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201. Communion Is Realizing Forgiveness

Matthew 26:17-30

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... hungry in this world? Acknowledge that to God, then come to his table and realize that you are forgiven. Have you shattered God's will through the way you treat your family or the way you conduct your life when no one sees or hears the secret thoughts and desires you entertain in your mind? Confess those to God, then come to his table and realize that you are forgiven. We live in the painful reality that all of us are sinners. We all fall short of God's glory and expectations of us as his children. Too many ...

202. Proper 5 & Pentecost 3

Matthew 9:9-13, Romans 4:1-25, Hosea 6:1--7:16, Genesis 22:1-19, Psalm 13:1-6, Psalm 50:1-23, Hosea 5:1-15

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... They simply had to "put him on the spot" by asking his disciples, who in turn must have asked him, "Why?" The final insult came in Jesus' answer: Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. Go and learn what this means, "I desire mercy, and not sacrifice." For I came not to call the righteous, but sinners. To the Pharisees, it must have appeared that Jesus had declared war on them, and from that point on in the gospel story they set out to win the battle by destroying him. SERMON ...

203. Jacob’s Jabbok

Genesis 32:22-32

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Richard F. Bansemer

... have been an agonizing new fact in his relationship to God and to men. From that time on he would limp. It was a terrible cost and yet a necessary price, and still, Jacob hung on. His pride was gone, his stride was lost, but not his desire, his burning desire for a blessing. He would not let go until something more happened, something decisive. If a man is shallow, he can ignore his sins. If he is cowardly, he may try to evade the consequences. But Jacob is neither shallow nor cowardly, and he still dared ...

204. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

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Robert Allen

... is very real. To this day, you can see the ink stain on the wall of Martin Luther’s study. Almost 550 years ago, Luther caused that ink stain by throwing his ink jar at the devil as he tempted him in his own innermost thoughts and desires. Bishop Fulton Sheen was one of the most respected religious figures in this country. When he was approaching eighty years of age, a young seminarian came to see him. After they had exchanged pleasantries, Bishop Sheen looked at this young man and asked, "What can I do ...

205. While He May Be Found

Isaiah 55:1-13

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... cannot hear because it cuts us to the core, offends us, and turns us off. We cannot hear because our souls are lost in the babble and pandemonium of life. We drone and drown each other out. We tune each other out, and we no longer possess the desire to hear what the other has to say. But hearing and listening are still the two most important acts of communication. To listen and hear another is saying to them that they are important. God speaks to his people because they are important. The people hear what ...

206. The Ten Commandments #10: No Covetousness

Exodus 20:1-21

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David E. Leininger

... I confess to feeling a bit like Will Rogers in preaching on "You shall not covet," especially at Christmas. For a capitalist society which has built itself into one of the most powerful economic forces on earth by setting our sights high, by creating in us a desire...a covetousness...for more and better of almost everything, these are hard words to hear. The concept is fine, but, as the old phrase goes, "the devil is in the details." How do we boil the water? At first blush, this does sound like a strange ...

207. The Battle For Control

Romans 7:7-25

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King Duncan

... only two pains in lifethe pain of discipline and the pain of regret, and that discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. There are many of us who can sympathize with St. Paul when he writes, "For I fail to practice the good deeds I desire to do, but the evil deeds that I do not desire to do are what I am [ever] doing...For I endorse and delight in the Law of God in my inmost self. But I discern in my bodily members a different law at war with the law of my mind and making me a prisoner ...

208. Where Is Your Heart?

Luke 12:22-34

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King Duncan

... of kids if they were interested in earning extra money. Everybody was, of course! Until they found out what was involved especially getting up early in the morning, in all weather conditions! Then he'd lose most of the group. The kids' questions usually identified which ones had desire. It was fairly easy to tell the winners from the losers, he says. For example, the boys he wouldn't hire would ask these questions: "How many hours do I have to work?" "How heavy a load do I have to carry?" "How far do I have ...

