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251. The Lonesome Valley

Matthew 21:1-11; 26:36-46, 69-27:1,15-26

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... . As long as Jesus stays in Galilee, in his own country, among his own people, then he is relatively safe. But for him to go to Jerusalem, it would be like Moses, going to Egypt to challenge the Pharaoh, "Let my people go." Or it would be like Abraham, leaving his ancestral home in Ur of Chaldees, and venturing out simply on the trust in God. Or it is like David, stripping himself of the armor of Saul, going to meet the giant Goliath alone. It is like "The Hero's Quest." Now get this. When he announces that ...

252. Where Do You Abide?

John 15:1-8

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... baptized to say that they would be protected to eternal life. Some churches never abandoned that practice. Methodists did for a while, but it has come back now in the ritual as the laying on of hands, which says the Spirit of Christ will abide with you and never leave you. You have been chosen by God, and the Spirit of God is now with you. "I will abide with you," that's the promise. "I will pray the Father, and he will send a Counselor, who will abide with you forever." In the lives of Christians that has ...

253. The One Thing God Can Not Do

2 Timothy 1:1-2:13

Sermon

King Duncan

... . . .” There is a story of a young mother, wise beyond her years, who takes her little son to his first day of nursery school. As she lets go of his hand at the edge of the classroom, she kisses him and says, “Goodbye, my love. No one is leaving.” Of course, she is leaving in body, but not in spirit. This young mother wants her boy to know that she will be thinking of him all day, and that she will return to get him at the proper time. Every morning when she drops her son off at his new school, she ...

254. God's Delight

Matthew 3:13-17

Sermon

Susan R. Andrews

... you are gone?" And Jesus, predicting the Day of Pentecost, answers, "You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you; and you will be my witnesses ... to the ends of the earth." It was only after these words that Jesus was able to leave the disciples, confident that his power to save would continue to be expressed through the faith and ministry of a living church. Our New Testament lesson for this morning is Matthew's account of Jesus' baptism. It is nothing more and nothing less than a public ...

255. Luke 24:13-35

Luke 24:13-35

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Leonard Sweet

... of an empty tomb. The women’s report is dismissed. The remaining disciples themselves begin to scatter. Peter goes back to the tomb. Just how close the entire fellowship was to breaking apart forever is demonstrated by these two other disciples as they leave Jerusalem to travel to Emmaus. Jesus’ disciple-community is on the very verge of dissolving. As these two set out on the road to Emmaus they are joined by Jesus, but “their eyes were kept from recognizing him” (v.16). Although these disciples ...

256. Thou Shalt Not Judge - True or False?

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

James Merritt

... all of them to a man said that they, too, had seen tenors in the back left choir pew. He decided he just needed to leave that church and go somewhere else. He went to a second church, and much the same thing happened; and a third church, and again ... in John 7:24, "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge with righteous judgment." In other words, you shall not judge a tree by its leaves, but you shall judge a tree by its fruit. You shall not judge a book by its cover, but you shall judge a book by its ...

257. Are You In the Know

Job 19:23-27

Sermon

James Merritt

... ." Well, the father tried to explain to the son that the mother couldn't come home. He said, "Son, we're going to go home, and God is going to take care of us and we're going to have to live without mother for a while." They started to leave and that little fellow broke away from his daddy and ran back into that funeral home and stood there for awhile beside that coffin and then began to say, "Mommy, wake up, wake up, Mommy, please wake up." The dad gently put his hand on the boy's shoulder and ...

258. The Hand, the Lamb and the Dove

John 3:1-17

Sermon

Leonard Sweet

... when we seem to be grasping at straws or perhaps more accurately, at braids. One of my favorite contemporary authors, the British essayist Sara Maitland, writes that "Although many of us have grown up gratefully with St. Patrick's cloverleaf image of the Trinity three leaves making up one clover leaf there is always room for some new imagery as well. My favorite model of the Trinity is that it is like a child's pigtail. If the Trinity is seen as a plait three equal strands, smoothly interrelated there are ...

