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776. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... your honest opinion," said DaVinci. "It's wonderful"' said his friend. "In fact, that cup is so real I cannot keep my eyes off it." Immediately, DaVinci took a brush and drew it across the sparkling cup, removing its glow. He said, "If it affects you that way, it must not remain." "But why," asked his friend. "The cup was beautiful." "Because," said the great artist, "Nothing whatsoever shall distract attention from the figure of Christ." When you explain the dynamism of Christ Church, point to Jesus Christ ...

777. The Road To Emmaus

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... bloody bird and began to cry. He ran back to the farm, obtained a shovel, and buried the owl in the orchard. At night he would dream of that owl. As the years passed he never got over what had happened that summer day. Deep down it affected him for the rest of his life. As an older man he said he never, ever killed anything again. Do you see it? Something significant happened after that event. Something that Walter didn’t miss. Something which transformed Walter Elias, something that redeemed him from the ...

778. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... way regardless, but there is no sense in soliciting more. I doubt the wisdom of going to cocktail parties where husband and wife are expected to separate at the door and mingle all evening. I doubt the wisdom of office parties where too much alcohol and affection are dispensed rather carelessly. When out of town on business, a hotel lounge is not the best place to hang out. All these situations pave the way for lust. We must stay clear of all the temptations we can avoid. Though some temptations cannot be ...

779. The Words We Speak

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... And in verse 32 he adds, "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ has forgiven you." Of course, "grace" means undeserved love, unmerited favor. On a daily basis, our words should bless and comfort and encourage and express affection toward our spouses. Christian couples owe each other a daily dose of grace. Much of kindness is just plain courtesy. How strange that often we stop being courteous to someone after we marry him or her. Don't stop saying "please" and "thank ...

780. Naaman, the Leper

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Don Yocom

... , turning back, he knelt before Victoria and said, with emotion in his voice, "O Queen, I gave you this jewel when I was too young to know what I was doing. I want to give it to you again, now, in the fulness of my strength, with all my affection, fully realizing what I do." The Queen accepted the gift graciously. Like many people, you may have decided in your childhood to love Jesus. Well and good! Too often it is a choice forgotten or dimmed by the years. Like the Maharajah of Punjab, we need to recommit ...

781. SURVIVAL IN THE RAT RACE

Psalm 46:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... to read faster. Phooey! What America needs is more slow readers and few fast talkers. Speed doesn’t beget comprehension. It’s almost impossible to enjoy a landscape while you are speeding down an expressway." A movie star quoted the line that he said had most affected his own life. It was this: "You only pass this way but once. You had better take some time to smell the flowers." How long has it been since you took time to do that? Certainly we see it in other places. "Look" magazine quotes the famous ...

782. A Time for Tears

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... : HE HAD STRENGTH ENOUGH TO WEEP! Perhaps Jesus can help us understand that to weep is not necessarily, as Shakespeare put it, "to play the woman with our eyes." It may be playing the man. Outward signs of toughness like some of our teenagers try to affect don’t PROVE strength. They DISPROVE it. Just so, signs of tenderness don’t prove weakness. Tenderness, displayed by a man, is a sign of strength, because only a man who is sure of his strength and his manhood can afford to be tender! Then, too, we ...

783. Worn Out? Tired? Weary?

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that is helpful to others and satisfying and fulfilling to ourselves. Most of us take ourselves too seriously. We are chronically weary, trying to maintain our position, the stance of our ego. The first question that we ask about anything is: "How will this affect me?" The next question we ask is: "How will this impress other people?" The worrier is always sensitive, easily hurt, always on guard to defend what is his, his pride and his possessions. He compromises only when he’s afraid. He listens to ...

784. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... for those that we love as well as create. So often when sexual relations occur outside of marriage neither that love, nor responsibility play much, if any, part in the act. It is a short term, sometimes a one-fling affair, with the after affects being the problem of the individual. Or, maybe, the problem of the individual along with those that love them. Because that love, and a sense of responsibility are not there, grief, rather than enrichment, is the ultimate result of such experiences more often than ...

785. Chapter X

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... or something, that makes a person react to it in a way that can bring grief to the "lover," the "loved" and whoever may possess whatever it is on which the "lover" may fix his eye. It is interesting that even ancient people were able to see that attitudes affect the way a man lives. What determines how we relate to what we find in life is not so much the people we meet, nor the circumstances in which we find ourselves, but how we think about them. Long before Freud came along the Bible knew that thoughts ...

786. DOCTOR OF THE LAW

Luke 5:17; Acts 5:34

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... day life of the Jews. To this degree, they went far beyond the modern professor, who seldom works with material of his own. Of course, these men weren’t working with extraneous material, either, but they were making individual judgments and applications that affected almost all of the people. It was through the work of these men that was built up the Talmud - "the Instruction," or, "the Recitation." This is an extraordinary work, made up of two divisions. The first is the Mishnah, which is written in ...

787. Parents, Tend Those Lambs!

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... lambs are your children. Notice that Jesus ordered Simon Peter to be especially attentive to the young sheep. Perhaps we parents are Simon Peter's special assistants in caring for the lambs. Even today in the Middle East, shepherds give their sheep lots of attention and affection, especially the lambs. They name them, pet them, and talk to them as we do puppies. Can we do less with our precious children? No child ever gets enough healthy hugs. No child ever gets too old for a parent to say at the end of ...

788. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... selling fertilizer and owed everybody in Mississippi. But the Lord found me faithful when I had a little. Now he's trusting me with a bunch." Jerry went on to say, "If someone wrote a check for the entire budget of my church, it would not affect my giving one bit, because no one is going to take away from me the beautiful, wonderful, blessing of sharing." I doubt that the Jerusalem widow was a violent woman. But I suspect she would have fought anyone who tried to prevent her from expressing her gratitude ...

