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151. The Family That Prays Together Stays Together

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... she had was a will to "keep on asking and not lose heart." "Now there was a widow in that city; and she came to him, saying, ‘Avenge me of my adversary.'" (v.3) Now the key to understanding the widow was this: She did not know the meaning of quit. When it says that she "came to him," in the Greek tense it literally says, "she kept on coming and coming and coming." If the judge went to the courthouse, she was standing by his office holding the door saying, "Give me justice." If he went to the outhouse, she ...

152. How to Rub People the Right Way

Acts 4:36-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... from a human perspective we would not have fourteen books in the New Testament today? That the church might have lost its greatest preacher and missionary? What about John Mark? Did you know that he happened to be the Mark that wrote the gospel of Mark? If Barnabas had quit on Mark like Paul did, maybe we would never have had that little gospel called Mark. There was a boy whose dad died when he was five years old. This boy dropped out of school after the sixth grade. By the time he was 17 he had lost job ...

153. The Perfect Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... know they're dead. You can't help." Even a police officer encouraged him to give up. But that dad refused. For eight hours, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and then thirty-six hours he dug. His hands were raw, his energy was gone, but he refused to quit. Finally, after thirty-eight gut-wrenching hours, he pulled back a boulder and heard his son's voice. He called out his boy's name, "Arman! Arman!" A voice answered him saying, "Dad, it's me!" Then that little boy added priceless words that dad will remember ...

154. Making Disciples

2 Corinthians 3:1-6

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Donald Charles Lacy

... . We have infinitely more than that and an open door to heaven. My respect for the scientific realm is considerable. In fact, let's admit science and religion are no longer mortal enemies trying to destroy one another. They haven't been for quite some time. A case in point is the part prayer plays in diseases, accidents, and the like. Studies show where prayer is seriously practiced the improvement rate is definitely higher. Throughout the health care industry there are examples galore where the two have ...

155. Don’t Fear the Wait

Mark 13:1-8

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... Father knows the day and the hour. Heaven and earth will pass away, but Jesus' words and thus the events he predicts, will never pass away. When we hear of the end times — the sun darkened, the moon without light, and stars falling from the heavens — we, quite naturally, tend to be fearful. The true Christian, however, cannot be fearful, but must wait in hope. This is the event for which we have lived our lives. This is the day of our salvation and our ticket back home to God. However, even though we ...

156. A Demon Speaks Out in Church

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... this man began crying out, “What do you want with us, Jesus of Nazareth? Have you come to destroy us? I know who you are the Holy One of God!” Mark tells us this man was possessed by an evil spirit. Evidently this was the case, for Jesus quite sternly said, “Be quiet!” Then Jesus commanded, “Come out of him!” And Mark tells us that “the evil spirit shook the man violently and came out of him with a shriek.” We don’t hear of many people being possessed by evil spirits any more. I wonder why ...

157. What Does God Really Want?

2 Corinthians 8:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... you may; All you can hold in your cold dead hand Is what you have given away. III. God Wants Us To Grow In Grace Now quite frankly the part of the story I am going to tell you now you are going to find very difficult to believe, because I do as ... here this morning who may be struggling about which campus you are going to attend, and what you are going to give to this campaign? Quite frankly, you are going through the same struggle I had to go through. I can empathize and sympathize with you. I've had people ...

158. Until He Comes

2 Timothy 4:7-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... hot fire of evangelism and I fear the danger of seeing this need with at lackluster passion. We face a Devil alive and well who has saved his biggest guns and his heaviest artillery for these last days doing all he can to make us throw up our ands and quit and I fear the danger of a lukewarm spirit. I want to be able to say personally; I want my church to be able to say congregationally; I want our denomination to be able to say corporately what the Apostle Paul said in perhaps the most famous last words ...

159. A Hearing Heart

1 Kings 2:10-12, 3:3-14

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... is one. And what pastor, being responsible for administering the congregation's helping fund, would not like to be able to discern when the story an applicant for help presents is really true and when it is calculated merely to "work the system"? Those are quite legitimate examples of where we need to be savvy, but we don't necessarily have to be spiritually minded people to possess it. To some degree, it is a part of common sense. Spiritual discernment, however, goes beyond that. It is the ability to tell ...

160. Mary Magdalene’s Day

John 20:1-18

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Donald Charles Lacy

... in all ways, and there is no reason to test — really test — it by thinking along the lines of marriage and family. The dialogue today is heated and may not go away any time soon. Opportunists are always with us and at times they can be quite convincing before we find them out. Surely open and free inquiry is imperative. In fact, this is the way Christianity has survived over the centuries. We sure wished we knew more, don't we? It is much like parishioners who hear stories — perhaps even allegations ...

161. If, Because, Regardless

2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... we're embarrassed to bring them at all. But we bring them "Because." "Because" we know God wants them and "Because" we want to say thank you. And "Because" God has blessed us. But I wonder if we would quit giving, quit attending, quit supporting if God quit blessing. That's the danger of being only a "Because" Christian. III. Regardless And then there is the "Regardless" Christian. Those who are like Job. They have faith, they give, they attend, they support, they reach out, "Regardless." "Regardless ...

162. Let God Be God - As if It Could Be Otherwise

Exodus 7:14-24

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a swimming in your own head.” (Gerald Kennedy, Fresh Every Morning p. 8). Now I don’t expect you to understand the richness of that statement at this point —- but I hope it gets your attention. If you think you see the Ark of the Lord falling, you can be quite sure that it is due to a swimming in your head.” Today, I’m going to talk about God. No what’s new about that, you ask. There’s nothing new about it, because we talk about God every Sunday - but I mean, we’re going to really talk about ...

