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1. Terminator 3

Acts 9:1-20

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... persecutor is also changed by Christ's words into openness and acceptance of a true "brother" in the faith. Simon Peter, filled with guilt and convinced of his failure, sees the face of the risen Christ and expects the worst - judgment, accusation, termination. But Jesus' welcoming words and soothing actions dissipate Peter's guilt and transform it into faith and love. Instead of the judgment he feared, Peter finds himself entrusted with a new mission and a unique authority. The disciple who could not even ...

2. Terminally Distracted Or Decisively Prepared

Matthew 25:1-13

Sermon

Joseph M. Freeman

... matter that abides: Will your spiritual side grow as you live your earthly life? If this person does not, at some point in his/her life, either through crises or growing thoughtfulness, attend to his/her spiritual growth and preparation, he/she will be so terminally distracted that "Judgment Day" will be a shocking surprise, not so much because of the timing, but because of the lack of a spiritually developed and readied heart. Will you and I have a kindredness to the five foolish bridesmaids or to the five ...

3. Dynamics Of Prayer

Isaiah 43:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... an image by which we can present what I believe are the core dynamics of prayer. I shared this image in the mini conference on prayer I led here in our church back in July. The experience happened in an airport. And airport terminals are among my least favorite places. More terminals are rather inhuman. They’re usually very cold and antiseptic in their décor. I remember an experience I had in the Los Angeles airport, long after I had left California and moved to Tennessee. Some of you have visited the LA ...

4. Are You Convinced?

John 16:5-16

Sermon

Larry Powell

... . There is a genuine risk involved with being actually involved with an ending, you see. Apparently, the disciples were uncertain as to which alternative reality was immediately thrusting upon them. There is no mistaking that our text portrays Jesus preparing his disciples for a termination, a ministry of presence and power, rapidly ending: "I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you. But now I am going to him who sent me (16:5)." Jesus, knowing the time was at hand, was ...

5. All We Are Left With...

John 13:1-17, 31b-35

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... &utm_source=morning_brew. 2. “Bono: The Rolling Stone Interview” By Jann S. Wenner, Rolling Stone, https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/bono-the-rolling-stone-interview-3-203774/. 3. Steve Bezner @Bezner Twitter, November 17, 2014. 4’ “Calgary woman turns terminal cancer diagnosis into a way to touch lives across the world,” by Heide Pearson, Global News, April 14, 2017 © 2017 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc., https://globalnews.ca/news/3380388/calgary-woman-turns ...

6. New Life Goes On

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

David Coffin

... the brown box out toward the parking lot, past the employee cafeteria with the guards closely following her. As she fought back tears, she was taking a final walk of shame to make a corporate power point to the other employees who had not been terminated yet. The office was so quiet one could hear a pin drop on the carpet floor. As she turned on the ignition of her car, she was directed to the parking lot exit. Upon leaving the premises, the parking lot gates were immediately closed and electronically ...

7. A Bad Temperament Can Kill You

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and into my values. You have to dip yourself more than four or five times to even notice a change. I don't want all your money. You give what you want to. It's that simple. It is not spectacular. But you will find the cure there to your terminal illness. You can be saved." Sometimes our attention deficiency gets in the way of seeing a greater vision of life. We are important people. We've got important things to do. If all we have to do is dip into a Sunday School lesson, some prayers and hymns, listen to ...

8. My Younger Brother Gets Away With Everything

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... . She checked and they told her to take a seat. She waited and waited. Finally another bus pulled in. People began filing through the gate. Across the terminal the woman spotted her daughter. She began calling her name. She also began running across the terminal, arms extended before her. Todd thought about how foolish she looked. They met and embraced in the middle of the terminal. As Todd watched, he remembered a story. "A father had two sons...while the boy was still a long way off the father ran out to ...

