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1. Redemption Near And Dear

Luke 21:5-38

Sermon

Erskine White

... and look behind the smiles of the Christmas season, and you will find a lot of people just trying to survive rather than celebrate these holy days. Any one of us can find some way to identify with a text which talks about distress and perplexity, fear and foreboding at the advent of our Lord. So, what are we to do? How are we to overcome these feelings of discouragement and despair when everyone knows we’re supposed to be happy? Believe it or not, I saw the answer in a little daily ritual which took place ...

2. Mary of Bethany and Jesus’ Mother

Drama

Jon Joyce

... set for the fall and rising of many in Israel, and for a sign that is spoken against (and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), that thoughts out of many hearts may be revealed." MB: [Alarmed, draws away from MJ, stands and paces] Then this sense of foreboding that we have - it - it’s not out of our own heads. MJ: No, Mary. MB: What can we do? MJ: [With conviction] We can do nothing, Mary. We simply watch. My son knows his mission and he will surely follow the will of God, no matter what it ...

3. Séance in Endor: Bad News from Beyond the Grave

1 Samuel 28:1-25

Teach the Text

Robert B. Chisholm Jr.

... war is in 1 Samuel 4:1, just before Israel’s defeat and Eli’s death. The parallel is ominous, for on that occasion Israel suffered a humiliating defeat, just as they will in the upcoming battle (see 28:19). 28:5 terror filled his heart. This is particularly foreboding. The only other time in 1–2 Samuel this expression is used is in the case of Eli, whose heart trembled over the fate of the ark of God, just before the news of its capture prompted his fatal accident (see 4:13). 28:6 He inquired of ...

4. Advent 1

1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Luke 21:5-38

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John R. Brokhoff

... the future, to "what is coming." What we do today is largely determined by what lies in the future. In this passage Jesus tells us what will happen tomorrow. There will be signs to be seen in nature. There will be distress among people with fear and foreboding. But the good news is that we will see Christ's return as tens of thousands gather to see the American space shuttle return to earth. This is what the future holds for humanity. 2. Redemption (v. 28). This is good news, too! The world will be shaken ...

5. ADVENT 1

Jeremiah 33:1-26, Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13

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6. Don't Look Down

Matthew 14:22-36

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King Duncan

... out on the water.] It makes me realize how safe and secure we have made Christian faith. There was a time when the church was challenging its young people to go out as missionaries all over the world into lands that were hostile and foreboding. And young people by the thousands traded in their lawn mowers for motorcycles. During the Civil Rights movement there were Christians who risked their lives to promote the notion that all people are created equal. Some were beaten, some were ostracized, some died ...

7. Stumbling in Darkness, Looking for Light

Isaiah 9:1-7, John 1:5

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John E. Harnish

... 's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad; Then no planet strikes, nor witch hath power to charm, So hallow'd and gracious a time. Shakespeare promises that even in the darkness, the foreboding, the fear of Hamlet's day—even then, "'gainst the season of sorrow...the bird of dawning singeth all night long." Those who stumble in darkness have seen a great light. Those who dwell in the land of deep darkness, on them the light has shined ...

8. Time to Unpack

Matthew 11:1-19

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... immune system is a disaster. You can’t grow with a perfect immune system. You need to be vulnerable and to be open to viruses to grow and mature. When intolerance for vulnerability reigns supreme, your only joy is a “foreboding joy.” You know that feeling of “foreboding joy,” even if you don’t call it that. You look at your kids snuggled in their bed. Before a sigh of contentment escapes your lungs, the panic of impending doom — an accident, an illness, a catastrophe — clutches your throat ...

9. The Story of Israel Now and Later

Romans 2:1-16

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C. Marvin Pate

... endowed with common grace. I could therefore appreciate their gifts as a service to humankind, even as God intended. Second, an ominous topic of discussion or preaching inspired by 2:12–16 would be entitled “All or Nothing! God’s Law and Judgment Day.” The foreboding message here is that anyone who hopes to be accepted by God on judgment day based on obedience to his law had better make sure to follow it perfectly because that is the only standard that God accepts. But the eminently easier way to be ...

