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1. Holy Waste

Mark 14:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... perfume on Him. My friend anointed me with love - and thousands of dollars couldn’t buy that kind of gift. And the timing of it was so perfect coming at a time when I desperately needed to be affirmed and lifted up. Sometimes it’s inappropriate to be sensible, and we need to look for and capture those special moments that may not return – we need to act on our love impulses - not deny and strangle them. III Now a final thing Mary and her act of holy waste teaches us: The best is the only appropriate ...

2. Take Up Your Cross

Luke 8:1-15

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Robert V. Dodd

... All other roads may promise smoother riding, but they are dead-end trails. Going the long way around may seem like the safe, sane, and sensible thing to do at the moment, but "There is a way which seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death ... the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." The road less traveled by may not seem like the easiest or most sensible way. And it certainly isn't the most popular route. But it is the way that makes the crucial difference in our lives. And I ...

3. You Do Have A Prayer

Luke 11:1-13

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James W. Moore

... you stay with it. Maybe the same is true with prayer. Maybe it just takes a lot of practice and you know, I think it’s worth it. If Jesus felt the need to pray regularly, how much more must we need to pray regularly. II. SECOND, JESUS PRAYED SENSIBLY AND SO CAN WE. Jesus prayed with intelligent common sense. He did not use prayer as some magical device to get some selfish wishes. Hoover Rupert spoke to this when he said, "How easy it is to blunt out a desperate prayer… ‘O Lord, make the brakes hold ...

4. Can You Hear The Rooster Crow?

Luke 22:54-62

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Maxie Dunnam

... How often do we hear it?, "Everybody else does it!"..."You can't fight City Hall"..."What does it matter anyway"...."Nobody will ever know the difference." But they will -- and God will. It's very important that our conscience is sensitively alive, that we retain a sensibility of sin, a pain to feel it near. So never allow your mind and heart to be dulled to the crowing of the rooster. III. And now this final word: A passion to follow Jesus is still our primary need. Despite his denial, he was fundamentally ...

5. Yellow Lights

2 Thessalonians 2:1-12

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Leonard Sweet

... need to use our left ear to musically access the surroundings. Can you hear even if you can't see other cars coming? Is there someone else who is asserting their own right over yours? Is there a pedestrian who is crossing the street? Sometimes being sensible, listening to reason, is just not the right choice. It's a message from only one side of our brain, one side of our spirit. Truth is stereophonic. Truth both thinks good and sounds good. The TxDOT tract declares, "Drivers who run red lights are saying ...

6. Week Four Of Lent

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Richard Gribble

... Gandhi's challenge was too great for many. In the 1960s Martin Luther King, Jr., challenged all Americans to truly profess the precepts of the Declaration of Independence, that all people are created equal. Dr. King was controversial; he challenged the sensibilities and moral attitudes of a nation. As with Gandhi, many found Martin Luther King, Jr., too much to handle. In the late 1970s Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador challenged the prevailing attitudes toward the poor and helpless of society. Romero ...

7. Investing God's Gift

Luke 19:11-27

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Larry R. Kalajainen

... for him to have done so, given what we are able to discern of his character and method of governing. Certainly the notion of a king carrying out such vengeance upon his opponents would not have shocked the sensibilities of people in Luke's day. I'm not sure it really shocks our sensibilities as much as we might claim. After living through or reading about Stalin's purges of all those suspected of opposing him, or the Chinese government's brutal treatment of dissidents at Tienanmen Square, or even the more ...

8. Who Is This?

Matthew 21:1-11

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... Jesus." He says, "There's really no need, as you don't believe in him in any case...." He then commends the slave for his sensible behavior, and orders that he be rewarded. Barabbas then wears the disk with the crossed out name of Jesus for the rest of his life ... want to carry the name of Jesus as long as it is fun, as long as it is easy, as long as it is the popular and sensible thing to do. We will profess the name of Jesus when we need a healing, or whenever we are in the midst of a crisis situation. Indeed ...

9. Lost in Wonder, Love, and Praise

Romans 11:33-36

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

... and strain the brain and lead to endless argument. Useless questions - maybe. Why maybe? Why should there be any doubt? Why concern ourselves with questions which have no satisfactory answers? No sensible person would waste time struggling with the unknowable, the incomprehensible, the unanswerable. At least, no sensible Christian would. There are so many questions that must be answered, for which there are no solutions, that challenge our faith and our discipleship. Questions like, "How shall we feed the ...

