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1351. Connect the Dots

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of principle that no one who ever comes into your presence will leave worse, only better? 2. Bring peace to every meeting. Medical doctor Gerald Jampolsky wrote a book a few years ago called Love Is Letting Go of Fear (Berkeley, Calif.: Celestial Arts, 1979). In it he asked this question: "Have you ever given yourself the opportunity of going through just one day concentrating on totally accepting everyone and making no judgments" (97)? Try "not keeping score of wrongs" (Paul's phrase) for one day. Dr ...

1352. The Oblivious Obvious

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is obvious to your congregation and add here.) Retired professional athletes often move into a second career as sports announcers. Here is a classic example of someone getting paid for restating the obvious. In the days before television, sportscasting was more of an art _ drawing pictures with words for people tuned to their radios. But what can a sports announcer possibly add to the surround-sound, slow-motion, instant-replay, 15-camera angle, close-up version of our favorite sports events that we see now ...

1353. Say Amen, Somebody

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... sermon. God asks for a lot of praise and gratitude in the Bible. God does this, not because God is like some dictator who needs a claque of people around to tell God how wonderful he is, but because we need to tell God how wonderful God is. Good art isn't poorer for our failure to recognize and appreciate it. But we are. It's that way with God. We need an affirmative, grateful spirit. Healthy, modest and happy people do a lot of praising, C. S. Lewis observed in an essay on the Psalms: "Readers [praising ...

1354. Spiritual Focus and Peripheral Vision

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... thing about this woman and her message is that this is considered to be good news. As our electronic sophistication continues to develop, and its ability to throw multiple levels of questions, answers, data and documents at us grows, those of us still trying to master the art of chewing gum and walking at the same time are in for a tough time. The key to being able to do many things at once is not brilliance or electronic wizardry or even terrifying effic- iency the key to that ability is focus. And what is ...

1355. Treasure Hunters

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... shares. It is not inherently wrong for one person to possess more than another person because each person has many different needs, some of them more costly than others. The soul can be an expensive thing to grow. It may need books, music, art, travel and beauty. Jesus made all these things a part of daily bread. The most dramatic strike in American history broke out in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912, when 25,000 unskilled immigrant workers fought for 10 weeks against an oppressive industrial system. Ray ...

1356. Call the Tribe of Issachar Together

Luke 12:49-56

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... We cannot live life based on the models of control and predictability that the myth of long-range planning assumes. The world is not predictable or controllable. Only now, with the rise of "scenario thinking" pioneered by Peter Schwartz (The Art of the Long View [New York: Doubleday, 1991]) and the Global Business Network, are businesses slowly moving from planning to preparedness. Unfortunately, one of the slowest and most awkward of these behemoths is the church itself. The "mainline" denominations have ...

1357. The Five Adjectives of a Noun Christian

2 Thessalonians 2:1-5, 13-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christian salesman," protested one gentleman, while the camera captured him doing the very things he said he would never do. The head of a Christian Militia calls the Oklahoma City bombing of an office building and day-care center: "As fine a piece of art as any Rembrandt painting." In our culture today, that word "Christian," in too many people's minds, stands for everything Jesus didn't stand for. That is why Baptist minister and writer Gordon MacDonald has had it with the word "Christian," which he says ...

1358. Dream Reality

Matthew 2:19-23, Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

In a world that dreams nightmares, let's begin the new year with some God-powered, God-sized daydreams. In Native American culture there is a talisman called a "dream catcher." Actually, they've recently become quite popular as pieces of jewelry and folk art. A dream catcher looks like a simplistic version of a spider's web, adorned with a few decorative feathers and beads. According to legend, parents are to hang a dream catcher over their newborn's cradle - the "web" then catches only the child's good ...

1359. The New Age

Luke 1:26-38

Illustration

Thomas Long

Every year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, there is displayed, beneath the great Christmas tree, a beautiful eighteenth century Neapolitan nativity scene. In many ways it is a very familiar scene. The usual characters are all there: shepherds roused from sleep by the voices of angels; the exotic wise men from the East seeking, ...

