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Showing 1551 to 1575 of 1622 results

1551. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... deacon asked a reasonable question: “And how long should his hair be?” The man answered, “About like mine.'” (4) That’s the way people who love the law more than they love God think—they try to recreate God in their own image. This visitor was of the opinion that a person’s hair length makes him unacceptable to God. Did God take on human flesh, walk in our shoes, suffer and die on the cross for everyone except shaggy-haired men? When we put the Law first, we put limits on God. We try to limit ...

1552. About Face!

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Tower in Paris, but ignoring the monuments themselves. He has published these pictures in a book titled Volte-Face, or in English, About Face. (1) We use the term “about face” to refer to someone who experiences a complete change in an attitude or opinion. Think about Oliver Curtis’ project for a moment. This photographer is in the presence of a well-known monument, but he wants to gain a new perspective—a perspective gained by focusing on its setting. And, as a consequence, he sees things most ...

1553. Oh, That You Would Come Down?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... was still reeling from the tragic impact of World War II. Many people in Germany were agonizing with the question of who was responsible for the terrible agony that the Second World War had brought upon the world. Characters in the play voiced the opinions of those who were looking for answers. Was Hitler alone responsible? How about the munitions manufacturers who financed him? Did an apathetic German population share the blame? But then a man comes up out of the crowd and says, “Do you want to know ...

1554. Wake Me Up!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... multitude. Each and every church in each and every place in the world is still like those first disciples. Seldom will you ever find a church that is singularly the same. More than not, your church is filled with people with diverse backgrounds, opinions, affiliations, and beliefs. And yet one thing holds them all together: Christ, crucified, risen, and coming again. Have you ever made salad dressing? I mean on your own? To do that, you need to take oil, vinegar, water, spices, and perhaps some lemon juice ...

1555. House Rules, Forgiveness, and Why Rat Poison Is not Good for You

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Roy Howard

... appropriate for Christians to expect certain things of each other because we hold these common household rules that are given in scripture. Saint Paul summed it up this way: Be in debt to no one but to love one another. Judge not those who hold different opinions about matters of no consequence. Let your life be an offense to no one. Live mindfully before God who is the judge of the living and the dead. In Matthew Jesus says: Hold one another accountable. If your brother or sister sins against you, go and ...

1556. The Lord's Nominee

Humor

... the 1960 Presidential elections, and Kennedy had dreamed that the Lord had chosen him as a nominee for his party. Kennedy's friend laughed at him and claimed that he had been chosen by the Lord in a dream also. The two Senators approached Senator Lyndon Johnson to ask his opinion of the dreams. After he had heard an explanation of the dreams, Johnson said, "That's funny. I can't remember tapping either of you for the job."

1557. Are You Ready to Wait?

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... things. For example: the wedding banquet is a symbol for the kingdom of God, the bridegroom is clearly Jesus, and the bridegroom’s midnight arrival suggests that the messiah will return at an unexpected time. But what does the oil symbolize? In the opinion of Professor Tom Long, the wise bridesmaids who brought with them extra oil “… represent those Christians who keep on doing the will of God even when the kingdom is delayed.”4 They keep their lamps burning even though the bridegroom is delayed in ...

1558. A Quantum Decision

Mark 1:4-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Big Decision,” Now I Know! by Dan Lewis, http://nowiknow.com/bens-big-decision/. 3. “Tully: Second chances — one man’s story of redemption,” by Matthew Tully, Published March 3, 2017, Indianapolis Star, https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/columnists/matthew-tully/2017/03/03/tully-second-chances-one-mans-story-redemption/98654624/. 4. Psychology Today (March 9, 2015), Copyright © 2015 by Bruce Grierson, psychologytoday.com. Originally published in “The Meaning (and Science) Behind Those Life ...

