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Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... -trinity-a-trinity-sunday-homily. 2. http://www.crossroadspc.org/thebarrel/20060611.htm. 3. (Macmillan Publishers, 1952). 4. Michio Kaku, Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 (Kindle version). 5. Alan Carr, http://www.sermonnotebook.org/romans/Romans%205_1-5.htm. 6. Dennis Davidson, http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/god-demonstrates-his-love-dennis-davidson-sermon-on-gods-love-159565.asp. 7. Leonard & Thelma Spinrad, Speaker’s Lifetime Library ...

1602. Keys That Unlock Miracles

Luke 7:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... our lives, no battle would be too great for us. 1. Glenn Van Ekeren, Speaker’s Sourcebook II (Englewood Cliffs, NY: Prentice Hall, Inc., 1994), pp. 142-143. 2. http://www.higherpraise.com/outlines/woodvale/Luke7a.htm. 3. John Ortberg, The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God’s Best Version Of You (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), p. 26. 4. From a message by Dr. Joe Harding.

1603. A Matter of Trust

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... /mark/uncommonscents.html. 2. http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/23/hating-wall-street-intelligent-investing-trust.html. 3. Renee Garfinkel, Ph.D. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/time-out/201105/who-can-you-trust. 4. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Humor. Cited in David Bruce, 250 Anecdotes About Religion (Kindle version). 5. http://www.calvincrc.org/sermons/2002/matthew18.html. 6. From a sermon by Rev. John C. Fitzgerald, https://booneumcevents.org/uploads/Sermon2009_07_12.pdf.

1604. Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of the wounded man is extraordinary. First, after seeing the man in need he goes closer. Leaning over him he “felt compassion” or “pity.” His emotional response immediately results in action. First, he offers emergency medical care, giving the first-century version of disinfectant (oil and wine) and carefully dressing and binding up the injured man’s wounds. Second, he gives transport, giving up his own “seat on the bus” so that the poor “half-dead” man can be safely moved to a secure ...

1605. Luke 10:25-37

Luke 10:25-37

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

1606. The Keys to Effective Praying

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.” The disciples saw how important prayer was to Jesus and so they asked him to teach them to pray. At that point Jesus taught them the most famous prayer ever prayed. Luke’s version of the prayer is a little shorter than the Lord’s Prayer that we use, but it gets right to the heart of what prayer ought to be. Here is what Jesus taught them. “When you pray, say: ‘Father, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come. Give ...

1607. The Dirt on Jesus

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... dead or unable to pay storage fees any longer) go on the auction block. After the locks have been cut, there is a bidding war among the “stuff scavengers” hoping to make a profit off of left behind stuff. Second, there is the loser version of that scene called “Storage Nightmares,” where the proud new owner of an abandoned storage unit discovers the “stuff” that was treasured and kept by someone else is nothing but weird and worthless junk. Third are the truly tragic programs detailing the lives ...

1608. Cure for an Aching Back

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... on her, and immediately she straightened up and praised God. It is a powerful thought: Jesus can heal those who are bowed down, whatever the reason is for their condition. There is a verse, again in the Psalms, that speaks to this. In the King James Version it reads like this: “The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down . . .” (Psalm 146:8). This woman, whatever the origin of her spirit of infirmity was in worship on the Sabbath; when Jesus told her to step forward ...

1609. A One Sentence Legacy

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... . 4. (Charisma House, 2008). 5. Daniel H. Pink, Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us (New York: Penguin, 2009). 6. Melvin Newland, http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/love-divine-melvin-newland- sermon-on-christmas-40903.asp. 7. John Ortberg, The Me I Want To Be: Becoming God’s Best Version Of You (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010), p. 75.

1610. Be Shrewd

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... his energies to save himself, on saving his earthly existence, that he didn’t care at all about the fiscal fallout he left behind. The well-heeled “master” grudgingly congratulated his “bad boy” on figuring how to manufacture the first century version of a “golden parachute.” Jesus’ parable is not about figuring out how to “work the system.” Jesus’ parable is about how the system no longer works to reflect the new reality of the kingdom. Jesus’ parable is about the life-altering ...

1611. A Faith that Does Not Quit

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... . She kept coming and coming. The judge finally said, “Even though I don’t fear God or care what people think, yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!” Some versions of the scripture translate the words, “so she won’t eventually come and attack me” as “so she won’t wear me out.” But the words of the NIV are closer to the original which literally means, “unless she gives me a black eye.” Imagine that ...

1612. O Holy Night

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... live. It’s all right if sentimentally we want our children small so they can forever be a delight to us, but it is not all right if we want to forever keep the Christ child small so he won’t inconvenience us, make demands on us. In Luke’s version of the Christmas story some shepherds were living out in the fields near to the place that housed the manger in which the Christ child lay, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around ...

1613. Getting out of the Doldrums

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... what that label once meant? How many of us claim a Christian identity but in actuality have slowed to a stuporous halt in our spiritual journey, and instead of traveling an ever unfolding journey of faith have become stuck and stranded in some spiritual version of “The Doldrums.” We all need to look over our shoulders, inspect our desk-tops and lap-tops, check our kitchen counters and our beating hearts for any lounging “Lethargians,” those signs of a comatose Christianity that are keeping us from a ...

