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2676. This Life Is Yours To Live!

Ezekiel 18:1-32

Sermon

Keith Hammer

... Ezekiel the prophet who could deliver God’s message. Their parents may have all been dead, but God was still sending his prophets to deliver his message. Ezekiel speaks the word of the Lord and minces no words in delivering his message. He tells them to stop blaming their parents for their woes. To be sure their parents had not listened at all to what God said to them: they deserved what their children got. But their children were not innocent babes. For one thing, in their woeful crying in Babylon, they ...

2677. Pass The Buck

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

Topic: Responsibility of knowing Christ, salvation, temptation, evangelism Characters: One male or female, a devil, and an angel, the same sex as the lead character Scene: Moody, dark lighting Devil: Confused again? Let me help you. Angel: Stop it, you're the one who confuses him all the time. He needs to make a decision about this thing and he needs to do it soon. Devil: I don't know if he needs to do it or not. I mean, there's plenty of time and no decision ...

2678. It's A Dog's Life

Drama

Timothy W. Ayers

... here. All I gotta do is push my dish around and the old guy gets the hint. How about if we go Italian? Last night I had pupparoni pizza and the night before dog dish pizza. I'm sure there's something good in there. Dutch: That's OK, I stopped at a fast food place and picked up a little something. Prince: I'm always scared to eat there. I'm afraid it might be a relative or something. Dutch: Beggars can't be choosers. Prince: I suppose. (Awkward silence; they both scratch) Prince: So what do you think ...

2679. Redrawing The Landscape

Multiple Scriptures

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... Pittsburgh. We were leaving directly from the breakfast while they were not leaving for another two or three hours, after they went home, packed, and took their children to the hotel. Diane and I pounded up to Pittsburgh, driving a few miles over the speed limit and stopping only for gas. When we arrived at the hotel, we carried our luggage from the car, and there to our amazement was the other couple by the swimming pool. "Where have you been?" he asked. "We've been here over an hour." "You must have flown ...

2680. Illusion Or Reality?

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... of it were true historical fact, that would not be enough. Perhaps you have read that one weekend 600 neo-Nazis marched in Dresden, Germany, and that arsonists attacked a Holocaust memorial. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, angry and surrounded by police, stopped and shouted at the demonstrators, "You have learned nothing from our history! This is pure Nazism." No, my friends, even when we have historical facts in hand, beautiful monuments, and eyewitnesses, we humans still cannot pull ourselves out of our ...

2681. Trial-and-Error or Grace

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... over the event. 4. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. I have come to “know” (not “think” mind you, but “know”) that mercy is the oil on which the machinery of life runs. Without it life binds up, rusts, becomes inefficient, even stops altogether. To fail to forgive prevents life from moving ahead, from moving smoothly at first and at last from moving at all, for without mercy life grinds to a halt. To have mercy is to let things go, to refuse to hold a grudge, to forgive ...

2682. “You Did That for Me!”

Mark 8:31--9:1

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... manage is to sit back in mute disbelief that somehow someone moved in and took over for us. The magnitude of the favor granted us leaves us without a ready response. It is enough to manage, “Thank you.” By little or big gifts another moved in to stop the long slide of loss. Such times in life are precious. Another waits with us while we are in trial, grief, pain, or despair. For most of life’s pleasant interchanges a routine nod, smile, hug or kiss does nicely. But in these instances we are possessed ...

2683. A Road Map to the Kingdom

Mark 10:13-16

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... conditions that determines the worth of a journey is its destination. I keep on my shelf an old axiom: No wind blows good to a ship which has no destined harbor. It is true of our lives; if we don’t know where we’re going the starts and stops do not make a difference. Good or bad breaks mean little, for they do not move us along to a destined goal. Life is just one big distraction. We can appreciate the sayings, “I’m just running around in circles,” and “You run around like a chicken with its ...