1360. It Is Jesus!

Luke 2:22-40; John 3:1-21

Illustration

William K. Quick

... Christ and his teachings... that lie behind all the efforts at social reform. who put an end to slavery. who sanctified childhood. who abolished the gladiatorial shows of ancient Rome. who is the namesake of every hospital in existence who is the inspiration for the greatest art who elevated the status of women. who by his emphasis upon the worth of human personality conferred on us our liberty. who has given us a new way of life, a new standard of conduct, a new power for living. Christ can save our world ...

1361. Known as the Sacrifice from the Beginning

Luke 2:22-40

Illustration

... narrowed and fixed in frozen alarm on Simeon. He reaches desperately for his mother, every muscle arched away from the old man toward Mary. But looking carefully at the background, we see the artist's true genius. The child seems suspended above the temple altar, that place of sacrifice. As art historian John W. Dixon puts it, "This very human baby is known, from the very beginning, to be the eternal sacrifice for the redemption of the mankind."

1362. New Beginnings

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... . Go forth into this New Year aware of who you are, and to Whom you belong. 1. THE JOKESMITH® 2. Contributed. Source unknown. 3. Shoulda Coulda Woulda (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2003). 4. Michael J. Gleb and Tony Buzan, Lessons From the Art of Juggling (New York: Harmony Books, 1992). 5. Stephen Arterburn, Flash Points (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2002), p. 92. 6. Sidney Greenberg, Say Yes To Life (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1992). 7. Pastor Michael Dean, http://www.travis ...

1363. Mark 1:4-11

Mark 1:4-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... is immediately made evident, for as Jesus emerges from the water, "... he saw the heavens opened and the Spirit descending upon him like a dove" (vs.10). Mark then dramatically reveals Jesus' parentage and pedigree when he records a voice from heaven proclaiming, "Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased." Mark begins this section of his text by defining the types of baptism available to people during the time of John the Baptizer. John preached a baptism of repentance. But John's baptism meant ...

1364. Luke 10:25-37

Luke 10:25-37

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... are from Luke - a fact that makes focusing on any of the other weekly texts quite difficult, for Luke is one of history's most masterful storytellers. Thoroughly steeped in Jewish Scripture, Luke's descriptions are so vital, his characters so pungent, his scenes so artfully set, that our whole being is drawn into the flair and fascination of these stories. It is no surprise that Luke's Gospel is most commonly read at Christmas, or that our most beloved parables are found in his writings. The "Good Samaritan ...

1365. 2 Kings 4:8-17

2 Kings 4:8-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... of a haunted-looking woman obviously embarking on a long journey with a man and young boy standing beside her. For centuries this painting was erroneously believed to be of Abraham sending Hagar and Ishmael out into the wilderness. Finally in 1966 art historians determined that this was Rembrandt's "Departure of the Shunammite Woman," his tribute to this unnamed heroine. Shunem was an area located on the southwestern slopes of the Hill of Moreh, on the border of Issachar (Joshua 19:18). Most scholars ...

1366. Luke 10:25-37

Luke 10:25-37

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1367. Jeremiah 18:1-11

Jeremiah 18:1-11

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... intention for the clay and "reworks" the stubborn lump into some other project. To be sure, the potter and the clay together determine the shape of the finished product. But it is the potter's judgment, whatever seems "good to him," that ultimately governs what art comes into being. The elements of both constancy and change are what give power and perceptivity to Jeremiah's observation at the potter's house. The potter's ceaseless working with the clay, shaping it, molding it, coaxing it to take on new form ...

1368. A Burden or a Song

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

James McCormick

... . Tears came into his eyes as he said, “Jim, it’s too bad I’ve had to go through this, but I have experienced for myself the truth of the 23rd Psalm: ‘Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with me.’” As I looked into his eyes, I knew that he was talking about something real. He’s been there. He knows. I didn’t have to ask him whether his faith was a burden or a song. His faith is the most real thing in his life! His ...

