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1. At The Fork In The Road

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... was that way back, long before this experience, she had come to terms with who she was and what were her deepest values. That is essential for us. Because at the forks of the roads of our life, we will be tempted to give attention to our physical needs and disregard the spiritual. III. Now move to the second temptation. It was really a temptation to tempt the Lord. Let's read verses 5, 6, and 7: "Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him ...

2. The Sabbath - Delightfully Different

Exodus 20:1-21, Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... back to the original intent of the Sabbath. He said, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." Today our problem with the Sabbath is not too much strictness. The pendulum has swung to the other extreme. Our society disregards the Sabbath. There are two main culprits: greed and the self-indulgence of our secular culture. Like the other Ten Commandments, the Fourth Commandment cannot really be broken. But people can break themselves by violating it. People in America are suffering grievously ...

3. How Could A Love So Right Go Wrong?

Genesis 24:1-67, Genesis 27:41--28:9

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . The Lord had revealed to Isaac and Rebekah, as recorded in Genesis 25, that their elder son would serve the younger. But father Isaac was not willing to accept the Lord’s guidance; he just disregarded it. It is dangerous to disregard God’s guidance. For example, when you talk with your child about which college to attend, do you suggest that you both pray about it? You should. God knows which college will best suit your daughter, where she will meet the right people and receive the best training ...

4. Running For Joy

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God." The writer of Hebrews calls Jesus "the pioneer and perfecter of our faith . . ." In other words, like Roger Bannister, Jesus ran the race before us. Jesus showed us what is possible ...

5. Song of an Historian

Psalm 78:1-72

Sermon

Gordon Pratt Baker

... the values of her heritage. Let none, therefore, slight the role she must play in passing the heritage on to coming generations. There is a continuity to history, he asserts, in the fact that the Eternal has a sustaining purpose for his chosen people; and to disregard it can only prove fatal. For faith - any faith is always but a generation from extinction. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders which he has ...

6. Feeling Down And Looking Up

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... could she believe in and trust the God-presence with her, or within her, to forgive and affirm her. It is sad but true that many of the people who are captive to feelings of hopelessness are young people. "My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God." That’s a way of saying, "Nobody knows and nobody cares about me, least of all God," and many would add, "If there is a God." A surprising number of young people, with what should be the best of life ahead of them, are often so ...

7. The Testing Law Man

Sermon

Leonard H. Budd

... mostly dirty, uneducated, and poor. But these deal more with his general character - and cannot singly condemn him by the Law. I present now items that deal with his intrigue - his disregard for convention - and his treasonous teaching! I had occasion to ask him one day about his followers’ deliberate, irreverent, blatantly public disregard of the Sabbath Laws. It was documented that the twelve men closest to the Nazarene picked the grain of the fields on the Sabbath. The law clearly states this shall not ...

8. The Big Snow

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... at bus drivers and whomever else might be available. Policemen, I hear, got more than their normal share of abuse and disregard. More fights, more violence, more temper, more anger - all marks of the storm. Why? Who is to blame for our plight? ... it. The snow is not the enemy, for we and the snow occupy the same earth together. We view the snow as the enemy just as we disregard nature as we put more and more earth under concrete. We view snow as the enemy just as we spoil our rivers and streams, our air and ...

9. It Isn't Easy Getting Ready For Christmas

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... , his daughter arrived home in the family car and promptly drove over them. This brought this man to the breaking point. He told his wife not to be alarmed. Then he sent his daughter across the street where a police officer lived to tell him to also disregard what he would be hearing in a few moments. And then he got his gun and began firing wildly into the ground. Later, under arrest for reckless endangerment, he said he thought discharging the gun would help him get rid of his anger. (1) Many of us ...

10. How To Be Rich And Poor

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it. You may have breathed a sigh of relief, thinking, "well, we are spared another sermon on money." Or, you may have thought, "Maybe that passage is too difficult to deal with. So Maxie simply disregarded it. He's not willing to admit that it's too tough to handle." Neither thought is correct. I didn't disregard it, and we are not going to escape another sermon on money. I simply waited until now, because of our Stewardship Emphasis. You've been getting information about it. The theme is "God gave...So ...

11. The Rejected Cornerstone

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... could do with it as you wished. How patient has God been with you in the use of your talent? -- talent that He has given you, natural gifts with which you have been blessed. You have used those talents and gifts according to your own design, disregarding any consideration that God may have something special in mind. How patient has God been with you as you have taken the material blessings you have received and used it without regard to His call to faithful stewardship. You have spent your money on cars and ...

12. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... has a useful function. In the past few decades, there's been a great movement toward guilt - free living. This is good when we have the right perspective. The problem is that so-called modern or enlightened thinkers have actually encouraged us to disregard guilt. They have done a good job in convincing vast numbers of people that sin is acceptable, that morality is relative to individual preference, that guilt and moral accountability are outdated. So, self-indulgence is now the norm. "To consider how far ...

13. My Prayer For You: Barefoot Days of the Soul

Galatians 5:1-15

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... that if you are here this morning, and are wrestling with whether God loves you or not, it is a matter of sin – the sin of unbelief. I’m not disregarding or diminishing those painful experiences of your past, all those relationships that reduced you to a “Norman Nothing,” or a “Susan Shadow,an object, rather than a person. I’m not disregarding that. I’m simply saying that we must deal with our sin of unbelief as the beginning answer to this problem of self-esteem and our inability to accept ...

