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2326. Wherever You Are, You Are Always at Home

Luke 2:41-52

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Leonard Sweet

... of it all. The twelve year-old Jesus revels in the relationship that he feels between himself and his divine Father. His time in the temple, learning and debating with the elders there, fills him with a sense of pleasure and belonging that he recognizes as uniquely his. Yet despite Jesus' words, despite the sense of rightness he felt in the temple, Jesus left the temple with his parents and "was obedient to them" (verse 51). If Mary was able to treasure this incident in her heart, it would seem evident that ...

2327. Innercizing Your Shopping List

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Leonard Sweet

... we will find the most lack in ourselves. It's a reality that will remain true throughout all our lives not just Soren's. On this first Sunday of Advent our Scripture lesson reminds us that Paul is both overwhelmed with a sense of liking and a sense of lacking. He is thankful for the Thessalonians' continued faithfulness. Yet at the same time he is very concerned about providing that young congregation with what may still be lacking in their love and faith development. They have love for one another. But ...

2328. There Will Be No Adults in Heaven

Mark 10:13-16

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Leonard Sweet

... and personally assaulted when his school adopted a new dress-code: no hats to be worn during school hours. Suddenly, along with everything else that goes with entering eighth grade, Thane was being shorn of his sense of identity his hat-ness. This personal crisis revealed not only a righteous sense of indignation and a highly developed understanding of individual versus institutional rights. It also revealed something else: Thane had no idea what to do with his hair. Some people can wear hats, some can't. I ...

2329. Do You Have a GPS - A God Positioning System?

Galatians 3:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... nothing deserving of being reckoned as righteous. He has carved out no great mission. He has preached no great message. He has claimed no great insight. All Abraham has at this point is faith, a trust in God that overrides all fears and even common sense. Faith allows him to move forward on the basis of God's voice alone. This faith, not all the actions that follow, is what God notes, God receives, and God returns to Abraham as righteousness. Third Track: SUPPLICATE 3. Oratio Praying. The third stage of ...

2330. The Smell of Fear

Mark 4:35-41

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Leonard Sweet

... , cars, homes themselves, have been transformed from safe-ground to ground-zero. We now have a cabinet level Secretary of Homeland Security precisely because we no longer feel we have any sense of security, or safety, in our homes or our homeland. But that doesn't keep us from thinking we will surely be able to buy back that old sense of well-being with the next fail safe device that hits the market. So Aanko Technologies sells high-end anthrax detectors we can mount next to our home smoke alarms, carbon ...

2331. The Most Important Top Ten List

Exodus 20:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... do you really forget to put your shoes on before leaving the house for work? Or forget that you need to eat? Or overlook the fact that bathtub faucet is still running? Of course not, those behaviors are just common sense, sheer survival skills, everyday coping mechanisms. But our moral/ethical common sense seems to be pretty dismal. We read the Ten Commandments and think they offer the be-all and end-all for human achievement. We put them on our walls and even in our judicial chambers. But in reality God is ...

2332. The World's Best Hearing Aid

Mark 9:2-13

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Leonard Sweet

... single trumpet can hit 130 decibels. The response of E.U. officials to the objection that such rules will make classical music unplayable is "Orchestras should give musicians ear plugs." [Reason, 34 (May 2002], 14.) Obviously, a good example of a lack of horse sense! On the other hand, refined sensibilities don't always mean fancy or ornate. John Killinger tells the legend about "the simple shepherd's pipe once played by Moses when he kept his father-in-law's flocks. When the pipe was discovered, many years ...

2333. The Church on Main Street

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

James McCormick

... meaning. If my life were not centered in Christ, I would probably be wandering around out there somewhere, looking and looking and looking, and never finding. Because I really believe that until we allow God to take his rightful place at the center of life, nothing makes much sense, and nothing works out very well. That’s one place our focus must be if we as a Church are to do business on Main Street! We belong to God and we always will. That’s the first thing. II. Second, to be a disciple means that ...

2334. It's My Life, Isn't It?

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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James McCormick

... no-one’s business but your own? What do you think about the assertion, “It’s my life, isn’t it?” I. Well, in one sense that is an accurate statement. Your life has been entrusted to you. My life has been entrusted to me. And we can do with our lives ... and plead with us. But no one has the power to compel us. We can do with our lives whatever we please. So, there is a sense in which those people I talked about in the beginning are right. II. But, having said that, I must hurry to say a second thing: ...

2335. Cha-cha-cha Christians: The Dance that Advances

2 Peter 1:12-21

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Leonard Sweet

... quadrilateral.”) But whether your stool has three or four legs, God didn’t give us a stool to sit on. God gave us legs to move with, God gave us legs to dance with. There are two personal traits that everyone thinks they possess. The first is a sense of humor. The second? Everyone thinks they can dance. The fact that each one of us can immediately think of exceptions to both suggests that self-delusion is one of the most powerful forces on the planet. Even those of you who CAN dance still share a common ...

2336. Christmas 2

Psalm 147:1-20, Jeremiah 30:1--31:40, Ephesians 1:1-14, John 1:1-18

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