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2126. Just Grace

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

James Merritt

... it. They are getting paid exactly the same amount for twelve hours labor that other people got for one. They forgot one little fact. They had gotten exactly what they had bargained for and for what both parties had agreed to, but that didn’t matter. You can guess the response. “And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat.’” (Matthew 20:11-12, ESV ...

2127. Can Two Become One?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

I recently came across a fascinating article called “The Top 10 Inventions That Changed The World.” Whenever I come across lists like these it is always fun to see how many of these I can guess. I am going to put 10 blanks up on the screen, beginning with number 10. Here are the top inventions in order from 10-to-1: 10. The Plow 9. The Wheel 8. The Printing Press 7. The Refrigerator 6. Communications (Telephone, TV, etc) 5. The Steam Engine 4. The ...

2128. To the Rescue

Genesis 3:1-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... can pay for the damages; 3 - you can split the damages. Regardless of who pays somebody has to pay. The debt that is incurred doesn’t just vanish into thin air.[2] That debt has to be either separated from him or it has to be separated from you. Guess what the word “forgiveness” literally means? It means to “separate.” Every one of us carries our sin with us like a ball and chain. We need someone to separate that sin from us. That is exactly what God did at the cross of Jesus Christ. I want you to ...

2129. It's All Good

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... what do you do?” He said, “I am a lawyer in Washington, DC.” Then, he turned to Dr. Rogers and said, “What do you do?” Dr. Rogers said, “I am a minister.” He said, “What kind?” He said, “I am a Christian minster.” The man said, “I guess you are a lot more conservative than I am” to which Dr. Rogers replied, “I probably am.” Then the man said, “Tell me, what do you read?” Dr. Rogers said, “My primary reading is the Bible and then most of my other reading would be somewhat ...

2130. Tarzan He Was Not

John 15:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... pray. The crowd, now enthralled by the unlikely story unfolding before them, stood in silence, loving the boy and secretly praying with him that he might win; he seemed so deserving. After the boy won the race and was given a trophy, the director said, “Well, I guess it is a good thing you prayed, so you could win.” “Oh, no!” the boy protested, horrified to have been misunderstood. “I didn’t pray to win. That would have been wrong. The other scout had as much right to win as I did. I couldn’t ...

2131. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

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... to go around. Whether that is a sufficient explanation of this miracle or not, it always amazes me how much food is left over at covered dish meals. A little boy was asked what his favorite Bible story was. “Oh, I don’t know,” he said. “I guess it’s the one about the crowd that loafs and fishes.” Today’s story is one of the best known stories about Jesus. In fact, it is the only miracle, apart from Jesus’ resurrection, which is recorded in all four Gospels. That alone makes it important for ...

2132. Don't Forget the Bread

John 6:25-59

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... On the way to the checkout counter, he spotted some ice cream. Within a few minutes he’d filled the basket with every essential item for a happy and fulfilled life. He checked out and drove home. His wife Denalyn looked at his purchases, then at him. Can you guess her question? It’s an obvious one, isn’t it? “Where’s the bread?” He went back to the grocery store. He forgot the one thing he went to get. The one essential product. He forgot the bread. (1) Last week we dealt with the feeding of the ...

2133. Hamburgers Don't Grow on Trees

Mark 4:26-29, Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... was quiet for a couple of minutes and his Dad could tell Josh was in deep thought. Finally, Josh looked up and said, “Dad, if we go home and plant these seeds in our backyard, we will have enough hamburgers to last forever.” (1) Not a bad guess from a four-year-old. However, we know that hamburgers don’t come from sesame seeds. But Josh was sure right about one thing--tiny seeds can produce a bountiful harvest. Jesus often compared the Kingdom of God to seed sown in the ground. In today’s lesson ...

2134. Chickens with Eyeglasses

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... morning. This young civil servant said urgently, “Mr. Governor, I’m sorry to wake you up, but your State Auditor has just died, and I would like to know if I can take his place.” Mr. Wilson thought that over for a moment and then replied dryly. “Well, I guess it’s all right with me, if it’s all right with the undertaker.” I wonder if the young civil servant got the joke. People with a puffed up sense of their own importance rarely do. It’s difficult to put up with people with that kind of ...

2135. Are You a Polar Bear?

Ephesians 1:1-14

Sermon

... behavior in that way. Eventually a large, naturalistic environment into which they could release the polar bear was built around this cage, on-site. When it was finally completed, the bear was sedated and the cage was removed from around the bear. You want to guess what happened when the polar bear woke up? The bear awoke, took three steps slowly in one direction before whirling around, and taking three steps in the other direction. Then again, back and forth, three steps at a time. The polar bear was no ...

2136. Poem: Adonais

Eulogy

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... saddest wrong, And Love taught Grief to fall like music from his tongue. XXXI. Midst others of less note, came one frail Form, A phantom among men; companionless As the last cloud of an expiring storm Whose thunder is its knell; he, as I guess, Had gazed on Nature’s naked loveliness, Actaeon-like, and now he fled astray With feeble steps o’er the world’s wilderness, And his own thoughts, along that rugged way, Pursued, like raging hounds, their father and their prey. XXXII. A pardlike Spirit beautiful ...

2137. Right Answer - Wrong Conclusion

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... Turing thought. In the early days of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Joseph Weizenbaum wrote a program called ELIZA to demonstrate how easy it was to meet Turing’s test for “intelligence.” He did this by means of a few good guesses as to what people might expect from a conversation, say, with a psychiatrist. For example, if a person says something like, “Everybody laughs at me,” Weizenbaum surmised that this probably reflected a recent experience where this person felt that someone had ...

