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1301. How Intelligent Is God’s Design?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... , he understood and trusted the attributes of a benevolent God. He was able to accept the suffering and the evil found in nature as compatible with a loving God. Darwin, on the other hand, interpreted these darker sides of creation as errors, which led to his notion of the randomness of evolution. For Darwin, the chaotic patterns of natural selection led to the survival of some species and the demise of others. And yet the agnostic Darwin was also able to write the following in a letter to his friend: I can ...

1302. What Will It Take to Make You Happy?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... . rests the blueprint for successful human life with optimism, mental health, and contentment.” This is why so many people today are unhappy. It is why suicides are growing among both young people and older people alike. We’ve bought into the notion that happiness comes by being surrounded with pretty things. Economics Professor Richard Layard of the London School of Economics and Political Science has spent a good part of his life studying what is sometimes called the Science of Happiness. He notes ...

1303. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... our lives to Christ. The best antidote for temptation is to be so filled with his song--his salvation--his service--that there is no room for temptation. However, that does not relieve us of the burden of praying daily for his divine care. We have the notion that we are going to suddenly arrive at a spiritual plane where we are delivered from the wiles of the tempter. Nothing could be further from the truth. I am reminded of that place in Exodus where God says to the Israelites concerning their enemies in ...

1304. Blessed Among Women

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... as the way of the future, of competition as the source of power and wealth? Where did he get the idea that was to be the lynchpin of his life; that abundance did not lie in doing well but in doing good? Where did he come upon the notion that God demanded compassion, gentleness, humility; that the meek would inherit the earth, the merciful obtain mercy, the pure in heart see God and the peacemakersbe called God's children? Listen to the words of Mary's song and you will discover where Jesus got his image of ...

1305. A Mystery

John 16:12-15

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... which are feminine, we are not to think of the triune God in solely masculine or feminine terms. We are children praying to the One who creates, redeems, and protects us. Part of the confusion surrounding God the Father results from the commonly held notion that the God of the Old Testament (who is generally connected with God the Father) is a cruel, unforgiving tyrant who is finally overcome by the loving Son, Jesus. The God of the Old Testament creates the world as something good and loves it accordingly ...

1306. Free From What? For What?

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... : we can’t walk away from our domineering boss because we need to feel financially secure. Teenagers, however, are less concerned with safety and more interested in autonomy, so they provide for us good models of what happens when our inflated notions of the importance of independence are allowed to run their full course. In the 1960s, particularly in places like the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, the streets were full of teens who had listened to all of their parents’ complaints about ...

1307. Being Neighborly

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

... the writer of Luke really had in mind. The first thing you notice is that the parable doesn’t stand alone. Jesus had a specific purpose in mind when he told it. A lawyer had stood up to test him. To understand this, we have to get away from our notions of what a lawyer is. In Jesus’ time, to be a lawyer was to be a Bible expert. The Hebrew Bible, what we call the Old Testament, was the law, and lawyers were used to interpret how the laws of Moses could be applied to everyday life. As an expert ...

1308. Portraying Jesus

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Phillip Yancey

... We prefer a tall, handsome, and, above all, slender Jesus. One tradition dating back to the second century suggested Jesus was a hunchback. In the Middle Ages, Christians widely believed that Jesus had suffered from leprosy. Most Christians today would find such notions repulsive and perhaps heretical. Was he not a perfect specimen of humanity? Yet in all the Bible there is only one physical description of sorts, a prophecy written hundreds of years before Christ’s birth. Here is Isaiah’s portrayal, in ...

1309. The Wounds of God

Illustration

John Dickson

... be subjected to the forces of his own creation—that he would have to eat, sleep, and go to the toilet, let alone die on a cross. Dickson and the man went back and forth for about ten minutes during which the man insisted that the notion of God having wounds—whether physical or emotional—was not only illogical, since the “Creator of Causes” could not possibly be caused pain by a lesser entity, it was outright blasphemy, as stated in the Koran. Dickson later wrote, "I had no knock-down argument, no ...

1310. Jesus Destroys the Power of Sin

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , scholar, shepherd of the First Great Awakening, Princeton president Jonathan Edwards should be remembered for more than a sermon about sinners dangling over the flames of hell (“Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God”). Edwards conceived a theological notion he called “remanations” — the human response to an encounter with a divine “emanation,” the presence of the divine in our midst. According to Edwards, when a human encounters the emanation of the divine, the human spirit responds with its ...

