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1. The Significance Of An Insignificant Man

Luke 23:26-43

Sermon

Erskine White

... 16:24). And Jesus was also to tell them, "Truly I say to you ... you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go" (John 21:18). The very first one to do this - the very first one to pick up a cross and follow Jesus Christ - was an African who happened to be passing by, an ordinary man named Simon of Cyrene. You and I are rather ordinary people like Simon, so perhaps we can see ourselves in his place today. Perhaps there is an important lesson in his story ...

2. Choices

Mark 9:42-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... up. Go back home and get on with your life. No one would put up with this kind of rejection, week after week. Nobody would do this.” The older man looked the younger one straight in the eye. Then he said, “God has put up with it for centuries.” He picked up his meager belongings and headed out the door. (6) That father couldn’t give up on his son. Part of it was his love for his son. Part of it was who he, the father, was--a follower of Jesus Christ. Our faith binds up our life in a unified ...

3. WHAT IS MAN?

Sermon

Larry Powell

... fling refuse along highways and country roads, in lakes and rivers in such volume that we have to hire an army of people to pick up our mess. As a whole, we practice a sorry form of stewardship and presently more courteous to a cave full of bats and bugs ... that Mr. X was the first person on the scene. He knelt down by the injured dog and stayed with me until someone in a pick-up truck stopped. I don't remember who the man in the truck was, but I remember the big man with the scary reputation ordering him ...

4. Journey To The Cross VII (Easter): Jesus And The Women At The Tomb

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

James W. Moore

... a stone; if it’s cold, throw it into the sea. This he did for weeks and weeks. Then one morning he went out to continue his search for the touchstone. He picked up a stone; it was cold… he threw it into the sea. He picked up another stone – cold! He threw it into the sea. He picked up another stone… it turned warm in his hand, and before he realized what he was doing… he threw it into the sea! That’s a good parable for Easter, isn’t it? Because that can so easily happen to us. We can come upon ...

5. Love Without Limits

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... things are impossible. Everybody needs that kind of love. I once overheard a conversation between a mother and her six-year-old son. The six-year-old had recently been blessed with a new baby brother. One day, as his mother was working in the kitchen, she picked up his little brother and held him close to her. I guess, even at his advanced age the six-year-old was a little jealous, so he asked his mother a hypothetical question: "Mommy, could you pick me up?" At first she dismissed it by saying, "You're ...

6. Feasting and Fasting for Lent (Part V)

Philippians 3:1-11

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... to change their appetites, values, and attitudes from years spent living in the land of Egypt. God not only had to get the people out of Egypt, He had to get Egypt out of the people. This is the same principle that the young Indian boy learned when he picked up the snake. We know the destructive power of sin when we pick it up and allow it to enter our minds and bodies. There might be pleasure for a season but the season will be short-lived and the destruction it brings can last forever. This is the reason ...

7. Work Like the Who?

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

King Duncan

... still be forgiven. If she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into jail until the debt was paid. They were standing on a pebble-strewn path in the farmer’s field. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. The sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick a pebble. Now, imagine that you were the girl standing in the field. What would you have done? If you had to advise her, what would you ...

8. Restarting Joy - Rejoice

Isaiah 55:10-13

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... it with joy. Without a moment's hesitation or warning, grief tore into the Mabery family like a tornado. But, determined not to be bound by the cords of perpetual grief, Lucy remained positive, keen thinking, and joyful. How can a person in Lucy's situation recover, pick up the pieces, and go on? How does anyone press on beyond grief? How do you still laugh at life? How do you put your arms around your children as a new single parent and help them laugh (see joy) in the future? It comes from deep within ...

9. The Law of Unintended Consequences

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... . “Now then,” the preacher said to himself, “I’ll just hide behind the door here and when my son comes home from school this afternoon, I’ll see which of these three objects he picks up. If he picks up the Bible, he’s going to be a preacher like me! If he picks up the dollar, he’s going to be a businessman. But if he picks up the bottle, he’s going to be a drunkard—a no-good drunkard and Lord, what a shame that would be.” Soon the preacher heard his son’s footsteps as he headed back to ...

10. A Cloud Of Witnesses

Hebrews 12:1-3

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... of like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito in the movie "Twins." I'm not sure but I think his name was Buck. And he was muscled like nobody else I've ever known. One weekend Dad and Buck and I went to this huge apple tree to pick apples. I picked up apples off the ground. Dad and Buck picked everything they could reach in the tree. And then I remember my Dad telling to climb the tree, pick the apples and toss them down. The problem was, I was so little, I couldn't even reach the first fork in the ...

11. How Great Is Your Faith

Matthew 15:21-28, Matthew 15:1-20

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... their day at the beach. The children were playing in the ocean and making sand castles when in the distance a little old lady appeared. Her gray hair was blowing in the wind and her clothes were dirty and ragged. She was muttering something to herself as she picked up things from the beach and put them into a bag. The parents called the children to their side and told them to stay away from the old lady. As she passed by, bending down every now and then to pick something up, she smiled at the family. But ...

12. Jesus Gets a Business Card

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Mary Austin

... we follow God in the places we are, with the gifts we have. And at the center of it all, there are questions that give meaning to all the others. Who do you say that I am? Can you pick up your cross and follow me? Can you face your burdens, and care for the needs of others? As one writer says, “As life picks up speed and I clock more days and weeks and years, I accumulate more suffering. The human tendency seems to be to fight the difficult parts of life, as if by resisting them I can skip to the good ...

