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2726. Toward A More Sensuous Christianity

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... Spirit of God rule our lives as a church and as individuals. When outsiders observe the church are they aware that there is a spiritual power present in the life of a congregation? When strangers come among us do they sense the presence of a compassionate concern, as well as joy and enthusiasm? When I go to a football game I expect to be surrounded by football enthusiasts. If I go to a symphony concert I expect to be surrounded by music lovers. When people come to worship why shouldn't they be surrounded ...

2727. Don't Sweat The Numbers

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Mark Radecke

... something they're not doing and they smile and agree with you. Suggest they ought to do more of something they already do and enjoy doing, and they get offended. Well, there are some cultures that are difficult to understand. Be all that as it may, what concerns us this morning is the fact that numbers became so important to these people that their obsession spilled over into the religious realm. I don't mean a mere preoccupation with the number of members on the church roll or the size of the number that ...

2728. Words, Words, Words

John 4:1-26

Sermon

Thomas Long

... afraid, they began to hide -- from God and from each other -- behind fig leaves and behind lying words: "Where is your brother?" "I don't know. Am I my brother's keeper?" (Genesis 4:9). Now, all of this should give us some concern, since the things that we are called to do as Christians are done basically with words. Financiers have capital; physicians have medicines; farmers have seed and soil; soldiers have guns; Christians have words. Words, words, words. Prayer words, worship words, sermon words, words ...

2729. Since He's In Charge, We're In Luck

Psalm 33:4-5, 8-9, 13-22

Sermon

Robert G. McCreight

... and guided in a way that accomplishes his purposes. B. How does God tend to the little things, the details that are the stuff of our lives? I can tell you of three distinct ways in which God provides for people of faith because of his concern for us and for the world. Some who have experienced a purposive dimension in their lives have experienced a sense of being spared from some crisis or disaster. Winston Churchill felt he received special consideration that night in South Africa when he literally came to ...

2730. Behold The Man Who Taught By The Sea

Mark 4:1-20

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... byways. Jesus was not just another in a long line of wise counselors. No, there was something else different about him. One thing was that magnetic personality which drew other people to him. He looked at people the way no one ever had. He communicated his concern for them. They wanted to be close to him. Another thing was the fact that there was something so appealing in what he said. He spoke words of hope, comfort, rebuke, and encouragement, words of life. They are still words of life for us today. We ...

2731. Behold The Man Who Turned Toward Jerusalem

Mark 10:32-34

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... protect ourselves from doing too much, giving too much and becoming too involved in the church simply because we have other things to do, and we want to keep on living our private lives. We will never understand, appreciate, or live the Christian life if our main concern is our own safety. We simply have to give ourselves to the cause of the Kingdom of God with complete abandon. It will not work any other way. To travel the road Jesus chose is not easy. But, the important things never are easy. There is ...

2732. Behold The Man Who Tried To Be King

Matthew 21:1-10

Sermon

Thomas A. Pilgrim

... abundant life and share it with the world. One year at Annual Conference when our retiring ministers were being recognized, the Bishop told about the wife of one of them. He told of what a dynamic person she was and how she was full of life, deeply concerned about her fellowman. One day she was walking down a street in downtown Atlanta. She saw a man lying on the sidewalk, face down. She thought, "Oh, no! He's dying." Quickly she reviewed the lifesaving steps she had learned in a CPR class. She rushed over ...

2733. The Bread Of Life

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... . Yet there is a lot of sacramental language in this writing. By the time John wrote late in the first century, Christians were regularly celebrating the eucharist, so his readers would have heard the story of the institution at the last supper every Sunday. John's concern is not to focus our attention on the sacramental ritual itself but on its essential meaning. What is important is our communion with the crucified and risen Lord Jesus Christ, who meets us now just as he did nearly 2,000 years ago in the ...

2734. Yes, But How?

Sermon

Lee Griess

... . Even Saint Paul found himself trapped. In Romans 7 Paul writes: It seems to be a fact of life that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. I love to do God's will so far as my new (redeemed Christian) nature is concerned; but there is something else deep within me, in my lower nature, that is at war with my mind and wins the fight and makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. In my mind, I want to be God's willing servant, but instead I ...

2735. Forgiven!

Sermon

Lee Griess

... of forgiveness -- forgiveness for what we have done -- and the strength to forgive others. All too many Christians operate with an Old Testament view of God. For them, God is a God of judgment, a God of vengeance and wrath. As far as these Christians are concerned, Jesus need never have come. For they do not need his forgiveness, they do not need God's grace. In one of his books, Alan Paton, the great South African writer, tells a powerful story which takes place before the recent changes in South Africa ...

2736. The Sure Foundation

Matthew 7:15-23, Matthew 7:24-29

Sermon

Marc Kolden

... whose life is built on sand? Will I be swept away by the storms of God's judgment?" These two sayings of Jesus are directed to those of us who are Christians. We, not non-Christians, are the ones who are prone to be more concerned about believing than doing, about words than about deeds. The first saying (about those who say, "Lord, Lord") is directed especially against those of us who are pastors and teachers and leaders in the Christian community, who speak a lot about Christ and represent him publicly ...

2737. Getting Out Of Our Own Way

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Roger G. Talbott

... to do something else with her life. They are getting in her way. A man starts sharing with his wife that he is thinking of changing careers. Maybe he wants to back off and devote more time to doing volunteer work or to writing a novel. She has some legitimate concerns about paying bills, but maybe some of her identity is tied up with his career. She is the wife of the doctor or the lawyer or the Indian chief. His effort to find himself by losing himself makes her feel like a part of herself is dying, so she ...

