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1151. Taking the Shape of Christ

Galatians 4:8-20

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... as a person, not as a maimed disfigured piece of flesh. Note Jesus’ response: He listened, He looked at him, and He touched him. The three action responses that no one else would dare make to a leper. I like the way Mark states it: “ ... whom nobody loves, Why do you walk through the fields in gloves, When the grass is soft as the breasts of doves and shivering sweet to the touch. Oh why do you walk through the fields in gloves missing so much and so much. Now the poet may have been unfair to the lady, but ...

1152. Proper 4

Lk 7:1-10 · Gal 1:1-10 · 1 Ki 8:22-23, 41-43 · Ps 96

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John R. Brokhoff

... This will bring comfort and hope to people separated from Jesus by 20 centuries and by heaven and earth. Outline: Jesus will help you even if: a. There is no physical contact v. 6. Jesus did not come into the centurion's home. He did not see or touch the dying slave. Though Jesus is in heaven, he can still help us on earth. b. There is no direct communication vv. 3, 6. The centurion sent two delegations to serve as intermediaries. Through them Jesus got the message of need and of the centurion's faith. Here ...

1153. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... made by others to him. Jesus is our model for availability. If there is one principle that characterized His life more than any other it was this. It didn’t matter that the crowd was pressing around Him, He gave His attention to the woman with the hemorrhage who touched the hem of His garment. It didn’t matter that He had come to the cool shade tree at the well for rest, He entered into a totally personal relationship with that woman who came to the well at mid day to escape the cold stares and vicious ...

1154. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 2

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... memory. I won’t disturb the slumber of feelings that have died, If I never loved, I never would have cried. Chorus I have my books and my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb, I touch no one and no one touches me. Chorus - (Paul Simon, Words and Music by Paul Simon 1965) Though an apt diagnosis, Paul Simon offered no prescription. But Paul does. Either you will be a rock or Jesus Christ will be your rock. There’s a marvelous image of this in the passage ...

1155. The Unforgivable Sin

Mark 3:20-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... had power. Listen to an earlier word in this third chapter of Mark: “And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they should crush him; for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed upon him to touch him. And whenever the unclean spirits beheld him, they fell down before him and cried out, “You are the Son of God.” And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.” The power was there, but the big question was, what was the source of that power ...

1156. Light a Candle

Matthew 5:14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... playing with toys he had found in his mother's purse and nobody had told him how to be polite. So, he put his toys down and toddled out of his chair and over to the elderly lady. When he got to her he reached up with his hand and touched her on the cheek to dry her tears and said, “It's alright, it's alright. Everything's going to be alright." And the lady smiled. Simply stated, yet mysteriously pondered, the essence of Christmas is this: The King of kings and the Lord of lords climbed down out of ...

1157. When It's Time To Unite

I Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Pilot and a fax machine. I've got everything you could imagine and yet, my children still tell me I'm out of touch." And so it is in life. Conversation matters, regardless of all of our instruments and technology. There comes a time to sit down ... the table…we need to talk. One bread, one body, one Lord of all. Rise from the table. Go from the table. Leave this place. Touch the world with an insistence on the common good. This world does not exist for your pleasure. Life is not meant just to satisfy you. ...

1158. Soaring with Christ

Matthew 28:1-8

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... was a time when your God was big enough to supply all your needs. On this Easter Sunday, I wonder if you can get back in touch with that kind of God? Is it any wonder that Jesus said, “Unless you become as little children, you cannot get into the kingdom of God." ... . New life is available for you. In your bulletins are six stories of families in this church whose hearts are being touched and lives are being transformed by the miraculous power and grace of God. They are not super Christians. They are just ...

