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251. Gifts of Lent IV: Simon Gives His Strength

Mark 15:1-15

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... . Such a face. It was covered with blood and dirt. It was bruised and swollen. Someone had twisted together thorn branches, making a crown that had been pressed into his head. The eyes that fixed on mine were tired, but there was no hatred, no resentment. The other prisoners were cursing and struggling against their executioners, eyes still looking about frantically for a means of escape, though there was none. But not Jesus. Jesus said nothing, resisting not at all, almost as though he went to his death ...

252. Gifts of Lent VI: The Thief Who Gave Nothing

Luke 23:26-43

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... all I was worth. Then, above the din of all that mockery and cursing and screaming, Jesus spoke. "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Forgive them? Forgive the soldiers despite the torture they had inflicted? Forgive that mob despite the hatred that spewed from their mouths? Forgive me, a thief? Me, who had dishonored my parents and blasphemed my God with the lifestyle I had chosen? Me, who had joined in ridiculing this kind and righteous man? Forgive me? Who could this Jesus be? Might ...

253. Gifts of Lent VII: Joseph Gives His Tomb

John 19:38-42

Drama

Donald Neidigk

... of the charges were absurd. Others were based on a deliberate misrepresentation of what Jesus taught. And some charges I had concluded were true. Jesus was in truth the Christ, the Son of God, the King of Israel. But if I spoke up in that den of hatred and violence, would I not be killed too? How frightened I was! Just before noon Pilate made his decision: Jesus would die by crucifixion, even though he was guilty of nothing worthy of death. Faced with an impending riot and the loss of his job, it seemed ...

254. Moving At The Speed Of Light: At The Jordan

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

Frank Luchsinger

... impression on those casting the stones and on the community. What was in the minds of the Pharisee/executioners as they brought the woman to Jesus? Her crime would be used as a convenience to embarrass the teacher. Was their rage toward her offense fueled by their hatred toward him? As they dropped their stones and went their way, did their anger toward the teacher burn within them all the more? And what was in the mind of this woman scared out of her wits? Had she resigned herself to her fate? How long did ...

255. You Meant Evil; God Meant Good

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

Robert A. Hausman

... ! My son Joseph is still alive. I must go and see him before I die" (45:28). So the family settled in Egypt, and Jacob died and was buried there. Then the brothers worried whether Joseph would take revenge now that their father was dead. They were afraid that some hatred would well up and he would pay them back for what they had done. They knew that bad blood can last a long time; they knew that family politics can be brutal. They had made their power play and lost; now it was Joseph's move. He had all the ...

256. Hard Questions!

1 Kings 17:7-24

Sermon

Barbara Brokhoff

... he cannot lie, then his Word is consistently dependable. You can stake your life on it! Yet, like the Widow of Zarephath, our loved ones sometimes sicken and die but they are not resurrected (yet!), but in the face of our "daily deaths" of grief, fear, guilt, hatred, and loss comes the God who breaks in upon us as the Divine Life-Bringer in the midst of our dying. Does it pay then to trust God? Of course it does! There is no investment in the universe which pays such remarkable dividends as obedient trust ...

257. Easter Day

John 20:1-9, John 20:10-18, Acts 10:23b-48, 1 Corinthians 15:12-34, Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... women took to the streets to protest. The media referred to them as "Victims of Victory." In a far greater and more wonderful way, Christians are the victims of victory. Outline: What are the victims of Christ's victory? a. Despair is the victim of hope. b. Hatred is the victim of love. c. Death is the victim of life. Lesson 2: 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 A personal Easter experience. 1 Corinthians 15:3-8 Easter can be only a matter of history -- of what happened to others. It can tell us of various appearances ...

258. Lent 4

Luke 15:11-32, 2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, Isaiah 12:1-6, Joshua 5:1-12, Luke 15:1-7

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... . Spiritually creation continues also. To be in Christ is to effect a new creation. A person baptized in Christ with repentance and faith has a new existence. He/she is not the same person essentially. He/she has changed. His/her old self was one of hatred, malice, and sin. Now he/she lives for God and possesses the spirit of love and goodness. As God is the creator of the physical universe, he also creates new people through Christ. 3. Himself (v. 19). God was in Christ reconciling the world to "himself ...

259. Christmas Eve

Lk 2:1-20 · Tit 2:11-14 · Isa 9:2-7 · Ps 96

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... the preacher is to proclaim peace, love, and goodwill among men. He/she declares that in Christ God came to the world. What difference does that make in the world? How can you celebrate and rejoice in a world like this: a world of darkness, despair, crime, hatred, hunger, and poverty? Is Christmas real or is it just a myth like Santa or a sweet story like " 'Twas the Night Before Christmas"? Three Lessons: Isaiah 9:2-7; Titus 2:11-14; Luke 2:1-20 Rejoice! Rejoice! Need: Christmas is a time for rejoicing ...

