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1. Hard and Soft Hearts

Mark 10:2-16

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... is the ultimate indictment of what Jesus has to say here. Sin is not just our mistreatment of others. Sin is our mistreatment of God. God wants us to trust him, to count on him, to hope on him more than anything else in this world. But that takes a soft heart, not a hard heart. That takes a heart that is willing to depend on and trust in someone else. Ever since the Garden of Eden, the descendants of Adam and Eve have refused to do that. We have hard hearts. We want to do things our way. Already by asking ...

2. Popcorn Prophets

Isaiah 6:1-13

Children's Sermon

Tim Carpenter

... . As you hand out the popcorn: When the corn is put in the microwave what happens? (response) And when we are put in God’s presence what happens? (response) The yellow hard corn is changed by the microwave into soft white popcorn; we are changed, too, from hard hearted to soft hearted people by being in the presence of God. Let’s pray: Lord, we are in your church standing in your presence. Pop open our hearts and make us white and clean.

3. Will We Enjoy Heaven?

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... don't have any sense; they are therefore not truthful." Then there was Jonah. He ran away from God. He said, "I've been running because you told me to go to Nineveh and preach. But, if I did, those weirdos would repent and you are such a soft-hearted God you would forgive and redeem all of them. I didn't go because I want Nineveh to go to him." Jonah could embrace God's anger when it was directed against his enemies. But the tenderness of God, especially in the potential repentance of the hated Ninevites ...

4. Justice

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Will Willimon

... is he kidding? Repay $150 million when he's blown every cent? In a burst of outlandish pity, the master sets him free and cancels the whole debt, all $150 million of it. I Here the story begins to sound improbable. What kind of king is this? A soft-hearted, maybe even soft-headed king, for sure. Write off so great a financial injustice? Perhaps he's a liberal. A member of Amnesty International. "$150,000,000? Well, it's only money. The poor little servant didn't have all the advantages I have had in life ...

5. The Glory Departs

Ezekiel 8:1-18, Ezekiel 9:1-11, Ezekiel 10:1-22, Ezekiel 11:1-15, Ezekiel 11:16-25

Understanding Series

Steven Tuell

... ” (Block, Ezekiel 1–24, pp. 352–53): “I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh” (v. 19). While previously Israel had been a hard-hearted, obstinate people (see 2:4; 3:7), now they will become soft-hearted and responsive. Similarly, in Jeremiah 31:31–34, the prophet declares that, the present covenant having been made null and void by Israel’s unfaithfulness, a new covenant will be established in the future. That covenant will not depend upon the weak wills of ...

6. Mom: The Heart of a Godly Family

Proverbs 31:10-31

Sermon

James Merritt

... poor, yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy." (v.20) This woman gets out of the four walls of her home and ministers to others. Not only does she minister to her family, but she ministers through her family. She helps her family to have a soft heart. She helps her family to focus on those around them who are less fortunate than they are, moreneedy than they are, and who need a blessing from the family. k. Dedication "She is not afraid of snow for her household, for all her household is clothed with ...

7. Why You Should Study the Bible

Psalm 119:105

Sermon

James Merritt

... to the boundaries of that form, and when it hardened it looked just like the foundation of my home, which is exactly what the form intended for it to do. God has a form of truth for us. It’s called the Bible—His Word. If we will pour a soft heart and a surrendered life into that form, God will see to it that that form, that that heart and that life takes the shape of His word, His truth, and see to it that we become just like Him. Now let me say one last thing. There is one difference ...

8. God’s Strange Arithmetic

Mark 10:1-12

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... . Alex Bentlow, the Rev. A.A. Deckett officiating. The groom is a popular young bum who hasn’t done a lick of work since he got expelled his junior year in college. He manages to dress well and keeps a supply of spending money because his dad is a soft-hearted old fool who takes up his bad checks instead of letting him go to jail where he belongs. The bride is a skinny, fast little idiot who has been kidded by every boy in town since she was 12 years old. She sucks cigarettes and drinks mean corn liquor ...

