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1076. A Full House

Romans 5:12-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... and the eternal can be found at the end of this challenging journey." Tonight, we start with the ASHES. I plead with you not to stay there. Tonight, we acknowledge that we have sinned, but the Good News of the Gospel is that we don''t have to remain in the ... . Fosdick reminds us of this paradox of SIN and GRACE when he wrote, "While we ought not to be the way we are, no person need stay the way they are." God has acted on our behalf in the person of Jesus Christ to deliver us from living under the power of sin ...

1077. Going Home for Christmas?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... given up the search for us. Into the world of darkness, the Great Light came to lead us back home. We do not need to stay the way we are. God has provided a way out of our alienation through the truth He has given to us. THERE IS MORE GRACE ... last he came to a particular cell. The jailer unlocked the door. As he advanced toward the man, the man shrieked. Leonardo de Vinci stayed with the man for a while in the darkness. Finally, the man began to feel some warmth of human companionship. When he did, Leonardo ...

1078. Good News for Tough Times - Encouragment for the Soul

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , for many this is an uncomfortable thing to do. It is easier to keep God distant. This way God won''t mess with my life. I can stay the way I am. I can be a victim! As Max Lucado further shares, "Let him be as human as he intended to be. Let him into ... find God." Don''t run or resign! Fight the good fight! This is why the Christmas story is the Good News--that always stays Good News. Its message never falters or fades away. Whether you are an Archbishop or a boxer--its message is a "knockout" in every ...

1079. Three Modern Meanings of the Ancient Christmas Story

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... kiss and hug before rushing out to the next engagement. The mother tried to interest her in the newest toy she had brought. Through tears the child cried, "Mommy, I want you!" Yes, at Christmas our greatest need is to hang onto God. God is with us to stay! Mark Connelly tells in his writing, Green Pastures, how the angel Gabriel walks on the stage with his horn under his arm, and approaches the Lord who is in deep thought about what He sees happening among his people on earth. God is troubled because he has ...

1080. What Is Your Response to the Resurrection?

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... believe in the resurrection is the day you change the world. I urge you not to look in all the wrong places this year. Look at the Lord, Jesus Christ! If your response to the Resurrection has been and is one of silence or fear, I plead with you to stay with the story and allow the truth of this glorious day to lead you from "fear" to "faith" in Jesus Christ. Because the day you believe in the resurrection, you change the world and yourself. Now that can be a frightening thing, but it also could be the start ...

1081. Listen to Him

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . This is how we come through victoriously in every endeavor in life. He is with us. Let me tell you about a woman named Evelyn Stokes. Evelyn lives in Richmond, VA. Evelyn’s children were her world. She worked hard to make sure they stayed in school and stayed out of trouble. This was no easy job, considering that Evelyn was a single mom trying to raise her family in a poor, violent, inner-city neighborhood. Evelyn was especially strict with her only son, Jonté, because she knew that many young men in ...

1082. Chosen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... . The wires are attached to posts. Every few years he has to go through the vineyard and replace the posts. The branches stay in contact with the living root and they are sustained from year to year. The posts are placed in the same ground, right next to ... the vine, but having no root, not only do they not grow, they begin to rot. Christians need to stay in contact with the one who gives life and sustenance to their spiritual growth. We do that when we make time for prayer, when ...

1083. He Came by Night

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... the idea and ridiculed me for suggesting it. Moreover, street-preachers were known to turn into demagogues and radical leaders. Better to stay as far away from them as possible if I valued my position, I was told. It was obvious that I wouldn't ... if I should be asking Jesus questions about my field? So I decided to go to him privately, at night. I found out where he was staying and I went one evening to engage him in conversation. That conversation with Jesus helped many of my ideas to fall into place, and I' ...

1084. Maximum Marriage

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... of lifetime commitment. You got married and, for better or worse, you've stuck to it. But the next generation, now middle-aged, they got married until they couldn't stand it any longer and then they got a divorce. And now the younger generation -- they get married and stay so until something better comes along! And we are fast becoming a nation that is committed to no one and no thing. We're becoming like yard dogs who are led about by our passions. But God's Word is very clear: one man for one woman for ...

1085. Grace in the Midst of Exasperation

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death." Have you ever been riding in an airplane and suddenly started wondering, "How in the world is this thing staying up in the air?" Think about it: Planes are a great deal heavier than air. They cannot float. The law of gravity declares that whatever is heavier than air must be drawn directly toward the center of the earth. For centuries philosophers and inventors concluded that flying ...

1086. Gifted People

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... the end of the line with an empty plate. In this world where we tell people to not get over committed, to play it cool, to stay on balance, and to keep their options open, the words of the writer to the Ephesians stick out like a stray horse that's wandered ... the time, we wall ourselves off from that which has hurt us. After all, we gifted people do have other options. We can stay at home. We can do something else with our time and talent. We can find calmer, purer, and more appreciative places to spend our ...

1087. Security Concerns

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... armor of God is needed, for there are huge powers that threaten us. A bow and arrow conscience cannot match the moral demands of our increasingly complex world. As our powerful world has progressed in its secular capacity for evil, our moral armament must stay in step. Early humans learned how to use a club in self-defense. As humanity developed its destructive capacity, warfare extended from the club through the bow and arrow, gun powder, and the gasoline engine up to and beyond the jet-propelled plane and ...

1088. Lift High the Tree

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... what I did for you: what have you done for me?") As the story goes, when his eyes met the eyes of the thorn-crowned Savior, he was filled with a sense of shame. He could not answer that question in a manner which would satisfy his own conscience. He stayed there for hours, looking at the painting of the Christ on the cross until the light failed. And when the time arrived for the gallery to be closed, he was still staring at the face of Christ, trying in vain to find an answer to the question of what he ...