10. How To Be A Saint In A Storm

Acts 27:13-26

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Barbara Brokhoff

... can and will give, but there is another side to the coin. There is also the PRACTICAL SIDE. And God blesses the action of the saint as surely as he blesses his faith. So now, having encouraged them with a "word from God," Paul gives some very sensible, practical advice. He begins by telling them they must STAY WITH THE SHIP. Some of the crew want to embark on their own, save themselves, forget what happens to the others. Paul reminds them they must stay together. Faith is always a uniting and cohesive force ...

11. Searching For Saints

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

King Duncan

... have enriched our lives. And like Lucy, we might sigh and say, "It's a mystery," Charlie Brown. "What is a saint anyway?" And Charlie Brown might answer: "Well, a saint is someone who is kind, doesn't smoke, is prompt, smiles a lot, eats sensibly, avoids cavities and marks their ballot carefully . . . Avoids too much sun. Sends overseas packages early. Loves all creatures above and below . . ." Is that your definition of a saint a nice person who abides by all the rules? Francis of Assisi bears the title of ...

12. The Smell of Fear

Mark 4:35-41

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Leonard Sweet

... , GammaScout.com, saferoom.com, in our search for a portable safe-haven against a biological, chemical, or nuclear attack. There's a big difference between the kind of fear stalking US society and bolstering the US economy, and the kind of sensible precautionary tone that used to inform safety-conscious people. What school system doesn't have a stockpile of emergency supplies? Not gas masks and Geiger-counters, but cases of drinking water, granola bars, peanut butter crackers, extra blankets, and first-aid ...

13. The World's Best Hearing Aid

Mark 9:2-13

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Leonard Sweet

... . The response of E.U. officials to the objection that such rules will make classical music unplayable is "Orchestras should give musicians ear plugs." [Reason, 34 (May 2002], 14.) Obviously, a good example of a lack of horse sense! On the other hand, refined sensibilities don't always mean fancy or ornate. John Killinger tells the legend about "the simple shepherd's pipe once played by Moses when he kept his father-in-law's flocks. When the pipe was discovered, many years after Moses' death, it was decided ...

14. The Monster Under Megan's Bed

John 6:1-21

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Leonard Sweet

... a legitimate reason to break glass with such panache and abandon? We still have to remind ourselves to put bottles and cans and paper into the recycling container instead of in the trash. Thane would never even think of doing such a thing. His sensibilities have been tuned in a different direction. Like most mks (millennial kids), he is "green." The use-it-once-then-throw-it-away mentality that has saturated our mindset has resulted in a kind of global holocaust. It seems as though we have been caught ...

15. Listening for the "Ching-ching"

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1

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Lee Ann Dunlap

... excruciating if they don't. Perhaps some of you have been caught in that nightmare — loving someone who, for whatever reason, is hell-bent on self-destruction and taking others along for the ride. Whether it's a marriage, a friendship, or an employment situation, the most sensible solution is to get out — especially if you or others are in harm's way. How do we cope and what do we do when the "prophecy" comes to pass and the person gets their wish? Sometimes "told you so" is too sad to say — even if ...

16. The Master's Voice

Matthew 13:53-58, Mark 6:1-6, Luke 4:14-30

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Lori Wagner

... without honor. Failing in comparison to all humans, a man in calamity and knowing how to carry weakness, because his face was turned away, he was without honor and not esteemed.”* The focus on “honor” in the Greek version reflects a different kind of sensibility. The word in Hebrew however is Kabod. Kabod has multiple shades of meaning. It is the word used in the Old Testament for God’s glory, God’s voice, God’s presence, God’s holy Word, God’s splendor, God’s reverence and majesty. Most ...

17. Joey and Nicky at Skull Mountain

Mark 15:42-47

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Lori Wagner

... side of the priests in the process. Jesus was going down. No doubt about it. Time to save his own skin. Look out for himself! Surely they’d only arrest Jesus. Keep him quiet for a while. Maybe then he’d see reason. Maybe then Jesus would calm down. Be sensible. Do what had to be done. Not this silly talk about dying and coming back from the grave. Caiaphas would play the game. Sure. We’ll just arrest him, he told Judas. We won’t hurt him. But we need to keep him off the streets for the Passover ...

