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Antonyms: loss, disadvantage, debt, lack, need, payment, resource, want

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Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... threw off his mantle and sprang up and came to Jesus. Jesus asked him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “Master! Let me receive my sight!” Jesus said, “Go your way. Your faith has made you well.” Bartimaeus was disadvantaged but Bartimaeus was determined. He was not going to let people tell him to be quiet. When he saw the opportunity for healing, he came. He wasn’t like the rich young ruler who came to Jesus asking, “What must I do to be saved?” He went away ...

2. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... next. He threw off his mantle and sprang up and came to Jesus. Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man said to Him, "Master! Let me receive my sight!" Jesus said, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Bartimaeus was disadvantaged but Bartimaeus was determined. He was not going to let people tell him to be quiet. When he saw the opportunity for healing, he came. He wasn't like the rich young ruler who came to Jesus asking, "What must I do to be saved?" He went away sadly ...

3. Playing Golf at Midnight

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... , O Gentle Savior, hear my humble cry. While on others thou art calling, do not pass me by. It’s a wonderful hymn, but we need to know Christ will not pass us by if we are truly seeking him. He sees our need whatever it may be. Bartimaeus was disadvantaged, but he was not defeated. He came to Jesus and Jesus healed him. And he became a Christ follower. May we see what Bartimaeus saw--that Jesus is the giver of every good thing in life. I hope we are as wise as he. May we, too, follow Jesus all ...

4. Some Things Ought Not to Happen

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

... lot of the things that ought not to happen in our world. The mother who left her baby by the roadside explained that she had been abused, as if she was sure that excused her actions. The public official who betrayed his community's trust came from a disadvantaged race. He probably thought he was just doing what other people from the advantaged race had been doing for a long time and he may have felt that, when he was taken to task for it, he was a victim of racism. The people who stockpiled grain while ...

5. The Coming of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

... verse 17. Will the living have an advantage over the dead? They will not. If anything, it might be argued, the dead have the advantage in that their resurrection will take place first, but that is not the point. The only point is that they will not be disadvantaged. 4:17 After that, we who are still alive and are left (this repeats the wording of verse 15) will be caught up together with them. The verb harpazō expresses what will happen in terms of a sudden and almost violent action (cf. Acts 8:39; 23:10 ...

6. A Faith that Will Transform You

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... in our world. Studies show that even to this day, society rewards men according to their physical height. That’s absurd, of course, and there have been many great men who have been diminutive in stature, but regardless, it can sometimes be a disadvantage. It was certainly a disadvantage for Zacchaeus in his attempt to see Jesus over the crowd. When there was no other way for him to see the Master, this man of position and wealth humbled himself and climbed a tree. He was determined to see the Lord, and ...

7. Water Boy

Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Justin Tull

... is now trying to solve the problem of both limited funds and the need for improved education. The issue is one involving justice. How does one ensure quality education for all including the disadvantaged? How do we provide adequate education for those who will experience little quality education at home and who already are disadvantaged? Another issue in our country and state is affordable housing. How can we make housing possible for those willing to train and work and save? Who will stand and defend their ...

8. It Isn’t Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

... may not agree with the child’s assessment of the current situation (in fact, the youngster may not be discriminated against at all!), he or she will invariably agree on one thing, no child should be singled out for treatment benefiting them to the others’ disadvantage. All of us have a deep-seated sense of fairness. "What’s fair is fair," we sometimes say - and may even equate that saying with a similar one: "What’s right is right." We don’t like our sense of justice violated. When we see someone ...

9. Mary's Revolutionary Song (Sermon Series No. 3)

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... more government welfare schemes. We need Christian entrepreneurs with imagination who are utterly committed to Christ and the poor. Does your company have high school youth from disadvantaged backgrounds working for you during the summers, learning the basics of success? Are you investing in college and technical scholarships for deserving disadvantaged persons? Does your company hire and promote women and minorities just because it’s right? Over the last twenty years, thousands of poor people have been ...

10. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

... to her." What does it mean to lay up treasures in heaven? One thing it means is to evaluate public policy not so much in terms of its impact upon us as its effect upon the disadvantaged. The message of the parable of the Good Samaritan is that we owe these people something, even if it is personally disadvantageous to us. Then we can say in response to Eliot’s question: "This is a community." Lent is speaking to us now, calling us to repentance. There is nothing easy about repentance. Jesus said: "Where ...

