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1926. Wednesday: The Way Of The Cross: Oooh, That Smell

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... perpetrated upon people for centuries. Conclusion Thanks to Belinda Mullen and Dillards, you've been given a small vial of perfume this morning. I don't expect you to wear it. But at some point today I'd like you open it and smell it and think about the extravagant gift which Mary, the sister for Lazarus gave that day and the love she poured out in giving it. I'd also like you to think about the life of Christ. And the life He Poured Out for you. His life, His blood "poured out for you and for many for ...

1927. A Chance To Help

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... much to offer but he brought and gave everything he had. He saw an opportunity and A Chance To Help. He offered himself and his gift and we know the rest of the story. This boy reminded me of something I learned in Israel. James Kinnear sent me a reminder of ... re like the Jordan flowing into and through the Sea of Galilee. When we don't, then we're like the Dead Sea and the gift dies and something inside us dies with it. William Barclay in his Daily Study Bible writes: "Jesus needs what we can bring him. It ...

1928. Cleaning House

Mark 1:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... s not that they didn't notice it, they did but there were so many other things to do to get ready for their first Christmas gathering in their new home. The hustle and bustle just seemed to never end. Decorating, cooking, cleaning, buying and wrapping the perfect gifts for everyone so that this could be the most perfect Christmas ever. It seemed like there was always one more thing to do, one more thing to clean up, put away or put together. And after awhile, Tom and Linda were so busy that they didn't feel ...

1929. The Character Of Christmas; Herod: The Not So Great

Matthew 2:13-22

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Why Jesus Came A few years ago, newspaper columnist Mike Royko shared the other side of the Christmas Story in one of his columns. He told about a stranger who put $1,600 in gold coins in a Salvation Army kettle. The person placed the gift there quietly and anonymously. This is exactly the kind of story the print media is looking for to demonstrate the spirit of caring that Christmas brings about. Unfortunately there was a follow up story. The local Salvation Army office began getting phone calls about the ...

1930. CSI: Jerusalem

Luke 24:36-48

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Christ. B. But that's not all. The fact that this Church is here, that there are people like you who respond to the needs of others. Who provide gifts and offerings so that ministry can happen and lives be changed. That's what happens when we tithe. God takes those gifts and offerings and blesses them and the givers. God blesses those gifts and sees that they multiply and are transformed into changed lives and ministry that touches hearts and meets needs. That's part of the Spiritual Evidence. Look around ...

1931. Cross Eyed: Glory

John 12:20-33

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... it reminds us of our place at the Table. Did you hear about the professor who was so absent-minded that when he fell down the stairs, he got up and said, "I wonder what all that noise was about?" You and I have been given a great gift, the gift of memory and the gift to access those memories. The Lord's Supper is a time when we remember. A time when we regain our memories of who we are and whose we are. And it's a time when God loses God's memory of those things we have done and ...

1932. The Dachshund Dilemma

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... person knows that he or she has a ministry to fulfill. As St. Paul tells us: “All of you are Christ’s body, and each one is part of it . . .” Some are the eye, some the ear, some the mouth, some are the feet . . . Paul speaks of the various gifts or vocations as parts of the body. But one thing is clear everyone has his or her role to play, and no part is more important than another. Simon Peter was the rock of the church at Jerusalem. Yet there would have been no Simon Peter leading the church if ...

1933. Discover The Joy Of Christmas

Luke 2:8-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

1934. Jesus Saves, We're Called To Invest

Matthew 25:14-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... you want to give keep you from doing what you can. Continue to invest yourself. You see, you can support the church and invest in God's work with your presence, your prayers and your service until you get back on your feet and you can support it with your gifts. If tithing is the issue for you, then challenge yourself, as a spiritual quest, to grow 1% at a time until you are tithing. Don't be a one talent servant. Invest yourself in the Church. "Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do ...

1935. Radical Love is Truthful (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... we’ve got to have it in the Church. That’s what he’s talking about here in the 4th chapter of Ephesians. He gives us a list of spiritual gifts. He talks about apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers, and a host of other spiritual gifts that makes the Church what it is. But we must make every effort in the midst of all of these multiple gifts to maintain the unity of the spirit, for there is one body and one spirit, just as there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of ...

1936. The Promise of Hope

Matthew 3:1-12

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... no room in the inn. John the Baptist came to be a sign pointing to the one who would follow him. He enters into our Christmas celebrations to remind us that Christmas and the birth of Jesus is about more than what we give one another, it's about the gift God has for us. Let's look at the passage for this morning: Matthew 3:1-12 (NRSV) [1] In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, [2] "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near." [3] This is the one of whom the ...

1937. Living While You Wait

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... glad.” There is a beautiful little gospel chorus which says, “Joy is the banner flying high over the castle of my heart when the King is in residence there.” We usually think of joy as something that is given. It is that. It is the gift of the spirit that becomes a condition of the heart which is confident of its relationship to Christ - or a forgiven sinner accepted by God’s grace with the Living Christ as daily companion. On the other hand, however, joy becomes the expression of celebration which ...

1938. Dying to Live

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Reds, the Philadelphia Phillies, then Montreal, and now he’s a player-manager with the Cincinnati Reds. He’s one of the few gray- haired baseball players around. One night he was in New York City for a banquet in his honor and one of the gifts they gave him was a grandfather clock. He returned to his hotel, carrying the grandfather clock awkwardly in his arms. As he entered the revolving door of the hotel just as another man was leaving you know what happened. The door jammed. After they finally got ...

