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1076. A Victory For The Angels

1 Thessalonians 2:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... love to our neighbors in such a powerful way that the kingdoms of this world are brought closer to the kingdom of our God. And so we teach our Sunday School classes and carry on our mission projects and keep the wheels of our church turning, not out of pride, but out of the assurance that we are involved in something greater than ourselves. God is at work in the world . . . and one of the chief ways God is at work is through Christ's body. AND THAT MEANS, OF COURSE, THAT THERE IS SOMETHING FOR EVERY ONE OF ...

1077. He Came To Us

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... came to a humble maiden in an obscure village called Nazareth and told her that she would bear a child. THAT CHILD IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD. That is the message of Christmas. What it says is this. Power and possession are fleeting. Here today, gone tomorrow. Pride and pretense are tragedies. Only one thing matters. Only one thing is eternal. That is relationships. That is what we are trying to say with our gaudy gifts. "You matter to me. I love you. There is nothing in this world that is as important to me ...

1078. When The World Goes Crazy!

Genesis 6:1-8:22

Sermon

King Duncan

... all sorts of overblown predictions at the birth of their children. "Feel that strong grip! He'll be a star quarterback!" "Look at those bright eyes. She'll grow up to be the first female President, for sure." That's just the way fathers are. Flush with pride, joy, ego--whatever you call it--they are likely to predict stellar futures for their children. So note the reaction of Lamech in Genesis 5, verses 28-29 when his son is born: "He named him Noah (which means rest or comfort) and said, "˜He will comfort ...

1079. Excellence In Living

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It was a van--beautiful, loaded, and luxurious--as good as they come. It was the result of perfect engineering and design. The young man had every right to expect a great deal from this mechanical marvel, and he drove it off the lot with pride and the aura of a man who knows that destiny and determination have conspired to bring about the perfect union. The next day, however, the beautiful new van came back to the lot on a tow-truck. It was bent and battered, obviously undriveable. Shortly thereafter ...

1080. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... ; and the rich he hath sent empty away." Would you have blamed Roland Hayes if he had said to them, "Oh, how the mighty are fallen!" But that isn't what he did. His years of prayer had helped him overcome bitterness and now saved him from an onslaught of pride. Instead he asked if there was anything he could do to help. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a check from several of his largest concerts. He handed it to his mother's elderly mistress. When she looked at the gift and realized its size, she ...

1081. The Stewardship of Time

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... to say that each day will open the door of our hearts to gratitude. Time is God''s impartial and generous gift to all. We all have the same amount each day. Every minute has 60 seconds, each hour 60 minutes, each day 24 hours. No one is slighted. We pride ourselves on being busy people. We say, or we hear others say frequently, "I don''t have time to do this or that." But we always have time for the things that are most important to us. The struggle we all face is how to allocate or parcel out our ...

1082. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... it''s in heaven that''s where it will be. And he says you''d better lay treasures up in heaven and not on earth. Whenever I read those lines I think about the story of the man who loved his Cadillac with all of his heart. It was his pride and joy, the god of his life, really. He loved to drive around in it, he loved to polish it and he loved the looks people gave him as he made his way around town in it. As he drew to the end of his life, he made this last ...

1083. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... need a crutch,” naysayers deride. They are right you know. Christianity is only for people who need a crutch. Humility recognizes everyone needs crutches, and it is about time we stop trying to build our own pair out of our glorified toothpicks of sufficiency and pride, and receive the gift the coming Savior brings. It is time to stop fighting for our rights and influence and survival, and allow the Lord to give us our place and heal our wounds. It is time we acknowledge the “God-shaped vacuum in all ...

1084. What on Earth Is the Trinity?

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... with outstretched arms to welcome everyone in. If anyone is outside this inner circle of Gods love it is because of their own choosing. In the 16th century there was an Italian nobleman named Lorenzo de Medici who lived in Florence and took pride in staging pageants...especially religious pageants. One day he really outdid himself. He was staging a re-creation of the Pentecost story in one of he churches in Florence, and attempted to reproduce it exactly in every respect...including the tongues of fire ...

