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1. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ? Do we really care for those caught in this collapse - even those helping to speed the collapse? Gibbon tells us something about ourselves when he declares: "The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness." "Immoderate greatness," could that be us? We are not encouraged by Oswald Spengler who believed that the industrial cycle of civilization "ends in Megalopolis, where man coheres unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter ...

2. I Can Have Anything?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

... the Chaplains to "get a hot line to God!" During the Battle of the Bulge when the weather was so terrible, Gen. Patton ordered the Chaplain to write a prayer that would change the weather. The resulting prayer went something like this, "Restrain these immoderate storms, [O Lord], grant us fair weather for battle, graciously hearken to us as soldiers who call upon Thee, that armed with Thy power, we may advance from victory to victory and establish Thy justice among men and nations. Amen." Gen. Patton gave ...

3. In Life Nothing Works but the Impossible

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... nothing less than Paradise Regained. Politics may be called the “art of the possible.” But religion is the art of the impossible. Jesus’ true kind of humans are people who refuse to conform to the limits of the possible: they practice immoderate, intemperate, odd, double, dare dreams--like love your enemies, overcome evil with good, die to yourself, forgive 70x7. You say: Impossible! I say: Impossible is nothing! One of my favorite biblical expressions is Mary’s words of wonderment: “How can this ...

4. History of Christ the King Sunday

John 18:28-40, 1 John 2:15-17

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Brett Blair

... enmities and rivalries between nations, which still hinder so much the cause of peace; that insatiable greed which is so often hidden under a pretense of public spirit and patriotism, and gives rise to so many private quarrels; a blind and immoderate selfishness, making men seek nothing but their own comfort and advantage, and measure everything by these; no peace in the home, because men have forgotten or neglect their duty; the unity and stability of the family undermined; society, in a word, shaken ...

5. What Might Have Been

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Joeseph Stowell

A Brief Biography: He was 25 and had already captured the hearts of Russia with his novel Poor Folk. Fame quickly went to his head. He drank immoderately and partied wildly. He carelessly criticized the Czarist regime. You don't that in Czarist Russia. He was arrested in St. Petersburg and sentenced to death by the firing squad along with several other dissidents. It was a cold December morning. Dressed in a white execution gown, he was led ...

6. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... ? Man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires. James never states his reason for this statement, but several appear in the New Testament. First, once the angry feeling begins to be expressed, it is by nature immoderate and uncontrollable, which made even Hellenistic pagan writers condemn anger. Second, anger is incompatible with the teaching of Jesus, particularly his command to love one’s enemy (Matt. 5:38–48) and his direct condemnation of hating one’s brother (Matt ...

7. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

8. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to heal him. What he discovers is that Elisha has nothing really to do with it. It’s not Elisha who heals him. It is God –without pomp or circumstance—but only in the Holy Spirit presence, that mysterious, super-natural power that requires nothing, and gives everything. Excessive, exorbitant, immoderate, contrary to reason, not guided by sound judgment or rational behavior, beyond the limits of acceptability or fairness, out of this world just extraordinary –that’s the grace of God!

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Baruch Spinoza

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Quintilian

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1. Shepherding One Another in a Collapsing World

Romans 9:1-29

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

2. I Can Have Anything?

John 14:5-14

Sermon

King Duncan

3. In Life Nothing Works but the Impossible

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

4. History of Christ the King Sunday

John 18:28-40, 1 John 2:15-17

Illustration

Brett Blair

5. What Might Have Been

Illustration

Joeseph Stowell

6. Trials and Temptations

James 1:1-18, James 1:19-27

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

7. Listening and Doing

James 1:19-27, James 1:1-18

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

8. Unreasonable Mercy

2 Kings 5:1-27, Matthew 8:5-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

Baruch Spinoza

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Edmund Burke

Forbidden pleasures alone are loved immoderately; when lawful, they do not excite desire.

Quintilian

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