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851. Mary and Joseph: His Obedient Servants

Luke 2:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... infancy and youth. His anxiety was over now. His doubts dispelled, his faith clear, his perplexity dissolved. It’s a tough truth to own, but what a promise to hold on to: God will not forever leave his obedient servants in perplexity. This is no main notion I’m proclaiming, no Pollyanna proposition, this is a gutsy gospel. So know this – the unraveling of perplexity may not come quickly. We may have to stay in “the valley of the shadow of death” for a long season. The winter of our discontent, our ...

852. Jesus: What's in a Name?

Matthew 1:18-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... shall be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:2, 6 RSV) What promise! What hope! This is the word we desperately need to appropriate tonight, for this is no naive’ notion, no surface optimism; this is the bedrock of reality which moves from the groaning despair of “Look what this world is coming to” to that daring declaration; “Look who is coming to the world.” Do you remember the movie, The Day After? The ...

853. Hebrews 9:24-28

Hebrews 9:11-28

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Leonard Sweet

The person who finds a new way to fix an old problem is usually not welcomed with open arms, much less rave endorsements. The new and novel is typically viewed first with suspicion, perhaps even hostility. Take the notion that the earth orbited around the sun, not the other way around. That scientific “advancement” brought Galileo a boatload of trouble - even though it was true. It took 350 years for the Vatican to admit that Galileo was right, and that his 1633 trial as a heretic was a “mistake.” ...

854. Giving Till It Helps

Mark 12:38-44

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... for next year would be and how we could increase it. That doesn't sound like it hurts does it? It is the grudging giver, who is the one who always registers the complaint: At that church all they talk about is money." So let us get off of this notion of give till it hurts so that we affirm we give till it helps.

855. I Am the Alpha and the Omega

Revelation 1:1-3

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Maxie Dunnam

... and Episcopalians, and Lutherans are mainline if you didn’t know that. In our mainline churches, we don’t talk much about the second coming. And therefore, there is a vacuum of thought and conviction, and people are left to all sorts of confused and distorted notions. Now this is not the setting to argue. I do not want to argue, I want to affirm. It interests me that the churches that have kept the great creeds of the church alive, the mainline churches, are those who do not claim much about the ...

856. A House for Our Home and a Home for Our Faith

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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Maxie Dunnam

... your children learn to pray? What is the primary value shaping force in the life of your own children? How do they come to believe that Jesus Christ is savior and that they’re to give their lives to his lordship? And where do they get the notion about the importance of worship and daily relationship with God and sharing the faith with others. In your heart of hearts, you know. You’re to be the priest to your children, both of you parents. And fathers you’re to be the spiritual guide of your household ...

857. Pick Up the Baby

Luke 1:39-45

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King Duncan

... to cry. Finally, Grandma could be silent no longer. "Put down the book," she told her children, "and pick up the baby." Good advice. Put down the book and pick up the baby. Spend time with your children. Particularly at Christmas time. We have the mistaken notion that good parents give their children lots of things. Wrong. In a survey done of fifteen thousand school children the question was asked,"What do you think makes a happy family?" When the kids answered, they didn't list a big house, fancy cars, or ...

858. A Bethany Blessing

Luke 24:44-53

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... would forever live in their hearts like the sacred places of our lives. It was to Bethany that Jesus returned after the resurrection. He took the disciples with him and Luke says, Jesus "lifting up his hands, blessed them." This is where I'm told we get the notion of a benediction being a blessing. We lift our hands just like Jesus did. We lift our hands and pass on the blessing of Christ which has been passed from the disciples down through the centuries to each of us. Bethany, a safe haven, a sacred place ...

859. Saturday: The Week Of The Cross: Lazarus, Come Forth

John 11:1-7, 17-44

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... 're a believer, just because you're a friend of Jesus doesn't mean you won't have trials and tribulations or get your heart broken from time to time. I think it's important that we hear that because so much of pop culture Christianity leaves us with the notion that if you believe, I mean really believe, then nothing bad or horrible will ever happen to you. And if something bad happens it's because you didn't have enough faith. Well that's a crock. I have no idea how those who espouse this philosophy come up ...

