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2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... more than four or five times to even notice a change. I don't want all your money. You give what you want to. It's that simple. It is not spectacular. But you will find the cure there to your terminal illness. You can be saved." Sometimes our attention deficiency gets in the way of seeing a greater vision of life. We are important people. We've got important things to do. If all we have to do is dip into a Sunday School lesson, some prayers and hymns, listen to a choir, be with other people in a small ...

2. Paul's Labor for the Church

Colossians 1:24--2:5

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... over this notion and bends it to his purpose. In his life of service to the Gentile churches he is called upon to represent his people as a martyr figure and to perform a vicarious ministry (2 Cor. 1:6); and in this way he completes the still deficient tally of sufferings which God’s new Israel had to endure before the end of the age” (p. 70). The last interpretation suggested has the support of a number of authors. As early as 1958, E. Hoskyns and N. Davey stated: “This does not mean that there was ...

3. Battle Stations

Ephesians 6:10-18

Sermon

James Merritt

... more in defeat than you are in victory, it is basically and probably because of two reasons. On the one hand, we fail to realize our deficiency. The reason why many of us don't pray is because deep down we don't really think we need to pray. We think because ... crying out behind a closed door: "Lord, I will not go out there unless You go with me." But we not only fail to realize our deficiency, we then fail to rely on God's sufficiency. In and of ourselves, I've already told you, we do not have the power, the ...

4. Boredom

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... of thought.” He got us, didn’t he? Think about that in light of the daily routine interests of your life. A surfeit of toys. With what do you surround your life and for what purpose? A deficiency of thought. What challenging ideas have you pursued lately? What probing possibilities for growth have you been considering? To be a whole person and to overcome our boredom, two things are essential. First, we need a faith to live by. Second, we need a cause to live for. Without these ...

5. Seeing The Whole Person

John 4:1-26

Sermon

David Belgum

... her/him in the form of a stigma, it is a great relief to be accepted nevertheless. How gratifying it is to such a one to be accepted for the many other aspects of personality, ability, capacity, and potential even though there are those couple defects or deficiencies. And we all need that since none of us, I believe, is perfect; and even for the perfect one, the very fact of having to be balanced precariously is a problem. Just this past year a cheerleader was so wonderful that she was in danger of being ...

6. Are You Born Again?

John 3:1-15

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... on God. There is a positive side to this denial of any human contribution to our salvation, to such a de-emphasizing of the emotional, experiential side of being born again. It may be that your Christian faith and lifestyle are deficient and you do not feel born again. That is the state of my all-too-deficient spiritual life. Yet it does not matter. Can you recite the creed? Do you believe it? Then you have faith, and you can be assured that God loves you. That is what Jesus says about himself in our gospel ...

7. Holy Handicap?

2 Cor 12:9

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the congregation I serve are legally blind and at least one of my people has the use of only one eye. What’s more, we have many who are dependent upon walkers and wheelchairs for their mobility. Then too, we have people with cognitive and organic deficiencies and, in addition, people with emotional handicaps. Fact of the matter is, handicaps are all about us and maybe we even count ourselves among the handicapped (we have even borrowed that term for use in the game of golf which may be a rather flippant ...

8. He Touched Me

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... tell us that infants need to be held a lot. They have a basic need for physical warmth. Most authorities believe that you cannot spoil an infant by touching them. Marcel Gerber was sent by a United Nations committee to study the effects of protein deficiency on Ugandan children. She found, to her surprise, that Uganda’s infants were developmentally the most advanced in the world. It was only after two years of age that the children began to be seriously damaged by such things as tribal taboos and food ...

9. Living With The Nitty Gritty

1 Peter 1:13-2:3

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... of our time. Clifton Fadiman has described our boredom as a special kind. Not unhappiness or fatigue, he says, but that odd stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Isn’t that, isn’t that characteristic, and isn’t it descriptive. That odd stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Because this is true, that we see and experience life in pieces and not as a whole, the nitty gritty gets us down and drives us to seek more toys, more ...

10. Curiosity Or Consecration

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... word - bored. Clifton Phataman has described our boredom as a special kind. Not unhappiness, not fatigue, he says. But that odd, modern, stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Isn’t that descriptive? That odd, modern, stunned look that comes from a circuit of toys and a deficiency of thought. Carl Hine has spoken of a serene secularist. The person who asks no ultimate question and is not concerned even that he’s not concerned. Does that describe us? Major revolutions ...

11. Acts 19:1-7

Acts 19:1-22

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... Testament. Paul is moved to offer these disciples, who like Apollos had already received John's baptism, an additional baptismal experience because they present to the apostle an obvious spiritual deficiency: they may be believers but they aren't Spirit-filled believers. The text notes that Paul laid his hands upon these spiritually-deficient believers, a detail that recalls Peter's earlier hands-on ministrations among the Samaritan converts (Acts 8:16-17). As with Peter, it's when Paul lays his hands upon ...

12. Your Word is Your Bond

Matthew 5:33-37

Sermon

James Merritt

... entire plant they announced they were beginning "A Career Alternative Enhancement Program." Business is not the only culprit. Education is one of the worst offenders – Students don't fail anymore, they "achieve a deficiency." By the way, can anybody tell me how you achieve a deficiency? People are no longer "bus drivers." They are now "Certified Adolescent Transportation Specialists." Of course, you know the government is heavily involved. The Department of Defense says that soldiers are never surrounded ...

13. The Revolution Against Evolution

Genesis 1:1

Sermon

James Merritt

... an equal sign and write these words down. DNA = Do Not Accept Evolution IV. Why Do Scientists Have Such A Devotion To The Theory Of Evolution? I know what you are thinking. You may be asking a question and it is a good one. If evolution is such a deficient theory, if in fact it not only didn't happen, but really couldn't have happened, why do scientists so vigorously defend it? To put it simply, the faith of the evolutionist gets in the way of the facts of science. One of the most well known scientists in ...

