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1576. Be Reconciled With God

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

King Duncan

... s knees and legs were scraped up pretty badly. The father asked the obvious question, “Why didn’t you let go?” That’s a question which God our Father will probably one day ask us. Why didn’t you let go of your bad habits? Let go of your pride? Let go of your fear? We place the ashes on our forehead as a reminder that we are mortal creatures and that we are flawed creatures. However, the news is not all bad. There is another side to Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday reminds us that we are creatures who ...

1577. In the Mood for Murder

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... divided in half by a wall. Well, this created something of a problem in the kitchen because the pump was on one side of the wall and the cook stove was on the other. But even this serious inconvenience was not great enough to break down their stubborn pride, and so they managed to get along. The sister with the stove walked several hundred feet to a neighbor’s house for water while the sister with the pump cooked her meals on a little charcoal burner. Then one day tragedy struck. One of the sisters had a ...

1578. For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... pastor’s concerns came into startling perspective. Here he was tied up in knots over a petty snub. Here he was worried about greens fees. What this poor homeless man would give to worry about such things. Jesus said don’t be like the heathen. They take pride in “all these things” and are deeply concerned about them. But your heavenly Father already knows perfectly well what you truly need, and He will give them to you. (2) You and I need to step back from time to time, take a deep breath, and ask ...

1579. A Holy Kiss (Father's Day)

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... . There were drunks and adulterers in the membership. There was unbecoming conduct at the Lord’s Supper and a host of other minor and major violations of normal Christian practices. And to top it off, some of the more established members expressed pride over their tolerance of the unconventional practices of their non-conforming brothers and sisters. The Corinthian church was a prime example of a church that was reaching out to pagans, but it was having difficulty converting them to a Christian lifestyle ...

1580. The Key to Getting Enough Rest

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... system coming through the sheets.” Still, that wasn’t enough to wake his wife. He had to shake her awake after the crash. (4) Being able to sleep like that is a gift, and I hope that some of you are so gifted. But many of us pride ourselves on being able to push through our need for sleep. We idolize Thomas Edison, who claimed he could live on fifteen minute naps. Somehow we forget Albert Einstein, who averaged eleven hours of sleep a night. A certain family was visiting New York City for the first ...

1581. Ignite: Man on Fire

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the doctor, “You had better tell the family.” The embarrassed doctor called the husband on the hospital phone and said, “I need to talk to you about the condition of your wife.” He said, “The condition of my wife? She is dead.” The doctor’s pride only allowed him to say simply this, “Well, she has seen a slight improvement.” Slight improvement? No such thing when you are ignited. No, when you see the light of God’s truth and you receive the life of God’s Spirit you will share the ...

1582. The Glory of the Cross

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... Christ we have victory over all three. Through the cross we have victory over the flesh. “And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.” (Galatians 5:24) That is, every day we can nail the lust of the flesh and the pride of life to the cross and live in victory. Through the cross we have victory over the world. “But God forbid that I should glory except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me.” You see, not only do ...

1583. Lost Baggage: Empty Your Suitcase

Matthew 18:10-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... . Supposed you are here today and you are sitting there and the Spirit of God has convicted you and know you are not the offended brother, but you are the offending brother. You are the one who has caused a breach in the relationship and yet out of pride and stubbornness you’ve refused to make things right, but you are willing to. Then, don’t wait for the offended brother to come to you; you go to the brother you’ve offended. Let me give you now the 6 Steps To Reconciliation[1]. 1. Address everyone ...

1584. The Runner

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , his hands and feet reflecting the extent of God’s love for humanity. As Paul reflected in today’s gospel text, “beautiful are the feet that bring the good news.” Jesus’ feet were broken and bloody. Nailed to the cross, crushed by pride and prejudice, Jesus’ feet and hands exemplified those who had, for centuries, delivered the “good news.” Among the “ugly” things that have brought us “good news” over our lifetimes are the swollen, arthritic hands of a grandmother or mother who has ...

1585. A Guide to a Rich and a Joyous Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... we need to take them seriously is that it is part of our witness to the world that we are followers of Jesus. Most of you remember the great comedian Jack Benny. You may not know that Benny, like many famous comedians, was Jewish. Jack Benny took pride in his Jewish heritage, although his brand of comedy seldom made his Jewishness evident. Once, he prepared for a program to be broadcast live just before Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur, also known as Day of Atonement, is the holiest day of the year for the Jewish ...

1586. Everything Must Go: “Abandon Ship!”

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... we do. God is the giver of both positions and possessions. God has placed everyone where they are and God has given everyone what they have. That is why, no matter how high you go or how much you get you should never, ever get arrogant or prideful about it. Some of you will remember the Beverly Hillbillies. Do you remember The Clampetts? They moved to Beverly Hills, lived in the big mansion, and had the big bank account? It wasn’t because Jed Clampett was a real smart guy. It was because they discovered ...

1587. The Right Connection

John 15:1-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... a sick bed or you just got fired from a job or your spouse has walked out on you or a rebellious child has left home. Too often, we get bitter and angry, because we fail to realize that what God is doing is cutting away our arrogance and our pride and our tendency to depend on everything except Him and to be who we ought to be and do what we ought to do. Sometimes He uses the scissors of scripture. Listen to verse 3. “Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.” (John ...

