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1. Living with Integrity
Galatians 2:15-21
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April Yamasaki
"Justification by faith" — to a theologian these words express one of the most basic principles of the Christian faith. But to many people today, they're simply one more example of Christian jargon that seems to brand the church as too complicated and out of touch for our time. Is it real? Is it relevant? Does it matter? To the apostle Paul in our scripture reading for today, "justification by fai...
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John Jamison
It is difficult to be the church. What we have been asked to do here is not easy. Jesus' directive to love one another sounds like it should be a fairly straightforward thing to do. Now, I don't want to shock anyone here this morning, but I do have to admit that there have been times in our history that there have been disagreements in the church; disagreements about what it means to love one anot...
3. Thank God for Dads
Galatians 2:11-21
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King Duncan
Welcome on this Father’s Day, 2007. It’s not easy being a father. I heard about a man who said that he was warned that, as his three daughters became old enough to date, he’d disapprove of every young man who took them out. When the time came, though, he was pleased that this prediction was wrong. Each boy was pleasant and well mannered. Talking to one of his daughters one day, he said that he li...
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King Duncan
We Americans are suckers for the underdog. We ought to appreciate the story of Samuel Logan Brengle. Brengle gave up an opportunity to pastor one of the largest churches in Mid-America in order to join the ranks of the Salvation Army when that organization was just getting established in the United States. One of his early assignments was in Danbury, Connecticut, where Brengle’s entire congregatio...
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Maxie Dunnam
One of the snares into which we preachers fall, rather often I think, is to assume that the people to whom we preach are already Christians. That’s true, generally. But I would be kidding myself if I preached from Sunday to Sunday to this congregation assuming that everyone here had already made an explicit commitment to Christ. But there’s another issue at stake, as well, a very common experience...
6. Crucified with Christ
Galatians 2:11-21
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Maxie Dunnam
Some verses in the Bible are like beacons in the sea of scripture – buoys that mark the channel of God’s activity in history, God’s intervention in our lives, God’s relationship to persons. Genesis 1: 1: “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Psalm 8: 4-5: “When I look at the heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man that t...
7. It’s Complicated
Galatians 2:11-21
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Leonard Sweet
Weather forecasters have the coolest toys. They have satellite “eyes in the sky.” They can track off-shore flows and coastal disturbances, high pressure systems and low pressure cells, the rise and fall of the jet stream (whatever that is!).  Television weather people even have the most interesting screens to work with, with all kinds of magic features to make this bigger and smaller. Yet, even wi...
8. Live and Let Die
Galatians 2:20
Sermon
James Merritt
How do you live the Christian life? Well, believe it or not, the answer is You don't! Over one billion people have become Christians in the last 2,000 years. But only one person has ever lived the Christian life, and that is Jesus Christ. I am going to make an amazing statement, but I believe it is true. The average Christian knows far more about how to become one than how to be one. The average...
9. A-wake or A-live
Galatians 2:15-21
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Leonard Sweet
We are called, less to follow in the wake of Christ than to make new waves for Christ, or more precisely, to allow Christ to make new waves through us. Toward the end of the 19th century, Charles Sheldon, pastor of an average church in an average community in Topeka, Kansas, decided he needed to do something to perk up his Sunday evening services. Sheldon began preaching a kind of serial sermon, ...
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Maxie Dunnam
Now I’m aware of the fact that it is Mother’s day.  But I’m not going to preach a traditional Mother’s Day sermon.  In the early days of the Methodist Church, as a part of worship, the preacher not only preached a sermon, he usually exhorted the congregation.  An exhortation is different from preaching, so just to let you know I know it is Mother’s Day before I preach I want to exhort you for a mo...
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Maxie Dunnam
Then all the tribes of Israel came to David at Hebron, and said, “Look, we are your bone and flesh. For some time, while Saul was king over us, it was you who led out Israel and brought it in. The Lord said to you: It is you who shall be shepherd of my people Israel.” So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron; and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the Lord, and the...
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Leonard Sweet
Here are the catalogues that came to our house this past week. (Save in a box or basket all the catalogues that arrive at your home for one week, and empty them out in front of the congregation.) Order anything from any catalog and you immediately get on the mailing list for hundreds of others. Depending upon your attitude, these catalogs can either be a delightful escapist fantasy, or a misera...
13. Forgiven!
Galatians 2:11-21
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King Duncan
Recently a religious talk show hostess was interviewing a new believer. The new believer had come from the wrong side of the tracks-economically, socially, morally, and spiritually. As he gave his testimony, this man, who had seen it all and done it all continually thanked God for the change God had made in his life. "I can’t express," he said, "the gratitude I feel that God has changed my life." ...
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