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1101. Deathbed Confessions

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... the question is more troubling to me than the answer. Why would we ask such a question in the first place? Does not such a question indicate that we think that we would rather live a life of sin than a life of faith? Why else would we be concerned about waiting until the last moment? Are we praying Augustine’s prayer, “Lord save me, but not yet” because deep in our hearts we believe that giving in to God will spoil our fun? That living a life of faith will be a burden rather than a blessing? Let ...

1102. Fake News? No! Fake Religion

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... say?” “Any news yet?” “Many more days?” He did not know that his colleagues had started an office pool on when the baby would arrive. Every one of his colleagues had placed a bet on when the happy occasion would occur. The interest in his affairs really concerned no more than a greedy desire to win the office pool. (3) I’m not going to ask if you have ever faked interest in someone because it was good business or simply out of courtesy. All of us are guilty of such interest sometime or another ...

1103. Pop Star Madonna and the Cross

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... priests and the scribes and must die--but after three days he would rise again. Peter was furious. He took Jesus off to the side and began to rebuke him. “Get behind me, Satan!” Jesus said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Peter looked stunned. Jesus had never spoken to him like this before. Peter simply didn’t realize how difficult this was for Jesus. Then Jesus called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple ...

1104. You Are What You Eat

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

Rick McCracken-Bennett

... me and my brother and sisters before a meal, "Did you wash your hands?" This was an appropriate question for parents trying to teach their children good hygiene. But, at first glance, a strange concern for a religious leader, don't you think? It wasn't like they were afraid that these guys would get their food all germy, they were concerned that the disciples were breaking one of their rules; one of the traditions of their elders. It was a good way to take a pot-shot at Jesus. See, he couldn't possibly be ...

1105. Who Owns the Cloud: Google or God?

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... signs, trying to determine when God’s promises will be fulfilled. It’s a futile effort, to be sure. Jesus says no man knows the hour, no one knows what is in the mind of God, even the angels, but we keep trying. People are always looking for signs concerning Christ’s return. We do not know when that time will be, but we live in anticipation that God will do a good work, that God fulfills his promises. We live in anticipation in the second place, because we also know God does not forget His own. Much ...

1106. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... he decided to jump the tracks. The result was a horrible crash. My friends, terrible crashes do take place when people decide that they can ignore God’s laws. In 1973 Dr. Karl Menninger published his important work, Whatever Became of Sin? In it he expressed his concern about the way sin is being ignored in our society today--or even made to be respectable. To be sure, he was glad that some so-called sins were better understood and dealt with than in earlier times. On the other hand, he said, “There IS ...

1107. Use Your Head as Well as Your Heart

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

King Duncan

... cross. When that relationship is broken we are vulnerable to all kinds of temptations. Even more important, our relationship with God reminds us of a line we desperately need to cross. When Jesus taught about counting the cost before building a tower, his real concern was not architecture or construction. He was advising potential followers about what it meant to be his disciple. He concluded this teaching with these words: “In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my ...

1108. The Power of the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the Lord your God, and serve only him.’” Then satan took him to Jerusalem, and placed him on the pinnacle of the temple, saying to him, “If you are the Son of God, throw yourself down from here, for it is written, ‘He will command his angels concerning you, to protect you,’ and ‘On their hands they will bear you up, so that you will not dash your foot against a stone.’” Jesus answered him, “It is said, ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.” When satan had finished every test, he ...

1109. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and sweet, and tasty, and firm in their faith. But do you know what? On the outside, you can’t tell the difference. You can’t tell….not unless you get to know the person inside and what their true interior is like. Are they too concerned with the color of their skin, or the traditions and habits of the church instead of their inner relationship with God? And what about their relationships with others? You can’t tell, until you “taste and see.” No matter what or who something looks like on ...

1110. The Tragedy of Caiaphas

John 18:1-27 · John 11:45-47 · Matthew 26:36-75

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... balance he held between the Jews and the Romans? Did he think God wanted him to sentence Jesus as part of his redemptive plan? Was he just being satirical? We cannot possibly know all of what went on in Caiaphas’ mind, but we do know he expressed concern that the people would begin revolting against Rome as a result of Jesus’ ministry. And that by sentencing this one man to death, he could keep peace in the Temple of Jerusalem –and the butter upon his own bread! So when he asks Jesus to confirm who ...

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.

Paul Tillich

1112. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... day he would be the rock that helped steady that newly emerging group of followers that would become the church of Jesus Christ, but for all his good intentions, at this point in his life he was still a babe in Christ. When confronted by a servant girl concerning his association with Jesus, he gave a curse and denied he ever knew him. Judas, Peter—then the rest of the disciples. Jesus tried so hard to get through to them even though he knew that for a while, every one of them would desert him. Listen as ...

1113. Survival

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Will Willimon

... feel very alone, very terrified you hold on very tight. If we could only get the Russians to agree to peace. What will happen to us, the Europeans want to know, if we negotiate away their missiles? We aren't too worried about Europeans. It's our hides that concern us. We have lived quite nicely for forty years with Eastern Europe enslaved but we have had our peace. The Israelis want peace. They already have the West Bank. We want peace, so do the Soviets - to be left at peace to run the world on our terms ...

