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926. Forgive as You Have Been Forgiven

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... wrong. Later, he'd appear with tail a' wagging, anxious to please, wanting to be forgiven. "You know you did bad, Bobo. But we still love you. Here's a Bobo treat to show you we forgive. Don't do it again, though." Rubbing his ears and kissing the top of ... consequence of not doing what God wants us to do will eat us up inside. We all have a choice to be forgiving and loving. We forgive not to gain anything, but because we have already received forgiveness from God. The blessing in this action is that when ...

927. Simple Enough?

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... we know better for the fact that Jesus quoted them as part of the greatest commandment. Nor would an ancient hearer of this passage require a Pharisee to ask a clarifying question like "Who exactly is my neighbor?" Later in the chapter we read "you shall love the alien as yourself," a reminder that outsiders in our midst are part of our community. What makes this commandment new is that now these are no longer just words that come from above. These words are being lived before us. Jesus said they are to ...

928. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... writer who would use the image of slave in a positive light, even metaphorically. Aristotle wrote: “one who is a human being belonging by nature not to himself but to another is by nature a slave” (Pol. 1.2.7 [Rackham, LCL]). Paul describes the kind of love that can fulfill the law as producing the kind of life required of a slave—a life lived entirely for others. 5:15 Paul then approaches the nature of Christian freedom from the negative point of view, saying that if the Galatians keep on biting and ...

929. Called to Participate

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20

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James L. Killen

... live on this side of the nativity are able to know the whole story of the life that began in Bethlehem. We are able to know how it ended, with the one who represented God to us dying upon a cross to show us how great and unconditional God's love is for us. The meaning is there for us. Our guilt, brokenness, and unworthiness have been set aside and we have been freely given the status of beloved children of God. Some of us have grown up knowing ourselves to be beloved children of God. Others of us have to ...

930. All the Pretty Horses

Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:1-12, 1 Kings 3:16-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Revelation! The world of the early church may have seemed war-torn, violent, and exceedingly hard, but a new heaven and earth would be coming where everyone would eat and drink for free! What a vision! What a dream! A dream where silos and resentments end and love reigns. Where anger and resentment, evil and envy are defeated, God’s people will live in beauty and hope in unity with God and feasting at His heavenly table. We all need a lullaby like that, don’t we? What is our dream today in the Church ...

931. Here

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... way she walks, her favorite food, the sound of her name. Jane. J-a-n-e. She need not stop being Jane and blend into the great, gray lump called "the human race." In fact if she did, she wouldn't be half so lovable. God's love invades our history, our time and place, with similarity, specificity, particularity, and partiality. It wasn't that the ''word became flesh" once upon a time, someplace, to some people. It was that Jewish Mary of Nazareth, Galilee had a baby named Jesus in Bethlehem. Here. To witness ...

932. Secret Sauce

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to a minimal space. Jesus’ intended community is an inclusive community. The vision of the early Christian Church was a united global community. But it’s easier said than done. Jesus knew that. That’s what makes discipleship so hard. It’s what makes love so hard. There’s an old folk saying attributed to Martin Luther that goes, “wherever the Lord builds a church, the devil would build a chapel.” The threat of what M. Scott Peck calls the “diabolic” in human nature is always evident. As God ...

933. Proper 12

1 Kings 3:1-15, Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46, Genesis 29:15-30

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... times was more precious than gold. It had tremendous value in itself. In this sense it duplicates the idea of treasure. But a pearl is also a thing of beauty which lasts forever. Beauty and God go together. There is a beauty of character, of truth, and of love. The kingdom is beautiful. Unlike the treasure, the pearl of the kingdom is sought. In the search, the kingdom is found. Not only is the kingdom discovered, but it is longed for and searched for until it is found. Do we understand what we say when we ...

