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1076. Life is Messy

John 1:29-34

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... All cheap and easy talk about a God of sovereign power who is in control of a world in which there is so much poverty, suffering, and injustice is obscene. All self-confident talk about a powerful church that has the mandate and the ability to change society with this or that conservative or liberal social/political agenda or with this or that evangelistic program is increasingly absurd in a disintegrating church that cannot solve its own problems, much less the problems of the world. The only gospel that ...

1077. The Invisible God?

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... . I like what one Christian writer ((Paul Scott Wilson)) says about what he calls the "imagination of the heart." He says: "Imagination of the heart takes our experience of the world and shows us new possibilities. It opens mystery to us. It gives us the ability both to see this world as it is, with Christ in the midst of our brokenness, and to imagine a world different from our own, a world already transfigured by the love of God." Imagination made it possible for the writer of Genesis to describe ...

1078. A Visit With An Old Friend

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... my first-grade Sunday school classroom – Jesus, the Good Shepherd, with the little lamb draped across His shoulders, the words printed across the bottom, "The Lord is my shepherd." Psalm 23 is the psalm of children, expressing a child-like trust in God’s ability to protect us, just like a shepherd protects his flock. "He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside the still waters." So restful, so reassuring. Sheep don’t drink from dangerous waters, where the current is swift. They can ...

1079. Psalm 121

Psalm 121:1-8

Sermon

... back and has now returned to her home. Betty recently celebrated her 89th birthday and up until her recent illness was probably one of the most active, healthy 89 year olds I had ever met. Her recent illness has really paid a toll on her health and ability to get up and around. Betty shared with me that her illness had a very meaningful time spiritually. She said everyone had been so kind and helpful. She was very appreciative. She said that when she first got home from the hospital she was having a very ...

1080. The Inaugural Address

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the better angels of our nature. Abraham Lincoln First Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1861 ********** Now the third: We face our common difficulties [that] concern, thank God, only material things. Values have shrunken to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for ...

1081. The Sound of Everlasting Joy

Luke 15:11-32, Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... resurrection. "The disciples saw him and were glad." He had come back to them. A lot of questions swarm around that! You and I cannot picture a resurrection, but you and I cannot visualize an atom, either. That doesn't mean that a resurrection or an atom is unreal. Our ability to picture or to prove what happens at death or beyond death is where it was 2,000 years ago, but also, the hope and the promise given to us are where they were 2,000 years ago. We do not know where heaven is or what it is like ...

1082. Vacillation - Pontius Pilate

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... they call the 'Roman Yoke.' Above everything else, be firm. The first rule for a governor of Judea is firmness. Justice and good government must follow the number one rule for Roman domination of the Jews: Be firm." Firmness. I am a firm man. I've demonstrated my ability to hold a military position against great odds just by being decisive and perservering. My men know that when I give an order, it is to be obeyed. It is the military way. Give an inch and your enemy will take a mile. Some Roman friends have ...

1083. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... because if God should indeed become absent, we will ALL know about it immediately, quite without the formality of an announcement. Many of us have a tendency to wage unnecessary battles within ourselves; feeling guilt for which we ponder God's ability to forgive, insecurities about matters which we wonder if God is able to strengthen us to overcome, failures which we wonder whether or not God can use. Such things, having been settled long ago, are needless battles, apparently due to faulty communication ...

1084. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... to happen, understanding everything that has already happened, and embracing an assurance that everything is going to be all right? Only one thing, according to Paul; to experience the joy of being loved is more desirable than the possession of knowledge, and the ability to express love is a thing surpassing wisdom. Without love, knowledge and discernment are likely to be misused. Jonah was a prophet of sorts. From the moment he arrived in the sprawling Assyrian city of Ninevah, he knew what was going to ...

1085. The Cross And Our Shadows

Joel 2:1-11

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Carl Jech

... It would be to play the ostrich. But we do not focus on sin in order to glorify sin. We do not face our shadows because we enjoy lingering in them. We focus on sin in order to overcome it. We face our shadows because doing so enhances our ability to experience joy, peace, love, understanding, hope and all the gifts of the Spirit. As we gather around the Lord's table and as in the coming weeks we consider some of the painful realities - the shadows - in our lives, we need to remember that there is no victory ...

1086. Proclaim Peace

Sermon

Alan Bacon Bond

... Church has borne a major responsiblity for that ignorance. The Academy Award-winning film, Chariots of Fire, helped to clarify that fact for me. The Church, as it was institutionalized in the academic system of England at Cambridge, looked with contempt on the abilities of the young runner Jacobson, because he was a Jew. Even the homecoming from his 1924 Olympic victory in Paris left him out of the victory parade. As long as the Church has operated with the official sanction of governments and institutions ...

1087. T.G.I.F

John 1:43-51

Sermon

William Luoma

... your need for God's forgiveness and grace?If so, declare it by saying, I DO SO CONFESS. Do you trust in the mercy of God in Christ Jesus? If so, declare it by saying, I DO SO TRUST. Do you intend to serve Christ to the best of your ability as his disciple in the world today? If so, declare it by saying, I DO WITH THE HELP OF GOD. Absolution If you confess your sins, God who is faithful and just, will forgive your sins and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. You do not need to bear your guilt ...

1088. Faith, Hope, and Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , a youth pastor, has a way of discovering whether someone actually does have faith. In his book “How To Speak To Youth” he tells of a college lesson he had to prepare for his speech class. He says, We were to be graded on our creativity and ability to drive home a point in a memorable way. The title of my talk, he says, was, "The Law of the Pendulum." I spent 20 minutes carefully teaching the physical principle that governs a swinging pendulum. The law of the pendulum is: A pendulum can never return ...

