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926. Christ's Promise To His Saints

John 11:17-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... life and death. There will come a time when we will be reunited, but for now, we trust our loved one to God's care. We tell our children that "there are no such things as ghosts" for a good reason--it violates the Christian understanding of resurrection. ... resurrected and are now with Christ. The second message in today's scripture reading concerns Christ's love and compassion. Christ cares about our heartaches and our pain. Pastor James Moore tells about a pastor friend who has been teased for years for ...

927. Danny Devito In A Tree

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... but for those who are lost. Does that fit anybody here today? Is this a time of discouragement for you? Have some of your most cherished dreams been shattered? Do you feel that no one understands? There is one who does understand. He knows your name. And he cares. He cares so much that he would lay down his own life in your behalf. In fact he has laid down his life in your behalf. Jesus tells Zacchaeus that he is going home with him and the impact is extraordinary. Zacchaeus said to the Lord, "Look, half of ...

928. Made For The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... about maintaining that building. More windows will get broken. As the building becomes more dilapidated, there is a growing assumption of lawlessness by the residents. People assume that they can lower their standards of behavior, because no one will notice or care. The mayor of New York City used the Broken Window theory in the 1990s as a guide for reducing the crime rate. He had work crews cleaning up vandalism and repairing crumbling buildings. He assigned officers to patrol neighborhoods and cite people ...

929. He Was Afflicted

Isaiah 63:7-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... be in our thoughts and hearts during this season of the year. Christ suffered on our behalf, which reminds us of people we know who are suffering physically and emotionally. This is that season of the year when we find it easier to be empathetic, accepting, caring--the way we should be all year long. Most of us are familiar with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. We all know Scrooge, who was so greedy and mean that he rejected Christmas and all the beautiful aspects of the holiday. You will recall that he ...

930. Three Promises

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... he has promised. And the three promises he made to us may be summed up in three words: presence, power and priesthood. CHRIST'S FIRST PROMISE WAS THAT HE WOULD ALWAYS BE WITH US. Life gets tough sometimes. Even worse, we get the feeling that no one cares. I read an amusing story about a twelve-year-old boy who stood patiently beside the clock counter while the store clerk waited on all of the adult customers. Finally the clerk got around to the youngster, who made his purchase and hurried out to the curb ...

931. The Divine Family

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... choosing his parents. The truth of that assertion is too painfully apparent to us. Our relationship to God is that of a loving parent and a child. Let us pray that God will help us to provide our children with the nurture and care that will help them develop a strong sense of who they are and, even more importantly, whose they are and what they are about. 1. Management Digest, June, 1977. 2. O. Dean Martin, Good Marriages Don't Just Happen (Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell Co., 1984). 3. (Arthur S. ...

932. An Empty Cup

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Maybe God isn't as involved in the universe as Job once believed. Maybe one of the angels made a clerical error. This kind of suffering isn't supposed to come to a righteous man. The righteous are supposed to be continually under God's care. No, this package of pain was delivered to the wrong address--it was meant for the pagan who blasphemes God's name, the neighbor who spends his time in loafing and drunkenness, the merchant who cheats his customers. Because if righteousness does not automatically earn ...

933. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... and teaching the inhabitants of undeveloped lands how to raise better crops. Millions more, however, live and die with diseases that could be cured if only they had medicine or could see a doctor and medical personnel. Missionary hospitals and clinics provide medical care in many of these desperate places. But many must do so with hurting hearts because there is not enough medicine to go around. In spite of poverty and disease and the most wretched of conditions, people live in slums of great cities across ...

934. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... living for Jesus Christ and helping other people." This woman, who also has known more than her share of troubles, has organized a volunteer organization to help feed and care for the homeless and the hungry. She takes into her own home those who are desperate, who cannot care for themselves, and she cares for them until they can get to the point of caring for themselves. You ask her what made the difference in her life, and she'll say, "that day when I turned my life over to Jesus Christ and he transformed ...

935. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... ." Then another one stood and said, "I know what will do it. We''ll tell people that there is a God and he does care, but he doesn't have the power to help them in their troubles or to save them. We''ll just tell them that." They thought ... from trusting in Christ. And then Satan himself said, "I know the sure-fire answer. We can tell people that there is a God and that he cares for them and he can save them through Jesus Christ if they''ll put their trust in him through what he''s done on the cross and resurrection ...

936. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the money given to the poor. As I said, his objection sound eminently reasonable. Jesus certainly had sympathy for the poor, and often condemned wasteful luxury. Indeed, if there is one primary difference between our Lord and most of the rest of us it is that He cared passionately for the poor. Indeed, the whole Bible seems to be prejudiced in favor of the poor. Most of us say, “Why don’t they go out and get a job? Why don’t they lift themselves up by their own bootstraps?” Never mind that they may ...

937. Life Begins at Thirty-Eight

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of a miraculous healing. Do you suppose that the author is trying to tell us that no matter how long you have lived with your problems, no matter whether everyone else on earth has forsaken you, there is still One who will not forsake you, One who cares infinitely for you? I think that is the case. In Robert Browning’s poem “Rabbi ben Ezra” we read these lines: Thoughts narrowly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in ...

938. The Saint Who Played Second Fiddle

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... lad to Jesus. Can there be anything more important in the life of this or any other church than introducing our children and young people to Jesus? As mentioned in the previous sermon, the Church is always within one generation of extinction. If we don’t care enough to pass on the faith to the next generation, there will not be any Christian Faith in the 21st century! Then there is the record of Andrew introducing some Greeks to Jesus. They said, simply, “Sir, we would see Jesus.” I wonder whether the ...

