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Antonyms: do nothing

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1. The Church: Identity And Function

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... obtained mercy and I will say to those who are not my people, thou art my people, and they will say, thou are my God. So to plum the depth and meaning of this great passage, I want to ask three questions this morning. Who are we? What is our function? And, where is the source of our power? I. Who Are We? First, who are we as Christians as the church? We need to get this straight my friends, because we’ve been experiencing an identity crisis in the church for the past 20 or 30 years that has paralyzed ...

2. Changing Dysfunction Into Function: Isaac, Jacob and Esau

Genesis 27:15-24, 30-34

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... the actions of Jacob and Rebekah, conniving to get their part. When there is no trust, then there's not a lot of room for intimacy and pretty soon it all becomes about power and control: the power of control and the control of power. B. Within a strong, functional family where trust and intimacy are prevalent, it's simply about the power of love and how that love influences and shapes lives. Nell Mohney in her book, Don't Put A Period Where God Put A Comma, tells about a young lady named Kathy. There was an ...

3. Body Parts and Pride

Romans 12:1-8

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Jeff Wedge

... of attending worship weekly, the people who clap and cheer in the church, as it were, the ones who form the congregation, who fill the pews, who are present to worship. It seems so simple, so basic, that sometimes we don't realize how important a function it is. A youth once commented that he always knew who he would see in church on Sunday morning. And he then gave a list of ten families and individuals he could count on seeing each time he was in church. Even without realizing they were doing it, these ...

4. Equipping the Whole People of God: Penultimate Questions

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... is mission. There is only one people in the Church – God’s own people. Who are we? God’s own people. What is our function? “To declare the wonderful deeds of Him who calls us out of darkness into His marvelous light.” Who we are and what we do ... than “go-to” churches. And the reason for that may be that we don’t know who we are and we don’t know what our function is. Great revival is going on all over the world – and for the most part we’re missing it in the mainline Church of America. ...

5. Being A Man of God

1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

6. Let It Shine!

John 1:1-18

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... it has a black background. The darkness was originally intended to embrace the light, surround the light, provide the light with a black canopy or canvass against which the light would greatly standout. The original purpose of physical darkness as created by God is to function in harmony with the light so that light and darkness would complement each other, work together in a collaborative manner. It was not necessary for the darkness to say to the light, "I am better than you. I am greater than you. I am ...

7. Black Preaching: A Four-Cornered Universe

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Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... these medicinal dimensions in African-American sermonizing. In doing so, one would unequivocally discover similarities between the work of traditional medicine men, shamans, and healers in African traditional societies and African-American preachers. We can also see this therapeutic function in black worship. For example, the hallelujah shout of black worshippers is not only an acclamation of God's goodness and power, but a kind of therapy; an expression of human freedom; a means of releasing the dross and ...

8. The Nature of the Church and Christian Discipleship

1 Peter 2:4-12

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Maxie Dunnam

... world.” Do you believe it? Then come to Him – come to Him, the Living Stone, and be yourselves “built into a spiritual house, to be a royal priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices.” Well, there you have it. Who are we? God’s own people. What is our function? To be witnesses. To declare the wonderful deeds of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. And where is our power? In Jesus Himself, the Living Stone. He lives in us by the power of the Holy Spirit and all the power we ...

9. Discern How Things Grow

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

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Richard Hasler

... briefly upon the image of the builder in the last verse of our text, and he then proceeds to develop it more at length in the next section of the letter. However, Paul is quite clear in applying the work of the farmer in the field to the function of leadership in the church. This image will be our major focus. Paul writes succinctly, "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth." Here are the Pauline ...

10. He Who Has Ears to Hear, Let Him Hear

Luke 8:1-15

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Larry Powell

... to them. The legs complained about having to transport the entire body; the heart reminded all other weary faculties of its importance; the lungs gasped a reminder about how essential they were to the whole affair, and before it was over, every faculty and function of the body had made its presence known. The point was, of course, how intimately dependent each part is on the other. The apostle Paul conveyed the same message to the young Christians at Corinth: "For the body does not consist of one member ...

11. The Vocation of Leadership: A Prophet Among Them

Ephesians 4:1-16

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Maxie Dunnam

... may be proud of his ability, they may be affected for the time by his sermons; but the stronghold of his power is his heart. His scepter is love. The throne of his power is his heart.” Blessings, Paul Let me share a story that brings this dual function of the prophet/priest together, speaking to the people for God and speaking to God for the people. I was flying out of Tampa, Florida sometime ago. It was late, in the afternoon, just before sunset. I was seated on the front row and there was an empty seat ...

12. The Priesthood Of All Believers

Exodus 19:1-25

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Walter Kimbrough

... God have been met in full. When, in fact, we have succeeded in deceiving ourselves, prostituting the church and disappointing God. We are called to be the priesthood of all believers who are witnessing for Jesus Christ in the world. Others will have the function of teaching. A priest is a teacher. The city of Chicago is a place where the Roman Catholic Church is very strong. There was a time when the Catholic schools rivaled the Chicago city schools in number of students. The priests and nuns were ordained ...

13. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... and all, parents, be they the ones to whom we were born, or the ones to whom we have been given for that relationship, have a God-given task. Like Moses, the job is theirs, and in it they must function, they do function. The only question is how faithfully and carefully do they function? The necessity for being faithful to our trust is something Jesus emphasized when he told a group of hearers: "Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin (stumble), it would be better for him to ...

