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1801. Practice Being Good

1 Thessalonians 4:1

Children's Sermon

... is like an elevator that you can hold in your hand? Do you know? How about a Yo-Yo? How many of you have played with our friend, Yo-Yo? It’s hard, isn’t it? I think it’s hard. Sometimes it’s so hard that I feel like giving up. (Play with the Yo-Yo and get it to go up and down a couple of times before failing). How many of you have done this before? It isn’t easy, is it? Would one of you like to try? (Let one try it. A child whom you know won ...

1802. The First Sunday In Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... impossible it is for us to do any of them through our own strength. Any Lenten discipline which does not help us see that it is not us, but God working through us, mocks the sacrifice of the cross. To use the example from my senior high days, I can give up watermelon for Lent on my own, thank you, and do it very successfully on my own. To reorder the priorities of my life so, at least for the season of Lent, I am able to tithe my income will, more than likely, send me looking for help from the One ...

1803. Facing Life’s Central Tests

Mark 14:32-42

Sermon

Robert Allen

... hemmed in by our problems. All of us face those tests in life. And we don’t know where to turn. Ultimately, every one of us reaches this point. Even Jesus reached this point in his life, and he responded not by lashing out. He responded not by giving up. He responded not by trying to laugh off his pain. He responded by seeking God’s fellowship in prayer. Is there something in your life that is causing you pain? Is there something in your life that is filling you with doubt and fear? Is there something ...

1804. The Kind of People Whom God Chooses

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... church still squabbles about who is good enough to serve the Lord. When that happens, I suggest we read the Bible. None of us are good enough, but God wants us anyway. That is not to say the work is easy. Jesus said, “I want to invite you to give up fish to go fishing.” Ever since the time of Jeremiah,1 whenever anybody talked about “going fishing,” it was a metaphor for doing God’s work. When Jesus said, “Go fish,” he meant to gather in as many fish as we could, so that God alone can sort out ...

1805. The Second Touch for the Out of Touch

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Robert Leslie Holmes

... out and stand on the mountain before the Lord, for the Lord is about to pass by” (1 Kings 19:11). Listen for the sound of the silence, the voice that speaks to a quieted heart and reminds you that God’s love for you has never failed. Don’t give up when depression comes. Don’t be a spiritual has-been. “The Lord said to him, ‘Go, return on your way’ ” (1 Kings 19:15). It’s another way of saying to Elijah and to you and me, “Go back the way you came.” And the way we came was through ...

1806. The Day God Repented

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... author to be precise, who had written a book that wasn't favorable in its description of the Bulgarian government. Markov had fled his home country and tried to find peace and a new life in Britain. He had forgotten one thing, however: the enemy doesn't give up on you just because you've changed sides. That lesson came home swiftly one night on London's Waterloo Bridge. Markov was walking across the bridge, coming home to his family after a day of work. Suddenly he felt a sting on the back of his thigh ...

1807. Idle Tale Or Eternal Truth?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... possibilities. You may take your pick. I do not believe that J.B Phillips, however, would have been willing to have been thrown into the gladiator's ring to support his contention that he really had seen Lewis. The disciples, however, were willing to give up every thing they had including their lives in defense of their contention that Christ was alive. Why? Because they now knew without a doubt that death no longer had dominion over them. Christ was alive and they devoted the rest of their lives spreading ...

1808. Partners In The Gospel

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Brett Blair

... thing. CHRIST ASKS US TO DO NO MORE THAN HE HIMSELF HAS DONE. The next time you judge another to be unworthy, think how unworthy you and I are of the sacrifice Christ made for us. If loving people who are not like us is difficult, imagine a holy God giving up His Son for unholy humanity. We began this meditation telling about a young man helping a paraplegic friend scale the face of a great mountain. I hope it causes you to think of what Christ did for us on Calvary. He came into this world of sin and death ...

