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726. It's Worth the Wait

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... of her lamp that she was working through the night, ensuring that she was aware of everyone’s needs. They even nicknamed her “Lady of the Lamp.” Nightingale once said, “If I could give you information of my life it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do in His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that is all; and I ...

727. The Mighty Mustard Seed

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... factor in mustard seed living. We are not alone. Life can be lived in more than one dimension. When Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God being like a tiny mustard seed, he wasn’t talking about the wonderful abilities of man. Rather he was describing the availability of God. It is not our abilities that establish the kingdom of God on earth. It is God’s power working through our obedience. God’s power working through our obedience establishes the kingdom of God on this earth. This is God’s world and ...

728. Meeting Jesus

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... order to show them what real love looks like. Come and walk with that Jesus and you will never see the world the same way again. Everything You Thought You Knew Of course, all of this hinges on our ability to admit that what we thought was so, was, in fact not so. It relies on our ability to admit that we were wrong, and that is tough. Scientific psychology tells us that, even in the face of overwhelming evidence that we are wrong, we will go through almost unimaginable ordeals, jump through just about any ...

729. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... from God is marked by the death of our faith. Our separation from our potential and essential selves is sealed by the death of our acceptance of the self that God has given us to be. Our separation from the creation is fed by the death of our ability to recognize the joy and beauty that is inherent in it. But death is not the final word. Throughout the gospels, Jesus Christ proved that death, even death, need not be a barrier for us. Even death need not lead to hopelessness. Even death — any kind of death ...

730. Faith Power

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... which we have no clue what will come? Do we allow the Holy Spirit to guide us in our decision-making? Do we as a church spend more time praying than in meetings of strategy, finance, and form? Or do we truly believe more in our own abilities than in the ability of God to change us, our church, our communities, and our world? As always, the scriptures challenge us to look at ourselves and who we confess to be. They challenge us to examine our hearts, our minds, and above all our faith. And they challenge us ...

731. Feasting on Love

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... into “fight and flight” adrenaline mode. And then what happened? In order to protect ourselves, we had to forego our dearest and most intimate relationships, separate ourselves from our friends and communities, and we lost many close to us without even the ability to say goodbye. Grief rose. Isolation and depressed rose too. Without our relationships, with our security and livelihoods threatened, we reverted to the only thing we could be sure of –food. Once we got our hands on it, we consumed food at ...

732. It Helps If You Laugh

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... them for granted. Our passage from John, while not directly related to Mothers or parenting, is a model of the kind of love needed to be a good parent, a good mother. It takes lots of love. But that love has to be coupled with the ability to laugh. Scientists have been studying the effects of laughter and have found that it has a profound and instantaneous effect on virtually every organ in the body. Laughter reduces health-sapping tension and stress. It relaxes the tissues as well as exercises most of the ...

733. For The Love of God Is Contagious

Mark 7:31-36 · Luke 5:12-15 · 2 Corinthians 5:16-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... supposed to be an infectious faith. One filled with joy and happiness. The Good News is that the love of God IS contagious and infectious. CONCLUSION: The Church is made up of all kinds of people, gifted in various ways. Everyone of us is given the ability to love others. Some do it with a passion that just comes natural. They make everyone around them feel accepted. They make everyone around them feel the love of Christ. Because the love of God is contagious, because we've experienced the love of God. We ...

734. For The Love of God is Creative

1 Corinthians 2:6-12 · Psalm 8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... potential; with its freedom to choose, to love, to think, to be creative and to give of itself. God looked at humanity endowed with abilities far beyond those of the animals; God looked at us with all of our frailties and God said, "It is very good!" B. When ... God's image. It means that we are endowed with the spirit and presence of God in our lives. It means that we have the same abilities to create and feel and love which God has. That's what it means to be created in the image of God. We have the ...

735. For The Love of God Is Empowering

Matthew 22:36 -40 · John 4:1-32

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... saying to the whole world and to each of us: "I give you ME!" This is how much you are worth to me. I give you ME! This is how much I love you! I give you ME!" (3) That uncompromising, unconditional, sacrificial love of God empowers us with the ability to love ourselves with the proper amount of self love. And we are then enabled, empowered to love others. Our lives are empowered to accept God's great gift of self, and be all that God intended for them to be. CONCLUSION: I know you've probably seen or heard ...

736. For The Love of God is Giving

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... all that we are is the result of God's graciousness. God created us. God provides for all of our needs. Not our wants and desires, but our daily needs. The talents we have are given to us by God. We use and build upon those God given talents and abilities in order to earn a living for our families. We may buy stuff with the money we earn but even those things can be attributed to God because we used our God given talents to earn the money to buy the things. There is nothing which we have which does ...

737. If It Helps You Laugh

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

738. Selling Out

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... have been selling out for years. We have seen people who start by making simple compromises with one kind of evil or another. Initially they retain a measure of control. Bit by bit, their ability to stave off temptation erodes. After continuing to practice evil over a long period of time, they lose their ability to even care. Their conscience is seared, the chinks in their moral armor broaden, and they become open to the malicious forces that ultimately begin to take over. Peck believed that these cases ...

