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2276. The Promise that Won’t Be Broken

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Clayton A. Lord

... with infidelity to remain faithful to their spouses, for the gambler to turn away from the games of chance. We cannot do it on our own, but we have been promised power from above so that we might do extraordinary things. A fourth promise is that we will gain new understanding and grow in wisdom. God promises that if we follow him, he will open our eyes to truths that we never knew before. He will lift the veil and we will see things that we never saw. He will turn us around so that we can begin to walk by ...

2277. Whose Inheritance Is It?

Ephesians 1:11-23

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... what God has wrought by grace. In fact, the surest way to un-saint or de-saint or non-saint ourselves is to start taking credit for the gifts that God has given us by the grace of the Holy Spirit. Saints are different from normal people in that they understand this. By the power of the Holy Spirit, they remember God's creation in each moment. They stay alive to it. We will not always be on the right path. A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour. We will forget the source of ...

2278. Maintenance or Mission

Mark 10:35-45

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Brian Stoffregen

... marching off the map in order to bring the vision into reality. 9. The maintenance congregation is concerned with their congregation, its organizations and structure, its constitutions and committees. The mission congregation is concerned with the culture, with understanding how secular people think and what makes them tick. It tries to determine their needs and their points of accessibility to the Gospel. 10. When thinking about growth, the maintenance congregations asks, "How many Lutherans live within a ...

2279. The Light of Christ

Isaiah 9:2-7

Sermon

Mary S. Lautensleger

... because of the light. It seems that as the candles shed their soft glow across the church, the darkness was dispelled, but if someone was absent and their spot remained unlighted, the little room was darkened. Over the years, the folks grew to understand that they were really needed because their presence brought light into the darkened fellowship. We are living in a world that often seems dark. Long shadows extend across our community, shadows that will loom larger unless we all bring our lights from far ...

2280. Isaiah: The Prophet of Gloom and Glory

Isaiah 65:17-25

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... to live with the consequences of the bad choices we have made in the past. It would be fair to ask at this juncture, "But is that all there is?" Is God's final answer that God will help us to cope with our mistakes? The prophet would have us understand today that God wants us to know the joy of living in a right relationship with God, today and every day. Isaiah chapter 65 gives us a pictorial description of the new heavens and the new earth. They are eternal, and in them safety, peace, and plenty will be ...

2281. Saintly Visions!

Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... gain their freedom and that life would be good. Enter Daniel, who was not quite so optimistic. Early in Daniel's book there is a dream in which Nebuchadnezzar has a vision that things will get worse before they get better. It is easy for us to understand that the Hebrew people wanted freedom. What they got instead was release from exile under Darius, but that in and of itself did not bring what they were looking for. For the Hebrew people, the idea of salvation was bound up in the idea of national identity ...

2282. Thanks for Receiving Thanksgiving

Deuteronomy 26:1-11

Sermon

John Wayne Clarke

... . It is an attitude that says before we get our fill, we need first to tell God, "Thank you." Yes, they had been commanded to do so, but how often has that command been ignored by humankind? On this Thanksgiving Day let us begin to move into an understanding that we are always to give God our best effort in all things we do. When you think of the firstfruit scenario keep this in mind. The firstfruit was the best and the biggest. It is often from that fruit that the best seed is removed and replanted ...

2283. Good News about Christ

Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon

King Duncan

... message of the Bible, too, as one of rescue. In the book of Romans, Paul takes pains to point out that none of us ‘deserve’ God’s mercy and none of us can save ourselves. Like a stranded hiker, all we can do is call for help.” (7) Do you understand that God calls this church to be a “rescue team”? That is who we are and what we are about. And so we celebrate Christ’s reign over the world. Jesus is God incarnate. Jesus came not to condemn, but to save. And we are those who are called to ...

2284. God Is the Happiest Being in the Universe

Luke 1:39-56

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Leonard Sweet

... joy. Joy so tremendous, joy so utterly overwhelming that it must somehow escape the bounds of earth itself and jump towards the heavens. In John Ortberg's wonderful book The Life You've Always Wanted (Zondervan,2002), he writes: We will not understand God until we understand this about him: "God is the happiest being in the universe" (G. K. Chesterton). Yes, God knows sorrow. Jesus is remembered, among other things, as a 'man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.' But the sorrow of God, like the anger of ...

2285. God's Getting Better at It

Luke 3:15-17, 21-22

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Lane Boyd

... live with principles, values, and sense of sacredness that God wants from all humanity. Sometimes the people heard and responded to God, and sometimes they ignored God. God kept trying. God kept working at getting their attention. I heard about a little girl who sort of understands that about God. She was sitting on her grandfather's lap as he read her a bedtime story. From time to time, she would take her eyes off the book and reach up to touch his wrinkled cheek. She was alternately stroking her own cheek ...

2286. A Stone’s Throw From: The Harvest

Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... word, and it yields nothing. [23] But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty." We know there are three ... . You looked like you had the weight of the world on your shoulders. So alone. But you know, Lucy, you're never really alone. Jesus understands what you're going through. He's there for you. And so am I." B. You and I are called to be Sowers of the ...

2287. How Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... God. That act of reconciliation makes it possible for us to live a new, fulfilled and spirit filled life with Christ and for God. We belong because Jesus says we belong, not because we've adhered to and kept some set of archaic laws we don't even understand. And we dare not go back and pick and up those old attitudes because when we do, it endangers our place in the Kingdom and our inheritance as brothers and sisters of Christ. Conclusion A family of five was enjoying their day at the beach. The children ...

