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1. What a Difference a Day Makes

Exodus 20:8-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... . You will never teach your family a greater lesson than that. Now I want to give you a challenge. You are just like an automobile. Just like you can check gauges on your automobile to see if it is functioning properly, God has given us three gauges by which we can give ourselves a check-up. We have a mental gauge, a physical gauge, and a spiritual gauge. Now check yours - Mentally are you absolutely running on empty? Are you mentally exhausted or are you charged up and ready to do what God wants you to do ...

2. Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Brett Blair

... and two small fish. Jesus is ahead of Philip. He is the pacesetter. He is out in front of them all, minutes ahead sizing up the situation providing the solutions before we even know what the problems are. He is the unique one, the measure by which all others gauge their lives. The feeding of the five thousand is a miracle on a grand scale but if we concentrate too hard on the miracle we will miss the message in the background. I What are we to learn from a small meal? That’s the first thing to discover ...

3. Living The Faith For Dummies

Luke 10:25-37

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... make it. And if not, they'd stop and either siphon some from the wrecker or the wrecker driver would tow the young man and his car to the station so he could fill up. The wrecker driver even radioed ahead and had the part for the broken gauge waiting, so the owner of the gas station could repair his car. So, munching on a sandwich, drinking some cold water, and knowing that he had a guardian angel following, the young man headed on down the road, with the wrecker bouncing to the beat behind him. The wrecker ...

4. Lessons from a Fool

Luke 12:13-21

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King Duncan

... the work of God and the service of others requires no sacrifice, then you have Jesus locked in a cupboard, and he is not really living in every part of your life. Here’s the final thing we need to see: the extent of our giving is the most accurate gauge we have of the authenticity of our faith. Jesus said it as clearly as it can be said: “For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (12:34). Many years ago, missionary Bob Roberts was a guest speaker in a church. In this service he was ...

5. From Tragedy to Salvation

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... in the sensor probes of the engine intake. 2. The engine bleed air anti-ice system was purposely turned off to make more takeoff power available. Another bad option, which resulted in iced up sensors and a false high power indication on the EPR gauges during takeoff. 3. No one confirmed that the aircraft was free of structural ice before the takeoff. 4. The first officer told the captain that something was not right on the takeoff roll. (The aircraft accelerated too slowly due to improper power setting and ...

6. Can I Get Some Help Over Here?

John 14:23-29

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R. Robert Cueni

... Clean up your own mess.” In response to Colleen’s cry for “a little help over here,” Dad went to a hardware store and purchased a gas can. When he returned, he told his beloved daughter, “Before driving the car, always check the rearview mirror and check the gas gauge.” Then he gifted her with that brand new gas can and told her to figure out how to get the stalled car home. “Clean up your own mess.” Colleen is now 45 years old. She has carried that same gas can in her car for the past 28 ...

7. More Than a Popularity Contest

Luke 12:49-53, Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... him. They will pay a price for following him, so they’d better be prepared for it. But he can also see how the Holy Spirit, his Spirit living in them, will lead them to change the world. Many leaders gauge the success of their ministry on its popularity, on the number of followers they have. Jesus gauged the success of his ministry on his obedience to God. And he warned us that obedience to God will make us unpopular with the world. In Luke 12, he’s teaching his disciples, “Don’t let your current ...

8. Our Champion Rides Into Battle

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Gerald Whetstone

... armed with an automatic rifle. He raises it in the air as he shouts, "This street belongs to me! If anyone wants to argue that, he can show himself and we'll settle it right now!" From the ramparts of a city, another cluster of anxious observers gauged the threat of their enemy's approach: a lone rider, presenting himself for battle -- the final battle. "Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me!" On a donkey he rode, his face set like flint, advancing ...

9. Traveling Forgotten Mountains

Isaiah 49:8-26

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... 't feel it, nor could he grasp it, for there was no feeling in his hands. As the line was being reeled in, the bobber moved by him and he tried to enfold his body around it, but could not hold on. Then he saw it, a five-inch, heavy gauge hook. The ship was pulling away and it was his last chance. As best as he could he held the point of the hook against his palm, waiting for the line to come taut ... it did, and mercifully he soon blacked out as he was literally reeled into the boat ...

10. The Peace That Jesus Gives

John 14:15-31

Sermon

Lee Griess

... . For several minutes a desperate silence hung over the cabin. Then fear gave way to screams of anxiety as the landing neared. All the latest technology could not keep the jumbo jet in the air. What had happened was this. The electronic digital fuel gauge was out of order. So the flight crew had depended on the figures given them by the refueling crew before takeoff. But someone on the refueling crew had confused pounds with kilograms. Therefore, eight hundred miles short of its destination, that mighty jet ...

11. The Politics Of Love

Luke 10:25-37

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W. Robert McClelland

... command, "Go, and do likewise!" To love the neighbor - that is, those who are the victims of oppression and injustice - is to love God. Our love of God is not measured by the orthodoxy of our beliefs or the earnestness of our praise. It is, rather, gauged by our restoration to wholeness those who have been oppressed. In our society that kind of love is inescapably political. Most people are of the opinion that politics and religion do not mix, or at least ought not mix and, consequently, it is one of those ...

12. Kingdom Etiquette

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

W. Robert McClelland

... to listen to them we begin to trust them, for these stirrings of the soul speak with an urgency and wisdom that is experienced as divine will. They tell us what is crucial for our lives to be whole and good. Mary Richards counsels, "We have to trust the invisible gauges we carry within us. We have to realize that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its way, for it will give us no peace until we do."6 Here, modern psychotherapy can help us. We begin ...

