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1076. The Dynamic Law Of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... is less than 1 percent. Any thinking Christian must be concerned about the "Me first!" kind of spirit that pervades our land today. What has happened to us? What has happened to the idealism of our earlier years? What has happened to our sense of love, our sense of compassion, our sense of mission? E. Stanley Jones tells the story of a missionary woman who took abandoned girls into her home. Now this woman lived in China at a time when many parents did not want girls. She started by taking in only one girl ...

1077. Why Cheerful Givers are Cheerful

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... of her type was located in the Edison Blood Bank in Florida. IT WAS PATRICIA''S BLOOD! They packed it in dry ice and flew it to Michigan. Patricia West lives today because two years earlier she was willing to give her own blood even though she had no clear sense of why, except it was a good idea. (1) Rarely does what we give out come back to us quite as dramatically as it did in Patricia''s case. Still, the principle is quite nearly infallible: what we reap is what we have sown. THERE IS A SECOND REASON ...

1078. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... up and blow herself up with it. She went on to tell the story behind it. She said that her husband had died a few months before she made this trip, a vacation trip, and she had grown to hate God and others and herself. Everybody around her could sense that bitterness and that hatred because it had spilled over into every area of her life. Then she made that vacation trip. She said to the man in the letter: "Oh how I thank God that you saved me from committing that horrible crime. When I arrived back at ...

1079. Where Meek Souls Will Recieve Him Still

John 3:22-36

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... the household of God. “Everyone is going out to Jesus. Good! That is the fulfillment of everything for which I live and work,” says John the Baptist. “He must become greater; I must become less.” There is a lilt in the Baptist’s voice as he says it. No sense of resignation to the divine will here, “Well, God is in charge, and He says Jesus has to increase, and I have to decrease. I don’t particularly like that, but I don’t have much say in the matter, so I guess I will have to live with it ...

1080. Jesus, Our Hope

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... can we sing it without him? Will we ever have joy again? So this is Christmas. Somewhere a soldier patrols the streets of a shattered city. His mind is not preoccupied with turkey and mistletoe, gifts and carols, or candles and lights on the tree. Every sense is alert. Every nerve is on end. “Will it be a roadside bomb, a suicide bomber, or a sniper?” Celebration is the farthest thing from his mind. Survival is his all-consuming thought. So this is Christmas. A hungry child shivers in the cold, waiting ...

1081. Doors Are for Entering

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... will suggest to us... Sometimes, when one comes in youth from a distant home to a great city where he is unknown and alone, he walks through the streets beholding the lighted windows and hearing the sounds of music and joy within. The sounds but intensify his own sense of solitude, and he is fain to hurry away to his own room, lest he should have to confess to himself his own weakness... Surely, there is a door out of this outer darkness. Is there not an open door leading in to where there is light and ...

1082. No Longer Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... that we do! I recall having a member of a church which professes to be "adventist" in that they are always looking for Christ's imminent return once say to me, "Do you believe that Jesus is coming soon?" I replied, half in jest, "He never left!" In a sense that is true. While His presence might not yet be here in quantity it surely is here in quality through the presence of the Holy Spirit. There is probably more to His "coming" than that, but there is surely that much. I would like to have you consider the ...

1083. The Shy Member of the Trinity

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... be the end of everything. Then it was that Jesus said some very strange things to them. He told them that it would actually be to their advantage that He go away. Instead of being an irreparable loss, it would be an inestimable gain. There would be no sense of bereavement, no aching void in their hearts and lives, no sadness of farewell. How could these things be? Because, he said, as long as He was with them in the flesh their communion with Him would be limited by his physical presence. He had been beside ...

1084. Food for the Fed-up

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in his childhood understanding. The Lord’s Supper is a sacrament of hope and expectancy. I cannot promise you elephants. But I can promise you the presence of the risen Christ for those whose hearts are open to Him, to those who “draw near with faith” and a sense of hope and expectation. After all, Jesus did say “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.” Never is a long, long time. But I believe Him. And I hope that you do ...

1085. Sleeping through a Revolution

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... d like to avoid the confrontation with evil, suffering, and death, but through it all He could say: “Not my will, but thine be done...” that petition from the Lord’s Prayer which we say so easily, and neglect so quickly. I imagine that in some sense, this scene in the Garden is a replay of that time on the mountain when Jesus’ began His ministry and faced the “temptations” - the questions as to just what kind of Messiah would He be? Would He fulfill His people’s expectations of a Messiah who ...

1086. Please, Don't Let me Jabez Anyone Else (Part 5)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... brother or sister in Christ. Simply verbalizing our anxieties and struggles encourages and empowers us to endure Satan’s schemes. (4) Jabez senses a weakness in his life and he asks God for help and strength. I wish that all of us were that wise ... today--are a bad environment and a tainted heredity. Here was a young man who had both, yet in the midst of his sense of weakness, of his sense of the impossibility of rising above his circumstances, he falls on his knees and cries to the God of Israel to have ...

1087. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... depicted as being far removed and distant from the people of Israel. Some so revered the "Word" that it could only be read and not spoken with any degree of intimacy. When Jesus uttered the word "Abba, Father," he was accused of many things, including blasphemy. In a true sense of the word, only Jesus can refer to God as Father. You and I have this privilege to call God our Father because of our adoption as sons and daughters in Christ and thus as heirs of the kingdom he ushered in. I think most of you are ...

