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76. Use Your Head as Well as Your Heart

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... than to attempt anything like that. Some people just don’t think things through before they act. Jesus had such people in mind one day when he turned to the crowd and said: “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it? For if you lay the foundation and are not able to finish it, everyone who sees it will ridicule you, saying, ‘This person began to build and wasn’t able to finish.’ “Or suppose a king is ...

77. How Did That Hole Get There?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... history of Christian missions. In Indonesia, the percentage of Christians is now so high (around 15 percent) that the Muslim government will no longer print statistics. In China, it is estimated that there are now more self-avowed disciples of Jesus than members of the Communist party. Even the most conservative estimates suggest that China will soon have more Christians than any [other county—including the U.S. Maybe then China will send us missionaries.] “Across the planet, followers of Jesus are ...

78. Yes, You Can Work Yourself to Death

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, compared to people following the widely accepted standard of working 35 to 40 hours in a week.” They also estimated that more than 745,000 people worldwide died in 2016 from the physical stress of working excess hours. Those are some scary numbers. Sounds like to me a good excuse for goofing off a little bit from time to time. Of course, this study was completed before the recession caused ...

79. Holy Wisdom From On High!

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... in the lungs, 16 million nerve cells and 30 trillion cells in total, the human body is remarkably designed for life. And the brain! The human brain and nervous system is the most complex arrangement of matter anywhere in the universe. One scientist estimated that our brain, on the average, processes over 10,000 thoughts and concepts each day. One could spend years just dealing with the marvelous intricacies and majesty of God's creation. We are, as the Psalmist states "fearfully and wonderfully made." For ...

80. When Self-esteem Gets Out Of Hand

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... was grateful. He was grateful for those things which he thought set him apart from and above other people. "God, I thank you that I am not like other people." Then he began to list the ways in which he was different. He evidently had a low estimate of his fellow human beings, for he lumped them under a list of disreputable characters: "thieves, rogues, adulterers." He singled out one of his temple companions as a special example of someone whom he was glad he was not like -- "even this tax collector." A tax ...

81. The End

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... AND HASSAN ARE STANDING CENTER STAGE) What about the report? HASSAN: I have it right here. (UNROLLING MAPS) Here it is. (POINTING TO MAP) Look at this, an earthquake in the Eastern province. Our nation has never experienced earthquakes before. This one killed an estimated 300,000 and leveled two cities. The few people that made it out of the region said that there were not only earthquakes but there was a strange blue fire that came out of the sky. THE PRIME MINISTER: Blue fire. Could it be missiles ...

82. The Body

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... about cars. All I know is to bring it to you. Can I get along without fixing it? EARL: Oh, sure, you can, but your engine performance will get worse and worse until the whole thing just quits some day. REV. RALPH: How much will it cost me? EARL: Rough estimate -- about $300.00. REV. RALPH: Ouch! Maybe I'd better drive it a while like it is. EARL: Like I said, you can but I wouldn't advise it. Look at it this way: what would you rather pay, $300 to fix it now or $18,000 for a new ...

83. Talk Show I

Luke 10:38-42

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... into prayer sometimes I pray longer than an hour. The time just seems to fly by. And then my prayer partner and I spend time on the phone praying for each other. PHIL: And how often do you call each other? MARY: Once a day. PHIL: So, what is your estimate of your time spent in prayer each day? MARTHA: I'll answer that one. Five hours a day! That's what it is! PHIL: Five hours a day! Mary? MARY: Not quite that much. Probably only two hours a day. MARTHA: She can't count either. PHIL: So, Mary, you ...

84. The Spice of Death

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... lavish in doing the best they can for the deceased. Whatever the motives of the living are for sending the dead to their graves in style, we do take note of the results. We draw our own conclusions about how the dead are buried. Most generally, our real estimate of what has been done for the deceased is how much love has been poured into the arrangements. The dollars do not make all the difference. It is the love that mounts up in what is accomplished. For that reason it is important for us to note that ...

85. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... then the paralytic being lowered, perhaps a little embarrassed? And can you see the owner of the house thinking, "Oh my gosh, there goes my roof. I wonder how much it will cost to repair." No doubt the local roofing contractor was smiling, already making out an estimate in his head! Nevertheless, it is a charming story, a powerful story. It is a story of the faith and determination of four friends to try their best to get their friend to Jesus for healing. Where do you find friends like that today who care ...

86. Proper 6

Luke 7:36-50, Galatians 2:11-21, 1 Kings 21:1-29, Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... comes, faith should follow. 4. Internal and External Cleansing. The woman washed the feet of Jesus. That was an act of external cleansing. Simon was concerned that he or Jesus would be contaminated by contact with the woman who was a sinner in his estimation. People often expect that baptism will somehow accomplish a magical cleansing because of the external application of the water. True cleansing of a life is not the result of external applications. It does not depend on what happens to the outside of a ...

87. Proper 18

Psalm 139:1-24, Philemon 1:8-25, Philemon 1:1-7, Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, Luke 14:25-35

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... God and neighbors as the highest good. C. Our Cross. If we would be disciples, we must readily undertake to become as Christ in meeting and gaining victory over the sin and evil in the world. Only then are we fit to be disciples of Jesus. 3. Estimating Cost. (v. 28) A. Lose Everything. Family and possessions. B. Lose Life. Submerge self in Christ. C. Gain Eternal Life. Readiness to lose frees one for real life. Having lost, no fear of what evil may assail you remains. 4. Building and Destroying. (vv. 28-33 ...

