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Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of gifts we should be offering this Christmas season. For only “out of the box” presents are worthy of being given to the Christ child. If this is Jesus’ birthday, and we should be giving presents to him, what kind of “out of the box” presents should we be giving him? We know the kind of gifts that Jesus would like to receive, no matter how hard we try to pretend we don’t. We know. We know. The Gold Gift of Love: Call it the Golden Rule, the Platinum Rule, or the Titanium Rule, we name it after ...

777. Proper 20

Mark 9:33-37, Mark 9:14-32, James 4:1-12, James 3:1-12, Proverbs 31:10-31

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John R. Brokhoff

... 13). The wife works day and night. She prepares food for her family and makes them clothing. She does not eat the bread of idleness. 3. Fears the Lord (v. 30). Not only does she work hard in caring for her family, but she is a devout woman. She teaches kindness and fears the Lord. She is generous to the poor. The secret of her greatness is her relationship to the Lord. Above all, she is a godly woman. Her husband and children deservedly praise her. Epistle: James 3:13 4:3, 7-8a 1. Wise (v. 13). Who is wise ...

778. Tinctures of Truth in the Tincture of Time

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Kids took comfort in very little — except for the fact that both iodine and merthiolate left impressive blood-red stains on the wound until it healed. These were a red badge of, if not courage, at least of a common kid-in-kind communion in pain. Tinctures are technically an extract with alcohol in it (usually of some plant material) or a solution (like iodine) of non-volatile substances. Volatile “tinctures” are known as “spirits.” For chemists a “tincture” is any solution that uses alcohol ...

779. What Is 40 Days Of Purpose?

2 Timothy 4:9-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... 10, "God has given each of you some special abilities. Be sure to use them to help each other passing on to others God's many kinds of blessings." (I Peter 4:10, LB) To put it another way, you are blessed to be a blessing. One of the things you are ... me, to tell people the good news about God's grace." (Acts 20:24, NCV) He said again in Romans 1:5, "Through Christ all the kindness of God has been poured out upon us. Now He is sending us out around the world to tell all the people everywhere the great things ...

780. The Dark Side Confronted

Hebrews 12:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... or maybe you are living in the dark side right now and you say, "I don't feel bad about it. As a matter of fact, I am kind of enjoying it." I hate to tell you, but there is a simple explanation for that - you are not a child of God. I can tell you ... or maybe spanking a child. That is the way God operates - first God speaks and if we don't listen then God spanks. God has all kinds of ways that He can discipline us when we enter into the dark side. For example, He can refuse to listen to our prayers. Psalm 66: ...

781. In God We Trust – Or Do We?

John 4:46-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... take it to a druggist we have never even seen and go home and expect to feel better the next morning. If you can have that kind of faith in a doctor and a druggist how much more should you have faith in the God who can do anything? III. When Grace ... Americans have received Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior.[1] In the Bible there are different levels of faith and there are different kinds of faith. In verse 50 this man believed in the promise of Jesus, but now he believes in the person of Jesus. First he ...

782. Smooth Out Your Day

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... before you marry? If you are a single woman and you get pregnant, will you get an abortion? If you are married and things are kind of tough will you get a divorce? You are a business person and you've got a chance to make some money, but it will ... the flight and when you do, you can go to the cross of Jesus and lay that cross on the water of your life. No matter what kind of water it is, it will always float and you can always rest. Some of you here today are weighted down with sin and with guilt. If ...

783. With The End In Mind

Philippians 3:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the United States: George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush. The truth is I don't know either President personally and neither one knows me personally. Paul says in verse 10 his number one desire is - "That I may know Him." (Philippians 3:10, NASB) That is kind of strange when you think that when Paul wrote this he had met Jesus Christ almost thirty years earlier. What did he mean when he said, "I may know Him?" What he meant was he wanted to know Him better. Everything you do once you become a Christian ...

