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751. Follow That Star

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... following their star that they might worship the one who had been born king of the Jews. The three wise men came with pure hearts. Their purpose was worship and praise. They came not to find gold, but to find God. Their purpose was to offer up gifts to their Savior and Redeemer. One of the oldest Christian legends is the charming story concerning the Well of the Magi near Bethlehem. The people of Bethlehem made a practice of going to this well during Christmas week. There they would bend over the opening of ...

752. Grace in the Midst of Limited Resources

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... asked. The pastor was already late for an appointment, so he said, "To tell you the truth, I can't really talk to you right now." "That's okay," they said. "We'll just walk with you outside. We only need a minute." Years ago this couple had received a gift from the church to help them through a tough time in their lives. "God's been doing wonderful things for us," they said, "so now we can offer back what you offered to us." They handed the pastor a check. There was the second half of the money for the ...

753. East Of Eden And The City Of Beginning

Genesis 4:1-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... said about the turtle who found himself atop a six-foot fence post in a bean field. "He didn't get where he was all by himself." We know that about our situations. We didn't get there by ourselves, so we blame God. Cain, unable to understand why his gift is not accepted, stands before the altar of God with a godless heart. God is not acting according to his program. God's response is not what he anticipated. And so Cain reflects our egotism -- and our lack of trust. When things don't go our way, we blame ...

754. Noah: The Bearer Of An Alternative Possibility

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , who have it in them to give their hearts to Him, but who can also stand up to Him as rebels and throw up the whole deal like Prometheus. "So this is the other side of the fact that God is great and good enough to grant the gift of freedom. Now He must accept the possibility that this man may also use this freedom against Him and thus decide against Him... "In reality, this was the beginning of the suffering of God which reached its culmination on Calvary. God suffers the consequences of His goodness. He ...

755. To Live Is To Grow

1 Timothy 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... recognize and affirm our weakness and strength, our concern and apathy, our hopes and fears, our potentials for creativity and destructiveness. We are aware that we are all these things, and yet we're a unique unrepeatable miracle of God. Woodrow Wilson was a man of great personal gifts. He was not, however, the best-looking fellow in the world, and he knew it. He was fond of quoting the limerick of Anthony Euwer: "As a beauty I'm not a great star, There are others more handsome by far; But my face I don't ...

756. Seeing the Good News

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... leave of the real world for a time and wait for that wonderful something that will come to us all and bring peace and joy to the world -- but it never quite arrives and we wait for another year to dream again." If somehow you were given the gift of writing a headline for the morning newspaper that would come true as you wrote it -- what would that headline be? Would it be the kinds of headlines that fill our newspapers today? Of course not. Deep within our hearts we want good news and not bad news. Life ...

757. Costly Extravagance

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Frank G. Honeycutt

... out what could have been a nest egg for the family, maybe their life savings, and anointed the feet of the one to whom she owed everything. Maybe she overdid it. Maybe she got carried away. Should Jesus have scolded her for wasting such an expensive gift in such a foolish way? "Leave her alone," he said. This is a dinner where two grateful sisters give thanks to Jesus for restoring a once-dead brother. Was the response extravagant? Did Mary overdo it? Probably. But how could Jesus have done anything except ...

758. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... had become a reflex. If we take the teaching of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount and turn it into a new law, another burden we must carry to earn the title of disciple or bear the name Christian, we will have misread his intent. This teaching is a gift. It is a description of what life looks like from inside the kingdom of God. In Jesus as its visible ambassador, and through the Holy Spirit as its invisible power, we have access to the kingdom rule of God the Father. In the midst of this fallen world, shot ...

759. Achieving Peak Performance

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... a whole lot more people in mission, more than our present structure allows us to do. So what did we do? We got rid of the structure, and introduced a whole new one that invites everybody in this church to take part, everybody to participate someplace, where your gifts can be used. This is the day that we initiate that new way of being in mission. Linder Hall is going to be divided into seven Keys over there. The Keys correspond to something that we do in order to carry out our mission in this place. You ...

