First Presbyterian Church of Guymon Sermons
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The Opposite of Rich
We American Christians have a lot in common with the Rich Young Man who came to Jesus asking what he should do to inherit eternal life. Compared with our Christian brothers and sisters in almost all parts of the world, even those of us who are poor in America are typically richer than the poor elsewhere. Jesus tells him -and us - “Go and sell what you own and give the money to the poor and you will have treasure in heaven; then come follow me.” Wow. How could anybody do that?
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You Will Be My People and I Will Be Your God
One of God’s main attributes is that God is a giver. What being transformed by God into the image of Christ looks like is slowly – but surely – becoming obedient givers, obedient lovers, obedient servants. God wants us to give because it’s good for us, because it is transformative when we place everything in our life on the altar – everything under the Lordship of Christ – we become more like God.
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The Exorcist
It is a good thing to be “salted with fire” – to feel the heat of hell enough to want living water. And the salt of the Holy Spirit that casts evil out of us, remains in us to keep us clean, pure and holy, even when we find ourselves in the presence of the power of Evil.
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Lost in Translation
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say." It is equally true that what we don’t do is so deafening that no one wants to listen to what we have to say. If we want to speak the gospel, we must set aside our own expectations of rights and entitlement and serve others in a self-sacrificing language that is understood by every culture: we must quit talking at people in a language they don’t understand, and begin showing them what the gospel means.
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Play Ball
“Denying ourselves” in the sense that Jesus uses it, means more than just doing without. It’s more than “giving to the poor” or working in a food bank, although those things matter too. Denying ourselves means embracing the gospel and living according to its demands, even at the cost of our own lives.
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Swine Flu
We can move through a corrupt culture, carelessly living like pigs without giving it a thought, catching diseases of the heart, mind and soul, and make others side besides. Or we can wash our lives in the blood of Christ, wash our hearts in the baptism of the Holy Spirit, wash our consciences in confession before God the Father, and watch the contaminating vomit of our lives be flushed down the sewer where it belongs.
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Peter Gerts One Right
This statement about his body and blood is the turning point in Jesus’ ministry; the place where he went from being just a curiosity or a miracle worker, to becoming a scandal. The Greek word for “a scandalous one” is “scandalon.” In English bibles, it is usually translated “stumbling stone.” When we compare Jesus to a “stumbling stone” what we mean that there is a time when everyone encounters the person of Christ and has to pull up short – the time when there is a choice to be made to believe him or not, to follow him or leave.
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
The particularity of Jesus, the worthlessness of our efforts to justify ourselves before God and the sovereignty and grace of God the Father all fly in the face of today’s fashion of presenting all ideas, morals and ambitions as being of equal worth. But John tells us that Jesus said it was so – that God has no other plan outside of Jesus.
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Bread of Heaven
By having us ask God the Father bread every day, Jesus gives us a way to remember that God is our provision. We are usually pray this prayer, heads bowed, eyes closed, using 16th century words like “hallowed be thy name.” But maybe it would make more sense for us to pray this petition with our eyes open and our heads thrown back, and our mouths open wide like baby birds demanding their share of the worm.
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Divine Busker
Christians are people of miracles - but how do we understand miracles of nature in this modern age of science, when all things can be explained and quantified, almost everything can be duplicated, and even our children expect special effects, not just at the movies, but in our sanctuaries during Vacation Bible School?
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