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101. The Most Vexing Question In The Bible

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... campaign for the church. There are some people who simply do not trust God to provide for their needs and so they hedge their gifts. They are afraid to trust their all to God. What is faith? Is it mere intellectual belief? Is it having your children baptized and dropping in at the local house of worship once or twice a year? I'm not giving answers this morning. I'm trying to deal seriously with Christ's words in our text. The owner of the house will say, "I don't know where you come from." "Then," said ...

102. Thanks For All You've Done

Colossians 1:15-23, Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... say, "Because anyone who does believe in God is a fool. If God existed, he could stop this piece of chalk from hitting the ground and breaking. Such a simple task to prove that he is God, and yet he can't do it." And every year, he would drop the chalk onto the tile floor of the classroom and it would shatter into a hundred pieces. All of the students could do nothing but stop and stare. Most of the students were convinced that God couldn't exist. Certainly, a number of believers had slipped through, but ...

103. Positive Faith

Matthew 13:31-35

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... the color you just put in). Just a second ago, this water had no color at all. But when I added just a couple of drops of food coloring, it changed the color of all the water in the bowl. That little bit of food coloring was pretty powerful, wasn't ... change the world around us. And we don't have to be big and powerful to change the world in this way. Just like it only took a few drops of food coloring to make a big change in the color of the water, it only takes a few of us sharing about Jesus to make a big ...

104. You Will Not Leave My Soul In Hell

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . When the ship leaves the harbor, the same pilot comes aboard to take her out to deep water and the open sea, and then they `drop the pilot.' "`Dropping the pilot' has always made me sad," she writes, "whether it happens on a ship or in a human life, but `picking up the pilot ... me,' I sang as a child, and it means more to me now that I have put away childish things. I suppose I picked up and dropped a dozen pilots for my life's voyage, before he came to guide me. Don't we all? When the boy is six he wants to ...

105. Don't Let Your Tongue Bite You

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... our tongues should bless--rather than blast or burn another human being. There is a country church in a small village in Croatia. One day near the beginning of the 20th century, an altar boy named Josip Broz served the priest at Sunday Mass. The boy accidentally dropped the glass cruet of wine. It smashed to pieces. The village priest struck the altar boy sharply on the cheek and in a gruff voice shouted: "Leave the altar and don''t come back." He never did come back to the Church. That boy became Tito, the ...

106. The Reality of the Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... I'm not sure how clouds are formed, but clouds know how to do it, and that's the important thing." OK. One was asked to describe how rain happens, the 6th grader said, "Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does." Uh huh. One defined a monsoon as a French gentleman. A couple more: One youngster said, "When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are orbiting. When people do it, we say they are crazy." True. One defined the spinal column as "a long ...

107. Gethsemane: Prelude To The Cross

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ordeal before him the bitter cup of the cross, isn’t that obvious in his prayer? “Father, all things are possible to Thee; remove this cup from me.” Luke’s Gospel portrays the struggle even more graphically. He says that as Jesus prayed, sweat drops of blood popped out on his forehead, and dropped in the dust. Let there be no mistake about it. Jesus had a choice in this matter. If He didn’t have a choice, everything we see here is a farce. He had a choice, and thus what we’re dealing with is not ...

108. We Can't Afford It! Oh, Really?

John 6:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... the unthinkable happened. The United States was ahead by 10 meters with no real competition in sight. And then, with victory in their grasp, it happened. They dropped the baton. The thousands in the stands gasped in disbelief. The United States team--sleek, muscular, and fast as leopards, lost the race. Why? Someone dropped the baton. (3) I would hate for us as a church to be the people who dropped the baton. What is God calling us to be and to do as God’s people in this time and this place? It’s not a ...

109. No Shame

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)

Sermon

William G. Carter

... committee asked a woman to serve as an elder in a church I used to serve. At first she said, "Yes," but then she dropped by for coffee to voice some second thoughts. "What if people find out about my daughter?" she asked. Her daughter is an exotic ... stayed up, prayed up, and preached up for the cause for Christ. * I am his disciple. * I must go until he comes, give until I drop, preach until all know, work until he stops me. * When he comes back, I want him to recognize my face. * For I have forgotten all ...

110. More!!!

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... wandering though Toys'R'Us in late November, Israel had to wait. The world had to wait. God's activity in the world was not diminished, the divine plan was not put on indefinite hold. Instead what had to happen was the drop-by-drop, inch-by-inch, prophet-by-prophet preparation of God's people, of God's world, for the transformative moment. Well-loved children's writer/poet/theologian Madeleine L'Engle described with her characteristic clarity how all these centuries of promises, changes, cataclysms, and ...

111. Love Them Before You Leave Them

John 19:25-26

Sermon

James Merritt

... died; in open public to the jeers of a sinful world. She sorrowed because of why He died; for something He did not even do. Can you mothers imagine what it would be like to see your darling son, with the blood dripping down his face, with spit dropping from his beard, with tears drying on his cheek, with the life draining from his body. Simeon was more of a prophet than he even realized, because surely that mother felt that sword piercing her very soul. An anonymous poet of the middle ages expressed it this ...

112. Don't Sweat the Sin Debt

John 19:30

Sermon

James Merritt

... did pay that debt. We don't have a Czar, we have a Savior. When Jesus said "It is finished!" that meant the last drop of blood had been shed. The final price had been paid. The cup of God's wrath had been drained completely dry. The debt of ... It is finished!" It was used by artists. When an artist was painting a portrait and touched the canvas for the last time, applied the last drop of paint with the last stroke of his brush, he would step back and say, "Tetelestai it is finished!" Jesus said in Jn 4:34, " ...

