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176. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

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William E. Keeney

... snuff out life in their path. Floods sweep hundreds to their death. Droughts, when widespread, lead to famine with massive numbers of deaths. The sensational press had a field day when fragments of a comet smashed into Jupiter in 1994. They recalled the theory that dinosaurs became extinct when a similar calamity happened to our planet. They pondered the possibility that such an encounter could happen again and bring human life to an end. Proposals were put forth to track any such space materials and send ...

177. Mirror, Mirror ON The Wall . . .!

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Stephen M. Crotts

... king with courage yet a gentle and quiet spirit.\n An elderly lady, crippled by arthritis, asked her visiting pastor, "Why does God let us get old? Why do we have to hurt so?" The minister shook his head, "I'm not sure," he said, "but I have a theory. I think the Lord has given physical strength and beauty to the young because that's the only kind of beauty they can have. But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. It is character. It is wisdom. We gradually lose the physical beauty that is temporary ...

178. Will The Real Messiah Please Stand Up?

Isaiah 61:1-11

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William L. Self

... was referred to as the Messiah, the Anointed One, the one and only anointed by God as a king at his coronation is anointed, only for a bigger job. The Greek world for messiah is Christ. How and when the messiah would come was debatable. Theories as to what he would be like multiplied and overlapped. A great warrior king like David, a great priest like Melchizedek, a great prophet like Elijah, who could possibly say? But whoever he was, his name would be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting ...

179. Praying With Bloody Knuckles

Isaiah 62:1-12, Isaiah 61:1-11

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William L. Self

... who will pray with bloody knuckles for the spirit of the living God to fall on his people. We have enough programs and professionals. We are rich in resources and literature. Our need is for intercessors -- bloody knuckle intercessors. It is not a theory but a fact empirically demonstrable that if in any community a large number of people, earnest Christians, unite in unselfish praying for a revival of religious interest, that revival is sure to come.5 What are you trying to accomplish that cannot be ...

180. Famous Last Words

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

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William L. Self

... Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895 "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876 "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction." -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872 "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." -- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre "Everything that can be invented ...

181. Standing and Understanding with the Apostles

Acts 2:14-41

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Gerald Whetstone

... our venturing out on our own, to mid-life crises, to the physical and spiritual challenges of our later years, our lives are full of the struggle to understand ourselves. Why do we do what we do, say what we say, and think what we think? Theories and explanations abound. Some of them are quite helpful. But for a Christian, our understanding of ourselves begins with our baptism and knowing that we are children of God. "What shall we do?" cried the people to Peter. "Repent and be baptized," he exhorted them ...

182. The Hope Of Peace

Romans 5:1-11

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Sandra Hefter Herrma

... return home. The courtroom drama is a familiar one to those of us who watch television. A favorite ploy of Perry Mason-style mysteries is to have the attorney stand up in the courtroom and begin to peel away the layers of the crime, discarding theories and alibis one by one, turning false testimonies into a defense of the accused, so that the client -- who is of course falsely accused -- is vindicated in the presence of many witnesses. Unfortunately, this is not usually the case in real life. I have seen ...

183. Don't Be Stupid

Jeremiah 4:5-31

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Richard L. Sheffield

... the phrase that we are 'created in the image of God.' We have a moral dimension. We can be good or bad, where animals can only be obedient or messy. (He says) "When Charles Darwin shocked the conventions of the 19th century with his theory that human beings were related to animals and did not represent a special creation, someone asked Darwin, 'Is there anything unique about the human being?' Instead of talking about upright posture or brain cavity size, Darwin answered, 'Man is the only animal that blushes ...

184. Let's Live

Isaiah 1:1-31

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Richard L. Sheffield

... so loudly, or so angrily as Isaiah. But if we leave here week after week believing that we were simply called here to hear the truth then we leave here without the truth. For truth is not just in saying the right words, or in understanding the right theories, or even in believing the right doctrines of the church. Truth is in doing the right thing whether what we're doing is worshipping within these walls, or living beyond them. I heard a speaker recently say that many of us live by "don't plans," instead ...

