How Should a Pastor Think About His People's Giving?

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When I mentioned the title of this sermon to a group of pastors at our monthly denominational meeting, it elicited considerable response. ...

The Christian Subculture: Righteous or Rubbish?

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As believers, we sometimes feel pressured to act in certain ways, fit in with certain norms, or participate in certain activities. The pressure ...

Weighing Others Heavy

Text: Exodus 20:13; Matthew 5:21–24; Romans 12:14–21; Romans 13:8–10
Topic: How to apply the sixth commandment

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The sixth commandment ...

We Don't Have Men Like That

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[Editorial comment: Sunukjian delivers this sermon as a first-person narrative. References to props or stage directions will appear in italics.] ...

Working Out the Working In

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Let's suppose that our music minister Daniel and I get together for lunch to talk over some of the special services we're planning this month. ...

Down the Ladder to the Highest Place

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Editorial note: Sunukjian uses a six-foot stepladder as a prop throughout this sermon. References to the prop will be noted in the text in ...

It's Not Thinking Less of Yourself; It's Thinking of Yourself Less

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A few years ago, one of my students was speaking to our class about his denominational background. He told the class that the average church ...

Releasing Resentment

Text: John 21:15–22; 1 Corinthians 13:5
Topic: How we forgive those who hurt us

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It may have been King David's lowest moment: His son Absalom ...

What God Wants from You More Than Anything Else

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What does God want from you? What does he expect? Do you know?

That's a question that every person has to answer. Because if there is a God—and ...

Seeing Life God's Way

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Not too long ago, a friend of mine was at the doctor's office for his annual checkup. As part of the exam, the doctor looked in his eyes. ...

Come Die with Me

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Matthew's gospel says that, toward the end of his three years of public ministry, "Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go ...

My Favorite Heroes: Joseph

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We are in a series looking at different heroes of the faith, and today we'll be looking at Joseph. You can turn in your Bibles to Genesis ...

The Process of Transformation

Text: 1 John 3:1–10
Topic: How to attain holiness

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Imagine that you've been asked to write a book on marriage. Your publisher says, "We ...

The Love Connection

Text: 1 John 2:1–11
Topic: How to walk as Jesus walked

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First John is a book of assurances. It tells us what God wants his people to know. ...

Gratitude Gives Way to Resentment

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I will never forget a meeting I had with unhappy parishioners a few years ago. We had made deliberate changes in our church in order to better ...

An Unmistakable Mandate

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Dr. Jim Moore, Pastor of St. Luke's United Methodist Church in Houston, tells of a trip to the store with his family. They decided to buy ...

The Most Beautiful People on Earth

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The latest rage in reality TV is the makeover show, in which a team of experts are brought in to transform somebody's wardrobe, car, backyard, ...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

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I had originally announced that I would be speaking today on the Christian's relationship to government, but in recent days the Lord has put ...

Like a Living Stone

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"How does it feel," Bob Dylan asks. "How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?" ...

Us and Them

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Just a few hours before his death, and a few days before he left his kingdom in the hands of his followers, Jesus prayed for them, and for ...

Endurance

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Let's begin with some audience participation. I know it's been a long weekend. Some of you are tired from traveling or cooking or shopping. ...

The Sociable Outcast

Jesus did not fit very well into the society of his day. If you wanted to describe him in sociological terms, you might say he was an "outsider." ...

What Should I Do?

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A man reached retirement age and decided that he would help his wife by taking over some of the cooking chores. He began to make notes as ...

Follow Me

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The slogan used by the United States Marine Corps says, "We are looking for a few good men." Today they add, "...and women." ...

Getting Straight About Discipleship

How many of you know what it means to have a "Leon Lett" moment? Most football fans will recognize the reference. A few years ago Dallas was playing ...

Seeds of Change

Have you ever noticed that in most Bibles each section is divided and separated by a heading? These headings, of course, weren't in the original manuscripts ...

Welcome Jesus Into Your Life

Matthew 21 begins the final act in the drama of Jesus' life. It is Passover time—which corresponds with Easter—and this was a particularly ...

Becoming Like Him in His Death

The previous message in this series was deceptively titled "Getting Out Of Matthew 27." It referred (as you may remember) to relinquishing the roles ...

Taking Control of Your Life

This morning I want to tell you the story of Rudy Ruettiger. Rudy grew up in a Catholic family in a small town in Illinois. He was one of 14 children ...

Stop Being a Pawn

In the sixth chapter of Mark there is a fascinating story about the household of King Herod. Herod was the king of Galilee, and his family life was ...

Rejoicing in Our Suffering

If you make the ultimate goal in your life to become successful in business, what do you do when you reach a certain level of success? If you make a goal ...

Salt and Light

Alienation was originally a Marxist word and Karl Marx meant by it the alienation of the worker from the product of his labors. When what he produces ...

Living a Life of Integrity

Some years ago I was invited to a home in our community to talk with a father about his son, who was into drugs. As I sat in his living room that evening, ...

Rejoicing in Our Suffering

Rejoicing in Our Suffering

by Ron Lee Davis

If you make the ultimate goal in your life to become successful in business, what do you do when you reach a ...

The King Whose Sceptre Is A Towel

Introduction

It was time to celebrate the Passover, the most sacred of Jewish feasts. Upwards of three million people might spend the week in Jerusalem. ...

God's Compassion for Sinners

I have never known a time when Christians have been more mad about more things than we are now. Over the last 30 years, something dramatic has happened in ...

Which Rung are You On?

I went to a restaurant, a type of place. As we were eating, this girl comes out with a bucket of Thousand Island dressing. She's coming out of the kitchen ...