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1076. If It Helps You Laugh

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the portrait and said, "Why, it's Sally!" and then she kissed Benjamin. And ever since that day, West has said, "My Mother's kiss made me a painter." Christian mothers believe in their kids. II. THE TOUCH THAT SOOTHES AND SUPPORTS: They also offer that much needed loving touch that soothes and supports. A visitor to a telescope factory was fascinated by a workman who was polishing a lens with the palm of his hand. When asked why he was using his hand, the worker replied, "There comes a time in the making of ...

1077. Which King Do We Worship?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... it that way. So, he left his high-paying, comfortable job with one of the most powerful insurance companies in the nation. He wrote a book about the lies he told in support of his former employer. Out in that field in East Tennessee, this executive realized he had to make a choice: would he continue spreading lies that supported a powerful corporation, or would he lose his job and reputation in order to tell the truth? (4) The Epiphany story reminds us that Jesus stands against the kingdoms of this world ...

1078. Through the Heart of Jesus

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... were Christians who raised their six children to follow Jesus. But when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, Sophie and her brother, Hans, joined youth organizations that supported Hitler. Their father was horrified and tried to change their minds. As the reality of Hitler’s brutal policies came to light, Sophie and Hans abandoned their support of the Third Reich. They, along with four friends, created a resistance movement known as the White Rose. Members of the White Rose passed out leaflets detailing ...

1079. Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley

Luke 19:28-40 · Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... together. The harder he tried the worse it got. The other children began to snicker, then to giggle. Finally, there was open laughter in the room. He looked back to his older sister for support. His parents had died some time before. His sister was the last person left to care for him. With hurt and humiliation, he looked back at her for support, but she too had her head buried in her arms laughing as hard as anyone in the room. He turned to his teacher, but she was obviously doing all within her power to ...

1080. “Until An Opportune Time…”

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... of Christian community who, in prayer, worship and discipline, help us to resist the flood waters of temptation that surround us all. We take heart in the relationships we build together where we support one another in our shared and sacred resistance to the temptations of this world. Sisters and brothers, in this season let us renew our resistance, to the temptations around us, yes. But let us also renew our commitment to resist evil and oppression wherever we may find it, to regain ...

1081. You Will Always Have The Poor With You…

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... secular culture rather than lead us to faithful living? Let us think together about our lives as Christian community. Are we focused on ministry? Or do we use our faith to support our particular ideology or world-view? In many places, our churches are fighting the so-called culture wars between liberals and conservatives. I know this because I have witnessed it across our nation. Yet think a moment. When we allow ourselves to be divided by such categories are we keeping ...

1082. Wake Up! Get Ready!

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... to fill through my addictions. I surrendered my life to Christ and that’s the one choice that has changed my entire life.” Ron entered the recovery program. He re-connected with his daughter. He got a job. With his commitment to following Jesus and the support of his new friends, Ron re-built his life and graduated from the program in July 2020. And he is committing his life to helping others in the same way he has been helped. His life goal now is “loving and serving others.” As he says, “That ...

1083. Stay Awake

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... would accept it. Shatina began to cry. She said, “Before I stepped in this class, I did something I haven’t done in several years. I prayed.” Shatina, it turns out, was a single mother who had grown up in foster care. She had no family support for raising her child and had a desperate need for diapers. She had asked a friend for help, but her friend didn’t have any money either. The friend had suggested Shatina pray for the diaper money, a suggestion which offended her. Shatina didn’t even believe ...

1084. Out On A Sycamore Limb

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... taller, sturdier than he, someone you just can’t see. You almost believe he is not walking alone. “Evan’s walk served to remind me what it means to ‘walk before God;’ it is to walk with one arm up, straight in the air, acknowledging that we need God’s support, God’s hand to guide us and hold us up.”[4] I don’t know if Zacchaeus actually held his hand up like this after being with Jesus, but I am sure he felt like someone was walking with him then, leading every step of the way. One of my ...

1085. Out of the Darkness

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... respond with love and good deeds.” I am so impressed by a news story I read about a teenage girl who took a truly disappointing situation and turned it into an opportunity for good. Eighteen-year-old Avery Sanford’s dad decided to pay his final child support payment in the most spiteful and cruel way: he dumped 80,000 pennies on the front lawn of his ex-wife’s house. Can you imagine such a thing. Think what a mess that made. However, Avery decided that she would transcend, she would rise above, her ...

1086. Beloved

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... our full potential, to be everything we can be, because God created us as good and unique with good and unique gifts. God prioritizes us, and we give time and effort to prioritizing God in our lives too. We enter into a covenant with God. We gain our feeling of support and respect for who we are from God, and this gives us stability and self-esteem even in the face of trouble. God shows us great love every single day. If we look around us, we will see the signs. We can show God our signs of love each day ...

1087. The Trust of Simon Cephas

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . This is what Jesus sought to establish for his church. Church still today, despite what you may see, is not made of buildings, or power, or rituals, or money, or any of the things we’ve gotten so used to seeing with our eyes and supporting with our time and effort. Church means community—a community of faithful people, dedicating their lives and hearts to Jesus, attempting to follow his Way, loving each other and others around them, spreading the Word of the gospel about Jesus’ gift of salvation and ...

1088. The Big Move!

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

John Jamison

... confront something with the power of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and priests of Jerusalem, but we may be called to stand against misguided leaders of our world today. We may be called to do battle with an uncontrolled temper or an addiction, or to stand up in support of someone being abused, being left in the cold without food or protection, or without the opportunity to be the child that God created them to become. Whatever the battle, our winning is more assured if we do not take it on by ourselves but find ...