1369. Knowing the Secret Right from the Start

Mark 1:4-11

Illustration

Thomas Long

... in the story's opening episode, when Jesus, coming up out of the waters of baptism, sees the Holy Spirit descending upon him like a dove from the heavens, which have been torn open like a piece of cloth, and hears the very voice of God telling the secret: "Thou art my beloved Son; with thee I am well pleased" (Mark 1:11). Only Jesus sees the Spirit; only Jesus hears the voice. This is, in the words of one commentator, "a secret epiphany."

1370. Ephesians 1:15-23

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... women. Jesus Christ himself is the best example of God's proactive involvement in human life. Why Jesus? Because: Beauty is an abstraction until it finds expression in a flower. Music is a fantasy until the notes of an instrument give it speech. Art is ethereal until it embodies itself in sculpture or in picture. The great things of created and uncreated thought are only grasped and understood when they find expression in some easy, intelligible and often substantial form. (John MacBeath, The Face of Christ ...

1371. Ephesians 2:1-10

Ephesians 2:1-10

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... makes faith a possibility at all. Even after likening human beings to "sons of disobedience" and "children of wrath," this section concludes by revealing our specialness. A perfectly acceptable translation of verse 10 might begin "we are God's artifact" or "work of art" as well as "workmanship." God's original act of creation was not enough. God has reworked the human creature in union with Christ to create the possibility of a new relationship. It is because of this new state of being that human beings ...

1372. Said the Night Wind….

Sermon

Mike Ripski

... I read a book entitled, same kind of different as me. It’s about Denver, a sharecropper from Louisiana, who hops a train and ends up in Fort Worth, Texas. He lives on the streets, homeless. And it’s about Ron, who becomes a successful art dealer and very wealthy. The two become friends due to “Miss Debbie,” who hears the cries of the homeless and responds by loving them at the Union Gospel Mission. Ron accompanies his wife, reluctantly. Slowly and awkwardly, he finds himself drawn to Denver. Slowly ...

1373. Easter 4

1 John 3:11-24, Acts 4:1-22, John 10:1-21

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . "I shall not want." 1. Rest "He maketh me to lie down in green pastures." 2. Peace "He leadeth me beside the still waters." 3. Forgiveness "He restoreth my soul." 4. Guidance "He leadeth me in the paths ..." b. "I will fear no evil." 1. Companionship "Thou art with me." 2. Comfort "Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me." 3. Concern "Thou preparest a table ..." c. "I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever." 1. Now "Goodness and mercy shall follow me ..." 2. Future life "forever." 2. Prayer Of The Day ...

1374. Easter 5

Acts 8:26-40, 1 John 4:7-21, John 15:1-17

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... 34. b. Receive guidance into the meaning of the faith vv. 31, 35. c. Confess Christ as Son of God v. 37 (KJV). d. Receive baptism vv. 36, 38. 2. Win a convert to Christ! (8:26-40). Need: Personal witnessing for Christ is becoming a lost art. This is proved by the decline in church membership during the 70s. The new evangelism is no longer focused on evangelists and revivals. It is now a lay movement in which members visit prospective Christians. Many church members feel inadequate to witness and do not know ...

1375. Advent 1

Mark 13:32-37, Mark 13:1-31, 1 Corinthians 1:1-9, Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... times of personal or national distress when we think God has forsaken us because of our sins, we need to go back to our basic faith: God is the potter and we are his pot. Outline: When things are impossible, remember: a. God is the potter creator (v. 8 "Thou art our potter"). b. We are the pot "We are the clay" (v. 8). Epistle: 1 Corinthians 1:1-9 1. While you wait (1:4-8). Need: While you wait for your car to be serviced, you can do your grocery shopping. While you wait for the plane to arrive ...

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