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1426. Make Up Your Mind!

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... of power, sex, money, popularity, and prestige. No wonder they were popular! The Israelites also paid homage to the true God. After all, he was the One who had delivered their ancestors out of bondage. To give up on him completely would be a mark of disrespect to their forebears. They could never fully give up on the God of their national heritage, and so they politely included him with quick nod-of-the-head acknowledgments as they went about their own business. As a result, the religion of the true God ...

1427. The Promise of Sight

Isaiah 60:1-22

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... . A remarkable collection of what some rabbis did teach in response to the Holocaust has been published under the title I Will be Sanctified. One rabbi noted that the question, “Where was God during the Holocaust?” is the question of those who would justify giving up on the faith of their tradition. Some would ask the question in pain, some ask out of sincere doubt, and still others ask insolently and skeptically. However, the one who questions out of faith is like the one who asked his young nephew, a ...

1428. What Would It Take?

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Billionaire H.L. Hunt was once asked for his philosophy of success. He said if you want to be a success you need to do two things: l. Make a decision about what you want in life. 2. Make a decision about what you're willing to give up to get it. That's called "setting priorities." AND SOMETIMES IT TAKES A BLINDING, LIFE-CHANGING MOMENT, LIKE PAUL'S DAMASCUS ROAD EXPERIENCE, TO HELP US GET OUR PRIORITIES IN ORDER. In 1963, Texas Governor John Connally was injured in the assassination attack on President John ...

1429. It's A Question Of Priorities

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... He only ate what she ate, only slept when she slept. When Stefanie lost her hair to chemotherapy, Chris shaved his head. He became the primary caretaker for their two children. Today, Stefanie is in remission and feeling good. And Chris has no regrets about giving up his career. As he says, "This is my family. This is my responsibility. This is my duty." (1) Jesus and his disciples had just arrived in Capernaum. When they were settled in, Jesus asked them, "What were you arguing about on the road?" Suddenly ...

1430. Running For Joy

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... I will be victorious." "It's not easy being a parent in today's world, but I know if I model Christian love and right living in everything I do, my children will profit from my efforts." "It's hard lying here in this hospital bed, but I'm not giving up. Soon I will be home with my family once again." "It's not easy following Jesus, but I know if I am his and he is mine, there will come a day when I shall be part of his eternal family, where there will be no more pain, no more ...

1431. Follow That Star

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’re going to find that I have more scars than anyone else in the room. That’s because I’ve fallen down and gotten up so many times in my life.” (4) Those are the people who are successful in the world. People who refuse to give up. People who follow their star regardless of the obstacles. Motivational speaker Earl Nightingale once told the story of an American team of mountain climbers who set out to conquer Mount Everest. Before the team left the U.S. a psychiatrist interviewed them. Each was asked ...

1432. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... fast lane living, they have forgotten or ignored or deliberately written off the Church. Studies are showing, however, and we are certainly finding it true here at Christ church, that they are returning to the Church. They're not yet giving up the Volvos and BMWs and all those superficial accoutrements of success, but they are testing another perspective, looking in other directions, turning to religion. Thank God, many of them are turning to Christianity. There are signs that indicate they are turning ...

1433. Three Ways to Know a Saint

Sermon

King Duncan

... did not know a single other friar by sight. Is that what is desirable in a saint--to cut yourself off from others? To choose a life of deprivation? How can you love your neighbor if you don’t even know who he or she is? Is it necessary to give up everything this world has to offer in order to genuinely experience God? I have my own list of ways to know a saint. I believe they are consistent with our Gospel lesson for today. First of all, a saint’s life is not dominated by things. Jesus said it best ...

1434. What's Left Is Right

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... one who sent me" (verse 37), God the Father himself. How low will you go to meet your Savior and your God? How low will this church go to right the left the left out, the left over, the left behind, the left standing? Could you give up the corporate security blanket for the insecurities of a seat-of-your-pants existence? Could you pinch back profits in order to free-up funds for more significant charitable contributions? Could you live to serve others instead of living for the next paycheck? Could you open ...

1435. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... disciplines us, we can gripe about it, complain about it, but I want to tell you that resenting it is not going to remove it. b. You Can Reject It "Nor be discouraged when you are rebuked by Him." (v.5b) That is, you can just quit, you can just give up. When God disciplines you and life gets a little tough, you can just totally desert God's army and drop out of God's school. You can say: "Well God, if this is the way you are going to treat me, I'm just not going to serve you any ...

1436. Overcoming Fear

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... my physical abilities. Cancer is attacking and destroying my body. But what cancer cannot touch is my mind, my heart, and my soul. I have faith in God…and hope that things might get better for me. But even if they don’t, I promise you this—I will never give up. I will never ever quit. And if cancer gets me…then I’ll just try my best to go to heaven and be the best coach they’ve ever seen up there.” (1) Jimmy V knew the secret for overcoming fear. St. Paul expressed that secret in these words ...

1437. Christ’s Twin

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... . It is to have a spirit of service. But there’s one thing more. TO BE LIKE-MINDED WITH CHRIST IS TO KNOW THAT YOU ARE A CHILD OF GOD. Here is the conviction that allowed Christ to be humble, that allowed him to be a servant to others, even giving up his life in our behalf. He knew that he was God’s child. The reason so many people are so mean-spirited and so uncharitable to others is that they have no idea who they really are. You are a child of Almighty God. You were loved from the foundation ...

1438. Who Is the Good Samaritan?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... incarnated love so perfectly that he not only healed us. He died for us. While McGill's "bronze people" are busy stockpiling and safeguarding their sense of self with possessions and the illusion of control, Jesus engenders true life, true love, true identity - by giving up all that he has, even his life itself. In this way Jesus as the Good Samaritan shows all of us how to fulfill the first commandment so entirely that we can attain the eternal life we so desperately seek. Paul encapsulated this well when ...

