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126. The Way Up Is Down!

Mark 9:30-37

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... Lord takes this moment to teach them a lesson about pride and servitude. If you want to be first among your brothers, he tells them, aim for being last. If you would be the greatest, start out by being a servant. It turns this world's way of thinking upside down. Well, actually, it turns it right side up! The lesson seems simple but the disciples do not understand. Later, near the end of his ministry, Jesus returns to this theme and demonstrates what he means by stooping to wash the disciples' feet. On the ...

127. Waking To A World Upside Down

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... truth. All of the world’s religions are basically the same according to this perspective. After all, they are simply well-intentioned myths devised to explain the way the world came into being. Morality is relative as well. There are no absolutes according to this way of thinking. Each culture is free to make its own rules. Marriage is simply a piece of paper. The two-parent family is obsolete. "Til death us do part..." is an anachronism from an age when people didn’t live as long as they do today. To ...

128. Here's Mud In Your Eye

John 9:1-41

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... . No doubt the intelligent religious leaders now realized that this former-blind beggar could see through their veiled attempt to frame Jesus. They would not do that this day because a man who came to faith was not willing to go along with their twisted way of thinking. One Man No Longer Was Blind! The blind man could see and nobody could ever change his eyes of the direction of his heart. His spiritual journey from darkness to light is seen from the way he progresses in his description of his Savior. He ...

129. Winning Isn't the Only Thing ... It's Irrelevant

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Carl Jech

... the face of tradition if we reject the language of "winning" or "claiming" the world for Christ, but Jesus cried over Jerusalem precisely because it held its traditions too tightly, because it refused to listen to him as he criticized their usual ways of thinking - their traditional theology. He cried because he recognized that the few hosannas they would sing would be hollow praise. I'm sure that Jesus cries also over some traditional forms ofarrogant witnessing that go on in his name yet today. When the ...

130. Beyond Good Intentions

Matthew 21:28-32

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... their minds? You could surprise me, I suppose, but often, as I see it, people who change their minds are looked upon as having a flaw in their character. "She changed her mind," they say, "What's wrong with her anyway?" Today I want to challenge that way of thinking. I will do it by beginning this sermon by saying: if you never have to change your mind, it is either because you're quite perfect as you are or you are very stupid. I mean it. Perfect, because you have always been right in the first place ...

131. Standing and Understanding with the Apostles

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... describes. But he noted that there is also a slang equivalent. You take the sign for stand, and turn it upside down. How very appropriate that sign is for the Spirit's gift of understanding! This spiritual understanding defies gravity and reason; the conventional way of thinking is turned upside down. So Peter's words to the crowd, which he knows includes many who called for Jesus' crucifixion, are not words of revenge or anger or bitterness. He proclaims to them that God still holds out to them the promise ...

132. The Wisdom of The Cross

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Nancy Kraft

... attack on rhetoric was against the Greek influence. Greek educators and philosophers were known for their rhetoric and it's how people in the world judged who was wise and who wasn't. Rhetoric was a sign of wisdom. Paul contrasts the Greek way of thinking with the Jewish way of thinking. Both are seeking something to convince them of the truth of the gospel. Greeks are moved to action by persuasion. Jews, on the other hand, are moved to action by a sign from God. We can see this in the gospel accounts, when ...

133. Abraham Justified by Faith

Romans 4:1-25

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... reactions are determined by human causes and moral systems. Paul faulted the accepted Jewish interpretation of Genesis 15:6 as identifying God too closely with human judgments, and thus being in danger of making God in humanity’s image. Only the latter way of thinking, the mentality of faith, opens up the possibility of grace. But grace is offensive, as we noted in the discussion of 3:22. The problem is repeated and intensified when Paul says that God … justifies the wicked (v. 5). That phrase posed ...

134. Framing Values – Part Two

Daniel 1:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... went to a school that did not begin each day with prayer. No longer were the Ten Commandments posted in the classroom. The very idea of God itself was totally rejected. Every effort was being made to indoctrinate Daniel and his friends into a pagan way of thinking and a pagan way of living. "Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his officials, to bring in some of the sons of Israel, including some of the royal family and of the nobles, youths in whom was no defect, who were good-looking, showing ...

135. Raised to New Life Today

1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... it may be at times, can be transformed. William Wilberforce was only one man, but he led a campaign to transform the thinking of the most extensive and possibly most powerful empire in world history. But this only began when Wilberforce was resurrected to a new way of thinking. Similarly, we need to be open to God's message in our lives. The missive will be different for each person, but we all need to raise ourselves to a higher plane. Let us strive toward this lofty plateau. The goal that is our ultimate ...

136. Thanksgiving Means Giving

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... in our lives. Opportunities similarly are chosen if they will advance our personal or professional lives or serve us in an advantageous way. The thanksgiving effort of mutual love that Paul preaches to the Thessalonians is completely antithetical to such an exclusive way of thinking or acting. Paul’s third aspect of thanksgiving is proper conduct. He writes, “May he so strengthen your hearts in holiness that you may be blameless before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all ...

137. The Way to Happy Endings

Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67

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James L. Killen

... sincerely believed that God had led them to exactly the right baby for them. A person went through a long struggle with a potentially fatal illness and emerged alive and well. He and his whole family are convinced that God has healed him. That is a happy way of thinking. There is just one problem with it. Some people who have lived through stories that did not have happy endings will want to ask, "Why did God let me down?" There are some people who have lived through some tragedy like the death of a child ...

