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John 8:31-41

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... all. It's not just that they make a few little mistakes or errors in judgment. They are enslaved to the power of sin and cannot free themselves. This is the truth they cannot accept. Like those first century Jews, we don't want to face the truth, let alone tell the truth. Like those first century Jews, we are proud of our heritage. We are Americans. This is the cradle of democracy. This is the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are free. We are enslaved to no one. We are citizens of the world ...

2. Tell You the Truth

John 14:5-14

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there' and it will move" (Matthew 7:20). For those who put their faith in human efforts, in the power of the sword and political might, Jesus announced before the great Temple Herod had completed, "I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another, everyone will be thrown down" (Matthew 24:2). For those sophisticates who were proud of their adultish religion, Jesus reminded them that there would be no grown-ups in heaven: "I ...

3. To Tell The Truth

Exodus 20:16

Sermon

James Merritt

... because of what God gave to him, but because of what God meant to him. c. He Crucified A Guiltless Man 1. Mark 14:56 tells us, "For many bore false witness against Him, but their testimonies did not agree." In a real sense, it was perjury that nailed Jesus to ... he who speaks lies shall perish." Just as the dew covers the grass, the curse of God blankets any person who habitually lies. Let me tell you why that is true: a. God Detects Lying You can fool some of the people all of the time; you can fool all of ...

4. Show and Tell

Mark 1:16-22

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Billy D. Strayhorn

... perceived as those kind of Christians. So, out of fear of rejection, fear of saying something wrong, fear of being labeled and fear of not knowing what to say, we don't say anything. But that's not what Jesus called us to do is it? So, How Do We Tell Others without becoming overbearing? I truly believe that if we serve Christ and if we live for Christ then that pleasing aroma of Grace and the light of Christ will shine through us and people will ask us about our faith. And when they do, we need to be ready ...

5. God Is Trying to Tell You Something

John 1:(1-9) 10-18

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James L. Killen

... Camus had fresh exposure to the Christian faith and was able to see things differently. Can you bet your life on the belief that Jesus really has told us what we need to know about God and about life? There have always been those who could not believe it. John tells us that Jesus "came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God..." (John 11-12). A certain man has told the story of how this worked ...

6. Daddy, Tell Me a Story

Deuteronomy 26:1-15

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King Duncan

... mortal. Those two thing pop out at me in this chapter: When the people enter the Promised Land, they are to set up an altar and they are to give their offering to the priest in office at the time, whoever that priest may be. Then, they are to tell a story before God. And here is that story: “My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation, powerful and numerous. But the Egyptians mistreated us and made us suffer, putting us to hard ...

7. So that I Can Tell

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Michael J. Anton

... let it use us as we the Church go to work. It is a good thing on this Day of Resurrection to give loud thanks to our Father for His gift of new life. But it is equally critical to be full of thanks-living, to translate our gratitude into telling and sharing and demonstrating and giving and showing God’s new life to someone else in need. The Church is God’s Mission; you and I are that Mission. We are sent by our Baptism, by our joining in the body and blood of the risen Christ, by the Word ...

8. Tell It Again, Daddy

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... moves briefly toward his army, but then pauses. With triumph in his voice, he exclaims, "I have won my battle, and here in this boy is my victory. What we did with the Round Table will be remembered. You will see." Arthur sends Tom off on his mission to tell far and wide the story of Camelot. In a way, that story is a parable of what we commence here today.(3) This is the first Sunday in Advent, the first Sunday in a brand new church year. As has been happening for centuries of Christian history, each year ...

9. Tell Them

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Rodney Thomas Smothe

... are created equal. Having received this revelation from God, Peter then arrived at the house of the Roman soldier, Cornelius, and began to tell the good news to all who were present. Though brief, Peter's sermon was powerful and contained the very essence of the ... third day he rose in power to show that he could conquer even death. d. Jesus commanded us to preach to the people and tell them that he has been appointed as judge of the living and the dead. e. Because Jesus rose from the dead and conquered sin ...

