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126. The Awful Grace of Amazing Grace

2 Corinthians 5:16-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... 13 was the most successful space journey at bringing the entire world together, at uniting people all over the planet in fervent prayer. At NASA all plans for the journey were jettisoned like the oxygen tanks. Instead all the creative juices and intuitive skills of the men and women in the space program were fully engaged in another mission. From the moment Apollo 13 went into distress until the moment those three astronauts miraculously splashed down and were recovered, the entire world operated under the ...

127. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “God Matters”

Acts 17:16-34

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... in God, then the big bang theory is not mysterious. If we believe in God, then the fine tuning of the universe is understandable, and the laws of nature explainable. Since God made us we are able to form true beliefs and knowledge. Since God exists, our intuitions about the meaningfulness of life can be trusted. The beauty of the earth can be celebrated. “We believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth.” When we believe, we see His handiwork in the stars at night and His majesty in the ...

128. John 5:1-9

John 5:1-15

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... John’s text, and then Jesus himself, focuses on one particularly tragic case — a man who had been waiting at the waters for thirty-eight years hoping to be healed. While John’s text articulates this background for his readers, Jesus’ discernment is immediate and intuitive: “Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time” (v.6). It is this knowledge that leads Jesus to single out the man and confront him with the question, “Do you want to be made well?” After thirty ...

129. To Live Is to Choose

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... involves constant choice and constant conflict. Conflict between the different facets of our nature that vie for allegiance. Conflict between the different causes that clamor for our support. Conflict between the false suggestion the exterior world and an inner intuition of our soul. Conflict between self—dominance and self-surrender. Through the continuous making of resolute decisions, we pattern our lives and we order our character. So William James was right when he said: “The hell to which theology ...

130. Fresh Every Morning - A Test

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to gather it again. There is no lying in of a supply, then sleeping late the rest of the week. There are something’s that are a day-to-day affair Love in the family is like that. Oh I know that love is half history and half intuition, there is power in ritual and memory, that we gain strength from the residual experience of love, but I also know that expressions of love, keeping powerfully alive in our and in other relationships, is a “daily manna”-affair. *Joke: I’ll bring her in on Wednesday. We ...

131. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... . It involves constant choice and constant conflict, conflict between the different facets of our nature that struggle for dominance, conflict between the causes that vie for our allegiance, conflict between a false suggestion from our exterior world and a true intuition of the inner self, conflict between self—dominance and self— surrender. Through the continuous making of resolute decisions we pattern our life and we mold our character. William James was right in saying that the hell to be endured ...

132. The Time Is Right

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... one day anew preacher came to town. Come Sunday, Ben, now 12 years old, went to church. Meeting the boy at the close of the service the preacher fell into the familiar trap by asking Ben “Son, who is your daddy?" Ben's face turned red. The crowd grew quiet. Intuitively sensing the pain of the moment, the Pastor hastened to say “Wait a minute, I know who you are. You are a child of God. You are the Lord's boy. You have a great inheritance. Go out and claim your identity and live into it." That day Ben ...

133. A Truly Universal Operating System

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Larry Lange

... supposed to be excello, excellent, but was really nothing more than an redundant clutter of labyrinthine pathways. It was no surprise that when Theseus found the Minotaur in the midst of such a maze, he killed it. XC's competitor, based on the more intuitive, graceful, pictorial language of the Egyptian civilization, decided to name its product after a fruit that in some quarters was blamed for all the world's troubles, and only a few years later its market share had been pared to a mere 5%. Suddenly the ...

134. We Wish to See Jesus

John 12:20-33

Sermon

John Smylie

"Sir, we wish to see Jesus" (v. 21). This was the request of the Greeks who had come to worship at a festival in Jerusalem. These were Gentiles, non-Jews, who likely showed up at the Jewish Passover and other festivals because they intuitively felt that the God of Israel was the true God. Their own philosophies and religious systems must not have been satisfying to them for it seems they knew that there was more to be found. It appears they felt that Israel desired to discover answers to their deepest ...

135. For the Life of Betsy D. I. Smylie

John 12:20-36

Sermon

John Smylie

136. Our Fair Share

Matthew 20:1-16

Illustration

Scott Hoezee

... you, you trust the one who is giving it to you, but that doesn't make it very easy to swallow even so! Most of us are born into this world with a huge sense of infantile entitlement followed by, at a very early age already, a seemingly intuitive sense of fairness and unfairness. It's like Charlie Brown's little sister, Sally, in the classic "Charlie Brown Christmas Special." You may recall that at one point Sally is writing a letter to Santa Claus and in the process generates an enormous list of toys she ...

137. Who Is Isaiah’s Servant?

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

Ken Lentz

... directed them to a vision of servanthood par excellence! They modeled a gracious act of divine history already on their horizon. Perhaps their ordeal in exile would lead to a better world — a better world for them and for all nations. Perhaps those most intuitive saw in the servant of God a glimpse of something wondrous ahead. Fourthly, Isaiah's servant knows he is vindicated! What sustains the servant? He knows that God is with him. He knows that there is some kind of meaning in his humiliation at ...

138. Samuel Was the Search Committee

1 Samuel 15:34-35, 16:1-13

Sermon

William J. Carl, III

... older sisters do in the Cinderella story. "Little David? Samuel will take one look at him and laugh his head off." But that's not what Samuel did at all. As the little red-faced, runny-nosed child stepped through the door, Samuel knew immediately. Call it divine intuition, call it providence, call it whatever you want. But Samuel knew right then. The biblical writer says it was all in the eyes, for David had beautiful eyes. I don't know what it was. All I know is that God has an odd way of working because ...

