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101. As Mortals See

1 Samuel 15:1-35

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Charles Curley

... heart. It strikes me that most of the times I have been in trouble - times when I have done something I later regretted - were times when I did not listen to my heart. They were times when I second-guessed what I knew deep inside was right, or when I yielded to pressure from others to do something which my heart told me was not the wisest thing to do. Every time, hindsight tells me, I should have trusted my heart. I believe God has put a good heart in most of us, to help us listen for the word and will ...

102. Counsel for Discouraged Disciples

Habakkuk 1:1-4

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... she had against someone who had done her wrong. For a long while the judge refused to do anything about her case. After she kept on and on, however, he finally decided to vindicate her to stop her from pestering him. If this kind of judge will yield to such persistence, Jesus asked, "Will not God vindicate his elect who cry to him day and night?" Need we remark that there are enough terrible evils in today’s world to discourage anyone? Many of the most sensitive souls among us are being victimized by ...

103. Beware of Crowds

Mark 1:29-39

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Mark Trotter

... now over, Jesus has come to cast them out. So why the secrecy? I mean, he had it made. It was all over, really, like the landing at Normandy. Once that was done, it was just a matter of time now in mopping up the enemy. The demons recognized him, yielded to him, were ready to tell everybody who he was. He's the Messiah. He's the only one who can defeat the demons in this world. And he won't let them speak. What kind of a Messiah is it who travels incognito? Then the third anecdote in this passage ...

104. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

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Maxie Dunnam

... we cannot contain God’s fullness, we can receive it to the full measure of our capacity, and to the degree of our yieldedness. This is what it means to be Spirit-filled or baptized with or in the Spirit: to have a relationship with God that is so yielded to Him that He comes to us and dwells with us in intimacy and power, so that we can experience in life all the things Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would do for believers. Most of you know the Lipscomb story. I want to affirm this congregation for the ...

105. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

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Lori Wagner

... of that grace to others, we need to open ourselves up to sharing our gifts with others. And the greatest gift we can give is the gift of a relationship with Jesus. For Jesus is the ultimate life. In Jesus, even death’s victory is imaginary, for death yields to/allows for God’s greater victory, as we enter into the realms of heaven. One of the scenes that always stunned me was in Star Wars I when Obi Wan Kenobi allows himself to be stricken down, and his “spirit” lives on in the force of the Jedi ...

106. Corpus Christi

Mk 4:12-16, 22-26 · Heb 9:11-15 · Ex 24:3-8 · Ps 126

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Russell F. Anderson

... of mere remembrance. This wine was Jesus' blood, conveying his life and Spirit. Those who receive Jesus by word and sacrament will not be satisfied with an occasional sip of his new wine; they will want to drink deeply and daily. Yet, even this new wine will yield to something even more satisfying in the kingdom of heaven. Jesus remarked: "I tell you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God" (v. 25). Outline: Jesus' statement: "This is my ...

107. Make Room for Mystery

Isaiah 55:1-13

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James McCormick

... stars, angelic choirs, virgin births, and a baby in a manger splitting history in two. The temptation for us moderns is to dismiss it all as some kind of fairy tale because we have no rational category in which to place it all. But, if we yield to that temptation, and try to make Christmas something which is totally rational and understandable…if we remove the mystery, and reduce the incarnation to the size of our minds, we will have lost something essential. II. And here’s why: there is more to life ...

108. History Hangs in the Balance

Luke 23:1-49

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Donald Charles Lacy

... certainly seems he is guided by a sense of justice and fairness. We are close to admiration and begin to wonder if he is an innocent party himself, caught in a web of power politics with a strong, religious overtone. Well, he does disappoint us and yields to the political realities at hand. A man in his position cannot allow substantial unrest in the area assigned to him by Caesar. When it comes to preserving number one and a place of power, we know who and what almost always wins. The power structure among ...

109. To Live Is to Choose

Matthew 7:13-14

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Maxie Dunnam

... when we are willing to delay gratification, when we are willing to discipline ourselves, when we are willing to choose the road less traveled. And that leads to the last thing I want to say. The ultimate choice in life is to choose Jesus. For to choose Jesus, to yield to him as Lord is to choose life, abundant life. And I want you to know, if you haven’t heard it lately, I want you to know that there are people all over this nation and world who are making that decision, and are finding that life that ...

