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2076. Among You Stands One

John 1:6-8, 19-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... mother’s sacrifice, says Sheryl, resulted in a Christmas memory that will be passed down through many generations. (3) That’s the sort of response to adversity only Christmas can provide. Light came into this dark world when Christ was born in Bethlehem, the light of God’s love. This brings us to a second thing to be said: When Christ came into the world, a new way of living was revealed. Let me ask you a question: Is the Christian faith a belief system or is it a way of living? Now I realize that it ...

2077. The Surrogate

Matthew 1:1-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... icons of a cherished memory. Not one of those women would have given up her ring. Not one of those men would have given up his photograph. There was a security in the most turbulent and troublesome of times that said, somewhere in the midst of this, love survives. It was a small sign of security, to be sure. But even an unsteady security was better than no security that normalcy and peace lay just around the corner, almost in reach. That engagement ring, that little diamond so small you could hardly see it ...

2078. The House on The Rock

Lk 6:12-49 · Mt 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... done in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they ... light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness! No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other, or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth. Therefore I tell you, do not worry ...

2079. Revised and Revisioned

John 8:48-59, John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41, John 10:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to answer.] God chases us everywhere, trying to prevent us from destroying ourselves, trying to get us to listen, to obey, to love God, to love each other. God tries to build a loyal people with Abraham. God tries to start over with Noah. God tries to win ... this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my ...

2080. She Waits

Acts 1:1-11, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the time came for the marriage celebration, she could open that chest, and have the tools she needs to make her new home with finesse, love, honor, and joy. Our time in the season of the coming of the Holy Spirit will be a time of preparation. In that time, ... open our hearts and enter in to God’s final kingdom, clothed in His glory, and committed in Spirit, with wisdom and love, and many, many others who we taught to follow with us. Jesus’ ascension is Jesus’ “going away” to prepare a place for ...

2081. Oh That Cookie Jar Goodness!

Matthew 19:16-30, Mark 10:17-31, Luke 18:18-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... birthday, when you hear a voice from the laundry room two rooms away say, “…and by the way, don’t touch that cake!” Doesn’t that just creep you out? Really? How do they know? Do they really know us SO well? Yup. They do. Love implants X-ray eyes in the lover. People who love us best know our worst. They know our penchants to sneak sweets, our sly desires, our inability to diet, and those things in life that tempt us most. And they can cut us off at the curve when we are about to go around and give ...

2082. The Sound of Joy

Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of joy. “I rejoiced with those who said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord,” said the psalmist. (Psalm 122:1) Because, there is no place more joyful than the house of the Lord, where people gather in joy to give praise for the blessings and love of God, to bask in the light of the Lord, who brings that light into our lives no matter how much darkness abides. Abraham and Sarah were given an awesome mission for God –to be the father and mother of a holy people, people devoted to the One True God ...

2083. You Are Gifted

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of food. As you do, you will gift someone else with the gift of relationship that they too can pass on –all tied up in the love of Jesus. Being a follower of Jesus is not just a pretty package, all wrapped in a tidy bow. To live a gifted life, we need ... the bittersweet gift of Jesus. Even though following Jesus may sometimes feel hard, even if we are stricken down, Jesus always wins, and the love of God cannot be defeated. The gift is so much bigger than we are! When the Magi visited, it was a time of great ...

2084. Look At Your Fixations!

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Jech

... soul and with all your might." (Deuteronomy 6:4) Don't we have to admit that this sounds like the kind of extreme fixation that amounts to an addiction? To look at or treat any of our human relationships in this way would indeed be the kind of "love" that Stanton Peele calls an addiction. No human being can stand to be worshiped, to have others depend totally and exclusively upon him or her for everything! Furthermore, it would not be fair for me to depend on someone else in this way. Only God is capable of ...

2085. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... verse six they begin to complain bitterly that "there is nothing at all but this manna to look at." In reaction to this fickle love-hate attitude on the part of his children, we read that "the anger of the Lord blazed hotly." (v. 10) Now, in our text ... "You are bad." I trust we make it a habit to say "What you are doing makes me angry, but, of course that doesn't change my love for you as a person." Another way to redirect anger is to take the energy generated by our anger and apply it in a deliberate way to ...

2086. The Power of the Unseen

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . And like Jesus’ example of the yeast kneaded into bread or the mustard weed planted into the garden, it spreads. Boy does it spread! Love is the most contagious force out there. All you need to do is allow Jesus to plant it into your heart, and you can almost ... place? Or a spirit of envy? Or a spirit of fear? Or a spirit of gossip? Or a spirit of judgment? Or a spirit of love? We all have a kind of internal “spirit meter” inside of us. It’s like an intuitive force we have as human beings. The same ...

2087. Pulling Our Punches

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... to this little one-line parable laugh, especially because it made the rich uncomfortable. The disciples got it — if this was true, who could be saved? And we already know the answer — on the basis of what we do — no one. No one — not without God’s love. Not without God’s grace. Not without the cross. This is hard for us to hear, because we expect to be able to do everything by ourselves, without help from anybody. We make independence and self-reliance a modern idol which is every bit a false ...

2088. The Richest Family in Church

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... s an interesting phrase. It says to me that you and I can be rich in things and still be poor in spirit. You can be wonderfully gifted and still be poor in spirit. Christ came to bring a message of hope and salvation to a world desperate for the love of God. And no matter how good our life looks on the outside, many of us suffer from a poverty of spirit. Many of us are imprisoned by shame, anger, envy, fear, guilt and sorrow. No amount of money or titles or friends or accomplishments can fill that sense of ...

