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1. If Christ Had Not Come

John 15:18--16:4

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the State.” Vandals throw rocks through the stained-glass windows and the sanctuary is soon reduced to a shambles. Let us imagine that all of this has happened. The churches are closed and nailed shut, because Christ never came. Imagine what life would be like if Christ had not come. Imagine that, from force of habit, a few of us return from time to time to the church, and silently slip in by a side entrance. The church is now a sad and lonely place, but it still holds some beautiful memories for us. What ...

2. Have You Had Your Caffeine Today?

Acts 2:1-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... waiting, and you can get into a lot of trouble while you are waiting, especially if there is no purpose to your waiting. (1) The last thing Jesus said to his disciples before his ascension to heaven was that they were to wait in Jerusalem. However their waiting had a critical purpose. They were to wait for the gift of the Holy Spirit to come upon them; for when that happened they would be Christ’s witnesses “in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:4-7). And ...

3. Had-To

James 1:17-27

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... Christians live out the meaning of these words when they pray: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven." If you're serious about preparing for a future heavenly existence with God, you're a "Had-To" believer. "Had-To" Christians are laboring to construct here in their life on Earth as many roughed-out models of that heavenly home as possible. To be sure, every attempt will be incomplete; every model will lack scale and power; yet each and every genuine attempt truly brings a portion ...

4. The Land Where Our Fathers Had Lived

Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28

Sermon

David J. Kalas

... wife, Sarah. But while only an acre or two may have been registered in his name at the county courthouse, God had promised to give his descendants possession of that whole land, as far as the eye could see. Abraham and Sarah's son ... David" (1 Kings 15:3). Later, the Bible reports that King Asa of Judah "did what was right in the sight of the Lord, as his father David had done" (1 Kings 15:11). Meanwhile, King Ahaziah of Israel "did what was evil in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the way of his father ...

5. If We Had Known It Was You

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

James McCormick

... beginning. Jesus knew that in the minds of his hearers the refusal to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, visit the sick and imprisoned is okay as long as we are not talking about someone important. That is what is implied in the statement, “If we had known it was you, we would have acted differently.” We have only to look around us to see how prevalent is that way of thinking and acting – one set of behavioral standards for the special people and another set of standards for everyone else. For example ...

6. After Everyone Had Gone Home

Matthew 2:13-23

Sermon

John Jamison

... for the foreign dignitaries, and at some point during the formal dinner he pulled the three aside and spoke with them. He told them how honored he was to have them travel so far to visit his land, and how excited he was for them to find the baby they had come to find. Herod knew how to play an audience, even a small one. He asked them to do him a personal favor. When they finally found the baby they were looking for, would they please send him a message and tell him where that baby was… so he could ...

7. If You Had But One Request

1 Kings 3:1-15

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... was that everything he should touch would turn to gold. At first it was great, but when he touched his food, it turned to gold. What would he eat? You can't eat gold. Worst of all, he touched his lovely daughter, and she turned to gold. The young ruler had wealth, but he did not have the wisdom to obey Jesus’ command to sell all, give it to the poor, and follow Jesus. Then there is the man who worked hard all his life, built bigger barns to house his fortune, and retired. He did not have wisdom to acquire ...

8. If You Had Been Here

John 11:17-37

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... men whose wives have slipped from them just when their families needed them the most. We have conducted funerals for dead servicemen, whose families had prayed for their safety the whole time that they were in the combat area. A young woman sat in my study not long ago ... this is a common experience of men. Jeremiah of the Old Testament was a great believer in God. But he felt that God had let him down, was wholly indifferent to his entreaties. He expressed it in an unusual way. He asks: "Why is my pain ...

9. If I Only Had One Wish

2 Chronicles 1:1-12

Sermon

James Merritt

... for? A humorous story I read illustrates that this requires a great deal of thought. There were three men marooned on a desert island. They had no hope of rescue. They were walking around the island and one of them kicked up a lamp. He rubbed the lamp and a ... of clubs. He is there for support and valuable advice. Tommy Bolt was one of the greatest golfers of all time. But he had one major flaw, a volcanic temper. One year he was playing a tournament in Southern California, and he was still ticked off because ...

