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1. What Can Christians Learn from Muslims?

Genesis 21:1-20

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... . It is impossible to fully understand the situation in Iraq without understanding the thought patterns of the Sunnis and the Shiites, a subject I must reserve for another day. II. THE FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM FAITH A. BELIEF: “There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet." Allah is the Arabic word for God. Allah is creator. Allah is powerful; Allah is merciful. Allah will hold us all accountable. There are two things that all Muslims believe: all humans are to do what is right and get away from ...

2. Maturity In Christ

Colossians 1:27-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... brought home. Armed with a photograph of her son-to-be, Cheryl sat down with immigration officials and said bluntly, "While you're talking to me, he's dying of hunger." They listened. Cheryl and Charlie exhausted their life savings and took out a loan to bring Mohammed to Indianapolis. He already knew a fair amount of English and was soon so fluent that he was interviewed on local TV. He mentioned a friend of his whom he'd last seen lying sick in the street. And guess what? A woman watching in Bloomington ...

3. Swept Clean

Luke 10:38-42

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

4. Breaking News: The Middle East

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

... Mecca and proclaimed to them “We are now the one true religion.” He forms an army and in 630 A.D. marches on Mecca and takes the city and establishes Islam as the religion of the Arabic world. Their rallying cry was, “There is no god, but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet.” There has been enmity ever since. That is how the problem began, that is how the problem persists and God knows the problem. There is one other thing the Middle East tells us and it is the greatest news of all. III. God Keeps His ...

5. No Apology

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... the victor. When asked why the decision was made, the judge pointed out the unique characteristic that set the winner apart from all the other leaders: Jesus saves! There is no other name by which we must be saved! All the rest of the best names, like Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, you name it, all have two things Jesus doesn't. One, a grave with a body in it. Second, rules on how to reach up to their standards. Salvation in Jesus is different from all other religions in the fact that there is no body of ...

6. The Incomparable Christ

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... , the first blood sacrifice, and the promise of a savior is prophesied - one who would crush Satan's head. Confucius, Mohammed, and Buddha are but the initiative of man. The uniqueness of Christ is that he is the initiative of God. ... t know which way to go, you'd ask directions. Let's say four people are there, three dead and one alive; who will you ask? Buddha, Mohammed, and Moses are dead, but Jesus Christ is alive. He is unique among religious leaders of the world in that he alone has no tomb. He alone ...

7. Men in Black

Matthew 13:24-30; 36-43

Sermon

James Merritt

... from the tares. You see, mature wheat bears fruit, but the shell of the tare is always empty. I cannot help but share with you a quote from Mohammed Ali, which really illustrates in a sad way the whole point of this parable from a different perspective. After 9/11 a man interviewed Mohammed Ali about his Muslim faith, and said, "What does your faith mean to you?" This is what Mohammed Ali said: "It means a ticket to heaven. One day we're all going to die and God's going to judge us for our good and bad ...

8. Jesus Meets Buddha and Confucius

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Carl Jech

... ministry, he could also have used astral projection or some form of "soul travel" during the early years of his life not recorded by the evangelists, in order to make contact with other parts of the world - in order to meet Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed and others. But Luke begins the episode we have read today by setting Jesus firmly in the specific historical context of Moses, the laws, the hymns, and the prophets of Israel! He shows Jesus offering to his disciples a specific interpretation of the uniquely ...

9. The Joy of Sorrow?

Matthew 5:4

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... violence to his humanity. Can such violence bring joy? Then there are those who regard suffering as God’s will and submit to if, submit to it with the hope that in the end God will tip the scales in their favor. Those who use this method are followers of Mohammed. Is joy a sure by-product? Accepting trouble is not easy, but nowhere is the promise made that this life will be a picnic. Jesus put it as plainly as words can say it: "In the world you will have tribulation." He knew that in the kind of world in ...

10. It Does Matter What You Believe

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

King Duncan

... when the smallest sparrow falls from the sky, and cares about the least and the lowest. Saints and sinners, landed gentry and outcast leper, no one is left out of His love. Indeed, God's very nature is love. Can you see what a difference that makes? If Mohammed or Buddha taught that, fine. If that truth is found in the Old Testament, that is wonderful. But nobody taught love and lived love like Jesus of Nazareth. The world needs to know about that love because it is the world's hope. Which is the same as ...

11. At The Fork In The Road

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ve lived in many different cultures, and yet all you talked about was Christ. Why didn't you bring some light from Mohammed or some inspiration from Buddha or some insight from the Upanishads?" And Newbigin looked at the young man and said, "Are you ... like what Leslie Newbigin said to him then. He said, "You know what young man? If I were you, I wouldn't worry too much about Mohammed or about Buddha until I had made up my mind about Christ. Depending on what you do with Him, your path in life will then take ...

12. When God Speaks You Better Listen

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

James Merritt

... then did everything he could to make it worse. First, he resisted God; then he rebelled against God; and then of all things he tried to run from God. I remember one time Mohammed Ali was going to fight an upcoming opponent and a newspaper reporter said, "Your opponent has said that he's just going to get on his toes and run from you the entire fight." Mohammed Ali just smiled and said, "Well he can run, but he can't hide." If there is anything that Jonah teaches us, it is this: You not only can't hide from ...