163. Sisters

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... now he needed them to focus on his mission from the Father. There is a time for work and a time for worship. That is what Christ is saying to us. A successful life is balanced. We have some people today who are all work. Some of them are quite successful professionally. And no wonder! They work eighty hours a week, but look what it has done for them the beautiful home, the expensive automobile, the cabin on the lake. But some of them have made this commitment to constant work at the cost of their souls, at ...

164. Choosing to Love

Genesis 24:34-38, 42-49, 58-67

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... to his marriage, Isaac acted like a grown-up! He realized that real love is a choice, and he chose to love this woman he had married. So it is for us. We either choose to love or we choose not to. And that kind of decision is something quite apart from any particular emotions we may feel about our mate — which, as we all know, can come and go like the wind. Real love is a commitment of loyalty and faithfulness to another person, not rooted primarily in emotions. One very important adult task is coming to ...

165. A Little Theology at Christmas

Titus 2:11-14

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms. His own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him. Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend ...

166. Hey, Foolish Thing!

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

King Duncan

... to Jesus. There is nothing else that will work. That is how God has chosen to turn this world upside down. The work of the church is serious work, important work, life changing work. It’s work that God is calling you and me to do. Now this means something quite obvious: If the church is the means that God has chosen to turn this world upside down, each of us has a part to play. If this is God’s plan not to work through celebrities and rocket scientists but through ordinary folks like you and me it means ...

167. At the Banquet...In Your Pajamas

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... to his business. Here’s the remarkable thing the rest of the invited citizens not only refused the king’s invitation, they went so far as to seize the king’s servants, mistreat them and kill them . . . This was quite a remarkable response to a simple wedding invitation. Quite rightly, the king was enraged. He sent his army and destroyed those who had killed his servants and burned their city. Then the king said to his servants, “The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve ...

168. The Place beyond Revenge

Esther 7:1-6, 9-10, 9:20-22

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... broken by what has happened. God's heart is broken, too. And so is my heart. I show it in odd ways. Can't sleep, of course, and cry several times a day, of course. But I also have lost, quite abruptly, a one-a-day-and-sometimes-two-a-day murder mystery habit that goes back years. I have lost — quite abruptly — lost it without even thinking about it. I just noticed, sometime in mid-October, that I hadn't read a murder mystery in weeks, and I hadn't finished the one I had been reading on the train the ...

169. Where Is Your Pebble?

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... little water in the bottom of it. The old crow reached his beak into the jug to get some of that water, but his beak wouldn’t quite reach. So what did he do? Some of our boys and girls know. He started picking up pebbles one at a time and dropping them into the ... what can I do?” Let me tell you about a little lady in a small church in Maryland many years ago. Her name, quite appropriately was Miss Fuss. And she really could fuss particularly at her young pastor. But he knew and others knew she had a heart ...

170. That’s Why We Call It Good

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... man's death (v. 4). We recall further that it was the Lord who laid on him the iniquity of us all, and "it was the will of the Lord to crush him with pain" (v. 10). So this death was not senseless. No, on the contrary, this death was quite purposeful. Isaiah is clear about the purpose. "Upon him was the punishment that made us whole," the prophet proclaims, "and by his bruises we are healed" (v. 5). Furthermore, his life is identified as "an offering for sin" (v. 10), and, in the process of his undeserved ...

171. A New Kind of Authority

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... here with authority from the chief priests to arrest all who call on your name.” But the Lord said to Ananias, “Go! This man is my chosen instrument to proclaim my name to the Gentiles and their kings and to the people of Israel . . .” Then Ananias, probably quite reluctantly, went to the house where Paul was staying. Placing his hands on Saul, he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you were coming here has sent me so that you may see again and be filled with the ...

172. Wake Up!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... Dr. David Howeth once wrote of his former pastor, a Baptist pastor named Dr. Harry Roark. Roark, he says, was a real character. He smoked, for one thing, and he let the deacons know from the very beginning of his tenure there that he had no intention of quitting. He loved to play a domino game called forty-two. He enjoyed winning so much that, allegedly, he even cheated every now and then. What I most enjoyed about Dr. Roark is that he had a horse named Pastoral Calls, which he kept at a church member’s ...

173. Dancing for Joy (Thanksgiving)

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... ,” confessed another parishioner. The “amens” came from all over the room. Caught up in the excitement of the moment, an old lady stood up and said, “I haven’t been doing anything . . . and I’m going to quit that, too.” She wasn’t going to miss the excitement, even though she hadn’t done anything. It’s nice to get excited in church from time to time. It doesn’t happen often enough, I’m afraid. One thing we should get excited about is the blessings we have ...

174. Ignite: Fight Fire with Fire

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

James Merritt

... in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to anyone in this name.’” (Acts 4:14-17, ESV) Don’t miss this. The only thing the powers at be wanted Peter and John to do was to simply quit talking about Jesus. Guess what? In 2000 years nothing has changed. Go to church, practice your religion, do your little rituals, give people a feel-good message, but don’t talk about Jesus. This official sentence shows us just how much the enemy fears the witness of the ...

175. Christians and Grits

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... made sports pages all over the world. It was about a 17-year-old long-distance runner named Meghan Vogel. Meghan had just run the race of her life. She had won the 1,600-meter race to become the 2012 Ohio state champion. That, in itself, would be quite an accomplishment. But she also had entered the grueling 3,200-meter race and now her energy level was at rock bottom. She decided to run anyway. As she turned the corner on the final, torturous lap, Meghan was in last place, but she was determined to finish ...

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