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1. Called to Freedom

Matthew 11:25-30

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... the archbishoprics. To pay off this fine of 31,000 ducats, which was a small fortune, he borrowed the money from a bank, the House of Fuggers, in Augsburg. Jean and I visited it there. Here was the deal. The archbishop was allowed now to sell indulgences in Germany, half the proceeds would go to pay off the loan to the House of Fuggers, the other half would go to Rome for the construction of the new Cathedral of St. Peter. The archbishop hired the best indulgence seller he could find, a man named Tetzel ...

2. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

... . Many of the rich might have protested that they were simply middle-class and had earned their few pleasures. James looks at them from the perspective of the poor and calls it indulgence, which 1 Timothy 5:6 sees as a vice. And it is indeed indulgence in the face of the suffering of others. To this James adds, You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. The Greek has two meanings. On the one hand, it means: “You have enjoyed yourselves on the day of slaughter.” Since the fresh meat was soon ...

3. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:1-6, James 4:13-17, James 5:7-12, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

4. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:7-12, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:13-20

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

5. Praying for Endurance and Healing

James 5:13-20, James 4:13-17, James 5:1-6, James 5:7-12

Understanding Series

Peter H. Davids

6. Take On Something for Lent

Matthew 4:1-11

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Leonard Sweet

... you might make this an interactive, karaoke moment and ask your people what they think are some of the greatest “temptations” facing us on a daily basis.] Here is my candidate for the #1 temptation we indulge in most regularly: The temptation to gloat and glory over the fall of others. Our indulgence in this temptation keeps a swarm of paparazzi recording Britney Spears’ every move. Will you ever forget the image of that mile-long caravan that followed her to the hospital? Did you cringe as much as I ...

7. How Do You Get To Heaven?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... to see the Clerk of Works standing in the middle of the cathedral, yelling heavenward, "Peter! Close the gates!" (2) How do you get to heaven? What does it take to get in? The Russian Czar Ivan the Terrible tortured thousands of citizens. He indulged in long drunken periods and had seven wives. After each wild affair, Ivan would atone by prostrating himself in front of the church altar with such sincerity that he would bruise his forehead from hitting the stone church floor. Even as a child, Ivan was ...

8. Traveling Tables

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

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Leonard Sweet

... but our souls. The table provides us with a sense of being and belonging that we long for during the rest of the year, not just over the holidays. Christians are a people called to live and love the Table. Not to over-indulge in food, but to bend over backwards and over-indulge in hospitality. The Table is our Temple. It is the place where Jesus called his followers to gather and live and give. The Table is what Jesus transformed from a place for a meal to a paradigm and purpose for living. Because of Jesus ...

9. God's Accusation Against the Wicked

Isaiah 56:9--57:13

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... is an idiomatic way of saying “people given to divination” (cf. 1:4 and 47:12–15 for Babylon’s equivalent). The phrases in parallelism indicate what is wrong with divination. Yahweh had given Israel ways of finding guidance and protection. To indulge in the traditional ways practiced by the other peoples of their land was to make themselves “people given to adultery and unfaithfulness,” perhaps in two senses. They were being unfaithful to Yahweh, and they were also involved in sexual rites. They ...

10. Freedom In Christ

Galatians 5:1-15, Galatians 5:16-26

Understanding Series

L. Ann Jervis

... the law provided an opportunity for sin (Rom. 7:7–25) is not in view here. 5:21 The word live is a rendering of a Greek present participle (prassontes) that means “those who are given to practice.” The warning is directed at those who consciously and repeatedly indulge in these vices. Unlike the gospel writers, Paul does not often use the phrase the kingdom of God. On occasion he uses it in ethical contexts (1 Cor. 6:9–10; Rom. 14:17) but also in other settings (1 Cor. 4:20; 15:24, 50; 1 Thess. 2 ...

11. The Vision of the Great Prostitute

Revelation 17:1-18

Teach the Text

J. Scott Duvall

... military power that opposes God and serves Satan. Babylon is also known as the great prostitute who exports her idolatry and immorality to the ends of the earth. There have always been and will always be such centers of power that export immorality, indulge in luxury, and ensnare smaller empires and individuals in forms of slavery. We must heed again Jesus’s warning not to be deceived and led astray by such bastions of power, especially when they benefit us, since they are in partnership with the devil ...

12. Woe to Ephraim

Isaiah 28:1-29

Understanding Series

John Goldingay

... Babylon in 13:19. The people’s own finery mirrors the city’s, but they placard it at self-indulgent drunken banquets. We see in modern nations how people in important positions in politics, business, or religion easily fall into self-indulgence. In Ephraim’s case, the banquets may well have been essentially religious festivals. This would make that worse, because it involved flaunting their self-importance in the presence of the One who was really important. When the Assyrian storm arrives, the finery ...

13. Dealing With Guilt And Shame

Romans 7:7-25

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Maxie Dunnam

... only iniquity. There was no other reason, but foul was the evil, and I loved it." Now why would one harmless prank such as this loom so large in Augustine's mind? By his own admission, he had taken a mistress, fathered a child out of wedlock, and indulged in every fleshly passion. Surely, any of these was more serious than stealing pears. Augustine saw in the "pear incident" his true nature and the nature of all human kind: "foul was the evil, and I loved it." In each of us there is sin. Now whether we talk ...

14. Are You Sorry Enough to Wash Your Face?

Matthew 6:1-6, 16-21

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Robert Leslie Holmes

... been birthed in the church. Prior to the birth of Pope Gregory, there is evidence that ancient Romans celebrated the festival of Lupercalia in mid-February. Lupercalia was a festival of debauchery where archaic gods who permitted indulgence in sensual pleasures, scandalous activities including wife swapping (without regard for a wife's emotions), and drunkenness without inhibition were worshiped. It may be that somewhere between the fifth century and eighth century, the pre-Reformation church determined ...

