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2126. Wesley’s Resolve

John 12:1-11

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Robert Beringer

... 'd be ashamed if any Methodist preacher in tolerable health made a difficulty of six miles." And off he tramped on foot to keep his engagement! At the end of this description of such a full and busy life, the biographer tells us the secret of Wesley's resolve: "His ability to achieve was due in the main to a temperament which was remarkably steady and self-possessed. He never seemed to hurry or to worry, and he always made time in his busy day to be alone with God."

2127. What Matters In the Light of Eternity: “Church Matters”

Acts 20:13-38

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J. Howard Olds

... me, the Church has been my place to be. It took me in and held me close and gave me a place to serve and use my God-given talents and gifts. I want to thank you, the people who populate the Church for pouring out your love, affirming my abilities, and being willing to follow the leadership of a country boy from Kentucky. I thank God for the Church. II. The Church Is of God and Shall Be Preserved To the End of Time Because Everybody Needs To Know Who Jesus Is The main challenge of the Church is to ...

2128. Is God For Real? (Series: Read Faith For Real People)

Acts 17:16-34

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J. Howard Olds

... hearts, and I will be their God” (Hebrews 8:10). Our founder, John Wesley, believed God’s image in us to be three-fold. He called it the natural image, the political image, the moral image. Natural Image: The natural image is our ability to reason, understand, make choices freely, and take responsibility for our actions. Reason and religion go hand-in-hand insisted Wesley. Political Image: The political image has to do with leadership and management. “You made mortals to be rulers over the works of ...

2129. Radical Love is Truthful (Series: Radical Love in a Risky World)

Ephesians 4:1-16

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J. Howard Olds

... real, genuine, authentic, dependable, accurate, factual. Truth is that which corresponds with reality. Up in the hills of Eastern Kentucky, there was a mountaineer who gained a reputation as an excellent marksman. He was a legend in his own time because of his incredible ability with a .22 rifle. The forest around his home was filled with trees covered in circles drawn with white chalk. In the center of each white circle was a bullet hole. People were amazed. What they did not know was that the mountaineer ...

2130. Follow Your Changes (Series: An Invitation to Christian Discipleship)

John 16:5-16

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J. Howard Olds

... seen an elevator before, punched his son and said, “Boy, go out to the truck and get yer maw. We need to put her in that thing.” There is a saying in life that goes, “If you can see it, you can do it.” Vision is the God-given ability to see the better road. It is the task of every visionary to articulate the vision in such a way that other people can understand and follow. With the help of the Holy Spirit, first century Christians convinced entire countries that a Roman criminal was the Savior of ...

2131. Kingdom Values According to Jesus (Series: Questioning our Values)

Luke 4:14-30

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J. Howard Olds

... in movies, but I found myself in tears Friday night as I watched the current release Amazing Grace. It’s the moving story of William Wilberforce and his life-long struggle against slavery in the Parliament of England. This young man of unusual ability and noteworthy power relentlessly appealed to the consciences of sophisticated people to stop what no normal person could stand to embrace. He literally gave his life trying to set people free. What the movie does not include is the fact that slavery was ...

2132. A Backstage View

John 20:24-31

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Craig Barnes

... : old failures, hurts, guilt and shame. We hear that we are living in a shameless society, and that people are no longer bothered by shame. I don’t believe it. Shame plagues our souls. Psychologists tell us that shame sweeps over us when we overstep our abilities, or when our fantasy about who we would like to be encounters the backstage reality of who we really are. Nothing is more crippling to our souls than working at hiding shame. We lock up more and more doors, sealing off more and more rooms of ...

2133. John 21:1-19

John 21:1-14

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Leonard Sweet

... ashore a phenomenal net load of fish. The significance of the precise number of fish recorded here, 153, has been argued and analyzed for centuries without resolution. The most obvious truth is the threefold miracle of a huge number of fish, Simon Peter’s ability to heft it, and the that the strained net did not break. All of the disciples now recognize “the Lord” before them. They respond excitedly to Jesus’ invitation to join him and receive what he has to offer. The author’s assertion that this ...

