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976. No One is Exempt From Doubt

John 20:19-23

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Brett Blair

... a God who cares so much about you, why did he allow you to have the surgery in the first place? I have lived 41 years in this old world and have yet to see any piece of genuine evidence that there is anything real about any of those religious beliefs you talk about. God certainly does not love me and has never done a single thing to express that love for me. I have had to fight for everything I ever got in life. Nobody cares about what happens to me and I don't care about anybody else either ...

977. Trifling with the Trinity

John 16:5-16

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Brett Blair

... out of a home garage to a multimillion-dollar Nashville corporation with over 30,000 churches and organizations participating. But last year the whole movement was threatened and her business placed in jeopardy when Shamblin, on August 10th made comments regarding her beliefs in the Trinity. Here is what she said, "As a ministry, we believe in God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit. However, the Bible does not use the word "trinity," and our feeling is that the word "trinity" implies equality in leadership, or ...

978. On Having "The Right Stuff"

Luke 14:25-35

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Wallace H. Kirby

... . And on a plaque in that church is this tribute to this man: "He stood for the best of things in the worst of times." Trusting in the resurrection can bring us to heroism large and small. Need we draw the implication for personal life? Of course, our belief in the resurrection enables us to trust that the enemy, death, is overcome. This is why Bonhoeffer could say as he was being led to the gallows, "The best is yet to come." Yet believing in the resurrection isn’t limited to the assurance that our death ...

979. The Beginning of the End

Luke 9:57-62

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... remained faithful to his church. He has a small law office there today. Mr. Haggarty became superintendent of that school system in time. He earned advanced degrees and was offered opportunities to move to larger school districts. But he stayed in that small town in the belief that he could have a greater effect on the lives of boys and girls by getting to know them and allowing them to get to know him. He has been retired for over twenty-five years but he still receives visitors in his home - middle-aged ...

980. Real Security

Luke 12:13-21

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... its running clouds, my brethren the humans, my sisters the flowers and the stars. I will have feasted unceasingly on the treasure of life in all its forms. I will not have dwelled in mediocre ambitions, vain hatred, and useless complaints. And, finally, he says, I will depart with the belief that there is no end to the flow of life in the universe, that there is no death but only an unceasing change of worlds.2 Those are the treasures Christ was talking about - and offers to us all. Amen.

981. The Man Who Didn’t Care

Luke 16:19-31

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Carveth Mitchell

... to accept or ignore. Nobody deliberately intends to go to hell. How and why, then, do people go? Almost nobody believes he is going to hell. Those who are not confident in the victory of their faith in Jesus as their personal Savior fall back on the hope and belief that there is no such hellish life after death at all. Maybe Dives felt that way. What a rude awakening! Now that we have cleared away some of the brush, let’s look at some of the teachings that are in this story Jesus told. 1. Jesus makes it ...

982. Formula for Life

Amos 5:1-17

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... not seen" is helpful but ambiguous. It emphasizes aspiration and confidence, but is very unspecific in orientation. Too often we have cheapened our profession of faith into a perfunctory ritualistic exercise of giving verbal assent to a creedal statement of beliefs. Another evidence of our great confusion on the subject is represented in the utilitarian notion that faith will enable us to get what we want. The business entrepeneur expects faith to help him get rich. The physically afflicted expect faith ...

983. Keep The Devil Out!

Luke 4:1-13

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... is making so much headway in our society is that we have become soft and indifferent toward the truths of God. This is shockingly the case with seminary students; a recent poii indicated that fifty-three percent of them no longer hold to such traditional beliefs as the Virgin Birth, the physical resurrection, and the return of Christ to earth. This is not an exception but, sorry to say, the condition of many ministers. In a recent study of 1,580 Protestant pastors in California, it was revealed that thirty ...

