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1701. In the Wrong Place At the Right Time

Mark 15:21-32

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... here at Calvary, I have built on the reflection begun there. And that’s what I want to share with you today and tomorrow. I thought of that common expression: I was in the right place at the right time. We have all heard it. When good fortune comes our ... no control, about which we really did nothing, we say it, “I was in the right place at the right time.” But also I thought of how we say a similar thing when the unwanted happens to us unexpectedly: “I was in the wrong place at the right time.” ...

1702. The Proof Is In the Pudding

Luke 7:18-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a hinge on which a great truth about Jesus and a great truth about life swings. John had proclaimed Jesus the Messiah long before. So what’s going on here? John is in prison, about to be executed, and it seems as though he’s having second thoughts about whether Jesus is the Messiah or not. So he sent some of his own disciples to check it out. “Are you the Messiah?” they ask, “Or should we look for another?” We can’t help wonder about John. Was the mission of his disciples deliberately planned ...

1703. A Thousand Years Of Ashes

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... The Boston Globe once reported the tragic account of the drowning of an eight- year-old boy in a small pond. The boy was with three friends and together they were looking for golf balls. The friends reported that when Chris had slipped into the pond they thought he was playing a trick on them. But that story was not true. Two years later the boy who pushed Chris into the pond finally confessed his transgression. However, by then it was too late for healing. Each of the boys suffered long term emotional and ...

1704. Abraham and God's Promise

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... things. Time and again she took the step of faith, and time and again she succeeded. At the end of her remarkable life, as she lay on her deathbed, someone asked her, “Miss Mears, if you had it all to do over again, would you do anything differently?” She thought for a moment and replied, “If I had it all to do over again--I would have trusted Christ more.” (2) Here was a woman who had trusted God for so much, and yet, if she could do one thing differently, she would trust God even more. I wonder ...

1705. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... the world as it is and ourselves for who we are. We learn that our world, and we ourselves in it, are worse than we thought, and that God is more fierce and loving than we ever imagined. I believe that before he offers a change in behavior, Jesus offers sight ... into your soul and stirred up the deep waters of all your hopes and dreams. Holiness that made you ashamed of every sinful thought and deed. Joy that made your petty pleasures seem small and manageable. Here was a man fully alive to God and fully aware ...

1706. Playing to the Right Audience

Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... of generosity, and just then, at that very moment I was leaning up to put my wallet back into my pocket, the man behind me -a disabled man who is not a member of this church and who has not much money at all -dropped in a twenty without a thought and without even breaking the conversation about fishing with the man on the row in front. A saber went through my insides. I winced; my disobedience had been exposed by divine timing and a superior example. I gave it later, but all the joy was gone. It was now an ...

1707. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... anything, and in the meantime, why lose sleep? I get precious little as it is." "But you still wonder, don't you?" Larry nods thoughtfully and answers, "I'm human, Phil."8 What does it mean that my life is a gift? What does it mean that God has ... on bills not yet due. Worry is a "small trickle of fear that meanders through the mind until it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained."15 Worry is toxic; it is pure poison, and so to counter it in yet a third block of teaching Jesus gave us wisdom ...

1708. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ” we call God really make any difference?’ “He was too good a friend, and the situation was far too serious for me to attempt to put up a front or to trot out a pat answer. The only thing appropriate for that moment was honest reporting. I thought for a long time, and then said quietly, ‘Yes, I can honestly say there was Something down there in the darkness. The mystery of Godness was present. I was given help. No ecstasy. No great energy. Just the gift of endurance-- that was all that met me in ...

1709. Branching Out

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Michael Milton

... life today and ask some hard questions of your life, I wonder if you would say that you have joy to the fullest. Now, the joy that God wants for you is not just a circumstantial happiness. In early March, we had a few days of sunshine and we all thought it was spring! But a cold snap came and did some damage. It was a temporary spring. God is not talking about a temporary, circumstantial feeling you can have. You can have good days and bad days as a true disciple. You can be up or down. Jesus wept and ...

1710. The Seven Delightful Blessings of the Word of God in the Believer's Life

Psalm 119:169-176

Sermon

Michael Milton

... advertised cat-head biscuits. Some of you know how much I love cat-heads. A cat-head biscuit is just a really big biscuit. The thought of a big, hot, fluffy, cat-head biscuit, with a slight brown crust on the top and creamy white on the interior and a large ... just had breakfast somewhere else, so I said, “Just save it for Momma.” But the first one was so good that I announced that I thought the other biscuit wouldn’t be any good by the time we would get home to Momma, and I ate it, too. Now cat-head ...

1711. What's in It for Me?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Michael Milton

... that He does it. I faced my own insecurities when God called me to preach. Because I was afraid that I could never regain what I thought I had earned, I was reluctant to give it up, even to follow Jesus. I kept holding on to my job as a manager of a ... with death. And do you know what this business genius said? “I learned I didn’t spend enough money.” When pressed—they thought he was joking—he added that, after his bypass surgery, he vowed never again to drink wine that cost less than one hundred ...

1712. Now Here Is the Plan

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... on this, particularly the e-mail. You know the sermons are now on the web site of the church, and they are listed there by title. David Clements has done this. It is a wonderful gift to the church. Some time ago I preached a sermon on the Trinity. I thought I was clever in entitling that sermon, "I Don't Understand The Trinity." That title was put on the web site, and I have received mail from all over the world now with people telling me what the Trinity means. If they had read the sermon, and not just the ...

