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951. 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 ...

952. Needy People Please Apply

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... it couldn’t have been clearer that they had not been living up to their founder’s beliefs. (5) When you think about our founder’s beliefs and whether we have lived up to them, you don’t know whether to laugh or to cry. We care about needy people because Christ once cared for us when we were needy. And our task is to find other needy souls and to show them the love of Jesus Christ. This is what our founder intended for us to be. 1. 1000 Windows: A Speaker’s Sourcebook of Illustrations, edited by ...

953. A Sovereign God With A Shepherd's Heart

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... minds would insist that an event must be either symbolic or historical and cannot be both" (Gooding, pp. 52-53.) So here is history and symbol all bound together to make one of the most heart-gripping stories of the ages. And the story is simply this: "God cares for his people, and with a shepherd's heart chose to send his son to demonstrate his love -- to be his love. III Now let's close by going back to the beginning of the story and focusing upon the innkeeper. In all these stories with which we ...

954. God Is Like A Mother

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a dramatic poem about another bird -- not an eagle nor a hen -- but a pelican, a mother pelican. Have you heard the tale of the pelican The Arab's Gimmel-el-Bar That lives in the African wilderness Where birds that live lonely are. Have you heard how it cares for its tender young, How it labors and toils for their good. How it brings them water from fountains afar- - and fishes the seas for their food. How in famine it feeds them what love can devise, Blood from its bosom And in feeding them, dies. Do you ...

955. Hanging On To Every Word

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... rattled on. Suddenly, the boy put his hand on his chin and said, "Mommy, you're not inside your eyes!" Jesus had life and people deep inside his eyes. That's the power of the Gospel. That's the power of what He said -- He spoke as someone who cared. II. Now look at what Jesus said about Jerusalem after he pulled Himself together from his weeping. It's a rather tough word. Listen to verses 43 and 44:"Indeed, the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up ramparts around you and surround you, and ...

956. Getting Our Lives Out Of Hock

Psalm 105:1-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... overshadowed by the fact that the person can't face his or her own emptiness, so they seek to be recognized and loved for being good. Often their goodness covers up a lack of feeling for life. Their actions don't flow out of a natural overflow of caring but the need in their life to be good by rescuing someone else. The compulsion to rescue. Do you have that kind of compulsion; or, do you find yourself in hock to someone who is always rescuing you? Three, the compulsion to be a victim. "Victims avoid their ...

957. God's Anxiety Reduction Plan

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... . In absolutely everything, we are to use: a) Prayer: Meaning continuous, conscious contact with God in all things - and - b) Supplication: Meaning specific petitions in which we turn the difficulties over to God - with - c) Thanksgiving: Meaning - we rest assured that God is taking care of the situation. We may not have the answer we desire, but we can rest in the ability of God to bring about the divine intent for our lives. It is as though we called a friend who had both the ability and authority ...

958. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... years.” Isn’t that painful? That shouldn’t be! But it happens – in this church and in every church. Let me illustrate how it can be. There is in this community, a young paralyzed mother, making it triumphantly by the grace of God and the care of the Christian community. One man took the initiative, stepped out in faith and purchased a van, which enables this wheelchair restricted mother to travel about with some degree of ease and efficiency. His friends heard about his faith and in less than a year ...

959. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to their ways. He stood his ground, despite derision and scorn. He is disappointed and depressed and says to his wife, Jennifer, “I’m not a big man, Jen.” She asks, “What is a big man, Archie?” “Henry Ford, I guess,” comes the reply. “No, Archie,” responds his caring wife, “a big man is a man who keeps his soul.” She was right -- a big man is a man who keeps his soul. I thought about that as I began to deal with our scripture lesson -- as I thought about Judas and Peter, and also, as I ...

960. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... one of the women. It hit me hard. That ancient symbol has been in so many places, in so many hands, clutched to so many hearts, bringing out in so many a courage they didn’t know they had for causes they didn’t know they cared that much about. It has always been the sign of something radically different from the prevailing ways of culture and human systems. It’s the Church’s most definitive mark – the cross. For the world – foolishness. But for those who believe, the power of God unto salvation ...

961. Standing In the Gap: The Work of Intercession

2 Chronicles 7:11-22

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... woman in our church in Memphis. The demonic power of shame and guilt and resentment had been working in this young woman’s life for a long, long time. I saw the powerful deliverance that came when a community of significant others who loved and cared in an unconditional way believed and prayed. This young woman had been sexually abused as a child by her father. She broke from that cycle of violence in her family in her mid-teens. For many years, though, she lived with guilt, shame, and depression—unable ...

962. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

963. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v1

Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... put so much energy and resources into that ministry without ministering in a similar way to a needy area of our city. So we decided that we would make a commitment to minister to the children in the inner city. We used the profits made from the day-care and parents’ day out program to establish a similar ministry in the city. In the midst of our thinking about that, God gave us a vision of a private school that would serve primarily at-risk children in the inner city. We had a wonderful private school in ...

964. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... people whom he’d never met and shared with them the love of Christ. He was a model preacher in many ways. I remember one of his own experiences which he shared. When he went off to college, he was a candidate for the ministry under the care of Harmony Presbytery in South Carolina. Once a year he had to appear before the presbytery in person to give an account of his progress, his plans, and his studies. “In retrospect,” he said, “there’s only one thing I remember about those appearances. Mr. Knox ...

965. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... and received prophecies, that prayer in the Spirit is valuable, that prayer for healing sometimes yields surprising results, that God illumines Scripture through personal revelation, and that the ministry of deliverance is a valuable part of the larger work of loving and wise pastoral care. With the false prophets who were condemned I can say Lord, Lord and trot out my resume, “Did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?” To which the answer ...

966. Branching Out

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Michael Milton

... the fullest. That is what Jesus is saying, “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.” (John 15.11) But how do we get there? A lot of times we take a wrong turn, we don’t care for the gifts that God has given us, and we end up diseased in our spiritual lives. Maybe someone needs a replacement this morning. Maybe someone needs to know the steps to the pathway full of joy. Those steps are given to us in verses 9 – 11 because Jesus wanted ...

967. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... of everything was in her eyes.” (2) Wow! What a wonderful gift to give to a child. God help the parent who fills a child’s head with negative messages; who takes out their own frustrations on a little one. Oh, I know it’s not easy to care for a small child. During a flood, one family sent its little boy to stay with an uncle in another part of the state, accompanied by a letter explaining the reason for the nephew’s sudden and unexpected visit. Two days later the parents received a telegram: “Am ...

968. All Keyed Up

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... in those institutions over the last thirty years. I suppose I have read all of those diagnoses. There are some good things there. Just as you can go to a doctor and he can find a number of things that you ought to look at and take care of. If you take care of them, you will feel better and look better. But they are not the cure for what ails you. He has yet to make the deeper diagnosis. Diagnosis is the most important factor in bringing about healing. About four years ago, this church's numbers leveled off ...

969. The Perfect Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... our Father. This is critical to our understanding of prayer. We know of God’s power. We see it in the wind and in the storm. But does God care? That is what we want to know as we kneel in communion with God. And the answer is, Yes, God cares. The foundation of Christian prayer is God’s love for us. God cares about God’s children like a loving parent cares about his or her children. A Roman war hero was returning home. Soldiers were lined along the streets to keep the masses from getting in the way of ...

970. The God of Lost Sheep

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... repent." God is the God of lost sheep. That’s what Jesus is saying to us. God notices when one tiny lamb wanders from the flock. And God is willing to get His hands dirty bringing that lamb home. That’s who God is. That’s how much God cares. One little lamb goes astray, and God is willing to leave all the nice lambs who stayed at home and go through the briars and the brambles until God finds that one lost lamb. It’s a beautiful image that every Christian should cherish. Whether you’ve ever been ...

971. Pass the Pigweed

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... a hurricane blowing through Galveston, LaMarque, and Texas City heading straight toward Houston. A man's farm, his home and all he'd worked for, all he'd ever owned was directly in the storm's path. He didn't want to leave, and he believed the Lord would take care of him. A bus came by and a Red Cross volunteer told the man they were evacuating everyone in the path of the hurricane. The man sat tight on his front porch and said, "The Lord will provide." The water came up and the man retreated to the second ...

972. Discovering that It’s Not about You

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . Those things really belong to God who made them. You are just the tenant who occupies those things for a little while. It is your job to care for the world and to use it in the service of the purpose of God, the real owner. This purpose of God includes a commitment to your ... is indeed a separate person and a child of God. Through the years of childhood, they will feel a responsibility to God to care for the child and to help it to grow up into a healthy, whole person. They will affirm the child for its own ...

973. Sheep that Count

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... be protected from the hot sun and the rain and the blowing wind. Edgar could not wait to see this wonderful place. So he carefully sneaked away from the flock and the watchful eye of his shepherd. Edgar never returned to his flock. Of course, he never got to ... that there are sometimes more important issues than our comfort, our lifestyle, and even our health. We have to choose our fights carefully and always weigh in the balance the good of the outcome we are trying to achieve. Now, for a reality check, and ...

974. Body Parts and Pride

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... of the doors of the school with a big smile and bursting with pride. Before she could say a word, he announced, "I made it. I've been chosen to clap and cheer." Not all members in the church have the same function, and we must be very careful to value the functions of all members. One of the most important functions, perhaps, is the function of attending worship weekly, the people who clap and cheer in the church, as it were, the ones who form the congregation, who fill the pews, who are present to worship ...

975. Complete Joy

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... in a congregation. It is quite likely that he had personally witnessed such flare ups both in the congregations with which he had been associated and, quite likely, in the synagogues he had known as he was growing up. It is easy for people who care deeply about the church to become quite passionate about what happens in the church and about things the church does. This should probably not surprise us. In every other part of our lives, wherever there are people working with each other, there are some ...

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