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2126. Who's the Fool?

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

George Reed

... who told us we could not serve God and wealth. We must make our choice between the two. We can’t serve two masters. We must also remember that in Jesus’ day, agriculture was a subsistence economy. One did not get rich by working more hours and taking better care of the crops. If one was really diligent, one could hope to be able to feed the family and pay the Roman tax with maybe enough to give to the temple as well. That was really making it in Jesus’ day for the honest farmer. Those who were rich ...

2127. The Little Orphan Girl

Matthew 7:7-12

Illustration

Mark Adams

... during the war. I was half starved, and now I can’t work. I can barely stagger around. I brought her down for you to take care of her.” And again the official said, “We’re sorry sir, but there’s nothing we can do. That’s the rule. We only care for full orphans.” The father thought a moment and said, “Are you saying that if I were dead, you’d take care of my little girl, feed her, and she could live and have clothing and a home?” The official replied, “Well, yes, that’s the rule ...

2128. Worthless Slaves

Luke 17:5-10

Sermon

George Reed

... of devotion to our God. And yet, even if we do achieve it, we have done nothing extraordinary. No, we have only done what has been asked of us. In the same way, we are asked to love others as we love ourselves. We are told to give the same careful consideration to the needs of others that we give to our own needs. Most of us are pretty clear that we have not attained this kind of holiness even before Jesus reminds us that he isn’t talking about just our family and friends but about strangers and those we ...

2129. Reflecting God’s Abundant Love

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Molly F. James

... will easily remind us that the world is full of temptations to spend more, be lazy, be gluttonous, choose brief enjoyment over taking care of ourselves. A brief glance at the news headlines is all we need to remind ourselves that evil is real and at ... we are his beloved children. God’s love for us is not based on our appearance or our mere acts of piety. God cares about what is in our hearts. God cares that we are grounded in love and not motivated by a selfish desire to do more or have more, but by a love ...

2130. Reading the Last Chapter First

Matthew 17:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In his transfiguration, however, Jesus erased all those ideas. He isn’t just sent from God; He is God come to earth to redeem His people. I read recently about an interesting figure in Mexico named Father Sergio Benitez. Father Benitez was known as a caring priest who operated a small orphanage in Mexico. At least that was his identity by day. By night, the good father was somebody else altogether. Unknown to his flock Father Benitez at night would put on a showy mask and cape and transform himself into ...

2131. You Are My Beloved

Mark 1:10-11

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... rests. I have molded you in the depths of the earth and knitted you together in your mother's womb. I have carved you in the palms of my hands and hidden you in the shadow of my embrace. I look at you with infinite tenderness and care for you with a care more intimate than that of a mother for her child ... you belong to me. I am your father, your mother, your brother, your sister, your lover, and your spouse ... nothing will ever separate us. We are one.6 It is very hard to accept this "Beloved" stance ...

2132. Blessed

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... two things we will get that for which we seek. We will, in fact, come to know and understand God’s will so that we can do it. Blessed are the merciful for they shall receive mercy. Mercy is not, necessarily, pity. If we are not very careful we will mentally paraphrase this beatitude to read, “Blessed are the pitiful for they shall be pitied.” Nothing could be further from the point. The mercy mentioned here is not a feeling if pity; it is an action taken. Matthew is referring to concrete acts of mercy ...

2133. The Gathering at Cana

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... on the vine. The summertime has come, and God’s final mission has commenced. A wedding is about relationship, in which two become one. Jesus is the bridegroom who comes for the bride to make “her” his own, to bring her into his house, and to love and care for her forevermore. The bride, God’s people, must promise to be loyal and obedient to God and to love God as his and her own flesh. The wine of covenant binds us to Jesus as we enter into relationship with him, as the Father (Creator), Son, and ...

2134. A Taxing Encounter

Matthew 9:9-13, Mark 2:13-17, Luke 5:27-32

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... is when we think our EGOS and our OPINIONS are the MOST important of all and more important than anyone else’s! But listen….our things, our habits, our opinions, our buildings…God doesn’t care about those things. God doesn’t care one fiddle about the pattern or the color or even the cleanliness of your rug. God cares about the substance and the clarity of your heart! I know a pastor who purposely spilled coffee on a brand new rug, just so that that rug would not get “that important!” That’s ...

2135. Grounds for Blessing

Matthew 13:1-23, Luke 8:1-15, Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... it under a bowl or a bed? Instead, don’t you put it on its stand? For whatever is hidden is meant to be disclosed, and whatever is concealed is meant to be brought out into the open. If anyone has ears to hear, let them hear.” “Consider carefully what you hear,” he continued. “With the measure you use, it will be measured to you—and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.” He also said, “This is what the kingdom of God ...

2136. The Great Dinner

Luke 14:1-14, Luke 14:15-24

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... what we are doing –or not doing. Because even our churches can be takers without even realizing it. Do you think our church cares more about its buildings than its community? What do we most talk about around our monthly meeting table? Is it the state of ... at the Home of a Pharisee One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There in front of him was a man suffering from abnormal swelling of his body. Jesus asked the Pharisees and experts in the ...

2137. No Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... take the best seats. But the least. And in doing so, God will gift to us bountiful blessings. God is not interested in our measurements and even our longevity. God’s concept of time is nothing like ours. God measures in terms of our hearts. God doesn’t care if you’ve been attending your church 50 years or 5, worshipping him for a life time, or a short time, if it means you’ve newly discovered the Name of your Creator. God will bestow upon YOU God’s beautiful and bountiful grace no matter when you ...

