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Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

“I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them.” In a message titled Seizing Your Divine Moment Erwin McManus speaks of his son Aaron: “One summer Aaron went to youth camp. He was just a little guy, and I was kind of glad it was a church camp. I figured he wasn't going to hear all those ghost stories.... But unfortunately, since it was a Christian camp and they didn't tell ghost stories, b...

927. You Had Better Get It Right

Sermon

James Merritt

Even little children understand that there are some things you had better get right and understand to be true, or you can get yourself into big trouble. For example: I came across a little document entitled "Great truths about life that little children have learned." Here are some of them: No matter how hard you try, you can't baptize cats. When your mom is mad at your dad, don't let her brush y...

928. What about Laws and Rules?

Sermon

Mike Ripski

As you’ve listened to my sermons have you ever experienced whiplash? Have you ever been following along and then suddenly it feels like I’ve tried to take you somewhere new without any warning or preparation? I jumped from A to C without first going through B. Well, I learned it from Jesus. Jesus has healed, made whole, given new life to those whose lives were cursed. He’s teaching them about th...

929. Resurrection: From Lesser to Higher Morality

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

Sarah was five years old. She had lived all her life in a little village in Galilee, six miles from the shore of the great Sea. She had never been farther away than the olive tree grove, a long stone’s throw from the last house of the small community. But then, Sarah was only five. She lived with her grandfather who was unofficial rabbi for the twenty families of the village. Her grandfather, by h...

930. Becoming Good Trees

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

Most pastors have seen the damage caused when a purple-faced preacher has sought to scare a person into faith. Pastors counsel with people even into their eighties and nineties who still have trouble feeling love from God because when they were children, someone had frightened them with images of an angry God, ready to smack them down if they didn't behave and believe. Parents will tell us of chil...

931. Epiphany 6

Bulletin Aid

John R. Brokhoff

COMMENTARY Lesson 1: Deuteronomy 30:15-20 (C) Moses gives his people a choice of life and death. The scene is Moab where the Israelites have assembled prior to crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land. Our pericope is the conclusion to Moses' third address to his people in which he exhorts them to renew the Sinai covenant and warns them of disastrous consequences of their disobedience. The peop...

932. Command Reduction

Illustration

Brett Blair

According to 3rd century Rabbi Shammai... Moses gave 365 prohibitions and 248 positive commands. David reduced them to 11 in Psalm 15. Isaiah made them 6 (Isaiah 33:14-15). Micah bound them into three commands (6:8). Habbakuk (2:4) reduces them all to one great statement: The just shall live by faith

933. Being Good

Sermon

Will Willimon

Let's say that we're all here today because we want to be better people. We are here to be good, to become more righteous. After all, surely this is one of the main functions of religion, the Christian or any other, to make us better than we would have been if we had not gotten up on a cold February morning and gone to Chapel And let's agree that, even if we have not arrived, we are at least on ou...

934. Jesus Radical Prescription

Sermon

Mike Ripski

We’re still sitting on the hillside with those whose lives Jesus’ has changed with the miracle of God’s love. He’s teaching us about God’s new world, where God’s love reigns. Jesus has just told us that he came to fulfill the law, not to abolish it. For example, “The law says, ‘Do not murder.’ But I say that not killing someone doesn’t go far enough. God is concerned about how you feel toward oth...

935. Murder, Adultery, Divorce, and Oaths

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

The Old Testament prohibition against murder is broadened to include anger (5:21–22; Exod. 20:13), with a related call to reconciliation (5:23–26). Jesus also expands the prohibition against adultery to include lust (5:31–32; Exod. 20:14). The third case involves the Old Testament prohibition of remarriage to a first spouse after a divorce and second marriage have occurred (Deut. 24:1–4). Jesus ag...

936. Murder

Understanding Series

Robert H. Mounce

Sermon on the Mount: Kingdom Ethics and the Law: Matthew’s Gospel has a didactic purpose. Special emphasis is given to the message of Jesus. One of the distinct features of Matthew’s Gospel is that the teaching of Jesus is collected into five sections. The Sermon on the Mount (chaps. 5–7) is the first of these blocks. The others are Instructions to the Twelve (chap. 10), Parables of the Kingdom (c...

937. The Real Thing

Sermon

James L. Killen

Once an amateur archeologist saw a man wearing a bolo tie on which was mounted what appeared to be an almost perfect Indian arrowhead chipped out of obsidian. His imagination began to run away with him. He imagined a time in the distant past when someone had quarried the stone from a place far to the north, where obsidian is to be found. He imagined it being crafted by an ancient artisan and sent ...

