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Ephesians 4:17--5:21

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Erskine White

... by faith, believing that the greater things in life are those you cannot see. You are filled with a most amazing grace. You are redeemed and released from every vanity and fear, you are ever growing towards the Lord. In fact, as Jesus said, you are becoming perfect, as your God in heaven is perfect (Matthew 5:48). I'll bet you didn't know you are all of those things, just by being a Christian! And I'll bet most of you (like me) are asking yourselves, "Who, me? How can I really be all of that? A new nature ...

177. Let Jesus Forgive You!

Romans 3:21-31

Children's Sermon

... wood that I have in my hand. When you look at it from where you are sitting, it looks pretty nice, almost perfect. The wood is smooth and the grain is lovely. But suppose you took this ordinary magnifying glass and gave the wood a ... get rid of them. But Jesus can get rid of them, and he does this by forgiving them and making us perfect in the sight of God. That's why we are so happy to have Jesus. He makes us perfect when we can't do it ourselves. The next time you see some holes in a piece of wood, you can ...

178. Lent 5

Jn 8:1-11; 12:1-8 · Lk 20:9-19 · Isa 43:16-21 · Php 3:8-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... we may follow your commands and proclaim your reign of love." Hymn of the Day: "Glory be to Jesus" Theme of the Day: Facing the Future Gospel - Preparation for death in the future. Lesson 1 - A new deliverance coming in the future. Lesson 2 - Striving for perfection in the future. On this Sunday we look to the future. Passion week is one week away. The cross and empty tomb are soon to be experienced. Mary realizes this and by pouring expensive ointment on Jesus' feet, she prepares him for his upcoming death ...

179. Mugwumps

Luke 6:1-11

Sermon

... have been than to know where they are now. A classic case in their Hall of Infamy is datelined 30 A.D. This is by no means their first case or their earliest, but it’s one which is well documented. It was a Sabbath Day ... weatherwise a perfect one. The services were over. Folks were resting and relaxing with an air of good-natured comradery. Then someone heard a rustle in a grainfield a few hundred feet down the way. Soon a few heads emerged, and they recognized the tallest one to be that sacreligious so ...

180. Do You Have the Great Pearl?

Matthew 13:47-52, Matthew 13:44-46

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... opportunity. He replied, "Just so it is with God’s plan of salvation. Jesus Christ has done it all. His suffering and dying on the cross paid for all your sins. You cannot improve on his work. Why don’t you take it as it is? It is perfect. Complete." Shakespeare, in King John, correctly said, "to guild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue onto the rainbow ... is wasteful and ridiculous excess." So it is today, if we wish to improve upon ...

181. A God Pleasing Savior and God Pleasing People

Malachi 1:1-5

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Daniel G. Mueller

... we feel. People expected all kinds of things from him. They wanted him to be a miracle worker, a healer, someone to feed them, most of all a warrior king who would make their lives easy. And God wanted him to be the Savior of the world, to live a perfect, sinless life, die an innocent and obedient death, and come back to life again to conquer death once and for all. Jesus didn’t live up to all the expectations about him. He only lived up to what God expected. Ultimately, that’s all we have to live up to ...

182. Yearning For Rejection; Thriving On Insults

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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King Duncan

... their health. They have their families. They live in nice homes. Out in the driveway is their BMW and their Jeep Cherokee. Why in the world do they need God? And because they do not need God, they do not experience God. God's power is made perfect in weakness. Many of you remember the immortal catcher of the old Brooklyn Dodgers, Roy Campanella. Roy Campanella was injured in an accident and lost the use of his arms and his legs. Writing in the book, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Campanella gives this testimony ...

183. All That From A Little Bit Of Water?

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... a sacrament is. It is a means of grace. What you did before with your life is inconsequential. What you have done with your life since is between you and your Maker. But for that one moment in time you were handed an "A." It doesn't mean you are perfect. Far from it. ONE OF THE REASONS WATER IS USED IN THE SACRAMENT OF BAPTISM IS TO SYMBOLIZE THE TAKING AWAY OF OUR SINS. This wasn't necessary for Jesus, but it certainly is for us. There is a humorous story about Sam Houston, the hero of the Texas fight ...

