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851. Incalculable Riches by Bishop Roy C. Nichols

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... , they predict the demise of the faith once delivered to the saints. But we must not accept these doomsday predictions. The pressing need for the gospel as the "salt," the "leaven," and the "light" is more urgent than ever. Sin, expressed in the prideful, selfish choices of human beings, is real. Salvation, which begins with the spiritual liberation of the inner man and expends its graceful strength in the liberation of the whole community of humankind, is more necessary now than at any prior point in the ...

852. It Is Really Something New by Dr. Frank Bateman Stanger

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... and character of the people were everywhere evident. They were cleaning the sidewalks, watering the flowers, putting out the fruit stands, hurrying to work. We soon realized that here were an industrious people, a people who love beauty and culture, a people who took pride in themselves and in their city. As Paul walked around the city of Athens, he was overwhelmed by its excessive idolatry. That was the thing which impressed him most. In fact, the Greek words which are used in the story say that he was ...

853. Miracle On Main Street by Dr. George A. Buttrick

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... for the down-and-out, whether rich or poor, the imprisoned, the crippled, the prostitute, the blind, the leper. Was there ever a stranger list of important people? Was ever such love known on our planet? Of course he aroused anger. He punctured the pride of rulers. He exposed the hollow piety of the Temple. He condemned the exorbitant profits of the traders. He never said that "religion and politics don’t mix." He never played it safe. So they killed him. The brutal affair was not "spiritual," a word ...

854. Humility Gate

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Allan J. Weenink

... the father but by me." This morning we stoop to enter his presence by spiritually kneeling before him in wonder and in love. As we kneel we sense our inadequacies, our failures, and our mistakes. In the light of his life we see the stains of pride, arrogance, selfishness, and our own lovelessness. Bitter words that we have spoken echo in our ears. Unkind acts rise up to haunt us. Our spiritual muscles ache from resisting where we know we have been called out to self-giving and service. We are tormented by ...

855. The Most Misunderstood Gift

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... gift of wisdom, another time the gift of prophecy is the gift to be desired. Besides, it is just naturally offensive and opposed to all our Christian teaching for us to say that any gift of God would make us "better" than another. There is an ugly pride and arrogance that would claim spiritual superiority over another just because he speaks in tongues while another does not. If any gift of God should be ours for a given time, it should begin by making us very humble and very thankful, but never to think we ...

856. The Little Miracle Before The Big One

Luke 22:47-53

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... could do it, that he would do it! I should have realized God would not let him die - to live no more!" And maybe, our parable says, Malchus became, forever after, a true disciple and follower of Christ. And maybe Malchus had a small son, a son who was his pride and joy, a small boy whom he’d often take on his knees and tell him: "Son, feel my ear - no, not that one, the one on the right side. Do you know that ear one night lay in the grass - in the grass over there in Gethsemane - and Jesus ...

857. When Christians Quarrel: Resolving Conflict in the Church

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... to the outside world either repulsive or attractive. It isn’t a matter that Christians are perfect and will not have conflicts. There will always be quarrels, differences of opinion on how and who, disappointments with preachers and councils, hurt feelings, bent pride, loss of face, and lots of mistakes. It’s the idea that Christians can resolve these conflicts as no other fellowship can, that Jesus puts before us today. Comus, a Duke of Florence, had a saying that indicated the limitations of his ...

858. God’s Generosity Resented

Matthew 20:1-16

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... parable say to us now?" Here we learn a lot about our God, and it’s all very reassuring. The story tells us that God is kind. To be unemployed is a devastating thing. It robs us of our sense of self-worth. It removes from us our pride and feelings of accomplishment. It degrades and embarrasses us. It is a tragic thing when our talents, our capability to do things is wasted and idle. In Shakespear’s play Othello, a great line is "Othello’s occupation is gone." So here stood these men: sad, depressed ...

859. The Return to Catholicity

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... the people at Corinth: "Each one of you says, ‘I belong to Paul,’ or ‘I belong to Apollos,’ or ‘I belong to Peter,’ or ‘I belong to Christ.’ " What? Is Christ divided? Oh, yes, we can tear to shreds the visible institutional church by our prides, our sinfulness, or divisiveness and our human stupidity; but no man, nor any GROUP of men, can ever dismember the body of Christ! Together we confess our faith by the use of the first credo of the church, written at the First Council of the Church ...

860. Paul: The Man and His Message

Romans 9:1-29

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T. A. Kantonen

... found in Christ. In Bultmann’s words, "This is what his conversion meant. In it he surrendered his previous understanding of himself, that is, he surrendered what had till then been the norm and meaning of his life, he sacrificed what had hitherto been his pride and joy ... It was obedient submission to the judgment of God, made known in the cross of Christ, upon all human accomplishment and boasting."3 It is in the light of this radical transvaluation of values that all aspects of Paul’s theology must ...

861. Blinding Specks

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... of being inconspicuous nobodies; we know that we are very little people - pigmies in ability and puny in character. It is a hard and painful process to force ourselves to grow; it is much simpler to attempt to reduce others to our dimensions."3 Blinding specks nourish pride and stimulate the ego. But a view of one’s self that rests on the ruins of others’ faults is a house built on sand, and sooner or later it is sure to fall. Barriers To Honesty These blinding specks are also barriers to honesty. In ...

862. Mighty Faith

Matthew 17:14-23

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... even these may cease to be obstacles to abundant living if one has the kind of faith Jesus commended. Sandra Smith of Greensboro, North Carolina, tells of a retired neighbor of hers who spent much time in his yard. His flowers and lawn were a great source of pride to him. But try as he would, he could not get rid of the dandelions. He used the best grass seed and the most expensive weed killer, but still the bright yellow dots appeared in the midst of his beautiful green lawn. He wrote once to a gardening ...

