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876. What Does It Mean To Love?

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

George Johnson

... unseen things above," but what the world is looking for is not words or melodies, but love, love that manifests itself in the way we spend our money, the way we vote, the way we treat those who don't deserve our love, those whose skin color or beliefs are different than ours. "Mother, father, sister, brother, everybody sing and shout, 'cause that's what it's all about. It's about love." To love is not always easy, but as the Bible says, it does make our joy complete. If Jesus taught us anything, he taught ...

877. What Is Servant Leadership?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Johnson

... but do not practice what they teach. You hypocrites, he calls them. And then he gives several examples of their hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is a common problem in all religions, in all churches, and in every Christian's life. It's never easy to live up to one's beliefs. Others can always find inconsistency and failure to do what we profess to be. We believe in the 10 commandments. We accept them as a guide for our behavior, but don't always obey them. It's hard to get a passing grade on the first commandment. "You ...

878. When Is Justification By Faith A Heresy?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

George Johnson

... purposes. Sometimes they had fallen into the trap of believing that blessing meant privilege, tradition meant truth, credentials meant insight. This led to arrogance and, at times, heresy. I encourage you to read the gospels and notice how often you find Jesus correcting faulty beliefs or traditions. The scripture is full of stories of people who thought they had it all figured out but were wrong, or people who started out well but who didn't continue to be open to growth and discovery. When Jesus tried to ...

879. Says Who?

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... . We are all enslaved to something; but to be truly free as Christians, we are to be enslaved to God. With Luther and Calvin, and their break with human rules, the idea and ideal of personal freedom began to flower. Here the ideas which helped its growth were the beliefs that reason is a safe guide to truth and that each person, in the degree to which he or she has come to love God, can choose the rules he or she may trust. Among those who held this view were John Locke, John Milton, and Roger Williams. A ...

880. Home And Temple

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James Garrett

... ranch mother sitting in her adobe house, reading to her children by the hour, and who, with her husband, scampered up the stairways of capitol domes, their children in tow. The home has a decisive influence in the shaping of character and beliefs. However, I feel the need to add something more… humans have the ability to overcome the destructive effects of poor upbringing, provided there has been no physiological damage. For we can learn how we should behave. We all know persons who have “made ...

881. Jesus Is Rejected

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

James Garrett

... believe something, stand up.” I do not always agree with Dr. Benjamin Spock. But I do admire him. I respect him for his public stand in his convictions even when they may not be popular. In an essay he writes: “I got my most basic beliefs -- in the sense of unthinking attitudes rather than rational credos -- from my stern, moralistic, unyielding mother. She wasn’t all grim, though. She had a great sense of humor, was a hilarious mimic, and was as invariably charming to outsiders as she was severe with ...

882. Luke’s Beatitudes And Woes

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

James Garrett

... to some group in the church. The Bible alone sets the lifestyle of a Christian. We should come together for no purpose other than to let the Word itself inform us; to let the Word broaden our understanding; to let the Word tap the source of values and beliefs. It is important to let the Word put us in touch with matters eternal and final. And, to be blessed in the reflection upon the Word. There are some biblical texts which should be read and left alone, says Dr. Craddock. Texts to be released into the ...

883. Refuse To Be A Victim

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

James Garrett

... it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth -- that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which one can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: the salvation of man is through love and in love. The final summary is the “golden rule” given by Jesus. It covers all cases: “And as you wish that people would do to you, do so to them.”

884. Good News From A Graveyard

John 20:1-9

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... by the desire of the creature who insists that their bodies are their own to do with as they wish and that life's destiny lies, not in God's hands, but their own. Our basic instincts resist granting God power over our live or our death! Furthermore belief in the resurrection means that we are exposed to the shocking way sin which God purposes to work in this world. It seems the Lord God is rather careless about the means by which the Divine will is done, using anything that is at hand: mangers, leper ...

885. Our Christian I.D.

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

John M. Braaten

... been able to do it yourself, many times. Admittedly, we have also caved in to temptation innumerable times, but for a person with Jesus' devotion and strength, eluding the tempter's entrapment must have been a piece of cake. That assumption is based on that belief that temptation is merely the urge to do something wrong. It is the desire to do something which will benefit one's self but which, if done, would violate the laws of God or society. For instance, you walk through a store and you see something ...

886. God Moves In Mysterious Ways

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... . Five master carpenters tried to come up with a solution, and there was none. The Sisters would simply have to use the shaky ladder. The Sisters of Loretto faced this problem the way they faced all of their problems. They simply began to pray in the firm belief that God would provide an answer to their prayers. And God did! A few weeks before Christmas, a stranger showed up at the convent and said that he had heard about the problem which the sisters were facing. He stated very simply that he was the best ...

887. Overcoming The Blues

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Robert Allen

... given up in his heart and mind. If you believe you can’t overcome a problem in your heart and mind, you probably won’t. But, if you think you can overcome the problem and believe you can overcome the problem, you probably will. It is powerful, this belief within, which gives you the strength to overcome the problem-causing blues of life. When I was in graduate school, I worked at the YMCA as a football coach for fourth and fifth grade boys. One day I went over to the “Y” to pick up some equipment ...

888. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... to mind the prophetic incentives to spiritual transformation. The black preacher has functioned as both priest and prophet, but invariably the task is to move the people forward in their thinking and to challenge them spiritually at the core of belief in ways which will empower progressive social and spiritual transformation. Transfiguration of both mind and soul are essential to the psycho-spiritual-social liberation of black people in America, and black preaching has always been on the cutting edge of ...