1159. Deciding To Excel In Everything

II Corinthians 8:1-7, 11-12

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J. Howard Olds

... know. I wonder if we who sit here week after week really grasp what it is: Room in the Inn, 61st Avenue Tutoring, Hobson Vacation Bible School, Miriam’s Promise, the Mexico Mission project, the church at Perovo, Russia, The Manger, Prison Ministry Bible Study. I am just touching the list. You have one hundred eighty altogether on this sheet in front of you and I can only scratch the surface. The reality is that we are doing much more than most of us imagined, but we can do so much more if God were to ever ...

1160. What Would Jesus Say About Medical Care?

Mark 2:1-12

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J. Howard Olds

... I was afraid to confront was that she and her brother had not spoken to one another in years. The pain of that fractured relationship was taking its toll on her physically. The healing she needed that night was a spiritual healing. She needed something touched in her heart alright, not the pump, but the soul. E.S. Jones once said, “We must give up on the notion that we can harbor fears, resentments, self-centeredness, guilt, and still believe nothing will happen to us physically.” The body cannot bear ...

1161. The Forgiveness Which Oils the Human Machine

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... t say, “Try harder.” I tend to say, “Are you able to pray for the grace to forgive? If not, are you willing to pray for the grace to say that prayer?” In God’s time we find the power we need to do His will. Corrie Ten Boom touched the world with stories of faith from a Nazi concentration camp. As she tells the story, a man approached her following a lecture and said, “How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein, to think that, as you say, God washed my sins away.” Corrie Ten Boom recognized ...

1162. The Holy Spirit and You

John 14:15-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... came; the ambulance arrived and Peter was rushed to the hospital. I had no way of handling this crisis, but to drop to my knees in prayer. My knees had no sooner touched the floor than I experienced God as a comforting mother. There was a feeling of the everlasting arms around me. It was the infinite gentleness of a loving God touching my heart. In the days following Peter's death, the Spirit carried me over and above the circumstances so that I could actually be used to bring strength to the Nation's ...

1163. Worship

Hebrews 10:19-25

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... today. Worship is about Scriptures. We worship by tradition. Tradition has fallen on bad times in recent years. I had a youth minister once who told me no one over thirty was in touch with the real world. On his thirtieth birthday, I called him up and asked if he was ready to surrender his ministerial credentials since he was obviously out of touch with all of humanity. It is easy to make icons of traditions. We can worship the altar instead of the Almighty, but I personally don't want to go to a church ...

1164. Daniel: The Problem of Power

Daniel 6:10-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... his mother's purse. As the elderly lady wept, the little boy was moved. He climbed down from his chair and toddled over to the lady and touching her on the cheek said, “It's all right, it's all right, everything is going to be all right!" “It's all right, it's ... away, Shake my limbs and make me sway, But I have roots stretched in the earth Growing stronger since my birth. “You'll never touch them, for you see, They are the deepest part of me." II. IT'S ALL RIGHT BECAUSE GRACE IS SUFFICIENT. Most of us ...

1165. From Envy to Gratitude

Matthew 20:1-16

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J. Howard Olds

... and making me whole. I just want to thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for peace from above, For undeserved presence and unending love. Thank you, Jesus. Is that language on your heart? Is that thought on your mind when you wake up in the morning? Is your soul touched with the language of gratitude? One of the advantages of being alive at 60 is the opportunity to gaze back over the years and see how you might have done it better. You learn a few things over the years. When I look back over my life I think ...

1166. Love

John 15:9-17

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... with emotion to see people running from burning buildings, sitting on roof tops, pleading for help, or clinging to trees in some far away tsunami? It is easy to be touched with such trauma and grief. Is this compassion? Compassion comes from two words com meaning “with," and passion meaning “suffering." Compassion is to suffer with another. It is not a feeling of detached pity, but sharing the pain. Henri Nouwen says, “Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, ...

1167. Making the Most of Small Beginnings

Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... hunger. Riding on, he saw a home, its opened door a promised welcome and in the door there was a beautiful woman, her eyes innocent and kind. Surely the love of a woman and the sweet shelter of home are my heart's desire, reasoned the knight; “But when I touched her, Lo! She too, fell into dust and nothing, and the house became no better than a broken shed." His soul still craving, he traveled on. He found a warrior clad in golden armor. But he also turned to dust. Then he came upon a city that sat upon a ...