1311. But What of Lazarus?

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... , “If you had been here.” Her understanding of Jesus was such that from the very core of her being she trusted that had he been there, her brother would not have died. Even then she trusted Jesus could still do something, though she had no real notion of what shape that “something” might take. Nonetheless her confidence in the man of Nazareth was sure. “But even now,” she said, “I know that God will give you whatever you ask.” “Your brother will rise again,” he told her. She took it as a ...

1312. The Proof is in the Roof

Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... before Jesus. If the church is to be a place to encounter Jesus, we will all need to allow others to disrupt, change, intrude upon, dig up our current ways of doing things, our rules and regulations, our traditions and habits, our phobias and fears, our preconceived notions of love and life. The more we are disrupted, the more the Holy Spirit can move among us, and the sooner our faith and the faith of others will go through the roof! Do you have a “through the roof” faith? Does it push the envelope ...

1313. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ’s an old parable told by Rabbi Edwin H. Friedman called “The Power of Belief.” Here is how he tells it: One evening a man came home and announced that he was dead. Immediately, some of his neighbors tried to show him how foolish this notion was. He walked, and dead men cannot move themselves. He was thinking his brain was functioning, and he was breathing; and that, after all, is the quintessence of living. But none of these arguments had any effect. No matter what reason was brought to bear against ...

1314. Soul Food

Luke 9:10-17, Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, John 6:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... where bugs and other droppings could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a sheet hung over the top afforded some protection. That's how canopy beds came into existence. Did you know that some people subscribe to the notion that animals are superior to or happier than humans? It’s a philosophy called “theriophily.” Can you say that? “Theriophily.”] [Face the entire congregation, continuing to allow people to pet the puppy. Hold him up for all to see.] Did you know a lot of ...

1315. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that Babylon becomes quite a unhappy word in the history of God’s story. Later references to Babylon and Babylonia are linked to “Babel.” It all starts here….this Nimrodian tendency to shut ourselves up and off and away from God’s mission; this Nimrodian notion that we can do things all by ourselves. These are a people who turned from God, were disobedient to God, and in fact, tried to shut God out. They were in the habit of building “ziggurats” in Babylon –tall towers for the worship of the ...

1316. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... that only God can promise and provide. God does not want us simply to stand by and watch miraculous feats or astounding presence. God wants us to go all in for a relationship with Jesus. God invites us to “buy in” to the most radical notion in human history –unconditional love and a seat at the Table. The President didn’t need to order Phyllis to make anything right. All the President of the company did was to confront her with radical love and acceptance, respect and invitation. Phyllis did the ...

1317. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... and achieved critical acclaim. But that’s not all he said. There’s more to the quote, but I’ll come back to that. First I want to talk about the opening idea, the idea of an indifferent universe. Many people in my generation first encountered the notion of an indifferent universe through art and literature, and most of us were introduced to it in a short story called, “To Build a Fire,” by Jack London.[1] I must have been in the eighth or ninth grade when I first read that story. Until that ...

1318. Excuse Me!

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Jech

... stabbed to death. The picture reminds us that we must make an important distinction between low self-esteem that is deserved and low self-esteem that is based on a faulty premise. This guilt-ridden preacher in Russell's movie has internalized the false notion that sex is sinful. That fact is, of course, the only bad, destructive sex is sinful. There is an organized movement today within the Roman Catholic Church to challenge the church to develop a more complex understanding of the role of sexuality and ...

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Adlai Stevenson

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.

Andre Malraux

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

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Showing 1301 to 1325 of 1400 results

1301. How Intelligent Is God’s Design?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

1302. What Will It Take to Make You Happy?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

1303. In the Wilderness with the Devil

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

1304. Blessed Among Women

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

1305. A Mystery

John 16:12-15

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

1306. Free From What? For What?

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

1307. Being Neighborly

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Robert C. Cochran

1308. Portraying Jesus

Illustration

Phillip Yancey

1309. The Wounds of God

Illustration

John Dickson

1310. Jesus Destroys the Power of Sin

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

1311. But What of Lazarus?

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

1312. The Proof is in the Roof

Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1313. Your Faith Has Made You Well

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1314. Soul Food

Luke 9:10-17, Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, John 6:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1315. Emergency!

Genesis 11:1-9

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1316. The Overtaxed Soul (Even Me)

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

1317. Raison d’Etre

Matthew 5:13-16, Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

1318. Excuse Me!

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Carl Jech

Adlai Stevenson

It is the dissimilarities and inequalities among men which give rise to the notion of honor; as such differences become less, it grows feeble; and when they disappear, it will vanish too.

Alexis de Tocqueville

The Americans combine the notions of religion and liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive of one without the other.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

Amos Bronson Alcott

Andre Malraux

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Aristotle

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