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1276. Rise Above It

John 21:15-19

Sermon

James W. Moore

... likely an urban legend) that speaks to this according to the legend. Ignace Paderewski who rose to prominence as Poland’s most famous pianist and Prime Minister, once scheduled a concert in a small out-of-the-way village in hopes of cultivating the arts in rural Poland. A young mother wishing to encourage her son’s progress at the piano, bought tickets for the Paderewski performance. When the night arrived, they found their seats near the front of the concert hall and eyed the majestic Steinway waiting ...

1277. The Bridge over Troubled Water

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

James W. Moore

... research. Lincoln was disappointed in his law career. He considered himself a failure at 46 and thus turned in the direction that led to the White House. Whistler wanted to be a soldier, but he flunked out of West Point… and then he turned to art. Redeeming our troubles – using them… this is a key to Christian living… learning by the grace of God to triumph even in our troubles. Now, sometimes, this takes creativity. Five year old Donnie was being brought up in a very conservative home with a rigid ...

1278. The Gospel According to Winnie the Pooh

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... none of us have been A place that has to be believed to be seen. “Truth must dazzle gradually, or every man be blind.” Emily Dickinson In the New Jersey office of Spirit Venture Ministries, parking is at a premium and meter reading is raised to an art form. Three meter readers patrol the downtown 8-8 daily on foot and in vehicles. The one heavily tattooed is friendly, and knows everyone on the street. The two others are sullen and surly, and one seldom looks up from her pad and chalk. I once had an ...

1279. Life in the Living Stone Age

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in honor of an even higher purpose? Bread alone isn’t enough, even if you’ve conjured it from a chunk of sandstone. I have a talent for finding good words, but there are times in my work with patients and families and staff where even the most artfully crafted words won’t work¼and I have to trust that God can use the awkward silence every bit as well as my eloquence. I have to let the stones stay stones. --Chaplain Steve Laue *** Some groups like the Rolling Stones stay around long enough to become ...

1280. Good and Bad "Magical Thinking"

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Paul also warned them that there was a difference between religiosity and righteousness. The God who created the universe, who gave life to human beings, “does not live in shrines made by human hands” (v.24) and is not “an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals” (v.29). Idols of gold, silver, or stone will never contain God, and can never move beyond the “magical” to real faithfulness. How do we get beyond bad “magical” thinking to a new perspective, a new kind of faithfulness in ...

1281. The Power of Testimony

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Mark R. Smith

... : When we have truly experienced Christ in a new way, we cannot help but talk about it with others. May I pause for a moment here to lament? I lament the fact that in our new-fangled societies, we are quickly losing the ancient art of storytelling. For millennia, tribes and nations alike kept their histories and genealogies alive through oral tradition. Storytelling, or narrative account, is part of the reason the New Testament is so appealing. It is filled with personal and eye-witness accounts of God at ...

1282. Good and Bad “Magical Thinking”

Acts 17:22-31

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Leonard Sweet

... "groping" for the "unknown God." But Paul also warned them that there was a difference between religiosity and righteousness. The God who created the universe, who gave life to human beings, "does not live in shrines made by human hands" (v.24) and is not "an image formed by the art and imagination of mortals" (v.29). Idols of gold, silver, or stone will never contain God, and can never move beyond the "magical" to real faithfulness…

1283. Paying Attention to Your Mission

Matthew 28:16-20

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Phil Roughton

... so for a time there, to people watching from the outside, it looked like IBM was spending more time, money, and energy building huge, impressive corporate office buildings, filled with gifted managers and executives, than improving and selling what had been state-of-the-art, cutting edge products. And in that gap, little upstart companies like Apple and then later Hewlett-Packard, Dell, Compaq and others, stepped in and took a huge slice of the pie. Now IBM's a great company, and it was smart enough to fix ...

1284. The Iron, Silver, Golden, Platinum and Titanium Rules

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... year olds to like what forty year olds like. Good parents let their children do childish things, and we sacrifice our likes and dislikes for our children. We eat Happy Meals. We watch Veggie Tales. We decorate the driveway with chalk art. Why? Because those are good “kid things” to do. There are many different kinds of love. You no doubt remember the Greek way of distinguished between “eros,” and “agape,” and “philia” love. We distinguish platonic” love from “romantic” love. In the ...

1285. Is Sunday Just a Fun Day?

Exodus 20:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

It was an ad in Newsweek magazine that caught my attention because of the first two words: In bold print it said, SUNDAY MORNING; but listen to the ad in its entirety: "SUNDAY MORNING: Time to kick back, get comfortable, and perfect the art of doing absolutely nothing. The ideal companion? Pioneers new PD-M710, 6-disc CD player. Now you can enjoy up to six hours of your favorite music without lifting a finger...all of which means you can spend less time changing your music, and more time enjoying it, but ...

1286. Out With the Old - In With the New

Philippians 3:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... : Set the right goals in life, and then build your life around reaching those goals. Now make sure, first of all, you've set the right goal. I heard about a football coach who devoted part of his off season trying to teach his six-year-old son the fine art of place kicking. So the first day he got down on his knees, put the ball down meticulously, looked at his son and said, "Now when I nod my head, KICK IT!" That's how the coach lost his two front teeth. You must have the right goal in mind ...

1287. How to Live the Good Life (Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... the real secret and the real source of goodness is. It is walking with God. Are we not told "the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord." (Ps. 37:23) Isn't it sad that civilized man has learned how to fly, but he has lost the art of walking with God. You see, the truly good person will have a walk with God, because goodness is the work of God. What God is telling us is this: Being good comes before doing good. Merv Griffin was once interviewing Charlton Heston. He played the part of Moses in ...