10. If This Is Your Faith, Tell Me Your Stories

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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Leonard Sweet

... to each other are the only voices that we have to listen to. That is why in “B.E.” time the most important members of a community were the storytellers. The storytellers were revered for their wisdom and honored for their knowledge. The storytellers were responsible for telling people who they were, where they stood in the world, how they came to be, and what they should be doing. Even in these “A.E.” days, the things we learn as stories stick with us become a part of us, far more than any lesson we ...

11. Can You Tell Time?

Philippians 3:7-11

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James W. Moore

... we move out into a new year let me suggest some attitude adjustments we all need to make… some attitudes we all would do well to choose… some attitudes prescribed over and over again by the Bible and the Christian faith. I. FIRST OF ALL, THE CHRISTIAN FAITH TELLS US TO BE HELPFUL… to choose the attitude of helpfulness, to commit our lives to that spirit. If we asked the question, “What do you want most in the new year?” most people would answer “to be happy.” Well, the way to be happy is to be ...

12. What the Ascension Tells Us

Luke 24:50-53

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King Duncan

... is where it begins to sound like a fairy tale, but I assure you it is not. The prince decided that he would not tell Inge who he really was even though their relationship was beginning to get serious. He didn’t want her to love him because of ... identity. We are those beloved. He has called us to pass on the baton we have received from those early witnesses to the next generation to tell the story of Jesus and his love. And he has promised us his Spirit to guide us, to empower us, comfort us when we are ...

13. You Can't Tell A Book By Its Cover

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... it was given me when I left the Upper Room to come here as your pastor 10 years ago. It's a beautiful thing as you can tell, handsomely bound, with embossed silver printing of the title on the shelf-back and cover. All of it was a surprise to me. You can't ... days come and go, but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away." You can't tell a book by its cover. There is a way that seems right, but the end is death. Rehearse now. It may seem right for you to ...

14. Show and Sell or Show and Tell?

Hebrews 9:11-28

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Leonard Sweet

... for him. The little boy swallowed hard, looked into the camera and said, “We did it for the show.” It took a little child to tell the truth. Or to bring the sheriff’s words and the child’s words together, the whole episode was an example of . . . Show and Sell. ... strained all human relationships, the sin that stunted the growth of the human heart. It is your mission and mine to show and tell this story. In the words of Charles Wesley: A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify, A never-dying soul to ...

15. Telling the Truth

Luke 3:7-18

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Susan R. Andrews

... stared at that window I felt cherished and safe. My friends, this promise is still the good news — good news with no strings attached. But you know and I know that we cannot truly hear this good news until we first confess the bad news — until we tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the brokenness and the deep need of our lives. Repent. Confess. Prepare a highway in the desert of your broken promises and your broken dreams. This is the beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ. Hear it ...

16. Telling the Right Story

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon

George Bass

... , he turned to an ordinary and old Italian woman, and with her he began to make some progress - until she gave him Pinnochio to read. He would begin to read the story to her, but he would not get very far before she would interrupt, take over, and tell the story herself. It was a totally frustrating experience for him. And the author explains that the reason she did this was that she loved that story so much that her enthusiasm for it simply took over, and she couldn’t prevent herself from breaking in and ...

17. What a Star Can't Tell You

Matthew 2:1-12

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William G. Carter

... is that I have to contend with those who do. “You ought to see the view from the top of that mountain,” she said, inadvertently rubbing it in. “It’s beautiful up there. Peaceful, too.” Then she said the line I’ve heard a hundred times. “To tell you the truth, Reverend, I feel much closer to God up on that mountain than I usually do in church.” I confess I never really know how to respond when somebody says something like that. I love the outdoors as much as anybody else does. There is ...

