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2176. Dare To Dream

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... store for your life. Dream God's dream for our church. Dare to believe that He is alive and at work, and that His presence adds power to our lives today. Dare to dream, because our lives are shaped by our dreams. Without a dream we have no clear sense of who we are, or what we want to accomplish in life. Without dreams we wander aimlessly and unproductively. There once was a small boy who had developed the habit of working on things haphazardly. He'd work first on this, and then on that, and never seemed to ...

2177. Sarah Laughed

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the flower he would know also the nature of humanity and God. On reading these lines, the boy replies, "I know all about that, Mr. Tennyson. I learned it in botany class yesterday." Gone was the wonder, gone was the mystery of life, gone was the sense of God, crowded out by the botanical knowledge of the composition of a flower! (4) Our secular world would have us believe that everything in life is explainable, definable, predictable, and yet each of us knows in our heart of hearts that such is not the ...

2178. Passing The Ultimate Test

Genesis 22:1-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains I will tell you about." There is no hedging room here. No chance for misunderstandings. It's not like God is ignorant of Abraham's love for his son. Sometimes, when we sense that God is calling us to do something difficult, we are tempted to protest: but God doesn't know what He's asking. That can't possibly be God's will. Doesn't God know how much that would hurt? This passage shows us that God knows full well just ...

2179. When You Are Uncertain About Your Salvation

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... salvation is sure. But you say, "Intellectually I know that that's true, but how can I make it a reality in my heart?" Well, let's look at some things that may be blocking your acceptance of your salvation. It may be that you have a sense of failure about your life. How we feel about ourselves can influence how we receive the Gospel message. A young woman from a very wealthy family went to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer. She had an outstanding education, had attended the finest schools, and her parents ...

2180. Piercing A Hole In The Darkness

Job 38:1--41:34

Sermon

King Duncan

... suicide several times. He spent time in an insane asylum. Cowper searched his whole life for some sense of peace and the assurance of God's love. On those rare occasions when Cowper's depression lifted, he wrote numerous hymns of faith. His faith ... almost always commingled with a desperate sense of despair. Yet witnesses claim that on his deathbed, William Cowper found great peace and joy as he exclaimed, "I am ...

2181. The Three R's Of A Spiritual Life

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... risks. We can't always play it safe and be effective in life. But there are some risks that clearly do not make sense. St. Paul puts it like this: "Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but ... why not? Could it be that you have never turned your life completely over to God? We may not think of that as rebellion, but in a sense it is. If there is a better way to live and we are not availing ourselves of that better way, even if the problem simply is one ...

2182. Grace: Amazing or Mystifying?

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... Gentry, “I said in my 16-year-old piety, ‘Jesus loves everybody in the world and wants a relationship with everybody!’ And then my pastor said, ‘That includes Fred, doesn’t it?’ Then it hit me. I was stunned. I had an overwhelming sense of conviction as I ‘came to my senses.’ . . . In fact, I cried. My pastor embraced me and held me until the sobs stopped. He said, ‘Jimmy, Fred needs you and he needs our youth group. He needs our church. He has Jesus, but he doesn’t have us.’ The wrong ...

2183. More Than "Turkey Day" (New) Thanksgiving

2 Chronicles 9:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... on the lives of others? God set up this remarkable system of joy and blessings, gratitude and generosity, giving and receiving and then God backs it up with a lifetime guarantee. Gratitude and generosity feed on one another. Give out of gratitude and your sense of gratitude will continue to grow. It’s an important and time-tested principle of Christian living. No wonder Paul wrote, “Thank God for this gift, his gift. No language can praise it enough!” Jump start the joy cycle in your life today by ...

2184. Is There Hope for the Hapless Wedding Guest?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... it! “C. S., I need to talk to you,” he announced rather ominously one night after dinner. We moved into the unlit living room. The sun had set. He sat in the chair with its back to the picture-window, his face shrouded in darkness, back-lit by twilight. Sensing trouble I slouched down in the couch. Then he started in on me. Scolded me for leaving my bed unmade when I left for work early in the morning, for shoes left strewn around which could cause someone to trip and break their neck, and a dozen or so ...

2185. God’s Body Language

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of the opposition was its revelation of a widespread and seriously defective theology of the Incarnation. The Word was made flesh’- how many of us dare believe that? Some listeners were quite incapable of believing that Christ laughed, said Good Morning,’ or was in any sense fully human.” So it seems that we still have Gnostics and Docetists among us. A Christ who breathes the same air that we do, walks the same roads that we do, was subject to the same trials and temptations as we are...that sort of ...

2186. Grace Is Not a Blue-eyed Blond

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... message of reconciliation to us.” (II Corinthians 5:19) God, according to Jesus, is not Judge, but Divine Parent. One day He told the story of a boy who ran away from home and wasted his life in sinful living. When he finally came to his senses and returned home, he was not forced to become one of the hired servants in order to work his way back into his father’s good graces. Instead, according to Jesus, the boy was completely restored and forgiven immediately. When the elder brother wanted nothing to ...

2187. Born Again? When?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... we grow older, it is easy to get ourselves into a rut and stay there. Perhaps Nicodemus’ question actually reflected a certain sense of despair in his heart. That is the dangerous peril which confronts all of us: the hardening of our spiritual arteries, the ... once said to me, “I don’t care how loud you shout, just as long as you live as loud as you shout!” Just so. In a sense, the best way to know if one is born again is this: are you alive in Christ now? I know that I was born physically more years ...

2188. How Do You Explain the Resurrection?

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... you in me, and I in you. (John 14:18-20) “I am the resurrection!” Jesus said. He also said, l “I am the life!” What did He mean? Well, in the Greek there are two words for life.” There is bios, which means “life” in the sense of asking, “Is there life on Mars?” The answer to that question is probably “No,” even though in recent years a vice president declared that there could be on the basis of the “canals” which some purport to be able to see through a strong telescope. That view ...

