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751. Are You In The Know?

John 10:27-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... of Athens and magnetometers that were cranked up to detect a pen-knife in a briefcase and packs of bomb-sniffing dogs. They had a $350 million dollar state of the art nerve center linking 105 sub-command stations using sonar devices, motion sensitive forces and 1400 cameras to analyze everything from traffic flow to air currents. They even had "echo-location" devices to scan for suicide swimmers in the port and $18 million dollars worth of mechanical sniffers for nuclear, biological and chemical bombs. Yet ...

752. One Step at a Time

Nehemiah 2:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... for you to learn the next time the pressure is on, the heat is up, you're about to present the most crucial market proposal of your career, you're about to handle the most difficult customer in your business, or you're about to address a very sensitive problem with your spouse, before you do it - pray. Nehemiah had done something else besides pray. He had also planned. You are going to see that in the response that he gives to the king. One of the greatest mistakes people make when they face problems is ...

753. A Clear and Present Danger

Nehemiah 5:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... is so great, that you are going to see the only time he stops the work on the wall. In doing so, he teaches us how to handle the clear and present danger of internal conflict whether it is in your marriage, your business, or a church. I. Sensitively React To Complaints And there was a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brethren. For there were those who said, "We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live." There were also some ...

754. Pro-Choice is No-Choice

Proverbs 24:11-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... it will be handicapped, then you can make the argument we ought to kill all people who are handicapped today. The fact is, it is no more right to kill a handicapped child than it is to kill an un-handicapped child. But that raises also the sensitive question of rape and incest. Even if you believe that rape and incest are legitimate reasons for abortion that would amount to only 1% of all abortions. Let me ask you a question. In a rape, the guilty party is the rapist; the unborn child is the innocent ...

755. Experiencing God

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... to claim the Christian witness as our own.... Christian experience gives us new eyes to see the living truth of scripture. It confirms the biblical message for our present. It illumines our understanding of God and creation and motivates us to make sensitive moral judgments. It "confirms the biblical message for our present." That's the purpose of religious experience. Not to sustain emotion, but to connect us to faith. Even the original Pentecost disciples had to find the faith for the long haul. What we ...

756. Passing by the Children

Mark 9:33-37

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Thomas Peterson

... is lost. And for want of security and self-worth, the child is lost. In most churches I've known, members find it quite easy to pass a youth by; they are more timid to engage a child than a stranger in conversation. Frequently, when youth are on committees, little sensitivity is expressed toward making them comfortable and enabling them to contribute.

757. Bethlehem: Where Extremes Meet

Luke 2:1-14 (15-20)

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... often been in Christmas sermons, Dr. Hull suggests that the innkeeper should be praised for going out of his way to help this refugee couple in their time of need. I find this reconstruction both intriguing and convincing, and coupled with Joseph's sensitivity to Mary, it is a blessed contrast to the harshness of Nazareth. Here, leading up to the great event of Bethlehem itself, is a meeting place of extremes — human harshness and human kindness. Human beings' inhumanity to other human beings can be great ...

758. More Time

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... , occasionally we come across those who are near death's door and claim they have missed too many opportunities. Their entire stream of thought and conversation is one of allowing so much of life to escape unfulfilled. It can be a dreary time of sadness and heartbreak. Sensitive pastors and laity struggle with what to say to them. After all, if they are eighty years of age, what do we say to them? Do we suggest they pray for more time? Do they pray God's justice will be greatly tempered by his mercy? Do ...

759. A Good-bye Topping All Others

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... from our escape hatch is to delay the essential and perhaps to push us to the edge of hell. Those in the first century and in the twenty-first century, plus all in between, are validators. As we look at ourselves and observe others in spiritually sensitized ways, our plight is ever with us. But let us not be downcast; after all, our glorious and satisfying getaway is also with us. Thus, sayeth the Lord! Knowing and thoroughly believing this ought to make us humble, sincere, and confident in the Lord. Daily ...

760. Compassion Can Do More Than You May Think

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... this question and its answer, I don't think that's what the teacher was thinking about. I've come to the conclusion that the reason the professor focused on the downside rather than the upside was because he knew that's the way we become more sensitive and compassionate. That's how we learn to understand what others are going through. When we focus on the good fortunes that come to others, it has a way of making us jealous and envious. But when we direct our attention to what others are having to go ...

761. The Promise that Won’t Be Broken

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... falling into place or you can be stuck in prison with a limited future, and the promise is still good and ready to be claimed. I am sure that Timothy was worried about Paul. I am sure he was worried about the future. To this introverted, sensitive, sometimes fearful young man in Ephesus, Paul describes again the ingredients of the promise of life in Jesus Christ. He says to Timothy, "Remember the words of your mother and grandmother and let them be rekindled again." When things are going well, faith is easy ...

762. Good News about Ambition

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... John said, “We want you to do for us whatever we ask.” “What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asked. They replied, “Let one of us sit at your right and the other at your left in your glory.” This request seems to hit a sensitive nerve with Jesus. “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said. “Can you drink the cup I drink or be baptized with the baptism I am baptized with?” Here is where we see a real disconnect between the disciples’ expectations of why Christ has come into ...

763. Jimmy Carter's Effectiveness

Mark 10:35-45; 2 Cor 12:9

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Katherine Fagerburg

... as an international negotiator?" Wall replied, "Carter has the prestige and experience of the presidency without the political baggage. Furthermore, he is able to draw on his personal, deeply held religious belief that in talking with another person, one must be sensitive to the other's perspective." Calloway responded, "You are really saying that it is the one without power who really has power." That is closer to what Christ taught, that power is sometimes manifested in weakness, in giving oneself to ...

