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176. The Sin of Being Less

Colossians 3:1-14

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to the doctor for a physical exam. After the exam the doctor said, "You are in terrible shape. If you don't change your lifestyle, you are going to die." The man said, "Well, Doc, what should I do?" The doctor said, "The best thing you can do is stop drinking, stop carousing, stop staying out all night long." "What's the next best thing I can do." We are not trapped, not since Christ. We are able to make choices about the kind of life we are going to live. Just in case the sins of the flesh are not your ...

177. Once More with Feeling!

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... thankful for. He healed ten men of leprosy. Flesh that had been cancerous was made pure as a baby's skin. And the healed ones were so excited that they ran pell-mell to the village for a reunion with their families. But one of the men took time to stop and thank Jesus for his healing. Now one out of ten is not a very good average. I suppose we still live in that same kind of thankless world today. When you do something nice for somebody else, they are just too busy or too tired or too something to ...

178. The King Who Died

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... kept on driving, but his children wouldn’t quiet down. He tried to reason with them. The kitten was probably someone’s pet. It might have a disease. The family already had too many pets. It did no good. The children insisted that a loving father would stop the car for a stray cat. So finally the father drove back to the spot and reached for the scraggly kitten. The ungrateful little beast scratched him! Fighting an instinct to strangle the kitten, the father packed it into the car and took it home. Once ...

179. Rise Above It

John 21:15-19

Sermon

James W. Moore

... terrible! In the next breath, however, the teacher related that Christ rose again… and that He came back to life. Hearing that, the little boy’s eyes got as big as saucers. His face lit up and he exclaimed: “Totally Awesome!” Well, it is totally awesome, when you stop to think about it. The place of the skull has become a throne. Evil had its best chance to defeat God and couldn’t do it. The victory is His… and He wants to share the victory with us. God is on both sides of the grave and nothing ...

180. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... of spiritual defeat. God can forgive sexual sin. But you study the life of King David and you will find that he was never restored to his former power or position. The tree of promiscuity always bears bitter fruit. Though the wound heals, the scar always remains. May I just stop right here and say a word to all of us dads. There is something I have pasted in the front flyleaf of my Bible that I cut out of a book that I want to share with you. Following is the incomplete list of what you have in store after ...

181. The Perfect Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... are always His enablements. If Jesus says an elephant is going to lay an egg, don't stand around, get out the skillet. The minute Jesus said, "Let us cross over to the other side," neither the devil nor every demon, nor Caesar and all of his armies, could have stopped that boat. You may as well have named her "The Unsinkable Molly Brown." You see, if that boat had not made it to the other side, regardless of the reason, then Jesus would have been a liar. Well, I've got great news for you. The sun will quit ...

182. A Cure for the Workaholic

Genesis 2:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... corporate worship. From the very beginning, the Sabbath was not meant just to be a day of rest, but a day of reverence. Why do you think God wants us to make sure that on that Sabbath day that we observe, that we don't just rest our body through stopping our work, but we replenish our spirit through worshipping Him? You can run down spiritually, just like you can run down physically. When we take the time to come to the Lord's house on the Lord's day and fellowship with the Lord's people and study the Lord ...

183. Keep Your Eye On The Ball

Nehemiah 6:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... . "You have reached the home of Nehemiah. I am not here. I am carrying on a great project right now. If this is Sanballat, Tobiah, or Geshem, you are wasting your time. If it is anybody else, please leave a message after the beep." The reason why Nehemiah refused to stop what he was doing and shoot the breeze is found in the great statement he makes in verse 3. "So I sent messengers to them, saying, "I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down ...

184. Can't We All Just Get Along?

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... Vegas and Atlanta. On May 1, 1992, the third day of the L.A riots, King appeared in public before television news cameras to appeal for calm. Here are his words: “People, I just want to say, you know, can we all get along? Can we get along? Can we stop making it, making it horrible for the older people and the kids? . . . It’s just not right. It’s not right. It’s not, it’s not going to change anything. We’ll get our justice . . . Please, we can get along here. We all can get along. I mean, we ...

185. Five Differences between a Franchise Faith and an Authentic Faith

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , especially after midnight on the interstate. Let’s tell the truth: we love franchises. America is a big country, with lots of roadways. So if we are far from home we look for a familiar name. We hone in on it. It’s “home” — at least for a quick comfort stop. This is both a good and a bad thing. For those of us who love a Big Mac, the new Kentucky Grilled Chicken, or will take anything off the Taco Bell late night menu, it is a good thing. For others, who get blue-highway print-outs of all the ...

186. The End of Time

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... every time, as he slid the box of rolled coins across the counter at the bank toward the cashier, he would grin proudly. "These are for my son's college fund. He'll never work at the mill all his life like me." We would always celebrate each deposit by stopping for an ice cream cone. I always got chocolate. Dad always got vanilla. When the clerk at the ice cream parlor handed Dad his change, he would show me the few coins nestled in his palm. "When we get home, we'll start filling the jar again." He always ...

187. He Will Abundantly Pardon

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... not our ways, and you cannot receive this gift if you insist on clinging to the old ways. Time and again this is what God's people did, in response to the Old Covenant and the New Covenant. We are afraid to take a risk, to try something new, to stop and listen, truly listen, to what God has to offer. Instead, we fall back on the old ways and forget. The sin of forgetting what God has done for us as individuals and as people, that's something we see with God's people in the desert, and ourselves in ...

188. Jailhouse Rock

Acts 16:16-34

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... the work of the gospel. We read: "He lived there two whole years at his own expense and welcomed all who came to him, proclaiming the kingdom of God and teaching about the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness and without hindrance" (Acts 28:30-31). And the story stops. We're on our way to a big trial in Rome, and we never do find out what happens. What kind of an ending is that? An arrest, danger and intrigue, a shipwreck, the arrival at Rome, Luke writes a real page turner, and suddenly the book of Acts ...