863. Cheering Stones

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... man they were following. And they tried to say so with shouts of praise. It is unfortunate that we so often do not recognize greatness when it is present. It may be preoccupation with other things that blinds us to it, or it may be pride or self-centeredness or prejudice. But our story would be different if we perceived more accurately the true measures of persons and cheered when persons of the right kind were on the scene. Especially are cheers for Christ in order. Time reverses some of the judgments ...

864. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... , suspect, exploit, despise, and kill each other? There isn’t any reason. Such behavior is admittedly irrational. But there is the ghost of a dead reason: it is the lifeless old belief in a dead God - a God of wrath, violence, vindictiveness, jealousy, pride, and arbitrary power. Because "it was said of old," we still assume it must be so - and we act that way. So we persist in wrestling against flesh and blood, forever wounding each other, dismembering ourselves, destroying the family ties, breaking the ...

865. What Are Christian Liberals? - 1951

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... their evidence and let us make up our own minds. The second characteristic of the Christian liberal is a decent intellectual humility. He knows he is liable to error and he knows he is susceptible to delusion. He has strong convictions but no pride of opinions, he distrusts all dogmas and he insists upon the prerogative of examining and testing all orthodoxies. For he knows perfectly well that nothing human is infallible or final. This is the contrast between the liberal and either of the extremes. You ...

866. In The Nick of Time

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

Jon L. Joyce

... a son to God? But his motive was pure. One has to know the pricelessness of sons in those days, and how many years this old man and woman had waited for a son, to know what this generosity cost. For that father offered God his prize possession, his pride and joy, the apple and the light of his old eyes. And of course God wouldn’t take it. But because Abraham did not hold anything back from God, God picked Abraham to play the father to his chosen people and presented him with "children" as the stars in ...

867. It will Crumble into Dust!

Isaiah 12:1-6

Illustration

Jon L. Joyce

... his answer; but she, too, fell into dust at his touch and the home crumbled into a broken shed. Later in his journey, the knight came to a warrior clad in golden armor; but the warrior, too, turned into dust, for the deepest meaning of life is not in the pride of battle. And still later he saw a city on the hill, at its gates a great throng shouting his praises as he climbed the slope, so that he felt that surely civic honor and the esteem of others would be his deepest need, but the city and its people ...

868. God is Laughing at Us

Zechariah 9:9-13

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Jon L. Joyce

... being late, He went out again." Period! That’s it! Don’t you see, beloved, God is making fun of us? He’s satirizing all of our triumphal entries. He’s paradying all of our parades. He’s laughing at all of our strutting, preening, prideful pomp and circumstance. He’s saying: "This is the kind of thing you enjoy, my children." And what does it all come to? Nothing! You have forgotten one important word in your ancient prophecy of Zechariah that you now see being fulfilled. You have forgotten ...

869. Family Reunion

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... myself. I did not know one soul on that side of the Atlantic. It was most uncomfortable to land on a different continent as an absolute stranger, knowing that I would be there a year, for better or worse. The feeling was so bad that had it not been for pride and lack of funds, I might have caught the next plane back. But God was with me. After just a few days I had some new friends. But what really made me feel at home was becoming part of a local Presbyterian church. They even let me preach once in ...

870. Marantha: Come Lord Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... 84-year-old widow. It's interesting to me that Luke was able to discover Anna's age. You know, women are usually more secretive about their age than men. From 39 to about 75, it's top secret. But after about 75, most women and men take some pride in their age. That is, unless they are in politics. Evidently, Anna was up front about her age. She must have known the truth expressed in the lyrics of that country song: "The older the violin, the sweeter the music." Anna had had only seven years of married life ...

871. A Courtroom Confrontation

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... so, but also because it is the only way to stop poisoning ourselves. Is there some kind of invisible rope that is binding you today? Could it be an addiction or racism or excessive political partisanship? Could it be an illicit relationship or pride or jealousy? What if anything is handicapping your ability to reflect the Lord Jesus? Long ago two men stood facing one another in a courtroom. Pilate, though the governor and judge, was a captive. Jesus, though bound and defenseless, was genuinely free. Here ...

872. Who Is This Jesus?

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . 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 people, and that is a great strength. In matters that do not strike at the root of the faith, we affirm a wide variety of beliefs. We don't kick out our liberals or our conservatives. But there must be ...

873. Much Obliged

Hebrews 12:14-29, Psalm 116:1-19

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is at the 10 percent level or higher. What a person believes in fully and loves devotedly, he will give to sacrificially. It's hard for me to describe how much I love you and how proud I am of you. I pray the Lord won't allow my pride in you to be excessive. Last fall I challenged you to figure your giving as a percentage of income and to use the biblical standard of the tithe- -10 percent of income--as a minimal guideline. Your response has been nothing short of fantastic! You have our finance committee ...

874. The Hiding Angel

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... author were printed: "To be a South Carolinian either by birth, marriage, adoption, or even on one's mother's side is an introduction to any state in the union, a passport to any foreign country, and a benediction from the Almighty God." That's almost a Texas kind of pride, isn't it? But I know a much nobler status than that of South Carolinian, Texan, or American. That is to be a child of the King of Kings, a son or daughter of God Almighty. And that's what we are when we claim Jesus Christ by faith as ...

875. The Cross In My Pocket

Isaiah 52:13--53:12, Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . What a celebration there must have been in heaven that day! Bernard's passion was expressed perfectly in Isaac Watts' great hymn: "When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss, and pour contempt on all my pride." The entertainer Dale Evans, wife of Roy Rogers, is fond of saying, "I looked for my pot of gold at the foot of the rainbow, but found it at the foot of the cross." When I touch that cross in my pocket, I am reminded of certain great truths ...

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