260. Proper 11

Amos 8:1-14, Luke 10:38-42, Colossians 1:21-28

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... to preach to Israel. Do we see where our nation is headed with a debt of over four trillion dollars, with seven million unemployed, with an AIDS epidemic, with tens of millions without health insurance? Do you see where we as individuals are going with our selfishness, hatred, and racism? Outline: The question is -- a. What do you see -- basket of summer fruit? -- v. 2. b. What is your insight -- "the end"? -- v. 2. 2. A famine in the midst of plenty. 8:11-12. Need: At present America has no need of food ...

261. Proper 20

1 Timothy 2:1-15, Jeremiah 8:4--9:26, Luke 16:1-15

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... we may have that kind of world in which the gospel can flourish. Outline: Consider your hands of prayer a. Lifted hands lifted up to the Source of our help. b. Open hands opened by faith to receive what we pray for. c. Holy hands free from hatred and anger; filled with forgiving love. 2. A better world through prayer (2:1-5). Need: Christians become righteously indignant at the economic and political abuses in our society. When it comes to a solution, we realize that it depends on more than one person's ...

262. Proper 23

Luke 17:11-19, Jeremiah 29:1-23, 2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... enemies a. Peace v. 5: build homes, plant gardens. b. Population v. 6: marry and have children. c. Prayer v. 7: pray for the welfare of enemies. 2. Bless and you will be blessed (29:7b). Need: Many people react to what evil people do to them with anger, hatred, and revenge. They are out to pay them back and to get even. If we follow that line of thinking, we will only get hurt just as we hurt our enemies. Surely the exiles in Babylon had good reason to hate the Babylonians for taking them from their homes ...

263. Proper 28

Lk 21:5-19 · Isa 65:17-25 · 2 Thes 3:6-13 · Ps 98

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... :17-25 1. God's kind of world (65:17-25). Need: We are living in a human world. And we are sick and tired of it. The earth is plagued with poverty, disease, murders, war, hunger, and manifold injustice. It seems to be the devil's world full of hatred and suffering. Isaiah tells us the kind of world God wants us to have. Outline: God's world like the New Jerusalem a. A city of joy vv. 18, 19. b. A city of long life vv. 20-22. c. A city of peace v. 25. 2. A new earth ...

264. Proper 6

Lk 7:36 - 8:3 · Gal 2:15-21 · 1 Ki 21:1--21 · Ps 5

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... 3. Enemy (v. 20). Earlier King Ahab called Elijah the "troubler" of Israel. Now he calls him his "enemy" -- "Have you found me, O my enemy?" Anyone who stands for truth and is opposed to falsehood becomes an enemy of liars. Love is the enemy of hatred. A preacher of righteousness automatically becomes the enemy of the Underworld. A Christian cannot be a friend to all people. Lesson 2: Galatians 2:15-21 1. Sinners (v. 15). Are Jews not sinners? Paul refers to those born as Jews as though they are not sinners ...

265. Alleluia, He Is Risen!

Matthew 25:1-13

Eulogy

Barbara G. Schmitz

... joyful voice. He Has Burst His Three Days' Prison "He has burst his three days' prison." The grave couldn't hold Christ. He broke the bonds of death so that we might break forth from the prisons that hold us: prisons of fear, prisons of hatred, prisons of sin, prisons of sickness and death. The power of Jesus' resurrection is stronger than any earthly prison that binds us, even death. When Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, Jesus said to Lazarus' sister Martha, "I am the resurrection and the life. Those ...

266. Proper 8

Luke 9:51-56, Psalm 77:1-20

Bulletin Aid

B. David Hostetter

... . God's way is holy. Who is so great as our God? Prayer of Confession Merciful Sovereign, we are not fit subjects of your rule. You have shown us the ways of love and forgiveness but we sometimes turn back to ways of pride and hatred. We are more ready to denounce your enemies than to declare the good news. We delay obedience to your call with excuses of personal privilege. Forgive our refractory discipleship and our outright disobedience for Jesus' sake. Amen. Declaration Of God's Forgiveness Friends, hear ...