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

Proverbs 5:15-23

Sermon

James Merritt

... that he has a contagious disease. I pray she knows who he is, and that he was not one of several. Please give me some advice as to how to deal with this nightmare. Melissa does not want to share this information with a therapist, and I don't dare tell my husband. He would hit the roof. I am sick inside, not only for my daughter, but because of the ramifications of this affliction, which she will have for the rest of her life. I am also upset because there must have been something I failed to get across to ...

19. The Hard Task of Truth-telling

Jeremiah 1:4-10

Sermon

Lee Ann Dunlap

... her faith in a God she'd only heard about but never known. She was not convinced this God even existed, let alone loved her. In the end she chose to trust the pastor and the school staff who sought to help. She found the courage to tell the truth. Child welfare was notified and the intervention was begun. Some of her fears materialized and she did, in fact, experience some repercussions. There was no storybook ending; but with the help from friends she didn't know she had she found within herself a strength ...

20. How Can You Tell When People Are Religious?

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... connected to a healthy fear of God. People fasted mostly to show off how religious they were. Our Savior told a story about a Pharisee who fasted for this reason. Remember the parable of the Pharisee who went to the Temple to pray? He prayed a proud prayer, Jesus tells us, in which he boasted to God of all the good things he did. As part of his self-righteous list he bragged, "... I fast twice a week! ..." (Luke 18:9-14). God was not pleased with his fast nor with most fasting that went on because people ...

21. How Can You Tell A Christian?

John 13:31-38

Sermon

King Duncan

... with him. They are doomed to fail. We draw our ability to love from our connection to him. Without that connection our faith is simply an exercise in noble living. It has no real power to draw us out of ourselves and center us in others. Let me tell you about a woman who understood that kind of love. Her story is told in a book by Doug Peterson titled MANY ARE CALLED. Her name is Gladys Aylward. Gladys was an English missionary in China many years ago. The Chinese ruler for that region, called a Mandarin ...

22. "Why Don't We Just Tell Them Our Names?"

Psalm 23:1-6

Sermon

Siegfried S. Johnson

... -old Laura Beth knew this, and that's why President Bush quoted her in a speech he gave, and why her words found their way into Newsweek. How can these terrorists hate an entire nation of people they don't know, an entire culture? "Why don't we just tell them our names?" asks Laura Beth. Simple enough. Our lessons for the day focus on the imagery of the Good Shepherd. There is no more beloved Psalm than Psalm 23: "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want." Our text from I Peter reads like this: "For you ...

23. A Story Almost Too Big To Tell

John 20:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... it will be snatched from us. We can face our gravest fears in the knowledge that there is One who has faced it all before and conquered it. And by His grace, we can be conquerors as well. It's a story almost too big to tell. But it can be reduced to two simple words that changed the world forever: Christ lives! 1. Gerald Tomlinson, SPEAKER'S TREASURY OF SPORTS ANECDOTES, STORIES, AND HUMOR, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1990). 2. (New York: Harper & Row, 1990). 3. Charlie Appleton. "Patient Wakes ...

24. The Telling Trademarks of Truth

James 3:13-18

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . "I don''t drink like so many others do. I don''t smoke like so many others do. I don''t run around at night like so many others do. I don''t overeat like so many others do. I don''t . . . " The doctor interrupted at this point. "Tell me," he said, "this pain in the head you complain of, is it a sharp, shooting kind of pain?" "Yes," the patient replied, "that describes it perfectly. A sharp, shooting kind of pain!" The doctor then made his diagnosis: "Simple," he said, "your problem is that you have your ...

25. Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night

Isaiah 21:11-12

Sermon

David O. Bales

... enter the house of worship. The woman hardly moves and never speaks. A gust of wind rocks her. No snow yet, but it's coming. She steadies herself and tugs her collar tighter around her neck. "Thank you for the touch. Thank you for the hug. I nearly burst to tell you, but I can't. Bless you too, Sarah. Thank you, God, for these people. Thank you that they can go in those doors, and walk to their pews, and sit to pray and stand to sing. Thank you for them; because although I know I am welcome, I cannot ...

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