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2051. Whose Wife Will She Be?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... on his brothers. In a flash, said this surviving brother, their tears turned to laughter. (4) What a gift this dying young man had given to his brothers. He had looked ahead to his journey of transition, and he had sought to make things easier for those he loved. Sometimes people come to the end of their lives and they are angry. They want to punish the world for their own lack of faith. And they make things more difficult for those they leave behind. Isn’t it time you settled this issue in your own mind ...

2052. The Case of the Dancing Men

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.” David knew that he could not achieve the kind of change he needed on his own. Only by the grace and love of God could he really become the kind of man his family and his nation needed the kind of man God intended him to be. A conference on comparative religions was held sometime back in Great Britain. One of the questions being debated was the uniqueness of the ...

2053. Big "J" and Little "j"

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... novel about a woman who has every amount of money imaginable. She has spent half a lifetime on touring the sights and galleries of the world’s greatest art. And she has now become bored and weary. Then she meets a Frenchman who has no money but a love for beauty and a self-acquired knowledge of art. And in his company, with the two of them traveling together, suddenly things became different. In her words, “I never knew what things were like until you taught me how to look at them.” Life is like that ...

2054. John 14:15 21

John 14:15-31

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... declared himself as “the way, and the truth, and the life,” and it is this same “truth” that this Spirit will continue to keep in the world. The way, truth, and life offered by Jesus will be accessible to all those who love him and keep his commandments through the continuing presence of this Spirit. But even as the world did not recognize and receive Jesus, this “world” will neither “see” nor “know” this new Spirit, this new Advocate given to Jesus’ disciples. “Not knowing” Jesus ...

2055. Yada, Yada, Yada

John 12:20-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Mama,’ he says. She weeps with pride and sorrow and wonder.” Later he explains to someone, “I hear like you see.” (6) Ray Charles trained himself to listen. That would be wise for those of us who have our sight. Listen to your colleagues. Listen to your loved ones. Listen to God. It is important to know that God does speak to those who listen. Not audibly, perhaps. We worry when somebody says they hear voices, as we should. The voice of God will be an inward voice, a silent voice, a voice within the ...

2056. Lust

Galatians 5:16-26

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... reveals lust more than the selfish desire to run roughshod over the needs and claims of the other. If a man truly loves a woman, nothing is so important to him as her welfare, her peace of mind, her dignity as a human being. And for ... was to point the way to life on a higher level, life characterized by those words that Paul would hold up to the Galatians: "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control" (Galatians 6:22-23). Such a life is so attractive in the way ...

2057. Trouble In the Parsonage

Hosea 1:2-10

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... Gomer. So he bought her back and brought her home. He had redeemed her, not because he could accept what she had done, but because he loved her. At least now she would know for certain to what lengths her husband would go to do anything he could to help her. If ... be big news over tea in the parish hall, but this time the news was good. It was news about an incredible display of love and grace that would find itself repeated hundreds of years later when the same thing was done for a wayward and sinful world. ...

2058. The Story of Christmas

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s record upon earth was a dismal one. There were times, even as today, when evil seemed much stronger than good when love seemed to be swallowed up by hatred when men ruled by the sword and might was often mistaken for right. The world ... darkness was in the heart of human beings. Only the Hebrew prophets could see that God was not finished with His creation. God’s love and desire for fellowship with humanity had not changed. He would complete the work that He had begun at the creation of the world. ...

2059. When We No Longer Recognize Ourselves

Psalm 51:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... For seven days, he fasts and prays for the life of his child. And when, after those seven days, his precious son dies, David returns to his royal courts and dictates the words we read in this Psalm: 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your ...

2060. Let It Go

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... t tell from whence you came or where you’re going.” In other words, you won’t be able to tell what you’re going to do next. “So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.” God cares less about what we know than about how we love and whom we love. And love is not about certainty or security. We cannot be “certain” about God; we can only be in relationship with God. To be born of the Spirit means to allow the spirit of Christ to live inside of you. Are you willing to let go of your certainties of ...

2061. Lost Baggage: The Middle Seat

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... the evil person from among you.’” (1 Corinthians 5:12-13, ESV) Let me close by saying this. The reason why we are to judge sin with those on the inside of the church is not to reject them, but to restore them. It is not because we don’t love them it is because we do. It is not our job to judge sinners who should live like sinners. It is our job to judge saints who shouldn’t live like sinners. Too many churches want to keep sick sinners out and keep sinning saints in. There is something wrong ...

2062. The Landlord's Dilemma - World Communion Sunday

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... see how his life would end. The world wasn’t ready for him and his Gospel of peace and justice. It still isn’t. He’s the stone that was rejected; the son who was murdered. But why did he do it? What drove him to lay down his life? Love. That’s the only reason. Theologians have advanced many theories about why it was necessary for Christ to die. Some say it was so he could take the punishment that we deserved. Others have said it was to ransom us from Satan. Others declare that, in order to undo what ...

2063. An Announcement to a Virgin

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... planet and experienced what it means to be human . . . What it means to have family and friends . . . What it is to laugh and to love and to lose . . . What it is to suffer and to face death. An angel appears to a teen-aged young woman and tells her that ... one humble enough to serve her. So he clothed himself in a beggar’s cloak and went out to meet the maiden. Did she accept his love? What do you think? An angel appears to a virgin, and tells her that she will give birth to God’s child. This was God’s ...

2064. Show Me Your Baptismal Certificate

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... -stuffed and bulging over with your identity and statements of who you are? It has credit cards (you are a consumer). It has business cards (you are an employee). It has a library card (you are a reader). It has health insurance cards (you are a lover who loves your family). It has loyalty cards (you are loyal). It has auto insurance cards (you are law abiding and not stupid). It has mileage plus perk cards (you are a traveler), It has key access cards (you are an “in” member of your tribe). It has gym ...

