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2476. No Box Seats In The Kingdom

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

William G. Carter

... of an unruly creation. Another day he rides a humble donkey into a hostile city. Once Jesus put his fingers in the ears of someone who has never heard the good news of God. Immediately he uses his words as a scalpel for cutting away the cancerous lies that keep people from the health which God intends. In every way, Jesus Christ has come to make a difference in this painful, haunted world. He has come to serve, not to sit on a throne with dull-minded disciples on his right and his left. He has come to give ...

2477. Tears At The Tomb

John 11:17-37

Sermon

William G. Carter

... it. Each came independently and said, "Lord, if only you had been here, my brother would not have died." They knew his power. They knew Jesus could do whatever he wanted. But he did not prevent the death, just as he still doesn't keep people from dying. That suggests a second possible explanation for his tears. According to the story, Jesus "was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved." Quite literally, "he was brimming with indignation and churning inside." Was he upset at human unbelief? No, Martha ...

2478. It Is Blessed To Receive

Luke 17:11-19

Sermon

William G. Carter

... and a light for their path. It was a gift. When God's children grew worn-down, burned-out, and exhausted, God said, "You can't keep going without a break. There are limits. Take a day to relax and meditate. One day in seven you shall clear the calendar to the ... God who is generous in all seasons, giving us gifts that we do not expect, inclining toward us with a grace we do not deserve. God keeps giving, for it is God's very nature to give. And the final work of God is not merely to fill our lives with good ...

2479. People With Power To Forgive

John 20:19-23

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... ready to accept his forgiveness as a gift. That is why the paralytic was healed and why the theological fact-finding team from Jerusalem was so angry. They wanted to make God's love and forgiveness conditional. They wanted it to be a reward for law keeping and achievement. To offer forgiveness to anyone who was humble enough to accept it was an affront to their pride and legalism. If then we are to experience self-acceptance, if we are to experience liberation and healing, if we are to know true grace and ...

2480. A New Kingdom Coming

Luke 9:57-62

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... we like to believe. The ideal life, the ideal church, the ideal family was somewhere in the past for some of us. Consequently we keep looking over our shoulders at some period of the past like Adam and Eve looking over their shoulders at the Garden of Eden ... the smallest of his own followers who wanted to package him, market him, and profit from him as a safe product. Unable to keep up with the living Barth, they preferred the static Barth of printed pages. That way they could possess Barth, hold him in their ...

2481. Called! Cleansed! Sent

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... that there may be a place for faith. That there may be a place for faith! In other words, there is a pastoral reason for acknowledging the majesty of God, God's dreadful holiness, the wholly otherness of God. It is not to make God unapproachable, but to keep God truly free -- free from our prying, our probing, our control. It is so that God can be God, and do what God does best -- save sinners! Whenever we celebrate the Lord's supper, we celebrate the incarnation of that God, the one to whom all honor and ...

2482. An Awesome Homecoming

Sermon

Tony Everett

... loving faithfulness. "Sing aloud with great joy; proclaim, give praise." Why? The Lord "has saved, ransomed and redeemed" the scattered and shattered remnant (vv. 7, 11). The Lord "will gather" them from the farthest parts of the earth (v. 8) and "will keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock" (v. 10). The Lord "will turn their mourning into joy. The Lord will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow." Now that's a joyful homecoming! That's worth singing about! Get out the yellow ribbons. God's people ...

2483. A Tale Of Two Cities

Amos 7:1-9, Amos 7:10-17

Sermon

Carlyle Fielding Stewart

... have business as usual. The sorry state of affairs among the people had reached a new low and the time had come to do something definitive about the problem. As people of God we must do more than maintain the status quo. We must do more than keep the corrupt and disingenuous in their tranquil state. The prophet comes to upset, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable, and Amos was willing to do this for the restoration of the souls of God's people. Nothing is more vexing in our modern society ...

