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1. Beyond Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... the temple again and again. Pretty soon, though, they would get tired of seeing him jump from the temple and would want him to jump from higher places. Jesus resisted the devil's second temptation because he knew that faith could not be built upon the sensational. Bruce Larson writes about a friend of his who is an avid eagle-watcher. Rick takes his family to remote places where they can watch this great bird. On his most recent trip, he witnessed a strange incident. He had his binoculars fixed on a large ...

2. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

... temple, which was 450 feet high. If he would leap from this and land among the people without being harmed, then the people would follow him. But, Jesus recognized that faith which was founded on magic or the sensational was doomed to failure when the sensational events ceased to be sensational. And so he rejected this temptation by saying, "You shall not tempt the Lord your God." The third temptation was the temptation to compromise with evil in the world. The tempting voice said, "Fall down and worship me ...

3. The Book that Changes Lives

Nehemiah 7:73b--8:18

Sermon

King Duncan

... needs. Dr. Steven Reiss, in his book Who Am I?, separates happiness into two different categories. He calls one category “feel-good happiness” and the other “value-based happiness.” Many of us pursue feel-good happiness, which is based on good sensations and positive circumstances. When you eat a hot-fudge sundae, hit a home run, or enjoy an intimate moment with your spouse, you experience feel-good happiness. Value-based happiness, on the other hand, comes from the sense that your life has ...

4. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... friends, and that all of them, including the table, had begun to float around the room. Another caller complained that she had risen from the ground so rapidly that she had hit her head on the ceiling. If the callers did indeed experience this floating sensation, it must be chalked up to the power of suggestion, says one commentator, since the pull of gravity had remained quite constant throughout the day. (7) Be careful what you believe. The power of belief can help you achieve amazing things, but it can ...

5. The Power of Belief

John 20:24-31

Sermon

King Duncan

6. The Temple Of Wisdom

1 Kings 8:22-61

Sermon

Sue Anne Steffey Morrow

... and returned the sky to a heaven full of brilliant stars. We spent much of the next week wondering about the northern lights, researching what had caused them, blowing the dust off star books in the lodge library to try to discover what had caused such a sensational display. In my grandmother's 89 summers, she could not remember northern lights like we had seen. We did not know, we were not sure. But of one thing I was certain, my understanding of God was radically altered. To see the night sky explode with ...

7. A Road Map to the Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... . I’m not sure what “believing hard enough” means, but we are taught the story of “The Little Engine that Could” before we can read. I knew a man who graded the validity of his prayer by a tingling sensation in his back as he lay in bed. Certainly he could will himself into the sensation. If we think this way we learn how to turn wherever it feels right. To have good intentions becomes the bottom line. I recall having perfectly good intentions when I went off to college. I truly “believed hard ...

8. Time and Stewardship

Sermon

Larry Powell

... ? For what purpose? Biology, science, and sociology cannot answer that question, for it is distinctively a religious concern. The Greeks held that a person was to pursue pleasure and self-gratification inasmuch as the only purpose in life was to experience every pleasing sensation that one could squeeze into a life span. Or, as it has been more recently expressed, "If it feels good, do it." Some of the Eastern religions, on the other hand, teach that man is born evil and must purge himself of every wrong ...

9. The Miracle Of an Opened Mind

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Dean Lueking

... weighs just over three pounds I am told. It can be held in one hand. Yet there are literally billions of cells and cell connections within it, imparting via chemical and electrical transmission all our thought, all our feelings, all our motives, all our drives, all our sensations. Think of it: nothing is ever said or done in all the world on any given day but that it does not first originate in a brain. What a miracle the mind is! Open to Christ Through the Scriptures But more than that - what a miracle ...

10. God of the Ordinary

Exodus 13:17--14:31

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... the Roman soldiers carrying out their duty, it was just another ordinary criminal they were ushering to his death. But to those of us who know the saving power of the One hanging there in agony and blood, it is wondrous, extraordinary, and unique. It is the sensation of the ages, and superlatives fail us when we try to describe it. Yes, God used ordinary, natural means to deliver his people long ago - a rod in a human hand, a cloud, wind; so God uses an ordinary cross-tree to bring about his most stupendous ...

11. Embalmed Alive

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... room is in a shambles, drawers are open, papers scattered about. Behind him is the figure of Satan holding the missing paper high above the head of the desperate searcher. This is the search for some new and enticing sensation in life. One philosopher has said that ours is the "Age of Sensation." How frantically we search for some new experience. The world beckons with them, everything from a new thrill ride on the midway of the State Fair to some new perversion of our sexual nature. Men are searching for ...

12. Standing in Awe

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Roger Prescott

... moment of joy when I see so many people in my study who need so desperately a small measure of happiness?" "Woe is me! for ..." Yes, God is revealed in the awesomeness of the ordinary. And also in ... 2. The human drama We look, too, to the sensational in human activity to catch a glimpse of the Creator who put all things together. But, once again, that Creator steals in through the smallest of activities. God is so close sometimes that we can’t see the presence. For instance, I see the Spirit of God ...

13. You Can Be Happy

Mark 1:29-34

Sermon

King Duncan

... with his life. From the beginning of his ministry crowds surrounded him everywhere he went. His disciples thought it was great. They couldn't understand why Jesus didn't share their excitement. According to worldly standards Jesus was a smashing success, an overnight sensation, a hit. His picture was on the cover of the Rolling Stone, as they say. The disciples were trapped into thinking that more was better. They thought this was what Jesus wanted. There were times they didn't understand Jesus at all. If ...

