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2176. Imagine

Revelation 21:10, 22-26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... what is to come? Either God is busy creating a new heaven and a new earth or God is not love, justice, and mercy. Either God will give us a new city, clean, fresh, safe and shining, or we are without hope. Such eschatological vision is not escape from responsibility, but narrow escape into hope and therefore to action. For without hope, there is no action. If you can't see some utterly new world, yet to come, all you can do in this world is to adjust. Action springs not from guilt, but vision, for we act ...

2177. Joy

Luke 2:1-11 · Isaiah 9:2-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... " this morning. Joy, real joy, is always reflexive, a spontaneous, yet deep human outburst because something has happened. Joy isn't a goal, an achievement. Joy is a byproduct, a gracious spinoff. "Let's all get together and do a little joy." No. It's a gift, a response to something that happens to you. You felt it when the doctor called to say that the shadow on the Xray was just that, a shadow and nothing more. Joy. Or when she said, "Yes," and you knew you didn't deserve it. A gift received. Joy. And ...

2178. Loving Through Action

1 John 3:14-24

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... no feet, but yours. Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks with compassion for the world. Christ has nobody on earth but yours.” Yes, we, the Christian community, are the hands and feet, the eyes and the ears of Christ in our world. It is our responsibility to take up the mantle and to love others through action as did Jesus. Saint John’s challenge in today’s second lesson is indeed a great one, but we have the best example in Jesus, and, therefore, the inspiration we need to do what is necessary ...

2179. Together In One Place

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... . You know, like, “People who go to church are all hypocrites,” or, “I don’t go to church because I don’t like being judged,” or, “Religion is just superstition with a different name.” Luke tells us that Peter responded to those kinds of responses. First, he corrects the obvious inaccuracy: “They aren’t drunk,” he says, “because it’s only nine in the morning.” Yes, yes, I know that there are weaknesses in that argument but he doesn’t wait around for them to be pointed out. He ...

2180. How to Beat a Stress Test

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... ” PBS, https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/questionofgod/voices/collins.html. 3. Bruce Larson, in Charles Swindoll, Living Above the Level of Mediocrity, p. 124-125. 4. Jay Strack, Above and Beyond (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994), p. 4. 5. “The one-word response to adversity” by Ramit Sethi, “I Will Teach You to be Rich newsletter,” November 21, 2020. 6. From Bearing Witness: Stories of Martyrdom and Costly Discipleship. Based on Ahn Ei Sook’s personal account of her resistance to the Japanese regime ...

2181. Can You Deny Yourself?

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... . So she asked, “Benji, would you like to have Jesus in your heart?” Benji rolled his eyes and answered, “No. I don’t think I want the responsibility.” (3) If we’re being honest, that might be our response too. We like Jesus. His teachings are inspiring. His miracles are exciting. But do we really want Jesus to live in us? Do we really want the responsibility? I wonder if it’s even possible to speak to this culture, this generation, about self-denial. After all, some of us grew up in the so ...

2182. Promises to Keep

Mark 6:14-29

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... Herod Family. Herod the Great was the patriarch of this particular and peculiar family and, as you may recall, he ruled Palestine from about 36 BCE to 4 BCE. History records that he was, quite literally, an evil genius. He was a great builder who was responsible for rebuilding the temple of Jerusalem, the fortress at Masada, and many other colossal projects. He was a savvy business man and a partner of Cleopatra in a business venture that extracted tar from the natural tar pits near the Dead Sea and used it ...

2183. A Stand-in for Royalty

John 18:33-37; Revelation 1:4b-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... army. Priests in his ministry. We are stand-ins for the King. And his question to us today is, “I did the work I was sent to do. Now what are you going to do?” Until he returns in his glory to finish the work, it is our responsibility to see that this unfinished world becomes the kingdom over which he can reign forever. 1. "Queen Elizabeth II has very own 'body double' in bombshell 30-year Royal Family secret" by Grace Macrae Express.co.uk October 26, 2020, https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/1352219 ...