934. Here I Am To Worship

John 4:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... you do it for. You can be a plumber for the glory of God. You can dig ditches for the glory of God. You can work in a court room for the glory of God. You can serve in a hospital for the glory of God. That is why I love this next verse. "Take your everyday, ordinary life – your sleeping, your eating, your going to work, your walking – around life- and place it before God as a ‘offering'".(Romans 12:1, MSG) Now we get to where the rubber hits the road, because real purpose driven living doesn't happen ...

935. The Main Thing is to Keep the Main Thing the Main Thing

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James W. Moore

... behind her and with obvious agitation he started honking his horn at her impatiently. She doubled her efforts to get her car going. She pumped the gas, turned the ignition, but still no luck... the man in the pick-up truck continued to honk his horn constantly and loudly. I love what the elderly woman did. Very calmly she got out of her car, walked back to the pick-up and motioned for the man to lower his window and then politely she said: "I'll make a deal with you. If you will start my car for me I'll ...

936. The Way and The Truth and The Life

John 14:1-14

Sermon

Lee Griess

... , the dead are raised, and good news is preached to the poor." There is no doubt about it — when we look at Jesus, we see love in action. Jesus' words, then, are an invitation to know God as well as an example of how to live our lives. They are intended ... — the ugliness of our lives, the sinfulness of our thoughts and deeds, the blemishes of selfishness and pride, and our failure to love. When Jesus says, "I am the truth," he confronts us with our failures to forgive, our refusals to show mercy, and our ...

937. See Something, Say Something, Do Something, Be Something

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... service” Jesus asked of his disciples was not tied to duties. It was not a guarantee or warranty against lawsuits. It was not a safety valve for security. It was a pure outpouring of love. The “service” Jesus asked of those who would be identified as his disciple’s was to “love one another.” Jesus’ “new commandment” created a new community — a strange new community that would cause the world to wonder. Tertullian would write a century later about what the world wondered at: “See how ...

938. The Sin and Doom of Godless Men

Jude 1:1-16

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... opening greeting of Peter’s two letters. See Additional Note on 1 Pet. 1:2. Jude’s three terms, mercy, peace, love, occur together in the letter to the church at Smyrna on the martyrdom of Polycarp (A.D. 155). Peace (eirēnē, ... Additional Notes 3 The affectionate agapētoi, “beloved ones,” which appears again in vv. 17 and 20, derives from the verb agapan (“to love with God’s love”), used in v. 1. The Greek for I had to (anankēn eschon) with an infinitive refers to orders received, as in Luke ...

939. The Spirit and the Glory of the Age to Come and the New Covenant

Romans 8:28-39, Romans 8:18-27

Teach the Text

C. Marvin Pate

... has in mind in 8:26–27. Access to the throne of God via the guidance of the Spirit assures the Christian that God hears now and will grant the glory of his Son (cf. 8:30). 8:28 in all things God works for the good of those who love him. We earlier noted that the suffering/glory paradigm imprints 8:28–30. The “all things” consists of the sufferings of this age (8:19–27), which God uses to conform the believer to the image of his Son, in whose glory the believer shares (8:30).6 8:29 ...

940. What Will We Do When He Is Gone?

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... . For it is in giving, that we receive; It is in pardoning, that we are pardoned; It is in dying, that we are born to eternal life. George Matheson was a man who thoroughly understood what it meant to be sustained through great loss by the power of love and the strength that comes from serving others. When Matheson was twenty years of age, he was engaged to a beautiful young woman. At the time, he was studying to be a minister in the Church of Scotland. He started to have some problems with his eyesight and ...

941. The Alabaster Jar

Mark 14:27-31, Mark 14:12-26, Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and justice; may your right hand show your awesome deeds. Your arrows pierce the hearts of the king’s foes; the nations fall beneath your feet. Your throne, O God, endures forever and ever, and justice is the scepter of Your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy. All your garments are fragrant with myrrh and aloes and cassia; from palaces of ivory the harps make you glad. The daughters of kings are ...

