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Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Jesus to us, consists not in its absence of cross-currents but in its total flow and main direction. The tie between Moses and Jesus represents a marvelously integrated God. If ever there was a need to have some clarity in our religious world to manage an overloaded system, such a time is now. Deep within us the messianic passion still burns. People in all lands cry out like ancient Israel for world deliverance. And our overloaded human hopes seem always to betray us. We pant for military messiahs and put ...

2. Crisis Management

Luke 21:25-36

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... he knew how to do. He uttered the promises of a God who is always with us, who never lets us go, who takes us through the darkest valleys of life until we find the promised light. One more crisis — the crisis of tragedy — this time managed with humble, honest hope. Then late in the afternoon, Bill received a phone call from his son — announcing that Bill was a grandfather for the first time — that William P. Barker III had just fallen from heaven, a starburst of wonder streaking into a wounded world ...

3. Why You Should Manage Your Time

Psalm 118:24

Sermon

James Merritt

... makes you both a thief and a murderer? You see, when you just waste time, you’re stealing from God who gave it to you, and then you’re killing yourself because you don’t really kill time—time kills you. It is vitally important if we are going to manage time that we understand just how valuable it is. The clock is running, and it does not stop. To realize the value of one year ask a student who failed a grade. To realize the value of one month ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby. To ...

4. Managing Our Memories

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Sermon

Leonard W. Mann

... that pass away." Clara Barton was once reminded of an injury cruelly inflicted upon her by someone long before. She answered, "I distinctly remember forgetting that!" I just love the spirit of that, don’t you? 3. In the third place, it is important in the management of our memories that we practice remembering the right things at the right times. It is a mark of personal discipline to be able to call up from the past that which will be most helpful in the present moment. When we confront decisions, when ...

5. Managing Your Anger

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... the door. Gina, a Woolworth's waitress, told how her boss once offered a ten-cent raise, "as a big favor." Gina saw it as a big insult, and her customers egged her on to quit. It made her day, she says, "to see the manager running from table to table, trying to fill her shoes." A young research chemist, a Ph.D. candidate, had spent three years separating a certain substance into its components. It was excruciating, tedious work, done for starvation wages. His egomaniacal adviser demanded top billing when ...

6. The Dishonest Manager

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... 12:22-31), advice to guests and hosts (14:7-14), and the two parables in chapter one. At the conclusion of this parable Jesus said “the children of this age” were more shrewd than “the children of light.” Could one meaning be that when the manager realized that he was about to be fired he did some serious thinking, something that apparently “the children of light” often did not do. Too often as Christians we say, “I believe in God’s revelation in the Bible, I live by faith; I don’t live ...

7. Managing Disappointment

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

Clement E. Lewis

... , and when Peter so vehemently denied him. Yet, after it was over, he sat down with them to discuss the care of the flock, and stood before them to give the great commission. He never gave up on those who seemed to have seriously disappointed him. Managing disappointment is a skill and a technique we need to learn and to practice in order to keep our own life under proper control, and to deal with those who disappoint us. Let us share some good ways to overcome disappointment. 1. Whatever happens to you ...

8. When You Have Everything You Need, Except What You Need (Managing Money)

Luke 12:22-34, Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... cope, to have a saving perspective, is in the area of our material possessions. So, you see the title of the sermon today: “When you have everything you need except what you need to make what you have worthwhile” or the subtitle: “Managing Money, Or Not Allowing Money to Manage us.” Let’s begin where we should begin – with the scripture. If you’ve ever doubted that Jesus was concerned about money, read the 12th chapter of Luke. The truth is Jesus talked as much about money as he did any other ...

9. Everything Counts

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

James Merritt

... money to do it. Are you getting the picture? Everything you have right now belongs to God. It is loaned- not owned. He owns it all. You manage it all. At the end of the day or at the end of your life it is all going to go back to the owner. You ... 2) You can’t keep it. God is watching you right now. He is examining the books right now. He is seeing if how you manage your earthly stuff proves He can trust you with His eternal stuff. I have met people in deep financial trouble, because they have borrowed too ...

10. Mending Fences

Luke 16:1-15, Luke 16:16-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... his ways in hope of making a bad situation at least better. For this he gains the nod of the Master and hope for redemption. In the third story, the mark is missed, the rich man is oblivious to anything he is doing wrong, and punishment is inevitable. The Dishonest Manager then is a “warning story.” And it’s a “how to” story. It’s a story that says, it’s not enough to feel faithful. You need to live it out in real-life acts of kindness and generosity. It’s a story that praises the wisdom of ...

11. What It Takes

Luke 16:1-15

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Timothy J. Smith

... reducing what people owed him. William Barclay states that "our Christianity will begin to be real and effective only when we spend as much time and effort on it as we do on our worldly activities." (5) That's Jesus' intent. It is not to praise the manager's dishonesty, but his attention to his situation. Robert Fulghum, in his latest book UH-OH, tells of a scene he watched while eating breakfast in a cafe in Northwest Thailand. He tells of the dusty yellow light of an early summer morning. In the shade of ...

12. The Dream Work of Teamwork

Nehemiah 3:1-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... leaders. "Men are developed the same way gold is mined. Several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold, but you don't go into the mine looking for dirt, you go in looking for the gold." A good leader recognizes the need to fine good managers. Thomas Jefferson said, "No duty the executive has to perform is so trying as to put the right man in the right place." Quite frankly the success of this church will rise or fall on my ability and the ability of our staff to find the right people in our ...

13. When the Bills Come Due

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... copper or greenback, all of it belongs to God. It is His money and it is not ours to hold. It is His for us to manage. When Lynden Johnson was the President of the United States, he was out on the tarmac of an air force base being escorted to his ... 10% is what the Bible calls - the tithe. It is a word that simply means "tenth". The scripture says that we ought to begin our money management off the top by giving God 1/10th of our income. I know when I talk about tithing some of you just got very suspicious of ...

