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1. A New Point of View

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... new world, of what can only be called a "new creation." "So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation; everything old has passed away; see everything has become new" (v. 17). That means that we no longer look at the world from a "human point of view" but from the way God looks at it ... in Christ! The pages of the New Testament are filled with examples of what that new creation looks like. A man born blind, who was thought of as nothing more than a beggar, an outcast, a sinner condemned to live his ...

2. Taking the Long View

2 Peter 3:8-15a

Sermon

Donald Charles Lacy

... truth emerges. It has a way of explaining both our Lord's first and his second coming. In all cases it has to do with "holiness and godliness." Our hope is encompassed in an eternal love that can give us untold joy, as generations pass. No one is above this view and in one way or another all are ultimately subjected to it. There is a call for celebration not because we emerge as people of hope but as the Holy One reveals himself both as God and man. All of this leaves us with more open doors than we can ...

3. View from the Mountaintop

Deuteronomy 34:1-12

Sermon

Charles L. Aaron

... from God. Moses will not cross over himself, but God assures him that his descendents will possess the land. In any case, by chapter 34, Moses appears to have accepted God's decision not to let him enter the land. On this trip to the mountaintop, Moses sees a view like no other. The narrator tells us that Moses saw all the way to the north as far as Dan, west as far as the Mediterranean Sea, southwest to the Negev, and down to Zoar, on the southern tip of the Dead Sea. What the narrator tells us that ...

4. Being A View Master

Romans 2:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... the stained glass and replied, "A saint is a person who the light shines through." Believe it or not, that's what made me think of the View Master. You see, you have to hold it up to the light in order to see the marvels of the pictures inside. Unless you had one ... does that have to do with being a saint? Jesus said He was the Light of the world. You and I are called to let others View the Master, the Son of God, through how we live our lives of faith. In other words, we're called to let the Light of Christ ...

5. The View from Cloud Nine

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the wilderness and across the sea, the clouds in Ezekiel’s vision, the imagination of Job, the prophecies of Joel, Nahum and Jonah and the whirlwinds in the storms, the descriptions in the psalms, the coming of Revelation. And in the gospels, many more. To view God within the “clouds” gives us a sense of God’s transcendence and yet imminence. God both hidden and revealed –the knowledge of God we can’t ever hope to understand and yet the depictions of God that descend into our everyday lives in ...

6. The View from Michal’s Window

2 Samuel 6:1-5, 12b-19

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... by the biblical principle of loving my neighbor. That often means trying to see things from the other person's point of view — see things from their window, as it were. That's not agreeing necessarily, but it is trying to understand what a position ... ourselves, we need to look for a window on our relationships that is large enough that we see more than Michal's limited and self-centered view. We can't expect to see things as God does, for his window is bigger than any we will ever have, but we can do better ...

7. The View from Jesus' Pew

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... money because I was not preaching about MY money, but GOD's. I am older now, and whether I like it or not, the fact that my family and I are financially supported by what comes in the offering plate, for me to preach about tithes and offerings can be viewed with some legitimacy as feathering my own nest. I do not want people to think that, and the easiest way to avoid it is to avoid the subject as much as possible. From all that I have been able to learn over the years, most folks are quite content with ...

8. A Womb With a View

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... "journey" motif, sending Jesus'' disciples towards Jerusalem and Golgotha. This week's theme reminds us that if we faithfully intend to follow Christ, we must be willing to step outside the door. We must be willing to leave our safe sanctuaries, our "wombs with a view" and risk entering the world naked and vulnerable, clad only in our faith. Mark portrays Jesus spending a good deal of his time and energy on the trip to Jerusalem preparing his disciples for what lay ahead. But each of the three incidents of ...

9. The View From Jesus’ Pew

Mark 12:38-44

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... my family and I are financially supported by what comes in the offering plate, for me to preach about tithes and offerings can be viewed with some legitimacy as feathering my own nest. I do not want people to think that; and the easiest way to avoid it is ... . They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything — all she had to live on." The view from Jesus' pew: He "sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the ...

