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2001. A Global Celebration

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... the river, but the Indians would not cross that river because they believed it was inhabited by evil spirits. And to enter its water would mean certain death. The missionary explained to the Indians how he had crossed the river and was unharmed. But the tribe was not impressed. He then took them to the bank of the river and placed his hand in the water. They still wouldn’t go in. He walked into the water up to his waist and splashed water on his face. It didn’t matter. They were still afraid to enter ...

2002. For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

King Duncan

... empire was continually at war. Constant intrigue stalked the halls of government. Hmm . . . sounds like our country today. Augustus, this troubled emperor, heard about a man in Rome who was heavily in debt. Yet, despite his financial woes, this man slept peacefully. So impressed was Augustus when he heard about this man who was heavily in debt and yet slept peacefully, that Augustus went to the man . . . and offered to buy his bed. Think about that. Augustus thought he would sleep better if he changed beds ...

2003. The Nano-Punch of Pentecost

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... have cancer” used to be but no more, nanotechnology is the twenty-first century incarnation of how something small can impact the entire known universe. The disciples were the “nanobots” of the first century. They were microscopic nobodies with nothing impressive to offer. They were eleven losers, followers of a crucified criminal, a loser messiah. There was no possible way they could ever do anything. Yet they did. They did everything. They turned the world upside down. They changed everything. When ...

2004. Daddy, I'm Afraid

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... his friend said: “Freedom. Freedom to be yourself. Freedom to choose the life-style you want; no one looking over your shoulder. Freedom to eat where you want and to dress as you like and to think what you want to think. Freedom.” Jeske was impressed. However, after this New York friend said all this about being free he closed the door of his apartment, locked the latch, turned the dead bolt, inserted the chain, and switched on the electronic alarm.” Then his friend warned him: “Whatever you do, don ...

2005. Family Re:Union - Inverting the Pyramid

Deuteronomy 6:1-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... and each other second. III. I Am To Be a Mentor As I Teach About God Now, Moses gives moms and dads specific instructions on what they are to do with what he has just told them. “These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and ...

2006. Ignite: Man on Fire

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

James Merritt

... a history changing, life impacting, spiritually transforming event? Perhaps, a stark historical analogy can make the point. Can you imagine this headline being on the front page of every newspaper in the world in 1944? Hitler Converts To Judaism! That only gives a slight impression of what happened, somewhere around 33 A.D. in the country of Syria. Paul was, at the time of his salvation, the least likely person on earth to be converted. He was Jewish by birth, a Pharisee, and a Hebrew blue-blood. He was ...

2007. Up Close & Personal: Open the Doors

Psalm 100:1-5

Sermon

James Merritt

... the more you want God to be blessed by what you can offer Him. Service is a part of worship. One of the ways you worship God is by serving. All you wonderful volunteers out there that help us park cars – that is part of your worship. Our first impression people, who work the Information Desk, who hand out worship guides, who stand outside in the cold and the rain and greet people as they come in, that is a part of worship. You haven’t really worshipped God until you get involved in serving God. God is ...

2008. God Will Provide the Resources

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... it is a story that is important for our time. First of all, this is a reminder of Christ’s compassion. “When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd,” Matthew tells us, “he had compassion on them and healed their sick.” One of the most impressive things about Jesus was his compassion. Throughout the Gospels he calls to tired and hungry hearts, and says, “Come . . . and I will give you rest.” To parents of small children, he says, “Bring them to me.” He says the same thing concerning those who ...

2009. Supernatural: Running On Empty

John 2:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... , bankruptcy, or divorce. Jesus also cares about grouchy bosses, flat tires, lost dogs, broken dishes, late flights, tooth aches and ruptured disks. Let me ask you a question, “Why did Jesus do this as His first miracle? Why did Jesus change this water into wine? Did He do it to impress the crowd?” No. They didn’t even know it happened. Did He do it because He had to? No. It wasn’t His reputation on the line. Did He do it to prove He was the Son of God? No. That is why He didn’t want to do it ...

2010. Supernatural: Taken By Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... until he and his crew were right in the thick of that fire. They jumped out of that truck, threw the two buckets of water and three buckets of sand on that fire and then beat the fire out with both blankets and their bare hands. That oilman was so impressed by their unbelievable display of courage he wrote them out a check on the spot for $100,000 and said, “What are you and your men going to do with all that money?” The captain shaking like a leaf said, “The first thing we are going to do is get ...

2011. Running over the Cat

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Sermon

King Duncan

... servants are notorious for their “industrial actions.” The British Army was called in to take over emergency firefighting. On January 14 these substitute firefighters were called out by an elderly lady in South London to retrieve her cat. The soldiers arrived with impressive haste, very cleverly and carefully rescued the cat, and started to drive away. But the lady was so grateful she invited this squad of heroes in for tea. They enjoyed their tea. Then, with fond farewells and warm waving of arms, the ...

2012. Those Amazing Two Words (Thanksgiving)

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... age 15, Perry Tanksley became a Sunday school dropout. “No one will miss me,” he assured himself. So he was surprised a week or two later when Mr. Tisdale came to his home. Tanksley tries even now to think why Mr. Tisdale’s visit made such an impression on him. Maybe, he wrote, it was the concern revealed on Mr. Tisdale’s face. Or maybe it was the fact that Mr. Tisdale had walked a mile to tell him he was missed. Whatever it was, it worked. Perry Tanksley returned to Sunday school and later became ...