2134. Shaped By the Fire

Acts 2:1-21

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... entire house where they were sitting. [3] Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of them. [4] All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other languages, as the Spirit gave them ability. [5] Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven living in Jerusalem. [6] And at this sound the crowd gathered and was bewildered, because each one heard them speaking in the native language of each. [7] Amazed and astonished, they asked, "Are not ...

2135. Time to Get Wet

Revelation 22:1-6

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Leonard Sweet

... "water bears" since under a microscope they look a bit like miniscule gummy bears. They live in small ponds and in the moist pockets of mosses and lichens. When their environment changes, when the water they depend upon begins to evaporate, tardigrades have the ability to lose up to 95% of their body water. They can survive for decades in this dehydrated, inactive state, simply waiting for the next big gully-washer to restore their liquid environment and re-animate their existence. I hate to tell you this ...

2136. Condition Yellow Christians

John 5:1-15

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Leonard Sweet

... White zone is why people text message while driving down the freeway at 65 mph. Living in Condition White inspires someone to take a shortcut through a dark alley by themselves. Even worse, living in Condition White leaches out into the world and bleaches out our ability for compassion. Three Sundays ago, on April 18 Hugo Tale-Yax became a victim of Condition White. That is when Hugo Tale-Yax broke up a fight between a man and woman and was stabbed several times in the chest for his efforts. The assailant ...

2137. More Than We Are - Graduation

Philippians 4:2-9

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Maxie Dunnam

... prayed on bended knees and in an agony of hunger.” Then they blessed each ailing Indian - and saw that the sick were being healed! “Truly it was to our amazement the ailing said they were well. Being Europeans, we thought we had given away to doctors and priests our ability to heal But here it was, still In our possession.” Now listen to de Vaca as he goes on, writing in his journal “It was ours after all; we were more than we thought we were. To be more than I thought I was -a sensation utterly new ...

2138. Magnificent Fools

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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Maxie Dunnam

... to make any difference in the world. Two men were living in China. . . they were devoted to the cause of China becoming a Republic. This was in the days before the Republic and the later Communist take-over. One was a writer of great ability; the other a working man whose devotion to the cause made him a trusted leader in the movement. Those two had been rounded up by the existing government and put under torture to make them reveal the secrets of their undercover revolutionary activities. Released, they ...

2139. More Than We Are

1 John 2:28--3:10

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Maxie Dunnam

... .” Then they laid their hands on and blessed each ailing Indian and saw that the sick were actually being healed. “Truly it was to our amazement,” he wrote, “the ailing said they were well. Being Europeans, we thought we had given away to doctors and priest our ability to heal. But here it was still in our possession.” Now listen to De Vaca as he goes on: “It was ours after all; we were more than we thought we were… to be more than I thought I was… a sensation utterly new to me.” There ...

2140. The Third Kind of Love

Luke 10:25-37

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James W. Moore

... … and I thought there might be some help here for my loneliness.” I told him our church would like to help him… and asked him if he could tell me more about what was troubling him. He said: “Everything’s gone wrong. I have lost confidence in my professional ability, my wife has left me, I can’t get along with my children, I’m cut off from my parents and my in-laws, I’m having conflicts with my co-workers, I have been drinking heavily… Everybody’s left me and I don’t blame them. I have ...

2141. The Essence of the Gospel

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

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Maxie Dunnam

... of the glory of God shining in the face of Jesus Christ may not shine in certain lives unless it shines through you. Words are necessary. You must speak the word. But maybe even more important than words is how you are with people, your avail ability in love, your listening and responding, your genuinely caring about what’s going on in their life. Here is a story to illustrate the point. A minister’s wife was afflicted with terminal illness. He told of stepping out of his house one day when a fellow ...

2142. The Reluctant Prophet

Exodus 3:1-22

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Maxie Dunnam

... upon Vernard Eller, one of my favorite writers, to give us some suggested models for that blueprint. He’s a Church of The Brethren preacher and professor. One of his Brethren teaching colleagues calls him “that mad Dunker professor” because of his ability to put ideas in ways which capture our imagination. In a very whimsical yet profound manner, he has described two very different models for the church and our religion in his little book, In Place of Sacraments. One model he calls the “Commissary ...

