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2 Cor 8:10-11

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... . But somehow two weeks or two months later what had so completely captured the fantasy seems hard pressed - terribly hard pressed - to capture those human faculties (brains, legs, arms, hearts) that will incarnate in fact what had been born in fantasy. The post launch slump happens. It happens maritally, politically, religiously, biologically and ecclesiastically. "You made a good beginning last year both in the work you did and in your willingness to undertake it. Now I want you to go on and finish it: be ...

2. How Not To Throw A Party

Luke 14:1-14

Sermon

Alex Gondola

... anywhere near learned ones, nor the dull near the clever, unless the dull one is a young and pretty woman with a talent for listening, and the clever one is a man with an admiration for beauty and a love of talking" (p. 164). Emily Post sums it up: "The requisites for a perfect formal dinner ... are ... Guests who are congenial, Servants who are competent, A lovely table setting -- Food that is perfectly prepared ... A cordial and hospitable host and a charming hostess" (and a good seating chart). "How to ...

3. The Condemning Heart

John 3:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... : “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” Homosexuality is an issue that raises intense passions, but we are not dealing today with whether homosexuality is a sin. The young woman who posted this message actually believes it is a sin. She agreed with the boy’s father on this point. But it is the spirit of condemnation that offended her, especially a father condemning his son. What does the word condemn mean? A dictionary says it means ...

4. Getting Your Attention

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... with. Earth Day was only a few weeks away. Her co-workers decided they wanted to do something to observe it. They planted a tree in the Town Common where everyone would enjoy it. Soon the clerks had set up a bulletin board in the post office lobby that carried articles and posters about the environment. Since most of the town's residents passed through the lobby on a daily basis, they could not avoid having their consciousness raised about environmental issues. One of the clerks began writing a column for ...

5. Act Quickly - Catch It Early

Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... delicious concoction. On the first night of the third week, he scattered the feed and sank an eight-foot post into the ground twenty feet away. The next night, he scattered the feed and sank another post into the ground twenty feet in the opposite direction. Every night, he added a post. Then he started putting boards between the posts while scattering the feed. Six weeks rolled by. He continued adding posts and boards until he had a corral built around the feed. Every night the gazelles would find the gaps ...

6. Growing in God's Freedom

John 8:31-41

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... go with you.'"4 When the Son makes you free, you are free indeed. We can rejoice in the second place, knowing and feeling we are free to grow. We are either trees or posts. You can take a tree and put it in the ground, and it begins to grow. When you put a post in the ground, it begins to rot and decay. We are trees or we are posts. As a pastor these years, it has been my delight to see people in my congregation grow like trees. Unfortunately, I have also had to witness the sad business of watching ...

7. Anybody NOT seeing red?

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... else noticed that Christians have some of the lowest irritation thresholds of anyone around, or if this was just me. Maybe I’m more irritating than “the usual bear,” as Yogi Bear might say. But the response I got was deafening: people agreed with me. I then posted a tweat that asked my tweeps to give me reasons why this might be so. Why are Christians so irritable? Here are a few of the responses I got. I’m going to keep their twitter names, or disguise them, because some private messaged me on the ...

8. Jesus: What's in a Name?

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in walked a lady with a big smile on her face weighted down with boxes for mailing. She held the door open for her three little girls who filed in, each carrying a package. It was quite obvious that they had never seen the inside of a Post Office. “She bounded over to a man standing over a counter pasting stamps and asked, ‘Are you a carrier?’ “Of what?” he snapped. “Another one in line growled, “To the back of the line, lady!” Her eyes fairly danced with excitement as she announced to no ...

9. Scrubbing Our Social Media Accounts

Romans 5:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... days. (1) Most of us know what it’s like to do some foolish or crazy stuff in our younger years. Those of us who grew up in a time before social media can leave those regrets in the past because there aren’t a lot of photos or posts about it. But these days a person’s whole life, every random thought and emotion and insensitive joke and embarrassing picture, can wind up online. And it’s nearly impossible to take this stuff back, unless you hire a company like BrandYourself to delete most of it. So ...

10. Sitting Shiva Behind Closed Doors

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... a reality that keeps us in a cage. Jesus is the one who comes to release us from the ties that bind us. You see, the ones bound in this story are not Jesus. The ones impeded by the tomb are not Jesus. We see that in this post resurrection story! The ones who cannot believe are the ones hiding behind walls, doors, preconceptions, traditions that will not allow them to step outside of their own boxes in order to accept the Jesus right in front of them. Jesus is not contained by our categories. Categories don ...

11. The Sign of Jonah

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... ability to fish for people comes from Jesus, but their goal is to be in community and at the table with all those whom they bring to Jesus, to nurture them as Jesus does them, to serve others, even as they learn to serve. Even in his post-resurrection appearances, Jesus is still teaching. Just as in his foot-washing story, Jesus uses that moment around the fire to remind (re-mind) his disciples what their role must be. In this third appearance, Jesus’ power (symbolized in Jewish thought by 3 x 3) is again ...

12. Cherish the Moment

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... and send it to your future self. That’s right, I said your future self. Each cafe has a post office box for traditional mail delivery. But the cafes also have post office boxes for mail that is intended to be delivered to you over the next 5-10 years. So if you want to send ... , employees will fish out your postcard and put it in the mail for you. (1) If I were to hand you a post card right now, what message would you send to your future self? That’s a tough question. Thanks to movies like “It’ ...