9. When Jiggling Wires Is Not Good Enough

John 4:1-26

Sermon

King Duncan

... Reluctantly, she fumbled under the front seat and then extended a crescent wrench through the window of the old car. As he tightened the battery terminal, it occurred to McCasland how many times he had tried, in his own life, to get a "quick fix" from God. "I have this ... . We must cooperate with Him in whatever it takes for as long as it takes. As the lady drove away with her tightened terminal, McCasland stopped for a moment and asked the Lord to say "No!" the next time he asks God to just jiggle a wire. ( ...

10. When There’s Nothing Left To Do But Mourn

Jeremiah 8:18—9:1

Sermon

Chrysanne Timm

... patient's needs so that she and her loved ones can simply be with one another. Hospice's ability to manage pain is a great blessing that enables loved ones to be as present with one another as possible until the end. It is at this point in a terminally ill person's journey that he and his family often truly begin to mourn. There has been grief work going on since the moment the words of the diagnosis fell upon the ears of those in the physician's office, but the stage of grief that Dr. Elisabeth Kübler ...

11. Dead Hearts and New Beginnings

John 3:1-17

Sermon

King Duncan

... is always a word of hope. God never forsakes His own. Even in the direst of circumstances there is the possibility of a new beginning. David A. Redding tells in one of his books about Orville Kelly--a man who was informed years ago that he was suffering from terminal cancer. He and his wife went home to cry and to die. Should they keep it a secret? They wondered and they prayed. The answer, they decided, was that they should not only pray but also play. They decided to put on a big party. They invited all ...

12. Out of the Darkness

Matthew 5:13-20

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... --our light will spread further than we can possibly imagine. In February 2015, 15-year-old Becca Schofield of New Brunswick, Canada, was diagnosed with cancer. She underwent an intensive course of treatment, but in 2016 Becca’s doctor told her that her cancer was terminal. They gave her 3-6 months to live. Becca had one wish on her bucket list: that the people in her community would perform acts of kindness for one another. And that they would record their acts of kindness on social media, so Becca could ...

13. Bread For The Journey (Bread of Life III)

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Charles R. Leary

... cancer. Her boyfriend was twenty-one. I often felt Jane ministered more to me than I ministered to her. I never knew how much pain she had. I was always amazed at how she lived with all that the word “terminal” meant to her and still wore a genuine smile and expressed a positive attitude. Every time I visited with her she had a single message on her lips and heart. It was: “Length of life is not the important thing. Quality is. I want quality while I live.” Jane had ...

14. How Does One Follow Jesus During The Threat Of War?

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

George Johnson

... do you follow Jesus? What are your choices? That's the issue I want to address. There are moments in our lives when historical reality brings us face to face with critical decisions. If you develop a terminal illness and learn that in one or two years you will die, you may ask the question, how do I follow Jesus in the face of a terminal illness? What are my choices? If you begin a new work and that work puts you face to face with tough decisions like, do I bend the rules to make more money, do I do as ...

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

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... was a sea of people, hurrying and pushing. It's always that way. But on this night it was especially so. A snow storm snarled schedules in the air and on the ground. In the midst of the terminal, by herself, there sat a little girl who could not have been more than a first grader in school, six years old, maybe seven. She sat quietly. One might have expected tears, but her big eyes never closed. Wide eyed she watched. Now and again she smiled. A security guard ...

16. Tomb for Sale

Luke 7:11-17

Sermon

George Bass

... from his face in the pictures. It is almost a parallel to the story Jesus told about a father and two sons, "My son was dead but is alive again." Tobias had started searching for members of his long-separated family when he discovered that he had terminal cancer: "Until you get the kind of sickness like I got, you don’t appreciate a lot of things ... You get a new perspective, start appreciating stuff more. This thing is draining me little by little." John seems to have gained a new lease on life when ...

17. Some Man

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

... all the money they needed. The murders and suicide were a mystery; there was no reason for this tragedy to happen. But it did. And when the police searched their home, they discovered a note that indicated that the man was afraid that he had terminal cancer. The week before he had a malignant mole removed from his face, but his physician told police that the operation was successful and full recovery was expected. The man himself wasn’t convinced because the note read, "Be sure to take close up pictures ...