760. Epiphany 6

Matthew 5:17-37, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16; 3:1-23, Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalm 119

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John R. Brokhoff

... , nor does he love us, only when we first are obedient to his laws. It is like telling a child that Santa will not bring him gifts unless he is a good boy. The witness of the New Testament is that God loves us though we are sinners. His love causes us to ... realities. Outline: The Spirit gives the wisdom of God. a. A comprehension of God's thoughts - v. 11. b. An understanding of God's gifts - v. 12. c. An interpretation of God's truth - v. 13. WORSHIP RESOURCES Psalm of the Day: Psalm 119:1-8 (C); Psalm 119: ...

761. The Spread of Sin

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... we all doomed forever to have no love or peace or sense of community among neighbors and nations, between brothers and sisters, between husbands and wives? Are we all left with the beauty of the earth turned to thorns and thistles by our ravaging, and God’s good gift of work turned into drudgery and futility (3:17-19)? Are we all cut off from our God forever and therefore fated to die, apart from him who is the one source of all life and good? The answers to those questions are furnished by our text for ...

762. Lent 2

Psalm 121:1-8, Genesis 12:1-8, Romans 4:1-25, John 3:1-21

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... Old Testament lessons up to this point, give way to divine promise of life and blessing in Genesis 12:1-4a . Psalm 122 takes the divine promise of life and blessing into the setting of worship, where it functions both as a song of praise to God for the gift of peace and salvation, and as encouragement to the worshiper to seek the security of God's grace. Genesis 12:1-4a - "The Working Out of God's Blessing" Setting. Genesis 12:1-4a is a transitional text in the book of Genesis. It provides a hinge between ...

763. What Is Eternal Life?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... human life made possible because “God so loved the world.” Did you hear that? “God so loved THE WORLD.” The moment of God’s love is “now.” The moment of God’s love is eternal life. That eternal “now” is possible now because of a specific gift: God “gave his only Son.” God first gave the Son to the world, to an earthly life. Then God gave the Son to the cross, to an atoning death. This atonement makes possible a living At-One-Ment with God, with self, with others, with all creation ...

764. Like a Rose - Holy Communion

Luke 22:7-38

Sermon

James McCormick

... it is something we do, and by the doing of it, we open ourselves to meet Christ here…we meet Christ and receive all the gifts of his love. In other words, we are not just remembering Jesus, and all of the good things that God did through him long ... few days. It’s a nice gesture, but after all, it’s only a rose.” But they’re wrong. Anyone who dismisses such a gift so quickly has failed to see beyond the obvious. There is a deeply meaningful world of reality which such a person has missed entirely. It ...

765. The Sin of Robin Hood

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... to tell you today that God wants your life. He wants you heart, soul, body, mind, and will so badly He has paid for it with the blood of his own Son. If today you will give your life to Christ, He will give to you the greatest gift of all, eternal life. [1] "How Honest Are Americans?", USA Today (magazine), December, 1994. [2] James Patterson and Peter Kim, The Day America Told the Truth, (New York: Plume, 1992), 156-57. [3] Charles R. Swindoll, The Quest for Character, p. 70. [4] USA Today magazine, op ...

766. If You're Not Loving You're Not Living (Fruit of the Spirit: Love)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... produced in us; by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Furthermore this fruit is singular, it is not plural. These are not the fruits of the Spirit, they are the fruit of the Spirit. You see, it is not like the gifts of the Spirit where different Christians have different gifts, although no one Christian has all the gifts. But every Christian is to bear the full fruit of the Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is not like an apple on a stem, it is like grapes in a cluster. This fruit is never out of season, it ...

767. It Was the Birthday of a King

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... He would ruin their party. How would you feel if someone threw a birthday party for you, and at the party everybody got a gift but you? How would you feel if somebody threw a party for you, but you were not even mentioned, in fact, you were not ... which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.'" "I would believe it if when that baby was born wise men traveled from afar and brought gifts to worship him and a star guided him to where that baby lay." "I would believe it if her son had power over the wind and ...