209. Tomorrow Doesn't Always Come

James 4:1-12

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Edward Inabinet

... A teacher in Sunday School asked her class one day what was the difference between sins of commission and sins of omission. She hastened to define the sins of commission. She said, "Those are the wrong things that we know we shouldn''t do but we do them anyway. We desire to do them and we go ahead and do them." Then she said, "Can anybody tell me what sins of omission are?" One little fellow raises his hand. He gave her this definition for sins of omission: "Those are the sins we want to do but we haven''t ...

210. Please, Don't Let me Jabez Anyone Else (Part 5)

1 Chronicles 4:1-23

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Eric Ritz

... a young man who had both, yet in the midst of his sense of weakness, of his sense of the impossibility of rising above his circumstances, he falls on his knees and cries to the God of Israel to have mercy upon him and grant him the four desires of his heart. The four desires were: That God would bless him a lot, that God would enlarge his territory, that God would lead him with God’s own hand and that God would keep him from evil that he might do no harm. (5) And guess what? God granted his request, says ...

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

Matthew 6:5-15

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Eric Ritz

... world today. It is a conflict that is as old as the Garden of Eden itself. It is a conflict between the kingdom of God and earthly desire of humankind to do its own thing. It is as old as Adam "passing the buck" of responsibility to Eve for eating the fruit in the ... Bible teacher, shared this insight on this dimension of our Christian life: "This is no prayer for the man or woman who wants and desires to stay the way they are." However, you and I know full well how easy it is to stay the way we are. It is ...

212. Grace in the Midst of Unanswered Prayer

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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Glenn McDonald

... . Most of the time our prayers tend to revolve around concerns for safety, pleasure, and success. "Lord, take care of us tonight, and give us a good meeting, and bless everyone who is here." That's a fine prayer, but it is hardly the sum of what God desires for us. We may wish happiness to arrive as soon as possible at the least personal expense. But the Son of God didn't come to make us merely happy. He came to make us like himself -- and identifying with Christ is never achieved apart from suffering. Paul ...

213. Lethal Weapon

James 3:1-12

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Harold Warlick

... tend to manufacture and spread unfounded gossip? Let me suggest four motivations2 why people victimize themselves and others. All of us have a desire for excitement. Most of us are rather bored with life. It takes more and more to get us excited. In fact, the church ... bored by virtually anything if you put your mind to it."3 Gossip stirs things up. Secondly, we all have a desire for attention. Those who gossip are attention seekers. The concern for self-interest as you and I gossip outweighs our concern for ...

214. Come On Down

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

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Curtis Lewis

... and of people of all times for God to come down. The hymn echoes the heart cry of humankind: O come, O come, Emmanuel, And ransom captive Israel, That mourns in lonely exile here Until the Son of God appears. This is Isaiah's desire, but it is also our desire: that God, during this Advent Season, would reveal himself to us anew. Notice what the prophet does ... He Petitions God The prophet addresses a people who are powerless and oppressed. His address is in the form of a prayer which for us contains the ...

215. Joy to the World

Isaiah 61:1-11

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Curtis Lewis

... . It was true that Israel had sinned and broken her covenant relationship with God. Yet, God has forgiven her sin and cleansed her soul. This is the reason for Israel's joy. The spirit conveyed in Isaiah 61:10-11 is the spirit of celebration, which God desires in his Church today. The Church is his bride, clothed in the garments of righteousness and radiant with his glory. When the church is truly his bride, she can sing with Issac Watts: He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove ...

216. The Sufficiency of Christ

Philippians 4:10-20

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Maxie Dunnam

... all emotion, all feeling, until he had come to a stage when he did not care what happened either to himself or to anyone else. His aim was to abolish every feeling and emotion of the human heart. So, in order to achieve contentment, the stoic abolished all desires and eliminated all emotions. Love was rooted out of life and caring was forbidden. As T.R. Glover said, the stoics made of the heart of desert and called it a peace. So, we see at once the difference between the Stoics and Paul – the Stoics said ...

