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1. Operation Omega

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... degradation. We should be the last to let despair grind down the powerless. We should be the last to condone cruelty of any kind, to any living thing. We should be the last to let human hatred triumph over divine love. What if we were to implement an Operation Omega — where holding last place, last ditch, last stand options isn’t a last gasp, but is evidence of the first new deep breaths of the Spirit of Christ reborn in our midst? How low can we go? Jesus told his disciples that they must be “slave ...

2. A Truly Universal Operating System

Romans 14:1-12

Sermon

Larry Lange

... competitor is one of the great mysteries of all time. There must have been something about its ugly, utilitarian appearance and its proclivity toward redundancy that appealed to the brutal bureaucrats who established the Roman Empire. Even the name of the operating system came from a word butchered beyond recognition: XC was supposed to be excello, excellent, but was really nothing more than an redundant clutter of labyrinthine pathways. It was no surprise that when Theseus found the Minotaur in the midst ...

3. Dying to Become

2 Corinthians 5:17

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... person. Her son had "died," and this man is a new person. The old self had died, and a renewed person is born. Leaving the past behind and becoming new persons comes about by the grace of God. It includes risking leaving behind the usual security operations that have kept us comfortable with our old selves; it is involved in letting the past go in order to become new persons; and the climax of this new becoming is characterized by resurrection. The connotation of dead bodies leaving their graves is not the ...

4. A Mission and a Message

Luke 10:1-24

Sermon

... enabled a congregation to erect the facilities that were necessary to its program and - equally important - it facilitated the retirement of the debt on an almost half a million dollar plant in a matter of five years after it was completed. Basic to the entire operation was the thoroughness with which the campaign was planned and directed. Very little was left to chance. When I look back at my parish experience, I have to face the fact that those things we did best often had to do with financing our local ...

5. Does God Give Out Blank Checks?

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... our behalf. But that is not prayer, that is magic. In a delightful little novel titled Heaven help Us written by Herbert Tarr, a rabbi is asked by his minister friend if he will pray for him prior to the minister’s undergoing a serious operation. The rabbi ponders the request in his mind, and his thinking expresses itself in these words: “Intellectually, I’m offended by the notion that God must be bribed with prayers before deigning to heal the sick and relieve the oppressed. (The movie) The Song of ...

6. God Shaves With A Borrowed Razor

Isaiah 7:1-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Air Force. One day as he was returning to England from a war mission, his plane was hit and he crash-landed just after he crossed the English Channel. He was almost dead, so close to being dead in fact that the doctors in the hospital decided not to operate on him because they didn't see how he could survive. Later, when he finally awoke enough to recognize the people around him, he saw a narrow face with large brown eyes looking down at him. "Remember me?" the man said to Turski, "You once saved my life in ...

7. The Real "Lord's Prayer"

John 17:6-19

Sermon

King Duncan

... if we do not pull together. Unity does not come easily. It requires humility and a shared vision. And most of all, unity requires prayer. When we align our will with the will of God, when we align our character with the character of Jesus, then we will operate in a spirit of unity. And we can accomplish the work of Jesus on this earth if we can just learn to work together. In 1939, Nazi Germany gave up control of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to the Soviet Union. Both the Nazis and ...

8. More Than Just Image

Ezekiel 34:11-16, 20-24

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... reached the BBC, the British Broadcasting Corporation. They organized a secret reunion of all the former children—now adults—who Winton had rescued. They invited Nicholas Winton to their studio, purportedly so they could tell the story of his brave rescue operation. But when he sat down, the program host Esther Rantzen asked the audience, “Is there anyone in our audience who owes their life to Nicholas Winton? If so, could you stand up, please?” And every single person in the studio stood to ...

9. Forever and Ever

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... a donor, her mother, Teresa Smith, offered to give a part of her liver to her baby. Never before had there been an operation taking a part of one person’s liver and giving it to another. There was no guarantee that the operation would succeed. The mother’s love was so deep that she was willing to risk her life that her child might live. The operation was a success. After the operation the mother explained, “Once you’ve given someone a big piece of your heart, it’s easy to throw in a little bit ...

