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2226. The Baptism of Jesus

Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... into the water up to his waist and splashed water on his face. It didn’t matter. They were still afraid to enter the river. Finally, he dove into the river, swam beneath the surface until he emerged on the other side. He punched a triumphant fist into the air. He had entered the water and escaped. It was then that the Indians broke out into a cheer and followed him across. (8) Jesus entered the Jordon River to be baptized by John not because he needed it, but because we need it. Baptism is a sign of God ...

2227. When We Are Uncertain about The Future

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... of us are afraid. Of course, a little bit of knowledge can even increase our fears. I understand this was true of the great scientist Louis Pasteur. Once Pasteur discovered the germ theory of disease he began to realize that germs are in the air and on everything you touch. And, in Pasteur’s time there was no such thing as antibiotics. Through pasteurization, the process Pasteur developed, he discovered he could remove bacteria from milk. However, humankind was still at the mercy of invisible killers like ...

2228. 1 Corinthians 12:12-31a

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... child had been playing with a huge mylar flying saucer-shaped balloon when it suddenly whisked aloft and sailed away with him. After hours of live TV coverage and the efforts of dozens of rescue responders, the balloon was found to be empty, even of hot air, and the little boy was found hiding out in his garage — stashed there by his parents so they could get “famous” for a few hours. Everyone wants to be a celebrity – to have their YouTube video go viral, to get their own “reality” TV show, to ...

2229. Kintsugi Vessels

1 Corinthians 12:12-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2230. Give It Up

Romans 9:30--10:21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... conviction in the resurrection of Christ. Bob Woodward may be the most influential investigative and political journalist of our time. He tells of the early days of network television, back in the 1950s, when floor reporters at political conventions were “on air” constantly and had to fill the time somehow. So they interviewed almost anyone they could find. Woodward tells of one episode where a CBS reporter tracked down at one of the conventions Conrad Hilton, who ran and founded the Hilton chain ...

2231. So Send I You

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that promises to cool that threat down is welcomed with open arms and wallets. We gladly invest in “LifeLock” and “Life Alert” and “Alert Life”— hoping to safeguard both our fiscal and physical lives. Instead of scripted shows by the Blue Angels at air-shows, we are sending long-range spontaneous shows of strength in the form of stealth bombers over South Korean airspace, which offends North Korea. We have “apps” on our smartphones that enable us to watch our front doors at home and our ...

2232. Revelation 7:9-17

Revelation 7:9-17

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... .” It is not just the physical trials that are negated by the gift of salvation. The human spirit suffers gut-twisting (hunger), parching (thirst), soul-searing (heat) experiences in this world that have nothing to do with food, water, or air temperature. In the heavenly future John envisions, those most wrenching “tribulations,” the trials and tortures that are locked within each soul, are relieved and the believer redeemed to “white robe” status. “God will wipe away every tear from their eyes ...

2233. The Healing Fountain of Tears

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

2234. Anything to Declare?

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... with Jesus to Jerusalem, these emissaries have stepped beyond the familiar borders of home. As the hospitality-seeking messengers in 9:51-56 found in the Samaritan regions, a welcome reception is no longer a given. Rejection and even risk tinges the air as Jesus warns this third wave of envoys that they are being sent out like “lambs into the midst of wolves” (v.3). Likewise, for this group Jesus specifically sends his chosen ones out “in pairs,” for apparently now messaging and missioning ...

2235. Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Luke 10:1-24

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

2236. Go Hard or Go Home!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

King Duncan

... and I can shout my head off. I can get excited. I can get hoarse from yelling so loud. When my team loses I could cry. Nobody thinks that’s a big deal. When my team wins I can jump up and dance around and wave my hands in the air. If I do that at a game people go, ‘He’s a real fan!’ If I do that in church people say, ‘He’s a fanatic! He’s a nut case.’ You don’t want to get too emotional about your faith. It’s ok about anything else but not ...

2237. The Narrow Door

Luke 13:22-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... shape that he couldn’t go far. At first, he couldn’t even make it around the block, which was about a mile. He had to stop a few times to catch his breath, huffing and puffing. “Just imagine a big, fat guy,” he writes, “gasping for air, barely able to jog around the block, who claims that he will be the heavyweight champion of the world again! I looked ridiculous to everyone who saw me. I’m sure they laughed as they peeked through their curtains early in the morning while I slowly shuffled past ...

2238. Divided We Fall

1 Corinthians 1:10-17

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... hard times. They looked at the couch each Sunday and fondly remembered that their great-grandfather Cedric had founded the church. Although their tractors were rusting in the front yard, at least the pastor sat on Cedric’s couch. “Every sentence I put in the air,” Pastor Kirk says of his sermons, “I see them all weighing whether it is ammunition for their side or the other side. Here I am preaching about the love of God, and everything I say is filtered through a single question: ‘Is the pastor in ...

2239. Refresh Your Heart

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christ to everyone you meet, you “refresh your heart.” When you free someone from the castles of deceit and delusion that we all construct and occupy, you “refresh your heart.” When you help someone see that what matters in life is not what image we air, or what brand we wear, but whose image we bear, you “refresh your heart.” When you infuse hope into the moments of happiness and harm that define a life, you “refresh your heart.” When you nudge someone in the only “open sesame” that can ...

