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201. Heroes

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... to give that gift a second time. Ruth knew what she would do. It wasn't easy to gather her children around and tell them that they had a half-sister they never knew. It wasn't easy to relive the story of giving away her baby for adoption. But when she was finished, Ruth's children rallied around her. They would support her all the way. Ruth went through with the donation, and today both women are doing well. Alicia Sferrino is healthy, her new kidney functioning fine. She is married now, and the mother of ...

202. A Platform For Life

Romans 8:28-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... poetry deals with the themes of comfort and assurance. These are themes that Flint understood only too well. Annie lost both her parents in childhood. Annie and her sister were adopted by a Christian family, the Flints. Under the influence of her new family, Annie became a Christian. But when she was just barely out of her teen years, Annie's adoptive parents died, and Annie was diagnosed with severe arthritis. She would spend the rest of her adult life in constant pain. She rarely left her bed. Yet in the ...

203. More Than Skin Deep

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... a bad habit. What it is concerned with is the mind; get a new mind. What mind? To repent is to adopt God's viewpoint in place of your own. There need not be any sorrow about it. In itself, far from being sorrowful, it is the most joyful thing in the ... world, because when you have done it you have adopted the viewpoint of truth itself, and you are in fellowship with God." (3) What does it take to feel new again? Get rid of your ...

204. Who Are You?

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs; heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together." You ...

205. Amazing Grace

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... in Christ, and do it from the heart, because of what He’s done for us, we have peace with God. God can adopt us then into His family. The quarrel with God has been settled. Christ has seen to that. By his death and through his ... declares His peace with us, His reconciliation with us. Here He makes it possible for us to be restored to fellowship with Him and to be adopted into His family and become His beloved children. Do you know how they used to catch monkeys in the jungle? They would take a clear glass ...

206. The Lord's Prayer: Our Father

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... with any degree of intimacy. When Jesus uttered the word "Abba, Father," he was accused of many things, including blasphemy. In a true sense of the word, only Jesus can refer to God as Father. You and I have this privilege to call God our Father because of our adoption as sons and daughters in Christ and thus as heirs of the kingdom he ushered in. I think most of you are aware that there are two versions of The Lord''s Prayer found in the Holy Scriptures. The account found in Luke is the leaner version and ...

207. The Lord's Prayer: Thy Kingdom Come, Thy Will Be Done

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... are times when I do not easily "run" for the kingdom of God. I am committed to it, but without prayer, the reading of the word of God, and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, I am positive I would have adopted other platforms than those of the kingdom of God. I am invited every day of my life to adopt them. I want to share three principles today about the Kingdom in the hope that they will be helpful to you in your Christian walk and witness and help you commit anew to the Kingdom. FIRST, THE KINGDOM OF GOD ...

208. Grace in the Midst of Exasperation

Romans 8:1-17

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... that I can know has already taken place -- that I have moved from being someone who is spiritually lost to someone who has been adopted into God's own family. Paul exults, beginning in verse 14: "For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of ... God. For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, 'Abba! Father!' it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God." The Holy Spirit ...

209. Food That Is Needful

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... is strength to deal with the surprises and the changes in life we never counted on or planned for. My preacher friend, Norm Neaves, tells of a couple in his church, Don and Candye Chavez who adopted a child a couple of years ago. They had wanted a child, for a long time, but had not been able to have one. To be able to adopt was like a dream come true. They had all sorts of dreams and aspirations for their baby. Don couldn't wait for him to grow up and be big enough to ride bicycles and build and ...

210. Have You Heard about Grace?

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have obtained access to this grace.... What Jesus revealed to us, according to Paul, is grace. Paul talked about it in several ways. He defined grace as love, forgiveness, reconciliation. He defined it as adoption. We are adopted as sons and daughters of God. In each instance what he is talking about is grace. He called it grace because it is undeserved, given to us freely, without price. That was the most astounding thing to Paul, and to Luther who came ...

211. Leave No Child Behind

Mark 10:13-16

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Mark Trotter

... we can do them. But they have come across something that we can do now, and it is what is perhaps needed more than anything else: the mentoring of these families. Our proposal is to form teams, three or four people from the congregation, who will adopt a family and work with that family, teaching them the skills that are necessary to find a job and keep a job. Then to encourage them through their friendship, love and prayers, so that they will move into the dignity of being independent, productive people in ...

212. Plain Talk

Luke 6:17-26

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Mark Trotter

... followed him. And Jesus, when he instructed them before they went out on their first missionary journey, said to them, "Take nothing with you on your journey. No staff, no bag, no bread, no money, nor two tunics." So the first response to Jesus' teaching is to adopt poverty as a way of life. Which is fine, but it is ambivalent in its application. The disciples took nothing with them on their journey. It meant they had to stay with people who had those things. In the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, also ...

213. The Source of Self Esteem

Romans 8:14-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of God. Paul puts it this wonderful way. For all who are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption. That is another wonderful metaphor of grace. To say that you are adopted is to say that this didn't happen because of your efforts. This happened simply out of God's grace. When we cry, "Abba! Father!" it is the Spirit himself bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and ...