11. Mary's Revolutionary Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... more government welfare schemes. We need Christian entrepreneurs with imagination who are utterly committed to Christ and the poor. Does your company have high school youth from disadvantaged backgrounds working for you during the summers, learning the basics of success? Are you investing in college and technical scholarships for deserving disadvantaged persons? Does your company hire and promote women and minorities just because it's right? Over the last twenty years, thousands of poor people have been ...

12. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Brett Blair

... government welfare schemes. We need Christian entrepreneurs with imagination who are utterly committed to Christ and the poor. Does your company have high school youth from disadvantaged backgrounds working for you during the summers, learning the basics of success? Are you investing in college and technical scholarships for deserving disadvantaged persons? Does your company hire and promote women and minorities just because it’s right? What we need are Christian entrepreneurs with imagination who are ...

13. Look Who Is Standing at the Door

James 4:1-12; 5:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

... as descriptions of something that happens right in the midst of our everyday lives. Judgment can happen in lots of different ways. There was really a lot of judgment in the story we imagined, wasn't there? A business failure, the loss of a job, a situation of disadvantage, or any other experience in which the system you depend upon lets you down can be a judgment day. Any day on which you wake up and realize that the life you have invested yourself in has not delivered what it promised, and that you don't ...

14. An Excellent Epitaph

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... with other companies that pay the minimum.” My response is this: Don’t you believe that if you do the right thing, God will bless you in ways that will make up for that disadvantage? Several of the other “good fights” for me relate to the general election this coming Tuesday. I will not vote for or against a candidate on the basis of his race. A Christian’s evaluation of a person should not be raised or lowered by race. Our goal, as expressed ...

15. You Never Noticed

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... why most of us would prefer not to think too much about this parable. “We’re saved by grace, not by works,” we rationalize to ourselves, so we skip over this parable and other teachings of Jesus much like it concerning our responsibility to the disadvantaged of our world. Indeed, we are very much like the rich man in our ability to see only those teachings of the Master that we want to see. Bible teacher William Barclay titles this passage, “The Punishment of the Man Who Never Noticed.” That’s ...

16. Leave Your Calculator Home

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... about a minute and a half. (4) Talk about a drop in a bucket. Still, we are obligated to “render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.” Rendering unto God, on the other hand, is entirely voluntary. Of course, that puts the church at a little disadvantage. We have to work hard just to get by. There’s a story about a local fitness center which was offering $1,000 to anyone who could demonstrate that they were stronger than the owner of the fitness center. It worked like this. The owner, a real ...

17. An Announcement from Our Lord

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... of this passage is from Christ himself. We are living in the year of the Lord’s favor. We are living in the light of the star of Bethlehem. The message of Advent and Christmas is and will always be Good News for the poor, for the disadvantaged, for the marginalized, for the oppressed, for the captive in short for all humankind. A new thing came into the world with Jesus. Welcome, my friend, to the year of the Lord’s favor. 1. Allan C. Emery with Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 1980), pp. 45 ...

18. A Man with No Name

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

... Mark tells us, Bartimaeus received his sight and followed Jesus along the road. Bartimaeus became a follower of Jesus Christ. How could he do anything else? All his life Bartimaeus had been blind and finally this man Jesus had set him free of this tremendous disadvantage. I believe something happened to Bartimaeus that day, don’t you? I believe the scales not only fell away from his eyes; I believe they fell away from his heart. For not only did his healing represent a victory over a physical problem, but ...

19. Devour And Conquer

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... we take anecdotes as truth instead of learning that welfare queens are not the norm, and that for most poor people, being poor requires constant employment from dawn to dusk to navigate the barriers put up against them to receive what they need. Many people who are disadvantaged in ways that are not easy to detect aren’t getting their food or medications. They are not getting the health care they need. They can’t get to doctors and the doctors they can get to may not want to serve them. It’s too easy ...

20. Knowing, and Known

Romans 4:13-25

Sermon

John B. Jamison

... his new faith as he had been about his old. He traveled the world, preaching about Jesus and helping create churches. He understood what it meant to be a faithful Christian. He was trying to live it now. But, Paul’s background also gave him a disadvantage. For the Jewish community, having someone in such a significant role as Paul not only walk away from the faith but take such an active role against the faith was simply unacceptable. It was one thing for some gentile to join the Christians, but Paul? It ...

