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901. Destined For Greatness

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... that all of life has been predetermined, preordained, fixed in place with no possibility of alteration? Some of our younger folks may not even have heard of this time-honored view of life, but there was a time when it was a hot topic. It even produced humor. Two pastors were good friends but had radically different theologies. Bob was a strong believer in predestination. He believed that everything that happens to us has already been determined by the hand of ...

902. I Didn't Expect This In Church!

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the county jail? What if he asked about the kind of television programs you were feeding into your brain, how much time and money you actually gave your church, how much time you had spent studying the Word? Would he be satisfied with your views on capital punishment, abortion, gun control, universal health care, the rights of minorities, welfare reform? What if he asked about the time you spend with your family? Would Jesus be a welcome guest in your home or would you be a little unsettled? "Who does ...

903. Wrong Way. On Purpose

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... of his merciful mission to come the wrong way. On purpose. For our redemption. As our example. Amen. 1. Trans-Atlantic Flier "Wrong Way Corrigan" Dies At 88, by Myma Oliver of The Los Angeles Times, in The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, December 13, 1995. 2. This view is wonderfully proposed in a treatment of Matthew 15:21-28 by Max Lucado. He included his comments on this text in a chapter titled, "My God Smiles" from the book, In The Eye Of The Storm, Word Publishing, 1991, page 214. 3. William Barclay, The ...

904. General Hospital

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... from birth presented a perplexing problem for the disciples. How could he have sinned before he was born? Or, had his parents done something so awful that the result would be a child born blind? At a conscience level, we may no longer buy into a world-view which says that every problem or disability is the result of sin. But, when we are caught in a perplexing problem for which there is no apparent cause, then we begin to speculate, "What could I have done to deserve such a fate?" Now, we do acknowledge ...

905. "Why Don't We Just Tell Them Our Names?"

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... want to know your names." I suspect that's one of the reasons there was and is such opposition to desegregated schools and churches in our land--we don't want to know their names, because to know their names might challenge racial views which we feel righteous in holding as long as we can view them as a block, a group who all look alike. We aren't concerned to tell the difference between one and the other (thus, "they all look alike to me"). We are interested only to tell the difference between them and us ...

906. The Difference Between Looking Good And Being Good

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... piling on more and more rules. Soon, the Pharisees had compiled more than fifty volumes of rules and laws that a Jew must follow to be considered righteous. And there were some significant differences between how the Pharisees viewed the life of faith and how Jesus viewed the life of faith. FOR ONE THING, THE PHARISEES VALUED RULES OVER RELATIONSHIPS. The Pharisees were caught up in following the rules. As we noted last week, Jesus was passionate about establishing relationships. Jesus has been teaching ...

907. Like A Tornado

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , perhaps slinging them to the floor. I like to think of the Apostle John's hair being blown and Simon Peter trying to keep his napkin on the table. Of course, John may have been bald. And Simon Peter may have wiped his mouth on his sleeve, since we view him as such a crude man. Nobody knows. All we know is there was a violent wind . . . But there's more: "Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them . . ." This is no run-of-the-mill worship service. Can you imagine ...

908. Casting Aside His Garment

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... them out to people, reshelved them, hunted some of them for customers, and has probably read several of them. She thinks in terms of individual books, individual authors, individual subject matters. The more people know about books, the less they view them as a sea of literature and the more they view them as individual books. Let's use another example. Some of us know nothing about what goes on under the hood of a car. Today, most cars come with all kinds of standard features, such as power steering, power ...

909. God's Witness Security Program

1 John 3:1-3

Sermon

King Duncan

... Sounds like a simple lesson, doesn’t it? But it reveals the huge influence that our words have on our self-image and our view of the world. What words do you use to describe yourself? Friendly, athletic, trustworthy? Or loser, awkward, slow? What words do you use to describe ... your loved ones, your job, your average day? You choose who you are and how you view your life by the words you use. (4) So repeat after me: I am a child of God. I am a saint. I am beloved ...

910. The Total Steward

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... answer to God. Our auditing day is coming and the report must be filed. Reckoning is on the books. The faithful steward will not view this showdown with God with dread but with joy and peace as he thinks on the reward. We are accountable not just for ... habits that degrade and weaken the body will be refused and disdained. The Apostle Paul writes, "Therefore I urge you, brothers, in view of God''s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God..." The total steward will use his ...

911. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the preface to the book. A wise reader does not skip over the preface, for in it the author usually tries to set forth the point of view from which the book is written. What is said in those opening words colors what is said in the rest of the book. Each of the four ... and things; that is to turn one’s back on that which God has created, redeemed, and destined for glory. To have any view of salvation which does not embrace all of the created order of God is to be shortsighted and limited in our vision. Yes, ...

912. Christmas and the Condensed Bible

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in the Bible that could use some condensation. Some stories are repetitive, and the long and seemingly meaningless genealogies are not very inspirational. And then there are a lot of things in the Bible which simply do not seem helpful from a Christian point of view. Martin Luther had a violent dislike for the Letter of James and the Book of Revelation. He called the former “an epistle of straw,” and of the latter he said, “A Revelation ought to reveal.” It should, but for most of us much of the ...

913. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... bowl in hand if he can have “some more.” I thought of grace as a substance. There was only so much of it to go around, and you were lucky if you happened to get some of it splashed on you, unlucky if you didn’t. That was a childish view of grace, and like St. Paul, “when I became an adult, I put away childish things.” I began to study the Bible and discovered that grace is not a substance at all. Grace is not a thing, but is rather a theological code word used to describe the completely undeserved ...