2143. A Sunday Kind of Love

John 16:5-16

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Leonard Sweet

... power of the living, loving Trinity is broken. We can’t offer this world “A Sunday Kind of Love.” Maybe if we cannot be the perfect “three-way bulb,” fully inhabiting each love relationship, we can at least practice being like a “dimmer” switch. Maybe our ability to accept our own Belovedness is at the bottom of the dimmer “slide.” But we can move up the intensity as we try to express Love in our life and as we act as the Lover towards others. Where do you shine the brightest? We all know ...

2144. Updating Some Ancient Laws

Exodus 20:1-21

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Maxie Dunnam

... . We are operating out of two illusions. One, we convince ourselves that all of us have a sort of cosmic right for an equal share of the good things of life. This is a fallacious idea, and it plays folly in all our lives. There is no equality in talents, ability, and opportunity. There is not even any equality in our being at the right place at the right time. Did you hear of the fellow who called the doctor and said, I broke my arm in two places, what should I do? – The doctor said, “I’d stay out of ...

2145. Are You Paying Too Much For Your Whistle?

Galatians 1:11-24

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Leonard Sweet

... The first lesson in Economics 101 should be that everything in life comes at a cost. Everything exacts a price. Want to get into a great college? Start spending your hours and days studying hard, investing in knowledge, compounding your cognitive abilities. Want the best-looking lawn on the block? Start feeding the grass, researching nutrients, mowing, watering, mulching, aerating. The cost will be time, sweat equity, and not a little moolah. Want your family your marriage, your children, your relatives to ...

2146. Why Jesus Didn't Perform Funerals

Luke 7:11-17

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King Duncan

... from the “sleeping sickness’ manifested symptoms similar to Parkinson’s, Dr. Sacks began treating his patients with the drug. When he did, the results were astounding. Many of them “came back to life,” so to speak. “They regained the ability to move, speak, interact, and live a normal life. Each patient reacted to this new life differently. One patient became fearful and disoriented. Another patient developed an insatiable desire for new experiences. He wanted to read great books, study the ...

2147. Shaping People’s Lives through Forgiveness - Sermon Starter

Luke 7:36-50

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Brett Blair

... was Ronald Reagan. Putting political preferences aside for just a moment I think all of us would have to agree that on at least a few crucial issues Reagan got it right. He looked into the future and steered us correctly. What is it that gives some people the ability to look at a situation and rightly sized it up? It seems to be a kind of gift doesn't it? This is one of the qualities that separate the great men from the ordinary. In our story this morning (in Luke 7) certain insights are being expressed. A ...

2148. When You Want to Run Away

Psalm 11:1-7

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Maxie Dunnam

... psalm begins: “In the Lord I take refuge; how can you say to me, ‘Flee like a bird to the mountains....” (v. 1). The friends had used their best judgment. They measured the pressures that were pushing in on the psalmist, and they measured his ability to take those pressures. When they had completed their calculations, they had a simple word of advice for the man in trouble: “Head for the hills.” They had some good evidence on which to base their counsel: ‘for lo, the wicked bend the bow, they ...

2149. When It's Time to Wait

Luke 2:21-40

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J. Howard Olds

... and said to Ms. Lauder, “Well, come in, such patience must be rewarded." The rest, as they say, is history. It was Longfellow who said, “All things come round to those who are willing to wait." How are you at waiting? I like to say that patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears. That is my definition of patience. When the Lord handed out patience, I was in the other line. I am a very impatient person. When I come to a traffic light that is turning from yellow to ...

2150. How Can Jesus Save Me?

John 3:14-21

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J. Howard Olds

... found myself singing. We have heard the joyful sound Jesus saves. Jesus saves. Spread the tidings all around. Jesus saves. Jesus saves. The song was hardly off my lips when I found myself shivering. I still remember hot-eyed, buttonholing evangelists who had the ability to get up in your face, usually with bad breath, and shout, “Brother, are you saved?" in a zealous effort to carve one more notch on their spiritual pistol at the annual revival meeting. My observation is that most people today respond to ...

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