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2426. Envision: The Great Commandment

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

James Merritt

... with Him and love Him. II. We Love God With Our Talents As we have already said another way that we love God is by obeying God. One of the ways you obey God is by serving God. The way you serve God is by taking the gifts and the abilities that He gives you and using them, both inside and outside the church, to serve other people. Incidentally, the other two parts of the church’s mission in the world actually flow from the first part. Always keep in mind the foundational part of the church’s mission is ...

2427. Up Close & Personal: Drawing Near

Hebrews 4:14-5:10

Sermon

James Merritt

... life and what God is teaching you. For others, when I say that you should begin a journal, I might as well say, “Go out and build a space shuttle.” This is something that is completely alien to you and you believe it is beyond your talents or abilities to accomplish. In fact, the natural response of someone who does not journal is to ask, “Why, really, do I need a journal? After all I’ve gotten by without one for all of these years.” Let me tell you that journaling can be a life-transforming. But ...

2428. Lost Baggage: Losing Your Baggage

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

James Merritt

... most of us have some type of baggage we carry around with us all the time that we need to lose. It weighs down our relationships with our friends, family, co-workers and neighbors. Often, it destroys marriages, dissolves friendships, and damages our abilities to relate properly to God. That is why we are introducing a series today we are calling, “Lost Baggage.” We are going to deal with the four biggest relationship killers that we all struggle with such as the baggage of bitterness, unresolved anger ...

2429. Lost Baggage: Flying Standby

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... of messages we are calling “Lost Baggage.” Everybody carries some baggage with them. None of us grew up in a totally perfect environment. Whether it was because of an inattentive father, an overbearing mother, or being somewhat lacking either in athletic skill or academic ability, or because of a physical imperfection or being bullied, we all have baggage we need to lose. Jesus deals with one of the major causes of why we have baggage and why we try to dump our baggage on somebody else. We have all sat ...

2430. Lost Baggage: The Middle Seat

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... , pornography, materialism, greed, selfishness and apathy outside the church with judgment, but when it comes to all those things inside the church we expect mercy, because after all who are we to judge? The truth of the matter is we’ve lost the ability to judge those outside the church, because we refuse to judge those inside the church. When people outside the church see people inside the church living like people outside the church while the church condemns those outside the church and cuts slack for ...

2431. Supernatural: Taken By Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... disciples had witnessed with their own eyes? In Mark 1, He cast out an unclean spirit. He healed Peter’s mother in-law of a fever. He healed an entire city of disease, cast out demons, and cleansed a leper. In Mark 2, He gives a paralytic the ability to walk and take his bed home. In Mark 3, He restores a withered hand to complete health. He had already proven over and over it doesn’t matter what your problem is - disease, demons or danger, he can handle it. What irritated Jesus was they had forgotten ...

2432. For Those Who Are Auditing the Class

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... regardless of the costs. Those costs might include financial sacrifice, rejection by your peers and a host of other major and minor deprivations. But you’ve made a commitment to be a disciple of Jesus Christ and you are determined to the best of your ability to keep that commitment, so help you God. We live in a time in which people are reluctant to make serious commitments whether to their marriage, their family, their employer or any of their relationships. One guy said his secretary liked to yammer on ...

2433. Risky Business

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... be why Jesus told today’s parable. Jesus says, “It will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them. To one he gave five bags of gold, to another two bags, and to another one bag, each according to his ability. Then he went on his journey. The man who had received five bags of gold went at once and put his money to work and gained five bags more. So also, the one with two bags of gold gained two more. But the man who had received one bag went ...

2434. We Are Not The Light

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... be a bastion, or fortress, or army of the Lord but plantings that are grounded in the earth — breathing and capable of transforming light energy into nourishment, shade, and growth. In many ways, oaks, as well as other plants, have the light business down pat. Plants have an ability to take decayed matter and turn it into new life. They can even take animal fertilizer and turn it into new life. To me, in many ways, this begins to look like the task of the church. How do we take the light that we have, mix ...

2435. Dust Off The Throne

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... faith, he tells her about her relative, Elizabeth. Since she found it hard to imagine a virgin giving birth, then perhaps she would be encouraged to know that God had enabled an old woman — barren her whole life, and now presumably well past her physical ability to have children — to have a son. Then comes the summary statement: “Nothing will be impossible for God.” Our preaching emphasis at Christmas time may tend to be on God’s love and God’s gift. We may, however, neglect the theme of God ...

2436. The Full Advent: Whoa! No Way? Wow!

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the third feature of The Full Advent: Amazement. The first miracle of Christmas has nothing to do with angels and announcements. The first miracle of Christmas is that the shepherds, who thought that the Messiah was to come on a great cloud with power and the ability to judge all of humanity, took the word of midnight angels, trusted the signs, and wandered away from their flocks and found a small stable in Bethlehem. There they were amazed. They did not find the divine power of a great judge, but they did ...

2437. Full Immersion

Acts 19:1-22

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Ps 51:11). The prophet Joel promised “I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh” (2:28). When you repent and obey the “laws and prophets,” you may be just and good. But to be baptized of the Holy Spirit has nothing to do with human ability and everything to do with human inability and the indwelling presence of Christ that makes us into what the word “Christian” means — “little Christs.” Or as Paul puts it later, through the power of the Holy Spirit you can “Let this mind and spirit be in ...

2438. I'm Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’t it? How could Samuel not know God. It probably doesn’t mean what it sounds like it means, that Samuel is dull spiritually or that Eli is a poor teacher. It probably means that Samuel has never had an encounter with God and doesn’t have the ability to understand what’s happening. So, a third time the voice called, “Samuel!” And Samuel got up and went to Eli and said, “Here I am; you called me.” Then Eli realized that Samuel was hearing the voice of the Lord calling him. So, Eli told Samuel ...

