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Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

King Duncan

... . At the last moment, his youngest son was saved from the firing squad by the tears of a woman missionary. No such luck for Tsali. The rifles rang out and three men died, but a thousand Cherokees were free to remain in the Great Smoky mountains. Tsali was available for his people. (3) "Greater love hath no man than this," says John's Gospel, "that a man lay down his life for his friends" (15:13). Sometimes we are compelled by a greater love than that for our mothers and brothers and spouses. In the same way ...

2. Are You Available?

Luke 14:25-35

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King Duncan

... tell her the situation, her warm, Irish heart cannot resist. "Will you come?" "Sure and I'll come, and I'll do the best I can." And she did come," the account ends. "She did the best she could." This woman was willing. She was available. Is there a warmer word in our language? Available. It means, I'm here when you call. I'm ready, willing, able. Great crowds were following Jesus. He turned around and said to them: "Anyone who wants to be my follower must love me far more than he does his own father, mother ...

3. Life Insurance Available -- Free, But Not Cheap

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... policies can never really answer the basic existential questions that most of us wrestle with at sometime during our lives. But there is good news for us. Believe it or not, there is a life insurance plan available for you and me that is more comprehensive than any plan you could ever buy from an agent; there is a plan available for us that is written out so simply and clearly, that a child can grasp it, often before the parents ever can; and the best news of all -- it's free! It is a plan that, as ...

4. Salvation Is Available To Everyone

Acts 11:1-18

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H. Burnham Kirkland

... of the Lord all peoples. People: Let them praise the name of the Lord. Leader: His name is greater than all others. People: His glory is above earth and heaven. All: Let all God's people praise him. Collect Lord, we know that your saving grace is available to everyone who will believe in you and accept your forgiveness. Therefore, as we gather to praise you in our worship, we also lift up before you those people and nations who are at war with themselves and others; the poor, the hungry, and the homeless ...

5. Availability

Matthew 21:28-32

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King Duncan

... ." The employer asked, "Well, what about electrical work?" The man said "No, I don't know anything about that either." Finally the employer said, "Well, tell me then what is handy about you." The man replied, "I live just around the corner." Sometimes the greatest ability we can have is availability. To be where God can call us, to be within whisper range of his summons, that is the beginning of a life of meaningful discipleship.

Our failure to think of prayer as a privilege may be partly due to the fact that we can pray any time. The door to prayer is open so continuously that we fail to avail ourselves of an opportunity which is always there.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

7. When the Caterers Weren’t Available

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

King Duncan

Today’s lesson is on one of Jesus’ best known miracles, the feeding of the 5,000. Of course, as someone has noted, if Jesus were alive today, he wouldn’t be allowed to get away with half the miracles he performed. It’s not just that we live in such a skeptical, rationalist age. It’s all the red tape as well. Here are a few examples. Turning water into wine. This would provoke immediate protests from the alcoholic beverage industry, who would argue that it was unfair competition, amounting to a monopoly. It ...

8. To No Avail

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Traditional

Just before the death of actor W.C. Fields, a friend visited Fields' hospital room and was surprised to find him thumbing through a Bible. Asked what he was doing with a Bible, Fields replied, "I'm looking for loopholes."

9. The Shared Life of the People of God

Galatians 6:1-10

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... church and into the world; to have the power and presence to say not only in liturgy but in life, “This is my body this is my blood.” C. A New Creation Paul comes back to it, and almost sings it. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation (Gal. 6:15). Paul himself is the witness. In Gal. 2:20 he said he had been crucified with Christ. Now he declares that by the cross the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world (Vs. 14). All the things in ...

10. I'll Be Somewhere Listening

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... new beginning. This new beginning was to be characterized by God's Word as it came to Samuel. It became the Word of God for the nation. God is still a God of resolve who desires to bring to his people a "new thing." God's "new thing" was made available to everyone "when the word became flesh and lived among us" (John 1:14). In his resolve God desired to reveal to us what God was like. In order to do that, he laid aside that which was his right and came to serve, redeem, and love humankind. One day ...

11. "Can Do" Christianity

Philippians 4:10-20

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Raymond Gibson

... imagination by the beauty of God. To open the heart to the love of God, To devote the will to the purpose of God.2 That is the same power which enabled St. Paul to say, "I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me." That same power is available to you and to me. It is the power which will enable us to become "can do" Christians. A man once purchased a power chain saw after being told by the salesman that it could cut many cords of wood in a single day. Some days later, the customer came ...

12. How to Motivate People

Matthew 10:1-42, Matthew 9:18-26

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Stephen M. Crotts

... in your home, you're lucky to find twelve men who will come. But I think there is a deeper reason here, and that is human limitations. Answer me this: which of you has more than twelve people in whose lives you are intimately involved, with whom you are directly available? Why, the most of us would be hard-pressed to point to six much less twelve. The fact is, life being what it is, and people being who they are, one man cannot disciple more than a dozen people at a time. The principle here is this: We must ...

13. Weed and Feed

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John Smylie

... His challenge alone was difficult for the whole congregation and I was seeking to take care of everyone in a way that I found myself working fourteen-hour days with no days off and this pattern lasted for over three months. Having developed a theology of availability, which seemed to be appreciated by the congregation, I found myself close to having a nervous breakdown. I could feel myself coming unglued. At that time, I had not yet named the core problem. Not having had a day off for months, I informed the ...

