SERMONS ON TRAGEDY
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What Would Jesus Say after a Mass Murder?
by Steve Jones
Sermon Summary: This message is based upon Jesus' response to Pilate's murder of the Galileans recorded in Luke 13. Jesus might say: 1) Ideas Have Consequences. 2) You're NOT a prophet. 3) The Ground is Level at the Foot of the Cross. 4) God's Patience Has an Expiration Date. 5) The Ball is in Your Court INTRODUCTION: In what is being hailed as the deadliest shooting in modern U.S. history, over 50 people were killed and 200 injured Sunday night, October 1st when a lone gunman opened fire from a perch high up in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Many people will have many things to say...
Surviving the Storms of Life (3 of 5)
by Kerry Shook
Well, everyone knows that now. But what you may not realize is that the storms of life are also rated by the wind speed. There is the Category 1 storm of life, The Pace of Life. Without any changes our lives are already at the Category 1 level of stress just because of the ordinary pace of everyday life. Most of us are already pretty stressed out because of the pace of our schedules. Without anything else added on, without any other problems coming into our life we're already pretty stressed just because of the hectic schedule and the lifestyles that we life. But then you add to the pace of life the Category 2 Storms, The Passages...
Comfort in Tragedy
by Chris Walls
Death-it is a word that is not easily handled in our world. We are destined to be born, marry and then die. The pathway of our lives will be marked by many tombstones. Today is a day of joy and hope, despite what people might tell you or might want you to think. We associate death with tragedy and pain, with grief and sorrow. Well, as with many things in this world it all depends on your perspective. Death is not an easy thing to look at. It is not an easy thing to think about. When Granny died, we had to find ways to find comfort. We find comfort in many things. We can find comfort in these flowers that memorialize someone so special...
Worshiping among the Ruins (1 of 3)
by Joe Alain
Theme: It was no "feel good" message that Haggai had for God's people. Their excuses could not stand in the face of the obvious reality. Their houses were finished; God's was not! But if they would put God first and get back to the task of rebuilding the temple, they would experience God's powerful presence once again. Introduction: When the twin towers and the pentagon were attacked on 9/11, the symbols of our national identity were attacked. It was as if all of us had been attacked. But we still had our faith and our places of worship. But what if the churches of our nation were destroyed? When Jerusalem was destroyed in...
On the Other Side of Tragedy
by Frank Pollard
It hadn't been a happy week. A flood, a creeping, quiet monster, had stolen homes and furnishings and businesses of many, the lives of some. A distraught man wrote from New Jersey telling me his wife had deserted him. We lost one of our best men to a heart attack. For twenty-five years I've watched people handle life's hurts. Being a pastor demands that you go where hurt hits. When you've stood beside hurt in hospitals and funeral homes; when you've watched businesses fall, homes burn to the ground or fill up with water; when you've been with people who've lost those they love most in this world to death, or even worse...
There Really Was a Flood?
by Daniel Rodgers
On Tuesday, as I was reading the news, I came across this article in the Australian News: ''Biblical-style flood tore Britain from France'' Scientists have found that Britain owes its island status to a catastrophic flood that swept away in less than 24 hours the hills that once joined the land mass to France. The flood, which took place between 400,000 and 200,000 years ago, instantly turned Britain from being a peninsula of continental Europe into a separate entity, changing forever the way it would develop. The finding has emerged from an advanced sonar survey of the sea bed of the English Channel that revealed huge scour...
Tower of Freedom (1 of 4)
by Jeff Strite
Chuck (our worship leader) just sang Alan Jackson's song which asked where were you when the ''world stopped turning'', when the Twin Towers fell 10 years ago. Several of our people were visiting New York City and were trapped at Central Park, unable to tell quite what had happened, or knowing the full extent of the tragedy that took place that day. This weekend, our nation is memorializing the tragedy that has been remembered by the simple words: ''September 11th'' - There are civic events that will remember those who lost their lives that terrible day There's a special worship service at the National...
Terror in America
by Jerry Vines
Tuesday morning started off to be a beautiful, beautiful morning. The sun was shining. There was a soft breeze blowing. In New York and in Washington, just like in Jacksonville and Atlanta, parents were getting their children to school. Workers were getting that next cup of coffee, beginning the activities of the day. In Boston and Newark and Washington, just like in Jacksonville and Dallas, people were boarding planes. Some on business trips. Others trips of pleasure. Barbara Olson, well-known television commentator and lawyer had had breakfast with her husband, Ted, Solicitor General, and was getting ready to...
Blessed Are the Persecuted (9 of 26)
by Jonathan McLeod
Jesus began his Sermon on the Mount begins with the beatitudes (Matt. 5:3-12). Are there eight or nine beatitudes? In my opinion there are eight beatitudes. The eighth beatitude is ''Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven'' (v. 10). Then in verses 11 and 12, Jesus talks more about persecution. D. A. Carson calls the beatitudes ''the norms of the kingdom.'' The beatitudes give us a summary of what Jesus expects his people to be. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones writes, ''All Christians are meant to manifest all of these characteristics.'' The eighth beatitude is...
Where Is God When Disaster Strikes? (7 of 11)
by Roger Thomas
We have all witnessed the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Rose and I had a special interest in those events as we watched them unfold last Monday. We were there a month ago. On July 31 when our family vacation ended, we decided to take a detour home. We drove across southern Alabama and Mississippi so we could see New Orleans for the first time. We stayed in a hotel a couple blocks from the Super Dome. We walked a half-dozen blocks to Bourbon Street in the French Quarter to see the sights and eat in one of New Orleans legendary restaurants. We walked and drove on many of those streets that...