1559. Suffering Leads to Victory

1 Peter 3:18-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... followers of Jesus Christ. Christianity, if lived well, especially in today’s society, will require us to suffer. It may be the loss of a friend or opportunity, rejection by a colleague at work or a neighbor down the street, or even having our opinion on other matters placed on the sidelines, with our religious beliefs, as irrelevant, outdated or even not applicable. Jesus warned us on numerous occasions that being one of his followers would not be easy. Rather, he made it very clear that being rejected ...

1560. Where’s the Authenticity?

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... of a standing joke to hear or say, “It must be true. I read it in the newspapers.” Today that foolish “wisdom” has been expanded to include what we can read and hear on the internet, on unfiltered television “news” and over-the-top opinion channels, and even in the marketplace, where talk is cheap. What gives authority to the flood of verbiage to which we are now subjected? Simply put, it is the authentic activity that matches the talk. When those two things intersect, the messenger gains ...

1561. Unsanctified

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... scientists of history. If you studied English, you studied the great writers of literature. If you went on to do a master’s degree, you studied that discipline more broadly, and you may have begun to assert some of your own critique and opinions in response to many of those disciplinary thinkers. But if you went on to do a doctorate and later became a professional in that field, you were then expected to contribute to the foundational base of literature in your discipline with new, original, contributory ...

1562. As You Sent Me, Then I Send Them

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... as a sending. They are sent to do what Jesus said. He is sending us as the Father sent him. There are many Christians who have joined small group, home Bible studies. Although there is usually a leader in each study, there is also shared opinion, shared knowledge, and shared insights. It is the average church-goer teaching the other average church-goer. It is doing what we are sent to do - to teach one another. Others have joined prison ministries and spend their time working with those that need redemption ...

1563. Giving Our Best

Mark 7:24-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... blog by Doug Bender, https://blog.iamsecond.com/superman-isnt-supposed-to-die-reflections-on-death-success-and-the-loss-of-kobe-bryant. 9. “The poor Kansas farm boy who could be a saint” by Joe Drape, CNN, December 10, 2020 CNN.com, https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/10/opinions/emil-kapaun-path-to-sainthood-drape/index.html. 10. https://catholicdioceseofwichita.org/father-kapaun/. 11. Medal of Honor citation for Father Emil Kapaun, https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/7043.

1564. Driven to Complete

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... ://members.nbci.com/dholwick/illust.html], “What Love Is All About” Pastor Holwick's Sermons," Copyright © Rev. W. David Holwick, 2000, First Baptist Church; Ledgewood, New Jersey Chakoian First Presbyterian Church, Granville, Ohio http://www.granpres.org/Sermons/2007‑02‑04.htm. 6. William H. Hinson, Faith, Lies, and the Opinion Polls (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1993), p. 19. 7. Edward Markquart, http://www.sermonsfromseattle.com/series_b_having_the_hearts_and_hands_of_a_servant.htm.

1565. Will the “Real” Jesus Please Stand Up

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... today’s world is the age of emotion, self-awareness, others-awareness, and connection on a level that says we can be as weird as we like as long as we respect everyone else’s weirdness. For kids today, disrespect doesn’t come from holding a differing opinion or living a different lifestyle but from judging someone else’s right to be human in their own way. All you need to do is look at Tiktok’s “What I like about people” trend to see kids celebrating people (each other) in all of their foibles ...

1566. The Good

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... last week? What do you want? To mess up Jesus' perfectly outrageous story by sending the tax collector back to church with the Pharisee's speech? Yes. Yes, that's what I'd like, wouldn't you? We spend our lives before the mirror of other people's opinions of us, hoping to score enough positive brownie points in their eyes that it will all total up high enough to look good in God's eyes. We just hate to stand before God naked, lost, unencumbered and empty-handed. So we hate this story and its consequences ...

