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Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... march, but rather sends us as those who have found freedom, to see as he would see, to speak as he would speak, to heal as he would heal, and to love as he would love. So our God, whose name is a vessel of holiness, designated a Son and he designated others, designated us. Would you have expected anything else? And what do you expect in this season of expectancy? Or when do you expect it? Jill Dakota tells of a dream-like winter walk on a starry, dark night, very cold, following a path illuminated by red ...

2. How Intelligent Is God’s Design?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... . And yet the agnostic Darwin was also able to write the following in a letter to his friend: I can see no reason why a man, or other animal, may not have been aboriginally produced by other laws, and that all these laws may have been expressly designed by an omniscient Creator... But the more I think, the more bewildered I become.[1] Bewildered; that is how I feel much of the time when confronted with the complexity of creation and the complexity of a loving God who does somehow allow pain and suffering to ...

3. A Larger Design For Living

Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

... shall lose it, and he that loseth his life shall find it." (Matthew 10:39) It is needful for us to realize that our lives must be self-disciplined, guided by God, and that we should defer to the wealth of experience that causes us to review and enlarge our design for living. All of us need a measure of authority in our lives, and all of us will do well to understand that being a good servant may be the highest honor which we may attain. Only a few can be chiefs; most must be braves. There are some lyrics ...

4. The Designated Savior

Romans 1:4

Children's Sermon

... thought that he looked like other men. He ate and he slept and he worked. He had friends and he visited the homes of his friends. He could run, walk, talk, laugh, cry. He could love and be liked to be loved. Jesus was a man. But Jesus was also designated by God. That means he was made special by God to also be the Savior of the world. In that way he was different. There was no other person like him in the whole world. There never was a person like him before and there has never been a person ...

5. Design for Discipleship

Acts 2:14-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , I want to lift a passage from the book of Acts as a kind of manifesto for us. In particular, I see this as a special call to this congregation at this juncture in our life together. So, I want to present what I’m calling a design for discipleship this morning. Let’s hear that word from the book of Acts: And he testified with many other words and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.” So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about ...

6. Made New By Interior Design

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... What happens on the exterior is cosmetic and delightful but has limitations. What happens on the interior will occur when we choose to allow God to do something within us. That something has eternal value. There are many barriers to our being made new by interior design in this Advent season. Tears can be a barrier to Advent. In this season there will be tears of joy and tears of pain. In many homes across America, there will be gatherings in which a grandfather will look around the room at his children and ...

7. Engaging the Master Designer

Psalm 139: 1-18

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... until they make peace with God. So if you want to build a life that really matters, it makes common sense to engage the Master Designer, our Maker, our Lover, our Lord, our Friend. That’s what I invite you to do today. Let God take charge of your life! I ... you and not harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.” Plans I have for you—Whose plans are you building under? Whose design are you hoping to become? It’s one thing to get out of bed in the morning and pray, “Lord, bless me today. I have so ...

8. Pinch Hitters or Designated Hitters

John 19:26-27

Children's Sermon

... to go to bat when another player was injured. Sometimes one of our friends was going by and we called him (or her) to come and bat for us "in a pinch," perhaps getting a hit for us when we really needed it. Nowadays baseball teams have players who are designated hitters, who are sent in when a hit is badly needed, with players on base or some other reason the coach has in mind. Have you ever had a "mother-in-a-pinch"? Even a babysitter can be a mother or father in a pinch when your parents need to ...

9. God's Design for Marriage

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... need to look at what His owner's manual, the Bible, says about marriage. Jeremiah 29:11 says, “These are the plans that I have for you,” says the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you. Plans to give you hope and a future.” God is our designer and knows what is best for us. In our scripture for today, we have a pair of admonitions, one for the wife and one for the husband. Let's take them in reverse order; I have a hunch that might help. HERE IS THE ADMONITION FOR THE HUSBAND: LOVE YOUR ...

10. God's Design and Our Destiny

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... at the wonder of our own physical being and it will take your breath away. Whittaker Chambers was a Communist. But one day his young daughter smeared porridge on her face. Chambers found himself looking at her “intricate, perfect ears.” He saw immense design, not a chance coming together of atoms--and “at that moment,” he wrote, “the finger of God was first laid upon my forehead.” (4) How absurd that anyone would say this wondrous universe happened by mere chance. I like something that Maurice ...

11. Designed to Be Lived Up

Mark 9:38-41

Illustration

Richard Patt

... release what were probably dead batteries. The batteries wouldn't come out, but finally, after some effort, he shook them loose. What a mess he found! Corroded batteries with liquid acid seeping all over the mechanism - all because he hadn't used the flashlight regularly! Batteries are designed to be turned on, to be used, not neglected or ignored. What you and I refuse to use we will surely lose. We're meant to he turned on, too. Our gifts are to be used! Our lives are not meant to be "waited out" but to ...

12. Character - Designed By the Founding Fathers

Illustration

Hugh Sidey

The Presidency to this day rests more on the character of the person who inhabits the office than on anything else. The Founding Fathers designed it that way. It was their idea to find a man in America with a great character and let him invest a tradition and shape a national character. They found George Washington. He did his job splendidly. When he took the Presidency, he wrote: "I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."

