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1101. What a Difference a Day Makes

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... alcohol or something worse, and suddenly he begins to live and stand up, throw back his head, have a job, be glad to be alive, if you mean that, I''ve seen him. I have met that life. In fact, I think if it weren't for him, I''d give up. For the darkness of life is deep and powerful. I cannot face it alone. I can face it because I know that in him is life; and that life is the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never yet been able to ...

1102. The Road Less Traveled

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... terrible day on the golf course. On the last hole, he actually went into a tantrum, cursing and beating the ground with his club. Finally recovering himself, he looked woefully at the caddy, and muttered, “I guess I’ll have to give it up.” “Give up golf?” asked the caddy. “No, not golf,” he said sorrowfully, “the ministry.” Someone has said, if you want to know how difficult it is to drive a hard bargain, just buy a cheap second-hand car. However superficial, all that makes the point, Life ...

1103. Suffering Servant Song

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... to translate that into our life, our God-given task as the church would be truly to be the church, so dedicated to the service of God that we would be willing to die in order to carry out God's will. We would be willing to give up everything -- our money, our building, our programs, our reputation -- if such sacrifice would further God's purpose of saving all peoples. There have been Christians who have done that -- Kagawa of Japan who gave his eyesight and finally his life to live among the poor of Japan ...

1104. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s happening in Africa; 20,000 people pray to receive Christ every day. In Iran – listen to this – in Iran, more Muslims have come to know Christ since 1980 in Iran than in the previous 1,000 years in that nation. We must not give up on the Muslim world. God is bringing revival. These revival fires are burning where people are willing to repent, humble themselves and pray, and seek God’s face. These revival fires are burning where people take seriously their call to witness – to answer the question ...

1105. Proper 8

Genesis 22:1-19, 2 Kings 4:8-37, Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... it? In Abraham's case, the most precious possession was his only natural son, Isaac, whom he loved and through whom God promised to bless Abraham as a nation as large as the sands on the shore. Not everyone today feels this way about their child. Parents can give up a child for adoption, abandon it, abuse it, kill it, or rent and sell it for immoral purposes. If it is not your own child, what is most precious to you? Do you have enough faith to sacrifice it in obedience to God? It is a soul-searching sermon ...

1106. Those Romans 7 Moments

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... we harbor is nothing less than a strand of divine DNA. We are God’s “own.” Despite the fracturing power of sin that has separated us from God’s purpose, despite one Romans 7 moment after another, God did not abandon us. God did not give up on us. Instead God prepared a way for healing and wholeness to become available to us—-a kind of gene unzipping and repair, some recombinant divine engineering, that would not only forgive, but also “break the power of cancelled sin and set the prisoner free ...

1107. Onward Christian Hell-busters

Matthew 10:40-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... headquarters for the worship of Pan, to found his church (this is the first time the word ekklesia is used in the gospels) and to give them the keys to the kingdom. One of the greatest athletes of the 19th century, cricketeer C. T. Studd, decided to give up his athletic career and his inherited fortune to spend his life on the mission field. To his friends and his family, who could not understand why he gave up "the world" for a life on the mission fields of India, China and Africa, he wrote this little ...

1108. Be Reconciled — To Christ and Others

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... all sinners and, therefore, in need of the reconciliation that Christ offers to us. Reconciliation is an active process which must actually start within our own person. The first element is passive but absolutely essential to the process. We need to believe that God never gives up on us. The story in Luke's Gospel (13:6-9) about the barren fig tree demonstrates God's ever-present love. The tree representing Israel has not been fruitful. The owner wants it cut down but the vinedresser says to give it another ...

1109. Follow Your Questions (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 20:24-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... on the Cross as he wondered why his Father had forsaken him. Fidelity faith is expressed in the words of Paul when he asks the Lord three times to remove his thorn in the flesh. Fidelity faith is found in fellow strugglers who never give up, who never give up, who never give up when they can find no good reason to carry on. So, who has greater faith? Those who experience a miracle and live to tell about it? Or those who never experience a miracle or any other favors from God, but keep on believing anyway ...

1110. On the Road with the Rich Young Ruler

Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... about money, position, or glory, but then someday you will meet a person who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.” Sometimes we look at this story and emphasize the cost of discipleship, i.e., what we have to give up to follow Christ. But if you look at this closely… you will see that Jesus is not talking about the cost of discipleship here but the riches of discipleship and He is saying: Discipleship is better than dollars! It’s the top priority, the most important ...

1111. Sacrifice: What It Is Worth

Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52

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Leonard Mann

... this so we may have that. We do this in our marriages; we do this in our occupational choices; we do this in the matter of having children; we do it at almost every juncture of the journey we make. In most of our choices we are actually giving up certain freedoms that we may have for certain others. Whatever scenic road we take, we take it at the price of denying ourselves the scenery along the other roads we might have taken. We like to believe that what we are getting is worth the sacrifice we are ...

1112. Out of Control

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Kristin Borsgard Wee

... when he said that miracles do not cause us to believe so much as believing brings forth miracles.2 When we believe, we begin to find God in things as ordinary as each other and the world around us. That's possible even when things are bad. When we give up the illusion of control then we can better see God's out-of-control grace. Thornton Wilder wrote a play titled Our Town. When Emily Webb comes back from the dead to the town of her childhood, she finds all her long-dead acquaintances alive and her mother ...

1113. Welcome to the Center of Life

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

... have been given what we need: spiritual blessings. Does that mean that we can change the world? We don't know that, but we do know that God has given us the power to be witnesses. Did Rosa Parks think that she would change the world when she wouldn't give up her seat on the bus? I doubt it, but she was empowered to be a witness for God, for God's call to justice. Ephesians is inviting us to step into the center of life. The motivation for this invitation is not our hard work or our potential or any ...