1288. Courage Under Fire

Jude 1:22-23

Sermon

James Merritt

As you know, the Louvre is one of the most famous art museums in all of Europe. They once ran a contest in a newspaper, providing a prize to the person that gave the best answer to this question: "If a fire broke out in the Louvre, and you could save only one painting, which one would it be?" Well, Tristan Bernard, ...

1289. Don't Get Too Big For Your Spiritual Britches

Judges 16:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... man in the world. But compared to the man we will study today, he was a 97 pound weakling. Samson was the heavyweight champion of the Old Testament. He was the strongest man who ever lived. He could kill a lion with his bare hands. Without the aid of marshal arts or machine guns, he killed 1,000 men single-handedly with the jawbone of a donkey. He was the town hero, women threw themselves at his feet, he had the world on a silver platter. Before he even reached the prime of his life, he was a living legend ...

1290. How to Deal with Friends, Foes, and Fools

Proverbs 27:6

Sermon

James Merritt

... , How to Win Friends and Influence People, who said, "You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." Being friendly is both a science and an art. It can be learned and improved with practice. If you will teach your children a few things early in life, it will carry them a long way in interpersonal relationships. Eye contact when you talk to people look them in the eye. A smiling face it takes ...

1291. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... comes from the Latin word vocare meaning "to call." Your vocation, regardless of what it is, is a calling from God.8 Martin Luther King rightly declared: Not all men are called to specialize for professional jobs; even fewer to the heights of genius and the arts and sciences; many are called to be laborers in factories, fields and streets. But no work is insignificant.9 There is an old-fashion word we use in our house called "chores." Our kids get an allowance but again they get it the "old-fashion way ...

1292. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... planet earth. Years ago, the Los Angeles Times quoted something he wrote in his autobiography: I have never been given to envy...save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily. It's an art I have never been able to master. My record: five marriages, five divorces. In short, five failures. I am not trying to imply that being rich guarantees family problems. I am simply saying that Solomon is right when he says putting money first and family second ...

1293. My God Is Real

Psalm 14:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... In other words, "Does God know me, and can I know God?" This series is entitled "The God You Can Know." This sermon is entitled "My God is Real." For I want to deal today with the basic question of the reality of God. One day in a grade-school art class, a little boy was drawing a picture, and the curious teacher came by and said, "Johnny, what are you drawing?" Johnny looked up from his half-finished master piece and said, "I'm drawing a picture of God." The teacher said, "Now Johnny, no one knows what God ...

1294. America: You Are Too Young to Die

Psalm 80:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... sin. We can parade pornography before our young people and call it sex education. But those same young people cannot pray because of the separation of church and state. A man can photograph Christ on a cross, submerge it in a bottle of urine, and call it art. But if you protest, they call it censorship. A teacher can try to read his Bible at his desk and, yet, they will take his Bible away and call it separation of church and state. Dr. Vance Havner once said, "At the rate America is decaying morally, we ...

1295. God's Will: Don't Leave Home Without It

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

James Merritt

... is better for you. He wants what is best for you. He wants what is perfect and what is perfect is His plan for our life. I read recently about a young ensign who had made his first trip on a destroyer across the ocean. He had state of the art training, he had brilliant credentials, and it was his assignment to take the destroyer out of the harbor and bring it back to the United States. It was his first assigned task as a young officer, and he wanted to do it perfectly. He was extremely bright, very forceful ...

1296. Faithful Fathers Fortify Families

Deuteronomy 6:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... are invited to the White House, while evangelical Bible-believing Christians are relegated to the outhouse. Abortionists are the heroes and pro-lifers are the villains. The government takes our money to pay for a crucifix to be submerged in urine and call it art, then refuses to give us our money so we can choose to send our kids to a Christian school in the name of Separation of Church and State. We have gone after the gods of materialism, hedonism, intellectualism, humanism and secularism. What is the ...

1297. Let's Get Ready to Rumble

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... foe. But after the war was over, in just a matter of hours, I will never forget how General Norman Schwarzkopf stood before a press conference and gave this assessment of the same. He said, "Saddam is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier; other than that he is a great military man. Well let me give you some good news. Satan is not omnipotent, Satan is not omnipresent, Satan is not omniscient, but God is all ...

1298. Power in the Pulpit

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... CIVILIZATION Our civilization was founded on the Bible, and on the preaching of this Bible as truth. No less than Yale Professor, William Lyons Phelps, once said, "Our civilization is founded upon the Bible. More of our ideas, our wisdom, our philosophy, our literature, our art, our ideals, come from the Bible than from all other books combined.4 Abraham Lincoln once received, he said, one of the most cherished gifts he was ever given. It was a Holy Bible given to him by a delegation of black Americans. The ...

1299. And the Angel Said to Harry Potter

Luke 1:26-38

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... you, in that moment, an angel….and are you absolutely certain that you are going to be able to make everything all right? The world is full of fearful things. Children know this and openly acknowledge it. Adults know this, too, but have mastered the art of repressing or bluffing their way through it. Franklin D. Roosevelt was wrong. There are some things to fear besides fear itself. When you read the nativity narratives in Matthew and Luke, doesn't it seem as if the angels are working overtime, rushing ...

1300. Practical Tips For Powerful Prayer

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... “amen”, fire rained down from heaven. God is not hard of hearing. Long prayers are not better than short ones. Jesus’ third bit of advice about prayer is this: PRAYER SHOULD BEGIN WITH PRAISE. In verse 9 Jesus begins his model prayer with praise: “Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.” Before bringing your wish list to God, thank Him for who He is and what He has done and is doing, all the way from Calvary’s cross to downtown Memphis. Did you know that it is almost impossible to ...

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