139. In the Know

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Michael Horton

... to or at least beyond the knowledge of Scripture. The "Gnostikoi" were "those in the know." Their knowledge was not derived from intellectual comprehension of the Scripture or by empirical research, but was mystical, direct, and immediate. God "revealed" private, intuitive insights to them that carried nothing less than divine authority. Here is a typical Gnostic statement: "We cannot communicate with God mentally, for He is a Spirit. But we can reach Him with our Spirit, and it is through our Spirit ...

140. The Ways of the World

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Dave Roper

The Bible defines worldliness by centering morality where we intuitively know it should be. Worldliness is the lust of the flesh (a passion for sensual satisfaction), the lust of the eyes (an inordinate desire for the finer things of life), and the pride of life (self-satisfaction in who we are, what we have, and what we have done). Worldliness, ...

141. Proper 18

Deuteronomy 30:15-20, Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18, Jeremiah 18:1-11, Luke 14:25-35, Philemon 1-21

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... -stretching Spirit — we want to be happy and we want to embody your grace. We want to be like trees, firmly rooted in good soil nourished by living waters. When ugliness and barrenness threaten, we often lose courage to confront evil. Enliven our intuitions so we can discriminate between the advice of the world and the wisdom of your voice. Amen. Sermon Idea Since Philemon, Psalm 1, and Psalm 139 speak of happiness, the sermon could explore “happiness” as a result of self-knowledge and relationship ...

142. Your Home Page

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... or more accurately, the most relationship-trashing, out-with the-old/in-the-only-moments-new draw among smart phone adversaries is how easy is the access and adaptability of the “home page.” Cell phone providers are focused on making it easier and more intuitive for you to completely customize your “Home Page.” The most advanced smart phones make it easy for you to simply touch the screen of your smart phone after finding a new “like,” and drag it to your personal home page. You might say one ...

143. What If Joseph Were the Patron Saint of 2014?

Matthew 2:13-18

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that “proceeded from the mouth of God.” 1) First, Joseph “read the signs.” A dream, an angel messenger, a personalized warning. Joseph trusted this to be a real revelation, not some delusion or haphazard hallucination. His personal faith, his internal intuition, enabled him to this dream-message as a genuine source of divine revelation. Joseph believed that God could actually reach out and speak to him personally, and that he should listen up and act accordingly. Joseph believed that the creator of ...

144. Let It Go

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the two halves through the corpus collosum. But these two spheres of the brain each have their own strengths and weaknesses. The “left brain” houses the home team advantage for logical, rational, sequential thought processes. The right brain gives intuitive, reactionary, environmental responses the upper hand. Together these dual strengths have given us astonishing advances in science, the beauty of art, structures for politics and power, and the magic of music. John 3 reveals Nicodemus as the patron ...

145. Apron Up (Mother's Day)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... exists or not. Make one sheep jump and you can make a whole herd jump — regardless of whether there is actually anything to jump over. Growing up in Galilee Jesus knew sheep like a cowboy knows cattle. Jesus knew the instincts, the needs, the intuitions of the sheep that surrounded him in his homeland. Jesus used that everyday knowledge to reveal to the people he encountered the desires that he knew permeated and perforated their lives. Jesus always dealt with people on the basis of a one-on-one ...

146. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... in the giving of a new name at baptism. The so-called “Christian name” symbolically affirmed the spiritual truth of becoming a new person in Christ. In the case of our selected passage, Isaiah does not reveal what the promised new name will be. We intuitively recognize, however, the beauty of a new identity that comes from God, the consequence of an intersection with him, and ever after a testimony about him. Galatians 4:4-7 A group of folks in my church are endeavoring to read through the Bible in ...

147. TGFGF - Good Friday

John 18:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Friday, get it?” The man answered, “Sorry Miss, it’s only Thursday.” (1) Well, this is definitely Friday. And not just any Friday. We call this Good Friday. No one knows for sure why we call it “good” Friday. That seems counter intuitive. Unbelievably Terrible Friday would seem more appropriate. Our German friends call it Karfreitag. The Kar part is an obsolete word. It is the ancestor of the English word “care” in the sense of “cares and woes.” It originally meant “mourning,” as in ...

148. Mary and Martha: Nine to Five and Five to Nine

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... about many things. One thing is needful. Mary has chosen the better." And what did Mary do? She sat at the feet of Jesus and listened as he said the true reality, the eternal reality, comes by way of self-denial and worship of God. With prophetic intuition, she anointed his feet with costly oil, anointed the feet of him whom millions would follow, anointed the feet of him who would turn the heads of history. Mary chose the better part. Woman: Martha, Martha. Man: Mary, Mary. Woman: Who are you? Man: Who am ...

149. Living as Children of Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... does not appear to have a local situation in mind, the no one could mean “everyone” who speaks empty or foolish words. Mitton refers to this as “arguments that sound plausible and attractive but which run counter to true reasoning and intuitive insights” (p. 181). This could be an amplification of the reference to the “men in their deceitful scheming” who teach by error and trickery (4:14). The false teachers would want the Christians to believe that there is nothing wrong about participating ...

150. Suffering for Being a Christian

1 Peter 4:12-19

Understanding Series

Norman Hillyer

... glory cloud signifying the divine presence (Exod. 40:34–35; 1 Kings 8:11; Matt. 17:5). This makes it clear why believers are to realize that they are blessed: the very reviling is a proof that Christ is in them, and God’s enemies intuitively recognize this and react accordingly. It is worthy of notice that Peter declares that the divine Spirit of glory rests on believers. The expression implies a contrast between the storm of abuse and calumny raging around a Christian life and the peace enjoyed within ...

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