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1901. Pillars of the Church

Exodus 17:8-16, Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... group of Aarons and Hurs with whom you meet regularly? Our youth have had small groups for quite a while. They are called Discipleship Groups or "D" groups; these are simply small groups of Aarons and Hurs. We have approximately 2000 members of Christ Church who are in some kind of small group. But our membership is over 6000. I want to challenge those other 4000 to try a small group. My second question is this: FOR WHOM ARE YOU AN AARON OR HUR? Are there some people who can count on you to hold them up? I ...

1902. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... are a storehouse tither; you give ten percent of each and every dime you make to the First Baptist Church in Yazoo City. Then as the Lord blesses you, you give over and above your tithes." "Yes, ma'am," Jerry replied. "Well," she said, "If I made the kind of money you make, I would be a storehouse tither too." "Wait a minute, darlin'," Jerry said, "I was a storehouse tither when I was selling fertilizer and owed everybody in Mississippi. But the Lord found me faithful when I had a little. Now he's trusting ...

1903. A Thanksgiving Question

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... ?" "That's right," said Dr. Taylor. "We supply all the light for all the stars in the entire universe." That's the kind of humbling word the ancient Corinthians needed to hear. Perhaps all of us over-achievers need to hear it if we are ... to see. But God always leave us the right to receive him or reject him or ignore him. If we receive him as Lord, he delivers a kind of good life we could never even imagine...abundant life here on earth and eternal life hereafter. And it's all sheer grace, an expression of ...

1904. The Biggest Blessing of All

Deuteronomy 11:1-32

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... like this? Show the small heart. Well, guess what? Your parents ALWAYS feel like this show the big picture of the heart no matter what kind of trouble you might get into. And when you make them happy, your heart gets to feel this big, too. That is a blessing! ... we love and serve God with all our heart and all our soul, He lets our hearts feel big and full of a very special kind of love. This kind of love is so amazing that it is truly a curse to miss out on it! Let’s Pray: Father, help us to obey your ...

1905. The Healing Power of Touch

Matthew 9:18-26

Sermon

Brett Blair

... recorded time in scripture that Jesus used that term) daughter, your faith has made you well. And, we are told, she was immediately healed. The desperation of her faith thus became the channel that led to her healing. I The story is saying there are two kinds of touch, the first being physical touch. So often when Jesus wanted to transmit His power of love, he physically touched people--the man born blind and the children in Jerusalem being two examples. An embrace, a kiss, an arm on the shoulder, a pat on ...

1906. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... angels who rebelled against the rule of God and were cast out of heaven. Satan tries to connect with the original sin in all of us, attempting to separate us from God and make this world resemble hell. II The second truth declared is that God is patient and kind. In Jesus' parable, the owner of the farm does not clean out the weeds right away. God is amazingly patient with us sinners. Listen to this word from II Peter 3:9: "The Lord is not slow about his promise, as some think of slowness, but is patient ...

1907. Surrender

Luke 23:44-49

Sermon

Burton F. Blair

... had caused her to survive. "I believed, still do, and always will," she said, "in a life after death. I always believed in that, I always feel, when I’m tired or feeling my years. ‘Ah, I’ll be seeing Charlie and Mary.’ "2 That’s the kind of commitment that breathes eternal life. It is reported that when Gertrude Stein was dying in Paris, some of her friends stood about her bed. She opened her eyes and asked, "What is the answer?" There was no reply because they did not know the answer any more ...

1908. The Voices Of Christmas

Drama

Jerry Nordstrom

... ya know, not real early. TRADITIONALIST: My son-in-law hates it, but maybe if I start them young enough, the grandchildren will learn to like lutefisk. [pronounced LUU-te-fisk] HOMEMAKER: Our circle packed cheer boxes for shut-ins Tuesday morning. I brought cookies - five kinds. It’s a good thing, too. No one else had thought to bring anything good for us to eat. TRADITIONALIST: I was so upset with the Sunday school program this year. The children sang, and that was nice, but they didn’t have any of the ...

