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John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... reign at the end of time. Sounds awfully theological, doesn’t it? Who wants to think of theology at Christmas? It’s a shame the church keeps trying to horn in on Christmas, isn’t it? It’s a shame we keep trying to make Christmas into some kind of a religious holiday. Can’t we be satisfied with Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman? Personally I like Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman. But they have more to say about winter than they do Christmas. And even then, they apply only to parts of our world ...

1152. On Living Before You Die

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... imaginary story, but there is truth in it. There''s a man or woman out there in the future that you and I will become. What kind of person will that individual be? Suppose you and I keep living until then just as we are living now. Will we be glad to stand ... before God to give an accounting of our life? We all want to be found faithful, but are our present habits and attitudes the kind which God will reward? If you''re not satisfied, if you''re not sure God will say, "Well done, faithful servant," now is the ...

1153. FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH

Revelation 1:1-3

Eulogy

Edward Inabinet

... not salvation by works. It is, rather, reward for a job well done. Christ makes this promise to those who are willing to make a life-long commitment. ALL OF THIS IS TO SAY THAT TODAY IS A DAY OF VICTORY. What else can you call it? We know the kind of person __________________ was. We know his/her love for Christ. We know his/her love for his/her family and friends. We know his/her love for his/her church. If there is not clapping and cheering in Heaven this day, then a great injustice has occurred. Some ...

1154. A HEALTHY REBELLION

Drama

Angela Akers

... have minded it." Husband: "Whoa, wait a minute. That''s stretching it. All I said was, those people out protesting were really inconveniencing the rest of us because they were causing a traffic jam. I just think there should be laws regulating that kind of thing." Wife: "In a lot of countries there are. We have the unalienable right to rant and rave about this country. We''re really fortunate. Did you know our Declaration of Independence says that if a government doesn''t represent the will ...

1155. So Who Needs A Shepherd?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... like Jesus? What if God really is the Good Shepherd, who loves us even more than we love ourselves, and desires to care for us in kind and gentle ways? Let’s take a few minutes to think of the possibilities such a picture of God might present. “I am the good ... God’s love which Jesus came to bring and died to prove. When Jesus was criticized for hob-nobbing with the “wrong kinds” of people, he replied to His critics: “Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave ...

1156. Palm Sunday (Prologue)

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... up a cross and following. Who wants a literal cross? And so the crowds began to thin out. Ernest Campbell once preached a sermon with the intriguing title, “When the Sugar Comes Off the Pill.” A lot of folks thought he was going to talk about a different kind of pill...but he spoke of the fact that sometimes when we think the sweetness will last forever, the sugar comes off and we are left with a bitter taste. Jesus must have been thrilled with the crowds, but in a few days, the sugar came off the pill ...

1157. Love: The Greatest Commandment and the Greatest Challenge

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... I want to hurt him as much as he has me." Dr. Crane suggested an ingenious plan. "Go home and act as if you really love your husband. Tell him how much he means to you. Praise him for every decent trait. Go out of your way to be as kind, considerate, and generous as possible. Spare no efforts to please him, to enjoy him. Make him believe you love him. After you''ve convinced him of your undying love and that you cannot live without him, then drop the bomb. Tell him that you''re getting a divorce. That will ...

1158. Titles, Credentials, or Resurrection Power

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , "Well, son, why don''t you tell me about this God you don''t believe in. I may not believe in him either." What kind of God do you believe in? That was exactly the problem that the followers of a strict, legalistic, religious approach to life produced. They ... this is the most fun we have ever had. This was the best dance and party we have ever attended.'' "Of course, it is God''s kind of party. It is a party that brings people in who were always rejected. That is what our God does--He brings in people who ...

