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1. Don't Sweat The Numbers

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... needs were cared for because it was the nature of The Infinite to give and give and give and still be undiminished. And, he added, it's the same way for you and me. The way to the truly happy life is to be relatively unconcerned about the numbers. "When you give," he said, "that's when you get. You're like a candle lighting other candles. No matter how many times your light is borrowed and divided and shared, it is never diminished. Indeed, the more it is shared, the brighter the world becomes. "Just so ...

2. If You Really Want to Be Number One

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... is sad.” If we would be the greatest person in our community, we have got to be a person who is willing to serve the community, serve the town, serve the Scouts, serve the church. That is the key to greatness. But it is not only the key to being number one serving is what God’s people are all about. That’s who we are. Jesus Christ, says Paul in Philippians, “though he was in the form of God became man and took upon himself the form of a servant.” There was Jesus washing the feet of his disciples ...

3. What Happens When You Are Not Number One?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Are you not of more value than they?” (Matthew 6: 26) Jesus even went so far as to say that the hairs on our head are numbered. And you remember the story He told of a shepherd who left the 99 sheep safe in the fold and went out to find the one ... ’t, in a minute or two, describe all that such living looks like. But here is a broad outline from two secular sources. “A number of years ago a brilliant psychologist named Abraham Maslow began a new kind of study in the field of psychology. As he studied the ...

4. Will You Be in that Number?

John 11:32-44

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... Bethany. Now, go to Washington, D.C., and to the monument for the Vietnam Veterans. It is a remarkable monument for a number of reasons, but the most significant one, which is immediately apparent to anybody who visits it, is that every name is there ... thing in heaven, because Christianity has introduced a new, radical sociology of immortality, and it says, we can all be in that number. There is a grave in Peru with a warrior priest. A king was buried with anonymous servants who were sacrificed to accompany ...

5. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Herchel H. Sheets

... from whites and the hate stares and obsequiousness from the Negroes. And when I was a Negro, the whites judged me fit for the junk heap, while the Negroes treated me with great warmth."11 When Jesus said, "Even the hairs of your head are all numbered," he did not specify one particular race or color for whom this was true. Neither was he thinking of a special social, political, economic, educational, or religious stratum. He meant to say that every person is of infinite value in God’s sight. And if God ...

6. Names, Not Numbers

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... persons; we are a series of holes punched in a card. One smart fellow asked a computer if there was a God. The computer's answer came back, "There is now!" In a computer age, we are not names on the rolls of God's Book of Life; we are numbers on Social Security cards registered in Washington, D.C. When we are asked to identify ourselves at a store in a mall or at the supermarket, the cashiers do not ask us what our name is; they just mumble, "Let me see your driver's license, please." And the stinging ...

7. The Only One Who Is Number One

Exodus 20:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... to go to the Holy Land, and go to the top of Mt. Sinai, and shout the Ten Commandments?" She said, "I think it would be better if we just stayed home and kept them."[7] So in this study we come to rule number one. Simply stated, rule number one is: There is only one who is number one "I am the Lord your God, you shall have no other gods before Me." I. God's Declared Revelation Before the commands are given, there is a preamble. Now we know what a preamble is. In our own Constitution the preamble reads: "We ...

8. It's Hard To Be Number Two

John 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... but a friend. It takes a real sense of security not to be threatened by the person who shines just a little bit brighter. LET'S BEGIN BY NOTING THAT MOST OF US HAVE A COMPETITIVE PART OF OUR NATURE THAT MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR US TO BE NUMBER TWO. We can see that competitive nature revealed all the time. Back in the 1920s a famous battle was waged in New York City between the owners of the Chrysler Building and the owners of the Bank of Manhattan Building. Competing architects and owners kept revising their ...

