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1. The Subject Is Forgiveness

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Steve Molin

... those men, has just helped my daughter Valerie, who is 3 1/2 years old, prepare dinner.1” She went back. In a mighty act of forgiveness, Elisabeth went back to carry on the mission begun by her husband, and she ministered to the very people who killed him. The subject today is forgiveness, and isn’t that odd? In an era when politicians stand constantly ready to sling mud at one another, and nations stand ready to sling missiles, you and I have gathered together in this church to consider the ...

2. The Subject Is Salvation

Genesis 6:9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19

Sermon

James L. Killen

A pastor was talking one day with some men whom he knew were not actively involved in any religion. He was surprised to learn that all of the men believed in God. But when they gave their reasons for believing, they all told stories of some narrow escape in which they assumed that God had miraculously interceded to save them or someone they knew from disaster. One told about a narrow escape in a traffic accident, another told of a day when, if he had not been late leaving for work, he might have been ...

3. Can You Carry Your Weight?

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... already told you more than they told me.” Who was it who said it takes two people to hurt you: an enemy to say it about you, and a good friend to come and tell you about it. All those persons “and any other commandment” (v.9) are subjects, not objects, of your time and attention and emotional investment. All those people are your true “neighbors.” All those people are the ones Jesus called upon us to “love as yourself.” Evil wants us to think of God as a “God of Rules.” That makes God an ...

4. I Wonder about The End of the World

Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... will begin. We don’t have to look very far to find someone who has an opinion on it. In fact, many would not believe how many different views and opinions there are about the end of the world. When people are emotionally charged about a subject such as eschatology, it is inevitable that there will be intense debate about it. I will not go into great detail about these differing opinions and views, but suffice it to say that some are speculative, some are ridiculous, and some are just good fiction. There ...

5. I Hate To Rain On Your Parade, But

Matthew 21:1-11

Sermon

Johnny Dean

... had to be hard for Jesus to talk about his own death, but he wanted his disciples to understand what was going to happen. Whenever I visit people who are in failing health, due to age or perhaps a terminal illness, I sometimes feel the need to bring up the subject of death. "Do you have any favorite hymns you would like to have played at your funeral? Is there a passage of scripture you would like for me to read at your funeral? Do you have a favorite poem you want someone to read at your funeral?" I feel ...

6. Letting Go

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... being in the world and it is I who seeks to overcome the threat of death. While it is the self as object, the self as one’s way of being in the world, which is accepted by God, it is the self as subject, as I, who seeks that experience of acceptance. It is the self as subject, it is I, who knows continuity, and is the link between the old self and the new self. To free one’s awareness from one’s constricted way of being in the world calls for a heightened sense of awareness, an awareness which ...

7. The King and His Kingdom

Matthew 6:33

Sermon

James Merritt

... fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." (Mark 14:25) Can you guess what was the last subject that Jesus spoke about before He ascended into heaven? Acts 1:3 tells us He was "speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God." ... out what your King wants done, and then to do it. But it also means to seek the government of the King. A loyal subject desires to be controlled by the king, to be governed by the king, to be ruled by the king. But you may be saying, "Sounds ...

8. I Wonder about Life after Death

John 14:1-3

Sermon

Charley Reeb

... we don’t understand and can’t control. To a degree it is healthy to be afraid of death. It keeps us alive, and we need to have a healthy sense of caution for what we don’t know. However, what is not healthy is to try to ignore the subject of our own death. All of us are going to die. There are no exceptions. As the old saying goes, “We don’t get out of this world alive.” We might as well face up to the fact that one day we will die. However, the fact we will die ...

9. Mutual Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon

... are also enjoined to "love your wives."(v. 25) In fact, much more space is given to the duties of husbands, than to those of wives. Evidently Paul feels that husbands need more instruction in how to behave in marriage than wives. Whereas wives are asked to be subject to their husbands, husbands are told to love their wives "as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her."( v.25) How did Christ love the church? By dying for the church, giving up his life for the church's sake. That's how husbands are ...

10. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

... was that he claimed to be king. It was in the exchange between Pilate and Jesus that the contrast between the two leaders, and their two kingdoms, became clear. Jesus was direct and transparent saying that his kingdom was not of this world. He said that his subjects were those who recognized truth. So his kingdom was not over a piece of land, rather it was over the hearts and minds of those who were brave enough to follow him. If his kingdom was like Pilate’s, his followers would have been waging war ...

11. Christ, Our King

John 18:33-37

Sermon

Thomas C. Willadsen

12. Breaking The Tabboo

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... . The truth is that all of us much of the time are busy trusting other gods than the god of Jesus. Just look at how we spend our money. Just look at what we are really committed to. It isn't very pretty. It isn't very faithful. The subject of money may be taboo in the church, but it certainly wasn't taboo for Jesus. Continually in his preaching and teaching Jesus breaks the taboo. When Jesus talks about the kingdom of God he uses images and illustrations from the world of money and economics more than any ...

13. Needed: Fidelity Insurance

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... . I have called you to a beautiful existence together. Don't neglect or abuse it or lose it." I wish there were a guaranteed fidelity insurance policy for marriages. There is none. But the closest thing to it is St. Paul's inspired guidance to the Ephesians: "Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ." Could it be that the single thing your marriage needs most is for both of you to kneel at an altar and make or renew a commitment to Jesus Christ as Lord? Then Christ will have a chance to correct ...

