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251. The Fruit of the Word

Isaiah 55:1-13

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... out for them on the basis of God’s covenant. That is what the prophet means when he writes that God says, “So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty.” In other words, the word of God is not be thought of as only some words on the pages of a beautifully printed Bible. The word of God is actually God’s power and force at work in the world demanding, pushing, and shoving people. The word of God makes people sweat as they go about their daily tasks trying to ...

252. The Temptation To Pass By On The Other Side

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

Brett Blair

... man. It may seem curious to us that he makes no effort at all to stop and help but this priest was probably thinking that the man was already dead and that time for help had now passed. But probably, also, in the back of his mind was the thought that according to temple law whoever touched a dead man was considered unclean for seven days. That meant that he would lose his turn of duty in the temple. His obligations to the temple obviously came before his obligations to this beaten man, a man whom who didn ...

253. But God...

Genesis 50:15-21

Sermon

David E. Leininger

... of a man who understands the providence of God: "Don't be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, BUT GOD intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives." All the while his brothers thought they were doing Joseph in. But theirs' was not the only doing. God was working behind the scenes weaving even their evil into good purposes. Can you think of other stories from scripture that demonstrate the same thing? Of course, you can. The most famous of all is ...

254. A Lesson From Two Golfers And A Saint

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... don't have to stay where we are. We can begin again. Soren Kierkegaard once asked how a person who is already a Christian can become a Christian. Think about that for a moment. How can a person who already is a Christian become a Christian? Kierkegaard was directing his thoughts toward those of us who have grown up in the church. He was saying that second-hand faith is not enough. It is easy to take the faith we have grown up in for granted, isn't it? After all, it is like the air we breathe. It's always ...

255. Last Words

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

King Duncan

... , I didn't handle that relationship quite like I should" or "I wish I hadn't said THAT" or "I wish I had spent more time here and less time over there" or "If only I could go back and live THAT PART of my life over again." I thought about this truth when I heard about a thriving new business that someone has started. Most of you are familiar with a new method of selling items. Through this new method you can buy almost anything from credit cards to celebrity secrets, from love and romance to sexual scandals ...

256. Making It Last

Luke 3:1-20

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... had not been a prophet like John for centuries. John was special, he was called by God to prepare the people for the coming of God's Son. The people were excited. They were willing to travel out into the desert to listen to John's message. Some thought that John the Baptist was the long awaited Messiah. John made it clear that he was not. He was only one crying in the wilderness to prepare the people for the One who would soon arrive. Crowds gathered out in the desert to listen and experience firsthand this ...

257. A Shocking Revelation

Revelation 1:9-20

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

... in your marriage. Maybe the first days of University are more than you’d bargained for. Maybe life on the job isn’t what you’d thought it’d be. And you came here this morning with a hope, a wish, a desire of some kind! Maybe you don’t even know for ... for 22 years already. He’s not about to let him go now. What to do? How to head him off from this dangerous train of thought? Don’t get him to debate it with himself, he thinks. Don’t get him to argue about it. The Lie can never stand up to the ...

258. Are You Strong Enough To Forgive?

Genesis 45:1-28

Sermon

King Duncan

... Two and a half hours later he was led into a building and shoved into a room. They shackled his right arm to a radiator, and then they left. Jerry waited and listened; he was alone. Days passed in a blur of monotony and fear. Jerry had always thought of Jesus' teaching about forgiveness as incredibly tacky, wimpy, and weak-kneed. Now in his solitary cell, Jerry saw that "the bully with the gun is the wimp. The man who says go ahead and shoot is not." Then the most remarkable thing happened. Jerry prayed for ...

259. Someone Is Calling In The Night

1 Samuel 3:1--4:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... was gone. He looked all over the restaurant but couldn't see the man anywhere. Upon returning home Bob told his wife what had happened. They decided that if God wanted them in church so much that He would go to all this trouble, they ought to give it some thought. Soon Bob and his wife joined a church. (2) God does speak. MAYBE WE DON'T LISTEN. It took old Eli three times before he realized that it was God who was calling Samuel. You would think that a priest who had devoted most of his life to God's ...

