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1. So You Want to Be in the Lead?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... and mistakes and missteps. To get maximum attention, it's hard to beat a good, big mistake. And tell the truth now: how many of you even realized how grammatically absurd were these first words on the moon? There's another thing that will happen when you carpe manana, when you go out in the lead: you will be caught up in altercations and accusations. Ever wonder why there's very little manual photographic evidence of the very first first man on the moon? There was a huge behind-the-scenes battle in the ...

2. Preparing For An Unknowable Future

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... think they would say to you? Get up close to the glass." As the class leans toward the glass, Williams, in a raspy voice, says, "Carpe diem...carpe diem." Seize the day! Are you making the most of the days God has given you? Someone has noted that the average American disposes of ... same time were invested in a part-time job that pays $20 per hour, you could earn $47,424 in three years. (5) Carpe diem! Seize the day! Someone else has noted that if you get up just one hour earlier each morning you will add the ...

3. Seize the Now

Philippians 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... and Savior, Jesus Christ—to carry his Spirit in us, to confirm our identity as children of God and as members of the Body of Christ, the universal Church. You know how Jay Rayner encouraged Hugh Paton to “carpe diem” or “seize the day”? The Lord’s Supper encourages us to “carpe nunc” or “seize the now!” Seize this moment to receive the gift of grace that Jesus offers in his body and blood. Theologian William Barclay shares a touching story about the funeral of Admiral Horatio Nelson, who ...

4. Do You Have Beautiful Feet?

Romans 10:5-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... from radio days brought to light by the old TV sitcom the Dick Van Dyke Show. In episode 89, Season 3, Rob comes up with the idea to bring back some of the old radio stars and build an episode around them. And the key player happens to be Edwin Carp. Without him the show just won't make. He finally agrees and this is one of the poems he recites on air in the show. FEET by Scoutmaster Allen A Poem glorifying the pedal extremities. You need feet to stand up straight with, You need feet to kick your friends ...

5. Who Are Your Gentiles?

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Landon Winstead

... , in any nation, anyone who is different is in danger of confronting animosity. Why can't we learn what Peter learned in his dream--that God is no respecter of persons, that God's love is extended to all. Dr. Anthony Campolo, in his video series Carpe Diem, tells of a pastor friend of his who lives in Manhattan. Every morning, this pastor would have breakfast at a little diner downtown. And every morning, he would see the same crowd who also started their day at that diner. One day, the pastor walked into ...

6. The World Needs Less Mother Goose More Mother Teresa

Isaiah 58:1-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... words is wrong for our twenty-first century world and our twenty-second century kids. First, the time zone of postmodern culture is not the present or the past, but the future. It’s not any longer “here” but “there.” It is no longer “Carpe Diem,” but “Carpe Manana.” Second, the individualism of modern culture doesn’t need any more focus on the self, but needs more focus on the community. We’ve taken the “I” as far as we can take it. It is not any longer “I” but “we.” Third ...

7. We Believe in Life Everlasting

John 11:17-27

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... world by storm and make something magnificent of their lives. That was over 70 years ago. Now they are all fertilizing daisies. If you will listen, they have a message for you." As the students gazed at the class photographs, Keating begins whispering, “Carpe Diem, Carpe Diem, seize the day, seize the day." Life is a gift here and now. Enjoy. Sometimes it takes a traumatic moment to awaken us to life. Jane Marie Thibault is a professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Louisville. Jane ...

8. What Would Jesus Say About the Media?

Mark 9:1-9

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... a better way. If you want to be a part of expanding our presence in the media, give me your name after this service of worship. We have a task group working on that very issue. What would Jesus say about the media? He would say, “Seize the day, carpe diem, use the moment, seek the lost with it.” What would he say? I think he would say, “Redeem it in every way.” Redeem the Medium We simply cannot allow the Internet to threaten the safety of our children by exposing them to predators and enticing them ...

