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1176. Saved (Again)!

Exodus 14:19-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... or at both together, always at something which intervenes fatefully in the life of this individual and this group. They sense and experience it as a wonder."3 True religion turns fear into faith, waste into power, worry into prayer, depression into humility, pride into thanksgiving, and perplexity into unrestrained joy. Next came snorting horses, chariots, and cursing drivers into the same path now parted by a wall on either side. But there's mud! The chariot wheels are clogged, mired in the mud of the Sea ...

1177. The Golden Calf

Exodus 32:1-14

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... of national defense. We can place our trust more in our strength, our military might, our weapons of mass destruction than we do in God. We can become arrogant about our status in the world, rather than grateful to God for it. As Psalm 20 says, "Some take pride in chariots, and some in horses." Our military muscle can become a kind of idol. I know how hard it is for some of us to hear that. Our military protects us; soldiers risk their lives for our safety and freedom. I understand that, but anything can ...

1178. What Are You Looking At?

Acts 1:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship Clap your hands, all you peoples; shout to God with loud songs of joy. For the Lord, the Most High, is awesome, a great king over all the earth. He subdued peoples under us, and nations under our feet. He chose our heritage for us, the pride of Jacob whom he loves. Selah. God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of a trumpet. Sing praises to God, sing praises; sing praises to our King, sing praises. For God is the king of all the earth; sing praises with a psalm. God is ...

1179. Good Bread, Better Bread

John 6:51-58

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

... blood, you have no life in you. (John 6:53) Collect Soft bread, warm bread, new bread, how good. We eat this bread and are nourished. Living Bread, Lord, is even better. We break this bread and abide in you forever. Amen. Prayer Of Confession How our pride prevents us from sharing the bread of life in the Body of Christ. Our sisters and our brothers are waiting, and we have our excuses. Forgive us, Lord, for our stiff necks, for our intolerance, and create anew the new life in you. Amen. Hymns "How Pleasant ...

1180. The Wisdom of this World Is Folly!

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Bulletin Aid

Frank Ramirez

Call To Worship God calls the humble, the weak, those despised by the world. Come together not in pride, but in humility. Let your weakness be a mark that Christ is present among us! Collect Our boast, if boast we must, is in you, Spirit of the Living God! We praise your name in this assembly because your foolishness is greater than the so-called wisdom of human leaders. ...

1181. With a Song in Your Heart

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... woman was able to die with God's promise of eternity in her heart. And blessed is the person who is able to experience good fortune with a hymn of adoration in his or her heart. In the context of adoration, good fortune evokes gratitude rather than pride or insatiable appetites for more and more. Gratitude is a really happy way of relating to good fortune. It allows us to enjoy fully without slipping into any of the greedy excesses of our culture. Look at the themes that are parts of the act of adoration ...

1182. A Holy-wood Ending

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... . In fact, they suffered, and we believe that most of them lost their lives doing just what Jesus had instructed them to do. So why did they endure the suffering of Christ? They followed his script because they believed in the ending. A gardener took great pride in caring for his lawn. But one year it grew full of dandelions. He tried every method and product on the market to get rid of them, but nothing worked. Exasperated, he wrote to the Department of Agriculture explaining all that he had done. "What ...

1183. The Gifted

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Maybe you should," he said. "After all, that's why a lot of people come to First Presbyterian Church. They like the pastors. They perceive a certain charm about the congregation. They recognize a certain sparkle, flash, and inspiration. It inspires confidence and certainty and pride. People look at our pastors and our church, and they see charisma." "Ah, be quiet," I said. "That's not what I'm going to talk about." No, today what I want to say is this: that the church in its truest expression, the church ...

1184. Beautiful Feet

Romans 10:5-15

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... commands the disciples to follow his example: "You also ought to wash one another's feet" (John 13:14). An image that reminds us of the value of humility, of the need to humble ourselves, and to remember that it is not our efforts which should lead us to pride, but the efforts of God working through us. Paul reminds us of all this in his series of questions leading up to this comment about feet. "But how are they to call on one in whom they have not believed?" Paul begins with a basic question: How can ...

1185. Complete Joy

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... way to ensure that conflicts rarely get out of hand. In fact, following this advice usually means that what conflict exists is truly centered on questions that matter, never on questions of one person's ego, another person's position, and someone else's pride. If we consistently regard others as better than ourselves, and each person regards others as better than themselves, then it is much easier to do those things that will make Paul's joy complete. If that advice isn't enough, Paul goes on to say ...

1186. Bragging Rights

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... better than we are. Rather than excluding others, this relationship with Christ invites others to join with us and share in the love of God as we have come to know it through Christ. Through all of this, we might expect Paul to show a little pride, a little bit of bragging about how he has already established this relationship, and enjoyed the benefits of it such as resurrection and eternal life. We might expect it, but Paul surprises us once again when he confesses that he has not yet obtained the benefits ...

1187. The Cloak

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Sermon

Rick Brand

... more because nothing we ever get satisfies us. The old preacher in the book of Ecclesiastes went from fame to knowledge to power to wealth, and each time, he concluded that it was emptiness, vanity, vanity, all is vanity, and he was not talking about pride; he was saying it was smoke and mirrors, all mist and clouds; mirage, which offered a promise of satisfaction, but when you grabbed it, it all disappeared. Getting the new tool does not satisfy the hunger that wanted the new tool. Signing the big contract ...

1188. He's Back

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , moral people by any standard. They kept waiting for Jesus to go tell other people to repent, to stop their sinning. Jesus kept telling the strong and the righteous in this world to start doing something good. He told them to repent of their pride, their smugness, their hypocrisy and self-righteousness, their narrow prejudice and enormous greed. Jesus did not tell the weak to repent. He healed them and forgave them. He told the strong to repent. I believe that God gives every generation an opportunity to ...

