The Characters of Christmas: Simeon

This sermon is part of “The Characters of Christmas” sermon series. See the whole series here.

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Panhandling for True Satisfaction

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Being asked for spare change by a person on the street corner can often make for an awkward situation. Do we look them in the eyes or do we ...

Hope for People Who Have Everything but Still Lack Something

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G. K. Chesterton, an English writer, once said that "every man who visits a prostitute is looking for God." Really? I believe he's right. ...

The Good News Is the Bad News Is Wrong

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I'd like you to use your imagination this morning and picture our world, your world, as a terrarium. You know what a terrarium is. My version ...

Blessed Are Those Who Hunger and Thirst for Righteousness

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A businessman decided to throw a party for some of his clients, and because he was doing so well, he spared no expense. He hired the most ...

The Long Tomorrow

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An 85-year-old couple died in a car crash after having been married almost 60 years. They had been in good health the last ten years mainly ...

A Brand New You

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I've got hundreds of things around the house that I would like to see made new—sofa cushions that have begun to sag, kitchen cabinets ...

Focus

Introduction

There's good news and bad news about our gospel passage. First the bad news: this is one of the most difficult, disturbing, and surprising ...

Summer

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I grew up in a small mining town in northern Canada, a place memorable for its hard, cruel winters. But on the first day of summer in 1975, ...

Spring

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I spent many early years in a northern mill town—a town with a heavy reputation. It's a place that made ice in winter and mud in summer, ...

Our Hungry Hearts

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Have you ever used an image to help motivate you? To help you clarify what and who you want to become? An image can be an object or can come ...

How to Live Beyond Yourself

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I don't know if you are like me, but I imagine you are. I imagine there are times in which you feel boxed in by life; not only by what others ...

What Do Men Want? What Do Women Want?

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When the Bible describes how the world was created, it uses the word good a lot. It says, "God created light" and "saw that the light was ...

Check Your Bags

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In his best-selling book Halftime, Bob Buford tells a story that is reminiscent of the encounter we read about in our text from Matthew's ...

The Good News Is, the Bad News Is Wrong

Text: Ecclesiastes 3:1-14; 1 Corinthians 15:17-20
Topic: How Christ frees us from the meaninglessness of life on our own

Introduction

I'd like you to use ...

A Prescription for Burned Out Christians

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A man went to the doctor complaining of fatigue. He described how he just felt burned out all the time. The doctor asked him to try to identify ...

The Gift of Purpose-Filled Living

A few years ago I was working at an elementary-aged camp. It had rained a couple of days in a row, and finally the sun was shining, but it was still ...

The Message of Ecclesiastes

As I look back in my life over the last several years there was a period in which I lived in the dark night of the soul. I spent several months of my ...