1114. God Is the Hound of Heaven

Jeremiah 31:7-14

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... unturned in a diligent search to help others, especially those for whom we have responsibility in this world. Parents must seek out their children, especially those who may have gone astray or been problematic. God never gave up on us and thus we cannot give up on others. Siblings must seek each other as well. Rivalries in families and past hurts often place people in estranged positions. We must do whatever is necessary to find the brother or sister whom we have lost. Old friends as well must seek each ...

1115. When The Fruit Is Spoiled

Amos 8:1-12

Sermon

Stephen P. McCutchan

... Israel, I will never again pass them by" (v. 2b). Amos' message was an angry message and hard to hear. Yet he was angry because he feared for the soul of Israel. He was fearful that God was going to reach the limits of divine patience and give up on the people. Despite the fact that people were actively participating in acts of worship, Amos believed that they were turning their backs on God. If Amos was to parallel his message to us today, he would be focusing on how our materialistic culture is driving ...

1116. Je Suis Jesus

1 Corinthians 7:1-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , the nicely maintained roads approaching Rome. But the ending of injustice that Spartacus championed still echoes through our spirits today. A famous scene from the movie showcases the slaves and followers of Spartacus being grilled by the Romans to “give up” their leader. Instead, the slaves boldly identify themselves with their renegade leader, and as they are questioned they each claim, “I am Spartacus!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKCmyiljKo0 About the same time as the movie Martin Luther ...

1117. Job’s Hope against Hope

Job 19:1-29

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

... note as Yahweh speaks to Job in chapters 38–41 and then restores him to a place of blessing in chapter 42. At this point in the story, however, Job is nearly consumed by a feeling of hopelessness. Wherever he looks, he finds ample reasons for giving up. Most people in this kind of traumatic situation would abandon all hope, but even when all seems hopeless Job maintains a ray of hope that sustains him. Although a careful analysis of Job 19 in its context does not support reading it as a reference to ...

1118. Zophar

Job 11:1-20

Understanding Series

Gerald H. Wilson

... repent and be restored. Instead, this proverb cautions Job not to push the limits of divine patience lest he find himself to have departed finally from the path of wisdom and redemption. 11:13–14 From warning to hope, Zophar now exhorts Job to give up his resistance, to acknowledge his sin, and to accept the ready forgiveness of God. The first step is to devote his heart to God, which involves both preparation and firm commitment. Again, since the “heart” is the center of moral reflection and decision ...

1119. Where's the Magic?

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... man replied. “But why the loaf of bread?” the policeman asked. “The way the trains run here,” the man answered, “you could starve to death while waiting for one.” (5) We all get discouraged at some time in our lives. No one is exempt. But that doesn’t mean we give up. There is always a way out if we allow God’s Spirit to guide us. Faith is a commitment of all we are and hope to be to God. Faith is an assurance that the God who created us is with us in every battle we may face. Faith is ...

1120. The Real "Lord's Prayer"

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... woman confessed, “I prayed for her every day for almost 20 years. The reason I’m crying is because I came this close to giving up on her.” After 15 years of praying daily for her mother, the woman asked herself, “Why am I wasting my breath?” At the 19-year mark, she considered giving up. The woman admitted that her faith was weak, that she wanted to give up on her mother meeting Christ and making a commitment to him. But after 20 years of daily prayers—unanswered prayers that mocked the woman ...

1121. Wherever The Messiah Is

Matthew 16:13-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... obvious. Otherwise it will not make any sense to those with any power or privilege. In the recurring moments through history when the church has been intoxicated with its own sense of power or privilege, it doesn’t understand – much less follow – the Christ who gives up everything for the life of the world. For this is the truth at the heart of it all: once we used to say, “When the Messiah comes, there will be no more misery,” but now we affirm, “wherever there is misery, there is the Messiah ...

1122. Even Our Business Belongs to God!

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... thousands of those who are called good Christians do not understand the question. If you act in the spirit of Christ, you carry the end you at first proposed through all your work from the first to last. You do everything in the spirit of sacrifice, giving up your will to the will of God; and continually aiming, not at ease, pleasure, or riches, not of anything “this short-enduring world can give,” but merely at the glory of God. Now, can any one deny, that this is the most excellent way of pursuing ...

1123. Ready Or Not

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... but also in all kinds of ways. `How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given.' Or as another hymn writer says, `He speaks to me everywhere.' He comes to the world through ordinary people like you and me and in ordinary ways. Luther said, `Let no one give up the faith that God wants to do a deed through him.' God did a deed through a human being like us “Mary from Nazareth. He will do a deed through you and me “a Lucy or George or Becki or Eric “an ordinary or extraordinary person like us ...

1124. Proper 22

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 21:33-46, Philippians 3:1-11, Psalm 19:1-14

Sermon Aid

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

... prepared a gratifying and bountiful setting and then entrusted it to human beings. In turn, God maintained relations with the humans, though they consistently refused God's biddings and even rejected God's demands with violence. Yet God did not give up. God continued to send forth authorized representatives despite the opposition and hostility of the humans. Finally, God sent his son with the expectation that humankind would recognize the rightful authority of God in the presence and person of God's ...

1125. The Kingdom for Which We Long

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... come until our kingdom goes. Somewhere down in the depths of our hearts this morning, every person sitting in this room will make a decision. Will I go out to build my own kingdom or will I go out to embrace the kingdom of God? What do you need to give up, let go of, turn loose, surrender, in order to experience the fullness of God in your soul? C. The kingdom of God is Partial. I know, I just said a few moments ago that it is here and now. But I need to also tell you that it is out ...

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