860. A Chance To Be Made Whole

Matthew 9:18-26

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... life in each of these families. Their lives and their families were made whole again. One of the things this passages teaches us is that God is never too busy for us. We may be too busy for God but God is never too busy for us. We get this notion that God is so busy taking care of everyone else and all the universe that God doesn't have time to care for our petty little lives. Instead, we see Jesus on his way to raise a little girl from the dead. He was in a hurry. The father was ...

861. The Dachshund Dilemma

Luke 4:14-30

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King Duncan

... churches today is what I call the “Dachshund Dilemma.” The “Dachshund Dilemma” is derived from an old poem about dachshunds dogs that are long of body and short of legs. The poem goes like this: There was a dachshund, Once so long He hadn’t any notion How long it took to notify His tail of his emotion; And so it happened, While his eyes Were filled with woe and sadness, His little tail went wagging on Because of previous gladness. This is a good description of the plight of many churches today ...

862. Conflict Resolution (Series: Fundamentals of Family)

Colossians 3:1-17

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J. Howard Olds

... did not marry your idealized woman or man. You married a flawed human being. Your children are not angels and parents are not perfect. We all have our quirks. We squeeze the toothpaste differently, have different tolerance levels of messiness around the house, and hold varied notions of a good time. We all make mistakes. We follow too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have left undone those things we ought to have done and we have done those things we ought not to have done. Seventy percent ...

863. Resurrection Power (Series: Living on the Resurrection Side of Life)

Philippians 3:1-11

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J. Howard Olds

... ? We love to talk about power: horse power, man power, fire power, solar power, nuclear power, but what about the power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead? There is nothing distinctively Christian about immortality. Every religion of the world has some notion of life after death. Most leave our vague, orphaned souls wandering somewhere between earth and heaven, in search of a Nirvana where we are reunited with spirits of all time. But Christians are different. We believe in the resurrection of the body ...

864. Why Not Meet in the Middle? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

1 Peter 3:8-22

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J. Howard Olds

... my strengths, and minimize my weaknesses. I thought it was the thing to do, and strengths do have their rewards. It feels good to win. Success is satisfying. Ladder climbing can be fun. Although, in more recent years, I have come to understand the notion that power is made perfect in weakness. As Paul said, “I delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties, for when I am weak then I am strong.” (II Corinthians 12:10) Weakness has its rewards. There are lessons to be ...

865. Follow Your Changes (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 16:5-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... minds, but we cannot hesitate making up our lives, for our lives get made up one way or another. The Holy Spirit reminds us of that judgment. For many years Varun Gauri rejected religious services, practiced no rituals, and spurned all religious, mainstream notions of God. Then one day Varun’s 5-yearold daughter started asking deep questions about life and death. Varun thought he better get some help. So, he enrolled his daughter in a Christian pre-school and started attending services himself. The words ...

866. Stewardship of All (Series: Stewardship: Discover This Word and Love It!)

Matthew 26:6-13

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J. Howard Olds

... dark and dreary world? The human soul is still hungry for beauty. We seek it everywhere. In creation, in cosmetics, in clothes and companionship, maybe we need to look deeper. Maybe we need to search our souls. The Greek word for beauty is kalon. It contains the notion of a “calling.” Are you called: To be broken and spilled out till fragrance fills the room? To do something beautiful with no concern of whom might be critical, or call you a fool? Will you pour it all out for the beautiful, the good, the ...

867. Why Should I Read The Bible? (Series: Real Faith for Real People)

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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J. Howard Olds

... history does that. Christian theology accomplishes that. The Bible is the Word of God for the people of God. The Bible is the Word of God, for it contains what God wants to say to his people. Our founder, John Wesley, had a particular notion about inspiration. He believed in double-inspiration. The Spirit of God not only inspired those who wrote it, but continually inspires and supernaturally assists those who read it with earnest prayer. Claude was a rather normal young adult. One day Claude decided he ...

