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1501. What Will It Take to Make You Happy?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... who never would go inside a church. But he would hang around in the vestibule. And when the ushers went away, he would open the door just a crack so he could listen. But he would never venture further than the vestibule. Well,” Dr. Peale continues, “there are many who physically have got past the vestibule, but, mentally, they’re still listening through a crack. They’re only getting a tiny bit, a faint suggestion of the Gospel. “But Jesus said, ‘Drink ye all of it’ (Matthew 26:27). “If you ...

1502. A Prayer to a Good, Good Father

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... your heart—resentment, anger, lust, fear? “Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us.” Can you forgive those who have sinned against you? Doesn’t it sound a little hypocritical, then, to ask God for forgiveness of your sins? The prayer continues, “And lead us not into temptation.” Plato once said that the wise man will always choose to suffer wrong rather than to do wrong. I came across the story of a family at breakfast. Each repeated a verse from the Bible as they went around ...

1503. The Call of the Wild Within

Genesis 12:10-20, Genesis 12:1-8, Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... risk her life and her entire livelihood to hide Israeli spies under the flax on the roof of her inn in trust they would save her family from peril. Think of the courage of Paul, who despite jail, floggings, stoning, broken bones, near drowning, and continual threat of death, would never stop proclaiming Jesus as Lord for the entirety of his torturous yet joyous life. Think of the courage of young Mary, an unwed teen mom, who would go on to bear the Messiah, despite the potential consequences of dishonoring ...

1504. Cloak of Power

Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . We have gone from learner to disciple to friend. And when God’s Holy Spirit comes upon us, it isn’t so that we can sit and glow like a glowworm under our own little canopy. Jesus’ covering gift of glory compels us to go out into the world to continue his mission of seeking and saving the lost and least and lonely and last. God’s cloak of blessing is not only a symbol of what God can do for us. It’s a symbol of our response to God’s gracious gift. The cloak of righteousness means we’ve ...

1505. The Power of the Wilderness

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , you have no story. But if a story remains in friction, it can’t move forward. Scripture allows Jesus and will allow YOU to get back on the right track. God’s voice keeps you moving in the right directions. God’s voice in the wilderness calls you continually back into faith even in the midst of conflict. For all of us as Christians, Jesus the anointed one, brings us too out of our times of conflict and into the promised land of the good news. In our wilderness moments, Jesus calls out to us in our ...

1506. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ? Are you carrying cash? Are you going to stop for someone who is lying there? Do you think they are homeless? Do you think they may have diseases? Do you think you could be attacked too? Would you stop? What is happening in the story for you? [Let them continue the story.] Now, let’s say, there’s a woman going by too. Women ….will you stop? The elder didn’t stop that day. He thought it was far too risky. And after all, he gives to the homeless fund at church, and there are other people who should ...

1507. Soul Food

Luke 9:10-17, Matthew 14:13-21, Mark 6:30-44, John 6:1-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... loaves, recognizing God’s hand in all things. The barley cakes may be an offering for the spring harvest –the barley festival, which comes just before the Passover time. It is the time when the first grains are ready in early spring. The Jewish feasts continue until Sukkot (the ingathering) in the fall. Without God’s blessing, the food would be wasted. With God’s blessing, not only is the food made more sustaining, but it multiplies. For the Word of God can bring something out of nothing! This is ...

1508. Redeemed

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... (or dinar) equaled a half shekel. A gold zuz could be as much as the Temple tax or more, as the prices were rising. And everyone had to pay it! Or they couldn’t be absolved. The priests had quite a racket going. And prices continued to rise up until the destruction of the Temple. In his adulthood, Jesus would challenge this system hard! “History records that excessive prices were being charged by those who were selling animals used in Temple sacrifice. For example, according to Leviticus 12:6-8, after ...

1509. Secret Savior

Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... own possession among all the peoples, for all the earth is Mine; and you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.' These are the words that you shall speak to the sons of Israel." Said God to Moses. (Exodus 19:5-6) Give our bread continually: Of course, God knows that this is all a hard task for His children. And so God will always be there to help, so that our only request to God, in that “secret” time, must be the strength, and the nourishment, and the daily hope in order to stay rooted ...

1510. It's Okay to Cry

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jerusalem under his wings. He wants to teach them the way, so that their devastation can be averted. Jesus sings a psalmist’s song. Jesus prays a prophet’s prayer. But a Song of lament is still a song. A prayer of lament is still a prayer. Jesus prepares to continue his mission, strong in the knowledge that his grief is only a prelude to a much larger symphony. He will do what he can in his human time. Soon he will enter into God’s time. And He will do in the heavenly realm, what in this realm he ...

1511. Don't Stop Praying!

Luke 18:1-8, Luke 18:35-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... prayer in everything one does….says….is. Everything happens in relationship with God. The Talmud teaches that the word for soul (neshama) is related to the word for breath (neshima), so that with every breath we take, we should be praising God, and in doing so, God continually renews our breath. Just as God breathed life into us in the Genesis of our creation, so also do we breath God in and out with every breath of life in which we hold the Name of God holy. We exist in relationship with God. We live ...

1512. The Raising of Paul

Acts 14:8-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jews, others with the apostles. There was a plot afoot among both Gentiles and Jews, together with their leaders, to mistreat them and stone them. But they found out about it and fled to the Lycaonian cities of Lystra and Derbe and to the surrounding country, where they continued to preach the gospel. In Lystra there sat a man who was lame. He had been that way from birth and had never walked. He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called ...