138. Saved to Share

Acts 26

Sermon

James Merritt

... decision. People commit crimes when they make wrong moral choices. Here is the fascinating thing about their study. They ended it with this startling conclusion. The only way a criminal can change is by a conscious shift to a new way of thinking—what they called a "conversion."4 Unbeknownst to them, they were exactly right. Jeff Fenholt could give testimony to that fact. Jeff Fenholt played the original Jesus in the sacrilegious musical Jesus Christ Superstar, which purposely leaves out the Resurrection ...

139. Is It Better To Catch Or Be Caught?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... us giving to the stranger. Simone Weil said, "Love is acting toward the people we do not know, and hence cannot love, as though they were the people we actually do love." We don't think our way into acting this way, but act our way into this new way of thinking that was seen in the one who asked his disciples to "go deeper" into the water and into life. Live more deeply by moving the margins of village and family to include love for the stranger, who is not a stranger in the eyes of our all-inclusive God ...

140. Mustard Seed Faith

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... the countryfor example, pro basketball player Ralph Sampson, St. Louis shortstop Ozzie Smith, Will Clark of the Giants, Billy Hobbley of the Harlem Globetrotters. Mackie is not content just to train athletes physically. He wants to help change their lifestyles and ways of thinking as well. "I tell my athletes that they do have control over what their attitude will be about life. Their positive attitude and faith in God makes a difference." "I have never forgotten the message on the medallion I received from ...

141. Room For Questions

Matthew 11:2-11

Sermon

William B. Kincaid, III

... it all before. Let us give thanks for those people in our lives who have created "the roominess" in which we are free to ask and explore and grow and learn. Let us give thanks for people who have opened for us new doors and different ways of thinking. Let us give thanks for people whose acceptance and love toward us was so certain that we found room to move around and be free without the fear of being judged for our questions. Sometimes asking the right questions is more important than having the right ...

142. God Sometimes Changes His Mind

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... unchanging. It is we who need to change. Jonah learned that lesson while brooding in resentment over God's saving such an undeserving city as Nineveh. As Thomas Carlyle put it: "And Jonah stalked to his shaded seat and waited for God to come around to his way of thinking." Then Carlyle adds," And God is still waiting for a host of Jonahs to come around to His way of loving." It was not God who needed a change of mind, but Jonah. That is our greatest need, too, to bring our lives into such harmony with the ...

143. Strength for The Journey

John 16:12-15

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... try to keep up. Rather, I’m speaking of the spirits we speak of and accept as not just harmless but benevolent, even good on a near daily basis — spirit in the common, everyday sense. The Cambridge Dictionary tells us that spirit is a particular way of thinking, feeling, or behaving, especially a way that is typical of a particular group of people, an activity, a time, or a place. The spirit of England, say. If you have it, you have a particular way of behaving, of talking, and of approaching life. You ...

144. Personal Politics

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in addressing the hurts that affect any of its members. Failing to do so does not so much destroy community as it does isolate us from it. We become impoverished when we think we have all the resources to force others into obedience to our way of thinking or living. Keep It Focused One more thing that becomes apparent in Jesus' teaching is that the entire emotional content of our relational difficulties needs to be reframed. Jesus says that our goal is to have a brother restored. Moreover, if that does not ...

145. Some Assembly Required

Malachi 2:17--3:5

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... ." Who can really say that they are finished with the Christmas story of salvation? Who can say that God has come to earth because He is satisfied with who they are? Who says they can "endure the day of His coming, and ... stand when He appears?" To my way of thinking, the Christmas season is over, but the Christmas story has only just begun. Now God is with us, and what will we do? I don’t know about you, but the package I come in still has written on it, in plain letters: "Some Assembly Required." I don ...

146. Divine Dinner Party Decorum

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... people." By faithfulness to the Torah, the observant Jew could say, "I know who I am and the world knows who we are. We are the ones who keep God's Law." At a time when most other cultures were being lost to Roman ways of thinking and doing, the Pharisees offered a method for maintaining Jewish identity. Third, this dinner party at the house of the Pharisee takes place on the Sabbath. Keeping this holy day for rest and worship was central to Jewish differentiation from the surrounding Roman culture. Jewish ...

147. A Powerful Sacrament

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... our lives. My job isn’t to call you a snake or a viper, but it is to suggest that you and I may be living our lives according to a failed script. To tell you the truth, I’d much rather entertain you. I’d rather reinforce your present way of thinking. Look what happened to Jesus when he sought to change the script for the world in which he lived. They crucified him! That’s not likely to happen to me, of course. But pray for me that I shall not give in to the temptation of taking the safe, easy ...

148. The Joy of Being Found

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... adjust the helmet liner, said, “Okay, private. This is what I want you to do. Go into the gear locker, find a new head to fit your helmet liner and use that one!” (7) Jesus isn’t telling us we need a new head. But maybe we need a new way of thinking about God. If we really understood God’s nature and God’s purpose for our lives, would we let anything stand between us and God? All it takes is believing that Jesus is God and asking Jesus to come into our lives and change us to be more like him ...

149. Dying to Become

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... with her husband. It is not resolution; it is resignation. And the dynamics of resignation include resentment directed against the "winner" of the interpersonal transactions. Laying aside any of the defenses that resist "dying to become" is risky business. The way of thinking that insists upon "killing" in order to survive "dies hard." Persons choosing to "die" to old understandings are expressing courage. The willingness to let the past die in order to become new persons includes laying aside the security ...

150. Training for a Purpose

Titus 2:11-14

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Donald Charles Lacy

... among us! There are those who believe they have a "corner on the market" and seek to absolutize the entire religious experience by sectarian teaching and training. Witness the numerous evangelists and revivalists who have "converted" people to their way of thinking. Sometimes their narrowness only becomes apparent years later, as followers cling to disciplines more inflicted upon them than given to them. Our history is filled with examples of those who allowed their egotism and perhaps self-righteousness to ...

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