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126. The Family That Prays Together Stays Together

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... would give ourselves to more prayer we would get ourselves in less trouble. II. We Are To Pray Consistently Jesus tells a parable about a hard-hearted judge and a helpless widow. Now we have already been told that the purpose of the parable is to move us to prayer. Keep that in mind as you listen to it. There are two characters in this story. First of all, there is a hard-hearted judge. "There was in a certain city a judge who did not fear God nor regard man." (v.2) This judge had two problems. He did not ...

127. A Winning Life

Hebrews 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... a parent, as a spouse, as a member of the community. In other words, you will be successful as a human being. I’m making an extravagant claim, I know, but I have seen this formula work time and time again. Here is the first part of the formula: keep on loving. Now you may ask, love whom? And the answer is, of course, everybody. Love people you go to church with, people you live with, people you work with. But also love people you don’t even know. More than that, love people you normally wouldn’t even ...

128. Winners Losers

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... of living life so that no matter what inevitable obstacles confront us, we manage to come out feeling right about ourselves and able to keep on with good spirit. To be able to do this is to be a winner, no matter what. The key to Jesus’ teaching ... God to be in my life.” Time went by, and we became very close. I noticed how, in the worst of times, he managed to keep his head, do the demanding tasks life presented, and walk away for another day. I admired the character he showed. “How did you manage to ...

129. Step Eight - Love

Mt 7:7-14 · 2 Cor 5:16-21 · Ps 19:7-13

Sermon

John A. Terry

... whom we are angry. We can easily become confident of our reasoning. That brings us to the eighth step: Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all. It is God's will that we keep the Law, and in keeping it is the joy the psalmist describes. To keep from breaking it and to become willing to make amends, we need to call on God's power to defend us from ourselves. It is to this need to be reconciled with God and one another that Paul wrote to the church in Corinth ...

130. Divorce-Proofing Your Marriage

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

R. E. Lybrand

... , I couldn't have gone to church anyway. My wife is home sick in bed." That husband demonstrated that his golf game was more important than his wife and his Lord. His priorities were all messed up. But Jesus promises us that we will be blessed if we keep our priorities straight. In Matthew 6:30, he said, "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and His Righteousness and all else will be added unto you." (KJV) The Lord should come first in every heart and in every marriage. That means you should worship and praise ...

131. Who Needs a Doctor?

Mark 2:13-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... me. It was one of those lessons that she and my Dad tried to pound into the minds of us children -- a lesson I'm sure that many of you received from your parents as well. They were always saying to us: "You are known by the company you keep." I don't know more honest folks than my Momma and Daddy. Their moral character has always been unquestioned. They stood for all the right things as they understood them. And they were telling us children that that's the most important thing in life. So they kept telling ...

132. Who Needs A Doctor?

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... full of leprosy--that most awful of all diseases in New Testament times--saw Jesus and fell on his knees and said to Him, "Lord, if you will, you can make me clean". And immediately Jesus stretched out His hands and touched the leper. I like that. He didn't keep His distance from the leper -- He didn't even draw back a little. In fact, He moved to the leper, laid His hands upon him, and said, "I will -- I will heal you -- be clean". And immediately the fellow was made well. The second story that is told in ...

133. Staying Alive All Your Ministry Life: Will You Finish Well?

Exodus 32:1-33:6

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their forefathers? Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me. If this is ... children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness. So then let us not fall asleep as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober; for those who sleep sleep at night, and those who are drunk get drunk at night. But since we belong to ...

134. Still Under Construction

1 Corinthians 3:1-9

Sermon

James L. Killen

... God is one of the participants in the action that is going on. They are Christians that are still under construction. Jesus himself understood that the change doesn't take place all at once. In the first part of his Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5), he keeps trying to move us up to the next level of spirituality. He said, "You have heard that you must not murder, but I tell you that you must not be angry with another person or insult anyone or call anyone depersonalizing and degrading names. You have heard ...

135. No, We're Not There Yet

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

April Yamasaki

... just sit around and do nothing -- the fields need to be prepared, rocks removed, the soil tilled and plowed, and the seeds planted. All through the growing season, the farmer is watering, feeding, weeding, pruning or thinning out the plants, fixing the fence or putting up netting to keep out the birds. Yet in all this activity, the farmer still needs to wait patiently for God to give the growth. In the same way, as we wait for the coming of the Lord, even as we do the work we have been given, even as we are ...

136. Promises Kept In Unusual Way

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... It is a wonderful thing to be able to take someone's word and count on it. And it is precisely the lack of integrity in current politics that makes the political scene so distasteful to many of us. There doesn't seem to be a politician alive who can keep his or her word. They will tell us anything to get elected. Once they are in office, they seem to do whatever they please and forget the promises they made during the election campaign. We like to be able to take others at their word. A promise kept goes a ...

137. Signs of the End of the Age

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... . Story One can be a retelling of the parable Jesus tells to close out this chapter of Mark. Tell it with elaboration to bring it into our contemporary world. The parable begins with the reality that no one knows the day or the hour of the end. Therefore we must keep alert. We might comment in passing that it is precisely the unknown hour of Jesus' coming that opens up the possibility of our salvation. If we knew the day and the hour we would all get ready! Jesus would come and ask us if we are ready and we ...

138. Obeying God Rather Than Men

Acts 5:17-42

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... risen when we just killed him? He is dead! He is dead! He is dead! We killed him and we will kill you if you don’t keep your mouth shut! How dare you speak about a man that we have silenced, that we have put to shame; a man that we hung on the ... his name. We see this familiar scenario time and again, where the devil and the enemies of Christ issue threats to his servants to keep their mouths shut under the strictest orders. The caveat is really a veiled death threat. I have seen it even in the church where ...

