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101. The Tenth Commandment: How Zacchaeus Got His Groove Back

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... people. You cannot build trust and have the spirit of compassion when greed begins to govern the hands and hearts of its people. We will never get our groove back until the groove of greed is leveled and a new pathway takes its place. Even among the 12 disciples, greed reared its ugly head. The mother of James and John wanted her boys to sit on the left and right sides of Jesus. The drive for power, status, prestige has not gone out of style. When government promotes gambling, casinos, lotteries, it also ...

102. Love and Obey (Mother's Day)

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... blurred. We make our own morality as we go along. People who say they believe in God’s commandments seem to have increasing difficulty applying those standards to their daily lives. Some people have a particularly hard time with obedience. Tommy Nelson, in his book, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success, tells of being a chaplain of a high school football team in the 1970s. This was in Texas where football is a religion. To be a great football player in Texas means you are extra special. Nelson says that on ...

103. You Are God's Temple

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

King Duncan

... some things. First of all, when God dwells within us, we know who we are. That’s important. Many people wander around saying they need to find themselves. No, they need to find Christ then they will find themselves. Tommy Nelson in his book, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success, tells about a man named Robert Howard. Robert Howard was from Cross Plains, Texas. A small man, says Tommy Nelson, Robert Howard was a borderline schizophrenic. He lived in his own world. Howard had few friends, didn’t marry and ...

104. Getting At The Truth

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... competitive edge. One married man told me he rarely confides in his wife or confesses to her any of his failings or weaknesses, because during arguments she uses that very information to berate him and tear him down. But other people have experienced something different. The 12 Step Groups such as AA know that when they entrust their lives to a Higher Power and bare their souls to that Power, they sense they are beginning to get in touch not only with themselves, but with Ultimate Reality. One young man in ...

105. Breaking News: Thomas Doubts Jesus Alive

John 20:24-31

Sermon

CSS

... is the position that Thomas finds himself in. He would have made a good journalist. He is the skeptic. II The second headline in the Jerusalem post would have been the follow-up story the next morning: A DISCIPLE HAS DOUBTS. Had a journalist interviewed the 12 disciples Judas and Thomas would have been the lead stories. One betrays and one doubts. The one is a refutation of all of Jesus’ teachings and the other is a denial that the resurrection ever took place. One has no stomach for peaceful approaches ...

106. The World's Worst Bargain

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... you are offered the whole world. Walk away. It’s still a bad, bad bargain. 1. The Associated Press, 2001. 2. By Peter Brown and Robert Rans, http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan.stuart/music/madonna/material.html. 3. Illusaurus 4. Tommy Nelson, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman, 2005), pp. 61-62. 5. William Beausay II., The Leadership Genius of Jesus (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1997), p. 45. 6. Bruce Shelley, All The Saints Adore Thee, Baker Books, 1988, p. 46. 7 ...

107. Compassion

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... so big, one writer says they flowed like blood. Then he comes out and witnesses those friends sound asleep. "Could you not stay awake one hour?" he asks. I know how it feels when a student sleeps 50 minutes. All of Jesus' students fell asleep. Finally, one of the 12 best friends he has on earth sells him out to his enemies for a little pouch of money. My guess is that the man who walked to Calvary was prematurely gray. He must have seemed more like 63 than 33 years old in appearance. His face must have ...

108. Joseph: Don't Bury Me Here

Genesis 50:22-26; Exodus 13:19-22; Joshua 24:32

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... be compared to Jacob, but I do tend to identify with this story. And if you ever want to read a tale of classic sibling rivalry, take a look at this one! From Jacob was born a third generation of sons, literally by the dozen—which become the 12 tribes of Israel, until Abraham's descendants filled these hills, "As many as the stars of heaven, and as innumerable as the grains of sand on the seashore"...because God always keeps his promises. Jacob's favorite son was Joseph, the son with the technicolor dream ...

109. A Mother's Love

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ), p. 130. 3. good-clean-fun-subscribe@yahoogroups.com. 4. Dr. Mickey Anders citing a lectionary listserv.” http://www.mickeyanders.com/Sermons/Sermon20000514.htm. 5. (Tulsa, OK:Honor Books, Inc., 1995), p. 237. 6. Peg Tyre et al., “The Power of No,” Newsweek (September 13, 2004). Cited by Tommy Nelson, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success (Nashville, TN:Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), p.188.

110. Saint and Sinner

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

Scott Suskovic

... on the couch again. He tried many times to stop drinking but couldn't until, with the help of a friend who had himself overcome the bottle with strong spiritual guidance, this young stockbroker, Bill W., began a process known today as the 12-step approach. Today, millions have found sobriety through this organization co-founded by Bill W. known as Alcoholics Anonymous. Though it is not a blatantly religious movement, AA is grounded in some very basic spiritual or religious tenets beginning with a strong ...

111. A Life of Trust

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

Tommy Nelson in his book, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success, tells about a young man named Curt. Curt is thirteen years old. But Curt is physically and mentally disabled. He can’t talk. He’s a bit fragile. He’s just now getting to the place where he can go to the bathroom by himself. He ...

112. Thorns of Grace

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... and help others more easily relate to us, and especially if it gives us a new sensitivity to God. 1. David C. Egner, http://preceptaustin.org/hebrews_9‑10_sermon_illustrations.htm. 2. Reader’s Digest, date unknown. 3. Tommy Nelson, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), p. 113. 4. Bill Teng, http://www.heritagechurchva.org/sermons/2006‑28.htm. 5. Mark Adams, http://www.redlandbaptist.org/sermons/sermon19991114.php. 6. John Gruen, The Private ...