784. People Skills

Proverbs 12:26

Sermon

James Merritt

... I will repay evil'; wait for the LORD, and He will save you. (Proverbs 20:22, NASB) The second piece of advice is - kill them with kindness. It is not enough just to leave your enemies alone. When you get a chance you need to demonstrate your love to them. Solomon said ... your enemies is to make a friend of him. The way you do that is with forgiveness when they do you wrong and kindness whenever you can. III. Be Cautious With Fools There are three Hebrew words that are used to describe the "fool" in Proverbs. ...

785. The Gospel Is Unchained

2 Timothy 2:8-13

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... I just have a pair of blue jeans, size fourteen? Then I went to the grocery store and found 85 varieties of crackers, 285 kinds of cookies, and thirteen different kinds of raspberry jelly. Can't I just get a cookie and a cracker and a bottle of jelly any more? I am in ... hear and know the gospel, we have to break free. Spiritually, I want to suggest a sheep dog. They may be my favorite kind of dog. They act like Jesus. They bark when needed! They keep the sheep safe from intruders. If you are a person who ...

786. Bystanders or Standbys

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ” state of being. A new type of creation must occur so that this situation can be rectified. If this work had been recorded in Genesis 1, we might have been left with “on the eighth day, God created relationships.” There are two kinds of relationships in this world. The first kind of relationship is a vertical drop — someone is up, someone is down. Face it, we all start out short. We all have to “look up” to others, literally. Moms and Dads might take the time to roll around on the floor with ...

787. I Am the Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... love will be kindled in their lives this morning. And for us who already love him and know him, let’s pray that a new kind of love will fire our souls in order that we might go from this place today, willing to follow the good shepherd wherever he leads ... , we need to know something about sheep and shepherds in ancient Palestine. Remember what I said last week about the two kinds of sheepfolds in the ancient Palestine. There was the communal sheepfold in the village that was owned by all the shepherds. ...

788. Thou Sayest I Am King

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sign, Annie Doesn’t Live Here Anymore. That’s what abdication means. It means, coming down off the throne of our lives and allowing Jesus to become Lord. And that leads to the second word – coronation. Coronation. We don’t have any earthly models for the kind of king that Jesus is. Because Jesus is king only of those who choose for him to be king, only for those who are willing to abdicate and crown him Lord of their lives. Abdication is the beginning of that process, and coronation is the process ...

789. I Am the Alpha and the Omega

Revelation 1:1-3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of life; I am the light of the world; I am the vine; I am the good shepherd; I am the resurrection and the life – kind of word portraits, self revelation of who this Jesus is. And now we come to close that series of sermons today with a climactic claim, ... when the Lord will return, but what the Lord will find you doing when he returns. There was a nameless Negro slave who discovered this kind of faith, and he put it into his own words –there’s a king and captain high, and he’s coming by and by, and ...

790. Putting Ourselves in the Picture

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sin. It as though there is a miracle and the whole context of sin and all that which happened in our life is diminished, blotted out, but that’s rare. Most of the time – get this – most of the time, the life of sin and failure carries with it a kind of awful retribution. The prodigal son returns from the far country, but even there in the security and love of the father’s house, the marks of the far country are upon him. Forgiveness does not annul the results of sin in our life. What we do; how we ...

791. The Rewards of Waiting

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that God gives those who trust in him. But there’s a second reward of waiting patiently, and that’s the reward of perspective. Not only are we given patience, we’re given perspective. Again, there are ways to wait. One way to wait during Advent is with a kind of blank stare, not knowing what to expect. Another way to wait is expectantly, having heard the promise of the Lord, waiting expectantly for the Lord to do what he has told us he’s going to do. And when we wait in that fashion, we’re given a ...

792. Fruitcakes, Fruit-Baskets and New Year’s Babies

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... SO!? It is hard for us to grasp that it was not so long ago that fruits, nuts, and sweets of any kind were a luxury few could afford. Our supermarkets can now offer us fresh strawberries and blueberries, kiwis and bananas, in December. So ... . Harmony is made up of different notes. In this fruit basket there are many different shapes and colors of fruit. We are all different kinds of fruit in this fruit basket. But no matter how different we look, and how different we are clothed, let’s make all our ...