260. The Salvation Army Parade

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... reached into his pocket, gave Tommy $1.50 and said, "Here, I want one of those. Hold on and I'll get the former President." Later the Orange County Register did a feature story on Tommy. The reporter interviewed Tommy for several hours. Tommy was asked what he thought his impact would be on world peace. Tommy replied, "I don't think I am old enough yet; I think you have to be eight or nine to stop all the wars in the world." (2) As a result of the newspaper article Tommy appeared on national television ...

261. Born Again? When?

John 3:1-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... womb and be born?” (John 3:4 NRSV) And then it is that Jesus tells him that this new birth he is talking about is not something physical, but is rather something spiritual. Now, we do not know how old Nicodemus was, but it has been suggested that if he thought he was old, then he must truly have been old! On the other hand, in Jesus’ day people did not live as long as they do now, and perhaps, from our perspective, he was rather young. Also, in Jesus’ day it was considered an honor to be old. We must ...

262. The Glorious Interpolation

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... the best definition of sin I have ever seen. He said: “God made persons, and God made things. God made persons to be loved, and things to be used. Sin comes when we use persons and love things.” Those Pharisees were “using” this poor woman, without any thought for her or what she might be as a person. The whole thing makes us ask: “Whose sin was the greater? The woman’s? Or the Pharisees?” Jesus always treated sins of passion with pity. He did not condone them, but he ranked them very low in ...

263. When Tradition Gets in the Way

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... getting into arguments with the Pharisees. From that we might get the erroneous impression that the Pharisees were bad people. They were not. They were good people. In fact, they were very, very, very good people. Their only problem is that they knew it! I have often thought that they were the nearest thing to Methodists we have in the Bible. They had a very good idea - which was that the commandments of God must be put into practice in one’s daily life. That’s a good idea. The only problem is that they ...

264. The Lord's Prayer: A Surplus of Meaning

Matthew 6:5-15

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... moment when the Captain tightens a vice on his hand. With a pain-filled expression on his face he exclaims, "A man has to feel something that holds in this slippery world." That is exactly what The Lord''s Prayer has meant to me. Many of you shared that same thought with me as your pastor. From the hospital room to bedroom, from the Sanctuary to the Board Room, The Lord''s Prayer has guided us. The real miracle is not that we hold on to The Lord''s Prayer, but the God which The Lord''s Prayer depicts HOLDS ...

265. Living the Ten Commandments

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

Eric Ritz

... . In this speech Ted Turner bashed Christians and called us "losers and bozos." He said "I don''t need some man on a cross to die for me." I don''t know about you, but I am not going to forsake the mind of God for the very fallible thoughts of Ted Turner. G. K. Chesterton said years ago, "Good art and morality teach us the same lesson--it is wisdom to know where to draw the line." We don''t like to be told that there are limitations, prohibitions, and boundaries in life. We resist when our heavenly Father ...

266. The Story behind the Glory

Galatians 3:26--4:7

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... not just a fact of history but an ever-present factor in the living of these lives of ours. As Lord Tennyson put it, "Speak to him, thou, for he hears, and Spirit to Spirit can meet; closer is he than breathing, nearer than hands and feet." Perhaps it was thoughts like these that inspired Harry Farrington to write: I know not how that Bethlehem's babe Could in the Godhead be I only know the Manger-Child Has brought God's Life to me. I know not how that Calvary's cross A world from sin could free I only ...

267. Christ Signs The Letter Of The Church

Colossians 1:15-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... us to the second image to explore, and the second theme we said was in this text -- the connection between Christ and the Church. The image is there in verse 18: "He is the head of the body, the Church,..." Paul is making a bold leap in thought here. Having presented Christ as the source of universal life, he now presents Him as the source of that new life which is operative in the Church. The church as the body of Christ was Paul's favorite metaphor. To be such an expression, the church must remember ...