267. Smiles That Change the World

Luke 6:27-36

Illustration

Richard A. Jensen

... . To all to whom he has told his story he has asked for prayers of intercession for the security police. And one day in prison he smiled. He exchanged a simple smile with one of his torturers in order to sow a small seed of love in a world of hatred and division. He smiled when he would have been expected to hate. He smiled when he would have been expected to revile. God had given him such peace in the midst of hate that he could dare even to exchange a smile. These are the smiles that change the world ...

268. Followership

Matthew 4:18-22, Matthew 4:12-17

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... truly has come near. The good news of God's presence, of the nearness, the at-handness, of his kingly rule gives birth to faith and trust. Such faith and trust empowers us to turn from anxiety to peace, from sorrow to joy, from despair to hope, from hatred to love. In a word, we repent. The power and the call so to do come from Christ, who works in us the miracle of faith and repentance. The second half of the Matthew passage gives us a snapshot of what the God-empowered life of repentance, obedience and ...

269. Facing Up To Temptation

Matthew 4:1-11

Sermon

Thomas Long

... holy drama of redemption. We have been called, called in our baptism to be God's beloved children. In a world where might makes right, we have been named ambassadors of reconciliation. It is our baptismal identity to be those who sow love where there is hatred, hope where there is despair, faith where there is doubt. Because we are called, we are also tempted, tempted to change the script, tempted to live out another story, tempted to be someone other than who we are called to be. To yield to temptation is ...

270. Bad Timing

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Thomas Long

... strange revenge. "My friend," said the doctor, "you are now lying in that bed. Your care is her revenge."1 The sister knew the gospel, and because she knew the gospel she also knew that the time for vengeance was over. In Jesus Christ, revenge and hatred, which once seemed so urgent and timely, are now obsolete. The kingdom age of mercy and forgiveness and peace has arrived. Anything else is simply bad timing. 1. Peace Be With You, edited by Cornelia Lehn (Newton, Kansas: Faith and Life Press, 1980), pp. 67 ...

271. What A Friend He Had In Judas

Matthew 26:47-56

Sermon

Thomas Long

... took that one step more. He stepped of his own free will onto the cross of sacrifice. No one took Jesus' life; he gave it willingly. And when he did, "some crazy kind of forgiveness" lifted up the broken world, and all that destroys human life, all the hatred and the betrayal and the venom and the decay and the disease and death was absorbed and overcome in the eternal friendship of Jesus Christ. __________ 1. Lewis Grizzard, My Daddy Was A Pistol, And I'm A Son Of A Gun (New York: Dell Publishers, 1988 ...

272. The Spreading Word

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... to see him and he dismissed them: "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers? ... Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother." Good grief! This guy is God's word? Does God's word create this sort of confusion and hatred and bitterness? "Let anyone with ears listen!" No wonder many did not respond. We shouldn't be surprised. Just a few chapters earlier Jesus had said, "Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth; I have not come to bring peace, but a sword ...

273. Good News! You Are Going To Be Tortured

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... whole days withdrawn, not speaking a word to anyone. One day after confession, Juanito put his hand on the priest's shoulder and said, "Pray for me, Father, so that I can forgive the soldiers who killed my mother and my brothers. I do not want to live with hatred in my heart." 2 People like Juanito know that they have to forgive or they will be entombed in the stone-cold prison of bitterness tormented by the fire of rage for the rest of their lives and maybe, who knows, for eternity as well. That very pain ...

274. Easter 5

John 14:1-4, John 14:5-14, Acts 7:54--8:1a, Acts 17:1-9, 1 Peter 2:4-12

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... a loud, discordant shout, that can boil the blood of those who hear it. Christians need to follow the example of Stephen and shout out even more loudly the glad news of God's forgiveness. Only the Spirit of Christ in us can shout out the stain of human hatred and sin. Lesson 1: Acts 17:1-15 Sermon Title: When Upside Down Is Right Side Up. Sermon Angle: Paul met very stiff opposition in Thessalonica among the Jews. It got so hot that he was sent huffing out of the city. When they stormed Jason's house, where ...

275. Proper 14

Genesis 37:12-36, 1 Kings 19:9-18, Jonah 2:1-10, Matthew 14:22-36, Romans 9:1-5; 10:5-15

Sermon Aid

Russell F. Anderson

... , he was distracted by the winds and waves, and his heart flooded with fear. PREACHING POSSIBILITIES Old Testament: Genesis 37:1-4, 12-18 1. Sibling Rivalry Sermon Angle. Jacob loved his youngest son better than the rest. Predictably, this led to jealousy and hatred on the part of the other brothers. There is bound to be a certain amount of rivalry for parents' attention, but when parents clearly favor one child, it is a prescription for disaster. Though the brothers did an evil thing to Joseph, the father ...

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