14. Signposts A Commencement Address

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Gregory J. Johanson

... graduation - a brief time and a relatively short speech. You come and go within the space of an hour or so. But it also is a time of potentially great significance. It is a signpost of change. For parents, it is a signpost of a change in your parental function. For you graduates, it is a signpost of a change in your world, for as your world continues to broaden, decisions get made again and again around who you want to be. There are always new tasks in life. This night reminds us that that is so. As life ...

15. How to Recognize a Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

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Curtis Lewis

... for living and a passionate call to serve others. The book of Deuteronomy recognizes that the people of God will be faced with crowing roosters who will stifle and harm the purpose and passion of the nation. Our scripture for this Lord's Day focuses on the function of the prophet in the life of the nation. The prophet of the Old Testament did not serve as has often been depicted as some sort of spiritual rooster continually crowing to remind the people of Israel of their obligation to God. The fear of Moses ...

16. A Truly Universal Operating System

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Larry Lange

... meat," said Billius at length. "Not many people can afford meat, anyway. And I don't look down on folks who won't eat meat, as some Christians in my circles do. In fact, at Macrosoft we provide both vegetarian and vegan entrees at all official functions. But if I were not to provide meat ... well ... there'd be no Macrosoft, and, by the way, I also wouldn't have any enormous financial resources for my health care initiatives." "The ends never justify the means," Billius' critic countered. "But there are no ...

17. Jesus - The Leader of Our Team

Philippians 1:1-11

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Richard Gribble

... that come to communities that refuse to have a centralizing ideal or person are quite obvious; they are manifest in varied ways in our world. If the spokes of a wheel do not have the hub there would be no central strength and the wheel would not function. In sports and even in families, when one desires to move out on one’s own, breaking unity, disaster is not far off. In families this can be manifest through lack of discipline. It may be children who “do their own thing,” parents who are unfaithful ...

18. Show Me Your Baptismal Certificate

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... . We are followers of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was sent to us by God for our salvation and redemption. Sometimes Jesus summons us to join him at the front of the line, but when we step forward to exercise “leadership” that is a function, not an identity. And even when we are “up front,” we are still behind Jesus. How did Paul put it? “Follow me as I follow Christ.” Everyone here in some time or other has attended a “leadership conference.” How many of us have ever attended a ...

19. God’s Ultimate Concern

Exodus 20:1-21

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Walter Kimbrough

... is no reason for us to get out of line with God. The law is plain and simple. Even a child can understand. Now that’s the character of God. Profound to the intellectually astute and simple to the young; the character of God is revealed. The second function of the law is to guide the believer’s faith response by specifying God’s expectations for our lives. King Jehoshaphat declared, “Listen to me, Judah and people of Jerusalem! Have faith in the Lord our God and you will be upheld; have faith in his ...

20. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

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Larry Powell

... human body's amazing mechanisms, which goes on about its business largely unnoticed until we begin to think about it, or unless something goes wrong. It is additionally fascinating to observe how ingeniously each specific part of the body is designed for a significant function. Injure, for example, one of your thumbs, and you soon learn how very much that part of the hand, which often appears to be just along for the ride, is essential for handling. Everything which is has been created as part of a master ...

21. Dead or Alive?

Joel 2:28-32

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... anything like the deadness of the rich man who ignored poor Lazarus? We are indebted to Sigmund Freud for a helpful frame of reference. He spoke, if you recall, of the "Id," "Ego," and "Super Ego" as being three levels of personal development and functioning. The "Id," he said, is the fundamental animal level, expressing the basic needs and drives of the physical being. The "Ego" is the level of self-conscious personhood. The "Super Ego" is the level of conscience and valuing. As a pathologist, Freud was ...

22. Of Preachers and Preaching

Micah 1:8-16

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... they meant ‘Go Plow Corn.’ " Another modifying influence on the subject of calling is the need for pastors of the many churches which have been established. This need is too great and too specialized to be left to the chance that solitary individuals functioning in the isolation of their solitude will be prompted in sufficient numbers to listen to God’s call to fill these roles. It has been perceived as a responsibility of the church to help articulate God’s call by nurturing in its midst awareness ...

23. The Three Faces of God

2 Corinthians 13:11-14

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... God. There is a simple illustration that is helpful: (1) Water is water (H20) and has reality and functions of its own. (2) Steam is water, but it is heated and has become vapor. It has reality and functions in this state. (3) Ice is water, but it is frozen and therefore solid - and it has reality and certain functions in this state. Three in one. It is all water, but in three different, functional forms. This is a kind of physical trinity. Dr. Harold DeWolfe reminds us that three questions are answered ...

24. An Altered State of Consciousness

Romans 5:1-11

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Robert G. Tuttle

... . This prompts us to ask a question: "Is the great increase in the incidence of cancer due to the fact that we live in a society in which faith is not a reality?" Is cancer a no-faith disease? Because of lack of faith, certain protective factors are not functioning in our systems. It makes a big difference. Look at the "Bannister Effect." Up to 1954, no one had run a four-minute mile. Then Roger Bannister ran the mile in under four minutes, and since then many runners have broken it. They now know it can be ...

25. Aiming at Perfection

Philippians 3:4b-14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... our lives except the most important part---our walk with Christ? Then let's change that, right away. Mr. Wesley and St. Paul call us Christians to set specific goals for Christian growth, bench marks along the way, with the long-term goal of becoming functionally perfect for the cause of Christ before it's time for us to go to heaven. This Christian perfection has three components. FIRST, WE SHOULD AIM TO BE PERFECT IN LOVE. Jesus was asked one time what is the greatest commandment. He replied, "You shall ...

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