185. Citizenship

Philippians 3:1-11

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Pamela Urfer

... : Deists? What's a deist? TERRY: A deist is someone who believes in God the Creator but who doesn't believe that Jesus is divine. Deists believe that once God created the universe, he sat back and let it go on its own. The clockmaker theory, you know. In other words, he is not personally involved in human affairs. CHRIS: Really? Hmmm. Well, I don't think that's true. Those men were all Bible-believing Christians. Probably Baptists. TERRY: Well, that's certainly an interesting point of view. CHRIS: Still ...

186. They Drew Back And Fell

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Dann J. Ettner

... His mind and forgive all their sins without anypayment on their part? It is just too hard to believe. And so Iwill not. You have heard my testimony. I confess the fall we all had inthe garden was, ah, "miraculous," but the rest is only a theory.What do you think? Theme Hymn Tune "Galilean" 1. God speaks through unknowing people, Even those who are His foes. Caiaphas and then some soldiers, Were the ones who made His woes. Crowds and even judging Pilate, Spoke the words of Christ's great love; The centurion ...

187. Prepared Or Not?

Matthew 25:1-13

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William E. Keeney

... The young girl was taken over to the limo. The couple opened the window and talked to her briefly. That was a highlight for the two-year-old. She talked about it for a long time afterward. 5. Surprises in History. Malthus developed a theory that the population growth would outstrip the growth of food, resulting in mass death and chaos. Even India and China which were earlier subject to periodic famines have stabilized food production for a much larger population than Malthus would have thought possible. In ...

188. Christ the King

Psalm 100:1-5, Ezekiel 34:1-31, Ephesians 1:15-23, Matthew 25:31-46

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William E. Keeney

... a hidden opportunity for us to be a channel of God's loving redemption and thereby to unleash in ourselves the character of the divine. 5. The Foundation of the World · Physically, the scientist may look at the foundation of the world in some big bang theory, in some characteristic of matter that can expand and fill the universe. Spiritually, we look to a God of love, mercy and compassion at the foundation of the world. The personal foundation of the world is in the source of life in all of its richness ...

189. Toward A More Sensuous Christianity

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John A. Stroman

... movement reacting against the intellectualism, formalism, and spiritlessness of the established church. Now we are the established church and we have allowed ourselves to become intellectual, formal and spiritless. What these early Methodists came to cherish was not theories of atonement, doctrines, creeds about Christian theology and the Holy Spirit, but the experience of the Holy Spirit in their lives. Therefore, this new Pentecostal movement is nothing more than the old Pentecostal movement that we as ...

190. The Bread Of Life

John 6:25-59

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Marc Kolden

... as he did nearly 2,000 years ago in the breaking of the bread and the pouring of the wine. Christians have had an unfortunate tendency to understand the eucharist in somewhat mechanical ways. There are exact rules for how it is to be done; detailed theories of how it works; specific rituals to be gone through; and disciplines of preparation, reverence and adoration for us who receive. On top of that, we have sometimes thought of eucharistic grace as a "thing" that we get when we receive the bread -- as if ...

191. The Sure Foundation

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

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Marc Kolden

... and as he comes to us all these other gifts and promises are ours as well. Faith is living in light of the promises. Faith is receiving the gifts. But we often get confused about this. We think that faith means believing the right things, whether that involves theories about the Bible or accepting some ancient creeds or a list of fundamentals or the primacy of the Pope. But that is a hopeless way to think about faith. And that is what Jesus is attacking at the end of the Sermon on the Mount, when he says ...

192. Love Without Limits

Matthew 15:21-28

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Roger G. Talbott

... is not fair to take the children's food and throw it to the dogs," and she replies: "Yes, Lord, yet even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their masters' table." Jesus was only joking, they say, and the woman "got it" and joined in the repartee. Either theory is possible. We certainly don't want a prejudiced Jesus, do we? Or do we? Don't prejudiced people need a savior, too? The fact is, everybody is prejudiced. The biggest liars in the world are the people who say that they aren't racist or sexist or ...

