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Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... the day." (With thanks to Howard Hanger, "Elementalism," Vision, 1 February 2002, 1.) But Old Ben was convinced that the body needs air. And one of the reasons we get sick in mind and body, he surmised, is that too much of our life is spent covered and clothed. He contended that because the body is alive, like every other living entity, it needs air to survive. In Franklin's own words he declared: "I have found it much more agreeable to my constitution to bathe in another element, I mean cold air. With ...

2. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... absolutely fair and impartial, the divine judgment which cannot be seduced or bribed, the divine judgment which finally and forever makes full disclosure of the truth. The scripture says, "Let God be found true and every man a liar." When the truth is known, we all realize the cover-ups in our lives. Many of us fear the truth. We do not want to be exposed to the light because our deeds are evil. Most all of us have something about our lives we do not want exposed to anyone. If the truth be known, could we ...

3. Uncovering Cover-Ups

John 16:5-16

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Maurice A. Fetty

... is absolutely fair and impartial, the divine judgment that cannot be seduced or bribed, the divine judgment that finally and forever makes full disclosure of the truth. The scripture says, let God be found true and every man a liar. When the truth is known, we all realize the cover-ups in our lives. Many of us fear the truth. We do not want to be exposed to the light because our deeds are evil. Most of us have something about our lives we do not want exposed to anyone. If the truth be known, could we bear ...

4. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of Ross Perot and his candidacy for President are paying attention to this proverbial admonition, "You can't tell a book by its cover." I want to go beyond that in understanding today, and focus quite differently. Our Proverb for daily living in this sermon is one ... say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away." You can't tell a book by its cover. There is a way that seems right, but the end is death. Rehearse now. It may seem right for you to feel that life isn' ...

5. Stop, Drop, Cover, and Roll!

Isaiah 7:10-16

Sermon

Tony Everett

... sign of God's presence and guidance, even for a major miracle, your response would likely be to stop everything; drop to your knees; cover your face in humility, and roll with pleasure in God's glory! Amen! Bring it on Lord! Show me your sign! Sadly, this wasn ... and wine of holy communion and as you pass by the font of God's splash of belonging to God's people. 3. Cover your very souls with the "security blanket" of God's forever loving presence. And finally ... 4. Roll with joy and thanksgiving that God is ...

6. The World's Largest Covered Dish Lunch

John 6:1-15

Sermon

... compassion; only a few are moved to help them in their need. “What a pity,” we say when we see a person on the street in rags, asking for a handout. “How sad,” we think when we see a child in a magazine with their stomach bloated and covered with flies as if feeling sorry for people was the same as really helping them. One day a student asked anthropologist Margaret Mead for the earliest sign of civilization in any given culture. He expected the answer to be a clay pot or perhaps a fish hook or a ...

7. When Darkness Covered the Land

Matthew 27:11-54

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... us and God obsolete. Through him, we have access to the fullness of God. Jesus allowed himself to be forsaken, he allowed himself to be tortured and humiliated, he offered up his life on our behalf to declare victory over the power of death. His death, covered in suffering and shame, looks like the ultimate defeat. Yet at the moment that he yielded up his spirit, the tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. Jesus’ death destroyed the power of death for all ...

8. I've Got Your Back Covered

Revelation 22:1-6

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... lines. Being a disciple of Jesus puts you on the front lines. And people on the front lines need protectors . . . not people at home protecting your rear (CYA people), but people right there with you, people beside you, with you on the front lines, covering your back, your sides, your front. When Jesus gave us the Paraclete, he gave us on a permanent basis what the psalmist sang about: "The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and he delivers them" (Psalm 34). Second, the protective presence ...

9. If the Confession Doesn't Fit You Cannot Acquit

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... deal with sin. Now I want to share with you from the Word of God exactly how sin is to be dealt with. This is a very important matter for this simple reason. The way you deal with sin determines the way God deals with you. God says: "He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy." (Pr. 28:13) In the end, God gives everyone what they really want. If you want justice, God will give you justice. But if you want mercy, God will give you mercy. But you need to ...

10. Good for the Soul

Proverbs 28:13

Sermon

James Merritt

... want to share with you today how to properly deal with sin. If you don't believe dealing with sin properly is important, write down this statement. The way you deal with sin determines the way God deals with you. Here is what God says in His word. "He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy." (Proverbs 28:13, NKJV) Put simply, if you want God to deal with you the way you would want Him to deal with you, you must deal with sin the way He wants you to deal ...

11. Cloak of Power

Psalm 5:1-12

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the world and continue my mission. This month and next there will be a lot of graduates out there. Who is present this morning who is graduating in a couple of weeks from high school or college or graduate school? We graduates are credentialed with a degree that will “cover” us in life. It pads our resume. It clothes us as a different kind of person-–one with the knowledge to do a new kind of job, earn a new kind of pay, earn a new kind of status in the world. For graduates with a graduate degree in ...

12. For the Love Of God is Forgiving

Luke 7:36-50

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... sometimes in our busy lives and schedules we don't even know that we have sinned and slapped the skunk. We don't even know that we're covered with the smell. We are running so hard to keep up with the race of those around us or we're running so hard to try and ... is Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God. Don't deny it anymore. Don't run from. Don't blame it on others. Don't try to cover it up. Admit that you've slapped the skunk and are tired of the stink. Bring it to Christ and be cleansed. The love of God is ...

13. Planting Your Feet

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... reason why God had made him right is because he admitted he had been wrong. If you know David’s story, at first he tried to cover up what he did, but that didn’t work out too well for him. “For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away?through my ... by the heat of summer.” (Psalm 32: 3-4, ESV) At first, David tried to hide what he did and we all have this tendency to cover up when we have messed up. We all carry a broom with us that just wants to “sweep things under the rug.” How many times do ...

