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Luke 1:26-38, 2 Samuel 7:1-17, Romans 16:1-27

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Will Willimon

... Joshua and Judges would be reduced to the length of editorial page of the Duke Chronicle. But our problem would not be solved. For everywhere you turn, not on1r in the Bible but in the Christian faith as a whole, we are confronted, not with lofty ideals and grand abstractions but with historical particulars. Intellectuals want God to be the unmoved mover or the ground of all being, and here is some farmer on his knees praying for rain so that his soybeans won't fail. We design a definition of the atonement ...

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Psalm 128:1-6

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... the men are to appear before the Sovereign LORD” (Exod. 23:17; cf. Deut. 16:16) at the major temple festivals. Nevertheless, the meaning of this psalm is easily extended to include both male and female. 128:5–6 Now the psalm seeks to make this ideal a reality, not merely through one’s labor (v. 2) but through prayer. Blessedness is not viewed as an automatic consequence of one’s actions—it is a divine gift. The realization of the blessing is conditional on one’s asking, on Yahweh’s free choice ...

103. Can You See Where We're Going

Mark 10:46-52

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William G. Carter

... out of focus and not even known it. We begin to enjoy our own importance, or we protect ourselves from criticism, or we start believing we have seen it all. Whatever the case, our vision for life can grow accustomed to all kinds of distortions. Maybe we compromise ideals we once held dearly. Or we defend our tired opinions from any act of God. Or one day we wake up to discover we have become content to live without any dreams. And so the good news comes in the request, "Teacher, let me see again." In effect ...

104. Anticipation Proclamation

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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Tony Everett

... wants and desires ... and right now. This was definitely the situation of the people at the time of our text in Zephaniah. Great expectations. Great anticipations, yet there was no connection to God's will. They anticipated deliverance, right now. They anticipated the ideal Messianic Kingdom, right now. They anticipated that God as warrior-king would bring about a golden age according to their own wants and desires, right now. Success in our time according to our own definition is still a major theme in our ...

105. Queen Of Hearts!

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Stephen M. Crotts

... intimidated by her. Simply imitate her. True, the Proverbs 31 woman never really existed except in the mind of a queen. This Bible chapter is the childhood memory of Lemuel, a young prince. It was the wisdom his mother put there, a sort of composite ideal. Attitude First, consider the attitude this feminine role model has. Likely she is not a beauty queen. In verse 30 her husband praised her character not her body. He minimized beauty and charm, saying, "Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman ...

106. Easter 5

Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 11:1-18; 13:44-52; 14:21-27 · Rev 21:1-6 · Ps 148

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... many homes still intact are miserable, we need to find the formula for keeping our families together and happy. In the text John uses the imagery of the family to describe the new Kingdom of God. If the formula is followed, homes can be a heaven on earth. Outline: The ideal home for you is – a. A home where Christ is the husband v. 2. A home whose head is Christ. b. A home where the bride is the church v. 2. A home where the church exists; the family is also God's family. c. A home where the children ...

107. The Lenten Season

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John R. Brokhoff

... a minister follows the lectionary for Lent, when does he have the time and opportunity to preach the cross and dwell on the passion? 3. Solutions. The modern preacher confronting the above problem can find a solution in different approaches. a. Ideal situation. With courage and determination, he schedules a full program of services on Sundays and midweek. He uses the lectionary on Sunday mornings, doctrinal themes on Sunday evenings, provided they are held and Lenten subjects at the midweek Lenten services ...

108. Proper 28

Lk 21:5-19 · Isa 65:17-25 · 2 Thes 3:6-13 · Ps 98

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John R. Brokhoff

... needs. In our day, however, there are people who would rather live on public welfare than work. In this case, we can hear Paul say: "No work, no eat!" 3. Example (v. 9). A leader should never ask followers to do what the leader will not do. Paul was an ideal leader. What he asked of others, he himself did. Boldly he says that they should imitate his example. When it comes to work, he earned his own living to avoid being a burden to the church. His people are asked to do the same. A pastor is an example for ...

