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Showing 1851 to 1875 of 2669 results

1851. Fast Forward Faith

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... because Jill wanted him to but he never joined the church. He'd rather be fishing or hunting. And most Sunday's he was. We'd talked on numerous occasions. We even went fishing together a couple of times and had long talks about faith and beliefs. I could tell bill was becoming sort of interested because of the friendship that had developed between us. That church celebrated its 110th anniversary while I was there and we planned a big shebang. We even invited back a retired minister who had been pastor there ...

1852. What'll You Have?

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , "Who is Jesus, Daddy?" The following Sunday he insisted that everyone attend church, they were going to find out about this Jesus. After the service they made an appointment with the pastor. He went to their home and shared with them the story and belief about Jesus as Savior and Lord. As a result of that meeting in their home, both parents and children started attending Sunday School. Later they accepted Christ, joined the church and became one of the strongest and most joyful families in the church It ...

1853. We Are Blessed, Adopted and Sealed

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... is the life of a good steward. A steward is simply one who cares for the possessions of another. And Stewardship is simply the How of that caring. As Christians we affirm that everything we have and everything are belongs to God. Because of that belief, we see ourselves as the Stewards of God's stuff. As a consequence, how we use the gifts of life, faith, talents, money, emotions, family, friends, the church, the environment, all of those things which God has placed under our care, reflects how well we ...

1854. Beneath The Shadow Of The Cross

Mark 15:16-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... silence lingered for a short while and was broken only when the centurion surprised everyone by saying: "Truly this man was the Son of God." When John heard those words, his jaw and his eyes were thrown open in amazement and into the shocked disbelief of belief. The supreme acclamation and revelation came not through a voice from heaven but from a gentile, and one of the executioners. At that very moment, all of Jesus' teachings flooded into John's mind and soul to purge him of his grief. "The Son of God ...

1855. At Cross Purposes

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... others. For our children and for the future. Sometimes sacrifice and self denial take on a little bit different meaning as well. When Communist forces invaded Vietnam in the 1950s, Hien Pham, like many Vietnamese Christians, was arrested and jailed for his beliefs. After his release from prison, Pham made plans to escape Vietnam. He secretly began building a boat. Fifty-three fellow Vietnamese made plans to escape with him. One day, four Vietcong soldiers came to Pham's house and confronted him. They heard ...

1856. WWF: Smack Down In The Wilderness

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it didn't happen to the envious person. Gluttony: the craving and desire to consume more than is needed or required. It's pulling the stool up to the buffet and eating because it's there and you want to get as much as you can. Pride: the excessive belief in one's own abilities that interferes with the individual's recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity. (2) What we need to realize is that those demons don't just happen. They ...

1857. Don’t Blow Off What Is God-Breathed!

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Center’s Forum on Religion and Public Life published the results of an extensive survey on religious knowledge in North America. Some questions were about Christianity and the Bible. Other questions asked about Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, and Islamic core beliefs. When the results were tallied the high scorers were surprising. Atheists, agnostics, Mormons, and Jews scored in that order as the highest over-all. Out of 32 questions atheists and agnostics averaged 20.9 correct answers. Jews got the right ...

1858. 2 Timothy 3:14-4:5

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... is being urged to use scripture first to reveal the sinfulness of wrong attitudes and actions, and thus “reproofing” the negative behavior. Second, Timothy is being challenged to provide scripturally revealed right behaviors and beliefs, positive “corrections” to all those negative notions. Finally, “training” or “education” (“paideia”) “in righteousness” is accomplished through the knowledge and practice of scripture. In Greco-Roman culture the goal of “paideia” was to promote ...

1859. There Will Be Peace

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... any presents to give or receive. If you don’t know them, buy some food and a few gifts and give them to the Salvation Army or some other Christian charity, and they will make the delivery for you. 10. Finally, if you want to make a statement about your belief in and loyalty to me, then behave like a Christian. Don’t do things in secret that you wouldn’t do in my presence. Let people know by your actions that you are one of mine. Don’t forget; I am God and can take care of myself. Just love ...

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Thomas Wolfe

1861. Fear of Dying

Lk 20:27-38

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King Duncan

... on numbers, which he trusted above all else. In contrast, he did not subscribe to his family's religion. Even at a young age, he was too mathematical, and too logical, to make the leap of faith. He adopted his father's ethical underpinnings, but not his belief in an unseen divinity." And thus Warren Buffet, one of the most successful men in the world, is stricken with one terrifying fear, the fear of dying. On a lighter note, Buffett once said, "What I want people to say when they pass my casket is, "Boy ...

1862. Apocalyptic Literature

Luke 21:5-38

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Theodore F. Schneider

This is a style of writing popular among the Hebrews from the days of the exile and into the first century. There was the belief that the world of this "age" was evil and unredeemable. As the next "age" of righteousness breaks in with God's intervention, the powers of evil will rage until they are finally defeated and the righteous of God are vindicated. There were, of course, many variations on the basic theme. ...

1863. Timing Is Everything

Matthew 11:2-12

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Mark Trotter

... , "Are you the one, or do we look for another?" It is a critical question for John. John has preached that the time has come. The Messiah, he said, is about to appear, so repent, get ready, put your lives in order. He has devoted his whole life to the belief that the time has come. But he is in prison now. He is about to lose his head. So he sends his disciples to ask Jesus, "Are you the one that we have been waiting for, or do we still look for somebody else?"

