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1401. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... repent whenever you want to, but only when God wants to. And if you do turn, it is a sign that God has already come near enough to enable your turning. President Theodore Roosevelt of roughrider fame was a larger-than-life figure who made quite an impression on people. One journalist, William Allen White, wrote of his first meeting with Roosevelt in 1897: “He sounded in my heart the first trumpet call of the new time that was to be. I had never known such a man as he, and never shall again. He overcame ...

1402. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... a horror. Show them to be the greedy and cruel person they are, one with no care for the poor. Expose evil by creative non-violence. It was then that Jesus took it up a notch into the politics of Jewish nationalism. Roman soldiers had the right to impress people into temporary service; it’s what happened when Simon of Cyrene was grabbed off the streets to carry Jesus’ cross. Only a mile was required, but Jesus said to freely go a second mile. Refuse to be a victim; refuse to hate; in the power of the ...

1403. Getting Your Politics Right

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , first to this god and then that goddess, using flowery language and hoping to get someone’s attention in the divine realm. No, you are speaking to your Father in heaven, and heaven is not long distance; it’s always a local call. So if prayer is not to impress others, and if it’s not like pulling the lever and hoping for three of a kind, how do you pray? What prayer fits both who God is and what we need? “Pray then like this....,” he said. Knowing perfectly well who we are and how easily we are ...

1404. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... us to himself and sets us in the midst of others who are on the way. Most of the ‘you’s in the New Testament are plural; that we read them as singulars says much about our love of the myth of individualism and our isolation. The world is not impressed. Obeying verse 3 through 5 would change every life in this room. If every time a critical word crossed your mind or lips you went before God with an open Bible and said, “Lord, first show me where I’m wrong.” God would tell you, and then what would ...

1405. The God Who Must Be Pursued

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

Arnold Palmer once played a series of exhibition matches in Saudi Arabia. The king was so impressed that he proposed, in good Middle Eastern fashion, to honor his guest with a gift. Palmer resisted, "It really isn't necessary, Your Highness. I'm honored to have been invited." And, in good Middle Eastern fashion, his highness persisted, "I would be deeply upset," replied the king, "if you ...

1406. Ascension of Our Lord

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... are told, although Acts, accounting for the passage of time, mentions many more appearances than does the Gospel. And once again, the fact that the risen Christ ascends into heaven is stated (Luke 24:51; Acts 1:10). It's as if the author wants to doubly impress all of these facts on our minds. But then the writer includes some new content in this text for the morning. First of all, he tells about the apostles asking that question of Jesus before the Lord ascends into heaven: "Lord, will you at this time ...

1407. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... world, but at the right time in her life she returned home. The touch of God on a child’s life early on is like a divine tag in which Jesus says, This child is mine. She may wander all over the world, but she has the tag, the early impression of Jesus in her life, the touch of Christ on her life. This is the power of the passage that says, Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it (Proverbs 22:6). This is not hocus pocus ...

1408. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... church because he discovered that the people who were there on Sunday were the ones he had been trying to avoid all week long. But Wakefield experienced just the opposite. When he got to church he discovered the people there were people he admired. He was especially impressed with the activities in the church. He went on a weekend retreat. He said there was a man there who wasn't a member of the church. He had just recently come, nobody really knew him. But it became apparent quickly that he was in the grip ...

1409. How to Look Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... thirty years. If I keep at it, I think I will master Lego toys someday. But there are a whole lot of other things that I won't even touch anymore, because I fear looking foolish. We are all that way because we want to be liked, we want to impress other people, we want to look good. I think the term now is to look cool . We want to be successful, and we won't be successful if we look foolish. Nobody ever got ahead in this world by looking foolish. That is why our New Testament Lesson for this ...

1410. Lighten Up

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... a strange phrase, "Let the lower lights be burning." But the lower lights are the lights away from the lighthouse that illumine the water line. They enable the ships to come into the harbor at night, through the narrow channel of the harbor's mouth. Impressed by that, Bliss wrote: Brightly beams our Father's mercy From his lighthouse evermore; But to us he gives the keeping Of the lights along the shore. Dark the night of sin has settled, Loud the angry billows roar; Eager eyes are watching, longing, For ...

1411. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ongoing, creatively disciplined prayer life until our desire for communion with God is so great that we will be driven to prayer. Consider that thought for a few minutes. How great is your hunger for communion with God? These are some general impressions – and we could go on with others. Naturally, it is impossible to discover all the dimensions of prayer. I want to focus on this center: prayer as fellowship with God, and fellowship being developed and enhanced through conversation, by being with another ...

1412. What Do You Call Success?

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... inquired if he was showing the original version or the less-violent edited version, which cut out most of the beatings and blood. “No, we’re showing the original,” said the campus pastor. “The edited version,” he said, “gives the impression that Jesus was sentenced to ‘Community Service.’” (4) I like that. Jesus was not sentenced to community service, but to a cross. One would hardly call Jesus a worldly success. As earlier generations of pastors have declared, “Jesus was not crucified ...

1413. Family Tree

Genesis 3:1-7

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... and distributing sandwiches. The program grew until they were distributing hundreds of sandwiches every Tuesday to the homeless and destitute in the area. The newspapers got hold of the story and published an article about Sam's sandwich ministry. Al read the story and was impressed. He sent Sam a letter telling him Al and his friends were praying for Sam's ministry and wanted to support it. He enclosed a check from the church for $250. A few weeks later, Al received an answering letter from Sam. It read ...

