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1. Guarding the Treasure

2 Timothy 1:1-14

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... the complexity of our understandings of such doctrines as Christ, sin, and resurrection. The temptation is to twist doctrine around so that people are not so confused by it. Another temptation is to forget doctrine and just try to make people in church feel good. Sound teaching gives responsible witness to what God is doing in the world. Part of the reason we are in church today is to prepare ourselves to guard the treasure. We have a gift to offer the world. We sometimes do not fully appreciate the gift we ...

2. What Will He Find ... When He Comes?

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... gospel. For them, everything depended upon the integrity of God. Everything! Hope for vindication and salvation were based in God's love, grace and faithfulness. Without these, they had nothing. There is little wonder that there are repeated calls to faithfulness and sound teaching. The counsel to Timothy is typical (2 Timothy 3:14, 4:2, 3-5): As for you, continue in what you have learned and have firmly believed ... Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort; be ...

3. Exercise Your Spiritual Gifts

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

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Richard Hasler

... of every kind." "Speech" might refer to speaking in tongues, a gift that was expressed in the Corinthian church, or more probably might simply refer to preaching the basic proclamation of the gospel. "Knowledge" might be the knowledge of the scriptures or sound teaching about God and Jesus Christ. Paul at this point in his letter concedes that the recipients of his letter have knowledge; later he is to criticize their particular form of knowledge as inadequate. Of course, there are many more spiritual gifts ...

4. What's The Bottom Line?

Matthew 21:33-46

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George Johnson

... is. Is God saying to our church today, what more was there for me to do for you that I didn't do? I gave you a good beginning. By grace you have been saved. I gave you reformers, prophets, the catechism, great music. I gave you sound teachings and a strong emphasis on Bible study. I looked for mishpat and zedekah, justice and righteousness. I expected to find a people who worked for the right ordering of relationships and resources so that all creation might be blessed. We have a wonderful heritage of music ...

5. The Ten Commandments #5: Honoring Parents

Exodus 20:12

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... father could say to a recalcitrant son, in the Hebrew equivalent of Bill Cosby's words, "Listen, boy, I brought you into this world; I can take you OUT." But this commandment was not a threat; it was a promise. For the individual, the sound teachings of the parents - the good habits, the intelligent care of body and mind, the proper approach to spiritual things - would all tend to promise a longer and more productive life than if those early precepts were ignored. For society, proper honor to parents would ...

6. The Cracked Crystal Ball

Jeremiah 28:1-17

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... ends on a plaintive note when one of her little calves asks his mother, "What’s a train?" What we hear and what we want to hear are not always the same. Paul, writing to Timothy, says, "For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4) 3. Tell Us Everything is Going to Be All Right Jeremiah responds to ...

7. Don't Be Ashamed . . .

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... alive in your life, the more he can give you the courage and the confidence that you need to do astounding things. St. Paul knew the One in whom he trusted. In the second place, St. Paul had found his vocation. He writes, "Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me . . ." St. Paul was a teacher of the faith. That is why he wrote to Timothy so freely. He had played a part in Timothy's spiritual development. He was Timothy's mentor and he had sound reasons for feeling good about their ...

8. When God Adds Insult to Injury

Colossians 2:6-15

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Charles L. Aaron

... walk in Christ. The image of walking makes us think of exercise. We have to keep our relationship with Christ in shape. Walking implies movement. We cannot stay in the same place. Our relationship with Christ takes effort; it is not static. This is sound teaching for all Christians. The next image in verse 7 comes from the construction industry. Colossians encourages us to be rooted, built up, and established in Christ. To be rooted in Christ is to have a firm foundation. This phrase makes us think of the ...

9. The Twenty-Ninth Chapter of Acts

2 Timothy 4:1-22

Sermon

John E. Harnish

... . Crescens departed the mission and went to Galatia. Titus has gone off to Dalmatia. Alexander, the coppersmith, did him great harm. When he went before the courts, no one stood by him. He warns Timothy that the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own likings. They will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths. In the light of all of this, "Timothy, keep the faith." It's the call to ...

