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2201. Someone Is Trying to Get Through

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

James L. Killen

... he heard the message of peace through Jesus Christ and of forgiveness of sins, and when he then experienced those things through the Holy Spirit, we can know that it must have made a big difference in his life. If he then began to exercise his power in love, that may have made a difference in life for many people. But the same encounter made a difference in Peter's life. Peter probably knew more than anyone else in the world at that time about Jesus Christ and about the Christian faith. But he had continued ...

2202. Called to Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... morality. As a Christian you are free from the law, but you are not above the law. You are free now to obey the law, to be moral, for the right reason, not the wrong reason. You are free now to be moral for the love of God, or for the love of neighbor, not for the love of self. That is the problem without grace. We do things, we even do good things, for the wrong reason. We do them to boost ourself, or to put other people down, to make ourself look good in comparison. You have heard that expression, "He ...

2203. Where Do You Abide?

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the service backwards, or something, in order to nullify what had happened in the baptism. I said no. You have been baptized. You don't have to accept it, but you cannot deny it. Which means that you may not choose to believe in God, but God has chosen to love you, and that won't change. Someday, I pray, you will change. But God will remain the same. There is an act in the baptism ritual that affirms that. In the early days it was setting a seal on the forehead of the baptizand with oil. It has its origin ...

2204. Proper 14

Genesis 37:1-11, Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Jonah 2:1-10, Romans 9:1-29, Romans 9:30--10:21, Matthew 14:22-36

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John R. Brokhoff

... v. 31. The call for faith - vv. 27, 31. 3. Lend Me A Hand. 14:28-31. Need: Every person has a multitude of needs - to be loved, to be secure, to be happy. He needs health, a job to make a living. Of all the needs, the most basic need is to be ... the Day: Psalm 105:1-6, 16-22, 45b – "Remember the mighty works he has done" (v. 5); Psalm 85:8-13 – "Show us thy steadfast love, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation" (v. 7); Psalm 88 - "The voice of the Lord is over the waters" (v. 3). Prayer of the Day: "Almighty ...

2205. Proper 17

Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8, Romans 12:9-21, Jeremiah 14:1--15:21, Jeremiah 20:7-18, Exodus 3:1-22

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John R. Brokhoff

... c. Remove your shoes (confess sin) - v. 5. d. Listen to God's call - v. 6.. Old Testament: Jeremiah 20:7-9 1. I Can't Stop Loving You (20:7-9). Need: It is dangerous to be a servant of God. It often means that God does not give us peace and prosperity as ... 6, 23-26, 45c - "Praise the Lord" (v. 45c); Psalm 63:2-6, 8-9 - "My lips shall praise you" (v. 3); Psalm 26 - "For thy steadfast love is before my eyes, and I walk in faithfulness to thee!" (v. 3). Prayer of the Day: "O God, we thank you for your Son who ...

2206. Murphy's Law and Messiah's Law

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... misread, just because your good deeds are going to boomerang and hit you on the head . . . that doesn't mean you stop doing them. The reason why you do them in the first place isn't to get rewarded, but because God wants you to do them. I love the story of the journalist who asked both Matisse and Rouault whether they would continue to paint of they never had an audience again. The pagan Matisse said, 'Of course not;' the Christian Rouault said, 'Of course.' There is such a thing as an audience of One. God ...

2207. What to Do with Yesterday - A Sermon for a New Year

Psalm 103:1-22

Sermon

James McCormick

... . That’s not God. God is not the accuser – Satan is. God doesn’t want to hold our past over our head like some threatening guillotine. No, God wants to set us free from all that hurts us, discourages us, and makes us to think less of ourselves. Because God loves us, He wants only good for us. Won’t you hear that? The problem is not that God is reluctant to forgive us. The problem is that we are reluctant to forgive ourselves. The problem is that it seems too good to be true that there is no sin that ...

2208. Proper 25

Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Matthew 22:34-40, Matthew 22:41-46, 1 Thessalonians 2:1-16, Psalm 90:1-17

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Marion L. Soards, Thomas B. Dozeman, Kendall McCabe

... succinct job description for all Christian disciples. And the second is that, as the commentary puts it, Jesus is "the Christ who is more than expected." It is this "more" that overflows into our ministry and makes possible a humanly impossible task, makes possible love that we cannot manufacture on our own, makes possible fidelity to the Presence when all around the multitude is struggling to get to the land that has been promised them. Lord of the harvest, hear Thy needy servants' cry Answer our faith's ...