13. Time to Pick a Side

Luke 12:49-53

Sermon

King Duncan

... , there could be for him no such thing as real, objective sin measured against the objective moral command of God, and thus no need of a Savior. I thanked the student for his time and began to leave his room. On the way out, I picked up his small stereo and started out the door with it. ‘Hey, what are you doing?’ he shouted . . . ‘I am leaving your room with your stereo,’ [I said]. “‘You can’t do that,’ [the student] gushed.” Moreland retorted, “I happen to think it is permissible to ...

14. The Power of a Helping Hand

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... that. One person who is doing that in this congregation is Marcus Stamps. I want you to meet Marcus this morning. Marcus is one of our singles in this congregation. He has been very active in leading Sunday school and all of these kinds of things but he picked up a new ministry a few years ago that I want him to tell you about today. Marcus, I remember sitting in my office several years ago and you were praying and I was praying with you trying to discern what God was calling you to do in this community ...

15. A Crippling Spirit

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

Brett Blair

... again and the sun is setting. Can you come get me? And off she would go riding under the darkening big skies of Texas to pick up her boy in the family car. It was now becoming obvious that he was not going to be a triathlon athlete. In one of the ... was just rising, gilding the top to the mountain with gold, and every crag was glistening in the joy of the beautiful morning. He picked up the eagle and said to it: ‘Eagle, thou art an eagle; thou dost belong to the sky and not to the earth; stretch forth thy ...

16. After The Beep

Isaiah 66:1-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... result, "After the Beep" has become one of the most familiar phrases in the English language. While there are a few creative souls out there who endeavor to entertain us with witty out-of-the-ordinary messages, we all pretty much know what to expect when we hear the machine pick up, don't we? One may as well simply record, "Hello, this is you know who, and we're not you know where, so at the you know when, leave a you know what, and we will well, YOU KNOW!" (1) I don't like "The Beep." I have an affliction ...

17. You Will Not Leave My Soul In Hell

Psalm 16:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... will help us face our "giants" as well if we will let Him. Unfortunately too many of us come to God only when we are already at the end of our rope. Dale Evans Rogers uses this analogy in one of her books. "Ships coming into port slow down to `pick up the pilot'-take aboard a man who knows every rock and sand bar in the harbor and who can steer the ship safely through them to the dock. When the ship leaves the harbor, the same pilot comes aboard to take her out to deep water and the open sea ...

18. Endorsing The Future

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... not seem to possess as strong a faith in God as he believed his mother to have possessed. God seemed so real, so alive, and so meaningful to her. But not to him. In desperation he decided to reach out for the slender thread of his mother's faith. He picked up his late mother's gold-rimmed spectacles and her faded, dog-eared prayer book. He went over to what was once his mother's favorite chair and sat in it. Very gently, he opened the book and tried to hear in those words what her ears must have heard. Then ...

19. A Pair of Ducks and Abundant Life

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... will be lost. Years ago, Bishop Reuben Job told about an experience in his own family. He said, “One day a couple of years ago I picked up one of my sons who was 14 years old and competing in a track meet. As any busy father, I wasn’t there but probably ... be lost. Years ago Bishop Reuben Job told about an experience in his own family. He said, “One day a couple of years ago I picked up one of my sons who was 14 years old and competing in a track meet. As any busy father, I wasn’t there but probably ...

20. Thankless Jobs

John 10:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... day at the beach. The children were bathing in the ocean and making castles in the sand when in the distance a little old lady appeared. Her gray hair was blowing in the wind and her clothes were dirty and ragged. She was muttering something to herself as she picked up things from the beach and put them into a bag. The parents called the children to their side and told them to stay away from the old lady. As she passed by, bending down every now and then to pick things up, she smiled at the family. But her ...

21. In A Time Of War

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... country gets mad at another country, and they start fighting." The first soldier asked, "Do you mean that one piece of land gets mad at another piece of land?" "No," the other replied. "The PEOPLE of one country get mad at the PEOPLE of the other." The first soldier picked up his rifle and started walking away. When asked where he was going, he said, "I'm going home. I'm not mad at anybody." (1) I wish it were that easy, don't you? I wish we could just walk away from war. But today our nation is involved ...

22. Don't Get Too Big For Your Spiritual Britches

Judges 16:20

Sermon

James Merritt

... parent would pray afresh and anew, "Father, teach us what to do for the children you have given to us." b. Godly Powers It didn't take long to realize that Samson was different from all of the other boys. He could run faster, jump higher, throw farther, pick up more weight. If he had lived today he would have been the center on the basketball team, the quarterback on the football team, the pitcher on the baseball team, the anchor man on the track team. He would have been, what we call today, a "four letter ...

23. The Dream Work of Teamwork

Nehemiah 3:1-32

Sermon

James Merritt

... of a manger. Inspiring others to do the right job the best way is the accomplishment of a leader. Think about the task that Nehemiah faced. People he had never met, but had only known him a short time, listened to his sales pitch and put down their plows and picked up their hammers and went to work rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem that they had been ingrained to believe all of their life could not be rebuilt. You ask how in the world could he do that. I read a true story the other day about a man in the ...

24. The Upside Down Life

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was. The professor picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He then asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous yes. The professor then produced two cans of soda [pick your favorite soda or beer] from ...

25. The Secret Man

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... was not exposed to public humiliation and a complete loss of face. Jesus was covered with shame for something he had not done, but he accepted it. Certainly we don’t deserve the physical and emotional suffering we experience either. But I wonder if we only truly pick up our cross and follow Jesus when we stand up for him, stand up for the gospel, and receive shame, false accusations, loss of face, for his name, for the sake of the good news? When we stand up for refugees, for outsiders, for those who are ...

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