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1076. Rules for Basic Living

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... she said next was very important. “No one will pronounce judgment on you even though they don’t agree with you…It simply means it’s safe to be you and no one will destroy you out of prejudice.”[3] We should feel safe in the church to share our thoughts, ideas, spirits, and more with this safety net under us. If God allows that, don’t you think that as the church we should be that accepting? That doesn’t mean we won’t be corrected or shown wrong, but it does mean it will be with a sweet ...

1077. Playing Outside the Rules

Luke 6:27-38 · Genesis 45:3-11, 15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... one as well. If someone takes your coat, don’t withhold your shirt either. Give to everyone who asks, and don’t demand your things back from those who take them. Treat people in the same way that you want them to treat you.” This was a revolutionary thought. And before you say, “well we all know that….,” ask yourself, but do we though? I think this statement is still as revolutionary today as it was back then. We just like to think we’ve got it down, but we hardly have it mastered. Think about ...

1078. The Call

Matthew 16:13-20, Mark 1:14-20, Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , ''Jesus." Maybe this helps to explain why, when little Joshua grew up, he went to and from in Galilee trying to name people. He would meet people busy at work, people who he did not even know, and brashly tell them that they were not who they thought they were but rather they were who he told them they were. To a group of ordinary workmen he said, ''Follow me, I'll call you 'Fishers of People.''' They had always answered to the name ''fishermen," and Jesus changed their name to ''Fishers of men." He ...

1079. God So Loved

John 3:16-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , they dragged him before the old rancher. He looked down at the poor, frightened cowhand and said, “Hang 'em, it'll teach him a lesson.” Years went by. The old rancher finally died. It was his turn for judgment. When they took him before the throne of God, he thought of all the mean things he had done in his life and he shook in his boots. God almighty looked down at the mean old rancher and said, “Forgive 'em, it’ll teach him a lesson.” It was out of love that he came among us, and stood beside ...

1080. Stay Awake

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... training to fly up higher in a fog. They were supposed to rise high enough to see over the fog. As he said, “They keep going up until they CAN see.” Larson says that this is the point of prayer too. The Bible tells us that our thoughts are not God’s thoughts, and God’s ways are higher than our ways (Isaiah 55: 8-9). When we pray and align our hearts and minds with the heart and mind of God, we are rising above our current circumstances and priorities to see life as God sees it. The second lesson ...

1081. Imagine This

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

John Jamison

... if, as certain as Saul was about his work, Gamaliel had somehow caused Saul to wonder. I wonder if Saul had awoken that morning, looked up at the heavens that had given him the laws, and said something like, “Come on God, give me some kind of sign here. I thought it was our responsibility to show how powerful our laws are, not to be weak and let people walk all over them. Why don’t you say something?” Then God said something. It doesn’t matter to me if there was a heavenly flash or just one of those ...

1082. How Does Prayer Work?

1 Corinthians 2:1-12 (13-16)

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... be scared away. However, he never explained to his disciples why he had the cat. One day, the monk walked down the corridors of the monastery and noticed that each of his disciples had a cat in their prayer room. After seeing the monk with a cat, they thought that having a cat was the secret to powerful praying! I believe this is a parable for many Christians today. Many believe they have to do something special in order for God to hear them and answer them. You will often see folks running here and there ...

1083. Why Doesn’t God Prove Himself To Doubters?

2 Peter 1:16-21

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... , to whom can we go? You have the words of eternal life” (John 6:68 NRSV). Now, sit with Peter’s response for just a moment. Here is what I believe was going on inside the heart of Peter: When everyone else had chosen to walk away from Jesus, he thought about leaving too. I am sure he had his doubts. But perhaps he began to ask, “Where are they going? Who or what are they going to follow? What are they going to put their hope in? What are they going to put their trust in? Who are they going ...