13. Mission Possible

Acts 1:8

Sermon

James Merritt

... "X" was the Star of David and the "T" was the Cross of Christ. Bono pointed at the symbols on his headband first to the cross, then to the star, then to the crescent moon - and he began to repeat, "Jesus, Jew, Mohammed - all true. Jesus, Jew, Mohammed - all true."[[1]] Honestly and frankly, that is becoming the increasing chant of many people in the world today, including many, who profess to be Christians. This raises the central question that we must ask, before we even talk about missions and evangelism ...

14. The King and His Throne

Acts 1:1-8

Sermon

James Merritt

15. When I Am Tempted

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... entire campus. For the first time in history, there was going to be a match between an unbeaten, former, heavy-weight boxing champion against the current, unbeaten, heavy-weight champion. It was March 8, 1971, and it was the first fight between Smokin' Joe Frasier and Mohammed Ali. Frasier was twenty-seven years old, 26 and 0 in his fights with 23 knockouts. Ali was 29 years old, 31 and 0 with 25 knockouts. Neither fighter had ever lost. The country, at the time, was still split in half over the Vietnam War ...

If the mountain won't come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.

English proverb

17. Love Your Enemies--It Will Drive Them Crazy

Luke 6:27-36

Sermon

Richard A. Wing

... people in the world right now. Jesus came in third. Some in the Christian community were upset. Jesus came in third and a rather distant third at that. Now remember the criteria: "who has influenced the most number of people even to this present day." Mohammed came in first, given the fact that that particular faith tradition would have more influence on the daily activities of its people. The second was Sir Isaac Newton. His influence would have to do with our worldview and how we see things differently in ...

18. The Persecuted

Sermon

John A. Terry

... of all television preachers: "You can get your share of the audience only by offering people what they want." In response, Professor Postman wrote, "... This is an unusual religious credo. There is no great religious leader -- from the Buddha to Moses to Jesus to Mohammed to Luther -- who offered people what they wanted. Only what they needed. But television is not well suited to offering people what they need. "It is user friendly. It is too easy to turn off. It is at its most alluring when it speaks the ...

19. The Persecuted

John 15:18-27

Sermon

John A. Terry

20. What Does Jesus Expect of Us?

Mark 8:27-38

Sermon

Donald Macleod

... them deny self ..." (v. 34) No one can put self at the center of his or her religion and be a Christian, for Christianity can never be separated from him who was its founder; they are identical. The founders of other religions - Confucius, Buddha, Mohammed - might point towards truth, but only Jesus could declare, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." Those who shared in his company and the fellowship of his spirit discovered, in him, truth alive and, when they accepted it, they found, through him, the ...

21. God’s Kind of King

Jeremiah 23:1-8

Sermon

John R. Brokhoff

... His claim to be God’s Son was one reason for his crucifixion. His enemies demanded his death “because he made himself the Son of God.” (John 19:7) All other “kings” are mortal. Despite their great wisdom and influence, they died. Buddha died. Mohammed also died. In 1989, the Japanese Emperor Hirohito died of cancer at age eighty-seven. He claimed to be the 124th living god in a dynasty stretching back more than twenty-six centuries. Because he was considered a god by some, Japanese children were ...

22. Grace Is What Christ Has Done

Acts 15:1-21

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... is imperative that we know it is always an inside job. Cosmetic surgery will never do. We need a radical heart transplant. The story is told of a plane that was bucking all over the sky as it hit some turbulence. A stewardess came to where Mohammed Ali sat, and said to him, "Mr. Ali, don't you think you should buckle your seat belt? This flight is becoming very rough." Ali replied, "Honey, Superman don't need no belt!" The flight attendant retorted, "Honey, Superman don't need no plane!" The self-righteous ...

23. Lessons From The Mountaintop

Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 17:1-13

Sermon

Robert Beringer

... in the following way: "Whenever Hollywood cranks out a movie about Moses, they always give the part to somebody like Chariton Heston with some fake whiskers glued on. The truth of it is, he probably looked a lot more like Tevye the milkman after 10 rounds with Mohammed Ali. Moses up there on the mountain with his sore feet and aching back serves as a good example of the fact that when God puts the finger on people, their troubles have just begun! Hunkered down in the cleft of a rock, Moses had been allowed ...

24. Jerusalem: City for All Time

2 Samuel 5:1-5

Sermon

Donald Zelle

... and the temple. The Zionist Movement holds out hope for many Jews to return to live there. At the close of every annual family Passover meal, there is the expression, "Next year in Jerusalem!" For the Moslem, Jerusalem holds the promise that the prophet Mohammed will return to that site, at the end of time, and bring the faithful to Allah. This explains the crushing number of gravesites and gravestones near the city wall. For the Christian, Jerusalem is a promise in a different sense. Saint Augustine wrote ...

25. Encounters With Christ III: Jesus and Nicodemus

John 3:1-21

Sermon

James W. Moore

... with what many would call the greatest verse in all of the Bible, John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but have eternal life.” Some years ago, the great boxer, Mohammed Ali, was asked by a ghetto youth how he could quit school and start a boxing career since he had bad grades. Ali smiled at the young man and said in his poetic fashion: “Stay in college and get the knowledge, -And stay there! Til you’re through -Cause ...

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