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1426. The Marvelous Meaning of the Cross

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... because it leads us home to God. Let me finish by telling a story that happened in England. There was a little girl in the city who lost her way. She just wandered around in the streets of London, crying heartbrokenly, piteously. An English bobby saw the child wandering and stopped her to ask her why she was sobbing. The child answered that she was lost and did not know how to find her way home. The bobby said to her, "Do not cry. Sit down here by my side and we will find where you live, where home is." So ...

1427. Are We on Speaking Terms with the Almighty?

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to us. When there is communication with our friends--those friendships remain vibrant and real. However, when communication fades, so does the relationship. The biggest obstacle in modern times is not that God has stopped hearing our prayers. The biggest obstacle is that we have stopped listening for God''s direction. In his book Directions, author James Hamilton shares this insight about listening to God: "Before refrigerators, people used icehouses to preserve their food. Icehouses had thick walls, no ...

1428. What Gets Into People?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... pulled over at first, then spun his pickup truck around and fled down the highway. Soon three patrol cars were in pursuit. At that point the man dialed 911 and reported he was being chased. The dispatcher advised him to stop, but the man would not listen to reason. He ultimately struck a mailbox and rammed a police cruiser. He was treated for minor injuries and has since been charged with vehicular assault, drunken driving, felony reckless endangerment and felony evading arrest. Not to mention inappropriate ...

1429. Have You Gone Far Enough?

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... he is, do you think he'll be satisfied with less than all of your life? Do you think you can really get away with giving him second place in your life? If you read through the Gospels, you will quickly see that the credentials of Jesus Christ do not stop with Savior. He went beyond the cross and the empty tomb to the throne. He ascended into heaven and was given dominion to reign as King forever. And until we make Jesus in our lives right now what he is in the universe forever, and that is Lord and Ruler ...

1430. Will the Real Blind Beggar Please Stand Up?

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... plea that was overwhelmingly important to them? Our first -- and very human -- impulse is often to shush them, hustle them off to the side, and make sure they're "under control." It's a struggle to push past our fear and discomfort enough to remember that our Savior stops to hear and respond to their cries. It's even harder to ask ourselves how we can help bring them to their Savior's side. We might never see, hear, ask, or do rightly on our own. Like the crowd that followed Jesus but shushed Bartimaeus, we ...

1431. Lift High the Tree

John 12:20-36

Sermon

George Bass

... strip of yellow tape on her door." It had been there all along, but Schwab had not noticed it. The nurse whom he asked about it told him that it was a "no code" sign, and that "no code patients were not to be saved when their hearts stopped or their lungs failed. A decision had been made in advance," she said, "that the hospital resuscitation team, called the ‘code team,’ was not to be summoned."1 No one had ever told him about that. Schwab, almost by accident, learned that not all patients receive the ...

1432. Humility

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... the next flight. I have to schedule you for a later flight.” Ashcroft’s temper was rising. Then he heard someone from the back of the luggage-laden line call out, “Yeah, he thinks he can do anything, because he’s a senator.” That comment stopped John Ashcroft cold. He remembered his father’s words. “Someday I hope someone will come up to you and say, ‘Senator, your spirit is showing.”‘ Ashcroft realized his spirit was showing, but it was the wrong spirit. He thought of all his father had ...

1433. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... our likeness." "One can almost detect something like a hesitation or even a recoil. In any case, it is the kind of bated breath with which we ourselves are familiar when we approach a decisive point in some piece of work on the success of which everything depends. We stop and stand off for awhile. It may be the experience of a roofer who has covered a church steeple with shingles and then, in one final, risky effort must set the cock upon the peak. Or of a dramatist who sets out to compose the main and key ...

1434. A Star, A Stable, and A Song

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , but here in a lowly place, in the commonest environment, I come to dwell with you. Here in a stable is Emanuel, God with us. Now we might be able to pass the stable off as mere happenstance, something quaint and interesting, but no more, if it had stopped there. But it didn’t. The pattern of the stable was woven vividly into the fabric of Jesus’ life. In lowliness and humility, he served simple people in simple places. If his life entered the world through a back door, as it surely did, so also it was ...

1435. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... case most of the time, Paul’s words were carefully chosen. The word he uses for work out in verse 12 is a Greek verb which always has the idea of bringing to completion. So Paul is saying to the Philippians, don’t stop half way. Don’t be satisfied with a partial salvation. Don’t stop when you’re just inside the door of the Christian life. Don’t accept grace simply as a way of getting into the Christian life, accept grace as a way of staying in the Christian life with freedom and joy. And then in ...

1436. The Power Of Purpose

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , happy to be at work; but little by little they discovered that the roads they were building went nowhere. There was no real destination. They ran out into the dreary bogs and stopped. As the truth gradually dawned on them, that they had been put to work by the government simply as an excuse for feeding them, the men grew listless and stopped singing. And the author made this perceptive comment, the roads to nowhere are difficult to build. For a man to work well and sing, there must be an end in view. We ...

1437. Singing The Lord's Song In A Strange Land (ii)

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... s window, and she strained to hear what actually sounded like music coming from behind the screen. Mattie was playing her records! Etta stood very still, trying to decipher the broken air waves into intelligible sound, but she couldn't make out the words. She stopped straining when it suddenly came to her that it wasn't important what song it was -- someone was waiting up for her. Someone who would deny fiercely that there had been any concern -- just a little indigestion from them fried onions that kept me ...

