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1076. Friendship

Proverbs 31:1-9

Drama

Julia Ross Strope

... Reader 2: The best lists I know come from literature — like the Bible. Reader 1: Like “Don’t commit adultery” or “Don’t say vulgar words”? Reader 3: That’s important to me. Reader 2: Okay, let me think. There are several lists of character traits in the New Testament: loving, joyful, peace-making, patient, kind, good, compassionate, humble, self-controlled.... Reader 3: Oh, all those things! I can remember a few — don’t be obligated to anyone (Romans 13:8), be strong in faith, don’t be ...

1077. God's Gift

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... of God on the inside manifesting itself outwardly in action toward others. We must be honest in our lifestyle. George Washington said, “I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."4 The basis of this is found in Matthew 23 when a Pharisaical lawyer asked Jesus a question to test him. He asked, “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” (Matthew 22:36 RSV) and Jesus answered him with ...

1078. For All the Saints

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... the people of God, set apart to worship and serve the "holy one" revealed in Jesus Christ. In the language of the Bible, if we have faith and follow Jesus, we might also think of ourselves as saints today — not as still-life portraits or cartoon characters, but as people set apart for God. If it were up to our own individual effort, none of us would qualify for sainthood. Not you, not me, not Mother Teresa, not Billy Graham. But through faith in Jesus, by the power of his life, death, and resurrection ...

1079. Guarding the Treasure

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... of other gadgets. We need these to protect ourselves. Identity theft has become a serious problem. We have all seen the commercials on television of the person bragging about a dream vacation, but the voice coming out of the character's mouth is another person's voice. The character in the commercial is portraying an identity thief. In real life, identity theft is not as funny as the commercials. People's lives have been ruined; some have seen their credit rating destroyed or their bank accounts wiped out ...

1080. A New Resolve

Philippians 4:1, 4-9

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... thoughts. We become what we think. Did you know that? Proverbs 23:7 says, "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." I read one quote that put it well: "Sow a thought, reap an action. Sow an action, reap a habit. Sow a habit, reap a character. Sow a character, reap a destiny." We become what we think. Therefore, Paul puts out eight filters for us to determine whether or not this guard, this sentry, is in our minds and hearts. Is it true, honorable, just, pure, and so on? Because there is a lot of stuff out ...

1081. The Call of Holiness

Isaiah 6:1-8 (9-13)

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... of sinners. God's absolute power, however, may never be divorced from his perfections.[3] * his truth. God has perfect knowledge of what we are and what we can be. He is never misleading in his word to us. God's holiness is his moral and ethical character and that becomes a problem for us. His divine love on one hand, and his divine repudiation of sin that separates itself from the unholy on the other, is defined by his holiness. His holiness either saves us or judges us. We as moral beings have the ...

1082. A Tale Of Two Peters

Acts 5:27-32

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... was opening on a scene — Peter and John on trial before the ruling council — and I called it Scene Two. Now let's rewind and take a look at Scene One. The action takes place in the same chamber. The same well-dressed and serious characters are there, occupying their seats of judgment. Again, they have a prisoner dragged before them. It's Jesus. His arrest had been a conspiracy, achieved by a covert operation at night. The charges were largely fictitious and most of the testimony a sham. But these ...

1083. Earth, Wind, and Fire

Joel 2:23-32

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... it eats away at who we understand ourselves to be. Shame can take a deep hold on us when we come to realize that we are not living up to whom we think we should be. Mistakes are embarrassing; chronic failures, that are the result of weaknesses of character or because we have allowed ourselves to be led astray by others when we should have known better, are extremely shameful. The people who had returned from exile in Babylon knew they had not simply made a few mistakes. They had failed to live up to ...

1084. When We Don't Know God

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... you: Are you trying your best to live like Jesus? The formula is much maligned WWJD? What would Jesus do? but we have no other reliable guide. What is the best guard against doing horrible things in the name of Jesus? Focus on his character. Can you imagine Jesus condemning someone else because they look different, or talk different, or act different, or even believe different from how you believe? The only times I can think of that he outwardly condemned anyone were his reaction to the moneychangers in ...

1085. In the Service

1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Wilton, Jim Carter, Brendan Coyle, etc. catapult it into a category all its own. It has a castle as a set, the British Isles as scenery, World War I as a backdrop, quirky characters, and enough plot lines to sketch out the Milky Way. Yet while the emotions that drive the characters and their stories are eternally familiar — love, money, desire, ambition, acceptance, success — the social fabric these needs are played out upon are fairly foreign to us. The stark class division between the upstairs ...

1086. Blessed Are Those Who Believe

John 20:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... doubters or on the side of the believers? Anybody can be a doubting Thomas. It takes no particular strength of character to say, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe ... .” It does take strength of character to say, “I don’t have all the answers. But I know who is making this world a better place to live. It is those ...

1087. Just-Say-The-Word Disciples

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... centurion elevated Christ to a new level. The “just-say-the-word” testimony of one from the “wrong side of the tracks” put Jesus on a road that would transform the world. The Roman centurion is but one of a long line of “just-say-the-word” characters who stepped forth in faith to change the world. Where are the Nehemiahs who will retool from cup-bearer to brick-layer and rebuild the walls of Zion? Where are the Ezekiels who will ride chariots wherever truth take them, to find its source in the ...