1089. Replacing a Fallen Comrade

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." It is important that those who lead the church have a vital faith in Christ. Being the church of Jesus Christ is important business, the most important business in the world. Leaders who do not have a vital faith in Christ will not have the motivation or the staying power to lead the church where it needs to go. When leaders are not who they say they are, it saps the energy of the organization. Some of you remember when William Shatner played Captain Kirk on TV's Star Trek. Lately he has been a spokesman ...

1090. A Healing Presence

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The miracle has been my consciousness of your healing presence. What a miracle that is. I’d like to build a tabernacle here on MountTabor, Lord. Even with this clumsy leg cast, and aching muscles, and painful breathing. But I remember some others who wanted to stay on MountTabor, you wouldn’t let them, and you won’t let me. You even took them to Gethsemane. How different from MountTabor. I know that when we build permanent temples, when you’ve been with us in temporary tents. We don’t house you ...

1091. Playing A Role Or Being A Truth

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . There is a scene when the uncle tells what he wants for his nephew. He says, “I just want him to stay with me until I can be sure he won’t turn out to be a Norman nothing. I want to be sure that he’ll know when he’s chickening out on himself. I ... want him to stay awake and know who the phonies are. I want him to know how to holler and put up an argument. I want him to show a little guts ...

1092. Breaking The Negative Cycle

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... sensitive to what we all know - that each child is an individual who needs to satisfy his or her curiosity, develop his or her abilities, cultivate his or her talents, pursue his or her interests. Staying aware of this, we can have the kind of homes that will build a smorgasbord of relationships. All of these flavored with positive appreciation and respect for personhood. All of them rooted in the preciousness of each unique life and hold those children always under the lordship of Christ who ...

1093. Living With The Nitty Gritty

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a sense of meaning, we can live with the nitty gritty. Peter gives some very practical self help advice. Brace up your minds. That is, use the rational gifts God has given you to see things as a whole and in perspective. Keep cool. That is, be patient, stay in control, don’t allow the circumstances to take you off in a tangent. But Peter adds to that self help, the more that is essential, he gives the larger picture and offers the bedrock certainty. Set your hope fully upon the grace that is coming to you ...

1094. What If God Is Dependent Upon Our Praying?

2 Chronicles 7:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... began to shake it in my mind. You may think that I’m beginning to challenge the sovereignty and power of God, but stay with me. It’s commonplace for us to affirm that God acts through persons, we do that all the time don’t we? ... past five or six years, I have hesitated being precise in my praying. Now I don’t know whether you’ve been guilty of that or not, just stay general you know, hedging a bit, so that my faith would not be tested if the petition I requested as not granted. Now at the heart of ...

1095. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... see me. The student said, ‘I’ve come to welcome you here and to tell you that if there’s anything I can do for you to make your stay here more pleasant, I want to do it.’ Then he asked me where I went to church, and I told him I was a Catholic. He said, ‘Well, I ... Christians, in various ways. The members of the church might have taken Paul’s imprisonment as a signal for them to stay quiet, to do nothing that would attract the attention of the authorities. This may have been the case with a few, ...

1096. Pentecost: The Neglected Factor

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and fruit-producing work in my life, and some times I’m not. Too often, I take control of my life, and that’s the reason it’s absolutely essential that we recover this neglected factor – the power to continue in the Christina life, the power to stay yielded to the living Lord. Our basic problem is that we want to run ahead of the Lord. We’re not willing to wait upon him, to receive his guidance. Impatiently, we move ahead. Thinking that we can make decisions and perform acts in our own discernment ...

1097. Leave Your Stuff Behind

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... your training, your gifts, and your powers, and (2) be flexible and open to change. Walk through the new doors that open. Stay alert to new possibilities of using your gifts and training. Be willing to make on-course adjustments. But, above all, don’t ... . Put it into the bag. Be specific now, in identifying and visualizing all the stuff in your mind to put into that bag. Now stay with me in your imagination. Get in your mind the picture with which be began the sermon – the junk man with his cart filled ...

1098. The Family: A Place For Persons

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . The host told Fred that there was a little bus depot with a cafe down the block and around the corner from where he was staying, and if he could make it through the snow, he could find some breakfast there. Fred said he put on his light jacket, but it ... -- but I'm voting with the crowd." The man in the greasy apron said, "All right. All right. All right. All right. She can stay." Everybody sat down and he brought the woman a bowl of soup. Everybody was quiet -- a new spirit spread over the crowd. Fred asked ...

1099. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (i)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... shall we sing the Lord's song in a foreign land? It's a question that we find ourselves asking now and again. But let's stay with Israel for a moment. Israel had long found help in the songs of the Lord. The Lord and His songs were identified with the ... spirit, relishing in the hope that his enemies' babies would have their heads bashed against stones. Rather, we will read on and stay with the story until the story, and we ourselves, are baptized in the light of God's grace shining brightly in Jesus ...

1100. The Nuclear Truth Of Christianity

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , the doctor pronounced Jesse Water Bishop dead in a gas chamber of the Nevada State Prison. Bishop was a career criminal who committed his first armed robbery at the age of 15, and spent 22 of his last 27 years behind bars. Bishop renounced all efforts to stay his execution for a murder he had committed in 1977. At that time he even waved his right to a jury trial, immediately pleading guilty. He could have been given an appeal of his case even minutes before entering the gas chamber, but he said no, with ...

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