88. A Mother's Love -- A Godly Passion

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... ' own voice. It is the cry of a mother who is worried to death about not only Jerusalem, but about all of us. Like a mother, Jesus sees far more clearly than do we, the children, the danger we are in. Like a mother, Jesus knows we tend to over-estimate our powers and are prone to go off on our own, leaving the protective wings, to seek our own excitement and adventure. And like a mother, Jesus chases after us. Do you see the image? Like a mother, Jesus' love is so great that his all-consuming passion is to ...

89. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

Our age has been called a drug culture. Offhand, it would be impossible to estimate the amount of drug abuse in our society. At times we believe that our intense efforts and huge expenditures to curtail drug abuse are successful only to discover otherwise. However, today we are also engaged in a national debate about the medicinal use of drugs as an important part of ...

90. Seven Habits Of Highly Effective Christians

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

William L. Self

... to see the king and to be healed. Naaman departed from Syria with much treasure, the price of his healing. It is not easy to figure accurately the rate of exchange between the gold and the silver reported in verse 5 and present currency. However, it is estimated by scholars that Naaman took a king's ransom, approximately $1,247,240, to Israel with him.1 The king was honest enough to admit he could not heal Naaman. However, he was reminded of the prophet Elisha and his miraculous powers, so he sent Naaman to ...

91. Coping With Heartache

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... against Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar brought another army, captured Jerusalem, and this time destroyed both the city and the Temple in 586 B.C. The letter to exiles from Jeremiah 29 was addressed to that first group of exiles that was deported in 597. Scholars estimate the letter was written in 594, suggesting that these exiles had lived in Babylon for about three years. From the text we learn that there have been some prophets telling the people that this exile is going to be brief, and that the loss ...

92. Learn To Wait Creatively

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... acknowledged as the world's greatest life insurance salesman. Born of Russian Jewish immigrants, he lived in East Liverpool, Ohio. Without customarily traveling more than 60 miles from his home he sold more life insurance than anyone else. He sold policies with an estimated face value of about $1.5 billion in his lifetime. With all the obvious limitations that he had, what was his secret? A review of his life reveals that he had remarkable patience. Just one example might be cited. After weeks of attempting ...

93. Time Out

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... preached whenever possible at seven, and was often on the road again at eight. Sometimes he followed his morning sermon with five others in the same day. In fifty years, he preached over 40,000 times! That's an average of fifteen sermons per week. It is estimated that he traveled more than 250,000 miles all on horseback! Even when he was eighty-three years old, he recorded with some regret that he could only write about fifteen hours a day before his eyes hurt too much to continue. At eighty-five, when his ...

94. Boast In The Lord

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... that the gods would never defile themselves by becoming human. It was simply inconceivable to them that Jesus could be considered divine and yet allow mere human beings to torture him and put him to death upon a cross. Whoever he was, in their estimation he was not the Son of God. Despite the opposition of both Jews and Greeks, a strange thing happened wherever Paul announced the good news. Although the cross was a stumbling block to many pious Jews and sophisticated Greeks, there were always some people ...

95. Discern How Things Grow

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... from their lairs and eats the eggs of gypsy moths. We might not think that a few nuthatches could control the insect population of the forest, but what this bird and others like it do is a positive good in preserving the forests. Experts estimate that a female beetle, producing only 50 eggs in a lifetime, could possibly become the ancestor of 1,950 trillion beetles in the tenth generation if all the descendants matured and later reproduced. Therefore, when the nuthatch enjoys its insects meals it is doing ...

96. Play The Fool

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... a later reference, not in our scriptural passage for today, Paul puts it this way: "We are fools for the sake of Christ" (1 Corinthians 4:10). Do not his words imply that if we follow our Lord with deep commitment we will seem to be fools in the estimation of the world? And yet to play the fool is precisely what we are called to do. When we contemplate being fools for Christ's sake, the image that invariably comes to mind is "God's troubadour," Francis of Assisi. He stood against the wisdom of the medieval ...

97. The Essence of Spirituality

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... to help the poor in developing countries. In a recent interview he spoke not only of his commitment to medicine, but to the Christian faith. He commented that he struggles with really important questions, like "Why are we here?" and "What is the purpose of life?" In his estimation, "to ask these things is to be a spiritual person."2 Indeed the essence of spirituality is to know we are in the midst of a world created by God. As the old spiritual puts it, "He's got the whole world in his hands. He's got ...

98. Proper 19

Matthew 18:21-35, Romans 14:1--15:13, Exodus 13:17--14:31, Psalm 114:1-8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... and owed to the king by a district governor. 7. "A Hundred Denarii." (v. 28) A denarius in a subsistence economy that did not depend heavily on cash but rather engaged more often in barter was a typical wage for a day's work. One hundred denarii is estimated to be about $20. 8. "Handed him over to be tortured." (v. 34) Torture was often used either to extract a confession or to force a payment of a debt. Given the magnitude of the debt in this case, it was probably understood as a punishment deserved, both ...

99. The Christian Journey IV: The Pool

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... serving a local church after which many clergy would lust: a prestigious church where, most of the time at least, money seemed to be no problem. The frustration came about because the members of that church -- at least in this clergy person's estimation -- were so self-satisfied that they were not interested in doing anything: growing numerically or in outreach to the area, offering real spiritual nurture or challenge. It was because, my friend said, "the members of that church don't think they need ...

100. Blessed Hunger And Thirst

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... in this congregation not to be physically hungry or thirsty. Many people -- far too many people -- are hungry around the world. Worldwide, 33,000 children starve to death a day; 1.3 billion people, one-fourth of humankind, live in abject poverty. An estimated 30,000 children in the state of Massachusetts alone are malnourished. But not us! For us physical hunger or thirst is fleeting: a quick reach for a Twinkie or a strawberry Twister and the hunger and thirst disappears -- temporarily. But whether or not ...

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