739. Brush It Off

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... fear of someone whom you thought you could trust but suddenly threatens your sense of well-being or safety? Have you ever experienced betrayal from someone in a religious institution whom you thought you could trust? These are all experiences that challenge our ability to open up and be vulnerable with others. The more experiences of betrayal we encounter, the harder it becomes for us to reveal our tenderest and most injurable parts to others. Instead, we put up walls, blocks, and defenses that are designed ...

740. Disabled

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... , and hang out with that sinner. Taking actions like those often ran afoul of the Jewish religious laws. Doing them rendered one unclean — disabled, if you will. The woman with the crippling spirit was a sinner. She was in need of healing. Jesus didn’t allow legalistic attitudes disable his ability or willingness to do something about her condition. When we walk with Jesus, we dare not allow our own attitudes to cripple our ...

741. "Head" Lines

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... church is a prayer for wisdom. He writes, “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom . . . so that you may know him better . . .” Wisdom has two components: the ability to think beyond one’s self, and the ability to think beyond the temporary. There are two great Bible passages that illustrate wisdom. Psalm 14:1 reads, “The fool hath said in his heart, ‘There is no God!’” And in Luke 12, Jesus tells a story about a rich man who ...

742. Stay the Course

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to be honest, sweet, gentle, helpful, and even familiar, while hiding a wolf’s deceptive heart inside. Psychologists distinguish between natural liars and psychopathic liars in some significant ways. While natural liars simply feel confident about their ability to lie well, they don’t use their ability to lie to harm others.[1] They fear being caught and experience guilt or stress when identified. Or they accept their “lies” as a matter of course and a harmless part of life. Natural liars flock to ...

743. The Debt of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... your neighbor as yourself.’ Love does no harm to a neighbor. Therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.” Did you catch that? Love is what it’s all about. It’s the fulfillment of all the commandments. The quality of our commitment to Christ is determined by our ability to love our neighbor as our self. That’s what St. Paul meant when he wrote in 1 Corinthians 13, “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have ...

744. Enemy in Disguise

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Those loyal and subject to God and scripture, those who uphold the laws and bear good “fruit” within the world can sometimes be led astray, betrayed, or duped. But they will prevail in the end. Their good fruit will prove their identity, their worth, and their ability to nourish others. Those betraying any of God’s children however will not fare so well. Loyalty to God, one’s true identity in the world, is important. Sin and evil may be a reality. We live in a world filled with both good and evil ...

745. The Reckoning

Matthew 14:13-21, Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... when he’s a sinner, and a thief, and a coward, and a deceiver! He’s feeling insecure. He’s feeling guilty. He’s feeling afraid. He’s feeling like a jerk, a failure. Most of all, he needs to trust in the goodness of God, in God’s ability to forgive him more than he is able to forgive himself. He needs to trust in God’s wisdom in blessing him, Jacob the deceiver, as Covenant Carrier for God’s blessed people. As Jacob struggles, God breaks him, and then blesses him. In that time of reckoning ...

746. The Contestant

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... fear and restore our sense of equilibrium. From the beginning of time, we have set ourselves up as “contestants” with God. We are slow learners. When we allow Jesus on our side, in our corner, in our lives, in our boat, when we trust in who he is and his ability to care for us even in times of trouble, that is when we both win. Bravado comes from fear and mistrust. We fear what we do not know or do not understand, and as a result, we do not trust ourselves, our luck, or our lives to that person or ...

747. Human Things

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... undergo suffering, be killed, and then be raised. Peter wants to bypass God’s plan in favor of what he sees as a more reasonable strategy. Jesus promptly puts Peter in his place --behind Jesus, not in front of him! Peter has failed in his ability to derive his judgment/understanding/wisdom/determination of the situation at hand from God's guidance. Instead, he is leading by his own "reason." While as Paul puts it, there is neither Greek nor Jew in God's kingdom --in fact, there IS a radical difference ...

748. Speaking of Us

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Steve Molin

... . But now the rent comes due. The rent God seeks from us is our time. There are 168 hours a week, and yet we begrudge being asked to spend one quiet hour in worship each week to give thanks. The rent God seeks is our abilities. We have been gifted with amazing talents, skills and abilities, but we often dismiss what we can do, and we covet someone else’s talent. The rent God seeks is a portion of our money. Everything we have in this world actually belongs to God, and is simply on loan to us. He asks that ...

749. Investment Choices

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Steve Molin

... I meant loaned. Like the owner going on the journey, God has loaned to us these vast gifts; both financial and personal. It’s a clue in this mystery of living that many fail to see, or choose to ignore; that the stuff, and the talents and the abilities we possess aren’t really our own doing. They don’t belong to us, we just think they do. We think we were born poor and worked ourselves rich, or that we were born dumb and worked ourselves smart. And therefore, everything we have is earned and deserved ...

750. Wrapped in a Cloud

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... God touched down on earth in the human form of Jesus the impossible came to be, just as the many other impossible miracles that God has done within our world and beyond. Because God has a dream for humanity that goes beyond our comprehension, our ability, and often our willingness to understand. In 1965, Andy Williams sang a song that became wildly popular. From the musical, “Man of La Mancha, the song stays on the lips of many today: “To Dream the Impossible Dream.” Listen to the lyrics for a moment ...

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