2684. Every Person’s Great Possessions

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... m infirm, God, then…. After I’ve had all the earned fun, deserved advantages, and merited successes I’ll be ready to follow. At that point selling my possessions will not bother me, for they will be of no further value to me, anyway. Yet the human ego does not stop simply because we arrive at such times of our lives. Jesus’ call comes to us: Sell all and come, follow me. But “all” is more than we can bear. We are compelled to pin it down. Somehow we have to put the stamp of self on our lives. In ...

2685. Where Does That Leave Us?

Mark 13:1-31, Mark 13:32-37

Sermon

Thomas Peterson

... Lord is at hand. Much attention is given to prophecy as it pertains to Armageddon. Jesus, despite the passions excited by such questions,clearly states, “...no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” This, however, has never stopped the single-minded efforts of some churches to predict the exact time of the Day of Judgment. The end of the world seems of greater importance than the saving of it. “Since every day things go from bad to worse, it is clear that the end ...

2686. The Rich Young Ruler

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Brett Blair

... superstar. I’ll tell you who the superstar is. The guy who is raising 4 kids on $150 a week." I don’t want to put words in the mouth of Jesus but if he were to define winning I think he would define it as a despised Samaritan who stops and helps a beaten victim on the Jericho Road, a widow who drops her small coin in a collection box, a despised tax collector' who cries out: God, be merciful to me a sinner. In short, a winner in God's eyes is one who feeds the hungry, tends the ...

2687. Nothing Is Impossible

Exodus 13:17--14:31

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... dog approaching a traffic light at a six-lane boulevard in a major city, it was evident that a partnership existed between the two. Upon arriving at the light, which was green, together they waited for it to turn red. The red light indicated for them to stop, only the dog saw the cars coming and going. The blind woman only heard what the dog saw. The response of the dog and woman to each other brought credibility to the partnership which was made manifest for all the world to see. Now, the angel was just ...

2688. Revealed Glory

Exodus 16:1-36

Sermon

Walter Kimbrough

... of Sodom and Gomorrah as found in the 19th chapter of Genesis. Lot, a servant of the Lord, was warned to take his wife and two daughters and flee the city because of its pending destruction. They were instructed not to look back and not to stop anywhere in the plain. “Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away… (Genesis 19:17).” Verse 26 tells us that, “Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.” The thought of what happened causes, even today, an eerie internal feeling ...

2689. Such a Good Time

Matthew 17:4

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... sit there and watch the movie. Of course I would like to have a big bag of popcorn and go to a baseball or basketball game. When I eat popcorn, it reminds me of something that I like to do so much that I don't care if I ever stop. The reason I told you about the popcorn is because it reminds me of one day when Peter, James, and John were with Jesus on the top Of a mountain. Something wonderful happened. While the disciples were looking around, Jesus turned the whitest white they had ever seen. His clothes ...

2690. An Invitation

Matthew 22:1-14

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... did not come to the party. Of course the king was unhappy. But what could he do? Should he call the party off and disappoint his son? Of course not. He sent some of his people out so that they could find other guests. He wanted his palace filled. He stopped people on the street, went to their houses, and to their jobs and invited them to the party. None of these people had ever been to the king's palace and they didn't know him at all, but they went to the party and they had a wonderful time ...

2691. Turn Around!

Matthew 4:17

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... to preach, "Repent," and he would say it over and over again. "Repent, repent, repent." Do you know what repent means? (Let them answer.) It means to turn around. Jesus was telling people that they were going in the wrong direction with their sin, and they should stop and turn around and come back to God. In other words, when Jesus was saying, "Repent" he could have said, "Turn around, turn around, turn around." The right way to go is towards God and not away from him. When we commit sin we are going away ...

2692. An Overwhelming Promise

Eulogy

Joe Barone

Isaiah 55:6-13, Jeremiah 31:31-33 Hebrews 9:24-28 and Romans 8:1-4 Sometimes the sweep and power of God’s promises in the Bible almost overwhelm me. Just stop and think about some of them. First there’s the rainbow. “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between me and all flesh that is upon the earth,” God tells Noah in Genesis 9:17. When we look at the rainbow, we are to know that ...

