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Psalm 101:1-8

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Gordon Pratt Baker

... citizens of the land. Their well-being is also a matter of principle with him. Is not their very righteousness serving his purpose for Israel? (Psalm 101:6; cf. Proverbs 25:5). Actually, he declares, all things considered, he views them not so much as subjects but as associates embodying his standards in their daily lives, where it counts - in the commonplace. So he will protect them by putting the holy city of Jerusalem off limits to all who are bent on wickedness. In fact, so zealously will he press his ...

152. An Understated Masterpiece

Mark 1:21-28

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Thomas Long

... 2 A family who has lost a son, but who is able, in that experience and through their faith in Jesus Christ, to have compassion on others who suffer. What is this? ... A new teaching! 1. Frank D. Gilroy, About Those Roses, and the text of The Subject Was Roses (New York: Random House, 1965), p. 209. 2. From the New York Times, January 5, 1985. The account of Sam Todd’s family first appeared in Thomas G. Long, "Homiletical Notes for Eastertide," Journal for Preachers, Vol. VIII, No. 3 (Easter, 1985) pp. 6-7 ...

153. Been There, Done That, No Thanks!

Philippians 3:1-11

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King Duncan

... the laws of gravity and motion, has the freedom of movement. A bird obeys three laws: gravity, motion, and aerodynamics, so it can perch, walk, or fly, etc. (2) The more laws you are subject to, the freer you are. You and I are subject to many more laws than stones, worms and birds. Along with the laws of nature we are subject to the laws of God. Mastering the laws of nature and of God gives us maximum freedom. Violation of these laws results in slavery, just ask the drug addict, the alcoholic, the person ...

154. God's Time

Mark 1:1-8

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King Duncan

... time. To a child waiting for Christmas, time moves so slowly. To his parents, Christmas may come all too quickly. To his grandparents, Christmas, 1949, may seem like just yesterday. Subjective time is relative. As one scientist put it, if you sit on a hot stove, a minute seems like an hour. Chronological time is subjective time. The Bible introduces another kind of time which it refers to as "Kairos" -- God's time. St. Thomas Aquinas tried to explain God's time like this: In the beginning when God ...

155. Eat And Live

John 6:25-59

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King Duncan

... places." My favorite piece of diet humor comes from a member of Weight Watchers. At one of their meetings, near Easter, she said proudly that this was the first year her children realized that chocolate Easter bunnies came with ears. Our subject for the morning is food. That's a subject most of us know too much about. A recent survey found that 41% of men and 55% of women consider themselves overweight. People who mourn over their excess weight have been known to go to ridiculous lengths to shed pounds. For ...

156. Soli Deo Gloria

Mark 12:28-34

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Mark McGilvey Livonia

... offer not only padded pews, but padded crosses as well. How do we live for God alone? WE DO IT, FIRST OF ALL, BY SUBJECTING ALL OF OUR OTHER CONCERNS TO THAT ONE GRAND CONCERN. "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God," said Jesus. Some of us have ... choices on those of us caught up in a material world. However, if we are to live soli Deo Gloria, we must subject every concern in life to this one great concernloving God. KEEPING OUR COMMITMENT ALSO MEANS CONSCIOUSLY AND CONSISTENTLY FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS ...

157. Have You Changed Your Clock?

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... in a railroad station on a branch line after the last train, after all the other passengers have left, and the booking office is closed and the porters have gone." I can remember a time in seminary when we were given an assignment to read two sermons on the subject of waiting. One was "Why We Can't Wait" and the other was titled "Why We Can Wait." Both sermons raised important questions on the old age dilemma, "How Long Do We Wait" and what do we do while we are WAITING? I want to share three insights that ...

158. What's The Matter? Are You Blind?

John 9:1-12

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King Duncan

... thought about her husband, Ken, who is of Japanese descent. His mother prefers the word "oriental" while he prefers "Asian," but his dad liked the term "Japanese-American." Joni continued talking to the pastors about the subject of disabilities. The subject of color didn't come up. Later on when the subject of Hispanic churches was discussed, Joni says she got a tad tongue-tied between the words "Hispanic" and "Latino." She decided then to ask the pastors how they wished to be referred to, whether as "black ...

159. Casting Aside His Garment

Mark 10:46-52

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King Duncan

... God know and care about each of us as individuals? Is God like the old woman who lived in the shoe, who had so many children she didn't know what to do? Dr. Fosdick helps us here as well. He reminds us that the more you know about a subject, the less you think in terms of the universal or the general and the more you think in terms of the specific or the individual. Let's consider some examples. An illiterate man wanders into a large downtown library. On either side there are rows upon rows of books. What ...

160. People of Influence

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

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King Duncan

... Holy Spirit. And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia.” Influence. Paul modeled faith for the Thessalonians and they modeled faith for others. I want us to focus today on becoming people of influence. There are very few subjects that are as important. Is there someone you would like to influence? A spouse? A child? Friends? Co-workers? Customers? Everything we want to accomplish in life depends on influence. How do you become a person of influence? How do you leave a lasting ...

161. Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hell!

Luke 16:19-31

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Edward Inabinet

... even church people don''t want to hear about it. If you don''t want to lose your congregation, they tell us, don''t talk about this particular topic. But we are duty-bound, we are under commission to talk about this subject because the Lord talked about it so very much in his life and his ministry.The subject is hell. You may have heard about a young woman about to get married who said to her mother, "I can''t marry him, mother. He''s an atheist and he doesn''t believe there is a hell." Her mother responded ...

