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1126. Good News For Good Parents

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

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... , leading him to conclude that he is ugly or incredibly stupid or that he has already proved himself to be a hopeless failure in life.” The famous Psychiatrist Dr. Alfred Adler had an experience when a young boy which illustrates just how powerful such a belief can be upon behavior and ability. He got off to a bad start in arithmetic and his teacher became convinced that he was “dumb in mathematics.” The teacher then advised the parents of this “fact” and told them not to expect too much of him ...

1127. A Risky Lifestyle

Matthew 25:14-30

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Bill Bouknight

... dares to believe that the Bible is trustworthy, that Jesus' death on the cross was a substitutionary atonement for the sins of all believers, and that the only way a person can be saved is through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. That such beliefs could be controversial within the church is testimony to how far the church has drifted from its ancient moorings. But in a denomination that has long regarded tolerance as the ultimate virtue, it's risky to be in the Confessing Movement. Some call it ...

1128. The New Birth

John 3:1-21

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Bill Bouknight

... of being a born again Christian. I'll never forget the great feeling and peace of mind. The sermon of that day put God's arrow through my heart." But you see, that sermon did not cause his new birth. Nor was it caused by his repentance and belief in Christ, though those factors placed him where God could reach him. God alone caused new birth in my friend. New birth is a recurring theme of scripture. Peter in his epistle speaks of "being born again not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible." (I Peter 1 ...

1129. A Large Fish Story

Jonah 1:1-17, Jonah 3:1-10

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Bill Bouknight

... Christian should always have at least one such project going. When I was a 19-year-old college student, the Lord was pushing me toward the ordained ministry. But I had my eye on the legal profession, figuring that my earning potential would be greater there. In that belief I was absolutely correct. I did promise the Lord this much. If a chance came along to try my hand at the ordained ministry in a very provisional, non-committal way, I would do it. How risky it is to make promises to God! Within a matter ...

1130. Friction Points

John 17:6-19

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Bill Bouknight

... , but also it has to do with our values and lifestyle. We Christians have values that differ from the majority. Most of us believe that human life from conception to natural death is sacred and worthy of protection. But large numbers of Americans disagree. Their belief is that human life begins and ends when certain individuals or groups decide it does, and is valuable only as long as it is wanted. Most Christians believe that marriage is a God-ordained lifelong union between a man and a woman. But lots of ...

1131. Who Do You Say I Am?

Matthew 16:13-20

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Brett Blair

... of Elijah, we must remember that when our Lord was transfigured, two men from the past came back from the grave to speak to him——Moses and Elijah. But there was yet another reason why people thought that Jesus was Elijah? It was a commonly held belief among the Hebrews that one day Elijah would return and that that would mark the end of the world. In the very last passage in the Old Testament, the book of Malachi contains these words: “Behold I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great ...

1132. A Cosmic Announcement

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Susan Hedahl

... to fulfill the needs and hopes of more than a particular group of people. For some that was a difficult fact to accept. Yet, God has no special interest groups. It is a unique peculiarity of human beings to assume that their cause, their beliefs, their worthiness and hard work set them apart from others. From a human perspective, perhaps so. From God’s perspective all of humanity is perceived in its equality - broken, alienated, in need of a healing word of communication and love. But where is such ...

1133. The Outcome of Easter Faith

Isaiah 25:1-12

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Donald Macleod

... , saying: "There was nothing in it to make us feel uneasy." And this is the tragic weakness of so much of our Easter worship. It is merely a matter of giving assent to the fact of one risen from the dead, but it is not a matter of real belief. It is perilously easy to come to church once a year in such numbers as crowd our sanctuaries on this day and to sing with superficial enthusiasm, "Now above the sky he’s King!" But if our Christian faith were vital and real, we should be frantically impatient until ...