2013. Drowsy Disciples

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... be easily mistaken for his coming (as in Mark 13:5-10, 21-23). And then, finally, there is the theme of truly cataclysmic events that will accompany his return (such as Mark 13:14-20, 24-25). Likewise, the end-of-times teachings leave us with different impressions about the timetable of these events. What Jesus teaches for the first half or more of Mark 13 adds up to suggest a long process. Don’t jump to quick conclusions, we hear him saying, for many things will need to take place and be fulfilled before ...

2014. Still Surprised After Christmas

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... the inter-testamental period. As we put together the puzzle pieces of the Diaspora, the Hellenism that followed in Alexander’s wake, the translation of the Septuagint, the network of roads in the Roman Empire, and the larger context of the pax Romana, we were impressed anew by “the fullness of time.” Presumably, God could have sent his Son at any point during human history. He is sovereign, and he didn’t need much, if any, cooperation from us in order to enact his plan. In his famous retort in Jesus ...

2015. An Announcement for a New Year

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bumpe community came out to welcome its princess, a happy homecoming for the American girl who never knew that by searching for her birth parents, she’d find the meaning of her own identity. “They were amazing,” Sarah says, remembering her first impression of the Bumpe people. “There were about 200 to 300 people there to welcome me. [They were] singing and dancing, and I was like, ‘What did I do to deserve this?’” While she found Sierra Leone beautiful and exciting, it was also heartbreaking ...

2016. A Personal History

John 18:1—19:42

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... few hours are eventful and painful. And the disciples’ heads must have been spinning at how completely their world had changed in less than a full day. As we watch the events of that day unfold — and, specifically, as we watch the people involved — we are impressed by several things. First, there is the utter fearlessness of Jesus. He stands tall in the garden, knowing what’s coming, yet never flinching. He is the one under arrest, yet one senses that he is also the one in control of the whole scene ...

2017. Personal History

John 18:1-11

Sermon

David J. Kalas

2018. The Kingdom Is at Hand

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... happen that a man who is paralyzed from the waist down runs up and kicks the ball to open this great worldwide competition? It was because he was wearing a contraption, called an exoskeleton that allowed him to move his legs. But here is what is impressive. The exoskeleton was operated by his brain. Mentally he told his legs to move and they moved. Thanks to this new technology, this man’s legs operated almost as if he had been miraculously healed. Doctors tell us in the not-too-distant future thanks to ...

2019. Everything Must Go: “Abandon Ship!”

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... bargains but for the best bargains. You see most of us are like this. If we see a sign that says, “Everything 20% Off” or “Buy 2 Get 1 Free” we don’t care what it is we just get out our checkbook and buy it. Those signs don’t impress Teresa. There is one sign, however, that gets her attention. It is the one that says, “Everything Must Go!” There are stores we have gone into that normally we wouldn’t give a second thought, but that sign is a magnet to the iron in her heart. She knows you ...

2020. The Reject

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... for atheism. Why don’t you write that book and just show Jesus was a man like anyone else?” This man took Ingersoll’s advice and began to do the research needed to write this book, but the more he studied the life of Jesus the more he was impressed with the person of Jesus. This man finally came back to Ingersoll to tell him that after investigating Jesus he was convinced that Jesus was the Son of God and he had given Him his life. That man’s name was Lou Wallace, who wrote the novel, Ben Hur and ...

2021. Reliable Witness

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... the inanimate matter on this earth planet suddenly came to life. And the third is that some of that matter that came to life gained the ability to think, to be motivated, to seek, and to imagine, even to hope. (5) Even if you weren’t impressed by the immensity and the intricacy of it all, the wondrous beauty of creation alone should show the sheer lunacy of believing it all happened by pure chance. “Nature,” wrote Jonathan Edwards, “is God’s greatest evangelist.” And he was right. That is one of ...

2022. Who Is Right

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... relate to both. Frankly, no snapshot that Jesus ever took makes me more uncomfortable, more convicted, and more introspective than this one, because honestly the pastor in the home I just described has been me. No, I have never prayed in front of a window to try and impress people with my witness, but as someone who has never had a drink, or taken a smoke, or used profanity, or been through a divorce, or used drugs, it is so easy to have the attitude, “I thank God I am not like people who do.” [Turn to ...

2023. Determining Your Destiny

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... man on the other side of the gate. This is where you have to be very careful in reading this story. The major difference between these two men was not that one was rich and the other man was poor. A quick read of the story would give you the impression that one man was condemned, because he was rich and the other was condoned, because he was poor. When you read the entire Bible, it is plain that God doesn’t put a premium on poverty, nor does He put a penalty on prosperity. It is not a vise to ...

2024. When You Reach the Rejection Hotline

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... all sooner or later. You apply for a job. You believe it is the perfect fit for you. But your prospective employer has other ideas. Rejection. You work hard on a proposal at work. You know your boss will be delighted. Instead, she is more impressed by a co-worker’s idea. Rejection. It happens to everybody. It happens to best-selling writers. Ken Taylor’s paraphrased version of the Bible which he called The Living Bible was rejected by 63 publishers. He finally self-published it. Quite unexpectedly, The ...

2025. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

Sermon

... signs” signs that Jesus was the Messiah. This particular sign was a spectacular one, for it made Jesus wildly popular with the crowd. They even wanted to make him king. I’m not sure that just getting the crowd to share with one another would make that large of an impression. Of course, none of us knows how he performed this miracle. Or how he changed the water to wine in another of John’s stories. Or how he healed the blind or raised the dead. All we can do is agree with John that this is a sign that ...

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