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1426. Alive In Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... our spirits, to cast our demons, to inspire our weary hearts, to guide our stumbling feet, to reconcile our relationships. Do you believe that? Or has the faith become a practice of religious duty -- a cold, mental assent to specify truth -- a formula of belief that leaves your day-to-day living untouched, unchanged. When Paul wrote to the Ephesians, he broke out in this singing prayer in that first chapter: listen to him -- (Ephesians 1:18-20) “I pray that the eyes of your understanding be enlightened ...

1427. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... the world to know that he was a Christian, not any label – hence a generic Christian. Well, the fellow had a point. But I wonder if we don’t have too many generic Christians and not enough distinctive Christians, those who are so committed in belief, faith, and action, so sold out to Jesus, that people who know them will know without question that they are Christian. We need more than generic Christians. Generic Christianity is not enough. I believe that’s one of our primary problems in the church ...

1428. Generic Christianity Is Not Enough

Romans 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... world to know that he was a Christian, not any label -- hence a generic Christian. Well, the fellow had a point. But I wonder. I wonder if we don’t have too many generic Christians and not enough distinctive Christians, those who are so committed in belief, faith and action, so sold out to Jesus, that people who know them will know without question that they are Christian. We need more than generic Christians. So I want to talk to you about that today. Generic Christianity is not enough. We need disciples ...

1429. In the Wrong Place At the Right Time

Mark 15:21-32

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Maxie Dunnam

... . We get this from the Bible, from the Hebrew understanding of time. The Greeks saw time as a series of neutral modules void of any connection or sign or significance -- just one thing after another with no meaning. The Romans thought life was cyclical – the belief that life is not going anywhere, just the same thing over and over. But the Hebrews and now Christians believe that time is linear and has meaning. It’s starts over here at the creation, and it’s going to end over here at the Kingdom ...

1430. Awake to Glory

Luke 9:28-36

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J. Ellsworth Kalas

... "was amazed at their unbelief" (6:5, 6). The crowds marveled that Jesus could work miracles; Jesus marveled that people could be so possessed of unbelief! The crowds looked upon miracles as out of the ordinary; Jesus thought of unbelief as out of the ordinary. He saw belief and its results as our native state, because he believed that you and I are meant to live "fully awake" to the glory of God. It is not that some of us are believers and some are not; it is just that we choose to invest our believing ...

1431. The Words Of Jesus Anger The Crowd

Luke 4:14-30

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... and are disturbed by your message. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, we find it difficult to proclaim your message when the crowds rise up against us. We are quick to seek our own safety when we know we should be willing to stand up for our beliefs, and so we ask your forgiveness for past failures. We pray for power and courage to sustain us in future encounters with those who are angered by your message of forgiveness and love. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord, sometimes words fail to convey your message of love ...

1432. The Promise Of Our Resurrection

1 Corinthians 15:12-34

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... have loved ones who have died. We believe they have been resurrected in the spirit, and are with you. We confess, though, to times of loneliness and doubt, when they seem lost to us forever. Rekindle in us, we pray, our faith in your living presence, and our belief that our departed loved ones are also near to us since they are with you. Amen. Offertory Prayer Lord God Almighty, use these gifts we pray to bring to others the hope and the joy of the gospel of the resurrection. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen ...

1433. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

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Phil Thrailkill

... and character and habits and the heart’s deep desires and the ability to make good decisions and to keep promises to God and to yourself and others. There are no short cuts to virtue and no instant fixes for bad character and a distorted belief system. Having the Lord cultivate your life and grow a new crop takes time. I am grateful to supply a place of safety and help people make connection with all sorts of resources in and outside the church: doctors, counselors, social services, job possibilities. But ...

1434. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

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Phil Thrailkill

... of all things visible and invisible,” is a protest against the doctrines of materialism. There is more to this world than meets the eye, or the microscope! 3. For a convenient summary of consensual teaching, see Roger Olson, The Mosaic of Christian Belief (Downer’s Grove, ILL: IVP, 2002), Chapter 7, “Creation: Good and Fallen,” 155-176. The official U.M. statement is found in the Articles of Religion, Article 4. Edited from PreachingToday.com, new illustrations for May 29, 2006. 5. Mercer Schuchardt ...

1435. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

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Phil Thrailkill

... it is an old story line and interesting for what it dredges out of the human heart. Damian is young and idealistic, his father older and jaded. Damian’s first impulse is to help the poor, his father’s first impulse not so noble, and in an outburst reveals his beliefs to the boy, "Look around you, Damian. We're on our own. No one is smiling down on us, Damian. No one is looking out for us. So we're looking out for ourselves." It is the same philosophy which stands behind Mark Twain as he mocks the first ...

1436. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

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Phil Thrailkill

... hold life together. So when you meet someone who is cynical about their future and who couples that with a devotion to gambling or foolish risk-taking, recognize that what you have met is an ancient pagan in modern garb. They are worshiping Fate and Fortune. Their beliefs and behavior are not in line with the truth about God; they are lost in a world they simply don’t understand. We are not fated, and the world is not ruled by luck and the stars and lucky charms and magical rituals. Such doctrines are in ...

1437. Peace With God Through Christ, Our Lord

Romans 5:1-11

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... Spirit. Thanks be to you, O God. Amen. Prayer Of Confession God of mercy and love, we confess our sins and weaknesses before you. We acknowledge you as the creator of all things, and yet by our priorities we show that we idolize wealth and power. We declare our belief in Christ as our Savior, yet we put our faith in weapons of war for our protection. We celebrate the coming of the Holy Spirit to abide with us forever, but we rely on our own judgment and counsel. Forgive us, O Lord, and through the power of ...