1114. Thanks, but...

Philippians 4:10-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Smead. "What did he mean by 'you had no opportunity,' and 'at length,' and 'not that I complain,' and 'not that I seek the gift'?" "Well," said Myrtle, "it just goes to show that preachers are human, too." "Paul's a little too human as far as I'm concerned," said Herbert. "Look," said someone, "Show a little compassion. The man's been in prison now for five or six months. That can get to a person. I went to jail during the last persecution. Sitting there in your cell, all hope lost, a man loses his appetite ...

1115. Jesus' Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... interest is, "What kind of God is there?" Adam and Eve, the very first people, are the first to trip over the question. Being told that they are built "in the image of God," being blessed by God, Adam and Eve quite naturally assume that God must obviously be concerned about meeting their needs. They are hungry, not just for food, but also for life, for knowledge. So, when they "saw that the tree was good for food, and...a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise" (Are not ...

1116. The Good

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... God's kingdom clutching all his works and righteousness baggage whereas the tax collector is welcomed in because his hands are empty. He's got nothing and he knows it. He is a complete moral, religious loser, a dead duck so far as God's standards are concerned. Fortunately, Jesus specializes in raising the dead and lives to seek and to save the lost. At this point, you're probably thinking to yourself what a fool this Pharisee is for thinking that he can get in good with God through his good works. Don't ...

1117. Little Start, Big Finish

Mark 4:26-34

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... Seed doesn’t germinate and grow over night but that’s not the point. The point is that the farmer does not concern himself with how this germination and growth happens. He is content that it happens. There are mysterious forces at work in ... I just need to know that it is and apply it to the other numbers I have according to the formula. As far as I am concerned, it works because it works. Our lives are filled with beautiful and wonderful mysteries that we usually accept as a marvelous thing, a gift even. ...

1118. Promises to Keep

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... allow it. So she filed the appropriate papers and off she went to join Antipas in Galilee. (The historian, Josephus, allows that she also had another husband before Philip from which she never bothered to get divorced but, again, that does not concern us here.) What concerns us, here, is that she married her husband’s brother while her husband was still alive and, according to Jewish law, in those days, that was considered incest. Enter, John the Baptist… Coda: Flashback by Mark Before we go there, we ...

1119. For the Glory of Christ

John 12:20-33 · Hebrews 5:5-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... another. That's why we've started a new ministry. It's very simple. It's a way to be more caring and to show concern or love or celebration for others. The Council on Ministries has developed a way to do that. It's called a Barnabas Card. They will ... honor." CONCLUSION: In the cartoon Dennis the Menace, Dennis is in his mother's lap, enfolded in her arms and he's crying. Mom has this concerned look on her face as Dennis says: "I HAD to come home. I need somebody to be on MY side." (5) There are times when ...

1120. A Caring Woman

Acts 9:36-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... her church family that she was brought back from the dead to continue her ministry with them. Hers was compassion with a capital “C.” She truly lived her life walking in the steps of her Master. She lived as Christ would have all of us live . . . with concern and compassion for her neighbor. But what I hope all of us will see today is that living like Tabitha lived—living with love and compassion for others which, by the way, is the way Christ lived—is the only truly fulfilling way to live. You want ...

1121. Christianity: A Worldly Religion That Makes Sure That Even Animals Matter

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... so much that he died for it. I’m leading up to that unpopular topic that Americans, that American Christians, don’t want to hear — ecology. But we have a God Who cares about this matter. He’s a God not just interested in spiritual matters — not just concerned with our souls and human beings. God cares about the physical dimensions of the world. He made them too. We have a God Who cares about the plight of the world and its resources. How then can we be indifferent to the plight of the world? When ...

1122. John and Frank

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

John Jamison

... in that hole with John and Frank. But John and Frank understood. They just needed reminding. They understood that for them, their faith in God was not based on what God did for them. That was Pharisee faith. They believed that the only thing they needed to be concerned about was loving their God, and loving the people around them, plain and simple. We give two types of gifts at Christmas time. There are those gifts we give to make sure we meet some standard that has been set. We need to make sure our gift ...

1123. Mind Your Manners

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... when you feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the blind, and the lame, and you will be blessed, because they can't repay you." Does it surprise you that Jesus took the time to talk about table manners? With all the other pressing concerns in the world -- war and peace, justice and inequity, sexism, materialism -- talk of meals and manners seems trivial. On the contrary, meals are of great significance in the gospels, particularly the Gospel of Luke. For Israel believed that when Messiah came, Messiah would ...

1124. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... s darkened study with the door slightly ajar so he could hear what was going on. The President said that he always found that listening to people talking to God was a greater source of strength than listening to people talking about God.[13] Concerning his own profession of faith Lincoln said, “I cannot without mental reservations assent to long and complicated creeds and catechisms. If a church would ask simply for assent to the Savior’s statement of the substance of the law: `Thou shalt love the Lord ...

1125.

Psalm 73:1-28

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... takes a decidedly different tone and engages in a moral evaluation. This is spelled out not so much in terms of their abuse of victims but in terms of the wicked themselves and of their attitudes toward God. Their tyrannical arrogance is illustrated with imagery concerning their clothing (v. 6), their hearts and minds (v. 7), and their mouths (vv. 8–9). Because the conceits of their minds know no limits (as illustrated in the spatial image of heaven and the earth in v. 9) they are cavalier about God: They ...

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