939. On Claiming One’s Inheritance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... I invite you to claim your inheritance as a part of this church. This building was here when we arrived. Like God’s grace, it is a gift. The question is: what are we going to do with it? Are we going to receive it, and then, out of gratitude, care for it, and share it? We ought not to give to the Church out of compulsion, but out of love and gratitude. Tillich was right: The Good News of the Gospel is that God accepts us just as we are. But God is not content to leave us there. God ...

940. Sine Qua Non

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... cannot be divided. Theologian Paul Tillich defined religion as “ultimate concern” and told us that our basic problem is not atheism (no god) but idolatry (false gods). Now, you may say that polytheism is not a temptation for moderns. We may not be very careful in the worship of one God, but we are certainly not polytheists: worshippers of many gods. But don’t be too sure. Aldous Huxley said that one of the unexpected results of the decay of a genuine monotheism has been the spread of polytheism ...

941. Living Large for God (Part 3)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... the driver, "Well, my grandson keeps bugging me to change my ways, and stop eating pork and fried foods and things. But I told him, ‘God takes care of me! If I get sick, then God will fix it!’" (3) Whoa! That’s what we want, isn’t it? We want to do our ... and living large for the kingdom of God. This is a prayer you and I can gladly pray: bless me and enlarge my territory. Take care of my needs, give me a joy that pain cannot touch and help me be more and do more to your glory. May God continue ...

942. Did You Leave the the Door Open? (I am the gate)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... shares these words in John 10 to reassure his disciples that he is the true revelation of God--and also to expose the religious charlatans who might have been in the crowd at that very moment. In other words they were pretending to be shepherds--but really did not care for the sheep. They were in it for profit--not to be a prophet of God. They exploited people and abused them. They followed the letter of the law, but not the spirit of the law. Jesus was the Good Shepherd because he led those who heard his ...

943. When It Is Tough to Follow Jesus: The Third Word

John 19:17-27

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , rabbi''s and many more people from all walks of life. They came to pay their respects to this Saint of God who touched the world with the simple gift of "mothering." So it is no surprise that, in a tender act of love and compassion, that Jesus would care for the future needs of the woman who had shared God''s gift of "mothering" with Him. "Mothering" is a very tough duty and responsibility in life, and it is not a role that is restricted to women. We all need to learn how to be better "mothers," better ...

944. The Tender Touch (Part 1)

James 5:13-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... life, And pass it on to other folk. Your health depends upon your faith. In one of our great Christian hymns, "Praise to the Lord, the Almighty," we sing: O My Soul, Praise Him, For He is thy Health and Salvation, and then in verse two: God''s Care Enfolds All, Whose True Good He Upholds. Hast Thou Not Known His Sustaining. The text that I have found most comforting when I have sought this relationship between faith and health is found in Psalm 103, verses 3 and 4a: Who forgives all your sins, And heals all ...

945. A Soul Restored

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . On three different occasions they took this cat to a location, let it out and even drove home a different way, but each time this cat reappeared. They finally kept the cat. It had a "homing instinct"--sheep do not. The way sheep and other livestock are cared for in America is radically different from the Middle East culture. The American cowperson works the herd of sheep or cattle from the rear. The sheep are, in a sense, driven. In the Middle East, however, the shepherd is most often out in front of the ...

946. The Fox

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... law. As a Roman, Pilate apparently didn't feel that the charges against Jesus called for the death penalty. He was looking for a way out, or looking for someone else to make the decision. There had been bad blood between us for some time, and neither of us cared much for the other. But I think that Pilate saw a chance to use me. He discovered that Jesus was from Galilee, which was in my jurisdiction, so he had Jesus sent over to where I was staying, hoping that I would pass judgment, and thus relieve him of ...

947. The Dark Didn't Catch Me!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... who had everything I thought was important in life, and, what's more, he was a committed Christian. So I went to listen. Bill preached on the parable of the sower from Matthew 13. He talked about how some seed fell into good soil and began to grow, but the cares of the world grew up like weeds and choked the plant's life. I knew Bill was talking about me. When he gave an invitation, I went forward asking Jesus to be more than the Savior he'd been to me since my childhood. I went forward asking him to ...

948. Is Your Love Shy?

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... I turned the conversation toward Jesus. I asked his thinking on man's nature, on the existence of God, and the church. And he shrugged them off. It wasn't that he was afraid of showing his ignorance. Nor was he afraid of the answers. He just didn't care. All his circuits were jammed with other questions so that he didn't have room for others to get through. Such sad creatures we can be! To go through life asking questions of food and pleasure and disco and suntans and movies and sports cars is so typical of ...

949. No Salt in the City?

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... salt on our bridges to melt the ice. In our day human hearts have grown frosty; long icicles of indifference are suspended like daggers from our lives. We have our cliques, our racial walls, our cold-blooded murders. "I don't care about God. I don't even care about you. All I care about is me!" And it takes salt, Christian salt, to thaw out a society. A young lady in our church was looking forward to attending a concert. She and three of her friends had tickets, and the day neared. In casual conversation ...

950. Training the Heart

1 John 1:1-4

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... of John puts it. Rather we need to pray this prayer: "Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." How hard it is for us to have balance in our lives when it comes to deciding when enough is enough, when we have cared enough, when we have sacrificed enough. Of course, you and I know that we don't sacrifice very well or very much. But I am also convinced that God does not call us to a life of constant guilt, which keeps us from the abundant life to which Jesus specifically ...

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