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Luke 5:17-26

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... , because it’s a “digger’s prayer” –the prayer of those who will go to any lengths to put someone else before Jesus. If the church is to be a place to encounter Jesus, we will all need to allow others to disrupt, change, intrude upon, dig up our current ways of doing things, our rules and regulations, our traditions and habits, our phobias and fears, our preconceived notions of love and life. The more we are disrupted, the more the Holy Spirit can move among us, and the sooner our faith and the ...

2. A Fruitful Life

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... the garden for the planting potatoes.” The son wrote back, “FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE! Don’t dig in the garden this year. That’s where I hid all my guns.” The next morning, the father awoke to find the local police force digging up the ground around his house. After hours of work, the officers left empty-handed. Confused, the father wrote back and told his son what had happened. The son wrote back one line: “NOW plant the potatoes.” I don’t have a green thumb. I have no idea when is the ...

3. The Little Golf Club

Sermon

John Smylie

... golf club was a sign that we could share in an activity that would put us on equal footing. The little golf club was a sign of love. If anyone was a servant in this relationship it was my grandfather. It was my grandfather who served me by digging up the prickly weeds throughout his very large backyard. It was my grandfather who served me by spending some of his hard earned money on creating a custom-made golf club so we could share a playful time together. It was my grandfather who served me by opening up ...

4. Breakfast in Galilee

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Robert Allen

... of time, tell us of long forgotten kingdoms. The treasures found in ancient cities, abandoned or destroyed, tell us how people long ago lived. The finding of these treasures capture our imagination. However, there is another kind of salvaging which is more important than digging up the relics of the past. And that is the salvaging of human souls. This is important because each person -- each soul -- is more precious in the sight of God than all the silver and gold in this world. The salvaging of human souls ...

5. Guilt: How to Keep Your Conscience Clear

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... you of sin. You say, "What is the difference?” The difference is monumental. Satan will accuse you of sin that God has already forgiven. But the Holy Spirit will convict you of sin that you have never confessed. You see, the Holy Spirit never digs up old dirt. He never digs up trash that has already been buried. In our country we have a law that is based on the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution called “The Law of Double Jeopardy.” That law said that once a man is found innocent of a certain crime in ...

6. Planting Your Feet

Psalm 32:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... Let me help you. At that point, you can know you are not dealing with God. You are dealing with Satan. Satan will accuse you of sin that God has already forgiven. God only convicts you of sin that you have never confessed. God never digs up old dirt. God never digs up trash that has already been buried. One of the great things about America is the Constitution. One of the great things about the Constitution is the Bill of Rights. One of the great things about the Bill of Rights is the 5th Amendment. The 5th ...

7. Straight Backs And Rekindled Dreams

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... in the prison, she should slip down to the prison mortuary and hide in the coffin with the dead body. He would take the coffin out the next morning and bury it in a shallow grave. When no one was looking, he would slip back out and dig up the woman and release her. The perfect escape. Everything went as planned. On the night the woman heard the death bell, she slipped down to the mortuary and hid in the waiting coffin with the dead body. The coffin was transported outside the prison walls and buried. The ...

8. The Embalmed Come Alive

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... equipment to add to our public address system. Our Engineer, has found one, almost new, that he can get for about half of its real cost, but I need $1,500 in order to get that. Pastor, do you know where I could dig up $1,500?" I told him frankly that I didn’t know where he could dig up $1,500, but, with some misgivings, I promised to do what I could. In almost the next letter that I had to answer, I found a check for $2,000. As some of you know, the Kings are working for a year and ...

9. The First Murder - 1940

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Kent Moorehead

... designated one of the most vile criminals of all time. His name was Cain. And the phrase, "the brand of Cain," is in itself an anathema. He is considered the prototype of all criminals. The evil that he did lived after him all right. Suppose we try to dig up some of the buried treasure, the good that has been interred with his bones. Consider the motive, and seek to understand how this crime came about. Cain was the elder brother and he was a tiller of the soil, a farmer. Abel was the younger and he was ...

10. A Sourdough Sprirituality

Matthew 13:31-35

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... dormant in the earth for centuries, only to be opened up by digging in the backyard in what amounts to bacteria pits, so the truths of God's word can lie buried in the Scriptures, to be opened up and rediscovered by different generations digging up varied patches of biblical backyards. 3) Customize it. Make the spiritual-starter that flavors your community your own. In sourdough starters some people remove the hootch (alcohol) that rises to the top. Others keep it in. Some add baking soda if the starter is ...

11. What to Do When Life Is the Pits

1 Peter 5:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... :10) He is hell's district attorney who is always trying to bring a case against us, trying to condemn us because of our sin. As a matter of fact, the word devil is the Greek word diabolos, which means "slanderer." He is the one who is always trying to dig up dirt on you, rattle the skeletons in your closet, bring up past sins long ago confessed and forgiven, and trying to rob you of the joy of your salvation. So you had better be serious about his reality. b. Be Sensitive To The Devil's Ferocity We are to ...

12. What to Wear to the War

Ephesians 6:13-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... to your heart and try to tempt you to sin, and the moment you do, condemn you because you did. He is the accuser of the brethren and he loves to remind us of our sins. He loves to bring them up to our attention. He loves to dig up old dirt and throw it in our face. He loves to rattle the skeletons in our closet, and he does that until we become doubting Christians, and then depressed Christians, and finally defeated Christians. That is why it is so important that you put on the breastplate of righteousness ...

