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1001. Joshua People: Remember, Remind and Recommit

Joshua 24:14-18, 2 Peter 1:10-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... well pleased." Notice what Peter says, "I intend to keep on reminding you." That's part of our role as Joshua People, to keep on reminding each other of tall that God has done for us. Joshua People Remind. In the movie little movie Waitress, the main character, Jenna, is an unhappily married waitress in the local diner. Her husband is a controlling creep who is verbally abusive. Jenna's one outlet is baking pies. She is creative and the bakes the most delicious pies around. Her dream is to win a pie-baking ...

1002. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... through whom we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand; and we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. [3] And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, [4] and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, [5] and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us. [6] For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly ...

1003. Spiderman: Saved To Serve

Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... asks, "But he'll be back, right?" Peter replied, "I don't know." Henry, dejected, turns to go. Aunt May steps up and says, "You'll never guess who he wants to be Spiderman." Peter asks, "Why" I love what Aunt May says, " There are too few characters flying around like that, saving old girls like me. Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero." Especially when she says: "I believe there's a hero in all of us that keeps ...

1004. How Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... tells her she's not the right kind of people and then he calls her a dog. That doesn't sound like the Jesus we all know and love, does it? What's going on? Scholars have tried to explain away or soften this seeming inconsistency in Jesus' character. Most of the scholars I've read seem to want to look at this passage as unrelated to the one before. They see the argument with the Pharisees as separate from this encounter with the Canaanite woman. But I think they are linked together. I think Jesus explained ...

1005. Altar Your Witness

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... when our Verbal Witness and our Life Witness don't line up. They notice when we SAY one thing and DO something else. It is easy to give Verbal Witness to our faith. That's just words. But it's hard to Live the faith. Living the Faith takes Commitment, Character and Intentionality. It's not something you do by accident. It's a choice. It's something you do on purpose and for a purpose. What's the purpose of your Life? Is it a Witness for Christ? Can it be a better witness for Christ? Conclusion A. In the ...

1006. Followed By Mercy

Psalm 23:6

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... one believed in him, and Francis stuck with Eddie when the experts doubted his usefulness. Faced with a tough decision between potentially, Francis chose the better part and maintained his character. That's the kind of Goodness I'm talking about. When the Assurance we find through the Mercy of God and Grace of God allows us to maintain our character and be who God called us to be. Wesley called this Grace, Sanctifying Grace, the Grace that leads us and touches us and molds and grows us into the likeness ...

1007. Rahab: Seven Minutes To Midnight

Joshua 6:15-25

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... sure there were a whole boatload of Jesus' ancestors who were hoping Rahab's Birth Certificate had expired. And because she WAS a part of the lineage, some of them were probably caught trying to chop down the family tree. Let's look at Rahab, this less then likely character from the book of Joshua and why she is so important. Joshua 6:15-25 (NRSV) [15] On the seventh day they rose early, at dawn, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the ...

1008. The Greatest Gift Of All

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... family room to set it all up. When ready, they called all the rest of the family to watch their production. With only the lights from the Christmas tree to light the room, the audience could see a feed trough made from an old shoe box. The first characters to enter the room were Joseph helping a very pregnant Mary into the room. It was obvious that the bulge was cause by a large square pillow but Mary waddled into the room and took her place next to the manger. Joseph, obviously playing more than one role ...

1009. Spiderman: Saved To Serve

Colossians 3:1-4, 12-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , right?" Peter replied, "I don't know." Henry, dejected, turns to go. Aunt May steps up and says, "You'll never guess who he wants to be Spiderman." Peter asks, "Why" Aunt May says, "He knows a hero when he sees one. There are too few characters flying around like that, saving old girls like me. Lord knows, kids like Henry need a hero. Courageous, self-sacrificing people, setting examples for all of us. Everybody loves a hero." She explains how the public applauds the heroic. "I believe there's a hero in ...

1010. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

1011. The Adventure Begins

Ephesians 1:15-23, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... snare. We marvel when Jesus compares the Kingdom of God to a lost coin, a lost sheep and lost son. We find ourselves strangely drawn in when we hear the words "Once there was a man who had two sons" And we can identify with each of the characters. The loving father, simply longing for his child's safe return. The younger Son, who through plain old stupidity lost himself in the world only to wind up with nothing but the hope of repentance. And in that repentant, hoping only for the smallest handout. And the ...

1012. Discover The Joy Of Christmas

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... celebrating their first Christmas in the new home with the entire family. December first rolled around and they started decorating. The very first thing to be set up was the Nativity Set. It was rich with family history. Her Great Grandfather had carved all the characters, the manger and the animals. Her Great Grandfather had been a shepherd before coming to America and he carried his staff from the old country with him. When he discovered that sheep weren't in much demand over here, he took up a different ...

1013. The Short List

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the justice. But you and I are called to DO justice. II. Love We're also called to love kindness, or love mercy as some translations have it. You can't have justice without mercy and you can't have mercy without justice. George McDonald wrote in Discovering the Character of God, "I believe that justice and mercy are simply one and the same thing; without justice to the full there can be no mercy, and without mercy to the full there can be no justice." (6) The story has been told about a man who was caught ...

1014. Come and See

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of technology and despair that is both engaging, moving and theologically thought provoking. There's a really brief scene in the Matrix, where Morpheus, the John the Baptist or Elijah kind of character, has freed Neo from the Matrix. He's convinced that Neo is the One. The one who will save them and set them free. He tells another character, Trinity: "We've done it Trinity. We've found him." Trinity says, "I hope you're right." And Morpheus responds, "You don't have to hope. I know it." That's basically ...

