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1776. Matthew 9: 9-13, 18-26

Matthew 9:9-13

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Leonard Sweet

... the toucher. As a woman who has suffered from this malady for twelve years, she would have been religiously and socially outcast from friends and family, from her own community, from religious life, for that entire time. Her faith in Jesus’ healing abilities mirrors that of the distraught father Jesus is following. In fact her faith is so great that she believes just touching the fringes (“tzitzit”) of his garment will bring about her healing. Matthew’s text uses the Greek term “sozo,” which may ...

1777. A Call to Action

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , in the phrase of Julian of Norwich, “oned with God” when we are “oned with Christ.” Even Plato understood that the human species was designed by God for participation, not mere attendance: Plato declared that human reason was nothing less than our ability to “participate in the Divine mind.” Let me put this another way: disciples of Jesus have been called to “dramatize” the gospel. “Drama” comes from the Greek word which means “to do.” The Incarnation is all about God’s drama of ...

1778. We All Need Dad

Eph 6:1-4

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King Duncan

Some years ago, South Africa's game managers had to figure out what to do about the elephant herd at Kruger National Park. The herd was growing well beyond the ability of the park to sustain it. And so they decided to transport some of the herd to a nearby game park. A dozen years later, however, several of the young male elephants (now teenagers) that had been transported to the game park began attacking the park's herd of white ...

1779. A Marching Mission

Matthew 10: 24-39

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Larry Goodpaster

I played in the high school band before the days of flag corps, rifle drill teams and dance routines. Everything depended on the band and its abilities and talents in playing and marching. Every week we had to learn an entire new set of songs, to go with our new marching formations to be performed at half time of the football games. We all received our instructions early in the week and then practiced them until we ...

1780. A Morning Greeting

Matthew 10:40-42

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Andrew R. Wolfe

... the fun of it, and what I have found is if you are nice to people, welcoming to people, they respond to that and they are nice in return." Now that's such a simple kind of thing, isn't it, but how profound that is. Hospitality is simply the ability to make another person feel welcome in a sincere kind of way. In a lonely world where people are rushing to one place or another, these busy motorists were made to feel welcome in the world by this man who stood there on the corner waving to them - someone who ...

1781. Those Romans 7 Moments

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... I do not want is what I do” (7:19). The problem with human beings is that we have just enough of what Paul called his “inner self” or “true self,” what Isaiah called “the still small voice,” to know what we SHOULD do. But we lack the ability to actually DO it. Actually, what we “lack” is the wholeness and unity of spirit that would put us in a right relationship with God. What we have instead is a fallen nature, a fractured self, a fragmented soul which lives in a state removed from or in ...

1782. A World Without Easter

1 Corinthians 15:12-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... I read about a man out in Los Angeles who called himself "the human fly." This man would crawl up the walls of skyscrapers by clinging to window ledges; putting his fingers in the little crevasses in the bricks and pulling himself up. People were amazed at his ability because he could climb up a sheer wall almost like a fly. On one particular day he was going up the wall of a huge department store in Los Angeles. There was a crowd watching him as the policemen were holding the crowd back, and they watched ...

1783. If I Only Had One Wish

2 Chronicles 1:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... have mastered information about a narrow slice of life, but couldn't make it out of the first grade when it comes to living successfully with family and friends. Let's face it. Know-ledge is not enough to meet life's problems. We need wisdom, the ability to handle life with skill.5 If our generation has learned anything, it should know by now that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Charles Spurgeon once said, "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great ...

1784. Interest vs. Commitment

Mt 13:1-23

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King Duncan

... difference between interest and commitment. When you are interested in doing something, you do it only when it is convenient. When you are committed to something, you accept no excuses." Good soil represents the company of the committed " people who are determined to serve Christ to the best of their abilities, people who are willing to make whatever sacrifices are necessary to see Christ's kingdom come, people who by their work and their witness bear fruit that does not perish. What kind of soil are you?

1785. To Tell The Truth

Exodus 20:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... different companies, in 5 different industries, to determine what accounted for the difference between the top producers and the average producers. When the study was finished, the difference between the two groups could not be attributed to skill, knowledge, or ability. The Forum Corporation found that the difference could be attributed to honesty! The persons who were rated top in sales were more productive because their customers trusted them.[xii] In a recent poll by U. S. News and World Report, people ...

1786. Is Sunday Just a Fun Day?

Exodus 20:7-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... to work by sin. That's why Jesus said in Jn. 5:17, "My Father has been working until now, and I have been working." God had to go back to work, and he called his Son, the Lord Jesus, to do a work of restoration; to restore man's ability to have a relationship to God. The Sabbath is not only a practice, it was also a prophecy. The Sabbath day pointed to another rest and another work. Just as God finished his work and rested, the Lord Jesus came and finished his work and rested. God rested after his ...

1787. The Sin of Robin Hood

Exodus 20:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... are a thief. You are keeping for yourself what rightly belongs to God. In Mt. 25, Jesus told the parable of the talents. He told of a rich man who called his servants together and gave them certain talents; that is, monies. He gave them monies according to their ability. But everybody received some money. When the Master came back he found that two of the men had invested his money, but one man had not. When he came to this third man and asked for him to give an account of his talent, here's what the man ...

1788. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... Federation of Teachers' President, Albert Shankers, suggests that more than half of U. S. students would not qualify for admission to college in Japan or Europe. Yet, the college dropout rate ranges between 66% and 75%, and only half of our high-ability students receive bachelor decrees within seven years of high school graduation.8 Sad to say, but we are producing a nation of illiterates. While more than two hundred years of Christian education in this country produced a .04% illiteracy rate, what has ...

