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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. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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 ...

6. 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 ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

9. 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 ...

10. 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 ...

11. Mary AND Martha, Heart AND Home

Luke 10:38-42

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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 ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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 ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. Living While You Wait

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

There were two fellows who lived and breathed baseball. They were professional players with the Atlanta Braves and you would think that playing for a living would be enough. But not so – these guys breathed, ate, and slept baseball. More than teammates, they were very close friends. So, they talked with each other about that mattered most in their lives. One of their big concerns was whether there would be baseball in heaven. They loved baseball so much that they were not sure at all they wanted to spend ...

19. "Crown Him Lord of all!"

Sermon

William Luoma

According to the three-year ecumenical lectionary, developed in recent years, the Sunday before Easter is primarily known as the Sunday of the Passion, instead of Palm Sunday. The procession with palm branches is still recommended, but the emphasis of the day has shifted to the Passion of Christ, as seen in the suggested lengthy Gospel readings appointed. In this worship service, however, we have chosen to lift up the Palm Sunday theme, and to focus on the kingship of Christ and his triumphal entry into ...

20. Facing the Glory Road

Matthew 20:17-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

Tell me, how would you like to have life served up to you? The newest neophyte among the Madison Avenue ad men will tell you. Every word of copy that they write promises to fulfill what they consider your deepest yearnings. You want it soft, just as soft as Puff facial tissues. You want it comfortable. You want it secure. You want to live in a kind of bovine, cud-chewing complacency, comfort, and contentment. You want to be born without labor pain to your mother, to live in a computerized, automated Utopia ...

21. Let the River Flow

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Although the moment the Thanksgiving turkey cools down much of Western culture plunges into the Christmas frenzy, in the church calendar there is one more Sunday before Advent officially gets underway. This is the last Sunday of Pentecost, Christ the King Sunday. It seems pleasantly paradoxical that the church devotes a Sunday to celebrate Christ's exaltedness, his lordship, his omnipotence, just before we begin the weeks of Advent that contemplate Christ's entrance into this world as a frail and tiny ...

22. Apples, Onions, and Cheese

Mark 7:1-23, Mark 7:24-30

Sermon

Lori Wagner

The word of the Lord Almighty came to me. This is what the Lord Almighty says: “The fasts of the fourth, fifth, seventh and tenth months will become joyful and glad occasions and happy festivals for Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.” This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Many peoples and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come, and the inhabitants of one city will go to another and say, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the Lord and seek the Lord Almighty. I myself am going.’ And many peoples and ...

23. Why Christmas Is So Dangerous

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

There is no doubt about it, Christmas is a dangerous time of year. You ever tried negotiating a mall parking lot between Black Friday and Christmas Eve? You know one level of danger. You ever tried to gather together a fractious, far-flung family into one Christmas moment? You know another level of danger. You ever tried buying a toy for the kids or grandkids, a toy where levers don’t break off, where there are no hidden, choky bits, where glitches galore don’t make the toy “unsafe?” You know another whole ...

24. For the Hearing Impaired

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

James Merritt

Of all the topics that a pastor talks about, by common consensus everybody would agree, the most sensitive topic that a pastor talks about is - money. However, the most difficult topic that a pastor deals with is the one we have been talking about for the last couple of weeks in the series we’ve entitled, “Missing Person.” We have said that a missing person is any person who is far from God - any person who does not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The very first command that Jesus ever gave ...

25. OUR LORD DELIVERED UP

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

He walked rapidly, his long robes flowing behind him to be whipped by the brisk, dry east wind. His two servants occasionally quick-stepped to keep pace, their sandals padding softly on the dust of the deserted streets. As they turned eastward from the upper city, the declining, full moon flung their shadows ahead like long moving fingers pointing toward the white limestone buildings of the temple compound. Nicodemus’ mind was thoughtless, yet filled with many thoughts. He had no plan, no course of action ...

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