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1151. His Last Command ... Our First Concern!

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... a lifelong marathon. When Susan Harris was leaving this church to go to Papua-New Guinea as a missionary, one of the people in our Wednesday group prayer meeting hugged her neck and said, "Susan, you take the rope and go down into the darkness and I'll stay home and hold the other end of the rope." And how long do we hold it? Two months or two years or ten? As long as necessary! "... Until the close of the age." V. Conclusion So, here we sit - fishermen, government officials, leading women, teachers. Today ...

1152. How to Motivate People

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:18-26

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... And another thing they were. These twelve were willing to assume responsibility for ministry. They were willing to get involved and stay involved with people. Matthew actually wrote a gospel book. To Be With Him So what have we seen so far? ... s interesting. In Matthew 10:11 following, Jesus told his disciples, "And whatever town or village you enter, find out who is worthy in it and stay with him until you depart." We don't do this today. Instead, we buy our own home, or rent one, and live to ourselves and ...

1153. Supper's Ready!

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... 's your invitation. What is your response? "I Have Doubts!" Maybe one of you here today is full of doubts. "Did God really invite me? Is the banquet real?" The only way you will ever find out is to come and see for yourself. There are always those who would stay away from the church because of their doubts. "Wait until I learn some more," they say. "Dad, I can't go to school today. I don't know math," a child says. And the father replies, "That's precisely why you go to school, my son, to learn math." When ...

1154. Influence!

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... my arms and legs. When I got up I thought I'd made it. That's when I saw the camera pointing toward me. Chris Craft at Houston control chewed me out for my antics." "When it came time to leave, we didn't want to go. We begged to stay two more hours." But orders were orders. So Charlie Duke flew home to earth. He made colonel and he'd only been fifteen years in the Air Force. While his professional life flourished, his personal life was failing. His wife began to talk divorce. "I was an engineer. I knew ...

1155. Trapped in Paradise

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... from the brunt of the storm. Instead of hugging the shoreline, they headed into the interior of the Yucatan Peninsula, and found themselves in a world they hadn't planned to see, but that they could prepare to enjoy. In small towns, staying in more homespun accommodations, these prepared tourists found welcoming, gracious people, pleased to share their villages and show their best hospitality to these displaced newcomers. Instead of bellying up to bulging buffet tables and swim up bars, these refugees found ...

1156. Don't Fit In, Fit Together

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and flexibility on the run. (Ashley Jude Collie, "A Score to Settle," American Way, 15 September 2005, 35). Jesus is calling us this morning, not to fit in to some job description called discipleship that posts no-trespassing barbed-wire signs around us and tell you to stay in and others to stay out. Jesus is calling us this morning to fit together into the body of Christ so that we can go out into the world and be his voice, his touch, his love to a world that's hungry and hurting. We don't ask you to come ...

1157. The Difference between Happiness and Joy

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... college. It was apparently so difficult of the game's creators to think of events worthy of true happiness that they came up with a not-so-subtle cheat. For a fee, any player can earn happiness hearts by paying to stay on the Florida Vacation square. Every time you pay to stay you earn a few more happiness hearts. In other words, money does buy happiness. And this is what most of the world thinks about that tepid, shallow emotion we call happiness. If you have enough money, enough toys, enough things - you ...

1158. Get a Peace of the Rock

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Jesus' disciples uttered this password of peace upon entering a household and hearts and spirits were responsive to this shibboleth of "shalom," the kingdom was present. But "presence" was not enough. In today's text Jesus specifically counsels his envoys to stay and live with the households they entered, teaching and preaching and healing and thereby incarnating the peaceable ways of the kingdom. They were not simply to evangelize (stop people on the street). They were to make disciples of this peace they ...

1159. The Longest Running Parade in History

Psalm 118:1-29

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a few simple requests. Parties will not be tolerated (or disturbances to our other guests). You should consider this your first notice and if we are required to contact you regarding a disturbance, you may be asked to leave. Thank you for staying with us, and enjoy your stay. Thank you, The Fairfield Inn – Fossil Creek Staff Here's the one membership requirement for those who would join the Jesus parade: Do you promise to party and celebrate the God who became one of us in good times and bad, for better ...

1160. The Real Dish Network

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... selective hearing, some distinguishing discernment. Those who would follow their own good shepherd first have to tune in to his voice. Jesus declares that it's this ability to hear their master's distinctive voice, that causes his sheep to prick up their ears (verse 3) and come to him. Staying tuned to the shepherd's voice enables the sheep, then, to follow their own master out of the sheepfold, ignoring the calls and enticements of other voices who might lure them to one side or the other. When the sheep ...

1161. You've Got Mail!

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... knows what dogs do. Lying at her master's feet she knows whether to get up and follow Elizabeth when she rises or to stay put because Elizabeth is just getting a cup of tea and will be right back. · She's right at the door even before we ... . She dozes in the corner and shows no interest in the disembodied voice floating out that plastic tube, drifting through the air. Staying connected these days is both far easier and infinitely more complex than it has ever been before. Cell phones, e-mail, pagers, call ...

1162. The Christian's Wild Card

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... age tries to drive God away and keep him away with our rejection and disobedience and hyper-business, the Easter message is that God's back. You can't keep God down. If poetry is "news that stays news," as Ezra Pound once said, then Easter is the Greatest Poem in the Universe. The news that God's back stays news for eternity. The resurrection means God's back. The resurrection means the door is always open to the future. No matter what happens in your life . . . no matter how good things get, no matter how ...

1163. Mystery

Ephesians 3:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... winter day is distinguished here in western Washington only by a slightly paler shade of damp grey, and finally the slight daylight gives up and plunges us back into total darkness about four in the afternoon. So though the tree comes down, the lights stay up through Epiphany. Then those same lights give birthday greetings to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And there's nothing wrong with celebrating Valentine's Day with pretty diamond-twinkling lights not to mention using them to wish both Abe and George their ...