10. Bible Wagon

Ephesians 5:8-14

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Dr. Ronald Love

... the worse time in the history of the world, which is not accurate for every decade has been engulfed by dark shadows. You don’t need to look any further back than the Holocaust to know that. But, this does not negate the fact that a dark foreboding storm cloud shadows our land today. ISIS should be the only answer we need for that. Yet, ISIS is rather distant from the darkness that engulfs our own lives and permeates our communities. In fact, sometimes the light shines dimly in our own church planted next ...

11. Advent 1

Luke 21:5-38, 1 Thessalonians 3:6-13, Jeremiah 33:1-26, Psalm 25:1-22

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William E. Keeney

... 1. "Signs in the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, and on the Earth." (v. 25) The created order has within it forces of order and disorder. They are portents of the continuing struggle that goes on between evil and good. 2. "Fear and Foreboding." (v. 26) People respond to natural events with apprehension about their existence and the meaning of natural catastrophes. They wonder if these events have some larger significance for their lives. 3. "The World." (v. 26) The Greek word translated as "world" is oikemene ...

12. Love And Resurrection

Mark 16:1-20

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Don M. Aycock

... grave. Our problems with this come not so much from mental paralysis as from our inability to love freely and fully. Yet, we do have a powerful analogy. Everyone has stood, or will stand, beside a grave as a body of a loved one is lowered into that cold foreboding clay. It seems for a while so final, so complete. It seems that along with the casket go all of our hopes and dreams. Then we hear someone reading from the New Testament: I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even ...

13. The Giver Becomes The Receiver

2 Samuel 7:1-17

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Harold Warlick

... school. You perhaps clutched her hand as tightly as possible as you passed legions of strangers on their way to the classroom. You stood at the door and, perhaps, she literally had to push you in. The classroom probably appeared to be the most foreboding room you had ever entered. Looking back, that time of "letting go" of mother's hand was a necessary step. It was indeed the time to "let go" and enter another experience. Life is essentially a series of separations. We let go of certain experiences ...

14. The Last Days

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... I do? PREACHER: You must change your wicked ways. And quickly! We may not have much time left! The day of the Lord is coming soon! 1ST MAN: Yes! I will! 1ST MAN jumps up and rushes out. PREACHER: In that day people will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the powers of the heavens will be shaken. CONGREGATION: (Moaning) Oh, no! PREACHER: Then they will see the Son of Man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. CONGREGATION: What shall we do? Preacher, tell us! PREACHER ...

15. Satisfaction Gauranteed

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... of other people. However, in spite of his hesitance, Jeremiah did some remarkable things in communicating his message of both doom and hope to the people of Israel and Judah. His very life communicated the message of hope in the midst of great foreboding in the short run. William Green, a UCC pastor in Pennsylvania, writes that during a period of time in seventeenth century England, worship was a crime, and thousands of churches were torn down. One church was built, though, right during those terrible times ...

16. Hope Against Hope

Jeremiah 33:1-26

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Robert A. Hausman

... with our despair and death in order to be its undoing. We hear and believe his promise: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away" (Luke 25:33). So when you see distress and perplexity, people fainting with fear and foreboding, do not despair. "Stand up and raise your heads, because your redemption is drawing near" (Luke 21:26, 28). 1. Chaim Potok, In the Beginning (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975), p. 3. 2. This is one of the themes in Walter Brueggemann's Hopeful Imagination ...

17. Presents And The Gift Of Presence

Luke 2:1-7

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William B. Kincaid, III

... shape our relationships. May God's wisdom guide our decisions. May God's glory touch our ordinary lives. And may God's gift this night live in us and through us, that what we experience in each other is the very presence of Christ. 1. John Vannorsdall, "A Touch of Foreboding," Lectionary Homiletics (December 1991), pp. 6-7. 2. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Reaching Out (New York: Doubleday, 1975), p. 45.

