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1101. Celebrity Culture

Psalm 95:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... those who were less curious. Those in category three, those who demonstrated the highest levels of worship (borderline-pathological) were found to be generally anti-social and solitary. However, again their mental health didn't appear to be affected. (Perhaps because their mental health was already in need?) However among the middle group, the intense-personal worshipers, mental health problems quickly became evident. This type of worship involves feelings such as considering a particular celebrity to be ...

1102. Taking Something Up for Lent

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , and hit the local cinema every Friday night. In fact few of us ever really gave up anything for Lent - we simply postponed our usual activities and indulgences for a few short weeks. After all, after Easter were there any after affects? Jesus' words to Nicodemus were so confusing because they were so challenging. Nicodemus approached Jesus at night, suggesting he wasn't really comfortable being seen with this strange teacher, this unpredictable wonder-worker. Yet with his best company manners, Nicodemus ...

1103. What Names Are You Naming?

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Tomas, Mary Tanagtong, Sesilvia Bargoa, Sevrine Pairuno, Flona Gallan, and Feri Cornelia, and tens of thousands more. One of the greatest resurrections that could come out of this deadly tsunami is if individual churches were to adopt individual communities in the 11 countries affected by the tsunami. What if this church adopted a named community for prayer and support? What if your family adopted a named family who suffered the loss of loved ones for prayer and support. You will have to hunt to find them ...

1104. Don't Forget the Mustard

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... drive out the afflicting agent. Mustard plasters could be applied to the stomach, back, chest, kidneys, all stiff and sore joints, and the head. As a stimulant, the ground mustard in the compress would increase the blood supply to the affected area, allowing the body to work more efficiently at carrying away toxins, speeding digestion, easing sore muscles, and generally accelerating the body's own healing abilities. Fevers broke, lungs cleared, headaches subsided, muscle cramps ceased...when a good strong ...

1105. Four Cornerstones

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . When our second pregnancy test turned pink, I called my therapist." "When a first child drops his pacifier, we boil it for ten minutes. When the second child drops her pacifier, we tell the dog to fetch." But: "When I pray for my children at night, my affection for each is the same. I suspect that's how God must feel, too. For God, every child is a first born." (As quoted in John M. Buchanan, "Orphans No More," sermon preached May 9, 1999, Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago, IL.) In the Deuteronomy 32:18 ...

1106. Get a Peace of the Rock

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... world we live in made me deeply apprehensive about the future" and about "whether humans will ever tame their darkest instincts." I also came to understand, as never before, how everything that happens on earth is connected. We are all affected by the widening gap between rich and poor, by the availability of information, by population growth in the Third World, by the mechanization of agriculture, by rampant urbanization, by destruction of the environment, by nationalistic, ethnic, and religious bigotry ...

1107. I'm a Chunk of Coal, but I'm Gonna Be a Diamond

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... The person who refuses to get hurt is the person who refuses to live. Do you respond to the touch of others? Or do you exist self-sufficient and unchanged regardless of the people and problems that confront you, regardless of the conflicts or consequences that affect you. It's one of the chief mysteries of life: where you're cut the most is where your beauty shines strongest. Jeremiah's tongue was cut. But Jeremiah's tongue became God's greatest instrument of healing God's people. "Gold there is, and rubies ...

1108. Let the River Flow

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... not at the whim of some impersonal cosmic forces. All who are in Christ share in his redemptive love and in the integral coherence he offers to our hearts and souls. So what does this doctrine of coherence mean to you and to me? How does it affect our lives? What difference does it make to each one of us if we truly live a life that reflects this reality – that Christ really is in all things? Larry Crabb, in his popular book Connecting, talks about several of the most popular approaches to spirituality ...

1109. The Real Winning Attitude

1 Timothy 6:3-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of 48 million children ages 6-17 in the U.S., 74% of these kids participate in at least one of the eighteen different team sorts available to them ("Who's the Child?" American Demographics 23 (August 2001,15.) That is a tremendous number of children who will be affected by the kind of winning attitude we try to nurture within them. Sadly in this case it seems all too true that kids are learning by what we DO, not by what we say. And the more seemingly important and admired the "doer" the more damage that is ...

