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1176. "Salt and Swaddle"

Luke 2:1-20 · 1 Samuel 16:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . The swaddling signified the uprightness of his future life and a special anointing as a priest or king. We know the tradition was used also among the ancient Hebrews, because Ezekiel mentions Jerusalem’s lack of princely or pure birth and God’s adoption of her as God’s own people, cleansed and wrapped in covenant (16). God’s own people, beloved of God, are wrapped up in covenant with God, as in a swaddle. Swaddling indicated special status, loving protection and affection, and a kind of purity ...

1177. The Good Yoke

Matthew 11:25-30, 1 Kings 19:1-8, 1 Kings 19:9-18, 1 Kings 19:19-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... gained a few pounds, no? But we all do bear a yoke. We yoke ourselves to ideas, concepts, issues, material things, relationships, belief systems. Our yokes in a sense bear the markings of those identities that we are willing to take on as our own identity, the stories we adopt and adapt as our own stories. We all live in a yoke. Our yoke is our way of thinking and our way of being and talking and walking in the world. We all yoke ourselves to someone or something! And that can be good or bad. But for many ...

1178. Jacob's Sheep

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... by the very presence of our super-faith-charged, Jesus-powered community of unconditional love and mutual respect. We are a community immersed in Jesus. That’s who we are. Baptizmo. The community of the baptized –immersed in the power of the Holy Spirit. We are adopted and chosen by God to be part of a community so unique, so different, so extraordinary that people can’t help but say, “I need to find out what makes this people so joyful! So healthy! So kind! So deeply loving! So full of life and ...

1179. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

When Maria (name disguised), dying of cancer, watched her partner hurt her three young children for the 7th time that month, she did the most painful thing a mother can do. She sent them away. She secretly arranged for them to be rescued and adopted, so that she could ensure their safety when she knew she could no longer fend for them. She couldn’t bear to leave them with him while she spent her last days in the hospital. Maria gave up the chance to spend the last moments of her life with her ...

1180. Would You Like to Live Forever?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... or successful, why wouldn’t you want to live forever, especially if you could turn back the clock on your aging body? There was an ancient Greek philosopher named Epicurus whose teachings have become very influential. In fact, you could say that our society has adopted Epicurus as our societal guru. Epicurus taught that the pursuit of happiness is the “sole purpose of life.” (3) I’d say our society is determined to live out this philosophy. But then, how do we explain the rising rates of suicide and ...

1181. A Robot in the Pulpit

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... his strength. Cathleen and her husband had made a commitment to love like Jesus. So they just couldn’t walk away when they met this needy child. They paid to bring Vasco to the U.S. for life-saving heart surgery. A year later, they legally adopted him. And the Falsanis discovered, like Jean Vanier had once said, that they received the greater blessing from this act of love. Today, Vasco is a healthy young college student. He is a living testament to the truth that loving like Jesus can change lives. (5 ...

1182. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... deal with the shock and grief of witnessing such carnage in which she lost members of her own family? She explains it this way, “For this, I have Jesus.” Think about those words for a moment: “For this, I have Jesus.” Rose has adopted two children who were orphaned in the attacks. She supports her small family of five by translating Christian tracts into the local language and organizing an annual conference for widows. What inspires her? As she says, “For this, I have Jesus.” Her heart breaks ...

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

Abraham Lincoln

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Benjamin Franklin

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

Charles Stanley

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Cleveland Abbe

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Dean William R. Inge

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Hans Selye

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Henry S. Haskins

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.

John Newton

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Karl Popper

When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Plato

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Sigmund Freud

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Showing 1176 to 1200 of 1249 results

1176. "Salt and Swaddle"

Luke 2:1-20 · 1 Samuel 16:1-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1177. The Good Yoke

Matthew 11:25-30, 1 Kings 19:1-8, 1 Kings 19:9-18, 1 Kings 19:19-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1178. Jacob's Sheep

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1179. And a Child Will Lead Them

Exodus 2:1-10, Matthew 18:1-9, Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1180. Would You Like to Live Forever?

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

1181. A Robot in the Pulpit

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

1182. You're Watching What?

Matthew 11:1-19, Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be new views.

Abraham Lincoln

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

Benjamin Franklin

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell

The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.

Charles Stanley

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions.

Cleveland Abbe

In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach.

Dean William R. Inge

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Hans Selye

Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Henry S. Haskins

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

John F. Kennedy

The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.

John Newton

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Karl Popper

When you wholeheartedly adopt a "with all your heart" attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily.

Plato

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Toward the person who has died we adopt a special attitude: something like admiration for someone who has accomplished a very difficult task.

Sigmund Freud

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