10. The View From The Mountaintop

Mark 9:2-9

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... in the North. A Presbyterian defender of scripture and of traditional confessions, he was even more orthodox than Beecher. During the war Dabney served on the staff of General Stonewall Jackson; afterward he presided over seminaries in South Carolina and in Texas. Yet from wherever Dabney viewed the conflict, his opinion was the same. The war, he thought, was “caused deliberately” by evil abolitionists who persecuted the south “with calculated malice.” When fellow southerners asked him to soften his ...

11. The View from the Mountaintop

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... nifty, Deb's turning ...). Am I in trouble? Here is one that is safe: on Tuesday, it is Abraham Lincoln's. Had he lived, Mr. Lincoln would be 193 (and, no, I don't have a jingle for that one). Lincoln has always fascinated me. In my view, he was our greatest President. Others feel the same. In fact, he is now seen as so important a figure that one contemporary historian notes that there are currently more books in the English language about Lincoln than about anyone else except Jesus and Shakespeare.(1) It ...

12. Long View — Long Haul

Luke 13:31-35

Sermon

Schuyler Rhodes

Have you ever known anyone who has suddenly stopped and changed direction? Maybe it’s you. I know that in my life I stopped the pursuit of a career in the theater and finally listened to God’s call to me to enter ordained ministry. It wasn’t a call, so much, to change direction, as it was a call to authenticity and commitment. Today, though, I want to tell you about a friend of mine who did this. At the age of fifty, Marcy decided to change everything. She made the momentous decision to leave her job, her ...

13. Hell under Fire

Matthew 5:22; 28-30

Sermon

James Merritt

... gave you four reasons why the Bible should be believed and trusted as the Word of God. As I present to you the biblical world view of these hot-button issues you must decide whether to believe it or not. I report; you decide. Today we are going to take a ... go into hell." (Matthew 5:22; 28-30, NASB) The reason I quote Jesus may shock you but most of what we know about the biblical view of Hell comes from His own lips. Of the 1,850 verses in the New Testament that record the words of Jesus, thirteen percent of ...

14. Are We Living In The Last Days?

Luke 21:5-19

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... . Some religious believers have the convictions that they are living in the last days. Therefore, they are getting ready for the crisis that is coming. They may need non-electrical equipment in order to survive. The owners of the Lehman store do not subscribe to this view but they are happy for their business. Are we really living in the last days? Not a few people are fascinated with a study of the end-time. What does the gospel of Luke say about the future? Everyone seems to be interested in the future ...

15. Why Believe the Bible?

John 17:17

Sermon

James Merritt

... get the idea that God created us, that because of the fall of man, sin entered into this world and ruined it and that Jesus Christ came to die and was raised from the dead to make this world right again. We get it from the Bible. The Christian world view is based on what we believe, not only to be truth, but the ultimate truth found in the Bible. Many of us as children can remember the song that goes like this - "Jesus loves me, this I know For the Bible tells me so." That raises "the" big question - Why ...

16. Of Peace and War

Deuteronomy 20:1-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... states that believers should support the government and should be willing to fight when they really believe that a war is just. Only just wars are justified. You probably already guessed, but the third view is my view and the view I believe to be the biblical view. With that being the case, then I have to address the second point which is – II. War Is Regrettable But Acceptable [Turn to Deuteronomy 20] It is very obvious that the God who never changes, the God of the Old Testament being the same God as ...

17. A New Vantage Point

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... a skyscraper and gaze upon a vast city below. Why do we need to do that? What's inside of us that makes us want a view from above? Psychologists have an answer. They say there's a sense of power that comes when we stand above the world. We can play "god," ... begins to see life as it really is. In the end we get the feeling that Lucy Honeychurch actually does have "a room with a view." It's a view of things as they truly are. It's a window looking down on a world of good and evil, of beauty and pain. And Lucy ...