9. The Compassionate Christ

Mark 1:40-45

Sermon

King Duncan

... and touched the leper. Why did he do it? You know why. “Filled with compassion, Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man.” That’s the problem with Jesus in many people’s estimation. He has too much compassion . . . he’s too soft-hearted . . . too easy to forgive . . . too easy to accept people’s shortcomings . . . too willing to do for people what they ought to do for themselves. Conveniently people who feel this way ignore the fact that if Christ were not compassionate, none of us would ...

10. To Tell the Truth

Humor Illustration

... Mrs. Alex Bentlow, the Rev. A.A. Deckett officiating. The groom is a popular young bum who hasn't done a lick of work since he got expelled his junior year in college. He manages to dress well and keeps a supply of spending money because his dad is a soft-hearted old fool who takes up his bad checks instead of letting him go to jail where he belongs. The bride is a skinny, fast little idiot who has been kidded by every boy in town since she was 12 years old. She sucks cigarettes and drinks mean corn liquor ...

11. Dirty Hearted People

Matthew 13:1-23

Children's Sermon

Brett Blair

Exegetical Aim:Growth takes place only in fertile receptive people. Props: Seeds, a tray, a brick (or large rock), clay (or children's Play-doh), and some rich soil. Lesson: Good morning. (response) Place the empty tray in front. Hold up the seeds. What do I have here? (response) We are going to plant these seeds. I brought this tray to plant our seeds in but I need something to put in the tray so we can plant them...here we go. Put the brick in the tray. Now we pour a few seeds right there and we are ...

12. The Soft-touch God

Hosea 11:1-11

Sermon

Keith Hammer

Every parent who has children approaching or into the early teenage years knows that the day of reckoning is coming. The day of which I speak, of course, is the day when the once compliant, cooperative little girl or boy becomes the defiant young adult. Many a parent among us waits with bated breath for the day to arrive. Not a few of us wonder how we are going to handle those times when our desire to care for and love our children openly clashes with our children’s quest for a separate identity from us ...

13. A Plea from The Heart

2 Corinthians 6:1-13

Sermon

Gibson “Nibs” Stroupe

After Paul's lofty rhetoric on reconciliation that closes out chapter 5, he now returns to his struggles with the Corinthians. From inspiring and lyrical sentences in chapter 5 such as, "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; see, everything has become new," Paul shifts back to the earthbound and ordinary struggles with the Corinthians. He once again asks them to come around, to recognize him and his authority, and most of all, to respond to the gospel of Jesus ...

14. I Leave You Softly

Illustration

For 36 years Jeno and his wife delighted in one another. But one day Jeno suffered a stroke. For weeks he lay in the hospital, slipping in and out of a coma. Day and night his wife sat at his side. One evening, she put her head on his hand and fell asleep. Jeno awoke during the night and seeing his wife, picked up an envelope and pencil and scribbled these words: "Softly, I will leave you, for my heart would break if you should wake and see me go. So I leave you. Long before you miss me. Long before your ...

15. To Our Heart’s Content

Isaiah 61:1-11

Sermon

Susan Hedahl

In the days following Jesus’ birth, he was taken to the temple in Jerusalem for a blessing. This was no doubt similar to most parents’ nervous experience of taking the baby out in public for the first time. Mary and Joseph must have stood out as new parents and, as new parents do, they elicited sympathy and interest of strangers who would want to encourage them and put them at ease. Biblical accounts tell us that two elderly faithful followers of God saw Jesus and responded with overwhelming joy to his ...

16. Mary AND Martha, Heart AND Home

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

On 10 July 2013 someone posted a YouTube video. Three days later it had 5 million hits. Here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD6wdrVFc0g The one minute clip shows an amazing life-or-death race. It was shot by some Krueger Park tourists on safari in South Africa. Routinely and sternly, visitors to the park are told to stay in their vehicles at all times. But tourists being tourists, you know the rest of the story. The video shows cars parked along the access road with all their windows and doors ...

17. Peace Comes to Our Hearts

Philippians 4:4-7

Sermon

King Duncan

About this time of year many of us start getting a little frantic, don’t we? Christmas is so near. There is still so much to do. This is a frantic time for many of us. The season of Advent was supposed to be our chance to get ready, but in another week it will be over and the big day will be here. All the decorations will be in place, the packages will all be wrapped, the last card will have been sent--then, ready or not, Christmas Day will arrive. Are you prepared for Christmas? I mean the real Christmas ...

