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1176. All in God’s Time

Revelation 22:12-14, 16-17, 20-21

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... and shows a vision of the future when in God's time, in the fullness of time ... all things shall be accomplished. All shall be set right. Yes, the delay between the sin of Adam and Eve and the coming of Christ was a long time. Yes, three hours on the cross was a long time, especially after you have first been beaten until the white of your backbone and white of your ribs shows through the mangled flesh that once covered them. Yes, God's time is difficult to understand. And, as if to heighten the confusion ...

1177. A Peaceful Life in an Unpeaceful World

1 Timothy 2:1-7

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... might not be quiet and peace. Yet, how can we not speak out? It may seem more peaceful to look the other way, but the end result is not true peace. Even our work within the church on various committees is not outwardly peaceful. It can lead to long meetings and even some disagreements. If we are to be in ministry, we must understand peace and quiet in another way. On a deeper level, we can claim the promise from this passage about quiet and peace. We cannot turn away from the world's suffering, but we ...

1178. Endurance

2 Corinthians 11:24-27, 2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... . I have faced danger from my own people, the Jews, as well as from the Gentiles. I have faced danger in the cities, in the deserts, and on the seas. And I have faced danger from men who claim to be believers but are not. I have worked hard and long, enduring many sleepless nights. I have been hungry and thirsty and have often gone without food. I have shivered in the cold, without enough clothing to keep me warm. — 2 Corinthians 11:24-27 (NLT) How many times do you have to be tied to a pole and beaten to ...

1179. Anatomy Of A Testimony

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... ; and he brought us into this place and gave us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey. So now I bring the first of the fruit of the ground that you, O Lord, have given me" (vv. 5-10). This is the toast, you see, written long before the anniversary. This is Israel's testimony: how God had found them, saved them, led them, and prospered them. The testimony tells the marvelous story of what God had accomplished. For what began as "a wandering Aramean" has become an entire nation, settled and estab ...

1180. The Joy of the Lord

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... not die at the hands of the Nazis directly though the ravages of the camp did weaken him. What kept him alive for so long? His attitude. His determination. In a sense, his faith. The joy of the Lord really was his strength. As you read the story ... of the future.” It’s not really economics that drives human behavior, Brooks continues. “People everywhere,” Brooks says, “long for meaning, purpose, and righteousness beyond economics. . . . Human beings yearn for a world that reflects God’s will in ...

1181. Can you Hear “The Voice?”

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... food. Somewhere he is offered shelter. But his identity has shrunk to “the man on the mat.” He is no longer a son, or a father, or a husband, or a pious man. His identity is that of an invalid. Does he, truly, want to be “healed” of that long-held self-identity? We all have “voices” in our heads that tell us good things and accuse us of bad things. We all have voices in our heads that encourage us to greatness or implode us to destruction. In this week’s gospel text Jesus’ voice offers a ...

1182. No Substitutes

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... wrote a book about it. Her name is Rachel Held Evans and the book is titled A Year of Biblical Womanhood. The book is an attempt to take a look at real women in the Bible and how they are similar to women of today. “I’ve long been frustrated,” Evans said in a press release, “by the inconsistencies with which ‘biblical womanhood’ is taught and applied in my evangelical Christian community. So, inspired by A.J. Jacobs’ [book], A Year of Living Biblically, I set out to follow all of the Bible’s ...

1183. Lost, But Not the TV Show!

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... to keep themselves separate from those who were not as fastidious as they. But this is not what Jesus wants out of his people. He wants us to reach out to the sinner, to embrace those who have wandered into the far country, as if they were our long lost brother or sister, for that is indeed who they are. A pastor, Dr. John W. Yates, tells of the heart-breaking images which came across our TV screens a few years ago when a terrible tsunami swept across the coast of Asia. Perhaps the most heartbreaking of ...

1184. Choosing

Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Argile Smith

... love him, and he even shows us how to express our love for him by loving others. Choosing to devote ourselves to God opens the door for nurturing healthy relationships with ourselves, other people, and the things he has given us in the world. Standing there long ago with the people of Israel at Shechem, Joshua helps us today to make a wise choice about nurturing a relationship with God. Notice in particular how he encourages us to study the options and to allow the facts to guide us to make the right choice ...

1185. Powerless People

Judges 4:1-24

Sermon

Argile Smith

... authority and not to hurt them. If you use it to abuse powerless people, you have to realize that you will be held accountable for your actions. You may think the powerless will have no recourse, but the Lord who loves them won’t sit idly by for long. Just ask the Canaanites. Second, if you have the ability and you want to make a difference in the life of a powerless person, then don’t wait around any longer to do something. Get started now. Do something, anything. Yes, help adults who can’t read or ...

1186. Thanksgivings to Remember

Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon

Argile Smith

... tracks of sadness on her cheeks. She waited for a minute and wondered if she had done the right thing. After all, her mom couldn’t do anything about the change of plans. Her husband (and Kim’s dad) wanted to visit his dad who had been sick for a long time. In fact, the doctors agreed that the past couple of birthdays had not been good to the old gentleman and that no medicine could be prescribed that would stretch out his days. Kim’s dad didn’t want to live in regret over not making one more visit ...

1187. Nicodemus: A Young Old Man

John 3:1-21

Sermon

David O. Bales

... ’s love. With his frail, decrepit hope and tattered, routine faith he left Jesus and walked into the night, but not as he came. The night didn’t seem as dark. He didn’t even think about anyone’s seeing him leave Jesus’ house. Dusk had hushed the land long before, but Nicodemus’s mind swirled with thoughts not about the sundown but of a new dawn. He’d accept the birth from above. But he needed time, as a prince needs time to assess the damage a storm has caused a province. He’d be awake all ...