109. Envy - Where Is The Grass Greener?

Gn 4:1-26, Mt 20:1-16, Philip 4:10-20

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R. Curtis Fussell

... In their teens Robert and Larry had a friendly rivalry going between them. So Robert came up with this idea of trying to impress Larry that he had become extremely wealthy. There was a very exclusive neighborhood in town with many magnificent homes which would be ideal for this scheme. Robert had talked about this scheme with his buddies at the Lions' Club. As it happened, one of the Lion members who lived in this neighborhood offered Robert his home for a couple hours the day of Larry's arrival to pull off ...

110. It's Your Funeral

Matthew 21:28-32

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Roger G. Talbott

... I heard the cars whizzing past on the highway outside the front door, I knew that she had chosen to fulfill at least part of that ideal -- she did, indeed, live in a house on the side of the road. So, in that funeral sermon, I talked not so much about who ... public professions of faith and try to build reputations as people who are faithful to God, but we fail to live up to our ideals in some very important areas of our lives. Yet, we are all children of God. Someday, someone you know very well will die. I ...

111. Adam’s Prime Rib

Genesis 2:4-25

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John R. Brokhoff

... . He leaves it as his primary relationship after marriage. If some married persons are still “tied to their mother’s apron strings,” then they have not left father and mother. This will make for a troubled marriage. Then the ideal becomes an ordeal. It has been joked that Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn’t have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn’t have to hear about how his mother kept house. There will never be another marriage like that. The Scripture in ...

112. Song Of Loss Song Of Hope

2 Samuel 1:1-16

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Charles Curley

... at one time or another from those with whom God has put us into relationships of mother and father, sister and brother, husband and wife, friend and neighbor. But David grieves that his relationship with Saul has ended. Life is not ideal. Relationships are not ideal. But relationships are precious and important gifts from God. Sometimes only loss and grief show us just how precious and important others are to us: even those with whom we have some ambivalence, some disagreement, some pain in our relationship ...

113. The Healing Of Simon Peter's Mother-In-Law

Mark 1:29-34

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... was in the right place. The house of Simon and Andrew is probably the most supportive, health-restoring home around. Asker: Goals and ideals aside, Jesus, when it comes to the whole health of a person, perhaps we should temper your words, "Be perfect" (Matthew 5: ... them the same consideration he gave to men. The main function of women of Jesus' day was as wife and mother. The ideal woman was trained to love her husband and children. In the patriarchal form of family life, wives belonged to men. Husbands could ...

114. Proper 5

2 Corinthians 4:1-18, 1 Samuel 8:1-22, Mark 3:31-35, Mark 3:20-30

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... a time for us all to let someone else take our place. Listen to the people (v. 7). God orders Samuel to listen to the demands of the people, even though what they desire is not God's ideal will. God may be telling us, as leaders of the church, to listen to our people, even if what they want is less than ideal. Perhaps God gave in to his people's wishes to let them learn from experience. In the same way a wise parent might give in to the wish of her child, even though that course contains pitfalls. Who ...

115. Says Who?

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... is to be enslaved to God. Christian freedom, then, is the freedom to do God’s will. We are all enslaved to something; but to be truly free as Christians, we are to be enslaved to God. With Luther and Calvin, and their break with human rules, the idea and ideal of personal freedom began to flower. Here the ideas which helped its growth were the beliefs that reason is a safe guide to truth and that each person, in the degree to which he or she has come to love God, can choose the rules he or she may trust ...

116. God Moves In Mysterious Ways

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Robert Allen

... location for the new church, but the shrewd, prosperous landowner who owned this property refused to sell it to the Methodists. However, there was another piece of property on Oyster Creek Road. It was far from the ideal location for the new church, but it would have to do. The Methodists and other volunteers joined together in building the new church. It was a small, but sturdy, white frame church propped up on brick pilings. Finally, after several weeks of work, the little church was completed. On Sunday ...

117. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... . Every person dreams of one life and is forced to live another. Parents have dreams for their children. We all do. I always knew my children would be a cross between Albert Einstein, Tom Selleck, and Joe Montana. On the other hand, I'm certain that I'm not their ideal dream of a parent, either. I knew just how I'd be as a parent in my dreams. I'd be slim, popular, handsome, and very caring and understanding. I'd be up on their music, and kind and tolerant when they brought home poor grades. I'd spend hours ...

118. Previews Of Coming Attractions

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: "The Lord is our righteousness." This ideal ruler will usher in the new covenant of the law in the hearts of the people (Jeremiah 31:31-34) wherein Yahweh will show mercy on sinners, "forgiving their iniquity and remembering their sin no more." "I will turn their mourning into joy, I will comfort ...

119. One Nation, Under Mercy

Sermon

... spelled out in the poem of Emma Lazarus, a welcome for the stranger and the foreigner, a haven for the huddled masses yearning to breathe free, new life for the wretched refuse of the nations - these ideals may not have been entirely attained. Strong resistance was encountered when our doors were opened to the refugees of Southeast Asia, and when the people of the church whose hearts had learned compassion at the cross of Christ assumed the role of sponsors in this land. When Fidel Castro opened ...

120. The Way He Taught

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

... s the way Jesus taught. II. Let's begin to move in on the practical side of this on this national Father's Day. Surely the ideal father is the one whose authority is love. That's the way it is with God himself as our heavenly Father. We love him because he ... I hope it's because we are living under the swaying authority of the Father's love. That's the authority of love that would be ideal in any father, isn't it so? Today on Father's Day we ask the serious question. Why do your children call you father? Why do ...

121. Easter 5

Jn 13:31-35 · Acts 13:44-52; 14:8-18; 21-27 · Rev 21:1-5

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... of the day can happily be applied to Mother's Day without doing violence to the message and meaning of Easter 5. 1. The Ideal Home (Revelation 21:1-5). Need: In a day when homes are fast breaking up by separation and divorce and when many homes still ... the imagery of the family to describe the new Kingdom of God. If the formula is followed, homes can be a heaven on earth. Outline: the ideal home for you is - a. A home where Christ is the husband - v. 2. -- A home whose head is Christ. b. A home where the bride ...

122. Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Exodus 19:1-25

Sermon

... during the preaching of the sermon. We let familiarity breed contempt for the holy. C. S. Lewis said, "A good way to worship is to be unaware of time, light, and those about us, but center our attention solely upon God." Ideal Worship is the Blending of Transcendence and Immanence Ideally, we experience both the Transcendence and Immanence in worship. He is the God we hold in awe, the God high and lifted up, the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-present, Totally Other. On the other hand, however, he is the God ...

123. Being Different

Daniel 3:1-30

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Harold Warlick

... work. The children wouldn't understand. The little pigs all go to market, none stays home; all have roast beef, and all say "we-we-we." It's a lonely business to be out of step with the crowd. Many a person will throw away all his ideas, ideals and knowledge, simply to feel like "one of the boys" or "one of the girls." There's something nice about belonging to an easy, comfortable group whose talk reaches no higher than money and the opposite sex or the upcoming party. People will do anything for that kind ...

124. World Communion Sunday: A World In Communion

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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... and drink. There would be no litmus test for church denomination or theological debates. It would simply be done. That is at least how I see my Jesus. Of course, we are not being naive about it all. It is an ideal. It is not yet reality. Yet, we insist that communion is not just an ideal. At its depth it is reality. The year was 1968. It was an election year and the country was split right down the middle on the issue of Viet Nam. Additionally, there were severe domestic problems with race, and there had ...

125. Leadership: the Moses Model

Numbers 27:12-23

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... Presbyterian Church (USA), United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church. In addition there were observer/consultants from the Lutheran Council in the USA, Reformed Church in America, and the Roman Catholic Church. Indeed, vision, in the sense of both a necessary ideal and a pragmatic goal, is seen when the document humbly admits, "The unity of the Church is a gift of God in Jesus Christ to be made visible before the world." Let’s turn our attention to another aspect. Communication with God and ...

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