1189. Imagine a World

Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... you repented, so you should seek out those from whom you are estranged. Don't sit back in self-righteousness because you are right and they are wrong. Don't sit back in smugness because you haven't done what they have done. And don't sit back in pride because you do all things excellently and they make dumb mistakes. Don't sit there and do nothing. That's the way the world works. Imagine a new world. Imagine a world that Jesus came to establish where prodigality is not the only sin, separation is also a sin ...

1190. The Messiah

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... invitation to come home. Israel was in exile in Babylon, the prodigal son was in the "far country." That is the phrase that Jesus used. He is in the "far country," like Babylon. Israel trusts God's invitation to return. The prodigal son swallows his pride, ends his rebellion, and comes home to be forgiven. So, "comfort ye my people; your warfare is ended, your rebellion is ended. Your iniquity, your sins, are pardoned." So come home. What comes next is absolute genius. As we move toward the nativity scene ...

1191. The Time of Waiting Is Over

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... how our lives were determined not so much by forces or powers outside of us, but by the fears that are inside of us. That is what controls our lives. Fears, in the case of South Africa, that are nurtured by separation and segregation, and ignorance and pride, fears that hold the whole society, black and white, in bondage. He concluded that article with his own personal word. He said, "What then has life taught me? She has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She has ...

1192. This Is Not the Race I Entered

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... get through this in a way that new life will come to you. That is why this instruction is here, one two three, these hard sayings. "He called the multitude with his disciples, and said to them, `If you would be my disciple, deny yourself.'" Which means, your pride isn't going to do you any good here. This thing that has happened to you has cut you down to size. It has revealed your mortality, your finitude, your sinfulness. So the first thing you have to take along with you on this journey is humility. Then ...

1193. The Burglar's Christmas

Luke 15:22-24

Drama

Matthew Powell

... is the night he came so long ago, you remember? I gave him to you then, and now give him back to me! Father: Don't Helen. He is my son, too; I have never forgotten that. I failed with him. I don't like to fail, it cuts my pride. (Father exits) Narrator 2: She flew into the room where the young man stood with his head bowed. Mother: He is so glad, Willie, so glad! He may not show it, but he is as happy as I am. He never was demonstrative with either of us, you know. Will ...

1194. Advent 2

Isaiah 11:1-16, Matthew 3:1-12, Romans 14:1--15:13

Bulletin Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... within the covenant. It is like calling upon church members to be re-baptized. Through baptism they are to repent and receive spiritual cleansing. Is the church today not also needing a call to repentance? Consider the sins of church people: pride, gossip, apathy, selfishness, materialism, moral laxity, and strife. This sermon is needed to afflict the comfortable in our churches. Outline: Why church people need to repent. a. The come as spectators of repentance - v. 7. b. They trust in church membership ...

1195. Advent 3

Romans 14:1--15:13, Matthew 11:1-19, James 5:7-12, Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

1196. Epiphany 7

Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 5:33-37, 1 Corinthians 3:1-23, Leviticus 19:1-37

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... granted as a normal and natural phenomenon. The command is to love neighbor as much as you love yourself! To love oneself is normal. It is abnormal to hate oneself or to love oneself excessively. We can go to both extremes - either into depression or into pride and arrogance. If we loved our neighbor as ourselves, we would put the neighbor first and would desire for the neighbor only the best things in life. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23 1. Foundation (v. 10). If a Christian or a church is compared ...

1197. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, Ezekiel 37:1-14, Romans 8:1-17, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... to our turning to God in repentance and faith. 2. Original sin. This passage deals with the universality of sin caused by Adam. This does not mean all sons of Adam are responsible for his sin in the garden. It means that his sin of disobedience, pride, and rebellion possess all people everywhere. It is a condition of human nature - a disposition and inclination to oppose God. As a result, all people suffer death. 3. The solution to sin and death. The solution is Jesus, the one man who lived perfectly, who ...

1198. Proper 7

Matthew 10:1-42, Romans 6:1-14, Romans 5:12-21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... there were jealousy and envy as she watched her son and stepson play together. The challenge for parents is to love each child equally. 2. Innocent Suffering (21:14). As Adam listened to his wife, Abraham listened and obeyed Sarah. She asked out of pride, jealousy, and envy. And what was the result? Innocent suffering. Did Ishmael as a little boy deserve facing death in a wilderness? How did Hagar deserve her rejection? After all, Sarah suggested to Abraham that he have a son by Hagar. People innocently ...

1199. Proper 8

Genesis 22:1-19, 2 Kings 4:8-37, Romans 6:1-14, Romans 6:15-23, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... loyalty to God. At the moment Abraham is about to plunge the knife into Isaac, God stops him and provides a substitute sacrifice of a ram. Lesson 1: 2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16 (RC) Opening our lives to God's messengers. Lesson 1: Isaiah 2:10-17 (E) Pride will be destroyed and God will be exalted. Lesson 2: Romans 6:12-23 (C) Be not slaves of sin but slaves of God. Lesson 2: Romans 6:3-4, 8-11 (RC); Romans 6:3-11 (E) Christians are dead to sin and alive to God in Christ. Since ...

1200. Proper 15

John 6:25-59, 1 Corinthians 10:14-22, Deuteronomy 8:1-20

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... forget God and what he did for them: his leadership through the wilderness, his provision of food and drink, and his protection against natural enemies. If a people forget the God who brought them out of bondage, they will fall back into the bondage of their own pride and wordliness. Epistle: 1 Corinthians 10:16-17 1. A Person In Christ (10:16). "In Christ" is a phrase Paul uses 164 times to describe a Christian. Christ lives in the believer and the believer is in Christ. When does this become a reality? In ...

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