1188. A New Name for a New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... thing through Isaiah the prophet, “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing” (Isaiah 43:18-19). That is the exciting thing about knowing God. God loves doing a new thing. You and I are often afraid of change. We long to be able to cling to the status quo. Someone has said that status quo is Latin for “the mess we’re in.” It’s dangerous to stick to the status quo. Let me give you an example. Something happened in 1906 that dramatically changed the game of ...

1189. When Fishermen Don't Fish

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... sad reality is that most of us aren’t concerned with fishing for men and women anymore in the same way that Christ called us to be “fishers of men.” We give lip service to bringing people into the family of Christ, but, like most churches, we gave up fishing long ago. We’re willing to accept a fish if it leaps into the boat by itself, but we’re really not all that interested in casting our nets or doing the really hard work it takes to pull them in. We would do well to listen to Max Lucado’s ...

1190. The Foolishness of God

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... s plan. Now I know that silly things happen in the church. I’ve seen them. So have you. Anyone who has been in the church very long has seen some silly things occur. There’s an old, old story of a small country church that was given a big gift of money. They had ... s fable about an old crow who was out in the wilderness and was very thirsty. The old crow had not had anything to drink in a long time. He came to a jug that had a little water in the bottom of it. The old crow reached his beak into the jug to ...

1191. Voice in a Vacuum

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Tony Everett

... and shed for you.” Today God gives you power for mission, to be a blessing to others. So what does it look like to “be a blessing”? Here are some examples discovered in just one day by listening to parishioners and reading the newspaper. Standing in a long grocery store checkout line, a woman was startled when the man behind her handed her an envelope and inside was a $50 bill attached to a note simply saying, “Take it if you need it. Pass it on.” What was astounding here was not just that the ...

1192. Family Re:Union - Great Expectations

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

James Merritt

... loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church.” (Ephesians 5:28-29) Men, it doesn’t get much stronger than this. Think about what you do with your body. All you do all day long with your body is one thing. You satisfy it – when it is hungry you feed it and when it is thirsty you water it. When it is tired you rest it. You take your body to the gym. You take it to the finest restaurants. You take it to the ...

1193. Family Re:Union - (PG) Parental Guidance Required

Psalm 127:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... share their faith. Isaiah 38:19 says.“One generation makes known your faithfulness to the next.” (Isaiah 38:19, LB) Your family is meant to be a relay of God and God’s truth from one generation to the next. You are just a link in a long, long chain. You had better remember this when you are training your children. You are not just training your own children. You are not just raising your own children, but you are raising future generations because the way you raise your child and teach your child and ...

1194. The Runner

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in the summer Olympics there is a “Marathon” race. A “marathon” is a race of 26.3 miles based upon the long-distance “message-machine” run of Pheidippides, a single runner, who delivered the “good news” that the Persians were defeated to the ... with God. As Jesus hung on the cross, his feet and hands reflected the reality of his love. Just like the long distance runners who brought “good news” with their last breath, who brought the “euaggelion,” the evangelical witness, to the village ...

1195. For Those Who Are Auditing the Class

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... of their faith. It is something that they can take or leave according to their current level of interest. They are simply auditing the class. It is not something to which they have committed their lives. But why, someone might ask, should we make a life-long commitment like that in the first place? It is because God has made that kind of commitment to us. We love because He first loved us. Pastor Jeff Richards tells a remarkable story about a physician named John. Some years ago, just as he was beginning ...

1196. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... , or a point in time; rather, God’s salvation was embodied and found in a person — in a little baby, no less. At first, one senses in this scene and in Simeon a profound joy. He is the embodiment of the Israel that awaits the long-awaited Messiah, and indeed “the whole creation (that) has been groaning” (Romans 8:22). Now the promise is fulfilled. Now Simeon may depart in peace. But then, into that joy and peace, Simeon inserts an unsettling word: “A sword will pierce your own soul, too.” Who ...

1197. Life and Light to All He Brings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... first Noel Go’el. Instead of a simple purification and presentation ritual, Simeon proclaims Jesus’ presence to be “salvation.” Jesus is nothing less than “a light for revelation to the Gentiles” and salvation for “your people Israel.” Simeon sings the First Noel to the Long Expected Go’el. Noel Goel. Light is a lovely gift, a living lift. We all know when the power goes out how much we praise the moment when the lights and heat finally kick on. When the power comes back and the lights go ...

1198. When You Drop the Ball, What Next?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Closer to home is Death Valley, California, which lays 282 feet below sea level. But “how low can we go?” The deepest part of the sea is a ripped ribbon on the bed of the Pacific Ocean called the “Mariana Trench.” It is over 1500 miles long, but only about 40 miles wide. Within that “Trench” there is a particular drop off called “The Challenger Deep,” which is the deepest known point in all the oceans. The Challenger Deep plunges down to a depth of 10,994 meters — or 36,070 feet below ...

1199. The Door Is Open

John 10:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... Door Of Significance Remember that I told you when you walk through a door two things always happen: you exit one room and you enter another one. Jesus is telling us when you come to Him, whether you come as a first time believer or you come as a long-time follower you exit a life of frustration and you enter a life of fulfillment. You exit a life of meaningless and you enter a life of meaningfulness. That is what Jesus meant when He said, “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy.” (John 10 ...

1200. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... the story and why He did it, you’re going to learn one of the most valuable life lessons of all. Key Take Away: No Matter How Long You Wait God Is Never Late. It’s one of the most well known stories in the Bible. One of the most famous miracles in the ... will take care of your future, I will take care of your present. That statement is a game changer because Jesus says to all of us, as long as you live I am your life, but when you die, I am your resurrection. I will be there for your present and I will be ...

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