1088. Cure for an Aching Back

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the story, a man with a different kind of spirit, a spirit of legalism and condemnation. Immediately after reading that this woman straightened up and praised God, Luke tells us about this second character. Listen to these words: “Indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, the synagogue leader said to the people, ‘There are six days for work. So come and be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.’” Oh, man, where do people like this come from? They throw cold water ...

1089. Let Them Eat Cake

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of Common Prayer. Not only was this chaining done to keep valuable volumes from being permanently purloined; but the practice also kept Jesus’ more radical words about the power of the poor and God’s tenderness toward bad characters out of the hands of the poor and bad characters. But Paul’s proclamation ultimately prevailed. The word of God “unchained” was to be made available to all, regardless of the cost to those who spread that word. Paul’s message to Timothy was to “endure” for “the ...

1090. 2 Timothy 2:8-15

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1091. The Widow and the Unjust Judge

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... welded judicial powers and commanded local respect, this particular individual is one who neither “feared God” nor “respected people.” This is not a commentary on the unbiased nature of this judge. Rather it is clearly a condemnation of this man’s desultory character. For all persons, but especially for those in positions of power, to be “God fearing” was a sign of reverence and respect for the power of the Lord (see King Jehoshaphat’s directives in 2 Chronicles 19:7). Even those who were ...

1092. The Right Reason

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

David O. Bales

... we figure out why Jesus uses such strong speech here in the Sermon on the Mount. If Jesus seems tough on us, insisting upon our having the right reasons, it’s because so much is at stake: our genuine relationship with God. Another variation on Cervantes’ character of Don Quixote is a book by Graham Greene titled Monsignor Quixote, set in Spain just before the death of the dictator Franco, which was 1975. It ends after a journey around Spain with a modern day “descendant,” he says, of Don Quixote and ...

1093. Praying In Jesus' Name

John 14:5-14

Sermon

David O. Bales

... name you ask me for anything, I will do it.” Jesus assures us of his unconditional love, but he puts a condition on our prayers. We have a test for our prayer: Can we make our requests in Jesus’ name, which means in his personality, in his character, in his spirit, or are we praying as Jesus would pray? Are our prayers only lobbying in the halls of heaven for personal interests? Or are they, as Jesus directed, “that the Father’s glory will be shown through the Son?” Praying in Jesus’ name sifts ...

1094. Looking Down on God

John 13:1-17

Sermon

David O. Bales

... harassed, but he peacefully resisted the laws against human equality. He did so mostly by speaking and writing. One of his novels was Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful. It’s a historical novel set in South Africa in 1952-1958. Some characters in his novel are real. For other characters he uses real or typical events but changes names. In the novel a black pastor invites a white South African judge to worship on Holy Thursday in a black church where they practice foot washing. The pastor hopes that the judge ...

1095. In the Shadow of His Brother

John 1:35-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... reminds me of a little book that was written years ago by Southern Baptist pastor turned comedian, Grady Nutt. It was titled The Gospel according to Norton. The Gospel according to Norton is a humorous, but touching story about a young man, a fictional character named Norton who, like Andrew, was a disciple of John the Baptist. The first time Norton met John the Baptist he was struck by John’s appearance. He described him like this: wearing a “double-breasted camel hair suit (wrong-side out), platform ...

1096. A Global Celebration

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... and John started for the tomb. Both were running, but John outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. Then Simon Peter came along behind him and, true to his impulsive character, went straight through the open door into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen and the cloth that had once covered Jesus’ dead body, but the body was gone. The tomb was empty. Finally John also went inside. The Gospel writer says, “He saw and believed ...

1097. Good News about Sparrows

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... . However, he ended his baseball career as the manager for the lowly New York Mets. The Mets were then an expansion team and, at times, painfully inept, but they won over the hearts of New York as well as across the nation partly due to the unique character of their veteran manager. As a young man Casey spent six seasons as an outfielder with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Then he was traded to Pittsburgh. When he played his first game back at the Dodgers’ Ebbets Field, the fans booed lustily his first trip to the ...

1098. Up Close & Personal: Drawing Near

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

James Merritt

... to learn? Is there a warning to heed? Is there a principle remember? Then the third question, 3) How do I apply this truth to my life? In every story in the Bible there is either something you show do (just like the character in the story did it) or something you should not do (like the character in the story did). For example, Daniel will teach you not to be afraid of Lion’s Dens or fiery furnaces. Samson will teach you not to marry a wicked woman and especially don’t let her cut your hair! David will ...

1099. Lost Baggage: The Middle Seat

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... you never want to receive. The worst of all, I believe, are those revealing a significant sin of a church member or a staff member. In these cases, as a leader in the church, I want our members and staff to set a high example with their character, so failure in that area is especially difficult. You can remove a person from a position of leadership, but frankly, when people sin, and this will happen in even the most spiritually mature and positive environment, the damage is done. So what do you do when you ...

1100. An Invitation to a Wedding

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... to put them on, you are saying you don’t want to stay at the party . . . .” (5). You may think those are hard words, but they are very much a part of the Gospel. God loves us as we are, but God expects us to clothe ourselves with the character of Jesus Christ. That’s one reason we come to worship. To get to know Christ, so that we might be more like him. Some of you might remember one of the best-selling songs of the 1970s, “My Sweet Lord” by former Beatle George Harrison. The song was about ...

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