110. The High Priesthood of Jesus

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Understanding Series

Donald A. Hagner

... who, because of his likeness to us, has been tested every way.” The full humanity of Jesus means that he experienced the full range (rather than every specific manifestation) of human temptation, although to a much higher degree of intensity since, unlike all others, he never yielded to sin. Our author thus shares the NT view of the sinlessness of Jesus (e.g., 2 Cor. 5:21; 1 Pet. 2:22; 1 John 3:5). Whereas Jesus can sympathize with our weaknesses, he is not, like other high priests, himself subject to sin ...

111. Killing A King

Luke 19:28-44

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... child, his parents fled with him to Egypt and now he could have escaped to another country. But, he stayed and stood his ground. It was not easy. He went with the problem to God in the Garden of Gethsemane. In a bloody sweat, he prayed it out and he yielded to God's will to go to the cross: "Not my will, but thine be done." Jesus not only had the restraint of a king but also the power of a king. Throughout his ministry, his power was manifest. He raised the dead, he healed the sick, he walked on the ...

112. Trusting the Truth

James 1:1-18

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Eric Ritz

... the Bible to be prepared at government expense. Others have tried to destroy the Bible as well, but like Diocletian they are gone and the Bible is still here. God''s word can never be chained--because it is the truth. The word of God never yields to anything except the truth. I recently read these facts which make me tremble for our nation: * The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports for 1991 (the most recent year figures were available) that 6.4 million Americans are addicted to drugs. Nearly half of U ...

113. Can You Hear It?

Isaiah 50:4-9a

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Charley Reeb

... God to open his ears and fill his mind and heart with things that he could not provide for himself. For Isaiah it did not matter how eloquent, smart, capable, sophisticated, mature, or wise he was, there was always a time to hush, be humble, and yield to the guidance of God. Oh, how our world needs the wisdom of Isaiah. Oh, how we need the wisdom of Isaiah. Oh, how everyone needs to embrace the source of all wisdom. But the world thinks otherwise, and, sometimes, so do we. We have become so sophisticated ...

114. On Being a Beautiful Christian

Mark 14:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... yesterday who "made your day" - a sales girl, a bus driver, a business deal - immediately you felt buoyed up, relaxed, you had a good feeling. This person was beautiful - inwardly beautiful - and perhaps unaware of it. Grace! We may not always have this unconscious charm, but by yielding to the grace of Christ through the years we will have more and more of it. His spirit will become our spirit. A little boy said in his prayers: "O God, help me to do today what I have to do, and help me to do it without ...

115. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

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Will Willimon

... also want to be protected by everybody. We want to stand out but not to be isolated. Therein is our dilemma. Time and again, research has shown that you and I will surrender much to institutions or personalities that give us security. We yield to authority if we believe that by doing so, we will be protected and accepted. In a classic experiment, Stanley Milgram brought people off the street into his Yale laboratory. There they were told that they were participating in research on human behavior. He asked ...

116. The Waiting Place

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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William L. Self

... born outside the waiting place. "The greatest revelation is stillness," said Lao-Tzu, and it is most often in this stillness that we become aware of the Holy Spirit and Jesus. It is in this engraced stillness of Advent that we, after the example of Mary, yield to being God-bearers in the world. In this stillness, we commit to being Christ's presence in the world, the flesh of faith, the unfolding of the incarnation. God makes this plain: "They who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength" (Isaiah 40:31 ...

117. Gift of Positive Thinking

2 Corinthians 1:18-22

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Donald Charles Lacy

... . Even in pain of the previous day(s) we sense God is still in control and will see us through all circumstances. Again, we must accept the gift and understand it is not a tool or instrument for us to seek self-aggrandizement. If we yield to that temptation, our ministries become plighted with poisonous debris. The gift of Christ, indeed, conquers negatives, especially as we are totally co-operative. An abundant life is there for the taking. It all sounds so easy. The best way to overcome such an easy ...