868. Follow Your Failures (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 21:1-14

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J. Howard Olds

... a meal together, it was in the upper room. Jesus was talking about self-denial, service, and sacrifice. Jesus wonders out loud if the disciples have what it takes to take it. Peter responds, “even if all fall away, I will not!” Oh, what false notions we come to hold about ourselves. Coasting down some highway, we believe ourselves to be powerful 8-cylinder disciples only to discover on the next hill, we are a puttering 4-cylinder at best. Pressure tests us. The campfire by the sea had to remind Peter ...

869. No Evidence Necessary

John 20:24-31

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Scott Hoezee

When Thomas was first told about the meeting with Jesus that he had missed, he was understandably guarded. The notion that a dead man was back alive again was not exactly something you grabbed hold of and easily believed in a minute or two, not today and not 2,000 years ago, either. Modern scholars sometimes pet the disciples as such naïve bumpkins that they’d believe anything. Not ...

870. The Real GPS: Gospel Positioning System

John 21:15-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... last stanza which proclaims that a true man tries to “say the things he truly feels and not the words of one who kneels" reveals where this culture puts its heroes. Heroes are people who don’t get on our knees, but tell it like they feel it. The notion that you kneel to know what to feel, that you don’t allow your feelings to get the best of you before you kneel in prayer and discern how you should be feeling, escapes this “Do It My Way” world. No wonder our “My Way” kids have themselves for ...

871. Where Love Comes From

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... he knew he had inside him. This presented him with a dilemma when, two years later, his wife became pregnant again. How was he going to hide from his second child the fact that he could never love it as much as he loved Benjamin? Somehow his notion of love was that it was like a pie. The more people that came to share it, the smaller the slices had to be. Then, as though to make matters worse, his wife delivered twins! But then something miraculous happened. Suddenly Borsch discovered he loved Matthew and ...

872. Love and Obey (Mother's Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He cannot submit to a teacher.” The coach told Nelson, “We’ve carried him along for the sake of the ball club. But I assure you, he will not submit to his college coaches. His football career is done.” (3) Many of us are offended by the notion of obedience. We want to be the captain of our own ship, but obedience is an important trait of a successful life particularly obedience to God. God is a God of abundant grace, but that does not mean God that does not have expectations for us. The Scriptures ...

873. Is It Okay To Laugh In Church?

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

James W. Moore

... as that of a man who went to see his sick friend in an attic bedroom, and began the conversation with, “Well, George, they’ll sure have a job getting your coffin down the stairs.” Don’t let that happen to you. Don’t get caught in the tragic notion that Christianity is solemn and sad and sullen and long-faced. No matter what happens… we can rejoice always. The poet reminds us why when he says: “I am not sure the earth is round Nor that the sky is really blue. The tale of why the apples fall ...

874. Being and Doing as the People of God

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

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Maxie Dunnam

... tank and that he had gotten a terrific bargain. Actually he was still on empty. It looked like a filling station but wasn’t at all. There was no power there. I pity the poor man getting on a California freeway with his mistaken notion. There are churches like that filling station. They look like churches. They sound like churches. They may smell like churches. There is, however, an emptiness, a deadness - something essential is missing. For many years, Harry Emerson Fosdick was the pastor of the famous ...

875. The Wise Men: Going Home Another Way

Matthew 2:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... anthems of the church: “Rejoice in the Lord always, again, I will say, rejoice. Let all men know your forbearance, your hope. The Lord is at hand. Have no anxiety about anything.” (Phi 4:4—6 RSV) Now this is no naive notion, no Pollyanna approach to life, no surface optimism that looks through rose colored glasses and disregards the sharp edges of loneliness and suffering, the dark nights of disappointment and defeat, the anxiety of inadequate financial resources, physical illness, or perhaps worst of ...

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