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1326. Let God Do the Rest

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... in allowing God to handle things, to believe that God will do the rest. Some of us are like the boy in the story; we feel we have nothing to offer, that we are unworthy of God, but we should recall that the Prophet Isaiah (6:5a) considered himself unworthy. He ... personal worthiness; God is only interested in us doing our part and allowing God to do the rest. The polar opposite of those who feel unworthy are people who want to do it all; they cannot wait for God to act because they may lose control. People in ...

1327. Integrity Deficit Disorder

Matthew 21:23-32

Illustration

Otis Young

... lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weaknesses of other people to control them. They let other people decide how they are going to act. In addition, reactive people are often affected by the physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, they let it affect their attitude and their performance. Worse still, reactive people blame whatever happens to them on someone or something outside of them. They rarely take any responsibility for what's happened to them. It's ...

1328. When What’s Holding You Up Lets You Down

2 Samuel 18:33-19:8

Sermon

Shirley Gupton Lynn

... the race is still on. And we have to run the course, like it or not. How can we be victorious in life even when we feel like everything that's been holding us up has let us down? Our text describes just such a time in the life of David. You ... , my son, my son, Absalom! If only I had died instead of you! O Absalom, my son'" (2 Samuel 18:33). David did not deny his feelings. He did not pretend everything was fine. It wasn't. He embraced the reality of the agony. Likewise, if you or I are to be victorious ...

1329. Miss Manners and Mr. Goodwrench

Ephesians 4:25-5:2

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... being an expert on protocol, but it's even more helpful if you are able to stop a person from being falsely maligned. It's attractive for you to dress appropriately for social functions, but it's even more attractive for you to make someone who feels really down to feel up again." (9-10) For to be truly present to another person is more than a readiness to respect and to stand in wonder and openness before the mysterious life and influence of the other. To be present, really present, is to be vulnerable, to ...

1330. Is Your Christmas Spirit a Controlled Substance?

1 Thessalonians 5:12-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... it on YouTube: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUSzQBaWq0Q). First of all, if you can watch this and not be moved, you need help because you have no spirit. But what does “The Little Match Girl” story move you to? Does this move you to a compassion that feels sad and sorry for this little girl? That’s SO NOT the Christmas spirit. Or does it move you to a compassion that wants to do something about all the little match girls and boys still out there in the world, dying of hunger and disease? 30,000 ...

1331. A Concert of Prayer

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Drama

Leonard Sweet

... . Your body is the house of God. What repairs do you need? What unmet needs are there in your life? Where do you feel particularly broken? Maybe you need a fresh anointing. Maybe you need a "right spirit," a better attitude. Maybe you need a right mouth ... re sitting next to a friend, then pair off with that person. Or you may be sitting next to a stranger. Where else should strangers never feel strange but in the house of God? Where does the live Word need to come alive in you? What do you need to do to keep ...

1332. The Ride of Your Life

1 Peter 1:17-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... in one of these descriptions? 1. The downward slide. We know all about downward mobility. At times things grow so gloomy it seems as if someone turned off the light at the other end of the tunnel. Even though we did everything we could, we still feel cheated. We feel set up by the very system we have invested in. When we are on the downward slide, we aren't rewarded as we think fit. Consequently, over the years, we "sliders" increasingly see no reason to invest ourselves in anyone or anything. We let the ...

1333. A Bill of Rights

Matthew 15:(10-20) 21-28

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... [Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House, 1995]). On the positive side, this same little text reminds us that "God is perfect and always right, so everything good matches what God is like" (#1). Simple enough, isn't it? So why do so many of us feel hopelessly trapped in a wasteland of "gray areas" where the concepts of right and wrong are labels that are ridiculed and dismissed as insignificant? Philosopher Graham Priest claims that some things are both true and false. Another philosopher, Alan Thomas, counters: "If ...

1334. A Theology of Linguistic Linguini

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... God leaves its mark — on the body and on the soul. Adoration is hard for us, because we don’t like to feel we are not the one in charge. We like to be “pack leaders.” Caesar Millan, “The Dog Whisperer,” is hugely popular ... gather up all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.” The way, the truth, and the life are found “in Christ.” Can you feel the pulse of prostration behind Paul’s adoration here in Ephesians 1:3-14? God is in charge. God’s mission is sure. God’s presence ...

1335. 1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

1 Thessalonians 3:9-13

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... wanted "more and more" (Thessalonians 4:1) from those who had already shown they had taken the gospel to heart. It seems reasonable to assume, then, that Paul's reference is not to some specific deficiency he perceived in the Thessalonians' faith. Instead, he feels that as their pastor he has more to offer them. His first visit had been cut abruptly short and Paul longed to continue building up the strength of the body of Christ in Thessalonia. Although most modern translations break up his direct prayer in ...

1336. Rainbows and Roses

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... story just a little for this sermon while still leaving intact its beauty. It’s about a woman named Sandra. Sandra was feeling exceedingly low as she made her way into the florist shop door. It was Thanksgiving week. This is the week she would ... in the woods, she asked: “Do you think God would mind if I picked some of His flowers.” That’s the way we ought to feel about creation. This is God’s beautiful world, a world He has filled with rainbows and roses. No one ever seems to want to address that ...

1337. Death Has Been Conquered

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... for yourself.’ “I opened it and this is what it said, `Walk eight miles every day, come home and eat a beef steak for supper, and stop reading things you’ve got no business reading.’ It is a dangerous thing to look down at yourself. You get to feeling sorry for yourself.” (3) Isn’t that part of the joy of Easter? It helps us lift our eyes from our problems to our possibilities. Look up, not down. `Because he lives, I can live.’ For you see, life is not always roses and sunshine. There are also ...