984. A Crippling Spirit

Luke 13:10-17

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Brett Blair

... much is true. But, a legalistic spirit bent this man’s soul all the more. Nothing can choke the heart and soul of our walk with God like legalism. I am the first person to say that a Christian ought to be disciplined. But, when we become rigid in our beliefs it is a definite sign that the Disciplines of the Christian life have crippled us. Does this mean that we do not have to have rules? Of course not. But it does suggest that we must be careful and not let our rules rule us. Jesus said: The Sabbath was ...

985. If Only We Would Accept Responsibility ...

Ezekiel 33:1-20

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Wallace H. Kirby

... what we do. Ezekiel tried to say this to his people, to convince each individual of his or her responsibility for keeping the covenant. We laugh when Flip Wilson, the television comedian, says, "The devil made me do it," but that comment expresses a widespread belief that some outside force is responsible for the evil in the world. We cannot bear to think that it springs from within us. That essentially is what was said an one of the highest courtrooms in America when Richard Nixon’s chief aide, Alexander ...

986. Confidence In Jesus

2 Corinthians 2:12--3:6

Children's Sermon

... for us forever when we have Jesus and his teachings in our hearts. Jesus is the confidence that we need to do anything that we want to that is good. Now, we can't just put Jesus on and take him off like perfume, but it is Jesus and our belief in him that makes us special people to God. Jesus did everything right and God appreciated that. Jesus said that he would share himself with us in such a way that we could be confident that God would love us just like God loved him. So now you know what ...

987. Prayer

John 17:1-11

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... approach to faith is - At least in part - Legitimate diversity! Yet I can't help feeling that just as there is One Lord One faith One baptism - One God - There should also be One Church And that I am standing in its way. Lord, forgive my sins of disunity My belief that my way is the only way, And open me to truth from others (And especially from you) That I And they May see the light And become one in you. Amen

988. The Day of Pentecost

Isaiah 44:1-5

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... not mean God's promise to Abraham was dead. The combination of water and spirit - so important in New Testament thought - also finds an expression here. This is an old thought - a concept coming from an imagery as ancient as the religious beliefs of Babylon. In fact, it may be Deutero-Isaiah drew his metaphor from a Babylonian geographical background with its artificial irrigation channels; items unknown to the inhabitants of hilly Palestine. The important thing to the people was that something positive was ...

989. The Holy Trinity

Deuteronomy 4:32-40

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... understand that. But we need to remember the story doesn't end there. He went on to exclaim in triumph, "It is finished!" and to commit his Spirit to his Father. Ultimately, he was sustained by knowing who God is, what God had done, and by his belief in what God would do. The writer of Deuteronomy echoes the cry of Isaiah by proclaiming God is the One and Only - there is no Other. Therefore, keep his statutes and his commandments. Those words are wise, but the secret to faithful living may be in remembering ...

990. PARABLE OF THE BEST CHURCH

John 15:9-17

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... a personal Saviour. We all may honor Him in remembrance of the Words He spoke, "In this shall ye know my disciples, that ye love one another," and "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Each disciple saw Christ from his own point of experience and belief, but all sought to follow as best he knew how. Yet they quarreled among themselves. Through our faith in God, Human hatreds are to be overcome by Godly Love.

991. There’s Gotta Be a Day

Malachi 4:1-6

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... escaped the Communist forces at the end of World War II. She had told herself that she would never complain again if she would only make it to freedom. Then she added, "And here I am, complaining again." The arms race continues over the centuries fed by the belief that the invention of each new weapon will make war so terrible that no one will want to go to war again. The result has been ever more terrible wars, rather than their cessation. Now our weapons are so terrible that to unleash an atomic bomb on ...

992. Whoever Would Be King

2 Samuel 5:1-5

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... diversity, given as gifts for enrichment, are often the basis for divisions. The wealth of differences between races and cultures soon degenerates into poverty of ridicule. Theoretical equality may be a sometime word in our vocabulary. In actual practice, the law - not belief - enforces an outward semblance of equality and unity. Christ insisted on a loss of distinctions among people. The righteous need him as much as the unrighteous; the rich as much as the poor; the strong as much as the weak; the people ...

