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1. Total Commitment

Mark 9:42-50

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Richard Patt

... one of us. But what you and I refuse to use we will surely lose. That’s a challenge, isn’t it? What’s more tragic than love that goes unused, than generosity kept to oneself, than friendship unshared? What’s more wasted than a gifted person who has no commitment toward those gifts - who squanders them or doesn’t use them at all? Ted Engstrom of World Vision fame tells how one day he was cleaning out an old desk drawer. He found a flashlight he hadn’t used in a year. He turned it on but there was ...

2. Unconditional Commitment

Luke 9:51-62

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Lori Wagner

... or you’re out. Look ahead, not behind. Once you come on the road with me, there’s no turning back. Can you look ahead and not back? Can you leave your friends and family? Can you risk danger, little sleep, rejection, and discouragement? Do you know what you’re committing to? If you do, “The train leaves at 9:02. If you’re not on it, you’ve lost your shot.” We most often look at Jesus as a kind, loving, gentle person, and he certainly was. But he was also tough as nails and blunt as he could be ...

3. Bread of Unwavering Commitment (Bread of Life V)

John 6:25-59

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Charles R. Leary

... the crippled man, “Shall I jump off the donkey? No, I’d be more crippled. But what is the right word to say?” I saw a seventeen-year-old Olympics entrant being interviewed on a television talk show. The host asked her how she kept her single-minded commitment to her goal. With a determined look she said, “I do workout eight hours a day. In the morning, from seven to ten, in the afternoon from four to nine, every day” 2). It works in your life and my life like this: why quit smoking? It won’t ...

4. The Power of a Personal Commitment

Romans 12:1-8

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J. Howard Olds

... to help. Sunday school classes and Bible study groups give us places to know and to be known. They are essential to our discipleship development. Our presence is one of our finest gifts. Let us know that you plan to be here. I ask you today, will you make a commitment of your presence? Will you be in church every Sunday unless you are ill or out-of-town? Will you become a missionary with us so that we can reach a whole new world of people? For the sake of Christ, God needs you today. III. WILL YOU MAKE A ...

5. The Cost of Commitment

Genesis 22:1-14

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... river, Victor fell to his knees on that riverbank and gave his life to God. This moment was the start of healing a lifetime of anger and loneliness. (2) “If you’re going to throw that away, may I have it?” What do we have to believe about God to commit our entire lives to Him? We have to believe, first of all, in His goodness, in God’s unconditional love for us. If God is love, then God doesn’t want appeasement from us. He wants a relationship with us. If God is love, then His goal is not to ...

6. The Commitment Question: Will You Lay Down Your Life For Me?

John 13:31-38

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Maxie Dunnam

... . He continually asks the question: Will you love as I love? IV. The final lesser question that will help us get to the ultimate commitment question, will you lay down your life for me,(tape skipped) Will you make my power you power. I heard a story recently that ... I can't drive my truck." Well, that makes the point doesn't it? The question of power. And that's a part of the commitment question: Jesus asks us, "Will you make my power your power. Isn't it true that we try to separate them and we never can. ...

7. The Necessity of Moral Commitment

Gen 3:1-24 · Is 28:15

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Robert G. Tuttle

... small universe of order until something breaks into that order, and I get sick or die. A doctor told me recently that there were more than fifty thousand small chemical production centers in the human body (working under the built-in controls of the Creator). Moral commitment is an undying dedication of myself to the meaningful arrangement of God: to live it the way if is, by the help of God. John Davidson wrote not long before his suicide, "I will create in my own image - for that cannot be surpassed." He ...

8. The Crisis of Commitment

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

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Louis H. Valbracht

... here. If we assume that attitude, then we are not obeying our Lord’s admonition - that we remember. Remember what our Lord asked those who wanted to be His disciples? "Do you dare drink this cup that I drink?" Do we? To receive this Sacrament is a pledge of total commitment. It’s a sacrifice of thanksgiving for all that He has given us by His grace. When we accept His Body and His Blood, when we commune with Him here, when we take this cup and this bread, it means: here I stand in Christ’s Church as a ...

