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1. Supernatural: Taken By Storm

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

James Merritt

... matter of minutes the sky goes black, the wind began to howl, the rains began to fall, the boat begins to rock. This is not in Jesus’ time—this can still happen and does happen today. You can be surprised, even shocked, in Galilee at how quickly you can be taken by storm. In some ways that is exactly the way life is. You come home from work, excited about eating a good dinner, and relaxing in front of the TV, but you walk into a house that is half-empty with a note saying, “I want out of the marriage ...

2. When God's Rule is Taken Out of the School

Job 21:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... administrators in our public school system. But, at the same time, there is no need to deny it, and no one can decry it, there is a problem. II. The Shift In Education What is even more alarming in the state of education is the shift that has taken place in what is being taught and what is not being taught in our schools, and the results of this shift. You may find it interesting that the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which set aside federal property in the territory for schools, and which was passed again ...

3. Time Taken, Life Restored

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

William G. Carter

The woman had been sick for a very long time. So long, in fact, she didn't know what to do. She didn't know where to turn. Everybody suggested a different remedy, but none of them would work. She visited many physicians, but none of them could help. She stayed sick. As time passed, she grew worse. All those medical bills were bleeding her dry. So when she heard Jesus was coming to town, she pushed her way through the crowd. She'd heard about him, of course. The last time he worked on this side of the sea ...

4. Things That Cannot be Taken Away

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

Most days give us a measure of security. And then suddenly tragedy shatters the familiar. Sorrow comes with its almost unbearable pain. Most people in their anguish almost instinctively turn their thoughts to God for help. If we are Christians, we do so with the assurance that He who has been faithful in the past will now be faithful in our great need. We believe He can be trusted who said, "I will not leave you comfortless; I will come to you." So let us turn to Him and His Word for strength and help. ...

5. A Name Not Taken in Vain

2 Corinthians 13:11-13

Sermon

William G. Carter

In the middle of March, 1961, a minister named Duffy splashed water on my head in the middle of a Sunday morning worship service. I was only one of a half dozen "Baby Boomers" whose parents had recently petitioned the Session for the sacrament of baptism. Having recently moved to a trailer park in Akron, Ohio, my parents thought the time seemed right to make their firstborn infant a Presbyterian. The sacrament went rather easily. The only reported glitch was the last-minute discovery that my father had not ...

6. Judgment Day is Coming (Adapted)

Matthew 13:24-30, Matthew 13:36-43, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... is what occurs before and after we find that the Timothy LaHaye has it entirely backwards! And let add that the context of a passage of scripture often is not the friend of a bad interpretation. Let’s look at what happens before Jesus words: One will be taken and one will be left behind. Jesus talks about Noah (Matt. 24:3839). The ones who are removed from the earth are the ones who are destroyed by the flood. Jesus says of them, “they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took ...

7. Blind Man's Bluff

Acts 9:1-19a

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... . Here he could look retrospectively to see the error of his ways, introspectively to search his own mind and spirit, and prospectively into the future to see how Christ had planned to use him. The house of Judas on the street called Straight is the place where Saul has been taken to get right with Jesus so that Jesus could straighten him out to use him for kingdom building. That he is on a street called Straight is not a bluff. It is not a rumor. It is not a trick or a trap. He is really in a place where ...

8. The Gift of Fire

Acts 2:14-41, Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... and the others locked themselves in that Upper Room after the crucifixion for fear that they TOO would be arrested and killed. And now, all of a sudden, here was this same Peter standing up in the center of the city where the life of his Lord had been taken, proclaiming to all who would listen the message of a risen Savior. Peter was a changed man. The Holy Spirit had come upon him to give him comfort in the place of his fear, to give him encouragement in place of his questions, to give him a challenge in ...

9. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Isaiah 1:1-31

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... from the jail to a hospital. Later, after recovering from her ordeal, arrangements were made to fly her back to the United States for a well-deserved rest, and perhaps for reassignment. But when officials called for her to take her to the airport, she was gone. She had taken a bus out to the village where she had served for so many years, and had gone back to work in the mission hospital. People tried to reason with her, but she replied, "This is home for me. Over twenty years ago God sent me to this place ...

10. The Resurrection of Our Lord

John 20:1-9

Sermon

Kendall McCabe

... 't really expect anything to happen when we come to lay this wreath on the resting place of a childhood faith. It is just possible, like Mary, we might give way to panic when we confront the fact that the Lord seems to be missing from our lives. "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb!" Her report was based, of course, on conjecture, not on evidence; yet it seemed to be the only logical deduction to be drawn from what she had seen. She knew the body of Jesus had been laid in the tomb and a great stone ...

11. Training Session

Matthew 5:1-12

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... ’t he have found some spot in the Temple to teach his disciples? He was not in any real trouble or danger as yet. Or why didn’t he take them to a home where they could have had a room to themselves, in which some discussion might have taken place? To sit on a hillside doesn’t seem a suitable setting for such an important undertaking. He was about to reveal the secrets of the kingdom of heaven to them! But Jesus had his reasons, one of which was the immediate success of his preaching, as evidenced in ...

12. Message from a Cloud

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... such a way that he could pass through closed doors. Yet his disciples could still see the nail prints in his hands and feet. We don’t know what kind of body this was. It was clearly different from a physical body. The Bible, when it says that Jesus was taken up in a cloud, does not mean that Jesus’ body was propelled like a rocket through outer space until it came to a physical heaven. Jesus was now a spiritual body. We don’t know what that means. St. Paul, in I Corinthians 15, teaches us that when we ...