1168. Hot Air or the Holy Spirit?

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... phone lines, a car phone, a cell phone, e-mail, a computer, and a fax machine and my kids still tell me I'm out of touch." Will Willimon wrote a few years ago, “The Church is like a football huddle. You know that something important is being said there, but you ... helpful. Sometimes I wonder if we are trying so hard to be “with it" that we just “don't get it." We need to be in touch with the world, not in sync with the world. My suggestion is the Church ought to be a little weird. We're not in sync with ...

1169. The Broken Body of Christ

1 Corinthians 11:17-26

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... painting of the Vietnam Memorial depicts a young widow and her daughter standing at the wall, reaching up and touching the name of a husband and father who died in combat. The reflection in the polished granite, however, is not the mother and daughter, but ... that of the husband and father, reaching out his hand to touch theirs. That is what happens at Holy Communion. We bring our brokenness, our sins, our sorrows, to the Lord and find him ...

1170. You Can't Stay on the Mountain Forever

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Jesus, and the fact that God had sent his own son to save us. “One cannot believe the Bible and doubt the deity of Jesus. Matthew says that when the disciples heard the voice they fell on their faces and were sore afraid, and that Jesus came and touched them and told them to get up and be not afraid, All agree in practically identical words that when they lifted up their eyes they saw Jesus only. Here is the heart of their immediate experience. They needed only a vision of Jesus and the full knowledge of ...

1171. Cheering from the Stands

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... in hospitals and convalescent homes. Patients who were terminally ill or deeply depressed would welcome his visits. He was capable of touching the deep pain in their lives. Merrill Womach discovered that what he had suffered as a result of the accident ... was actually a means of ministry. Other people with emotional and physical wounds were touched by his testimony in a powerful way. They were encouraged by being in the presence of someone who had found the ability to ...

1172. The Road No One Wants to Travel

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... from his wagon and brings it to the woman. He lays it across her arm. She blinks at him, wondering what he is up to. Gently the young man opens her fingers and releases the old, dirty, soaking handkerchief from her knotted fist. Then comes the wonder. The Ragman touches the old rag to his own eyes and begins to weep her tears. Meanwhile, behind him on her porch stands the old woman, tears gone, eyes full of peace. It happens again. "New rags for old!" he cries, and he comes to a young girl wearing a bloody ...

1173. Investing in God’s Future

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Chris Ewing

... lives trying to pretend it isn't so. We refuse to think about the true impact of what we're doing, about the depth of our effect on others. Or we try to avoid having an impact — we hide away the deepest springs of our lives, trying not to touch or be touched; we resist taking the risk of living and loving and getting involved. We try to bury the money. And God says to us, in this parable, "Oh no you don't! I gave you all you are for a reason." As theologian Walter Brueggeman says, "What God does first ...

1174. Can These Bones Live?

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... our lives? Each of us knows. Each of us can feel the brittle dryness that comes when life departs; when spirit withers and blows away. It is vast. It is painful and it feels overwhelming. I mention these closely held and personal wastelands because I believe we must be in touch with these things before we move on to the big picture. I think that too often we stuff it all down and hope that life will skip on to the next chapter as we learn how to walk around our piles of bones. But no matter how we try to ...

1175. Small-Minded Christians in a Big World

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... of truth comes crashing in. The bulk of 1 Corinthians is devoted to dealing with a whole series of such issues. Groups of believers had become comfortable with certain behaviors and practices, which Paul felt were out of step with the gospel and out of touch with reality. On Tuesday, January 28, 1986, Dr. Bob Roberts and I were preparing to lead a lunchtime Bible study at the University of South Florida when the campus minister from next door came bursting in and dragged us all outside. There, in the cold ...

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