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1151. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Disaster: Why do the Innocent Suffer?

Psalm 69:1-36

Sermon

James W. Moore

... without them. Now, when bad things happen to us, the bottom line is that we have three choices: 1. We can break down in self-pity 2. Or, we can break out with resentment. 3. Or, we can break through with trust in God... and that, of course, is the response of faith. Let me show you what I mean. One of the best selling books of 1982 was Rabbi Harold Kushner’s book, “When Bad Things Happen to Good People.” Rabbi Kushner wrote the book out of his own personal grief experience in the loss of his young son ...

1152. Living as Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... that’s the way some people are. They live as if they were the only ones who matter. We encounter them on the roads and in our office. Maybe in our own family. In fact, maybe WE are the ones who are oblivious to our effect on others. We have responsibilities to and for one another. Did you hear about the man in New York who was standing with his children waiting for a subway train when a young man nearby had a seizure and fell down into the path of the oncoming train? Seeing this young man’s predicament ...

1153. Planting Seeds

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... soil.” Only for so long can you blame the poor efforts of the person in the pulpit or the so-called hypocrites in the church. Sooner or later you are going to have to answer for yourself if the Gospel is for you. However, when it comes to our responsibility to share the Gospel with others, that is a different matter. You and I are not God. Our character and our actions can affect how the message is received. Here is what we must do we must in all ways communicate to others our love for them. Whether it ...

1154. God Is Pro-Life

Exodus 20:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... harm. Exodus 22:2 says, "If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed." Self defense is not only a right, but in the case of your family and loved ones, it is a responsibility. Neither can this commandment be used to justify pacifism, that belief that all war is wrong. Now all war is a tragedy, all war is horrible; nobody likes war. But then again, nobody likes surgery but sometimes surgery is necessary. When you read the Bible, it's almost ...

1155. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... recently ran an article with the title, "Should All Be Forgiven?" They conducted a survey in which they asked people whether or not they would forgive someone who did the following things to them. You'll find this interesting. In response to the question: Would you forgive someone who murdered someone in your community? 33% said they would forgive, 59% said they would not. In response to the question to women: Would you forgive someone who raped you? 22% said they would forgive, 73% said they would not. In ...

1156. Glory Guaranteed

Jude 1:24-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... do anything. That means that God has not failed, God cannot fail, and God will not fail. Now knowing that God is able, tells me something about salvation. It is our responsibility to be saved, but it is not our responsibility to stay saved. Now if that confuses you let me put it to you this way: Once you are saved, getting to heaven is not your responsibility. It is your response to His ability. If I am able to keep my son from walking off of a cliff, and I just stand by and watch him walk off the edge of ...

1157. The Love of the Harvest

John 4:34-38

Sermon

James Merritt

... Graham said this: The evangelistic harvest is always urgent. The destiny of men, and of nations, is always being decided. Every generation is strategic. We are not responsible for the past generation, and we cannot bear the full responsibility for the next one; but we do have our generation. God will hold us responsible as to how well we fulfill our responsibilities to this age, and take advantage of our opportunities.1 We are standing on the threshold of what could be the greatest ingathering of souls for ...

1158. Like a Good Neighbor, Jesus Is There

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... lawyer had quoted. For a moment, I am sure there was smug satisfaction on this man's face when he realized he had given Jesus the right answer. But this lawyer soon realized that he had dug his own pit and fallen into it. There were two problems with his response. First of all, he had the law in his head, but he did not have the Lord in his heart. His question was the right question, but it was also a confusing question. Because he asked how he could inherit eternal life. An inheritance is not based on what ...

1159. God's Will: Don't Leave Home Without It

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

... find God's will, God's will finds you. Did you know that God is more anxious for us to know His will than we are to find it? It is not really your responsibility to find the will of God; it is your responsibility to do the will of God. If God wants you to know His will, it is His responsibility to reveal it; it is your responsibility to obey it. In Romans 12:1-2 we have God's method on how to know His will for our lives. We're going to learn that before we can know the will ...

1160. Gospel Partners

Philippians 1:3-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... ministry, and I believe it's so for these reasons: We share the gospel without compromise; we minister with integrity; and the bottom line for us is not the bottom line. The bottom line for us is souls. Let me give you an example of just one response we got through the magic of the Internet and E-mail which will really bless your heart. Dear Dr. Merritt, Praise God! I am a pastor from Kenya (East Africa). I watched your program "Touching Lives" while visiting the Caribbean for the first time. Your message ...

1161. FEAR NOT! You've Got To Be Kidding!

Luke 1:26-37

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... ordinary baby. This baby is to be the Son of God! How would you like to take on that kind of surrogate parenting responsibility? And if she's still listening, this child is coming for nothing less than taking over the throne of David, challenging the ... my life, I could say, ‘And it came to pass.' See, sonny, I always knew trouble didn't come to stay, it came to pass." A proper response to fear begins by recognizing it in all its reality, to look it square in the face, to know it for what it is, but also to ...

1162. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... 's holiness: Whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I say, "Let the darkness cover me, and the light around me be night," even the darkness is not dark to thee; the night is as bright as day; for darkness is light with thee. So that the only appropriate response is the simple prayer of confession: Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts. See if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Here's another song we used to sing at summer camp. The text is ...

