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826. Why Are We So Split Apart?

Matthew 5:9

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... , for as long as we are thinking only of ourselves and shielding ourselves, we cannot do things right. So the peacemaker is poor in spirit. To be a peacemaker we must have a new view of ourselves as the meek, whose wills and emotions are controlled by God. To be a peacemaker, our motives must be pure, we must be able to see life from the other person’s view, and we must know that there can be joy in sorrow. Only in Christ can we become what God meant us to be, as he remakes us into the "blessed person" he ...

827. Life - The Womb of the Eternal

Romans 8:18-27

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... the easy way is death? Christ without his cross is no Christ at all. To quote again from Dust of Death by Guinness, we get a higher view of life. We find it in a Letter to Diognetes, A.D. 150. The Christians are distinguished from other men neither by country, not language ... they ... is not to be stillborn, we Christians must be unashamedly transcendent - transcending present reality in terms of its view of who man is, what morals are, what solutions are possible in the transcendent truth of who God is ...

828. Clouds and Son-Shine

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... far surpasses all other "undesirable" callings. It means that the encounter must be with far more than physical death; it must be with the very forces that make physical death inevitable. His suffering, encapsulated on the cross, was the suffering of God’s own torment as he viewed a fallen and fleeing world. It was the cry of love that spoke to dying humanity, calling it back home again. The way of Christ was the way of horror that is beyond description, but for us it is the way of life. The force that ...

829. Called to Be Saints

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... addressed himself to them. Their congregation was filled with strife. They were divided in so many ways with so many problems that they must surely have expected a scolding from Paul. They certainly did not expect anything resembling a "commendation." They would hardly have viewed themselves as the "salt of the earth" without a great deal of self-deception. Here, in the very opening words of his letter to them, we find Paul addressing himself "to the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in ...

830. Tis Good To Be Here

Matthew 17:1-13

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... a wonderful place to be! And no doubt, if we could have asked Tolkien's fictional character, Bilbo Baggins, he would have said, "Yes, 'tis good to be here." Now, that story is fiction, but it reminds us of a time when three disciples were permitted a view that was extraordinary. What happened on the Day of Transfiguration was real. When Jesus took Peter, James and John with Him, He took them out of the dark valleys of this world and up to a high place, a mountaintop, where their eyes would squint at the ...

831. Must We Have All the Answers?

Gn 2:9 · Deut 30:19-20 · Job 52:5

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... have a built-in resistance to the so-called "know it all," and perhaps that is nature’s way of holding check on human arrogance. I remember hearing a man once preach on the theme, "All You Always Wanted to Know About God," and from the point of view of humility, his presentation left something to be desired. The conviction that we can and should have all the answers to life’s every question is really the main theme of the Genesis story, and the issue is focused on the tree laden with the forbidden fruit ...

832. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... seen a light; in despair they have felt a growing hope; when all seemed finished, they have realized a new beginning. With regard to resurrection, allow me three terse observations. 1. Do not make the mistake of becoming so preoccupied with viewing resurrection from the point of view of physical science that you fail to appropriate its fullness. The resurrection of Jesus Christ, indeed the resurrection that can come to all of God’s children, is not preeminently a study in biology, it is a study in the ...

833. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... the most important person in the world. But he had to acknowledge that from the standpoint of common sense, he was of no consequence whatever. He said, "It would have made small difference to the universe if I had never existed."8 Actually, taking the long view, few of us do make any significant difference in the world. And it is not surprising that we sometimes feel as Pierre does at one point in War And Peace. Tolstoy writes, "Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a ...

834. Drastic Surgery

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... good that we are foolish indeed if we let anything keep us from experiencing it! Vigilance Is In Order During the Reformation in England, Archbishop Thomas Cranmer again and again expressed decided Protestant views. But when Rome pronounced his final doom, his courage gave way, and he signed a series of recantations of his Protestant views in an attempt to purchase pardon. His attempt failed, and when he was brought into the Church of St. Mary at Oxford to repeat his recantation on the way to the stake, his ...

835. Pilgrim Living in a Vagabond World

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... know about the philosophy of pragmatism, the philosophy of living which says: if it works it’s okay. One of the most tragic troubles of the pragmatist is that he is myopic, nearsighted. He isn’t looking far enough ahead. He doesn’t have a long-range view. He isn’t really going anywhere. He is just kicking a can. He is determining his values and taking his directions from the illumination of the moments rather than the millenniums. If I entrust my life to the captain of an ocean-going ship to get me ...

836. Laying Hold On God's Willingness

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... rendering would be: "Ask and keep on asking; search and keep on searching; knock and keep on knocking." Jesus admonishes us here and elsewhere to be persistent in prayer. Why? Because if we persist, we test the sincerity of our prayer, its wisdom from God's point of view, and we give God a wide opportunity to respond with wisdom and love. Remember what prayer is not. It is not informing God. When I hear someone pray, "0 Lord, I want you to know there was an earthquake in Japan last week," I wonder if people ...

837. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... that Christ is the final and normative Word of God. They claim that there is room for other savior figures from other religions. They see Christ as just one satellite in a galaxy of religious superstars. One who holds such a view is Virginia Ramey Mollenkott, professor in New Jersey. She believes that "Jesus is simply an elder brother, companion, and trail blazer, one among many siblings who shows us how to live in oneness with the divine source." We United Methodists pride ourselves for being a diverse ...

838. Christ Shall Return

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... with glory to judge both the quick and the dead." Jesus' second coming is mentioned more than 300 times in the New Testament. This doctrine directly contradicts the secular view that as we educate and liberate people the world over, things are going to just get better and better until paradise breaks out like measles. The Bible contradicts that view. In fact, it says that things are going to get worse. The world will finally be changed when God intervenes dramatically and cataclysmically at the end of time ...