259. Easter 7

Acts 1:12-26, 1 John 5:1-12, John 17:6-19

Sermon Aid

John R. Brokhoff

... life. Not to accept God's witness is to make him a liar. The truth is that God gave his Son that we might have eternal life now by believing in him. Gospel: John 17:11-19 In this high priestly prayer, Jesus is aware that he is going to leave the world and his disciples in a hostile world. Think of what the world did to him! Will not the disciples face the same opposition and fate? Naturally, the disciples would be afraid. Thus, Jesus prays for his followers, not that they should be taken out of the world as ...

260. It’s All About Him

John 4:19-24

Sermon

James Merritt

... of God, and a follower of Jesus Christ, you worship God everywhere you go and anywhere you go. Do you know what that means? You don't come to church to worship, you should come to church with worship, and you should leave the church with worship. You ought to come in here worshiping and you ought to leave here worshiping. Worship is not what you do on Sunday morning for one hour in a church. Worship is what you do 24-7 from here to heaven. II. Be Focused On Who You Worship "But the hour is coming, and now ...

261. Jesus, The One And Only

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

James Merritt

... you, "What did James Merritt preach to you on his last Sunday?" I want you to be able to say he preached Jesus. Because as I leave you I want you to fix your focus on Jesus; I want you to put your faith in Jesus; I want you to give your fears ... are the words: "Jesus Christ Is Lord." Even though this is the only time that phrase is found, these are the words which I want to leave you. The longer I live and the more I preach, the more I want to emphasize the lordship of Jesus Christ. If you ever wonder why, ...

262. Kill Them with Kindness

Proverbs 3:3, 19:22

Sermon

James Merritt

... tolerates wrong and never condemns anything. Suppose I go to the doctor and he examines me and discovers that I have a tumor. What if he says, "I don't want to cause this man any pain. I don't want to upset him. I don't want him to leave here hurt or be discouraged." He brings me back into his office and says, "Everything with you is absolutely great – don't worry, be happy." He isn't really being kind to me. He is being unkind. A doctor, who is kind, will tell you the truth. He will tell ...

263. Guided by the Spirit

John 16:12-15

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... be faced with coming to terms with what it means; what it means for them, and what responsibility they bear in it. As our African-American brothers and sisters have taught us, "They may be able to talk the talk, but can they also walk the walk?" After Jesus leaves them, the disciples will be called on the carpet and put on the hot seat for their association with him. Guilt by association, or accomplices in the crime, is the way we speak of it. But right now, as Jesus is talking to them, they do not yet know ...

264. A Samaritan Took Care of Him

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

David R. Cartwright

... being faster, got away. We just don't know. What we do know is that the robbers stripped him, beat him, and went off, leaving him half dead. Now this is an interesting predicament that Jesus has slipped into the story. The rules then and now are fairly ... took out some money from the ATM machine and paid the innkeeper to take care of the man until he came back. As he's leaving, the Samaritan says to the manager of the motel, whom he may have known from previous associations, "If it takes more than that, I'll ...

265. What Are You Looking At?

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... some vague sort of spirit, or a good feeling sharing by the surviving disciples. Luke is at pains to demonstrate that the risen Jesus could eat and drink with the disciples! He wants us to accept it as something extraordinary that happened in the ordinary world. Jesus leaves the disciples with a task that they are to share - to spread the good news about the kingdom of God: "... you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). This is in response to ...

266. Settling In Celebration

Romans 12:1-2

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... 't figure out her reaction. After much coaxing to find out what's wrong, in a very indignant voice she said, "I don't like the one in the green (pastor's vestment) - he just talked to me but he left me hungry!" (1) God never wants us to leave hungry. God's desire for God's Peculiar people is that we "take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering" so we can be filled to overflowing with God's Comfort and Grace. God ...