1438. An Extraterrestrial Celebration

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... of God, God made human flesh, and what does this God do? God washes the feet of mortal men. Imagine that happening in any other religion. There are those who believe religion is merely a human construct, who believe that humanity made up religious belief to help deal with the uncertainties of life. Gods were sacrificed to by primitive humanity as a way to increase crops or to assure fertility. These gods were often petty tyrants who demanded that the people who served them sacrificed their best and their ...

1439. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

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Michael Milton

... they were an aristocratic, priestly group who supported the sovereignty of Rome and had a limited view of Scripture. They held that only the first five books of the Bible, the Pentateuch, were legitimate for faith and life. Thus, they opposed popular Jewish beliefs in angels and in the resurrection from the dead because they believed they were not grounded in the books of Moses. They were the rational, wealthy, powerful elite who looked down their noses at the Pharisees and their rituals as well as popular ...

1440. Thank God for Dads

Galatians 2:11-21

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King Duncan

... old way of living. His pride and his self-righteousness. His sense of moral superiority. His disdain for people who did not think as he did and worship as he did. Paul became a new person. It is amazing that the Paul who persecuted people because of their religious beliefs could be the same Paul who wrote in I Corinthians 13: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and ...

1441. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

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Mark Trotter

... Testament lesson read for us this morning. It was written by Charles Wesley, the brother of John Wesley. Charles Wesley was a prolific writer of hymns. He wrote more than 6,000 hymns. He put the great affirmations of our Christian belief, and particularly those that John Wesley felt were important, and put them into hymns. Other Christian traditions recite their faith with a creed. The Methodists have always sung their faith with hymns, Wesley's hymns. Originally this hymn had seventeen verses. Methodists ...

1442. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

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Mark Trotter

... some of the spirit I put upon you and put on them; that they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you will not have to bear it by yourself alone." There is a tradition in the Church called "laying on of hands." It symbolizes our belief that the spirit given to us, is to be passed on to somebody else. When we baptize somebody, the minister, alone first, puts her hand on the head of the person being baptized with water. Then she says, "The Spirit work within you," and that is when all who are ...

1443. How to See the Future

Matthew 26:17-30

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Mark Trotter

... and that is the reason I am who I am today. Or I made that decision in the past, I made that mistake, I took that wrong turn, and that is why I am the way I am today. I can't do anything about it. That is determinism. The belief that the past is what determines the present. You cannot call yourself a Christian, and believe that. Christians believe that the future is what is supposed to shape the present, not the past. The relation between the cross and the Kingdom is just that. The cross is there to forgive ...

1444. Simeon's Song

Luke 2:21-40

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Mark Trotter

... observe some similar ritual. It is always a shock to many sophisticated, educated Americans and Europeans, those of us who have been educated in the Enlightenment tradition, that there are so many people in the world who are still religious. We have been taught that belief is a matter of the intellect and, therefore, it is subject always to reason, to investigation, to logic and to evidence. But to most of the world's peoples, no matter what their religion is, the goal of their life is not mastering the ...

1445. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... save me” (55:16). “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble” (46:1). “For thou, O God, art my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love” (59:17). So, prayer is a hunger. It is also a confidence, a confidence rooted in the belief that we are not alone in the world, that there is help beyond our human resources, that the hunger within us will be satisfied. It is the confidence that God made us for Himself, and that our hearts will always be restless until we rest in Him. To ...

1446. By Faith

Hebrews 11:1-40

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King Duncan

... break out on many of the faces. Some of the airline passengers begin to walk with a renewed bounce in their step. The atmosphere of the entire place is transformed by the woman’s observation, “Good work, God!” (1) That’s biblical faith. Faith is the belief that all of life is in God’s hands, and that God will never forsake God’s children. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to have that kind of faith. In fact, sometimes our intellectual sophistication stands in the way of authentic faith ...

1447. Fire Falling from Heaven

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... an overturned lamp or a carelessly maintained kitchen fire. Well into the nineteenth century, devastating fires shaped communities. In fact, fire spurred on the next urban renewal. So, how was Jesus using the image of fire in this Gospel? This Gospel recalls an ancient belief of fire as the manifestation of God. Jesus is reminding us of the radical nature of His ministry and is demanding we step up to the plate. I. Fire As the Manifestation of God This intimate acquaintance with the power and the paradox of ...

1448. A Kingdom that Can Not Be Shaken

Hebrews 12:14-29

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King Duncan

... face some form of eternal judgement. Did this fear cause him to repent and seek a relationship with God? No. Slyhoff had a better idea. He would hide from God instead. He dug his burial plot in the shadow of a large boulder. According to Slyhoff’s beliefs, a great earthquake would occur on the day of judgement, and all the dead would rise from their graves. Slyhoff was counting on that earthquake to dislodge the boulder and cover his grave. In this way, he reasoned, on the day of judgement there would be ...

1449. Honest Abe

Genesis 12:1-4a

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Bill Mosley

... t know which he was for and which he was against." This is a sermon about faith, and I want it clear right up front that I'm for it, if it's honest faith. There are two definitions of faith. One is that faith is tenets, beliefs, doctrines. You can "belong to the Christian faith," or the "Lutheran faith" or the "Methodist faith" or the "Catholic faith." The other is your faith -- your half of the relationship between you and God. It is characterized as acceptance, confidence, trust; like faith in someone. It ...

1450. Fire in the Hold

Acts 2:14a, 22-32

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Bill Mosley

... questions? We need to have room for uncertainty, questioning, and growth in our communities, and we also have to empower at least some of us to spread what we have found. If we spread the word, we must then welcome others, in various states of questioning, understanding, and belief, into our fellowship. So I think a more important question than "Do I have God's Spirit within me?" is "Am I willing to receive God's power?" "Am I willing to open myself up to the rush of a mighty wind?" Wind is powerful, and it ...

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