1439. Bound to Earth, Destined for Heaven

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... beginning and at its end. The first Sunday of Lent is usually devoted to looking down the long journey to the still obscured (but we know it is glorious) miracle of Easter. No matter how intentional our Lenten days of prayer, no matter what we may “give up” for Lent, no matter how focused we may be on the tragedy of the crucifixion, we still know we are looking forward to Easter morning, to colored eggs, spring mornings, and the transforming joy of the Resurrection. It is hard to pretend we don’t know ...

1440. Epiphany 4

Mark 1:21-28, 1 Corinthians 8:1-13, Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . To eat meat identified with an idol means nothing to one with knowledge, but to the Christian without knowledge, it would be an offense to the conscience. 3. Liberty (v. 9). Knowledge of the truth about God results in freedom. But there are times when a Christian will give up freedom for the well-being of a weak brother or sister who has not reached the stage of liberty. As a Christian, as Luther said, 'I am freest of all men, but out of love I sacrifice the freedom for my brother's good. Love is a higher ...

1441. All By Myself: The Fear of Loneliness

2 Timothy 4:9-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... killer that isolation. There is no more destructive influence on physical and mental health than the isolation of you from me and us from them." During World War II, the Nazis discovered that the most effective type of torture for forcing prisoners of war to give up secrets was simply solitary confinement. After just a few days of total isolation, most every man would tell everything they knew. Go back to that verse I quoted in Proverbs 18:1. Here is the point. When a person will not talk to anyone, then ...

1442. CSI: Jerusalem

Luke 24:36-48

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . It was the life-filled community of faith embodied and spread by the Disciples. It wasn't a rolled-away stone, but a carried-away church. Jordan writes: "I've always said the real evidence of the empty tomb was the conversion of Paul. Why would he give up every thing he held dear to preach and be persecuted for a lie?" We have Physical Evidence, Eye Witness accounts and depositions. What else do we need besides faith. Which is all we really need. But apart from faith and trust in God what is there that ...

1443. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.” He is an old man now, under house arrest, as he has been for ten or fifteen years, not expecting that success is going to be the inevitable result of his efforts, but still never giving up, always pressing on, always stretching. He also expressed another truth. “Life has taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself and leave the rest to God.” That’s depending upon God not just in the moment, but in the movement of life. “Life has ...

1444. Sharing God’s Blessings

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... of the Christian Church, understood Paul's problem. Born in North Africa to a saintly mother, Augustine taught at the finest universities but could not bring his personal life under the guidance of God. Once when his mother convinced him to give up his concubines and get married, Augustine prayed, “Lord, grant me chastity, but not yet." Then in the summer of 386, while in a garden praying, Augustine underwent a profound personal conversion to Christianity, abandoned his career in rhetoric, gave up any ...

1445. More Than A Kumbaya King

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a “kangaroo king.” “Kangaroo” kings, like “kangaroo courts,” make up their own rules and do not allow for any dissension. As self-motivated, and self-centered as a kangaroo king might be, such a ruler makes it easy for his subjects to give up all of their own concerns and worries. The kangaroo king declares his opinion, and there is no discussion, no division in the ranks. Personal conscience and individual sacrifice are unimportant. Only the will of the “king” is will of that world. Christ ...

1446. Wild World Warnings

Illustration

Staff

... . But you should be warned about the following temptations: To have even the slightest dealings with clergymen. To think about your purpose in the land only when you get there. To test your vocation on the heathen once you are among them. To give up because something doesn't work immediately. To begin to make your home too comfortable, forgetting that you are really a traveler, a pilgrim among the nations. To be prejudiced against the heathen because they are neither efficient nor pious, and to be irritated ...

1447. Small Ways Every Day

Mark 4:26-34

Illustration

Martha Sterne

... five minutes kinds of ways. Things perhaps no bigger than a mustard seed. I follow the God who showed up two thousand years ago in small ways on days of small things. A healing touch here. A compassionate word there. Small things like not giving up on flawed friends. Like praying everyday. Small things like enjoying life. Jesus really enjoyed life. Small things like speaking truth to power. Like giving his small, mustard-seed-sized life so that the great labor of the new universe of resurrected, reborn life ...

1448. Hemlock and Hyssop

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . Jesus wept in the garden of Gethsemane, known in Jesus day as the “Olive Garden.” In that “Olive Garden” Jesus prayed to God that the Father might “take this cup from me.” Jesus was fully human, Fully fragile. Fully not wanting to give up hold on life. Fully open to all that humanity had to offer. Jesus embraced this “humanity” willingly. Jesus emptied himself of the power and divinity that was rightfully his, and instead chose to live a fallen, fragile, failing human life. There is a ...

1449. Asa King of Judah

2 Chronicles 14:2-15

Understanding Series

Louis C. Jonker

... as an encouragement to the king on account of his cultic-restoration measures. Those acts were seen as “seeking” Yahweh, which would result in “being found” by Yahweh. However, this also provides encouragement for the future: be strong (chazaq) and do not give up, for your work will be rewarded. This is then indeed what Asa did when he heard these words and the prophecy of Azariah son of Oded the prophet, namely, he took courage (chazaq again). The cultic reforms therefore culminated in an assembly ...

1450. Message to Ephesus

Revelation 2:1-7

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... immorality, deceit, and false worship.4Jesus states that he too “hates” the practices of these false teachers. God’s people must conquer by following God’s ways. Again, bad theology hurts people, his people! Consequently, these believers should not swing to the other extreme and give up truth in the rekindling of their love. 2:7 To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God. Those who overcome will be allowed to eat from the tree ...

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