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2676. The Generation Gap

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... mold, put on the masks the world expects us to wear, and simply exist - missing the present moment and all its experiences. (Now I happen to think that you can only be yourself in relationship with God ... that experience takes meaning only when it is a response to God’s creation.) Within the framework, are we not called to live in the NOW? To be ourselves and recognize that we’re letting life pass through our fingers? We need to be more sensitive to beauty, more open to friendship, more concerned with ...

2677. THE MARRIAGE GAP

Genesis 2:4-25

Sermon

William McKee Aber

... he stops. "There is no other hand," he cries. As it happened, he was wrong in the play - but that would be a valid point to make about sexual relations outside of marriage. For sexual relations imply something that can’t exist apart from marriage - the responsibility for one another, and the self-giving which cannot be total in our society apart from the framework of a family. We like to think that we’re liberated and sophisticated in the late 20th century - but I know of nothing that hangs us up quite ...

2678. A WALL OF ROCK AND THE EVERYBODY GAP

Drama

William McKee Aber

... page once in a while and pay some attention to me? (adds BLOCK) Wormwood: Self-pity. Keep pushing it and believing it! Jack: Why look at sales - you know we can’t afford anything. (adds BLOCK) Sue: (lets it drop, pauses) Party was boring last night ... (waits ... no response ... Jack adds a BLOCK) Are the eggs still warm? Jack: Yea. (adds a BLOCK) Sue: Will you listen to me for a minute! I get up early to get you a meal and it’s like you aren’t even here. (adds BLOCK) Is that paper more interesting ...

2679. God Isn’t Dead - Death Is Dead

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Charles L. Koester

... as he spoke to Thomas who doubted he was alive again. "Be not faithless, but believing. Blessed are they that have not seen, and yet believe." All it takes for the full and abundant life to begin is your response to Jesus Christ, the Risen Son of God, and the Savior of your life. A response saying, "Lord, I believe; and when, in my humanness I doubt, help my unbelief." This morning, in celebrating the Lord’s resurrection, we respond again by kneeling at this rail. And here, in and under the bread and wine ...

2680. Joseph

Drama

Charles L. Koester

... lifelong affection, my loyalty ... and now to demand her death? Oh no ... no ... no matter what she had done ... I loved her ... I loved her. Yet, what could I do? People were already looking at me! If I did not denounce her publicly others would think I was responsible for her condition, and too much a coward to admit it. Then, the judgment of the community would be upon me! There was only one way left open. I would privately give her a bill of divorcement; this way she would not be hurt. I would hand her ...

2681. Sharing with Our Brothers

2 Corinthians 8:1-15

Sermon

Ewart E. Turner

... is always after my money." Indeed the church is, for the church is after you. And your money is as concrete an embodiment of you as exists. It represents the fruit of your labor, your time, your interests, your skills. The church has a major responsibility to God for the values and priorities you represent in our community. The church can put you to work in the slums of Calcutta, on the fratricidal roads and alleys of Lebanon, the Bibleless villages of Russia, the festering ghettos of America. You can be ...

2682. The Forgotten

Matthew 1:18-25

Sermon

Theodore L. Yewey

... of Christmas, but also as we seek to nurture the love of that event in our lives and let it grow. We are told that Joseph was a just man. In his work as a craftsman he was honest. In his relationships with others he was honorable. In his responsibility to Mary and her unborn child an abiding sense of justice prevailed over all the weaker human doubts and desires and he could do nothing but show the greatest kindness and love to her. We also see Joseph as a devoted servant of God. Certainly he lived by the ...

2683. Identifying Light

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

William F. Dunkle

... Billy Graham what he was doing about the Bomb. Graham answered: "Convert men, George, and the Bomb will take care of itself." To which MacLeod replied: "But, Billy, you and I have been converted, and what are we doing about the Bomb?" Christian response to questions like that will probably require pain and sacrifice on our part. Saint Paul refers to his own finances, how he maintained flexibility and freedom by earning his own livelihood as best he could. Undoubtedly his ministry proved costly, yet he was ...

