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1126. A Goodly Heritage

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... d eat lunch behind tree…at recess I hid in weeds because kids called me names and tried to guess who my father was…My life was absolutely unbearable, and I saw no hope. I started going to church back in mountains, the preacher there wore split tail coat, had long beard, craggy face and deep booming voice. But I like him. I really didn’t think I was supposed to go to church being the kind of boy I was from names called. So, I wouldn’t go to anything but preaching — go in just before the sermon and ...

1127. Sons of God

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... that we might be justified by faith. Now that faith has come, we are no longer under the supervision of the law.” Paul is saying to the Galatians that both he and they were once prisoners, he and they were once slaves. He and they once looked longingly across a river, yearning for freedom. He and the Galatians were once imprisoned by the law. Paul writes, “Before this faith came, we were held prisoners by the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.” Now it is important for us to see that there ...

1128. Should America Repent?

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... , they have no place to go except to wallow in their guilt." Oh, what relief it is to know we can repent. Did you mess up this week? Did you miss the mark? Did you fail to do something you should have done? Did you do something, that in the long run, you regretted and you are sorry about? You have come to the right place. This is where these things get dealt with, even in the middle of December. III. REPENTANCE, WHEN IS IT NECESSARY? Should America repent? While I do not support a theology that makes God a ...

1129. When It's Time To Unite

I Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... as a body. Come to the table. Sometimes I wonder, did Jesus have any idea when He lifted the bread and broke it at that table so long ago how broken His body would eventually become? Did he have any idea? If somehow we are to become one body under one Lord, a lot of ... ," we said then. Bishop Talbert, who celebrated Communion in this sanctuary on Christmas Eve, said, “It is only a start and we have a long, long way to go, but it's a start and we need to start more things like that all of the time." I think we ...

1130. Praying Our Way Forward

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... 5th, when it comes time to write it down, we will write down a thirty-thousand dollar pledge to this campaign, because we believe in it deeply. While God and God alone should guide all of our personal decisions, I do ask as your pastor and friend to take a long look before you leap. What dreams can you still fulfill for the glory of God? What more could you do for the good of others? Is there a hobby you can explore, a business you can start, a book you can write, a job you can take, that might make ...

1131. Finding Answers to Family Feuds

Genesis 25: 21-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... will be glory. To live below with those we know, Well, that’s another story. Family feuds. I would like to chat with you a few moments about that today. According to a survey done by Randy Carlson about eight years ago, 91% of American adults long to improve their relationships with their adult siblings. The pains of family life continue to haunt us, often for an entire lifetime. One of the most compelling stories of the Bible is the struggle between two brothers by the names of Esau and Jacob. These sons ...

1132. The Constant God in a Changing World

Psalm 48:1, 9-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... The Bible is right. There is a basic law of morality that is as fundamental as the law of gravity. As E. Stanley Jones said a long time ago, “We do not break the laws of God, we only get broken upon them again, and again, and again." “Righteousness exalts a nation, ... prayer in my office. I have had it for many years. I keep it to remind me of something Abraham Lincoln said a long time ago. “I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My wisdom ...

1133. Let the Living Begin

John 10:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Goldberg, “is to not fall in bed with the first wolf you meet.” John Elderidge says, “The story of your life is the story of a long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.” “The thief comes to steal, to kill, and ... , the lame to walk, the deaf to hear, and raised the dead to life, wants us to live, not merely survive. The life we long for and truly desire is new life in Christ. Christ, Himself, is the door to life. There were two kinds of sheep pens in ...

1134. Checking Out the Scene

John 1:35-42

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... is? You don’t want to study Christology; you want to meet Christ. You don’t need to search for the historical Jesus; you would like to experience the risen Christ. You are not hungry for religion, but you are hungry for a relationship of a divine kind. What we long for is a life that really matters, a faith that will not shrink, a hope that will not fail, a legacy that thieves cannot steal, and an eternity that will call from us the best that is in us. That’s what we are really looking for. And so the ...

1135. Does Christmas Make Any Difference?

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... really make any difference? If Christmas is simply Frosty the Snowman in a winter wonderland, some of us might rather join Kenny Chesney longing for a deep, dark tan with our feet in the sand. If Christmas is simply business, then most of us could use ... can, by all the means you can, In all the ways you can, in all the places you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can. Does Christmas make any difference? It will if we remember the reason for the season. It’s Christmas, Christ our Savior is ...

1136. Lost and Found

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of relativity it slipped away and I just couldn’t find it.” She didn’t buy it. It is forever a pain to me that as long as I stand in the pulpit, certain persons will not sit in the pew. Somebody got sick and I didn’t show. Somebody got a divorce ... used to usher and my wife used to sing in the choir, but when we made the move to the new sanctuary (which tells you how long he has been gone) we got lost in the shuffle. We felt shut out by our Sunday school class and we slowly just quit coming. I started ...

1137. News Too Good To Tell

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... God, “You have no one to please but me; let my ways be your ways and my thoughts, your thoughts.” I will never forget it as long as I live. After about two hours of being in that chapel alone, I walked out of there with a new understanding of ministry that has ... His voice and let Him speak. Eric Reed says, “We turned off the T.V. for Lent. I loved television. My wife had long surrendered the remote to me. Everybody knows I love my shows and I was going to miss March Madness. Nevertheless, we closed the ...

1138. The Door of Forgiveness

1 Timothy 2:1-15

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... up. Jim says, “When I answered the phone and one of my boys said, 'Dad, we have a problem,' I knew I was in for a long night."' The Bible says we have a problem. The problem is sin. The disease is deadly. If we want to live we must find a remedy ... , but it takes only one to forgive. Wouldn't you like to be set free from the weight of wrong that you have carried so long? Resentment is when you let your hurt become hate. Resentment is when you allow what is eating you to eat you. Resentment is when you ...

