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1126. Blind Ambition

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... one of them will be at his right hand and which one at his left hand? I tell you, it must have been quiet at the table for the longest time after Jesus asked, "What were you talking about?" Nobody said anything. Then Jesus broke the silence. He said, "Whoever wants to be first, must be last and the servant of all." That is our text. I learned a long time ago that not everybody is going to hear that text the way it is supposed to be heard. Several years ago I was on a panel discussing Liberation Theology. I ...

1127. Lord of the Dance

Mark 2:13-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... dance in their worship, so it is an appropriate setting. I also chose it because it was requested that we sing it. I had not selected it for a long time, because the last time I did, it was requested that we never sing that hymn again. But I just want you to know that I pay attention to your requests. I don't always follow them, but I always pay attention to them. If a hymn fits the theme of the morning, then I will probably use it. And this hymn fits the gospel lesson for this morning, particularly the ...

1128. Uses of the Past

Philippians 3:4b-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... by what he is going through. It must be on his mind that he is approaching the end of his life, because he writes, "I want to know Christ now and the power of his resurrection." That's what he is focused on now, the hope of resurrection. It is as ... guide through all the stages of life. He follows Jesus now into the last stage of life, to face his death. He writes, "I want to know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and the sharing of his sufferings, by becoming like him in his death, if somehow ...

1129. Faith's Curious Dynamic

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... t be able to pursue every whim or opportunity that comes along. * Imagine what it is like to be one of those people waiting for a heart transplant. On the one hand, you are hoping for a heart to become available, but on the other hand you don't want someone to have to die so that you can get a heart. * Or how about the fact that Christians have been identified as those waiting expectantly for the Second Coming of Christ, but actually hoping that it doesn't happen in their lifetime. * Or consider that of all ...

1130. The Great I Am

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... declares that God's name is, "I am who I am. Thus you shall say to the Israelites, 'I am' has sent me to you." When Moses wants clarity about God's identity, all he gets is this: "I am who I am." Or in other translations: "I shall be who I shall be." A ... gives us a hunger for more. That touch gave the hemorrhaging woman a hunger for more; and that touch gave Moses the hunger for more: "I want to see your face, God." But God said, "No! You're not ready. You can't see it and live . . . when you see it, you cross ...

1131. An Uncomfortable Comforter

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... this on the screen so that people can read her original spellings, it would be great; even better have a first grader copy her essay so that they could see original first-grader handwriting with first-grader spellings.] "I would like to visit heven. It is a wonderful place. I want to go there because Sidney is there and because Jesus lives there. I asked Jesus into my heart so I will go to heven. I will live an eturenle life with Him. I will get to be with Sidney and play with her. I will get to meet all ...

1132. Eleven Plus One

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... angry temper flared out at the Samaritans who wouldn't accept Jesus and was rebuked when he asked his Master to call down fire from heaven upon their heads. James died young at the hands of Herod. James is one who knows what he wants (or at least thinks he knows what he wants), a man who resists the efforts of others to steer him toward something else. James would have been drawn to a fast, flashy, classy car. As Caldwell puts it, "You can hear the two 'Sons of Thunder' revving up their motors as they race ...

1133. Life's Four Big 'Ds' and One Bigger 'D'

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... more depressed? In fact, it seems as if the better things get, the worse we feel. The Four Big "D's" of Life: 1. doubt, 2. despair, 3. depression, 4. disappointment, . . . seem to be getting bigger and bigger. Despite all the stuff we have, we still want more. Thanks to the eternally roving eye of television, we see every day lifestyles that far outstrip our own, gizmos and gadgets we'll never own, worlds of possibility we had never imagined. With so much more so near at hand, we long for more, we desire ...

1134. A Case for Living Together

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 't get that drugs and drinking and driving lead to death. We don't get our high cancer and heart attack rates because we don't want to face the fact that we eat our way to heart attacks and smoke and drink our way to cancer. We don't get the rejection ... all knowing God who will indeed ask us what we did to preserve his message of salvation. What will our answers be? "Well, they didn't want to hear the message" or " they wouldn't have shown up for the truth, but we had a rally!" or "I had the chance to talk ...

1135. Patience

James 5:7-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... people, aren’t we? If you don’t think so, take a little excursion to the mall. See how patient you think people are who are going about their shopping. We are a fast food society. A microwave society. A broadband Internet society. We want what we want and we want it now. We can’t imagine the children of Israel waiting patiently for hundreds of years for the coming of the Messiah. Forty-three times in the Old Testament alone, the people are commanded, “Wait. Wait on the Lord.” Now, in the New ...

1136. It Was for Us

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

James McCormick

... we are here. If God is love, and if love is not complete until it is expressed, that comes close to explaining it. God wanted to complete himself by creating us, and loving us, intending for us to respond to his love by loving him in return. But God, in ... , He set us free. Get that! We were created to live in a loving, trusting, obedient relationship with God. But so badly does God want our relationship with Him to be real, that as soon as He created us, He set us free to say “No” to that relationship. ...

1137. Two Worlds

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

James McCormick

... they have changed the skyline of a city like New York!” God offers us the privilege of changing the skyline not of a city, but of the world. We can help make this world more healthy, more humane, more harmonious, and more blessed. God made a good world. Now He wants us to help Him make it good again. We can do that. By God’s grace, we really can do that. If we can, surely we must. Prayer: God, our Father, we are grateful for the good world you have made and entrusted to our care. We ask Your forgiveness ...

1138. The Lost and Found Elder Brother

Luke 15:25-32

Sermon

James W. Moore

... is nothing “God-like” about it. Jesus knew that and that’s why He came teaching love and mercy and forgiveness and compassion. That’s why in this parable… and in his other teachings he showed us that God is loving and that He wants us to live in that spirit. He wants us to be loving like Him. First of all, the Elder Brother missed the party because he was resentful. II. SECOND, THE ELDER BROTHER MISSED THE PARTY BECAUSE HE WAS ENVIOUS. Envy is so deceptive and sneaky. It doesn’t seem so bad, but ...