9. Broadband Discipleship

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the traditional master/slave interaction is the fact that throughout this section of parables and lessons (13:10-17:10), Jesus has been addressing two audiences. Sometimes he speaks directly to the cranky, carping Pharisees. Sometimes the target for his words are his own cranky, carping disciples. Yet Luke’s text suggests that whichever group is “officially” being addressed, the other group is listening from the sidelines. When Jesus challenges the attitudes of the Pharisees, the disciples are meant ...

10. Are You Giving Up Chocolate for Valentine's Day?

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... , life is about the maximum gratification of appetite at the minimum expenditure of energy. To a fish, life is “see a fly, want a fly, eat a fly.” As Ortberg humorously puts it, “A rainbow trout never really reflects on where his life is headed. A girl carp rarely says to a boy carp, I don’t feel you’re as committed to our relationship as I am. I wonder, do you love me for me or just for my body? The fish are just a collection of appetites. A fish is a stomach, a mouth, and a pair of eyes.” He ...

11. Massah and Meribah

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... out here!” “Is the Lord among us or not?” “What if you’re the only one who sees God?! What if it’s your word against the baking sand?!” And the Lord heard their prayers….. Yes, that’s what I said. The Lord heard their prayers…even carping, whining prayers, even massah, meribah prayers. And God answered them, not merely by giving them something cool and wet to drink, but by proving that the Lord IS truly among us, even if sometimes, we cannot see Him. God told Moses to strike the Rock at ...

12. Now, Even Now....

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... of the brevity of our lives and our own necessary deaths, we can truly make the most of the time. "Now," writes Joel, "return to the Lord with all your heart." "Now," Paul affirms, "is the acceptable time, now is the day of salvation." This is our holy carpe diem, a real "seize the day"! You see, we wear more than one cross on our foreheads tonight. We don't only wear the ashes of our mortality. The second is the invisible but cherished and life-giving cross placed on our foreheads at baptism. "You have ...

13. Bad Timing

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... plays and stepping all over people on the way to achieving one's "personal best" is now a piece of permanent, eternal, immutable bad timing because in Jesus "the kingdom of heaven has come near" (Matthew 4:17). So, the message of the gospel is not carpe diem, but "repent"; not "watch for the right moment to make your move," but "follow me"; not "vertical advancement," but "whoever wishes to be great among you must be your servant" (Matthew 20:26). Everything that once was in season is now obsolete. We can ...

14. How Do You Remain Religious?

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... of their mind, and not of simply listening to and accepting the voice of God. Splitting theological hairs and slavish dotting of the "i's" and crossing the "t's" of a creed can never usurp the true essence of the Christian religion. (c) Further, these carping critics in Jesus' day had a narrow perspective on how religion was to be practiced. Everyone must be religious in one way - their way. As long as men and women carried out their worship and obedience to the Law in a supposedly correct ritual, these ...

15. The Miracle Of an Opened Mind

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... the Bible, if it is closed to Christ and his redeeming love, it is closed indeed. Too often in our time the illusion is spread that people who quote the Bible are people of closed minds. Their prejudices stand out all over the place. A stubborn, narrow, carping, and judgmental spirit hangs like a pall over them. All this is a denial of the very heart of what the Bible proclaims. It is a caricature and we must have no part in it. Open-minded Christians are known by humility, willingness to repent, patience ...

16. Life in The Meantime

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

D. Wayne Burkette

... would come and what I would do; I sacrificed a lot to make it come as early as possible. Well, here I am, retired, and, I tell you what - it ain’t what it’s cracked up to be!" Mind you, this little story Jesus told is no rehearsal of carpe diem philosophy. To the contrary, it says that we should understand that the present is part and parcel of the future. Like God’s Kingdom which is coming but which is also here now, so we live in the meantime as though the future were already ours. But think of ...

17. The Art of Living Until

Matthew 24:36-51

Sermon

Leonard Mann

... along with the tide. We know that, wherever we are, we are somewhere this side of something out yonder. This engenders a kind of "interim psychology," a syndrome of the temporary. And this can be dangerous. The result for most of us most of the time is a kind of carpe diem complex. We want to sieze the day, the present day, to grasp it, to grab it. But what for? with what in view? to what purpose? to what end? I suppose there are, in general, two ways to use the day. One is mentioned in Isaiah 22:13 where ...