18. The Preposterous Prescription

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

... answer was the same from that one and yet another? Some of you can empathize with the person or the family that receives that kind of news. A few of you have been there yourselves, and have experienced it first hand. One man who was diagnosed as having a terminal illness, and was fortunate enough to recover, later said, "When you hear it, your heart drops through the floor. You think it can’t be true. You begin to think of all the things you have planned and still want to do. Even at first you begin to go ...

19. What Will He Find… When He Comes? - Shorter Version

Luke 18:1-8

Sermon

Theodore F. Schneider

... of God, the integrity of God. We know in whom we have put our trust. Even if hope's fulfillment is delayed, we have no doubt that God is faithful. There’s the story at an airport terminal. A sea of people, hurrying and pushing. A snowstorm snarled schedules in the air and on the ground. In the midst of the terminal, by herself, there sat a little girl who could not have been more than a first grader in school, six years old, maybe seven. She sat quietly. One might have expected tears, but her big eyes ...

20. The Miracle of Christ

Ephesians 3:14-21

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... scientific, financial, sheer intellectual; or is it that God will have some opportunity to touch the programming with the mystery of his presence, so that life may move from the surface to the depths, from that which is dying to that which lives. In the book Terminal Man, Chrichton suggests that no system can explain nor create itself.1 No machine can understand its own workings. A human brain might, after years of work, decipher the brain of a frog, but never itself. For that you must have a super brain. I ...

21. Reverence For Life

Exodus 20:1-21, Matthew 5:21-26

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... positive. It commands a reverence for life. It hangs a price tag on every human life, saying that you are worth more than the national debt. You were made by God, in the image of God, and no one but God has the right to terminate your life. The sixth commandment declares, "You shall not murder." "Murder" rather than "kill" is the correct word. The verb in Hebrew means "violent or unauthorized killing." Jesus broadened this commandment. He condemned the brooding anger in the heart as well as the taunting ...

22. How to Fix the Past

1 John 1:5--2:14

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... them were on their knees in prayer. Mr. Abercrombie asked forgiveness of his sins and turned his life over to Christ. The greatest victory of the Evil One is blinding us to our own sin. But if God is a truth-teller, all of us are sinners. We have a terminal spiritual virus. Jesus Christ is the only cure. LET’S ASK A SECOND QUESTION: WHAT IF I THROW MYSELF ON THE MERCY OF THE COURT? As long as I refuse to confess my sin or continue to rationalize it and make excuses for it, God cannot touch it. That sin ...

23. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... truth powerfully proclaimed in the resurrection faith of the church.* *Adopted by the 11th Biennial Convention, Louisville, Kentucky, September 3-10, 1982. All this means that there may be times when it is appropriate to withhold or even withdraw medical treatment of the terminally ill and dying Christian. We must always consider quality of life as well as quantity of life. There are times when death is to be considered a merciful release. To treat a person in violation of his or her deeply held, carefully ...

24. Mother Teresa and the Dying Poor

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... who mourn, God will comfort them." We ought to take seriously what it means for a Christian to die. Recently I came through O’Hare Airport and noticed a big red arrow sign with the word "Terminal" above it. Everyone was going that direction without questioning. Perhaps we need to take seriously the truth that we are all terminal and that we are all going to die. Because this life that we know here does not go on forever, we ought to live differently. Yet, death need not be something we fear for we who ...

25. Confrontation in the Temple

John 2:12-25

Sermon

George Bass

... life that demands literal self-sacrifice and the deliberate surrender of our lives for the sake of the gospel and Christ’s mission in the world. We’re more like the other man, whose story was printed after and under a headline that read, "A terminal patient turns test subject in fight to survive." Carl R. Proffer, the reporter, was telling his own story in the article. The summer before, "during a casual discussion of midlife plans," he writes, "a friend asked me what goals I had. To his surprise (and ...

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