1414. Preaching to a Stone

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... everything he has worked for will die out. The sacrifices he has made for God could just fizzle away. He doesn't want the community of Israel to break up or forget its mission. So, in one sermon he wants to bring the tribes together as a unit, to impress upon them their role in God's plan for creation, and to motivate them to exclusive worship of the Lord and an understanding of their identity. Now that the long journey is over and the battles have been won, the passion might fade out. Joshua knows he won't ...

1415. The Incarnation: What and Why?

Hebrews 2:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... hold the stop watch and keep his time. He ran the course perfectly and, to everyone's surprise, his time broke the league record. The coach said, "If I can do that, you can do it, too. I am a guy just like you." The team members were impressed - but they didn't believe it. At the end of the season, they finished last again. They could not even finish the obstacle course. The alumni yelled for the dismissal of "that preachy coach," but there was no one else who would consider coming. The sports pages began ...

1416. Someone Is Trying to Get Through

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

James L. Killen

... of God and a new relationship with God. God came to live among us as one of us. God was born among us in the form of a helpless little baby. His parents named him Jesus, which means "The Lord's Salvation." The event itself was not very impressive. But God made it known to a few people - the child's parents, some shepherds, some astrologers from a distant country, and a few others - that something really special was happening in the birth of this baby. God was being shown forth among us in a surprising new ...

1417. Abraham Believed God

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... spoken to us, we will never see the marvelous things God can accomplish. Because Abraham believed God, he was credited with righteousness. It was his belief, and the faith he demonstrated in that belief, that made him righteous before God. Not his works, not his attempts at impressing God, but only by following through on believing what God told him. In his letter to the Romans, Saint Paul says that if we work for wages, then we expect to get paid; we expect something to be due us. It's the old adage: A day ...

1418. No Longer Damned

Romans 8:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... . The Lord is coming back at any moment. When he comes, do you want him to find you in a movie theater?" He ruined a lot of fun evenings with speeches like that. More than that, he tried to influence an entire generation by giving the distinct impression that the Christian life is a matter of duty and obligation. The duty is so demanding, the obligation is so heavy, that nobody can live up to such requirements. Paul says, in Romans 8, verse 1, "Therefore, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ ...

1419. Beautiful Feet

Romans 10:5-15

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... like this." Fleming responded, "Not penicillin." We act like that sometimes. We think the only way to be witnesses to the good news is to find ourselves in some special place, to act in a way unlike the way we act every day, to say and do things that impress other people with how Christian we are. In reality, we act as witnesses to the good news in our lives every day, where we find ourselves, acting the way we act. Not in some spectacular fashion, but in the normal actions which make up our daily lives. We ...

1420. Doing Well and Doing Good

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... the New Testament we can understand that early Christians were quite likely to stress the outward gifts such as healing, prophesying, or speaking in tongues, and frequently to lose sight of the basic duty of love. Not a simple theory, often nothing that looks impressive, but a bedrock for Christian behavior - You shall love your neighbor as yourself. No longer are we able to reduce the commandments to simple little actions we can hope actually to do, or a few things we should avoid doing, such as murder and ...

1421. The Cloak

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

Sermon

Rick Brand

... come back to the catalogue. We look at the tool. We can imagine all kinds of projects and pieces of furniture we could make with that tool. We would be so much more efficient. We would be so much better as a craftsman with that tool. We would be so impressed with ourselves as the skilled craftsman we could become with that tool. So we order the tool. The tool comes. We open the box. We plug it in, and the machine makes its wonderful sound. We have all the tools we need for our current projects. So we put ...

1422. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... of the power of sin? The more one strives to fulfill the love and will of Christ, the more one becomes aware of the gap between what is desired and what is accomplished. What does John mean that those in Christ do not sin? What is sin? One gets the impression sin is like modern art. Everybody knows what it is, but don't ask them to define it. When the Old Testament wanted to describe it, the story of Adam and Eve and the fall was told. In the New Testament, rather than give a definition, God sent Jesus and ...

1423. Beware of Crowds

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Mark Trotter

You read the Gospel of Mark, you get the impression that Jesus didn't like crowds. Which is strange considering that he's a Messiah who has come to save the whole world. But I'll tell you something even stranger, he hides the fact that he is Messiah. When the demons recognize him, he says, "Don't tell anyone. ...

1424. Blind Ambition

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... day he moved into his new office, sat behind his new, big desk. He could just feel the power emanating from that office. His aide walked in, said, "There's a man here to see you." The general said, "Send him right in." He thought, "I'm going to impress this man with how important I am, how much power I have." He turned around, picked up the phone, and pretended that he was talking to the President of the United States. He said, "Mr. President, I understand what you are saying to me. I think your idea is ...

1425. Body Language

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... American diplomat going to an Arab country. He made an appointment with an important official for three o'clock the next day. Now the American custom of courtesy dictates that you should always be on time. He wanted to be especially courteous and make a good impression, so he got there early, about ten minutes before three. He was told he had to wait. Three o'clock passed. He was still waiting. Three fifteen, he was beginning to get a little restless. Three thirty came, he was now insulted. Three forty-five ...

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