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Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... member who says he’ll do something in the church and then doesn’t. Every congregation has a host of these "no show" volunteers who drag down the congregation’s programs and the ministry of Christ in the community. Yet one other thing about this Christian’s life style. Not only does it present an insincere example of a Christian to others, not only does it drag down a congregation and its kingdom work, but it is a lousy self-image maker. We all know if the things we do match the things we say. We ...

852. Double Citizenship

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... a dilemma question. It ended up with a beautiful lesson for all times, for all Christians, on our double citizenship: in this world, to our country; and in the Kingdom of God to our Savior. As disciples, we bring these together as our Christian life style in our great democracy called America. Harry Emerson Fosdick put it: "We Americans say that the Constitution made the nation. Well, the Constitution is a great document, and we never would have been a nation without it, but it took more than that to make ...

853. Love of God, Self, and Neighbor

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... moral code." The Daily News writer observed that it is hard for societies to have institutional morality when the individual does not have a personal morality based on some kind of personal belief. We need to love God - our very loving shapes our life-style and morals and gives content to our ethical decisions. A partial devotion is a miserable way to live. it is destructive to hear one thing in church from Scripture and secretly do another. Some try just worshiping God with their emotions. They are afraid ...

854. While We Watch for the Coming

Matthew 24:1-35

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... -less life are angry and jealous. Christianity calls for change in our life, and many do not want to change. We march by a different drummer, and the way we live life in Christ calls to task the standards of others in their life-style, in their personal relationships, and their business ethics. We demand Jesus Christ have first place in our lives - and that will cause many clashes with those who don’t. Our priorities and loyalties are different. These surpass all earthly loyalties. We, if we are Christ ...

855. Ghosts - 1951

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... a grammar or a literature. Hence to know Latin was naturally the mark of a scholar. There is now a better body of English, French, and German literature than the Latins ever had, and these languages have also their laws of accidence and canons of style. Any youth will be profited vastly more by studying Shakespeare, Goethe, and Moliere, than by grubbing fossils from the quarries of Horace and Caesar. But the difficulty with this argument is that it is simply real and alive; and what chance does a poor ...

856. Christians In A Warring World - 1941

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... church should again declare its abiding conviction that the Christian way is the only way out. "But just what is the Christian way?" Ah, there’s the rub. With such obviously contradictory statements coming from so many so-called orthodox pulpits and self-styled authentic sources, it is small wonder that the public mind is so desperately confused on this vital matter. To be specific, what is the Christian way with reference to this pressing problem of war? Without wanting to be dogmatic and arbitrary, and ...

857. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... , make my way to the front door, pick up the morning newspaper, bring it into the house, and turn to the obituary section to see if my name is there, and if it isn’t, I go back to bed!" Well, that sort of "life style" doesn’t really qualify as living. Surely it doesn’t qualify as living until - anything. There isn’t much affirmative expectancy in it; it’s without point or purpose, a daily survival, with an attitude of indifference even toward that. Some years ago Archibald Rutledge, traveling ...

858. The Wonderful "T" Word

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . The general spiritual condition of the people was awful. Priests were lazy. Divorce was easy and casual. Morality was in decline. Into that dismal setting came a prophet named Malachi. He had great spiritual force because he was filled with the Holy Spirit. His style was to stand in the market place and engage the people in dialogue. The people asked, "Why has God allowed us to fall on such hard times?" Malachi answered, "Because you have not reverenced God and kept his commandments." Malachi then asked a ...

859. Marantha: Come Lord Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... end of the Bible--Revelation 22--and what do you find? The last word of the Bible is that great Christmas word for expectancy---"Maranatha" which means "Come Lord Jesus." The last word of the Bible is designed to launch us into an eternally expectant life style. We are supposed to live on tiptoe as it were, because the Bible promises that God is always doing some new thing. For some, the Messiah may come this Christmas as a healer of strife-torn homes, or as relief from some anxiety or pressure or stress ...

860. The Stepfather of God

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... by faith in difficult and uncertain times. Some of you know Charles Allen, that great preacher from Georgia, who served so long at First united Methodist Church in Houston. Though he has been retired quite a while, he is still proclaiming the Word in his matchless style. Dr. Allen still gets nervous when he has to fly. One of his friends reprimanded him gently, saying, "Charles, that shows a lack of faith. Didn't the Lord promise to be with you always?" Dr. Allen replied, "Wait a minute, brother. That's not ...

861. Like Buoys In The River

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... pilot ignores the warnings of the buoys and runs his vessel aground, it won't hurt the bottom of the Mississippi. But it could wreck his vessel. Those buoys remind me of God's laws, especially the Ten Commandments. They were given by a gracious God, not to cramp out style or to decrease our fun, but to point us toward the good life. We can ignore those laws if we wish, but we will be harmed if we do. In one sense we cannot break the Ten Commandments, but we can be broken by them if we violate them. About ...

862. A Mother Who Could Let Go

1 Samuel 9:1--10:8

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... clothing, and medical care. They give them the latest toys. They attend their recitals and little league ball games. But those children never hear their parents call their names in prayer. Those parents never read to them from the Bible. Church has no part in their life style. One day God is going to demand an accounting from those parents. He is going to ask, "Why did you leave out the most important training of all? Why did you train your child to ignore me?" What does it profit a child to attend Harvard ...

863. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... /fourth, end in abortion. During this service of worship, 180 abortions will occur. 94 percent of them happen because the mother (with or without husband) says that she can't afford the child or that the child would interfere with the parents' life style. To abort an unborn child for those reasons is just plain wrong. But the faith community must do more than just label things right or wrong. We must offer more support systems, homes for unwed mothers, financial and counseling services, and assistance with ...