914. How Free Are We?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... depicting a minor devil asking his boss, “What do we do now with all the souls burning in hell for eating meat on Fridays?” Our notions of what constitutes “sin” undergo changes from time to time. No, our problem is not sins, but sin. The Biblical view of sin is that it is not really a matter of our freely choosing the evil instead of the good, but rather it is a sickness which infects all of humanity. Jesus’ primary problem was not with “sinners,” those who had transgressed certain moral laws ...

915. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... “savior” is “liberator,” and that’s a very modern word, a word we very much need to hear. In the early days of the Church most of the world was in bondage; if not physical bondage through slavery, then spiritual bondage to forms of religion and views of God which oppressed them and kept them down. People believed that their lives were in the hands of a blind Fate, or in the stars (astrology), or in the hands of an unfeeling and uncaring despotic kind of God. But Christ’s coming swept the skies ...

916. Whatever Happened to those Mansions?

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... believe that Christian hope in life beyond death takes the edge off concern for this world and this life. A promise of heaven in the next world takes their attention away from doing something about the hells in this world. This point of view is expressed with great cogency by Rabbi David Small in the fine series of mystery novels by Harry Kemelman which began with “Friday the Rabbi Slept Late.” The novels are most entertaining, but are really an apologia for Orthodox Judaism; and traditional Orthodox ...

917. Whatever became of Kingdomtide?

John 16:17-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the status quo today is “liberal,” and I can’t for the life of me find out why “liberal” should be a dirty word. The dictionary definition of “liberal” is: “Not limited to or by established, traditional, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views, or dogmas; free from bigotry. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded. Tending to give freely; generous.” Sounds like a pretty good definition of an ordinary ...

918. One Bad Apple

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... one of the greatest cop-outs of human history. It began in the Garden of Eden—the effort to place the blame on somebody or something else. The very fact that he was the treasurer of the twelve indicates that he was deemed trustworthy. I know, a popular view for years has held that Jesus knowingly chose a villain for the specific purpose of betrayal, but that does not seem consistent with the kind of God we meet in Jesus Christ. What kind of God would play with human life as pawns on the chessboard of life ...

919. Secretary to Saint Peter

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... complete, and they looked with disdain on this incomplete scroll with the torn-off ending.And so it ended up in second place in our New Testaments. II. EACH OF THE FOUR GOSPELS TELLS THE STORY OF JESUS IN A DIFFERENT WAY. Each has its own characteristic view-point. It is natural that this would be so - and adds to their credibility. If you have four reports of a traffic accident at the corner of State and Huron, and they agree on every detail, then something is fishy. There are going to be differences of ...

920. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... their heads, without having the foggiest notion of what they were going to replace it with. They had an overly-optimistic view of human nature which seemed to think that whatever happens after revolution has got to be better. But usually it ... Don’t smoke, don’t drink, don’t dance, etc.” Methodists have fallen easy prey to this sort of thing over the years. The view of most non-churchgoers is that Methodists are defined by what they don’t do. Bishop Kennedy once described someone who did not drink, ...

921. Jesus Out of Character

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... is the “correct” one? As a a theology professor of mine used to say: “You pays your money and you takes your choice.” I WISH I COULD NOW GIVE YOU THE “TRUE VIEW.” I have read commentary after commentary, and none of them satisfies me fully. You’d be amazed at some of the theological raindances which Biblical commentators do around this awkward event in the life of our Lord. Perhaps we will have to suspend judgment until we know more. John Wesley ...

922. Men Like Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... said that his people were like “a cake not turned.” (Hosea 7:8) In other words, they were half-baked...and they had a half-baked religion. Many of us, I am afraid, are like them. Therefore we have a dim view of Christ and of other people. There are those who only have a dim view of others, who look at other people only at a safe distance. The striking detail in the story that says when the poor man’s vision was only partially restored, he saw persons as though they were trees walking is suggestive ...

923. Losers Keepers

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... their enemies suffer, not a Messiah who Himself might suffer on behalf of His enemies. We cannot say that Jesus ever got anyone to follow Him on false pretenses! He didn’t invite people to go with Him on a Church picnic! Suffering, the Cross, death, were always in plain view. He was not to be the kind of Messiah they were expecting, one who would “slay their foes and raise them high;” as the Christmas poem puts it. His way was to be the way of suffering. In a way, I am glad it was. If Jesus had not ...

924. The Lord's Prayer: Hallowed be Thy Name

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the tables in the Temple. Both are correct, both are biblical, both pictures represent the ways in which God in Christ would view my actions in my journey of faith. Only a God that cannot be molded and shaped by human beings can enter human ... a new world order. Perhaps this petition of The Lord''s Prayer is the place to really begin the new world order--from God''s point of view. For our Hymn of Preparation today, we sang, "Take Time to be Holy." If we don''t care to be holy, there is only one other option ...

925. The Sixth Commandment: Respect and Reverence for Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... we allow the power of vengeance to overtake us. It is anger that allows hate to develop to such a degree that this inner rage propels us to perform such a deed. Without the high standard the word of God gives us, we pay a high price for a low view of life. The church of Jesus Christ moves to a different drummer from the legions of death and doom. We take our marching orders from King Jesus who said, "I came that they may have life and have it to the full." This propels us forward in mission and ministry ...

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