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1. The Promise Of Belief

Genesis 15:1-18

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Rodney Thomas Smothe

... lingering thoughts of failure. What is there about human nature that allows doubt to creep in and the fear of failure to ruin our faith? This state of unbelief has been called by some a doubt storm or as Leonard Sweet calls them, "Faithquakes." What separates our belief in the promises of God's word from the application of those promises in our daily lives? We confess faith and confidence in the word of God. We say that we have faith but sometimes we will take matters into our own hands. In the midst of ...

2. The Power of Belief

1 John 5:9-13

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... furniture store to pay the bills.” Christianity is indeed a full-time job, as they say today a 24/7 proposition. We cannot be Christians only when we pray in private or attend public services at our local parish. True Christian commitment means that our beliefs must be readily apparent, transparent as they say these days, to everyone. All people, not only those that we know, but even strangers, should by the words they hear from our lips and the actions of our lives, be able to know with certainty that we ...

3. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

... have been shaken in their faith in our economic system. Often we discover that people we thought we could trust have betrayed us. What can we believe in or who can we believe in who will see us through every time of need? Only one the man from Nazareth. Belief in Christ can transform our lives and give us the strength we need to tackle any task. It’s simply a matter of relaxing and trusting him. Vernon Armitage, in his book Living Life to The Max, tells about his first speedboat ride. He was a kid hanging ...

4. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

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King Duncan

5. A Belief That Never Changes

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David C. Gibbs, Jr.

... , and the Supreme court may still rule that it is a preference. A preference is a strong belief, but a belief that you will change under the right circumstances. Circumstances such as: peer pressure; if your beliefs are such that other people stand with you before you will stand, your beliefs are preferences, not convictions, family pressure, lawsuits, jail, threat of death; would you die for your beliefs? A conviction is a belief that you will not change. Why? A man believes that his God requires it of him ...

6. The Jesus RX and the Biology of Belief

John 20:24-31

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Leonard Sweet

... with other medication. So why did we feel so much better? The truth is not easy to take--for it means that Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller were on to something. One of the biggest medicinal boosts we can give our bodies is the belief of our own mind and Spirit--a fact healers, physicians, shamans and moms have known about forever. Whatever else can explain how one kiss, planted lovingly on a scraped knee or poked finger, can cause instant healing and spontaneous hugs? The scientific term for this ...

7. Don’t Compromise Your Beliefs

Galatians 1:1-10

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Richard Gribble

... Wind, tells the story of this famous trial. Scopes was convicted; Bryan had won. It was his last opportunity to answer the call. He died from a heart attack one week after the trial ended. William Jennings Bryan was a man who refused to compromise his beliefs; he was willing to pay the cost, no matter what it might be, to be a disciple of Jesus. This account of one of America's unsung political and religious heroes presents an excellent illustration of the message that Saint Paul delivers to the Galatians ...

8. Belief

John 11:17-37

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Robert AuBuchon

For many, belief is stuck out in eternity somewhere, and has no dynamic effect on the now. We want belief when we pass from this life, like Martha agreeing with Jesus about the resurrection in the last days. But for now, I'll just have to get by. Henry Blackaby suggests we have a crisis of belief everyday. It comes down to the question at heart to even in the smallest of the details of our lives, "Do you believe?"

9. Two Kinds of Belief

John 1:43-51

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Roger Lovette

... is to believe things about God. He said there are some things we can affirm about God that we can also say about the Turks, the devil, or hell. These are facts: encyclopedia knowledge. This is belief. Luther then talked about another kind of faith. Not only do we believe in God, but we begin to put our trust in him. We bet our lives on the truth that there is a God. We even begin to give him our money because we really do believe this ...

10. Between Belief and Disbelief

Luke 24:13-35

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Randolph T. Riggs

It should not come as a surprise to us that the disciples struggled to believe in the Resurrection. We understand them, don't we? We want to believe, but we live somewhere in between belief and non-belief. In fact, we may feel more like the family of actress Helen Hayes. Her husband and her son wanted to encourage her desire to try her hand at cooking her first Thanksgiving Dinner. So in the days leading up to Thanksgiving Day, they gave her words of encouragement telling her ...

11. The Difference between Belief and Faith

Luke 17:1-10

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King Duncan

... gentlemen, how many of you believe that this daring man can ride safely over the high wire on his bicycle while carrying someone on his shoulders? If you believe he can do it, please raise your hand!" We raise our hands along with everybody else, a great silent chorus of belief. "Very well, then," says the ringmaster, seeing the almost unanimous vote of confidence, "now, who would like to be the first to volunteer to sit on his shoulders?" The difference between ...

12. The Power of Belief in a World of Lost Hope

Jn 20:1-18

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King Duncan

... where that young soldier now lay. He himself had known the power of a resurrection. He had learned to live life abundantly--even without his legs. Needless to say, the young soldier's own resurrection began that moment. Easter isn't just about dying. It's about the power of belief in a world of lost hope. It is about knowing that no situation is beyond God's redeeming power. Note: There is no historical reference to this story. Treat it as a parable.

