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1751. Frustrated By Their Lack Of Faith

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

King Duncan

... Oh, no!" he protested. "I couldn't ask the donkey to carry all that weight." Many of us are carrying burdens today that we do not have to carry. Only our lack of faith, trust, and confidence that God really is alive and able to relieve us of our burdens keeps us in bondage. How frustrated Christ must be with our lack of faith. It would be far more desirable if we were like the young man who was in a marathon race. He was falling farther and farther behind the other runners. Suddenly he looked as if he were ...

1752. Wrestling With God

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bethel, Jacob has a dream of a ladder which rises into the heavens. At Bethel Jacob makes a deal with God. "If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father' ... of Jacob's whole relationship with God that kept him awake that night. At Bethel Jacob had prayed arrogantly, "If God will be with me, and keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, So that I come again to my father' ...

1753. Yes, But How?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... seriously. Another plane was on the ground, and that pilot rescued the injured. They were all taken to a small jungle hospital and eventually recovered. We can learn a lot from this story. There seem to be a lot of crashes these days because people can't keep their hands off the controls. Most of us sympathize with the passenger, because we have a way of doing exactly the same thing in our spiritual journey. Thinking we know best, we try to take over and run things our way, but it never works. Even Jesus ...

1754. I Will Not Leave You Comfortless

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... today--still available to those who know how to receive him. That brings us to the theme for today. Where do we find comfort when our lives are desolate? Three themes dominate this passage. The first is love. "If you love me," says the Master, "you will keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father and he will give you another Counselor." We could easily make a case that where there is no love, there is no comfort. Leslie Weatherhead once told of a woman who married late in life. She confessed to him ...

1755. People of Influence (New)

1 Thessalonians 1:6

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

... that you should imitate? (mom, dad, teacher, grandma, etc.) In our Bible lesson today, Paul is writing to a church in Thessalonica. He is encouraging them to keep on imitating him and Jesus. I think if Paul could come here today, he would tell us the same thing -- Keep on imitating Jesus! How do we know how to imitate Jesus? How do we know what Jesus did? We need to keep on studying the Bible to learn more about Jesus so that we can imitate him. Jesus is the very best example for us to imitate. That is ...

1756. Proving Your Love

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... it. There in the midst of the bills and coins was a 6-inch nail. He asked Mettler what it was doing there. "I keep this nail with my money," said Mettler, "to remind me of the price Christ paid for my salvation and of what I owe him ... sitting free and take the Gospel, too, As though he paid, and none be aught the wiser Save the Finance Committee, who-- Most honorable of men--can keep a secret! To err is human, and human, too, to buy At cheapest rate, I’ll take the Gospel so! For others do the same--a ...

1757. The Question That Will Not Go Away

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... time he plots and strategically plans ways to get past him and through the door. He schemes and plans but is afraid to try. Finally he gives up, tired, disappointed and disillusioned. In the end, as the man is dying, he says to the door-keeper, "Why? Why did you keep me out?" "I didn't," answers the door-keeper. "As a matter of fact, this is your door and I am here to serve you." "But why did you stand in my way?" asks the dying man. "Why did you block me?" "I didn't," replied the doorman, "I would ...

1758. Jesus, Our Hope

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... is Christmas! Jesus is our Savior. Jesus is our Messiah, our Peace. Jesus is our Lord. “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.” What does the angelic announcement of Jesus’ Lordship means for us? In keeping with messianic prophecy its significance is simply this: Jesus is our hope because He is Lord, the only answer for our need. In some of the great messianic prophecies of Isaiah there runs this theme emphasizing that you can go to a lot of different places ...

1759. FOR WHOM DO WE WORK?

Drama

Angela Akers

... end of the day, I had a lot to show for it. I wanted to make an offering of my work, so I took it and offered it at the feet of Other''s Expectations of Me." (Man places work at the feet of Other''s Expectations. Other''s Expectations keeps his back turned and his arms folded in an uncaring, rigid manner) Businessman: "But he did not bless my work. It wasn''t good enough. So, I went back to work. This time, I worked a little harder. When I was through, I knew where to offer it. I placed ...

1760. What’s the Good Word?

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... existence and actually did things. To understand what they meant by “word” we almost have to link it up with the term “deed.” In the Bible, the “Word” of God always does something. God created the world by a Word: “And God said...and it was so,” we keep reading in Genesis. Psalm 33 says that “By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all their host by the breath of his mouth.” (Psalm 33:6) By the word of the Lord the prophets were sent forth. (As we shall see, one of John’s ...

1761. Jesus and the Divorced Evangelist

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’” The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water’” (John 4:9-15) Now, whenever you come across a reference to water in the Bible, there is most probably a double meaning. It may mean simple water to assuage the thirst, but it is also a metaphor for humanity’s greatest need and ...

1762. One Commandment, Slightly Used

John 13:31-38

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . It is not like money: the more you give away, the less you have left. Rather the opposite. When you give away this kind of love you always have more left, because God keeps replenishing the source. Because God is love. As an old saint of God once said about his efforts to pass love on to others: “I keep shoveling out, God keeps shoveling in, and God has a bigger shovel!” Just so. Well, just a few more thoughts in conclusion. This kind of love is risky business. Remember: it took Jesus to a cross. He ...

