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2376. Why Being A Christian Has Worn You Down v2

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ” (vs. 21). There’s no need to ask for clarification, is there? It can’t get any clearer than that. When you boil it all down, compassion is at the heart of our call to be Christian – loving out of the love of God, loving with the love of God, continuing to love until we give up the last ounce of our being on behalf of the Kingdom. Now that wears us out. We get tired. I don’t want you students to go from this place with a superficial notion about the ministry. As exciting and as glorious as it ...

2377. The Work of An Evangelist

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... tears Aleida responded, “Oh honey, we have got to be more urgent in sharing Jesus. We have got to reach them and tell about Jesus before they die, and it’s too late.” Amazed at this wife’s courage in the midst of evil, Carlos was strengthened to continue in the battle. . . “We desire to be found faithful with whatever He entrusts to us,” he says. Don’t you feel it? Carlos is clear about his calling. He is crazily in love with Jesus, and so he keeps his calling clear. But not only must we keep ...

2378. A Time of Transition

Joshua 5:9-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... When asked whether the cost of installation was worthwhile she said, “Oh, yes!” “I switch the electricity on every night to see how to light my lamps. Then I switch it off.” Can you imagine that? With unlimited light and power at her disposal she continued the weary grind of filling and lighting her oil lamps. (6) This woman feared change. But you don’t have to be in the later years of life to fear change. Change disrupts society, it disrupts familiar ways of doing things. Dr. Mary Pipher tells a ...

2379. The Privilege and the Price

Matthew 5:13-16

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... they only come on special occasions and make a tiny offering. How that for worthless? Drunk and on dope and trapped in porn and engaging in family violence. How’s that for worthless? Fired from jobs because of sloppy work habits. How’s that for worthless? Continually coming to me with gossip about other people instead of having the love and courage to speak to them yourselves. How’s that for worthless? And this is only the past week, maybe eights days to be precise. There are days when my salt shaker ...

2380. Going Hard against the Grain

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... I looked at him right quick and said: ‘Oh no, don't do that. There'd be too much light on this highway, and it will end up in mutual destruction for all. Somebody got to have some sense on this highway.’" His sermon on the incident continues with these words: “Somebody must have sense enough to dim the lights, and that is the trouble, isn't it? That as all of the civilizations of the world move up the highway of history, so many civilizations, having looked at other civilizations that refused to dim ...

2381. Wisdom and the Trinity

Proverbs 8:1-36

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... by its proper name, however. It is idolatry, because you and I worship the one God who has commanded us, "You shall have no other gods besides me" (Exodus 20:3; cf. Mark 10:17-20). He has revealed himself to us in his incarnation in Jesus Christ, and he continues to be our God and to be with us in the Person of the Holy Spirit, who is given to us from the Father and the Son. So how, then, are we to understand this text from the Old Testament about Wisdom? This personified figure of Wisdom in Proverbs 8 ...

2382. Big Fish

John 21:1-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... he do? He stopped playing, walked over to the conductor and asked if the orchestra could start the piece again. Then he turned to the audience and apologized. Stern could have faked his way through the piece. He could have ignored his mistake and continued as if nothing had happened. Few people in the audience would have known, but he knew and he could not give less than his best. (5) Somebody once asked Winston Churchill what it was that prepared him to lead Great Britain against Nazi Germany. Churchill ...

2383. Branching Out

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Michael Milton

... , though it is going to be difficult because I’m going to be physically removed. I will send my Holy Spirit and He will be with you and teach you all things. He will give you the words that you need when you need words to say. The relationship will continue as long as you abide in me and I will abide in you and you keep my commandments.” It’s all about Jesus. Joy equates to having Jesus with you and in you. “These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your ...

2384. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... each other, but there is also discontinuity—no sickness or death, and also a new way of life that does not include some cherished parts of life here. We must not dwell on what we do not know but only on what Jesus reveals. There is continuity and discontinuity in resurrection. Jesus shows just whose argument is really absurd. Jesus goes to the heart of the part of the Scripture the Sadducees believed in (Exodus 3:6) and proved, from that passage, that they did not know the Scripture. Jesus said that in ...

2385. Message from a Cloud

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Blair, what’s your question?” said Bruce. “How did that hole get in the sky?” asked Blair. “I beg your pardon,” Bruce stammered in uncertainty. “Well, Bruce, you remember it says in the Bible when Jesus was baptized ‘the heavens opened.’ Bruce gulped. Blair continued, “What I want to know is how did that hole get there?” (2) There are some things you can’t explain to a six-year-old--or a sixty-year-old. Scripture teaches us that Jesus ascended into the heavens. Well, where did he go ...

2386. Night Moves

Genesis 32:22-32

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... wonderful dream at Bethel, where God blesses him and says, "I will be with you wherever you go...and I will not leave you until I have done for you what I have promised." With that blessing he goes to Padan-Aram, to his mother's ancestral home. There he continues to prosper. We are not looking at that story this year in the cycle, but it is the third story in the cycle. It's a wonderful story where Jacob meets his equal, his future father-in-law, a man named Laban, who is as devious and has as questionable ...

2387. A Fool and His Money

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... self-congratulations, all reflecting the common assumption of our time, that this is my life, no one else’s, and I can do with it what I want, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody else. Both assumptions are wrong, according to the Bible. The Bible continues to be an affront to us. It maintains what you do affects other people. Immediately, your family. Then, your friends and neighbors. Then, this society and the next generation. All are affected by what you do. What's more, this is not your life. You belong ...