18. Epiphany 3

Mt 4:12-23 · 1 Cor 1:10-18 · Is 9:1-4 · Amos 3:1-8 · Ps 27 · Ps 139

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... Day: Psalm 27:1, 4-9 ''The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I fear?'' Psalm 139:1-17 God knows us completely and there is no place where we cannot be found by him. Prayer Of The Day: O God of light, when fear and foreboding hold us captive in a prison of oppressive darkness, set us free through the liberating light of your eternal Spirit. In the powerful name of Jesus. Amen. Theme: God's Spirit is a liberating Spirit

19. Transfiguration

2 Peter 1:12-21, Daniel 7:1-14, Exodus 24:1-18, Matthew 17:1-13

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Russell F. Anderson

... the Almighty still speaks to us through the clouds that suddenly close in upon us. Figuratively speaking, clouds may overwhelm us at intervals throughout our lives. The clouds may be of our own making or God sent. These clouds may appear to be ominously dark and foreboding; they may obscure the horizon or force us to our knees. The important thing is to listen to God's voice in the cloud. He is present to reassure and guide us. God can transform an apparently ominous cloud into a bright revelatory cloud of ...

20. Whom Shall I Send, and Who Will Go for Us?

Isaiah 6:1-13

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Arthur H. Kolsti

... compromised the faith of Israel. So Isaiah's way of dating tells us that this was an ominous time in the nation's history. The leper king was dead and the battalions of the predatory Assyrians were on the march, edging ever closer to Palestine. Fear and foreboding were in the air. The prophet felt the chill of anxiety in his bones. External changes were triggering an inner crisis in Isaiah's life. We can relate to that. We really cannot separate what goes on around us from what goes on within us. It was ...

21. Christ The King

John 18:28-40, 2 Samuel 23:1-7, Daniel 7:1-14, Revelation 1:1-3, Revelation 1:4-8

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... our anointing show? Epistle: Revelation 1:1-8 1. Sermon Title: The End Is Near, Never Fear, Christ Is Here. Sermon Angle: The book of Revelation was written during a time of persecution. Many Christians looked at what was happening with a great deal of fear and foreboding. Some renounced their new-found faith, under pressure. The word from John is a message of hope. The first part of the message is that "the end is near" (v. 3). Just hang in there a while longer, Christ was coming soon. The end of their ...

22. Words As Images

Sermon

Michael Rogness

... 's eyes would soon glaze over with this kind of general talk, even though it is all theologically correct and true. Shakespeare said the same thing. After scratching his way to the throne, Macbeth learns of his wife's death and is filled with foreboding that all his murderous plotting will backfire. In his despair he says, Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death ...

23. No Need For Weeping Anymore

John 20:10-18

Sermon

Erskine White

... . Maybe she sensed that the Light of the world had gone out on Calvary's hill, the Light which could have guided people and nations on the paths of peace. "What will happen now?" she may have wondered, as she looked to the future with fear and foreboding. "Where will the healing come from, the enlightenment, the spirit of power and truth which is so lacking in the world? Why does this world beat down and kill off the very goodness it needs the most?" "Woman, why are you weeping?" For all these reasons and ...

24. Like A Breath Of Fresh Air

John 20:19-23

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Larry Goodpaster

... a new wind blowing. People are being set free, and it is like having a breath of fresh air piped into their systems. For all those new movements and experimental efforts at breathing new life into the world, there remains the staleness of fear and uncertainty and a foreboding sense of chaos even amid the winds that are blowing. What the world longs to breathe was given to the church in the breath of Christ. Pentecost may be the report of an action in the first century; but it is the hope of new action and ...

25. Temples within the Temple

John 14:1-4

Eulogy

Richard F. Bansemer

... can hear them wind down, like a quarter spinning on the kitchen counter.As we've watched ___________ "wind down" rather quickly during the past month, our own anxiety may have "wound up." We wish she could have been healed instantly. We wish our dismay and foreboding to stop, instantly, at the snap of a finger. We wish to replace our emptiness and loss with peace, serenity, confidence and hope. All of a sudden it isn't ___________ who needs healing any more; it is us. ___________ has been harvested. We need ...

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