1089. Encounters With Christ II: Jesus and Mary and Martha

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

James W. Moore

... well… as long as no one messes up the plan. 3. The third personality style according to Dr. Birkman is the enthusiastic salesperson. This person has no plan. The enthusiastic salesperson is a “people person” who operates on personality… and has the strong ability to wow people and win them over and sell them on his or her ideas and dreams. 4. A fourth personality style suggested by the Birkman profile is the artistic poetic philosopher. This person is more “soulful,” more tuned in to beauty ...

1090. Mary Of Nazareth

Luke 2:1-7, Luke 2:8-20, Ephesians 1:15-23

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... to think about what he had said. He did say he would die and rise on the third day but I had been so numb with exhausting shock that I hadn't recalled his words. It seemed that when Christ died, so had I with all of my normal, human abilities. Slowly, ever so slowly, I began to become more alive with the reality of Christ and of his kingdom. Joy flowed into me which I never had known before. Christ is alive and lives forever. His kingdom has no end. We will live with him forever and there is nothing ...

1091. Monologue: Hannah

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Drama

Lynda Pujad

... Eli, the priest, did not appear to me to be a good role model as a parent. He was God's servant and he was the man I had to yield Samuel to. Eli had grown sons of his own and he did not impress me at all with his ability to be a father. I did not have second thoughts about giving my son up to be trained for God's work, but I did consider that the priest was not able to deal with a child, and I was very worried. Nevertheless, I had to trust God to give ...

1092. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... . They simply took Jesus away and released that murderer into our midst. We need help. We need forgiveness. We need a new way of life. Get rid of the envy and do away with the nail. Some years ago a man who was well known for his painting ability came to a museum and stood before some work of a known contemporary. For hours he stood and observed the painting with a critical eye. Most people expected him to be jealous and critical of what he saw, for after all, most people considered him to be second best ...

1093. Let Me See Your Hands

John 20:24-31

Sermon

Robert Allen

... verge of conquering England. Churchill had doubts that England would be able to survive, but he could not permit his doubts to show. His task was to rally the British Empire and help the British people to act to save themselves. With a marvelous ability to lead and inspire people with his words, Churchill helped to translate the doubts of the British people into acts of faith. On one occasion, Churchill said: "When I look back on the perils which we have already overcome, and upon the great mountain waves ...

1094. Empty Prisons Without Walls

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ! Sometimes we become prisoners without walls by behaving as slaves to the status quo, to convention and mediocrity. Woody Allen's clever fake documentary about the phenomenal Leonard Zelig, told the story of a man who was "the human chameleon." He had the amazing ability to mimic his surroundings and become exactly like whomever he was near. Rich Little, the impersonator, once did a TV movie in which he played the part of an impressionist who had no persona of his own but could only pretend to be other ...

1095. Some Illusions (Symbols) Are Better Than Others

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Carl Jech

... of criticizing our tendency to create God or gods in our image goes like this: "God created mankind in his image, and mankind returned the compliment!") I'm afraid we have to confess that all of us - not just the people in Lystra - have a well-demonstrated ability to picture God the way we would like God to be. One glaring example of this is the tendency to insist that God is male, in spite of the numerous biblical indications that God is beyond gender distinctions. The Greeks made no bones about that fact ...

1096. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Carl Jech

... utmost seriousness. But how to do it without despairing? By combining our serious efforts with a profound sense of humor - with an overriding awareness of God's grace and forgiveness! Our sense of humor is a corollary to God's grace. A sense of humor - the ability not to take ourselves too seriously - is the opposite of a sense of urgency, but we must learn to combine these opposites in our attitude toward life. If we are too serious and self-absorbed in our efforts to produce goodness, we tend to produce ...

1097. Becoming What You Are

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Carl Jech

... , to combine a sense of urgency about being all that we can be, with a sense of humor that doesn't take our efforts at perfection too seriously. The mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal expressed this marvelously humble sense of confidence and trust in God's ability to make us into the saints that we could never become on our own, when he said, "I would not be searching for God unless God had already found me." In the last few years we have all had to get used to the more accurate transliteration ...

1098. The Secret of Survival

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... the land of the prophets is an armed fortress threatened by radical terrorists. Daily, the Jews struggle to survive in the caldron of clashing countries that currently compose the Middle East. Now, what is it that we can learn from the secret of Israel's ability to survive? Possible solutions to this secret are many, and they are varied. Our First Lesson today suggests several reasons for the survival of God's chosen people. We shall look at two. The first reason is that, even though the Jews suffered, they ...

1099. What Goes Up Must Come Down

Mk 9:2-9 · Mt 17:1-9 · Lk 9:28-36

Illustration

John Thomas Randolph

... . An elderly passerby, not accustomed to such youthful delights, asked the boy what he was doing. He replied, “I am playing a game of catch with God. I throw the ball up in the air and he throws it back.” I am in no position to comment on God’s ability to play ball, but I do know that whatever goes up must come down. There may be exceptions, such as Charlie Brown’s kite! But as a rule, whatever goes up must come down. The process is so predictable that you could refer to it as a scientific law. The ...

1100. Love Leads to Knowledge

Philippians 1:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... : May our love grow in knowledge and obedience, that we may live the life God calls us to live. Collect O God our Father, whose ways are perfect, and who shares your perfection with us through Christ: Increase our love that we may grow in knowledge and ability to live the life that enjoys the righteousness which comes through Christ our Lord. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear God, we are not pure and blameless as we stand in your presence today. We have cultivated our knowledge in so many ...

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