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1. The Promise Of Belief

Genesis 15:1-18

Sermon

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

Sermon

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

Sermon

King Duncan

5. The Jesus RX and the Biology of Belief

John 20:24-31

Sermon

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 ...

6. Don’t Compromise Your Beliefs

Galatians 1:1-10

Sermon

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 ...

7. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... 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 ...

8. The Spirit Of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

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 ...

9. You Can Never Go Home Again

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. The King and His Throne

Acts 1:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

12. The Heart Has Eyes

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the doctrine of heaven is a panacea, that it is a religion for the weak, an opiate of the masses. But nothing could be more to the contrary. Nothing has stimulated human beings more to do good works and to try to make the world a better place than the belief that what I do here now is of ultimate significance. Saints arose because people of faith need heroes. They need models of what it means to be faithful in this life. It is believed that the saints are now in heaven cheering us on. I like to think that ...

13. A New Possibility

Matthew 4:12-23

Sermon

James L. Killen

... toward which God is moving the whole creation, both in this life and beyond it. It is an expectation that there will someday be an era of justice and well-being for all people, and a time when we will all learn to love one another. Belief in the kingdom of heaven is also a belief about the best way for us to put our lives together. It is an invitation to let God be the most important thing in our lives and do our best to live trusting God and trying to do what God wants us to do. Someone has ...

14. Getting Out Of Our Own Way

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... die. Now this isn't Peter's understanding of what the Messiah is. Peter had a Sunday school picture of the Messiah in his head. It was a picture of a king who sat on a throne and ruled forever -- a king who would never die. He had inherited this belief from his ancestors. He had made it his own, especially as a follower of Jesus, whom he believed to be the Messiah. He starts to argue with Jesus. "You can't die," said Peter. That's not what the Messiah does. The Messiah lives forever. Peter's most sacred ...

15. Abraham Believed God

Romans 4:1-5, 13-17

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... and gave him a way out did Abraham change his course of action. That, too, was because Abraham believed God. And what did Abraham's belief get him? Initially, it brought ridicule. Even his wife Sarah laughed at him. The very thought of a ninety-year-old woman and a man ... God. He didn't like the outcome that God had planned. But in the end, with the help of a great fish, Jonah's belief won out and God's plan was carried through. Are we so different? We believe God. We believe that Jesus came into the world ...

16. Believing Isn’t Easy

Hebrews 11:1-40

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... in God... I am not saying that I know all about God (who does?) or even that I believe that such a being as God exists, Someone in the great Somewhere as a popular song put it some years ago. That sort of believing costs nobody anything. That sort of belief IS easy. But Christian Faith is not. Christian Faith means that I believe that I have come to know God’s character in such a way that I am willing to put my trust in God. No, true faith isn’t easy. If some of us have come to a ...

17. Finding the Courage to Believe

John 20:24-31

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... tell me what religion, if any, I ought to practice. I took the challenge. Within a few minutes it was clearly determined that I was meant to be an Orthodox Quaker. Since Quakers have neither pastors nor sermons, I decided to wait until after Easter to make the switch. Beliefs—In some form or another we all have them. I go to doctors believing they will give me the right medicine to make me well. We get on jets believing pilots know how to fly the plane. Even though I was stuck on an elevator for over two ...

18. The Gospel We Preach

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

Albert G. Butzer III

... of his wrath. Clearly, the image that the one-talent man had of his master was inconsistent with the picture of the master that Jesus paints for us. It seems, therefore, that this man is paralyzed, not so much by fiscal conservatism, but by an ill-begotten and fearful belief that the master, that is to say God, is harsh and angry. Is this the God that we want to proclaim? Is this the gospel we want to preach — the angry old man in the nursing home who kicks over the jigsaw puzzles we make of our lives? I ...

19. How Long Will You Limp? (Because God Is Tired Of The Bull)

1 Kings 18:16-46

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... test, but they had no choice. They had to go along with the demonstration, so they gathered in a crowd, thinking that they could make up in numbers what they didn't have in faith. Elijah was one man who stood on the strength of conviction and his firm belief in God. This was no play thing. He was serious about making his point about which God was more resourceful and responsive to the needs of the people! Third is the God of Action versus the God of Inertia. Elijah understood that the God of Israel was not ...

20. The Apostles' Creed: I Believe

Mark 9:14-32

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... impact your behavior? "I believe in the forgiveness of sins." All sins? Even Hitler's? What does that mean? And if you believe it, do you behave it? "I believe in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting." Do you? OK. So how does that belief make you behave? I BELIEVE... Do you? A great preacher of an earlier generation has said, "You don't really believe your creed until you want to say it standing at spiritual attention with the roll of drums in your ears, the light of love dazzling in ...

21. The Revolution Against Evolution

Genesis 1:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... Where does the evidence lead? Ask Anthony Flew, a British Philosophy Professor, who had been a leading champion of Atheism for more than a half century and once debated C. S. Lewis on the existence of God. At the age of 81, after decades of insisting that belief in God was ridiculous, has now changed his mind and has now stated that based on scientific evidence, there had to be a super-intelligence, a first-cause, as the only good explanation for the origin of life and the complexity of nature. Do you know ...

22. African-American Spirituality: The African's Gift To America

Exodus 3:1-22

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... -American spirituality, but the adaptive needs - that is the ability to face, adapt to, and overcome great odds - are an equally important element of our spiritual heritage. How could we have survived slavery and all the troubles we've faced, were it not for firm belief in a higher power? We didn't have psychologists and psychiatrists to give us therapy to cope with our condition, so there had to be something to help us through, and I say it was God, very God. Our spirituality has equipped us with methods ...

23. The Dynamics of Doubt

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... man sees himself as the measure of all things, he will remain in what John Bunyan in Pilgrim's Progress calls the "Sloth of Despond." If when doubts assail you, you bring them to God and act on what you believe, you will discover that tomorrow your belief is richer and deeper than today. Only in the atmosphere of free expression and willing obedience will you hear your name called. "Thomas." It is almost as if Jesus says what he said to the blind man long ago: "Ephphatha." ("Be open.") It is important that ...

24. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . What are we to make of them? Is Jesus here stepping out of character and being unkind, or is He merely revealing the true nature of things? And what are we to make of Jesus’ words about the devil, anyway? Over the years many of us have abandoned any belief in the devil. We have been embarrassed by the fact that Jesus seems to have believed in his Satanic majesty. We have tried to deal with Jesus’ language in several different ways. One way is to say that Jesus was a child of His age, and shared the ...

25. True Disciples

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... of devotion has no life of its own outside its secluded, like-believing community. You can't be a Shaker in midtown Manhattan. You can't be a Dead Head in a Mill Valley cul-de-sac. True believers must be surrounded by the object of their belief in order to keep their unique identity alive. That's why, in today's First Testament text, God uses Isaiah to pronounce such a sound, scathing, scolding to the Israelites. The chosen people, the descendants of Mt. Sinai, the children of God, had become a bunch of ...

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