21. Gifts of Lent VI: The Thief Who Gave Nothing

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... who named Jesus as my Savior in the last moments of my life. How did I come to be there on that gloomy Friday nailed to a cross beside Jesus? Oh, don't think I didn't know better. I won't give you any tear-jerking story about how disadvantaged I was growing up, or how I came from a broken home, and therefore my thieving wasn't really my fault. I knew exactly what I was doing. I was a Jewish boy who knew the Law of God as well as any other. My parents had me circumcised as ...

22. Epiphany 3

Lk 4:14-21 · 1 Cor 12:12-31a · Isa 61:1-6 · Neh 8:1-10 · Ps 19

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... service. As a result, often a lay reader cannot be heard, mispronounces words, adds or leaves out a word, and misinterprets the reading by placing emphasis on the wrong words or phrases. As a result the Word thereby is distorted, mangled, and misinterpreted to the disadvantage of the people. Following the example of Ezra, the pastor is usually the best qualified to read the Word in worship. 2. Pulpit (v. 4). For the first time in the Bible we read about the building and use of a pulpit for the reading ...

23. Proper 25

Exodus 22:16-31, Leviticus 19:1-37, Deuteronomy 34:1-12, Matthew 22:34-46, 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; 2:1-16

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... :20-27 1. Sermon Title: God Of The Oppressed. Sermon Angle: God orders his people to be compassionate toward the oppressed and the downtrodden so that they might reflect the compassion of their God (v. 27). Like a parent who seeks to protect and defend the disadvantaged child, so God's heart reaches out to the weak. Epistle: 1 Thessalonians 2:1-8 1. Sermon Title: The Real Thing. Sermon Angle: How do you tell authentic Christian faith from that which is phony? The bogus variety seeks to please humans, so as ...

24. Do You Believe In Peace? - Memorial Day

Ephesians 2:11-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... the Life. With Christ as their peace, spiritually-transformed nations would be less concerned with might and more concerned with right; less concerned with missiles and more concerned with mercy; less concerned with their own advantage and more concerned with the disadvantaged. Nations would overcome the threat of an enemy by making that enemy a friend. They would take seriously the ethics of Jesus and make them social, showing a desperate world that peace and goodwill are the gifts Christ brings, to people ...

25. Proper 18

Luke 14:25-35, Deuteronomy 30:11-20, Proverbs 9:1-18, Ezekiel 33:1-20, Philemon 1:8-25

Sermon Aid

George Bass

... sight of God. The Christ we hold in common died for all people. 3. Social ills, such as the racial discrimination which breeds a type of slavery, are best solved by an "appeal" in Christian love, rather than by radical and violent actions on behalf of the disadvantaged. (Martin Luther King, Jr. was right, wasn't he, in his non-violent approach to equality? That was Jesus' way: to die on a cross, rather than to take other human life.) 4. As Christians learn to love each other and live together as equals in ...

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Antonyms: loss, disadvantage, debt, lack, need, payment, resource, want

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1. The Blind See!

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

2. Lesson From A Blind Man

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

3. Playing Golf at Midnight

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

King Duncan

4. Some Things Ought Not to Happen

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

James L. Killen

5. The Coming of the Lord

1 Thessalonians 4:13--5:11

Understanding Series

David J. Williams

6. A Faith that Will Transform You

Luke 19:1-10

Sermon

King Duncan

7. Water Boy

Exodus 2:11-25

Sermon

Justin Tull

8. It Isn’t Fair!

Matthew 20:1-16

Sermon

9. Mary's Revolutionary Song (Sermon Series No. 3)

Luke 1:39-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

10. Your Money and Your Life

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Robert Bachelder

11. Mary's Revolutionary Song

Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... more government welfare schemes. We need Christian entrepreneurs with imagination who are utterly committed to Christ and the poor. Does your company have high school youth from disadvantaged backgrounds working for you during the summers, learning the basics of success? Are you investing in college and technical scholarships for deserving disadvantaged persons? Does your company hire and promote women and minorities just because it's right? Over the last twenty years, thousands of poor people have been ...

12. Oh, How The Mighty Have Fallen

Luke 1:39-45, Luke 1:46-56

Sermon

Brett Blair

13. Look Who Is Standing at the Door

James 4:1-12; 5:1-12

Sermon

James L. Killen

14. An Excellent Epitaph

2 Timothy 4:6-8

Sermon

Bill Bouknight