13. Designed For Biblical Times

Illustration

Staff

Fred Allen, the comedian, said: This insane modern civilization is too much for the human body. Here we have an organism that was designed for Biblical times. Yet we expect it to cope with artificial lights, executive board meetings, the din of automobile horns and soap operas, carbon monoxide, cigar smoke and bubble gum. No wonder we've all got ulcers and high blood pressure.

14. Designer Religion

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

King Duncan

American Humorist Robert Benchley was leaving an elegant tavern one evening. As usual he had a little too much liquid refreshment and was a little tipsy. He found himself face to face with a uniformed man whom he took to be the doorman. “Would you get me a taxi, my good man?” Benchley asked. The uniformed man drew himself up proudly and said, “See here, I happen to be a rear admiral in the United States Navy.” Benchley then drew HIMSELF UP and said belligerently, “Get me a battleship then.” In Benchley’s ...

15. God's Design and Our Destiny (New)

Isaiah 64:8

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: For this demonstration you will need play dough. Option: a small can of play dough for each child. You will also need your Bible with Isaiah 64:8 marked so you can find it easily. Lesson: (Take your play dough out of the can and begin to roll it into a shape. Talk to the children about what you are making--a person, an animal, snake etc. Ask them what they like to make out of play dough.) Say: Did you know this is like God? Let me read a verse in the Bible to you. (Read Isaiah 64:8.) What did that ...

16. Designed Out of Quarantine

Illustration

Source Unknown

In 1832, French engineer Ferdinand Marie Lesseps was traveling in the Mediterranean when one of the passengers became sick and the ship was quarantined. Lesseps was an active man, so the confinement was terribly frustrating for him. The many long hours aboard that isolated vessel, however, gave him time to read the memoirs of Jacques-Marie le Pere, a man who had studied the feasibility of building a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. That volume prompted Lesseps to devise in his own mind a ...

17. Believing Your Design

Humor Illustration

In 1958, America's first commercial jet air service began with the flight of the Boeing 707. A month after that first flight, a traveler on a piston-engine, propeller-driven DC-6 airliner struck up a conversation with a fellow passenger. The passenger happened to be a Boeing engineer. The traveler asked the engineer about the new jet aircraft. The engineer was wildly enthusiastic about this new, improved way to travel. He began speaking at length about the extensive testing Boeing had done on the jet ...

18. Designer Religion

Matthew 23:1-12

Children's Sermon

King Duncan

Object: A set of ear plugs Good morning, boys and girls. How do you and I communicate with each other? Usually, we do it with our mouths, don't we? We talk to each other. Suppose, however, I put these ear plugs in my ears so that I couldn't hear what you said. Could we communicate then? Yes, we could. We could gesture to each other. There are people who cannot hear who do a great job of communicating with each other with gestures or sign language. O.K., now suppose I could not hear you speak. All I could ...

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for.

John A. Shedd

God divided the hands into fingers so that money could slip through.

James S. Hewett

21. Repairing Your Broken Dreams

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... St. Paul wrote to the Romans. He told them that he hoped to see them on his way to Spain. Going to Spain was his grand design, his great dream, his high hope. But Paul never got to Spain. Instead, his journey ended in a prison cell in Rome. He could not ... or her life, both the good and the bad, and bond them together with love for God, then the sum total of that life, the grand design of that person's history will be good. As such, it is indeed possible to believe in the sun when it is not shining, to believe ...

22. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Saint Paul wrote to the Romans. He told them that he hoped to see them on his way to Spain. Going to Spain was his grand design, his great dream, his high hope. But Paul never got to Spain. Instead, his journey ended in a prison cell in Rome. He could not ... or her life, both the good and the bad, and bond them together with love for God, then the sum total of that life, the grand design of that person's history, will be good. As such, it is indeed possible to believe in the sun when it is not shining, to ...

23. Caring for the Vineyard We Did Not Plant

Matthew 20:1-16, Joshua 24:1-27

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... identity of its owner and the uniqueness of its neighborhood. That’s where true creativity, insight, and a sense of purpose and goal is all important. You need to know who you are and what your style is in order to create it out of someone else’s original design. This is our challenge in the Church today. Today’s mission fields are vineyards we did not plant. More than that, today’s culture is a vineyard we do not know! To be in mission within the world in the way that God intends us to be, the way ...

24. Prologue to the Law of the Temple: The Lord Comes Home

Ezekiel 40:1--43:12

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... ), which again corresponds in width and depth to the inner room in Solomon’s temple (twenty by twenty cubits, 41:4; note that in Solomon’s temple the innermost room was a cube, see 1 Kgs. 6:20). The angel then gives the inner room a further designation: He said to me, “This is the Most Holy Place” (41:4). The idea of an inner room of particular sanctity was common to temples across the ancient Near East. Typically, this inner room held the image of the god or goddess. In Solomon’s temple, the ...

25. Jeopardy, by Jeremiah

Jeremiah 23:9-32

Sermon

Richard F. Bansemer

... through life as if there were no more to it than a stable with a roof, and a feeding trough with oats. But God has a plan. Your life and my life are part of that plan, and we anger him when we ignore his purpose, live unaware of his design, and pretend that three meals a day and a good car are the most exciting and necessary things of life. We are like children with brightly colored gas-filled balloons. What delight they bring. What joy, but for what? For what purpose, what reason? And when they burst or ...

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