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2 Kings 7:3-20

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James Merritt

... as you will see, the food situation was desperate. The nation was starving to death. There was no way out, no way of escape, and they were vastly outnumbered by one of the most powerful armies in the world. Flight was impossible, fight was out of the question, and fright appeared to be the only option. Outside of the city walls sat four lepers. Lepers, of course, were ostracized from society and that is why they were not inside the city gates. As they surveyed their situation they realized they basically ...

2. Why Me?

Proverbs 16:4, Colossians 1:16

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James Merritt

... of what other underlying reasons there are, there can only be one bottom line reason why people would commit suicide and that is they really think there is no other purpose in their life. I want to go ahead and give you the punch line. If you take God out of the question, you will never be able to answer it. If you take God out of the equation, you will never be able to solve it. I love to go into bookstores and just browse. I would ask you to go into a bookstore sometime in the next week and just ...

3. Pro-Choice is No-Choice

Proverbs 24:11-12

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James Merritt

... , to faith in Jesus Christ? Let me close with a final story. It is a true story about a young girl who learned she was pregnant. She was engaged but her fiancé was not the father of the baby. Her family was poor so to feed another baby was out of the question. Furthermore, her family was a reputable family and she did not want to drag the family name in the mud. She did not want her fiancé to know about the pregnancy or else he would have put her away and would have never married her. Now it would seem ...

4. Are You a Polar Bear?

Ephesians 1:1-14

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... system and thus is protective of his own physical health. He says that no dessert, no serving of macaroni and cheese (no matter how good), and no other fattening food or drink, for him, outweighs being fit and healthy. Cigarettes, recreational drugs and excessive alcohol are out of the question. And Ken is somewhat of an exercise fanatic himself. He’s the kind of guy you would hate to have next to you in the gym. (2) But, let me ask you, do you think he’s wrong to cherish his physical health like that ...

5. The Gospel According to Johan

Jonah 3:1-10

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Curtis Lewis

... was Nineveh. It was the capital of Assyria, a nation which in its day had set a standard of dread and terror. For Jonah, preaching to Nineveh would be like going to Baghdad in modern Iraq for you and me. For Jonah, the thought of preaching in Nineveh was out of the question. There was no way Jonah was going to preach to that gang of cutthroats. You can bet Jonah didn't sing the old gospel song which states: "Trust and obey, for there's no other way to be happy in Jesus, than to trust and obey." Jonah surely ...

6. The Power of Encouragement (Part VIII)

Philippians 2:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... has ever known. We could be worshipping by candlelight rather than our electric lighting in this sanctuary today. So much for dumb and dull people. Ludwig Von Beethoven: Beethoven''s professor of music told his parents that a career as a musical composer was out of the question for Ludwig. He was hopeless. Imagine all of the beautiful music we would have been denied if Ludwig had listened to his critics. Pablo Picasso: Picasso was born prematurely and was left to die by his mother on a table in the house ...

7. Salvation in Jesus’ Name

Acts 4:5-12

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Ron Lavin

... simply a great moral teacher. No great moral teacher ever claimed to be God -- not Mohammed, not Micah, not Malachi, or Confucius, or Plato, or Moses, or Buddha. Not one of them ever made that claim ... The idea of a great moral teacher saying what Christ said is out of the question ... A man who was merely a man and said the things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic ... or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make a choice ... You can shut him up as a fool ...

8. Chapter V

Exodus 20:1-21

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Frank H. Seilhamer

... as though he or she were God himself functioning on the scene! Both the Old and New Testaments have examples of this concept embedded in them. When God selected Moses to lead the people out of Egyptian bondage, Moses at first turned down the idea as being out of the question. With one excuse after the other he told God why he was not fit for the job! He did not have the qualities of which real leaders are made. He was not believable, or able to inspire the confidence that such a task required (Genesis 4:1ff ...