14. Let Me Tell You about the Birds and the Bees

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... great job, he said, "Son, does that answer your question?" He said, "Not exactly." He said, "What do you mean ‘not exactly?'" He said, "Billy, up the street, says he comes from Arkansas, and I was just wondering where I came from." When it comes to almost any subject our kids want to discuss, we dads can wing it without any problem just name it: Sports? We can tell them just how we missed winning the Heismann Trophy in high school. Cars? We can regale them with the first car we ever owned that we bought ...

15. Jesus, The One And Only

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... of the Spirit of God. "But when the Helper comes, whom I shall send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me." (Jn. 15:26) I believe Jesus should be the favorite subject of the man of God. When Philip sat down with the Ethiopian eunuch in the desert, the Bible says, "Then Philip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him." (Acts 8:35) I want you to be able to look back and when anyone says to ...

16. Profile Of A Savior

Isaiah 50:4-9a

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... comes next. "The Lord God helps me," he says. "Therefore I have not been disgraced; therefore I have set my face like flint, and I know that I shall not be put to shame; he who vindicates me is near" (vv. 7-8a). In keeping with the subject's dependence upon God, we see that he is at peace in the face of trouble and suffering because of his confidence in God. Interestingly, though, his expectation is not so much that God will protect him as that God will vindicate him. Those are quite different things ...

17. Collections or Connections?

Luke 24:1-12

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... what happens when our culture is focused more on things, on collecting objects, than it is on people, celebrating life and connecting subjects. We live in a culture of collections more than connections. At the heart of the culture of death is the reduction of ... had been replaced by the culture of life. A world of objects that were in the way was transformed into a world of subjects who were on the way to hope and heaven. Jesus Easter morning surprise moved the women who came to the tomb from a culture of death ...

18. A Lack of Feeding in the American Dream

Romans 6:1-14

Sermon

Gregory J. Johanson

... , and frustration, so the one who commits suicide stirs up in us our own feelings and issues around meaning, doubt, confusion, worth, and leads us to question or affirm again our own reasons for maintaining rather than negating our life. And so I would like to consider the subject this morning and approach it in terms of why does it happen, what gets in the way of our will to live, and what might be done. Why? First of all, why? Why would someone want to take his own life? What would cause it? One specific ...

19. Change Is Possible

Galatians 1:11-24

Sermon

King Duncan

... statements. Even though the size of the squares increased, they kept close to their original estimate. If they told themselves it was two inches square, then that's what they kept telling themselves, even as the square grew much larger. Especially rigid subjects were estimating squares that were actually thirteen inches on each side to be only four inches on a side! Some people simply can't change the original message they give themselves; it remains the same even in the face of overwhelming evidence ...

20. Expectancy

Romans 13:11-14

Sermon

James L. Killen

... Also in Romans 8, Paul makes it clear that the movement toward the fulfillment of God's purpose has social dimensions. "For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the children of God; for the creation was subjected to futility, not of its own will but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning together in ...

21. A House for Our Home and a Home for Our Faith

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us a picture of that in the context of the Christian family. Because he knew that in the family, the faith is tested, the faith is refined, and the family becomes a demonstration plot as to what Christian love is all about. So in verse 22, he says, wives be subject to your husbands as to the Lord. And then in verse 25 he says, husbands love your wife as Christ loved the church and gave himself for her. And then in the 1st verse of chapter 6 he says, children obey your parents in the Lord for this is right ...

22. Dust Off The Throne

2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16, Luke 1:26-38, Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... as an English major, I was frequently challenged by a professor’s red pen, underlining some point in my paper with the comment: “Elaborate on this” or “Explain this more fully.” We want to say that to Paul here. He has raised so many profound subjects, but he limits each to a mere reference, and we wish that he would elaborate, that he would explain these things more fully. He has left that heady task, however, to those of us who exposit the word. Paul’s reference to “my gospel” is neither ...

23. Mind Your Manners

Luke 14:1, 7-14

Sermon

Will Willimon

... are supposed to be here for, administrators and faculty have advised you about courses and majors. I suppose that you have had just about all the information you need to be a success at Duke. I reckon that orientation has covered just about every conceivable subject. Then yesterday I got this letter from Dean Wasiolek: Dear Dr. Willimon, Since this is the first Sunday of the school year and possibly the last Sunday that you will see many of our Freshmen in the Chapel until their graduation, would you be so ...

24. Return To God

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Douglas J. Deuel

... day in these terms: "a day of darkness and gloom" (Joel 2:2). Let the buyer beware! A day of reckoning is coming and it just may not be pleasant. The traditional picture of judgment day is one in which God sits on his throne, dwarfing and intimidating his subjects. God is seen as the supreme judge who hands down a verdict or judgment on the goodness of the person standing before God. If that picture of judgment day ever was capable of motivating people to choose a new path for their lives, it isn't any more ...

25. A King Worth Having

Zechariah 9:9-13

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... is a king worth having. A Winning King Jesus Christ is a king worth having because he is a true king who always wins. Our text says of him, "triumphant and victorious is he." Who wants a king for his life on earth and his eternal destiny who is subject to defeat by a stronger power? In the history of Israel, there were kings like Ahab and Josiah who were defeated and killed in battle. King Jeconiah was carried as a captive to Babylon. In contrast, Jesus is a victorious king. Because of his divine power over ...

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