14. Let's Make A Deal

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... point blank: "How many of us have done the same thing?" If we put this all in proper perspective, God is the owner. God is the CEO of the Universe and everything that we have really belongs to Him. God is in charge. We have the privilege of being the managers or stewards of all that God has put in our care. But how much of this treasure have we squandered? God gives us time and we squander it doing things that don't matter. God gives us talents and we squander them on self-interests or because we don't ...

15. Clever Christians

Luke 16:1-15

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Richard Patt

... the seriousness of his situation. He didn't say, "Oh, my boss wouldn't do that to me; why I've been with him for over twenty years. He'll cool down in a couple of hours when he realizes what a valued employee I really am!" Nor did the manager assume that all of this was not as serious as it sounded, as though, after all, he was an experienced worker and could get another job in a snap. No, we do not hear that kind of talk at all. Immediately he asked himself, "What shall I do...?" He committed ...

16. Jesus' Most Perplexing Parable

Luke 16:1-15

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R. Robert Cueni

... he has agreed to reduce that debt to 400 gallons if paid today." Ruben is thrilled by the opportunity to settle his account. Immediately the scheming manager heads off to Sam Sha-piro's grain farm. "Sam, no one in this valley raises as much wheat as you do. I know you can ... ourselves it gives us a little hope. I will admit that that is not a central theme of the parable of the dishonest manager, but it is what many people hear because that is exactly what we need to hear. Lesson one from the parable: It is ...

17. Work Like the Who?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... s employers would argue that there are good reasons for this change in policy some employees can’t be trusted. They could do lasting damage to the company if they were allowed to stay on the job and have access to company assets. And that’s exactly what this dishonest manager did. He says to himself, “What shall I do now? My master is taking away my job. I’m not strong enough to do manual labor, and I’m embarrassed to go on welfare. I know what I’ll do. I’ll use my remaining time and some of ...

18. Fiscal Fitness

Proverbs 3:9-10

Sermon

James Merritt

... Dad, next to teaching your child how to walk with God, you will never teach him a more important life lesson than how to handle money. I am well within the mark when I say that well over ninety percent of Americans do not have a clue on how to manage money. Like nitroglycerin, handling money can cause an explosion that can blow apart a marriage, a home, a business, and even a life. So, pay attention! I. The Making of Money Yet, Solomon tells us that there is a right way and a wrong way to make money. First ...

19. Survivor

Luke 16:1-13

Sermon

James Merritt

... great lesson about one of the most important topics we all face, and all have to deal with, and that is money management. It may surprise you to know that Jesus talked more about money than he talked about hell or heaven. There are over ... be stewards of our talents. 1 Peter 4:10 says, “God has given gifts to each of you from his great variety of spiritual gifts. Manage them well so that God’s generosity can flow through you.” (NLT) Every one of us have different gifts and different abilities, and God ...

20. I Am The Bread Of Life

John 6:24-35

Sermon

Brett Blair

... , and lay it out along the counter, right next to his bowl of soup. The old man sits down, and devours both his bowl of soup, and both halves of the six-foot-long loaf of bread. The manager now thinks he will get the answer he is looking for, and when the old man comes up to pay for his meal, the manager asks in the usual way: "How was your meal TODAY, sir?" The old man replies: "It was good as usual, but I see you are back to serving only two slices of bread!" Well, sometime this week you ...

21. New (Testament) Math

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... to repay every penny of it. I don’t know how long that will take, and I don’t really know how I can do it, but I’ll find a way, honest I will. Please give me another chance, sir.’ "Well, the rich man had been thinking about the manager’s family – especially that poor, sick child. And being basically a kind person, he had a change of heart. ‘Tell you what I’ll do,’ he said. ‘If you’ll give me your word of honor that you’ll never try anything like this again, I’ll just write that ...

22. How’s Your Appetite?

Matthew 5:6 · Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... on welfare. I’ve got it! I know what I’ll do. I’ll fix things with his customers so that when I’m fired as manager, there will be a lot of folks who will still welcome me into their places of business ... maybe even give me a job." So he got ... the company’s customers. "How much do you owe my boss?" "I owe him for nine hundred gallons of oil." "All right," said the manager, "we’ll settle the account if you will sit right down and write us a check for four hundred fifty gallons. And don’t forget ...

23. Stewards of Creation

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control." (Genesis 1:27-28) Our creator, the sovereign God who places us in his creation, tells us we are to be caretakers of that creation. He has given to us everything, and we are to be its managers. We must remember that the earth still belongs to God, and we are merely set in it to watch and care for it temporarily. You know how it is when you borrow something from a friend. You are careful to take care so that it can be returned in as ...

24. Look Carefully How You Walk

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... the motor for the elevator down in the basement. But it was going to be very messy, and it was going to take a lot of time and it meant that the hotel would have to shut down for some time until the project could be completed. This concerned the management, of course, because they would lose a lot of revenue. One day they were all talking about this problem down in the lobby when the janitor who was mopping nearby overheard them. "Gentlemen," he said, "I don't mean to intrude, but I think I know a way you ...

25. Loch Ness, Locusts, and Bread

Joel 2:1-2, 12-17

Sermon

Bill Mosley

... cut the loaf in half, butter each half, and lay it out right next to his bowl of soup. The old man sits down, and devours the soup, and both halves of the six-foot-long loaf of bread. The manager asks in the usual way: "How was your meal today, sir?" The old man replies: "It wass goot as usual, but I see you are back to giving only two slices of bread!" There is an old custom in some places that at Thanksgiving the meal begins with each plate ...

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