13. Away In a Manger

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

James Merritt

... Him in swaddling cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn." (vv.6-7) Now taken out of context you would think that would just be the simple recording of another baby born. But it wasn't just another baby. ... for them in the inn." I've always wondered about that statement. Of course, it is entirely possible that every room in that inn had been taken. But I know of at least one room that had to have been available; the room of the innkeeper. You see, I believe there was ...

14. A Few Remaining Tremors

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

James Merritt

... , this man owed 60 million denarii. An average common worker in that day made one denarius a day. If this man worked 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year and gave everything he made to this king it would have taken him 606 years to pay off this debt. The average life span was 28 years, so it would have taken him 21 ½ lifetimes to have paid this off. If you want to bring it up in today’s currency. The average wage in America is roughly $50,000 a year. Computed out he owed this king about 8.2 billion ...

15. Aha! I See It Now!

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... stepped up and volunteered for the work. They wanted to save the younger men from suffering and death, so they willingly volunteered to take their place. (7) I wonder how many of us would make that kind of sacrifice? In his Aha! moment, John saw just how far sin has taken us from the presence of God. In his Aha! moment, John saw how far God would go to bring us back. And finally, in his Aha! moment, John knew he had to share the message of Jesus, no matter what it cost him. In verse 34 of this passage, John ...

16. Parabola

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... And he said to them, “Pay attention to what you hear; the measure you give will be the measure you get, and still more will be given you. For to those who have, more will be given; and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.” With many such parables he spoke the word to them, as they were able to hear it; he did not speak to them except in parables, but he explained everything in private to his disciples. The Explanation of the Parable of the Weeds and more Kingdom Parables ...

17. Dressed for Success?

Luke 24:36-49, Luke 24:50-53, Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.” Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living ... and eat, and live forever.” So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and ...

18. A Christian With A Conflict Of Interest

Isaiah 5:1-7

Sermon

James McLemore

... therapy and counseling, tried behavior modification and self-help courses. And despite what you have tried, or how often you have tried, you find that you have failed. That is because you have taken two steps, but you haven't taken the final step. You must crucify the conflict on the cross. When I say crucify the conflict, that means you have to give it to Jesus. When you can't control your anger, give it to Jesus. When you can't control that habit, give it to Jesus. When you ...

19. Sermons

Sermon

John R. Bodo

... go," he said, "that we may die with him" (John 11:16). Thomas was ready to die with Jesus, because he would not live without him. Having half-died in the death of his beloved twin brother, he did not wish to outlive the One who had more than taken his brother's place. But Jesus kept turning the knife in Thomas' wound. Jesus insisted on repeating the promise which, Thomas knew, no mortal could fulfill. In fact, it seemed cruel even to make such a promise within the hearing of one who so well knew the awful ...

20. Surprised By Joy

Matthew 13:31-35, Matthew 13:44-46, Matthew 13:47-52

Sermon

Donald Dotterer

... in its sweep and intensity. A majority of people believe that a good education doesn't insure getting a good job. Four in ten say working hard doesn't guarantee fair treatment from an employer. Almost half say they don't think their views will be taken seriously even if they do participate in the political process.2 Of course, nobody needed to tell us this. We all know that things are not going very well in so many areas of America's social and economic life. But nevertheless, we who call ourselves ...

21. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

... and republished by a well-known firm; it has sold over two-hundred-thousand copies, but more than that, it is vindication of his convictions and that he had "chosen the good portion" - a relationship with God and not just a good way of life, and it wasn’t taken away from him. But the story of Mary and Martha is not simply about "some woman," is it? It is about "some man," Jesus Christ, who stopped at that home in Bethany that day and released a woman from the bonds that she had fashioned for herself. His ...

22. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... of peace on the earth. The Second Coming will mark the time of judgment and the end of the order of existence that we know. The new heavens and the new earth are yet to come. The end-time language of the Bible is to be taken seriously, but not literally. B. The Post millennial view. The most widely-held view of Methodism before the Civil War. Because of Pentecost, forces have been released on earth that will advance the cause of Christ until justice and righteousness will reign on earth. People and systems ...

23. A Mother's Gift

1 Samuel 1:1-20

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... for the return to Shiloh for the next annual feast, she had given birth to Samuel. She missed the trip to Shiloh that year...and the next and the next. She had told her husband about her vow of returning the boy to the service of the Lord. God had taken her on as a partner, as, in a sense, God does all mothers. Hannah felt that it would be unworthy to take the lad to the Tabernacle without planning to leave him there. No, neither she nor Samuel would celebrate the feast until the boy was ready to begin his ...

24. Pardon Me, But Do You Know God?

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... any of her precious possessions with her. But Corrie was quick to correct the woman, pointing out that she had taken something very precious with her. "And what was that?" the woman asked, taken aback. "Your music. For that which is in your heart can never be taken from you." (5) That is our message for the day: that which is in your heart can never be taken away from you. Pardon me, but do you know God? God is seeking entrance into your heart today. 1. Steven R. Mosley, GLIMPSES OF GOD (Sisters, Oregon ...

25. Blessed Are Those Who Are Awake

Luke 12:32-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... father’s good pleasure to give you the Kingdom.” We need to stay awake, because we never know when we are going to be surprised by a new possibility. II. Now the other side of that coin is that we never know when something important is going to be taken from us. Do you see the connection? Whether it’s the opening of a door, or the closing of a door, the demand is that we stay awake. Bishop Peter Storey from South Africa tells a story of three men in town for a convention. They were assigned rooms on ...

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