1338. Jesus Radical Prescription

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... ourselves over to our anger. The late Catholic priest, Henri Nouwen, reached a point in his life when he had to confess that his is what had happened to him. He was forced to ask himself: “Who am I apart from my anger? Who am I apart from feeling a victim? Who am I without my enemies?” To sustain our anger requires self-righteousness. I am totally innocent. The one who has offended me is totally guilty. He is not only my enemy. He is God’s enemy. Jesus attributes the same response from God to being ...

1339. Not My Jesus!

Matthew 26:14-16

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... .” This morning the story you are about to see is true; the names have not been changed to protect the guilty. Christians don’t believe guilt is bad. Guilt is to our soul as fever is to our body. Sure, it doesn’t make us feel good. But it’s that bad feeling that alerts us that something is wrong and needs attention. The person who has no guilt is called a psychopath. The person who is guilt-ridden is called someone in need of God’s forgiveness. It’s a disturbing story. It’s got guilt in it ...

1340. Said the Night Wind….

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... baby awakes; the little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.” Crying is the way a baby lets the world know it’s alive. Crying is the way a baby expresses its need to be responded to. To be made in God’s image is to be able to feel what others are feeling and be moved to respond. St. Paul, uses the analogy of the human body, to convey the nature of the church. The church is composed of many interrelated parts, each having its own essential role, each so connected to the rest, that when one part suffers, all ...

1341. What Do I Do When The Load Is Too Heavy?

Exodus 18:13-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... shuts down and we can't function. There was a housewife who went to her doctor and he said, "What is wrong with you?" She said, "I feel run-down." After a brief examination he said, "Lady, you are not too run down. You are to wound up." I don't care how great you ... do at the end of the day than you can get done, then you are trying to do more than God wanted you to do. When you feel like you are between a rock and a hard place and you are being pressed in on every side, you are being squeezed in from every ...

1342. Live and Let Die

Galatians 2:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... over is to be under. A great Bible teacher named A.W. Tozer, put it this way: "A real Christian is an odd number anyway. He feels supreme love for One whom he has never seen; talks familiarly every day to Someone he cannot see, expects to go to heaven on the ... lives by the flesh. This is the world—look out for number one; eat, drink, and be merry; grab all the gusto you can; if it feels good do it; I did it my way. On the other hand, the Christian lives by faith. As you think about it he has to because ...

1343. Bring It On

Hebrews 4:15-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... bread.' But Jesus answered him, saying, ‘It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.'" (Luke 4:3-4) The devil appealed to his physical appetite. Jesus was hungry, no doubt about it. He was saying in essence, "If it feels good do it." Now we are going to learn a great lesson about temptation here. There is nothing wrong about eating the right food, drinking the right beverages, or loving someone the right way. But what the devil does is take a legitimate desire and try to ...

1344. Finish the Drill

Nehemiah 4:1-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are the overwhelming power of success." The next time you see an oak tree remember it was once an acorn that refused to give ground, so when you are discouraged and feeling a little blue, take a look at an acorn and see what a nut can do. God has given us an opportunity, not just to build a church for His glory, but an opportunity for Him to build us for His glory. I warn you, it is easier ...

1345. Jesus, The One And Only

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... bald. The reason why all of them were bald was because thirteen of them had shaved their heads so their sick buddy wouldn't feel out of place. One eleven-year-old boy said, "If everybody has their head shaved sometimes people don't know who's who; they don ... -old boy said, "The last thing he would want is not to fit in to be made fun of. So we just wanted to make him feel better and not feel left out." [2] Just as Jesus died for us, we ought to love each other to the point that we're willing to die for one ...

1346. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... word. It is impossible, not to be unbelievably blessed when somebody sends a kind deed or a kind word your way. There is an old saying that goes, "Kill them with kindness." You really can do that with people. You can kill animosity, bitterness, anger, and hard feelings with just a little kindness. As I was trying to think of a good definition of kindness, I came up with this thought. Kindness is treating others the way God treats you. The Bible says in Ephesians 4:32, "Be kind to one another, tender-hearted ...

1347. Our Task: Acceptance and Challenge

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

... father at this time, and one afternoon just the two of them were together in the hospital room. Sam said, "I don't know how you feel about everything you have done with your life, but I want you to know that as a parent, I think you have been a huge ... what is more, you did the finest single thing a parent can do for his child: namely, you took delight in us. You always made us feel that you were glad that we had been born, that you were delighted that we had come into your world, and for that one gift, I ...

1348. Fish and Sheep

John 21:15-25, John 21:1-14

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... classic scene for all our spiritual ancestors and will remain so for all future generations, provided the Lord tarries. We may want to suggest to Jesus that he take it a little easier on the poor fellow. As a matter of fact, we may even begin to feel sorry for him. Peter, the Lord really isn't angry at you, but he needs to be sure of your love and thorough commitment. Peter, the Christian movement cannot be tripped up by a vacillating attitude that compromises what the Lord has set out to accomplish. Peter ...

1349. What Outsiders Can Teach Us

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... and trust. The centurion shows himself to be one who trusts Jesus to heal his servant, even from a distance. The Roman officer does not feel he's worthy of having Jesus in his home. Actually, it's out of deep respect for Jesus that he does not want Jesus ... market. Whether it's in the church or in the world at large, because of all the power and wealth we have, Americans can get to feeling that we know it all and are the point of it all. But there are people of faith outside as well as inside the church. There ...

1350. Lean on Me

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... am going to do what she asks me to do. Do you see the end time theme here? All of us who claim the name, Christian, will be tested. To be a Christian in this world means that there will be times when you will feel like the woman in our lesson for today. You may feel defeated momentarily, but you will not take that defeat as final or authoritative. You will look to the cross, you will remember the promise, and you will go once again in front of the judge and you will demand justice! You will do that because ...

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