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1. Handling Objections

Psalm 1:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... of all to allow Him to die anyway. Furthermore, since Jesus Himself said, "I am the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father except through Me" for a person to believe that all roads lead to God, he must call Jesus Christ a liar. Objection 9: If God is a loving God why do people suffer? Because God is a loving God, He has built the freedom to choose into the human race - that freedom to choose lead to the first sin of rebellion against God. That sin, caused the entire world to be plunged ...

2. Shiny Objects

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... to take care of the people we love or to reach a meaningful goal. We don’t even think of that as a sacrifice. Why? Because our love for them gives us strength. We don’t get distracted, we don’t give up, we don’t give in to Shiny Object Syndrome when the goal is important to us. We’re willing to risk anything to achieve our goal if it’s for something or someone we love. I read the most incredible story about a young man named Chris Bombardier who is the first person with hemophilia to reach the ...

3. Jesus' Object Lesson

Mark 9:33-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... things back where we found them and clean up our own messes. It is still true no matter how old you are when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together." (4) That's good! That's really good! Children are God's object lesson to us. If we are wise, we will learn from them about joy and love and faith. Just as importantly, in caring for them, in loving them, in sacrificing for them we not only learn with our heads, we mature with our hearts. WE BECOME GREATER PERSONS SPIRITUALLY AND ...

4. Can You Carry Your Weight?

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Lucy: “My Dad said that someday I might be able to run for President.” “Really, Charlie Brown?” Lucy answers. “He certainly must think highly of you!” “I don’t know,” Charlie replies. “He also said that he didn’t think he’d vote for me.” More than an objective assessment of who God is and who we are, more than anything else in life, we need to know that God would vote for us. We need to know that God is subjective, that God is on our side, that God is with us, that God loves us ...

5. The Day Life Increased

Matthew 28:1-10

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... , the appraiser will tell you things that you had never dreamed about. If he hadn't pointed out to you the subtle things, the things that we had overlooked, or things that we probably would consider insignificant, we would not have known the real value of that object. The value is found in the details. And what I want you to see is that it is the same with the stories in the Gospel. There are four gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They all tell the same story, the story of Jesus' life. Each gospel ...

6. A Chosen Race?

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14

Sermon

Erskine White

... you about. For all I know, they may have gifts and skills far beyond my own - I am utterly sincere in saying that. But I will let stand what I have called them: "the scribes and Pharisees of our day." My fellow ministers had three objections to this passage from John. First, they objected to Jesus using the words, "My Father." One pastor said it was not helpful to her to think of God as Father because her own father had been cold and distant from her as a child. She said she was closer to her mother and ...

7. Dealing with the "F" Words of Life

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... Our deaths are not final." (3) Just imagine a Messiah who cooks breakfast. Not many Messiahs do that! A God who turns tombs into wombs of new life and new beginnings. What a privilege to belong and be claimed by such a God! I am overwhelmed to think that God objects when I am ready to throw the towel in and quit. I rejoice that there is more grace in God than sin in us. THIRDLY, JESUS CHRIST CAME TO THE LAKESIDE TO LEAD HIS DISCIPLES FROM A PARALYZING DEFEAT TO A NEW DIRECTION OF SERVICE AND WITNESS FOR THE ...

8. The Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas D. Peterson

... 10) When Jesus met the woman at the well the encounter was a communion event. The element - the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace - was not what Jesus gave to the woman but what the woman gave to Jesus. What made this element, this object, a sacrament, a communion, was the way in which Jesus impacted the element with spirit, opening its and his meaning to her. The element was a drink of water. Now, when used in the Sacrament of Baptism we would call this a formal sacrament. But as it ...

9. In the Darkness of Suspicion, There Is the Light of Devotion

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... pay him homage.” The point is clear. They came all that way for one reason and one reason only, to worship him, to make him the object of their devotion. This is one of those things we must see. If we do not see this, we do not see Christmas, we do not ... the creatures. Take this with you into this new year. If you want your life to be better in the new year, keep Christ as the object of your devotion. A pastor went to see a couple in his church. It was early March. As he sat in their den with them, he ...

10. Creative Preaching

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... was that human beings are precious not because of any inherent quality within us, but because we are created by God, who has loved us enough to send his Son to die for our reconciliation and salvation. We are precious because we are precious to God. I needed an object which had value not in itself but given to it. First I held up a piece of high-quality carpet about a foot square. It was high-priced carpet, superbly made from fine wool. Then I held up a piece of brand new bond stationery paper. Both items ...

11. Three Days To See

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

Helen Keller

... that if you actually faced that fate your eyes would open to things you had never seen before, storing up memories for the long night ahead. You would use your eyes as never before. Everything you saw would become dear to you. Your eyes would touch and embrace every object that came within your range of vision. Then, at last, you would really see, and a new world of beauty would open itself before you. I who am blind can give one hint to those who see - one admonition to those who would make full use of the ...

12. The Autobiography of God

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... Emil Brunner once replied to the age old question “Is there a God?” with a surprising “No.” He said there is no God if by the word “God” you mean an object among other objects in the world, an object to be catalogued and classified along with other objects. God is not an object, but the Divine Subject behind all objects. I believe that the answer to the question “Is there a God?” depends upon one’s definition of God. My working definition of God is “Ultimate Reality.” That which is ...

13. Collections or Connections?

Luke 24:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... . After Easter morning, all of us are subjects, children of God, invited to join in new life and to start eternal life now. The Resurrection of Jesus is the sudden declaration by God that we are someone and never just something. You are a subject, not an object. And you are called to live in a culture of life, even amidst a culture of death. With meaning to life coming from connections, not collections. Christ Is Risen! We are a risen people. We are a rising people. Rise up and LIVE! [You can either end ...

14. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... the human being in the file folder. Even ministers are prone to this temptation. It is difficult to keep any perspective about ministry to persons in a success-driven, efficiency-worshiping culture. A person can get lost even in a church, especially a successful, efficient church! An Object Of God's Love Jesus looked at the man born blind and saw in him a person in need, a man in whom the love of God could be made manifest and who, in turn, could make the love of God manifest to others. These visions were ...

15. The Precepts of the Lord

Exodus 20:1-21, Psalm 19:7-14

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... as we have in the Ten Commandments. God knows that internalized natural law can become subjective - meaning that while it is based upon reason, one can never be sure that reason is always present. The Ten Commandments, as an expression of Natural Law, are objective. That’s why God has given the them to us. God knows all too well that the human conscience is infinitely capable of all kinds of rationalizing when it comes to questions of right and wrong - particularly when selfinterest is involved. God knows ...

16. The Heart of an Intimate Matter

Matthew 5:27-30

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... he loved and saw a problem, and as the supreme physician of the soul gave an accurate diagnosis and radical cure, which was do whatever you have to do in order to deal with the beast within that tempts you to the evil of turning precious people into objects of sexual consumption. If not, then there is hell to pay, and anyway, in the resurrection you can have your right eye and right hand back again! Moral cancers must be cut out, and for Jesus, lust is a malignant malformation of a God given desire. It will ...

17. Explore the Evidence

Acts 1:1-3

Sermon

James Merritt

... of any court in the world that would allow a witness to testify what happened while he was asleep. In fact, if the soldiers were asleep how did they know that His disciples came and stole the body away? I know what a judge would say in this case – "Objection Overruled!" We have to ask the question, "Why would the chief priest come up with this kind of a story?" It is very simple. If the tomb was empty, if Jesus Christ was not in that grave after three days, then either man took Him out of that grave or ...

18. Don't Be Afraid Of The Light

John 8:12

Sermon

James Merritt

... the light that we have, so they can leave that darkness. I read something else about light that really got my attention. When a light wave hits an object four different things can happen. The waves can be reflected off the object. The waves can be absorbed by the object. The waves can be refracted through the object. The waves can pass through the object with no effect. There are many people who are living in darkness today, because even though they have been shown the light and they have seen the light ...

19. Wednesday: The Way Of The Cross: Oooh, That Smell

John 12:1-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... to the family. Maybe it was that act of forgiveness that brought Jesus into this family's life and brought them back together. None of the speculation really matters, though. What matters is the simple act of love Mary performs for Jesus. An act which Judas objected to vehemently. B. This Nard, this perfume, was worth 300 denarii. A denarius was the daily wage for a laborer. If just you use minimum wage, that means the perfume was worth $12,360. If you use the average daily wage of a skilled laborer, like ...

20. Aha! I See It Now!

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... us entirely from God. Jesus took away our sins and restored us to God and eternal life. What are we going to do about it? Go on with our everyday lives? Sit in a pew every week? Or are we going to take action? Are we going to make our objective complete obedience to God’s will? There is a world outside these doors that is separated from God and dying in its sins, and we can point them to the source of life. Will we take action? 1. Originally published in Reader's Digest. From Psychology Today, (March 9 ...

21. A Promise Is Given

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Glenn E. Ludwig

... way as well. Ever have someone go away for a time, but they leave something with you to remember them? It is like the object which is left -- a picture, a shirt that carries the scent of the person's favorite perfume or cologne, a favorite object of that person -- it's like that object makes the person present, there, even when they are absent and far off somewhere. And that object not only reminds us of the person, but also serves as a comforting reminder of her or his return. It bridges the absence. Well ...

22. Eighteen Years Is Long Enough

Jeremiah 1:1-19

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John N. Brittain

... free of those impediments and to accept the freedom that God gives you to serve God and your fellow human beings. It is striking in this gospel story that not everyone is overjoyed by this woman's release from her long-time bondage. The synagogue leader's objection is based on a distorted understanding of keeping the Sabbath day holy. But I wonder if there wasn't more at work. He may have known, or suspected, what spirit was binding this woman and felt that it was appropriate for her to be stooped over, to ...

23. An Untouchable God?

1 Samuel 6:1-7:1

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Robert Noblett

... became angry with Uzzah and killed him because of his irreverence.” (2 Samuel 6:7 TEV) Keeping in mind what we have said about the utter seriousness involved in moving the ark, place yourself in Uzzah’s sandals for a moment. If you were told that the object you were going to move was tantamount to moving God, or the residence God inhabited, and if further you were told that under no circumstances were you to touch God’s abode, and then, through no fault of your own, saw that abode beginning to fall to ...

24. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... , happy, responsible, and live meaningful, fulfilling lives. True, sports can be an important part of that chemistry, but they are not the be-all, end-all of conditioning for life. The lesson of how we win, lose, agree, disagree, negotiate, find meaning, values, and objectives, involves the total relationships of life. The command is not to "win," but to produce at all, win or lose. If you don't believe it, ask any of the children at the Crippled Children's Home or any of the wheelchair patrons on the ...

25. Loving

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Larry Powell

... away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up my childish ways: (verse 11) Let us not lose sight of the fact that the object of the entire thirteenth chapter is love. It is the object of this passage, as love and immaturity are contrasted. Spoke like a child. The reference here is not necessarily to "baby-talk" or the "golly-gee" naiveness of children. More likely, childish attitude is implied: This is my doll," "I want so-and ...

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