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76. Pulling Our Punches

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... every bit a false god as the golden calf made by God’s people while Moses was up on the mountain. This is hard for us to hear, because none of us measures up. Every one of us is holding on to something we don’t want to give up. We don’t intend to give up. We have to ask — was Jesus even able to do this? Although he complained that birds had nests and foxes had dens, but the Son of Man had no place to lay his head, we know from Luke 8:1-3 that Mary Magdalene, Salome, Joanna, and ...

77. Proper 27

Psalm 17:1-15, Psalm 9:1-20, 2 Thessalonians 3:1-5, 2 Thessalonians 2:13-17, Zechariah 7:1-14, 1 Chronicles 29:10-20, Job 19:1-29, Luke 20:27-40

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... was a twisted tyrant, torturing and executing those who opposed him. 2. The seven brothers died because they would not give up their faith in God and his commandments. Even when compassionate minions of the king offered a way out, by eating other meat and pretending it was ... pork, they would not give in or give up their dependence on God. 3. The king could torture and kill them, fry and roast them and put them in deep graves, but ...

78. Seeking What Matters

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

... have for certain others. Whatever scenic road we take, we take it at the price of denying ourselves the scenery along the other roads we might have taken. We like to believe that what we are getting is worth the sacrifice we are making. We want to think we are giving up a thing of less value to get something of greater worth, that what we get is worth the price we pay. You may know this, or you may not, but you, my friend, are very, very rich. You have a fortune, and you are free to spend it, mostly, pretty ...

79. Strength for The Journey

John 16:12-15

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Dean Feldmeyer

... on it, it has been a raspberry seed in my wisdom tooth for most of my thinking and reasoning life, especially when the church insisted upon calling it the Holy Ghost. Let’s stop using that language, okay? I know, it’ll be hard to give up the doxology, but in the interest of clarity and modernity, let’s make do. The phrase “Holy Ghost” is based on one, not very good, translation of the Greek word pneuma, which can be translated spirit, wit, ghost, esprit, or humor, depending on the context. To ...

80. The God Of The Living

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... five floors. Mr. Makowski ended his life at fifty-nine years. The real tragedy was that if he had looked in the right place, he would have found his car and the jewelry still waiting for him in the hotel parking lot. (1) What is it that causes people to give up on life? What is it that causes them to get so down that they feel helpless to go on? One of the most amazing and tragic phenomena in modern society is the rash of teen suicides that occur from time to time. Did you know that self-inflicted death is ...

81. Defeating Discouragement

Mark 1:21-28

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Charley Reeb

... let go of one thing and gain something new. According to Isaiah, God’s strength comes only when this exchange is made. We have to give something up. We have to make room for God’s strength. Now, what in the world do you think we would have to give up in order to gain God’s strength? Can’t we just get God’s strength? Would you believe there are obstacles in our lives that hinder our ability to receive God’s strength? Would you believe there are things that clutter up our souls so much that there ...

82. How about Something Different?

Luke 17:11-19

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Mark Trotter

... up to God. I have nothing to do with that. But my part is to assume that God is already at work, even if I cannot discern it, for God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform. My role is to start out, keep on going, never give up, and see what happens. Donald Streater graduated from Georgetown Law School when he was forty-seven years old. For twenty-three of his forty-seven years he was an alcoholic and a drug addict. At thirteen he had his first drink. At fifteen he smoked his first marijuana. At ...

83. The Joyful Provider

John 2:1-11

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J. Howard Olds

... . It's better than we deserve. If such grace has brought us safe this far, is it not sufficient to get us all the way home? If you want to give up something for Lent, give up something that is going to make you a better person. Do something that's going to change your life. If you give up chocolate, you'll probably backslide by Valentine’s Day; don't give up dessert, you're going to think about it every day and you will be back eating it by Easter. Instead, put off something that is hurting you and others ...

84. Heart of a Pelican

Matthew 17:24-27, Exodus 30:11-16

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Lori Wagner

... , our career, our health, our sports. But no matter how you look at it….we choose to pay a certain price in order to gain something we want and value even more. Everything in life in a sense is a choice between things we are willing to give up in order to gain things we want instead. These are sacrifices. Sacrifices are choices we make to leave something behind in favor of something else. Think about it. How many of you are married? Or in a significant relationship? What did you leave behind when you made ...

85. Taking Something Up for Lent

John 3:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... Lent? What if you were to take on a 30 minute period of gathering together as a family around a table or in the living room and reading the Bible, discussing what you read, and then praying together? 2) Or here's another take on. If tithing is seen as giving up 10% of your income, what if you were to take on 10% of the needs of some family or the needs of some ministry of this church for Lent? 3) Or here's another take on. Instead of watching those soaps or reading those novels, what if during Lent you ...

86. The Friend At Midnight

Luke 11:1-13

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Brett Blair

... enough then we will earnestly repeat it over and over. If it is not, then why are we praying for it anyway? Sometimes we give up just because God does not meet our timetable. We must be constant in our prayers. God is not a microwave oven or a fast ... s part or the words that we use. The problem is the lack of genuiness on our part. And so when you pray be persistent. Don’t give up. Don’t lose heart. It’s a virtue and God will honor it. And when you pray, say Our Father, [pray it with me], which art ...

87. Promises Kept!

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . That’s the model Cyrus had in his day. That’s what everybody else was doing. But by a stroke of genius, he changed the future of the world. You know, he thought, people get restless when they’re forced to move. Sometimes they don’t give up their identities. Sometimes they just fight all the harder to stay separate. Let’s try something new: Let’s give all the scattered peoples the option of going home. Let’s tell them to go back to their countries, back to their villages, back, even, to ...

88. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , will give him a scorpion? If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!” (Luke 11:1-13) No matter what….never give up on prayer. Never give up on Jesus. He does hear you. He will heal you. Whose sight has been healed? Not just the man who was blind. He perhaps had the greatest sight of all. Faith has eyes to see. Faith recognizes the Light of God’s persistent love and responds …in ...

89. Persistent Prayer

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... , if you are willing, take this cup from me, but not my will but yours be done.” Jesus told this parable to teach us, his followers, that it is necessary at all times to pray in order to not grow weary. Without prayer we are bound to give up, give in, throw up our hands, feel sorry for the widow but do nothing to help her or change the circumstances that render her desperate. Without prayer, we may well grow not just weary but callous, high-fiving when our enemies fall from grace and commending ourselves ...

90. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... noticed how peaceful and happy his mother looked after eating the bread and drinking from the cup. He leaned in close to her, sensing that she bore the answer to his quest. “Mama, what is that?” She tried to deflect his attention, but he wouldn’t give up. “What is that, Mama? What is that smell?” She finally replied, “Oh, son, that is Jesus. It is Jesus inside of me.” And little Walter finally understood a tiny piece of the mystery. Jesus wasn’t lost. Jesus was living inside of his mama. (5 ...

91. The Mechanics Of Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15, Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... God? 4. Does silence play any part in personal or congregational prayers? 5. How do you feel about read prayers or impromptu or extemporaneous prayers? 6. Does including all sorts and conditions of people here and everywhere make a prayer too long in this modern age? "Lord, I give up all my own plans and purposes, all my own desires and hopes and accept Thy will for my life. I give myself, my life, my all utterly to Thee to be Thine forever. Fill me and seal me with Thy Holy Spirit. Use me as Thou wilt ...

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

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and participation. I couldn’t understand their lack of understanding. The Gospel seemed rather clear. The pressure, stress, and tension wore me out. I was physically, emotionally, and spiritually exhausted, and ready to throw in the towel – even had thoughts about giving up the ministry. My resources were no longer adequate. Then, one of those God things happened – you know the kind of experience I’m talking about – a signal occasion that sets us on another path or at least sends us in a ...

93. For Those Who Are Auditing the Class

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Lord would give me the strength to endure whatever I had to face. It was time for someone to stand up or in my case, sit down. So I refused to move.” In an interview about that historic day, Parks corrected some misconceptions: “People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty ...

94. Altar Your Gifts

Malachi 3:10, Luke 6:27-42

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... start, then find that percentage with which you CAN start. If it's five percent, then commit and start giving 5%. But don't leave it there. God promise to be faithful if you will trust God. Keep trusting God and in a month of two, bump your giving up a percentage or two. Keep trusting God and keep challenging yourself to bump it up at least every two months until you have moved yourself up to the Biblical standard, the tithe. II. Living A. Some people think of tithing and offerings as a goodness tax. Or as ...

95. The Great Dinner

Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the people of a church think they are somehow better than those outside, whether due to poverty or mental illness or mess-ups or street-talk, they have just become those who prefer to take the best seats at the table of the Lord. When you can give up your “place,” your “pew,” your “offerings,” your church supper, your church budget, your lawn, your means to those who need to know Jesus even more than you, you have already entered the gates of the heavenly kingdom. This is hard for us. We don’t ...

96. A Faith that Does Not Quit

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... coming, pleading and pleading. She would not let the judge rest. And notice what happened. The judge did not fear God, did not regard man’s opinions, yet he finally gave in to the widow and gave her the justice she was seeking. Why? Because she would not give up. He could not get rid of her. She would not accept silence or take no for an answer. She kept coming and coming. The judge finally said, “Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will ...

97. Oh That Cookie Jar Goodness!

Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... knows what’s “good” for people, at least some of the ones on their minds right now. But the truth is, and Jesus says it best, “why do you ask what is good?…..only One (Jesus…God) is good. Trust in God. Follow Me. Put your focus on Jesus. Give up what is most dear to you. Is it your money that keeps you distant from others? Or your opinions that you feel are better or more right than others? Or is it your politics that keep you from hugging your neighbor? Or is it your stubborn independence that ...

98. Paradoxes Of The Christian Faith

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... and Morning Star Good Shepherd Amazing Grace Sure Foundation King of Kings Perfect Purifier Mighty Fortress Dayspring from on High Comforter, Counselor, Creator and Liberator My heart regulator My mind intimator My joy, my hope, my love, my all in all. For he'll make The stingy give up The dirty wash up The guilty fess up The lame stand up The childish grow up The foolish wise up The dead raise up The lost show up The mute speak up The halt step up The convicted shut up The sleeping wake up The wounded bind ...

99. Jesus the Bread of Life

John 6:25-59

Understanding Series

J. Ramsey Michaels

... with the prospect of his own death. His language recalls words attributed to him in the earliest account of the institution of the Lord’s Supper: “This is my body, which is for you” (1 Cor. 11:24; cf. Luke 22:19). His flesh or his “body” means the giving up of his body in death, just as Christ’s blood refers in the New Testament to the shedding of his blood on the cross. Paul uses “body” in this way when he says that Christians have “died to the law through the body of Christ” (Rom. 7:4 ...

100. Whatever It Takes

1 Corinthians 9:19-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... a free Jew. He was no longer under law, he was under love. His life was under new management. He no longer had a legalistic relationship to God; he had a loving relationship to God. Where others today chant "I want my rights" Paul said, "I am willing to give up my rights for what is right." The souls of men and women and boys and girls are far more important to me than any "rights" I might have. You see, Paul had something that Jewish people did not have. They were people of legalism. They had to keep the ...

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