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2576. His Suffering Servant

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... our own time, the monstrous evil and wrong that it was, changed everything. It changed Judaism. It changed Christianity. It changed Germany. And Russia and America, and all of Western civilization. Our philosophy, our literature, our art, in a sense, were all brought to a dead stop and had to start all over again. The holocaust of our century was a dividing point for our whole civilization. If anything about our time is a fact of history, that's it. But what has been the nature of the change? Forty years is ...

2577. Right When the World is Wrong

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... pushed and winched into position against the north wall and began their work. In a couple of days, the wall was breached and in they poured - shouting, laughing, slashing, raping, pillaging; terror, screaming, running, falling, death, flames. For days it went on, and finally stopped. After all, even rape and slaughter ceased to be fun after a while. Zedekiah, the king of the Jews, was captured. First, they let him watch as his sons were killed before his eyes; then they blinded him so that would be the last ...

2578. Elijah and the Widow of Zarapheth

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... of them near perfect, a prize-winner. God can speak and create and give in such ordinary things as the blooming of a flower. I recall coming home one afternoon rather tired. Way up on the chimney, suddenly a mockingbird burst forth singing his lungs out. I stopped and listened for a few minutes. Then, not caring what the neighbors thought, I called as he flew away, "Thanks, bird, that was great!" God is to be seen in these ordinary things, such as snow, an orchid, a mockingbird. That is where we live life ...

2579. Confusion Over a Questioned Book

Daniel 7:1-14

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... advising us on how the city could be evacuated with odd number license plates on one day and even the next, thus avoiding traffic jams, apparently unaware that we'd have at best one hour's warning and that one flat tire or blown radiator hose could stop up the tunnel and entire beltway. They asked us, in addition to our own, to be prepared to receive some 600,000 severe burn cases from Washington, apparently unaware that our severe burn unit - the envy of the entire medical world has six beds. They advised ...

2580. Reformation Sunday

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

George Paul Mocko

... . "All in all" as Paul put it. (1 Corinthians 15:28) It is the fulfillment of faith. You've had those moments of faith. When our boys were ten and twelve years of age, in an overnight we climbed Mt. Marcy together. About half-way up we stopped along this mountain creek churning down. Around us the black-green trees, and the soft black-green moss on the rocks and banks. Out of the small brilliant blue patches of sky above came these shafts of white light which turned the splashing waters into showers of ...

2581. Easter - Fact And Fiction!

Acts 10:34-43

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... to know that God can work out the situation in my life no matter how hopeless it seems to me. A man tells of walking down the street, and passing the lady who sold flowers. She was old and wrinkled, but her face was alive with joy. As he stopped to buy a flower, the man said, "You certainly look happy this morning." She responded, cheerily, "Why not? Everything is good." The man noticed how shabbily she was dressed, knew she must be very poor, noted how frail she seemed, so he said, "I only meant that you ...

2582. Healing For The Past

Joshua 5:1-12

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... in Joshua give us some clues as to how our past can be healed with the help of God. The Hebrews have crossed the Jordan, and finally, 40 years after leaving the bondage of Egypt, they have reached the borders of the Promised Land. Gilgal is their first stop as they begin to establish a beachhead in Canaan. In front of them is Jericho and a hundred other places to be conquered before the land is fully theirs. Gilgal became holy ground to the people of Israel. It was the base of their operations against the ...

2583. Not

Isaiah 50:1-11

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... have to do this lesson over again!" Christ Accepted Suffering Without Rebellion and Resentment - And So Can We The Suffering Servant witnesses, "I have not rebelled or turned away from him. I bared my back to those who beat me. I didn't stop them when they insulted me, when they pulled out the hairs of my beard and spit in my face." That must have been hard to do! It is very difficult to accept suffering without complaining, without resentment, without questioning, without anger, without rebellion, without ...

