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176. Genuine Imitations
1 Thessalonians 1:1-10
Sermon
Raymond Gibson
... Christianity in general is its anonymity. In spite of the fact that there are some 130 million people in America who profess Christ as their Savior; in spite of churches on almost every street corner; in spite of the fact that there are an estimated four Bibles in print for every living American citizen; in spite of high-pressure, electronic evangelism of the 700 Club and PTL; in spite of all of these expressions of Christianity in America, most people prefer to keep their faith anonymous, silent, and known ...
Sermon
Robert Noblett
... the fact that our seeing needs often to be corrected is the fact that the Christian faith provides lenses that do just that. Paul gives expression to these lenses in the fifth chapter of second Corinthians: With us therefore worldly standards have ceased to count in our estimate of any man; even if once they counted in our understanding of Christ, they do so now no longer. When anyone is united to Christ, there is a new world; the old order has gone, and a new order has already begun. (2 Corinthians 5:16-17 ...
178. Herod Antipas
Luke 13:31-35
Sermon
Warren Thomas Smith
... . Passover was at hand. A faithful Jew looked upon it as one of the three principal festivals of Israel. Its celebration brought huge crowds to Jerusalem. Josephus mentions that Governor Cestius, in reporting to Emperor Nero, asked the high priest for an estimate of the number attending the festival. Priests counted 256,500 paschal lambs and reckoned ten men would partake of each lamb, and approximated 2,700,000 people. HEROD ANTIPAS Herod Antipas probably came to Jerusalem simply because it was the popular ...
Sermon
Brett Blair
... passage of time seems to have forgotten. Not many people live there, about 300, and they still consider themselves Samaritans. The primary structure in town is a kind of cellar, which houses a well, the only source of water for miles. Archeologists estimate its date upwards of 4,000 years. Weary travelers have quenched their thirst there since the time of Jacob. But even more fascinating than its archeological significance is the fact that this place historically validates for us the precise location where ...
180. Living Water for a Thirst Soul - Sermon Starter
John 4:1-42
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Brett Blair
... passage of time seems to have forgotten. Not many people live there, about 300, and they still consider themselves Samaritans. The primary structure in town is a kind of cellar, which houses a well, the only source of water for miles. Archeologists estimate its date upwards of 4,000 years. Weary travelers have quenched their thirst there since the time of Jacob. But even more fascinating than its archeological significance is the fact that this place historically validates for us the precise location where ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... traffic but yet wrote the popular hymn, "In the Cross of Christ I Glory." Many church members may not have had a conscious conversion to Christ. Christ has not become a reality to them, and for that reason need to be converted again. Leslie Weatherhead once estimated that ninety percent of church-going people have no vital experience of Christ and have no sense of spiritual power. Could this be true in our congregation? If so, is this not a serious situation? No wonder the world is in the condition it is ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... the shore? This was not the only time, for once he was preaching in a house so crowded that they had to let a paralytic down through the roof to be healed! In a sense, the church in American has her crowd, too. On a given Sunday it is estimated that eighty-five million people are gathered in our churches while only five and one-half million assemble for sports events in a year. Should we be content with eighty-five million on a Sunday to hear the Word of God? This represents only forty percent of the church ...
Sermon
John R. Brokhoff
... along with the furnishings of a widower who left no children. The clock was about thirty years old and was not working. It was sold for $100. It cost the buyer $200 to put the clock into a running condition and to get the chimes working. The clock repairman estimated that the foreign-made works were worth $6,000 on today’s market, the cabinet was worth at least $1,000, and the three sets of chimes would bring the total value of the clock to $12,000. What a bargain for the buyer - a $12,000 article for ...
Sermon
Barbara Brokhoff
... you’ll try us again sometime when you don’t need it quite so badly." Jesus would never do that to anybody, because he cares. God is so concerned about us that he even keeps count of the numbers of the hairs on our head. Someone recently estimated that blondes have approximately 145,000 hairs, brunettes have 120,000 hairs, and red-heads approximately 90,000 hairs. That’s a lot of hairs to keep track of! The Jews used to be so impressed with the individual attention of God that they claimed each blade ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... easier for women to support themselves and to avoid pregnancy. The result is that they can afford to be realistically independent. Their attitude is: I really know what I want, and I’m not getting it with my husband. So I’ll find it elsewhere." "My estimate," says the doctor, "is that one out of every five wives today sooner or later has an affair." Are they getting what they want? Not the ones that I meet day after day. Most Americans think of happiness in terms of separate episodes and experiences - a ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... of Nazi superman propaganda, he refers two or three times to Mahatma Gandhi. In each case, he calls him a fool and a fanatic, because he chose a course of nonresistance and peaceful revolution to seek the freedom of India. In Goebbels’s estimate, only force, only power, could achieve victory in the world. It was the only thing that really had meaning. Today, Nazi Germany is just a terrible memory - and India is a growing, independent nation. That which Goebbels thought was strength was weakness. That ...
187. Salvation as Hope
Romans 13:8-14, 1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58
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T. A. Kantonen
... they face the judgment seat with the assurance: "There is no katakrima (judgment of condemnation) for those who are in Christ Jesus" (Romons 8:1). But the believer is not allowed, any more than the unbeliever, to enter his final destiny with a false estimate of himself, as Paul points out in a remarkable passage: "For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble - each man’s ...
188. Numbered Hairs
Matthew 10:1-42
Sermon
Herchel H. Sheets
... has been set on us by God himself. It follows from this that we should hold other persons in the same high regard that we hold ourselves, for God cares for them just as he cares for us. Dr. Leonard Sagan of the Palo Alto Medical Clinic once estimated the value of a human life at $300,000, based on the value of productive labor lost to society when a person dies. But Reginald L. White wrote a letter to "The San Francisco Chronicle" in which he pointed out that our society’s price tags on persons depend ...