14. A Levite and His Concubine

Judges 19:1-30

Understanding Series

Cheryl A. Brown

... shameful, even sinful. Thus what might be interpreted as the author’s needlessly dragging out the story with endless repetitions and detail would have been in biblical culture a key element. The lavish hospitality of the father will contrast strikingly with the deficient, indeed twisted, hospitality of a town just a few miles to the north of Bethlehem, even as Abraham’s hospitality contrasted with that of Sodom in a story that closely parallels the present one (Gen. 18–19). In the Bethlehem scene ...

15. Solomon's Adversaries

1 Kings 11:14-25

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

... the OT characters who prefigure Jesus are, of course, less than the ideal towards whom they point. Even David had deficiencies, as Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus somewhat brutally reminds us (Matt. 1:6) in referring to Bathsheba, not by name, but as “Uriah’s wife.” ... We have seen plenty of evidence of Solomon’s deficiencies in our reading of 1 Kings 1–11. Towards the end of our reading, I was pointing out what seemed to be a ...

16. Jeroboam Rebels Against Solomon

1 Kings 11:26-40

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

17. Solomon's Death

1 Kings 11:41-43

Understanding Series

Iain W. Provan

18. Epiphany 4

Lk 4:21-30 · 1 Cor 13:1-13 · Jer 1:4-10 · Ps 71

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... call of God. He said, "I am only a youth" and "I do not know how to speak." That is not an excuse, God says. I will send you where you are to go and I will give you the words to speak. God makes up for our inadequacies and deficiencies. 3. Touched (v. 9). Yahweh touched the lips of Jeremiah and put his words in Jeremiah's mouth. It was a touch of cleansing, power, and grace. A true prophet is one who speaks not for him/herself but for God. This gives him/her a message of truth and ...

19. Lent 5

John 12:1-11

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... text.) Lent 5 Lord, we are shocked by the behavior of those wicked tenants! We understand that most people would like to avoid confrontation at any cost, especially if it has to do with their own behavior. We do not like having our character deficiencies pointed out to us. We do not appreciate hearing how our actions affect others. Those tenants were certainly guilty! They would not listen. They took advantage of the situation and they paid a terrible price for their wickedness. When we travel down wrong ...

20. Proper 17

Exodus 3:1-22, Jeremiah 15:15-21; 20:7-18, Matthew 16:21-28, Romans 12:1-8

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... his disciples (v. 22) 4. Are we dedicated to the cross of Christ or are we at cross purposes with him? The movie, Forrest Gump, starring Tom Hanks, is a study on the topic of purpose and destiny. Forrest Gump, the main character in the movie, was born mentally deficient. Yet most everything in his life seemed to fall into place. As a boy, he had to wear braces on his legs, but when he was chased one day by his tormentors, the braces suddenly fell free and he could run like a deer. His fleetness of foot made ...

21. Turning A Minus Into A Plus

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... jump a little higher, and pound a little harder. Thank God for the power to run and not be weary, to institute effective church programs and activities. But, Isaiah is right. There's more power available to us than soaring and running. There are some problems, some deficiencies, some minuses that cannot be attacked by force or energy. Sometimes we can't soar and we can't run. But fortunately there is another way in which God can help us turn a minus into a plus. "They shall walk and not faint." Now when we ...

22. Epiphany 6

1 Corinthians 10:23--11:1, 1 Corinthians 9:1-27, Leviticus 13:1-46, 2 Kings 5:1-27, Mark 1:40-45

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... the race of life but why are we running? To what end? 4. Run with Jesus to obtain the imperishable prize. The blockbuster movie Forrest Gump illustrates the question posed above. That is, why are we running? Where are we going? Forrest was a somewhat mentally deficient boy who started running to elude his persecutors. The doctor placed braces on his legs but one day when some bullies were chasing him down the road in their truck, he ran so fast that the braces just fell away. Forrest could run really fast ...

23. Epiphany 7

2 Corinthians 1:12--2:4, Isaiah 43:14-28, Mark 2:1-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... captivity and restore them to a more idyllic existence. The image here is that of a new Exodus, as God provides for his people, as he leads and guides them back home (vv. 19-20). God will be gracious, even though the worship of his people has been deficient. Using imagery from the law court, Yahweh promises to blot out his people's sins (v. 25). Epistle: 2 Corinthians 1:18-22 Paul's critics accuse him of being vacillating. He retorts by asserting the gospel which he preached to them was not "yes" and "no ...

24. Reuben: I'm Not A Sandwich

Genesis 37:12-36

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... . In retrospect, I can see that we were like the pig in the old Russian proverb in which the pig said to the horse, "Your feet are crooked; your hair is good for nothing. "It's easier to judge others than it is to examine our own deficiencies. We all had something to learn. I hope our father learned something about showing such gross favoritism toward one brother over the others. We brothers learned that all of our plotting and animosity did nothing to enhance our position. It only broke an old man's heart ...

25. Number One Mother

Genesis 2:4-25

Drama

Dr. Raymond Bailey

... 's that? Sounds like something men do when they want to get away from their wives. " I didn't know what it was, but I guessed she might be right. Actually, we thought we might improve on God's handiwork a little. Now we began to see a lot of deficiencies in God's creation -- especially in each other. At last she started wearing a bumper sticker that said, "A woman's place is in the mall. " We were bickering loudly. The windows were open. We heard a knock on the door. "What's that?" we whispered. Now we were ...

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