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Showing 2001 to 2025 of 5000 results

2001. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... those people on the bus will sit up and take note.” The young man said he would. But it was a hard task. All night long he sweated over the issue. What title could he possible use? How could he get the attention of people on a bus passing by? Finally an ... s Son may be glorified through it.’ We desire to be found faithful with whatever He entrusts to us.” Medellin, Colombia, is a long way from Wilmore. And we don’t meet people like Carlos and Aleida every day. Their story is dramatic and may seem far ...

2002. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has passed away; behold the new has come.” Nothing less is the aim of the Christian life, to be new creatures in Christ Jesus. To journey with Him. So, why are we here? I heard a story not long ago that poses that same kind of question. A woman and her husband were having an early dinner in a five-star restaurant – the kind in which the meals are so expensive that the prices are not printed on the menu. As they finished, Martha said, “John, you know ...

2003. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... went to start her own family and left the profession. She and her husband had three children. They raised them well and not too long ago they sent the last one off to college. This teacher decided she wanted to go back to the teaching profession. She applied and ... Jesus. So I believe the church needs to think more of transformation than confrontation. We need to think more about a “long obedience in the same direction,” than about a quick fix that might bring superficial change. Our task as an enclave of ...

2004. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... she went to start her own family and left the profession. She and her husband had three children. They raised them well and not too long ago they sent the last one off to college. This teacher decided she wanted to go back to the teaching profession. She applied and ... . So I believe the church needs to think more of transformation than of confrontation. We need to think more about a “long obedience in the same direction than about a quick fix that might bring superficial change. Our task as an enclave of ...

2005. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... went to start her own family and left the profession. She and her husband had three children. They raised them well and not too long ago they sent the last one off to college. This teacher decided she wanted to go back to the teaching profession. She applied ... . But I sensed something was going on in the life of this young woman, so I begin to pray for her. Well it wasn’t too long before we were landing in Atlanta and she took the seat beside me. I am certain of it, she was a different person. She wanted to ...

2006. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... because you crave the thrill of the forbidden and the rush of adrenalin, then I invite you to the only war that matters which is the war for your soul being waged within yourself. You are a battlefield; you are contested ground. God will not allow you in the long term to think of others as objects, whether you actually use them or not. The Louvre in Paris will not let you walk in with a can of Krylon and spray your initials on priceless works of art, and God promises to destroy those who deface works that ...

2007. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... in your head, but as self-authenticating Presence lurking around the edges of life. He is after people every day all day long. Whatever I think I know about a person, I do know this: they are pursued by Christ who is working through ... have is what I can scrape together and protect and worry about, then I am poor and will spend most of my energies on empty things. Not long before he was martyred in the jungles of Ecuador, Jim Elliot wrote, "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot ...

2008. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to get to sleep--and when dawn broke, he rubbed the sleep from his eyes and looked around. What he saw was an amazing sight: a tall man, standing just a few feet away, armed with bow and arrow. It was his father. He had been there all night long, weapons at the ready--watching over his son as he slept. (4) This is the God that Jesus revealed to us. Abba--Daddy. Gracious, loving, always concerned about our best good. I know you’ve heard that thousands of times, but when will you embrace that truth and make ...

2009. Branching Out

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Michael Milton

... you and teach you all things. He will give you the words that you need when you need words to say. The relationship will continue as long as you abide in me and I will abide in you and you keep my commandments.” It’s all about Jesus. Joy equates to having ... bigger than yourself. There is a little chorus I remember from my childhood: “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know, fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go.” Jesus told them: “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in ...

2010. Children in the Arms of a Loving God

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Michael Milton

... I received the touch of Jesus Christ. That early touch of Jesus led me home even though I wandered far away from God. Not long ago I was watching a program in which university researchers tagged a baby whale in Monterey, California. For years they watched as that baby ... will not be ready to bring others to Him.” Today, God invites you to paint yourself into the scene. You know this is what you long for—to be held in the arms of Jesus Christ forever. He will as you come to Him like a child. That is what I ...

2011. Love without Limits

John 13:31-38

Sermon

John K. Bergland

The eloquent preacher Tom Long tells the story of a small church-related college that held an annual event called Christian Emphasis Week. It was the task of the Christian club on campus to invite a speaker who would come and lead ... for Christ to pull us inside and wrap his warm arms around us. And would you believe there is enough room in his arms for everyone? There is room. There is plenty of room. 1. Thomas G. Long, Pulpit Resource, ed. by William H. Willimon, 29.1, p. 16. 2. Ibid., p. 18. 3. Quoted in ...

2012. What We Want for Our Children

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.” Christ wanted his disciples to have a sense of inner peace when he was no longer with them. He didn’t want them to be afraid. He was sending them out into a hostile world. As long as they served him, they would not know any outward peace. Read Hebrews 11, concerning the heroes of our faith. Here is how that chapter describes what some of the followers of Christ had to face: “[Some] were tortured and refused to be released . . . Some faced jeers ...

2013. Now Here Is the Plan

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... maker. God's plan was to give the world a savior. So God took the plans of politicians and used them for the plan of salvation. It's amazing. "Don't think that anything is done with, until God is done with it." This principle was formulated a long time before Jesus, a thousand years before Jesus. It is throughout the Bible, and is manifested in a glorious way on the cross. But it was manifested as early as a thousand years before Jesus in the story of Joseph. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers ...

2014. How Moses Handled Stress

Numbers 11:4-35

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... said that he was amazed at what he found in the church. I remember C. S. Lewis, before his conversion, said he stayed away from church because he discovered that the people who were there on Sunday were the ones he had been trying to avoid all week long. But Wakefield experienced just the opposite. When he got to church he discovered the people there were people he admired. He was especially impressed with the activities in the church. He went on a weekend retreat. He said there was a man there who wasn't a ...