9. Joy: The Echo of God's Presence In Us! (Part I - Introduction)

Philippians 1:1-11

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Eric Ritz

... of my heart''?" Is Paul going to tell us that the Christian life is an escape from suffering, sickness, and sorrow--all we need to do is "name it and claim it"? To anyone who knows of the great passage from II Cor. 11:24-28, knows that this is out of the question. As a matter of fact, I believe it is the wrong question. A distinguished colleague, now retired, once told about a man who walked into a hotel lobby and went up to the front desk to register. There was a large dog lying there, and he was a little ...

10. Table For Talkers

Luke 22:7-38

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... are free in West Berlin and are waiting for her release. A guard offers the woman her freedom at the price of sexual intercourse. Would you do that to get free to join your loved ones? Now you probably say with emphasis that it would be totally out of the question. But, if that should some day be your lot, is there a possibility you would consent? In these days of political corruption, we have been quick to judge and condemn the offenders. However, stop to think: If you were in the shoes of John Dean or ...

11. Which Kingdom Do We Serve?

Mark 6:14-29

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David Coffin

... mother’s first marriage. Her age has been estimated from about twelve to nineteen years old. Her dance impressed Herod so much that he pledged to grant her a promise of her choice. Whether her dance was erotic in nature remains contested but it is not out of the question. Herod had probably had a lot of alcohol to drink and was not making the best judgment calls at that point. Rather than coming up with a wish on her own in response to King Herod, she went to the side and asked her mother Herodias what ...

12. Happy New Year?

Isaiah 61:1-11

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John R. Brokhoff

... year? How can one be happy for a whole year when the forecast for the new year may predict unhappy times? Can you be happy if in the coming year you may have less to eat, if you must make old clothes do for another year, if a vacation is out of the question, and if you must worry about the bills coming due? Regardless of conditions, we do want to be happy. Is there anyone here who does not want to be happy in the coming year? A teacher of a young adult class asked the students to write their answers to the ...

13. Giving Up Control

John 6:1-21

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Ron Lavin

... of Jesus, just to be better informed, he began thinking seriously about his life. He even went to church a few times. Then on Christmas Day while he was sitting in a pew, God called him to be a Christian. God also called him to be a pastor. "Out of the question," he replied in his heart. "The answer is 'No.' I can't do that. I know nothing about the Bible, nothing about the church, nothing about God. I know nothing about religion." After a few moments, the young man revised his first answer. "I know this is ...

14. Numbered Hairs

Matthew 10:1-42

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Herchel H. Sheets

... was affirming that God has no difficulty knowing all of the circumstances of each person’s life, all of his or her desires, needs, problems, purposes, goals, aims, motives, intentions, fears, hopes, joys. Ignorance on God’s part is out of the question. Indifference is out of the question for God, too. One can only be indifferent about that which is of no interest to one. And counting hairs implies interest! Billy Graham received a letter once from a young man who had attended a Crusade conducted by ...

15. Dangerous

John 12:12-19, Zechariah 9:9-13, Zechariah 9:14-17

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... toppled. Anything that threatens those structures gets arrows in its back, or a contract on its head! When the status is quo, all change can feel dangerous. When the status is quo, allowing the Holy Spirit to rearrange our neat, nice, orderly churches is out of the question. Status quo mandates control. The Holy Spirit mandates we let go of control, and let Jesus resurrect us into a new kind of life we have never before experienced and know nothing about. To let the Holy Spirit take control means we give up ...

16. The Three Poison Pills of Position, Prestige, and Power

Mark 10:35-45

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Brett Blair

... The one thing that is clear is that James and John have misunderstood what lies ahead of them. Prestige is not coming to the disciples. It is the Passion. It is not glory to which they are headed but the gallows. First and second positions are out of the question. Least of all is the only option or nothing at all. III James and John wanted position. They wanted prestige. And third they wanted power. Notice that the other ten disciples became indignant when they heard what James and John were up to. It was a ...

17. Baby Blues

1 Samuel 1:4-20

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Mary S. Lautensleger

... if it were not for Peninnah's constant presence. Hannah found herself becoming more and more bitter and reclusive. She discovered that one way to avoid some of her pain was to avoid other people. Going to the synagogue on Mothers' Day was absolutely out of the question. It was hard enough on other Sabbaths when all those little darlings marched down front to sit at the rabbi's knees and hear the children's message. She felt guilty for resenting her friends and relatives who had children, but those negative ...