18. Help For Troubled Hearts

John 14:15-31

Sermon

King Duncan

Nissan Motors once used as its motto: WE ARE DRIVEN! According to Gordon MacDonald that phrase describes many of us. We are driven. Driven to acquire-driven to achieve-driven to be. And this "driven-ness" is taking its toll. A physician, Dr. Robert Anderson, who has researched the subject of stress extensively, says that he used to think that 35 to 40 percent of the problems he saw in his office were stress induced. Now he thinks it could be as high as 90 percent. These problems include ulcers, stomach ...

19. Hope for Hurting Hearts

Isaiah 35:1-10

Sermon

David E. Leininger

"...Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away." Sure does sound like Christmas, doesn't it? I wish everyone could feel it. But the war in Afghanistan goes on. Families that lost loved ones on September 11th are preparing for a holiday that, a year ago, they could have never imagined. There is a certain dissonance to the season. Trips to malls and stores with the sacred Muzak in the air singing of "Joy to the World" or "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" mock the harsh realities ...

20. Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room

Drama

Suzanne Fisher

A Children's Christmas Play Speaking PartsLarge Mouse Named MooseFriend Mouse Named MoeSister Mouse Named MarieDonkey Named Fred/Joan (male or female)Donkey Named DawnRooster/Hen Named Rudy/Ruby (male or female)Speckled Hen Named FawnCamel Named ClaudeCamel Named CarrieLamb Named LeoLamb Named LisaSpeaking AngelNarrator Nonspeaking PartsStar Holder (or suspended)Angels (if needed)MaryJosephWise Man 1 -- FrankincenseWise Man 2 -- GoldWise Man 3 -- MyrrhShepherd Boys (if needed) Other PersonnelSpotlight ...

21. Heart Part

Humor

Jones, the mechanic, was scheduled for a heart transplant by the famous heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey. Jones complained to DeBakey, "Look, I'm a mechanic. I also take valves out, grind 'em, put in new parts, and when I finish this baby will purr like a kitten. So, how come you get the big bucks, when you and me are doing basically the same work?" DeBakey, very embarrassed, walked away, and said softly to Jones, "Try doing your work with the engine running."

22. Filling the Hole in Our Hearts

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

A Sunday School teacher taught her class to recite the Apostles Creed by giving each child one phrase to learn. When the day came for the class to give their recitation, they began beautifully. “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth,” said the first child. “I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son our Lord,” said the next. And so it went perfectly until they came to the child who said, “He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty: from thence ...

23. Eternal Echo Of Easter - Part 1

Matthew 28:1-10

Drama

Esther R. Russ

PROGRAM 1. Candlelight Ceremony Choir 2. In the Beginning Narration 3. "I, Mary, Mother of Jesus" Reading 4. Jesus’ Ministry Narration and Drama 5. Choral Arrangement Depicting the Upper Room Choir 6. The Betrayal Narration 7. Choral Arrangement Depicting the Betrayal Choir 8. The Garden of Gethsemane Narration 9. Choral Arrangement Depicting the Garden Choir 10. The Trials Narration and Drama 11. The Soldiers, Part One Dialogue Drama 12. The Processional and Crucifixion Choir, Drama 13. The Soldiers, Part ...

24. The Golden Hour

Exodus 19:1-25, Genesis 15:1-18, Ezekiel 24:1-14

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.” --Exodus 34:29 “Only God lives forever! And he lives in light that no one can come near. No human has ever seen God or ever can see him. God will be honored, and his power will last forever. Amen.” --1 Timothy 6:16 In the medical field, the first hour after someone suffers a traumatic injury is ...

25. How to Lower Your Temper (-ature)

Proverbs 16:32

Sermon

James Merritt

"When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs." Thomas a Kempis(1) Respiration deepens; the heart beats more rapidly; the arterial pressure rises; the blood is shifted from the stomach and intestines to the heart, central nervous system and the muscles; the processes of the alimentary canal cease; sugar is freed from the reserves in the liver; the spleen contracts and discharges its contents of concentrated corpuscles, and adrenaline is secreted. What does this describe? It is the physiological ...

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