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226. A Haven For Troubled Hearts

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of servanthood. He has foretold his betrayal which Judas will soon perform. He has predicted Peter's denial. He has told them he is leaving. But he adds this word of hope: Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father ... they persecuted me first and no servant is greater than his master. - Next he is honest. He tells them they will grieve when he leaves. But one day… Oh, one day, he tells the, your grief will turn to joy! - And finally he prays. He prays for himself. He ...

227. The Prodigal Daughter

Drama

Maxine Dudley

... , more responsible to you and my family. I must find a church. (Sarah kneels before the cross.) Sarah: What happened to me? Where did I go wrong? Did I get caught up in the glamour of life? My God there was a time that I knew you. Please don’t leave me. I’ve lost everything. You are all I have left. Are you there? Please forgive me. (Sarah continues in prayer, head bowed. She wipes the tears from her eyes. Silence for 30 seconds.) Sarah: I must go home. I am tired. I will tell Mother I was wrong, that ...

228. What Is Christianity Without the Cross?

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Brett Blair

... he will suffer and die. But Peter will have no part of it. “Never, Lord! This shall never happen to you.” Let us suppose for a moment that it never did happen, that Christ did not go to the cross. Where would that leave us? It would leave us with a man from Nazareth who proclaimed great truths but who never demonstrated that he was any more than a good teacher. It would leave us with a common Jew who some labeled as Messiah but who did not establish a Kingdom of Heaven nor a kingdom on earth. It would ...

229. Decisive Battles With Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Robert Allen

... t difficult to notice that there was a lot of drinking. There was one man whom I particularly noticed because of his heavy drinking. I noticed him, not just because he was drinking excessively, but because he was wearing the uniform of an airplane pilot. When he got up to leave, he was so inebriated that two people had to help him out. Just before he went out the door, he turned and said, "Don’t worry! I’ll be all right tomorrow." And I thought to myself, "Here is a man so drunk he can’t walk, and he ...

230. The Suffering Servant

Drama

Curt M. Joseph

... buy a Gentile slave. Annas: Take it and use it well. Bless you, my son. Blessed is the womb of the mother who bore you. From this day on, countless generations will bless your name for ushering in the Messianic Age. Judas: I will see you tomorrow evening. (as he leaves) Remember, the one I kiss is the one you want. Caiaphas: (after he is gone) Yahweh does provide, just as you said. Now we can both get a good night’s sleep. Annas: You have much to learn yet. I can get a good night’s sleep. You must scour ...

231. A Man Who Laughed at God

Genesis 17:1-27

Sermon

R. Blaine Detrick

... it would take, nor whether he would ever return. (He never did.) That was complete obedience. And it certainly wasn’t easy. Suppose you were convinced that it was God’s will for you to quit your job, leave home, go to a strange land, experience hazardous adventures, sacrifice your personal objectives, and simply leave the future (and the finances!) in his hands. What would you do? Would you be willing to set aside your own desires and obey? Are you ready to change jobs? Are you ready to go to college ...

232. Hot Tubs and Fishing Trips

Mark 1:14-20

Sermon

Thomas Long

... the honor of God.8 I felt for the first time that I was being entrusted with something ... "Follow me," said Jesus, "and I will send you fishing in my name." That same summons comes to all of us. For some of us it will come as a call to leave our nets, our books, our desks, our homes. For others it will come as a call to mend our nets more carefully, read our books more thoroughly, mind our desks more faithfully, live in our homes more lovingly. But in whatever form, it has come and will continue to come ...

233. The Gift

Drama

Esther Lense

... we ever get to go back to Paradise? EVE: Yes. It won’t be easy, but God made a promise even when he made us leave the Garden. He promised that we would have to work hard and have a lot of pain and trouble in our lives, but that he ... I want to be with God again. Please, God, won’t you send Emmanuel soon? Congregation sings O Come, O Come, Emmanuel as these characters leave and the prophet Malachi enters. READER: After Adam and Eve left the Garden of Eden and sin entered the world, the history of man is ...

