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226. How Does One Follow Jesus During The Threat Of War?

Matthew 5:1-12

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George Johnson

... of our country's military involvement. The fact that we struggle at all may come from the desire within us to follow Jesus. How does one become a peacemaker when the talk is about war? Following Jesus is not something that is done in a vacuum, in theory or in another world; it is not something that we can divorce from our daily lives, which includes our politics and our economics. Following Jesus is not something we take care of by going to church or sending our children to Sunday school and saying our ...

227. What Does It Mean To Love?

Matthew 22:34-40

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George Johnson

... others." Jesus' life is a demonstration of that love. In the end, the bottom line is: God wants us to love one another. It's God's commandment to us. Love sums up all the commandments. It has authority behind it. It's not an option. It's not a theory, an idea, a philosophy to bounce around. It's not a question or suggestion as one possible route you may take. It's a command. This is my commandment that you love one another. It is the "law," that the psalmist meditates on day and night (Psalm 1). There is ...

228. Standing Up To Death

Romans 6:1-14, Psalm 90:1-17

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Robert Noblett

... in the grave. The action is with God and God's raising of his children. That this is so will never be proven on the basis of scientific evidence. How could it be? To try and prove the resurrection in the same sense that the scientist proves her theory or that the mathematician proves his theorem makes as much sense as the scientist or the mathematician trying to prove that someone is in love; it's like trying to build a house with a sewing machine: the tool is inappropriate to the job! The scientist, on the ...

229. The Public Effect Of Private Living

2 Samuel 11:1-27

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Robert Allen

... to be trapped in the terrible progression of wrong that we need to be careful or we will find ourselves on the path to moral bankruptcy. II. There Is A Public Effect Of Private Living Because All Of Life Is Related. Albert Einstein, in his Theory of Relativity, stated that all of creation is inter-related. There is a mysterious link with all of creation. A poet expressed this inter-relatedness when he wrote: “Disturb a flower and trouble a star.” All of creation is linked together and one thing effects ...

230. Are Greatness and Christianity Compatible?

Mark 9:33-37

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Donald Macleod

... our enthusiasm and contributes mightily to the common good. We read: "He took a child and put him in the midst of them." How simple a gesture! Yet, often Jesus did this kind of thing. In so doing, he moved a critical matter from the realm of theory and into a living situation: he brought in a person. Remember many other and similar occasions when he did the same: "A certain man had two sons ..." "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho ..." "The land of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully ...

231. Dim Visions And Blind Guides

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Harold Warlick

... development. We utilized case studies from the Harvard Business School, CEOs from IBM and Polaroid, and a host of guest lecturers. I'll never forget some of the experiences when these hot shot corporate experts blew into the classroom. Based on the theory that people pick up our "signs" of professional competency in the first five seconds of a meeting, I had several guests who gave astounding lectures on "dressing for success." The basic premise was that how you dress gives a sign that communicates ...

232. The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Zephaniah 3:1-20

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Richard Hasler

... zone system whereby the three men would shift to whichever side of the field the ball was thrown. Paterno went on to win more than 200 victories, including two national championships, in his years as head coach at Penn State. He not only proved his theories about the value of a great defense, but also demonstrated that he was teachable and was flexible, a man willing to correct an unsatisfactory situation when he confronted one.1 Zephaniah, the prophet, had a problem, too. The people to whom he spoke in the ...

233. Wedding: A Marriage Made in Heaven

Isaiah 54:1-17, John 17:20-26

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Craig Erickson

... these many years. Maybe my experience is limited, but I’ve never known a marriage like that. As a matter of fact, I’m not so sure that I want to know a marriage like that; such a marriage may suffer from something even worse than conflict:boredom. My theory is that a marriage ‘‘made in heaven” is one that is close to the love of God in Christ. Placing Christ at the center of your marriage will bear rich fruit over the years so that in hindsight, people will say of your marriage that it was, indeed ...