942. Lose the Cape

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... ! Unfortunately, for many Christians it is “lights out!” They have turned out their lights by favoring judgment over grace, hate over love, rules over relationships, dogma over forgiveness, and despair over hope. I remember eating at an IHOP one morning. I was sitting in ... figure, which was about the same height as him, and smiled at it. He then threw his arms around it and said, “I love you!” The whole place lit up! My wife and I laughed. The clerk laughed. All the people around us laughed. That child ...

943. All We Are Left With...

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... her through a tough childhood. She was giving up drinking because she knew it’s what he wanted for her. That day was the start of Kerri’s sober life. Now every time she looks at the tattoo of the canary on her arm, she remembers her grandfather’s love and how it led her to sobriety and a better life. In the three years since she got her tattoo, she’s faced some really hard times. As she says, “. . . there have been times, honestly, where I would have just drunk everything in the house if I didn ...

944. Week Two Of Lent

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... grain which when poured into the fold of a woman's apron runs over on all sides because it is so abundant. Possibly we can think of God's mercy as constantly filling a water glass and seeing the water run over on all sides, in all directions. God's love and mercy are like that. They cannot be contained; they go out to all people for all time. Lent is a time when we think about our sinfulness. No one is perfect; as St. Paul says, all have sinned. But the important lesson today is to realize the unlimited ...

945. The Second Meal

Sermon

Robert F. Scott

... her tears and dried them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment." Note that in Jesus' parable, love is the result of forgiveness. Then Jesus took this principle, to which the Pharisee had agreed, and applied it to the situation at that table. "Simon," he said, "You didn't even give me the ordinary everyday courtesies, but this woman, whom you despise, has done so much ...

946. End times

Mt 24:1-14 · 1 Thess 3:7-13 · Jer 26:1-6 · Ps 105:1-7

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... is a good news kingdom. So many kingdoms in the history of the world started out that way but quickly descended into a black hole of corruption and the abuse of power. The kingdom of God is good news because God rules through his Son in justice, righteousness and love. Outline: Much that happens in this world is bad news -- crime, wars and so forth The Bible says that it will get worse before getting better (vv. 4-13) In this bad-news world we proclaim the good news of the kingdom The good news is that the ...

947. Proper 25

Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Matthew 22:34-46, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; 2:1-16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... from idols to the true God. Gospel: Matthew 22:34-46 1. Sermon Title: Credo. Sermon Angle: The first part of the response that Jesus made to the lawyer was the Jewish Shema, their creed. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One, and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your mind" (Deuteronomy 6:5). So very simple and compact. It doesn't say much about the nature of God, as our Christian creeds do, except that he is one. The emphasis is on our ...

948. Adoption Into God's Family

1 Peter 3:8-22

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Mark J. Molldrem

... that we might receive adoption as children." The anxious moments of sin, the fear of our own guilt and death are all drowned, as it were. For the claim has been made by God, the Father himself, judge of the universe, that we shall be his, children of his loving heart and family. This is done in baptism. It is our adoption as sons and daughters. Paul writes, "We were buried with him by baptism into death." The wages of sin have been paid. The way has been cleared and the law satisfied. As we are united with ...

949. A Faith That Burns

Luke 12:49-53

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W. Robert McClelland

... make enemies. Jesus did not win a popularity contest. He was awarded a cross and he bids us take up one and follow him. "If the world hates you," Jesus warned, "know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, therefore, the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, 'A servant is not greater than his master.' If they persecuted me, they will persecute you (John 15:18-20)." Basic to all of Jesus' teaching ...

950. Focus Your Faith

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... all you had to go on, if that were all we knew about God (just by praying to him), then sometimes he would not seem very loving. Yes, we really only truly know who God is when our prayer life has been strengthened by looking to Jesus and his church. Do not get ... once you are wearing them, then you can truly see God in all the realms of life. Then you can really see him in all his, love. However, if you do not wear them, if you do not put them on much, like people who think that they do not need Jesus or ...

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