2693. The Comfort Of The Scripture

Eulogy

Joe Barone

... call to mind the deeds of the Lord,” the psalmist says. “Yea, I will remember thy wonders of old.” Because the Scripture is the story of a faithful, loving God, we, like the psalmist, can find comfort in the Scripture and the stories it tells. Stop and think for a minute. God created the world, commissioned Abraham, saved Joseph, called Moses, led his people out of bondage — that’s the big one, isn’t it? God called Joshua and Ruth and Solomon and David and Isaiah and Jeremiah, and even Jonah ...

2694. What Happens To You When You Die?

Luke 24:13-35

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... followers were able to recognize him; they recognized him when they all sat down to eat (Luke 24:29-31a).1 But once they had recognized him, Jesus vanished before their very eyes (Luke 24:31b). The events indicate Jesus was different. After his resurrection, nothing could stop him. He was no longer locked in by the boundaries of space and time. I imagine that there was a kind of glow of radiance, a glow of happiness, all around him (sort of like the way he looked when the transfiguration occurred [Luke 9:29 ...

2695. The Majesty Of God's Love

John 17:1-11

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... 17:10). The Father is love, overwhelming love. All that he has, the Son has. Consequently, the Son is likwise love - majestic, overwhelming love. He loves the Father back. In eternity, forever and ever, Father and Son have loved each other. They could not stop themselves. Long before creation, long before they had something else to love, the Father and the Son were consumed by a burning desire to love something. Thus, they needed each other to love. In eternity, the Father loved the Son, and their love was ...

2696. Previews Of Coming Attractions

Jeremiah 33:1-26

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... of the Righteous One. A story is told about a woman shopping in a drug store in a large eastern city. She noticed a small boy taking jars from the counter and playing with them on the floor. A clerk also noticed him, and ordered him to stop. The child looked up, bewildered. He couldn't understand what the clerk was saying. Suddenly the woman realized what the clerk did not; the boy was mentally retarded. In a moment he began playing with the items again. Now the clerk started shouting, threatening the child ...

2697. Preparing The Way

Malachi 2:17--3:5

Sermon

Ron Lavin

... ?" they asked. "Why pray?" they asked. "Yahweh doesn't care for us. Why should we care about him and his laws?" Lean harvests, droughts, and locusts swarming on crops resulted in most of the people staying away from worship services. The people also stopped giving their tithes and offerings and were thus robbing God (Malachi 3:8-12). It isn't much different today. The biggest reason for faithlessness in worship and giving to the Lord's work is personal crises. Cheating God by not giving offerings often ...

2698. Robert Paul, You Were Right!

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

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... Anonymous. A chance meeting of these two individuals in Akron, Ohio, sparked one of the century’s most amazing renewal groups. In the last scenes of the movie Bill Wilson, now retired, travels with his wife on their way to a new home to California. They decide to stop in Iowa to attend an AA meeting that happens to meet in the local church. No one recognizes him as the founder of AA, but he is accepted warmly. He introduced himself: “My name is Bill W.” How thrilled he is as he sits back and watches ...

2699. The Best Offense Is A Good Defense

Zephaniah 3:1-20

Sermon

Richard Hasler

... ? In his own words: “I had to find a way of playing great defense without great defensive athletes.” Therefore, he spent the summer before the season began diagramming hundreds of defensive plans until he hit upon the idea of adding an extra defensive lineman to stop the opponent’s option play in which the quarterback pitches the ball to a halfback or fakes and keeps the ball and runs himself. By adding an extra man to the defensive line, however, this meant that he had only three men in the backfield ...

2700. The Road To Nazareth

Luke 4:14-30

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... long ago I was driving down the interstate. I saw standing by the road a young man, not very impressive in appearance, who seemed to have all he owned in two bags. As I went by he held up a sign with one word on it: "Home." I wanted to stop and help him get home and yet because of the way things are today I did not even slow down. But I have often wondered where home was - and if he got there and what happened when he arrived. Immediately after his baptism and his time in the wilderness the ...

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