2240. Who's the Real Leader?

Joshua 3:1-4:24

Sermon

Argile Smith

... respect would come only when they saw God work through him. For that reason, the Lord took them to the Jordan River where they could participate in a miracle that would reflect well on Joshua as their leader. Imagine how tension must have filled the air as the people heard Joshua instruct them to cross the Jordan River. They could see for themselves that the river had overflowed. Getting across it would take nothing less than a miracle from God. When the priests stepped into the water, the miracle unfolded ...

2241. The Lamb

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Argile Smith

... Christ. When he finished his prayer, his executioners set the wood on fire. According to the account of the story recorded in The Apostolic Fathers, the blazing furnace couldn’t consume his body. Instead of the nauseating odor of burning flesh, the air was filled with the scent of precious perfume that permeated the stadium. Eventually life left him when a baffled and angry executioner stabbed him with a knife.[1] Everything Polycarp had said about following Jesus throughout his life had been demonstrated ...

2242. You Never Noticed

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... in which the family lived. It was not a pleasant place and Franklin Roosevelt looked around in surprise and horror. It was the first time that he had ever really seen a slum. When he got back to the street he drew a deep breath of fresh air. “My God,” he whispered, “I didn’t know people lived like that!” (1) Obviously that experience had an enormous impact on the man who would be our longest serving president. But he’s not alone. Most of us are unaware under what miserable conditions many people ...

2243. A Faith to Move Mountains

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... has to make its way through more atmosphere. As it does, it refracts into colors, kind of like a rainbow.” The first man was annoyed by the second man’s explanation. “Actually,” he said, “It’s not really refraction. The water droplets in the air act like prisms, and this is what causes the colors.” “But I read about this last year in National Geographic,” said the second man, “and it called it refraction. The article said the atmosphere acts like a colored filter covering a stage light ...

2244. The Healing Power of Faith

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... Redstone rocket began to gather speed it began to vibrate more and more. It was as if the whole rocket would come apart. Shepard knew what was happening. He had been a test pilot. He knew that just before you break through the sound barrier the air resistance is tremendous, almost like hitting a wall. When Shepard reached that point in the flight his body was shaking all over. He couldn’t read the instruments. He started to report what was happening to mission control, but then he realized that, if he did ...

2245. He Ascended Into Heaven

Luke 24:44-53

Sermon

David O. Bales

... he believed in a God that you couldn’t see from the window of a space capsule. And so John Glenn spoke for modern Christians, because when you consider what Christians have believed about God for 2,000 years, the idea that you’d go up in the air and not see God is a modern idea indeed. In the Bible people didn’t believe the world was round. Our ancestors of faith didn’t perceive that planets orbit the sun. They didn’t know about the speed of light, black holes, quarks, supernovas, and other such ...

2246. Putting the World Back Together

John 20:1-9

Sermon

David O. Bales

... s way to start putting life, our life, back together again? Jacob Daniel DeShazer died March 15, 2008 in Salem, Oregon. He was 95 and most people remember him as one of Jimmy Doolittle’s flyers who bombed Japan on April 18, 1942. That air strike was America’s first offensive effort against the Empire of Japan after the Japanese sneak attack upon US forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941. DeShazer’s crew bailed out over Japanese occupied territory in China. Some captured American airmen were ...

2247. Wake Up!

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... were disoriented. One said to another: “Do you know what week it is?” The prisoners didn’t even know what month it was! They were pushed into a concrete cell and their only thought was that they would all die. Suddenly, they heard on the quiet night air the sound of bells . . . bells they found out later came from a Christian monastery high up in the hills. They looked at each other and threw their arms around each other and wept like children. The bells told them it was Christmas Day. “We knelt and ...

2248. Looking Down on God

John 13:1-17

Sermon

David O. Bales

... , in our living room.”[1] So ended the story and ended it pretty well. That’s a little of what happens when we read the stories in the Bible. We might think the Bible is about a time and place far away, maybe even a fanciful, float-in-the-air land that has nothing to do with us; but, with a thump the Bible story lands right here in this room where we gather for worship. Tonight the whole text from the Bible is transferred here — Jesus, Peter, Judas, and the entire crew. Peter, always spokesman for the ...

2249. Finding the Perfect Gift

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... replaced by a wish list that is governed by microchips. Ever since the appearance of the Game Boy in 1989, electronic gadgets and games and gizmos have dominated the “it” list of must have gifts. This year “kids” of all ages want the Apple Mac Book Air, the iPhone 5s, the Xbox-One, a Kindle Fire, or Play Station 4. When you look back on Christmases past, what were your best gifts? Were they any of those “it” gifts from childhoods past? Do you really think that any of this year’s 2013 “it ...

2250. Cleaned and Claimed

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... York: Hyperion, 2001), p. 211. 4. http://www.sermoncentral.com/sermons/now-is-the-time-daniel-schroeder-sermon-on-humanity-of-christ-42352.asp. 5. C. L. Paddock, “Signs of the Times,” May 1, 1951. Cited by Dale Galusha http://www.pacificpress.com/signs. 6. Summerall: On and Off the Air (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2006). 7. Cited by Elizabeth Braddon, http://www.stonybrookcommunitychurch.org/userFiles/339/2008-01-13_sermon_remember_who_you_are.pdf.

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