14. Who Are These, Robed in White?

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... human being's body, you need to be a doctor, even when you don't feel like it. When I put on all this stuff, I'm a doctor, no matter how I feel about it.” Sometimes (let's be honest) we put on clothes in an attempt to cover our insecurity, to cover our nakedness and vulnerability. As a student in the Sixties, dressed in my faded blue jeans, I remember a man telling me, “I could not afford to dress like you dress.” It seemed an odd thing to say to me. He was wearing a fine, very expensive black ...

15. The Spin Zone

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... have in common? They all at one time entered "THE SPIN ZONE." What is "The Spin Zone"? The "Spin Zone" is when you enter into God's "No Sin Zone" out of a lust for power, sex, influence or money which causes you to sin which you then try to cover up. In the Garden of Eden God warned Adam and Eve about His "No Sin Zone" and they refused to listen, they entered into "The Spin Zone" and you know the rest of the story. Nixon had his Watergate, Clinton had his Monica-gate and David had his Bathsheba-gate ...

16. From Death To Life To…

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... heat of his anger. God pledges that humanity will not be utterly destroyed. God suggests that there is breath and space to turn around, to take our attention off ourselves and onto the broken in body and spirit, in the desolate places of our world. We need not duck and cover from God as Adam and Eve did after their sin. Let us return to God. Let us trust God with our needs and the needs of those around us and dedicate ourselves to the care and redemption of all whom God has made. In the name of Jesus. Amen ...

17. Preaching The Miracles

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... a spectacle of a man before Jesus! But why did he put on his clothes? Probably out of respect for Jesus, he wanted to be properly dressed. Also, it may have been that he felt guilty for denying Jesus. His clothes, like Adam and Eve's, were a cover-up. Jim Bakker tried to cover up his sin with Jessica Hawn with greenbacks! Fish and Bread (v. 9) - When the men came off the boat, they noticed that Jesus had a fire and was preparing a meal with fish and bread. Where did he get these supplies? We do not know. It ...

18. Heaven on Earth

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... does he now say he came down from heaven?" Today Jesus stands before you and me, and he says, "Don’t judge a book by its cover alone. You might be surprised to find out all the places where God is at work in the world. In fact, I want to tell ... on earth too? Can we take to heart and serve all the people? Or do we as Christians continue to judge a book by its cover? Do we discount and discard certain persons in society, just because they are sons of Joseph, just because they grew up in Nazareth? Who are ...

19. Growing Up Is More Than Showing Up

1 John 2:12-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... them raise their hands] Now don't raise your hands when I ask this question, but how many of you have read the Bible from cover to cover? It's a shame that there are atheists and skeptics who have read the Bible from cover to cover and don't believe it, while there are millions of Christians who believe it from cover to cover but have never read it. Do you realize that if you will read the Bible just 15 minutes a day you will read completely through it once a year? If you cut out one 30 minute television ...

20. The Miss, The Kiss, The Mess, The Rest

2 Samuel 11:1-15

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... David does is send Uriah back to the war. And not just to any part of the war but right to the front lines, leading the charge in the worst skirmishes. And sure enough, Uriah falls to enemy fire and The Mess gets worse. You see, David, in trying to cover-up his adultery compounded the The Mess by committing murder. David's once great life was suddenly a wreck. Maybe not on the outside. Nobody else knew, yet. But David did and it began to tear him apart. That's because that's what sin does to us. It eats ...

21. Dressed for Success?

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool ... of Elijah and the Cloak of Power (2 Kings) Psalm 5: The Cloak of Protection Spread Over the Righteous Psalm 91: The Lord Covers You with Protection Psalm 109: May the Accusers Wear a Cloak of Shame and Disgrace Psalm 104: The Lord is Clothed with ...

22. Grace Is What Christ Has Done

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... world of high finance, in big business, and in education. Even if you buy peaches or strawberries from a road-side fruit stand you have to watch lest they have put the smaller, maybe rotten, fruit on the bottom, and then entice you to purchace them by covering it with the larger, more beautiful fruit on top. So, it seems it had to happen sooner or later, the temptation to fix-up would arise in the new fledgling church that God was bringing into being. With the exception of the events at Lystra, and a few ...

23. Christmas and the Condensed Bible

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... were done with skill and integrity of purpose, it might serve a real purpose, for there is a lot of material in the Bible which seems to most readers to be extraneous to the main plot. Those folks who have nobly tried to read the Bible from cover to cover usually find themselves bogged down in the “begats” and give up after a few hundred pages. They do not realize that the Bible is not really a single book, but is, rather, a collection of books, a “library,” if you will; a library of sixty-six books ...

24. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... v.3, when he says, “I kept silent.” We all know that “to err is human—but to hide it is also.” When we sin, there is a natural tendency we are all born with to cover it up. There is a natural tendency to “sweep it under the rug.” Richard Nixon could have told you that. Watergate was not his problem; the cover-up was what got him. You see, when we sin we’ll analyze it, then try to rationalize it. We’ll say something like, “Well, everybody is doing it.” Or, “This is not going to hurt ...

25. "A" Lamb to "the" Lamb

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... said, "We are redeemed, not with silver and gold, but with the precious blood of a Lamb without blemish and without spot." God’s Lamb and his atoning blood goes far beyond all the blood of bulls and goats and lambs under the old covenant. Theirs only covered; ours cleanses the sins completely away! "What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus, What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Oh, precious is the flow, that makes me white as snow, No other Fount I know, Nothing ...

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