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1201. There's Blindness, and There's Blindness

John 9:13-34, John 9:1-12

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... mean, we DO believe that God is all-powerful, all holy, all love, don’t we? We’ve learned this primarily through looking at the life of Jesus, who teaches us that even though God is all-powerful, God chooses, because of His holiness and love for us, to give up that power in order to allow us to make our own choices in life. That’s an Old Testament theme also. How often did the prophets urge the people to choosed whom they would serve? So God’s love and justice require the restraint of power in order ...

1202. Six Nails of the Cross III: The Nail of Envy

Matthew 27:11-26

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... other is that we shall release the envy that has plagued us today and yesterday. We shall drop that hammer before we strike one more blow upon the nail and we shall ask for deliverance. No envy, just love. Never underestimate it. Pilate did, and look what it cost him. Give up the envy and rejoice in the well-being of others. It will make a new person out of you and it will have meant that Christ died to forgive what you have given up.

1203. Coming on the Clouds of Glory

Matthew 26:47-56

Drama

Joe Barone

... is that a few of you Christians are willing to die for this Jesus. Herod, Nero and Domitian, they've all killed Christians. I'm an old, old man now. I've lived way longer than I ever thought I'd live, and I'm still surprised that people will give up their lives for Jesus. I know that letter they passed around, the letter from John who was exiled on Patmos. He claims to have seen one like "a son of man." His head and hair "were white as wool," the letter says. Ha! I guess your John of Patmos reads ...

1204. Why Did the Cheering Stop?

Luke 22:54-62

Illustration

... of his ministry Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God. That's what they wanted to hear about, especially since they misunderstood this kingdom to be a restoration of Israel to the days of King David’s glory. But increasingly Jesus began to talk about sacrifice—even giving up your life. The story is told of the pee-wee baseball game. When the young boy got up to the plate he looked over to the coach, and he saw him give the signal to sacrifice bunt. He then promptly proceeded to take three big swings and ...

1205. The Call to Servanthood

Isaiah 42:1-9

Sermon

... banquet they gave each of us little silver basketballs. But we had one player too many. We had to choose who would not get a silver basketball. Several felt the runt ought not receive a silver basketball. However, the biggest guy on the team said he would give up his award for the runt. Later the team chipped in to buy a basketball for the fellow who gave his up. In the matter of choosing, the world is not much different today. Always we seek the best, the brightest, the richest, the strongest, the fastest ...

1206. Pentecost 4

Psalm 100:1-5, Genesis 25:19-34, Exodus 19:1-25, Romans 5:1-11, Matthew 9:35-38, Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon Aid

... today's baby boomers. He quotes Mark Jares, a Minneapolis investment advisor, who says, "Baby boomers have the attitude that they should have the cars, the $300,000 houses, the clothes every day, that it's not something they should wait for, or have to give up when they retire." They want what the world has to offer - now. A survey in California last year, showed that forty-six percent of the baby boomers expect to retire before they are sixty, another seventeen percent want to retire before they are fifty ...

1207. "American Express Traveler’s Cheques ..."

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Peter Rudowski

... , and it did cost dearly. Death on the cross does not take away the messiahship of Jesus. The Jesus standing on the road saying "whoa" is in many ways the man behind the counter helping our young couple to see that all is not lost. It is not time to give up. We all need a new perspective at times. We all need to find new ways of looking at things. There are many who tell us that perspective and insight come from within ourselves. We need to look deeper and deeper into our very being. As we unfold each layer ...

1208. Grace, Salvation, and Redemption

Romans 8:18-27, 1 Corinthians 15:1-11, Romans 5:1-11

Sermon Aid

T. A. Kantonen

... that. Around the cross revolves God’s whole redemptive plan for his creation and as such it has cosmic proportions. "God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself" (2 Corinthians 5:19). As Bonhoeffer insisted, the whole world belongs to Christ for he will not give up what he has so dearly won. "For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross" (Colossians 1:19). Thus Karl Heim can ...