13. The Baby Who Changes Everything

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... as a baby in Bethlehem is the one who has changed all things! Kenneth Scott Latourette, the distinguished Yale historian once wrote, "Measured by its fruits in the human race, that short life of Jesus has been the most influential ever lived on this planet. Gauged by the consequences which have followed his life, Jesus of Nazareth is central in the human story and the most important event in the history of our world." 2. The Possibility Of Inner Change The outward changes in society are the evidences of a ...

14. Giving Away the Store

Luke 22:7-38, John 13:1-17

Sermon

Carl Jech

... no doubt helped to spark his interest.) At the conclusion of the program the point was made that "anyone who really tries is a winner." Now no one can criticize the basic idea behind that statement. But why does the notion of "winning" have to be the gauge against which everything is measured? Why not simply say that anyone who really tries can feel good about himself or herself, can celebrate the joy of participating? Why not say that anyone who really tries is truly alive to life! There is a lot of truth ...

15. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

... up every one of their worship services with that marvelous word——Maranatha—Come Lord Jesus. But at the writing of this particular book, the church was now celebrating its 65th birthday. I suppose that if this church had been located in West Tennessee you would gauge its age by looking out the back window at the number of tombstones in the church cemetery. Where is the promise of his coming? Many did not begin their Christian pilgrimage by thinking that it would be this long. So here is a church that ...

16. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

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17. Watching Jesus

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... statements always fall far short of the experiential reality they point toward. The vital thing to remember is that these doctrines are humble ways in which ancient and modern Christians proclaim that in watching Jesus, we see the presence of God. We can gauge and test our seeing when we discover that our watching Jesus brings us into the experiences of judgment and sin, forgiveness and power to overcome, endurance under stress and responsibility, hope for a better world, peace which is deeper than life’s ...

18. Working and Praying Go Together

Matthew 14:13-21

Sermon

... have! Or to put it in financial terms, we're not always satisfied with $6.70 an hour. Surely, I'm worth more than that, we feel! There is the meaninglessness and frustration that can overtake us in our work, because we allow it to be too much of a gauge of our personal self-worth. In our own insecurity, we are always pushing toward the next higher step. And then there is the case that we sometimes view our work as nothing more than a necessary evil. We have to work to make bucks. In our scheme of things we ...

19. Is God With You, Or Not?

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

... , I know this is God's will. I know God is with me, for everything worked out so easily, without a single hitch. That has to be God!" It is true God may very well be with us when things go well, but it is certainly not an accurate gauge for testing his Presence and his approval. Smooth sailing does not always mean God is present, nor that he is pleased. Many of the people of God have faced this dilemma and asked this same question. They have seen the apparent prosperity and carefree lives of the wicked and ...

20. The Collateral Damage of Our Attitudes

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

We continue to gauge how our lives are effected by all this. It has been difficult taking in all the things happening over these past three weeks, much less make sense of it all. Occasionally you read something in the paper or you see something on TV which helps you put things in perspective. ...

21. Sinners Anonymous

Matthew 9:9-13

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... many of us do not recognize how laden with sin we really are and how desperately we need to appropriate Jesus Christ to cover and atone for sin (by taking him and his merits unto ourselves by Bible study, prayer and worship). In fact, if you want to gauge how seriously you take sin, check how earnestly you partake of Jesus Christ through the Word, Sacrament, Prayer and Bible Study. If you are weak on these and find them only in vogue for you on Sunday morning and not throughout the rest of each week, you ...

22. Binding Up the Fractured World

1 Corinthians 3:1-23

Sermon

Hubert Beck

... the church itself multiply the division, it would show itself as the enemy of God rather than his servant. So the thoughts turn again to the "wisdom" that has occupied a considerable amount of Paul’s thought in these chapters. The wisdom of God is not gauged by intellectual content or by particular kinds of knowledge. The wisdom of God is humble obedience. It is to "know the Lord" and to follow the path he sets before us. It is to trust and to act accordingly. Division is caused by people insisting on ...

23. Here Comes Jesus

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

James Bjorge

... also asked him, "And we, what shall we do?" And he said to them, "Rob no one by violence or by false accusation, and be content with your wages." (Luke 3: 10-14) Sometimes we get nothing because we don’t expect anything. Preaching is often gauged by performance rather than by productivity. John was interested in seeing fruits and he asked for them. A large corporation has two questions it asks of its employees: "What are you trying to produce? Are you producing it?" Those aren’t bad questions to ask of ...

24. Never Underestimate The Power of a Cup of Cold Water

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of Apostle Paul, they were held captive by the words and teachings of Jesus Christ. It is Paul’s way of saying they were slaves to Christ. It is quite likely we shall never be tested to the extent that the disciples were but there are some ways to gauge our commitment. Let’s look at a couple this morning: I. Sacrifice is a Sign of Mature Faith. If you have been a Christian for some long time, I would suggest that the sacrifices you make are the tell-tale sign of a mature commitment. Let’s look at ...

25. Returning to Genuine Religion

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... , did all this mean to the religion of Israel? 1. Each person was to be responsible directly to God. A new dimension was to emerge in Israel’s religion. It would forecast an era of personal religion. Up to now, religion had been apt to be an external thing, gauged and evaluated by the rule of Law, a matter of punching the clock daily and making sure it was done on time. But now God said through his prophet, Jeremiah, "I will put my law within them and I will write it upon their hearts" (v. 33). Changed ...

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