1089. Invincible

John 14:15-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... celebrate Mother’s Day, or as we call it in the Christian tradition, the “Festival of the Christian Home,” many of you may be thinking about that person in your life who serves as your best advocate, supporter, booster, and truth teller. That special person has given you coping skills, emotional support, and wisdom to help you navigate life in better and more positive ways. I hope you will take today to thank them and appreciate them, even as you also take time to strengthen and renew your personal ...

1090. Love In Action

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Will Willimon

... I'm very upset about the situation with Tom and Janet," he said, once our meal started. "What do you think we should do, preacher?" I began my liberal litany. There was probably little we could do. It was their problem. We need to love them, be supportive, caring. There are two sides to every problem. These things happen. Amen. "Well," he tells me, ''If that's all you, the church has got to say, then no wonder nobody has respect for the church. I thought the church cared about justice, right and wrong. If ...

1091. Fearful, But Not Afraid

Matthew 14:22-33

Sermon

William G. Carter

... of what became a fishing vessel. The artist declared, “It is a perfect image for the church: we are the people who are in the same boat with Jesus.” Indeed. Whatever fears we face, we are together, and can choose to look to one another for support and encouragement. None of us have to face fears alone. We are companions floating together above destruction and its terroristic demands. And we are together with Jesus. We don’t choose this, for he decides to get in the boat with his people. It is because ...

1092. We Have All Become Nicodemus

Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

Ronald Love

... was 21-years-old, her family moved to Missouri. There she married a young doctor, Charles Gloyd. Charles served with the Union in the war, and on his return he was an alcoholic. His alcoholism went to such an extreme that he could no longer support Carry. When Carry became pregnant she left Charles and returned to live with her parents. A few months after her daughter, Charlien — named after her father — was born, Charles died. Carry was able to rebuild her life, becoming a school teacher and marrying a ...

1093. The New Family

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of our name, our values. Home is where you go when you have absolutely nowhere else to go. Family are the people who take you in when everyone else has rejected you. And the church is praised as an institution which is so helpful in support of the family. Churches have "Family Night Suppers," and they build "Family Life Centers," much larger than their sanctuaries. We even have churches which advertise that they are a "Family Church." In fact I found, in my last church, that perhaps the major reason people ...

1094. The Great Debates

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... son” whom David was observing conversing with the Father. The psalm seems to indicate the coming of a future messiah when the time came to fruition. Deemed prophetic in nature, this psalm overruled the Pharisaic idea that the messiah was simply a man descended from David. It supported the idea of a “spiritual” messiah, a divine/human messiah, who existed along with God since the beginning of time and would appear in human form at some point in David’s future in order to make things right. It also ...

1095. Your Body Is a Temple

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Ronald Love

... from the emotional needs of their patients. Something she was never aware of as a physician, but became acutely aware of as a patient. Sadly, this was also true for her husband Randy. At the hospital she urged Randy to come immediately to her aid and support. She wrote, “Randy, who was an attorney at a law firm in the city, answered something about leaving as soon as he responded to the mythical ‘one final email,’ confirming to me that I had failed to convey the immediacy of my need.” Randy was slow ...

1096. We Need Another Miracle

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... lungs of the world” because of its capacity to minimize the dangers of CO2 are a looming disaster. The trapped heat exacerbates western wildfires. The alternating challenges of drought and flooding have made sustainable farming impossible in areas where self-support used to be possible, resulting in folks leaving their homes as refugees seeking simply the opportunity to create a life. As the planet’s relentlessly warming oceans expand and great glaciers and ice sheets melt into the seas, the saltwater ...

1097. I Love You — If You Know What I Mean

1 John 3:16-24

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... and never spoke with her again. There was a family that had been a part of everyone’s lives before the local church was started. They ran a store that everyone in town went to and supported. That family did not join the church when it began, although they continued to do all they could to help and support the entire community. The members of the church no longer shopped in that family’s store. They no longer talked with anyone from that family. As a result, the family business was failing and the family ...

1098.

Psalm 86:1-17

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... in its particular hand of cards. 86:1–5 In the first section, the psalm bases the plea, have mercy on me, on the claim, “for to you I call” (v. 3, note the original word order). In support, the hymnic praise then promises, You are . . . abounding in love to all who call to you. Another link and support is found in the term “(devoted) love” (Hb. ḥesed): the prayer claims, for I am devoted (Hb. ḥāsîd, v. 2), and the hymn claims Yahweh is abounding in (devoted) love (Hb. ḥesed, v. 5). Here we ...

1099.

Psalm 124:1-8

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... described as dramatic and miraculous, like that of the exodus out of Egypt. His action is described as preventative (who has not let . . . ) and as a help (v. 8). The claim that “Yahweh had been for us” (v. 1) clearly affirms his support, but it does leave the form of that support open-ended. The remainder of the testimony focuses not on Yahweh’s rescue but on “our escape.” (Note also the use of the passive voice in the snare has been broken.) This certainly does not diminish the fact of God’s ...

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Psalm 134:1-3

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... it upon the (departing?) congregation. However, each of the seventeen occurrences of “servants” in the Psalms denotes God’s people in general. Though it may not be possible to determine the referent for “servants,” Psalm 135, the following psalm probably supports the latter suggestion. The opening call to praise in Psalms 134:1 and 135:1–2 have virtually identical terminology and the closing call to praise in Psalm 135:19–21 addresses Israel, Aaron, Levi, and “you who fear him.” Because ...

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