1110. This Kiss

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... raised on the third day." is the biggest smackeroo planet Earth has ever received or that you and I will ever get. With THIS KISS Christ extends The Creator of the Universe's love to each and every person. · You don't understand how bandwidth frequency affects modem speed? · You don't understand how precision pixels are responsible for digital imaging? · You don't know what "The Matrix" is or how the heck we can possibly get out of it? Don't worry about it. You get everything you need, and the fullness ...

1111. Are You a GOT TO or a GET TO Christian?

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... up), and have it land in the lap of the pickup bed. Today kids don't do drive-by littering. They do drive-by shootings. Or in-school shootings. Do you remember the rash of in school shootings that affected areas around the country? · Jonesboro, Arkansas. · Paducah, Kentucky. · Springfield, Oregon. · Ellis, Mississippi. · Columbine, Colorado. · Madison County, Michigan. · Santee, California. In the past few decades more and more violence, rage, despair, drugs, crime, and hatred have seemed to fill our ...

1112. Life's Four Big 'Ds' and One Bigger 'D'

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... say to everything that comes your way: "D.V. God willing. Your will be done"? Will you accept the power and wisdom of the D.V.? Will you refuse to allow the Four D's what are they? Doubt, disappointment, despair, depression to rule your life and to affect and infect the lives of those around you? Did anyone happen to see the "Sweet Alice" episode of Extreme Makeover Home Edition? It aired on March 28, 2004, on ABC. A community activist named "Sweet Alice" Harris had spent 35 years trying to better her Watts ...

1113. The Good Life vs. The God Life

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to the U.S. Surgeon General's Office, 27% of Americans fall into obesity category; 61% of Americans qualify as overweight. In fact, some are suggesting that obesity does more damage to quality of life than does smoking or alcohol abuse. Only aging 20 years has similar affects. Even if you don't add on the soft-drink, super-size, add-a-side come-ons offered by these fast food vendors, the final price you're paying is too much. Convenience. Short cuts. Slide-bys. Coasting. They all cost us more than we can ...

1114. Are You Living the Three Advents?

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ”). Rather we should be feeling a ground-swell of kairos expectation. There is one kind of “alarm” clock you can buy that awakens you not with a buzz or beep. It gradually glows brighter and brighter as time passes. The change in light affects your sleep cycle and wakes you up naturally—-even though true “dawn” might yet be hours away. This First Advent brought God into this world as the infant Jesus. Since the church lives in “chronos” time we make a point of celebrating this “kairos ...

1115. Trust that Leads to Transformation

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... emerge. We can wait confidently through all the winter ice and snow because we know and understand why the warmer, brighter days are coming. Our confidence comes from observable scientific knowledge. We know how the rotation of the earth around the sun affects the length of our days and the warmth of our climates. About other less measurable matters we're less bold. If results and conclusions can't be nailed down with calculated numbers or provable facts, we back away from declaring any firm commitments ...

1116. Wherever You Are, You Are Always at Home

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... if occasionally my mind simply cannot fathom the incredibly swift passage of time that marks the span of our lifetimes. But there's something even more difficult than having to wrap our minds around yet another New Year. It is coming to terms with how the passage of time affects those we love. Every parent here can testify how much of a difference one year makes on a child. In one year a child can shoot up with 4 or 5 inches of new growth, act up with new emotions and new energies, speak up with a new voice ...

1117. The World's Greatest Cover Up

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... by those with genuine faith, even as Abraham never wavered, and indeed continued to give glory to God (verse 20) despite his great age, despite the long passage of years between God's promise and fulfillment of the divine words. The interior necessarily affects the exterior of a faithful, righteous disciple. This is especially true, Paul declares, since we have received the ultimate gift of grace from God, the resurrection of Jesus, who died and was raised for our justification (verse 25). How could such a ...