1763. If Christ Had Not Come

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ordering the slaughter of all male children under two years of age, trying to get at the infant Christ whose birth threatened his position on the throne. Under Roman law, children had no rights. At birth, parents could decide whether or not they wished to keep a newborn child, abandon it, or strangle it. Every year thousands of unwanted babies were fished out of Roman sewers. And Plato and Aristotle, for all of their lofty philosophy, approved of the practice! What a jolt, then, when Jesus took up a little ...

1764. That Would Be Some Miracle!

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , they came prepared. But there were also among them those who had come on the spur of the moment, and had made no provision at all for food. And those who had food were unwilling to show that they had it for the simple reason that they wanted to keep it all to themselves. (I’ve been to picnics like that, haven’t you?) Perhaps they planned to eat it when they could get away from the crowd by themselves. Then Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, produced the boy and he offered his little lunch to Jesus, and ...

1765. The Thirteenth Apostle

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the sexes divided, as did the synagogues of old. The men would be down front and the women in the rear. The men would hear the rabbi preach, and the women would shout to their husbands, “Hey, George, what did he say?” So Paul says that women should keep silent in church. (I Cor. 14:34) I do not think he was setting down a law for all times and places. He was dealing with a particular situation. In another example, to avoid scandal in Corinth, an ancient city where only loose women went about with their ...

1766. Losers Keepers

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... take the vows to follow Christ, and to support the church by their prayers, presence, gifts, and service! Why, we can’t even get some of them to come through the doors of the church at least once a year, or to give even a dollar to help keep those doors open! “Whoever would save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it,” says Jesus. In doing so, He turns the little verse “Finders keepers; losers, weepers” on its ear. Both sides of the paradox ...

1767. God’s Strange Arithmetic

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... popular young bum who hasn’t done a lick of work since he got expelled his junior year in college. He manages to dress well and keeps a supply of spending money because his dad is a soft-hearted old fool who takes up his bad checks instead of letting him go to ... into a museum without having it fall apart at the seams. The wood was terribly brittle and had to be kept in water to keep from cracking. To shore it up with beams on the outside would break the brittle hull. How to float it? Somebody got the idea ...

1768. On Claiming One’s Inheritance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... his hand to receive God’s gift of grace until he first let go of his possessions. (And his pride.) That he refused to do. An so he was lost to the Kingdom. “Keep the commandments” Jesus said....and perhaps, under His breath, He said to Himself: “Keep the commandments...and you will soon discover just how difficult keeping the commandments is.” Luther said that the first purpose of the “Law” is to bring us to despair of our own worthiness of ever living up to it. The Commandments are the basic ...

1769. Opposite the Treasury

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... up the practice since he has been gone.” I confess I was a bit embarrassed. This woman’s income could not have been more than a few dollars a week...and her offering could not have been more than a few cents. I was tempted to tell her, “You keep the money. You need it more than the church does.” But then I decided that that would be cruel. Why should I deprive this poor woman of one of the few joys left in her life - giving to the cause of Christ? Sure, the church was not in desperate need ...

1770. Where Is My Guest Room?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... asleep on a bench. When he awakens, he finds that someone has placed a pillow under his head. He doesn’t know who has done the kind deed, but he is overjoyed. It is a sign of the goodness of life. He will go to prison, he says, and keep God’s name alive there, because he knows that God is alive in the world. The nameless, anonymous, selfless act of someone who did him that small kindness is a guarantee of that. I. DURING JESUS’ LAST DAYS, SOMEONE DID HIM AN ANONYMOUS KINDNESS, ALSO. Someone gave Him a ...

1771. A Man Named Pain (Part 1)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... than his brothers, and his mother called his name Jabez, saying, ''Because I bore him in pain.'' And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, ‘Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!'' So God granted him what he requested." (1 Chronicles 4:9-10) (NKJV) That’s it! That’s the prayer of Jabez. It’s short and simple. And yet, according to news reports, congressmen are gathering in our ...

1772. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... G. Campbell Morgan, because he sensed his children were becoming distant from him. Dr. Morgan asked, "Do you ever play marbles or ride your bike with your children?" The man replied, "Of course not, I''m too busy and too grown-up for that." Dr. Morgan replied, "Keep up that attitude and you will lose them for sure." Dr. Morgan continued, "Children are not lost at age 17 but at age 7." When was the last time you just bummed around or hung out with your children? Spend time with them. Encourage your children ...

1773. The Lord's Prayer: Lead Us Not Into Temptation

Matthew 6:5-13

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... !" Well, if you try to catch fish through a whole in the ice rink, you won''t catch any fish. Over and over in the word of God our loving Father tries to tell us that we will never build a life that will be meaningful and abundant if we keep on our present course. But we continue to look for love in all the wrong places and with all the wrong people. We think that God is trying to prevent us from having fun and joy. We unfortunately always see God''s law and God''s book as a negative ...

1774. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... them, lectured them, beat them, and with sarcasm said, especially to Simon Peter, "Peter, I told you so." But he did not. He fed them. He had plans for them when they did not even consider that they had a future. The disciples were to learn that Christ keeps his promises and completes what he commences. As St. Paul would later write, "...he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion." Just think about it. Of all the places Jesus could have visited now that he is the Risen Lord of the Universe ...

1775. Trouble: A Required Course in LIfe

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... with us that we too must enroll in a required course as we journey on this side of the Garden of Eden called trouble. James says we can count it all joy or we can count our troubles, and, believe me, there are not enough fingers and toes to keep the count. Spend your life counting the joy, not the troubles. There is a story about two brothers who were watching a circus parade but from different perspectives. One looked at the parade through a hole in the fence. He saw the ringmaster--then he saw a clown ...

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