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126. Come Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire

Acts 10:23b-48

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E. Carver McGriff

... believed they could win, and they did. That was Peale's point (and mine): when we believe in ourselves, we can accomplish great achievements, far more than we sometimes think. And that's what the Spirit does; it helps us believe in our worth, our own ability, and empowers us to do our very best. Third, the Holy Spirit provides us with resources beyond our own. Rabbi Kushner reminded us of an example used by the prophet Jeremiah. He pointed out that a bush growing in the desert has deep roots which gather ...

127. A Thanksgiving Checklist

Luke 12:48

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Robert Noblett

... Clearly there is wonderment in David’s prayer of thanksgiving when he speaks of God having “made this wonderful promise to me.” (2 Samuel 7:28 TEV) Not that everything in the world is wonderful; it isn’t. Only a Pollyanna could believe that. Yet our ability to see the wonder-full around us is to place before God our sacrifice of thanksgiving. Full of wonder is a blazing hearth before us; full of wonder is the little child snuggled in its mother’s arms; full of wonder is a father extending himself ...

128. Lent 2

Mk 8:31-38 · Rom 4:13-25; 8:31-39 · Gen 17:1-7, 15-16; 22:1-18 · Ps 22

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Russell F. Anderson

... will be the father and mother of nations. God promises fruitfulness to them and their descendants (v. 4). Fruitfulness has traditionally been based on the ability to have children. Today we may want to define fruitfulness differently. Fruitfulness may be thought of as the ability to love others and bring out the best in them. It can also be thought of as the ability to take a few resources and multiply them. For Christians fruitfulness means utilizing our talents and time for God's glory; it surely means ...

129. The Day Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-21 · Jn 15:26-27; 16:4-15; 20:19-23 · Eze 37:1-14 · 1 Cor 12:4-13 · Ps 104

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Russell F. Anderson

... capacity to tell others about the wondrous things God has wrought in their lives. Translation of the Word (v. 11). The people who witnessed Pentecost heard the Word of God in their own language, a reversal of the Tower Of Babel. The Spirit gives us the ability to translate the good news of Christ into other languages and cultures. The church is constantly in the process of translating the gospel for a new age, a fresh generation or a foreign people. Freshness of language is a sign of the Spirit's activity ...

130. God's People Are Rescued From Harm

Esther 8:1-17, Esther 7:1-10

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James Wilson

... News of Christ throughout the world. Be with us, O Lord. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have placed our faith and our security in our own ability to defend ourselves through the devices made with our own hands. Too often, Lord, we place more stock in our ability to negotiate peace than in Your divine ability to establish it in our hearts or in the world. Forgive us, Lord, and use us in Your special and wonderful ways. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "God Will Take Care Of ...

131. Life As An Investment

Matthew 25:14-30

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Donald Dotterer

... his three servants different amounts of money. The word used here is talent, which meant in Jesus' time a specific weight of silver or gold. Each talent might have been worth about $1,000 in today's dollars. The modern use of the word talent with regard to skill or ability originated with this parable. So the rich man gives the first servant five talents, the second servant two talents, and the third servant one talent. We are told that each servant is given an amount which is proportionate to his ...

132. Proper 13

Mt 14:13-21 · Rom 8:31-39 · Ex 12:1-14 · Ps 143

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John R. Brokhoff

... men is recorded six times in the gospels, more than any other of his 37 miracles. Each evangelist gives the account and two of them repeat the miracle with slight changes. Why this popularity? A. Jesus is concerned for the people's physical welfare - v. 14 B. Jesus has the ability to meet the people's need - vv. 18-20 C. Jesus makes much of the little we give him - vv. 17, 20 2. It Can Happen Again (14:13-21). In Jesus' day 5,000 men were hungry. Today more than five million are in need of food. Could Jesus ...

133. What Children Can Teach Adults

Luke 10:1-24

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Thomas Slavens

... that when we call to You for help, You do hear our prayers and that even when we are not aware of it, Your loving protection of us goes on. We thank You for our children. For their laughter, their willingness to grow and learn, and their ability to forgive, we give You our thanks. We confess, our God, that we have failed where children have succeeded. We have been reluctant to grow, whereas they have been eager for growth. We have harbored ill will toward others whereas our children have forgiven. Look with ...

