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726. A Way Made Ready

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... of Jesus, receive His coming, and then let Him pass by! He has to follow Jesus on the way, on the way to Jerusalem, on the way through the heart of the city up to a hill called Golgotha, on the way to the cross. That is Jesus’ way. Bartimaeus understands that experiencing the coming of Jesus, receiving all God wants to pour out upon us, will only be found in its fullness on the way with Christ. So he joins Christ on His way. It is the example of John the Baptist, the one he models for us in the ...

727. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... mutter some sort of incantation to ward off evil spirits. But Jesus put all of this aside, and said to him, simply, “Go...your son will live.” His personal presence by the boy’s bedside was not necessary. This may give us a clue to further understanding of what intercessory prayer means. Remember that prayer does not change God’s mind; it releases God’s power. And that power can be released from a distance, because all of us are linked up with one another in God. In his classic book on the subject ...

728. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... see God’s nature, which is love, but I don’t think we can see God “as He really is.” I doubt whether we could stand to see God “as He really is.” The God of the Bible is both hidden and revealed. One reason for this is our limited understanding. How could we handle such a revelation? I have a hunch that it would overwhelm us. Another reason that we can never see God “as He really is” is that God always leaves room for doubt. We are not forced into faith. If we could see God “as He really ...

729. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... things which should concern us under the heading of “sin,” and not just the petty peccadilloes which so often go by that name. The real blasphemy of our world is not words, but war. So: the Holy Spirit comes to show us where we are wrong in our understanding of judgment and of sin. But above all, the Holy Spirit has one primary task, according to Jesus: that is to point to Him. The Holy Spirit is the shy member of the Trinity, and wishes to point us to Christ rather than to Himself. There is a story ...

730. Food for the Fed-up

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... upon the table the words of Jesus, “This is my body!” as though that settled the question. But someone else at that table could also have inscribed other words of Jesus, “I am the door!” Jesus said that, also, and He meant it. But nobody understands that to mean that He was a literal door, swinging on hinges! In this Fourth Gospel we must constantly be on the lookout for double meanings, and nowhere more so than in this sixth chapter. Earlier on John wrote “the word became flesh and lived among ...

731. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... insensitive person I all too often am. There is the person of high ethical and moral standards I want to be in my best moments, and then there is the other sort of person I all too often am in the routines of business life. I think we can all understand the person who said: “Each of us tends to be, not a single self, but a whole committee of selves.” We are all mixtures of angel and devil, good and bad, clean and unclean. And Jesus commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. It did, and as ...

732. The Laying on of Hands

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... window on a summer morning. The supreme example, of course, is Jesus Himself. He laid His hands upon a cross...an instrument of cruel torture, and transformed it into a positive sign of hope. So that we put them on our altars and worship under them. We may not understand the cross, but we stand under it. He laid His hands on a cross, an evil thing, and it became transformed. It lived. If you have ever seen the Armenian Cross, you will note that it is very different from the ones we are used to. It is very ...

733. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... on vacation, the church is still here, working away at bringing ministry to persons in need, week after week. II. “AS HE WENT ASHORE HE SAW A GREAT THRONG, AND HE HAD COMPASSION ON THEM.” (6:34a) That’s Jesus for you. He had compassion. One might understand if He had become irritated. I probably would have. Here was a chance to get away for a rest...they even went to a lonely, deserted place to get away from the crowds...but when they arrived, the crowds had beaten them to it! Jesus might have become ...

734. Palm Sunday (Prologue)

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... reigning in a very different kind of kingdom: a kingdom of love. And He still wants to ride into our hearts and lives and into our history, and to reign there as King of kings and Lord of lords. He still weeps that so many of us do not understand what He stands for, and He has the haunting suspicion that if we did, we, too, would probably abandon Him! I came across a story about that terrible winter at Valley Forge at the beginning of our country’s history, when a government official arrived on the scene ...

735. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . Rugged individualism fades away when we truly become part of a faith community. The Bible further expresses this truth when the Apostle Paul describes the church "as the body of Christ." SECONDLY, DO NOT LET YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF GOD AS FATHER BE LIMITED BY OUR PRESENT DAY UNDERSTANDING OF FATHERS AND FATHERHOOD. It is a tragedy that Fatherhood as depicted in our media generation is anything but positive and flattering. However, I know that when Jesus called God "Father" he was describing a father ...

736. A Glimpse of Eternity

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is being conveyed. It is very much like the glasses I have on my face to see better. I don''t have better eyesight by looking at my glasses but because I look through the lenses of my glasses. I don''t have a better life and understanding of life because of faith, but because God allows my life to look through the lens of faith that help the believer to see insights and satisfies yearnings we cannot do on our wisdom and reasoning. William Barclay is absolutely correct when he writes, "It was inevitable ...

737. He Came by Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... to fall into place, and I'd like to share them with you. But let me tell you about myself so that you will understand the significance of what I received from Jesus. I've already told you that I am a professor of religion. In fact, when I met ... was that it was necessary to be born again. He said, "No one can see the kingdom of God without being born anew." I didn't understand how that was to be accomplished. Did it involve starting one's physical existence all over again? For me, as an old man, that would ...