189. On the Road with the Hemorrhaging Woman

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James W. Moore

... to tell me about a friend who had been taken to the hospital. * Some former members who had moved away were back home and wanted to speak to me. * A young couple I had married two weekends before had just returned from their honeymoon and they had stopped by to say “Hi.” * Three staff members were there to remind me of special announcements that needed to be made in the upcoming service. * An usher was there with a note about a car in the parking lot with lights on the doors locked… and the motor ...

190. Miracles in Contrast

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... me now From the sheep And the strangers Who sleep In our stable. Shelter me now (And she smiled) Lift him now There is room In the manger.(2) Mary and Joseph cupped their hands of their heart around this daisy of their life. A unique and heart-stopping thing of beauty - a miracle in contrast - yes, a thing of redemption! That’s what it’s all about - this Christmas business - Miracles in contrast. When the writer of the gospel of John told his Christmas story, he didn’t do it like Matthew and Luke. He ...

191. Living The Faith For Dummies

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... a very well to do woman. There was a fish on the trunk of her car and a rosary hanging from the rear view mirror. She even stopped. But then when she found out he needed a ride, she said she was in a hurry to get to her daughter's house. It was ... next gas station. He even agreed to follow along behind and make sure he really did have enough gas to make it. And if not, they'd stop and either siphon some from the wrecker or the wrecker driver would tow the young man and his car to the station so he could fill ...

192. At Cross Purposes

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... for those who hate you and being God's instrument of love in this world. And in order to do that you have to DENY YOURSELF. B. According to a story in Guideposts Arthur Gordon visited a kindergarten class where the teacher frequently reminded misbehaving children to stop being a WAM. The kids straightened up as soon as their teacher pointed out they were being a WAM. What was a WAM? Why was being a WAM so bad? The teacher explained that WAM stands for "What About Me?" She was training the children to be ...

193. The Faithfulness of God

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... got back to sleep. The days are longer," she told him. "You know how I like to get up with the sun in the morning. How lovely it is to hear the first bird sing. Don't you think there are more birds this year? They say that since people stopped using all those insecticides that the birds are coming back. There were some new birds at the birdbath yesterday. I should look them up in your bird book. There were some gulls as well. Remember how the gulls used to fly off to meet the fishing boats returning to ...

194. Standing Ovation

Illustration

Robert P. Dugan, Jr.

... the "stormy applause, rising to an ovation," continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who adored Stalin. However, who would dare to be the first to stop? The secretary of the District Party could have done it. He was standing on the platform, and it was he who had just called for the ovation. But he was a newcomer. He had taken the place of a man who'd been arrested. He was ...

195. A Modern Day Bethlehem

Lk 2:1-20

Illustration

King Duncan

... family had just come from a beautiful Christmas Eve service. And soon they would be heading to their lovely home for the night. She thought one day they would look back with a laugh and say to each other: "Remember the Christmas we ate breakfast at that truck stop? That awful music and those tacky lights?" She was staring out the window when an old Volkswagen van drove up. A young man with a beard and wearing jeans got out. He walked around and opened the door for a young woman who was holding a baby. They ...

196. Screaming at the Television

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

King Duncan

... distracted by the rather loud voice of one of the Ethiopians in the tent next to him. He yelled to tell him to be quiet, but it was no use. He said he finally ended up throwing one of his dusty boots at the tent which finally made the noise stop. The old professor said that he learned later that the gentleman in the tent next to his had been praying aloud, as many Coptic Christians do. Imagine that. The old professor had thrown a boot at a man because he was praying. He said that he awoke the next morning ...

197. Forgive as You Have Been Forgiven

Luke 6:27-38

Sermon

Cynthia Cowen

... tantly she cracked the door. "Hello, Mrs. Sko. Do you remember me? I'm Marge's son." Her eyes widened in surprise as a note of recognition appeared. "I live in Arizona now, and I'm here on vacation. I saw you in the window and just wanted to stop and say hello. May I come in?" She hesitated and then opened the door and asked him in. "Forgive, and you will be forgiven" Jesus tells us (Luke 6:37b). Today's gospel lesson is a challenging one for us. "Love your enemies," Jesus instructed his followers. The ...

198. Finish What You Start

Luke 14:25-33

Sermon

... does not hate gas-guzzling SUVs cannot be my disciple"? Or "Whoever comes to me and does not hate late night parties and sleeping in on Sunday morning, cannot be my disciple"? If Jesus said these things we might be tempted to say back to him, "You'd better stop it, Jesus. Now you've gone from preaching the gospel to meddling in our personal lives." And since I've said them, maybe some of you are thinking that I've gone from preaching to meddling. Early on in our church plans many of you remember that we ...

199. Heisman In The Hudson

Isaiah 43:16-21

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... human nostalgia has an additional layer: the sweetness of miles traveled and years lived with God. My favorite songs are songs about him and songs that remind me of times and experiences with him. Could it possibly be that he is telling me to forget them? To stop singing them? "Do not remember the former things, or consider the things of old," he says, for "I am about to do a new thing." That's good news. For as unsettling as the instruction to forget may be, the promise of something new is certainly ...

200. The Voice-activated Life

2 Peter 1:12-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... is so much noise, so much happening, how could you hear?” Without saying a word, the old man took several coins from his pocket and tossed them on the ground. With the tinkling of the coins on the sidewalk it seemed everything came to a stop. People turned around. Diners stopped eating to look their way. Several almost seemed to want to reach down and pick up the dropped coins. Then as quickly as it had happened – everything went back to the way it was. That’s when the old man spoke, “It’s all in ...

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