1139. The Power of a Vision

2 Corinthians 5:11-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... now it’s here.’ It’s like being at your own place where the bed fits, the food is good, the people are helpful. You’re back where you belong, becoming what you were made to be. It’s coming to our best selves. It’s realizing our deepest longings. In the third place transformation is facilitating our deepest healing. Some of us are so used to deep pain that it has become part of the air we breathe. It doesn’t have to be that way. If you are full of fear, worry, anxiety, — a time for healing ...

1140. In Prayer’s Way

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... air or for the peace of stillness - we are the answer to prayer. That is why whether the answer to prayer is a purpose and a project or for the fullness of fallow time - we are the answer to prayer. We can always be “the answer to prayer” as long as we realize the real “prayer” we are answering is Jesus’ call for “laborers to bring in the harvest.” We are answers to prayer whenever we are working to reveal to the world that “the kingdom of God has come close.” We are not called to “build ...

1141. Honoring God in a Pluralistic Society

Matthew 22:37-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . “How can you do that?" inquired the Dad. “Nobody knows what God looks like?" Then with a smile on her face the girl said, “They will know when I finish my picture!" In a pluralistic society driven by uncertainty and relativity there are times when I long for the confidence of that little girl. Today I want to begin a series of sermons on “The Quest for Christian Values." Over the last 40 years America has been involved in a cultural conflict. It started in the 1960's with the rise of secularism ...

1142. The King on a Donkey

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... need of us. And what He is calling for now is some of our financial resources. Jerry and I talked and prayed a long time about this. We struggled alone and we struggled together in making our decision about how we would respond to Jesus’ particular call ... is. Jerry and I have $12,000 in a savings account. This is our emergency fund. Well, we haven’t had a big emergency in a long time, so we decided we would take $6,000 of that and give it to the building fund. We could pledge $6,000. But as we ...

1143. Unwanted Freedom

John 8:31-36

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... widow, or how much the MacAlileys' new house had cost, and whether Mr. Jones would soon be going out of business or not. People were shocked when a new member complained that Agnes Hayes was a gossip. No one would think of criticizing Agnes! And sure enough, not long after this, it was discovered that this new member had had reason to be concerned. Did you know that she had recently left a husband who had abused her for years and had come to town to start a new life? Agnes knew and soon everyone knew. If ...

1144. Are We There Yet?

Acts 1:6-14

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... image of overeager ten-year-olds bouncing up and down as they fire off the question. In his answer, Jesus was preparing his followers for a long journey. "It is not for you to know the time," says Jesus. "You just need to get busy and be my witnesses." The "time" that the ... not ours to know the time. And yes, we hear the voices saying that he will return the way he came, but candidly, it's been a long time now, hasn't it? I may be going out on a limb here, but I want to make a suggestion. Could it be that 2, ...

1145. A Blessing in Disguise

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... the River Jabbok, and then he stays behind, alone, through the night. As it turns out, he is not alone for long. Someone — some man, some at-first unidentified personage whom we later discover is the Lord or the angel of the Lord — appears ... what we need to answer. He asks Jacob, "Who are you? What is your name?" We human beings are torn creatures, at this point, you know. We long, on the one hand, to tell who and what we really are, while at the same time we are so desperate to hide it. The hostess ...

1146. Endless Line of Blunder

Exodus 1:8

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... look as Assyria was bearing down on it? Jerusalem figured to be just one more notch in Sennacherib's cruel belt. Yet to this day, Jerusalem and her inhabitants still stand. For centuries, most of what we knew about the once mighty (and long gone) Assyrians was the record of them preserved in the books of those seemingly feeble people whom they sought to conquer. How puny and vulnerable did those early disciples look when the local potentate, Herod, beheaded John the Baptist, killed James, and imprisoned ...

1147. The Proof Is in the Pudding

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... 's faithfulness. How shall we determine whether the Lord is among us or not? How does one measure or judge or prove such a thing? For the Israelites, it was a matter of hunger and thirst — whether their needs were met. The proof was in the pudding. For as long as their tummies were full, they were willing to trust and obey. But when the provisions of food or drink were interrupted, it called into question the very presence of God. It is a vain, self-o-centric way of doing theology and faith. But it is not ...

1148. Living on the Edge

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... the mountain for what would be the last time, he must have felt a clear sense that his life was not lived in vain. All of his struggles had been worth it as he sought to communicate once again with God on the mountain. He could look back over his long life and realize that God had a plan for him and more importantly, that God was with him every step of the way. What was going through Moses' mind as he neared the promised land? Like a movie flashback, did he remember the time many years before when God first ...

1149. Forward March

Joshua 3:1-17

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... should have stayed where they were and not have accepted the new position. The people of old might have felt that way as they prepared to step over the threshold to a new beginning. The Israelites were about to occupy the land after a long, hard journey filled with anticipation, unsure of what would happen to them once they settled in and did not have to live out of their suitcases any longer. It would certainly be a new experience for them. Understandably the people experienced some dread and apprehension ...

1150. Not All of This Is Me

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... of wheat and barley, of vines and fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees and honey...." Earlier, Moses had disobeyed God and was told he would see the promised land but not enter it. On this occasion, Moses was reminding the people of their long journey and all that they learned along the way. He contrasted the barren wilderness where they had just spent forty years with where they were going, "A land where you may eat bread without scarcity, where you will lack nothing." Not only would there be ...

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