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2276. Obedience Really Matters

Matthew 7:15-23

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... messin’ with Pastor Phil. I love it. I recommend it. I want more. When I confess the Nicene Creed it is with devotion and a sense of being surrounded by the communion of the saints. And not always, but sometimes when I pray I feel God near enough that it ... the flood. Jewish rabbis told similar stories about those who studied and obeyed the Torah. The authority of Jesus and his special sense of place in the outworking of ultimate matters is indicated by his reference in verse 24 to these words of mine in ...

2277. Spirit Power

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... him a will that amused and electrified the citizens of his Canadian province. Millar, a bachelor with a wicked sense of humor, stated clearly that he intended his last will and testament to be an “uncommon and capricious” document ... for Christ. I don’t like conflict. I don’t like to make you uncomfortable. I want our church to be a happy place. But don’t you sense that we as a church are just scratching the surface of what we could be as a congregation if we yielded ourselves to the leading of the ...

2278. What Do You Call Success?

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... such times you may wonder what you have done to deserve such an experience. Or you may feel God has let you down. At such times I pray that you, or I, will somehow surrender ourselves to God, that a great peace will come over us and we, too, will sense that this is not our suffering, but God’s suffering. God is asking us to have that kind of trust, that kind of faith. Listen once more to Christ’s words, “Do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven ...

2279. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... favor: would this boy pray for him? The boy was floored by this request. Would he pray for Mr. Rogers? He had always been the object of someone else’s prayers. But from that day forward, the boy began praying for Fred Rogers, and he experienced a new sense of hope and self-esteem through this act of praying for a man he so admired. When Tom Junod complimented Fred Rogers on this idea, Rogers reacted with surprise. He had been sincere in his request for the boy’s prayers. As he said, “I didn’t ask ...

2280. Strategic Planning

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... of either her memory or her eyesight. So they asked the woman to choose which side of the brain tissue they’d enter with their scalpels. In other words, if she had to lose one of those senses, which would she prefer to lose? Wisely, she said, “Let me think about it overnight, and I’ll tell you tomorrow which sense is more important to me.” The next day she told the doctors, “If I had to lose either memory or sight, I would prefer to lose my memory.” When asked how she arrived at her decision ...

2281. Seeking the Lost

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

Richard J. Fairchild

... the same in the world today. We are a curious combination of the lost and the found. We are striped. We are, in some sense, not completely complete. It is hard language, this language of lost and found, especially for folks in the middle, as most of us are most ... the tear-stained face close to me and tell him about my God. The happy God. The smiling God, the God who had to have a sense of humour to have created the likes of us." I'd say Erma had a very fine instinct, a God-like instinct, and an instinct for ...

2282. The Seeing Eye

1 Samuel 16:1-13

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... and well-known prophet, Samuel is too important to go south to Bethlehem for such a routine thing as a sacrifice. You could make a sacrifice anywhere. Leaving Saul's neighborhood without him knowing it, why, that's risky. A prophet could incite a rebellion. You can sense the tension when Jesse sees Samuel and instantly asks if there's trouble. What he says is, "Do you come in peace?" It's a surprise that God provides a ruse to cover Samuel's journey to Bethlehem. Samuel gives Jesse no explanation of why he ...

2283. Discovering that It’s Not about You

Genesis 22:1-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... fulfill your ambitions? What happens if you are suddenly required to reckon seriously with the fact that you must eventually die? In a sense, everything that you thought you had will have been taken away from you, or, at least it will have been shown not to be ... you never knew before. Issues like the care of the environment and the use of resources to serve the greater good of all people will make sense in a new way, and you will discover that, if you don't have to own a thing to enjoy it, the whole world is ...

2284. An Incredible Encounter

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... blind; Plato was a hunchback; Sir Walter Scott was paralyzed. One musician was so nearsighted he couldn't read the musical score. So he memorized not only his part, but every part. He was the famous Arturo Toscanini. Adversity may be met in part with a sense of humor. They had just become engaged, and she promised, "I'll be with you, dear, to share your troubles." "But, darling," he protested, "I don't have any." "You will," she prophesied. The airplane ride was so rough that the stewardess poured the food ...

2285. Shalom Shattered

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... my dreams. If only I had not been so showy with my new robe." Reflection brings regrets and new fears. Many today are experiencing waterless pits in their lives. Families are falling apart due to infidelity, immaturity, selfishness, and lack of marriage. One can sense the pain of Jay Bakker's (son of television evangelist Jimmy Bakker) experience as he watched his family fall apart with the collapse of PTL (Praise The Lord Ministries). Jay is the author of Son Of A Preacher Man and a presenter at youth ...

2286. Can You Hear Me Now?

Exodus 3:1-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... not connected to one's religion.4 One's call, one's vocation, label it what you will -- a recurring sense that your life is not for nothing, a whisper that becomes a controlling word in your life, the gradual realization that who and where you are may ... be where God needs and wants you -- all contribute to a sense that you have a calling. Joseph Campbell says, "Go where your body and soul want to go, when you have the feeling, then stay ...

2287. Grace for a Complaining People

Exodus 16:2-15

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... men were men." It's hard to accept that the past is to be learned from, not lived in. Immediate needs block out all reason and, like Esau, who was willing to forego his birthright for a pot of food, Israel is willing to make an equal trade. Captain Moses senses mutiny from the "crew" who feel the freedom ship is going nowhere. The people murmur against Moses. "If only we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the fleshpots and ate our fill of bread: for you have brought us ...