1084. More Fully Understanding Christ

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to people who have spent their life in church. “Aren’t I good enough already,” we ask? But spiritual growth isn’t about being good enough. It’s about being more like Jesus. The more we understand the message and spirit of Jesus, the more our thoughts and values and actions will align with his. His Holy Spirit living in us changes us. And other people can see that change. Just like the tendrils of a plant break through the seed’s outer coat and invade the earth, our inward spiritual growth will ...

1085. House of God

1 Kings 8:22-30

Sermon

Will Willimon

... left a lecture by Emerson and commented to a friend “I left with my head bumping against the stars.” A Hasidic saying: God is not nice God is not an uncle God is an earthquake "My ways are not your ways," says the biblical God. My thoughts are not your thoughts." How blest to stand with Isaiah in the Temple and cry on Sunday, "I saw the Lord, High and lifted up. If heaven, even the highest heaven cannot contain God… And yet there is another side to the coin—the danger that in our attempts to grow ...

1086. Accountable to God

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... like that, and someone to call us to deep reflection about our life, to cause us to think beyond our involvements today: beyond that challenge that we face, beyond the fun that we’re having, beyond the money that we’re making. It may not be a popular thought or even a thought that we’ve ever considered, but all of life says it’s going to be so. Someday we’re going to have to account to God for who we are and what we’ve done. That’s not something to be fearful of, but something to challenge us ...

1087. Hark, The Herald... What?

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... , but I am sharing something with you that is so special to me. Reading that you were a minister, made me feel better, but I still am a little leery. Your sermon was the closest thing I’ve found on the internet that related to my experience. So, I thought you must have some feelings or insight to such experiences. Please be honest, but gentle. I’ve been in tears most of the days since this happened, because I am elated that I got to see her again. Tears of joy to the whole experience. Thank you for your ...

1088. Passover Or Passalong?

1 Corinthians 11:23-26

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... a role. The adults would read the important lines of the ritual, the younger would take turns asking the required questions, and the youngest would join in the search for the hidden matzo that represented desert. As they joined around the table tonight, their thoughts were a mix of what had been happening this week, over the past three years together, and all of those memories of seders gone by. They knew the parts of the seder and what they represented. They remembered the laughter from the adults that ...

1089. Fear of Flying

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of doom and gloom. “What if the plane crashed?” “What if the engine failed?” “What if it ran out of gas.” “What if I die?” The very thought of putting his life into the hands of the unknown pilot caused him to practically break out in hives. Instead, he thought how much happier he would be if he stayed in his house, relaxed by the pool, and forgot about that trip. After all, did he really need to see Key West? Jerry has what we call “fear of flying.” But guess what? So do most of ...

1090. Refreshing Drink

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Children's Sermon

Various Authors

Object: An empty tin cup A traveler walked across the desert and ran out of water. He got thirstier as time went on. Before long, all he could think about was getting a drink. He thought of how cool the water might be. As sweat rolled off his brow, he thought of a lovely lake and even thought he saw one straight ahead. But the lake he thought he saw was a mirage ― it was a trick of the atmosphere and his eyes making him think it was a lake. But then he saw something that was no trick. He blinked and then ...

1091.

Psalm 139:1-24

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... darkness and night as a hiding place. Here we see the same response to divine omniscience (vv. 1–6) as is evident in Job, namely the desire to be left alone (Job 7:17–21; 14:5–6). God’s scrutiny evokes wonder (v. 6) but also fear. Thoughts of flight need not betray a profound sense of guilt or the fact that the speaker has committed or been accused of a crime. The recognition that we are so scrutinized by another intrinsically makes us want to retreat. We may feel our privacy has been violated or ...

1092. “Lord, Our Lord, How Majestic Is Your Name in All the Earth!”

Psalm 8:1-9

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... in his image; to other humans, because we are “male” and “female” and should “increase in number” and “fill the earth” (Gen. 1:27–28); and to the rest of the created order, because we are to “rule” over it. In ancient Near Eastern thought the gods made human beings to be their slave laborers, but in Psalm 8 they are God’s vice-regents to rule the earth. Even God’s crowning humankind with “glory and honor” (8:5) evidently alludes to his work of ruling over creation. Messianic ...

