First Presbyterian Church of Guymon Sermons
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The Big Reveal
The glory of God that Isaiah saw is God in God’s triune glory. The Unknowable One has made himself known to us, not in smoke, or fire and earthquakes, but in the theophany of the relationship between the Trinity of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
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Graduation
We have the promise of God that when we can’t hear the wind of the Spirit or feel its power at our backs, God has promised that he would not leave us orphaned, without his protection and guidance, as we walk on past the cross and into the world. He has sent us the Helper, his Spirit, to come alongside us and encourage us as we run the race set before us.
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Occupied Territory
Jesus was sent into a hostile world by God the Father to engage his enemies until they became his friends. We are sent by Jesus into the same hostile world to engage our enemies until they become the friends of Christ that we can name among our brothers and sisters.
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Living at the Crossroads
The command to “love one another” is directed to the community of saints – all of us – and is a narrower focus than the command to love our enemies or our neighbors. As Jesus oriented his attention and activities to the will and word of his Father, we are to understand that Jesus is just as attentive and active toward us as he is toward his Father. And now that we are “friends of God” reciprocity means that we are to respond back to Jesus with similar attention and activity as we care for one another, and invite others into the circle of the community.
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Espalier
One of the hardest lessons about gardening is that sometimes you have to pull out living, blooming plants in order to have a healthy garden. It's counter-intuitive, but all of that thinning and pruning involves pulling out or cutting off live plants, not just deadwood. Jesus says that his disciple-branches weren't cosen to be burned up, we were chosen to bear fruit - and bearing good frut involves pruning.
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Dirty Job
The Pharisees lived in a “pluralistic” society - and their job was to sift through all of the local religious goings-on and set up the boundaries that kept Judaism pure and unpolluted by all of the religious weirdos and nut jobs that threatened to make the wheels come off the Hebrew wagon. Jesus wasn’t the first miracle worker who had come down the pike, and he certainly wasn’t the first one that people speculated might be the Messiah they’d all been waiting for...
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Morphology
John Calvin – one of the great thinkers of the Protestant Reformation - insisted that it was important for Christians to understand that Jesus did not have a new body, he had a changed body, and that when we are resurrected our mortal bodies will be changed as well – not just made new. The distinction between “new” and “changed” is not an insignificant one.
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Hocus Pocus
It wasn’t only Thomas who doubted, but for John, narrowing the focus to Thomas casts a spotlight on something that is going to be to be a long-lasting, universal problem for the church until Jesus returns to earth in his glory: the problem of doubt. Our God is not a God who is hidden away in cosmic transcendence; our God desires to reveal himself to us, and has literally moved heaven and earth to do so.
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Prove It
When we praise God, we are saying many other things besides. We are making a statement of where our allegiance lies and what our values are, and those statements may threaten the powers that be. When we say we believe the many things that Jesus taught and that we read in the Bible, when it comes to actually doing them, Jesus challenges us, “You say you follow me? Prove it.”
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Thunderstruck
Jesus entered into every aspect of our humanity, including uncertainty and faith. Jesus, in his human heart, had to decide in faith to obey his Father's will for his life, just as each of us must do. In his moment of crisis, Jesus calls his disciples to follow his example, in losing their lives in this world to save their eternal lives. Christians who surrender in faith to God's will for their lives will be given the power and strength to obey. This faithfulness in self-sacrifice and suffering brings the disciple closer to perfection, and brings glory to God.
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