1939. That The World May Believe

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... much as you have done it unto the least of these, you have done it unto me.” Who will use their money as a gift from God to bless other lives – who will use their money to guarantee that the Gospel is preached all over the world, that health and ... able to go it alone in the world. As they supremely need Jesus Christ, they will also need each other. As Christ gives to them the gift of the Holy Spirit to abide in them and with them on the journey, so now he gives them each other. This means that the strategy ...

1940. There Is a Price for Everything, Part 2

Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... there really a price tag on love? How can we appropriate the love of a husband or a wife without paying the price of attention and tenderness, caring and the disciplined giving of our time? How can we appropriate the beauty of God’s creation? To be sure it is gift, extravagant gift on the part of God. But how dull we are to that beauty? How often do we fail to allow that beauty to bathe our souls because we do not have eyes to see? We haven’t taken the time to sit quietly and take in the beauty that ...

1941. Three Wise Men

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... wondered about a star. Last Sunday we talked about Three Wise Women. Today we talk about three wise men. Now you know the men I’m talking about because you’ve heard the scripture lesson, and it’s Christmas time. Three wise men from the East bearing gifts for the newborn Messiah is as much a part of the Christmas story as shepherds and angels, a frightened but excited mother and a weary and confused but faithful father. I know the scripture doesn’t say there were three of them; that’s the tradition ...

1942. Exit and Entrance

Galatians 4:21-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... true children of Abraham, the true inheritors of the Promise, are not those whose bond of union is the law, but those who have been set spiritually free by the grace of Jesus Christ. This is the point Paul makes throughout this Galatian letter. Salvation is the Grace-Gift of God. We are not worthy of it. We cannot earn it. We’re justified with God by God’s Grace, and our faith-response to that grace. In the cross, Jesus has purchased our pardon, doing for us what we could never do ourselves. From this ...

1943. The Harvest of the Spirit, Part 1

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what Paul had experienced and was talking about. He saw it clearly on the road to Damascus. He caught the vision, not of an earthly father in bare—spied shoes on the cold steel floor of a mill, living in sacrificial love for his children, but in the gift of the Eternal Father of his son Jesus, who hung bare-hearted on a cross, poured out love and poured out life, it was that love that reconciled Paul to God, and brought him together inside. It all centered in the unifying love of Christ, Thus, joy, peace ...

1944. An Invitation to Christian Discipleship

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to: COME AND SEE. Check out the scene. About once a year I go shopping. Usually around December 25, I go to buy a Christmas gift for my wife. I shop so seldom I feel odd in a store, especially in the women’s clothing section. I usually go early in ... and let down your nets for a catch. There is better fishing out here yet.” Dig into The Book. Learn to pray. Discover your spiritual gifts. Take on some ministry that is bigger than you, that you can’t possibly do unless God does it. That is the kind of faith ...

1945. Diving Deeper

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... we feel like the apathetic owl who just doesn’t give a hoot anymore. John Ortberg tells about a church member by the name of Ralph whose native tongue was complaint. Even in a sea of happiness Ralph could always find that silver lining of unpleasantness. He had that gift, felt it was his calling. He could see the bad side of everything. His main complaint was that the music was too loud. He’d go up to visitors and say “Don’t you agree the music is too loud?” John said when I got a call from OSHA ...

1946. The Power of a Helping Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... been banged up a bit. It’s not those who talk the talk but those who walk the walk that make a difference in the hour of need. The Samaritan picked him up, put him up, and paid him up. He had eyes to see, a heart to care and gifts to share. Exactly what part of being a neighbor don’t we understand? I ran into a little piece when I was working on this sermon that I had never found before. It’s called “Always.” People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered, but love them anyway. If you are ...

1947. Serving the Poor—Compassionately

Matthew 25: 31-40

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... to be the sunshine of God's love. As the Saint William Law put it, “All religion is the Spirit of Love, all its gifts and graces are the gifts and graces of love. It has no breath, no life, but the life of love itself." I preached recently in ancient Corinth, where ... that he laid aside his usual text and delivered a eulogy on the greatness of the royal family. A few weeks later, a gift arrived for the pastor from the king. Inside was a life-size crucifix—a statue with Jesus hanging on the cross. Included ...

1948. Reaching Up—Reaching Out

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... 8:36). Make a financial declaration today. We need the discipline more than the church needs the money. The church needs to know, so we can plan wisely. Maybe the finest treasure we hold is not only our funds, but our time, our talent, our spiritual gifts that can be used in service to others. William Booth was a Methodist minister who left the church and founded the Salvation Army out of his passion for the poor of London. One day a reporter asked General Booth the "secret to his success." This soldier ...

1949. By Believing

1 Peter 1:13-21

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... the recipient's name or even the nature of their need; nevertheless you want to give to help them live. Let me say as I watched bag after bag of platelets given by this congregation, flow into my blood stream last year, that I gave thanks to God for your gift of life. You were a savior to me. A savior is someone who does for us what we cannot do for ourselves. So on a spiritual plain, I still like to sing: There is a fountain filled with blood, Drawn from Immanuel's veins, And sinners plunged beneath that ...

1950. Dancing with the Saints

Colossians 1:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of God’s people as “saints in the light” in which they now share. You know what? Paul’s prayers take all the “saintliness” out of being a “saint.” What Paul is saying here is that saints aren’t necessarily exceptionally pious, gifted holy people with healing powers, able to slay dragons and banish snakes. “Saints” are those sitting next to you in the pew. “Saints” wait on you at McDonalds. “Saints” check you out at the grocery story. “Saints” live in your heart and memory ...

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