2584. The Secret of Wally Wheelbarrow

Philippians 2:7

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... be our servants. That is what the Bible teaches us and it is something for us to remember. We wonder why Jesus let men kill him on a cross when we know he had such great power. We wonder why he let men make him suffer when he could have stopped it in a minute. But Jesus emptied himself of all God's powers so that he could be like one of us and know what it is like to be a man or a woman, a boy or a girl. Jesus was helpless when he was empty and he was ...

2585. Happy Birthday, Church!

Acts 2:1-13

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... , a big wind, bigger than any wind they had ever heard before. Whenever something like that happens to people, people like you and me, it scares them. The disciples were afraid and they ran out of the house. There in the street the wind seemed to stop, but people were coming from everywhere. At that time of the year there were a lot of people come from other countries in Jerusalem. You can tell when people come from other countries because they may dress a little differently and speak differently. Have you ...

2586. How to Be a Christian

1 Thessalonians 3:10

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of the proper tools to do a job right. St. Paul knew the same thing was true about Christians. He wrote to some of his friends and told them how much he was praying for them and how happy he was for them to be Christians. But he did not stop there. St. Paul knew that it took a lot of parts to make a whole Christian, and he wanted to see his friends so he could teach them all he knew about being a Christian. Sometimes we have that same problem. We call ourselves Christians, but we have not learned ...

2587. The Water Wins!

1 John 5:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... mean about overcoming something and winning. God wants us to win against everything wrong and bad. The wrong things do not give up easily. Think of something bad and tell me about it. [See if you can get some replies.] That is bad. War is bad and we can't stop war with fighting. We must use our faith and love people, if we are going to win. Love comes from God and while it would be hard we would win if we have faith. God says that we can overcome all that is bad if we have faith and with ...

2588. Lent 5

John 11:1-16, John 11:17-37, John 11:38-44, John 11:45-57

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... better to kill Jesus than to have the nation destroyed. Consequently, both Pharisees and Sadducees made plans to kill Jesus and ordered the people to report Jesus' whereabouts that they might arrest him. The miracle was the starting point of the crucifixion. Regretfully the pericope stops at verse 45. It should continue through verse 53 in order to fit the miracle into the Lenten season. Related Passages 1 Kings 17:17-24 - Elijah brings back to life a widow's son. 2 Kings 4:18-37 - Elisha revives the son of ...

2589. Ascension

Acts 1:1-11, Mark 16:1-20, Luke 24:50-53, Luke 24:36-49

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... be convinced that its observance is worth our time and effort. Are there truths and values in the ascension that are nowhere else? What would be missing if we omitted the ascension? For centuries the church has been celebrating the festival. Shall we stop now? 2. The ancient vs. modern scientific world. For some with a knowledge of modern science the ascension is ludicrous. The ancient biblical world has a simple three-story universe. The modern scientific world tells us of a space world with planets, stars ...

2590. Turning the Corner on the Very End

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

James Weekley

... numb. Often, in our emotional mixture of anger and helplessness, we lash out at God. "He does not care whom he takes. He's an impersonal Being who does not understand our pain." Frequently, we are frustrated in our coping with death, because life's final act stops us cold in our tracks. It goes against the grain of our technological explosion. Progress translates into the good life for all. "We haven't got time to die," we say. "The stats for this quarter's report are due Thursday." On we move with life as ...

2591. Friendship Arms or Cold Shoulders

Mark 6:1-6

Sermon

James Weekley

... with romantic talk. "My dear, let me feast my eyes upon your lovely face, and I'll buy you a sable muff. Let me hold your hand, and I'll buy you a silverfox scarf. Let me kiss you, and I'll give you a mink cape. Let me ..." "Stop!" she pleaded. "that's fur enough!" Like two porcupines, some people will never get too close for comfort. The poets and theologians have reminded us, perhaps too often, that the real problem of our generation is loneliness. Is our current craze for VCR's and cable TV indicative of ...

2592. Where Have All the Shepherds Gone?

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

James Weekley

... the short-lived fads and governments of this world? With our families would we put into practice what the Wall Street Journal suggested a generation ago? "What America needs ... is a revival of piety - the piety of our fathers - that counted it good business to stop for daily family prayers before breakfast ... and to start work half an hour earlier on Thursday in order to get to prayer meeting on time!" To what level do we want to be absorbed by the Shepherd's power? Have we really been introduced to ...