1614. Where Is Jesus?

John 11:17-37

Sermon

David O. Bales

... Jesus was “deeply moved.” In the original that expresses “an acute emotional distress or turbulence.”[2] Finally, if it’s not enough that John tells us how Jesus feels, John records that shortest verse of the Bible as the New Revised Standard Version translates it, “Jesus began to weep” (v. 35). Old English translations rendered this, “Jesus wept.” But that’s overly formal and poetic compared to what it really means in the Greek New Testament: “To weep or wail, with emphasis upon the ...

1615. Only Time Will Tell

James 5:7-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... gifted preacher. He was also an early human rights advocate both in India and in the USA. E. Stanley Jones’ life and service in India brought him into contact, and ultimately into a close friendship, with Mahatama Gandhi. As Gandhi worked out his own version and vision of protest — both against the British rulers of his country and of the divisive caste system of his own countrymen — Jones offered Gandhi the example of Jesus as a possible model to follow. Jones suggested to Gandhi that the gospel of ...

1616. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... day dawned and the morning star” risen in your heart? “Ask Siri" is becoming our answer to everything in life. If we don't know how to do something, don't know how to handle something, don't know where to go? We ask Siri. Siri is our 21st version of a ouija board. We ask Siri all kinds of strange questions. We ask her to predict and presume. Problem is: we treat God that way too. We make God into a soothsayer instead of a Savior, seeking answers to our life questions as though from an astrological chart ...

1617. The Life of Your Table?

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... asking you on September 12, 2001 — “What’s wrong?” or “Why is everyone in such turmoil?” EVERYTHING is wrong! Cleopas’ whole world has been exploded. He cannot believe how clueless this fellow traveler is. Yet after Cleopas offers his version of the Jerusalem story — the trial, the torture, the crucifixion, the death, the strangely empty tomb — this new companion on their journey is surprised only by Cleopas’ ignorance of his own family history. “Oh how foolish you are, and slow of ...

1618. Breaking News: The Middle East

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... where they have been ever since and at a state of war against the nation of Israel and her people. Time will not allow me to give you the full story of the other element involved which is Islam, but I will give you the Readers Digest version. You flash-forward 2,600 years later to the year 610 A.D., and an Arab, by the name of Mohammed, befriended some Jews who taught him the Old Testament. He discovered Abraham had two sons. Arabic tradition said that Ishmael eventually migrated to a place called “Mecca ...

1619. On the Ropes: Round 3 - Defending God

Habakkuk 3:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... and see how God took care of things yesterday. That is what Habakkuk does. Beginning in verse 3 Habakkuk goes through a litany of some of the great things God had done for His people in the past. In fact, what you have is a Reader’s Digest version of the first half of the Old Testament. “God came from Teman, the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens and his praise filled the earth.” (Habakkuk 3:3, NIV) Habakkuk is referring to that time where God had met with Moses and raised ...

1620. Ignite: Fire Extinguishers

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

James Merritt

... to do things the way we want them done.” In other words they were saying, “You’ve got to be just like us before you can become one of us.” Before we take these men to task, let’s be honest. We all tend to settle in to our particular version of what Christianity ought to be. We have a tendency to add one thing to two things. We either tend to add our own requirements of how to have a relationship with God or our own requirements on how to be right with God. In 99.99% of the time ...

1621. All In: Betting the Ranch

Luke 9:18-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... .[1] Let me put it to you another way. I am afraid we have people who are regularly exposed to small doses of watered-down religion who have become inoculated against genuine true Christianity. I think a lot of people mistake Christianity for this watered-down version and then say, “No thanks. I’m not interested.” What I want us to learn today from Jesus and in this series is very simple. Jesus Christ is not looking for “weekend warriors” who come once a month to a National Guard meeting. He is ...

1622. All In: The Winning Hand

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... - in is not just an action, but an attitude. It is a “whatever it takes” attitude. This attitude is described beautifully in the passage we are going to study today [turn to 1 Corinthians 9] and I want you to listen to it in the version called The Message by Eugene Petersen. Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, non-religious, meticulous, moralist, loose-living, immoralist ...

1623. Up Close & Personal: Coming Into Focus

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... /20 vision. Now, if all you can read is one of the larger letters, then this tells the eye doctor that your vision is out of focus. [Pastor’s Note: A PowerPoint slide of a Snellen Eye Chart is included in your support materials, along with a PDF version that you can print out if you do not have a video projector. These charts are also easily obtainable from your local eye doctor—consider if there is an eye doctor in your congregation who can help with this illustration.] Do you ever have times when you ...

1624. Do You Believe In Miracles?

Matthew 15:29-39

Sermon

James Merritt

... skeptical about the possibility much less the reality of miracles. Skepticism about miracles is nothing new. If you go to the Smithsonian Institute in Washington you will find on display a leather-bound book called the Jefferson Bible. It was his own particular version of the Bible that he read every day until the end of his life. Using a razor, Jefferson cut and pasted selected verses from the Four Gospels in chronological order and left out every single miracle or reference to a miracle found in ...

1625. For the Hearing Impaired

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... misunderstanding of what Jesus meant by this story, He tells us in His own words. “Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom.” (Matthew 13:18-19, ESV) Matthew calls the seed, “the word of the kingdom.” In Luke’s version of the parable he puts it this way, “Now the parable is this: the seed is the Word of God.” It is easy to understand why Jesus would compare God’s word and the message of the kingdom to seed, because a seed is productive. The very purpose ...

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