14. The Explosive Power Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... history,' Ross says." (6) You and I know a story that will top that one. The very God of the universe humbled himself and became a suffering servant of humanity. First, he suffered on the cross of Calvary for our sins, then at Pentecost he came to make Himself available for all time to everyone who names the name of Jesus. The Holy Spirit descended upon the church on the Day of Pentecost. How can we be apathetic in the light of that event? The church needs the power of the Spirit today. You and I need power ...

15. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

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Maxie Dunnam

... so long as I don't lose sight of the light." (Leonard I. Sweet, "Bibelot", 1990, Vol. 5, No. 3-6). Amy Grant was making herself available to be the Word of God that comes to us wherever we are, But there is another side to this coin. Not only does the ... their ability? "All night," the scripture says, "they had toiled with their nets, but they had caught nothing. Ability was not the issue. Availability was. I've never told you about my brother, Lloyd. He was two years older than me, twin brother to my sister, ...

16. On Level Ground

Luke 5:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

17. Unstoppable Love

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... to him and help him. You see, it is not a question of whether or not Jesus is willing to love us; the question is will we allow his love and presence to be the dominant force in our lives? Jesus’ love is the only real love that is truly available and reliable for any of us but it takes some folks a long time to learn it. Ask the world, “Will you love me?” The world will re-ply, “Sure, as long as you are successful and don’t disappoint us.” Ask your workplace, “Will you love me?” Your work ...

18. Proper 25

Hebrews 7:11-28, Job 42:7-17, Job 42:1-6, Mark 10:46-52

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Russell F. Anderson

... 7:23-28 1. Sermon Title: Always Accessible. Sermon Angle: Recently, I had trouble making contact with two different lawyers that I've dealt with. One has not returned my calls and the other didn't bother to show up for an appointment. Good legal counsel is not always available, not by a long shot. Unfortunately, the same can be said for many others in positions of responsibility and authority. Out text states that "...he always lives to make intercession for them" (us) (v. 25b). Christ is our eternally ...

19. So Close ... But Yet So Far

Luke 9:10-17

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Larry Powell

... 't add up. But when the dust had settled over the scene, "So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; there was no sword in the hand of David (1 Samuel17:50)." Saul had underestimated the available resources. A dynamic was at work that he had not taken into account. Do you know the name, Charles A. Tindley? Charles was the son of a slave and became an orphan while still a young boy. He was passed around from farm to farm, working for one ...

20. Some Things To Get Choked Up About

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... only Christ's birth but our own rebirth as well ”as new persons, Christmas persons. But only, in the words of the sacrament, if we take and eat. Even the humblest place and the humblest people take on a new significance when touched by the hand of God. God is available to us. But not if we stand at a distance and merely tip our hats. We must welcome God's Spirit into our lives. God must become part of our very being. We must be able to say with St. Paul, "I live, but not I, yet Christ Jesus lives ...

21. You Are Not Yourself!

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... do not see the Gospel as life changing, value enhancing, joy inspiring. You are not yourself. There is something more. A new glorified self--free from imperfection, free from ugliness, free from sin-a new nature that only Christ can give. And it is available to you and to me. 1. R. Maurice Boyd, A LOVER’S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Westminster Press, 1985) 2. Newsweek, January 11, 1988 "Scalpel Slaves Just Can’t Quit." 3. Sufrin, Mark. "Saga of the U.S.S England," American ...

22. Dying And Rising With Christ

John 15:1-17

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Maxie Dunnam

... close to where we got in and we’re no further along in our Christian growth and development and maturity than we were when we first became a part of this fellowship. We have forgotten, if we ever knew, that the power which raised Jesus from the dead is available to us. Now there are those who are claiming that power, I meet them all over the nation. I meet them in this church. Let me illustrate it, and with this I close. Two or three years ago, I was leading a seminar on prayer and personal wholeness in ...

23. Joy in the Journey

119:129-136

Sermon

Michael Milton

... , we need to be fed, and it is the Word Himself, Jesus, moving to our hearts that sustains us. Have you ever been real thirsty, maybe after working out in a gym, and gone to a water fountain and the stream was so weak and there was so little water available, that you couldn’t quench your thirst? That is like some churches and some preachers where there is so little of the Word that you cannot quench the thirst in your life for God and His truth. It is like what happened to me the other night. I was hungry ...

24. Weakness into Strength

2 Corinthians 12:1-10

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James McCormick

... us to use those strengths and enlarge upon them. God has no patience with those people who pray and then sit back to let God do all of the work. No, God does not call us to a false humility, denying the strengths we have, denying the resources that are available to us. The things we can do, God expects us to do. The strengths we have, God expects us to use. After all He gave them to us, and He expects us to use them. So, I repeat, we do have strengths and resources. Neither am I suggesting that weakness ...

25. Who's Working In You?

Philippians 2:1-13

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... will and to work for God's good pleasure." But no one else will know that unless there is some ability showing through somewhere. So there are certain Abilities we need in order to answer the question "Who's Working In You?" like, Availability, Accountability, Adoptability, Credibility, Visibility. I. Accountability The first ability we need to answer the question "Who's Working In You?" is Accountability. There is an old Japanese legend that tells of a man who died and went to heaven. Heaven was beautiful ...

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