1159. Goodness and Mercy

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... is described as "hasid", God''s unfailing covenant love toward us. Dr. Theodore Parker Ferris of Boston, Mass., tells the story of a certain man, a friend of his, who he thought he knew rather well. He knew the man to be powerful, a successful businessman, the kind that makes decisions easily and drives a hard bargain. One day Ferris says that he was having dinner with the man's son, and they were talking about him. The son revealed something new about the father. It seems that when the son was in the army ...

1160. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part V)

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... food and I am starving. Put me under your shirt and take me down the valley." "No," said the youth. "I am forewarned. I know your kind. You are a rattlesnake. If I pick you up, you will bite, and your bite will kill me." "Not so," said the snake. "I will ... quality and high grade of this putty. I have also attached a series of studies on the art of putting glass into windows, and the kind of training it takes to be a window-installer...." And the story goes on and on. (2) I hope you can see that Dr. Barnhouse ...

1161. Thanksgiving - The Biblical Version

1 Chronicles 16:7-43

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... PUTS GOD IN THE CENTER. Dr. Charles F. Stanley said, "God desires us to live with a spirit of thanksgiving in every circumstance. He tells us: `It is good to give thanks to the Lord, and to sing praises to His name, O Most High; To declare His loving kindness in the morning, and His faithfulness by night.'' (Psalm 92:1-2) "Learning to thank God for all that He sends our way has a powerful influence on every area of our lives. When you thank God--even in the trials and heartaches--you gain God''s perspective ...

1162. Seeing Jesus Clearly

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... us to know Jesus as one who restores persons to health and wholeness. In an age dominated by medical science and high-tech health care, I need to be reminded of this dimension of who Jesus is. Why? I must confess that I sometimes hesitate to pray for certain kinds of healing because modern medicine tells me that it is impossible. I suspect it is because I am afraid that the person I want to pray for will not be healed, suggesting that God really can't do anything about it. It is as if I am "testing" God ...

1163. Things That Make Jesus Angry

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... out all our lives on both a child’s level and on an adult level, and sometimes, Heaven help us, it has been played in the name of Jesus. “You’re out! You’re out! You can’t come in!” That’s a chant we’ve used on all kinds of people. It certainly was the chant in the days of the Civil Rights marches. But there have been other times, other places, and, my, the hurt that has been done. Martin Marty once said that you can divide religious people into two groups. Not the liberal and conservative ...

1164. Growing Faith

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... on an altar there. At the last moment God stayed his hand, and a ram appeared to be sacrificed instead. This dramatic event was never forgotten and Saint Paul referred to it again and again in his letter to the Romans in his discussion of faith. Can anyone imagine the kind of faith in God Abraham must have had? To be willing to sacrifice his son, assuming that if such a thing was somehow a part of God's will, it had to be okay? He did not holler out, "Is there anyone else out there?" It is to this faith ...

1165. Do You Hear What I Hear?

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... to sacrifice. I want them to be able to feel what it was like up there. My goal was to take them there with me. Mr. Linenger wanted his children to hear what he heard, to feel what he felt. It was that life-changing for him. This is the kind of enthusiasm Saint Paul was calling for among the Corinthians. It had changed his life and he couldn't stand the thought of the message of new life in Christ being taken casually. Our task and our joy today is to stand boldly in that faith when we walk out ...

1166. Easy to Say, Hard to Do

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... ." Way back in 1930 Dorothy Day said these words: ... it is love that will burn out the sins and hatreds that sadden us. It is love that will make us want to do great things for each other. No sacrifice and no suffering will then seem too much.1 That kind of love comes from and is maintained only directly from the heart of God, whom we know in Jesus Christ. So what does that mean for you today? For me? Let's sing again: Beloved, let us love one another, love one another. For love is of God, and everyone ...

1167. Grace in the Midst of Guilt and Shame

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... and by the way, you really ought to be worshipping me." We'd say, "Take the car keys away from that arrogant little whelp. What kind of nut case is he?" Actually, things were a lot tougher for Jesus in his own synagogue. Luke tells us that the insulted crowd ... exactly did Jesus read to invite the scorn of his neighbors? He chose the opening salvo of Isaiah 61 -- words that communicated, "This is the kind of Messiah I'm going to be. I'm here for the poor. I'm here for people with broken hearts. I'm here for ...