134. Hang Time: A Good Friday Sermon

Matthew 27:45-56

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... he was determined to hang in there for his people. Determined to pay the price for our liberation and redemption. Thank God for the hang time of Jesus. What is your hang time today? Do you feel discouraged? Are you ready to give up hope and trust in God's ability to deliver you from defeat and despair? What is your hang time today? Is it six seconds or six years? How much are you willing to pay to build the kingdom of God? How much are you willing to sacrifice to make your life and those around you better ...

135. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

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Larry Powell

... useless unless they are applied in some meaningful manner. However, memory, good or bad, is one of our most blessed gifts. The longer I live, the more inclined am I to suspect that just as memory is a genuine blessing, we have been equally blessed with the ability to forget. Each of us has seen things, felt things, done things which we have mercifully been able to forget. We don't forget all of them. Sometimes we won't allow ourselves to forget. We don't want to forget what we have learned, by either ...

136. Time and Stewardship

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Larry Powell

... -throughs related to what we now know as "incurable diseases." Could not the same minds capable of programming computers with unlimited functions provide a remedy for a disastrous national economy? Are not the solutions for a myriad of social ills within the ability of thinking processes so astute that they conceive computer games? And what if the mind was as consumed with delving into environmental concerns as it is for coming up with newer, more challenging contests or more expanded memory banks? The real ...

137. The Stewardship of Money in the Modern Church

2 Corinthians 9:11, 12

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Dr. John Thompson Peters

... for refreshments. In the learning process the child is likely to pick up ideas about relative values in such a process. Actually he does. 3. Finally, it is important for the Church to understand that money is an essential factor in her ability to fulfill her mission. In the days when the writer was serving the Stewardship portfolio of the United Presbyterian Church a slogan emerged which said a lot. It went like this - Stewardship without mission is hopeless; Mission without stewardship is helpless. While ...

138. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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Louis H. Valbracht

... to speak to another human being and be understood, that the mind can communicate its thought to another mind or minds by way of speech. But how tragic it is that we misuse and waste this God-given ability. It was in the early years of my ministry that I was one Sunday preaching my sermon, and I had just gotten well into the sermon, when a baby started to cry down in one of the front pews. The mother, very much embarrassed, snatched up the baby and started ...

139. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Louis H. Valbracht

... these answers that is not duplicated in one or many more of the other living creatures upon earth. Literally, there is only one thing that makes us human beings - that we are created in the imago dei, the image of God. That means simply that we have the ability to communicate with God. We are on the same wavelength, as it were, with him. The Greeks, who always had a word for it, named man anthropos. The root meaning of that Greek word is "the up-looker." In other words, the distinguishing and only exclusive ...

140. Parable of Giants and Pygmies

Luke 16:1-15

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... we often are expended in ways of social security. The measure of a Christian man is not how large he may be physically or socially, but whether he is able to be big about his daily life. Qualities of a great spirit are the ability to forgive, the ability to be generous and the ability to be helpful. The youth in their scouting days learn laws of greatness but as we move toward adulthood many are caught in the tiny threads of social fallacy. The ways of man and of God can be vastly different. Can you forgive ...

141. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

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Richard Hoefler

... , but in the days of our Lord it was an explosive issue. In the minds of the disciples, the fact that this woman was a mother with a sick child was secondary to the fact that she was a Gentile. For them, the issue was not their Lord’s ability to heal a sick child, but would he step over the forbidden threshold that protected the purity of the Jews as the children of God? To understand the serious implications of what Jesus did that day, we need to view it against the background of Old Testament history ...

142. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

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Robert Noblett

... we treat God. "He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives him who sent me." (John 13:20, GNB) He opened people’s eyes to the real essence of greatness, reminding them that such greatness is resident not in the ability to mastermind power plays or dazzle the multitudes, but rather in humility and servanthood. "He who is greatest among you shall be your servant; whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." (Matthew 23:11-12) The Christian faith ...