2189. God Doesn’t Take Vacations

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... drink a cup of wine. Finding a gnat floating on the surface, he strains the wine so as not to swallow the gnat, and misses completely the fact that he is swallowing down a camel, humps and all! And you thought Jesus didn’t have a sense of humor! Jesus was constantly incensed at people who spent their time in majoring on minor issues and neglecting weightier matters like loving one’s neighbor. Some of the Pharisees, said Jesus, strained out gnats but swallowed camels. As for Jesus, He would have none of ...

2190. Only a Carpenter

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Him more, Jesus could have done a lot more with them. That is still true. The spiritual climate of a congregation, its sense of expectancy, its openness to the power of God at work in its midst through the Holy Spirit, will have a ... kiss?” The only kiss He ever got, according to the Gospels, was from an enemy. But He wants a kiss from His friends. In a sense, that is what we do every time we commune. We embrace Christ, and He embraces us. “Only a Carpenter”....No, Jesus is much more than that. But ...

2191. When Compassion Overcomes Irritation

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Coast. We were showing our doctor-friend around the trailer, and he was admiring the little nooks and crannies - amazed at how much stuff you could take with you on vacation. Then his eyes fell on a shelf of rather heavy (in more than one sense) books of theology I had planned to take along to read. Without further ado, he picked up the shelf of theological books and unceremoniously dumped them outside of the trailer. “You’re going on vacation,” he said - “leave your work behind! And that’s an ...

2192. A Sign for a Sign

Mark 8:11-13

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... ’t things to hold it with...” Robert Browning, in his poem, “Bishop Blougram’s Apology” has the bishop addressing a skeptical companion: Pure faith indeed - you know not what you ask! Naked belief in God the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, sears too much The sense of conscious creatures to be borne. It were the seeing Him, no flesh shall dare. Some think, Creation’s meant to show Him forth: I say, it’s meant to hide Him all it can! Like electricity, the truth about God must be stepped ...

2193. Men Like Trees Walking

Mark 8:22-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... by stages...” Of course the author was referring to a geographical place, but I could not help but write in the margin of my Bible “Don’t we all?” I do not deny that the Christian life may begin with a bang. Folks may experience a life-transforming sense of the power of God changing their lives; and they come to know (in the words of Paul Tillich) they that have been accepted. But that is only the beginning. A lot of folks stop at the place where they started. It is possible not only to be “born ...

2194. Radical Surgery

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

I wish that Ted Koppel would run for president. Sometimes he seems to make more sense than all of the politicians put together. You know him as the popular moderator of ABC’s “Nightline” program. In a speech at Duke University a year ago he said this: “We have ... of the earth. ‘It’s treasure,’ I cried. Ran off and sold all that I had, including myself, and bought that field; and I’ve been hugging myself ever since that I had sense enough to do it!’” (p. 24) Go thou and do likewise.

2195. Salty Saints

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... peace in the world. The church carries, like that third-grader, the genetics of greatness. But it rarely fulfills its promise because so many of its members would rather be potatoes than salt. We have the notion that the church is here to serve us (it is, in a sense); but even more it is here to equip us to serve the world, in the name of Christ, the Servant Lord of us all. A certain popular comedian used some pretty salty language following his heart attack awhile back. I’ll clean it up a bit for use in ...

2196. God’s Greatest Gamble

Mark 12:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... he can work inside the church, then God will work outside normal channels to get His work done and His purposes accomplished. This parable or allegory or whatever you want to call it challenges the popular notion that the world (or the Church) belongs to US. In one sense, it is O.K. for us to say “This is my Church” But in the final analysis it is never OUR Church, is it? In 1939 three Methodist bodies in America joined together to form what was known from 1939 to 1968 as “The Methodist Church.” One ...

2197. Where Is My Guest Room?

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... place where the Last Supper was held. He was not a part of that spiritual event; but he made it possible in a physical sense. He made a real and great contribution to all that it meant in the last days of Jesus and in all the days and ... who all along maintain their firm loyalty to their own country, and work diligently to undermine the current regime in power. In some sense, that is exactly what the early Christians were, living in the Roman Empire. For the most part they were decent, law-abiding citizens ...

2198. The Unfinished Story

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... committee, passed on by another committee, translated by still another committee, and now read by us. It is “The word of God” only in the sense that God speaks to us in and through it. And according to the Bible itself, Jesus Christ is “THE Word of God.” (John 1) So ... verse 8, with the disciples silent and afraid. This is a thought-provoking state of affairs. III. YOU SEE, THERE IS A SENSE IN WHICH THE GOSPEL RECORD IS NEVER REALLY FINISHED. You and I are part of the story. After the four Gospels there ...

2199. Living Large for God (Part 3)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to be his. He wanted his chance at life, his day in the sun, so to speak. He did not want to live his life with a sense of drudgery and dread. In biblical language we might say he wanted to live in "kairos" time--a time filled with the lively purposes of God, as ... that God would bless him and would enlarge his territory. Jabez was praying not only for bread, but for purpose, fulfillment, a sense of destiny. But there is a flip side to this prayer. Whenever we pray for God to enlarge our territory, we are ...

2200. Did You Leave the the Door Open? (I am the gate)

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... man rams his large body against it. They were safe and it gave them time to call the police. The little boy''s mother--in a sense--was the gate that night. Jesus does those things for us in our walk and witness. A door is so important to protect us. There is ... remind us that to truly live we must draw life from Him. Our Lord wants our worship of Him to come from a loving heart. In a sense our Lord allows us to decide if we want him to be our door. Every human heart has a door that you must open from the ...

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