1163. Yet Alive....Are We?

Romans 12:1-13

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... don't mean to be a dour prophet of doom, and I will call on humor in the face of tragedy just like everyone else. But it really isn't funny. The denomination which transformed the American frontier is dying a slow death and we laugh about it. Maybe the response is even sadder than the news. The old hymn asks the question: "And are we yet alive...?" And the answer is, "Just barely, but not for long, and we seem to be enjoying it." So I'll come back home to a thriving local church and celebrate the promise of ...

1164. Thanksgiving and Thanksliving

1 Corinthians 1:3-9

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... being is an evangelistic program all by itself. In a striking and masterful way, others catch this spirit in time and some even say excitingly they want what we have. It can even be reminiscent of the very early followers, who evoked a response from pagans saying, "See how those Christians love one another." No writer or painter can adequately depict such gloriously delightful scenes. That's how Christianity is supposed to work. Others are to seize our spirit, especially because our witness is unfeigned and ...

1165. Don’t Fear the Wait

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... We only need to fear if we procrastinate in our relationship with God. We cannot wait but must act today. Many remember the popular song by Harry Chapin, "Cat's In The Cradle." In the lyrics, each time a man's son asks, "When're you coming home, Dad?" the response received is, "I don't know, but we'll get together then." As this story repeats the boy gains his father's attitude until in the end when the father asks his adult son, "When're you coming home, son?" the answer received is, "I don't know. But we ...

1166. Baptism: The Common Call To Holiness

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... sought God. Baptism calls us to be followers, ministers, and evangelists. We must live the vocation of holiness to which we have all been called. Our call is to be members with all the privileges which come with being part of God's family. Our membership gives us responsibility as well. We must go forth in an active manner to do God's work in our world. Baptism is the original call to a life which seeks to bring others closer to God. May the baptism that we all share, our common denominator in the faith ...

1167. Accepting the Unconventional in Life

Mark 2:13-22

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... a time to keep, and a time to throw away...." Jesus realized that one day he would leave this world; that would be the appropriate time for his disciples to fast. Christ saw the tradition and established conventions as serving humans, not the reverse. The Lord's third response to his critics was a metaphor: "No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the ...

1168. A Lovehope Faith

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... abide, these three: but the greatest of these is love." Hence, the meaning of life. Or at least the first hint of a whisper of a clue of finding it. On the same page, by the way, Father Theodore Hesburgh also quotes 1 Corinthians 13 in his response. A Lovehope Faith is one of tremendous strength and comfort. Trusting in the abiding nature of a Lovehope Faith may sometimes be our only source of sanity in an insane world. The 1990 spring thaw in the Sierra National Forest revealed a profound tragedy. On March ...

1169. Settle for an F

Hebrews 13:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... back to a rather unusual example - Adam and Eve. Warner suggests that "...God's original intent in establishing marriage and, subsequently, the family was that he intended Adam and Eve to reflect his image dynamically in their marital union" (Michael D. Warner, "A Response to Marriage and the Family," in Kenneth S. Kantzer, ed., Applying the Scriptures, Papers From ICBI Summit III [Grand Rapids: Academia Books, 1987], 211). If marriage is to be a reflection of God's image then it cannot be thought of as a ...

1170. Shame on You

1 Timothy 1:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of guilt or a flicker of conscience? Actually, there does seem to be an intensified tendency to register all these feelings - but then to successfully pass final blame onto someone else. We acknowledge our sins, but point the finger at someone else to take responsibility. Of course, such behavior is a time-honored human trait - see Genesis 3:12-13 for Adam and Eve's original rendition. A recent psychological trend has blossomed in popularity as a result of this love for buck-passing. Under the guise of ...

1171. God Will Be God

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... /narrator "So I pay. I'm the Dad. It's my job." It's true sometimes. Sometimes we are in charge, it's our responsibility, and the buck stops squarely in front of us. And although we may grump and grouse about those times, most of us kind of ... When our kids are uniquely themselves that is when they do or say something that strikes us as completely off-the-wall the nonjudgmental response a parent often makes is "You're a piece of work!" Although we don't always understand our kids' ways, we shake our heads ...

1172. Mark 1:21-28

Mark 1:21-28

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... for you, a new idol, and a blatant, even boorish way of exalting yourselves over both members of your own Christbody community as well as those still under the sway of paganism. In verses 10-12 Paul reminds this congregation that with community comes communal responsibility. If the food offered to idols is truly as incidental as you say, then, Paul counsels, you must let your fixation on food go. By allowing freedom to eat priority over concern for the spiritual well-being of some community members, you are ...

1173. Mark 1:21-28

Mark 1:21-28

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1174. Mark 8:27-38

Mark 8:27-38

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... . Finally, Jesus had healed a blind man, fully restoring the man's vision (Mark 8:22-26). After all these tremendous acts and signs of power, the disciples surely felt they were on a road to success. It is not surprising, then, that in response to Jesus' query, "Who do people say that I am?" the disciples don't even pause for breath before offering Jesus three flattering examples. Obviously, the crowds had been talking, and Jesus' disciples had been listening. All three identities the disciples come up with ...

1175. Luke 9:51-62

Luke 9:51-62

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... man surely seems to have it. Burying the dead was a duty of great importance in Jewish tradition. The commandment to honor one's father and mother was included in fulfilling this final act of respect and devotion. Even the pagan Romans expected filial responsibilities to include properly burying one's father and mother. In Judaism all other normal religious obligation could be set aside in order for anyone to perform the pious duty of burying the dead. But Jesus insists that even such an honorable act as ...

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