2089. Family Reunion

Genesis 29:15-28

Sermon

Will Willimon

... should give her to any other man; stay with me." They shake hands; it's a done deal. Nothing on paper, no lawyers involved. After all, they're family! So Jacob slaved seven years for Rachel. But Genesis says, ''they seemed to him but a few days because of the love" he had for dear Rachel. End of seven years, Jacob says to his father-in-law-to-be, "This has all been wonderful but now hand over my new wife." Laban said, "I insist on throwing the two of you a huge wedding party." Then, in the words of Genesis ...

2090. Overflowing Joy and Rich Generosity

2 Corinthians 8:7-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... become rich.” Jesus gave up everything he had and took on the form of a man to show us the unlimited, overwhelming riches of God’s love for us. We worship a giving God, and He says to us there is only one way that we can become truly rich. That is by ... give what you have to others, the blessing is multiplied and the joy overflows. What about you? Do you want to grow in your love for God and others? Do you want to know how overflowing joy and rich generosity can transform your life? Generous giving to the ...

2091. Out On A Sycamore Limb

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... change, was speechless. She then concluded with a phrase that will remain with me all my days. ‘You will never be able to give until you learn how to be a generous receiver.’ After the encounter with the Dean, Gomes never refused to accept a “love offering.”[6] One year an obituary appeared in The New York Times. The article was about Morris Dalmatofsky known by the people who frequented the Times Square area as “The Walking Department Store.” He died Friday in his one-room apartment at 357 West ...

2092. The Practice

Mark 1:9-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... receiving it. He will need to cultivate faith in those who do not trust. What he will have to endure at the end of his time on earth will be heart-wrenching and cruel. Still, he will need to not only endure, but maintain God’s profound love for all humankind, even for those who oppose him. It’s no mistake that on the cross, after all of that persecution, Jesus’ words run shivers down our spines: “Forgive them. They don’t understand what they’re doing.” Jesus is a true “soul whisperer.” But ...

2093. Night and Light

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... own to Venus. The universe held its breath as the future of this bright world hung in the balance. Like Adam and Eve at Earth’s creation, and like the lord and lady of Venus, we are surrounded by dark powers, yet long for the light of redemption and love. Most of our lives we struggle to see more clearly. But grace breaks through, now and again, in moments of insight and illumination, and those are the moments we have to hang onto. Like a mother who brings a child into this world, God is protective of the ...

2094. Faithfulness In These Days

Romans 10:8b-13

Sermon

Bonnie Bates

... really well. Then we moved in the weeks of exploring sin ― our own sin. The goal was to see our sin through the eyes of a loving God. I froze. I didn’t want to explore my sin or my sinfulness. I stopped being able to study or even to pray. I ... God hears my plea for forgiveness and for strength to walk in my faith. I know I am redeemed. I know I am promised the presence and love of God each and every day of my life. This is the gift of my faith; the gift of that experience long ago which still lives in ...

2095. Calculated Christianity

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

Jill J. Duffield

... calculated Christianity is not about our grit or our smarts. It is about surrendering to God’s will, power, grace, compassion, mercy, and love. Discipleship is not about what we can attain, it is about what God in Christ does for us and through us and sometimes ... or my kids and my life is far too filled with blessings for me to be anything but grateful. But I know I can only love them all rightly when I put Jesus Christ first, when I recognize and know to the marrow of my bones that I have been saved ...

2096. Return To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... the disease. He then passed it on to her. Her pain did not end there, though. The woman had a five-year-old son. Out of love for him, she had allowed her brother and his wife to adopt her son. Now they would not allow her to see her own son. Living ... the realm of relationships. We jump at every chance to express bitterness and resentment while so many good opportunities to reach out in love and warmth are ignored. Our return to God will never be complete until we turn to one another. Hear these words of Joel ...

2097. God's Most Unmistakable Message

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... the age. (Matthew 28:20) In all of this God gives the church power for living. The church is that group of people who take all that Christ gives and puts it into practice. We take the commission and go all over this world with the word of God's love. We take the task and share ourselves with those in our areas. We take his message and preach and publish it around the world. We take his promise and live with the assurance that nothing in all of life or death can ultimately hurt us, because Christ is with us ...

2098. The Hands And Arms Of Grace

Luke 15:1-7, Luke 15:8-10, Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... death won't have to threaten or worry or frighten you anymore. It is my ultimate sacrifice and you don't deserve it. But I love you this much!" The world, you know, doesn't understand that grace. They don't understand the cross. For them, it is a symbol of ... Now, instead of a symbol of torture and pain, we carry it as a symbol of victory, of God's power, of hope and salvation, of love -- for you and for me. The prodigal sons and daughters of God know only too well how beautiful is the sight of the one with ...

2099. Breaking The Tabboo

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... of having a career that will make them lots of money, but also of doing something with their lives that will make this world a better place. Because of the power of the gospel, they are daring to believe the abundant promises of God. They are daring to trust the love of God. They are daring to live as if there is more to life than the accumulation of money. They are daring to trust God's gift of abundance and reject the world's lie of scarcity. They are beginning to break the taboo. So can you, as you ...

2100. How Costly Grace? Or Does Spelling Count?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... offered up by me as a burnt offering. Jephthah and his army defeated the Ammonites and home he went rejoicing over the defeat. And coming out to meet him, dancing with timbrels, glad to see her daddy home safe and sound, was Jephthah's only child, his lovely daughter. Seeing her father's face fall and learning the reason, the unnamed daughter said, "My father, if you have opened your mouth to the Lord, do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth." And he did, though the details are mercifully left ...

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