184. That's What Friends Are For

Mark 7:31-37

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King Duncan

... onto their shoulders and carried him around like a conquering hero. "That day," said the father softly, with tears now rolling down his cheeks, "those 18 boys reached their level of God's perfection." (2) When you are struggling with a disability of any kind, it makes a difference that you are surrounded by caring people. God's perfection IS found in people who care. But there is something else in the story of the hearing-impaired man we need to see: HE HAD FRIENDS WHO CARED ABOUT HIS SPIRITUAL NEEDS. Of ...

185. Yes, But How?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... What a wonderful, liberating thing it is to discover that I am not God, but a human being. It was never intended that I would be perfect. As St. Augustine once wrote, "Whatever we are, we are not what we ought to be." Or as Mark Twain put it: "Man was made ... . Man always dies before he is fully born." What a terrible burden it would be if I thought that I had to be perfect. Have you ever known someone who is painfully shy? We generally assume that people like this have inferiority complexes. But that may not ...

186. Why the Church?

Matthew 16:21-28

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Donald B. Strobe

... Saints is but another way of speaking of the Church. Once in awhile we hear someone say: I’d be the first to admit that I’m no saint! One is tempted to ask: Why not? When the Creed speaks of the communion of saints, it is not talking about perfect people. The word saint in the New testament does not refer to someone in stained glass or up on a pedestal. It is the Biblical way of speaking of the ordinary, common garden-variety Christian. We are all called to be saints. III. STILL, WE HEAR PEOPLE SAY: I ...

187. Brokenness and Bread

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Eric Ritz

... that can be solved by human efforts. Reconciliation to God is our fundamental human need. We have rebelled against God. Instead of hungering and thirsting for God and walking in the paths of righteousness--we choose to go our own way. God provides a perfect garden--we choose our own place, and then cry out when we have empty bellies and strife-filled communities. Henry David Thoreau remarked that as long as man stands in his own way, everything seems to stand in his way. Humankind will never find the ...

188. Justification By Grace Through Faith

Galatians 2:11-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... of it. In printing, we talk about justifying type. That means arranging the spaces between the letters and the words in such a way that the right margin comes out perfectly straight, perfectly even. We used to have to do that by hand, now we have typewriters and typesetting machines that will justify type automatically. That is, put the margins perfectly even. Now that’s a faint hint from a technological field of a difficult theological truth. To justify is to make right. From the world of law and courts ...

189. Christmas 1

Isaiah 63:7--64:12, Colossians 3:1-17, Colossians 3:18-4:1, Galatians 3:15-25, Hebrews 2:5-18, Matthew 2:13-18, Matthew 2:19-23

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John R. Brokhoff

... to us - vv. 17, 18. 2. Because He Came. 2:10-18 Need: We have just celebrated Christ's coming to earth. His birth was the miracle of incarnation. God became a human. He came in Jesus to share our humanity. Jesus was one of us, thoroughly and perfectly human. Because he identified with us, we are the beneficiaries. Our text tells us what his coming can mean to us today. Outline: Because Jesus came as a human - a. We are brothers and sisters of Christ - v. 11. b. For us death was conquered - vv. 14, 15 ...

190. The Real Winning Attitude

1 Timothy 6:3-10

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Leonard Sweet

... him on their shoulders and made him the hero, as he had just hit a grand slam and won the game for his team. "That day," said the father softly with tears now rolling down his face, "those 18 boys reached their level of God's perfection." – (With thanks to Paul Stambach, via Jack Schierloh. This is the victory Christ wants us all to achieve. It's the true winning attitude. On 20 September 2001, the New York Rangers and Philadelphia Flyers met in a preseason game in Philadelphia the night President Bush ...

191. I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

John 16:17-33

Sermon

James McCormick

... her doctor. She cries out: “What good is your reality when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer?” The doctor responds quickly and just as emphatically: “Look here, Deborah, I never promised you a rose garden. I never promised you perfect justice. And I never promised you peace or happiness. My help is so that you can be free to fight for all of those things. The only reality I offer is a challenge, and being well is being free to accept it or not at whatever ...