1809. Thank God, We're Already Dead

Romans 6:1b-11

Sermon

William G. Carter

... back. I didn't know if I would ever make it." But she did. Forty years later, she says that ending became her beginning. A whole new life began when it looked like she reached the end of the road. From time to time, we lose jobs. We give up routines. We watch our children grow up and move away. We change addresses. We lose marriages. We mourn loved ones. All of these losses are real, and hurtful - and all of them are also reminders that we cannot completely become Christian until we say, "Good-bye" to the ...

1810. Others

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... tracing... if you pushed down too hard, if you tried to go too fast, the little gear-teeth that kept the parts moving against each other would skip, get stuck, or break the flow of your hand-movement. Your design would be spoiled. If you give up your dependence on simple straight lines, on the safety of old-standard divisions - rich and poor; black and white; men and women; old and young; first world and third world; high-tech and teched-off; Boomer and Buster - means opening ourselves up to ambiguities and ...

1811. Go Meditate!

Revelation 19:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... when my 15-year-old acts like the world revolves around him. It doesn't delight in evil (is not self-righteous) when I remind my 17-year-old that he's going 83 in a 55-mph zone, but rejoices in the truth. Love doesn't give up hope. It always protects our children's self-esteem and spirit, even while doling out discipline. It always trusts God to protect our children when we cannot. It always perseveres, through blue nail polish, burps and other bodily functions, rolled eyes and crossed arms, messy rooms and ...

1812. The Lost and Found Job

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

James W. Moore

... ,” in Luke 16, because we see here that God can use regular people… and sometimes he can also use rascals. The unjust steward was just that… unjust, a rascal. He had been misusing his master’s money… and it cost him his job. However, he didn’t just give up. He came up with a plan. He went to his master’s debtors and said to one: “You owe a hundred measures of oil. Take your bill and write fifty.” To another, he said: “You owe a hundred measures of wheat, take your bill and write eighty ...

1813. LOST? Pursuing Purpose

1 Peter 2:9-10

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... instinct, or become an all-time great. As much as she loved to play tennis and hone all the skills to make her the best, she did not want to do it at someone else's expense. She thinks her injuries that caused her have to give up the professional tennis circuit were a Godsend. She could start focusing on what she felt called to do and be. With an associates degree in theology, Andrea Jaeger pursued ministry and in September of 2006 she was ordained. Sister Andrea Jaeger is officially still in the apprentice ...

1814. The Challenge, The Call, The Cure

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and The Call. Just as Jesus called Matthew and said: "Follow me." We too are called to "Follow Him." We're called to live a life like His. Now, I'm not talking about becoming an itinerant preacher gathering disciples, preaching in fields and performing miracles. Don't give up your day jobs. Instead, I'm talking about being a disciple. I'm talking about living a life whose sole purpose is to glorify God and to become more and more like Jesus every day. The Call is also to spread the Good News of Jesus, who ...

1815. Being Two People at Once

2 Samuel 11:1-15

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... more thinly if we have become too much of a rut kind of person. Balance is the key — as well as constantly being willing to plow up and replant. That way we don't get stuck in wanting toxic things. Joseph Campbell said it well: We have to give up the life we know if we are to receive the life being offered. New life is always being offered to us — including how to live without Bathsheba or how to live as an ordinary chess player rather than a champion. Consider the butterfly. These insects know a lot ...

1816. Seismic Shift

2 Corinthians 7:2-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... you know why? You have never repented. Then there are others of us and we do love Jesus, we do know Jesus, and we want to live for Jesus, but we have a pet sin that we keep on a leash, in a closet, that we don’t want to give up. For some of us, it is greed and hunger for money. For some of us, it is our sex life or our social life, or for some of us it is our temper, or our impatience. For some of us, it is our pride that keeps us from going to ...

1817. Jesus’s Glory and Majesty Disclosed

Mark 9:2-13

Teach the Text

Grant R. Osborne

... messianic forerunner (see Mal. 4:5). Teaching the Text 1. The suffering of the Christ leads to his glory.The transfiguration demonstrates the actual implications of the cross: suffering leads to glory. The Messiah was called first to be the Suffering Servant, to give up his life as atoning sacrifice and substitute for our sins (“ransom” [10:45]). Yet the divine purpose was for this to be his glory and to lead to his (and our) vindication in resurrection. This is a major New Testament emphasis: Jesus’s ...

