the Philippine government. The son was released. (3) Imagine receiving a telephone call like that--to give up ...

62. Gethsemane: Prelude To The Cross

Mark 14:32-42

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Maxie Dunnam

... get the impression that Jesus’ decision to allow God’s will was more difficult than experiencing it and indeed more traumatic than the nails of the Romans them selves. It was in Gethsemane that Jesus allowed his soul to be crucified; on Golgotha he merely relinquished his body.” (James R. Edwards, “Gethsemane: A Prelude to the Cross,” Pulpit Digest, March—April, 1981, p. 49) So, we are looking at Gethsemane today this prelude to the Cross—to find our way as we wrestle with God’s will for our ...

63. The Gift Of Sleep

Psalm 127:1-5

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Maxie Dunnam

... we achieve, but something we receive from him. "God made provision for our letting go of life some of the time every day. This is highly symbolic. Every day we come to a point, marked by mounting drowsiness, where we must cut out, relinquish command, drop everything, release control, become totally disengaged, deny the world our brain and brawn, and entrust the management of history to our brethren who have already had their sleep and to God our keeper who slumbers not nor sleeps." (This long quote ...

64. Prepare The Way Of The Lord

Isaiah 40:1-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... at the time. It is an expression of faith on the inside and not an expression of our personal affairs on the outside. And let me say this well. Joy is not something that can be taken away from us at all, but only something that we can relinquish ourselves, which means that we can always be joyful people if we want to, and nothing can ever keep us from being so!" (Neaves, Ibid.) A couple of years ago, PEOPLE magazine carried a story about Steve and Terry Largent, a young couple whose wedding ceremony a ...

65. Jesus, Desirous

Luke 13:31-35

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Frank G. Honeycutt

... all-powerful. That may sound shocking and even unorthodox, but he's not. There is one little thing that Jesus needs of you. One thing that he desires but cannot (or will not) control. He desires your will. Your proud, defiant control over your destiny. To relinquish that is both the hardest and the sweetest thing we'll ever do. Every day we start again. 1. I am indebted to Barbara Brown Taylor for pointing out the curious choice of this metaphor (given other biblical options) in "As a Hen Gathers Her Brood ...

66. God Will Take Care of You

Matthew 14:13-21

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Leonard Sweet

... willing crowd - to trust him, to trust him with their stomachs, to trust him with their hearts, to trust him with their lives. The obedient act of sitting down to the yet-to-be-realized meal is an act of trust. Once these people sit down they are relinquishing their own power to feed themselves. They are putting their future in another's hands. It's as the crowd trusts Jesus to feed them, and it's as the disciples trust Jesus to take and use the small gleanings they have to offer, that the miracle occurs ...

67. Are You a Leg-Grabbing Christian?

Matthew 6:25-34

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Leonard Sweet

... lives to God and "strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness" (verse 33). Jesus works. And Jesus calls you and me to undertake his works, what truly works, in this life. There's nothing lackadaisical or lazy about a disciple who relinquishes worries about things (food, shelter, clothing, even the duration or our own lives) in order to focus energies and talents on those righteous works that advance the kingdom. Righteous work may not always bring in the big bucks. Righteous work may not bring ...

68. It's My Life, Isn't It?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... strengthened and enlarged and enriched by the love of so many. Thank You, Father. Especially do we thank You for Your great love made known to us in Christ. We don’t deserve it, but we are so very grateful for it. Now, in the holiness of this moment, we relinquish all selfish claims to our lives. We give our lives to You so that You may give us life abundant. In the Master’s name we pray. Amen.

69. In Life Nothing Works but the Impossible

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... so much to use it in rescuing the drowning victim as to insure that the person they are trying to save won’t succeed in drowning them! It is not just the “drowning” that put up such a fight. You see, being “saved” requires that we relinquish our own ability to save ourselves. Being “saved” means that we trust another to be able to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. Being “saved” means that we need to live in uncertainty, because rescuers can’t always communicate to those they are ...

70. John 1:43-51

John 1:43-51

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... to Nathanael: Jesus is the one "whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote." The Law text most certainly is Deuteronomy 18:15-19, where the anticipated future coming of the Messiah is most clearly spelled out. But Philip can't relinquish Jesus' human identity. That's why he so incongruously tacks onto his messianic identity the unremarkable information that Jesus is the son of Joseph from Nazareth (verse 45). Only if Philip had identified Jesus' David lineage and his actual birth in Bethlehem (which ...

71. God Is Pro-Life

Exodus 20:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... to share with you just a part of this article: At its best feminism defends its moral high ground by being simply faithful to the truth to women's real-life experiences. But to its own ethical and political detriment, the Pro-choice Movement has relinquished the moral frame around the issue of abortion. It has ceded the language of right and wrong to abortion foes. Such a position causes us to lose political ground. By refusing to look at abortion within a moral framework, we lose the millions of Americans ...

72. Don't Forget to Remember

Jude 1:5-7

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James Merritt

... a race of giants filled with evil, and plunged the entire earth into perverted wickedness. Now according to Jude, they "did not keep their proper domain." The word "domain" literally means "rule" or "area of responsibility." In other words, these angels relinquished their position and resigned their purpose. Their position was to be ministering angels carrying out the will of God, and their purpose was to serve God and his people. But they did not keep to their divinely appointed position. They rebelled ...

73. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

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James Merritt

... an awl and drive it through that ear. The hole in that slave's ear was a sign to everybody he was not a servant because he had to be, but because he wanted to be. What Paul was saying, if you could believe it, is that he had voluntarily relinquished his rights, his liberty, his freedom, to be a slave to others who do not know Jesus Christ. Paul, in effect, had perforated his heart on behalf of those unsaved. When I think of this passage, and I think of the sphere of the "whatever it takes spirit", I cannot ...

74. Faithful Fathers Fortify Families

Deuteronomy 6:1-15

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James Merritt

... —they dropped the baton. Socrates once said: "Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim: ‘Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrap every stone to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?'"5 What good does it do to raise your child in the finest home; to give your child the finest education; to see to it he gets the finest job; to help him marry the finest girl; to help him have the finest career; to help him ...

75. Are You In the Know

Job 19:23-27

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James Merritt

... in the eye and said, "Mister, I don't know who you are, but I haven't come to take sides, I have come to take over." When Jesus comes back to planet earth He's not coming to take sides, He's coming to take over. Every king will relinquish his throne, every general will surrender his sword, every monarch will lay down his crown when Jesus comes again. That's why He's coming; to take His victorious stand on the earth. III. I Know Myself Will Be Resurrected "And after my skin is destroyed this I know, that ...

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