139. A Date With Destiny

Hebrews 10:19-39

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... lives without Him. We say sometimes, God, get out of my life! I don't want you! I don't need you! And one day, instead of keeping faithful to His commitments to us, He'll say, "Okay! Have it your way!" And that's when hell begins! You know how that happens in ... something about you, but not really what makes you. Who are you? You find that out in the relationships you stick with and the promises you keep. I'm a husband, and my wife can count on me! I'm a father, and my children know it! I'm a friend, and my ...

140. What's in It for Me?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Michael Milton

... short of the glory of God. And Jesus said that He had come to convict the world of sin and righteousness. What did he mean? He meant that, as in this account, Jesus shows us the folly of our supposed righteousness and our need of His righteousness. Either you can keep the law and earn God’s favor or else you are a sinner and need a Savior. Jesus came, in fact, because you and I are sinners. I will never forget June Day. June Day was a girl in our class in Junior High School who was always called upon ...

141. A Sourdough Sprirituality

Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Island has one of the most unusual pets of anyone I know. He takes very good care of this pet, feeds it, gives it fresh water, keeps it safe from harm in its own special space, and of course cleans its home often. But Al's pet never needs to be walked, or ... of the finished product (the bread), whether or not your community's starter needs some adjustment or not. 4) The only way you can keep the staff of life going is to give it away. When you give your sourdough starter away, what you're giving is a little ...

142. An Announcement about Our Future

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... from St. Mark, chapter 13: “Be on guard! Be alert! You do not know when that time will come. It’s like a man going away: He leaves his house and puts his servants in charge, each with their assigned task, and tells the one at the door to keep watch. “Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back—whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or at dawn. If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to ...

143. Encouragement to Be Faithful

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Understanding Series

Gordon D. Fee

... by his abolition of death and revelation of life and immortality (vv. 9–10). Thus, do not be ashamed of Christ (v. 8a). Then he reminds Timothy of his (Paul’s) own ministry, as one who is not ashamed to suffer for Christ, because God can be fully trusted to keep safe what has been entrusted to him. Thus, do not be ashamed of me. Examples of those who have deserted Paul (v. 15) and of one who was not ashamed of him (vv. 16–18) follow this first appeal. The second part of the appeal (2:1–13) takes up ...

144. Prayers for the Sundays After Easter

Bulletin Aid

Rolland R. Reece

... . Help us, O God, to make peace with change -- whether it's within ourselves or others. Life is movement and nothing remains as it is. In some ways it would be easier if change were our enemy -- the evil one. For then we could make an all-out effort to keep things as they are and hope to live happily ever after. But life is dynamic. It is always in motion. The rose emerges as a bud, then opens to its fullness and splendor, then drops its petals and disappears. We can be sad about the rose, but we've learned ...

145. We Haven’t Got To Them Yet

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... how do you and I manage? How do we know that we are right with God so that we can move ahead with a working self-esteem and a goodly sense of being justified in the faith? how do we feel Jesus in our salvation so that we do not keep on in an endless regress of self-examination? We need appropriate answers to these questions if we are to move on with mature confidence and effectiveness and if we are to be happy. One thing we try, as our forebears did, is to simplify the task. We convince ourselves that ...

146. A Glory Revealed by Abiding

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... of our freedom; he is the beginning and the end of eternal life. Only he could have saved us so long ago and only he can keep us saved, delivered and free now. Let us not believe one of the most vicious lies of all: That we can somehow start with Jesus and ... we abide in Jesus. And by abiding in Jesus, we are kept safe in the Father’s love. Jesus said, "If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him and we will come and make our home with him."6 By abiding in Jesus’ word, his ...

147. Living With The Nitty Gritty

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... break and it was inevitable that their suffering was going to be agonizing. To that people, the word was plain, brace up your minds then, keep cool, and put your hope for good in all the grace that is coming to you in Jesus Christ. Put this truth down first. We ... this word back to some hidden corner of your mind so that you can take it out in the days ahead. Brace up your minds then, keep cool, and put your hope for good in all the grace that is coming to you in Jesus Christ. And that grace, my friends is ...

148. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... you, was chaos and darkness and non-being and death that would envelop you and put an end to you if God were not somehow keeping you afloat and enabling you to remain suspended above it all? Do you think you can't imagine that? Do you think you have never ... chaos upon the nation and the world that can seem almost apocalyptical in its proportions. And yet -- and yet, we dare to trust God to keep us afloat through this storm, too, and enable us to start over one more time. Can you see that this is a part of the ...

149. All God's Children Can Dance

Psalm 30:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... as long as they have access to the one necessary attribute. Joy. You can't dance without joy. You can't move without feeling joy. You can't stay in rhythm without hearing joy. You can't whirl with your partner without holding onto joy. You can't keep going without the endurance of joy. Joy is the music of the soul, a music so overwhelming, so infectious, that our toes start tapping, our fingers get drumming, and our whole mind/body/spirit can't help jumping up to dance. Just as David leapt and danced with ...

150. The Devil's Sermon

Philippians 3:17-4:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... but I still believe that Soon and Very Soon.... Call me crazy, but I still believe that My Hope Is Built on Nothing Less.... Call me crazy, but I still believe that Surely, the Presence of the Lord is in This Place. The Devil says: "Keep up." Jesus says: "Keep on keeping on." 3. Keep Your Options Open. What the Devil means by this is that you've got the right to choose, and to choose without commitment. Cover all your bases. In a classic 1994 "Dear Abby" letter, one woman wrote: Dear Abby: I am 45 years old ...

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