1209. A Real Champion

2 Timothy 4:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... for Paul. He is ready to die and glad that soon he will be with God in heaven. There are others like Timothy who must now fight the battle. They, too, must fight with love, patience, kindness and all the things that Paul fought with, but they must never give up until the end, or the 15th round. God looks for champions like Paul and Timothy, people who are ready to stay with him all the way. There are many different kinds of champions, but none of them is as rewarded as the champion of God. Imagine how Paul ...

1210. God Knows

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

John W. Wurster

... vineyard owner starts again with a new vine, a vine that cannot be found anywhere else, a vine that he fashioned himself. You might even say it was a vine that came from his very heart. In the rubble of our failures and mistakes, the God who will not give up sent Jesus Christ, a Lord to worship, a Savior to help, a Teacher to learn from. One of peace and wisdom and salvation, one who cannot be found anywhere else, one from the very heart of God. God planted Jesus in the vineyard of the earth, and Jesus says ...

1211. A Song of Promise

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... Huns at the time of the invasion of the Roman Empire. Yet, in the face of the worst, the prophet counseled the people to take heart, because the Lord, the King of Israel, was in their midst. They would not have to fear. Nor would they have to give up and let their hands grow weak. God was on their side, and God would give them the victory. The history of Judah subsequently appeared to belie that. Judah did go into captivity, and Jerusalem languished for a long time after the return from the exile. Yet there ...

1212. You Do Have A Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

... problems that hinder people, that burden people, that disturb people… and keep them away from the Christian faith. One of the barriers he listed was…"unanswered prayer." It does seem to be a fact of our experience that many people do get discouraged and they do give up and drop out on the faith because they feel a sense of failure in their prayer life. This leads us to ask then… "How do you pray?" "Why pray at all?" "When do you pray?" "Is there a special formula or a sacred language that should ...

1213. Unexpected Evangelists

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... more thing - be persistent...not obnoxious, persistent. And be specific. A casual, "Why not come to church sometime?" will not do the job nearly so well as an invitation to a certain event or service. If your friends cannot come to this one, do not give up. Invite them again to something else. I have told you before of one fellow's efforts. This wonderful man was not well educated and his manner was somewhat rough and crude. He became a Christian and took the Lord's requirement seriously. He kept pestering ...

1214. A Labor of Love - Labor Day

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... to be understood as asceticism or as self-hate. Just as Jesus' call to discipleship is not a joining in the cultural infatuation with self-esteem, neither is it the opposite. Nor is the self-denial to which Jesus calls the opposite of self-fulfillment. Just giving up things will not make one Christian; it will only make one empty. What is difficult for our culture to understand, indeed what it cannot understand on its own terms, is an orientation to one's life that is not focused on self at all...”(4 ...

1215. The Power to Change the Past

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... is to seek revenge: poison your partner..."Don't get mad, get even"..."Sue their socks off." The idea behind those options is misconceived justice, that there is a balance owed to you, and somehow you will make the wrongdoer pay. To choose forgiveness is to give up that balance-sheet view. By letting go of our sense of being wronged, we can also let go of bitterness and resentment and open ourselves to much more healthy and wholesome emotions. We take control of how we feel about the past. Lew Smedes is a ...

1216. Jerry's Story . . . And Ours

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... HAVE A PURPOSE IN LIFE TOO. You are not an accident. You were made and "set apart" for a very important task: to glorify God and reflect His image to others. Does that mean you have to go into the ministry? No. Does that mean you have to give up your job and spend all your time in prayer and Bible study? Not hardly. Maybe you glorify God through your position as a father, a special ed teacher, a stockbroker, a data entry clerk, or a mechanic. Someone wrote in to the "Ask Marilyn" column in Parade Magazine ...

