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1. Promises to Keep

Hebrews 8:1-13

Sermon

James McCormick

... , we are told, “Just say ‘Yes’ or ‘No’.” That’s enough. In other words, be a person of such credibility, be a person of such integrity, that everyone who knows you will know that, if you say it, you will do it. If you make a promise, you will keep it. In closing, let me tell you about someone like that. His name was Billy, and it was the first year he was old enough to play Little League baseball. For years he had gone with his parents and sat in the stands while his older brothers played. But ...

2. Who’s Keeping Score?

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

William J. Carl

... least expect it. It comes to us like $10 million when we knew we had nothing coming. All we have to do is accept it graciously and send God a “thank you” note by showing God we know what it means. And what it means, of course, is no more keeping score with friends, or family, or even our enemies. It means no $20 limit on our forgiveness credits. It means not hoarding any of our $10 million. It means never saying again: “I’m sorry but I can never forgive him for that.” or “I can’t put up with ...

3. Keeping the Faith

Luke 18:1-8

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Molly F. James

... meant to exemplify faith, who is the public persona of faith, who gives her life in service to God and the church has trouble keeping the faith, how is she going to preach about it? Well, you are right to be concerned, but I actually think the key ... trouble seeing past the next hour. I felt so ill and uncomfortable that I would forget that I ever felt good. I would have trouble keeping the faith that it was going to get better. My vision was so narrowly focused on the present moment that I could not believe ...

4. Keeping In Touch… With The Lord

Exodus 33:12-23

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... , traveling in the wrong direction, without the seatbelts fastened and no insurance. Surely we can declare that a great calamity is about to take place. Death is waiting on the sideline for the moment of impact to claim its victims. Whenever we refuse to keep in touch with our friends we become like the driver of the car, destined for destruction. Every relationship that is not nurtured soon dies. Now, it is one thing to lose touch with your peers, those persons who represent classmates, have found friends ...

5. Keeping Promises

Numbers 30:1-16

Teach the Text

Joe M. Sprinkle

... when he hears about her vow or pledge, then her act is binding. But if he objects and opposes her vow, then God will “release her” (v. 5 [lit., “forgive her”]) from her vow or oath so that she is not under threat of divine punishment for not keeping her vow or pledge. 30:6 If she marries after she makes a vow or . . . utter[s] a rash promise. When a girl marries, she transfers from being under her father’s authority to being under her husband’s authority. Thus, her husband can veto any vow she ...

6. Keep The Devil Out!

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

... book that we know so well that we can quote it at any time. To be saturated with the Bible and its truth is a good way to keep the Devil out of your life. Paul urges us to take the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God that we might ward off the ... Devil who seeks to devour us. So, the question for us is not how to get the devil out of us, but how to keep him out of us. If once possessed of Satan, it is a horrible thing to get him exorcised. The smart thing to do would be not to let ...

7. Keeping Our Promises

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... sponsored by the church and only thirteen actually appeared for the trip or called to let him know they could not be present. "That," he said, "tells you a great deal about people." I raise this issue because a part of being a mature, stable person is keeping your word. I am not surprised that the youth and adults who are faithful to their commitments in our church are also the most healthy people. This week I had occasion to converse with a young woman who possesses, I feel, one of the most stable marital ...

8. Keeping Your Eye on the Ball

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... If you allow yourself to become distracted and look away, you will lose your focus, disable your ability to play astutely, disengage from your team and its joint vision and strategy, and the other team may gain the upper hand. Keeping your eye on the ball doesn’t just mean on the ball itself, but it means keeping your attention on the game, on your role as part of the team, and on your commitment to the team’s mission to play to the best of its ability. This goes for nearly anything you do in life. Want ...

9. Keeping Our Souls

John 13:18-30

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he knew best. Peter thought his strength of commitment would sustain him. They teach us that none of us are exempt from the possibility of moral and spiritual failure. Our task as Christians and certainly as those who would be ministers is to be vigilant in “keeping our souls.” II Let’s come at it from a different direction. Outright betrayal is probably not a part of our experience -- but denial is. Hardly a day passes, probably, for most of us, when we do not deny Christ in one way or another. Peter ...

10. Keep Your Eye On The Ball

Nehemiah 6:1-14

Sermon

James Merritt

... the front of my bible which says, "God wants you focused. The devil wants you finished." I am convinced that one of the biggest things that keeps a church from doing what it should be doing is talk. "Hard work always pays off; mere talk puts no bread on the table." (Proverbs ... don't care what you think. I don't care what you say. I don't care what you don't like, I'm going to keep building this wall until the job is done." This reminds me of a lady who came up to Winston Churchill one time. Her name was Lady ...

11. Keep On Moving

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the left. By the time they decide they’d better run, it’s often too late! Even horses – big as they are, you’d think they’d be totally focused –need blinders on their eyes, so that they don’t veer off the course! But the chicken….the chicken keeps on moving! Now, I don’t know if that’s really true, but the jokes have lasted for decades! And like all good jokes, they contain a small kernel of wisdom. It’s the same wisdom Jesus imparts as he carries on a mission that requires all of his ...

12. Keep Spinning

1 John 4:7-21

Children's Sermon

Kenneth Mortonson

... in life. We take the power that has been given to us in worship and study, and we release it into our world. But, then after we have done that, we must return to worship and study to be strengthened and nurtured again. This give and take is what will keep your Christian life moving, as with the spinning disk. Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home: On that day when your child doesn't know what to do. Let him or her make this toy and while it is being used in play, you might raise the subject ...