1713. When Fisherman do Strange Things

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... repent, and believe this good news. I read about somebody who repented. Her name was Katherine Akers. She decided one year that she was going to take Lent seriously. We are just a few weeks from Lent now, so you might listen to this as an example. She thought she would give up something, only she wouldn't give up the things that you usually give up for Lent, like candy or cigarettes. She would give up an attitude. That first year she tried this, she said she would give up saying mean things about men. (You ...

1714. Pigs Get Slaughtered

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... make money. Pigs get slaughtered.” He is saying, “Beware of being greedy when you are investing in the stock market. You may overreach and lose everything.” Jesus said somewhat the same thing. He told a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’ Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I’ll say ...

1715. Warning To The Clueless Enthusiasts

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (v. 26). Let's admit it. Jesus made some strange comments. This scripture for today remembers one of those times. Must we really hate our mother and father in order to be Christian? I thought Christians were to promote family values. Must we really hate our own lives in order to be faithful? Doesn't the Bible promote the abundance of life? Is that not contrary to hating our life? How are we to make sense of this? Maybe we are ...

1716. Family Tree

Genesis 3:1-7

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... have trouble coming up with a generally accepted definition of sin. But one thing is still true: We are all shocked by sin. Sin is the unexpected, the chaotic, the unthinkable. Who would have thought that someone would deliberately fly an airplane into a building in New York? It's unthinkable. But someone thought of it, and then thought of two, and three, and maybe more. On September 11, 2001, 4,000 people were killed in just that way. That's sin with a capital S. But we all have some pretty violent and ...

1717. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

... middle of all of our everyday lives. Of course, Bonhoeffer was right. And yet -- and yet -- there is something about the way that those men thought of God that does tell a piece of the truth about God. God, the God of the center, the God who is God all ... people around him. It is not always easy to live in participation in the saving work of God. But let's pass all of those thoughts and go directly to thinking about the experience that Noah and his family must have had in the ark. Can you imagine what it must ...

1718. Access Denied

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... ended in a small, coal-mining town, a man came up to the preacher and said that he would give anything to believe that God would forgive sins. But he insisted, "I cannot believe God will forgive me if I just turn to him. It's too cheap." The preacher thought for a minute, and then began to question the man. "You were working in the mine today, right?" "Yes," the man replied. "Just like every other day." "How did you get out of the pit?" the preacher asked. "The same way I usually do; I got into the cage and ...

1719. A Name Not Taken in Vain

2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

... the sacrament of baptism. Whether they knew it or not, they declared that I was first, and foremost, a child of the God whose name is Trinity. Through Word and water, God announced a primary claim on my life. From that point on, every breath, deed, and thought has been a response to that name to which I belong. Practically speaking, this is our first experience of the Trinity. In my case, it may have been precognitive. In my father's case, it may have been a post-adolescent lapse that needed to be completed ...

1720. Families in Christ

Romans 9:1-5

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... kindred according to the flesh." Most people aren't aware that the term "blood relative" is often defined in the law. For example, in the state of Florida, a blood relative seems to be defined rather broadly. It includes people who might not normally be thought of, such as nieces and nephews and in-laws. Of course, the purpose of the law is not to provide an academic definition of the official limits of a family, but to define precisely who is considered a "blood relative" for specific legal purposes. Most ...

1721. Here We Go Again

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... days. The night before she left, as she was in the two boys' room to hear their prayers, she told them she was going to go away, and asked if in their prayers they would like to ask God to protect her on her journey. Jesse, the six year old, thought not. But Luke, the four year old, prayed this prayer: "Dear God, if buffaloes or bears, or other mean animals, come near mommy, can you handle it? If you can't, just call on Jesus." Luke attends a Nazarene preschool. I suspect that is where he got he got that ...

1722. Moving on Up

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... remember that story, the Judgment scene in Matthew, sometimes called “The Parable of the Sheep and the Goats,” the most significant part of that story is the surprises. Everybody is surprised. Those that get rejected are surprised. They thought they were shoo-ins. They thought they had “reservations” at that banquet. What is even more significant, those who do get in are even more surprised. It is about humility. They weren’t even thinking about getting into heaven. All they were thinking about ...

1723. Reflections on a Bumper Sticker

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... good news, because "life is too short to feel guilty." Let's look at our text for this morning, the healing of the paralytic. It raises all kinds of questions right off, if you read it carefully. It says, "Jesus was at home in Capernaum." Well I thought his home was in Nazareth. Maybe he had a condo in Capernaum. Which makes sense, if you were from Nazareth. Anyway, he is at "home" in Capernaum. The crowd gathers to hear him. They are stacked into the house in great numbers. In fact, they are overflowing ...

1724. What If He Shows Up?

John 2:13-22

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... what he saw in Chicago. He saw an awful lot of corruption and immorality and injustice. He saw it everywhere. A few years after that, Edward Everett Hale, in Boston, wrote, If Christ Came to Boston. He said, Jesus liked what he saw in Boston. Jesus thought Boston was a wonderful place, everything to his liking. At the end of the novel, Christ gets on a train and goes to Chicago. Harry Golden, the editor of The Carolina Israelite, wrote in a column in his newspaper once, "What if Christ came to Charlotte ...

1725. What Will They Think Up Next?

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... any other nation, because it is not the history of the greatness of kings. It's the history of the graciousness of God. Instead of siding with a great empire, a great power in this world—which is what you would expect God to do, and which is what they thought God did—God sided with an outcast people, a despised people, who had no land of their own, and who had no achievement that anyone could point to. God chose them, and said, "You will be my people, and I will be your God, and I will give you a ...

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