764. Washing in Old Jordan

2 Kings 5:1-14

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... school of thought that has been created to respond to problems in those areas: • if you are physically ill, you can turn to medicine; • if you are mentally upset, you can turn to psychiatry; • if you have trouble expressing your emotions, you can join a sensitivity group or an encounter group; and • if you are in poverty, the government is probably a better source of long-term help than the church. Many of the secular "rivers" of help are very fine; thank God we have them. And further, some of them ...

765. God's Eminent Domain

Jeremiah 18:1-11

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... Highway System would claim even more homes and farms, all in the name of progress. In 1960, the movie, Wild River, starred Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick. It depicted the plight of similar folks in the Tennessee River Valley. The tension focused on a sensitive and compassionate TVA agent (played by Clift), called in to remove an elderly matriarch who stubbornly refused to leave her ancestral home in the flood plain. Here were the graves of her husband and children and the home she had known all her days ...

766. Angels and Shepherds: Heaven Came Down and Glory Filled My Soul

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Kerry was reserved and reverent as she shared that experience, a bit embarrassed that such simple seeing would hit her with such force. I tried to identify with Kerry and affirm her in her new eyes for seeing. Most of us don’t have such wakeful and sensitive eyes. But later, as I reflected, I knew it was more than her artist view of things that was taking place in that experience. I thought about Moses and the burning bush. More than that, I thought about Bethlehem and the Manger – Mary and Joseph and ...

767. Motivated for Life

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Unfortunately, the corporate ritual didn’t have quite the intended effect. A dozen or so employees ended up with first‑ and second‑degree burns. One of their co‑workers, showing little team spirit, was hospitalized. “Some people just have incredibly sensitive feet,” said Robert Kallen, the motivational coach who organized the fire‑walk. This would be enough, you’d think, to put the fast‑food industry off of corporate mumbo‑jumbo retreats forever. But in early 2002, a group of Kentucky ...

768. In Success is the Seed of Failure

Matt 4:1-11; Mark 1:9-13; Luke 4:1-13

Illustration

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... is better that we become saints than corrupters, better that we use God's generous gifts rather than letting them lie idle or perverting them to unworthy purposes. God, the ultimate Source of success, would like for us to succeed and to learn from each success. But that calls for sensitive students, who never feel that they are above correction and reproof. In other words, the greatest lesson success can teach us is the humility that makes us keep on learning.

769. Yes, But How?

Luke 13:1-9

Illustration

Lee Griess

... "Yes, but how?" And that's the question for us this morning: "Yes, but how?" "I ought to know how to take better care of myself, but how?" "I know I ought to spend more time in scripture reading and prayer, but how?" "I know I ought to be more sensitive to others, more loving of my spouse, more understanding of the weaknesses of others, but how?" These are all good qualities and we know that, but how can we acquire them? As Christian people we know the kind of life we ought to live, and most of us have the ...

770. Valley of Suffering (Series: Peace in the Valley)

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... suffer?” I will not attempt to answer that question in this sermon. Instead, I want to offer some thoughts that I know to be true. Among them are these: I. Suffering Happens “Never morning wears to evening but some heart breaks, a heart just as sensitive as yours and mine.” Suffering comes to the just and the unjust. It is no respecter of persons. Several years ago, I preached a sermon entitled “Life Is Not Fair.” In that sermon, I flippantly said, “Life is not fair—get over it.” That night ...

771. The Challenge, The Call, The Cure

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and walked with crutches, wanted to play a part in the pageant. All of the major roles had been given out, Joseph, the Wise Men, Shepherds. The boy was disappointed. Finally, it was decided that he would play the role of the innkeeper. This boy was a very sensitive boy and it really bothered him that he was going to be the only person in the play who would have to reject Jesus. All during rehearsals he was excited to be in the pageant but troubled by his role. The night of the performance, the auditorium ...

772. Reassessing Our Laughter (Series: Questioning Our Values)

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... weep.” What could be the meaning of this Beatitude? May I suggest four things. I. Trouble Happens It rains on the just and the unjust. Pain is no respecter of persons. Never does the morning wear to evening without some heart breaking – a heart just as sensitive as yours and mine. That’s life. You who want to ignore that fact with shallow laughter, or bury your head in the sand of some spring break beach, or immerse yourself in the brackets of basketball frenzy—beware and be warned. For sudden as a ...

773. Radical Love in the Neighborhood (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... all travel the same road, only the Samaritan sees. He sees not a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian, a Hispanic, a protestant, a catholic, a straight, a gay; he sees a man, a man in need. Compassion does not require heroic gestures of self-denial, just ordinary sensitivity in everyday living. The Samaritan did not set out that day to rescue the perishing. We do not need to imitate Mother Theresa. We just need eyes to see the needs around us. Wherever we go, whatever we do, there are people in pain. Some are left ...

774. Being Christ by Affirming and Forgiving

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is the context in which the Spirit comes alive in relationship and evangelism takes place. It is a listening with mind and heart out of which comes revelation. When I listen in this fashion, the gap between the other person and me is bridged. A sensitivity comes that is not my own. I feel the pain, frustration, and anguish. Healing, reconciliation, strength, guidance are the miracles of love which take place when I attend, when I listen and look in the spirit of the indwelling Christ. Jesus no only listened ...

775. Our Common Life in Christ

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , correcting, guiding and restoring activity is in the spirit of Christ, who is gentle and calls us to gentleness. We handle each person with a kind of gentle care with which we would handle a piece of precious, fragile crystal. We seek to be sensitive to the brittleness of persons, to their high emotional pain threshold. We are firm, seeking never to fall in the ditch ourselves in order to help the sinner; but we are gentle, recognizing that the stakes are high - in fact, eternal. We don’t burst ...

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