1567. Being Good

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Will Willimon

... for attaining so high a righteousness. Goodness comes as a gift of God's grace, not through our determined human efforts. Grace assaults the legalist. The peculiar brand of contemporary arrogance is that of the antinomian. I am the only one who knows what's right for me. My opinion is the measure of all things. The rules are made up as we go along to suit the situation. Don't bother me with your judgments, I’m doing the best I can. What right has Jesus or anyone else to tell me what I should do? Such ...

1568. Ordinary People

Ruth 1:1-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , tradition, community, we give you a degree. We thereby imply that the way to wisdom is by making everyone a stranger to everyone else. We are shocked whenever someone comes along who makes a claim on our lives-parents who have opinions about our behavior, children who hold parents to account. We are shocked because we have defined freedom as the fewest possible number of attachments. Such "freedom" makes marriage, family, the bearing of children incomprehensible. After all, why would anybody want to ...

1569. Living Bread

John 6:51-58

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... friends, everything I type on my site goes to you and everything you type on your site goes to me and, presumably, we stay in touch with each other that way. We hear about each other’s lives, see pictures of each other’s families, hear each other’s opinions, laugh at each other’s jokes, we say comforting things to each other when one or the other of us is sad or depressed and we say encouraging things to each other when one or the other of us is happy. About 90% of the communications that take place ...

1570. Clean and Unclean

Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... they believe the Ten Commandments should be displayed in public places or not, most Christians would say there’s no need to observe the food laws of the Old Testament because we follow the New Testament. Then there’s the odd twist on the healthy choice opinion that comes from the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, Egypt. Philo lived from 25 BC to 50 AD, and therefore was alive while Jesus was alive. Since he seemed to have thought pork a tasty treat, he also seemed to think that animals like pigs ...

1571. For The Love of God Is Empowering

Matthew 22:36 -40 · John 4:1-32

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and neither group would give in or open up to see the other's point of view. Things were always tense when a Jew and a Samaritan got together. Not only that but men and women didn't mingle in public. Most men didn't have a very high opinion of women. Women were queen of their homes but men were the rulers of everything else. Consequently, this Samaritan woman was surprised when the Jewish rabbi asked her for a drink of water. And then he began to tell her all about herself. Most people who knew her story ...

1572. Going Into Labor

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... what and when? The dam’s designer, for instance, who had also designed another dam that had failed, was adamant that his design was perfect, and that the fault lines meant nothing, when he pushed the project through. Afterward, his was a minority opinion. What may be most important to remember, however, is that although hundreds of homes were destroyed in the merciless inundation of water, only five lives were lost. That’s because an almost immediate effort to evacuate the homes was underway with the ...

1573. Welcome, Joe!

Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... the day that you commit your life to God and come home to the God who is running to meet you with open arms. 1. “Do You Like Your Name?” by Arthur C. Brooks, The New York Times, May 31, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/opinion/sunday/good-bad-first-name.html. 2. “The bizarre tale of the world's last lost tourist, who thought Maine was San Francisco” by Andrew Chamings, updated March 11, 2021 SFGate.com, https://www.sfgate.com/local/editorspicks/article/lost-tourist-who-thought-Bangor-was-San ...

1574. Winning the Grand Prize

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Christ, Spring Lake, North Carolina, www.cruciformcoc.com. 2. http://sttheresegarfield.org/Pastor/Pastor.php. 3. Tony Campolo, Stories that Feed Your Soul (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2010). 4. Wayne Jackson, https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/681. 5. godisonthemove.com.au (2016). 6. William H. Hinson, Faith, Lies, and the Opinion Polls (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books), p. 45.

1575. You Will Always Have The Poor With You…

John 12:1-8

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... Friends, we must learn to experience points of view beyond our own if we are to keep our eye upon the Christ who calls us, not to division, but into relationship with one another. The temptation to sequester ourselves in the cloistered room of our own opinions turns us into that Judas who jumped on Mary with a quick accusation. “That money could have been given to the poor!” And one must admit that there is some credence to this, until we look deeper into the story and reality of the resurrection live ...

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