738. Is Your Love Shy?

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... child seeing the king said aloud, "Why, what's the king doing walking around in his underwear?" And can't vanity make a royal fool out of us all! Do ask! Fire away with your questions. Here in the church feel free to go ahead and say, "I don't understand. Explain it once more." No one will laugh at you for your questing and questioning mind. Afraid of the Answer So, why is it we're afraid to ask? Pride! We're simply afraid of showing our ignorance. And now, passing on, here's a second reason we don't ...

739. A Guiding Presence

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we vote, then we take a political position, then we support and join a cause. I’m saying friends that we don’t ask God to give us what we want or bless what we decide. Rather we immerse ourselves in scripture so that we can grow in our understanding in the mind of Christ. Then as we cultivate an awareness of the indwelling Christ, we have a sensitivity to, a feel for, a kind of knowing about how he would act in and through us. So guidance comes through prayer and scripture. Let me share a portion of ...

740. Adoration And Confession

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that characterizes most of us than that. Our vague spiritual uneasiness. The lack of confidence and joy, the absence of spiritual vitality and power. We may come to see that we’re much further away from Christ than we realize, then we will begin to understand why our worship and praying have become little more than a formality, a duty that we reluctantly perform. We may even be shocked to realize that the reason we’re so turned off by other Christians who call themselves born-again is they are spirit ...

741. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the best time for this is late in the evening, just before we go to sleep. And this is the way it might work. We replay the day, moving through it hour by hour, job to job, relationship to relationship. Did I do my best in that job? Was I understanding and kind in that relationship? Did I speak the truth in love? Was I condemning, judgmental? Did I fail to speak when I should have? Did I allow someone to be hurt by idle gossip without raising a question? Did I write the needed letter or make the helpful ...

742. The Easter Question: Why Are You Weeping? Whom Do You Seek?

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... always believed in you, and I can go no deeper in sorrow than I am. Please put your loving arms around me and give me your understanding and love and forgive me for all I have done." (Jesus) came into that cell, even bars cannot keep him out, and gave me a ... and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also." Two of the disciples Thomas and Philip don't understand all of that. So Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the father, and it is sufficient for us." It was then that Jesus said ...

743. Making Your Days Count

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... did not want anyone to know where they were, because he was teaching his disciples. He said to them, 'The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and after three days he will rise.' But they did not understand what he meant and were afraid to ask him about it." The reason Jesus understood his purpose so clearly is because he was thinking with the mind of God. Throughout the Gospels, we read of Jesus spending time in prayer. Through prayer, he filled his mind with the ...

744. The Perfect Man

Hebrews 10:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Some people blame it on technology. As we get more and more wired, we give up some of our privacy. A family in Sweden has set up a Web cam in their refrigerator so that people all over the world can see what they eat. I understand there are places on the Internet where people have set up cameras in even more private places than the refrigerator. One consequence of this lessening privacy is that people are discovering that their eccentricities are shared by others. As people’s private lives are laid bare ...

745. God Outwits Us

Psalm 31:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... universe has become flesh; He has revealed himself as a loving father. God cannot be less than we are; he must be more. Our understanding is partial and dim, but we know at least that God is greater than we are. We grasp for analogies. Some people are artists, ... ? It is so hard to trust. But as I continue to look at Jesus’ life, I feel especially drawn to Him. I feel that I understand some small piece of what suffering is all about and how much he must have really loved me. And even though it is hard to ...

746. To the Mountain

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Charles Curley

... a "break" from the suffering of the world, but to be seen as a gift in God’s grace impelling Jesus deeper and deeper into the pain and darkness of a suffering world - until that pain and darkness culminated in the cross. Peter, James and John could not understand on the mountain that God’s glory was not to be found apart from the suffering world in the valley. Peter wanted to build "booths" to stay on the mountain, to bask in the glory. But the blinding light on the mountaintop was a declaration of the ...

747. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. . . I rejoice in the Lord greatly that now at last you have revived your concern for me; indeed, you were concerned for me, but had no opportunity to show it. Not that I am referring ...

748. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... it comes to the kingdom of God. Doing what God told you to do is the path to further divine revelation. As the hymn teaches, “Trust and obey, for there’s no other way, to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey.”8 Outsiders do not and cannot understand because they have not yet obeyed. This much is clear; first Jesus called them to follow. They did. He then launched out on an initial ministry tour- his first as well by the way, which was a kind of extended field trip with him in the lead from village ...

749. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in which you enter what is called the zone, a place of purity and ecstasy where you merge with the music. God will meet our needs, but our deepest need is for more of God. It is amazing how quickly things and stuff come back into perspective once you understand the rewards of God. Nothing is better than the reward that comes from God. Success without God is a dead end and path Satan uses to destroy the up-and-out. Virginia Law Shell tells that she once heard of a father who asked his son when he planned ...

750. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... of the order into which God hopes to bring all things. That needs more attention than we can give it right now. Just remember it and think about it when you have the chance. Let's go back to the flood. Where did that come from? In the understanding of the ancients, there was no guarantee that, once things were created they would stay created. The darkness and death and chaos were simply pushed back and held at bay so that order and life could emerge. But they didn't go away. They were always hovering there ...

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