1088. A Soul Restored

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... seat with a map, because my Dad couldn''t get out of a parking lot without getting lost. My Dad didn''t have a good sense of north, south, east or west. I was always thankful for those highway signs which would say "Route 80 West" or "Parkway North" to assure ... from the Middle East culture. The American cowperson works the herd of sheep or cattle from the rear. The sheep are, in a sense, driven. In the Middle East, however, the shepherd is most often out in front of the sheep--leading them. This image sparks ...

1089. Missing the Point

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... where another person makes a persuasive point and everyone else nods their head in agreement -- except you? "I don't get it. I missed the point." That's sometimes how it is with life -- sometimes we miss the point of it. Sometimes life doesn't make any sense. We experience disappointment, or our days seem filled with meaningless activity, or we are faced with crisis upon crisis. Sometimes we just can't figure it out. We miss the point. Like when we miss the point of a joke, we feel as if we have been ...

1090. Up and Running

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... ; not sales, but service. It can happen gradually, almost imperceptibly, or it can suddenly dawn upon us. There is about this process, though, a sense that we alone are not calling the shots; somehow we are in the grip of a force that both compels and attracts. There is ... and he was with the wild beasts; and the angels waited on him" (Mark 1:12-13). I am thinking of chastening in the sense of being refined and made purer in style. Again, please do not let the imagery be off-putting for you. We too have such ...

1091. Life: From the Inside Out

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... . We can also subtly teach our children that what's most important in life is pleasing other people, setting out on a course whereby we introduce them to the dynamics of being excessively and fawningly nice, even when that course begins to undermine their own sense of integrity and rightness. The prize in all this? -- The assumption that such maneuvers will mean we are accepted and respected by other people. The opposite, in fact, is what is going to happen. Were I to create a short list of people who live ...

1092. What Are You Going to Do with My World?

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... can affirm that he has dated a new era in his life when Christ was embraced as Savior and Friend. Christ is also the One who changes our future. We said earlier, "But we know who holds the future." This becomes increasingly critical at that point in life when we sense that our time is running out. The past gets larger and the future gets smaller, like the sand in the top of an egg timer, until one day the last grain has dropped and none are left. What then of the future? At that point, the fact of Christ's ...

1093. Grace in the Midst of Suffering

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... 23 to declare, "I am the Good Shepherd." Then he willingly went to his death on the cross and screamed, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" In the Bible, real security is never very far from real suffering. How are we supposed to make sense of this? One day the evidence for God's presence and power seems to be everywhere. The next day God appears to have vanished from the radar screen. C. S. Lewis in all likelihood delivered the gift of intellectual spiritual certainty to more people over the last ...

1094. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and how the faith is transferred, communicated, one to the other. The Pharisees and their Biblical experts criticized Jesus and His Disciples for attending the dinner. They thought that to identify in this way with sinners was to condone their sins--but also in some sense to discredit Jesus. Now it may have been that had the Pharisees attended such a dinner they might have been condoning the sin. You see, they had no Gospel; they were not in touch with Christ's power of forgiveness, and His power to convert ...

1095. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... no. The Lord's Prayer knows that we have the urge to eat - - again like the animals -- that we must have our daily ration of bread, that we are indifferent to the most beautiful of picture galleries when we are coming down with the grippe, and that all sense of devotion trickles away when our feet are cold." "I find it simply wonderful that God does not treat us men as aristocrats of creation who are constantly living beyond their means and having to go to great pious expense in order to measure up to their ...

1096. To Live Is To Dance

John 10:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , we pray often through your preached word when we’re open to your spirit. We pray that we’ll be open now, not only to speak your word, but to receive it. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. Throughout the ages, different images have been offered to assist us in making sense out of life. So life has been seen as a battle to fight, risks to take, a game to play, a maize to grope through, a drama to enact, a flickering light to keep alive, a pilgrim’s journey, or a road to travel. Cynics have seen it has a ...

1097. Living Lightly

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... with a sternness and a demand he laid down a rigorous requirement for the rich young ruler, telling him that if he was going to find meaning he had to sell his goods and give the money to the poor and come follow him. There was a sense of unpredictability about Jesus. He responded to people and situations spontaneously. Now that’s one of the problems I have with the way some people are taught to witness. Some people try to make a Christian witness by rigidly outlining three or four things that they have ...

1098. Gospel Through The Person

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... obvious tragedy is that we could stop it if we would. There are enough laws, we’re told, already on our federal books, which if prosecuted would break the back of this filthy industry that is loosing a cesspool of immorality upon our senses, and upon the senses even of little children. What can you do? At least this – write the President of the United States this afternoon. Write the President of the United States urging him to press the Justice Department to prosecute the laws that already exist, and ...

1099. What Really Matters

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... had been many false alarms. She didn’t want to go – it was cold, the fire and comfort of the apartment were enticing – but she said yes and headed out through the snow, walking to the hospital, feeling very ambivalent about it all, yet dimly sensing responsibility, but still plagued by the problem of suffering and the goodness of God. It was a false alarm. When she arrived at the hospital, the child was alright. Instead of returning home immediately though, she sat down for a talk with the mother. In ...

1100. Called To Finish What Is Finished

Colossians 1:24--2:5, Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... love gift of his son Jesus Christ on the Cross. The most amazing truth for you and me today is that we are called to finish Christ's redemptive work. Now the sermon title may be confusing -- "To Finish What is Finished" -- but it will make sense before we are through. In the sermon two weeks ago, I dealt with Col. 1: 15-20. We looked at three big themes in that passage: One, the centrality of Christ; two, the connection between Christ and His Church; and three, the communication of his reconciliation and ...

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