14. The Ladder or the Wheel

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... gave Jewish authorities a perfect legal right to put Jesus into a grave. According to first-century Torah interpretation, when it comes to raising the dead, the life you saved would definitely not be your own. Jesus didn't violate all these Jewish laws out of disregard for the Torah or disgust with ritual. In today's gospel text he clearly acknowledges that as part of the Torah tradition the Pharisees and scribes sit on Moses' seat. In other words, they have a deep, direct connection to God's word as given ...

15. Eating in the Echoing Hall

2 Samuel 18:5-9, 15, 31-33

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... a mule, rode under a great oak tree and somehow became hopelessly entangled in the branches. His mule ran out from under him, and Absalom was left dangling. That was where David's men found him. Then Joab, the supreme commander of David's army, in complete disregard of his king's instruction, thrust three spears into him. Joab's armor bearers then finished Absalom off. When David received word that his son was dead, he broke down and cried, "O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! Would I had died instead ...

16. A Guide to a Rich and a Joyous Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... t want us to have any fun. That simply is not true. In fact, the very opposite is true. God wants us to experience abundant joy. However, nothing would be more miserable than trying to live in a society where these laws were totally disregarded. Can you even imagine a society where stealing and murder were rampant . . . or even adultery for that matter? Can you imagine a society where people ditched their parents when their parents reached an age where they needed help? Nothing would be more miserable than ...

17. Unstoppable Love

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... taboo of leprosy. Lepers were unclean, condemned to live away from the community. They were even separated from their own families. They couldn’t worship with their faith community. They were completely ostracized. Yet Jesus disregarded the taboo and loved this leper. Jesus was always disregarding cultural boundaries and rules, especially when it came to relating to people. He reached out to hated tax collectors, oppressed women, and unclean lepers. He healed on the sabbath and didn’t care which laws ...

18. True North

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... can hear the sarcasm, “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest?” He thought, “I got him. No matter what he says he’s going to be trapped. He can’t get this right! If he says one rule is more important, people are going to get mad that he is disregarding all the other laws.” The Pharisee was a lot like people today who see religion as a set of rules and laws and God as the punisher of those who break the rules. I know many folks who grew up thinking that religion was about following the rules ...

19. Walking On Our Hands

John 8:31-41

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:1-2). Is that not an invitation to a wild and exhilarating freedom? "If the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed" (John 8:36). "

20. God's Most Unmistakable Message

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... that those who sincerely try to order their lives by God's will usually work out a system of obligations, to which they hold themselves and seek to hold others. That is what happened in Jesus' day. Jesus had scandalized these good folk by disregarding some of the practices which 55they considered God's law. He broke the Sabbath knowingly and refused to follow dietary laws. For him, God was the ultimate authority, and not the religious leaders' understandings of God. But the guardians of the faith were not ...

21. Thankful Living

Joel 2:18-27

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... that is "very good." Third, let us affirm our thanksgiving by affirming our love for the God of creation. Could you take any thing that is precious and meaningful to someone you love and who loves you and destroy it? If we love God how can we have disregard for God's creation? Because God has created the earth, it has a worth all of it own. This is my Father's world ... His hand the wonders wrought. Creation is precious because of the one who has given it to us. The quality of our thanksgiving, compassion ...

22. The Heart Of The Matter

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... day, and so on. The problem was not that the people of Israel did not understand what God wanted. The heart of the matter was that they really wanted something else. They wanted to decide for themselves what was right and wrong, and so they disregarded the law of God at best, and they willfully disobeyed it at worst. This was the heart of the conflict between the kings and the various prophets in Israel's history. Elijah opposed King Ahab because Ahab permitted and encouraged the worship of other gods ...

23. Awake, Christ Is Coming

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... of Baghdad and they are going to be on it." Erma's scintillating wit reminds us that there is a right time for action in all walks of life. Farmers know a right time exists for planting and harvesting, and they know what will happen if they disregard the opportune moment. Investors in stocks know that there is a right time and not a few of them are turning their eyes right now to the so-called Pacific Rim countries and their booming economic markets. Athletes are conscious of the right time. A football game ...

24. Let's Live

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Richard L. Sheffield

... too easy for us to reply: "Boy, God really had it in for them, didn't he? I wonder what they did, or didn't do?" But as Henry Sloane Coffin, writing in The Interpreter's Bible, notes: "...the word of God has a most perturbing way of disregarding dates and of making truth contemporary."1 It's always important in reading the scriptures to be sure you know what it said to those who heard it said for the first time. We need to understand the historical context, the situation of the people involved, the meaning ...

25. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... individuality, is not for sale at all. This is the person Jesus wants the most: the scholar or scientist who will pursue truth wherever it may lead; the citizen of the world who accepts all human beings as sisters and brothers in utter disregard of national, racial, or class labels; the true "humanist" whose curiosity and compassion encompass everything human, but who also hungers and thirsts for meaning beyond this brittle life.... Have you lost a twin -- someone in whose death half of you seems dead? Are ...

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