1438. A Love For All Seasons (ii) (communion Meditation)

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... secretly believing that if she were a better wife...kept a cleaner house...cooked better meals...kept the kids quieter when he came home...made love more often...lost twenty pounds...and bought some sexy new underwear from Fredericks of Hollywood...that he would suddenly stop drinking and come straight home from work, then I ask you, who can say any longer who is sick and who is well?" (Ritter, Ibid.) Having said all that, though, I want to express some reservations. Tough Love, as a philosophy, and as a ...

1439. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

1440. The Ministry Of Making Many Rich

1 Timothy 6:11-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . Jean Samuelson is a very kind and compassionate person. She knew that this man had been hurt many times in life, so in kindness she suggested that perhaps they go on with the service and she would read the poem later. That would not do. He cried out again, “Stop. I want you to read this poem.” With that he began to come down the aisle. Because of his drunken condition, he tripped and fell, hitting and cutting his head on the end of one of the pews. It was then she noticed that not only was his head ...

1441. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a man in his congregation. The man had little formal education, but was blunt and honest-- also possessed a great deal of native insight. As young Peale went on and on with his complaints, the craggy man suddenly made an impatient gesture and almost shouted, "Stop it! Stop all that defeatist, negative talk! Remember this, Norman, and remember it always: Never build a case against yourself!" (Guideposts, 10-85, pp. 32-33). That's very good advice -- but we are always doing it, aren't we -- slipping into self ...

1442. The Future You Hope For

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in Mobile to eat at one of our favorite places -- Wintzell's Oyster House. They have the best seafood gumbo ever cooked since The Evangeline down in Pascagoula, Mississippi, went out of business fifteen years ago. I like to stop there for their seafood gumbo, but for another reason as well. Almost every foot of the walls are covered -- except the bathroom -- because that's the place where you would normally find graffiti -- almost every foot of the walls are covered with little signs. They are not very ...

1443. As Real As It Gets

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of this sign, they had a little caption to grab the eye of the passer-by. It said, "If you're tired of sinning, stop in here!" "Well one night," said Hugh, "a funny thing happened. A guy came along with a can of paint and added to that saying. To the surprise ... of the preacher who came the next day, the sign now read, "If you are tired of sinning, stop in here! And if not, call 445-7751!" As funny as that is, it makes a point. It is not easy to make the clean break ...

1444. When Being Good Is Bad For You Or Breaking The Chains Of Co-dependency

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... they did not reach the monastery before darkness fell. Just as they were traversing a narrow path above a deep precipice, they heard a cry for help. Down the cliff lay a man who had fallen and was seriously injured. The monk looked at Sadhu and said, "Do not stop. God has brought this man to this fate. He must work it out for Himself. Let us hurry on before we, too, perish. But Sadhu replied, "God has sent us here to help my brother. I cannot abandon him." The monk made off through the snow that had started ...

1445. Overcoming The Destructive Dont's That Have Shaped Our Lives

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it has come to us in this way. "It's a dog-eat-dog world-- you can't trust anyone." It doesn't help us to stop and think, "have I ever known a dog to eat another dog?" The destructive don't is there. Don't trust. I've heard it expressed ... newspaper offering a $5,000 reward for the return of the Persian cat. The day the ad came out, his neighbor read it in the newspaper and stopped him on the corner and said to him, "Friend, don't you think that's a little extravagant?" A sly, impish smile came on the man' ...

1446. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... slow moving truck, and because of the nature of the road, never had a chance to pass the truck. To make matters worse, the truck would stop and the driver of the truck would get out of the cab carrying a broom and would proceed to beat on the side panels of ... . After a few moments of this, he would return to the truck and drive on for a few more minds, very slowly, until he would stop and proceed to do the same thing with the broom again. After thirty minutes of this, the woman finally got out of her car and ...

1447. When the Doctors Can't Help You

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... . The clinic in Mexico offered hope. That hope may have been an illusion, but who can blame her? We’ll do anything for hope. Ask someone who has been in chronic pain and has discovered that even the finest medical professionals don’t have a clue about how to stop their pain. Many of these sufferers will go to any lengths to find someone who can give them relief. Wouldn’t you? This woman comes to Jesus. She has heard that this is the physician she has been looking for. There she is in the crush of the ...

1448. Putting the Puzzle Together

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... supposed to be when it's finished?" The young lady says, "According to the picture on the box, it's a tiger." Her boyfriend decides to stop by and help with the puzzle. She shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table. He studies the pieces for a moment ... whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." (John 3: 16) John has seen the big picture, and he can't stop talking about it. He has found the key to life! If you want to know the purpose of life, look to Jesus. In today's ...

1449. The Dividing Line

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... in heaven shout, "Hooray!" Okay, the Bible doesn't actually say that they shouted "Hooray!" But what else would they do? The plan of God, the one that was set in motion before the world even began, is now coming to fulfillment. But Jesus doesn't stop with Peter's affirmation. Here's something you might notice about gods, particularly pagan gods. Every god requires a sacrifice. That was obvious in a place like Caesarea Philippi. If Jesus really is the Christ, then what kind of sacrifice does he ask? Verse 31 ...

1450. God's Anxiety Reduction Plan

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

John P. Jewell

... Do not worry about anything!" "Paul, I am worried about the friends my son is choosing." "Do not worry about anything!" You get the idea. The point is that we are to worry about - how many things? (Nothing at all!) Fortunately Paul does not stop with the injunction to stop worrying. (You likely have some people in your life who have said, "Don't worry," but they offer no help in actually making the worry go away. Instead of worry, Paul gives us this: 2. "...but in everything by prayer and supplication with ...

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