2138. Wanna Fight?

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... African?American living in that population of 14,000! They were excluded due to a law the realtors had backed. This law said, in effect, that anyone should be able to sell their house only to those they decided were acceptable. You can guess whom those Californians decided were unacceptable. Remember the old argument about property values? Dr. Porter says their little local group of clergy decided, as did others around the state, that something must be done. After attempts at persuasion, it was decided in ...

2139. When Is Enough...Enough?

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Campolo most was that the excitement that had once sparkled in Ralph’s eyes seemed gone. “Oh,” says Campolo, “Ralph still went to church regularly. He had found one of those churches that served, as they say, ‘a better class of people.’” (2) I guess that Ralph discovered that once you get on the treadmill of material success, enough simply is never enough. When is enough . . . enough for you? A wealthy man came to Jesus to ask what he needed to do “to inherit eternal life.” Evidently, this ...

2140. When the Unthinkable Happens

Mark 13:1-8, 24-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... , as he would term them, will be raptured, that is, taken up to heaven, before Jesus’ coming. Those who are raptured will be spared the “tribulation”--the horrific suffering, wars, and devastation that face those who are “left behind.” As you have probably guessed the rapture is the premise of a series of novels appropriately titled “Left Behind” by authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. These novels have sold more than sixty million copies since they began to be published in the mid-1990s ...

2141. Pursuing Dreams

Mk 10:35-45

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King Duncan

... , please?” he said. “You see, I’m the King of Sweden.” The ticket taker responded, “Sure you are, and I suppose this is the Queen.” The King and Queen of Sweden went back to their car to get the correct tickets . . . only to see it being towed away. I guess it is a little different being the King and Queen of Sweden and being, say, the Queen of England. The job obviously comes with fewer perks. How about your job? Are you at the place you had hoped to be at this stage of your life? We spend our ...

2142. Tranquil: The Blessed Village on a Hillside

John 6:25-59

Sermon

R. Robert Cueni

... we take for granted. Yet the people in that little village are happy and disgruntled in about the same proportion as people are happy and disgruntled in my neighborhood. It seems that once basic human needs are met, accumulating more doesn't insure more happiness. I guess that should not surprise me. Jesus made that same point a multitude of times. I am enormously satisfied with my life, but I was a happy man when we were a young couple with two children, living in a rented house, owned one car and I ...

2143. What Are You Seeking?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... Herod was seeking power; the chief priest and teachers of the law were seeking to maintain the status quo; but the Magi were seeking the newborn King, so that they might worship him. And so I ask one last time, what is it that you are seeking? My guess is that you have come here this day genuinely seeking God. You realize the dangers in life of seeking anything else. Power, wealth, pride, even an attachment to the status quo can be the enemy of God. We must lay every other motive in life before the child ...

2144. Are You Giving Up Chocolate for Valentine's Day?

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... all their fish friends who go for a lure and fly off into space and never return. But they don’t. It is ironic,” Ortberg continues, “We say fish swim together in a school, but they never learn. Aren’t you glad we’re smarter?” (2) Well . . . I guess it depends how we deal with temptation whether we are smarter than a fish or not. It depends how often we see the lure without noticing the hook, just like fish. We could learn from our Master about temptation--for even he was tempted. Our lesson from ...

2145. The Best Translation

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... felt it comes nearer to the original Greek and Hebrew texts. The third minister said his favorite was the paraphrased Living Bible because his congregation was young, and it related to them in a practical way. All three men waited while the fourth minister sat silently. Finally he said, “I guess when it comes to translations and paraphrased editions of the Bible, I like my Dad’s translation best. He put the Word of God into practice every day. It was the most convincing translation I’ve ever seen.”

2146. Faith Lives in Fellowship

Heb 10:25

Illustration

Brett Blair

... who had previously been attending services regularly, suddenly stopped coming to church. After some weeks, the minister decided to visit the absent member. It was a chilly evening, and the minister found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor’s visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a big chair by the fireplace, and waited. The minister made himself comfortable and said nothing. In grave silence, he contemplated the play of the flames around the ...

2147. Anybody and Nobody

Illustration

Michael P. Green

... be done, Nobody could always be counted on. Nobody visited the sick. Nobody gave liberally. Nobody shared his faith. In short, Nobody was a very faithful member. Finally the day came when Somebody left the church and took Anybody and Everybody with him. Guess who was left. Nobody! SHORTER VERSION This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to do and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done ...

2148. A Talk With the Butcher

Humor Illustration

Michael P. Green

... ox asked, “What did the old man say about me?” “Nothing,” said the mule. The next day the ox, thinking he had a good thing going, played sick again. When the mule came in again very tired, the ox asked, “How did it go?” The mule said, “All right, I guess, but we didn’t get much done.” Then the ox also asked, “What did the old man say about me?” “Nothing to me,” was the reply, “but he did stop and have a long talk with the butcher.”

2149. Expecting Less, Getting More

Illustration

Michael P. Green

A thriving divorce lawyer found himself on the brink of divorce, even though he strongly believed in family life. As he began to ponder why his marriage was falling apart, he asked a friend the following question: “Max, how did you stay married for thirty-five years?” Max, being older, had a rather illuminating answer: “I guess in our generation we didn’t expect as much from each other—and we ended up getting more.”

2150. Beyond the Gate

Illustration

Michael P. Green

A farmer repeatedly invited a friend into his apple orchard to taste the fruit and make some fresh cider. But, just as often, the friend said, “No, I would rather not.” Finally, the farmer said, “I guess you are prejudiced against my apples.” “Well, to tell the truth,” his friend said, “I have tasted a few of them and they are very sour.” The farmer then asked which apples his friend had eaten. “Why, those apples which fell along the road over your fence,” he replied. “Ah, ...

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