234. Enough!

Matthew 2:19-23

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John Jamison

... they go with a vengeance. This group also has a unique ability to redefine good and bad. They begin to understand that "good" and "bad" don't really exist. Anything can be good, and anything can be bad. It all just depends. I'm not sure they could sell this theory to those parents back in Bethlehem. No, this isn't the answer either. So, what then? How do we continue, knowing that the good will always be shadowed by the bad? What do we do? We lose sleep. We lie awake at night and wonder if we have really ...

235. At The Name Of Jesus

John 12:12-19

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Theodore F. Schneider

... : "A man comes to a sorry pass when he is afraid of the truth and when he sets his personal prestige and profit before the truth.1 H. C. Woods tells the story of two women who were reacting to having heard, for the first time, of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. "Let's hope it's not true; and, if it is, let's hush it up." Living In The Kingdom To be a citizen of the kingdom of God, the follower of the Prince of Peace and the voice of truth, one must forever be open to the ...

236. Crown Him Lord!

Luke 23:26-43

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Theodore F. Schneider

... do a favor for a subject, he invited that person to walk with him in the garden. Jesus was promising the penitent thief more than immortality, and certainly more than the "dwelling in the shadows of the neither here nor there" of some of the contemporary theories and mythologies. He promised him the gift of companionship, of walking with him in the courts of heaven. Though Luke is the only one to report for us this moment of repentance and salvation during the hours of the crucifixion, this story is fully ...

237. John Christian Frederick Heyer First American Lutheran Missi

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Thomas A. Renquist

... apprentice himself to an experienced pastor. In addition, Heyer spent a year as a theological student at a university back in Germany. During the voyage across the ocean, Heyer read a book which predicted the end of the world in 1816; it was a complicated theory which connected Napoleon to a reference in the book of Revelation to “the angel of the bottomless pit” whose Greek name was “Apollyon.” Reader 3: Is there nothing new under the sun? In the 1970s it was Hal Lindsey and The Late Great Planet ...

238. Step Five - Integrity

Jn 4:16-24 · 1 Jo 1:5-10 · Is 6:1-8

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John A. Terry

... . Uzziah was the greatest king of Israel since Solomon ruled hundreds of years before. Now he was gone, the nation's throne was empty and the nation's future was unsure. This is the story of Isaiah's confession and his calling, not Isaiah's theory about guilt, forgiveness and calling, his personal experience. "I saw the Lord." When Isaiah had this overwhelming experience of God's presence, he also had an overwhelming sense of being unclean. The temple area in which Isaiah had his vision was about 30 feet ...

239. Another Tricky Question

Matthew 22:15-22

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Johnny Dean

... ." In other words, there were enough things over which I had no control that hurt me as it was. So why should I open myself up to more hurt by finding out about MORE things over which I have no control? The mother obviously believed in the theory that says if ignorance is not bliss, it is at least less painful than full knowledge of the situation would be. But, you know, I have found it to be just the opposite, at least for me. Ignorance rarely produces anything vaguely resembling happiness. To the contrary ...

240. In Quest of a Treasure

James 1:1-18

Sermon

Larry Powell

... the famous battle. Again, poor communication had resulted in a needless battle. Several years ago, a professor at Emory University created considerable stir among religious-minded people when he boldly announced his much publicized "God is Dead" theory. Throughout the Church, particularly in the South, ministers braced their shoulders, thumped their Bibles, exhibited their best preacher voices, related their finest emotional stories, and frequently quoted the Psalm which says, "The fool has said in his ...

241. Laughing in Church

Acts 9:1-19a

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Carl Jech

... throws a child up in the air the first few times, the child cries. But then the infant quickly learns that the parent is just joking. So now instead of crying the infant giggles or laughs when his original impulse had been to cry. According to this theory of laughter, the infant converts the impulse to cry into the impulse to laugh when she knows she's safe. To give an example from the "other end" of life, we can laugh at cemetery jokes whenever we are not numb in the midst of grief because, although ...

242. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

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Carl Jech

... complained to me that she refuses to believe that God could save or redeem, say, an Adolph Hitler. Dr. Walter F. Taylor, professor of New Testament studies at Trinity Seminary, Columbus, Ohio warned an evangelism conference in 1986 against "theories of universalism," and more than one church group has passed or attempted to pass resolutions condemning "the false doctrine of universalism." The problem of universalism is also sometimes described as a matter of transforming "free grace" into "cheap grace ...