1164. Death by Chocolate

Hebrews 9:11-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... met. It's dark, warm, moist, and comfortable here. Don't talk to me about birth!" The mother would respond, "But my little one, it's beautiful out here. There's sunshine, flowers, laughter, dancing, friendship, and music. It's so much better! In fact, it's terrible if you stay in there too long." And the little one would argue back, "I don't know anything about any of those things. all I know is that in here all my needs are met. I'd rather have what I know than what I don't know!" The mother would never ...

1165. The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, and Deep

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... soldiers surrounded Absalom, finished him off, and tossed his body into a pit heaped high with stones. No royal burial for this prince. His grave was a contemptuous one, reserved for criminals, enemies (Josh 7:26: 8:29) and rebellious sons (Deut 21:20-21). The lesson of staying in sin's woods is death. But it is more than that. It is the untold heartbreak of the loved ones of those who ignored the "Keep Out" sign. The overwhelming anguish of David as he hysterically mourns his son's death is one of the most ...

1166. All God's Children Can Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... skills or shoes. It doesn't require a good band or a flawless floor. Anyone can join in at any time as long as they have access to the one necessary attribute. Joy. You can't dance without joy. You can't move without feeling joy. You can't stay in rhythm without hearing joy. You can't whirl with your partner without holding onto joy. You can't keep going without the endurance of joy. Joy is the music of the soul, a music so overwhelming, so infectious, that our toes start tapping, our fingers get drumming ...

1167. Changed Lives - Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... Valley, in Him alone I see All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole. In sorrow He’s my comfort, in trouble He’s my stay; He tells me every care on Him to roll. He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star, He’s the fairest of ten ... Valley, in Him alone I see All I need to cleanse and make me fully whole. In sorrow He’s my comfort, in trouble He’s my stay; He tells me every care on Him to roll. He’s the Lily of the Valley, the Bright and Morning Star, He’s the fairest of ten ...

1168. Changed Lives - The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... . John concludes this story of the Samaritan woman like this: Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world ...

1169. Earthquakes, Tsunamis, and Disaster: Why do the Innocent Suffer?

Psalm 69:1-36

Sermon

James W. Moore

... ’t hold onto the 5-year-old boy. He was swept away... The mother and the teenager were devastated. They felt that there was no way the little boy could survive... but he did. Somehow, he grabbed hold of a door in the lobby of the resort where they were staying... and that little 5-year-old boy held on for two hours. He was found by a security guard... and reunited with his family. - Out of Jakarta comes one of the most amazing stories of all. A 26-year-old woman named Rizza was trying to help two of her ...

1170. Prison Break

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the tribes there,” she replied. “Enter into the joy of the Lord,” St. Peter said. He turned to the third doctor and asked, “And what did you do?” “I was a doctor at an HMO.” “Come on in,” said St. Peter. “But you can only stay for three days.” “This Joyful Eastertide” hymn: Had Christ, that once was slain, Ne’er burst his three-day prison, Our faith would be in vain. When Winston Churchill was Home Secretary, he wrote these words: “The mood and temper of the public in regard to ...

1171. Changed Lives - Mary Magdalene

John 20:10-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... what we know comes to us in the stories of Christ’s passion and his resurrection. As Jesus hangs in agony on the cross, his life ebbing from him, Mary Magdalene is there, beside his mother, Mary, keeping watch. Crucifixion is slow, brutal, bloody, but still she stays. Finally the hour comes. “It is finished,” Jesus says, and bows his head. His body is bound in linen, carried to a garden, buried in a tomb. Before dawn on the third day it is Mary Magdalene who rises to anoint Christ’s body. She makes ...

1172. A Mother's Love

Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

James W. Moore

... Being a "coal miner for the summer" sounded adventuresome and macho. However, the second week on the job, he got lost deep down in the mines. He had been working with a group of veteran miners. They had warned him. They had cautioned him. They had told him to stay close to the group because it would be so easy to get lost down there in the numerous caves and treacherous passageways of the mine. But he was 17-years-old… and one day he, absent-mindedly, wandered away from his work-team… and he became lost ...

1173. Breathe on Me, Breath of God

Acts 2:1-4

Sermon

James W. Moore

... give the key-note address at conventions and convocations. Recently she returned home after speaking five nights in a row. Her husband said: “Honey, I know you must be really tired. Why don’t you “sleep in” in the morning?” That sounded good to her, so she did stay in bed longer than usual. When she finally got up she put on an old worn-out blue robe that was frayed and faded but comfortable… and some old house-shoes that had no back to them… the kind that you have to slide your foot into them ...

1174. What in the World Are We Doing?

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... contact with persons of the opposite sex. One of the most famous and colorful of these monks was Simeon Stylites. He retreated from the world by sitting on top of a column that was 60 feet high. The top of that column was only a yard wide. He stayed there for 36 years… and never came down once. Food was hauled up by a rope. When Simeon Stylites left the world, he really left! Later, the monks realized that this kind of rejection of the world was not productive… and they began to live together as groups ...

1175. Remember God

Deuteronomy 6:1-9

Sermon

James W. Moore

... was over and we lost the city championship by one run! In that game, I had been cleated by a runner sliding into second base. I stayed in the game, but I had a pretty deep cut on my leg. We were playing at the Memphis Fair Grounds and a doctor was on ... have the strength to go on. So, he passed the torch to Joshua and he let Joshua lead the people on into the land… while Moses stayed behind… on the mountain alone to die. Can you imagine how that must have felt for him to be so near, but yet so far, so ...

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