938. Act Quickly - Catch It Early

Sermon

King Duncan

Some of you may be familiar with the Darwin Awards. People are nominated for the Darwin Awards when they do something really stupid that costs them their lives. The reason that they are called the Darwin Awards is that by offing themselves in such an absurd way, it is suggested that these misguided folks have inadvertently improved the gene pool for rest of humanity. It’s a cynical view of life, b...

939. Making Relationships Work

Sermon

King Duncan

There is an old legend about a New England town that was suffering through all manner of dissension and back-biting. The people were constantly involved in petty feuds pitting neighbor against neighbor. One day, the people came together and consulted a wise pastor as to how they could resolve their differences. The pastor agreed to think on the matter and send them a letter soon detailing his judg...

940. Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

READINGS Psalter--Psalms 119:1-8 First Lesson--The choice to obey or not to obey is the choice ultimately to live or to die. Deuteronomy 30:15-20 [OR] The wise man seeks to define the line of responsibility between the human will and the will of God. Sirach 15:15-20 Second Lesson--Cooperation, not divisiveness, is a sign of maturity. 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 Gospel--Jesus, the law, and the prophets exp...

941. Christian Values On Anger

Bulletin Aid

Leader: "You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘Do not murder, and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment Anyone who has contempt for his brother or calls him, ‘Fool,’ will be subject to the judgment." Congregation: Remind us, Lord Jesus, that you died for those we scorn as much as you...

942. The Art of Impersonation

Sermon

King Duncan

Series: Seeing God More Clearly in 2020 Who would you say is your favorite celebrity? Can you imagine walking in his or her shoes for one day? It would probably be challenging. The only people who can come close to understanding what it’s like to walk in their shoes might be celebrity impersonators. Did you know there is a worldwide industry of people who pretend to be famous celebrities? These i...

943. The Inner Demands of God's Law

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes Here begins the section of Matthew's version of the Sermon on the Mount that contains the so-called "antitheses" of Jesus concerning the Law. Having asserted that he has come to fulfill rather than abolish the Law and the prophets, Jesus proceeds to quote the Law ("You have heard it said ...") and then to intensify it ("But I say ...") by extending its purview to cover inner motivatio...

944. Epiphany 8

Sermon Aid

Liturgical Color: Green Gospel: Matthew 5:24-48 Theme: Two masters and anxiety. Pastoral Invitation to the Celebration One pastor did this: He began, "Today, as always, we have made the deliberate, intentional choice to worship; some have made the deliberate, intentional choice not to worship. Therefore, not only do we worship for ourself and each other here, we also worship for those who have ...

945. Whose Fool

Drama

[Two men meet.] 1: So there you are; I’ve been looking for you! 2: For me? Why? 1: You know why. I’ve got something to settle with you. 2: [Begins to back away] Oh, now, wait a minute. If you’re talking about what happened yesterday ... 1: That’s exactly what I’m talking about. 2: That was not my fault. 1: [Gets 2 trapped in a corner] Oh, I suppose you just happened to be standing there. 2...

946. God's Bandage

Children's Sermon

Object: A bandage. Good morning, everyone. I hope this is a good day for you. Things are almost always good for you, aren't they? I suppose that the only really bad times you have are when you get hurt while playing. Is that right? Has anyone been hurt this summer? [Let them respond ... look for leg or arm cuts.] Boy, that must have really hurt! Did you cry? I suppose if it was that serious you h...

947. Mending Broken Relationships

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: Scotch tape; a piece of colored paper that can be torn easily Good morning, boys and girls, and a happy middle of July. It sure is strange how the days pass so quickly and there are so many things to do before school starts again. Makes us wonder if we’ll get them all done. Most of the time we have fun, although every once in a while I hear noises that make me think boys and girls aren’t ...

948. Shoestrings and God

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

Object: A broken shoestring. Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever had to be somewhere in such a hurry that when you were tying your shoestring it broke? I have seen children and grownups break their shoestrings and become very angry when they had to take the time to fix them. Some children I know just try to forget that they have broken the shoestring and go off running or walking with the...

949. Settling Our Differences

Sermon

Joe Pennel

On the surface "Tribute" is a motion picture about a man who is diagnosed with cancer and about his response to that disease. But at a much deeper level, "Tribute" is about a man who is not reconciled to his own son. "Tribute" is about a father and son who needed to settle their differences. Like those characters in "Tribute," one of the persistent needs of our life is to settle our differences. ...

950. Murder in the First Degree

Sermon

James Merritt

We are in the middle of a series of messages I've entitled "The Only Way to Live." It is based on the greatest sermon ever preached in history – the Sermon on the Mount. Up to this point in the sermon, Jesus has been very general in his comments but now he gets very specific. He addresses six critical areas where what goes on in the inside of a person is far more important than what occurs on the ...

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