9. Who's Number One?

Exodus 20:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... God is not saying, "If you want to have a relationship with Me, this is what you have to do." He was saying, "If you have a relationship with Me, this is what you want to do." The first commandment forces us to answer the question, "Who's Number One?" I. God Deserves My Undivided Attention It was the third day of the third month, about 3500 years ago, God had literally snatched from the jaws of slavery, a rag-tag totally unimpressive people from one of the greatest military powers in the world. God promised ...

10. Weak Sauce

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... these Gentiles. But Paul admits that, "To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak" (verse 22). Note how the apostle doesn't become "AS" the weak. He himself IS weak. He himself IS frail. He himself IS faulty. He himself IS substandard. Paul isn't number one material. He is weak. Or as our kids would put it, Paul is weak sauce. It's in this weakness that Paul finds the truth of the gospel. It's as weak sauce that Paul finds the gift of grace, that he discovers the presence of Christ's redemptive ...

11. All Your Facilities Intact

Acts 17:16-34, Colossians 1:15-20

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... t explain it to anybody, probably, but you know it. You know that you are now one with God and "all things hold together," and you can sing, "It Is Well with My Soul." Let me tell you what happened to the twins. For just as their sense of numbers is a metaphor for the soul that senses the presence of God, so their fate is a way of understanding what has happened to us. After being together for forty years, the professionals decided, for their own good, that the twins should be separated in order to end what ...

12. I Am The Good Shepherd

John 10:1-21

Sermon

Richard A. Jensen

... exist between people in our world. "I am the good shepherd; I know my own and my own know me ..." So we are not just a number. We are not unknown people. The good shepherd, Jesus Christ, knows us and calls us by name. That is a great comfort to us. It is ... . The good shepherd wraps our lives in his life and invites us to live with him in eternal pastures. It is hard to be just a number. It hurts to feel unknown and alone in life. "I am the good shepherd," Jesus says, "I know my own and my own know me." Woody ...

13. A Shepherd To Lead Us

John 10:22-42

Sermon

Lee Griess

... . In the midst of an uncertain world, faced with unknown dangers and threatened by unpredictable events of evil and violence around us, we are known by God and loved by God. "Even the hairs of your head are numbered," Jesus once said. For God is greater than anything that can threaten us in life. The death and resurrection of Jesus assure us of that, and the words of Jesus remind us of that once again today. We need that reminder for there are all kinds of things in life ...

14. The Ultimate Identity Thief

Galatians 3:15-25

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... cyber-space; and GPS devices that enable someone thousands of miles away to instruct us to turn left at the next intersection. And who among us isn't known to more agencies and institutions by a series of numbers Social Security number (SIN), credit card number, loan number, personal identification number (PIN) than we are by the name our parents gave to us. It's this faceless numeric-identification process that has led to the fastest growing crime in the US today: identity theft. CitiCorp has won all the ...

15. Dad: The Head of a Godly Family

Joshua 24:15

Sermon

James Merritt

... behavior. Do worse in school, and are three times as likely to drop out as children who grow up in a home with a father.15 Only 11.6% of children living with both parents repeat a grade in school. But for children of never married mothers the number is 29.7%, and for children living with a divorced mother it is 21.5%.16 What about the physical devastation? Children who come from broken families where the father is absent, are 20 to 40 times more likely to suffer health problems than children who live with ...

16. Can You Be Popular and Serve Jesus?

Luke 6:17-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... say since they seem to know.” You doubtless already know what he should have known. There were not twelve subjects in the experiment; there was only one. And the good professor was it. The others were involved in the experiment and were told to invent numbers that were progressively off the mark. They were waiting to see just how ridiculous their answers would have to be to goad this particular stooge to produce a contrary opinion. (3) All of us are susceptible to peer pressure. Peer pressure isn’t just ...

17. The Messiah Who Cares About Feet

John 13:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... determine, through a series of skirmishes, who the Number One Chicken will be; then the Number Two; the Number Three; all the way down to the unlucky Number Ten Chicken. "Much is at stake in this dance of domination. Chicken Number One pecks at and intimidates Chicken Number Two, without experiencing any kind of retribution from Chicken Number Two. Chicken Number Two will take it from Chicken Number One but will turn around and peck away at Chicken Number Three, who will, in turn, take out its frustration ...

