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101. The Incredibility of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... come to us in Jesus Christ. Jim Henry brought this powerful consideration to focus, using the rubric – if God had stayed at home – if He had not come to us in Jesus Christ. If God had stayed at home we would not know who God is and what God is like. If God had stayed at home there would be no salvation – no answer to our sin problem. If God had stayed at home we would have no power over Satan. If God had stayed at home there would be no victory over death, no promise of eternal life. But God didn’t ...

102. Being Single-minded

1 Corinthians 7:29-31

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... much about. In fact, our Lord tells us only the Father knows the day or night. Our major mode of living always has directly to do with the man born in a manger. If he returns right now, fine. If he returns, centuries from now, fine. We are to stay focused on to whom we belong. Not only that but rid ourselves of any competitor. Jesus will not tolerate others before him. In a way it is the restoration of one of the Ten Commandments. Be steadfast and of good cheer. Hold fast to that you know is satisfaction ...

103. Being a Woman of God

Acts 16:11-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... came to Neapolis, and from there to Philippi, which is the foremost city of that part of Macedonia, a colony. And we were staying in that city for some days. And on the Sabbath day we went out of the city to the riverside, where prayer was customarily ... and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, ‘If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come to my house and stay.' And she constrained us." (Acts 16:11-15) Now I want to make something very very plain here. I thank God for Gerry Sisk. She ...

104. Family Ties and Good-byes

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... , so they kept it a secret. Harry, Jr., and Mary didn't oppose their mother's marriage to Stan, but they weren't too excited about it, either. They said, "We'll be gone soon. She can do as she pleases." One day when Carol tried to correct Mary for staying out beyond the agreed upon time of return from a date, Mary flew out of control, showing major disrespect for her mother and cursing her out for "never letting me do what I want." Stan decided that he had seen enough of this kind of behavior, so he went to ...

105. Jesus Is with Us Forever

Luke 1:39-56

Illustration

David E. Leininger

... Jesus, "If I keep you warm, will that be a good enough gift?" And Jesus told me, "If you keep me warm, that will be the best gift anybody ever gave me." So I got into the manger, and then Jesus looked at me and he told me I could stay with him - for always." As little Misha finished his story, his eyes brimmed full of tears that splashed down his little cheeks. Putting his hand over his face, his head dropped to the table and his shoulders shook as he sobbed and sobbed. The little orphan had found someone ...

106. Only Jesus

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... not dimmer. The boy died but his life had been forever changed. It had been transformed by the ministry of these caring Christians. They had allowed the light of Christ to shine through them. And a young boy's life had been transformed. (3) We're not called to stay on the mountain top when we have a mountain top experience. We're called to bear the light of the one we meet in the cloud and to let the experience transform us so the light of Christ shines through all we do. Conclusion God is working a work ...

107. Discover the Perfect Gift of Christmas

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , "If I keep you warm, will that be a good enough gift?" And Jesus told me, "If you keep me warm, that will be the best gift anybody ever gave me." So I got into the manger, and then Jesus looked at me and he told me I could stay with him, for always." As little Misha finished his story, his eyes brimmed full of tears that splashed down his little cheeks. Putting his hand over his face, his head dropped to the table and his shoulders shook as he sobbed and sobbed. That afternoon, that little orphan, with ...

108. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 2

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... they can close our schools, they can continue to deny our human rights and try to reduce us to animals, but they can’t take away our peace and joy in Christ.” Where is the source of Abel and Freda’s joy and peace? Keeping their minds stayed on Christ and living obediently. They have claimed Jesus’ promise, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.” They have received Jesus’ bracing word: “Peace I leave with you; my peace give I unto you; Not as the ...

109. What Would Jesus Say About Marriage?

Matthew 19:3-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... died he didn’t even know about it for nearly a month. He was on the road traveling, conducting his field campaign. If you happen to be married to your job, live for sports, always look out for number one, it would be very wise for you to stay single. It is a valid way to live a Christian life. Not everybody ought to be married. Jesus says in the text: II. MARRIAGE IS A LIFE LONG SACRED COVENANT. The setting for this teaching is this: There are two schools of thought among the Pharisees. Pharisees, like ...

110. The Power to Look Up

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... Thursday morning at the Marriott downtown. I introduced myself to a colleague of another denomination. He immediately replied, “You Methodists move around all the time." “Well, this one doesn't," I responded. Often my advice to others about marriage, the job, and the church is to stay in Jerusalem. Bloom where you are planted. Certainly it's not perfect in Jerusalem, but it won't be wonderful over yonder either. Do the work of ministry. I don't know why Jesus left it all up to us, but He did. Who am I ...

111. Connected

John 15:1-8

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... eventually we wither away until we can't even be recognized as belonging to the vine. II. Plugged In A. You and I are called to stay "Plugged In" It's that simple. We're called to "Abide in Christ. And let Christ Jesus abide in us." The Message puts it this way: " ... they didn't think they could ever do. And in the end, they prevail. They save the day. As Christians, we're called to stay "in character" everyday. We're called to "abide in Christ." And when we do, we are given the power to do things we didn't ...

112. The Evangelist Has a Shady Past

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... you die, do you want to go to heaven to be with Jesus, God, your Mommy and Daddy, and big sister, or do you want to go to the lake of fire to be with the Devil and bank robbers?” David thought a moment, then replied, “I want to stay right here.” (1) Sounds like a smart little fellow. Maybe little Debbie was not the ideal evangelist. But her heart was in the right place. It’s a wonderful thing to help people find Jesus. The highly esteemed theologian Karl Barth had a painting of the crucifixion on ...