193. Sermons

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John R. Bodo

... Life" (John 14:6). No, Jesus never lost patience with Thomas, because Jesus values honest doubt more than he values blind belief. For belief can be blind. Gullibility, superstition, and prejudice are all close kin to belief. The lazy acceptance of outworn theories wrongly enthroned as dogmas has lent respectability to man's inhumanity to man, retarded the progress of human betterment, kept the human spirit in a prolonged, unlovely infancy. But to every generation God grants a few men and women who will not ...

194. The First Hole

Acts 2:42-47

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Robert R. Kopp

... members cite age for begging off boards, committees, and so on. Besides, the tired, tested, and true always have a lot more to offer than ecclesiastical rookies. That's why our pastor emeritus continues to be so vital to us. It takes a long time for theory to catch up with practice. Anyway, Miss Blanchard had just crossed the century mark when I showed up in her class with nine other boys. She only taught boys. Whenever we asked why, she'd say something about focus. Like most eighth graders, I knew she ...

195. Take Some Lessons

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

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Robert R. Kopp

... as hitting the ball off the club's toe, my dad explained how a shank occurs when hitting the ball off the hosel. In other words, my cure for the disease -- hitting the ball closer and closer to the hosel -- was producing the opposite effect. The more I pursued my theory, the farther I moved from the truth. Sometimes the truth eludes us. That's when we need to go to a pro and take some lessons. The same goes for women and men of faith. Sometimes we just don't get it on our own. We need to go to ...

196. A Cultural Breakthrough

Acts 16:6-10

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Rodney Thomas Smothe

... . The writer, Luke, suddenly shifts to the first person plural and without warning a series of "we" passages begins at 16:10. There are 97 such passages recorded in Acts 16:10-17; 20:5-15; 21:2-18 and 27:1--28:16. Several theories have been suggested in an attempt to clarify the "we" passages. Some suggest that Luke was a traveling companion of Paul. Others suggest that he incorporated the accounts of Paul's travels from another source and simply uses "we" to reflect that incorporation. Still others suggest ...

197. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 10:1-12

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Wayne H. Keller

... the deepest growth that humans can have. And most begin with high hopes. Many end in the depth of despair and hostility. Consider the games we play in our marriage and families which cause pain and anguish. (Thirty seconds of silence.) When Eric Berne developed his theory about the "Games People Play," he identified one titled, "If It Weren't For You ..." Basically, when we play that game, we are saying, either to ourselves or to another, "If it weren't for you, my life would be great!" During the next two ...

198. The Season Of The Holy Spirit

Mark 10:35-45

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Wayne H. Keller

... , that capital punishment will work to deter crime. However, the "law and order" people only demonstrate the weakness of their strength, the sterility of their power. (2) We have become aware of an increase in family and neighborhood violence. My personal theory is this: When I see an angry person, I ask myself, "I wonder what he/she fears? I have discovered that the greater the expressed anger, the greater the unexpressed fear." Therefore, if we gave ourselves permission (especially we men) to express ...

199. You Can Be Eternal

2 Corinthians 5:1-10

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Michael B. Brown

... are raised a spiritual body," while others believe that "the resurrection of the body" literally means the resurrection of this body. I have a friend, a dear woman, who refuses to be an organ donor. She contends: "When I get to heaven, I will need both my eyes." So many theories, so much speculation. To be honest, I don't have all the answers and do not trust anyone who says he does. It is enough for me to know that God has the answers, that God is in charge of the business of eternity. What I am sure of ...

200. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, Colossians 3:1-17

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John R. Brokhoff

... earth (v. 36), anointed Jesus as Messiah (v. 38), raised him from the dead (v. 40), and ordained Jesus to be the judge of the world (v. 42). Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 1. In fact (v. 20). Paul considers the resurrection a fact. It is not a theory, not a wish, not even a faith. Thinking, wishing, or believing does not make anything a reality. The resurrection is a hard, cold fact -- the fact of an empty tomb, the fact of an angel's message, the fact of the presence of the risen Christ. If it is not ...

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