18. With What Shall I Come?

Micah 6:1-8

Sermon

James Bjorge

... be just in giving an honest day’s work for an honest wage. We should be able to handle the tools of our trade as religiously as we handle the communion cup on Sunday morning. Justice amongst peoples must prevail. What about racial strife? What about carping criticism of others? What about our harsh and ruthless judgments of others? God gives every man a square deal. What kind of deals do we deliver? Being just at home is sorely needed today. Is it just if a man takes privileges which he would not allow ...

19. In Quest of Fire

2 Chronicles 36:15-23

Sermon

Larry Powell

... in black and white, recorded for all generations to underscore; laity holds no monopoly on degeneracy! The priests, the stewards of the "fire," trustees of the "match," had not only forsaken their calling but "quenched the fire." It is not our business, however, to carp about a spiritually insipid priesthood nor a sinfully corrupt generation. To pursue this course would only bring us full circle to what we already know: "All men have fallen short of the glory of God." The point we are after is: How does an ...

20. Behold the Blood of the Covenant

Exodus 24:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... ? Little, if anything of the magnanimity of the moment had filtered down to them, otherwise the record would read differently. Suddenly, their own agendas emerged; self-concern and personal aggrandizement. How like them we are! We stand in the presence of greatness and carp about our own importance. We come under the voice of the Gospel and do not hear it because of our preoccupations. A woman proceeded to analyze the morning worship service with her husband on their way home from church. "George, did you ...

21. A Soap Opera For Saints

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... God's intended purpose for this magnificent gift, we do ourselves and those we love a disservice and we never find the complete and lasting joy that God has purposed for us. 1. GET OUT THERE AND REAP!, (St. Louis, Mo: Bethany Press, 1976), pp. 33-36. 2. Tony Campolo, CARPE DIEM (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994), p. 187. 3. Cited in Ed Young, AGAINST ALL ODDS, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1992).

22. A Star And A Dream

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... year after year. In fact many believe that she can still be seen in villages at Christmas time, looking for the Christ Child. "Is he here?" she asks the villagers, "Is he here?" (3) Follow the star. That's good advice for this first Sunday of a New Year. Carpe Diem ” seize the day. Get into action. Don't let life pass you by. But there is a second lesson here. THERE IS A PLACE AT THE MANGER FOR YOU AND FOR ME. The wise men continue their search for the Christ Child. After a profitless stop to consult ...

23. Family Resemblance

1 John 2:28--3:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... with us to be God's people in all that we do. 1. From "Children's Letters to God," compiled by Stuart Hample and Eric Marshall. Cited in "Helping Teens Make Good Choices," by Bob DeMoss, DECISION, October 1995, p. 16. 2. Tony Campolo, CARPE DIEM (Dallas: Word Publishing, 1994), pp. 39-40. 3. John P. Koster, Jr., THE ATHEIST SYNDROME (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Publishers, Inc., 1989), p. 26-29, 52-53. 4. THE WORLD'S GREATEST COMEBACKS (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1988), pp. 68-69. 5. Larry ...

24. General Hospital

John 9:1-12

Sermon

Frank Lyman

... when we think we have all the answers, when we think we know what is right for ourselves as well for others, it's then that we truly are blind. Sight has to do with the mind and the heart as well as the eyes. Tony Campolo, in his book CARPE DIEM, tells a story from the life of a man whom many consider to be one of the truly creative minds of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller. Fuller, whose inventiveness seems to have known no bounds, was the one who dreamed up the geodesic dome, along with a ...

25. Eavesdropping On Eternity

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... , the Deliverer, the one who would lead God's people out of oppression again. The one who would restore glory to the nation of Israel. And Peter wanted to be in on that glory. That's why he wanted to stay up on the mountain with Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Carpe diem--seize the day! Let's just stay here in this glow of glory and forget about the life down below in the valley. Isn't that a tempting thought? Sometimes, we get settled in a spiritual comfort zone and we don't want to leave it. The sanctuary is ...

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