1085. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of the glory of God.” (Romans 3:22b-23) All have not sinned alike, but all alike have sinned. We may not be guilty of the so-called “sins of the flesh,” but we have all been guilty of “sins of the spirit,” the sins of the Pharisees: pride, lack of compassion, unkindness, cruelty, being judgmental. And so this story offers hope for all of us. It was kept around by the Church because it is so like our Lord. To the woman taken in adultery, Jesus said, “Neither do I condemn you. Go your way, and ...

1086. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the very finest Christmas present. But each had only one unique possession. Della’s hair was literally her crowning glory. When she let it down it almost served her as a robe. Jim had a gold watch which had come to him from his father and which was his pride and joy. It was the day before Christmas, and Della had exactly one dollar and eighty-seven cents to buy a gift for Jim. So she did the only thing she could think of: she went out and sold her beautiful hair for twenty dollars. With the proceeds she ...

1087. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to believe, the White Queen replied, “Nonsense! Take a big breath and you can believe anything. I frequently believe six impossible things before breakfast!” She is not alone in that trick. I think we live in a White Queen sort of world. We pride ourselves on our sophistication and rationality, but from where I sit it seems that many people are quite willing to believe almost anything that comes down the pike, from channeling to crystals to pyramid power. Rather than being an age of unfaith, I believe ...

1088. Aren’t All Religions Basically Alike?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... stands in the way of unity with the other religions of the world. We ought instead, he said, to be united with them in our common opposition to atheism and godlessness. This insistence on the uniqueness of Christ and Christianity was, he said, a subtle form of pride and the sooner we rid ourselves of it, the better. After all, he reasoned, “Aren’t all religions basically alike?” That’s a popular point of view, and in my view, a false one. One of the most prevalent myths of our age is the notion that ...

1089. The Jesus Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... before us this mirror of sinners that we may know that he is sent to sinners, and from sinners is willing to be born!” (“The Martin Luther Christmas Book,” translated and arranged by Roland H. Bainton. Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1948, p.19) This is a tremendous blow to our pride. We would much prefer to say, in the title of a popular book of a few years back, I’m OK and You’re OK. But the message of the Gospel is rather: “I’m not OK and you’re not OK, but God says to us, That’s OK ...

1090. One Bad Apple

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... people, who overthrew the heathen idolatry forced upon the Jews by the Greeks in the second century before Jesus. His victory over Antiochus Epiphanes around 165 B.C. is celebrated in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights. Jewish parents everywhere took pride in naming their sons after that Judas. No less than five men named Judas can be found in the New Testament, including one of Jesus’ own brothers! (See Matthew 13:55 and Mark 6:3) In Jesus’ day, the name Judas was synonymous with ...

1091. The Chicken or the Egg

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... or only marginally repentant, how can one ever know whether one had done enough penance? Just in case, I stored up all sorts of Hail Marys and Our Fathers against that day. The problem with this kind of theology is two-fold: either it leads to spiritual pride (I piled up enough indulgences in heaven to last until the year 2001;) or spiritual despair: (How can I know whether I have repented enough?) II. ALL OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE AGE-OLD QUESTION: WHICH CAME FIRST, THE CHICKEN OR THE EGG? That question ...

1092. Afraid of Sanity

Mark 5:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... to be driven out of our modern civilization; chaos reigns until these demons have been forced out. Their number is legion: war, racial discrimination, economic injustice, ignorance, alcoholism, and that host of personal demons, the lust of the flesh and the pride of life - and Christ is adequate to drive them all out.” (P.184, Preaching the Miracles of Jesus, Hillyer Hawthorne Straton, New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1950) At a time when the irrational and the fanatic make the headlines, and crazy ...