1134. Beyond Ambiguity

Isaiah 42:1-9

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Larry Powell

In the 1500s, there lived a "prophet" named Nostradamus who upheld the Copernican theory that the world is round and circles the sun more than one hundred years before Galileo was prosecuted for the same belief. He was also widely known as a healer, a dabbler in the occult, and predictor of events far into the future. A present day book, The Prophecies of Nostradamus, purports to show that he predicted such specific events as the assassination of John F. Kennnedy, Hitler’s rise to power, ...

1135. Song of a Poet Laureate

Psalm 2:1-12

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... the new ruler as a son (Psalm 2:7; cf. 2 Samuel 7:14). Accordingly, he was God’s direct representative; and any actions taken against him were actions against the Lord. Thus, patriot that he is, the psalmist is only expressing Israel’s hopes and beliefs as he attempts to hearten the new monarch in uncertain times. A Faith Against the World Without so much as a word of introduction the psalmist opens his poem with a question charged with perplexed indignation - although he has surely seen the like of the ...

1136. Song of a Philosopher

Psalm 139:1-24

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... himself with the Almighty. It is not that the psalmist is primarily concerned about his own feelings. To be sure, his neighbors’ evil ways are making matters uncomfortable for him; but that - difficult as it may be to take - he will endure as the price of belief. It is rather that God’s honor is at stake, and the singer cannot remain silent. For the desecration of the Lord’s name must be avenged. So he petitions the Almighty to "slay the wicked ... who lift themselves up against thee" (Psalm 139:19a ...

1137. In The Beginning

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Robert Allen

... ! Why the phrase nauseates me. God doesn’t know where we are and wouldn’t care if He did. There are times in our lives when we wonder the same things. In spite of the hymns of faith that we sing ... in spite of the creeds we repeat affirming our belief in God ... in spite of the prayers we send up to the heavens ... there are times when God just doesn’t seem to be around. One of the popes of the Catholic church, Pope Julian, knew this feeling when he said: "When I pray, God seems to be deaf." I ...

1138. The Easter Event - After The Resurrection

Matthew 28:1-10

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Robert Allen

... On that first Easter, each one of those followers experienced the presence of the risen Lord. Suddenly, they knew that he was there. Suddenly, they knew that he cared. Suddenly, they knew that he was alive. Suddenly, they knew that they were not alone anymore, and their belief turned to faith. You may have been trying to make it on your own in life and yet been filled with loneliness. You may be filled with despair. You may feel like things are dark and bleak. But, if you will simply open the eyes of faith ...

1139. Five Minutes After Death

Revelation 21:1-27

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Robert Allen

... not separate us from God’s presence. Death simply makes his presence more real to us! I believe that five minutes after death, we will be in the presence of God. We will be resting in the bosom of Jesus. If you have committed your life to Jesus Christ, this belief ... this hope ... can be yours.

1140. We Know Jonah

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... the attitudes of exclusivity and hatred of non-Jews was widespread enough to provoke some brave anonymous literary prophet to write a wonderful bit of allegorical fiction as a protest. It is a literary gem of a short story which masterfully satirizes many prevalent beliefs and attitudes of the time in the person of a man named Jonah. The story depicts the redemptive God in action, and at the same time underlines the concept of the universality of God. By the time of Jesus, Jonah was widely circulated, and ...

1141. The Scandal Of Redeeming Love

Hosea 2:2-23

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Frederick C. Edwards

... on our own day is that we continue to build more walls of separation than bridges of acceptance. Like those Pharisees even good church people can come to believe they have a corner on truth and goodness, and that others, by reason of belief, or race, or sexual orientation, or a host of other reasons, are somehow less worthy and less acceptable in the community of faith. In every age, even good people are blinded by their own self-righteousness and deafened by their own self-protectiveness. Jesus ...

1142. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

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Frederick C. Edwards

... . In the vision they saw Jesus talking with Moses, the law-giver, and Elijah, the prophet. Clearly Mark is telling us this vision has messianic significance, the symbolism of which would not be lost upon the disciples, nor upon the Christians of the Markan tradition whose belief about Jesus it represented. The vision is to attest to who Jesus is - the Messiah, the Christ. In Matthew’s and Luke’s accounts Peter says to Jesus, "it is good for us to be here," seeming to imply that it would also be good to ...