268. A Life Hidden With Christ

Colossians 2:6-23

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... taking place in our midst -- This letter witnesses to one of them: "Dear Maxie: I am writing you this to let you know I heard your sermon on "With or Without Miracles" on Christmas. God has done a great miracle for me everyday. This past fall I attempted suicide. I thought life was not worth living and that I had no purpose for being alive. But since then I have had people come forward and tell me how I have shown them to go on when things get tough. They have told me I have courage that many people don't ...

269. A Confidence for All Seasons

Psalm 27:1-14

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... from time to time, apparently somewhat impressed. Finally he was ushered out on the flagstone terrace, and the salesman waved proudly toward the broad expanse of the Pacific. "Now what do you think?" he asked the comedian. "I don't care for it," replied Groucho thoughtfully as he pointed toward the gorgeous view. "Take away the ocean, and then what have you got?" (Barry P. Boulware, "The Man Who Would Not Be King", July 24, 1988). Groucho was being his funny self. The truth is you can't take away the ...

270. Get off the Throne and Learn Wisdom

Matthew 7:1-6

Sermon

Phil Thrailkill

... and at home. We can’t help but see in others the flaws that are unaddressed in our own soul. We see the world as we are. The lenses inside our heads are clouded; sin blinds us to the truth. So when you condemn someone in the privacy of your thoughts, even more if you hear it come out of your mouth in an unguarded moment, recognize that it says more about your spiritual pride and sickness than about any flaw in the other person. Let it be a warning that something is wrong. It is time for self-examination ...

271. Prayer

Psalm 42:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... what we were meant to be and do. I like the way Edward Farrell puts it: “Prayer is like a journey, a journey which we can never cease making. It is like thinking for each day a man thinks again, never knowing when he may turn a corner in his thought and find himself in a world he had never perceived before. Each day a man loves, but he never loves today exactly as he did yesterday nor will he love tomorrow in the same way he loved today” (Prayer is a Hunger, p. 11). Prayer is a hunger – a hunger ...

272. The Eyes of Your Heart

Ephesians 1:15-23

Sermon

Richard W. Ferris

... see it with the eyes of our heart. When we focus on the things that we can see with our eyes, we sometimes want to give up. When we feel only through our body, the pain is sometimes too great for us. When we think only with our minds, the thoughts can be defeating. But when we look with our hearts, there is always hope. In our hearts we can see that "maybe in a year the horse will talk." 2. The riches of his glorious inheritance among the saints. What person has not dreamed at one time or another about ...

273. Body Language

Mark 7:1-23

Sermon

Mark Trotter

... tell those people to get out of there, or I'm not coming back!" Incidentally, he sat there, in the back row, in the corner, because he thought he could go to sleep back there and I wouldn't see him. He had an ingenious way of using the hymnal to prevent his head from ... and even today, many people think that we have to do something in order to earn God's love. Paul was overwhelmed with the thought that God was in Christ. Which meant, God came to us. We could not bridge the gap between us and God, but God took ...

274. Willibald Krautman's Trip To Heaven

Matthew 11:2-11

Drama

Matthew Powell

... heaven! Perhaps they are calling you up there just so you can repair the heavenly crib scene. Well, well! Storyteller: His thoughts about the heavenly Christmas manger scene seemed to slow him down. The road was long, and it was wintertime and cold ... anything about the good things I have done. In my lifetime, I set up more than 100 Christmas crÃ¨ches. My figures have awakened many thoughts of heaven in the human heart and have given many people much Christmas joy. Saint Peter: Yes, that is true. But I can't ...

275. Million Dollar Christmas

Matthew 19:21

Drama

Matthew Powell

... the winning of the other thing which, if the truth be told, I desired more than any of these. Edgar 2: No. Edgar 1: I sadly thought, Edgar 2: Even the possession of a million dollars will not make me appear a whit more attractive or desirable in the eyes of a ... I handed it to her. Edgar 2: Now I have one dollar less to spend on lightening my burden. Helene: You have more sense than I thought, Edgar. I'll see you this evening. Edgar 1: That evening, I rang the bell at Helene's door. I found her sitting at the ...

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