2184. For the Love Of God is Forgiving

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... ." Dad is totally unimpressed and says, "Then you need to build more character. Go shovel the walk." In the last scene, Calvin is shoveling snow and complains, "These discussions never go where they're supposed to go." Many of us are just like Calvin, we don't want to take responsibility for our actions. We don't want to be accountable. We don't want to own up to our faults and our sinfulness. We delude ourselves by blaming the stink of sin on others. (2) C. WE TRY TO COVER IT UP: Not only do we run from it ...

2185. Unconditional Commitment

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... off? When the moment comes, it’s too late to turn back. But once that baby is born, its little eyes melt parents’ hearts, and all of that fretting and worry is soon forgotten. You go forward and commit to a lifetime of parenting along with all of the responsibilities that go with it gladly. Your life does change. But I don’t know any parent who would say, it wasn’t entirely worth it. Now that said, committing to the wrong things can get you into a lot of trouble. Sometimes, you can be on the road to ...

2186. Have Mercy!

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... miserable or afflicted with a desire to relieve their pain. We would call that feeling we get when encountering someone in need “empathy.”[1]But we would call the impetus or desire to act upon that empathy, our “passionate urge,” our responsiveness, our sense of “responsibility.” The word literally means to have both compassion and active loyalty to the well-being of a fellow human, no matter whether they are of your culture, tradition, ideology, or background.It’s not only a feeling, it’s a ...

2187. Seeds

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... be made for the youth of our community, and few of the kids would show up. She would say, “I don’t know what to do.” I responded, “Keep going. You never know when the seed might take root.” So she would try again. There would be little, if no response. One day, she was getting ready to send out some information and she had two sets of labels. I said, “Why two sets of labels?” Well, one was the A List, and the other was the B List. The A List comprised the few kids who were a sure bet ...

2188. Love In Action

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 're not all that rich. We do a lot of good with our big building. We have programs of community outreach, a day care center. What good would our drop of wealth do when plopped in the great bucket of the world's vast need? Such are our rationalizations in response to this story of Jesus and the rich young man. You can understand why, when Will Campbell visited us, I did not have him preach in Duke Chapel. I dare say we haven't advanced far in our rationalization for why we don't go and do what Jesus so ...

2189. Failure

Exodus 3:1-22

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 0ur point, I think. I'm sure that, if we had a few more weeks, we might have turn d things around and...I want to thank everyone for everything. Someday, we'll look back on this as a good experience." Failure. Defeat. What to do with defeat? Our response is cheap rationalization. It was a moral victory. I remember, as a young pastor, entering the home where her husband bad just died and she met me at the door with a fierce look on her face saying, "Preacher, don't tell me nothing about how ‘he's better ...

2190. Redeem the Time

Matthew 24:36-44 · Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... made all the difference, we have ascribed to a human creation (the Bomb) that which Christians are allowed to ascribe only to God. And when we do that, we forfeit the only means Christians have of living peacefully. We believe that peace is not the result of energetic response to human fear, not something that we create as a means of self-defense the same way we built the bomb. Peace is the result of our refusal to order our lives on any other basis other than fear of God. When you think about it, it's ...

2191. God Bless Santa!

Luke 2:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... the desperate need of a haircut makes the idea of giving come alive in ways that no pulpit ever has. The sacred and the secular meet. God bless Santa! At this time of year, we hear again that famous editorial that appeared in the New York Sun in 1897 in response to a little girl’s letter. She wrote, “Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, `If you see it in The Sun it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth — is there a Santa Claus?” and the ...

2192. Cast in the Image of God

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... one’s truth. It refers to the form a thing takes after it is “thrown” from the pottery wheel. Each piece “thrown” can either turn out beautiful or distorted, twisted in form. We have all been “cast” in the image of God. It’s now our responsibility to bear the beautiful image of Christ that has been engraved upon our hearts from the beginning of time. For when we try to “imprint upon ourselves” a false image or serve a false image, we distort the beauty God has made within us. Think about ...

