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1601. Batman: Driven By Guilt or Grace?

Romans 5:1-11; 8:1-2; Luke 18:9-16

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... , the guilt must have been overwhelming and at war with his faith. Leave his wife and the business he had worked so hard to build to follow an itinerant preacher whose message quickened his heart, who many, including his brother claimed to be the Messiah, but who never claimed that for himself? Guilt, regret, second guessing, uncertainty all mingled with his excitement and sense of calling had to have driven this analytical man crazy. No wonder one moment he was fully a man of Jesus filled with the deepest ...

1602. Cross Eyed: Anger

John 2:13-22

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... movie The Incredibles, Bob is a Super Hero in hiding, so to speak. He's in sort of a Hero Protection Plan. The use of super powers has been outlawed. He's working as an insurance claims representative. His problem is, he has a heart. Mr. Huph, Bob's boss, berates him for helping too many people with their insurance claims. Bob spots someone getting mugged outside, and he moves stop the crime. Mr. Huph commands him to stay or get fired. Bob comes back inside and watches the mugger get away. Mr. Huph is happy ...

1603. The Real GPS: Gospel Positioning System

John 21:15-25

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Leonard Sweet

... shown us a different way. Jesus had shown us HE is The Way. That’s why I call Sinatra’s “My Way” the most anti-disciple song ever recorded. Jay-Z has recently brought “My Way” back to a new generation. “My Way” became Sinatra’s claim to self-satisfied stardom. But “My Way” is the epitome of a GPS lifestyle. While doing everything “my way” the singer proudly proclaims, “I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway. And more, much more than this, I did it my way ...

1604. What Is Unique About Christianity?

John 10:22-42, Ephesians 2:1-10

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Brett Blair

... in his direction. Trying to explain themselves they said, "We're debating what's unique about Christianity." "Oh, that's easy," answered Lewis, "it is grace." The room fell silent. Lewis continued that Christianity uniquely claims God's love comes free of charge, no strings attached. No other religion makes that claim. After a moment someone commented that Lewis had a point, Buddhists, for example, follow an eight-fold path to enlightenment. It's not a free ride. Hindu's believe in karma, that your actions ...

1605. Cast All Your Anxiety on Him

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... www.sermonspice.com I hope none of you are cringing. All of us would like to lay claim to having an Incredible Family. We admit that we have our problems but despite those problems and shortcomings ... ." (3) She didn't trust the plane and she didn't trust the pilot. But when you put your trust in Christ and put everything in Christ's hands, you are claiming the second half of this verse as your own. You are putting the full weight of your anxieties and worries in Christ's hands. II. Throw Them Off A. Once you ...

1606. Come To the Water

Matthew 3:13-17

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... the same question theologians and Christians have been asking for centuries. "Why?" If Jesus was the sinless Son of God, as we claim, then why did He have to submit to John's baptism? If you remember, John was preaching a baptism of repentance. As ... Beloved, with whom I am well pleased." If there were ever any inkling of doubt in Jesus' mind, it was cleared up at that moment. God claimed Him and the water of His baptism was God's mark. That's what Baptism does for us, too. It marks us with God's signature. ...

1607. East of Eden or Home

Genesis 3:1-24

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Maxie Dunnam

... her family. But, within the Christian understanding of life and death, she had died known by God where her true identity exists. Feel the tragedy of that - the fact that the young woman may never have known who she was and claimed for herself that she was known by God who had a prior claim upon her life. Now let’s go to the story of stories - my story and your story - that ancient drama from Genesis which was our scripture lesson today. The drama moves through two people, Adam and Eve, made in the image ...

1608. Magnificent Fools

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... belongs to you, Paul, Appolos, and Cephas, the world, life, and death, the present and the future, all of them belong to you - and you belong to Christ.” In the eleventh chapter of his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul picked up on this theme beginning with the claim, “I am become a fool glorying.” You don’t have to know much, about this man’s life to understand what he is talking about. He literally became a fool for the cause of Jesus Christ. He did so when he laid down the flail of the ...

