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Luke 1:67-80

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... and businesses. But those same persons and businesses would gladly quote former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that any welfare system presupposes that someone, somewhere, is producing wealth to make the welfare payments. And you cannot produce wealth without making a profit. The great labor leader Samuel Gompers said, "The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit." Most all of us hope to profit from business or profession or investments, but in the ...

2. Marriage In Heaven? No. Heaven In Marriage? Yes.

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... at this point. A delightful Jewish story tells about a small dealer in wheat in Russia named Itzik who went to a distant town to sell his grain. Before leaving, he faithfully promised his wife to send her a telegram if he succeeded in making a profitable transaction. Having made his deal, he went to the telegraph office and sat down to compose his telegram. He wrote: "Sold wheat profitably. Return tomorrow. Embrace lovingly. Itzik" As he was about to hand the text to the clerk he hesitated. "Now why do ...

3. Think on these Things

Philippians 4:4-9

Sermon

Donna Schaper

... . There is absolutely no truth to the rumor that we’ve put the entire church's endowment in health care stocks. The fact that they may have risen by thirty percent in the last few weeks has no affect on us here. We wouldn't think of making a profit off the healing of leprosy. Why are some people making profit off of other people's leprosy? Because we have refused the grace for gratitude: We think that our healing depends on us and our economies and our profits and our machinations. We have not looked out ...

4. A Sign Of Divine Protection

Exodus 12:1-30

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

There is an American insurance company whose advertisements seek to convince consumers that they are in good hands when insured by them. All companies, including insurance companies, are in business to make a profit, not to do the consumer a favor. They may receive a benefit as a result of your doing business, but if the company is not profitable, it ceases to exist. Capitalism is at the heart of the American society. The cost of protecting houses and contents, automobiles and boats as ...

5. When God Measures The Church

Amos 7:7-17

Sermon

Stephen P. McCutchan

... that are performed by church members are too numerous to count. At the same time there is a shadow side to our lives. While we would not directly approve of selling out the poor for a pair of shoes, some of us have investments that probably make a profit from underpaid labor. Certainly we benefit from corporations that will lay off workers to make the stockholders a better profit or move a factory out of a local town in order to find cheaper labor. I repeat that I am as uncomfortable with Amos' words as ...

6. A Lesson From Prayers Overheard

Luke 18:9-14

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... a sinner! And what's more, he makes no offer either of repentance or of reparation. He cannot offer to repent, for he would have no way to earn a living or support his family. Being the highest bidder, he can hardly drop his rates and still make a profit. If he repents, he must also make reparation of the amount wrongly charged, plus a penalty of one-fifth -- 20 percent! Unlike Zacchaeus, who in his repentance goes beyond the law ("Half my goods I give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything ...

7. The Earth Is the Lord’s ... And Don’t You Forget It!

Psalm 24:1

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... make production more expensive, they lobbied to have them relaxed, regardless of whether or not that would make us vulnerable again. Now, before you jump on the wicked and heartless auto manufacturers, remember their job is not to encourage energy conservation; their job is to make a profit. They cannot be blamed for their position. And no one would be blamed in this if ... and this is a huge if ... if the government had stood its ground and kept the standards in place. But it did not. In 1986, as a favor ...

8. Will The Real Messiah Please Stand Up?

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

William L. Self

... is the consumer culture. This seems to have more control over the lives of our people than the gospel they profess. The latest toy seems to reign supreme. But there is a deadly catch. The market's goal is not to nurture people, but to make a profit. And if people must be sacrificed to make that profit, then so be it. Another false messiah in America is big-time athletics. Every parent hopes that big-time athletics will rescue them from the difficulty of paying tuition bills for their young quarterback ...

9. Never on Sunday

Mark 2:23-3:6

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... else. Even a cursory examination of the New Testament shows this to be the case. We are a community of faith, a family, a body where every organ and limb has an important task to do and without which the body is incomplete. We do not function to make a profit, but to serve a God. The pastor is not the CEO, but the pastor, a word that comes from the Latin root meaning shepherd. The members are neither the customers nor the employees but members of the church, even as the hand and the foot and the eyes ...

10. The Parable of the Ten Minas

Luke 19:11-27

One Volume

Gary M. Burge

... on the date of the kingdom’s consummation; he focuses on the need for responsible work by his servants. In the parable, each of the ten servants is given one mina, which probably equaled about three months’ wages. Each servant is expected to make a profit in the master’s absence. The message to the disciples is that they are expected to bear fruit in the interval of time between Jesus’s ascension and return. When the nobleman returns, he settles accounts. Seven of the ten servants fall out ...

11. Whatever Happened To Sanctification?

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... Bearing false witness has to do with more important issues than these. It has to do with public and political lying: lying to protect our job or our reputation, lying to get ahead by ruining the reputation of another, lying to sell goods, lying to make a profit, lying to get re-elected, lying about our income to the IRS, lying to make our country look good, lying under the excuse of national security. These kinds of lies are never trivial. They erode away the foundation of truth which is a basic ingredient ...

12. Miscellaneous Laws

Deut 23:15–25:19

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

... Such is the evil of human nature, that desperate human need is commonly an opportunity for unscrupulous exploitation. True to OT ideals of justice and compassion, the ban on interest in Deuteronomy, Exodus, and Leviticus is primarily concerned to stop the hardhearted from making a profit out of hard times. This may, as some think, be the reason why the ban did not apply to foreigners. The foreigners in mind (though not, it must be said, stated in the law) may have been commercial traders, with whom interest ...