2015. Simeon's Song

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... "odd couple." They are there every day looking for the Messiah. There is enough information about Anna in the text to calculate what her age might be. We know how long she was married. We know how long she was a widow. If you factor in to that her probable age when she was married, she is 109, or 110 years old. She has been around a long time. She has authority, credentials, only hers are different than Simeon's. She is a woman, so she probably would not have been trained in the scriptures the way Simeon ...

2016. When Jacob Got a Vision

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... about one's purpose and meaning in life."2 There is great power in purpose and meaning. George Moore wrote a novel and in the novel he tells of Irish peasants in the period of the Great Depression, put to work by the government in building roads. For a long time the men worked well, sang their Irish songs, glad to be back at work again. But little by little they discovered that the roads they were building led nowhere, ran out in the bogs and stopped. And as the truth gradually dawned on them that they had ...

2017. Saved (Again)!

Exodus 14:19-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... She was ˜saved' from the storm. There were no cars or telephones in those days. Think of her parents, wondering all night long, 'Where is our little girl tonight? Is she lost in the storm or is she safe in the schoolhouse?' "The snowstorms we ... the Prophet Isaiah (51:9-11a) brings together: Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord! Awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago! Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon? Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of ...

2018. Free Living Water for All

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... girlfriend. She says to him, "On the surface we seem quite different; but deep down we are fundamentally the same. We are both desperately unhappy about something -- and we don't know what it is." In every one of us, there is this nameless, unsatisfied longing, this vague discontent, this something lacking, and we don't know what it is or why we have it. The Israelites are physically thirsty. Their jugs are dry. What wouldn't they give for a glass of Ted and Dorothy Hustead's free water generously mingled ...

2019. Seeing Just Enough of God

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... as sweet as she had a few months earlier. With a bit of luck, her husband found a job back East, which meant another long move. Once they got there, she had trouble finding a job, eventually landing one she hated. She couldn't quit because they were so ... it is real. Whatever Moses saw when he saw God's back, it was enough to sustain him as he picked up to continue his long journey toward the Promised Land. In the twists and turns of our lives, in the exhilarating but frustrating work of the church, God will ...

2020. Preaching to a Stone

Joshua 24:1-3a, 14-25

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... forget its mission. So, in one sermon he wants to bring the tribes together as a unit, to impress upon them their role in God's plan for creation, and to motivate them to exclusive worship of the Lord and an understanding of their identity. Now that the long journey is over and the battles have been won, the passion might fade out. Joshua knows he won't be around to provide leadership, so he has to preach the sermon of his life to try to mold the tribes into a community that understands who they are. Joshua ...

2021. Passing and Failing

Deuteronomy 8:7-18

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... hate tests, but we learn something from taking tests. Tests let us know what our strengths are, and what we need to work on. In the long run, tests are good for us. In our passage this morning, the test the Israelites take is really a two-parter. The first part of the ... discouragement at bay. He draws strength from a book by Floyd Skloot, who developed viral brain damage while on a long distance airplane flight. Skloot boarded the plane a healthy, athletic man, but landed damaged for life. The book is titled ...

2022. Expectancy

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... had 23 rigs pumping. But they began to shut rigs down. I transferred to another oil field that only had eight rigs working, but they were drilling new wells and making new explorations. I like to be where things are booming. That is the way I feel about life. As long as things are booming here, I am ready to stay and make the most of it. But when things start to running down in this life, I will be ready to go on to the next place because I believe God will have something exciting going on there." He had ...

2023. Access Denied

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... bed due to a lingering illness. His grandson brought him a cocoon of a beautiful species of butterfly as a get well gift. Having placed it on his windowsill, the man watched as the butterfly began its struggle to emerge from the cocoon. It was a long, hard battle with nature. As the hours went by, the struggling insect seemed to make almost no progress. Finally, the human observer, thinking that "the powers that be" had erred, took a pair of scissors and snipped the opening larger. The butterfly crawled out ...

2024. The Church that Jesus Built

1 Peter 2:2-10

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... boy replied, "Have someone else crack it for you." Sometimes people in the church want the benefits the church has to offer without sharing the responsibilities. We all want revival as long as someone else does the praying. We all want more people in the pews as long as someone else does the inviting. We all want to see the church built up with more programs as long as someone else does the work. If you want to eat eggs, you're going to have to break some shells. And if you want to build a church, you're ...

2025. No Shame

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 (29-31)

Sermon

William G. Carter

... essence of what the church has to say, and it's good news. One of the problems, however, is that the news has been around so long that we have let it get rusty. We have turned the kingdom of God from a movement into an institution. For most of American history, ... . Our mission is to invite others to share that freedom and join us in the daylight. We can do it because we're not ashamed. Not long ago, I was talking with a man who sees the world in ways quite different from me. That's not a bad idea once in a ...

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Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation

Showing 2001 to 2025 of 5000 results

2001. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

2002. Our Journey With Jesus

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

2003. A Church for the 21st Century: Holy, Charismatic, Apostolic - An Enclave of Resistance

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

2004. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

2005. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... went to start her own family and left the profession. She and her husband had three children. They raised them well and not too long ago they sent the last one off to college. This teacher decided she wanted to go back to the teaching profession. She applied ... . But I sensed something was going on in the life of this young woman, so I begin to pray for her. Well it wasn’t too long before we were landing in Atlanta and she took the seat beside me. I am certain of it, she was a different person. She wanted to ...

2006. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

2007. A Kingdom Investment Policy

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

2008. Oh, God!

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan