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251. What Goes Up Must Come Down

Mk 9:2-9 · Mt 17:1-9 · Lk 9:28-36

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John Thomas Randolph

... . An elderly passerby, not accustomed to such youthful delights, asked the boy what he was doing. He replied, “I am playing a game of catch with God. I throw the ball up in the air and he throws it back.” I am in no position to comment on God’s ability to play ball, but I do know that whatever goes up must come down. There may be exceptions, such as Charlie Brown’s kite! But as a rule, whatever goes up must come down. ...

252. Jesus Came to Be a Perfect Sacrifice

Hebrews 10:1-18

Bulletin Aid

Carl Hoefler

Call to Worship Pastor: Glad songs of Christ's birth fill the air with joy. People: We sing in praise for God's gift of his Son, the Savior of the world! Pastor: Christ is the perfect gift, offering complete atonement for sin, which brings us into a saving relationship with our God. ... a new desire to live our lives in commitment to him, our only Savior, through whom we pray. Amen. Hymns "Good Christian Men, Rejoice” “Joy to the World” “Let All Together Praise Our God” “There's a Song in the Air"

253. ASAPH: The Fish Who Taught Courage

Jonah 1:1-17

Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... Just ahead of where he was bouncing along there looked like a calm smooth spot and he swam ahead to meet it. "Praise the Lord," said Asaph, as he prepared to catch his breath. Asaph opened his mouth and went to fill his whole body with one big breath of air when GULP. GULP. Asaph felt something pretty large slide down his throat and fall into his big belly. "I wonder what that was," said Asaph? You wouldn't believe it but it was a man. Not an ordinary man, but one with a very special mission. This was a man ...

254. Peter. Rock. Follower of Jesus.

Matthew 16:13-20

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... the trees and the sound ofthe wind and the echo of his voice, there was silence. And the silence was so heavy it hung in the air. You could feel it. "WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM?" "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Addressing not only the man ... had broken the silence also and we all chanted together:"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And the feeling in the air, the feeling we felt, the feeling that owned us, suggested this was the most important day of our lives. It was as if what we ...

255. Death and Resurrection

John 20:1-18

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... 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 in our hands to prove it all, but I would mislead you this Easter Day if I left ...

256. The Quality of Mercy

Matthew 18:21-35

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... for they shall obtain mercy," says Jesus. (Matthew 5:7) In other words, blessed are they who are forgiving toward others, for in being so they put themselves in line to receive the forgiveness of God. Sometimes we talk about "conditioning." Air conditioning is putting air in shape to live in and breathe. Water conditioning is putting water in shape to use, to drink. Psychologically, we talk about a "conditioning" of ourselves - about being conditioned to this or to that. Well, here is soul-conditioning; for ...

257. To Be Somebody

Luke 19:1-10

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... this ambition might have been spurring him on and what his encounter with our Lord did for him and what it might do for us. I I’m going to call this first part Dreams. I’m guessing the parents of Zaccheus must have built some castles in the air. I say that because of the name they chose for him. In their language, Zaccheus means, "The one who is pure and just." I’m guessing Zaccheus might also have had some dreams, flights of fancy about overcoming his handicap. Luke says he was "small of stature." We ...

258. Lord, Teach Us to Pray

Luke 11:1-13

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... Anderson said, "I happen to be a person who believes very definitely and very practically in prayer. So I threw my arms in the air and I said, ‘Lord, this is the biggest problem I’ve run into in my living days.’ " She lifted her prayer to God ... had a nuclear imprint." She adds, "By now we think we have learned to live with The Bomb. The shelters are gone. The air raid drills are over. The kids in school talk about pollution constantly and nuclear disaster rarely. Atomic bombs are not discussed in the ...

259. Fixing The Fox!

Luke 13:31-35

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John R. Brokhoff

... our Christian faith. Of course there is nothing wrong with the mass media in itself. The media are channels for good and ill. Not all that is printed in a newspaper or heard over radio or seen on television is bad. Much good can come across the air waves. However, much of what comes by mass media deals with secularism. Without our knowing it, we are hearing and seeing heresy, ideas contrary to the Bible. One of these ideas is that man is good. Secularism promotes humanism. Man is the center of life. We are ...

260. The Third Sunday of Easter

Luke 24:13-35

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Kendall McCabe

... the present, and in prayer we hold past and present up before God, asking that as we have been led thus far, so God will continue to go before us into the future. Preaching involves words, words involve speech, speech involves breath, breath involves air, and preaching can run the risk of becoming hot air. We not only remember and tell the story; we act out the story. Let us play. We act out the story in the Eucharist when we do what Jesus did. We take bread, we give thanks, we break the bread and share it ...

261. The Friday We Call Good

John 18:1-11

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Dean Lueking

... entire Gospel of John. God is in charge, so to speak. In spite of the cruelty, treachery, and injustice heaped upon Jesus from every side, he is not simply a victim of circumstances. He enters into the ordeal fully, with nothing spared. But he does so with an air of mastery. He is the one who sees and knows that the Father is working out his purposes of saving love through everything that seems to oppose it. At Each Critical Point At the Last Supper in the upper room, Judas prepares for the act of betrayal ...

262. Finding Our Souls

Mark 8:36

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Staff

... spirits looked about for a place to hide man's soul so that he could never find it again. The spirit of Earth said, "I will hide it in my depths." The spirit of Water said, "I will sink it into the deepest waters of the sea." The spirit of Air said, "Let me hide it beyond the farthest star." But the spirit of Fire objected to all these suggestions, saying, "Let me burn man's soul in my flames." To this all the spirits agreed. But in a short while man's soul emerged unscathed by the flames. Then at ...

263. The Master Has Come - To Build His Church

Mark 16:1-20

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... a church. Do you know why the message is so important? Because it is the only answer for the problems we face, and the problems of the world. Two hunters got lost. One remembered reading that if you ever get lost while hunting you should shoot three times in the air. They tried it. No help came. They tried it again. No help. One asked, "What do we do now?" The other said, "I don’t know. I’m all out of arrows." Without the message about Jesus being Christ we are like lost hunters shooting arrows in the ...

264. Hope That Did Not Disappoint

Luke 7:11-17; 18:1-8

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Theodore F. Schneider

... hope rests, as do all of life's possibilities and probabilities. Only in this way can we talk of a hope that does not disappoint us, even if that hope's fulfillment is delayed. The air terminal was a sea of people, hurrying and pushing. It's always that way. But on this night it was especially so. A snow storm snarled schedules in the air and on the ground. In the midst of the terminal, by herself, there sat a little girl who could not have been more than a first grader in school, six years old, maybe seven ...

265. A Most Amazing Night

Luke 2:1-7

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... without painkillers or fetal monitors or any of the other conveniences we enjoy today. Mary is on her own. She looks up and sees the dark, dank ceiling of the cave. To her right, she sees the animals, their breath from their nostrils becoming visible in the frigid air. She turns to her left and looks into the anxious eyes of her husband-to-be. The pain of her labor wears on into the night. Then comes the final, excruciating moment of birth. Words from the book of Genesis flash through Mary's mind: "In pain ...

266. Sole Brother

Luke 10:25-37

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... hardly missed a beat in their ethics discussion. Next moment they were back in the thick of it using words like agape and eros, teleology and ontological ramifications. Some of these terms they hadn’t dusted off since seminary, and it felt good to be airing them again. It even looked as though they’d make the conference on time despite their late departure. Another man left town that morning about two hours behind the ministers. He had just gotten off his night shift at the bakery. After seven hours on ...

267. A Fool’s Tools

Matthew 25:14-30

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... we know today as the prisoner’s shuffle. There was no variation ... no difference ... no anything. Just a huge, uniform nothingness. The air was hot, stale, and motionless. And as you watched this display of almost-life, you had the impression that somewhere in the ... of the exploited American Indians are among the many who could tell us it’s not exactly thick cushions and air conditioned comfort. To preserve the rights and opportunities of those with fewer tools, an individual must work hard to preserve ...