10. You Had Better Get It Right

Matthew 5:17-20

Sermon

James Merritt

... hide a piece of broccoli in a glass of milk. Don't wear polka dot underwear under white shorts. Now there are some things you had better get right if you're going to be rightly related to God, both in this life and in the life to come. Jesus is ... heart. As someone has well said, "Never try to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and it annoys the pig." What the Pharisees had done was substituted the baggage of legalism for the blessing of salvation. It reminds me of a story I read about a man at Los ...

11. She Had Great Faith

Matthew 15:21-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... poor girl’s torment was demon possession. It would not be too great a stretch to imagine that her problems were emotional. Whatever the cause of her daughter’s suffering, this woman believed that there was someone who might be able to help her. His name was Jesus. She had heard that Jesus was a great teacher and healer. She knew he was Jewish, but if he could help her daughter that is all that mattered to her. And so she came to where Jesus was and she cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on me ...

12. Christian Hope Had Changed His Life

Luke 3:7-18

Illustration

James W. Moore

... unheard thing – he extended his tour of duty in Greenland for an extra year. He was the first person in the history of that base to do that. He did it because he wanted to be able to tell others the story of how the power of the Christian Hope had changed his life. If you want to give your loved ones a great Christmas present this year, give them the gift of Christian Hope. On page after page of the New Testament we find it: the Good News that God will win, that nothing can defeat Him; that ultimately God ...

13. Mary Had the Little Lamb

John 1:1-18

Illustration

Marv & Marbeth Rosenthal

... the little Lamb, crucified on the tree The rejected Son of God, He died to set men free. 1 Peter 1:18 Mary had the little Lamb men placed Him in the grave, Thinking they were done with Him; to death He was no slave! Matthew 28:6 Mary had the little Lamb, ascended now is He; All work on Earth is ended, our Advocate to be. Hebrews 4:14-16 Mary had the little Lame mystery to behold! From the Lamb of Calvary, a Lion will unfold. Revelation 5: 5,6 When the Day Star comes again, of this be very sure: It ...

14. What A Friend He Had In Judas

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Thomas Long

... father to tell him what was wrong in his life. He told him that it didn't matter what it was, no matter how terrible, that he loved him whatever was the awful truth. But his father could not respond. He could only weep, sobbing out the words that he had made a mistake, "a bad mistake." "That's all I ever got," said Grizzard. "The man died, so far as I know, with his secret. What terrible ... secret did he have? Did he kill somebody? Did he rob or cheat somebody? Was he a child molester? ... I can think of ...

15. Number Thirteen Had to Try Harder

1 Corinthians 15:9

Children's Sermon

... means that he thought the other disciples were bigger or better. Maybe that is what he thought, but I think he had a better reason. Paul thought that he had something to make up to God that the other disciples did not have to make up. Paul had hunted Christians and had even had some Christians killed. Paul had fought the Christian church when he was younger, and he was sorry for it. Because of what he had done, Paul wanted to work twice as hard as anyone else to make sure that the whole world knew of the ...

16. What If the Disciples Had Email and One of the Disciples Was a Woman?

Luke 13:10-17

Sermon

... water our livestock on the sabbath and technically speaking that was breaking the sabbath law. I could tell by the look in their eyes that he had them right then and there. He went on to point out that this daughter of Abraham was more important to God than any ox or ... course, a broken person is much worse and those who opposed him were sure put in their place. But the rest of us, the ones that had in the past been put in our place by the overly rigid use of the law rejoiced in what he said and what he did. ...

17. If It Had Been a Snake

John 1:29-42

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... with them. You make plans for them. You want to give them the best of you, and that means long-range planning for their good. And that’s what God does through Jesus Christ. God shows His love for us in this way: before the foundation of the world, God had a plan to save us through the sacrificial death of Jesus Christ. First Peter 1 tells us that we were redeemed, or bought out of slavery, by the precious blood of Jesus Christ who was chosen before the creation of the world. (1 Peter 1: 18-20) And Titus 1 ...