234. Christ and Healing

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... apparently asleep, the door of that unit opened. In that door stood the Great Physician. Not one word was spoken. When he turned to leave he gave an above-the-shoulder signal indicating to me that ‘all is well’ ... "Before the night was gone I became aware that ... to God’s gift of healing. While he may make us whole in ways we hadn’t counted on, one thing is sure: he will not leave us in our brokenness. Here is the true picture: Think not thou canst sigh a sigh And thy maker is not by; Think not thou ...

235. When Our Children Teach Us

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

James W. Moore

... mother’s face, he saw his dad and his doctor, he saw flowers and candy and balloons and the people who had cared for him. For the first time in his life, he saw his teddy bear. It was a joyous celebration! When it came time for the boy to leave the hospital, his surgeon came into the room. The doctor had grown so attached to the little boy that he had to busy himself with those insignificant gestures that we use when we are trying to surmount a great wall of emotion. They said their good-byes with tears ...

236. Cut Down Lifted Up

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Bamboo, Bamboo. I would divide you in two and cut out your heart, for if I do not cut so, I cannot use you." "Master, master, then cut and divide." So the master of the garden took Bamboo and cut him down and hacked off his branches and stripped his leaves and divided him in two and cut out his heart, and lifting him gently, carried him to where there was a spring of fresh, sparkling water in the midst of the master's dry fields. Then putting down one end of broken Bamboo into the spring and the other end ...

237. Wouldn't You Prefer Real Freedom?

John 8:31-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... what freedom is to many people. They want to do exactly as they like and precisely what they want. If that means leaving behind moral restraints, social responsibilities or even those they love, then so be it. People today want freedom from just about anything ... said, "A bird is free in the air. Place a bird in the water and he has lost his liberty. A fish is free in the water, but leave him on the sand and he perishes. He is out of his realm. So . . . the Christian is free when he does the will of God and is ...

238. Future Tense

Luke 12:54-59

Sermon

King Duncan

... find another home in Switzerland. Yet obstacles kept emerging to block their way. The homes Edith found were way out of their price range. Finally, in tears, Edith prayed that she and Francis would be obedient to living in God's will, even if it meant leaving Switzerland. That very afternoon, a real estate agent took Edith to a large house in another canton. It looked like the perfect place, but it was for sale, not rent. There was no way Edith and Francis could afford it. Yet something told Edith that this ...

239. When You're Dreaming One Thing And Living Another

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

King Duncan

... of the road. Now the officer has a decision: should he turn off the blue light flashing on the top of his car? Yes, he should. Research shows that he has seven times as good a chance of having his patrol car hit by a passing motorist if he leaves his flashing light on as he does if he turns the light off. There is something about that blue light that attracts us--as fearsome as it might be. (2) We move toward the strongest impression in our mind. This explains why many people fail in life. Without being ...

240. It's A Terrible Thing To Be Rejected

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... . In the first act, a Vietnamese bar girl falls in love with a GI. They get married and vow eternal love. He is forced to leave her but he promises to return from the States when the war is over. She is simple, innocent, and enduring. Her love is intense and ... two in the winter, much less more.' "'Well, it can't hurt to try.' "'I know, honey, but we'll have to work it out later. My plane leaves in twenty minutes and I've got to get to the airport. Now I'm going to get my luggage, and I want you to go to your ...

241. A Failure To Communicate

Hebrews 1:1-4, Hebrews 2:5-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... " does not mean you're "getting through." A priest, a pastor and a rabbi stood by the side of the road holding up signs. The signs read like this, "The End is Near! Turn yourself around now before it's too late!" The first driver sped by and yelled, "Leave us alone you religious nuts!" From around the curve the three men of the cloth heard a big splash. "Do you think," said the rabbi, "we should just put up a sign that say, "錬ridge out ahead'?" A failure to communicate. In our Epistle for the day we read ...