268. The Yestermorrow Eclipse

John 10:1-21

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... in many spots, so we have to make a special effort to discover lilies and to consider them. But if we’re fortunate enough to find one, we begin to see that Christ was by no means haphazard when he selected lilies of the field and birds of the air. Each of them has a simple beauty. And each makes the countryside more pleasant and more appealing. It’s almost as though Christ is hoping that we can in some small measure be like the lilies and the birds ... bringing simple beauty and life to the day, that ...

269. Suffering for Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

Dennis Kastens

... of the scaffolding. He painted sitting down, his thighs drawn up tight against his stomach for balance until the padded bones of his legs became so bruised that he could no longer bear the agony. Then he would lie flat on his back, his knees in the air, until he could no longer endure that and would switch to another position. But no matter which way he leaned, crouched, lay or knelt, on his feet, knees, or back, eventually there always came a painful strain. However, as painful as his experience was on the ...

270. General William Booth

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Carroll Gunkel

... holy land. Oh, shout Salvation! it was good to see Kings and princes by the Lamb set free. The banjos rattled and the tambourines Jing jing-jingled in the hands of queens. And when Booth halted by the curb for prayer He saw his Master through the flag-filled air, Christ came gently with a robe and crown For Booth the soldier, while the throng knelt down. He saw King Jesus - they were face to face, And he knelt a-weeping in that holy place.8 Some years ago I heard an anecdote which might well be apocryphal ...

271. What Are You Going to Do About Death?

Mt 10:28 · Lk 12:4

Sermon

Robert G. Tuttle

... ." "In my Father’s house are many dwelling places." - I believe it. I am not afraid. Perhaps now we can grasp more fully the depth of Emerson’s feeling when he wrote: And now my chains are to be broken; I shall mount above these clouds and opaque airs in which I live - Life will no more be a noise; this day shall be better than my birthday; for then I became an animal; now I am invited into the [experience] of the real. 1. Lloyd Ogilvie, Life Without Limits, (Waco, Texas: Word Books, Pub., 1975) p. 133 ...

272. The Un-Parade

Matthew 16:21-28, Luke 19:28-44

Sermon

Robert Noblett

... me into my next point. At the very least, it served to remind the preacher that not everyone had gone to sleep! Worship is not intended to be a three-ring circus, featuring people who gymnastically respond to what is occurring, but neither is it to take on the air of a cemetery. Or let me put it this way: perhaps we need more of the civic center in the sanctuary and more of the sanctuary in the civic center. If in the sanctuary something is said that ignites the fires of humor, what harm in laughing? If in ...

273. What Is Your Holy Week Address?

Matthew 27:45-56

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Robert Noblett

... ago my wife and I recovered our interest in making candles. I had forgotten what I had learned about the craft earlier and subsequently learned that there was much I never knew, so my first candles were hardly marketable. For one thing, they contained visible air bubbles, and for another, I had waited too long between pourings with a resultant and unwelcome variation in the shade of color. For a number of years I roomed with Friday’s defeat, and were that still my address I would have stopped right there ...

274. MIRIAM’S BABY BROTHER

Drama

Marcia Miller

... MOTHER: That’s the place. Your father made this basket out of papyrus, and then he put a coating of tar on the inside. It will float. Stay out of sight, but watch your brother. Don’t take your eyes off of him. This way he will get some fresh air and sunshine. And he might be safe for a while. MIRIAM: Relax, Mother, I can handle it. MOTHER: I know you can. God be with you. [MIRIAM exits. MOTHER begins household duties as the lights go down. When the lights go up again, MOTHER is sitting at the table. She ...

275. What Do You Think You’re Worth?

Matthew 10:1-42

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John R. Brokhoff

... fail. A seven-year-old boy invited his Dad to come out to the backyard and watch him hit the ball. He said, "Look at this Dad," and he pitched the ball into the air, swung, and missed. "Strike one," he yelled. He did it a second time, "Strike two!" He explained, "It takes only one to be a hitter." He threw the ball into the air a third time and again he missed. "Strike three - you’re out!" he shouted. Just then mother called them for dinner. As they headed for the house, he said, "Well, Dad, I guess that ...

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