1588. The Loser

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... a feeling that many people today when they get baptized they don’t hold up a sword, but they hold up their wallet. They hold up their laptop. They hold up the title deed to their house. They hold up their 401K. They hold up their pride and their ego. You must determine the cost of eternal life and that cost is simple. It is complete, absolute, unequivocal, unconditional, total surrender and it is only when you say to Jesus, “I surrender all” that you not only never become the biggest loser, but you ...

1589. Everything Counts

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... account? Willard Cantelon, in his book, The Day The Dollar Dies, tells the story of a German mother who wanted to help build a Bible school outside the city of Frankfurt which had been destroyed after the war. All during the war she had held her money with pride and tenderness hoarding it, guarding it, stashing it away because one day she would invest it in a worthy cause. The very day that she was going to take her money and begin to use it to build that school was the day that the German mark had been ...

1590. Who Is Right

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... ; but as long as you are looking down you can’t see anything that is above you.” Every one of us needs to hear this clearly. We should never under any circumstances compare ourselves with anybody else. People we think are worse than we are - that will lead to pride or people that we think are better than we are - that will lead to despair. Plus, it always leads to an incorrect view of who you are. There is a second way you can look at yourself. II. You Can See Yourself Correctly “But the tax collector ...

1591. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... we don’t want to give up. For some of us, it is greed and hunger for money. For some of us, it is our sex life or our social life, or for some of us it is our temper, or our impatience. For some of us, it is our pride that keeps us from going to someone we have wronged and asking for forgiveness. The reason why you don’t experience the kind of joy and freedom that you ought to have in knowing the Lord Jesus Christ is because you refuse to repent. Why don’t we all get ...

1592. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... yet restore him to the vital air; Death feeds on his mute voice, and laughs at our despair. IV. Most musical of mourners, weep again! Lament anew, Urania! – He died, Who was the Sire of an immortal strain, Blind, old, and lonely, when his country’s pride, The priest, the slave, and the liberticide Trampled and mocked with many a loathed rite Of lust and blood; he went, unterrified, Into the gulf of death; but his clear Sprite Yet reigns o’er earth; the third among the sons of light. V. Most musical ...

1593. Poem: Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard

Eulogy

Thomas Gray

... growing virtues, but their crimes confined; Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse’s flame. Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learned to stray; Along the cool sequestered vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet even these bones from insult ...

1594. Blessed Are the Abnormal

James 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... had given his friends food, they would have been too ashamed to accept it. But under the guise of his “drunken” parties, he was able to help his friends and keep them from “losing face.” He had made himself look foolish in order to protect his friends’ pride. In her father’s sacrifice, Yasuko began to understand the love of a God who gave up His own power and died to save us from our sins. If her father had acted normally, many of his friends would have gone hungry. (3) Let me ask again: Is ...

1595. A Voice Calls in the Wilderness

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... of] I-5,” Wilson continues, “I think of Isaiah’s words, of John’s mission of preparation, and of God’s working in my life to make me a fit disciple of Jesus. God is seeking to prepare you and me. To cut through the mountains of our pride, to fill up the valleys of our despair, to straighten our crooked moral rationalizations, and make us fit for the King himself to travel upon.” (5) This is why each year on the Second Sunday of Advent we revisit John the Baptist preaching and baptizing in the ...

1596. The Peaceable Kingdom

Luke 3:1-6

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... he requires all his nobles to swear an oath of allegiance that violates the conscience of Sir Thomas More before his God. Since he will not swear the oath, More is put in jail. His daughter Margaret comes to visit him. "Meg," he calls her, with affection. She's his pride and joy, the one who thinks his thoughts after him. Meg comes to plead with her father in prison. "Take the oath, Father!"she urges him. "Take it with your mouth, if you can't take it with your heart! Take it and return to us! You can't do ...

1597. The Challenge to Forgive

Luke 7:36--8:3

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... told his disciples that unless their righteousness exceeded that of the Pharisees, they would not enter the kingdom. Yet, for all their goodness, some Pharisees had one fatal flaw. Their goodness and righteousness often blinded them to the subtleties of pride and arrogance. Their vigorous, external law-keeping often caused them to overlook the sins in the depths of their heart and soul. Sins like greed and avarice, lust and censoriousness, snobbishness and a moral unctuousness, which made them repulsive ...

1598. What Are You Seeking?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... seeking the newborn King, so that they might worship him. And so I ask one last time, what is it that you are seeking? My guess is that you have come here this day genuinely seeking God. You realize the dangers in life of seeking anything else. Power, wealth, pride, even an attachment to the status quo can be the enemy of God. We must lay every other motive in life before the child of Bethlehem. Our prayer must be, “Take my every thought, O Lord, everything I am and everything I hope to be, and help me ...

1599. I Don't Get No Respect

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... fastened on him. He began by saying to them, ‘Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.’” Reading on in this passage we discover that the home folks were impressed. “Isn’t this Joseph’s son?” they asked. You can see their home-town pride start to swell. A local boy was doing well. But then they thought about his words, “Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.” The implications of that comment were obvious. Jesus was making the claim that he is the Messiah who was to ...

1600. Mighty Morphin Power People

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... man with the deeply lined face was way, way too old to have been her classmate. After he examined her teeth, she got up the courage to ask him if he had by any chance attended Morgan Park High School. “Yes. Yes. I did,” he gleamed with pride. “I’m a Morgan Mustang.” “When did you graduate?” she asked. He answered, “In 1959. Why do you ask?” “You were in my class!” she exclaimed. He looked at her closely and then asked, “What did you teach?” (2) Aging changes our appearance. Here is ...

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