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101. God's GPS

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... her life around. After her fourth arrest, police officers diverted her to a nonprofit that provides substance abuse rehabilitation. As Virginia says, “They stood beside me as I clawed my way out of my past. On my own, I wouldn’t have stopped.” Virginia continues to attend Narcotics Anonymous meetings to stay clean. She has been reunited with her children and has plans to attend law school. Her ultimate goal is to reform prisons into rehabilitative environments for others who, like her, are trapped in ...

102. The Perisitent Noise Of Solemn Assemblies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... man. In the third place, we are called upon to manifest spirit and truth corporately as well as individually. We could, of course, speak of many modern variations of the Good Samaritan story. We could have some medical doctors pass by on the other side, unwilling to stop out of fear for later being sued for malpractice. We could have certain law and order advocates who want order at any price, who pass by on the other side in pursuit of the robbers, ignoring the victim's cry for help. Far more often however ...

103. A Christian With A Conflict Of Interest

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

James McLemore

... take the steps to correct the conflict. You must realize that you must change and be willing to start to change. If every time someone disagrees with you, you blow up with an explosive temper, then you must calm yourself, correct yourself, and stop the explosion. If every time something happens that you don't understand you become suspicious and jump to conclusions, then you must slow yourself down, sit yourself down, and think about what you have seen and heard, before you jump to conclusions. I realize ...

104. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... mentally to be a doctor. In a Peanuts cartoon, Charlie Brown is unhappy about his lot in life. Lucy is bugging him. She follows him around, saying, "You're a nerd, Charlie Brown! You are a real zero. You'll never amount to anything!" Finally, little Charlie yells, "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Don't bother me anymore. I didn't get a chance to fill in an application to be me!" That's right! None of us got to choose our looks, our limitations, and our gifts. It is mostly thrust on us like it was on Paul. For ...

105. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... know where you are going: how can we know the way?" (John 14:5). But what Thomas really meant to say was: "Lord, I know where you are going. You are going to your death, and I want to go with you. So please, do what you must, but stop consoling us when you know that there is no consolation." One Of The Twelve I am certain that the apostles were provoked with Thomas. They resented his throwing cold water on their confidence in Jesus or, rather, on that "all will be well" attitude into which their dependent ...

106. Going Ahead Anyway

Matthew 2:1-12, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway! There are always going to be poor people around, but that didn't stop Mother Teresa from doing more than her part to help those she could. Many people in our country are kept out of owning a home ... the church. On lots of days we will feel like we are not appreciated for what we do, but that doesn't mean we are going to stop doing what we do. We are going to be treated badly from time to time, but we are going to keep believing that love will win ...

107. Who Was That Masked Man?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... of self. It would mean loving our neighbors as much as we love ourselves. It would mean putting our Christian faith into action. Perhaps the greatest question we have to ask is why we do not do it. Why do we fail to be good neighbors? Is it fear that stops us? Fear of rejection, fear of a loss of self, fear of disapproval by our friends for senseless caring, fear that we might get too involved? Probably, all these fears and more are part of why we can't become the good Samaritan. Is it our lack of love that ...

108. Saved From Water: The Storm

Luke 8:22-25

Sermon

Steve Swanson

... much water that night - walls of water, sheets of water in the wind, water sloshing into the boat. Then, all of a sudden, Jesus actually stopped that storm, that water, dead in its tracks. I've never seen anything like it. Now there'll be a few of you who will ... terrible on another day when he was teaching and preaching. The rain poured down and the whole crowd got drenched. Jesus could have stopped that one too, I guess, but I don't think it really mattered to him that much. Nobody was in any danger. Do ...

109. Sometimes You Gotta Bend the Rules!

Luke 13:10-17

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

... signs with me this morning and I want you to read them and tell me who might put up each sign. Hold up the first sign: No Dogs or Pets Allowed. What does this sign say? (response) Who would put up a sign like this? (stores) Second Sign: STOP. What does this sign say? (response) Who puts up this sign? (people who make the roads) Third sign: No Shirt No Shoes No Service. What does this sign say? (response) Who puts up this sign? (restaurant) Fourth sign: Quiet Please. What does this sign say? (response) Who ...

110. THE FINAL TRIUMPH

Drama

... Father. Go tell the disciples that I am risen." (She pauses to savor the moment, then turns to Caiaphas.) So you see my Lords, he has beaten you! Even death can not hold him! You have lost as he said that you would! (Caiaphas starts toward her, but Annas stops him with a look.) ANNAS: You saw Jesus of Nazareth alive this morning? Did anyone else see him? MARY MAGDALENE: No. I told you that I was alone. ANNAS: And you did not actually touch him? MARY MAGDALENE: He told me not to. What are you trying to say ...

111. Molehills and Mountains

Matthew 6:25-34, Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... add to our anxiety the fact that our anxiety becomes another reason for anxiety. The first step in the control of all this anxiety is to place a lot of things in the category of things that can’t be changed. We mark them as a brick wall and stop beating our heads against them. In the words of the old and familiar prayer: "Lord, grant me the courage to change the things that can be changed, and the serenity to accept the things that can’t be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference." Now, there’s ...

112. Resurrection: From Burn-Out to New Vision

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... to know that even someone as faithful as Elijah could sometimes get so caught up in his running that he didn’t take time to stop and listen to God. We see that Elijah could run pretty far on fear and so can we. Fear is a powerful motivator. Some ... running on fear. Elijah could run like the wind on faith. When he was running on fear, he reached a point where he had to stop. God had built limits into Elijah’s body. Your body, too, has limits. Most people encounter these limits sooner or later in life. Some ...