2209. Jesus Wuvs Me and Dat's Dat

John 15:1-5

Sermon

James W. Moore

... our only hope is the grace of God,… the amazing grace of God in Jesus Christ. Like the minister said: “Except for the grace of God, we don’t have a chance.” But, the good news is we have God’s grace… We have God’s grace because “God so loved the world that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish. So, the point is clear… If we are to stay alive and well, if we are to thrive and produce good fruit in this world, if we are to remain spiritually healthy and whole ...

2210. Breathe on Me, Breath of God

Acts 2:1-4

Sermon

James W. Moore

... beside her. She looked over to see a little 9-year-old girl slip into that seat. The little girl reached over and held Nell Mohney’s hand and all through the service, every now and then the little girl would pat Nell’s hand and say: “I love you, Mrs. Mohney. I love you, Mrs. Mohney.” Nell Mohney said she had felt the presence of God with her many, many times in her life… and that morning when she needed Him more that ever… He was with her! He was with her in the present, in the spirit and in the ...

2211. Living as Orphans

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... orphans. We belong to a family. We are accountable. We have responsibilities for one another. But there is another way we may live as a spiritual orphan. We are living as spiritual orphans if we think we are alone in this world. We are not alone, of course. If we love Christ, he is with us. Some of us can identify with the stranger jumping onto the tracks to save a young man having a seizure, but others of us may identify with the young man. We feel as if we are the ones who are falling; we need someone to ...

2212. A Mother’s Prayer

2 Timothy 1:5

Illustration

... have time for waxing, polishing, and decorative achievements, but have not love, my children learn cleanliness - not godliness. Love leaves the dust in search of a child's laugh. Love smiles at the tiny fingerprints on a newly cleaned window. Love wipes away the tears before it wipes up the spilled milk. Love picks up the child before it picks up the toys. Love is present through the trials. Love reprimands, reproves, and is responsive. Love crawls with the baby, walks with the toddler, runs with the child ...

2213. How to Live the Good Life (Fruit of the Spirit: Goodness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good." We know God's work is good. "God works all things out together for good to those who love Him." (Rom. 8:28) We know that God's word is good. The Bible says in Ps. 119:39, "Your judgments are good." We know that ... 6:8 where we read: "He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?" Now notice that we are told that God shows what is good. Goodness is not a matter of reason ...

2214. A Trip to God's Woodshed

Hebrews 12: 5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... , and then they will make up their minds to do it no matter what. They just won't listen. That's when you have to take the next step. b. External Affliction After the rebuke of the Lord, there is the chastening of the Lord. "For whom the Lord loves, He chastens." (v.6a) Now the word chasten there literally means "to discipline." It refers to training a child. Now this is when God spanks. First God speaks, and then God spanks. Now God has all kinds of ways He can spank us when we sin. For example: He ...

2215. Sending Good Messages

Ephesians 4:1-16

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... : “My wife is a really attractive person, until she opens her mouth. She has this whiny nag that grates on my nerves like scratching on a blackboard. It just keeps on whether you answer it or not. Some guys go to the golf course because they love the game; I go to escape.” The complaints you have just heard have to do with communication. Nine out of ten marital problems are in this area. Therefore, it is proper as we begin this series of messages on marriage, that the first one be entitled “Sending ...

2216. For Better, For Worse

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... morning of the tour, they happened to reach the breakfast buffet at the same time. He invited her to sit with him. She said, “It was love at first sight. We were both lonely. He was living in an apartment in New York. I was in a big house in Memphis. We had ... said, “No! I’m with you for the long haul, no matter what. You are still you and I am still me, and I love you.” (8) Later Christopher Reeve wrote in his autobiography that those words saved his life. That is commitment. Let me give you another ...