2288. Altar Your Prayers

Mark 1:29-37

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Stewardship. It's about the Stewardship of our Prayers, our Presence, our Gifts, our Service and our Witness. Those sound familiar don't they? Those are the membership vows we take when we join the church. And I think they sum up the Biblical Understanding of Stewardship. Stewardship is not just about money. For years we have tied the whole concept of Stewardship strictly to money. But by doing that we've missed the full spiritual depth of what Stewardship is all about and hobbled our spiritual lives with ...

2289. LOST? Finding Meaning

Genesis 1:1-5, John 1:1-5

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... . Third on the list you'll find a link to Wikipedia an online encyclopedia. And just a brief look shows that there are philosophical, popular, scientific, theological and mystical views on the meaning of life. The Scientific approach believes if you can understand the mechanics of the universe, then you'll be able to analyze the information and eventually determine "what the purpose is." Philosophical views basically seek to quantify what has value and what doesn't. Once you find what is most valuable in ...

2290. That's All I Want

Psalm 23:1

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to the power of this marvelous writing. He trusted God and God did provide. Today, this man, Rev. Neivelle Tan, is the pastor of a church in Singapore. All this happened because someone gave him a copy of the 23rd Psalm. (3) He was able to get beyond the rote understanding of this Psalm. He was able to dig deeper. He was able to listen to what God was saying to him through the words of this Psalm let the Word of God dig deeper into the psyche of his heart and soul. "The Lord is my Shepherd. That's all ...

2291. The Challenge Of Generosity

Malachi 3:10, Luke 6:36-38

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... much God expects us to give to the work of God. You may be sitting there scared to death or angry or even trying to figure out how you can tithe when you hadn't ever thought about how much you should give to the Church. I understand and God understands. So, let me suggest something to you. It's called "Proportional Giving." It's not an alternative to the tithe but a tool to achieve the tithe. If you find the tithe, ten percent, too staggering a place to start, then find that percentage where you can start ...

2292. Never Too Old For God: Abraham And Sarah

Genesis 18:1-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... and was more than a little disappointed. It was pretty grand but it sure wasn't anything like Miss Jones' and it wasn't what he expected. St. Peter saw the disappointment on the preacher's face and said, "You preacher's are all alike. You just don't understand do you? You do good work but while the enemy is focused on you, folks like Miss Jones and other prayer warriors are doing the real work of God. You're just a distraction. You're the diversion, while they do the real work." The whole point is: the ...

2293. God's Whatever

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... Do what you want, it’s not like you're going to listen to me anyway, or if you do, what are the chances you'll understand what I'm saying? Whatever!" There's a lack of hope and a I could care less attitude. I don't know where it comes from ... . He basically says: "Stand Firm, Rejoice, Be Gentle, Give Thanks." Do all this so you can experience the peace of God which passes all understanding and then he says, this peace will guard your heart and your mind in Christ. How are we supposed to do this? Through one ...

2294. Power for Today

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... tongues.” (3) That is how the disciples may have sounded when the Spirit came upon them, like they were scribbling with their tongues but they were not speaking gibberish. They were speaking known languages that people who overheard them could understand. Some of those present that first Pentecost made fun of the disciples and accused them of being intoxicated. If the police had happened by, they might have issued warrants reading “drunk and disorderly.” But the apostle Peter stood up and addressed ...

2295. The Broken English of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that eventually the Vietnamese woman was hired by the hospital as a kind of generic translator. Brokenness was the common language spoken by all hospital patients. The Holy Spirit speaks through broken people to a broken world, using language every broken heart can hear and understand. Because we know what it is like to be broken by hatred, we can speak of the healing love of Christ’s sacrifice. Because we know what it is like to be broken by despair, we can speak of the healing hope of Christ’s ...

2296. Magnificent Fools

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... to you - and you belong to Christ.” In the eleventh chapter of his second letter to the Corinthians, Paul picked up on this theme beginning with the claim, “I am become a fool glorying.” You don’t have to know much, about this man’s life to understand what he is talking about. He literally became a fool for the cause of Jesus Christ. He did so when he laid down the flail of the persecutor and took up the torch of the evangel on the Damascus Road, and started the course of the great adventure ...

2297. Discipline and Means of Grace

Romans 12:1-8

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Maxie Dunnam

... there are, no doubt, plenty of traditions that could find fault with him, but when I read his biography I am virtually moved to tears by the heart of this man who was so surrendered to God. He surrendered not only the temptations of the world, this I can understand - but also the glory of a particular service to God - and this is what humbles me. Everything was placed upon the altar, and there was no bitterness at all when God decided to keep it. Pascal just kept serving the Lord. God, make me like that man ...

2298. Evangelism Jesus' Style

John 1:29-42

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the scripture together and Bear said, “Bobby, I’ve just got a block. I grew up in a big family and we scrapped for everything we had. This business you said of just confessing my sins and just by the grace of God will do it. I just can’t understand that. We had to fight for everything we had – that made me a fighter as a coach. That’s why I’m a winner; I grew up doing that. That’s who I am. And it just seems to me that I’ve got to scratch and fight — I’ve ...

2299. Whatever Happened to Respect?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Rains, To Kiss the Joy Word Books, 1973, p. 121.) What a challenge to parents. Children don’t grow up to listen because they are not listened to…they do not become attentive to others because we have not modeled that in the home. I don’t understand why we have so misunderstood the pattern of the Christian home Paul provides in Ephesians 5 and 6. We’ve distorted the instructions Paul gives there by ignoring everything but his instruction to wives to be subject to their husbands and we’ve taken the ...

2300. A Glimpse of God

Exodus 33:19-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... another. And when that happens, you can sleep. You have peace; joy returns to the relationship. I think that’s especially true between children and parents. And that’s the reason I said a few weeks ago that I believe that a parent who has a wayward child can understand the love of God better than anyone else. That parent knows how much he loves His child, even in his waywardness down on his face to worship God when he realizes that God loves him in an even greater and deeper way. So that’s who God is ...

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