10. God Works Through Opposites

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... . That is the meaning of Palm Sunday. That is the meaning of your doubts and of my doubts. They show us our fickleness; they show us our lack of faith. They prepare us to hear God's life-giving gospel. Martin Luther had one more observation about why God operates this way - under contrasts and opposites. In another of his sermons, he put it this way: "He thrusts us into death and permits the devil to pounce on us. But it is not his purpose to devour us; he wants to test us, to purify us, and to manifest ...

11. Blind Bartimaeus - Model For Healing

Mark 10:46-52

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... , hinted ominously that she had a dangerous condition. Her condition was so delicate that an ordinary cough, or a sneeze, might trigger irreversible and fatal internal bleeding. Surgery was advised. The woman entered the hospital for a high-risk operation. Prior to the operation, the surgeon began to read the customary document of consent for surgery. The woman interrupted him abruptly. "Don’t bother to read it, Doctor," she said. "Just show me where to sign." The woman was a believer. She knew ...

12. What If The Lord Really Did Come Today?

Amos 5:18-27

Sermon

King Duncan

... slowdown, 22 knots ahead. At 11:30 the crackling sound of another ship was heard in the radio room: "Hey, this is the California. I don't know about you, but boy, we are really locked in with an ice field out here." "Shut up," said the radio operator of the Titanic, "You're jamming my airways," and cut him off. Ten minutes later the lookout screamed, "Iceberg ahead!" But now there was nothing that could be done. It was too late. The mighty ship rammed the iceberg, which cut a gash 300 feet long. All sixteen ...

13. Giants Or Grasshoppers?

Numbers 13:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... he reflected. "Covey says we need to develop an abudance mentality. There is plenty to go around for everybody. We don't have to hoard things for ourselves." A burst of insight suddenly flooded over him. He thought of how the concept of limited good or scarcity operated in his own life. He thought of the times he could have expanded his business ” but drew back because of fear. What if he failed? What if he got sick? What if the economy turned sour? Limited good. Scarcity. The pie's only so big and there ...

14. Homesick For a Future: New Life for the New Millenium

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... people. As we live with our passionate yearning for holiness – a new race – we must keep some defining principles at the center of our awareness. The first is this: holiness by its very nature is an enemy of the relativism that is the operative dynamic of our culture. Francis Schaeffer has spoken a challenging word at this point. “If our reflex action is always accommodation, regardless of the centrality of the truth involved, there is something wrong.” Oh, my friends, that’s it. We have heard it ...

15. The Church: An Enclave of Resistance v2

Romans 12:1-8

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... culture of which we are a part – to subvert that culture at its root by living as though we believed that “persons do not live by bread alone” – that there is a Kingdom reality of love in which all those things that are expressed in Romans 12 are operative. Our love is without hypocrisy. We abhor what is evil and we cling to what is good. In honor we give preference to one another. We are able to rejoice in hope – but we’re also able to be patient in tribulation. We attend to the needs of the ...

16. Against All Hope

Romans 4:1-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... carrying out Mao’s order to learn to be a doctor by being one. “There were many reports in the newspaper of cases where untrained hospital coolies were said to have performed operations successfully after mastering Mao’s quotations. During an operation, Revolutionaries, anxious to prove the magic of Mao’s words, remained in the operating room reciting quotations from the Little Red Book (of quotes from Mao) while the untrained ‘doctor’ struggled with the patient . . .” Can you imagine being ...

17. Why You Should Come Clean With God

Psalm 139:23-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... know the results, but that David himself might know what God had discovered. When you go to a doctor and he operates on you, he doesn’t operate on you for his sake, he operates on you for your sake. You don’t want him just to know the result of the surgery, you want to know the ... result of the surgery. That is exactly what David is saying. He is saying, operate on me, pull out of me anything that is wrong, show it to me and remind me of how wicked it is that ...

