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151. The Lightest Touch

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... to serve in some capacity in which we would have to speak out about the word or the church. We feel our ineptitude, our lack of experience, and our conviction that we just won’t have the right words to say. Most of us do not feel we have the ability to talk about anything publicly, let alone our faith. Nor do we feel that we can sell anything, least of all our faith. It is highly unlikely that God finds those answers acceptable, though they are so very, very true. What God would expect of us, in whatever ...

152. The Worst Announcements Ever (A Drama about Perfectionism)

Colossians 3:18-4:1

Drama

Dave Marsh

... fast) Pastor Ray wanted me to introduce today’s topic as well as read a bit of scripture. The topic is how we shouldn’t be so worried about doing perfect ministry but rather just be available to be used by God and do our best with the abilities He’s given us.” Karl: (sarcastic) Oh yeah, that was just wonderful. Dave: Sorry. Karl: Don’t apologize. Dave: Sorry. (Clamps a hand over his mouth) Karl: Do it again but slower. Dave: Pastor Ray wanted me to introduce today’s topic as well as read a bit ...

153. Choose Life!

Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... about our relationship with God. God has paid us the ultimate compliment. He allows us to call our own plays. God allows us to make our own decisions. When He created us in His own image, this was primary among the characteristics with which he endowed us--the ability to choose. In the Garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve everything they needed to sustain their life. But in the middle of the garden He planted a tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The moment He did that, He provided them with ...

154. Looking For Happiness In All The Wrong Places

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Hobbes, "What do you think is the secret of happiness? Is it money, power, or fame?" Calvin adds, "I'D choose money. If you have money, you can BUY power and fame. That way you'd have it all and be REALLY happy. Happiness is being famous for your financial ability to indulge in every kind of excess." Hobbes replies, "I suppose that's ONE way to define it." Calvin adds, "The part I think I'd like best is crushing people who get in my way."(5) For some people, that is what it is all about. They are wrong ...

155. In Praise Of Doers

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... player when you were young? Case closed. Nobody ever gets everything they dream. That's where our faith comes in to correct the picture and bring the excitement the ad promises into life. IF GOD DREAMS IT, YOU CAN DO IT. Anything. There IS no limit to His ability. We need to expect that the allpowerful God will fulfill His work in our lives, and we need to dream his dreams. That's positive thinking at its bestthinking based on the power of God. I am convinced that Jesus loves doers. He was a doer and what ...

156. Connections In High Place

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... ." When we are linked to Christ, other people do become our people. Many of them also have connections in high places and that makes us family. But there is one thing more to be said. III. He Gives Us the Ability to Bear Fruit. He is the vine. We are the branches. It is he that gives us the ability to bear fruit. Bearing fruit is what life is all about. The rest of this passage makes that point unmistakably. Some of us want to bear blossoms, but not fruit. We want to look good. We want others to admire ...

157. The Secret Of Winning

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... of us have deluded ourselves into believing we can achieve our dreams without making hard decisions. And yet deciding is the most godlike characteristic which the Creator has bestowed upon us. If being created in His image means anything at all, it means we have the ability to choose. Not to choose means giving up that which makes us peculiarly human. Winners pay the price no one else is willing to pay. They make the hard decisions no one else is willing to make. One last thing: WINNERS ARE WILLING TO GIVE ...

158. Treasured Relics

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... comedian George Burns' love for singing. As Von Zell puts it, "I know George is a great music lover, because a poet once said that every man kills the thing he loves, and I've heard what George does to a song." Burns himself is very modest about his singing ability. For example, he jokes about once going to a party. "At twelve-thirty I said I was going to sing a few songs," he recounts, "and all the guests formed a circle around the piano. By the time I broke through I was too tired to sing." (3) Some of ...

159. Wouldn't You Prefer Real Freedom?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... Most of us can tell our bodies to perform such feats and our bodies respond, "What? Who me?" Most of us are prisoners in our own bodies prisoners of years of neglect. But we need to see that this is not only true of athletes. People with advanced training and ability of any kind enjoy this same kind of freedom. Some people spend their whole lives in one job and can't change no matter how much they may desire to because that is all they are trained to do. Others, on the other hand, have worked hard in school ...

160. The Heart Of The Matter

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to his journey. Jesus knew the key to living an abundant Christian life was the heart. One of the Beatitudes--which someone has called 'the Beautiful Attitudes'--is, "Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God." This simple sentence has the ability to impact in a positive way the totality of the human experience. In our spiritual journey, if our heart is sick, our whole life is affected. On December 1, 1982, at the University of Utah Medical Center, Dr. Barney Clark, a dentist from Des Moines ...

161. When You Feel Helpless

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... am with you; that is all you need. My power shows up best in weak people.' Now I am glad," St. Paul continues, “to boast about how weak I am; I am glad to be a living demonstration of Christ's power, instead of showing off my own power and abilities. Since I know it is all for Christ's good, I am quite happy about 'the thorn,' and about insults and hardships, persecutions and difficulties; for when I am weak, then I am strong--the less I have, the more I depend on him." (LB) Paul concluded that his ...

162. How Many Times Should We Forgive?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... that I'm keeping a chart." (3) She was joking, of course, but she was stating an obvious truth: It's not easy to forgive people who have wronged us. In 1999, Yankelovich Partners, Inc. ran a poll in which they asked people to measure their ability to forgive people who had wronged them. Most people said that they would be able to forgive someone who told a lie about them. Sixty-seven percent of people polled could forgive someone who stole from them. On the other hand, thirty-two percent would not forgive ...