2684. OUR LORD BETRAYED

Sermon

E. Jerry Walker

... . And they began to ask in abashed horror, "Is it I? Is it I?" This moving demonstration of a lack of self-confidence twisted Judas’ fear into loathing. Their humility was an offense to him. Not a man with spine among them. Now it didn’t matter what the response would be as he saw Peter raising himself, making signs to John, urging him to find out who was the traitor. "It is he to whom I shall give this morsel when I have dipped it." The leader spoke so softly that Judas could not hear the words, but ...

2685. UR Fair IC

Mark 2:18-22

Drama

Robert F. Crowley

... ? SCRIBE: Oh, sorry. I guess I was thinking. FAIRISEE: Well, stop it. Thinking is dangerous and often a waste of Time. That's fair. SCRIBE: Why? FAIRISEE: Stop talking and start responding. SCRIBE: I see. FAIRISEE: Now, that's better. That's the correct response. SCRIBE: I see. FAIRISEE: Good. Now, let's get back to the accused. Jesus only fasts once a year by his own admission. I fast twice a week by my own spotless record. Which is more holy? SCRIBE: I see. FAIRISEE: Not yet. SCRIBE: Sorry. FAIRISEE ...

2686. Standing Room Only Religion

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

Maurice A. Fetty

... of caution. Not all illness appears to be connected with the sin of the patient or even of the parents. For example, my nephew and his wife recently lost their baby girl who was born with a serious genetic defect. We can hardly say the baby girl was responsible for the defect. Nor can we blame the parents who are but carriers of genes, not creators of genes. As we know, there are certain congenital defects carried in the genes which seem to have no relation to the conduct of the parents. That said, we need ...

2687. Blow The Trumpet In Zion

Joel 2:1-11

Sermon

Larry Powell

... pins, and the like are brandished by well-intentioned but misguided fanatics; and, the bearded man on the corner we have long since decided to be a person mentally short-changed and, therefore, to be pitied. We see the word, but if it evokes any response at all, it is, regrettably, an emotion probably somewhere between indifference and offensiveness. It does not reach out and pull us into itself, laying upon us the strong conviction that it is a matter of personal urgency. It is a word from which we have ...

2688. The Kingdom of God Is at Hand

Mark 1:9-13

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... live. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we want to be great in the faith but somehow we have failed to see the importance of being faithful in the little things. So often, like children, we cry out for more responsibility and yet we have failed to be responsible with what You have already entrusted to us. Forgive us, Lord, and grant us the courage to hold true to Your will. In Christ we pray. Amen. Hymns "When We All Get To Heaven" "Rejoice, The Lord Is King" "Be Thou My Vision"

2689. Why Must We Carry A Cross?

Mark 8:31-38

Sermon

Brett Blair

... If you are using this during a season other then Lent you must, obviously, adapt the message here.] Why must we carry a cross? To remind us that we must suffer for Christ’s sake, that there are others in this world who suffer, and that ultimately we are responsible for the indignity and shame which Christ suffered upon the cross. But you have a choice. You can lay down the cross you have been given to bear and passively live your life with no challenges or you can take it up and be transformed, living for ...

2690. Partners in the Impossible

John 6:1-15

Sermon

Richard Patt

... little sense of moral resignation in her life. Like Jesus, she deals daily on a one-to-one basis with another human being. And each visit, I imagine, is like the chip of a sculptor’s chisel, forming her into what will be - and is: a responsible arid productive contributor to society, a Christian of the highest moral order. Is the moral turnaround impossible? Not when Christ has such partners in the challenge. "Where can we buy enough food to feed all these people?" One beautiful young girl I know is doing ...

2691. Heaven on Earth

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Richard Patt

... Nazareth? Who are some of these people for whom we do not always have an equal vision of individual peace? There are the poor and the hungry. What generalizations we nurse in our minds about those who must struggle to obtain their daily bread! Laziness or lack of responsibility on their part always seems to be the explanation we give. And, if so, that becomes an easy way for us to say that we are not expected to lend them a hand. Don’t we also sometimes take certain neighborhoods of our city and judge the ...