15. Romans 13:11-14

Romans 13:8-14

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Leonard Sweet

... of the dawning eschatological “day” that is imminent. Paul’s list of behaviors practiced under the cover of darkness includes three sets of couplets. The first set of these behaviors comes from indulging in excessive drink. The second set from indulging in sexual sins. The third set from indulging in unchecked anger towards others. A longer list of “dark” behaviors is found in Galatians 5:19-21. It includes four of those found in Romans 13:13: drunkenness, quarreling, jealousy, and licentiousness ...

16. Righteousness Through Faith

Romans 3:21-31

Understanding Series

James R. Edwards

... and concepts. Jesus is the redemption whom God put forth as an expiation, whose blood demonstrated God’s righteousness, a righteousness through faith in him who justifies the ungodly. That is, to be sure, high caliber vocabulary, but Paul is not indulging in conundrums and sophisms. He is striving to put universal and eternal verities into finite language, and his words are straining under the load. That should not surprise us. If dogs or dolphins were capable of penetrating human knowledge, we presume ...

17. Living as Children of Light

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Understanding Series

Arthur G. Patzia

... in Colossians 3:5 in the context of “putting off” immoral practices. Even though much is said about the “kingdom of God” in the NT, Galatians 5:21 is the only passage that specifically mentions this concept within the context of immoral behavior: Those who indulge in the “acts of the sinful nature” will not receive “the kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:19–21). But the phrase kingdom of Christ and of God is unique in the NT (unless “Lord” in Rev. 11:15 means God). The author of Ephesians makes ...

18. Dead or Alive?

Joel 2:28-32

Sermon

... tourniquet has produced irreversible death. No doubt you have seen the television show entitled Life Styles of the Rich and Famous. Have you wondered, as I have, about these persons? How can they so freely immerse themselves in such opulence and self-indulgence in the presence, and often on the backs, of countless other persons suffering great need and deprivation? What has happened to their consciences? By what kind of twisted logic can they excuse themselves? And we may add, what does our envy of them ...

19. Dare to Be Different

Romans 13:11-14

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John N. Brittain

... despise those who abstain, and those who abstain must not pass judgment on those who eat; for God has welcomed them." Sometimes agreeing to disagree takes the most strength of all. Y'all putting on the Lord Jesus Christ means refusing to indulge in quarrelling and jealousy, even over so important an issue. Instead, we must be different from the world in our behavior. Similarly, in Romans 14 Paul raised the issue of some believers who observed certain days, fast days perhaps or maybe continuing to worship ...

20. Enemies of the Cross

Philippians 3:17 - 4:1

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Steven E. Albertin

... terrible "enemies of the cross" of Christ? Scholars have debated this question ad infinitum. On the one hand, there are those who see them as libertines, the "let it all hang out" crowd. For them "anything goes" in the name of Christian freedom. They indulge in every sort of excess and immorality, all in the pursuit of their own self-gratification. In pursuit of their own pleasure they have little concern for the welfare of others. On the other hand, there are those scholars who see the "enemies of the ...

21. Love Is Down to Earth

John 12:1-11

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Carl Jech

... Eckankar does teach that it is a sinful waste of time to try to reform this world because only the next world matters.) When Jesus says that we will not always have him with us as we will always have the poor, we might conclude that Jesus is indulging in some unseemly self-congratulation, that he is setting himself off from, above, and over against the poor. It is true that by the time the Gospel of John was written in the form that we have it today, the early church had developed a much stronger conviction ...

22. A Fireside Chat

Exodus 3:1-22

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Barbara Brokhoff

... really very ordinary and, in spite of money, power, success, we just got lucky and don't really deserve it after all. It is especially true that when a sense of God's presence is felt, we begin to recall the lies we've told, the sexual sins we've indulged in, the tests we've cheated on, the shady deals we've arranged, the people we've hurt, the selfishness we've shown - oh, my, the things we remember when God is near! When God comes near we become cowards, all. I heard a story of some office workers who ...

23. Epiphany 8

Luke 6:37-42, Isaiah 55:1-13, Jeremiah 7:1-29, 1 Corinthians 15:35-58, Luke 6:46-49

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... v. 45. Only Christ can change a heart. 2. When people behave as they do. 6:43-45. Need: It is always a problem to understand the behavior of people. As Christians we need to be concerned about improving the behavior of those who indulge in sin, crime, and anti-social behavior. Why do people indulge in wicked behavior and how can they turn to a godly way of life? Before we can help people to a better way of life, we need to understand what makes them act the way they do. Outline: Why people behave as they do ...

24. Proper 17

Hebrews 13:1-25, Jeremiah 2:1-3:5, Luke 14:1-14

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John R. Brokhoff

... worthless things were false gods they worshiped. There is an important truth here. What we look up to, what we admire, what we worship causes us to become like what we worship. If we worship gold, we become materialistic. If we worship sex, we will indulge in illicit sex. What a person worships discloses the nature of a person's character. 3. Appalled (v. 12). Jeremiah calls upon the heavens to be appalled at the sins of God's people. It is absolutely unbelievable that a people could change the one, true ...

25. Epiphany 8

Lk 6:39-49 · 1 Cor 15:51-58 · Jer 7:1-7 · Isa 55:10-13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... ? - v. 45 Only Christ can change a heart Why People Behave as They Do. 6:43-45. Need: It is always a problem to understand the behavior of people. As Christians we need to be concerned about improving the behavior of those who indulge in sin, crime, and anti-social behavior. Why do people indulge in wicked behavior and how can they turn to a godly way of life? Before we can help people to a better way of life, we need to understand what makes them act the way they do. Outline: Why People Behave as They Do ...

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