162. What about Spiritual Healing?

John 4:43-54

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Donald B. Strobe

... of what intercessory prayer means. Remember that prayer does not change God’s mind; it releases God’s power. And that power can be released from a distance, because all of us are linked up with one another in God. In his classic book on the subject titled Psychology, Religion, and Healing (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1952), Leslie Weatherhead tried to correct an inadequate notion of prayer. He said, “When A prays for B, he does not, as it were, make a ball of prayer, throw it up to God, and ask God to ...

163. King Forever!

John 6:56-69

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Stephen M. Crotts

... God omnipotent reigneth, the kingdom of this world is become the kingdom of the Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever." When the king heard this truth, he rose and removed his crown and bowed his head saying, "Jesus is Lord; I am His subject." God's authority is supreme! Is God supreme in your life? Is Jesus your Lord? Do you bow to him? Have you stood and removed your crown to him? The Bible says that there shall come a day when every knee shall bow and every tongue confess Jesus is ...

164. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... are objectively higher than others. If this isn't so, then values are capricious and changeable. Hutchins took the position that if God is, and this is a God-sustained world, then some truths must be more important than others -- and some subjects more important than others. For example, the quest for moral and spiritual truths is more important than, though not a substitute for, the quest for truths about soil conservation or business management. Thus to subordinate some values to higher values is not ...

165. And God Breathed Into Man

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

166. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Hebrews 11:1-40, Philippians 2:12-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... the past behind. Don’t get buried in the hell of a predictable situation, rather than risk the joy of an unpredictable one. III. Now this final lesson from the text: I put it in a word that will make sense in a moment: remember your proper subject. I put it that way purposefully hoping it will grab your attention more firmly, rather than simply saying, “Have a goal”. A part of the energy for living this now day of resurrection comes from the confidence that God has a purpose for our lives, so Paul ...

167. The Prize of the High Calling of God

Philippians 3:12-4:1

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Maxie Dunnam

... Leave the past behind. Don’t get buried in the hell of a predictable situation, rather than risk the joy of an unpredictable one. (III) Now this final lesson from the text: I put it in a word that will make sense in a moment: remember your proper subject. I put it that way purposefully hoping it will grab your attention more firmly, rather than simply saying, “Have a goal”. A part of the energy for living this now day of resurrection comes from the divine purpose in our life, so Paul says, “I reach ...

168. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Maxie Dunnam

... to be quoting has it “Do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.” There is nothing generic about Paul. He was totally immersed in Jesus, and his calling demanded what most would term a fanatical response. He was a person of one subject. To the Corinthians, he wrote, “I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and Him crucified.” His two- sentence autobiography in Galatians 2:19-20 tells us clearly how he sees himself: “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer ...

169. How to Motivate People

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:18-26

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Stephen M. Crotts

... notice the further accountability and evaluation Christ offered. "I saw Satan fall!" Christ said in triumph. Satan still falls when people assume responsibility to go out and minister! But then Jesus sobers his disciples. "Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven." You see, there would come a time, and there still comes a time, in the lives of disciples when ministry wasn't always successful or easy or necessarily triumphant. Christ was ...

170. Trinity Sunday

Genesis 1:1-2:3, Matthew 28:16-20, 1 Corinthians 13:1-13, Psalm 8:1-9

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... answering this question, for it describes reality prior to God's creative activity, which begins with light in v. 3. Verse 1 attributes the creation of the heavens and the earth to God alone. The verb "to create" in v. 1 is only used with God as its subject. Thus v. 1 sets the tone for the entire account of creation, which has prompted scholars to describe this verse as a title for the whole piece. Verse 2 shifts the focus momentarily from God to a description of earth prior to the creative activity of God ...

171. The Death That Ends All Death

1 Peter 3:18

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James Merritt

... the first time man had ever heard the word "die." As you well know, Adam and Eve did eat, and they did die. They died immediately in their spirit, and they died ultimately in their body. From the moment they sinned, their bodies became subject to disease, decay, deterioration, and death. Their spiritual death was immediate, and their physical death was inevitable. We now know that ever since, every human being ever born has died. Now the reason what happened to Adam happens to us, is because what happened ...

172. The Way Over Is Under

Luke 7:1-10

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James Merritt

... of the home. Wives, when you submit to your husbands you are really submitting to God. Paul said in Ephesians 5:22, "Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:22, NASB) The same is true for children. When children obey their parents they ... , as a child, submissive to his parents. Luke 2:51 says, "And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and He continued in subjection to them." (Luke 2:51, NASB) I want to say it one more time. You will never ever be over until you learn to be ...

173. Are You Going to Fish or Cut Bait?

Mark 1:16-18

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James Merritt

... you have been with Me from the beginning." Now notice we have not only been called to bear fruit, we have been called to bear witness. A lawyer knows one fundamental truth about a witness. A witness must be someone with firsthand knowledge of the subject on which they are speaking. They don't need to be highly intelligent, widely read, or extremely eloquent. But they must have a personal firsthand account of their own experience. That's all a witness is, someone who shares their story. Or, if you will ...

174. Just Know Him In His Visible Return

Revelation 1:7-8

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James Merritt

... that the Jesus who rose from the earth, and now reigns over the earth, will one day return to the earth. As we study the second coming of Jesus Christ, I want to give you two cautions: first of all, the second coming of Jesus is not to be a subject of speculation. Jesus said, "But of that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the father." (Mark 13: 32) It is both futile and foolish to speculate about the precise date of the second coming of Jesus Christ. We're not ...

175. Easter and a Lost World

Acts 17:16-34

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James Merritt

... : Dear Abby: Your answer to the woman who complained that her relatives were always arguing with her about religion, was ridiculous. You advised her to simply declare the subject off- limits. Are you suggesting that people talk only about trivial meaningless subjects so as to avoid a potential controversy?…It is arrogant to tell people there are subjects that they may not mention in your presence. You could have suggested she learn enough about her relatives' cult to show them the errors contained in its ...

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