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176. Made For The Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Can you move the cow?" she asked. The clerk tried to explain that this was impossible. "Just move the cow over, and we'll be able to see his face," she insisted. The woman refused to believe that her request couldn't be fulfilled. She left the shop in disgust, insisting that she would find a photo shop that could move the cow and reveal her great-grandfather's face. (2) Today's Bible passage is about a people who are yearning to see God's face, but there is something in the way. Throughout Israel's history ...

177. What's Really Important

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... into bed, smiling at the thought that he'd pulled one over on his wife. When morning came, he opened his eyes and there stood his wife. "You were drunk last night, weren't you!" she said. "No, honey," he answered sleepily. "Well, if you weren't," she said with disgust, "then who put all the Band-Aids on the bathroom mirror?" We joke about it--but in a number of homes it is no joking matter. There are many women who would trade in their handsome husband for one who is faithful, one who is sober, one who is a ...

178. If Your Eye Offends You

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... wake up and he put a little Limburger cheese on the poor man's upper lip. Soon the drunk got up and walked out the door. In a few minutes he returned. Then he left again, and in a little while he wobbled back in, finally shaking his head in disgust, he shouted, "It's no use, the whole world stinks!" It wasn't the whole world that was stinking, it was that little bit of Limburger right under his nose. There are two ways of approaching life. The first one is to say there is no hope. This was the ...

179. The Chicken or the Egg

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... for oneself forever. As an old uneducated country preacher once said, The Christian, though he fall, he does not waller! A lot of us are ashamed of our moral weaknesses, our lapses. But shame and guilt alone only serve to dishearten us more. We can become so disgusted with ourselves we become paralyzed and powerless. That is why we need to hear the real good news. God has accepted us AS WE ARE. Who are we not accept ourselves? Still, I suppose that if a poll were to be taken, most average church members ...

180. Where Is My Guest Room?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... sparring. She calls Mark the most selfish blankety-blank she has ever seen. But when she has left and Brian has returned, we see what it is really like for Mark. Brian has lost control of the ordinary functions of his body and says, “I’m disgusting.” “No, you’re not,” says Mark, “you’re just wet,” and Mark helps him out of sight into the bedroom, where he will change his clothes for him. Killinger says: “It is a moving experience to see something like that and to realize how the gentle ...

181. What the Maid Said to the Fisherman

Mark 14:66-72, Mark 14:53-65

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the first World War, while high level talks were being carried on about how to deal with Germany, the despised and defeated enemy, the then American President Woodrow Wilson argued for leniency and compassion. It is reported that French premier Clemenceau said, in disgust, “He makes me sick. He talks just like Jesus Christ.” Looking back from the hindsight of history one wonders what might have happened if he had - and if he had gotten people to listen. Perhaps we might have been spared a second World ...

182. Bread for Everyone (I am the bread of life)

John 6:1-15, John 6:25-59

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... , when the common people were crying out for help in front of the palace, that Queen Marie Antoinette said in an indifferent voice, "Let them eat cake." That is how the upper crust of society has always dealt with those on the bottom--with indifference and disgust. Jesus, on the other hand, lay aside his royalty--his divinity--and became a servant in order to meet the needs of his subjects. Jesus is a different kind of king. So with loving compassion he provides bread for the crowd. In verse 25 we see ...

183. A New Look for a New Year

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... mankind needed a hand reaching down from heaven to lift them up. It is exactly that need that Jesus Christ has fulfilled. In his life, death, and resurrection a power is released that can liberate humankind from its helpless slavery to those things which attract and disgust them at one and the same time. To put it in simplest terms, Jesus Christ can still make bad men good. Dear people, that is redemption! As we remember this, and embrace it by faith, we begin to experience newness. Our second look is the ...

184. Don't Fence Me In!

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... in the conversation the young man described the immoral indulgences which he and other servicemen practiced when they came to certain cities where they found easy access to loose women. It was with no air of bravado or "macho-ism" but rather with a sense of shame and disgust that the young man confessed: "We took what we wanted until we didn't want what we took." Free? Oh, yes, they were frightfully free. Free to make a joke out of the moral law! But it was not long until that moral law turned on them and ...

185. Grace in the Midst of Limited Resources

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

Year after year Stumpy and Martha attended the fair in their home state, and every summer it was the same story: Stumpy was tantalized by the old-fashioned bi-plane in which anybody could take a ride for ten dollars, and Martha was disgusted by such an obvious waste of money. "Ten dollars is ten dollars," she would always say. And Stumpy would go home without his airplane ride. One year Stumpy said, "Martha, there's that bi-plane again. I am 81 years old and this year I want to go for a ...

186. The Lions Are Shackled

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... the third and fourth fingers of each hand, and between his first and second toes. While a small crowd formed, Reverend Dicks remained on the cross for ten minutes, lecturing about crime and morality. “I would like to say from this cross that I’m disgusted that our senior citizens cannot walk through the streets of the cities they helped to build without being robbed and raped,” he said. “I’m asking you here today to refrain from all crime.” We may question this pastor’s judgment, but it was a ...

187. Needy People Please Apply

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... advantage of if we try to help. Or we’re afraid that they are somehow undeserving. Two college students are riding a subway in New York City. A homeless man approaches them asking for money. One of the college students adamantly rejects the man in disgust. The other whips out his wallet, pulls out a couple of dollars and gladly hands them over to the homeless man with a smile. The homeless man thanks him kindly and then continues on to the other passengers. The first student is outraged by his friend ...

188. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... the humans call music, and something like it occurs in Heaven -- a meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience, quite opaque to us. Laughter of this kind does us no good and should always be discouraged. Besides, the phenomenon is of itself disgusting and a direct insult to the realism, dignity, and austerity of Hell.1 God speaks to his joyless people and reminds them that they are not nonpersons and their future has changed. Suddenly the ruins and destruction become an ornament in God's ...

189. Going Down to Look Up

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... certain social stigma. He was now Leper, Chief of Staff, Naaman, and nothing could change that. This meant for Naaman that he was an outcast, a person to be avoided, one who would be devoid of all human touch. Naaman would be treated as an object of disgust. In the household of Naaman, there was a girl who had been taken captive from the land of Israel. This girl was a servant to the wife of General Naaman. Instead of being bitter and thinking to herself, "Let him die; he's getting exactly what he deserves ...

190. Put To Death The Old; Put On The New

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... forgiving. Will you need humility today? The world doesn't value that garment of the new person in Christ because they don't really know what true humility is. Humility has nothing to do with self depreciation, or cowering back, nothing to do with self disgust at our shabby lives; nor is it a downcast, brow-beaten stance. You'll probably meet some prancing peacocks today. Some of them putting on a show of strength to hide their weakness. Some of them pretending confidence, but cowering inside. Some of them ...

191. Meeting And Mastering Temptation

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... which he described as being zapped by God. After his shattering spiritual breakthrough, instead of things getting better for him, they go from bad to worse. His family turns away from him. He loses his job. A novel he has written is rejected. Frustrated and disgusted with what he considers as being let down by God, he goes to his pastor and seeks assurance that God is going to reward him for changing the direction of his life. But his pastor tells him, "The Lord offers no guarantees. Your novel may ...

192. Will The Real God Please Stand?

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

193. On The Road Again (emmaus)

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... and the most perilous gift God has given us -- the gift of free will. A man owned a parrot and for five years, it refused to talk. He tried everything. He read books on the subject. He bought long-playing albums so the bird could repeat the words. Nothing helped. Disgusted, he took the caged bird and started back to the pet store. As he crossed the street, a car was coming right at him. The bird yelled, "Look out!" The car hit the guy. And the bird said to a passerby, "How do you like that? For five years ...

194. Unworthy or Not?

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... dealt her a devastating blow, and she was bitter, angry, broken, and deeply hurt. The teenager who reaches this point of despair, says Dr. Dobson, can see no tomorrow. There is no hope. She can’t think of anything else. Such an adolescent feels repulsive and disgusting and would like to crawl into a hole, but there is no place to hide. Running away won’t help, nor will crying change anything. Too often suicide seems the best way out. Lily gave Dr. Dobson little time to work. The following morning she ...

195. The Curriculum of God’s Kingdom

Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... , and paralytics. Whatever else he was, Jesus was a channel for the healing and recreative love of God. C.H. Spurgeon wrote of these verses: “What a mass of hideous sickness must have thrust itself under the eye of Jesus! Yet we read not that He was disgusted, but patiently waited on every case. What a singular variety of evils must have met at His feet! What sickening ulcers and putrefying sores! Yet He was ready for every new shape of the monster evil, and was victor over it in every form. Let the arrow ...

196. Facing Fears, Kingdom Style

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... stupendous healings. It dredged up every feeling and weakness imaginable. To strip this Christian faith of its unpredictability and risk in order to turn it into a warm velvet limo ride to a perfect world is to destroy it. The reality program Fear Factor may disgust you with bug eating and terrorize you with heights, but at some level we all know that getting the rewards of life is dependent on facing and conquering our fears, and that is nowhere more true than in our relationship with Jesus Christ and the ...

197. An Extraterrestrial Celebration

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the basin! Within hours the feet of Judas, cleansed by the kindness of the one he will betray, will stand in Caiaphas’s court. “Behold the gift Jesus gives his followers! By morning they will bury their heads in shame and look down at their feet in disgust. And when they do, he wants them to remember how his knees knelt before them and he washed their feet. He wants them to realize those feet are still clean. ‘You don’t understand now what I am doing, but you will understand later’ (John 13:7 ...

198. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’ story of the Good Samaritan (or the Good Palestinian, to bring it into today’s world). The Palestinian could have looked on the Jew with the eyes of the accuser and not the eyes of the Advocate. He could have looked on him with hatred and disgust. But he looked on him as a neighbor, as someone for whom he himself was responsible, and that made all the difference. How can that happen in today’s world? How can we replace hatred and bigotry with forgiveness and love? IT MUST BEGIN WITH THE FOLLOWERS ...

199. A Messianic King

Isaiah 11:1-10

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... of the throne, the people inquired, “Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?” God’s promise in this passage, therefore, is that such a messiah will indeed come and make his people righteous in the sight of God. There is a certain disgust with the line of Israel’s Davidic rulers mirrored in verse 1. None of them has been the fulfillment of Israel’s expectation of a saving messiah. None has measured up. But the promise here in our text is that such a messiah will come, and a ...

200. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... , "I am nothing; I am nothing!" The cantor likewise beats his breast and says, "I am nothing; I am nothing." The synagogue janitor walks up and beats his breast and says, "I am nothing; I am nothing." And the rabbi looks over with disgust and disdain and says to the cantor, "Look who thinks he is nothing." Moshe Rabinea, the Hebrews would one day call Moses. Moses our Teacher. Moses Lawgiver. Moses Liberator. Moses Patriarch. Moses our Leader. But few people remember earlier days, Moses, the Excuse-Maker ...

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