1909. Rediscovering Our Spiritual Dimension

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... ’s new creation. In the Book of Revelation (chapter 21), St. John, one of the earliest of the Christian saints, had a vision of the Holy City, and he wrote: "And the city lieth foursquare: the length and the breadth and the height of it were equal." What kind of nonsense is this? What city can be as high as it is long or wide? John was thinking of its spiritual dimension and of our human expectations that nourish it. Will the generations that follow us take their quality from the extent to which you and I ...

1910. Blessed among Women

Luke 1:39-45, 1 Samuel 2:1-11

Sermon

Erskine White

... life. Instead, she yielded both to God, that she might be an instrument of His will. "Let it be with me according to Your word." Mary allowed herself to be used and permitted her life to be changed forever in service to a higher good. Today that kind of self-subordination is condemned in many circles by women and men alike, who consider it "old-fashioned," "repressive" or "unliberated." It may be all of that and more in the eyes of the world, but Mary’s spirit of self-giving obedience and humility surely ...

1911. Like a Dove

Mark 15:21-32

Children's Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... would want a snake as a pet. I don’t think any of you has a rooster as a pet, do you? Or a goat? That would be kind of hard to take care of; or a donkey - that would be fun to ride, but I don’t know where you’d keep it. You couldn’t take ... it to bed with you, could you? But what about that next one? What’s down at the bottom? What kind of an animal, or creature, is that? Do you know? Right. It’s a bird, in fact, a dove. How many of you have a bird for a pet ...

1912. Christian Courage

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... people who lived in comfort, prestige, and power, the last thing they wanted was any disturbance of the way things were. It was to their advantage to stay on friendly terms with the Roman government. They were fearful that Peter’s preaching would provoke the wrong kind of attention from the Roman authorities. We know this is not the first time a small group of people, in order to protect their own vested interests, would not listen to the truth or give anyone else a chance to hear it. So for preaching the ...

1913. Bridges, Not Walls!

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... up. He then returned home, beaten and bloodied. Later in life, he recalled raising his battered lips to the ear of his mother and asked, "Mama, who is Christ?"1 Unfortunately their history is full of these experiences. Most of us Gentiles have little experience with that kind of persecution. We who are white also have a very difficult time appreciating what it is like to be a person of color in the country. When they step out of their houses they have to be on guard, on the alert, anxious and suspicious of ...

1914. Authenticity vs. Showmanship

Matthew 23:1-12

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... one of two things happened to those people who took the Pharisees and scribes very seriously: 1) They would eventually feel disheartened and discouraged by unending rules, and thereby discount and distance themselves from the religious enterprise; or 2) they would become the kind of devotees who would be a sort of sub-college or group, just a couple steps below the status and station of scribe and Pharisee. They would fashion their own sense of security, set their own level of life station, and thereby have ...

1915. The Jericho Road: Where the Action Is

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

J. Ellsworth Kalas

... was confronted by a blind beggar, or where, on the edge of the city, He met and changed a mean tax collector. And also, of course, the Jericho Road brought to mind Jesus’ great story of the Good Samaritan - a story of peril, violence, and mercy. That’s the kind of road it was in Jesus’ day. It was a major thoroughfare, and a hazardous one. Jerusalem is 2,300 feet above sea level while Jericho is nearly 1,300 feet below sea level. This means that in the course of twenty miles there is a drop of some ...

1916. Stewards and Our Bodies

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... image. To be male and female is one of God’s many gifts, and we must never use sex as a basis for discrimination of any kind. One is not better than the other, and we must see ourselves as being a part of the design of the Creator. We Christians believe that ... biblical principles and to conduct our own relationship with our spouse as a model of Christian conduct. It is true that some kind of sex education happens whether we want it to or not. So many of our children grow up learning about their sexuality ...

1917. Resurrection: From Burn-Out to New Vision

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... you envy the folks who are on their way to the cemetery. You literally wish you could lie down and sleep forever. Or, if you haven’t reached that extreme, you may have fantasized about being sick. Maybe you have thought how nice it would be to have some kind of painless illness that was nevertheless so serious that your physician would order you to go to the hospital and stay in bed until she tells you that you can get up. We see another symptom of burn-out when Elijah says, "Lord, take my life; for I am ...

