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1951. Straight Talk With A Young Adult

Matthew 19:16-30

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... on to quote about half of them. Most of the rules of the Bible are general principles. Keeping them will not earn you a ticket to heaven, but breaking them will certainly separate you from our righteous and holy God. The rules of God, interpreted though the love of Christ, are our guideposts for living. There are some persons who say, "I don't believe in rules. I just make up my mind what is best in each situation." Such a person is terribly naive. He over-estimates his powers of detached decision-making ...

1952. Judgement Day Is Coming

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

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... well as the gentle truth. I declared to them your revealed truth as given to me through your Holy Word." There is only one way to by-pass judgment and to be assured of spending eternity in heaven. It is to repent and to believe the good news that "God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son so that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life." If you repent of your sin and trust in this Jesus Christ as your personal Savior and Lord, you will by-pass judgment and heaven will be ...

1953. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)

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

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

1954. Just A Whisper

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... for Ahaz. It is not enough for many people today, and hence we put our trust in might and power. The sign of God’s love in Jesus may seem every bit as ineffective as we face our personal crises. We want more tangible means. What good is a sign unless ... that is coming your way - Emmanuel. God immanent. God is with you. When bodily health fails there is still the gift of God’s love. In grief or hardship, in poverty or privation, the reminder at this season is that long ago, to people longing for light in ...

1955. The Two Most Important Questions A Christian Can Answer

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Brett Blair

... question. You have to want to know the truth. The Pharisees, by contrast, already had the answers to their questions. They felt they already knew the truth. How many times have we had it in for someone and ask a question designed to trap them. We do it to our loved ones all the time. In a moment like this we are not trying to learn; we are trying to injure. The Pharisees come to Jesus once again with a question designed to do damage to the reputation of Jesus. And once again Jesus proves he is equal to the ...

1956. The Good News of the Cross

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... an end to? Stop to think of the implications. What would God do? Kill all evil men? How? Earthquake? Fire? Lightning? Who? Where does He stop? If God destroys all who resist His will, how would you and I come out? No, God has another way, the way of the loving Father. He meets man where he is, in man’s world. He suffers everything that man’s sin can bring upon the world. He does it all with a breaking heart. What is God like? The Cross tells that. He lets the rejection run its full course to the Cross ...

1957. Lifting the Burden of Guilt

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... wrote a hymn to it: O Felix Culpa (O Happy Guilt) Praise to thee, dear brother Guilt! Strong Son of God’s law and love Who dost not cease thy pricks When we would stop to play with dangerous toys Who goads us from the quicksands of anger ... ! How do you answer? I spoke to the one in the darkness: "Yes! Yes, you can be forgiven, if you truly want to be forgiven. All the love of God, all the suffering of Christ on a Cross say you can be forgiven. Christ says to you now, ‘Your sins are forgiven, go and sin no ...

1958. The Dynamic Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... so many words: Wretched man that I am, who will deliver me? What must I do to be saved? But the question is asked in a variety of ways. Is there any help for this infirmity of mine? What can I do to alleviate the suffering of a loved one? How can I meet this crisis, this heartbreak? Whence comes the saving strength and wisdom to meet life when it shows its seamy side? In the third chapter of Ephesians, Paul shows how Christ answers the question. He describes the joy, the strength, the peace, the steadiness ...

1959. Home for the Holidays

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

William G. Carter

... anger. The law says, “Honor your father and mother.” Putting your parents through three days of anguish is not a way to honor or respect them. On the other hand, the young Jesus was pushing us beyond the horizon to a greater requirement of faith: “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.” For he said to them, “Didn’t you know that I should be in my Father’s house?” He was acknowledging that there is one family tie that transcends ...

1960. In, But Not Of, The World

Jeremiah 29:1-23

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... God has placed you, as a creature who is in and not of the world. When you recognize that you do not have a real stake in the things of the world except to see it as an opportunity to love God by loving his creatures and the things he has made, you will not be able to stop showering love and compassion on the world and its creatures. You will do all that for the glory of God. Being in the world, engaging in activities that can help the world, is a fulfilling, liberating, spiritual experience that will make ...

1961. Struggling with God

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... me I will give you a tenth."(2) How about THAT, folks? A whole tenth! If God will do all the work, Jacob will only keep 90 percent for himself. What a guy! Jacob finally arrives at Uncle Laban's where his next adventure would begin. Love. He falls in love with cousin Rachel (which, in those days, was OK). Laban says Rachel will cost seven years hard work; Jacob says all right. At the end of seven years, the wedding...but under the veil, Rachel's older sister Leah. Horrors. The trickster had been tricked. It ...

1962. The Ten Commandments #2: No Idols!

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... or lapels? To be sure, the cross of Jesus Christ is central to our faith. But does this cross...this polished, clean, lovely thing...represent the pain, the sweat, the agony, the blood that was shed for us on Calvary? Of course not! The ... quest for certainty as the ancients did. No, the certainty for us, and for Christians throughout the ages, is in faith...faith in a loving Lord, one who loved us so much that he died that we might live. Let us pray. O God, we know that the commandments were given for our ...

1963. The Powerful Moments that Change Your Life Forever

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

James W. Moore

... helping the children to get ready, I decided to look through the mail. A huge volume of mail was there with letters and cards of love and sympathy and compassions and caring. Then I saw it, I knew what it was, it was a big box with a Winston Salem postmark ... of encouragement. Time stood still. How long has it been since you had a kairos moment of encouragement like that? II. The Kairos Moment of Love Jesus had so many of these. We get so caught up in the chronos that we miss so many. I’m haunted by how many ...

