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1701. Come One, Come All

Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... the law and you might even be asked to recite an entire book just to be considered. The selection was intense. It was meticulous and painstaking. Rabbis wouldn’t let just anyone join them, because the reputation of the rabbi depended upon the quality of his disciples. Jesus did something that no rabbi had ever done or would ever think about doing. Instead of someone asking Jesus if they could follow Him, Jesus instead invited people to follow Him. No application – just invitation. Though the disciples ...

1702. Get Off Your

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and transformed at the moment of their confirmation with the risen Christ, there is no other existence except that of a wholly transformed life. Some people seem to think so highly of themselves, so morally superior and pure that they think Jesus needs them to upgrade the quality of his disciples . . . . Have you ever met anyone like that? Well, look in the mirror. That spirit is in all of us. We are all called to "get off our high horse." We are not above and beyond all others around us. None of us are ...

1703. Learning to Live Like Jesus

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... honk to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. We do a lot of honking in the church. We need to make sure our honking is positive and encouraging. In churches where there is encouragement, production is much greater. Individual empowerment results from quality honking. When a goose gets sick, two geese drop out of formation and follow it to help and protect it. They have this goose’s back. They stand by each other in difficult times. (5) A church family is to study the life of Jesus, says ...

1704. Risky Business

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... sky away from the city lights. He was glad the moon had not yet risen and the stars appeared even closer and more distinct. “Daddy,” she continued in her enthusiasm, “if we connect them all, will they make a picture?” The night sky had taken on the quality of a dot-to‑dot puzzle for his child! What an interesting notion, the father thought. “No,” he replied to his daughter, “the dots are there for another purpose. Each dot is a hope God has for your life. God loves you so much. He has lots ...

1705. Winners and Losers

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the game do you think Jesus would prefer? If you are sitting there thinking to yourself that this more cooperative approach to this game is somehow un-American, you need to know that business guru Edward Deming, the father of the Total Quality Movement which emphasized the benefits of collaboration, used a similar story to which he added this question: Why does someone always have to lose? That’s a good question. Maybe we could learn something from these mentally and developmentally challenged boys and ...

1706. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... keeping silent and not resting are two different images, and the combination of the two strengthens the point that God is making. Meanwhile, within the context of that parallelism, an idea that is expressed only once — not repeated, just stated — has a kind of emphatic quality. It stands in contrast to the pattern, and thus it stands out. In our selected lection, two statements are given that kind of emphasis. In the verses from the end of chapter 61, the rhyme pattern, such as it is, goes A-A, B-B, C ...

1707. Odd Ducks in a Rubber-Ducky World

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... disaster that was threatening our entire ecosystem. “Silent Spring,” published in 1962, revealed the extent to which the unregulated use of chemical pesticides was toxic to the ecosystem, decimating whole populations of wildlife, impacting air and water quality, and directly related to the rise in illnesses linked to chemical exposures in human populations. Since birds variously live in the air, water, and land, and their diets vary from eating insects, fruits, seeds, berries, worms and grubs ...

1708. Life and Light to All He Brings

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... infuse yourself that you shall say “It is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes.'" You are marvelous in God’s eyes. Don’t be SAD. Let the Light help you SEE. Take that Ultimate Selfie with the only light that brings out all your best qualities. Let the Light of the World so shine in you this coming year that you can truly sing, “Light and Life to all He brings”….starting with me.

1709. Jesus Is Baptized

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... pattern of his life. He humbled himself to be baptized by his cousin, a rough country preacher, just as later he would humble himself to go to a cross, the very emblem of suffering and shame. But it was all for us. Humility is a misunderstood quality. Some people we characterize as humble simply because they don’t think very much of themselves. They minimize everything they do in order to curry favor with others. And we like such people. They make us feel superior. But we do not respect them. Only strong ...

1710. Dust in the Wind

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

Timothy Cargal

Sometimes a song gets so deep inside your head that it can never be uprooted. Maybe it is the melody or the mood evoked by its musical qualities. Maybe it is the themes and ideas that find expression in its lyrics. If it happens to be both the music and the lyrics perfectly matched to each other, then the effect is particularly strong. Such songs have the ability to become a recurring soundtrack to our lives. One such ...

1711. A Watery Grave

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... this week. Genesis 9:8-17 The old rule of thumb for preachers and other public speakers went like this: Tell them what you’re going to say, say it, and then tell them what you said. This excerpt from Genesis has some of that quality to it, for there’s no missing the central theme here: God is establishing a covenant. Covenants, of course, are a singularly important theme throughout scripture. From the high profile Old Testament covenants with Noah, Abraham, and David to the front-and-center symbolism of ...

1712. What Are You Waiting On?

John 11:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... to those who wait.” Could that possibly be true? Is it possible that sometimes the best things that happen to us happen only after we wait for them? Some of you may remember this old commercial that was very popular years ago that makes the point about the quality of the product as people wait for the ketchup that pours very slowly. Now come on, be honest, how many of you in some way or another have ever thrown that ketchup bottle against the wall? Here’s a big one-how many of you have ever felt like ...

1713. The Failure

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... them on Jerusalem’s Most Wanted. They were most likely paid assassins, without question guilty of multiple-murders in the first degree. Today they would be a part of a common street-gang who kills just for fun. In other words, there wasn’t one redeeming quality about these thieves. The word from the time they came out of their mother’s womb to the time they were nailed to a wooden plank you could write “failure’ over their lives. They were so inconsequential and so on the fringe we don’t even ...