13. Freedom and Slavery

Romans 6:15-23

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... do what is right. I wouldn't want it to be any other way. You see, as a Christian (and not just as a pastor) this is the way I get to live. I am free to serve Jesus and the guy who sells that software and justly expects to make a profit." Martin Luther describes it well in the opening words of his famous 1523 treatise "On the Freedom of the Christian." He says, "I am perfectly free, subject to no one. At the same time I am a slave, subject to everyone." People, this kind of freedom is yours. You are ...

14. The Dirt on Jesus

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Wars,” where confiscated storage lockers (the original owners are either dead or unable to pay storage fees any longer) go on the auction block. After the locks have been cut, there is a bidding war among the “stuff scavengers” hoping to make a profit off of left behind stuff. Second, there is the loser version of that scene called “Storage Nightmares,” where the proud new owner of an abandoned storage unit discovers the “stuff” that was treasured and kept by someone else is nothing but ...

15. A Clear and Present Danger

Nehemiah 5:1-19

Sermon

James Merritt

... to deal with the problem. (Nehemiah 5:7, NLT) With verse 7 we see the root cause of the conflict, which was selfishness. Those who had were taking from those who didn't. While everybody else was struggling to make ends meet these people were trying to make a profit at the misfortune of other people. Do you know what was wrong with them? They had never moved from a "What's in it for me?" mentality. They had both money and food. They were loaning the money at exorbitant interest rates and selling the food at ...

16. Exclusion From the Assembly

Deuteronomy 23:1-8

Understanding Series

Christopher J. H. Wright

17. Letters of Instruction

Illustration

Charles Swindoll

... everything is in a mess, weeds flourishing in the flower beds, windows broken across the front of the building, the gal at the front desk dozing, loud music roaring from several offices, two or three people engaged in horseplay in the back room. Instead of making a profit, the business has suffered a great loss. Without hesitation, he calls everyone together and with a frown asks, "What happened? Didn't you get my letters?" They say, "Oh, yeah, sure. We got all your letters. We've even bound them in a book ...

18. Three Characteristics of Success

Luke 15:1-32

Illustration

Brett Blair

... came up with. Instead, these highly successful companies share three distinct characteristics: First, the focus of each one had always been on a set of core values that never changed. Second, each company always had a purpose that was higher than just making a profit. Third, there was a relentless drive to change and improve everything in the company except their core values, which, for most, had been in place since the early years of the company's existence. Jesus' church is grounded in the same principles ...

19. Christianity: A Worldly Religion That Makes Sure That Even Animals Matter

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

Christianity is all about salvation — the salvation of our souls, right? That’s why the church needs to keep its nose out of politics and all this stuff about polluting the environment. A 2016 Pew Research Center poll found that nearly 1 in 2 of us (47%) feels this way about the church keeping out of politics. And a 2017 poll by Pew found that just over 1 in 2 of us (55%) rank ecological destruction as a major problem. We have had a president who does not want Americans to do much about it (such as Trump’s ...

20. Profits And Losses

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

Joan trembled as she put on her lipstick. She never dreamed she would be caught in this predicament. Forty years old, active in her church, with a fifteen year old daughter and a loving husband and she was considering having an affair ” with her boss, Jim. "Jim's such an attractive man," she thought to herself as she checked her lipstick in the mirror. "He's everything Bob is not. He takes care of himself, wears great clothes, and he's fun. And he's a visionary. The company's broken every record since he ...

21. Prophet or Profit?

Luke 4:14-21

Sermon

Gary L. Carver

I shall never forget the night that Mae June came to church. Mae June was a workingwoman who, in our little community, was often seen in the late hours of the night in some of the darker places of our little town. The rumor circulating over breakfast every morning at the city cafe, was that Mae June had a male companion. Mae June had a boyfriend. They were seen quite often, not only at night, but in the daytime and on the streets of the little city. Then came the night that Mae June came to the church ...

22. Elihu Makes His Appearance

Job 32:1--37:24

Teach the Text

Daniel J. Estes

Big Idea: The young Elihu claims to know the truth that has escaped Job and his friends. Understanding the Text After Job concludes his words in 31:40, the reader expects to hear Yahweh speak to resolve the debate between Job and his friends. Instead, a young man named Elihu bursts upon the scene, and for the next six chapters he holds the stage. In his long, uninterrupted speech, Elihu summarizes the points made by Job and the friends, often quoting or alluding to their specific words. He agrees with them ...

23. Different

1 Corinthians 1:18-31

Sermon

James L. Killen

The Christian faith is supposed to make a difference in our lives. If it doesn't, why should we bother with it? If the Christian faith is supposed to make a difference in our lives, then we should expect that Christians will be different. And, Christians are supposed to make a difference in the world. We know these things - and yet, we tend to want to minimize the difference. We want to be like everyone else - not to offend anyone - to make our faith more attractive to others. But it is the difference that ...

24. Why Prophets Get Under Our Skin

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

To tell you the truth, you might not like him if you met him. Chances are you would not invite him for cocktails at the club or for dinner at home with some of your prestigious friends. The likelihood is your children would think him curious and your teenagers would scorn him as not worth an autograph. The tabloids might attempt to puff him up as an oddity or curiosity piece for the sake of profit. But the respectable newspapers might think the news he had was not fit to print. I speak, of course, of John ...

25. The Unexpected Universe

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

It has already caused a stir in the minds of many. Long- held doubts have surfaced. A steady skepticism seems to be reinforced. The college cynic seems to be confirmed. And the village atheist smiles in self-congratulation. But there it was nevertheless. Time magazine's cover story asking whether the Bible really can be verified from an archeological point of view. Were the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, mere legendary characters with no real, historical existence? Was Moses pure myth, as my former ...

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