13. Famous False Beliefs

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Byles Brandreth

Are you strong enough to face how mistaken many of your most cherished beliefs are? Marie Antionette did not say "Let them eat cake." The phrase was attributed to her by those in opposition to Louis XVI, but had actually been used by other prominent figures long before. Charles Lindbergh was not the first person to fly nonstop across the Atlantic. He was the ...

14. Faith is Belief in God's Covenant Promise

Genesis 15:1-18, Romans 4:1-25

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Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: When God promises to enter into a covenant relationship with us, we can depend on him to keep his promise. People: We believe God has promised to do that by offering redemption in the New Covenant through his Son. Pastor: Believing in that promise is the expression of faith that God desires of us. People: We commit ourselves to live with God in the covenant relationship he offers through Christ, our Savior. Collect O loving God, who has promised your redemptive love to persons of ...

The busy man is troubled with but one devil; the idle man by a thousand.

Nathaniel Howe

16. Belief in Hell

Matthew 15:21-28

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King Duncan

While the majority of Americans believe in heaven and eventually expect to end up there, studies show most people today do not believe in hell. It reminds me of a P. D. James' story. A young woman discovers that she was adopted. Almost immediately, she begins looking for her biological mother and father. She is stunned to discover that as a baby she had been taken from her parents when they were sent to prison for the murder of a ten-year-old girl. Although the father subsequently died in prison, the ...

17. Belief and Trust

John 3:14-21

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David Chotka

French acrobat Blondin had a habit of performing amazing feats on a tightrope stretched out over the Niagara Gorge. One day, Blondin's manager was standing on the Canadian side of the gorge, doing his best to attract a crowd for his acrobat to perform. Blondin had just done a series of stunts (walking on his hands, doing cartwheels, using a unicycle, and so forth). His feats were spectacular. As his manager boasted to the crowd, suddenly, the Frenchman took up a wheelbarrow and got onto the rope between ...

18. All Brains and No Belief

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Hugh Ross

Einstein gave grudging acceptance to "the necessity for a beginning" and eventually, to "the presence of a superior reasoning power," but never did he accept the doctrine of a personal God. Two specific obstacles blocked his way. According to his journal writings, Einstein wrestled with a deeply felt bitterness toward the clergy, toward priests in particular, and with his inability to resolve the paradox of God's omnipotence and man's responsibility for his choices. "If this being is omnipotent, then every ...

19. The Bones of Belief

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Editor James S. Hewett

A clergyman took a seat in a dining car on a train traveling along the Hudson River. Opposite him was an atheist who, seeing his clerical collar, started a discussion. "I see you are a clergyman." "Yes," came the reply. "I am a minister of the gospel." "I suppose you believe the Bible." The clergyman, orthodox in his views, responded, "I certainly do believe the Bible to be the Word of God." "But aren't there things in the Bible you can't explain?" With humility the minister answered, "Yes, there are ...

Man is not on this earth merely to be happy, nor even to be simply honest. He is there to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility and to surmount the vulgarity in which the existence of almost all individuals drags on.

Vincent van Gogh

21. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

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... kind you and I can count on and the kind upon whom Christ can build. Thank God for people like these, people of the foundation kind. And they are as they are because Christ is who he is and they have believed into him. So you see, my friend, our beliefs are important not only because of the terrible things the wrong ones may do to us, but also because of the wonderful things the right ones can do for us. If the wrong kind of believing can break us, the reverse is also true: the right kind can make us ...

22. The Spirit Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... something that moves from without to within and from within to without. It is something conferred by God through the movement of the Holy Spirit. This Chrisma's outpouring enabled these various groups to reach new power and heights in spiritual consciousness and belief, but it was because of their openness to the Spirit's anointing and outpouring that the Spirit of Pentecost was achieved. What we need is the spirit of openness and receptiveness to the Spirit's outpouring; to the promise and capacity of the ...

23. You Can Never Go Home Again

Mark 6:1-6

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Charles R. Leary

... doing it. Once you start, it isn’t all going to be peaches and cream, either. You can expect setbacks. You can expect opposition. You can expect temptation. That is life. The secret: keep your life steady around belief, belief in God, belief in yourself, and belief in others. That belief will empower you to make whatever adjustments life demands. You can never go home again. Life demands that you move on. A problem at your job, tension in your marriage, an unexpected health problem, a betrayal by your ...

24. Mission Possible

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... heaven. In other words, people that believe this believe that all people are saved, they just don't realize it. The job of the missionary is not to tell people how they are to be saved, but rather that they already are. The only problem with this belief is it would contradict the entire Bible from one end to the other concerning the dangers of idolatry as well as the reality of hell, which is eternal existence apart from God, not to mention the integrity and truthfulness of Jesus Christ Himself, who in Luke ...

25. The King and His Throne

Acts 1:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

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