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1176. Wedding, Wine, And Wonderment

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . Peterson expresses it in his translation of the Bible, The Message. Jesus said, "No one cuts up a fine silk scarf to patch old work clothes--you want fabrics that match. And you don't put your freshly made wine into cracked bottles." The religious people of Jesus' time were passionately attached to things as they were. The Law to them was God's last and final word--and to add one word or subtract one word was a deadly sin. A new idea was not so much a mistake as a sin. That spirit is by no means dead in ...

1177. Beginning Again

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... didn't come to make bad people good. He came to give dead people life!" Paul is not reminding the Ephesian believers of their past to cause them shame. In fact, he sympathizes with them when he says in verse 3, "All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else." All of us once lived like that. We were all in the same boat. None of us is better than anyone else. So what do we do with our ...

1178. Redefining Life

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , it would be the apostle Paul. He was an intelligent and ambitious man. He was persuasive, a leader in his community, a man who could communicate powerfully with his voice or his pen. Before his conversion to Christ, Paul was a passionate persecutor of Christians. After his conversion, he became the most influential Christian evangelist in history. God gave him visions and miraculous powers. In Acts 19: 1112, we read, "God did extraordinary miracles through Paul, so that even handkerchiefs and aprons that ...

1179. Flesh-eaters; Blood Drinkers

John 6:51-58

Sermon

King Duncan

... that there was more warmth and fellowship in that tavern than there was in the church. If Jesus of Nazareth had his choice, he would probably have come to the tavern rather than to the church we visited." John M. Buchanan has a pastor friend who is passionate about joyful worship. In fact, he has threatened to stand up in church one Sunday and shout, "What's the matter? Somebody die in here?" (4) And we would have to answer, technically, yes. Somebody did die. But he rose again from the dead and is reigning ...

1180. The Voice Of The Lord

Psalm 29:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... heard a voice, "Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?" And Saul asks, "Who are you, Lord?" And the voice said, "I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting." (Acts 9:4-5) And the voice of Jesus turned a man known for his persecutions to a man known for his passion for bringing all people from darkness into the light. Saul, whom we know as St. Paul, so changed from his former life of violence that he could write in I Corinthians 13: "If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am ...

1181. How Did You Do On The Test?

1 Corinthians 10:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... friend who was consumed by her work. All her energy and attention went into her interior decorating business. One day, however, she was diagnosed with cancer. And in an instant, her decorating business took a backseat. All the energy and enthusiasm and passion she had poured into decorating disappeared. Suddenly, her greatest priority was saving her own life. Swatches of fabric and cans of paint fell down near the bottom of her priority list. What she had valued only moments before became like garbage ...

1182. A Church Fueled By Prayer

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... we ask nothing but to be in his presence and to trust his providence. When we do yield ourselves up to him so completely we discover not only peace, but also power; we discover strength, but also sensitivity; we discover patience, but also a strange passion to make our lives count for something significant. Have you ever read about Roland Hayes and his demonstration of faith under a barrage of hatred? Listen to the words of this outstanding black singer: "It was at one of my scheduled concerts in Berlin in ...

1183. The God Who Is Near

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... ). (2) Stephen F. Olford, GOING PLACES WITH GOD, (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1983) (3) Dr. George Buttrick. (4) Nelson L. Price, FAREWELL TO FEAR, (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1983). (5) Susan Russell, quoted in Arthur Tonne, WITH PARABLES, (Emporia, KS: Didde, 1945). (6) Keith Miller and Bruce Larson, THE PASSIONATE PEOPLE, (Waco: Word Books, 1979). (7) (Nashville: Discipleship Resources, 1983). (8) Cyril J. Barber and Gary H. Strauss, THE EFFECTIVE PARENT, (San Bernadino: Here's Life Publishers, Inc. 1980).

1184. A Father Pleased With His Son

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... be more like Christ." (3) Let us have less basement people and more balcony people--less jeering and more cheering. "Thou are my beloved son; with thee I am well pleased." 1. In an interview with George Plimpton. 2. Source unknown. 3. Cited in Keith Miller and Bruce Larson, THE PASSIONATE PEOPLE (Waco: Word Books, 1979.

1185. Playing Church Or Playing Jesus

Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... somewhat ambiguous but never ambivalent. He bitterly attacked the church in some of its hypocritical stances. Yet, throughout his writing, it is evidentthat Shaw saw what a potent and powerful force Christian faith could be if it were lived out with integrity and passion. For example, listen to what he once wrote. Recognize that his words are dated but recognize also how prophetic they were. He wrote: "If some enterprising clergyman with a cure for souls in the slums were to hoist a board over his church ...

1186. A Rainbow And A Cross

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... climbed up a winding mountain road. When he began the journey, he was a young man. After he had climbed a short while, a snarling wolf leaped out of the bushes and tried to tear him to pieces. To Dante this was the wolf of lust, of bodily passion and represented the major temptation of a young person. As he climbed higher and came into middle life, a giant tiger sprang on him. This was the tiger of pride, and represented the great temptation of middle age-- pride of position, of name and of status. Finally ...

1187. More Than "Turkey Day" (New) Thanksgiving

2 Chronicles 9:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... plain meaning of the Message of Christ. You show your gratitude through your generous offerings to your needy brothers and sisters, and really toward everyone. Meanwhile, moved by the extravagance of God in your lives, they’ll respond by praying for you in passionate intercession for whatever you need. Thank God for this gift, his gift. No language can praise it enough!” (5) This is quite a remarkable passage of Scripture. What it says is that gratitude and generosity feed on each other. Find a person ...