18. Saying Yes To Forgiveness

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

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Maxie Dunnam

... . And so, as a teenager in the middle fifties faced with a time when it came time to do something with my life, I was of the opinion that it would be difficult for me to love one person to the exclusion of all others, and marriage therefore seemed out of the question even though I felt that was a stronger personal desire than going into the Convent, but I needed to make up for my sins, and so, I thought God must be calling me into the Convent. Two of my sisters had entered the Convent before me, and I was ...

19. Christ the King The King On His Cross

Luke 23:26-43

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Alvin Rueter

... let us get by with anything? Because sin is treason. It’s defiance. It’s saying, "God, don’t think you can tell me what to do." Truly if there is justice with God - and where else if not with him? - then paradise is lost. II But not out of the question. That’s the glorious good that comes from the horrible execution of this innocent man. Here was a sinner having a change of heart. A king grants pardons, and his cross was making it possible to grant a full pardon to this crook. But wait a minute. If ...

20. The Rain Of Bread

Exodus 16:1-36

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... out into the back country, carrying on your back everything you need to survive. Enjoying nature, listening only to the sounds of wildlife, having a bit of creation all to yourself. Of course, there is one downside to it all -- the food. Cans are out of the question, they're too heavy to carry. That leaves only the packaged, freezed-dried variety of food. The pictures on the outside of these packages look inviting, but the actual stuff is all texture and no taste. If there's one complaint heard again and ...

21. Chapter II

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Frank H. Seilhamer

... locked up in the ignorance that chained the folks in those times. God, he said, is an idea all wrapped up with a world of three-story universes and demons. To try to bring him, and all that goes with him, into the 20th century is out of the question! "This whole ‘God business’ has been laid to rest by people with training like my own," he shot out. "The idea that a deity ‘out there’ is somehow involved with me right here, has been knocked into a cocked hat by the scientific age." While I wondered ...

22. How About Some Applause for the Creator?

Luke 2:1-14, (15-20)

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

... , his wife had long since banished every hint of religion from their household. “She held Christian faith in contempt,” says Rutledge. She regarded the faith as a “relic of a superstitious and unenlightened era. Attending church, of course, was out of the question.” The resulting impact on her husband was quite interesting. He told pastor Rutledge that, at Christmastime, he found himself so longing to hear the Christmas story from St. Luke’s Gospel that he smuggled a small King James Bible ...

23. The Easter Event - After The Resurrection

Matthew 28:1-10

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Robert Allen

... in the Easter pageant. However, the part of Jesus was difficult to cast. No one seemed to fit the director’s idea of what Jesus would be like - no one, that is, except for the most unlikely charcter, a big, burly oil field worker. But, he was out of the question. How could the director select someone to play the part of Jesus who cursed like a sailor and had a reputation for barroom brawls? But he was the one she chose, because he was the logical choice. Finally, the day of the Easter pageant arrived and ...

24. Great Reasons for Great Giving

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

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Edward Inabinet

... Liberty Island with him. On two occasions when he was in New York he called her, but she was always too busy. She was eighty-seven, and yet her schedule seemed to be tighter than his. The last time she turned him down, she told him it was out of the question for her to get away that day. She was doing her spring housecleaning! It is clear that Mary Miller was giving for this cause out of pure joy. It truly is more blessed to give than to receive. That is one of the great spiritual truths. Giving brings ...

25. Prepare The Way

Mark 1:1-8

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Brett Blair

... was in the golden years of her life. She had never given birth to a child. You would think of her more in the category of great grandmother than mother. Yet, she and her aging priest of a husband were the unlikely candidates. It’s not out of the question today with recent advances in medicine, but beg the grandmother’s here today, don’t take this as a word from the Lord! And then there was John himself. Being the same age as Jesus they grow up together, played together, yet as they reached adulthood ...

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