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2476. Elijah Passes his Mantle to Elisha

1 Kings 19:9-18, 1 Kings 19:19-21

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... his service. Collect Almighty God, who calls your children of each generation to be your servants: Lay upon our hearts the task of serving our generation in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ; that faith in his salvation may be a living response of those we serve. In his name we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Dear Father, we have followed in the footsteps of our forefathers, anxious to learn more about Jesus. But when we discover that those footsteps lead to our calling as workers, leaders, and ...

2477. When Christ Doesn't Bring Peace

Luke 12:49-53

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... him, he is also a source of division. People: Division in a home is real, where one accepts Christ and another rejects him. Pastor: Each person must make his own decision. But the response Christ asks for is complete loyalty to him. People: We want to be committed to Christ and pray for our loved ones to make the same response. Collect O Lord God, whose gift of peace brings strife and conflict in households where some accept and some reject your Son: Grant us harmony, that as families we may be united by ...

2478. God's Salvation is Universal

Isaiah 66:1-24

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... for everyone. People: May the glory of God shine through his church, filling our world with his blessings of brotherhood and salvation. Collect Gracious Father, whose loving kindness is not withheld from any who will accept it: Instill in us a deeper sense of responsibility to be in mission with your message of salvation for all mankind, that our world may worship you as the one and only true God. We pray through Christ, the Savior of the world. Amen. Prayer of Confession Almighty God, we worship you as ...

2479. Renounce Worldly Pleasures for Heavenly Home

Luke 16:1-15

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... only in this world, but in the next. People: We do not want so much from this world, that it prevents us from receiving the life God wants to give us. May he help us learn how to live. Collect Eternal God, who has entrusted us with life, making us responsible for the way we live: Enable us to be trustworthy stewards with our charge, that we may not be so greedy for the pleasures of this life, that we fail to obtain the pleasures of the life to come which you have promised. In our Savior's name we pray ...

2480. Concentrate More on Christian Living than Day of the Lord

2 Thessalonians 1:1-12

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

... live, and to give glory to our Savior. Then, when the day of the Lord comes, we will have nothing to fear. Collect Almighty God, Creator of life and history: Direct our attention to the life you have called us to live, that we may not fail in that responsibility by preferring to solve the mysteries of your plan for the final destiny of history. We pray in our Savior's name. Amen. Prayer of Confession We cannot help wondering what the future holds, Father; and that inquisitive nature tempts us to avoid our ...

2481. Priesthood of Christians

Revelation 1:4-8

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... gift of salvation and called us to share it with all who will believe. Give us the wisdom and strength to fulfill Your call. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer of Confession Lord, sometimes we have acted as if Your priesthood did not rest on our shoulders but was the responsibility of others. Too often we have expected others to keep the faith and spread the Good News when we were the ones You could have used most effectively. Forgive us, Lord, and help us to be more ...

2482. The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... make me a servant in your house.” What a difference in attitude. At the beginning of the story he is going to the father and saying “give me.” Now he is going to the father and saying “make me.” So the prodigal finally starts to assume some personal responsibility. I think up to that time he had said to himself: “Well, if my father had just been generous; if it weren’t for that mean older brother of mine, I would not have come to this plight.” It was only as he made the confession “I have ...

2483. After A Lost Election, Field Of Dreams

Jeremiah 8:4--9:26

Sermon

James Angell

... was in 1945, but where desert, ocean, and mountains are still fertilized by genius and creativity, making it one of the Seven Wonders of the modern world. At the ripe age of 45, I heeded the Horace Greeley advice, and moved our family West in response to an invitation to become pastor of a fascinating congregation in West Los Angeles, near the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). It still seemed like the New Frontier, though controversy over involvement in Viet Nam kept the city in a mild uproar ...