1217. Looks Like We're in for Stormy Weather

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... or a mistake is made--and out of nowhere bursts a mindless wave of rage. "That''s it! There''s no use talking any further! I just can''t go on like this." And the boat is swamped with indignation. It seems like everything you worked for is destroyed. We give up hope at that point and take our eyes off Jesus! If we are honest, we've all been in storms like that. They come at us from any direction, or from no direction at all. They come from within, rising up from way down deep where the beasts do dwell ...

1218. Living with the Aches and Alleluias

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... came power and there came light. There came life and there came future. No matter how hard circumstances seem to be, there is never a time in the life of a child of God when he ought to conclude, "That''s it! I quit! I throw in the towel! I give up!" If God can reach down and touch the earth in all its darkness and sin and win the victory, he can handle your situation. If freedom is the ability to fulfill the purpose for which you were created, then fear is that power which attempts to destroy that purpose ...

1219. Working Out Our Salvation

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... out as a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith. My biggest problem, and this is confession time –my biggest problem, not only as it relates to how I express my obedience to Christ, but in my basic approach to life, is an unwillingness to give up control. Can you identify with that? Most of us keep a tight grip on the controls of our lives. In fact, most of our knuckles are white, because we grip those controls so tightly. To abandon myself in faith to Christ, is hard even to talk about ...

1220. A Hope for Peace

Romans 15:4-13

Sermon

James L. Killen

... ? First, believe the promise and claim the hope that there can be peace. When we talk about the conflict in the Holy Land, we often hear people say, "Those people have been fighting over there for thousands of years and they always will." We can't let ourselves give up to that. Peace is still a real possibility for those people and for all people because of something that happened in that very land. You have heard that the Bible says, "There will be wars and rumors of wars." Look that up in Matthew 13:7 and ...

1221. Kairos Commitments

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... and prominence by the risks he had taken. De Klerk's vision of the kingdom for South Africa meant the loss of white power, but it also meant the fulfillment of justice. It was his vision that led him to make a kairos commitment - a willingness to give up personal gain for the fulfillment of God's reign. Several years ago, God broke into the comfort of this community in a kairos moment. By raising the reality of the pain of the children of Anacostia, a call to commitment was made. Twenty people responded to ...

1222. The Death That Ends All Death

1 Peter 3:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... Me, but I lay it down of Myself." (vv.17-18) Eccl. 8:8 says, "No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, and no one has power in the day of death." That is, when it is time for you to die, you're going to give up your spirit whether you want to or not. But the Bible says in Mt. 27:50 that Jesus "yielded up His spirit." He died voluntarily for our sins. That's why I call it a sacrificial death. A chaplain was going around speaking to soldiers who had been wounded in ...

1223. A Man for All Seasons

1 Corinthians 9:16-23

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... our anchor must be safe and secure, that does not preclude moving in waters — deep or shallow — to influence others for Christ and the church. There are those who would view this as a fragmented and therefore unacceptable approach to presenting the gospel. Paul did not give up the gospel he was trying to promote! We don't need to do that, either. Ideally, we are strong enough in the faith, as we move about, to provide a certain spiritual aroma that causes others to want what we have. The more we can ...

1224. The Spiritual Gateway

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... . I'm going first"? C. walk to the front of the line and say to those standing there, "Excuse me, but my flight's about to take off. Would it be all right if I went ahead of you?" Some of us might choose option A, and just give up, but assuming we weren't giving up that easily, how many would choose option B and bully our way to front knocking people of way? None of us, I suspect. But we might try something like option C, politely asking people to let us ahead of them. But why is the bully method wrong ...

1225. Call to Oneness

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... framework in the long run may not model in love what we say we are about! Political tugs-of-war to see who controls what may break our hearts. However, we learn we are successful in our quest, as long as we do not lose sight of the vision and give up. The Holy Spirit gently reminds us to celebrate the oneness in love which already exists. It may be viewed as partial, but at least, it is that! We are never defeated in our mandate, as long as we refuse to surrender. Love shall continue to abide, as we are ...

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