1864. St. Andrew Christians

John 1:35-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... hearts and souls, as though they were truly exceptional events. We parade the pedestrian. We applaud what should be ordinary. We are so acclimated to badness that to entertain an expectation of decency and the occasion of excellence is almost beyond our belief. It is far easier to believe that everyone lies, that everyone is evil, than to open ourselves to the possibility that someone might genuinely be offering us something good. And what if that “something” was more than simple politeness or momentary ...

1865. The Case of the Dancing Men

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the quality of the Father’s love. The story is about a man who was awakened in the middle of the night by a phone call. He was groggy. The girl on the other end was weeping. “Daddy,” she said, “I’m pregnant.” Though stunned beyond belief, this man forgave his daughter and prayed with her over the phone. The next day he and his wife wrote two letters to their daughter filled with counsel and love. Three days later the man received another phone call. It was from his daughter. She was shocked ...

1866. Leaving Home

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... God speaks, we obey. We don’t say, “I’ve got to bury my father”; we don’t say, “I can’t afford it”; we don’t say, “My friends in Sunday School won’t approve.” God speaks. We obey. Faith is much, much more than belief. Jesus said even the demons believe. Faith is action. Faith is obedience to God. When Hitler and the Nazi Party took control of Germany in the 1930s, many German Christians refused to cooperate. One of these was Martin Niemoeller, a Lutheran pastor. He was put in prison ...

1867. Come with Me to the Mountain

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... grace you and I can yet become. Perhaps on that mountain we will gain new confidence in God’s presence in our lives. All of us believe in an intellectual way that God is with us. But sometimes we need a mountain-top experience to make that intellectual belief a divine reality in our lives. Rev. Kip Gilts tells of hearing author Philip Yancey speak on prayer. One of the stories Yancey told was about climbing Mt. Wilson in Colorado with his wife, Janet. Yancey said that, just as he and Janet got to the top ...

1868. Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Romans 4:1-25

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... traditionally Abraham is seen as the first pagan convert. Before God established the covenant with Abraham, all the world was “gentile” or “ungodly” before God. It is while Abraham is in this state that God “reckoned” (“elogisthe”) his belief in God’s promise, as righteousness. “Elogisthe” is a technical bookkeeping term denoting a “credit to one’s account.” God “credits,” and Abraham gains “righteousness,” because of his faith, not because of any works. It is the birth ...

1869. Before I Build a Wall…

John 4:1-26

Illustration

J. Howard Olds

Robert Frost was a great poet. One of his best poems is "Mending Wall." It's the story of two New England farmers who go out each spring to mend the rock fences that have fallen down over the winter. They do it every spring, under the belief that "good fences make good neighbors." But this particular spring, one farmer is beginning to question that long held assumption. As they work their respective sides of the fence, wearing their fingers raw with the rocks, he begins to reason. "He is all pine and I am ...

1870. Disillusioned Thomas

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... two years old, a nursemaid was employed in the Freud household. This nursemaid made a profound impression on young Sigmund. He was very much attracted to her. She took him to church with her, told him stories from the Bible and indoctrinated him in the beliefs of the church. So impressed was the young lad that on returning home from a church service he would pretend he was the preacher. Unfortunately this nursemaid was convicted of a theft in a local store and consequently was dismissed. “It would be fair ...

1871. The Meals-on-Wheels Temple

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... bad thing.” “Not necessarily a bad thing” for thousands of people driven from their homes, losing all they have, to be offered food and shelter by caring, compassionate people of faith? “Not necessarily a bad thing” for individuals to put their beliefs into action, to volunteer their time, money, sweat, and service, in the interest of helping those who are desperately in need, so at risk? “Not necessarily a bad thing” for the church to reclaim its spiritual connection to the community in which ...

1872. Scrape the Barnacles Off

Job 42:1-6

Illustration

Alan Carr

... us. They must be scraped off. How did Job do it? The same way we can do it through faith. Faith is the only thing that can heal the hurts. Job scraped the barnacles off. It was painful! The scars would remain but his life was put back together. Strong belief in God was the medicine. His wife and his friends could not do it only God could! Job said, "I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from Thee." Job 42:2.

1873. Loving Others

John 14:15-31

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Keith Wagner

When others do things that go against our beliefs they become very difficult to love. And yet, Jesus tells us that loving others is what he expects of us. Love is the essence of our faith. It is to be unconditional, sacrificial and never ending. But, let's be honest, there are times when loving others is not easy. ...

1874. Grabbing up the Truths

John 17:1-11, Phil 3:12-17

Illustration

... ....even grotesque. Until the person holding it became grotesque. Which happens in my business all the time. And which is why I hold the truths I love in humble hands. For short of eternity, there is little I can claim with absolute certainty. I suppose if you persist in a belief that out there is to be found "the one true church," all I can tell you is where you cannot find it....that being the church that claims (to the point of bragging) that they have it. Whatever you do, don't go there.

1875. Times Were Hard

Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30

Illustration

Trace Haythorn

... 's community, they could be referring to today in any town or city in America. The pervasive apathy of our age, the sense that nothing can improve and to bother trying to make things better is a fool's errand, the despair that makes us resign our hearts to a belief that poverty, hunger and homelessness have no real answers. Such matters are left to Sisyphus, sadly rolling that stone up the hill only to have it roll back down, generation after generation after generation.

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