113. Full Barns--empty Souls

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Don planned to celebrate every single moment that he and Carol had together. That morning at the hospital, the nurses tell Don that Carol is in remission. Don comes back the next day with a cake to celebrate with Carol. Before going to the hospital, Don stops at the church to pray again. On the way out, Don comes across the night nurse from the hospital. She tells Don that an infection has spread through the leukemia ward. That afternoon Carol dies. As Don heads home, he passes the church, where he absent ...

114. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... God, not in what he could make happen. A.W. Tozer said this: “The meek man (or woman) is not a human mouse afflicted with a sense of inferiority. Rather, he may be in his moral life as bold as a lion and as strong as Samson; but he has stopped being fooled about himself. He has accepted God's estimate of his own life. He knows he is as weak and helpless as God has declared him to be, but paradoxically, he knows at the same time that he is, in the sight of God, more important than angels.... He ...

115. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John K. Bergland

... , "Just a few." Jesus says, "Everyone!" The world says, "Threaten him!" Jesus says, "That won't stop me!" The world says, "Arrest him!" Jesus says, "That won't stop me!" The world says, "Ridicule him!" Jesus says, "That won't stop me!" The world says, "Wound him!" Jesus says, "That won't stop me!" The world says, "Crucify him!" Jesus says, "That won't stop me!" The world says, "Shut him up in a tomb!" Jesus says, "That won't stop me!" Jesus is relentlessly in love with the world. And thank God for such love ...

116. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... danger of running red lights. TxDot calls the phenomenon of running red lights an epidemic which is responsible for thousands of injuries and hundreds of deaths every year. Running red lights is the chief culprit behind city traffic accidents. (James Bonneson, "Stop! Running that Red Light Could Be Deadly," Texas Transportation Researcher, 39 [2003], 10.) The problem of running red lights, however, wasn't the red light. Nor is it the green light. Red lights and green lights give us no choices. True, they ...

117. Risking Relationships That Redeem

Ruth 3:1-5, 4:13-17

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... herself and dissatisfied with her marriage. Sensing Evelyn's depression, Mrs. Threadgoode decides to lift her spirits by reminiscing about two Depression-era women whose friendship gave meaning and purpose to their lives. Mrs. Threadgoode, a former resident of Whistle Stop, relates the captivating story of two women and the bonds of friendship that transformed their lives. These two women, Ruth and Idgy, were as different as night and day, but they developed an unusual trust through the injustices life had ...

118. Workaholics Anonymous

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. America leads the world in many, many things. We have now become the world leader in non-stop work. We don't call it "the American work ethic" for nothing. We not only work on average about 50 weeks a year. The average American ... in six nano-seconds, but he took six days and then rested on the seventh. He did it to illustrate the fact that we need to stop so we can be refreshed. The Sabbath is given for us to use every week. The Sabbath is not meant to be used once a month ...

119. The King and His Castle

Matthew 16:13-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... His building program. If you think about it you realize that gates are not for offense; they are for defense. Did you know that it is not the church's job to stop hell? It is hell's job to stop the church. But the one thing that hell can't stop is the church. Now hell can stop anything else and everything else, but it cannot stop the church because Jesus is building the church. Let me tell you what that means. If you are not a part of the church; if you are away from the church, you have left the safest ...

120. Home By Another Way

Luke 2:1-7

Drama

Lois Anne DeLong

... Wise Men and their caravan of three Servants enter up the center aisle. Servants are carrying the gifts and other bundles. They all stop when they reach the lip of the stage and face forward. The servants group to the left, the Wise Men to the right.) Wise ... them. I’d like to hear what’s going on. (All gesture to the caravan to join them.) Merchant: Thank you for asking us to stop. We haven’t had a good hot dinner in several days. Servant 2: He still won’t. Servant 3: Be quiet. There’s nothing wrong ...

121. Why Do People Suffer?

John 9:1-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of you feel. Let the grace of God see you through. What will we do with what happens to us? We can go to work to stop suffering in our world. I do not like pain, I want it ended. There is a similar instinct in every soul of every human being on ... is a lot of pain in this world that you and I, my friends, need to hit hard. Again, that is what you do with suffering. You stop it whenever, wherever you can. O save us from the weak resignation to the evils we deplore. What can I do when suffering happens? I can ...

122. Three Basic Attitudes about Life

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... time. We pass a homeless person on the street asking for some change. We feel guilty, and immediately we start justifying ourselves, “He’ll just spend it on alcohol or drugs,” we say to ourselves. Our neighbor has a tragedy of some kind. We know we ought to stop by, offer some encouragement. We start to justify ourselves: “I’m sure he has some family or friends who will look in on him.” You see the lawyer is a nice respectable guy. He will do all right for himself in life. But he will never be ...

123. Can You Be Popular and Serve Jesus?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... replied. “It’s really none of your business.” “Well, I’m making it my business,” she snapped. “I am sick and tired of you people busting these kids for minor violations. If he was speeding, I was speeding. I was going the same speed as he was. You stopped him because he has long hair and an out of state license plate.” By this time the boy was out of his car with a confused look on his face. The patrolman was shouting at Peggy. “Look, stay out of this. This is none of your concern. I’m ...

124. No ... On

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... expect to get. They were a jovial, senior citizen couple, German immigrants, both of them. On slow summer afternoons, I used to stop by their house and drink German beer with Henry. One day I got the panicked phone call from Elizabeth, his wife. Henry ... flat tire on the freeway. You pull over to the side, get out, and wonder how you are ever going to get help. Finally someone does stop. When he gets out of his truck, you see one of the dirtiest, greasiest thugs you have ever seen. You want to take back your ...

125. A Bloody Cheer!

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

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