2217. Never Say What You Won't Do!

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... s rib. Granted, God had to enhance that rib considerably. If God could make a woman out of a plain old rib, perhaps he can also “make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” Next I invite your attention to Paul’s great chapter on love, First Corinthians 13, and especially verses 11 and 12 of that chapter. Paul here is contrasting our current understanding with what we will know in heaven. He says that heaven will be as different from earth as adulthood from childhood. And there is another meaning implied ...

2218. I Am the Keeper of the Zoo

Isaiah 11:1-9

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... or barbecue sauce. So I ask you, what chance does a lamb have? I vaguely remember hearing, several years ago, of a world peace exhibit at some world's fair or another, featuring (you guessed it) a lion and a lamb in the same exhibit. People loved it…. thronged to see it….said (collectively), "Can you believe it?"….but seldom asked, "How did they do it?" The answer was simple. At least once a day….more often twice….it required the introduction of a new lamb. Which called to mind the satirist who ...

2219. Romans 13:8-14

Romans 13:8-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... daily and yet always owe it.” Despite Paul’s ongoing insistence that those who are “in Christ” are no longer “under the law,” the apostle uses the indebtedness language of “the law” to drive home the primacy of this love. By continually loving each other Paul claims that Christians have “fulfilled the law.” As examples of “law” Paul then cites commandments seven, six, eight, and ten-—all commands from the Second Table of the Decalogue, all dealing with the relationship of men and ...

2220. Let God Do the Rest

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... , he remains faithful — for he cannot deny himself" (2 Timothy 2:11b-12a, 13). The special reward that is God's promise is described by Saint Paul: "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Corinthians 2:9). Saint Paul well understood the need to work toward a common goal and thus keep his contract with God. Jesus called Paul along the road to Damascus and commissioned him to be the apostle to the Gentiles. Paul gave what he had ...

2221. Following a God Who Flip Flops ...

Jonah 3:1-5, 10

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

... forward? Does change come in the way you experience God? Do we grow into different ideas and understandings of the holy? Can we live with a flip-flop God? A God who can change his mind? A God who can repent of anger and turn to us in love? Can we follow love's energy, even though it is unpredictable and yes, changeable? Perhaps if we can open our hearts to a God of change, maybe then we can welcome change in others? Maybe then we won't feel the need to hold our politicians and our friends, our neighbors and ...

2222. The Center of the Christian Universe

Matthew 22:34-40

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William R. Boyer

... for him and for each other. Just as carbon is the universal element of physical life, love is the universal element of spiritual life. "If I have not love," Paul said, "I am nothing," and he meant that literally. "Nothing!" Matthew Henry said love is "the spring and fountain of all the rest." But the word is much abused today. Love has been cheapened down to a Pavlovian response. Love has a million impostors, and many things that aren't love try to pass for it. How can we tell? What's the difference between ...

2223. The Outstretched Arms

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of turning the other cheek. Many are those who represent God as a great Monarch whose chief aim is to defend his own honor and to pursue his own glory, but that is not the God revealed in Jesus Christ. In Christ we encounter the true character of God - his love, his humility, his meekness. Through we mock him and rail against him, though we crucify him in our hearts as if he were one of those who crucified his Son, he will never cease to forgive us. That is the God revealed in Jesus Christ, and in the end ...

2224. Wanted: A Lasting Marriage. Only Good Chemists, Bad mathematicians, Expert Soul-O-Flexors Need Apply

Mark 10:2-16

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Leonard Sweet

... can buy. You can't inherit it; you can't discover it; you can't even own it. What is it? What is this remarkable commodity that draws gasps of astonishment and admiring glances when it is revealed? It's a miracle marriage a long-lasting, loving marriage of two committed people. It used to be only Golden Anniversary couples that got our attention, and even then it was as much for the sheer survival of the individuals as for the survival of the marriage. But as divorce statistics have skyrocketed (today's ...

2225. Philemon 1:1-20

Philemon 1:1-20

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... canonical letter to Philemon aptly demonstrates Paul's mastery of this communication form, leaving us little doubt about the outcome of this thorny situation. At the outset Paul reminds Philemon that he is part of a "beloved" community, a community identified by its love for one another. Paul not only identifies Philemon as a companionable friend, but as an equally active co-worker for the cause of Christ with Paul himself. Like Paul, then, Philemon is designated as one who is working to bring the gospel ...

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