1964. Do I Matter?

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... city wall were touched by Jesus, even as his disciples shrank back in disgust. The handicapped beggers by the wayside whom the world loves to ignore were not ignored by Jesus - they were healed and given new life. A woman, too shy and full of shame to ... understand how brown cows eat green grass and give white milk, but we still pour it on our cereal. We do not understand a mother's love or a father's patience, but we count on them and cherish them. We do not understand how pain can help us grow, but we know ...

1965. Real Religion

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Jesus have ME do? After all, REAL religion is an attempt to answer that as well as the prophet's question, "What does the Lord require of you?" Here we have it in a nutshell, and it is as valid today as it was 28-hundred years ago. Do justice, love kindness, walk humbly with your God. It was in the latter part of the eighth century BC that Micah prophesied. He was a young contemporary of Isaiah, Hosea and Amos. He and Isaiah brought God's message to the people of Judah in the South while Hosea and Amos took ...

1966. The Cross: A Gift Of Life

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... really mean? It means, first of all, that God knows our hearts. A story is told in Madeleine L'Engle's book, WALKING ON WATER. A Hasidic rabbi is known for his piety. One day the feelings of a devoted, young disciple spilled over in exuberance, "My master, I love you!" Looking up from his books the rabbi asked the young man, "My son, do you know what hurts me?" The disciple was taken completely aback and wanted to be sure the rabbi had understood the depth of his adoration. "I'm trying to let you know how ...

1967. Comfort My People

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... quarter-inch at the time of the story. Josh had told only his friends about the reason he shaved his head. "It was out of love and compassion for me," said his mother who now wears a blond wig. "It's just tragic that someone would have to take a ... way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy. I just want one day where no one laughs at me or makes fun of me. Love Amy." Thousands of people were touched in the USA and as far away as Australia and Great Britain by Amy's letter: Residents of a Kansas home ...

1968. Are You Successful Or Do You Just Have Money?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... say about you. It matters little what your net worth was. It matters little how many times your name was in the headlines. These things will not last. Only two will: Is the world a better place because you've been here? Did you leave behind a legacy of love? Herod and Pilate and Augustus Caesar were legends in their own minds, but it is not they who ascended to sit at God's right hand. It was a simple carpenter ” a simple carpenter who left the world a better place because he had been here and who left ...

1969. Paul's Prayer For Us

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... within this young man's heart. And that is my prayer for you ” just as it was St. Paul's prayer for the church at Ephesus. That you will become a stronger person within. That you will be able to see others through the rose-colored eyes of God's love. And that you will be filled with the fulness of God ” through prayer, through working to live within God's will, through worship, and reading the Bible, and hanging out with God's people and going to the Lord's table. Isn't that what you really want? Isn't ...

1970. Unwrapping Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 're able to receive the gift which God freely offers. II. THE GIFT IS FOR ACCEPTING Granted, it came in unexpected and exciting ways, wrapped and packaged differently than anyone would have thought possible. But still, it's a gift. God freely gives the gift of grace, the gift of love to each of us. There aren't any conditions. We don't have to achieve a thing or act any certain way. All we have to do is receive and accept this gift. It's a gift of grace that takes a lifetime to unwrap. That's what the poem ...

1971. The Most Beautiful Story Ever Told

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... come along with the gift!" "When God gave the gift of salvation," says Pastor Stewart, "he didn't send a booklet of complicated instructions for us to figure out; he sent his Son." A young couple experiences the miraculous in their lives. A humble husband shows extraordinary love and trust. And God enters into human experience. It's quite breathtaking, isn't it? No wonder the whole town is lit up. No wonder carols fill the air. It's the most beautiful story in all the world. It's Christmas and all the world ...

1972. Do We Know What We've Got?

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... teaching of our Lord. It is one that is often overlooked because many of us shy away from confrontation of any kind. “Live and let live” is our creed. And yet, confronting a fellow believer who is involved in a sin of any kind can be the most loving thing, the most Christ-like thing, we can do. In this passage Christ is calling us as a community to hold one another accountable for our behavior. Christ is not calling us to pass judgment on one another, but to care enough about one another to intervene if ...

1973. The Way Life Ought To Be

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... said, "Okay, how about if at the end the guy who thinks he's a horse...goes on to win the Kentucky Derby." We like happy endings. We like to believe that in the end people do live happily ever after. We like to imagine a world of love and peace and harmony and compassion for one another. The way life ought to be. Unfortunately, reality isn't quite like that. Life isn't always fair, and people frequently are not reasonable. Take the true story of an Illinois census counter. One day last Spring she approached ...

1974. A Real Solution For Real Problems

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

King Duncan

... know. The angry person is a fearful person. It is out of insecurity that we strike out. Fear of our own worth, our own adequacy, our own acceptance. Here is the key to all unrighteous anger, all bigoted hatred, all unprovoked violence. Why could Jesus accept and love all people? There was not an insecure bone in his body. He knew who he was! Thus he feared no one. We hate those whom we fear! There is no better example of that truth than Adolph Hitler himself. His family life was almost guaranteed to breed ...

1975. A Pentecostal Church

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... 's method of communicating the good news is not the same as mine or yours. But you have to admire his determination. How are you spreading the good news? THE CHURCH IS GOD'S CREATION. OUR PURPOSE IS THE COMMUNICATION OF THE GOOD NEWS OF GOD'S LOVE REVEALED IN JESUS CHRIST. THE ULTIMATE GOAL, HOWEVER, IS THE CREATION OF A NEW COMMUNITY. I cite two pieces of evidence. First of all, as we have noted, peoples from many different nations were present on this occasion and each heard the Gospel in his own tongue ...

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