9. Kairos Commitments

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

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Susan R. Andrews

... world. The third kind of call is the secret call, that private, personal connection with God's Spirit that is offered to all of us but recognized by only some of us, that kairos moment, when God's need and our willingness meet in an electric moment of commitment. Finally, there is the ecclesiastical call, a call to minister within the offices of the church as a minister of the Word and Sacrament, as a deacon, or as an elder. This kind of call is the only one of the four that not everyone receives. This does ...

10. Commitment (Series: Fundamentals of Family)

Ephesians 5:22-33

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J. Howard Olds

... ’s been a lot of hell in the mix. Like all couples we married for better for worse, for richer for poorer, and in recent years it has been a lot more sickness than health. Yet, relationships are held together by an invisible cord called commitment. Commitment is an island of certainty in a sea of change. We are not human butterflies fluttering through other people’s lives stopping long enough to get what we want, then flying off. We are human beings capable of making one thing certain in an uncertain ...

11. Commitment Beyond Calculation

Mark 12:38-44

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William G. Carter

... has nothing to do with getting a tax break. She does not calculate the monthly budget and then decide what she can afford to give out of what's left. Rather she gives it all, and then she has to figure out how she is going to live. She is committed beyond all calculation. That is troubling, for it reveals a faith so sacrificial that it scares us to death. Anybody here want to give your money like she gave hers? It would be like giving away your very life! A minister in Gary, Indiana, tells about a woman who ...

12. God's Ridiculous Commitment

Acts 2:14a, 36-41

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... A team of people from his church supported him during his marathon sermon, ensuring that he ate enough and stayed hydrated and took his mandated breaks. They also cheered him on. Pastor Zehnder says, “My goal of the whole sermon was to talk about God’s ridiculous commitment to his people . . . even though we give up on him that he never gives up on us . . . (2) And as he preached through God’s word from Genesis to Revelation, Pastor Zehnder says Romans 5:8 stuck out to him as a key verse for the whole ...

13. Father, Into Your Hands I Commit My Spirit

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

Philip Ware

... this man was innocent," or as another translation renders it, "Certainly this was a good man." (Luke 23:47) Luke says the commanding officer of the assassination squad "praised God" after hearing Jesus say, just before he died, "Father, into your hands I commit my spirit." Did this mean the soldier had found salvation? Did it mean that Jesus had fulfilled Isaiah's somber prediction about the fate of the Son of Man, for whom suffering Israel waited so passionately? Did it mean that death squad would ...

14. Envision: The Great Commitment

Matthew 20:20-28

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James Merritt

... we are asking you to envision a church that is laser focused on leading people to love God, serve others and share Jesus. Last week we focused on the first part of that vision known as the Great Commandment—love God. Today we look at the Great Commitment which is serve others. If you went to Wall Street and asked the question: “What is the secret of greatness?” Wall Street would say: “Money, and lots of it.” If you were to go to Washington and ask: “What is the secret of greatness?” They would ...

15. A Commitment to Hope

Luke 3:1-6

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Derl G. Keefer

The story is told of young boy in a church Christmas program who had one line to remember. His role was that of the Angel of the Lord and his one line consisted of: “Behold, I bring you good tidings.” He wasn’t clear about the word “tidings” so he asked his mother what it meant. She defined it as “news.” Sunday morning the play was going smoothly and all was well. He was sent onto the stage as the Angel of the Lord announcing to the shepherds about God’s message. When he got on stage and looked out at the ...

16. A Commitment to Righteousness

Luke 3:7-18

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Derl G. Keefer

Moline, Illinois, September, 1977 was the place and date for a special gift that Terry Schafer purchased for her policeman husband, David. It was a pre-Christmas gift. She had a fear that it might be too expensive, but nothing was too good for her husband! She loved him with all of her heart and wanted this to be special. Slipping into one of the stores that was on her list she found the exact item she wanted, but it was too expensive for her to buy outright. She talked with the salesman and told him that ...