1918. A Man Who Lost His Head

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... we truly doing them a favor? Solitude was another factor that was in John’s background and helped to determine the kind of man he became. He spent long months out in the desert - alone. In the solitude of the desert, he ... easily. Herod couldn’t get rid of John. Time couldn’t get rid of John. He still lives. He lives forever. And we must remember to take that kind of a long look. Just a few months later, when news of the preaching of Jesus came to Herod, he cried out in anguish and remorse, "It must ...

1919. They Also Serve Who Wait

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Thomas Long

... It is God alone who saves, and part of what it means to be fully human is to wait for his coming. Jesuit priest William F. Lynch has observed that there are two kinds of waiting. One kind waits because "there is nothing else to do." The other is born out of hope. The decision to engage in this hopeful kind of waiting ... ... is one of the great human acts. It includes, surely, the acceptance of darkness, sometimes its defiance. It includes the enlarging of one’s perspective beyond a present moment ... It ...

1920. Practicing Righteousness

Matthew 6:1-4

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... loud sound. Your ears split with the noise. Across the church, down the aisle, a man is walking towards the altar playing the trumpet with one hand and holding his offering high with the other. Jesus says NO to that practice of almsgiving, that kind of offering, that kind of public righteousness. But let us not judge the trumpet playing man too quickly. Quite often we have our own ways, don’t we, of publicly practicing our offerings? I certainly always liked it when the list of figures was posted of the ...

1921. Take a Close Look (At the Widow)!

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... take up residence in a nursing home. Somehow, even there, he managed to sacrificially set aside a modest weekly offering for his church. He would hand it to his minister when he called, "not reluctantly or under compulsion," but like the widow, gladly. He and she were the kind of givers who warm the heart of God, "for God loves a cheerful giver." The old man expressed his philosophy of wealth in a poem that he wrote when he was nearly eighty. It goes, in part, like this: ... let’s use our money in such a ...

1922. How Can We Foretell the Future?

1 Kings 2:1-12

Sermon

Edward Chinn

... two sides to every question," objected one man who tried to minimize the importance of making choices. "Yes," said his friend, "and there are two sides to a sheet of flypaper, but it makes a big difference to the fly which side he chooses!" God has two kinds of blessings. The one kind of blessing he gives us, whether we deserve it or not, "for he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil" (Matthew 5:45, TEV). The other blessing of God ...

1923. Proper 20

Job 26:1--31:40, James 3:13-18, Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... people: not all wisdom is the same! And not all wisdom is of equal value. People: WE MIGHT EVEN SAY THAT THERE IS WISDOM, AND THERE IS WISDOM; AND IT IS WELL THAT WE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. Leader: One kind of wisdom is worldly, and leads only to blind ambition and selfish ends. People: THE OTHER KIND OF WISDOM IS FROM ABOVE, AND LEADS TO RIGHTEOUS LIVING BEFORE GOD. Collect God of wisdom and truth, who have made your will known in revelation after revelation, open our minds to the wisdom that comes from above ...

1924. Proper 29

Jeremiah 23:1-8, Revelation 1:4-8, John 18:28-40

Bulletin Aid

Paul A. Laughlin

... in expectation of his triumphal return. Forgive us, we pray, and redirect our attention and our affection to that ruler of all rulers, before whom every knee will one day bow. In his name we pray. Amen Gospel: John 18:33-37 Theme: A different kind of King Exegetical Note The conversation about kingship between Pilate and Jesus reported by John is a classic case of two people "talking past one another." John’s Pilate clearly is looking for an excuse to execute Jesus, so Jesus’ admission that he is any ...

1925. What Is God Made Of?

Acts 17:16-34

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... and girls, people thought that their God’s were made of things like this statue I have here. Do you know what I mean’? People thought that this statue was a god and they put the statue on a shelf and everybody thought that their house was protected from any kind of evil spirits. This statue is made of marble. Other people liked to think their god was made in the form of a painting and they had a great artist paint them a copy so that everyone would picture god in the same way. A real long time ago, boys ...

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