1789. The Supreme Worth of the Second Birth

John 3:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... shall both presently appear, hath solemnly declared that without it we shall in no wise see His kingdom.[1] Well 250 years later it still behooves us to study this doctrine, because this phrase "born again" is overused and much abused. I have in my computer the ability to pull up over 350,000 journal articles on all kinds of topics. When I typed in the phrase "born again" and did a search, I pulled up 55 journal articles which incorporated the term "born again" into the title, and only three had anything to ...

1790. The Fellowship of Joy

Philippians 1:3-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... was the people that made the church, and not the church the people. That's what I love about our church. We are a people's church. You come here and you'll see different levels of education, different levels on a social scale, different interests, different abilities, and yet our hearts have been knit together by the invisible bond of the Holy Spirit. In an orchestra, all of the instruments are tuned to a tuning fork. When those instruments are tuned to the same note, they will all be in harmony. When your ...

1791. Bridging the Generation Gap

Ephesians 6:1-4

Sermon

James Merritt

... of us: Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, but to trust and obey. Now if you are a discouraged, or even a defeated parent, and you think you can never close that generation gap, that you just don't have the strength, ability, or power to build a bridge that will last, I want you to think about this. The greatest gap in the history of man is not the generation gap between parent and child, it was the degeneration gap between sinful man and holy God. If the Lord Jesus Christ can ...

1792. Gentle On My Mind (Fruit of the Spirit: Gentleness)

Galatians 5:23

Sermon

James Merritt

... their head and pretend the House of God was not being desecrated, Jesus stood up and said Church Street is not going to become Wall Street. Sometimes I am afraid that we get the idea that a meek person never gets angry. That is simply not true. Meekness is the ability always to get angry at the right time, but never to be angry at the wrong time. Meekness is not wimpishness. Num.12:3 tells us that Moses was the meekest man on the face of the earth. But he was anything but a wimp. He stood before the most ...

1793. Don't Forget to Remember

Jude 1:5-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... God could be trusted with their faith, or with their future. What happened? All of the nation, except for Joshua and Caleb, over twenty years of age, died in the wilderness. Now why does disbelief bring death? Well, if you think about it, disbelief questions the ability of God. It says, "Can He do what he says?" Disbelief questions the integrity of God. It says, "Does God do what he says?" Finally, disbelief questions the veracity of God. It says, "Will God do what he says he will do?" If you will think ...

1794. Thou Shalt Not Judge - True or False?

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... Soviet Communism, or known how to explain our opposition. How do we judge a wrong—any wrong whatsoever—when we have gutted the principle of judgment itself? What arguments can be made after we have stripped-mined all the arguments of their force, their power, their ability to inspire public outrage? We all know that there are times when we will have to judge others, when it is both right and necessary to judge others. If we do not confront the soft relativism that is now disguised as a virtue, we will ...

1795. Put Up and Shut Up

Proverbs 18:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... . "A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver. Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a wise reprover to an obedient ear." (Prov. 25:11-12) As we apply wisdom to the tongue, let me say that wisdom is the ability to say the right thing, in the right way, at the right time, to the right person, or not to say anything at all. This is a proverb not found in the book of Proverbs, but the truth is just as real. It is said that as a man grows ...

1796. Manual Labor Is Not the President of Mexico

Proverbs 6:6-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... has consequences that adversely affect everybody. The sluggard represents wasted talents. "He who is slothful in his work is a brother to him who is a great destroyer." (Prov. 18:9) The tragedy of the sluggard is that he wastes the God-given abilities and gifts that are to be used not only to be productive, but for the glory of his creator. What is worse, the lazy employee, besides being unproductive, is also destructive. He negatively affects an entire organization. As one writer astutely observed: That ...

1797. My God Is Real

Psalm 14:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... is 1050, not 1040,000.How big is 1040,000? Well, take all of the electrons in this universe—1052 —and multiply it times 10, making 1053. Multiply this by 10, making 1054. Keep multiplying this way until you have reached 1040,000. It's beyond our abilities to even imagine. Hoyle came to the conclusion that evolution cannot explain the source of life, and said that for any kind of life to exist anywhere in the universe, it must be by the hand of an eternally existent being of infinite power, and because ...

1798. The Law of the Harvest

Psalm 126:5-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... my spirit might have been, I simply could not cry." As a result of those dry eyes, I eventually lost my sight and I'm blind because I cannot shed tears."2 I think a lot of our churches are spiritually barren and spiritually blind because they have lost the ability to weep over those who are dying and going to hell all around them. III. The Soul-winner Worshipping I believe one of the highest forms of worship we can give to God is when we share the gospel of His beloved Son and try to bring people into His ...

1799. God, Elvis, and O.J. Simpson

Psalm 139

Sermon

James Merritt

... football. Galileo High School had a losing program; nobody came to see them play until a young bowlegged kid named O. J. Simpson began to run. As O. J. Simpson began to run, they began to win. He had moves no one had ever seen in a running back. His ability to fake and cut and slant was complimented by blinding speed. O. J. Simpson could run the 100 yard dash in 9.3 seconds. It was at this high school that he met Al Cowlings. But O. J. was destined to run some more. This was not his last run ...

1800. The Lion King

Revelation 5:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... of it. But Satan has usurped man's throne. He took it from the first Adam and now exercises dominion over it. This scroll is the official document that will determine the final outcome of human history. There is only one who has the power and the might and the ability to take this scroll, open it, and take title deed to all of the earth. He is "The Lion King"; not Disney's version, but God's version. I. The Worthiness of the Lion This chapter opens up like a mystery novel; there is a scroll. No one knows ...

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