17. The Set Face And The Turned Head

Luke 9:51-56, Luke 9:57-62

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Larry Powell

... discovers the trail, it mingles in his senses, it stirs him to want to go on. He is on the trail. No, now he is off. He crosses it again but he is not after the prize. He is only curious about the nature of the trail. He is not committed to the trail, much less him to whom the trail leads. The Scriptures depict him as showing up on the trail from time to time, but he cannot stay on it. There is another figure. He is walking away from us, but it looks like - yes, it is Demas. We ...

18. Any Given Sunday

Acts 2:41-47

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James Merritt

... , "I know I am not lost!" That story does illustrate a great truth. If you don't know where you are, then you really cannot know how to get to where you need to be. Today, I want to help you identify where you are in your own spiritual commitment and your own level of spiritual maturity. You are going to see (as I hope you already have in these messages on being Purpose Driven) there is something for everybody. For example, today I am going to help you identify where you are in your own level of spiritual ...

19. Soli Deo Gloria

Mark 12:28-34

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Mark McGilvey Livonia

... moved one of his congregation that the man jumped to his feet and cried, "Oh Lord, use mein an advisory capacity." That's how most people would prefer to be used todayin an advisory capacity. How do we buck the trend and live for God alone? WHAT IS COMMITMENT? In it's simplest form it is doing what we say we will do even when we don't feel like it. That is what marriage vows are all about. Traditional vows include the phrasing "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, `til ...

20. For Better, For Worse

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

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Bill Bouknight

... heart-broken Naomi decides to return home to Israel. Her two daughters-in-law want to go with her. But Naomi urges them to stay in Moab; after all, this is their home. Reluctantly, Orpah agrees to stay. But not Ruth! Her unforgettable words to Naomi define the essence of commitment: “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May ...

21. Surrender

Luke 23:44-49

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Burton F. Blair

... of his traditional hymn book, the Psalms. In his last moment, he sang unto his God: "Father, into your hands I commend my spirit." Never before - nor since - has a man died as Jesus died. When all is said and done, it must be said that Jesus was a man committed to God. There was no question in Jesus’ heart as to the faithfulness of God, whom he called Father. As Jesus lived so he died. His life was not taken from him. Instead, he gave his life away to God. Jesus had lived his life trusting in God’s care ...

22. Even Marriages Made In Heaven Require Earthly Care

Mark 10:1-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... . Then that failing, we had to pretend that it was flawless. And this was a terrible price to pay. Through a process and some experiences that I don’t have time to share, I became fully aware of my folly, I began to suffer guilt because I was more committed to the institution of marriage than to my mate in marriage. I really realized that I was seeing Jeri as a reflection or as an extension of myself. I was the minister, she was the minister’s wife. I was the husband, she was the husband’s wife. We ...

23. Divorce-Proofing Your Marriage

Genesis 2:4-25

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R. E. Lybrand

... vows! We promised "... to have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, TIL DEATH US DO PART ... and thereto I promise you my FAITHFULNESS." That's a definite commitment, a commitment to the partner and the marriage; one which was declared by Jesus to be permanent in Matthew 19:6 when he said, "What God has joined together, let not any man put asunder." (KJV) When Christians enter marriage, we must be willing to make a ...

24. The Grey Zone

John 21:1-19

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Lori Wagner

... that it takes multiple “visitations” by Jesus to get them back on the missional path. But as we know, good things in scripture come in threes. In this third encounter, Jesus will get them back in line. He does so by challenging their commitment. In this single moment, Jesus will solidify and clarify their purpose ….by making them define and re-declare their relationship to him! Jesus needs them to understand that the mission the disciples must undertake for him is not just another occupation. It’s ...

25. Fearless

Matthew 25:14-30

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Lori Wagner

... in this particular parable of what we call the “parable of the talents” what it means to be “fearless” and to trust in God with a “fearless faith.” The “parable of the talents” is about investment in something bigger than yourself. It’s about commitment to someone other than yourself. Most of all, it’s about taking risks –emotional and spiritual risks in order to gain true stability. I imagine that if Jesus were telling this story today, he’d use the stock market or a bank as his ...

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