2593. The Big Hand

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

James Weekley

... this through my apple jack home computer." Could it be that we have grown wary of sweepstake promises, fireball salespersons, and oh lawdy, these Sunday morning newspaper bargain coupons. "Take, eat ..." Those words, like waves pounding on a shore, continue to surge. They never stop. His tide of goodness continues to roll upon us. Getting his material and spiritual goods across to us has never been his problem. It is we who stick out like a sore thumb. It is we who deaden our monitors with doubt. There are ...

2594. Are Half-Painted Rainbows Enough?

Mark 4:30-34

Sermon

James Weekley

"What is God up to now?" he wondered. "Are you serious, Lord? Did I hear you correctly? You say you want me to withdraw my money from the bank, stop my newspaper, pull up stakes, leave the friends I have grown up with, and move to a somewhere land which has no name?" God did not even give Abraham an Exxon road atlas and a U-Haul trailer. All that he had to go with was faith. "Now I want ...

2595. Faith To The Finish

2 Timothy 3:10--4:8, Isaiah 14:24-27

Sermon

Erskine White

... of the church and men of faith all their lives. But one man fought the good fight all the way to the end, while the other quit fighting just before the final round. One man ran the race through to the finish line; the other ran all those miles and stopped a few yards short. I'm sure God has judged both of them mercifully, but which is the better way to live? Which gives more happiness and meaning and which helps us lighten our burdens just a bit as we pass through late afternoon and come to the end of ...

2596. How To Become What You Are

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Sermon

Erskine White

... in the stage production of The King and I. When he first started playing The King and I, he wore lots of makeup and altered his mannerisms to fit himself to the part. But as the years went by and he performed the role hundreds, even thousands of times, he stopped wearing makeup and changing things. Yul Brenner became the part he was playing! He was the king in The King and I. I suppose the next person who plays that role will have to look and act like Yul Brenner. As we do things over and over again, we can ...

2597. The Strength To Wait

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Erskine White

... we ask to hear it. Help us to wait for Your guidance when we ask to know Your will. Teach us patience as we come before You, and let our waiting make us strong in faith. Teach us to pray boldly and often, O Lord; and then teach us to stop speaking and start listening as we wait for Your reply. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen 1. Robert Wallalce in The Minister's Manual, (1974 Edition, Harper and Row, New York), pp. 93.4.

2598. Ashamed Of The Gospel

Romans 1:1-17

Sermon

Erskine White

... to reach his destination. Now, he has to go to Jerusalem. He has some fences to mend with the disciples there and he has collected a special offering to help the Jerusalem church, which is very poor. After Jerusalem, he wants to carry the gospel to Spain and to stop in at Rome on the way. Paul finally did get to Rome, shortly after he wrote his letter to the church there. But it didn't work out the way he had planned. Paul was arrested in Israel and marched along the Emmaus road to Caesarea (the same road ...

2599. The Lion, The Lamb And Herod’s Rage

Matthew 2:1-12

Sermon

Erskine White

... , peace which conquers hate with love, peace which turns ageold enemies into friends. The lion will lie down with the lamb, and the leopard with the fatling calf. Americans and Russians, Arabs and Jews, Peruvians, Pakistanis, South Africans and Salvadorans all will not merely stop fighting - they will lie down together in peace and harmony. The whole world will know shalom, and a littie Child shall lead them. When will all this come, we want to know? The Bible says a thousand years are as a day with the ...

2600. How A Young Man Fell

Judges 16:1-22

Sermon

Erskine White

... way Samson's sin sneaked up on him. Think about those in school who lie and cheat. They do it once and think it doesn't matter because no one caught them, so they do it again. Pretty soon, they are doing it all the time because they can't stop. They become convinced they cannot pass an exam without cheating. Eventually, they'll get caught and take a hard fall. Again, they didn't intend to turn out like this when they first cheated on a quiz back in the second grade, but that's how it works. That's ...

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