14. He Comes As He Came

Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... Monica, April 12, 1981). We haven't seen that Mr. Kahn is right -- but he still may be proven right -- with all the advancement in technology. If he is right, love will no doubt be one of those levers we will be able to pull. And what sort of sensation of pleasure do you think will come when we pull that lever? That misses the mark more than a country mile. It misses it by a galaxy. Love is not a pleasure principle. It calls for compassion and compassion is often painful, bringing us to tears. Over against ...

15. Too Good Not to Be True

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... of that broadcast, there were heart attacks, strokes and suicides. Many people panicked, packing their belongings and crowding the roads, imagining that the robots would crush them. “How gullible,” we say. We would not fall for something as sensational as that. How much more sensational was the appearance of Christ to his followers? No wonder they were slow to believe. Who would want to fall for something like a dead man suddenly alive? It seemed absurd. So there was that fear that suspicion. Some ...

16. Jonah Proof

Jonah 1:17

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Michael P. Green

... his house of flesh until he starved, for he lost his senses through fright and not from lack of air. He remembers the sensation of being thrown out of the boat into the sea.… He was then encompassed by a great darkness and he felt he was slipping along a ... smooth passage of some sort that seemed to move and carry him forward. The sensation lasted but a short time and then he realized he had more room. He felt about him and his hands came in contact with a ...

17. Two Memorable Healings

Luke 5:17-26, Luke 5:12-16

Teach the Text

R.T. France

... all too well what to expect. My office files were filled with diagrams charting the body’s gradual march toward numbness. Ordinary pleasures in life would slip away. Petting a dog, running a hand across fine silk, holding a child—soon all sensations would feel alike: dead.”1 Bible: The story of Naaman (2 Kings 5). Quote: The first-century AD Jewish historian Josephus describes a leper as “no different from a corpse” (Ant. 3.264). Jesus discerned spiritual need as well as seeing physical disability ...

18. Which King Do We Worship?

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... , expectations and familiarity affect our perception of how time passes. Strong emotions like fear or excitement seem to slow down our perception of time. Any parent who has heard the question, “Are we there yet?” from the back seat of a car can relate to this sensation that time has slowed down to a crawl. (1) The more excited you are about your ultimate destination, the longer the trip seems to take. I wonder if the Magi, the wise men in our Bible passage, felt like time dragged on as they traveled to ...

19. The Ear of the Heart

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Dr. Ronald Love

... Hart was as beautiful as she was talented, which attests to why she was such a prominent actress and singer in the 1950s and 60s. Ah! She gave Elvis Presley his first on-screen movie kiss. Both as an endearing movie star and Broadway theatrical sensation, she was known and beloved by all. Her name placed upon the marquee was a guaranteed ticket seller. Then bewilderment befell her fans. Even perhaps, for some, it was anger. Certainly, most of all, there was disbelief. Ms. Hart gave up a lucrative and ...

20. Then There Was One

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

J. Will Ormond

... takes some measure of faith for the lepers to begin their journey to the priests while the marks of leprosy are still on their bodies. We do not know how far they travel before someone begins to notice a dramatic change in their condition. Perhaps one feels a sensation like a cooling breeze on his parched skin. He looks at his hands. They are smooth and free of sores. He lifts his robe and examines his legs. No longer are they disfigured and discolored. They appear as sturdy as they were when he was a youth ...

21. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... those who died in the earthquake were dead within fourteen minutes. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and cyclones likewise snuff out life in their path. Floods sweep hundreds to their death. Droughts, when widespread, lead to famine with massive numbers of deaths. The sensational press had a field day when fragments of a comet smashed into Jupiter in 1994. They recalled the theory that dinosaurs became extinct when a similar calamity happened to our planet. They pondered the possibility that such an encounter could ...

22. Proper 18

Psalm 139:1-24, Philemon 1:8-25, Philemon 1:1-7, Jeremiah 18:1--19:15, Luke 14:25-35

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William E. Keeney

... through the country (see Luke 8:1-4). CONTEMPLATION Issues and Insights 1. Not a Spectator Sport. Jesus saw the large crowd. He knew the mood of such a multitude. They followed because they were curious about the popular preacher. They looked for something sensational. They would be happy to enjoy the outcome of an easy victory where they would have part of the action. But they only wanted to be spectators, not participants, in the hard struggles which Jesus knew were ahead. Many people still want to be ...

23. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Harold Warlick

Many scholars view this narrative as one occasioned by the fear of an uncertain future followed by a sensation of great joy. Indeed, the narrative resolves the transfer of leadership from one generation of prophets to another. There is anxiety over the death of the great Elijah. How will his power be transferred? Who will have the authority when the great man dies? Certainly the scene is one of ...

24. No Apology

Acts 4:1-22

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Paul W. Kummer

... admonishing the lawyers, not the lawyers condemning the criminal. And if you wonder if this took nerve, remember this is the same court that condemned Peter's Savior to death. Then Peter does something we all can learn from. He moves the discussion from the sensation of healing to the hope of salvation. He quotes the Scripture these learned men know well from Psalms to get to the main point of his closing arguments: "Jesus was predicted a long time ago. Witness this psalm. He's the stone. You crucified him ...

25. Make Scriptural Hope Your Own

Romans 14:1--15:13

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... Word of God. In 1947 the Englishman J. B. Phillips began his translation of the New Testament into contemporary English. He started with the letters of Paul which he titled Letters to Young Churches. In the preface to this volume he recalls the sensation that came to him as he went about his work of translation. Phillips exclaimed, "... again and again the writer felt rather like an electrician rewiring an ancient house without being able to turn the mains off."1 There is something self-authenticating about ...

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