217. On the Road Again

Luke 24:13-35

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Maxie Dunnam

... ease the pain and share the heaviness. We know where Emmaus is don’t we? We have been there in one way or another at sometime in our live. Emmaus is whatever we do, or wherever we go to salvage and sort out our feelings, to summon the desire and courage and desire to keep going on, to try and forget. Emmaus is whatever we do or wherever we go to reclaim our sanity when our world goes to pieces; when our ideals and dreams are violated and distorted. I’ve shared with many of you the way I practice prayer ...

218. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

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Phil Thrailkill

... the car you drive or the clothes you wear or who you know or where you’ve been; impress me with a record of tithes and offerings, with a life full of the gifts and fruits of the Spirit, passion for Christ, and willingness to sacrifice not to lose your desire for more of him. I’m not concerned about the few zealots who, as their critics say, are in danger of going off the deep end; I am greatly concerned about the masses of Methodist Christians who never seem to get out of the shallow end. I am on a ...

219. Freedom

Galatians 5:1-15

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King Duncan

... of Christ. He writes, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self‑control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” Paul is inviting his readers to a new way of living. He is inviting them--and us--to experience a newness of life that the world cannot know. Preacher Fred ...

220. Access Denied

Romans 5:1-11

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Richard W. Ferris

... Paul's letter to the Romans, Saint Paul writes that through Jesus Christ "we have obtained access to this grace in which we stand." To follow the train of thought with which I began, Jesus is the password to grace. Jesus is the key to gain the righteousness we so desire. It is the nail-scarred hand of Jesus that can be put in place of our own hand that will open the door to eternal life. Through Jesus Christ we have access to the grace of God. After the revival service had ended in a small, coal-mining town ...

221. The Cloak

1 Thessalonians 2:1-8

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Rick Brand

... or put a cloak over it and to keep it hidden.1 We haven't even begun to talk about how that never-ending desire for more, for bigger, for the highest has affected professional sports and changed the entertainment world, or affected the way we shop and ... meals when we do not need all the calories in the regular serving. But we get more with the super-size. All of this desire for more, this hunger of the human heart for more, this passion for accumulation never seems to be satisfied. The restless gnawing at the ...

222. The Uncloudy Cloud?

Hebrews 11:1-40

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Leonard Sweet

... us; Dreams of becoming a trust fund baby; Dreams of a lifetime of self-indulgence. There are dreams we speak of readily, sharing our hopes and enthusiasms. And then there are dreams we never, ever mention either because we're embarrassed by their outlandishness or because we desire them so deeply that we dare not put them into words that others might dismiss or deride. The older one gets, the more one learns to accept (grudgingly) that some of our dreams aren't going to come true. Very few of us grow up to ...

223. How to Connect With God

1 John 5:14-15

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James Merritt

... will until you are willing to do His will. So therefore, to pray according to the will of God, there are three things we must do. a. Desire the Will of God The purpose of prayer is not to get our will done in heaven; it is to get God's will done on ... Understand, if you are going to pray a prayer that connects with God, and pray a prayer in the will of God, it's not enough to desire it, it's not enough to discern it, you must be willing to do whatever it is that God tells you to do. III. Conviction Concerning ...

224. I Love My Church

1 Chronicles 29:3

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James Merritt

... church member who truly loves his church the way Jesus wants him to. I. Blessed Is the Church Member Who Gives His Church His Loving Affection The background of this story is fascinating. David had a desire in his heart to build a house for God. It was a legitimate desire, it was a noble desire, it was an honorable desire. But God, in His sovereign will and purpose, did not want David to build the house. He wanted David's son, Solomon, to build the house. Now David was still the King of Israel. David could ...

225. The Right Connection

John 15:1-8

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James Merritt

... . Abiding means, first of all, studying the word of God. "If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you." (v.7) When the child of God looks into the word of God, and sees the Son of God ... ." We have already learned that is what God is concerned about. He is in the fruit-bearing business. That is His work; that is what He desires for us. Thirdly, it is obeying the will of God. Jesus said in v.10, "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love ...

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