18. If We Had Known You Were Going To Win . . .

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

King Duncan

... defeated the powers of death, decay and destruction. He is alive for evermore. As we ponder the meaning of Easter Sunday, we would do well to reflect on something that happened years ago to Representative Dan Kuykendal of Tennessee. A man walked up to Kuykendal after he had won a hard-fought battle for election to the U.S. Congress. This man slapped Kuykendal on the back, pumped his hand vigorously and said sincerely: “If I’d know’d you was going to win, I’d of voted for you.” Those are the kind ...

19. John Had an Outlook

Matt 3:1-12; John 3:22-36

Illustration

Leonard Mann

... moves?" I knew one fellow once who apparently believed himself to be that divine event. He seemed to have the idea that all of time and circumstance, up to then, had conspired to accomplish only one purpose, and that was just to get him into the world. He saw himself as creation's ultimate achievement, the apex toward which all else had forever been aimed, and beyond which nothing of any notable quality would ever appear again. There isn't much future in that. This man John was a different type; beyond ...

20. If Only I Had

Illustration

Lois Cheney

... is taken up with my job, my family, my clubs, and what have you every single minute." And the same man said, "If I had a talent I'd give it to God, but I have no lovely voice; I have no special skill; I've never been able ... right back from the man, the money, the time and the glorious talent. After a while, the man sighed and said, "If I only had some of that money back, I'd give it to God. If I only had some of that time, I'd give it to God. If I could only rediscover that glorious talent, I'd give it to God ...

21. If I Had My Life to Live Over

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Editor James S. Hewett

... swim more rivers; I would eat more ice cream and less beans; I would perhaps have more actual troubles, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones. You see, I'm one of those people who lives sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to do nothing else, just moments, one after the other instead of living so many years ahead of time. I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without ...

22. There Had to Be a Father

Luke 1:39-45, (46-55)

Illustration

William G. Carter

... semester in the freshman class, he was certain that he knew more biology than most adults did in his hometown ... including his minister. A few days before Christmas, he stopped in to see his minister, who received him warmly and asked how he had fared in his first semester. “Okay,” he replied, avoiding the subject of his mediocre grades. But then he told his pastor, "I’ve come home with some questions.” “Really?” the pastor replied. “Like what?” “Like the virgin birth. I’ve taken a lot ...

23. As If You Had Not Sinned

Illustration

Albert Barnes

... is a free forgiveness of past offenses. It has reference to those sins as forgiven and blotted out. Justification has respect to the law, and to God's future dealings with the sinner. It is an act by which God determines to treat him hereafter as righteous as if he had not sinned. The basis for this is the merit of the Lord Jesus Christ, merit that we can plead as if it were our own. He has taken our place and died in our stead; He has met the descending stroke of justice, which would have fallen on our own ...

24. If You Had Two Pigs

Illustration

Michael P. Green

A pastor was talking to his farmer friend, and he asked the farmer, “If you had one hundred horses, would you give me fifty?” The farmer said, “Certainly.” The pastor asked, “If you had one hundred cows, would you give me fifty?” The farmer said, “Yes.” Then the pastor asked, “If you had two pigs, would you give me one?” The farmer said, “Now cut that out, pastor, you know I have two pigs!”

25. If I Had Been There

Jn 20:1-18; Mk 15:21-32

Illustration

Brett Blair

... been there, I’d have stayed with his poor mother!” It is said that the bishop knew he was ready for the waters of baptism when the Passion was read in church a third time, and the king remarked, “If I had been there, I’d have climbed up on the cross next to him.” Now, the slow conversion in understanding our Lord's Passion went form 1) I would have defended Christ - a military approach 2) I would have tended to his mother - a sympathetic approach 3) I would have climbed ...

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