793. Braveheart

John 20:24-29

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... than just doubt. Thomas was a man of courage, commitment; and faith. And there's a little bit of Thomas in all of us. I. Two Kinds of Doubt A. We all have a little doubt in us. We all have a little skepticism. We've seen too many SciFi flicks with great ... most of us know someone who can Photoshop anybody they want into a picture. We all have a little doubt in us. But there are two kinds of doubt. There's the doubt that undermines our faith and the doubt that leads to and builds up the faith. Some of you may ...

794. Living By The Spirit

Galatians 5:16-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... is unaware of the arrangement until she awakens one evening to find the homeless man working on her broken down pickup truck. Holding the man at gunpoint she tells him to explain himself. To show he's telling the truth, he starts the truck and tells her about Trevor's kindness. He says, "Someone comes along like your son and gives me a leg up, I'll take it. I can't mess up again, or I'll be dead. I'm just paying it forward." Quizzically, Trevor's mom asks, "What's paying it forward." The next day Trevor ...

795. Do We Live in ‘Why’ or ‘Whynot’

Romans 12:3-8, 16-18

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... said, "Go into all the world and proclaim the good news to the whole creation." And you can see that attitude in Askew, MS; Hopeulikit, GA; Opportunity, MT. You can also see it in a story told by Pastor Steve Sjogren (pronounced Show-gren) in his book Conspiracy of Kindness. It seems Joe Delaney and his 8-year-old son, Jared, were playing catch in their backyard in the Cincinnati area. Out of the clear blue Jared asked, "Dad, is there a God?" Joe replied that he went to church only a few times when he was a ...

796. LOST? Looking For Love

John 3:16-17, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a, 1 John 4:7-19

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to believe in me." Sayid says: I do believe in you. Shannon argues: "You don't! No one does. They think that I'm some kind of joke. They think I'm worthless." Sayid assures her and says: "Shannon, you are not worthless." But Shannon doesn't believe him. Everybody who ... get and ALL you get, nothing more. "As Is." "As Is" that's how God accepts us and loves us. "As Is" no strings attached. Kind of like the car dealer who, a couple of years ago, had the sale and said they'd give $1,000 trade in on anything, ...

797. Rahab: Seven Minutes To Midnight

Joshua 6:15-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... heart was open to Him and that she would be instrumental in the Israelite victory over Jericho. You see, God always seems to use the least likely people. God often uses people with simple faith to accomplish God's great purposes. C. And it doesn't matter to God what kind of past they may have had or how insignificant they seem to be. God can use them. Rahab didn't allow her past to keep her from the new role God had for her. She recognized that our God isn't any old ordinary god. Our God is all powerful ...

798. Changing Dysfunction Into Function: Isaac, Jacob and Esau

Genesis 27:15-24, 30-34

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 's going to be then just take me now." Esau was born first, but Jacob came out with his hand on Esau's heel. The name Esau means "hairy" which he was. And Jacob means "grabby." Which he most definitely was. Isaac loved Esau because he was an outdoors kind of guy, a manly man who liked to hunt and always brought Dad fresh game. Esau was Daddy's boy. Jacob on the other hand was quiet and introspective and preferred the indoors to the outdoors. Rebekah loved him best because he was always there to help inside ...

799. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... ? Here’s what Christ’s greatest dream is for each of us. Christ wants to build within each of us the capacity to love as he loves. Not conditional love that says, “I’ll love you if you prove worthy of that love,” but unconditional love, the kind of love he has given to us. We’re thankful that Christ didn’t wait until we were worthy. Neither should we wait until others are worthy. In his book, The Spiritual Life of Children, Robert Coles describes what happened when he asked a group of children ...

800. What to Do When You Are in a Fix

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... feet in the water and boldly begin to give 10% of your income to Christ and His Church. Maybe to act in the face of your natural shyness and begin to witness verbally to your faith. Do the people with whom you work know you are a Christian? What kind of Christian do they think you are? What about your neighbors. Maybe this is what going forward means for you. Maybe to reorder your use of time, give up some of your golf and bridge, and spend some time as a volunteer delivering meals on wheels, or serving at ...

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