267. Cast All Your Anxiety on Him

1 Peter 4:12-14, 5:6-11

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

... children and those around you. B. Parenting is both good and bad. It has its moments filled with joy and laughter and it has it's moments filled with angst, trials and tribulations. We remember the high and the lows. the high's give us wings and the lows leave scars. And if not scars then strained muscles and a stronger faith. Often times those hurts and scars break us but only because we haven't turned to the one who calls to share the burden of our journey. The one who has gone before us and prepared a ...

268. To Live Is to Choose

Matthew 7:13-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... behind me only a broken clue A crevice where the glory glimmers through Some whisper from the sky Some footprint in the road To track me by. I will leave man To make the faithful guess Will leave him torn between the no and yes. Leave him unresting until he rests in me Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free. Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose With all in life to win Or all to lose. With all in life to win, or all to lose. Decision making is perilous for in our decisions we win or we lose ...

269. Where In the World Is God?

Mark 15:33-41

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... he knew he could never escape. Through the suffering, one tried to be happy, and edge of despair came through. (And the doctor couldn’t forget it.) The hour for the escape came, but the doctor, remembering those persons who needed him that he was leaving behind advised the escape group: “I cannot go!” He reported the feelings that came over him. “I did not know what the following days would bring for me - perhaps even death. But a strange peace welled up inside me whom I had never experienced before ...

270. When Being Christian Has Worn You Down (Compassion Fatigue)

1 John 4:7-21

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... end of six and one-half years the pretenses go. Company manners are set aside. Courtesies are no longer a consideration. She leaves her toothpaste on the bathroom sink. He cleans his fingernails at the table. At six and one-half years the trousseau is ... it well, but I know the answer, and I keep reminding myself - that I can relax a bit if I can believe that the time comes to leave to God and others what I can not do myself. I can say forcefully what I’m about to say, because I’m speaking to myself as ...

271. Luke 8:26-39

Luke 8:26-39

Sweet

Leonard Sweet

... healed man with a mission. The man’s obedient place at Jesus’ feet and his plea to go back with him make it clear the healed demoniac now wishes to become one of the disciples. Jesus refuses to let the man leave with him. Instead, he commands the healed man to further demonstrate his restored state by returning to his home and once again living within his community. Jesus gives this man a commission: he is to “declare how much God has done for you.” The Geresene madman is now the Geresene ...

272. Lost and Found

Luke 15:1-10

Sermon

J. Howard Olds

... we will clean up our own act, examine our own attitudes, repent of our own sins, and open wide the doors that all God’s children may come in. C. We Can Sit and Wait. The prodigal decides to arise and go to his father. What was it about his leaving that he left in such a way that there was an invitation, an open door for him to come back? What made him believe the father would be waiting? Kathy is a successful stock broker in Minneapolis who makes friends easily and has the gift of evangelism. She goes to ...

273. Whose Wife Will She Be?

Luke 20:27-40

Sermon

King Duncan

... . There is more beyond. A healthy approach to death is to deal with it as a time of transition. Death is but a journey from this world to the next. One thing we might want to do as we prepare for this journey is to think of those we will leave behind. The death of a loved one is difficult for even the strongest believer. Those who are in the later years of life would do well to share their faith with their loved ones in anticipation of the journey that someday they know they will take. Let your loved ones ...

274. The Legacy of Jesus

John 14:8-17 (25-27)

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... said I would never remember him in my will, ‘Hello, Harry.' " Those stories are prompted because our text gives us Jesus' legacy. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and ... will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you" (John 14:26). "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not ...

275. Ascension

Psalm 47:1-9, Luke 24:44-53, Acts 1:1-11, Ephesians 1:15-23

Bulletin Aid

Julia Ross Strope

... causes it to die. We eagerly pass all this knowledge on to the next generation. Let us also mentor them in compassion, honesty, gentleness, and kindness. Amen. Benediction As you leave here, greet one another. As you leave here, look up for signs of Divine creativity. As you leave here, look around for the invisible Christ. As you leave here, look down for the darkness and shadows that are yours to walk through. As you leave here, rejoice in the mysteries of resurrection and ascension. Amen. Let it be so!

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