214. The CatWalk Church and the CrossLove Church

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... And make a feeble attempt to fly. It's fairly content with the state it's in, But it isn't the duck it might have been. – Kenneth Kaufman, Level Land. You and I are like Peabody Hotel ducks that have been adopted into a free-flying family of geese. We are adopted sons and daughters of God, brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ. Are you willing to claim your new birthright? Are you willing to take flight? Concluding Moves When attendance is taken, you barely nod your head that you're present. When God takes ...

215. The Origins of Passover

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... act of God in the Old Testament, an act that is recalled in most of the Old Testament’s books. It forms the supreme revelation for the chosen people of God’s mercy toward the helpless (cf. Exodus 3:7-8), of his love for the folk he has adopted as his own, and of his power over empire, other gods (cf. Exodus 12:12), and nature. It is no accident, therefore, that the exodus in the Old Testament forms the parallel to the crucifixion of our Lord in the New Testament. Indeed, when Jesus talks about his death ...

216. The Bloodline of Christ

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... do NOT know their heritage, their family stories, who often seek it out most ardently. Just his past week Good Morning America broke the story of a forty-two year old man who had been put up for adoption as a baby by his teen-aged mother, who knew she did not have the ability to raise a baby. Although adopted by a wonderful people, and raised in a loving home, the man finally decided he needed to seek out his biological roots and connect with the bloodline that he shared. Not only did he locate his mother ...

217. In Defense of the Offense

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

James Merritt

... its history and beliefs. For example: Buddhism uses the Lotus Flower. Because of its wheel shape it is thought to depict the cycle of birth and death, and the emergence of beauty and harmony out of the muddy waters of chaos. Judaism has adopted the Star of David, a hexagram formed by combining two equal lateral triangles. It speaks of God's covenant with David; that his throne would be established forever, and that the Messiah would be descended from him. Islam is symbolized by a Crescent, originally ...

218. The Compassionate Christ

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... need to place in his hands first, something you can do to help the situation? Look at the needs of those around you. Does someone you know have a need? God can meet that need. Is there something you can offer for God to work with? Orion Steen’s adopted son found Christ in prison. Do you think that his father’s weekly visits over a period of more than five years had anything to do with that transformation? I suspect they were the five barley loaves and the two tiny fish God needed to work a miracle in ...

219. The Grasshopper Mentality

Numbers 13:26-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... :33) What challenge are you backing away from because you doubt you are adequate? What would you attempt tomorrow if you were sure God would help you? For example, is God calling you to enter a different vocation, or to go to graduate school, or start a new business, or adopt a child, or run for public office, or go on a mission trip, or teach a Sunday School class? If you have a bold idea that God may have placed in your heart, pray about it and ask a few trusted Christian friends to pray about it. If you ...

220. What Ever Happened to Norman Rockwell?

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... bad sermon, but in response I received this e-mail: I am sure you meant well in your sermon today, but did you consider those in the congregation who want children but can't have them, or my daughter who suffered a miscarriage, or the couple who adopted a child but then the birth mother took him back? What about single persons, or those who choose to remain childless? We had difficulty having children and always ran into the same thing on Mother's Day. I realize this is something you can't fully appreciate ...

221. Christ’s Twin

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Father.” This same Jesus, whose name is above all names, calls us brother, sister. We’re not Jesus’ twin, but we’re on the way. In India, they tell the fable of a tiger cub who lost his mother and was adopted by a family of goats. The goats raised the tiger to speak their language, adopt their ways, and eat their food. Soon the tiger believed he was just a funny-looking goat. One day a king tiger appeared and all the goats scattered in fear. Except the young tiger who was left alone, afraid, and yet ...

222. The Gravity of Grace

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Only when we have been brought back to the gravity of grace can we experience the levity of life lived in the Spirit. And what is this great news that buoys us up even while it keeps us from drifting away? Here it is: God "destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will" (v.5). The greatest lie perpetuated by those caught in the emptiness of a life floating in zero morality is that they are "free." "Freedom" is not the ability to do anything you want ...

223. Ephesians 1:3-14

Ephesians 1:3-14

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... hard to read this prayer of praise and not feel the special grace of being human. Again and again this text manages to emphasize God's unique love and concern for us. "He chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world" (v.4), "he destined us for adoption as his children" (v.5), "his glorious grace that he freely bestowed on us" (v.6), "the riches of his grace that he lavished on us (vv.7, 8). Indeed, the author begins this prayer on the note of excessive blessing. God has "blessed us in Christ with ...

224. Easter 6

Acts 10:23b-48, 1 John 4:1-6, John 15:1-17, 1 John 5:1-12

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... physically, people are God's creatures. To be God's children we must, as Jesus taught, be born again spiritually. This second birth comes when we believe Jesus is Lord. The time and place of this birth as children of God is baptism when God in grace accepts and adopts us as his children. Love (vv. 1-3). A child of God loves the Father. If we love the Father, John says we will also love his children. Christians then are brothers and sisters in Christ. This is the way it should be, but many Christians show a ...

225. The Holy Trinity

John 3:1-21, Romans 8:1-17, Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... of God? Because we are human, some claim that all are children of God. Indeed, we are all creatures of God because God is the Creator of all. To be a child of God calls for a relationship of a Father and a son. This relationship is established by adoption which occurs at baptism. In today's Gospel, Jesus claims that a creature must be born again to be a child of God. It is the missionary task of the church to convert creatures into children of God. 2. Spirit (v. 14). A child of God possesses the Spirit ...

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