2388. How to Look Foolish

1 Corinthians 1:18-25

Sermon

Mark Trotter

None of us like to look foolish, but I confess that I continue to find ingenious ways to do that, usually by insisting that I am right about something, and it turns out ... toys. I was on the floor with him, helping him to build a fort. I am not very handy with my hands, I'll admit that. The local plumber tells me he hopes I'll continue to try and fix the plumbing so he will remain employed. But Lego building is something I can do. I played with Legos with my own children years ago, a fact that I revealed to ...

2389. Simeon's Song

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the Messiah," it means something. Anna is there to represent survivors. Those for whom the news never changes, they know Christmas isn't going to remove their problems. They know that they are just going to have to keep on going. They know that life is going to continue to be pretty much the same. So when Anna, the survivor, says, "This is what I have been waiting for, this is the fulfillment of my life," it means something. We are supposed to pay attention. In a recent play a woman says this: You work hard ...

2390. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... daily life? How do you get along with your neighbors, especially that neighbor who turns up the music too loud, or whose barking dogs wake you too early in the morning, or the one who doesn’t take care of his lawn and the dandelions are continually creeping over into your lawn? How about members of your extended family, the sister-in-law who’s obnoxious, the ex-husband who’s late again with child support, the parent who always belittled you? This is where the rubber meets the asphalt in our Christian ...

2391. A Reassuring Prophecy

Isaiah 7:10-16

Sermon

Elizabeth Achtemeier

... I will not put the Lord to the test” (cf. Deuteronomy 6:16). And that, says Isaiah, wearies the Lord God (v. 13), who cannot stomach such hypocrisy — piety apart from our heart’s devotion is pain and weariness to the Lord (cf. Isaiah 1:14). Nevertheless, continues Isaiah, God will give Ahaz a sign. A young woman of marriageable age will conceive and bear a son and call his name Immanuel (v. 14). As we know from our gospel lesson, the New Testament understood that as a prediction of the birth of Jesus ...

2392. Seeing Just Enough of God

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... and the people can't go back -- that would mean returning to Egypt, and they can't stay put -- they are in the middle of nowhere. The only thing they can do is go forward. Despite the frustration, the disappointment, and the anger, Moses has no choice but to continue to lead the people where God is sending them. Before Moses can go one more step, he has to know one thing. Is God really in this journey? Even after all of the evidence of God's presence -- the Sea of Reeds, the manna, the water from the rock ...

2393. View from the Mountaintop

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... that others could experience a blessing. Moses learns as early as chapter 3 of Deuteronomy that he will not enter the promised land himself. Nevertheless, he preaches his sermons to the people, exhorting them to continue to obey God. He knew he would not go into the land himself, but he wanted the mission to continue. Moses teaches us that ministry is something we give to others. Ministry is bigger than our own needs, our own blessings. When Moses stood on Mount Pisgah looking at the promised land, he saw ...

2394. Living Hope

1 Peter 1:3-9

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... We can be discouraged, we can be desolate, we can be knocked down, but that doesn't mean we have lost hope. As long as we have a breath of life left in us, we have a living hope. And as long as we have our assignment for tomorrow, we continue to believe that tomorrow is a possibility. Go to any rehabilitation hospital and you will find people with all sorts of needs and ailments. When people enter a hospital like that, they find out quickly that they have to work to get better. A stay in a rehab hospital is ...

2395. Because

1 Peter 1:1—2:3

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

2396. When Is Being Right Wrong?

Romans 3:19-28

Sermon

Rick Brand

... a list like the twelve rules of life because as long as we keep trying to find our joy, our rest, our peace, our salvation in the keeping of the rules, the longer we continue to live and act on the conviction that we can control our own destiny. The keeping of the law is a trust in our own ability to determine our own future. It continues to widen the separation between us as creatures and the Creator who has made us for relationships. As long as we say, "Let's see how I measure up to these twelve rules of ...

2397. Thanks Be to God

2 Corinthians 9:6-15

Sermon

Rick Brand

... . Giving away a portion of those blessings is a testimony of faith that we believe that the God who gave us gifts in the past will continue to bless us with gifts in the future. Giving is a statement of faith in the goodness of God in the past and in the future ... of praise and thanksgiving. We will give as our testimony of our faith that God has blessed us in the past and God will continue to bless us in the future. We will give so that others may see the abundance of God and desire to open themselves to that ...

2398. Living in Denial

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... , “What have you been doing while we were gone?” Bobby replied in a low voice, “Nothing.” Dad then turns to Billy and asks, “What have you been doing?” Billy replied, “Helping Bobby.” Maybe we can make it work. Maybe we can continue to be casual in our commitment to Christ. Maybe we can continue to live in our own little world and ignore our neighbors. Maybe Jesus didn’t mean it when he said, “When you did it not to the least of these, you did it not to me.” But I doubt it. We have a ...

2399. A Radical Faith

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... for death, and to insure by the way you live that you would get into the next life. That was the environment in which young Martin Luther grew up. There was one clear message. Christ had come to save us for the next life. The Church was the continuing presence of Christ here in this life to save us. And the Church had the only means of saving us, and that was in the sacraments. There were seven sacraments, but there were three that were most important, at least for the issues that Luther was concerned about ...

2400. Here We Go Again

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of you who have been trying to get me to get a computer. I just follow Jesus. When he gets one, I'll get one. I read on. "I am not pleased with those who claim to be members of my body. You have turned away from me." The letter continues with an indictment of Christians, how we have all gone astray. It concludes by warning, "The end comes quickly. You will see many signs, but they will not be by me." The last sentence of the letter counsels us to look to the scripture for an understanding of what will ...

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