889. Take Off The Grave Clothes!

John 11:38-44

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... in which he always got into trouble. He decided to accept Christ and be saved, resurrected from the dead, but more importantly, he decided to take off his grave clothes by not returning to the place of his discontent. He turned disbelief into belief and transformed not only his situation but his life condition into something positive. Once you've experienced resurrection, you must do all you can to sustain the experience of being alive in Christ, and this means removing the grave clothes. The grave clothes ...

890. The African Foundations Of Christianity

Exodus 4:1-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... Breasted, The Dawn of Conscience (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934), p. xv. 7. E.A. Wallis Budge, From Fetishism To God in Ancient Egypt (New York:Dover Publications, 1988), pp. 168-169. 8. Ibid., p. 170. 9. James Bonwick, Egyptian Belief and Modern Thought (London: African Publication Society, 1983), p. 368. 10. Josef Ben Jochannan, Africa: Mother of Western Civilization (New York:Alkebulan Books, 1966). 11. Robert Eisler, The Messiah Jesus and John The Baptist (London: Methuen and Company, 1931).

891. Hang Time: A Good Friday Sermon

Matthew 27:45-56

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... you hang? What is your hang time for the things of God? I think about all those faithful servants of Christ who are able to hang in a mighty way. They're able to hang in there for Jesus when everybody else is abandoning ship. Their staying power is beyond belief. It was the hang time or staying power of the church in the midst of persecution and hardship that allows us to be here today. It was the hang time or staying power of the martyrs and early Christians which brought us the gifts of the church we now ...

892. Fatal Subtraction

Acts 5:1-11

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... the act of surrendering something of value, sharing is the act of giving something of value so as to benefit others around you. By holding back and subtracting they threatened to destroy the body of Christ by refusing to share. Sharing sustains belief. Sharing creates fellowship. Sharing solidifies the body of believers. The church's success is based on a willingness to share. Early believers knew that sharing empowered them to be more effective in reaching others for Christ. One writer observed that it was ...

893. Hostage Crisis

1 Kings 19:1-8

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... now he is weak. Whatever holds us hostage, we can trace its origins to a crisis in confidence, where we no longer hold fast to our faith in God's ability to redeem and deliver. Every spiritual crisis culminating in our spiritual incarceration is due to lack of belief in God. It is only by retrieving our faith and trust that we are able to bust out of our spiritual jail cells and knock down the walls which close us in. All along the way God is giving Elijah encouragement to rebuild his confidence. God gives ...

894. Can You Dig It?

Genesis 26:1-35

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... have something of positive value in their personal family histories which can become the watering ground for the revitalization of our communities. It may be something as simple as grandma's hum or as complex as holding onto some practice or belief which sustains the family through difficult times. Some traditional and ritual practices we should unearth and preserve. Some practices of abuse we should relinquish. Every family has something of value from its past which can help it find its future. Isaac ...

895. Holy Diet

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... address in London, T. S. Eliot talked about "spiritual awareness." He observed that many persons aspire to become Christians and believe, presumably, in the efficacy of the Christian faith, but never reach the stage of actually experiencing it. Aspiring towards real belief, i.e., becoming truly Christian, is one thing, whereas complete awareness of it is another. Aspiring can easily become an end in itself. And, as Charles H. Duthie of Edinburgh remarked: "It is a matter of living forever in the preface ...

896. Holy Believing

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... instruction in our Christian faith. I It is important to note how the word believe is so crucial and critical in any New Testament discussion about life, especially eternal life. Modern folk, however, raise a red flag and say: "Yes, we yearn for a better life, but beliefs are so many and varied that we do not know where to start." Do not think for one moment that these Jews were in any better situation with their ancient Law and its 613 separate regulations. For us the first step must be: to believe Jesus ...

897. Are Greatness and Christianity Compatible?

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... dimensions of true greatness do not lie in our world of gadgets and things, of push and shove, by which our ego is expanded, but in that scheme of wonder where self-denial makes lesser people great. 2. We must cultivatae openness of belief. Nothing is more detrimental to genuine Christianity than the closed mind. It appears in the fundamentalist who stands rigidly upon the verbal accuracy and inerrancy of the Bible, in the Roman Catholic deification of its own ecclesiastical system, and in the legalists who ...

898. It's Performance That Counts

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Larry Goodpaster

... our grand professions in this holy place unless we back them up with gracious actions in that sacred place we call our world. And for that world filled with lonely, hurting people, the quality of our living is much more convincing than the quantity of our affirmations of faith and belief. It is, finally, a matter of reflecting the love of God not only in what we say, but also in what we do and how we live. So what will you do this week to share the love and to do the work of God?

899. Living By A Hunch

2 Kings 4:8-37

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... to become a part of her life and she was forced to form some kind of opinion of him. Just how she did it we do not know. Perhaps it was in Elisha’s demeanor that he was so confident a person, so compelling in the way he stated his beliefs about God, that this woman could not help but believe he was a holy man. Imagine if my glasses this morning were rose-colored. If they were, it would be a message that all of us look at the world and every other person who lives in it from our ...

900. Who’s In Charge Here?

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... they could be. In no way would they turn and acknowledge their sinfulness. The parallel I see between the people of Israel and those in a modern hospital who have to make a life and death decision is that it is easy to slip into the belief that they alone are actually making these decisions. The decision they have made is to use a machine that for many people has great therapeutic value. There are dozens of persons in any hospital who thank God that there was a breathing machine to help them breathe ...

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