2484. Prepared Servants

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... include others. The mystics who separate themselves from other persons in order to enjoy a union with God never seem to be present in the teachings and examples of Jesus. 2. Dressed for Action. How are Christians dressed for action? What are the encumbrances that keep them from action? Paul uses the imagery of putting on the whole armor of God (Ephesians 6:11-17). Paul takes his analogy from the soldier in military combat. Jesus uses the figure of the slave or servant. It probably fits better with the total ...

2485. Proper 25

Psalm 65:1-13, Luke 18:9-14, Joel 2:28-32, 2 Timothy 4:9-18, 2 Timothy 3:10--4:8

Sermon Aid

William E. Keeney

... will more likely be found among the powerless than wielding the kinds of power which are generally believed to be power in the world. If Christians want to pray to be justified by God, they may ask where they stand. Do they stand apart because they want to keep themselves pure? Will they stand apart because they are alienated? Or do they stand in the world, ready to serve human need with only the power of the Spirit to help them? 5. How Do I Pray? The Pharisee used his personal prayer to glorify himself and ...

2486. Let Me Explain: A Sermon By Judas Iscariot

Matthew 26:1-5

Sermon

Don M. Aycock

... , and with all your soul, and with all your might. My ancestors tried, but sometimes their nationalism got the best of them. They were like some of you are, more excited about July the 4th than about Easter. They would do anything to keep their race pure and to keep other religious and cultural beliefs from creeping in. One of my ancestors, Nehemiah, wrote in his book what happened when he found out that some of his countrymen married foreign women. In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women ...

2487. Milestones And Mustard Seeds

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

John G. Lynn

... on the road ahead, no wonder the disciples wanted more faith. They wanted to be healed of their propensities to fall into traps. They wanted to go in peace. Sometimes the snares in our lives are like those around that seminary in Kurseong -- little wire webs to keep us from moving into villages where it would be helpful for us to go. Only faith -- the disciples were right -- can save us from such snares. Traps will be set. We will be encouraged to betray our loyalties and deny those whom we love. Someone is ...

2488. How To Treat Your Enemies

2 Samuel 18:1-18

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... gets is another enemy. Help! In the text, David asks a Jew named Nabal for aid. You see, David has served as a kind of peace-keeping force in the area where Nabal lived. His military presence served as a wall against invasion or local mischief. And David saw to it personally ... stoop to your enemy's level by fighting with him? Your conscience is clear, your sleep peaceful. Let God take revenge. Keep your own hand from bloodguilt. And what is more, you are the future king. God will provide for your needs even ...

2489. Baptism And Self-Esteem

Mark 12:28-34

Sermon

Steven E. Albertin

... love of God and love of neighbor. Jesus compliments him for this. He is not far from the kingdom. But he is still not yet there. Something is still missing. That something is the ability to follow through. There is no person on earth who can follow through and keep this command to love God and neighbor. There is no person on earth who can do it because there is no person not tainted by the curse of Eden, because there is no person this side of Genesis 3 whose self-esteem is uncracked. The Scriptures and the ...

2490. Judgment Day

Mark 13:1-31

Drama

Steven E. Albertin

... compares this fact to the beginning of the pangs of birth. When a mother begins that painful ordeal of childbirth, there are times when she may feel defeated. The pain is too great. The suffering is too much. But what keeps her going is the promise and expectation of that new life. What keeps her going is the blessed assurance that every other mother has given her. On the basis of their experience she can have peace and confidence. She knows that the blessed birth is about to take place. Right now it may ...

2491. Miracle Five: Healing A Withered Hand

Mark 3:1-6

Sermon Aid

Harold H. Lentz

... Sunday observance is before each one of us today. We do not have a law circumscribing our actions on Sunday. We are free to spend the day as we please. But what do we please? The question really is, "What good do we do on the Lord's day?" To keep the Sabbath holy is to let it produce acts of love on our part. It calls for a positive, not a negative, discipleship. People can attend church and, like the Pharisees, leave the worship of God without having love in their hearts. Hearing of God's love for us, as ...