1093. Knight of the Woeful Countenance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... I stand as pure as a prayer, Incredibly clean, with virtue to spare, The godliest man I know.....! (CAMELOT by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, New York: Random House, 1961, pp. 29-30) But, as we all know, in Lancelot’s case, his pride went before his fall—to the charms of Queen Guinevere. But the man in today’s Scripture lesson reminds me of him in his ridiculous protestation of purity. Interestingly enough, Jesus did not challenge this man’s astounding assertion that he had always obeyed the ...

1094. On Claiming One’s Inheritance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... doing them until he rearranged his priorities, got over his idolatry, and gave his first loyalty to Christ and not to himself. He could not open his hand to receive God’s gift of grace until he first let go of his possessions. (And his pride.) That he refused to do. An so he was lost to the Kingdom. “Keep the commandments” Jesus said....and perhaps, under His breath, He said to Himself: “Keep the commandments...and you will soon discover just how difficult keeping the commandments is.” Luther said ...

1095. God’s Greatest Gamble

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... position and their “perks” of power who rejected Jesus. But by rejecting the Son they brought about their own rejection. Mark’s readers would have believed that they, themselves, were God’s new vineyard, the “new Israel.” That soon led to a certain haughtiness and pride and St. Paul later on, in the Book of Romans, had to warn them lest they became too cocky, that God could dispense with them, too, if they were not obedient to God. III. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US? The first thing the story tells ...

1096. Holy Thursday

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... who they are and whose they are. And they do this again and again, for we so easily forget. Some time back I was talking with best-selling author Father Andrew Greeley about our need to rediscover our origins in Judaism, and I told him, with a modicum of pride I am afraid, that in the church which I was serving at the time we celebrated the Passover annually. He replied, with a twinkle in his eye, “I do it daily!” Talk about one-upmanship! But as we gather about the Lord’s table we celebrate the glad ...

1097. Blessings Beyond Our Dreams (Part 2 )

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... life. He continued to grow. In fact, when Stallings was at Alabama, there was his son, then age thirty, sitting beside him on the sidelines with the University of Alabama football team. Stallings is quoted as saying that every time he "sees his son, his face lights up with pride and joy. He calls him a gift of God." (5) Am I saying that God caused Gene Stalling’s son to suffer Down’s Syndrome in order to bless Stalling’s life? No. God doesn’t work that way. Jesus said God sends his rain on the just ...

1098. Please, Don't Let me Jabez Anyone Else (Part 5)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . These young men would go to the mountains and fast and pray. It was a test to see what they had learned from the elders of the tribe. One such youth battled the elements of nature and reached the top of the great mountain. His head and heart swelled with pride with this achievement. Suddenly, he heard a rustle at his moccasins. He looked down; it was a rattlesnake. Before he could move the snake spoke: "I am about to die," said the snake. "It is too cold for me up here and I am freezing. There is no food ...

1099. Emptying and Exalting (Part XI)

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to be on the throne of God! Lucifer said, `I will!'' but Jesus said, `Thy will.'' Lucifer was not satisfied to be a creature; he wanted to be the Creator! Jesus was the Creator, yet He willingly became man. Christ''s humility is a rebuke to Satan''s pride." (3) Remember, Jesus did not pretend to be a servant, he was a servant. This is our calling as well. THE REAL BEAUTY OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH IS ALWAYS FOUND IN THE SCRATCHED AND NAIL-SCARRED HANDS OF GOD. Dr. Fred Craddock tells the story of a certain ...

1100. The Servant Who Delivered the Mail

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... it read in big letters: NO CHANGE GIVEN. Yes, having a servant''s spirit can make all the positive difference in the world. Paul was encouraged by the user-friendly approach of Epaphroditus to life and service to the Kingdom of God. Epaphroditus'' life was not filled with pride but with the presence and power of Jesus Christ. There is a poem that captures so well the unfortunate spirit of our age: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my ...

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