2288. Ten Friends Drive Us to the Promise

Exodus 20:1-4, 7-9, 12-20

Sermon

Arley K. Fadness

... Moses says, â€˜Do not be afraid; for God has come only to test you and to put the fear of him upon you so that you do not sin' " (Exodus 20:19-20). Reinhold Niebuhr comments, "True religion is based on two premises: the sense of reverence for a majesty and the sense of moral obligation to others." Someone has said that there was a reason why the Ten were written on stone instead of parchment. They were written in stone so that people could only keep them or break them -- they cannot bend them. A pompous ...

2289. A Peek at the Resurrection

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... don't endure persecution, we do experience life as difficult, painful, limiting, lonely. The Greek word translated as "ordeal" in verse 14 originally meant to squeeze or be under pressure. Pressure, being squeezed, being stressed are part of all of our lives. In a sense, life is a great ordeal. Certainly, we experience many joys in life, but life can be frustrating, painful, and even cruel. We are not given answers to our questions of why life is that way. We are assured, however, that beyond this life, God ...

2290. The Model of Success

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... pool, invested it so that there would be an income. Then they studied the issues in their community and in the world, and make decisions on how they would invest. As a result they are making changes in this world. And they are having a sense of fulfillment in their life that they are contributing to the Kingdom. There is another wonderful organization, entitled "Your Money or Your Life." It is a clever interpretation of Jesus' warning, "You cannot serve God and Mammon." These are people who believe that the ...

2291. Removing Obstacles

1 Corinthians 1:10-18

Sermon

James L. Killen

... . Our church has a very important mission. Our church's mission is just about the most important thing going on in our community and in our world today. That being the case, doesn't it make sense that we should organize the whole life of our church around the accomplishment of that mission? And, doesn't it make sense that we should be careful not to let anything go on in our church that would hinder the accomplishment of that mission? Can you think of any things that could go on in our church that would ...

2292. Access Denied

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... ?" Judy thought for a few minutes and then wrote: "All winter long hibernating animals subsist on the hope of a coming spring." Is it food and water that keep us going? Is it mental stimulation that helps us endure the long winters of life? Is it a sense of purpose that makes us wake up each day and face the challenges? Sure, we can say, "Yes," to all three questions. But beneath all of them is hope. Hope for something better than the suffering we've known. Hope for something easier than the endurance we ...

2293. Uncle Abraham

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

William G. Carter

... some reason, and I found that verse in the third chapter where it says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). That verse struck me between the eyes, in all of its honesty. "All have sinned. All have fallen short." Suddenly a strange sense of relief came over me. All of us have sinned, and no one is any better than anybody else. All of us have fallen short - that's the truth! So we can stop punishing ourselves for not measuring up. The truth is, no matter how good we are, we ...

2294. Effective Suffering

Romans 8:26-39

Sermon

Jeff Wedge

... the phrase is worth our attention. We can be fairly certain that at some points in our lives we will suffer. It might take different forms for different people, but the fact of suffering is a part of our lives. And since we will suffer, it makes sense to learn about the idea of effective suffering. If nothing else, perhaps we can learn how we can manage effective suffering. First, we should be clear that this does not mean that we should go looking for more ways to suffer, just for the practice. It should ...

2295. Say What?

1 John 3:5-6

Sermon

Rick Brand

... . This is the Frank Sinatra theme song sin: "I did it my way." Nobody's going to tell me what to do. There is a sense in which this is quickly becoming our culture's favorite sin. Listen to our ads: "You got to break some rules. Nobody says you have ... the life, our first awareness of sin may come in the feeling that we are missing something. Paul Tillich called it the sense of alienation. Tillich says we are estranged from the Creator. Sin is that universal feeling of having lost something. Homer Rogers writes ...

2296. Blind Ambition

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... hear a text. She said, if you have been taught all your life that your role in this life is to be the servant, in the sense of being subservient to other people, or taught that you have been given a certain place in this life by destiny, or even by God, and you ... the importance of making money and the unimportance of everything else. Something has happened in this country. I think everybody senses that. Everybody feels that something has happened. I think we are beginning to realize what it might be. I ran ...

2297. Body Language

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... us an identity. I have read of secular Jews in America who haven't been to a synagogue for years, going back, in fact, going into Orthodox Judaism, because it provides for them what they don't understand, but what they know they need; a sense of belonging, a sense of identity. That's what these holy laws were all about. It is what gave the Jews identity. So that is what this passage is about. If kosher laws, what you eat, are what distinguishes the Jew, Jesus then asks, what distinguishes the Christian ...

2298. For Those Who Can't Pray

Genesis 32:22-31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... to come to terms with God. He has tricked his dying father. He has cheated his brother in order to get the father's blessing. But now he knows that if he is to get what he really wants, which is God's blessing, the fulfillment of his life, the sense that his life has a purpose and worthiness, he must call upon God. He must pray to God. Now look at the scene. His caravan comes to the River Jabbok. He sends his family, servants, his possessions, his animals, all across the other side of the river, as if to ...

2299. God Never Gives Up

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... read that last sentence again.” So she picked it up, read it again, this time somewhat sarcastically, then put it down again. The teacher said, “Read it again.” She read it again. Then she described what happened. “After about the seventh repetition I began to sense there might be some truth in this statement. That there was a possibility that God really loves me, Maya Angelou. I suddenly began to cry at the grandness of it all. I knew if God loved me, I could do wonderful things. I could do great ...

2300. How to Be a Blessing

I Peter 3:8-12

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... is a wonderful life that is waiting for each one of us. But in large part, we receive that life from other people, in the sense that other people tell us who we are and what we're worth. That's why Peter says, "Bless, don't curse, for to this ... the end, when we do not see all things clearly. There are hard questions for which there are no answers, pain which doesn't make any sense at all, terrible things that happen in our lives we don't understand. That's what it's like to live in the penultimate time, ...

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