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801. The Nature of the Church and Christian Discipleship

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... apprenticed to our Master, Jesus Christ. We are in a growing learning relationship, always. A disciple is a learner, but not in the academic setting of a schoolroom, rather at the work site of a craftsman. We do not acquire information about God, but skills in faith. (Think about that as you think of yourself as a disciple – an apprentice to Jesus – learning to be like, to think like, to act like Jesus.) The other word Peterson underscored was “pilgrim.” Pilgrim tells us we are people who spend our ...

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

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The opposite of high expectations is another hindrance – stereotyping. Some people don’t want us to be real saints. Those who by word and deed call people to more Christlike behavior. They want us to be merely nice, fulfilling our role with reasonable skill and efficiency. Under that expectation, it’s easy to become complacent. Instead of striving to become all that Christ calls us to be, we simply do what is expected of us: regular hospital calls, decent sermons, warm blessings at women’s groups ...

803. People With Shining Faces

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... one of the most challenging athletic events in the world. Scott has achieved this goal, in part, through his astounding level of self-discipline. He pays attention to the smallest details of diet and physical training in order to maintain his world-class athletic skills. One example of Scott’s self-discipline is that he rinses off his cottage cheese each morning to remove more of the fat. I don’t know if rinsing your cottage cheese makes that much difference or not, but evidently Dave Scott believes it ...

804. Peacemaking and Self Control

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... to Christ over and over again; we ask him to deal with us on the inside so that we can be new on the outside. He can do for us what no counselor can, which is give us grace to change, often in remarkable ways, and to become a people skilled in the ways of peace. Frances Ridley Havergal is the author of well known hymns like "Take My Life and Let It Be" and "Like a River Glorious." As a young woman she had a quick temper, the kind that would explode. Afterward she would be mortified and confess it ...

805. Playing to the Right Audience

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

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

It was an incredible military breakthrough. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, Commander Joe Rochefort broke the Japanese codes. From an intelligence base on Oahu, he predicted an attack on Midway Island for June 3, 1942. Because of Rochefort's skill, the United States surprised the Japanese Navy with its first defeat in 350 years. Four carriers were lost, one cruiser, 2500 men, 322 aircraft, and the best of their pilots. The tide turned in the Pacific; Japan never recovered momentum. Commander ...

806. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... and attack like dogs.” And if you asked him, “Which is it, judge or not judge?” the answer is both. The truth is found not in the one or the other but in the right use of each at the right time. And that requires subtle skills like judgment and discernment as well as intuition and an openness to the illumination of the Holy Spirit. We are not to assume God’s throne and issue final pronouncements; but neither does that relieve us from exploring the resistance and receptivity of whoever stands before ...

807. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... all of which he has won from his father-in-law. He is on his way home now to be reconciled with Esau, his brother. He has experienced what so many people experience who are tremendously successful. I notice this about them. They have the talent, cleverness, skill, energy and determination to compete and win in any area of life. They end up with all of the rewards of that striving, and, indeed, fit the image of success in our culture. But after they have gained everything, they begin to think about all that ...

808. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... beings, like you and me. A part of Moses' problem, I would guess, was that he was ill-prepared to do what he was called to do. In fact, he tried to tell God that when God asked him to do it. He explained that he did not have the skills. God said to do it anyway, which he did. He hung in there, clear to the end. which I suppose is there to tell us that if you do what God asks you to do, and hang in there, that you will probably make it, too. So here is old ...

809. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... Rogers’ Neighborhood.” Some of you may be familiar with a story by journalist Tom Junod. It is a true story of a young man afflicted with cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy did not affect this young man’s mind, but it affected his motor skills and his ability to speak. The boy could only communicate through typing on his computer. In addition to his physical disabilities, the boy suffered emotional problems after some of his care givers callously abused him. Overwhelmed with self-hatred, the boy often hit ...

810. A Place of Honor

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... he leaned forward and blocked the faces of the people standing between him and the President. In this way, it always appears that Sonnenfeldt is standing next to the President. The President’s Secret Service agents nicknamed him the Ferret for his amazing skill at elbowing his way into pictures with the President. (2) When you encounter someone like this who is so desperate for attention, so desperate to be recognized, don’t you wonder about his or her sense of security? Why should it matter if you ...

811. The Problem with Promises

Genesis 18:1-15, 21:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... inheritance Abe had from his grandfather and moved to another part of the country where the industries that would need his product were concentrated. Abe set up his company as he had been taught to -- but with several significant variations. He hired skilled people and paid them what they were worth. He included some older managers and craftsmen and technical people who had been "out placed" by other industries who wanted to replace them with less expensive employees. He established a policy for his own ...

812. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... division soon becomes evident at birth, as Jacob, the younger, grips Esau's heel as they are being born. Esau is the hairy, ruddy, robust son, and Jacob is the smooth child loved especially by his mother. When the boys grew up, Esau was a skillful hunter, an outdoorsman, a gameplayer enjoyed by his father, while Jacob was a quiet person living in the tents. Jacob would become the supplanter, the cheat. Jacob, the "heel," is a disrespectful person, a cad. One day, Esau comes in from the field, hungry. Jacob ...

813. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... perishes, but for the food that endures for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you" (John 6:27). An eagle escaped from the San Francisco Zoo, but it didn't get very far. Unused to fending for itself, it had lost its predatory skills and forgotten its natural enemies. Within twelve hours its keepers had lured the hungry bird back into captivity with little more than a dead mouse.2 In similar fashion, the Israelites, unused to the rigors of the wilderness, long for the familiar comforts of slavery ...

814. Removing Obstacles

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... and Apollos, far from being competitors, were actually partners. He uses one image drawn from farming. He said, "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth" (1 Corinthians 3:6). A little later, he draws an illustration from building, saying, "... like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it" (1 Corinthians 3:10). But perhaps the most beautiful image of all comes when he compares the members of the church with different spiritual gifts to different members of ...

815. How Does It Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-16

Sermon

James L. Killen

... to offer and recruit them into his band - even though some of them would be a little hard to work with. Then he would compose music that would give them opportunities to make their unique contributions. Most composers wrote their music, then sought skilled musicians who could follow orders to play it. But Duke Ellington brought his creative musicians into the process of composition and together with them brought exciting new music into being. The wisdom of God is like that. God, whom we know because of ...

816. The Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... remain open after they have gone. Truth is, we crazy Christians do talk to dead people. Well, maybe they are not really dead, but they have crossed over. We do it through prayer, and maybe John Edward is right when it comes to our listening skills. When we pray, we probably do more talking than listening. What better example of "crossing over" is there than that of Jesus? Jesus, in his resurrected body, left the disciples in one, dramatic moment. Ascending to his new home with his Father in heaven, Jesus ...

817. No Longer Damned

Romans 8:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... their mother. Two of the family members don't go to church. Another is a Presbyterian in the Midwest. She told the funeral director, "Get a Presbyterian minister." So I got the phone call. The three of them told me about their mother. She had good domestic skills. She could cook and sew. She was a devoted wife. There was a lull in the conversation. Just then, the youngest daughter said, "Reverend, we should probably be honest with you. Our mom never went to church. She got thrown out of her church." I said ...

818. Bragging Rights

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... navigated the bridge, the mouse exclaimed, "My, oh my, we certainly made that bridge shake, didn't we?" It is all too common an experience to meet people who sound as if they are somehow related to that mouse. People who brag loudly about their successes, their skills, the ways they are crucial to the history of the world, or at least to their own little part of it, even when everyone who knows them suspects rather strongly that these people are really much less than they claim to be. And even though we ...

819. The Cloak

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Sermon

Rick Brand

... . We look at the tool. We can imagine all kinds of projects and pieces of furniture we could make with that tool. We would be so much more efficient. We would be so much better as a craftsman with that tool. We would be so impressed with ourselves as the skilled craftsman we could become with that tool. So we order the tool. The tool comes. We open the box. We plug it in, and the machine makes its wonderful sound. We have all the tools we need for our current projects. So we put the tool back in the box ...

820. A Place for You

Ruth 1:16-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , with all the armaments, with all the money and wealth that they took with them in order to trade with the Indians, with all the thirty-plus men that were hand-picked for the expedition because of their expertise in the wilderness, all the navigation skills of the captains, the success of the mission boiled down to the integrity and the fidelity of two Native American women, who, if this were a biblical story, would have been Moabites, or something like that. It was Sacajawea, the Shoshone, who made it ...

821. Are You Feeling Sheepish?

Psalm 23, John 10:11-18

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... her recite the same psalm as the great actor Charles Laughton. Before she finished, people were caught up in her recitation. Some began to weep. It was a tour de force. Later somebody asked Mr. Laughton why her reading was so moving when she didn't have any of the skills that he had as an actor. He said, "I know the psalm. She knows the shepherd." The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me. Amen. 1. Thanks to Phil Amerson

822. Can't Help Dreaming

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... she was a child. Her parents told her she would never make it. Her teachers told her that. She went to acting school. Her coaches in acting school told her that she would never make it. She was too short, she was not attractive at all, and her acting skills were not that great. You'll never make it. Well she made it. She became an international star. She said her motto was, "Never face the facts unless you are ready to forget them." She would not reduce the hugeness of her desire to the smallness of the ...

823. Leave No Child Behind

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... can do now, and it is what is perhaps needed more than anything else: the mentoring of these families. Our proposal is to form teams, three or four people from the congregation, who will adopt a family and work with that family, teaching them the skills that are necessary to find a job and keep a job. Then to encourage them through their friendship, love and prayers, so that they will move into the dignity of being independent, productive people in this society. We have decided that because of the critical ...

824. The Wedding Guest

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of all this poverty was just marvelous. They said, instead of recording the poverty and scarcity about us, let us instead look for the riches and gifts that are all about us. So they developed a new questionnaire. Of course, they asked for an inventory of skills. But it came down to three questions. The first question was, "What three things are you good enough at that you can teach somebody else to do them?" The second question was, "What three things would you like to learn that you don't know already ...

825. This Nation, Under God

2 Samuel 7:1-9

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , against his father, and then the death of Abaslom, and David crying in lament, "O Abaslom, Abaslom, my son, my son, would that I had died instead of you." It's all there. All the passion and adventure, the tenderness and tragedy of the human drama, written with literary skill that is rarely matched, over 3000 years ago. So it is both one of the earliest written histories, and one of the classics of literature. You ought to read it if you are going to be a literate person. But that is not why we read it in ...

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