113. How Connected Are You?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... networking. (6) Need more evidence? When a partner’s spouse dies, his or her risk of illness or death skyrockets for the first year. Retirement also changes social networks and can be very stressful. The point is that it’s very important at any age in life to stay connected. Of course our most important connection is to Christ. In our lesson for the day from the Gospel, Christ says to us, “I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me ...

114. Don’t Get Into Things!

Luke 24:50-53

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of Christ in the world. The only special “numerology” that is required to make a difference, to make a mark, is ONE — for we together are ONE in the Spirit, ONE in the Lord. When we stand alone, we get in trouble — little more than momentary stays against the confusion and chaos. But when we stand together, we stand as ONE — more than conquerors, through the One who loved us and sent us his Spirit. The Power of ONE has never been greater. Will we stand together this week, as ONE? COMMENTARY The ...

115. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... such supplies at his disposal suggests that he is a well-off traveler, experienced at being able to make himself comfortable while on a road trip. He knows where to find a near-by inn and he has money to pay for the wounded man to stay there. The “Good Samaritan” is a “Rich Samaritan” perhaps a traveling merchant, a wealthy businessman, a man of the world, not a man of the law. Yet this man’s compassion for the wounded stranger is without bounds. After giving first aid and emergency transport he ...

116. Lesson from a Chipmunk

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Tony Everett

... of God’s loving actions; the intersection of promise and purpose, gift and mission. So the apostles walked back to Jerusalem, about one half mile from Mount Olivet. Where do you go when you are anxious and confused by life challenges? The risen Jesus told the disciples to stay in Jerusalem. The ascended Jesus invites us to the center of God’s loving actions for us and for the world. For us, that is the body of Christ, the church. Here is where we know the promise is heard and the gift of power is given ...

117. Poem: In Memoriam

Eulogy

Alfred Lord Tennyson

... LXXX If any vague desire should rise, That holy Death ere Arthur died Had moved me kindly from his side, And dropt the dust on tearless eyes; Then fancy shapes, as fancy can, The grief my loss in him had wrought, A grief as deep as life or thought, But stay’d in peace with God and man. I make a picture in the brain; I hear the sentence that he speaks; He bears the burthen of the weeks But turns his burthen into gain. His credit thus shall set me free; And, influence-rich to soothe and save, Unused example ...

118. Ruth Meets Boaz

Ruth 2:1-23

Understanding Series

Michael S. Moore

... supports him wholeheartedly. Ruth’s long-term welfare stands behind her own desire for Ruth to find a home (1:9; 3:1). Like Boaz, Naomi knows what the world is like, a violent place filled with “hot-tempered men” (Judg. 18:25). 2:23 So Ruth stayed close to the servant girls of Boaz to glean until the barley and wheat harvests were finished. And she lived with her mother-in-law. Ruth 1 and 2 end with Ruth and Naomi seemingly alone against the world and a summary reference to harvest time in Bethlehem ...

119. Gedaliah Assassinated

Jeremiah 40:7--41:15

Understanding Series

Tremper Longman III

... in Egypt. It also shows that matters can still get worse for the Jewish people and specifically for Jeremiah. G. Yates (“New Exodus and No Exodus in Jeremiah 26–45”) has uncovered the use of exodus imagery in chapters 40–43 that shows that the people who stay in Palestine will experience no exodus in the future. In this way, the book suggests that the future of the people of God lie not with these people who descend into Egypt again, but with those who went into exile in Babylon (see ch. 24). It is ...

120. Jesus Destroys the Power of Sin

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Challenged). But the best explanation I can come up with of the relationship between a “remanation” and an “emanation” is this story from Robert Fulghum. Fulghum is most known for his first book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), which stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for two years. But his second book is my favorite: It was On Fire When I Lay Down On It (1989). It’s a chapter called “Are There Any Questions?” which details Fulghum’s penchant for asking ...

121. Even in Our Hiding

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , and when he emerges, he is even more powerful, as God accompanies him in his healing, his teaching, his proclamations. Whether Moses, or David, or Elijah, or many others in the scriptures –God acknowledges the need for hiding for a while. And yet, no one stays hidden forever. A time comes in which it is time for “the hidden to be revealed.” In a sense, God’s “plan” emerges within the strength of that person’s mission, and God is revealed in the confrontation of his disciple with the sin of ...

122. Sim Lev!

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37, Matthew 24:1-35, Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... darkness coming, despite the trials and tribulations he knows they will face on account of him, despite all of the turmoil he knows is in store, the chaos and confusion, the false prophets, and distractions, and misunderstandings, and misleading ideas about him and about God, Jesus wants his disciples to stay alert to the “signs” of God in their midst, the “metaphors” that point to truth, and to Jesus’ presence among them even in the midst of sorrow and suffering. Jesus wants us to ...

123. Lazarus Rising

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57, John 12:1-11, John 12:12-19

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... When he heard this, Jesus said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God’s glory so that God’s Son may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. So when he heard that Lazarus was sick, he stayed where he was two more days, and then he said to his disciples, “Let us go back to Judea.” “But Rabbi,” they said, “a short while ago the Jews there tried to stone you, and yet you are going back?” Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of ...

124. Run Away Bride

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 22:1-14, Hosea 1:1-2:1

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank. The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to me on the mountain and stay here, and I will give you the tablets of stone with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.” Then Moses set out with Joshua his aide, and Moses went up on the mountain of God. He said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we ...

125. The Mountain

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

John Jamison

... seeing, Peter said, “Lord, this is awesome. I’ll tell you what. Why don’t we set us up some tents here and we just camp and stay a while? We can set up tents for us, and one for Moses and Elijah too. What do you think? James could run down to town and ... set up the tents. It’s nice up here. I mean, we don’t really have to go back down there, do we? Can’t we just stay?” Yes, I can’t blame Peter, and I would probably do the exact same thing. It is nice on the mountaintop. It is easier. Back down ...

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