768. Living Out the Promise of This Child

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... and brothers as families strive together to fulfill that promise. And amazingly, in the midst of all this, God reaffirms the gift of life upon arrival at Christmastime. God arrives as living promise to offer still more to a people who have indeed ... sisters and brothers, let's try to do things a little differently. After we go through the pile of stuff under the tree, let's unwrap one more gift together. What do you say? Let's you and I cut the ribbon and tear off the paper. Let's you and I open the box and ...

769. Giving Whole-heartedly

Matthew 23:1-12

Illustration

Billy D. Strayhorn

... She probably won't be remembered by very many people of power, position or substance but she will be remembered by the ongoing impact she continues to make on the lives of students at the University of Southern Mississippi. Had it not been for her selfless gift, probably none of us would have ever heard about Osceola McCarty. You see, Osceola McCarty was a washer woman. She washed other peoples' clothes all of her life. And every week, she put a little aside in a savings account. Her banker told that was a ...

770. MegaGrace

Acts 4:32-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ongoing mission of the church to survive despite itself. The focus on "great grace" as it is presented in this week's text from Acts invites you to discuss with your congregation one of the most powerful and poignant messages of the Bible - the unmerited gift of God's grace to every one of us. Perhaps no aspect of the biblical message has moved the people and politics of the Church as profoundly as grace. This "crucial eccentricity of the Christian faith" (Frederick Buechner) that declares we are saved by ...

771. The Widow's Might

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 's "standards." The challenge that greets disciples of Jesus is whether or not we can buck this big bucks system. Jesus' declaration that the pittance poured down that treasury trumpet-spout by a faithful widow was more generous than all the spilling-over riches of the gifts that had gone before her calls us to sit up and take note. To make any sense of Jesus' pronouncement, we must radically adjust our value system. Christ's challenge to us in this text is literally to let the "scales" fall from our eyes ...

772. What Jesus Wants for Chrismas (Part 1)

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is a Christian country, and it's the Savior's birthday. Practically everybody you will see will be drunk" (Aldous Huxley, The Genius and the Goddess [New York: Harper, 1955]). Many Christians have a tradition of making a so-called "Christmas offering." This is a special gift of money or some other needed commodity to the church or to a relief organization during the Christmas season. Most of us would naturally label this kind of giving as "a nice thing to do." But this year, consider that this is not just a ...

773. James 1:17-27

James 1:17-27

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... characterized as "straw," it should be qualified as builder's straw. When bricks are painstakingly constructed by hand out of earth and water, good builders know that adding straw to the mixture gives it greater strength and coherence. For James to focus on the gift of grace and not stress an accompanying offspring of good works is to seriously misunderstand God's purposes. This week's text from James reflects its author's concern with the believer's response to the good news of salvation. God does not set ...

774. 2 Timothy 1:1-14

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... excellent example. Perhaps Paul is also subtly emphasizing a kind of legitimizing authority for Christianity as a faith that, like Judaism, creates a "people." Paul then shifts his focus over to the issue of Timothy's own personal gifts. Verses 6-7 address Paul's concern that Timothy "rekindle" those gifts that he received from Paul's own hands - most likely at his ordination by Paul into a specially designated ministry. Paul's message to Timothy is that he is as responsible for the maintenance of his own ...

775. Acts 2:1-21

Acts 2:1-21

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... the immediate result of the descended Holy Spirit is a linguistic miracle. There is a difference between the kind of gift of language Luke reports these disciples experiencing on this day of Pentecost, and the later experiences of "glossolalia" Peter and ... final message he now wishes to voice about the Pentecost event. Peter himself symbolizes and embodies yet another kind of language-gift the dancing flames of the Holy Spirit had imparted the power to turn the fearful and tongue-tied into vital witnesses ...

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