243. Comfort the Disturbed/ Disturb the Comfortable

Luke 22:66--23:25

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Carl Jech

... we have been stirred up with some rather intense analysis of what the Christian message and mission is really all about. To some degree we have passed right over some of the finer points of traditional theology - like the subtle differences in various "theories of the Atonement" and "doctrines of Justification" - in favor of a somewhat simplified message founded on the basic meaning of the name "Jesus" itself! It will be totally appropriate for us to argue over whether or not such a simple message of trust ...

244. Will the Real Jesus Christ Arise?

John 20:1-18

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Carl Jech

... would be complete without also mentioning Albert Schweitzer's classic book, The Quest for the Historical Jesus. Beginning on this Easter Day we embark upon a series of sermons that ask the fundamental question: "Will the Real Jesus Christ Arise?" What about all these theories concerning the "Real Jesus"? Are we all just raising up our own notions of who Jesus really is or are we honestly listening to history and the Scriptures as they speak to us of this person named Jesus and his association with the title ...

245. Colorizing Jesus

John 20:24-31

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Carl Jech

... , the two suddenly fell into a spontaneous mock interview with the troubled student pretending to be "professor Rudolf Boltloose" (a parody of the famous German biblical scholar, Rudolf Bultmann). Piously, professor "Boltloose" intoned - "I have come up with a new theory! There was no cross at calvary. There were only nails. There was no body. There were only clothes. You see, they hung the clothes on the nails ... And this is important for us today!" Although totally spontaneous, this little episode ...

246. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

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Carl Jech

... when we make honest efforts to interpret the New Testament correctly and when we resist the temptation to read into it only what we wish to see there. To ask "Will the real Jesus Christ arise?" is a way of reminding ourselves continually to question our pet theories about the Christian faith, so that we will not lose touch with the true Gospel of the grace of God. We have used the image of "colorizing Jesus" to make it clear that the real Jesus is a complex, multi-dimensional Jesus. It should no longer ...

247. Living Passionately

Luke 4:14-30

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Louis H. Valbracht

... 's words: The heights by great men reached and keptWere not attained by sudden flight,But they, while their companions sleptWere toiling upward through the night. Tell me, young people, do any of you learn such things, or are you too busy with the theories that will help you learn without learning, or memorize without labor, or think without turning over your mind? Does anyone ever read Oliver Wendell Holmes anymore, or are the literature courses like the one a student told me about recently where they were ...

248. Is Christianity Practical?

Jeremiah 17:19-27

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Louis H. Valbracht

... the establishment by revolution of the rule of the proletariat or the worker. That is sheer, unmitigated idealism! It's about as practical as a straw hat in a blizzard or a tuxedo in a steel foundry. Is it workable? Ha! What happens? The whole Communist theory fails to take into account the fatal flaw that the workers are sinful human beings, just as sinful as any capitalist. And so the rule of the workers is established by the revolution. And then what happens? They have to keep lining them up and shooting ...

249. Speak From Personal Experience

Matthew 6:25-34

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Robert V. Dodd

... that although an effective evangelist may attract overflow crowds to a particular church, it is when ordinary laypeople begin to talk about their faith in Christ that long-lasting results are achieved. Theologians and preachers and other religious leaders often talk in terms of theories and generalities, but the witness speaks from his or her own personal experience. Not everyone is called to be a preacher, or a teacher, but each of us is called to be a witness to the Christ in our lives. We are a ...

250. The Role of the Father (Father's Day)

Matthew 7:7-12

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Brett Blair

... mothers watch from a one-way window outside in the hallway. The one rule is that if the child starts crying, the father cannot take the child to the mother. He must resolve the problem himself. If the child is given to the mother when it is crying, so the theory goes, that sends the signal that the one who gives the comfort and love is the mother. I have long thought that we have not given Joseph, Jesus’ father, his due in the church. There is so much of an effort to venerate Mary, and some of that is ...

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