1609. Bearing the Marks of Christ

Galatians 6:11-18

Sermon

James W. Moore

... authority. In answer, Paul says to the Galatians: “Look here! Anyone can see that I belong to Christ! Christ is my owner, my master. Christ is the Lord of my life. I am his property. I am his servant. I am the complete and devoted slave of Christ. He has claimed me, branded me, bought me with a price.” Paul is saying: “As surely as you can look at a group of slaves and tell by their markings to whom they belong, … even so, you can look at me and see by my markings (by visible evidence) that I am the ...

1610. Assurance: The Privilage of All Believers

Romans 8:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... sound completely out of sync with the Wesleyan teaching on Christian perfection which we enunciated last Sunday? Well it does, and that’s the reason we must face it head on and talk about it. We affirmed last week that one of Wesley’s primary claims was that sanctifying grace gives us power over sin. Recall what we emphasized about that point. Paul said in Romans 6:11: “Consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to Christ Jesus.” In our scripture lesson today, Paul contended that “the law of the ...

1611. One to Take the Place of Jesus

John 14:15-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... Holy Spirit, we need to go beyond questions and theological affirmations, to an invitation — an invitation to Christians to claim their baptismal birthright — that birthright being the presence and power of the Holy Spirit. So, on this Pentecost Sunday ... in words, and who use the outward actions of love, but who, at the same time, bring pain and heartbreak to those whom they claim to love. There are children and young people who would say that they love their parents, and who yet cause grief an anxiety to ...

1612. The Essence of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... one of those Mt. Tabor experiences — when God allows us to see a huge portion of His glory, and in the ecstasy of that experience, lays his claim upon our lives and we can never, ever quite forget it. I’m sure that I had read the scripture before, but it had never really hit ... . I THE INCREDIBILITY OF THE INCARNATION First, the incredibility of the incarnation. This is Christianity’s unique claim: The radiant glory of God shines In the face of Jesus Christ Incredible — God revelation in Jesus Christ ...

1613. Redemption: A Wide Angle Picture

Exodus 3:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... When I see the blood When I see the blood I will pass, I will pass over you. The blood was covenant blood, the sign that God would deliver the children of Israel as the angel of Death passed over them but as the children of the Egyptians were claimed by death. No wonder, in the minds of the first Christians, and powerful in our experience every since, Jesus is seen as the “lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” - “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.” So this is a pic1ure a ...

1614. Barriers to Grace

Exodus 6:28--7:7

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Maxie Dunnam

... of the land, eating all of the vegetation that had survived the hail, The final plague was the death angel coming to claim the firstborn of all of the land. It’s a horrible picture of judgment. We’re going to deal specifically with that ... time to do so. Our hearts can be hardened, and a part of the hardening process is our refusal to listen. We can become dull to the claim of the gospel. We can resist God’s call to the point that our ears are insensitive to his voice. We don’t even recognize it. Does ...

1615. The Trinity

John 16:5-16

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... preach doctrinal sermons. They are boring he asserts and people do not understand or relate to them. Further, he claimed, I am a preacher and not a theologian. I get down do the practical issues and simply preach Christ ... think about God. Well, shouts one person, I don’t believe In God. That then is your theology. I would also take issue with him when he claims that he does not preach theology but gets down to practical issues. In my thinking there is no difference in good theology and good practice. Good, ...

1616. Exodus and Easter

Exodus 13:17--14:31

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Maxie Dunnam

... teaches us on this Easter Sunday. Let that picture be the connecting point between Exodus and Easter. Let’s get that Exodus picture clearly in mind. Pharaoh, fickle man that he was, was bent on power. The plagues had eventually gotten to him, especially the death angel claiming the firstborn of all the land. He’d had enough of God’s intervention in his life so he had summoned Moses and Aaron in the middle of the night, and commanded them to take the people and leave the land and serve the Lord as he ...