789. The Greatest Story Ever Told

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 't even know about. Suddenly, in the words of the parable, Ralph comes to himself. He regains his senses. The final scene is there in the kitchen. Ralph comes to his senses, in the words of the parable. With that hang-dog look that only Gleason could affect, he shuffles awkwardly around the kitchen, searching for words. Finally he says, "Okay, Alice, I've proved it again. I'm the dumbest guy in all of Brooklyn. I just don't understand why you continue to put up with me." She replies: "That's simple, Ralph ...

790. Only One Superpower

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... other hand, if a company has the courage to stand up for morality and family values, reward it. Wal-Mart is the single largest seller of pop music in the country. Its refusal to stock albums with lyrics or cover art it finds objectionable is affecting the production of music. Because of Wal-Mart's clout, record companies and bands are designing different covers, omitting certain songs from their albums, and even changing lyrics in order to gain a place on Wal-Mart shelves. Other companies like K-Mart and ...

791. We Are More Than Laborers - Labor Day

2 Thessalonians 3:6-15, Ecclesiastes 5:8--6:12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the results of works, so that no one may boast.” One of the messages of that verse is that our worth before God would be exactly the same even if we were to be unemployed. Our value was secured by what Jesus Christ did on a cross; it is not affected by how much or how little we do. Lloyd Ogilvie is a distinguished Presbyterian pastor who currently serves as Chaplain to the United States Senate. In one of his books he tells about the time when he crushed his left let in a bad fall. For three months, he was ...

792. Friction Points

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... be wise; be warned, you rulers of the earth. Serve the Lord d rejoice with trembling; for God’s wrath can flare up in a moment.” If a man or a woman cannot be trusted with private moral decisions how can he or she be trusted with moral decisions affecting all of society? Character is one seamless garment, covering both private and facets of one's life. There is a line that sums it up: "You can’t live crooked and think straight whether you’re a chauffeur or a Chief of State." I don’t need to tell ...

793. God’s Chosen Country

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... people who must have frequently asked themselves, "Why us?" On this second Sunday in Advent we see a further unfolding of God’s plan of salvation as the peoples of the world look toward one nation, the Hebrews, sent on a mission that would affect us all. The sacred scriptures of the Hebrews are filled with an urgency and a gentler longing for something better. It became apparent through the centuries that the something would be Someone. The Spirit of the Sovereign God is upon me, because God has anointed ...

794. A River Of Destiny

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

... of the water the flash of bird’s wings, and hear a voice saying to one who stands silently there, "This is My Beloved." Did we hear only the reeds whispering in the water? The small whirlpools touching the sands? Maybe all of this is simply our imagination affected by too much sunlight and moving water. No, we hear more.... The Jordan was not new to Jesus or John. Both had played in its waters as children in upcountry Galilee. The same waters Jesus swam in as a child would later be used to baptize him and ...

795. Song of a Poet Laureate

Psalm 2:1-12

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... such magnitude that not even Israel’s wildest moment of pride had fostered anything like it. God in his heaven, the poet announces, will entrust Israel - and, by logical extension, the king - with dominion over the whole earth. So great is the Lord’s affection for her, in fact, that he will expand her boundaries well beyond the narrow strip of seaboard she now occupies to provide her a territory greater than the domains of the giant empires on either side of her. In support of his prophecy the psalmist ...

796. Song of an Evangelist

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... his own. Neither will he continually chide. For God is aware of his children’s frailties, and he does not deal with them according to the measures of their sins or requite them according to their iniquities. Instead, he waits for the power of a great affection to persuade the changing of their ways. And when they are penitent God wipes the slate clean of their transgressions. So there is no need for persons to brood over past offenses since there is newness of life in the Eternal’s mercy (Psalm 103:8 ...

797. Rules For Living

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Robert Allen

... embarrassing a little bit for me to talk about because it’s personal. But, the most significant discovery that I have made is my relationship with God through Jesus Christ." He was the most powerful man in the free world. Every day he made decisions that affected the destiny of our nation and the world. He was busy as he sought to move our country in a new direction. Yet, he had his priorities straight, because he recognized that his relationship with God was the most significant part of his life. Are you ...

798. Why Don’t You Send Somebody?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... is always specific in its effect upon people. One does not have to have been the victim of war or violence, or an outside force or enemy, to understand the desolation of the human spirit. The social ills we can all name do not just affect nameless and faceless groups. They are not statistical tables, but people who have the spirit crushed out of them by poverty, and unemployment, and racism. Whole sections of our society suffer together from these scourges, but it is individual people who are hurt by them ...

799. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... stand in the way of that presence, and it takes a friend to encourage us to step down into the stream. The words of an old spiritual song encourage us, saying, "Wade in the water. Wade in the water, children." Whatever the illness or pain or sorrow that may be affecting your life at this moment, there is help. It may not be the magical cure you would like, but it is healing to the inner life that will enable you to bear up under whatever burden you must carry. Each of us needs to know we are not alone. The ...

800. The Scandal Of Redeeming Love

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... Yahweh, so he tried to unify and save his nation, principally by calling the people back to the covenant. The dramatic means he chose to gain attention was by the revelation of his own very painful domestic tragedy. It was that tragedy which so deeply affected his own life that became the means of insight into what he supposed were the feelings of Yahweh toward the faithless nation of Israel. Gomer abandoned him, but he continued to love her through the pain of feeling deserted. Thus he posited the idea ...

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