2492. Getting In Tune Again

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

William L. Self

... had gone through about five villages, gathering the people together, and the young men were preaching from pictures and diagrams. When we got ready to go back, one of the young men said, "Let's pray before we go back." He prayed for all the right things, then said, "Lord, keep the snakes off us." A young man walked in front and one in back with machetes in case snakes got in the way or fell off the trees on us. The point is: the Church, by the proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, has never taken the ...

2493. A Bad Temperament Can Kill You

2 Kings 5:1-27

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... and he began to focus his attention on the big picture. He went down to the Jordan. Can't you just see and hear him dipping himself a few times: "Embarrassing. Boring. This is humiliating. Crummy, little, muddy river. I'm just as leprous as I ever was." "Keep going. Keep dipping," yelled the servants. Finally he came up the seventh time after he had taken the final plunge. He looked and his flesh was as smooth as the flesh of a little child. It's a great story of healing, isn't it? We can resonate with that ...

2494. Till Death Do Us -- Unite

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Paul W. Kummer

... dinners that I attended through the years," she explained. "Sometimes, at the best ones, somebody would lean over my shoulder and whisper, 'You can keep your fork.' And do you know what that meant? Dessert was coming! And not a cup of Jell-O or pudding or even a ... ice cream. You don't need a fork for that. It meant the good stuff, like chocolate cake or cherry pie. When they told me to keep my fork, I knew the best was yet to come! "That's exactly what I want people to talk about at my funeral. Sure they can ...

2495. Possession Is Nine-tenths Of The Law

Daniel 7:1-14, Daniel 7:15-28

Sermon

Robert P. Hines

... saying that "possession is nine-tenths of the law." That suggests that it doesn't matter what you say about some article or item. The person who actually possesses it has a better chance of keeping that article. If a dispute of ownership ends up in court, the one who has possession is the one most likely to keep it, unless another person has proof of ownership. It is possession that counts. The principalities and powers of this world, the evil things that happen to us, think they own us. They think they can ...

2496. The Demons Within

Luke 8:26-39

Sermon

Alexander H. Wales

... resided as strangers in a strange land. The first person he meets is an individual who is possessed by demons, a man who lives in the local cemetery for lack of a better place. He is feared by his neighbors, who have apparently tried to chain him up and keep him clothed for his own safety and that of the community. He verbally assaults Jesus because, we are told by Luke, Jesus had ordered the evil spirits to leave the man. We are a little amazed by the fact that at this point Jesus has a discussion with the ...

2497. The Voice From Heaven

Luke 3:1-20, Luke 3:21-38

Drama

Dallas A. Brauninger

... our part. We have an active role. In the covenants of our faith, we make a response and share a responsibility in keeping these promises. In the act of baptism, I find the holy -- call it Holy Spirit, if you will -- within the mutual ... get in our way and to the youths who have no idea of Whose they are? Once we have sensed your presence, Holy Spirit, how do we keep hold of this truth beyond the beginning? How can we be encouragers of each other? How do you speak to us today, God? Yes, you, Holy Spirit ...

2498. Whose Work Is It?

Luke 21:5-38

Drama

Pamela Urfer

... knows that I haven't been feeling very well lately ... SYNTYCHE: I can't ... CLEMENT: Syntyche, let Euodia talk. EUODIA: And yet she keeps asking me to do more and more. I'm so tired. It's not enough that I have to preach at every meeting, ... EUODIA: But what happens when we've too much to do? What happens when we're too tired to go on? SYNTYCHE: Then it's his power that keeps us going. And it's his loving-kindness that tells us to stop and take a break. EUODIA: That's exactly what I need right now -- a break ...

2499. The Pastor Who Created A Monster

Haggai 1:1-15, Haggai 2:1-9

Sermon

Thomas G. Rogers

... now that I have been standing around looking at the rubble of what happened to me before. I keep looking at the rubble and I think, "Why try again? It could all crumble down a second time. During your sermon, your little sign brought everything into focus for me. I ... realized that I've got to keep my eyes on THE GOAL." Hank shook the pastor's hand again. "Thank you for helping me see that. I've got to think positive ...

2500. Whose Work Is It?

Philemon 1:1-7

Drama

Pamela Urfer

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