Sermon
Herchel H. Sheets
... times, it may not be a matter of blaming; it may just be a matter of turning the focus of attention away from ourselves, not because we want to be self-forgetful, but because we want to appear better or more important than we really are. Self-estimate is involved here, too. Henry Sloane Coffin says, "Most of us are aware of being inconspicuous nobodies; we know that we are very little people - pigmies in ability and puny in character. It is a hard and painful process to force ourselves to grow; it is much ...
Sermon
Kent Moorehead
... interred with their bones." Well, I have always wanted to dig for buried treasure and I don’t know how many novels I have read where that was the theme. And the most rewarding field conceivable is the Bible, for in it are riches that no man can estimate. I hope you will follow me as I seek to study the so-called bad characters in the Bible. I hope you will discover how much good is buried in these bad men. Now there are certain necessary precautions that must be stated to avoid misunderstanding. First, as ...
Sermon
Leonard Mann
... ahead except eternity, when all else is past and gone? The pleasant river, the picnic spot, the barns, the pigs, the house, and all the people - what is important then? When the river overflows? And, my dear friend, it will. Curious, isn’t it, how our estimate of values rises and falls according to circumstance. What we saw as of no value yesterday may grow in importance until it is all-important tomorrow. What was of great worth yesterday may fade today and be gone tomorrow. At age thirty one may have a ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... turn on some lights in three particular ways. FIRST, WE ARE TO TURN ON THE LIGHT BY PLEDGING AMBITIOUSLY OUR TIME, TALENT AND MONEY. At the close of my sermon today, the offering plates will be passed again. You will be invited to hand in a commitment card, estimating your level of financial support for God's work in 1996. Some years ago a Methodist layman in Columbia, South Carolina was running late on a Sunday morning". He didn't have time to drive the five miles to his church. So, he decided to visit the ...
193. "Hands Off!"
Exodus 20:1-21, Luke 19:11-27
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... theft. Thirdly, we must be honest so that we can respect the persons we see daily in the mirror. There are at least a hundred ways to steal, but only one way to be honest. One form of stealing is the submission of fraudulent insurance claims. One estimate is that seventy-five percent of all insurance claims are at least partially fraudulent. How hard it is when reporting storm damage to one's home not to include items that were not really storm related. There are at least a hundred ways to steal, but only ...
Sermon
Bill Bouknight
... is still falling out, and my dog hasn't had no puppies. I'm tired of saying prayers for this family without getting no results." A good definition of prayer is this: it is communion with God, making oneself available for God. Prayer is the most under-estimated, under-utilized power on earth. The greatest power you and I wield on is the power of prayer. Whether or not that power is in the church depends on how many church members are praying persistently. Since prayer is so vital, let's consider the Master ...
Sermon
James Bjorge
... kind of carelessness: we do not give according to the merits and worthiness of our families, nor do we receive according to our just desserts. Does any parent, at Christmas shopping time, meticulously calculate the relative merits of his children and accordingly estimate how much money should be spent on each gift, following some mathematical scale of disobedience and obedience?" And husbands and wives do not count up the smiles and scowls of each other and then purchase a gift that reflects the mate’s ...
Sermon
Louis H. Valbracht
... ’t ask my worst enemy to share that experience, much less someone that I supposedly loved." One of the unique characteristics of the human being is his ability to be two persons. He can stand off and look at himself. He can analyze his own personality. He can estimate the power of his intellect. He can argue with himesif. He can, literally, fight with himself. No other person can hate us quite so much as we can hate ourselves. No one else can hurt us quite as badly as we can hurt ourselves. No one can ...
197. Chapter IV
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... his equalibrium, and keep his body even, the volunteers needed one day in seven off to relax and catch up. What has been learned in such laboratories has been documented abundantly on the streets, in doctors offices, and in hospital beds. In fact, by conservative estimates about one half of our hospital capacity is taken up by people whose illnesses are caused by other than normal organ breakdown. A friend of mine who is a heart specialist says that the keeping of the third Commandment could add a couple of ...
198. Chapter VII
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... aisle in many churches are already pregnant, with a good many in the other half having been sexually intimate but not "caught" in the process. Venereal disease is epidemic in our country, especially in the 15-25 year age bracket. The most recent estimates made by the Federal Government peg the incidence of syphilis and gonorrhea among our young people at one out of every five. On top of this our courts in many districts are becoming clogged with litigation for divorces and separations. The care of dependent ...
199. Chapter IX
Exodus 20:1-21
Sermon
Frank H. Seilhamer
... forge that trust into an axe and plant it in the back of my head! But more often than not, so often in fact that I am now willing to base my lifestyle on its truth, the other thing happens. People often will exceed my positive estimations of what they are and will do! Dr. Samuel Shoemaker, the late great pastor of Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, once told me about a conversation he had with an old Bishop soon after he had entered the priesthood. Just beginning his ministry, he wanted ...
200. APPRAISER
2 Kings 23:31-35
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Stephen Stewart
... been some method of determining the value of property, livestock, and valuables. So we can, then, say that there must have been men who made a profession of assessing the things. Of course, the comparison to the present is obvious. The appraiser who estimates our taxes, too, is a direct equivalent to his ancient forebear. Or the man who looks at our jewelry and determines its value for sale purposes. Anything on which a value is placed requires assessment and appraisal, and there must, then, be a person ...
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