163. Set Free Through Forgiveness!

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... go of the past and move on. Here's the other thing we need to see about forgiveness: THERE IS ONLY ONE PLACE YOU CAN FIND THE ABILITY TO FORGIVE. It is at the throne of Christ. Pastor Dennis A. Becker tells about a trick soap that looks like a real bar of soap, ... ) I don't know any other way true forgiveness can take place. We turn our hurt over to God. We ask God for the ability to forgive. Peter thought that he was big-hearted: "How often should I forgive someone who sins against me," he asked. "As many as ...

164. Reaching Our Full Potential

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... the first, he gives five talents, to the next two talents, and to the next servant he gives one talent--each according to his ability. Then he leaves. The servant with five talents "goes at once" and puts his money to work, doubling it. The servant with two talents ... his death, Mantle said to someone, "You talk about a role model? This is a role model: Don't be like me . . . God gave me the ability to play baseball and I wasted it. I was given so much, and I blew it. I'm going to spend the rest of my life ...

165. The Coat Of Many Colors

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... return home, Eugene McDaniel's new life was not hampered by bitterness or depression. He knew that God had used his years of suffering to form him into a better and stronger person. (4) When God created us in God's image, God gave us an awesome ability--the ability to make choices. To choose our own direction. To choose good or evil. To choose love or hate, wisdom or foolishness, action or inaction. But our choices are never neutral. Proverbs 14: 12 tells us, "There is a way that seems right to a man, but ...

166. The Reality of Fear--The Power of Faith

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... invalid its power over us. David comes forward--not backwards--and volunteers, because he trusts in the power of God to overcome any fear or limitation he might have. God always looks for the "availability" of a servant--long before he judges the "ability" of the person. David fighting Goliath would be like Mother Theresa fighting Charles Barkley. Notice how he describes his confidence in God, "The Lord will deliver out of the hands of the Philistine." When you surrender your hands to God, you always shift ...

167. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... no shrinking violet. Neither was St. Paul. Nor was Isaiah. These were men who changed our world, but before they could be used of God, they needed to know who they were in relation to God. They were men of talent, men of vision, men who had the ability to influence others. But it was only when they stood in the presence of God that they understood that they were not masters of their universe. God is the Master of the universe, and they were but role players. Actors. Tools in the hand of Almighty God. When ...

168. Loving Like God Loves

Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... who sold out their faith and country to the Roman occupiers do as much. Gentile outsiders do as much. So what? You don’t need the kingdom of God or the Jesus of the kingdom for that low level of love, only the desire to survive and belong, the ability to keep some in and others out and think yourselves justified for doing so. The bottom line being that if we are not loving our enemies and praying for them, the world has a right to ask who we’re following, because if we are not different, what good ...

169. A Gift for You

Romans 1:1-7

Sermon

James L. Killen

... live. He said that the exercise often produced some profound responses and the dominant central theme, the underlying principle, was love.1 Love is something that we all want in our lives. But many of us don't have a very clear idea about what love is, much less the ability to do it. Part of our inability to love has to do with our unwillingness to make commitments. God has sent Jesus to show us what it means to love, and God surrounds us with love, God's love and other loves, that can love us into the ...

170. Reevaluating Our Mission for Christ

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... need to sacrifice, even to die to self and live for others in order to find life eternal. Jesus taught publicly through the veiled message of the parables and more directly through the famous Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-7:29). He used his ability to effect miraculous cures, of mind, spirit, and body to show God's love for the people. He never missed an opportunity to assist another, especially those who demonstrated faith. The woman with the hemorrhage (Matthew 9:18-22) believed that all she needed to ...

171. What Names Are You Naming?

Isaiah 49:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... list, of individuals. Does anyone else remember having to memorize those biblical texts that were nothing but a seemingly endless list of everlasting begats? Why is so much sacred space accorded these dreary roll calls of ancient ancestors? Except for testing our ability to pronounce some of the multi-syllable, tongue-twisting monikers sported by some long-dead desert-dwellers, what is the point of something that seems about as edifying as the telephone book. Why are they there? Why do we insist on reading ...

172. Humans, Inc.

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... ruint me.' Mr. President, that's about what Senator McCarthy has done to the Senate." (Sam J. Ervin, Jr., Humor of a Country Lawyer (Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1983]). One of the things that separates a human from a Neanderthal is a sense of humor, the ability to make jokes, to find the laughing matter of life, and to smile in the midst of adversity. 3) The third H of Humans, Inc. is Hospitality. When Jesus invited himself over to his house, Zacchaeus immediately showed him hospitality. He rolled out the red ...

173. The Real Dish Network

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... life pales beyond this unparalleled experience. And it is cheap, too! Prices for satellite expansion now are about equal to plain old cable TV hookups. Satellite TV has it all. The abundant life at a great deal! But is the abundant life really defined by the ability of lonely insomniacs to watch Romanian soccer, or Philippine hai-lai at 3 o'clock in the morning? How many of those six hundred channels do you suppose we all end up actually watching? What are we looking for as we channel-surf across all those ...

174. Trust that Leads to Transformation

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... brain developed. The family prayed and hoped for the best, but the aneurysm took her at the close of the following day. When we told the family that we had lost her, the tears and hurt were overwhelming. The father was still sore from the operation and limited in his ability to move around. He wanted to be with her, he wanted to see her, other members of the family had been in the room with her, but he couldn't go. We pushed Tina out of her unit into his room and cleared the room so only the family could ...

175. The Ultimate Blasphemy

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... was seen as an intentional insult to God and a degradation of God's divine majesty and authority. Jesus' pronouncement of forgiveness calls attention to his own authority as the Son of Man, linking his power to heal the paralyzed man's body with his ability to forgive the man's sins and so heal his spirit as well. The paralyzing power of sin, of spiritual wasted-ness, was the true blasphemy in that crowded room. And once it was healed by Jesus, the onlookers responded appropriately by performing the ...

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