18. As Seen from the Solitary Broom Tree

1 Kings 19:1-18

Sermon

Stan Purdum

... ll have a better grip on your situation if you spend less time worrying and more time taking care of your real needs. MIT View: If you're not worrying about work, you must not be very committed to it. We'll find someone who is. 12. Keep ... Your Sense Of Humor. Begin to bring job and happy moments into your life. Very few people suffer burnout when they're having fun. MIT View: So, you think your work is funny? We'll discuss this with your director on Friday, at 7 p.m.!3 Those suggestions and others like ...

19. Why Did Jesus Have To Die?

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... Son. This is what the cross is all about. This is why Jesus had to die. In some cases, Jesus' sacarifice was paid to God, to his word of law in creation. (In this sense, this understanding of Christ's death embraces the biblical images which reinforce the first view of Christ's death that we noted.) However, the way that the law and creation were functioning was not what God wanted. In a sense they were God's enemy - out of control - had been co-opted by the darkness of evil and chaos. In order to overcome ...

20. Trumpets on the Other Side

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Thomas Slavens

... God will be there; the Christ will be there; God’s people will be there; love will be there. St. Benedict summed up the Christian view of death when he wrote, “Death is the gate to life.” When faced by death, it is better to mourn than to harbor the ... , all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, “Man,”And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.7 The second view asserts with Bunyan in Pilgrim’s Progress: My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage and my ...

21. Clearing the Eyes

John 9:1-12, John 9:13-34, John 9:35-41

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... Now, think of the ancient mind with its filters. If I, in the time of Jesus, believe in an all-powerful, all-knowing God but don’t know the way of DNA, or the science of environmental damage to a unborn baby, it makes perfect sense to filter my view of life through the lens of something bad happening to me or to another as either the result of my parents doing something wrong or me not following God’s ways. After all, God wouldn’t create someone blind without there being a reason or lack, right? While ...

22. How Fares Your Christian Sight?

Is 6:8-10

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... the vocational affairs of his grown children. He then, however, went on to say one more thing. "I’ve told my children," he said, "to never forget that I am the Godfather, and they had better do what I tell them." Such is not the gospel’s view of children, and how parents are meant to relate to them. By contrast the gospel talks about parents learning something about the nature of God’s kingdom from their children, and furthermore it talks of preparing our children so they can one day go forth from us ...

23. Heaven: One Way And One Way Only

John 14:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... it is. As we continue our series on the "War of the Worlds" which we have explained as being the war of the world views, the biblical world view, which holds that there is one way and one way only to heaven, means the following must be true. I. I Cannot Rely ... are if you do not know Jesus Christ. II. I Cannot Rely On Righteousness To Get Me To Heaven One of the other predominant world view of the 21st century is if there is a heaven, you simply earn your way there by good works while living a good life. Think ...

24. A Daughter of Jacob

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

Richard Hoefler

... imply that Jesus had less universal a vision of God’s ultimate Kingdom than did Genesis, or Jeremiah or Second Isaiah; rather, he viewed his calling to be the first step of Second Isaiah’s plan of redemption, namely the restoration of the Jews to their chosen ... way which Christ offers to them and to us. Let It All Out When we look at the miracle story from the point of view of the woman, we see our Lord’s penetrating insight into human personality. He is always concerned not just with the problem but ...

25. In Control

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

James W. Robinson

... I, and our faith informs us that God remains at the center of life, and he is still in control of the world he has made. Cyprian, the famous Bishop of Carthage, wrote these words to a friend 1800 years ago: This seems a cheerful world, Donatus, when I view it from this fair garden under the shadow of these vines. But if I climbed some great mountain and looked out over the wide lands you know very well what I would see. Brigands on the high roads, pirates on the seas, in the amphitheatres men murdered to ...

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