1118. What to Do with Yesterday - A Sermon for a New Year

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

James McCormick

... him yet. He hasn’t suffered enough.” But, he had remarried and gotten on with his life. He was not suffering because of her lack of forgiveness. She was. Every day she was being consumed by her bitterness and anger. And, her children and everyone around her were affected by the stink of it. When God cuts the cable, he takes that kind of garbage away, too. Listen to the good news: there is no sin God is not willing to forgive. There is nothing you can do to make God stop loving you. There is nothing you ...

1119. Jesus' Forty Days, and Ours

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

James McCormick

... do seemed reasonable, even desirable! If Jesus did the three things he was tempted to do, those things would hold great promise for an earthly kingdom: bread for him, and for the world, political control of all nations, a spectacular feat to gain the attention and the affection of the masses. Why not? Why not? If that is what you want to accomplish. Here in the first days of Jesus’ ministry, he shows us something important: temptation is real. And it comes to all of us. It came to Jesus, and it comes to ...

1120. 1 Corinthians 7:29-31

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... lives in Christ, thus live in this world, yet live with the assurance that they aren't of this world. Christians are people at home in a foreign land. The familiar "present for me" of the world marked by marriage, up and down emotions, political and economic concerns don't affect the essence of those whose true identity is with Christ. The world in which Christians must live must not be their reason for living.

1121. The Counter Intelligence of the Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5, 1 Corinthians 1:10-17, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ). Paul reveals the source of the community “quarrels” to be over the issue and identity of leadership and authority. Paul has had first-hand reports (from “Chloe’s people”) about the nature of these quarrels. The divisiveness is presented as affecting the whole church (“each of you says”), fracturing the whole into slogan-taunting “parties” (“I belong to Paul,” “I belong to Apollos”, v.12). It is important to observe how Paul does not here argue against any variant teachings that ...

1122. Easter 6

Psalm 66:1-20, Acts 17:16-34, 1 Peter 3:8-22, John 14:15-31

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... baptism. The analogy underscores how baptism is not a psychological rite of passage but quite literally the movement from one world to another—as the ark carried Noah's family through the flood to another world. Entering this new world through baptism affects the believer, for it applies the benefits of Christ's death and Resurrection to us, which results in spiritual transformation. In other words, we see the world differently in baptism—with a clear conscience or to use a Pauline term, a transformed ...

1123. Epiphany 5

Psalm 112:1-10, Isaiah 58:1-14, 1 Corinthians 2:6-16, Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... a message about the cross, or a message the cross implies, or both? Clearly, Paul unpacks "the cross" throughout his letters, applying its meaning to the lives of his readers. The cross is not only something that happened to Jesus, it is that which affects—or effects!—the lives of Christians. It is unlikely that Paul had special teaching for some. He could, however, explicate more to some than to others. Verse 7 summarizes what the depths of Paul's message were, and v. 8 comments upon its availability ...

1124. Epiphany 6

Mt 5:21-37 · 1 Cor 3:1-9 · Ps 119 · Dt 30:15-20

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... claims by saying that they could not even eat a solid Christian diet. Paul's proof of the Corinthians' immaturity is their infantile tendency toward self-centered bragging. Paul says that the Corinthians are all too human and all too little affected by the perfection of the divine. Any minister who faces a situation where the congregation is split because some members consider themselves more spiritual than others will find these verses are a powerful critique of self-centered "spirituality." In situations ...

1125. Proper 15

Genesis 45:1-28, Matthew 15:21-28, Romans 11:1-10, Romans 11:25-32, Psalm 133:1-3

Sermon Aid

Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... is no shalom (peace) in the family, which then infiltrates the larger social and political world (from the Ishmaelites and Midianites to the Egyptians), in vv. 9-20 these motifs create family unity (vv. 9-14, father-son; vv. 15-16, brothers or kinship), which then affects the Egyptians in a positive way. Pharaoh is portrayed in vv. 16-20 as welcoming Joseph's family to Egypt and as offering them the best of his country. By the end of this story, we no longer ask where the power of the promise is, because ...

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