2193. Investment Choices

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Steve Molin

... You see, all of this expands the kingdom of God. By feeding the hungry and clothing the naked and visiting the sick and the imprisoned…by giving anything to a neighbor, we are giving it to God. I want to speak about giving to our congregation. Your response to our needs this year has been nothing less than astonishing. We’ve paid all our bills, we’ve met all our needs. In addition, we’ve given away nearly $100,000 to ministry partners like Valley Outreach and Young Life. All of this becomes evidence ...

2194. Let's Go Fishing

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... day, long ago, Jesus said to some friends, “Follow me, and I will make you fish for people.” They dropped what they were doing and came along. Now Jesus says to twenty-first-century friends, “Follow me and I will make you fish for people.” Our response? How about, “Okay, Lord. Let’s do it. Let’s go fishing.” An ancient legend recounts the return of Jesus to glory after his time on earth. Even in heaven he bore the marks of his earthly pilgrimage with its cruel cross and shameful death. The ...

2195. I Love You — If You Know What I Mean

1 John 3:16-24

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... things the way we do things, who does not believe all of the same things we believe, who maybe came here from a place we aren’t familiar with, and who maybe came here in a way that wasn’t how people are supposed to come here, what is our response? How are we doing? Do we try to understand and accept them as our brother or sister in need? Do we do something to help remove their suffering? Do we do something to try and give them hope? Do we love our brothers and sisters as God first loved us ...

2196.

Psalm 97:1-12

Understanding Series

Craig C. Broyles

... and of Zion, along with a summary statement of Yahweh’s supremacy (vv. 7–9). The closing section spells out the implications of the above: Yahweh’s people must shun evil and then they will be granted protection, light, and joy (vv. 10–12). 97:1 In response to the opening acclamation, The LORD reigns, there is to be worldwide praise. 97:2–6 Yahweh’s kingship is here exhibited, not by a static deity sitting on a throne, but by the dynamic appearance (i.e., a theophany) of the God of the storm (cf ...

2197. Anointed and Appointed

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... years ago or recently, have experienced another kind of “graduation,” a different kind of coming of age, in which you confirm your faith in Christ and fulfill the promise made by those around you at your baptism. You now become an active and responsible member of your church community, prepared to continue maturing in your faith, but ready to take an active role in the ongoing life of the church community. For those of you who have undertaken this important milestone, we celebrate you! Today, in our ...

2198. Body

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Understanding Series

James M. Scott

... , 4; 6:4; 7:5, 11, 16. How can we explain the apparent tension between our text (perplexed, but not in despair) and 1:8, where the apostle states that he “despaired even of life” during his tribulation in Asia? Perhaps our passage reflects Paul’s normal response to various kinds of affliction, whereas the severity of the situation in Asia caused a momentary lapse. 4:10–11 On the death of Jesus, see J. Lambrecht, “The Nekrōsis of Jesus: Ministry and Suffering in 2 Cor. 4:7–15,” in Apôtre Paul ...

2199. More Proverbs of Solomon

Proverbs 28:1-28, Proverbs 29:1-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... child may grow up to become not only a disgraceful son but also a disgraceful ruler. This is reinforced by verses 3–4, which describe, respectively, a son who squanders an inheritance on prostitutes and a ruler who destroys a country by taking bribes. A major responsibility for a king is to protect the rights of the poor (29:7, 14), for both the poor and the powerful owe their very existence to God (29:13; cf. 22:2). The remaining verses in this section introduce various foolish types, who undermine a ...

2200. The Kings of the South and the North

Daniel 11:2-35

Teach the Text

Ronald W. Pierce

... to turn to Deuteronomy 7:9, as Daniel does in his prayer: “Lord, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love with those who love him and keep his commandments . . .” (Dan. 9:4). Present a balanced theology of God’s sovereignty and human responsibility, as well as faith and obedience. 3. The supremacy of the one true God. Even though arrogant people may exalt their own false gods, or even themselves, the one true God rules supremely as the God of gods. It is a sad reality, but we live in ...

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