2484. The Stewardship of Money in the Modern Church

2 Corinthians 9:11, 12

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Dr. John Thompson Peters

... much to say about money and its usage. But unless the Church has a firm hold on and grasp of the first truth, she will scarcely have much to say about the second. Far too often the church has allowed herself to be backed away from her responsibility here into the little corner of her "spiritual" province. She has falsely bowed to the idea that in the material realm she has little or nothing to say. And strangely enough, even some of the blazing social prophets of the contemporary world, who argue with the ...

2485. Speak From Personal Experience

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... terms of getting a good preacher or evangelist to fill their pulpit for a week. And the crowds gather in response to the reputation of the speaker and the quality of advertising that has gone into the preparation for his ... privileged people in that we can look into the very face of God with the eyes of faith. But that privilege also carries with it the responsibility of telling others about what we see. Thus the writer of time first letter of John states, "It was there from the beginning; we have heard ...

2486. Death and Resurrection

John 20:1-18

Illustration

... not only as a non-Christian, but as a person who was openly anti-religious. I relished this opportunity, he said, to debunk what I considered a childish myth. Haraldo Rivera asked him: Now that you have spent four years on this project what is your response. His response not only shocking, but it was shocking that 20/20 allowed it to go on the air. He said: After four years on this project, I now fall upon my knees and worship a resurrected Christ. It would be nice if we could hold some physical evidence ...

2487. Is It Well With Your Family? (Mother's Day)

2 Kings 4:8-26

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Brett Blair

... endless, and the financial pay is awful. Is it well with you? 2. Is It Well With Your Husband? Let me ask you also. Is it well with your husbands? Is your husband living up to his family responsibilities. I make no bones that the Father is the head of the family and must answer one day for his attentiveness to that responsibility but often times it is the mother which must prod the man to take his title seriously. Did you notice what the father did in this story. Let me read it again. Look at verse 18: The ...

2488. People Get Ready!

Luke 12:35-48

Sermon

Brett Blair

... of his attitude and what happened in his home. Out of the blue, during the meal, he says to Jesus, I will sell half of everything I own give it to the poor, and if I have wronged anyone I will pay them back fourfold. Do you remember Jesus’ response? He did not say, no, you must sell everything Zacchaeus. He said no greater faith exists in all of Israel. There is a standard but it is not selling everything you have. Here is the standard: How much time do you spend worrying about storing up treasures on ...

2489. The Importance of Believing

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

... misbelief." There is such a thing as misbelieving as well as misbehaving, and the one usually leads to the other. It not only matters that we believe something; it also matters what we believe. You see, belief has an obligation to truth; it has a responsibility for lining up with reality; it needs to conform with what is or what has been or what may be. Imagine the predicament of the mathematician who does his calculations stubbornly, believing that two plus two equals five. You don't get far in mathematics ...

2490. The Spirit and the Truth

John 16:5-16

Sermon

George Bass

... God sent the Son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him." Our problem is that while we may recognize the gift God gives us in Jesus Christ, we don’t always obey him in a faithful and loving response - obedience - and miss the richness of the life that he offers to us all. The Holy Spirit Tunes Us Into God A marvelous photo appeared in the newspapers of the United States that subscribe to the Associated Press service. Right in the middle of it stood a portly ...

2491. Emancipation Proclamation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

... to bear witness to the truth. Every one who is of the truth hears my voice." But the evidence presented by the prosecutors contradicted Jesus, and Pontius Pilate found himself crushed in the collision. "What is truth?" he asked, in what was probably the snide response of one who had been trapped in truths that had been turned and twisted into lies. Freedom Add the second concept, freedom. Freedom is the boast of many who have broken down all barriers of restraint. But the broken barriers become the fence of ...

2492. Advancers Over Decliners

Luke 19:11-27

Sermon

... too, received his commendation in the form of an assignment over five cities. But the pound entrusted to the third was taken from his care and given to the faithful one. If he could not be faithful with a single pound, could he be given more responsibility? It should be said that Jesus in this parable does not intend to lend support to our Wall Street syndrome, investments in the market, or the growth funds recommended by our broker. But in today’s economy with all its complications, the ups and downs of ...