2138. Vetted

Luke 3:21-38, Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... . Sometimes I think he’s part squirrel, the way he hordes them. He usually always has two in his mouth, and he tries to get a third in there. Hasn't done it yet. Doesn't matter where you throw them, he'll bound after it, so be careful – really don't do it by any roads. I made that mistake once, and it almost cost him dearly. Next, commands. Maybe the shelter staff already told you, but I'll go over them again: Reggie knows the obvious ones – “sit,” “stay,” “come,” “heel.” He knows hand ...

2139. Dry As Toast

Matthew 12:15-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... flowering. Now look at this plant. It looks withered and dry. Its leaves here are all dried up. Its roots have shriveled. And it is drooping down. Why? It hasn’t been planted in good soil. It’s been left in the pot on the windowsill without proper water and care. This is your soul without God. [Show the unhealthy plant.] This is your soul in relationship with God. [Show the healthy plant.] Now, we know that if we want a healthy plant, we must keep it in good soil. We must water it. We must ...

2140. The Plank

Matthew 5:38-48; 7:1-6

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. Listen carefully. When we first hear this little example Jesus is giving them, it seems simply like he’s saying, your brother has a little speck ... a magnifying glass, or put glasses on, or do something in order for you to see it clearly, so that you can take it out carefully, so as not to harm your pet. This is what Jesus is saying to us today. Jesus wants us to see our brother or sister ...

2141. Crossing Over

Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 48:1-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the extra mile, cross the hard road, meet someone in their own space and own place in order to be the kind of compassionate, caring, loving people that we were created to be. This is Jesus’ lesson for the lawyer that day. He still teaching it to us in our ... and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Look after him,’ he said, ‘and when I return ...

2142. Shepherd Dreams

Jeremiah 23:1-8, 1 Samuel 16:1-13, Psalm 80:1-19, Psalm 23:1-6, John 10:22-42, John 10:1-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... or take on for paid wages. Shepherding, at least the kind God imagines, requires a parental kind of bond, a loving engagement that dreams of the very best for every one of those sheep, a life of nourishment, contentment, joy, and abundance. In fact, the shepherd loves and cares for the sheep enough to lay down his or her life for those sheep. That’s some commitment! Think about it! How many of you would take a job that required you to jump in front of moving trucks or cranes or fight wild lions each and ...

2143. Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!

Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... Winter Olympics, was called “Poolside.” It featured actor, Neil McDonough, blond, handsome, and cocksure, touting not so much the car as the people who made it and, more importantly, the people who can afford to buy it. In fact, if you don’t watch carefully you don’t even know it’s about a car. It was about hard driving, innovative, creative Americans and it poked a playful stick in the eye of those laconic, lazy Europeans. It opened with McDonough standing beside a swimming pool in the backyard ...

2144. Hold Me When I'm Angry

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Carl Jech

... 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 some positive end. The church as an institution has done something that hurt you or someone you care about? Don't quit the church! Have a lover's quarrel with it. Work to change or improve those things in the institution that offend you. If your quarrel is with an individual person, learn to combine your statement of how the person has angered you with a ...

2145. Fake News vs. Fantastic Good News

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... of others and not asking for help. When he was in college in Oklahoma, a hurricane swept through his home city of Houston, Texas. Russell felt such fear and helplessness knowing that he was 500 miles away from his family and he couldn’t take care of them. He sat in the college chapel and prayed. He said that most of his prayers centered around the question, “Why?” Why was his family going through this crisis without him? Why had his father died young? Why couldn’t God stop the storms and the floods ...

2146. The Wind Came

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... you say, “That’s obvious pastor. We don’t need to be reminded that we are to be a missionary church.” You think not? Win Arn, a church consultant, did a study that showed that 89% of church attendees believe that the church’s primary purpose is to take care of the member’s needs. Only 11% believe that the church’s purpose is to reach out to the world. To me, that’s scary. So let me repeat: It was not for the church that Christ died. It was for the world that he died. No clearer message can ...

2147. Welcome, Inc.

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

R. Kevin Mohr

... programs and healing relationships that are reflective of God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ.3 Isn’t that a good summary of what we are to be about as a community of believers? Shouldn’t we be caring people in a caring community embodying healing relationships that are reflective of God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ? What a responsibility and privilege! God has decided on the route of incarnation and incorporation — and no other route. In other words, God dares to entrust us with his message ...

2148. The Rabbi's Apprentice

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... trying to teach them the importance of a loving heart and that a loving heart creates loving behavior toward others. He is telling them that the Jewish purity laws, laws that require you to wash your hands before a meal, only to eat certain foods, to be careful about what goes into your mouth at certain times, are man-made laws and not God’s concern. Eating a certain kind of food is not going to contaminate you in the eyes of God. Obviously, Jesus is making some pretty strong enemies of the Pharisees, the ...

2149. Wavering Notes by an Uncertain Trumpet

2 Peter 3:1-18

Sermon

Ron Love

... was trying to tell the church members across Asia Minor that they should not listen to the false teachers, but be patient. Peter realized there was a beauty in patience that gave one the noble qualities of being “quiet, steady perseverance; even tempered care; diligence.” An impatient person for Peter is one who lives an immoral life because Jesus has not returned and therefore concludes there is no final judgment. An impatient person for Peter is one who believes that there is no final accounting for ...

2150. The Angel's Message

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... . But she believed the cause was worthy of the sacrifice. On her grave marker these words were inscribed: “For her to live was Christ, and to die was gain.” Pastor Paul Chappell makes this comment about the Taylors’ ministry, “In a day when many are self-absorbed and care more about what they can get rather than what they can give, we need a renewal of sacrificial love. It was God’s love for us that sent Jesus into the world to die for our sins, and it is that kind of giving love that our world ...

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