13. Start at the Epicenter

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

James Merritt

... our sins what it means is He does not hold our sins against us anymore. He doesn’t hold a grudge. The only way He remembers our sin is as forgiven sin. In effect, God buries our sin in the grave of His grace and we never need to dig up what God has buried. Cardinal Jaime Sin was the Catholic Archbishop of Manila, in the Philippines, and was the leader in the revolution that gave the Philippines a democracy. He loved to tell the story of a woman who would come to church and she would always tell him ...

14. The Greatest Ability Is Dependability (Fruit of the Spirit: Faithfulness)

Galatians 5:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... , Jesus said if you cannot be trusted with earthly riches, you cannot be trusted with eternal riches. The Bible very plainly says that if you are not a tither, you are a robber. You rob God. Jesus says any man that would rob God of money on earth, would dig up golden bricks out of the streets of heaven. So if you are not giving to God what God plainly says in His word, you are unfaithful. We are to be faithful in our worship. Heb. 10:25 says, "Do not forsake the assembling of yourselves together, as is the ...

15. In Search of a New Life

Revelation 21:1-5a

Sermon

King Duncan

... as a marker. One source says that after Jesse’s death, his brother Frank James bought a farm near the Wichita Mountains and spent the rest of his life searching for the treasure, but he never did find it. Sometime in the 1950s, a local man did dig up a bucket and some picks buried in a field in those mountains. The bucket had some markings scratched on it. So far, however, no one has been able to make sense of the code, and so, according to the legend, Jesse James’ treasure remains buried somewhere in ...

16. Doing Right When You Have Been Done Wrong

Ephesians 4:31-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... way that we might forget a phone number or a person's name. Because God can neither learn something nor forget something. But it simply means that God doesn't hold grudges. He never throws forgiven sin back in our face. He wipes the slate clean. He never digs up old dirt and neither should we. Too many times we're like two little brothers I heard about, Timmy and Johnny, who were playing upstairs. Just before bedtime Timmy hit Johnny with a stick. Well, before you know it, a fight had broken out, and as the ...

17. Annie's Gift

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

King Duncan

... up and I didn't get into trouble! We stayed active and busy, alright! It took the whole family to keep a household running then. We helped out with the cooking and cleaning and farm chores. There's only so much trouble you can get into when you're digging up potatoes not ten feet away from your parents. We stayed plenty busy. And then, hardly before we knew it, Frank and I were married. We were so young. "Ella Jones doesn't like our little pastor. She says he caters too much to the young. Of course, it's ...

18. Hope In The Midst of Uncertainty

Matthew 24:36-44

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... prison. But even Andy can only take so much. One night, to everyone's surprise, Andy escapes. He's left hints for his friend "Red" about how to find him if he's ever paroled. "Red" finally gets paroled and follows those hints. Near the end of the movie he digs up a letter and traveling money that Andy has left him and Red boards a bus headed to Hancock, Texas. Riding on the bus Red reflects: "I find I'm so excited, I can hardly sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it's the excitement only ...

19. Winning When It Really Counts

Philippians 3:12-4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... fall short. When Bill Veeck owned the Cleveland Indians, he moved the outfield fences in or out depending on the lineup of the visiting team. When the league finally passed a rule prohibiting that, Veeck compensated: He would go out to the ball park at night, dig up home plate, and move it a few feet forward or backward. (1) Yes, some people will do anything to win--in sports, in business, in politics, in personal relationships, etc. Many of us by nature are very competitive. Since the drive to win is such ...

20. The Rock Of Faith

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... churches open up a few blocks away. The televangelists may be in jail, but over here is a man, who became sober when he surrendered his life to Jesus, telling a friend that he, too, can overcome his addiction. These people don't worry about someone digging up a parchment scroll proving that Jesus never was. They don't worry about some space satellite launched out to the heart of the universe signaling back that it never ran into God. They don't worry about someone proving that prayer is only a way that ...

21. The Deal Of A Lifetime

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

King Duncan

Many of you pride yourself on being good business people. Suppose someone reputable made you the following offer: You go into business with me. It will be expensive, but I guarantee it will be worth it. You dig up whatever cash you can find. Take out an equity loan on your house, cash in the value of your life insurance policy, pay the penalty, and take the money out of your IRA accounthowever you can come up with cash, do it. Then, if you work hard, and follow the ...

22. It Helps If You Laugh

John 15:9-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... , but especially to my Mother and to Mary, the mother of my children. In an old Hagar the Horrible cartoon, Hagar's wife Helga is seen cleaning the floor with a mop and bucket. She says to herself, "The house DOES look nice and shiny." As she digs up some flowers, she says, "Flowers for the table might be nice." As she's setting the table, Hagar asks, "When does the party begin?" Helga answers, "In a few minutes dear." Her daughter comes running in and says, "Mama, my party dress is all wrinkled." And Helga ...

23. If It Helps You Laugh

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

24. An Encounter With Two Old Friends

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

... of his property, and was a faithful member of his church. And several years ago when summoned for an audit of 1040, while I went through the jitters, entertained the vision of a hard-nosed auditor, and felt the anger and disgust of having to dig up old records, I found another gentleman of the IRS to be congenial and completely human, tolerant of my ill-kept records, kind and even humorous. So I prefer to use the better term "publican" instead of tax collector, even though the publican collected taxes. The ...

25. The First Commandment: Who's on First?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... commandment God gives them is that they shall have no other gods. For you see, it is always more difficult for God to get "Egypt" out of his people than it is to get his people out of Egypt. In one of James Michener''s novels geologists are digging up the ruins of a civilization from an era long gone. They begin to discover the influence of the gods this ancient people worshiped and how this shaped their identity as a people. One geologist is heard to say, "You know, if they had a different god, they could ...

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