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i'll be there / to always see you through A sermon on Jesus' sermon on the not-so-ideal tenants : The ambition of Christianity , if Christianity can be said to have any ambition at all, is for you to do NOTHING. That’s right, nothing . The ambition of Christianity is for you to do NOTHING. But I know that doesn’t make much sense . Does it? Whoever heard of nothing as a goal ?!? What’s more , it’s something of an impossible aspiration, too. Isn’t it? You can’t DO nothing . That’s a contradiction ! Doing, by its very nature, must have something to do . And you can’t DO nothing ! Can you? Nevertheless, that’s the incredible aim of faith: to do NOTHING. That Catch-22 isn’t the only problem we have with doing nothing, though! Is it? Frankly, we’re not very good at it. Doing nothing DOESN’T come naturally to us . Oh, sure, we fantasize about doing nothing . But we don’t really like it. We are so averse to nothing that, at the first quiet moment , we’ll pull out our phone...

to seal their wills in Jesus trust A sermon that time Jesus invalidated his own sermon ( parable ): This might be the turning point in the whole Gospel. With this incident, the cross doesn’t just become inevitable; the resurrection does, too. Here, Christ turns everything , in the immortal words of Diana Ross, upside down , inside out , and round and ‘round . Yes, I know it looks like just another miracle, but with this miracle, Christ outdoes himself ! Literally ! And I don’t mean figuratively , either! I literally mean literally ! With this miracle, Christ literally outdoes HIMSELF! Let me tell you what I mean: But to do that, we have to go back a few weeks. And then, after that, we have to go back to last week. Are you willing to go there with me? Good! Ok. Remember a few weeks ago when Jesus told that parable about the sower and the different types of soil? There was the hard roadside soil, the shallow soil, the weed- infested soil, and then the good soil. And remember, ...

forever cursed to live unrelaxed A sermon on Jesus and the rich man who was poor in life : Here’s a guy who has it all . And he really has it all, too. He’s devout . Plus , he’s well -off, to boot.   And yet ! And yet , for all that, this fellow doesn’t feel like he’s got it all. Quite the contrary , he lives with—No, that’s not quite right. He’s not " living with .” No , he’s dying of—he’s dying of a constant, nagging sense that it’s all about to slip through his fingers. Instead of assurance , he feels anxiety . His life of means is not one of satisfaction. Rather , it’s a desperate one with a gnawing sense of having had , and forever lost , something of infinite value. Have you ever felt that way? I bet you have . I bet you have because, and here’s the bad news: I bet you have because that’s how it works! This rich man, as exceptional as he is, is not the exception in this regard. No , he’s the rule . Not the ruler, the rule . Sure, you and I may not tend to think o...