1093. Redefining “Blessed”

Luke 1:39-45 (46-55)

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... be that visit with Elizabeth and the time she told me how much God had blessed me and my baby boy. If it were me standing there outside the tomb, even though I was told my son had been risen from the dead, I would probably still be having second thoughts about the whole idea of being blessed. Please understand, I am not saying we should not pray for and offer God’s blessings. But I am saying that I believe it would be helpful for us to remember just what it does mean to be blessed by God. The word ...

1094. You Can Talk the Game, but Can You Play the Game?

1 Corinthians 9:24-27

Sermon

Will Willimon

... . Now, surprise, that faith is no longer adequate to the demands of their adult lives. He meant to be a faithful Christian, but when he went through a tough time in his life, it was as if his faith just fell apart. He became angry with God. He quit. I thought it was due to the tragedies and disappointments he had suffered. His old pastor's verdict upon him was, “Poor thing, when it was time for him to go to the well for water, he had no bucket." Think of your presence here this morning as training. Paul's ...

1095. Do You Think That I Have Come To Bring Peace?

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Will Willimon

... divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against her mother, mother-in- law against her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law” (12:49-53). I daresay those multitudes got slim after they heard Jesus' thoughts on family life that day. “Do you think that I have come to give peace on earth?” asks Jesus. “Yes!” we reply. That's exactly what we think. Isn't that what the angels sang at your birth? “Glory to God in the highest, and ...

1096. For Someone Who Led A Magnificent Life

Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 · 1 Corinthians 2:9-10 · 2 Corinthians 4:6-11 · Luke 24:13-35

Eulogy

Richard E. Zajac

... to school!” When he got the kid to school, he parked his car in the farthest extremity of the parking lot so he could parade him past several classroom windows, driving home the point to anyone who saw them that they’d better perish the thought of ever skipping school. Along with such “over the top” disciplinary tactics were the ones Bill gleaned from the Marquis de Sade. Students deft at spitballs might be found on all fours pushing a spitball down a long corridor with their nose and misbehaving in ...

1097. The Mother of All Yard Sales

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... They would tee up their little pink Lady Precept and then flail away just like they always did, and the new ball would do what their old golf balls always did. “Then they came in here mad at me,” he went on, “because the ball wasn’t doing what they thought it would do.” I was at a golf show one time where businesses were touting the latest technologies and equipment and trying to get us to buy it when I came upon a booth where a guy was selling little glassine bags full of golf tees. He swore that ...

1098. God Is Like...a Name

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Kenneth L. Gibble

... Or, as my mother told me when I was a child, “God always was and God always will be.” In Revelation there is another image, that of the faithful having their names written in the Lamb’s book of life (Revelation 21:27). Don’t you love that thought? Our names are written there. No long numerical codes, no social security numbers. Our names are there, spelled correctly and pronounced lovingly by the one whose name is I AM, the one who knows the name of every far-flung star. God is like… a name. Not ...

1099. Calculated Christianity

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... and then we know we cannot do it. There is not enough grit and good works in the world to make us worthy to be counted among Jesus’ followers, but yet, we are. We will never be smart enough to know the mind of God because our thoughts are not God’s thoughts. And yet we are promised that Christ makes his home in our hearts. We are the clay and God is the potter. Faithful discipleship is about being shaped by the most high God again and again. It is not about our righteousness or abilities, our successes ...

1100. When the Answers Don't Fit the Questions

Job 42:1-6, 10-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of this part of the Bible. Yes, although I am a preacher, I'm like you--there are parts of the Bible I like and parts which I like not. Usually, the verses I like are those that elicit from me the exclamation—“That's what I've always thought!” The Book of Job is not one of them. I first met Job back in 1965, my sophomore year. One meets the strangest people in undergraduate religion courses. The story begins by introducing Job, “A man in the land of Uz,...blameless and upright, who feared God, and ...

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