18. From Tragedy to Salvation

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... . The flight recorder indicated the pilots unknowingly used only 70% of power on takeoff. The pilots thought they had maximum takeoff power but failed to interpret the other engine gauges. It is incredible that they missed this, but they did. Brumbeloe writes, “Abnormal operations in extreme conditions are what started the chain of events. There is never a good reason to depart from and ignore the flight manual. Pilots are not invincible. At the end of the day, the question remains: What are we doing?"1 ...

19. Trust

John 4:43-54

Sermon

James Merritt

... who was cripple. The paper carried the story of how this doctor performed a medical miracle and restored this little girl’s ability to walk. When that mother came home, Michael told his mother about it and said, “Mother, wouldn’t it be wonderful if that doctor could operate on me?” Well, that mother went into her bedroom and began to sob and weep and pray for her son. She asked God to work a miracle for her son to see this doctor. Finally, she made up her mind she would go see the doctor herself ...

20. His Final Words

John 18:1-19:42

Sermon

King Duncan

... not your fault, but it has to be taken out. You are going to feel great pain. But I want you to know, even while you are feeling this pain, I love you and I will always love you. So be brave, my son.” The operation takes place, and the child is strapped to a makeshift operation table. As the surgeon’s knife falls, the son screams with pain. He looks to his father who stands near the door to seek comfort from the one whom he has trusted and loved since birth. The father looks at his son in terrible pain ...

21. Mercy Me!

Romans 14:1--15:13, Luke 6:27-36, Luke 6:37-42, Luke 6:43-45

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... heart reaches a place of repentance that Jesus can do a heart transplant within us. It’s like that paper you sign when you go into an operation, giving the doc permission to operate. Without that permission to operate, he or she cannot make you well again. It’s like that with Jesus too. We need to give Jesus with our prayer of repentance permission to operate. Only then can we pray that prophet’s prayer: “Lord, remove my heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh.” That prayer of repentance is ...

22. Have You Accepted Jesus' Invitation?

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

George Johnson

... , but it is an invitation to a movement, to a mission to change the world. So if you and I want to take the call seriously we will find some disciplines are important. The Bible needs to be our constant companion. We will give a priority to this operations manual. Let the scriptures be a source of learning how to follow. In conclusion I want to urge each of us to think about this invitation. Have we accepted this invitation to the marriage feast? Have we responded with a clear and decisive yes? There was a ...

23. What Does It Mean To Love?

Matthew 22:34-40

Sermon

George Johnson

... route you may take. It's a command. This is my commandment that you love one another. It is the "law," that the psalmist meditates on day and night (Psalm 1). There is some interesting insight in 1 John that may bother some of us a bit, especially those who operate with a rather closed system. It says, "Whoever loves is born of God and knows God. Those who abide in love abide in God." We tend to turn it around. We say whoever is born of God, loves. Or if you accept Christ as your Savior, if you abide in ...

24. What Is Servant Leadership?

Matthew 23:1-39

Sermon

George Johnson

... needs to do something about homosexuality," one stated loudly. "I heard the worst sermon last Sunday. We attended a church where the pastor said in his sermon that it's okay to be homosexual! Can you imagine a pastor saying that?" My interest piqued, but the telephone operator drew me back to the phone, and the women were gone by the time I was done. However, a few minutes later, while turning a corner in the hallway, I came face-to-face with the woman I'd overheard. "Excuse me," I ventured. "I believe I ...

25. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

... asked. “Yes, a very old friend.” Paul answered. “Well, I’m sorry to have to tell you this,” she said. “Sally had been working part time the last few years because she was sick. She died 5 weeks ago.” Before he could hang up, the operator said: “Wait a minute. Did you say your name was Paul?” “Yes.” “Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote it down in case you called. Let me read it to you. It says: ‘When Paul calls, tell him that I still say: there are other worlds to sing ...

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