1617. Not a Servant, but a Son

Galatians 4:6-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... a great “trust” for us - our justification — we’re still as servants until we respond in faith to his promise. Our age of accountability, the time when the “trust” is ours to possess, is no chronological time, but that time when we’re moved to say to claim the glorious freedom that is ours in Jesus Christ. What an image — not a servant, but a son. Think about what that means? The inference of this passage is that we are all children of God by creation, but that’s all. We have the status of ...

1618. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

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Maxie Dunnam

... you are separated from God or some other person, if you are holding a grudge, or bearing a great burden of guild for some sin or failure, you have not yet claimed the full grave available to you through Christ and his cross. Release and reconciliation is what we see from the exit perspective of freedom and that release and reconciliation can be claimed by all of you. III Again, if you are taking notes, put down two words that capture what we see and experience when we look at freedom from the perspective of ...

1619. Are You Paying Too Much For Your Whistle?

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was also a Roman citizen. Paul studied hard. Then he put his scholarship into practice. He preached to popularize the revitalization of the Torah way of life Pharisees were proclaiming to the first century Jewish people. Paul could claim he was a “Pharisee among Pharisees.” Paul could claim to be “blameless under the Law.” He had worked incredibly hard. He had paid a big price, in time and perseverance, in commitment and conviction. Paul had paid big bucks to get the anti-Christian, whistle-blower ...

1620. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... junctures of human experience. “In the context of the church, strength comes from lives which are bound together. The chief binding is not that of a desperate clinging to one another in a dangerous and frightening world, although there is some truth in the claim that one can endure the stench of the ark only because of the tumultuous waves outside. The deeper truth, however, is that persons in Christian community are bound together by a common love, by a common worship, and by a common mission. The church ...

1621. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 2

Galatians 5:16-26

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Maxie Dunnam

... continue to deny our human rights and try to reduce us to animals, but they can’t take away our peace and joy in Christ.” Where is the source of Abel and Freda’s joy and peace? Keeping their minds stayed on Christ and living obediently. They have claimed Jesus’ promise, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn to joy.” They have received Jesus’ bracing word: “Peace I leave with you; my peace give I unto you; Not as the world gives give I unto you; let not ...

1622. He Came, He Is Coming

Luke 21:5-38

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Maxie Dunnam

... Christ has risen. Christ will come again. This table anticipates the feast of the Kingdom, when the Lord will come again, and claim his own, raise those who have died in the Lord and gather them in His glamorous Kingdom where He will reign ... Advent, or ever – some of you might faint if we did. Yet, it captures the certainty and joy that belongs to the Christian who claims the promise of a Second Advent, and a triumphant Kingdom coming. Never mind that it wouldn’t pass some folks’ test of good music ...

1623. Casting Out Demons

Mark 1:21-28

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Maxie Dunnam

... . He was defeated. But he was on the side of truth and righteousness and peace. So he won. It’s a picture — a faint one, but enough for us to go on. Jesus is the Mighty One, so he is the Savior, our Savior. And He lives within us who claim Him as Lord. So don’t ever forget: “Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world.” In his inimitable way, Sidlow Baxter has provided just the right story to make the point and finish my sermon. “Some years ago, a traveler who was hunting ...

1624. Praising God All Day Long

Psalm 100:1-5

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J. Howard Olds

... and remember that he didn't get there on his own. He had some help." We are God made. We are God claimed. Look at the rest of Verse 3. “Know that the Lord who made us is God. We are the Lord's. We are the people of God, the sheep of God's ... pasture." God not only made you. God claimed you. You are His. Who owns you? Tennessee Ernie Ford made a lot of money singing a ballad about a coal miner who dug sixteen tons of coal ...

1625. How to Make Heaven Our Home

Philippians 3:17-4:1

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J. Howard Olds

... to speak and write English. You declared your allegiance to our way of life and you became one of us. We never take citizenship lightly. By water and the spirit, we are born into the kingdom of God. Through the grace of Jesus Christ we are claimed as children of God. By the process of confirmation we embrace the rights and responsibilities of a godly relationship. We are citizens of heaven. Don’t ever forget your homeland and where you really belong. II. HEAVEN, IT’S A MATTER OF CHARACTER. V. 18 As ...

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