13. Keeping His Word

John 14:23-29

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Donald Charles Lacy

... John's Gospel is written more in a mystical and devotional fashion, it is hard to perceive the timing of the writing. Of one thing we can be certain, and that is that substantial change is in the air we breathe. Like none of the other gospels, John keeps reminding them of the very close relationship between Jesus and the Father. It is as though he wants to be certain there is no misunderstanding. Jesus relates carefully that both he and the Father will come to them and make our home with them. He is doing ...

14. Keep Watching, Keep Warning, Keep Chasing

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cloud is yellow it means there is in effect a tornado “watch.” A storm “watch” means that the atmospheric conditions are right and ripe for a tornado to form. A yellow funnel cloud “watch” means it is time to go on “high alert,” to be prepared, to keep vigilant, because the chance of a big, scary storm heading your way is high. If the funnel cloud indicator on the screen turns red, it is time to “duck and cover.” That color change is an indication that your area is no longer under just a ...

15. Keep Your Eyes On Heaven

Colossians 3:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... the dead. We are especially happy today as Christians because of this wonderful thing that God allowed to happen. Today all of us are supposed to remember that we are special to God, too. We are all going to rise from the dead, like Jesus did, so we should keep our minds on heaven. Paul tells us today that we should always be looking at the things that are above -- the things of heaven. To help us do that I brought some things along that have something in common. (Pick up the kite.) What can kites do, boys ...

16. Keep Your Eyes On Heaven

Colossians 3:2

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

17. Keeping Sunday

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... seem to give people permission to stay away from church, and if they stay away they will get out of the habit of going to church, and the church will be weakened. So it has served the interest of the church to interpret statements about keeping the Sabbath holy as meaning, "Thou shalt attend church on Sunday." The Bible does not require that. And people eventually get tired of being made to feel guilty and they stay away anyway. There are numerous valid reasons for Christian people to gather for worship ...

18. Keeping Shut About the Good News

Acts 3:1-10; Acts 4:13-20

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John E. Harnish

... and their number came to about five thousand." What a contrast to the bold witness of Peter and John when the rulers told them to keep shut about the name of Jesus: "We cannot but speak the things we have seen and heard." I believe the story of John and Peter ... When you have seen the way God's love can break down barriers of race and class and create a new community, you just can't keep shut about the Good News. I love the old story of the Salvation Army drummer in London who was beating away on his drum in a ...

19. A Secret Hard To Keep

Mark 5:42-43

Children's Sermon

... something wonderful. The people who saw the miracle Jesus did got all excited. They wanted to tell everybody. Jesus said to them, "Don't tell anybody about it." How do you think you would have felt if you had been there the day Jesus did that? Would you want to keep the secret? (Talk about it.) I'll tell you how I would have felt. (Show them the photo illustration.) I'd want to blow one of these. I'd want to announce it to everybody! That's what the people in the story in the Bible did. They told everybody ...

20. God Can’t Keep a Good Secret!

Ezekiel 37:1-14

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... is sin in us, we know that - Dry Bones Can Live Again! Only God can bring the dead out again, put flesh on the skeleton, cause it to stand on its feet, breathe into the body, and restore it to life. When days are dark, God can’t seem to keep from telling us there is light at the end of the tunnel. Lent is the midnight of the soul, the season of deep repentance, a time of self-examination, of beginning the Via Dolorosa pilgrimmage - but here we are, just two-thirds of the way there - and God can contain ...

21. How To Handle Criticism? Keep Moving

Luke 9:51-56

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , a tooth-for-a tooth is the most tempting when criticism lashes out at you red in tooth and claw. You want red? Let’s keep it red. Right? After all we live in a red-in-tooth-and-claw culture of criticism. No matter what news broadcast you listen to, you ... alright. But it couldn’t move. It knew that it had to exercise in some way. So it did. The mule started stomping to keep its muscles from deteriorating, and by the morning do you know what happened? The farmer thought he had filled the well with dirt ...

22. Keep Looking Up

Illustration

... a scream of panic, the man at the top looked down, saw the child, and instantly perceived the danger. Signaling the mother to be silent, he calmly said to the child, "Look up, sonny, look up here to me, and keep climbing." Rung by rung, he coaxed the child ever higher: "Come on now, keep looking up, keep coming." At last, the child safe in his arms, the painter carried him safely to the ground. Well, each of us is somewhere on the ladder this morning. If we look down, we may be terrified; but we are here ...

23. How Can I Keep From Singing?

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... , as if reluctant to break the spell. “Sarah,” he said, “we’ve had a lot of ups and downs together during these forty years, and when I’ve thought of all you’ve meant to me, sometimes it’s been almost more than I could do to keep from telling you.” Sometimes things just “leak” out of us, no matter how hard we try to plug them up. Sometimes we spring a “leak” that should have sprung long ago. Other times leaks spring that never should have sprung. You might call “leaks” one of the ...

24. Keep Things Flowing

Luke 16:19-31

Sermon

Richard Patt

... but out of the lake. The spillway was cleared, and soon the lake was fresh and clean again. The flow in and out was necessary to keep the water pure! Doesn't the same principle apply to you and me as human beings? The blessings of life flow to you and me, ... for those in need. In this Gospel reading we have one of those sad stories -- even a somber story -- about a person who didn't keep things flowing in his life, with the result that his life became clogged and ended in tragedy. We don't know the man's name ...

25. Keeping on Top

Romans 12:21

Children's Sermon

... hold it down until all the holes fill up with water and then it will sink. (Try that and show them that you can’t sink it). Well, how about that! Maybe, that’s why I want to call you corks. No matter how hard I try, I can’t keep the cork down. Right now, there are a lot of things around you that would like to make you bad. There are bad books, bad people, bad T.V. shows and a lot of other things that want to make you like them. They ...

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