18. Please Use The Servants' Entrance

John 13:1-17

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... determine through a series of skirmishes who the Number One Chicken will be; then the Number Two; the Number Three; all the way down to the unlucky Number Ten Chicken." "Much is at stake in this dance of domination. Chicken Number One pecks at--and intimidates--Chicken Number Two, without experiencing any kind of retribution from Chicken Number Two. Chicken Number Two will take it from Chicken Number One, but will turn around and peck away at Chicken Number Three, who will, in turn, take out its frustration ...

19. Peace

Isaiah 11:1-16

Sermon

King Duncan

... Nine put in his claim because if three is important, three times three must be really important. By the time Ten, Eleven and Twelve spoke up, the discussion had gotten so heated that the language used by Numbers Ten, Eleven, and Twelve could not really bear repetition. But they had not got the last word, another character was present, the Spirit of the Tower, and the Spirit of the Tower at last spoke and said: "My Children, stop. Be silent. You’re all talking a great deal of ...

20. The Balm of Gilead

Mark 8:1-13, Mark 8:14-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... she is not a Jew –or at least not anymore. Her blood has been long mixed with those of the Assyrians and others after them. Or she has never been Jewish at all. All of this occurs after conversations Jesus has with his disciples and with a number of Pharisees about the meaning of defilement. And we must remember that all that has been defiled, now God is restoring in the person of Jesus. Jesus represents God’s salvation harvest. And he clearly is going after not just those of Judah but also the “lost ...

21. Manufactured Christianity: Jesus Sells, Jesus Sells!

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of the still, small voice. Today the forces of evil still tempt us. Nowhere is the force more appealing than to our egos. The early New Testament church was small in membership and committed in its life. Today we often bow to the temptation of numbers over quality. The Southern Baptist denomination to which I belong has approximately 11,825,000 members. Our entire goals have bowed to the temptation to grow and grow and the whole world will be ours. Even at the local level, a minister’s effectiveness is ...

22. The Might of the Mite

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... beggings. She said that gift meant more to her than winning the Nobel Prize. In every congregation I have ever served, I have had a number of widows who had little or no income other than a social security check. Yet, they gave 10 percent of it off the top for God ... That's the faith question. The Biblical minimum is 10 percent. You can commit more than 10 or less than 10. The number is vitally important because it is the clearest faith statement you can make other than a declaration of faith in Jesus Christ. ...

23. Can Two Become One?

Matthew 19:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... You can divide 2 into separate whole individual pieces, but you can’t divide 1. You talk about a game changer! When you truly come to understand that you as a married individual are literally one with the person you are married to and that just like a prime number you can’t be divided and if you do the only thing that is left is a fraction, that puts a whole new perspective on those of you who are single thinking about getting married and those of you who are already married. God’s primary purpose for ...

24. On Getting Out Of The Way

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Sermon

Charles H. Bayer

... must have looked good on his yearly report. We have to fill ours out this week. Instead of putting down a number, it would be great fun to write in "multitudes." But fascinating the multitudes is no sign of authenticity. Consider the names, ... their fathers did to the false prophets," Jesus would later say to his disciples. But in God's providence, John was not on an "I'm number one!" kick. John knew that the glory was not his -- he was the announcer -- the Messiah was coming on the stage later. "I am not ...

25. A Second-place Finish

John 1:29-34

Sermon

John Jamison

... , I know what those needs and wants are, and could meet them if I wanted to. But what about me? I've had a hard week, too. In fact, in my opinion, my week was a bit harder than hers, and that ought to put me in position number one and her in number two. You know it happens. We have all seen marriages that continually arm wrestle over first and second position. It doesn't work either, does it? It happens at work, it happens with the neighbors, and it happens right here. Right here in God's own living room ...

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