1143. We Do Not Have To Stay The Way We Are!

Joel 2:1-11

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Durwood L. Buchheim

... come to mind when we think about God? Do we take the time to think about God? Do we believe there is a God? Are we more confident this year than last, that there is a God who knows and is concerned about us? Does our belief in God make any difference in our lifestyles? Amid the many, busy and distracting events of our lives, the quiet hours of Lenten worship are certainly needed. It is a needed time for solitude, for reflection and meditation as we journey through our particular wilderness to Easter ...

1144. The Ten Commandments - Part 2

Exodus 20:1-21

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Brett Blair

... we can be recreated and re-motivated. We need a day, as the old Africa expression goes, when our spirits can catch up with our bodies. Rest. Rest you bodies and rest your minds. Worship and rest. In all fairness, we need to be consistent with our personal beliefs on this one. We cannot rail on about the mall being open on Sunday, and then go shop at the mall. We cannot abhor the eating-places doing business, and then rush to the cafeteria as soon as church is over. If you believe that it is morally wrong ...

1145. The Ten Commandments - Part 3

Exodus 20:1-21

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Brett Blair

... problems in our society today is that life on the streets has become cheap. First, there is the issue of abortion. The United Methodist Church recognizes that there are, regrettably, some instances in which abortion is justified. Specifically the discipline reads: Our belief in the sanctity of unborn human life makes us reluctant to approve abortion. But we are equally bound to respect the sacredness of the life and the well being of the mother, for whom devastating damage may result from an unacceptable ...

1146. Jesus Christ, the Truth

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... him to Rome. Let them deal with this. If my dream is correct, this man is too dangerous for you to deal with. If he is the Messiah ... please let him go. Pilate: Ruth, can you tell me about this Messiah business? Ruth: My Lord, there is an age-old belief that one day God would restore the world to the condition it was just after creation. It would be a world where there was no more war, no more injustice, no more poverty, no more hatred. Men would lay down their weapons and live as brothers. The lion and ...

1147. Stewards and Our Bodies

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... sexuality on every side: prostitution, media advertising, pornography, child abuse, filthy jokes, and language. These are all distortions of God’s good gift. In our homes and in our churches with our children, we need to help sort out the right and wrong of society’s beliefs about sex. We need to base all we say and do on biblical principles and to conduct our own relationship with our spouse as a model of Christian conduct. It is true that some kind of sex education happens whether we want it to or not ...

1148. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

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Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... think how this kind of planning ahead by some of our members now touches so many through our ministry. Giving to and remembering our church in our wills is a way we can still be present with the alive saints here and be of help. It’s consistent with our belief in the fellowship of the saints. So we see that we can be good stewards of life even after our death, while we live and struggle here with illness and death, and at conception and the birth of new life. Buddy Hackett’s bad news and very bad news ...

1149. Resurrection: From Brokenness to Wholeness

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... Jahmai’s shoulder, turned more to the crowds and spoke now in their direction. His words taught that life is more than body, more than clothing, more than numbers of years. Life, as God has given life, can be rich by strengths of faith that grow from belief in a caring Heavenly Father. Some things are not possible in God’s world, but so much more is possible. In the care of God, what might be hindrance can, instead, be means of learning, means of growth, means of resurrection to something new. God keeps ...

1150. A Man Who Laughed at God

Genesis 17:1-27

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R. Blaine Detrick

... in which he lived. The name, Abraham, literally means "father of many nations" or "father of a multitude." And today this outstanding person is revered by followers of the three great monotheistic religions of the world - by practically everybody who professes a belief in one supreme god. Christianity, Judaism, and Islam (Mohammedanism) all trace their roots back to the same man - Abraham. By no means was he perfect, As we follow his pathway, we see his faults and are forced to acknowledge his weaknesses ...

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