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1251. The King Who Died

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... It’s an awesome thought. God sees something in us? Many of us think of ourselves like Linus in that old “Peanuts” cartoon. Linus is looking at his hands one day. He says, “These are magnificent hands! These are hands that may create incredible works of art. These are hands that may one day shape the course of history. These are hands that may one day hold the future of the world!” Lucy, the inevitable spoilsport walks over, looks at his hands, and says, “They’ve got jelly on them.” My hands ...

1252. Are You Turned On to Christ?

1 Peter 1:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are working more and more hours at their jobs, but that we are also spending more time participating in leisure-time activities. There are more community baseball, soccer, basketball teams than there have ever been. We flock to fancy, state-of-the-art, workout equipment gyms. In my home wet Washington state, people wait for the opening day of boating season like nineteenth-century millennialists used to wait on mountain-tops for the Second Coming. Not-so-active activities turn some people on. Malls are ...

1253. What's the Value of Your Life?

Genesis 28:10-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... change in an instant, without warning. 4. Value is shaped by perception – and perception is not free of personal prejudice. 5. When the world changes, the value of an object may change – even if the object itself remains exactly the same. Art collectors have always counted on Lesson #3. Any serious collector stockpiles works by respected, noted living artists knowing full well that the moment that living artist becomes a dead artist, the value of his or her artwork will rise significantly. The pieces ...

1254. Life's Four Big 'Ds' and One Bigger 'D'

Galatians 2:11-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and aahed appropriately at all the new appliances, furniture, and additions. But they saved the best till last, which is when her oohs and aahs turned to something else. They brought her outside to her backyard, and there revealed a huge, state-of-the-art barbecue unit they had built for her Friday night barbecues. When Alice saw this, she dropped to her knees, looked up to the heavens, and cried out "Thank you, Lord. Thank you, God," as tears streamed down her face. Up until that point, every improvement ...

1255. A Case for Living Together

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... known as convivencia a "living together," as it was called. Although there was certainly no true economic or political equality among these groups, nevertheless cooperation, respect, and cross learning thrived, bringing to Spain a high-water mark in art, trade, exploration, and the experience of a multi-faith community. Through living together, these disparate peoples, cultures, and faiths were able to stand under and so understand each other without resorting to violence, without resorting to persecution ...

1256. Learning the Three Step Faith Walk

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is followed by a kind of insect-like wriggling called squinching, which finally leads to full-fledged crawling. But the baby is only half-way there . . . and is still on all fours. Eventually babies do get up on two feet and learn the art of standing. Then using furniture, their brothers and sisters, the dog, and most of the breakable things in the house as guide-posts, babies quickly move on to cruising about their homes. Finally, only after mastering all these incremental steps from thrashing, flipping ...

1257. Trust that Leads to Transformation

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the teacher stuck in the middle of this mess (sorry . . . this loveliness) a bulb. All we had to do, Soren instructed, was put this lump in the middle of the table, next to the windows, and add water. In fact, she said proudly as she held up her art-work, it would make a great centerpiece to the table! Sure enough, after a few days some spindly, hair-like projections began to worm their way out of the lump and down into the gravel. A few days later, thicker greenish white sprouts began to burst out of the ...

1258. The Dash of Discipleship

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... between his birth date and death date was very short. The gift of years, when it's received, allows us to find new expressions for our mission, new ways to bear fruit as we grow and change. Grandma Moses was discovered and celebrated by the art world when she was in her eighties. But Grandma Moses herself had been expressing beauty in her life ever since she had been a little girl -through sewing and embroidery. It was only when her fingers stiffened with arthritis and her eyesight grew dim that Grandma ...

1259. Making Holiness

Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is only that split-second of perfect timing that results in a great catch or an amazing shot. For my grandmother the perfect expression of her greatest talent lasted only as long as a crumb remained of her latest cake. Baking a cake for Gramma was an act of art, an expression of a lifetime of finely-honed skills. All of her cakes came from a creative combination of head work, hand work and hard work. Her head and her hands beat to the rhythm of her sense of taste, smell, and touch, sight and sound. I never ...

1260. Show and Listen

Acts 8:26-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... to join him in his chariot, who initiates the direction and content of their meeting. Can there be any doubt that God has set these two up, that God has already been working and waiting in the Ethiopian's life to bring him to this point? Could Philip have artfully turned ANY Scripture to fit his own urge to tell the good news of Jesus? Or was it not divine guidance that brought Isaiah 53 to the Ethiopian's attention that day? As an evangelist Philip is required to do but two things: go where he is directed ...

1261. The World's Best Hearing Aid

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... few centuries later, when the pipe was given a new home in an upscale museum, a committee said it needed improving yet again. So another artist was employed to overlay it in fine gold and silver filigree. The result, in the end, was a breathtaking piece of art, a marvelous sight indeed. It was so beautiful, in fact, that no one ever noticed that it was no longer capable of the clear, seductive notes once played upon it by Moses." (God, the Devil, and Harry Potter [New York: Thomas Dunne, 2002], 162-3.) How ...

1262. It Is Good News!

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

James McCormick

... we can earn, More peace than we can measure, Because one child is born.” There are no words large enough to express what the birth of that child has meant to the world. We’ve been trying to say it for 2000 years now – in books, drama, poetry, and art. And we still haven’t found a canvas large enough to portray it. Of course, this child was not just any child. Jesus was a child in whom God was uniquely present. In Him God acted to reveal Himself. In Him God acted to bring about reconciliation between ...

1263. Be Kind

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James McCormick

... a toothbrush in paint and rub it across the screen, spattering the paint on the paper below. When the ink had dried, we removed the leaf or the flower, leaving its outline on the paper. In this way, even a non-artist like me could produce a lovely work of art. That is to say nothing of the spattered artwork on my clothes! But I loved it! There were caring people who gave generously of their time and energy to play games with us, teach us songs, tell us stories, and each day drill us on the memory verse - we ...

1264. Lord, Teach Us How to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... blows through a field of wheat. We will allow God to tell us who He is, who we are, and what we are called to be and do for Him and for one another. It is true that we can find God and worship God in nature, in music, in art, and in other people. We can see God and encounter God in all of the events of daily life. But I am convinced that unless we make time for God in a regular, disciplined life of prayer, we will not develop the sensitivity necessary to see Him and to acknowledge ...

1265. Lent 1

Mt 4:1-11, Rom 5:12-21

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