18. A Woman Dancing

Exodus 15:20, 21

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Will Willimon

... sleeping in my crib, shake the head and say sadly, "He won't get out of this alive." After Good Friday, the disciples showed what sensible, mature people they were. They grieved, but they didn't go on and on. By Sunday, they were beginning to feel much better which means ... most acceptable in our world is not a woman with a tambourine but a woman with a briefcase, in gray tweed suit and sensible shoes. Or else we take away Miriam's tambourine and give her an M-16. It's called equal access. The Empire corrupts ...

19. Deep Depression Or High Hope?

1 Kings 9:1-9

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Barbara Brokhoff

... the care of a trained doctor and perhaps medication. But for the depressions which settle in upon many of us, there are some tried antidotes that give real relief. These cures worked for Elijah, and perhaps they would work for you. Elijah first did the sensible thing. He got some food and some rest. Remember the all-day contest on Mount Carmel? That must have left the prophet emotionally drained and the day's journey into the wilderness must have tried him almost to exhaustion. So, under the broom tree he ...

20. Naaman Is My Name!

2 Kings 5:1-27

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Barbara Brokhoff

... obedience. Perhaps we would do well to remember that Christ does not court any man or woman, but commands us! Again, the rule is pretty simple: "Ye must be born again! Repent and believe the gospel!" But Naaman was blessed by having some pretty sane and sensible servants who reminded him, "If the prophet had told you to do something great, or hard, you wouldn't have had any trouble with that. You would have been glad to tackle a hard assignment, but don't forget, you are a leper. You are dying. Maybe ...

21. The Agony And The Ecstasy Of The Family

Mark 3:20-35

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... away safety. Most people in most cultures play it safe. It was no different with Jesus' family. Jesus was on a head-on collision course with the orthodox religious leaders of his day. Potential conflict with them meant conflict in the family. No sensible man would deliberately agitate the powers that were in place. The family thought that Jesus could not win in a battle with the priests, the Pharisees, and the Sadducees. The conflict with the religious leaders rose to fever pitch when the religious leaders ...

22. Himself The Real Presence

John 6:25-59

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George W. Hoyer

... ," Jesus said. What was the divine strategy for our salvation? It hinged on putting flesh on God. God would appropriate our human nature and "be found in fashion as a man." Human nature consists of more than flesh and blood, of course. But for us who are sensible, who depend upon our five senses to understand, flesh and blood are the things which we can touch and see, the things by which we recognize humanity, the things that sum up for us living beings. God, therefore, just as he gave us his Son in our ...

23. When All Is Said And Done

Mark 13:1-31

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William G. Carter

... our Lord." So why don't people like us have a place on the religious airwaves? Iwan Russell-Jones admits, "It's difficult to make a mark in the communications business when you don't have anything much to say." Then he concludes: The time for us sensible, "mainline" folk to make a serious move into the world of television will be when we can pray with Jack and Rexella "Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus." And mean it.4 1. John Dart, "Jehovah's Witnesses Abandon End-of-the-world Prediction," Religious News ...

24. Second Thoughts

Luke 10:25-37

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Robert Beringer

... sheltering the homeless, overcoming prejudice, and standing with the outcasts of society who spend their lives struggling with AIDS or living in our prisons? I seriously doubt that God would be able to continue the transforming work of Jesus Christ, if all those sensible reasons we give ourselves about our own security and self-interest were allowed to take control! Thank God the Holy Spirit sometimes allows us to win that battle with our second thoughts! In the February 1994 issue of Reader's Digest1 there ...

25. Silly Love Songs

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Timothy J. Smith

"I can see no trace of the passions which make for deeper joy," wrote the French writer Stendhal about Americans in his 1822 essay titled "Love." "It is as if the sources of sensibility have dried up among these people," he observed. "They are just, they are rational, and they are not happy at all," he wrote. One cannot help but wonder what Stendhal would say today. It's no secret that relationships suffer in the fast-paced, impersonal world in which we live. ...

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