From Tragedy to Triumph (5 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
A fifth-grade teacher came into her classroom. She gave her students an assignment. She said, ''I want you to go home and talk to your parents. Get them to tell you a story that has a lesson to it, a story with a moral, with a lesson, and then you come back to class tomorrow and you share it with the class so that we can learn from those lessons.'' So the students did. They came back the next day. And little Mary stood up first, and Mary said, ''Well, you know my dad is a farmer, and we have some egg-laying hens. And he told me a story about the hens and gathering the eggs. And we put them into a basket, and they were on the...
The Tragedy of Incomplete Obedience
by Ernest Easley
Life has a way of handing us new challenges and circumstances, doesn't it? There seems to always be a new surprise around the corner and often times when it comes, our first response is, ''I'm not sure I can handle this? What am I going to do now?'' That's where Joshua was too! He had been assisting Moses for 40 years in guiding a large number of wanderers through the wilderness. But then Moses died, God gave Joshua a new responsibility: to lead the children of Israel into the Promised Land! Now last time from Joshua 1 we saw that God gave Joshua a Promise in verse 3, ''Every place that the sole of your foot will tread...
The Tragedy Of An Offended Spirit
by Curt Dodd
Let me ask you a personal question; Have you ever angry at God? I mean really angry at God for something that He has done in somebody else's life and you don't really like it. It doesn't seem fair, it's not right. At least from your perspective. Well, if you have ever been there you can relate to the story that we're going to focus in on this morning. In fact, last week we, as you remember we looked at three parables that were a trilogy; a lost sheep, a lost coin and a lost son. But we can't leave this chapter out of Luke 15 without focusing in on another lost son. You can either call this lost son parable either the Prodigal Who Stayed at...
Palm Sunday: Tragedy Or Triumph?
by Nelson Price
The sun was rising rapidly. It was beginning to shoot its golden arrows across the horizon to gild the sky and curtain off the dawn that would bring a new day to the history-filled city of Jerusalem. This is the festive season of Passover. The old city was filled with pilgrims, visitors, and travelers who had come from many countries to share in the feast. Secular census records indicate there were at least 2,500,000 people in Jerusalem for the event. An exciting rumor spread through the city: ''Jesus Christ is coming!'' Behind Him were His sermons; ahead, His suffering. Behind Him were His parables; ahead, His passion. Behind Him were...
The Tragedy Of An Unclean Christian
by Adrian Rogers
I want you to take your Bibles tonight as we prepare our hearts for our Lord's Supper communion, and look with me at three separate passages of scripture that are linked together by the Holy Spirit and divine inspiration. First of all I want you to turn with me to Second Corinthians chapter six, Second Corinthians chapter six. What we are going to be talking about tonight is The Tragedy of an Unclean Christian. Now many of us are contaminated and because we are contaminated, we contaminate everything that we touch. And there is a contamination and a pollution about the lives that we live. Many of us...
Triumph Before Tragedy
by Tony Nester
When American astronaut Neil Armstrong visited Israel after his trip to the moon, he was taken on a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem by an Israeli archaeologist. When they got to the Hulda Gate, which is at the top of the stairs leading to the Temple Mount, Armstrong asked his guide whether Jesus had stepped anywhere around there. His guide answered, "These are the steps that lead to the Temple, so he must have walked here many times." Armstrong then asked if these were the original steps, and the guide confirmed that they were. "So Jesus stepped right here?" asked Armstrong again. "That's right," answered the...
The Tragedy of an Offended Spirit
by Brad Whitt
I want you to take your Bibles now this morning and open them up to the gospel of Luke, the 15th chapter. Luke chapter 15. You know, this is one of my favorite chapters. You say, "Well, Pastor, they're all your favorite chapters." I know, but I'm telling you, this is one of my favorite chapters. You know why? Because this chapter reveals the heart of God probably as much as any chapter in the Bible. You see, in this chapter, Jesus tells three stories, three parables. And I've told you what a parable is, a parable is an earthly story with a heavenly meaning. That's what a parable is. And in this chapter he gives to us...
The Tragedy Of Partial Victory (13 of 15)
by Stan Coffey
It's good to see you this morning. I'm glad you're here for another wonderful day in God's house. We have a wonderful message from the Lord. I believe the Lord is leading us in a very definite direction in our church and the direction in which He is leading us is to total victory. Amen? That's total victory in our lives and in the life of our church. Today we come again to the book of Joshua. We've been talking about that journey into freedom; freedom from sin, freedom from defeat, claiming all that God has for us as His people. Today we're going to talk about "The Tragedy of Partial Victory". How many of us know...
The Tragedy That Should Never Happen
by Robert Walker
The Titanic is just one of many famous shipwrecks. We could also talk about the Andrea Doria, the Lusitania or the Edmund Fitzgerald. All were tragedies that should never have happened. They boasted that even God could sink the Titanic. But on April 10, 1912 the R.M.S. Titanic left her berth at the harbor in Southampton, England. This was the maiden voyage for the 882 foot long ocean liner that had been billed as unsinkable. She carried with her 2,228 passengers and crew. Four days into the voyage, on April 14, 1912 severe ice warnings were received for the area through which the Titanic was sailing...