118. Tripping the Tempter

James 1:1-18

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Eric Ritz

... divert us from the road of life that God wants us to travel. You and I know that, even though we are Christians, we still have the inclination to sin daily. That is why we must overcome daily with the Spirit''s sword--the Bible. We do not need to yield to sin''s power. We can be victors--not victims. Temptation''s hold has been broken and Christ is now Lord of our lives. By faith, we can count ourselves dead to sin and temptation and rely on God''s power to keep us. Let me explain it this way. A ...

119. A Glimpse of Eternity

Mark 9:2-13

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Eric Ritz

... once wrote, "All God asks for is our attention." God had something far more important than building a shrine that day. He wanted to build and mold a man named Peter who would help build and mold the early Christian Church. Thank God that Peter yielded to the voice from Heaven and listened. Are you? LASTLY, THE SAME POWER AND EXPERIENCE IS AVAILABLE TO US TODAY. In a recent issue of the Christian magazine, GUIDEPOSTS, I read a story that had transfiguration written all over it, in my opinion. It tells the ...

120. Defeating Discouragement

Mark 1:21-28

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Charley Reeb

... up by their own boot straps, not to those who think they can handle life on their own, not to those who are proud of their fragile self-sufficiency. Isaiah says God gives power to the weak, the vulnerable, the open, the powerless, the willing, those who are yielding to him. If you are discouraged today, the worst thing you can do is to try to overcome by sheer will power. The best thing you can do is what Isaiah directs us to do: “Wait for the Lord.” Now, this is not a passive, lazy waiting. This is ...

121. Proper 15

Hebrews 12:1-13, Luke 12:54-59, Luke 12:49-53, Psalm 82:1-8, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Jeremiah 23:9-32, Jeremiah 38:1-13

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George Bass

... his people from death. The writer reminds them of the resurrection in terms of being "seated at the right hand of the throne of God." He also tells them that they have not, as yet, had to shed their blood and become witnesses by their martyrdom. So they must yield to the discipline of the Lord, obey him, and trust him and live in hope that he will be present to support and deliver them should, or should not, martyrdom be their lot. Luke 12:49-53 (RC, L); 12:49-56 (E, C) The lectionaries that are used in ...

122. God’s Protection Takes the Form of a Faithful Friend

1 Samuel 20:1-42

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... and to his chosen servant necessitates self-denial and sometimes places one in harm’s way. Jonathan is a paradigm of obedience and submission. Even though he is the heir apparent to Saul’s throne, he refuses to follow the path of personal ambition or yield to his father’s sinful wishes (20:31). Indeed, he sincerely pledges his loyalty to the chosen king and prays for his success (20:13–17), even though his decision makes him the object of his father’s wrath and jeopardizes his life (20:30–33 ...

123. Act Quickly - Catch It Early

Matthew 5:21-26

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King Duncan

... is in your life that could bring a blemish to your reputation or cause you to hurt someone else. And if you have already gotten yourself in a bad situation, remember that God is a God of healing and reconciliation. There is still hope if you are willing to yield to God’s control. Years ago, Dr. Charles Sheldon sat on the side of a hill at Winona Lake with a thousand other men and listened to the life story of the speaker on the platform. Here is what that speaker had to say, “Twenty-five years ago, I ...

124. God's Bag of Cookies

Matthew 21:33-46

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Johnny Dean

... to the needs of a broken and hurting world. And, as the tenants of God’s earthly vineyard, we gather as God’s church every week to celebrate God’s victory over death, and to offer back to the owner of the vineyard a portion of what the land has yielded to us. We offer up the sweat and the tears and the laughter of our own lives. And as we do that, we receive back from God the body and blood of the Son who was crucified that we might be redeemed. You know what? We’re getting paid a lot ...

125. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... who too often prefer our way to God’s way. Our pride does not allow us to be totally dependent on God. We move in and out of a trustful relationship with God. Even though we experience “rest” and meaning, purpose and joy in times of yielding to God’s will and way for our life, something within us, our bent to sin and self-reliance, keeps pulling us away from that state of “yieldedness” and trustful relationship with God. That is the reason a big part of prayer is dealing with our prideful ...

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