864. This Adulterous Generation

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

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... consequences. How similar that view is to the devil's sales line to Eve in the Garden of Eden: "If you eat from that forbidden tree, you will not die. And look how beautiful it is!" Television is trying to sell the idea that alternate life-styles, including homosexuality, extra-marital, and pre-marital sex, are okay. In fact, the only kind of couple you won't see having sex on TV is a married couple. That would be considered profoundly boring. This immoral sales pitch has met with much success. A Radcliffe ...

865. Adultery, Cure and Prevention

Proverbs 7:1-27, John 8:1-11

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... more he tries to do for you. And so it goes, round and round. It's so simple. What don't more people figure it out?" One thing is sure...that lady in Ohio won't have adultery problems; nor will anyone with a marriage of that quality. Their life style follows the command of St. Paul: "Honor Christ by being servants of each other." (Ephesians 5:21) Now, I'm going to ask you to bow your head and close your eyes. If you are not married, I want you to pray silently for marriages you care about. If you ...

866. "Hands Off!"

Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... out hundreds of courtesy cars every weekend to other VIPs. McNamara used to say that the boss had to be more Catholic than the pope, and as clean as a hound's tooth. That code is not just for the boss, but indeed for every Christian who wants his life style to glorify Jesus Christ. There are at least a hundred ways to steal, but only one way to be honest.

867. A Shepherd To Lead Us

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... our college will have 1,452 new leaders. We are accepting you because we feel it is imperative that they have at least one follower” (Adapted from S. I. McMillen, None of These Diseases). Most of us do not like to think of ourselves as followers. We style ourselves as leaders but truth be told the vast majority of us are not. Outside of parenthood we rarely are placed into positions of ultimate care over others. But Jesus recognizes that we are by nature followers, that we need those over us to care for ...

868. How God Guides

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... Bible says that marriage is the only right place for sex. If the world teaches that poor people deserve more blame than compassion, the Bible warns us that God sides with the poor. Some people take the Bible and twist it to conform to their life-style. A Christian takes the Bible and makes his lifestyle conform to it. God guides through scripture. A THIRD METHOD BY WHICH GOD GUIDES US IS THEOUGH PEOPLE. The Hebrew people could never have made it to the Promised Land without Moses and Aaron. Just consider ...

869. Christmas Concern

Sermon

James Bjorge

... given priority. A teacher who teaches students a subject finds the subject matter important only as it enhances and enriches the student. A teacher can blindly teach material without caring one iota for the student. In such a take-it or leave-it style there is no concern and no relationship which makes for great learning experience. In the church of Jesus Christ we may sometimes be guilty of proclaiming without caring and then we wonder why we aren’t making much progress in Kingdom building. St. Augustine ...

870. THE OLD MAN IS WASTING

Drama

Jerome W. Nilssen

... The road to riches, Jari. Trust in the soil. JAREL Well, you can just get the hell out of here. Because I don’t trust in you. SETH But that’s the message. Trust in the soil. And you’ll ride back to the old man’s place in high style. You’ll come like a queen. JAREL You heard me. Get out! (She flings the cards at him) Bastard thief! And those two bills - who gave you the right? That’s mine! SETH They’re working, Jari. They’re your servants, honest to God. JAREL Cat scratch your naked eyeballs ...

871. Hungry for Anything?

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... a beard so that everyone will NOTICE that he ISN’T striving for any significance to public notice. A woman says that she will not join in the female rat race and suffer all the agonies that it takes to achieve beauty and smartness and style. She is going to be completely natural and casual. So, she goes without her brassiere so that people will NOTICE that she is not trying to be noticed. The snob, the race baiter, the religious bigot, the 100% American, the "always against" person, are all personalities ...

872. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... "to be different," "peculiar," "unusual," or in contemporary idiom, "to be queer." What the passage, and the term kadosh, are driving at is that God wants his people to be as "different" in how they act as he is in the way he acts. He wants us to reflect a style of life with him and one another that is patterned on the way he acts toward us. Hence the Commandments are not based on a principle of "Do as I say!" In them God is asking us to "Do as I do!" In the New Testament Jesus pressed the same ...

873. Chapter III

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... troubles that surround us. To blame it on him when we suffer, die suddenly or fail is to misuse his name and treat him as though he is nothing better than a fall-guy. A third misuse of God’s name that this Commandment entails is the living of a style of life by those who bear his name that leads the world to discount us, and because of us, to discount God himself. To a greater extent than we may realize, the people around us draw many conclusions about who God is, and how he operates, by watching the ...

874. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... arms. That life must be nurtured in a way that recognizes the sacred thing it is. Second, the parents are expected to look to God for the paradigm for the way they are to live out their responsibilities to their children. They are to strive for a style of living with them that mirrors the way God relates to the creation he shaped and loves. Third, the parents, in carrying out their roles, are not to shirk the responsibilities implicit in parenthood, nor try to palm them off on somebody else. A parent is to ...

875. DOORKEEPER

Ezra 7:24; Psalm 84:10

Illustration

Stephen Stewart

... clerk who screens visitors (at least those who choose to announce themselves!). This is just about what the doorkeeper in ancient times was also - a security guard. Let’s think about that for a moment. Perhaps you don’t know too much about the life style of the Hebrews, but I’m sure that you have heard, somewhere along the line, that the home held a position of particular sanctity for them. This is very true. And a place of particular importance was the doorway. This was because it was the dividing ...

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