192. Don't Forget to Forgive

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... 're out." Now Peter thinks he is being very very generous. He doubles the number of times that the law demanded, and then added one free pass as a bonus. After all, any Jew knew that the number seven denoted perfection. So Peter thought he had arrived at literally the perfect answer. You had to forgive a brother seven times, and after that the gloves came off. II. The Pardon Forgiveness Provides Well, as usual, the Lord Jesus gave an answer that was not only surprising, but absolutely stunning. V.22 tells ...

193. God Knows....Me!

Psalm 8:1-9

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... , my deepest desires and my strongest lusts, my overpowering motives and hidden ambitions, my selfish pride and hurt feelings are all open and known to God. Because, you see, on the outside I look great! I have a perfect job, perfect house, perfect wife with two perfect dogs, 2.5 perfect kids with perfect teeth. But inside, I know myself to be a bundle of anxiety and fear I can only just contain, petty jealousies and deep pent-up prejudices, hidden thoughts and selfish ambitions. The psalmist finds it to be ...

194. Quenching St. Anthony's Fire

Mark 8:27-38

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Leonard Sweet

... earth, to make Christ come alive among men and women. There is a popular religious mentality abominating the air today. It says that to find favor with God is to find the perfect boss, the perfect spouse, the perfect child, the perfect colleague, the perfect bishop, or in the case of pastors, the perfect appointment (known in 18th century circles as the "sweet-scented parishes" those appointments where the pastors salary was paid in tobacco that was sweeter and more scented and thus more valuable, making ...

195. Etched in Stone

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... life doing good for others. You’ll be walking in the footsteps of the Master and the world will be a better place, if you do. But here’s what you need to know, God loves you with an everlasting love regardless. We are God’s children, not through our perfection but by means of His grace. You’ll never satisfy all the laws, but thanks be to God, you don’t have to. All you need do is to surrender your life to Christ. 1. Bernice Kanner, Are You Normal? (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995), p. 24. 2 ...

196. Lent 5

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 12:20-36

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John R. Brokhoff

... know that Jesus wept at Lazarus' grave and over Jerusalem. Here we learn that he prayed with tears in his eyes. Tears express the intensity of his desire to live and not go to the cross. The tears reflect the struggle Jesus had to bring his will into perfect obedience to the Father's will by dying for the sins of the world. 3. Obedience (v. 8). The pericope says Jesus learned obedience through suffering. Could it be that he also suffered because he was obedient? It works both ways, doesn't it? When we obey ...

197. Lent 1

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Hebrews 4:14-5:10, John 12:20-36

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John R. Brokhoff

198. Proper 25

Job 42:1-6, Job 42:7-17, Mark 10:46-52, Hebrews 7:11-28

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John R. Brokhoff

... church remain. They remain because the church has in Jesus a high priest who is eternal. In a fast-changing world, we need stability and permanence. Outline: A High Priest higher than all others – a. Our high priest is permanent v. 24. b. Our high priest is perfect v. 26. c. Our high priest made one all-sufficient sacrifice v. 27. 2. The permanent priest (7:23-25). Need: Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. We never change our loyalty to him. Some are tempted to forsake him for a non-Christian ...

199. Close Up - Wives: Sweet Surrender

Colossians 3:18

Sermon

James Merritt

... the officer doesn't have it, he loses control of his troops. If the teacher doesn't have it, he loses control of the class. If the home doesn't have it, then the entire family is in trouble. We are in the middle of a series entitled, "Picture Perfect" and we have said over and over, "God desires for your family to reflect His glory." The way the family does that is by each member of the family fulfilling their God given roles and responsibilities. We have looked at the big picture of the family as a whole ...

200. Close Up Parents: Be Cheerleaders, Not Jeer leaders

Colossians 3:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... . He had no choice but to go to Southern California to play college ball, because his dad was co-captain of USC's 1962 National Champions.[[1]] To say that Marv had high hopes and great expectations for his son would be an understatement. Anything less than absolute perfection was ordinary in his mind. By his own admission, his dad was a dominating perfectionist. He said, "I told Todd when to eat, what to eat, when to go to bed, when to get up, when to workout and how to workout. By the way, this began when ...

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