1015. If, Because, Regardless

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... them and wants to keep receiving that blessing. While not the best theology or the best reason, it's a good reason. There's a scene in To Kill A Mockingbird that illustrates this idea. B. In the opening of the movie we meet one of the central characters, Scout. A grown-up Scout is recalling her youth in the South. She talks about the heat, the length of the days, and the crushing poverty that seemed to affect everyone. A man, Mr. Cunningham, is seen taking a burlap bag, filled with nuts, off his wagon and ...

1016. Love and Obey (Mother's Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... of his career. Well, the coach was right. The young man ended up attending four different colleges ‑ he quit two and was kicked out of two. He finished without a degree. As the coach predicted, he never made it as a college player. What was the character flaw that the coach saw? “He cannot submit to authority,” the coach said. “He cannot submit to his parents. He cannot submit to an employer. He cannot submit to a teacher.” The coach told Nelson, “We’ve carried him along for the sake of the ...

1017. Bearing the Marks of Christ

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... people can see. As Christians, our morality is based on our calling to be the obedient servants of our Master. Every decision, every move, every action is measured by the Masters will. It’s just at this point that we often miss the substance of Jesus’ character. We are touched by His compassion and by His courage. We are inspired by His kindness and by His commitment. But, we must not overlook the strong spirit of obedience to the Father’s will that was so tenacious in his personality and in His ...

1018. The Church: The Dwelling Place of Wonder

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is preached.” For Wesley, “the scriptures are a complete rule of faith and practice; and they are clear in all necessary points.” (Letters, II, page 325, quoted by Stokes, The Bible in the Wesleyan Heritage page 21) In his pamphlet entitled “The Character of a Methodist”, Wesley said: “As to all opinions which do not strike at the root of Christianity, we think and let think. So whatsoever they are, whether right or wrong, there are no distinguishing marks of a Methodist…”, (From The Work ...

1019. When Are We Most Like God?

Exodus 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... at peace or is he? If he does have peace, what price has he paid for it? And how long will it last? Keep that picture in your mind, as we return to our scripture lesson for today. The lesson climaxes with a description of God that defines God’s character and brings us to the heart of one of the world’s richest energy sources – compassion. Let that word about God become the soil in your mind in which we plant our thoughts today. Look at it again, verses 23 - 25. In the course of those many days the ...

1020. Updating Some Ancient Laws

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to be averaged up, and not down. But we also fall into a second illusion, and therefore we begin to covet. That illusion is the age-old fallacy of thinking that happiness comes from the outside-in, rather than the inside-out. Solzhenitsyn has one of characters in prison say, “It is not our level of prosperity that makes for happiness, but the kinship of heart to heart, and the way we look at the world.” (Cancer Ward, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Bantam Books, 1969, p. 266, both of the above quotes come ...

1021. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 1

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of his son Jesus, who hung bare-hearted on a cross, poured out love and poured out life, it was that love that reconciled Paul to God, and brought him together inside. It all centered in the unifying love of Christ, Thus, joy, peace, long—suffering, and the other character traits Paul lists as fruit of the Spirit were simply love in another form. The other fruit grows out of that love as the bountiful harvest of the Spirit. We’ll talk about those love results in our life in the next weeks. For now it is ...

1022. Shaping People’s Lives through Forgiveness - Sermon Starter

Luke 7:36-50

Illustration

Brett Blair

... . But here is where he failed. His insights and perceptions about Jesus were wrong. He said that if Jesus were a prophet he would know that this woman was a sinner and he would not let her touch him. The Pharisee was wrong because the character of this woman was not lost on Jesus. And here is the beautiful part of the passage. Jesus knew who she was but he had moved beyond that to forgive the woman her sins. Jesus sizes up the situation and recognizes that grace is needed in this woman's life. ...

1023. The Miracle of Peace

Psalm 85:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... we would all be doomed, because we would consume it all in a generation. Righteousness becomes reachable when there is a Savior in the midst. O, Lord, will you not revive us again?( Psalms 85:6). E.T. is back in a theater near you. This frog-like character, that invades our planet from another world, has a heart that glows and a finger that heals. Discovered in a garage, he stirs the love of children and the anger of elders. So he is hunted down, killed, only to rise again and ascend to the heavens. Now ...

1024. The Darkness Before the Dawn

John 13:18-30, John 13:31-38

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . We call them dark nights of the soul. I. FOR JUDAS, IT WAS A NIGHT OF BETRAYAL. There is an old legend about DaVinci's painting of the Last Supper. In all of his paintings he tried to find someone to pose that fit the face of the particular character he was painting. Out of hundreds of possibilities he chose a young 19-year old to portray Jesus. It took him six months to paint the face of Jesus. Seven years later DaVinci started hunting for just the right face for Judas. Where could he find one that would ...

1025. We Believe in the Forgiveness of Sins

1 John 1:5-2:2

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... as he pleased, but God would not allow him to be morally irresponsible. When we spread gossip, repeat rumors, defame character, destroy reputations and otherwise rob people of their personhood, God will hold us responsible. Trespassing is sin. Sin is missing ... a nosey public producing a nation of peeping Toms. Confession is not making excuses. In Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace, the main character is forced to face himself and make an honest analysis of his life. In so doing he says, “Yes, Lord, I have ...

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