1139. Turning Doubt Inside Out

Luke 23:39-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... hills of West Virginia. A census taker knocked on the door of his rundown shack. He came to the door and asked the man what he wanted. The census taker said: "The President has sent us out across the country to find out how many people live in the United States." The old ... the post office."[1] Well, I may not know my way to the post office, but I can tell you how to get to heaven. I want to help many of you turn your doubt inside out. But before I do, let me warn you of something. There are two types of ...

1140. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... teaching our children how to use a gun. How would you feel if your children were taught they could shoot a gun at anybody they wanted to as long as that person was wearing a bullet-proof vest? That is exactly what we are teaching our kids. What we are not ... wrong place, with the wrong person, at the wrong time. The first lesson to teach your children about sex is this: If you don't want to get burned stay out of the kitchen. You cannot get hooked on cocaine if you never use it. You cannot become an alcoholic ...

1141. The Agony of Defeat

2 Samuel 11-12, 1 Kings 15:5

Sermon

James Merritt

... he had an affair. Just recently he was discovered with a brain tumor and died. When I read the account of that man, I said to myself, just as surely as I am sitting here reading this, that man committed the sin unto death. I have said privately, and I want to say publicly, if I were to commit adultery and God did not kill me, I would be both disappointed and ashamed. Well, David did come clean. David did confess. He said in v.13, "I have sinned against the Lord." And God forgave David, but that is not the ...

1142. It's Not How You Start But How You Finish That Counts

Ephesians 4:1, 11-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the Savior, is found in vv. 15-16 where Christ is called the head, and the church is called the body. Now the body never wants to be free of the head, for without the head the body dies. The head is over the body to guide it, and the body is ... of the manifold grace of God." Get this next statement down plain and tack it into the bulletin board of your mind: God wants every member to become a minister. One of the most misunderstood words in the English language is the word "minister." People now use ...

1143. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... heaven. God not only forgives all of our sins, He forgives all of our sin. When you forgive someone you must forgive them fully. If you want to cure a cancer, you must remove all of the tumor, not part of the tumor. You know, too many times instead of fully forgiving ... me tell you what forgiveness does. It frees you to be all that you can be for God, and it frees God to do all He wants to do through you. Through the cross you cannot only be forgiven, you can be a forgiver. So let us remember that to err is ...

1144. The Danger of American Express

Exodus 20:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... in the abundance of the things he possesses.'" He then tells a parable about a rich man who had more money than he would ever spend, more house than he could ever live in, more food than he would ever eat, more clothes than he could ever wear. But he wanted more. Why? When you read verses 17-19, you'll see the personal pronoun "I" repeated six times, and the personal pronoun "my" repeated five times. This man's whole life could be summed up in two pronouns I and my. This was a man who lived for self and ...

1145. The Surety of Security

Jude 1:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

... everything he is about to say is true of us because of the calling of God. The word "calling" refers to an official summons. It originally referred to how someone would be summoned to fill an office, to assume a duty, or to take a position. The thing that Jude wants us to understand is that salvation begins with the call of God. Salvation does not begin with the sinner, it begins with the Savior. I, for one, am so glad that it does. The Bible says in Philippians 1:6 that "He who has begun a good work in you ...

1146. Don't Forget to Remember

Jude 1:5-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... fire of a pulpit that preaches Jesus; they experience the joy of a people who receive Jesus; then walk out the same way they walk in, rebelling against the will of God, which is to be saved. I am not trying to say that our church is heaven, but I want to tell you that you can taste heaven every time you come into this church. It is a double tragedy for people to taste heaven and then go to hell. What is the point that Jude raises here? If angels cannot get away with rebellion and apostasy, neither can we ...

1147. The One Habit of Highly Effective Christians

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... will be able to do them quickly and correctly. I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me. Show me exactly how you want something done, and after a few lessons I will do it automatically I am the servant of all great men, and, alas, of all failures ... : "Worship is not tied to where you are, but who you know." You see, there was a time that the Jews considered that if you wanted to worship you had to go to Jerusalem and you had to worship there in the temple. But since Jesus came, there has been a ...

1148. Dad: The Head of a Godly Family

Joshua 24:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... the mark of a father's love is a father's leadership. If you don't lead your family you don't really love your family. I want you to see how much Joshua really loved his family. He loved them enough to do two things: a. He Made a Decision for His Family ... Joshua said to the fathers then in v.15, I am saying to the fathers now: "Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve." I want to say it again. Dad, no one can make this choice for you but you. Your wife cannot make it because she is not the head ...

1149. Like a Good Neighbor, Jesus Is There

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... the man took out the spare tire, jacked up the car, removed the flat tire and replaced it with a spare. When he had finished, the woman tried to pay him. He refused the money saying, "If my wife were stranded on the highway with a flat tire, I would want some Good Samaritan to stop and help her out. He returned to his bumper-stickerless truck, smiled, honked at her, and rode his way. Which of these three was neighbor unto her that had a flat tire? Like a good neighbor, Jesus is there, and you will be too if ...

1150. A Streetcar Named Desire

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... life. But the man did go on to write that novel. His name was Lou Wallace, and the novel was Ben Hur. You see, all Zacchaeus wanted was to catch a glimpse of Jesus, but instead he received the grace of Jesus. All of a sudden I believe two things happened to ... sinner He has a passion to save you. If you are a saint He has a passion to strengthen you that you might be all He wants you to be so that through you others also might be saved. III. The Passion to Seek. Now let me warn you about having passion. ...

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