113. What Heaven Will Be Like

Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... of Sharswood. With the help of a small team of historians, preservationists and a genealogist, Frederick Miller discovered that Sharswood had been one of the area’s largest tobacco plantations in the 1800s and early 1900s. He learned that the 12 small cabins scattered across the property had once housed 58 enslaved people. And that among those enslaved people were his great-great grandparents, Violet and David Miller. Frederick Miller had bought the house and grounds where his great-great grandparents ...

114. In All Things Be Thankful

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... life miserable not only for themselves, but also for those who have the misfortune of being around them. The bitter person becomes absorbed with the question of “why me.” He feels that he has been short-changed. Dr. Jim Moore, a Christian author and pastor of the 12,000 member St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. Several years ago he wrote a little book that perhaps some of you have seen entitled “You Can Get Bitter or You Can Get Better.” He told the story of a twenty-six-year ...

115. The Cost of Discipleship

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... the price of discipleship with their very lives where would the church be? Geographically Christianity is the most widely diffused of all faiths, and a third of the earths 6 billion people claim Christ as their Lord. What kind of church would we be if the 12 had put down their crosses? Several centuries ago in a mountain village in Europe, a wealthy nobleman wondered what legacy he should leave to his townspeople. He made a good decision. He decided to build them a church. No one was permitted to see the ...

116. Your Money or Your Life?

Acts 2:42-47

Sermon

Mike Ripski

Today’s readings give us a glimpse of what difference it makes to entrust one’s life to the way, truth, and life of Jesus. How do Easter people live? Stephen, along with six other disciples, had been selected by the 12 apostles to be responsible for the early church’s Meals on Wheels ministry. The apostles were spending all their time preaching, teaching, and praying. The Greek widows and orphans were being neglected in the daily food distribution. The apostles laid hands on these seven and “ ...

117. Secret Sauce

John 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... trust. It has endured over time from the first century onward. But the Church has also experienced times of disharmony and discord, separation, and diaspora. Even amidst Jesus’ own disciples, one would betray him and cause a rift in the 12. No community, not even Jesus’ own community, has ever been perfectly harmonious all the time throughout time. Yet despite this acknowledgement, the goal remains: synchrony and community –alternative community, the kind that bonds and endures. And the bonding agent ...

118. The Good News about Marriage

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate.” 1. Reader’s Digest, October 1985, p. 27. Cited in Ed Young, The 10 Commandments of Marriage (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2003), p. 179. 2. Tommy Nelson, The 12 Essentials of Godly Success (Nashville, TN: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2005), p.170.

119. To Whom Shall We Go?

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

Some of Jesus' followers were beginning to leave him. His teachings were too difficult for them. So he turned to the 12 and asked, "Will you also go away?" Peter's plaintive reply lives forever, "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life; and we have believed, and have come to know, that you are the Holy One of God." "Lord, to whom shall we go?" We ...

120. WWE Raw, Jesus Style

Luke 6:17-26, Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

When pop culture transforms a “holy day” into a “holiday,” it almost always manages to focus on the wrong side of the equation. For example: *The number of shopping days left til Christmas is NOT as important as the 12 day period between the Christmas day miracle and the season of Epiphany. *A huge party, Mardi Gras, on “Fat Tuesday” is NOT as important as the forty days of Lent that follow. *Eating all your chocolate bunnies before breakfast on Easter morning is NOT as important as rejoicing ...

121. Where Are You?

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... ; you can't live long enough to make them all yourself" (Source unknown). Some of us try anyway! But the Bible calls us to learn from the mistakes of all those people you thought were perfect like Moses, and David, and Isaiah, and Jeremiah, and even the 12 disciples. To learn from their lives, and our lives, as we live them where we are right now. I haven't forgotten Hosea. Hosea was a prophet who lived about 700 years before Jesus was born. Biblical prophets aren't seers or fortune-tellers, writing in ...

122. The Suffering Servant

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... did not allow grief to consume him or create death within him. But he ministered out of his grief and created new life and hope from out of the finality of death. The healings Jesus performed that day, the meal he served, the miracles he wrought, the 12 baskets of leftovers that signified the hope of all people – these would be the symbols of John’s legacy. For what John had begun, Jesus would finish. In the Jewish shiva tradition, the “tzedakah” is a custom of giving to the poor in order to honor ...

123. The Heart Of The Gospel

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... then he goes on to tell them what ** has so often said to you: Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, he was buried, he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and he appeared to Cephas and then to the 12. Jesus Christ, the one whom Paul calls Lord, the same name which the nation Israel called the living God ... Jesus Christ is our hope and salvation. Because he has been raised from the dead by God, “the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep,” we, too ...

124. Milestones And Mustard Seeds

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... and washed it away. Tears have a way of doing that. Hearing this, the disciples were afraid. "Increase our faith!" they said. "We can't believe this. We cannot believe that such things will happen." They knew that faith had power. They had seen the woman with the 12-year flow of blood touch the hem of his garment, and immediately be healed. "Your faith has made you well," he said. "Go in peace." To the sinful woman who had bathed his feet with her tears he had said, "Your sins are forgiven. Your faith has ...

125. Well of Wisdom, Water of Life

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... her a well in the midst of the desert, from which she can fill her flask. The scriptures tell us that from that time on, God “remained with the boy,” and he lived in the Paran desert with an Egyptian wife, founding, according to tradition, the 12 Arab nations. God and water are a consistent dual-theme in the scriptures. Covenants with God are made by crossing water. Baptisms are born by immersing in water. Healings are done by dipping into waters. The psalmist tells us to calm ourselves by still waters ...

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