13. Listen!

Luke 9:28-36, (37-43a)

Sermon

King Duncan

... known as the “Loyal Company of Town Criers.” Its purpose is to keep alive the tradition of the Crier. For example, this website informs us that the use of the term “Post” as in “Post Office,” or “posting a notice,” or the naming of newspapers such as “The Herald and Post,” or even the idea of “posting a message on the Internet,” all derive their existence thanks to the Town Crier. Their position became so important that harming a Town Crier was turned into a treasonable offense, and ...

14. Out of the Darkness

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... months to live. Becca had one wish on her bucket list: that the people in her community would perform acts of kindness for one another. And that they would record their acts of kindness on social media, so Becca could experience their joy. She suggested they post their good deeds to the hashtag #BeccaToldMeTo. As Becca said in an interview, “People have a natural need to do good and that is what I am doing, I am being that vessel to do good.” Word spread through her small community at first, and people ...

15. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... signs. In some public buildings there are signs prohibiting smoking. But in church sanctuaries no such signs are needed. Who would light up and smoke a cigarette during a church service? The nature of the building and the character of the service make it unnecessary to post a no-smoking sign in there. The church can live with the limitation of not having a sign prohibiting smoking because of its identity. In fact, our freedom, our honor, and much of what is dear to us in life depend on acts that do not ...

16. He Lights Up My Life!

Exodus 33:12-23

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... and rail fences. It is so tough, that it's like trying to split rock. The farmer hired a man who was not too fast at thinking, and told him he'd pay him three dollars a dozen for the posts. After two or three days the farmer came to the hired hand and found him hard at work. He asked him how he was getting along. The man replied, "Well, pretty good! When I finish this one, and then one more, I'll have two done!" The people of Israel ...

17. A Christian's Duty in Time of War

Nehemiah 4:1-23

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” Our duty as Christians in a time of war is to pray, post the guard, and then build an America that is easy for God to bless. I want to close by quoting the final words given two days ago by Captain Ronnie Johnson of the 3rd Battalion of the 3rd Infantry Division as his men were about to go into combat: He ...

18. Swords Into Plowshares

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... is a crisis in our own lives. At such trying times we long to connect with God. The Associated Press tells about a post office in Israel that is covered up with mail from people trying to reach out to the Divine. "Try sending a letter to God," says the author ... remedies, etc. A huge number of letters arrive around Christmas and Jewish holidays. As long as anyone can remember at the post office, the letters to God have turned up at the Postal Authority's center for undeliverable mail in an industrial zone ...

19. Hanging On To Every Word

Luke 19:45-48

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... , son, I'm preaching tonight at the Baptist church. Why don't you come and I'll tell you how to get to Heaven." The boy thought for a moment, and then said, "No, thank you. I don't think so. You don't even know your way to the post office!" You may have some disparaging thoughts like that about my preaching. We're on a preaching journey through Luke. If you've been following, you can't miss the fact that today we jumped from Chapter 4 -- where we were preaching last Sunday, to Chapter 19 today. So, I ...

20. The Model of Success

Luke 16:1-15

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... at the turn of the century when it had 3,000 subscribers. By the time he left that position in the 1920s, there were three million subscribers to the Post. It was an amazing success story. Lorimer wrote a column each month for the Post. It was one of the more popular features of the magazine. The column was entitled, "Letters from a Self-Made Merchant." It was in the form of a hypothetical letter from a meat packer to his son at Harvard. The fictional meat packer was based on the life of Philip ...

21. All Your Facilities Intact

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

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . That I could preach. The second part I would have trouble with, because I saw in Peru what the Spaniards did to the Incas under the guise of following, literally, Paul's instruction about idols. Every Inca city had a sun temple that was called an "Intihuatana," which means "hitching post." It is just amazing. It is a huge stone, an outcropping of a stone. I don't know how they did it. No one knows how they did it. They would hew it so that it would be flat, like a table with a vertical ...

22. Take an Ember Day

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... (the festival of sowing). The fourth that which is celebrated during Lent is a later addition, added some time during the fifth century. Under Gregory VII in 1078, Ember Days celebrations became permanent. A rhyme kept them straight: "post-Lent, post-Pent, post-Lucem, post-Crucem." Masses were celebrated on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays during the weeks following the first Sunday in Lent, the week following Pentecost and the weeks of September 14 (Holy Cross week) and December 13 (St. Lucy's Day ...

23. He Stands Alone

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

King Duncan

... to explain that Jesus was there in spirit not body, but the five‑year‑old didn’t get it. Finally, her mom said, “That’s enough, Laura, let’s go home.” Laura resisted. Mom insisted. Then Laura bolted across the aisle and bear‑hugged a marble post. She yelled out, for all to hear, “I’m not leaving till I see Jesus!” Her mother was humiliated. The more she asserted, the louder Laura protested. Finally the priest came over, bent down, took Laura by the hand, and gently led her to the altar ...

24. Are You In The Know?

John 10:27-29

Sermon

James Merritt

... be no conversions in religions." [[1]] The man who is known as perhaps the most brilliant scientist who ever lived, Albert Einstein, once said, "Certainly there is a God. Any man who doesn't believe in a cosmic force is a fool, but we could never know Him." [[2]] The post-modern view of God - that is if there is a God - is that nothing certain can be known about God and you certainly cannot know Him personally. Let me make a concession here. If the Bible is not God's word and if God has not spoken to us and ...

25. Life Is Yours

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... that comes about 2 minutes into the interview. If you can show this as part of your sermon, fantastic. http://www.100huntley.com/video.php?id=AQTuSce73Dk] One day E. Stanley Jones said God said these words to him when he was at his “listening post:” “You are mine. Life is yours.” What a powerful, simple statement. Can you say them with me? “You are mine. Life is yours.” Inhabit the reality of those words for a moment. If God declares, “You are mine,” how can we possibly “lose”? “Life ...

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