10. Guard the Good Treasure

2 Timothy 1:1-14

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... for this reason I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know the one in whom I have put my trust, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that day what I have entrusted to him. [13] Hold to the standard of sound teaching that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus. [14] Guard the good treasure entrusted to you, with the help of the Holy Spirit living in us. There's a whole lot of stuff to be unpacked here but since this is Children ...

11. The Sound of Silence

Matthew 5:1-12

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King Duncan & Angela Akers

I want to ask everyone this morning to take a moment and listen to the sounds around you. Do you notice that there are sounds going on all around us that we ordinarily block out? We can hear our own breathing. We can hear the church heating system, or the sounds of traffic outside, or our neighbor tapping their foot on the floor. We are constantly surrounded by some kind of noise, whether we realize it or not. There’s a man named Gordon Hempton who travels around the world recording sounds--especially ...

12. Lord, Teach Us How to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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James McCormick

There is something within each of us that pulls us in the direction of God. There is a God-shaped empty place in us that will not be satisfied with anything less than God. Often we look for life in all the wrong places, only to discover that what Augustine said is true, “Thou hast made us for Thyself O God, and our hearts are restless ‘til they find their rest in Thee.” God has given us the gift of prayer as the primary means by which we make connection with God and send our roots into the meaning of life ...

13. The Sound of Joy

Genesis 17:1-27, Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 18:16-33, Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Lori Wagner

“Rejoice in the Lord always….again I say rejoice!” (Phil 4:4) “I grieve if my brother dies because I no longer have personal communion with him. But I can have a deep, abiding joy, for I know that death does not have the final word. It has been conquered in Christ’s death and resurrection.” (2 Tim. 1:10) We are a people born of laughter! Literally, we are all as Christians part of God’s holy people, in a covenant begun with Abraham and Sarah many years ago, when this elderly couple was granted an ...

14. Things a Child Can Teach Us

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

King Duncan

Some of you of a certain age will remember when Roman Catholic Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was one of television’s brightest stars. For those of you who were not even born when Sheen was giving his televised talks, you might be amazed that he twice won an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. He also received thousands of letters from his viewers. One mother wrote that her son was under her feet while she was working in the kitchen. She said to ...

15. The Shouting of the Crowd

Matthew 27:11-26

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Wallace H. Kirby

Spivey's Corner is a little town in Sampson County, North Carolina. I never heard of it until I lived in a nearby county. I passed through it numerous times on my way back and forth to Clinton and was aware of a terrible automobile accident there. A few years ago, Spivey's Corner became famous, featured on the nightly news, written about in news magazines, and visited by people who would never have thought of going there if it had not gained notoriety. That little community, really a mere crossroads, is ...

16. Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

“Teach us to pray” was one of the few things the disciples” asked of Jesus. He gave them a model prayer; “Our Father who art in heaven...” Tertullian calls the Lord's Prayer “an epitome of the whole gospel.” On Sundays, we, like those disciples before us, come to Jesus asking, “Teach us to pray.” The Prayer of Intercession comes right after the sermon and scripture because the word helps us to discern between true and false prayer, between praying as a pagan and praying as a Christian.” It tell us what it ...

17. Tastes Great, Less Filling - Sounds Good, Not True

Proverbs 23:29-35

Sermon

James Merritt

As I approach this topic, I am reminded of a story of a Sunday School teacher who was trying to explain the dangers of alcohol to a class of little boys. She took a glass of clear water and placed it on a desk; then took a glass of alcohol and placed it next to the glass of water. She dropped some worms into the water and they just swam around. She then dropped some worms into the alcohol and they immediately curled up and died. Holding the glass of alcohol in one hand and the glass of water in the other, ...