993. The Time Is Coming

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

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... new covenant in the blood of the Son of God. Jeremiah could not possibly have dreamed all that he dreamt. But there is a sobering note. Some careful students of the New Testament say that the later writings in the New Testament begin to reflect a belief in the ineffectiveness of God’s forgiveness, this freedom spoken of so vividly in the Epistle to the Galatians. It is subtle, to be sure, but hints of added rules and regulations begin to appear. Paul saw and tasted and preached this magnificence, but he ...

994. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Jeremiah 20:7-18

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... Hannah Green. It is the story of a young woman, named Deborah, who is mentally ill. She has lost touch with reality and lives in a dream world. One reviewer says that Deborah is courageous and heroic, yet she might be any one of us. Her story gives belief and promise to those who are concerned with the human spirit. No rose garden is offered to Deborah, yet she slowly fights her way back to reality, to a world that is often harsh and challenging. It is the story of one young woman’s successful fight for ...

995. Let God Be God

John 3:1-21

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Dean Lueking

... as well as with confidence that God who is eternal yet chooses to dwell among us and be known by us. Throughout the centuries, Christians have striven to express this Triune understanding of the oneness of God's being in various ways. The underlying belief is that God's very being is reflected in his creation. Augustine spoke of the mind, with its capacity for memory, understanding, and will. One mind - yet active in threefold ways. John of Damascus was one among many early church fathers who spoke of ...

996. Where Easter Begins

John 20:1-9

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Dean Lueking

... which requires constant treatment. She said to another member of the church, "Take it from me that God has been my only strength in my many ups and downs. Many times when I was alone in the dark hospital room at night, if it wasn’t for my belief that God was always with me, I’d have been lost." It is to that kind of persistent, durable courage for coping with a lifelong problem that Easter leads. Where Easter Leads: Listen to Its Sounds We can hear that witness today, sung by children, youth, and adult ...

997. Seeing as the Lord Sees

1 Samuel 16:1-13

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... a Hollywood movie, made to satisfy the sex-consciousness of America and the world, than a story you would expect to find in the Bible. Even if the moral customs in the culture of his day would have excused David for what he did because of the belief in the divine right of kings, God did not excuse him. Instead, God sent the prophet Nathan to confront David about what he had done. Seeing what he had done, from God’s perspective, David repented of his sins and sought God’s forgiveness and the restoration ...

998. ADVENT 1

Jeremiah 33:1-26, Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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... Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:2 Paul prays that his people will be holy when Jesus returns. Paul gives thanks for his people and assures them of his love. He prays that they will grow in love and holiness until Christ returns. This is said in the belief that the Parousia was imminent. Gospel: Luke 21:25-36 Gospel: Luke 21:25-28, 34-36 Jesus describes the conditions in the world prior to his return and urges his disciples to prepare for the end by watching and praying. By the time Luke composed his gospel ...

999. The Resurrection of Our Lord

Acts 10:23b-48, Exodus 10:1-20, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Colossians 3:1-17

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... as Son of God, and assures man that Jesus is the Christ. The resurrection confirms the words and promises of Jesus. It gives hope to mortals that death was destroyed and life with Christ was made possible for all eternity. 3. The lack of people's belief in the resurrection and life after death. How can one preach the Easter fact to people who may not believe in the resurrection? To bolster one's faith consider the following supports for acceptance of the resurrection: a. The reliability of the Bible. It is ...

1000. Easter 3

Acts 9:1-19a, Revelation 5:1-14, John 21:1-14

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... of improvement in our lives. We are not what we should be nor what God intends us to be. When the risen Lord comes to us, he makes basic changes in our lives. This can be seen in Paul's conversion. Outline: You can be changed - a. From unbelief to belief - vv. 1, 2, 20 b. From blindness to sight - vv. 8, 18 c. From persecutor to preacher - vv. 1, 2, 20 2. Are You Living in BC or AC? (9:1-20). Need: History is traditionally divided into BC and AD - Before Christ and In the year of our Lord ...

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