1168. The House of Hope

Hosea 2:2-23

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... for his father into love. Shortly after his conversion to Christ, McDowell was injured in an automobile accident. His father came to visit him in his hospital room. At one point as they were talking together, he broke down and said, "Josh, I've been the worst kind of father to you. How can you love a man like me?" "Dad," said McDowell, "six months ago I couldn't. But now, through Jesus Christ, I can love you." He explained to his father the meaning of God's grace in his life. Before leaving that hospital ...

1169. Dying And Rising With Christ

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of the Christian faith. Not only is the presence of God in Jesus Christ to be experienced only occasionally, the indwelling Christ is to become the shaping power of our lives. The new life is different from the old life, not only in degree, it is a new kind of life, a new quality of life. And Paul makes the radical claim that this new life is nothing less than a new creation, sharing in Christ’s resurrection means being raised to newness of life. Now this means at least two things. One, death has no power ...

1170. The Indwelling Christ And Holy Communion

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of that, we invited preachers all over the nation to submit sermons to us on that theme, Under God a New Birth of Freedom. We were to select the very best sermons and publish them in a book in order that churches across the nation might study with this kind of focus. I don’t know how the announcement got in the Roman Catholic press, because we didn’t give it to them. Even so, it ended up in a little monastery in Lafayette, Oregon, and we received a very brief homily named Simon Reynolds. It was such a ...

1171. Playing A Role Or Being A Truth

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... God means us to be, low we are free. The world then cannot squeeze us into its mold. Arthur Miller, despite his moral character, is one of the great play writes of our day, and he says that the symbolic meaning of character for him is determined by the kind of commitment a character makes to life or refuses to make. In all of his writings, Miller seeks the moment of commitment, when a man separates himself from other men, when he chooses his own star out of a sky full of stars. This is the truth we’re ...

1172. Why I Believe In Tithing

Malachi 3:6-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Nam. But if you remember the history of that war, there had been a calm time during mid-1967 and then the ___ broke out and that caused our trip to be cancelled. Some anonymous person heard of this, but felt that it was important for me to have this kind of experience of seeing the mission of the church around the world, and anonymously deposited $2500 with a local accountant telling me that I could take the trip when I wished to do so. I kept the $2500 personal loan I had already made added it to the $2500 ...

1173. The Christian Life Defined By Prayer

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and our salvation. And the way that agape looks in our lives is etched immortally in Paul’s hymn of love. Love is patient and kind, not jealous or boastful or arrogant or rude, does not insist on its own way, is not irritable or resentful, bears all things, believes all ... Testament says, in knowledge and depth of insight. In this petition, Paul connects light with love. He’s talking about the kind of love that should characterize our lives - a love that calls for and seeks after knowledge, a love that is ...

1174. Proclaimers Of The Gospel

Philippians 1:12-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... day before. His raincoat was dripping wet, and on his arm he had two umbrellas. He said, ‘I thought you might have a hard time finding your church, especially in the rain. I’ll walk along with you and show you where it is.’ As I dressed, I wondered what kind of fellow he was. As we walked along in the rain, with the two umbrellas, I said to myself, if this fellow is so concerned with my religion, I ought to know something about him. So I asked, ‘Where do you go to church?’ ‘Oh,’ he said, ‘my ...

1175. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... we may gain the whole world and lose our souls. So we must be careful about what purpose we give our energy to. Not any kind of purpose, but that which will give us lasting meaning, and enable us to fulfill our God-given destiny. Now there are no pet ... and God is for you. Respect yourself. A little boy was asked to write an essay on anatomy. And here’s what he said. ‘Your head is kind of round and hard, and your brains are in it and your hair is on it. Your face is in front of your head, where you eat ...

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