143. The Good Samaritan Didn’t Leave His Name

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Harold Warlick

... performed good deeds. Yet he performed them in an almost anonymous way. In fact, Jesus did not even bother to give him a name. I have often wondered what the Good Samaritan’s name was. This man who used his wealth, his possessions, and his managerial ability for a fallen comrade - what was his name? Apparently his name was not important. He did not show off his good works like an egomaniac. Consequently Jesus shows us that doing good is not enough. We can do good in a gentle, humble, Christian way. Or ...

144. The Evangelism Of Emphasis - 1946

Matthew 5:1-12

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Kent Moorehead

... of God and see him as the Infinite Servant of All, how vast a shift of emphasis ensues. Greatness is measured, not by how much we can get, but by how much we can give; not by our power to dominate and exploit, but by our ability to emancipate and empower; not by prominence, position, popularity, but by humility, loyalty, and unselfish service. Talk about evangelizing the world. If we dared adopt, here and now in the U.S.A., such an emphasis on true greatness, could we not transform the present, suicidal ...

145. The Light that Shines Within

John 1:1-18

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Leonard Mann

... . I suppose no one would ever have known it was there had it not come out; but it did. Sometimes it comes out, and sometimes it doesn’t; but it’s in there - this wonderful world of the inner heart. It’s wonderful in its capacity. There is the ability to love. All the human love that is anywhere is in there, not out there in the world of things. It’s wonderful also in its potential to be bright and beautiful or dark and dismal. And there’s nothing out there that has meaning until it means something ...

146. The Hiding Angel

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Bill Bouknight

... traveled to an isolated monastery to interview a holy man who was reputed to be a genius. The writer asked him, "What is it about a person that qualifies him to be called a genius?" The holy man answered, "The ability to recognize." "The ability to recognize what?" asked the writer. "The ability to recognize the butterfly in a caterpillar; the eagle in an egg; and the saint in a selfish human being." None of us knows what 1993 could bring. But it is absolutely vital that in the midst of whatever comes ...

147. The Mirror of Judas

Mark 14:1-11

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Larry Powell

... to time a similar protest is raised today by those who question the wisdom of erecting church facilities costing hundreds of thousands of dollars while so many hungry remain to be fed. Each of us has been entrusted with the freedom of choice and the ability to discern. Do we betray Christ by our choices? 3. Judas had opportunity. His position among Christ’s chosen naturally enabled him to produce a positive witness. And even near the end, he had the opportunity to abort his scheme, the motive of which is ...

148. The Parable of the Talents - Sermon Starter

Matthew 25:14-30

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Brett Blair

... second two, and to a third one talent. Why is life like that? I don't know. We are all equal in the eyes of God. We are all guaranteed equal rights under the Constitution. In an election our votes are all equal. But when it comes to our abilities, we are as different as different can be. God simply did not make us all the same. There are some people who can handle five talents, there are some who can handle only one. There are some persons who have great intellectual capabilities, and some who do not. There ...

149. What’s Going On in Your Orchard?

John 15:1-17

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Charles L. Koester

... at himself. That was the ancient’s way of saying self-centeredness ends in self-destruction. Love is self-giving. We learn it in our human relationships as we realize Christ, the vine of life, first deeply loved us enough to die for us. From him we gain ability and desire to love one another for his sake. Are you producing the fruit of joy? An unhappy Christian is a contradiction. Life is joyous in the knowledge and realization we are in God’s hands, and his hands are good. Joy Christ promised us in our ...

150. What Would We Do Without Friends?

Mark 2:1-12

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Brett Blair

... the tracts in West Memphis there are some people who grieve over dogs. I'm not sure. Scientist say that man is at the top of the biological scale because he has the keenest ability to experience pain. What separates us from the animals, I would suggest, is not primarily our ability to feel pain, it is our ability to feel pain vicariously for others. Thanks be to God that this unfortunate cripple had friends who genuinely cared and felt for him. Now, how important are friends? If you read the story closely ...

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