1818. Invitation to the Thirsty

Isaiah 55:1-13

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... All are familiar. First, Yahweh’s way of running the world and fulfilling a plan for it is indeed very different from the one that the Judean community would have adopted (vv. 8–9). They would never have worked through Cyrus. They are going to have to give up their perspective and work with Yahweh’s. Second, on the other hand they can be sure that Yahweh succeeds in fulfilling a plan (vv. 10–11). Once Yahweh’s mind is made up and spoken, things happen. These two verses form a bracket with 40:6–8 ...

1819. Did I Say That Out Loud?

Mark 8:31-38; 9:2-9

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... Peter, James, and John’s minds for the six days. They wondered what his coming in his Father’s glory would look like. They most likely questioned if they would be able to take up their crosses and follow him? They may have wondered if they could give up their lives to save the world? Could it be them he was talking about when he said that anyone who gains the world would lose their soul? There were lots of questions in their minds as they climbed the high mountain. The scripture doesn’t say that ...

1820. Capernaum by the Sea

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... your heritage. This is your savior. Not the milquetoast, sugary sweet, calm guy we often depict in Christian art, but the fiercely determined, street savvy, multi-lingual, disruptive leader of a movement that would change the world as people knew it. He would never give up on anyone. He would never stop looking for every single one of God’s lost. Scared of change? Don’t like disruption? Then, don’t follow Jesus. But if you do –get ready for your world and your assumptions to change, cause Jesus? He ...

1821. More Than Just Image

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.” “I myself will search for my sheep. . .” God never gives up on us. Since the beginning of humanity, God has worked through judges, priests and kings to establish God’s Kingdom of peace, justice and flourishing on the earth. But all these qualities are simply byproducts of living in a right relationship with God and with ...

1822. Have I Got News For You!

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

William L. Self

... , if there is any time we can pierce through the evening news and get a glimpse of hope, it is at Christmastime. I don't know if the nation is in a recession or depression, but if you listen to the news very much, you are just about ready to give up on life. One story after another of how bad it is fills our family rooms. I felt good the other night before watching the evening news, but when it was over, all I could think of was that I need a little Christmas right now. Don't show me anything ...

1823. Invest In The Future

Jeremiah 32:1-44

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... me to take chemotherapy treatments, the chance of them offering any help at all was very slim. My doctors said treatments would most likely only bring misery to my final days. This was, of course, very bad news for me. I fell into a deep despair. I was ready to give up. All I could see was darkness. "As I lay in this dark despair in my hospital bed, I started reading a Bible that was in my room. I happened to turn to the book of Jeremiah. What I read there changed my life. It also literally gave me life ...

1824. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 10:17-31

Bulletin Aid

Wayne H. Keller

... ?" (Thirty seconds of silence.) "What investment do you have in keeping God out?" (Silence.) "What are you afraid to let God change? That unhealthy liason?" (Pause briefly after each suggestion.) "Gossiping about one's neighbors? Opening your pocketbook for the right causes? Giving up your 'fun' times? What?" (Silence.) "What would need to happen to you to let God in?" (Silence.) Unison Prayer With openness of heart and mind, I acknowledge before you, God, the thoughts I often allow to enter my mind and to ...

1825. You Can Be In Heaven Or Hell

Psalm 139:1-24

Sermon

Michael B. Brown

... of celebration God is near (lavishing upon us all those things that make life meaningful). And, in our moments of struggle or suffering, God is still near (providing the hope and courage to keep on keeping on when it would be far easier to give up and cave in). Sometimes we find that God even moves into the experiences that seem like hell and turns them into Paradise. "Even when the darkness falls around me, Thou makest the darkness bright; for darkness is as light with thee." Robert Schuller's daughter ...

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