839. This Adulterous Generation

Matthew 5:27-30, Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... the Bible always interprets sex as a wonderful gift from God. You won't find any Victorian prudery in the Bible. When God finished creation he looked upon it and declared that it was all "very good." That included sex. Never would the Bible go along with a view that sex is nasty or dirty. Sex is God-given and magnificent. The writer of Proverbs declared: "There are three things too wonderful for me to understand, no four. How an eagle glides through the sky, how a snake crawls on a rock, how a ship finds ...

840. Unwrapping Presents ... and People

Sermon

James Bjorge

... days the men threw down their tools and refused to go on because, "for men to work and live they must have an end in view. The road to nowhere can’t be made even though starving men are employed at it." It is true that where there is no hope in the ... future there is no power in the present. Now if God were dead, I would shake in my boots when I view our explosive world. But the Word of the Living God assures me that he is very much alive and my experience affirms it. God has not permitted ...

841. Well, What Did You Expect?

Acts 12:1-19a

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... it this way: "My husband was cured by the power of prayer. There’s no other way of explaining it. Hundreds of people I know were praying for him, and their prayers were answered. No one will ever change my mind about that." All right. That is one point of view. Let’s look at another. This week I ran across those words of Mark Twain again, the words that he has Huckleberry Finn say in that delightful book of the same name: "Miz Watson took me into a closet and prayed, but nothing came of it. She told me ...

842. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... us God is lonely. When God set man down, and stepped back and looked at what he had fashioned, God declared that what he had made was good. In Hebrew that word, "good," is tov. It refers to something that is "right," "proper," or "satisfying." In other words, as God viewed him the man that he made was just as he wanted him to be. Hence man was not by nature "sinful and unclean." When the man turned his back on the God who lovingly fashioned him, he did it, and does it, by choice, not because of some inbuilt ...

843. Chapter VII

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... are being condoned as experiences all people should have at any time, in any place, with any person. Because that point of view has been picking up adherents, sexual promiscuity has become the current rage. Sexual relations outside of marriage are now being engaged in ... for the aftermath of the act is shrugged off, or simply ignored. There are plenty of signs that this point of view is being bought, too. People who once were resistant to it are being moved to let down the restrictions placed on sexual ...

844. Marriage is Forever

Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... you." That is what "one flesh" means according to God's design. One of my favorite poets, Archibald Rutledge, years ago wrote a poem entitled "Final Proof." On every Valentine's Day, I generally give Gloria a copy of this along with a gift. It's a testimony to Jesus' view of marriage: "I do not need some tremendous miracle to give me faith in God: A violet would do, or a spire of goldenrod, or a daisy or two. But if I had to have a magic and a wonder to rend my doubts asunder, to prove God true--- That ...

845. The Trinity

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the incarnation. God came and lived, among us. I am glad that this happened for two reasons: One, it shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that God is with us, that he is on our side, and that he loves us. Secondly, it gives us a first hand view of what the mind of God is really all about. When people ask what God is like, we as Christians point to the person of Jesus Christ. God himself is incomprehensible. But in Jesus Christ this incomprehensible God makes himself knowable. We get a glimpse of his glory. In ...

846. Humankind: The Climax of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . Many children from divorced backgrounds wonder if they caused their parents' breakup. Sometimes victims of abuse have the irrational view that somehow they deserved it. When we feel unworthy, we don't take care of ourselves. We eat too ... become suicidal. Obviously, if things get that bad, we need immediate therapy and medical intervention. Is there a cure for this terribly distorted view of ourselves? Oh yes, there is. We must first understand how and why we were created. Return with me now to the sixth ...

847. Servant Worship

Psalm 116:1-19

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... the three steps he took: 1. "I will take ..." (v. 13a). This is the best way to thank God. What God wants us to do in view of his love for us is simply to receive it. We begin to repay God by accepting willingly what he gives, that is, what he has ... a great fellowship who share together in both receiving and giving. 3. The third step the Psalmist took was: "I will offer ..." (v. 17). In view of what he has been given and what he has been able to talk, the Psalmist says, "I will offer to thee the sacrifice of ...

848. Hector’s Case Against Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Erskine White

... ants on an ant hill, overscheduled and unfulfilled, clutching and grasping and cramming every waking moment with something terribly important to do." The two angels sat for a few minutes in pensive silence as Hector’s harsh words sank in. Suddenly a picture came into view from the earth below - it was a family at home as the dinner hour approached. Mother and father had just come home from work and were trying to rush dinner on the table because Junior had to leave in 10 minutes for his triangle lesson ...

849. Send Me!

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... radical change occurs. Most of us resist the changes that reshape those who are close to us. There is indeed a skepticism about change in people’s lives. Perhaps many of us view with some doubt the kind of jailhouse conversions that seem to be ploys to get off a bit easier. Undoubtedly that is true in some instances, but is our view so jaundiced that we doubt that God can and does touch the lives of people who have gotten into desperate circumstances? It is possible that the shock of the realization of ...

850. Wade In The Water

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... a strange fascination for those of us who do not find ourselves in that category. From a very surface view it is easy to envy their glamorous and opulent lifestyles. How we’d like to be like them. We ... tell you that you have to sign up for the whole package, not just for the good stuff. Those are the rules. I told you this was just a surface view, from which we mostly tend to see the good stuff and imagine those people are somehow immune to the feelings of frustration and the trials and problems and griefs ...

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