2493. No Snap Courses

Luke 17:1-10

Sermon

Carveth Mitchell

... words are no exception. Let’s look at his obvious purpose in telling this parable to the disciples of both his day and of ours. I It is a warning that following Jesus simply in the expectation of cheap blessings and comfort is to miss much of the responsibility and obligation of discipleship. It is evident in many places in the Gospels that Jesus was well aware that some of those who followed him were doing so out of ignorance of what was expected of them. They were unaware of the nature and the cost of ...

2494. Let God Be God

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

... humans. God made Adam and Eve capable of naming the other beings found in the Garden of Eden, of discerning good from evil, and of answering the question of "Why?" when he thundered at them concerning their misdeeds. And he immediately began holding them responsible for the use of these capabilities. Assess these unique human capacities carefully and you will see that we are not limited to what is concrete and adherent, to what we can see, hear, smell, feel, and taste. We can go beyond the physical senses ...

2495. How Was Jesus' Death Different?

John 19:28-37, John 19:17-27

Sermon

... thou done for me?" These words struck him in the heart. He decided then and there to give his life to Christ. In due time he became the leader and missionary of the Moravians, some of whom came to this country seeking religious freedom. This is the only appropriate response to something as great and meaningful as the cross. Isaac Watts puts it this way: But drops of grief can n'er repay The debt of love I owe. Here, Lord, I give myself away; Tis all that I can do. Without a doubt, the greatest reason for ...

2496. If Only We Would Let God Mold Us ...

Jeremiah 18:1--19:15

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... say wearily when I came home for lunch. "I guess I’d better take him back to Dr. Byrd’s this afternoon before things get worse." "That probably means another round of penicillin shots for John and some more sleepless nights for us," was my usual response. That dialogue was repeated over and over in our household. It seemed as though we would never get our three-year-old son’s ear infections cleared up. We were positive his body was working up an immunity to antibiotics, because each bout with his ears ...

2497. If Only We Would Hold On ...

Jeremiah 20:7-18

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... clock or catch the 7:59 commuter. The city-dweller grows weary of the noise and confusion of urban life. The farmer’s son fumes at the demands of his chores. And so it goes with most of us! We may want to get away from a job or other responsibilities because we are weary, bored, lazy, afraid, or desperate. Sometimes it is just a passing mood. At other times it is more serious, as it was for Evelyn that morning. This longing to step back and take a look at one’s life is a frequent theme for the biblical ...

2498. What Shall We Do With This Baby?

Drama

... Shall We Do With This Baby? Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 Prayer: Dear Heavenly Parent: New life is so precious and so fragile. You entrusted your son and your plan of salvation to human hands and hearts. May we be aware as never before of our human responsibility for your heavenly plan. Please grant us the will to love anew every child born on this earth. May the old familiar story of the birth of your son renew the hope that each child can live according to your plan. In the name of the infant Jesus who ...

2499. Prayer

Matthew 5:13-16

Bulletin Aid

... Than I want to take! I just want to be an ordinary Christian A regular church member. I want to pull my weight Do my share Blend in with the rest. I don't want to be special Singled out, Especially if that means more responsibility! I'll take a job - For a while - If I have to, But don't expect me to be something I'm not! The "Salt of the Earth" To affect the whole church By my faith My actions The "Light of the World" An example to be held up Put ...

2500. Proper 4

Genesis 12:1-8

Sermon

... is good theology in that. The troubles, the problems, need not flatten us. The risks can be the rocks on which we climb. Abraham's life was not easy, but he saw a purpose in his difficulties and in his conflicts, and he kept moving ahead, growing in response to the challenges he faced. We need to be reminded the purpose of our faith is not to keep us happy, make us wealthy, soothe our feelings, or smooth our ruffled feathers, though occasionally it may do all of those things. The purpose of our faith is to ...

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