2439. A Reminder to God...and to Us

Genesis 9:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... a legend, even fiction, but that’s how the tale goes.” The setbacks continued. Finally, Danny went to church to pray for direction. Should he try another profession? Contrary to popular legend, he didn’t offer any deals to God. He merely prayed for the ability to take care of his family. But when success came, he felt a sense of obligation to give back for the good fortune he had received. And the result was St. Jude’s Medical Center for Children in Memphis, a center that has performed many miracles ...

2440. The God of Second Chances

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... began to cry, the pastor’s son stood to speak. He could not bear the pain all this was causing his wife-to-be. He began to speak and his statement was this: “My fiancé’s past is not what is on trial here. What you are questioning is the ability of Christ to wash away our sin and make us new persons. So, does he wash away sin or not?” (4) Powerful question: Does Christ wash away sin or not? If he does not, we are all in trouble. Pastor Dennis Becker uses the analogy of a trick bar of ...

2441. While It Was Still Dark

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... of Esther. In 480 B.C. Xerxes invaded Greece with an army of nearly two million men. Seeing the whole Hellespont filled with the vessels of his fleet, and the plains covered with his regiments, Xerxes at first congratulated himself on his good fortune and abilities. But then, a few moments later, he began to weep. His stunned uncle Artabanus, standing beside him, asked what a man in his position could possibly have to cry about. The king replied that he had just realized that in a hundred years’ time, all ...

2442. Starting Over

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... choice, according to the writer, elevates Jesus into unique company; he is a priest like Melchizedek. Melchizedek is a very interesting biblical character. He appears suddenly in Genesis 14 as a priest and king recognized by Abram for having deep spirituality and the ability to mediate between humans and God. Melchizedek then disappears until David refers to him in what we now know as Psalm 110. David uses Melchizedek as an example of a priest and king above and outside of the royal family systems in place ...

2443. Getting to a Teachable Moment

Mark 15:1-15

Sermon

Craig MacCreary

... all too human. Perhaps that is the choice that I have not considered all along. Swept up in the culture I find it all too easy to pursue the super human rather than the fully human. I find it all too easy to evaluate myself in terms of my ability to be everywhere rather than fully there. I measure myself too often in terms of being able to fix things rather than be genuinely present even when I cannot fix things. I long to control people more than connect with them. If I understand this text correctly, it ...

2444. I'll Never Forget That Night

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... and deadly exit strategy for Israel? The plagues begin to make sense when they are viewed in the context of Egypt’s climate and culture. After the initial sparring with snakes to show magical skills, the stakes are raised far beyond human ability to merely manipulate the natural order. First the waters are turned to blood; then the marshes send out a massive, unwelcome pilgrimage of frogs; next the dust is beat into gnats, soon to be followed by even peskier flies; subsequently, the livestock ...

2445. Jesus Heals Body and Soul

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... , Robert Schuller changed his mind. The subconscious, he decided, is ahead of the conscious. The head may lead the way, but it’s the subconscious, the emotions, the heart that will ultimately have its way. The brain he determined has an unlimited ability to rationalize any position. Therefore, he concluded, human beings are first and last emotional creatures. (4) I believe he’s right. There are people who carry around hurts that last a lifetime. Their friends and family say, “Get over it! It’s ...

2446. Show Me Your Baptismal Certificate

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... divine. Jesus’ baptismal moment is when his authentic humanity and revealed divinity come together. His one identity as human and divine is forever sealed in this moment. Jesus is one with us in our human frailty. Jesus is one with us in his divine ability to love all of us and turn our frailty into healing streams of love, mercy, and strength. In Mark’s gospel, after the first miracle of “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”, things do not go all that well following this baptismal experience ...

2447. The Big "W"

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... because you are doing God a “favor” by showing up? Do you somehow imagine that God needs your presence and the witness of your worship in order to validate God’s divinity? In this week’s gospel text Peter once again demonstrates his ability to get everything right, and then with the next breath get everything wrong. After confessing to Jesus, “You are the Messiah” in vs. 29, he turns around and begins to “rebuke” Jesus for featuring the sacrificial nature of his Messianic identity: “that ...

2448. The Outlandishness of Lent

1 Corinthians 1:18--2:5

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... language of love is you and me. The early church father Origen demeaned the pagan philosopher Celsus who had tried to humiliate Christians by quoting Jesus’ followers as saying “Let no one educated, no one wise, no one sensible draw near. For these abilities are thought by us [Christians] to be evils. But as for anyone ignorant, anyone stupid, anyone uneducated, anyone who is a child, let him come boldly (Origen in “Contra Celsum,” 3;44; PG 11, 981). Origen and other early Christians declared these ...

2449. Skull Hill

John 12:20-36

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... are not terminal. As every potter knows, all clay is capable of being re-infused with life, once again made able to be shaped, if new water is reintroduced to the hardened soil. Our openness to God’s hand in our lives is what gives us our ability to keep Christ forming in us. The old Quaker hymn “Tis the Gift to be Simple” extolls the “gift” being able to “turn” — like clay on a potter’s wheel. We “keep turning, turning, ‘til we come round right.” But the hope for clay’s continual ...

2450. Everything Must Go: “Abandon Ship!”

1 Chronicles 29:1-9

Sermon

James Merritt

... on his property. Can I let you in on a little secret? We are all Beverly Hillbillies. You don’t have what you have because you are so smart, so brilliant, so clever, or so sharp. Even if you are, God gave you that brilliance. God gave you that ability. God gave you that vision. God is the source and God is the supply of everything. That just leads naturally to the third principle. III. We Are Not The Masters Of Our Money – We Are The Managers Of His Money “O Lord our God, all this abundance that we ...

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