1714. Welcome Home

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... On Instagram alone, 130 million monthly active users share 45 million snapshots per day. Never before have so many people taken and displayed so many photos, not just of significant events but also of everyday life. I mean, what did we do with all our low quality images of tiramisu before we had Instagram? Interestingly, I think Jesus would feel right at home in the “age of snapshots.” In fact, if He were on this earth today, I have no doubt that one of His hobbies would be photography. I know He loved ...

1715. Determining Your Destiny

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... tailored suit every day. He was a cloths horse. He wanted everybody to know he had money and plenty of it. Jesus shows how He can also be a little funny. He said the man also wore “fine linen.” The Greek word that is used refers to quality Egyptian cotton that was used to make the best underwear. In other words this man didn’t wear Fruit of the Loom. He didn’t wear Jockey. His label said, “Best Behind.” He wasn’t a Vegan either. Every meal was a banquet – prime rib for breakfast, lobster ...

1716. Can Two Become One?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... to look like from the very beginning. God created them – male and female. Who are the “them?” It is the first married couple recorded in history – Adam and Eve. He created them male and female. From the very beginning, God built several qualities into what makes a marriage a marriage. First, duality – it takes two to get married. That is why God created “them”, not just “him” or just “her” for that matter. The second characteristic is heterosexuality. He did not create them male and ...

1717. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... to understand. One is the word “new” and the other is the word “earth.” In the Greek language there are two words for “new.” One word means “new in time or origin.” That is not the word used here. The other word means, “new in nature or new in quality.” That is the word that is used here, so we are not looking at a world brand new. We are looking at world renewed. There was nothing wrong with the world that God created in the beginning. When He finished with it He looked at it and said ...

1718. Digging Deeper

Luke 1:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... the Ancient World. Only the very educated, sophisticated writers wrote in this style of Greek. This is what we call a prologue. Luke’s gospel actually begins in verse 5, but whenever a philosopher, an educator, or historian in the Ancient World that was high quality wanted his work to stand on the shelf with the classics and be given the greatest respect he would always start his writing with a prologue. All of the great Greek and Roman historians did this. Luke is laying down a challenge. He is claiming ...

1719. No Turning Back

John 6:60-71

Sermon

King Duncan

... others, and to give his life as a ransom for many” (Mark 10:45). An unknown writer quoted on the Internet tells of visiting a fast-growing church in Minnesota to learn from their staff. It was a privilege, he reports, to witness their passion for doing high quality ministry in Jesus’ name. He left with some new insights and a renewed passion for the Gospel. One of the phrases that he heard while he was there at that fast-growing church was, “We want our members to wear aprons, not bibs.” That’s an ...

1720. Blessed Are the Abnormal

James 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , he met a young woman named Yasuko. Yasuko’s family had a history of abandonment and broken relationships. Her father died when she was young, and her mother, who had never experienced love and security in her life, was not able to pass on these qualities of love and security to Yasuko. After Yasuko became a Christian, she struggled to understand and accept God’s love for her. One day, Yasuko ran into one of her father’s old friends. He began sharing with Yasuko one very special memory. Her father ...

1721. In Praise of Perseverance

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... , I left the youth rally with an understanding of the value of perseverance that has served me for a lifetime. The point is this: God created this life of ours in such a way that it requires persistence to do most everything worthwhile. Other qualities are important, but nothing overshadows the need for perseverance. To raise a troubled child, you need patient stick-to-itiveness. To get a loved one through a chronic illness or addiction, you need a truckload of perseverance. To fulfill your dreams or hone ...

1722. Pride Is a Noxious Weed in the Garden of Life

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... for the statue chose that woman as his model. She was a lovely young woman with a look of innocence on her face. The statue was completed decades ago and every day that woman has come to worship her own image.” Pride has an insidious quality. It germinates a healthy self-confidence. Then, if left to grow, unchecked and unexamined, it spreads and transforms into the worship of self. In doing so, pride masks reality. No matter how capable we might become, we remain mortals, subject to all the faults and ...

1723. King Jesus

Luke 1:46-56, Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... great" ruler of recent history. Alexander, born to Philip of Macedon (supposedly a direct descendent of the god Heracles) and his wife Olympias, was reputed to have come along only when one of the gods visited each of them in dreams and declared the divine qualities of their future son. Not only that, but the Temple of Artemis (or Dianna) in Ephesus caught fire the night Alexander was born. Rumor had it that the gods were so busy midwifing this birth that they neglected their usual care of that honored site ...

1724. The Challenge to Forgive

Luke 7:36--8:3

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... 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. Since the Pharisee in Luke's story seems to display some of these undesirable qualities, he reminds us of some of our Puritan ancestors who, in their moral and religious earnestness, were quick to sniff out sin in others, but who forgot that the greatest sin of all was lovelessness. Simon the Pharisee may have been a kind of ...

1725. A Complicated Disciple

John 18:15-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... beater,” can you imagine the church’s response? Yancey went to an AA meeting with Tom once. He was impressed, but also wondered why AA meets the needs of people like Tom in a way that the local church does not. Yancey asked Tom to name the one quality missing in the local church that AA had somehow provided. Tom stared at his cup of coffee for a long time, watching it go cold. Yancey expected to hear a word like love or acceptance. Instead, Tom said softly one word: dependency. “None of us can make it ...

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