113. Service

Matthew 25:14-30

Illustration

Richard Love

... contribution would not be missed amid so much music, stopped playing. Suddenly, the great leader stopped and cried out, "Where is the piccolo?" The sound of that one small instrument was necessary to the harmony, and the Master Conductor missed it when it dropped out. The point? To the Conductor there are no insignificant instruments in an orchestra. Sometimes the smallest and seemingly least important one can make the greatest contribution and even if it doesn't seem to make that big a difference to the ...

114. A Stone’s Throw Away

1 Samuel 17

Sermon

James Merritt

... person that has the confidence to step out for the fight, "Go get them Tiger. We are going to fight this giant 'til the last drop of your blood." David did step out because he had the last thing we need to have which is… III. Commitment To Step Into The ... tell you this, David takes a sling shot and a stone and sends a divinely guided missile that hits Goliath right between the eyes and drops him like a bad habit. The battle can be described in three words. There was a chunk, a plunk, and a thunk and it was ...

115. Is God Pleased With Me?

Hebrews 11:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... his partner in the next line, he would pass on his light and that man would then go on and pass on the light until the finish line was reached. Two things were vitally important. First, they could not allow the light to go out and second they could not drop the torch. The Greeks coined a phrase out of that relay race that went like this -"Let those who have the light pass it on." That is the reason Cross Pointe exists. That we will pass on the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the next generation so ...

116. Leaping from Recognition Point

2 Samuel 11:26—12:13a

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realized exactly how much right he has to all his snobbery, and sneering, and talking about "criminals," as if they were [beasts] in a forest 10,000 miles away ... till he's squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is to somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat.1 That is a "there but for the grace of God go I," understanding of human nature. In a previous ...

117. All Is New in Christ

John 11:4-6, Philippians 3:4-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... thoughts against others and await our chance to respond. Similarly, some cannot forgive themselves for past indiscretions. It is necessary to re-evaluate what we do and how we do it; we must transform the way we do things. In the end, however, we need to drop the past and move forward. Transformation requires us to let go of the past, but we often find this extremely difficult. Thus, we need outside help and there is no better source than God's Word. Scripture provides much evidence of God's willingness to ...

118. You Can't Fool God: Ananias and Sapphira

Acts 4:33 - 5:11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it to God. Admit it to those who need to know, you'll be surprised how supportive they will be when you seek help. God wants us to drop our masks and be made whole. I don't care what kind of guilt you carry. I don't care what kind of problem you have. God ... of your guilt and wounds of your soul. God wants to help you live from the inside out like Jesus. But first, you have to drop your mask for God and ask for help. 1. The Pastor's Story File (Saratoga Press, P.O. Box 8, Platteville, CO, 80651; 970-785- ...

119. Follow Your Failures (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 21:1-14

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... hand of a loving God reaching out to his own saying, “Could we start again, please, could we start again?” Grace is God Almighty saying, “I love you anyway.” Grace fits faulty people. III. Restoration is Possible I have a brother-in-law who dropped out of college after one year, and spent most of his life climbing poles and stringing cable for the telephone company. He made a decent living for his family, but his passion was never with the telephone company. He eventually had a heart attack which ...

120. Hope In The Midst of Uncertainty

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the seasons of the church and the Christian year. But it's especially present during Advent and Christmas. You see there's a universal need for hope. Even amongst the Half Empty folks. And the truth is it's contagious. Sometimes all it takes is just a few drops and it colors the rest of a whole life. One of the best movies of the 90's is "The Shawshank Redemption" based on a short story by Stephen King. In the movie, Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker who is unjustly convicted of murder and sent to Shawshank ...

121. Doing Our Best

Romans 12: 1-13

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... God in a moment of tragedy. If we can unite like that in an emergency, cannot the faithful people of the world unite like that for the unity of humankind? You see, I want to build an army today. I want to build an army of people today, not to drop bombs, but to spread blessings throughout this world of ours. I want a hundred people who will commit to being an intercessor for the needs of the world, to bring humanity's needs to the throne of grace that God may see fit to bless us. I want one hundred ...

122. Serving the Poor—Compassionately

Matthew 25: 31-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. So you begin with one. If I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up 42,000. My whole work is only a drop in the ocean. But if I didn't put the drop in, the ocean would be one drop less." Saints are those who find a need and try to fill it. Their action may not be a solution to the health care crisis in America, but transportation for an elderly person to the doctor. Their action may not be a ...

123. Political Pardon

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... was a guilty woman; why should he look at her in any other way? She was the one who nearly destroyed their marriage. If it were not for righteous Fouke, it could never have been saved. Yet, day-by-day Fouke's debilitating pain increased, as angels continued to drop pebbles into his heart. By the time he finally relented, he was almost walking on his head, and there was no longer any way to hold himself high and rigid with pride. So, in the dark of night, as a lightening bolt of agony ripped through him, he ...

124. Backseat Drivers: Named, Claimed, Commissioned

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Tony Everett

... the pastor to lead her down the center aisle toward the altar. "Look at the cross, Kathy. Here is where Jesus suffered and died so that you might have life. Here is the altar where Jesus gave his own flesh and blood for you." Kathy dropped to her knees and began sobbing uncontrollably. After a few minutes, just when Pastor Michael was planning to call the emergency squad, Kathy stood up. Placing her bloodstained towel and straight razor on the altar, Kathy announced, "Okay, I remember. Let's go get some ...

125. Fido’s Dilemma

Romans 6:1-11

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... in order to take hold of the new can easily be misunderstood. So often we want to turn it into what the lawyers call quid pro quo, "this for that." It's called "let's make a deal!" If you do this, then I will do that. "Fido, if you drop the bone, then I will give you the meat." But that is not the logic and grammar of the gospel. That may be the way the world works, but that is not what God is up to in Jesus Christ. The grammar of the gospel is quite different. It is ...

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