First Presbyterian Church of Guymon Sermons
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Total Sermons: 42
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We've Got Mail
Jesus has made us a "kingdom of priests." Jesus writes to us, his ambassadors from the Kingdom of God, from his place at the right hand of God in heaven, about the message he wants us to carry to the world as his faithful witnesses; because where we are, the Kingdom of God is also present!
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Pondering Parousia
The End Times began with the resurrection of Christ when everything changed already – when not only was the temple pulled down, but the status quo was destroyed. Death may still be with us, but it is a defeated enemy, and God calls us his friends, and we are free to risk everything because we can lose nothing. The End Times are about enduring in faithfulness to the end – not to the end of the persecution, or to the end of the age, but enduring in the sense of standing firm in the faith, and being resolute, resisting evil and enduring to the nth degree, no matter what we have to face.
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Unwrapping the Gift
The Christian life is not safe, because the Christian on a cross-carrying journey is a terrorist to the status quo – not because of social justice programs, or the political stands we take, but because we have been raised from the dead! The sign of the raising of Lazarus is now Lazarus the sign. The question, then, for each believer becomes, "How many people will come to know Christ because I have been raised?
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Mercify Me
In the upside-down world that is the Kingdom of God, it is the blind who see best, it is the poor who are rich; it is where the First will become last, so that the last can become first; it is a place where mercify ultimately means the same thing as crucify, because the cruelty of crucify has been transformed by God’s grace and mercy.
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What Have You Received
Taking proper care of the gifts of God is called “stewardship.” These days, “stewardship” is sort of a churchy-word, you don’t hear it much in ordinary conversation. In the Old Testament, God provided a way for God’s people to use the stewardship of their money, their time and their service as a way for their relationship with God to grow. If God’s people think that they are the owners of what they have, or if they understand that they have accumulated resources through their own accomplishments rather than from the good and generous hand of God, then a right understanding of stewardship is almost impossible
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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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