242. Eavesdropping On Eternity

Luke 9:28-36

Sermon

King Duncan

... Jesus, Moses, and Elijah. Carpe diem--seize the day! Let's just stay here in this glow of glory and forget about the life down below in the valley. Isn't that a tempting thought? Sometimes, we get settled in a spiritual comfort zone and we don't want to leave it. The sanctuary is so lovely, the worship is so fulfilling. All my Christian friends are here. I get to sing familiar hymns and listen to familiar Bible stories and hang out with people who are just like me. It's all so cozy, it's all so right. Why ...

243. He Left Them Where?

Luke 15:1-7

Sermon

King Duncan

... sheep. But, of course, Jesus is not talking about sheep, at all. He's talking about you and me. "Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance." Where did he leave the ninety and nine? He left them in the wilderness. Sheep are not too bright. It's said that sheep get lost by nibbling away at the grass and never looking up. People are like that. Have you ever been nibbling along one day, and all of a sudden ...

244. Proving Your Love

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... we could put ourselves in the place of a young Vietnam medic. John Ishee was on a jet taking off from the Dallas airport a few years ago. As they lifted off he started talking with the young man beside him. The young man was going home for a short leave. He had been a medic in Vietnam. Ishee asked him what the army had trained him to do. The young man told of his job as a medic in combat. "After the battle," he said, "we go in and treat the wounded. We try first to help the ones who ...

245. Don't Let Your Tongue Bite You

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... they can poison the soil of a relationship. Dents can be hammered out of a car--they are much more difficult in human beings. The decade of the 1660s in England was filled with disaster. The plague in 1665 made its way through the City of London leaving 70,000 dead. A year later a fire destroyed much of that city. The prophets of doom and gloom predicted that London and England would never recover. During all of this a godly Christian man--Bishop Thomas Ken--kept encouraging the people that he could still ...

246. Constantly Abiding

Philippians 2:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... in his house and a boat came by to take him to safety. He refused to go telling his would be rescuers that he was not leaving, because the Lord had promised to take care of him. Well after trying to persuade him, the people went on. And the water continued to ... . But he said, the Lord has promised that he’s going to deliver me, that he’s going to save me, and I’m not leaving. So the helicopter went on. Then it happened. The water rose, swept him off, and the next thing he knew he was facing St. Peter ...

247. On The Road Again (emmaus)

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... a few weeks ago. The subject of the opera is the frustrated love of a young Swiss girl named Wally. At the end of Act I, her old father, a wealthy landowner threatens her with banishment from her house if she refuses to marry his overseer. Wally chooses to leave -- singing sadly, in her aria, "Wally is going very far away and you will never see her again." Well, this sermon isn't about either country music or opera. It is about what both country music and opera are about: life...life in the raw, life as we ...

248. Branching Out

John 15:1-17

Sermon

Michael Milton

... outcomes. That is what I am talking about. My son said, “Dad, you got out. You are the first one in our family to leave.” We talked about that. I told him the key to my escape from the cycle of poverty and pain was not just education, though ... that life, but, in fact, we seek to help other families who are in that situation. The life God has given us is a gift, not to leave others behind, but to take them with us. This is what Jesus was doing with His disciples, and that is the greatest joy that you will ...

249. The “Sad-You-See” Syndrome

Mark 12:18-27

Sermon

Michael Milton

... most sad, most pitiable. Some of you will remember the movie Schindler’s List. Based on the novel by Thomas Keneally, Steven Spielberg’s movie tells the compelling true story of the German businessman Oskar Schindler who comes to Nazi-occupied Poland looking for economic prosperity and leaves as a savior of more than 1,100 Jews. The entire film is in black and white except for a little girl in a red coat. It is the filmmaker’s desire to show humanity in the midst of horror. It is an attempt to capture ...

250. Victory at Sea

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... of a Christian is to live one's life according to the promise given to you in your baptism, that God will never leave you. You have a covenant. You have a promise, sealed in your baptism. The words of mediation for this morning were taken from ... it means to have been baptized and to receive that promise. Or, you may be at a point in your life where you would like to leave the past behind you and begin again, and you want the reassurance that God, indeed, will be with you as you begin this new journey in ...

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