18. His Teachings

Luke 20:27-40

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Brett Blair

This morning we are continuing our Lenten series on the Passion of the Christ, the last week of the life of Jesus. Previously we looked at the events of Sunday when he enters Jerusalem on the donkey fulfilling the Messianic prophecy of Zechariah. It was a day of celebration. On Monday Jesus weeps over Jerusalem, curses the fig tree, and clears the Temple of the moneychangers. It is a day of emotions. Today we focus on Tuesday, the day of teachings. It is a day questions. Someone has figured that if we put ...

19. Teach Us To Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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King Duncan

A few years ago, Rabbi Wayne Dosick was at the airport when he witnessed an unusual scene. A police officer approached a mother and her small daughter. Someone had filed a missing-persons report on a little girl of the same age and appearance as the little girl in the airport. The officer was asking the mother to prove that the child was actually hers. First, the officer tried questioning the toddler, a technique that proved to be futile. He asked the name of her father. She replied, "Daddy." He asked ...

20. Genuine Imitations

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Sermon

Raymond Gibson

In the fantastically successful movie, "The Empire Strikes Back," the viewers are invited to continue their involvement in the adventures of the heroes and villains of the first movie, "Star Wars." Once again we find ourselves engaged with Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Princess Leia, and the robots Artoo Detoo and See Threepio as they battle Darth Vader and the Dark Empire legions. One of the most fascinating new characters of "The Empire Strikes Back" is a strange little fellow named Yoda, who ...

21. Questions

Matthew 4:18-22

Sermon

John Jamison

Have you ever had news to tell someone that you were afraid to tell them because you really didn't know how they would respond? You don't want to tell them, but you know eventually you will have to? In my mind, that is how it happened. All the way back from the well, Mary stewed. Would he be angry or sad, or say nothing at all? Would he go away, or stay here? For months he had been paying close attention to everything John had been doing. He had questioned every traveler through town for news of John, the ...

22. What Is Required of Us?

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

“I have come not to abolish them but to fulfill them.” In a message titled Seizing Your Divine Moment Erwin McManus speaks of his son Aaron: “One summer Aaron went to youth camp. He was just a little guy, and I was kind of glad it was a church camp. I figured he wasn't going to hear all those ghost stories.... But unfortunately, since it was a Christian camp and they didn't tell ghost stories, because we don't believe in ghosts, they told demon and Satan stories instead. And so when Aaron got home, he was ...

23. The Way Up Is the Way Down

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

Potato chips, cheese curls, and candy may be some of your favorites, but for twenty-four mule deer in the Grand Canyon National Park, these indulgences proved deadly. Park rangers were forced to shoot more than two dozen mule deer who became hooked on junk food left by visitors. It was death by Cheetos and suicide by Snicker bar! Why eat twigs or chew bark if a Twinkie is nearby? Once deer taste the sugar and salt of snack foods, they develop an addiction and will go to any lengths to eat only junk food. ...

24. Godstruck

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

Lori Wagner

Props: Instead of the whale song suggested, you can use as your opening image a dandelion (aka “lion’s teeth” in spore stage), a horn (trumpet or actual shofar–which you can find on amazon for about $30), or a balloon (and some helium if you dare). You may also want to scroll some Hubbel space photos on the screen along with some cosmic music if you begin your sermon with “creation.” We are not the only creatures that sing. Has anyone heard the voice of an Orca whale? It sounds a lot like an erratic ...

25. The Lonesome George Church

Matthew 4:23-25, Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

Theme: Here is a sermon on evangelism that doesn’t use the word “evangelism” once. The text for this week’s gospel reading is a combination of three pericopes which portray the beginning of Jesus’ public Galilean ministry. While Matthew’s description mirrors much of Mark’s version, Matthew’s unique focus on theological nuances and precise historicity bring added details and depth to Jesus’ actions and words. In the first section (vv.12-17) Matthew takes more than a glancing interest in the “whys” and the “ ...

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