2065. The Outlandishness of Lent

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christ in flesh and blood and spirit, was the most difficult. It was against all the powerful, “let’s take charge and win,” scenes people of faith had been offered. Instead, Paul’s latest vision of God’s power and presence suggest that it was sacrificial love and a long-term vision of God’s ways and wisdom, that might be the “next big thing.” And yet Paul proclaimed that “God made foolish the wisdom of the world” (vs.20). The glory of Lent is not wallowing in fish sandwiches and looking ...

2066. Thanksgiving and Prayer

Colossians 1:1-14

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... anticipate some of the problems he will deal with later. Thus, for example, he commends them for their “faith,” “hope,” and “love,” (1:5) and yet strongly encourages them to be filled with the knowledge of God’s will and to walk worthy of ... not an inferior deity but one in whom God himself is found (1:15–20). 1:4 The next two verses introduce the familiar triad of faith, love, and hope. The numerous references to these concepts in the NT (Rom. 5:1–5; 1 Cor. 13:13; Gal. 5:5, 6; Eph. 1:15–18 ...

2067. When Jesus Prays

John 17:20-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... mother?” asked Mr. Rosenberg. “Oh Poppa,” he said, “When they came for David, he was afraid and he cried. Momma said, ‘There is nothing to be afraid of, David,’ and she took his hand and went with him.” (3) It is a sad story of a mother’s love for her little boy. Now, transfer that image to yourself and Christ, with Christ in the role of the mother. Fearfully you approach the throne of God. Why fearfully? Because you know you are not all God means for you to be. You have no merit at all to ...

2068. Marriage in Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-38

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A note saying "I love you" and a Bible. Good morning, boys and girls. This morning during the sermon we are going to be talking about marriage. That ... city. Yet within a few hours that boy moth was found beating its wings against the window of the room in which the girl moth was being kept. Romantic love is wonderful. I have two love notes in my hand. One says what? It says, "I love you." What's the other. It's a Bible, isn't it? It has a lot of words in it. But when you boil them all down to their ...

2069. Solomon Asks for Wisdom

1 Kings 3:1-15

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... by the two surrounding statements regarding worship at the high places—the second of which now implicates not just the people but Solomon himself in this worship (3:3b). At the very least, then, the authors are again asking us to see (as in 3:1a) that Solomon’s love for God, even at this early stage in his career, was not entirely wholehearted. He does not keep the law of Moses; he does not take action quickly enough with regard to this matter of worship. As in 3:2, there is no hint yet of apostasy. His ...

2070. Consider Others Higher Than Yourself

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Teach the Text

Preben Vang

... connects this with the believers’ incarnation of the Christian lifestyle. Several old manuscripts lack the word “God” in the first part of the sentence. If this is the original reading, it makes Paul’s statement even more powerful: “We do not yet know, but if we love (one another) [i.e., imitate Christ], we will be known by God.” To the Christian, it is more important to be known by God than to parade personal knowledge (cf. Gal. 4:9; 2 Tim. 2:19).4Love and knowledge should not be separated in ...

2071. “The Lord Is My Shepherd, I Lack Nothing”

Psalm 23:1-6

Teach the Text

C. Hassell Bullock

... the person turns back to God. The poem begins with the words “I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled him, down the arches of the years.” And then Thompson completes his poem with these words: “I am He Whom thou seekest! Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest Me.”[17] If possible, you might want to share how you have experienced God as “the hound of heaven.” That is, how has God pursued you? You might also want to project one or more of the twenty-three paintings by the American ...

2072. Closing

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... Greek text, the verb to be supplied in translation could just as well be “are” (cf., similarly, 2 Cor. 1:3). In that case, Paul is expressing not a pious wish, but rather a confident matter of fact: “The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit are with you all.” This statement concludes the letter on a very positive note, for Paul’s confidence in the renegade Corinthians (cf. 7:4, 16) is based ultimately on God and his presence in their midst (cf ...

2073. The Parable of the Good Samaritan

Luke 10:25-37

Understanding Series

Craig A. Evans

... parable that is simply not there. (Fitzmyer [p. 885] says that to read the parable in an anti-Semitic way “is just another subtle way of allegorizing it.”) The point of the parable is that anyone (even a lowly Samaritan), not just a religious expert, can show love and so keep the Great Commandment (Luke 10:25–28); not that it is necessary to avoid being Jewish or to attempt to imitate a Samaritan. 10:30 A man: Lit. “a certain man.” Lachs (p. 282) wonders if Jesus might not have been referring to ...

2074. Saul's Jealousy of David

1 Samuel 18:1-30

Understanding Series

Mary J. Evans

... it is interesting to speculate whether Jonathan knew of Samuel’s prophecy that Saul’s would not be an enduring dynasty (13:14) or of the rejection of Saul by God (15:26). The description of the beginning of this close relationship informs us that Jonathan loved David, that he made a covenant treaty with him, and that he gave him gifts. The terms of this treaty are not itemized, although later (ch. 20) Jonathan calls on David to look after his family. It seems to have been a mutual commitment to loyalty ...

2075. Something is About to Happen!

John 1:1-14

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... …you feel overcome by addiction or sadness and your searching for answers. You thought the one place you might find it is in a church on Christmas Eve. Well, you have come to the right place. Because if you are open your heart, you will receive the power, love and strength you need. In Manchester England A woman standing in line at a shopping mall saw the lady in front of her try to pay for a few things for her son. She tried Then tried again. Over and over the card was declined. The frustrated and ...

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