1188. The Eureka Experience

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... in that right standing with God if we'll have the faith that Abraham had, that faith that looked forward to Christ and the new life that he would bring. If your life is not centered in God through Jesus Christ, then your life is centered in yourself, in your passions, in your desires. It's centered in your goals, it's centered in the idols that you make the center of your life, it's centered in your sins, and as the scripture says, "Anyone who is not centered in Jesus Christ is one who is dead in his ...

1189. Three Words America Needs to Hear

Acts 24:1-27

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... who took advantage of my co-worker, I am the one who treated my maid or my child with such mean-spiritedness that it brought tears and hurt to their hearts, I am the one who cheated my customers, I am the one who gave the go-ahead to my passions." The dead Christ on the cross accuses us, but the risen Christ, thank God, who took judgment for you and me, stands beside us to defend us. You don''t have to justify or alibi for yourself anymore; you don''t have to pass the buck any longer, for your ...

1190. Forgiveness: Human and Divine

Matthew 6:12-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... that forgiveness state in Jesus Christ. He says we are dead in our trespasses and sins. We follow the prince of the power of the air--Satan. He is managing director. He is really the God in our lives. Paul goes on to say that we live in the passions of the flesh, following the desires ofmind and of body, and so we are by nature children of wrath, like the rest of creation. According to Paul, we are in a hopeless state, we''re under the condemnation, the absolute condemnation of God. We are doomed and we are ...

1191. Jesus, Our Hope

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... to those on whom his favor rests.” The babe in the manger is the hope of the world, and this is Christmas. The babe in the manger is exactly what we need. You see, we are foolish. We are disobedient. We are deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We live in malice and envy and hatred. That’s us! We are foreigners to the covenant of promise. We are far away, and without hope. We are hopeless! We are a hopeless cause. We can’t fix ourselves. We can’t make our day better by trying ...

1192. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , 1951, p. 72) I. THE CHURCH HAS ALWAYS HAD ITS CRITICS. Down through the centuries no institution has been so universally loved on the one hand and universally hated on the other. The pagan Roman emperors of the first Christian centuries hated the Church passionately and tried every means at their disposal to stamp it out. From the early days when Christians paid for their faith by dying in the Roman arenas, through the 1960s in our own country when churches were bombed by those who opposed integration, to ...

1193. Let the Son Shine In

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Archives wrote a book some years ago about life in Victorian times, and titled it: “The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible!” They were! We can just imagine how gloomy, dismal, and uncomfortable the long, dark winter nights must have been. And how passionately people longed for the longer days and shorter nights, longed for the warmth of the sun and the cheerful return of spring. And the spiritual darkness of ancient times was even worse. Not understanding the cause of light and darkness, the meaning of ...

1194. How Free Are We?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... bondage of the children of Israel in Egypt, and God’s mighty act of deliverance in the Exodus. Again and again during the bloody history of the Jewish nation, insurrections and rebellions flared up, as one fiery leader after another would arise to inflame the passions of the people by insisting that Jews could obey no earthly ruler and no earthly king because God alone was their Lord and King. When Jesus was about eleven years old, a man named Judas the Galilean lead a revolt against Rome. The revolt was ...

1195. Love Is Extravagant

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... money given to the poor. As I said, his objection sound eminently reasonable. Jesus certainly had sympathy for the poor, and often condemned wasteful luxury. Indeed, if there is one primary difference between our Lord and most of the rest of us it is that He cared passionately for the poor. Indeed, the whole Bible seems to be prejudiced in favor of the poor. Most of us say, “Why don’t they go out and get a job? Why don’t they lift themselves up by their own bootstraps?” Never mind that they may not ...

1196. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... But true reformation in the Christian Church never means a total rejection of the Gospel which ‘was once delivered to the saints.’ The reformers had no intention whatever of starting up a new Church....at the heart of the Reformation was a passion to return to the true tradition enshrined in the scriptures..” (National Radio Pulpit, Oct. 1981, pp.4-5) But Protestant Christians have sometimes been guilty of doing the same thing they criticize in traditional Roman Catholicism, setting up a set of rules ...

1197. God’s Greatest Gamble

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... which the builders rejected.” So the writer of the First Letter of Peter says: “Come to him, to that living stone, rejected by men but in God’s sight chosen and precious....”(I Peter 2:4) So the entire story in Mark 12 foreshadows the passion narrative which will follow shortly and it anticipates beyond Good Friday, the glorious good news of Easter Day. The famous World War One British poet/chaplain G.A. Studdert-Kennedy (1883-1929) wrote a poem titled “Gambler.” It goes like this: He was a ...

1198. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... have been simply dumb to say, “Oh, yes, of course. I am here under false pretenses.” So he lets Peter off the hook. Weatherhead wrote: “Either he had the intention of rescuing Jesus or else of hearing what was likely to become of him.” “Personalities of the Passion,” New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1963, p. 19) Weatherhead said that if Peter were really such a coward, why did he not stay back in the shadows, instead of coming right up to the fire to catch the gossip of the day? It is an ...

1199. What Kind of Vote Would Jesus Get?

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

All four Gospels make reference to Barabbas, the man who got more votes than Jesus did on that fateful Good Friday so long ago. In his book PERSONALITIES OF THE PASSION, Leslie Weatherhead says: “Matthew and Mark tell us that the priests incited the multitude to choose Barabbas as the one who should be released by the act of clemency with which the government marked the day of Jewish festival. It seems a strange choice.” (New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, ...

1200. Holy Tuesday

Mark 11:27-33

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a title of respect, addressed to laymen learned in the Mosaic law. Although Jesus’ ministry in Judea lasted less than a week, some of His most significant teachings took place during His daily visits to the Temple. Tuesday and Wednesday of Passion Week were crowded with verbal interchanges between Jesus and His adversaries, questions asked Him which gave the occasion for some of His most familiar and powerful teachings. And, like a good rabbi, He usually answered a question with another question. The ...

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