1513. Daddy's Love

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... any performer. This is the point at which your imagination creates all kinds of negative thoughts about what will happen next. Then something surprising happened. The crowd began to sing along. Their participation was soft at first but it continued to increase in volume as he continued to sing. Then, as the young man with autism senses the support of the audience he begins to sing with more confidence. And, says Marcus Bales, “Before you know it, the whole crowd is singing and clapping along encouraging ...

1514. Be Like Dad

John 17:1-5

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... ear open, literally, to be able to rush to his bedside to awaken him, wherein the gagging would stop. It wasn’t too long before the parents took what was happening as a potential sign of something more troubling, even as the boy continued to show signs of thriving during the waking hours. He was gaining weight, gaining length, he focused on external objects, and was reaching for them. He was beginning to manipulate his own environment, learning how one cry would get an immediate response, while another ...

1515. About Those Magi

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... he was in exile. The title was “King of the Jews.” Who did the magi say they were seeking? “Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? The plot begins to thicken. There’s no way the Jews could have two kings. Our story continues, “When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. When he had called together all the people’s chief priests and teachers of the law, he asked them where the Messiah was to be born. “In Bethlehem in Judea,” they replied, “for this ...

1516. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... to stop. The picture looked complete. Then, as he was thinking those very words, he cringed to see the artist add a dark blackish color of paint to the canvas. As Waldrop had feared, the dark blob looked awkward and out of place. But as the man continued to add texture and other colors to the blob it began to take shape. When the painter was finished, the part of the picture that Brian Waldrop thought was ruined looked great! It was exactly what the painting needed to make it beautiful and complete. Waldrop ...

1517. Abba! Father!

Galatians 4:4-7

Sermon

Ron Love

... is ours and Satan will be destroyed on judgment day, but until then we must battle Satan’s evil influence. And we sometimes forget, or rather deny, that since it is a spiritual battle sometimes Satan wins. This is why with a loving God there can continue to be pain and suffering in the world. Most people consider the Normandy invasion, better known as D-Day, on June 6, 1944, as the turning point of the Second World War. It was with that invasion everyone knew Nazi Germany was destroyed; but, no one ...

1518. The Eleventh Commandment

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... his association with Jesus, he gave a curse and denied he ever knew him. Judas, Peter—then the rest of the disciples. Jesus tried so hard to get through to them even though he knew that for a while, every one of them would desert him. Listen as John continues: “When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. ‘Do you understand what I have done for you?’ he asked them. ‘You call me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your ...

1519. Loving Through Action

1 John 3:14-24

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... to serve with the Marines. While there, he became well known for his broad smile and his willingness to do anything that was required to meet the needs of the Marines he served. When his initial tour of duty was over, he volunteered to extend and continued serving in the country for another year. Many times he found himself in harm’s way, but he never shied away from his duties. On September 4, 1967, a large North Vietnamese force trapped a much smaller force of United States Marines and a major firefight ...

1520. Religious Rage

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... this Psalm if we could end it there. Nearly all hymnals do. In our hymnal, Psalm 137 ends at verse 6. The exiles are in mourning, refusing to entertain their captors with song. But in the Bible, though not in the United Methodist Hymnal, the Psalm continues. It continues with verses I have heard neither quoted nor preached in a church until today: "Daughter Babylon, you devastator! How to be envied are those who do to you what you did to us! How to be envied are those who seize your little babies and smash ...

1521. One More Year

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... guess is that most of us could answer this in the affirmative. In the landscape of our lives there are many places where it’s important to be fruitful. From parenting to work to school and back again, we are called to be fruitful. And if we are continuously unable to produce fruit, there are often consequences, aren’t there? In my case, I could have easily found myself on the bus back home. In the case of the fig tree the consequences could range from being immediately cut down to having a year to get ...

1522. Jesus In Ministry — Us In Ministry

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... she didn’t have the operation sooner it was the doctor who said, “She just figured there was nothing that could be done with her blindness. Much of life could have been different!” The illustrator writer asked some pointed questions. Why did she continue to assume that her situation was hopeless? Why hadn’t someone told her about the new developments in operation procedures? Why did she finally ask for help? The author commented, “How many will go on living in moral blindness unless we bring them ...

1523. Spirit Powered Anointing

Luke 4:14-21 · Nehemiah 8:1-3, 5-6, 8-10

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... go on to declare in our scripture for next week, that God will also bless the gentiles. Whaaat? Freedom and Rest-oration for whom now? Here is where the praise and joy of everyone present at the reading in Nazareth will turn into a gasp, as Jesus continues his teaching.[4] But for now, I want you to hear and embody this first feeling of joy –this feeling of praise, glee, celebration, and victory. God has brought God’s people home. And lives have been redeemed. I want you to feel the favor and praise ...

1524. Hold the Candy

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Mary Austin

... get into your gang, and I stood up and said, ‘I’m going to kill you?’” “Yes,” he said. “I’ll never forget that.” As Jack Kornfield tells it, she said, “I killed that boy. I didn’t want a boy who could kill in cold blood like that to continue to exist in this world. So I set about visiting you, bringing you presents, bringing you things, and taking care of you. And now I have let you come into my house, got you a job, and gave you a place to live…I set about changing you, and you ...

1525. Christmastime

Genesis 6:1-8:22

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