2692. Go ... Be the Church ... Do the Gospel

Sermon

... history, the history of persons, and a knowledge and sensitivity of worship - always with the hearers in mind - this sermon forges a victory for the hearers. The sermon focuses the hearers where the focus is to be - on the Lord of the Church and the response of the Church in view of.... The sermon suggests the aisle of the church building as symbolic in its power to illuminate accurately the life of the church. This symbol of the aisle gives the sermon a growing strength that consequently touches also those ...

2693. How Can You Tell When People Are Religious?

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Daniel G. Mueller

... wedding reception is one of gaiety and joy, so also the mood of the followers of Jesus is to be full of joy. The mood of a fast is like the mood of a funeral and that’s just not an appropriate mood for Christians. Remember, fasting happened as a response to grief when a loved one died, out of remorse over sin, as a way to make God listen to prayer and (for most people) to show off their religion. For the Christian, Jesus says, there is no reason to act that way. Where there is death, Jesus Christ gives ...

2694. Service

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... God, To love, and loyalty.2 Far better to have youthful enthusiasm and over-optimism than never to start at all. John R. Mott wanted to save the world "in his generation." We smile, call it naive. But John R. Mott, a dynamic layperson, was responsible for one of the greatest missionary endeavors of the twentieth century. The present World Council of Churches owes him a lasting debt. Perhaps the glorious buoyancy of pre-World War II was excessive and unrealistic, but it sent out a challenge, and young people ...

2695. And It Came To Pass

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... to employ sermons preached in a previous appointment. Over-anticipation precludes unexpected joys, the novelty of which can be exciting. Who knows what delights God has in store? In brief, life can only be lived in faith. This means we live responsibly and responsively. As mature Christians we must assume our discipleship, taking on the necessary obligations of discipleship. At the same time, we cannot live as though God did not exist. We are agents of the Almighty; we do not live unto ourselves. Paul ...

2696. Twenty-First Century Reformation

John 8:31-41

Sermon

Warren Thomas Smith

... freedom, and is always master.3 As Luther viewed the human situation, the hope of liberation from the tyranny of the world, and the world’s values, lies in Christ. In Christ people are free, free indeed. "But does this apply to the Twenty-first Century?" Luther’s response would be that it applied to the sixteenth. Read our text, from John 8:36; it is all about freedom, about truth, about life. It just might be that we have here the secret to real liberation, and we had better not keep it a secret as we ...

2697. Do Not Receive God's Grace in Vain

2 Corinthians 6:3-13

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... : Our salvation is the work of the Christ, lest anyone should try to boast. People: And we are free from the bondage we once knew under the Law. Leader: But freedom comes with the lifelong responsibility to live for Christ. All: Blessed be the name of the Lord! Collect O God, You have called all who would follow You to be responsible to Your ministry in their lives. Help us to be faithful to Your call, Lord, that we not bring shame to You. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, so often we have ...

2698. Spirit of Wisdom

Ephesians 4:17--5:21

Bulletin Aid

Dallas A. Brauninger

... understanding as possible. People: We give thanks to God for all that God gives us in the name of Jesus the Christ and through the Holy Spirit. Collect Hear our prayer, O spirit-living God, that your presence will come to us as wisdom and that our response to you will bring an inner song to our heart. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Dear God, we have already wasted more time than we want to admit. We pray not only for ourselves but particularly for the younger ones among us that they might gain early wisdom ...

2699. Counting the Cost

Luke 14:25-35

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... but few followers." And it is just as true what Luther wrote in his 95 Theses, "A Christian is one who follows his Master even through hell." Christ does not offer his followers a pillow to sleep on but a cross to carry, all the heavy and difficult responsibilities of translating faith into life. He does not provide us with ready-made solutions to the complex problems that confront us in today’s world, but he does give us a goal, the kingdom of God, the God-controlled life, and the power of his Spirit to ...

2700. The Heart of the Reformation

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

T. A. Kantonen

... trust in him, you stop struggling on your own, you let him take complete charge, you accept a new Lord and a new life in responsibility to him. The second of the heart-throbs of the Reformation is sola gratia, by grace alone. As Paul states it, "By the free ... a disgraceful failure that by his own admission he deserved nothing but capital punishment. Yet his plea "Remember me" brings the response "Today you will be with me in paradise" without a word of judgment being spoken. The deep calls unto deep, the ...

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