2738. Wanting To Be Seen

Matthew 6:5-6

Sermon

David Belgum

... Again, some subtle, free advertising for the church. I want the name of our church to "be seen" as often as is decent and within the bounds of good ecumenical relations. You may well ask, "How do you know your motive is pure, since Jesus is so concerned about motive and intention?" Frankly, I doubt if our motives, either George's or mine, are ever 100 percent pure. Even when we do a genuine kindness, we usually get a lot back in return. Maybe it is impossible to answer. If my motives were anywhere between ...

2739. Adam And Jesus See Temptation

Genesis 3:1-24, Genesis 2:4-25, Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

David Belgum

... written, 'You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve' " (Matthew 4:10 RSV). The test in this third instance is one of ultimate loyalty. Whom do you worship? What has the highest priority in your life? Once it was clear where Jesus stood concerning worship, the Tempter just gave up and left him alone. There is no point in pursuing the testing any further. Once a person is clear on worship of God, it is almost predictable what that person will say or how he or she will react to a number ...

2740. Seeing Light In Darkness

John 11:1-16

Sermon

David Belgum

... had said to him, "Come out; come out of your cave of isolation and despair." And Jesus said to the fellow alcoholics in his squad meeting, "Unbind him, and let him go." Let him go back into life. He's been dead long enough. Jesus was more concerned about spiritual darkness than physical darkness. You remember last Sunday how he spoke about the paradox of the seeing and the blind: "... For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may become blind." One may ...

2741. Preaching On Biblical Personalities

Sermon

John R. Bodo

2742. Screaming For A Reason Why

Matthew 26:36-46; 27:45-46 · Job 3:1-26

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... It is on the second floor of the Wake Medical Center. Surrounding it are three units: cardiac care, surgical intensive care, maximum intensive care. A lot of us have seen the inside of that waiting room. It is divided into small seating areas, so that the concerned people who are there have some degree of privacy. There is a coffee urn and a telephone, and vending machines that dispense candy, Cokes, sandwiches, and other food items. Over in one section toward the back of the room there are sofas and chairs ...

2743. Hailing The King Of Chaos

Job 12:13-22· Matthew 27:32-44

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... which we are thrown by circumstances. God is here in all the striving to bring light out of darkness. God is in every deed of compassion, every act of mercy, every kindness we have ever shown, every measure of forgiveness we have managed. God is in our social concerns, in every hospital, every court of law, every human service. God is in the United Nations where faulty people, filled with old sins and prejudices, try to rise above them to bring order out of chaos and new hope out of old hates. God is always ...

2744. Something New, Something Old

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... the disciples, "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations." This is significant because Matthew was a convert from Judaism writing for Jews. And many of the Jews of that era had become very particularistic, seeing themselves as God's chosen people and more concerned with keeping themselves pure than in reaching out. They had clearly forgotten Isaiah's words about the people of Israel becoming a "light to the nations." So the new/old message that comes out of the householder's treasure is that we must ...

2745. Responsibility And Motivation

Ruth 1:1-22

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... our country who are as firm as Naomi about the need for foreigners to go back from where they came. We need to be reminded that some of these outsiders might have a clearer vision of that to which God is calling us than do we. Many are rightly concerned about trimming government fat and deficit reduction, but if we are in any measure a country with a Judeo-Christian base, as we like to say, we need to recall that we, like Boaz in the story of Ruth, have an obligation to hold the fabric of society together ...

2746. The Assumption Of Discipline

Matthew 6:1-4, Matthew 6:5-15, Matthew 6:16-18, Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... is just the way things are. The words from Matthew 6, traditionally read on Ash Wednesday to begin Lent, reveal some very different assumptions on the part of Jesus of Nazareth. He knew, of course, that life could be lived at a superficial level, concerned mostly with appearances and with what other people think of us, but he recommends something else. He recommends a pious life, one that not only looks beneath the surface but which lives at a deeper level. Jesus assumes that we will practice piety, and ...

2747. Fools For The Sake Of Christ

1 Corinthians 4:1-21

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... positive persons. In some ways this distinguished elder of the church looks foolish traipsing around the hinterlands, and that's the point, isn't it? You don't need national television for that kind of story. A seminary classmate of mine became quite concerned about AIDS -- and in particular the church's rejection of HIV positive persons -- after a life-long friend was infected by the virus. The congregation he served made it clear that they did not appreciate his activism on behalf of AIDS education. He ...

2748. Eighteen Years Is Long Enough

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... alone, I know that we have such persons in the entering freshman class. It used to be that when students went off to the university parents worried that they might have their first beer or their first sexual adventure. Those are still, of course, valid concerns. But I now regularly talk with students who have packed a lot into their eighteen years. They have done a lot more than experiment with beer, and arrive on campus as recovering addicts. Or perhaps they have been the caretaker in a co-dependent family ...

2749. Meeting Jesus At The Well

John 4:1-26

Sermon

John N. Brittain

... what's going on, when the situation is all too painfully obvious. Students who are experiencing academic difficulty or are not adjusting well to campus life are sometimes astounded, sometimes offended, that someone -- a professor, a resident assistant, the chaplain -- expresses a concern about how they're doing. "You've been talking with my parents!" they might say. "My roommate has betrayed secrets I told her in confidence." No, not at all. It is just that things may be more obviously wrong than you guess ...

2750. The Keys To Happiness -- Purity Of Heart

John 1:1-18

Sermon

Alex Gondola

Most Americans are increasingly interested in issues of purity, aren't we? We want to drink pure water. And there is a legitimate, growing concern about the quality of our groundwater. We want to breathe clean air. So Congress has passed (on our behalf) stringent Clean Air Acts. We want to consume pure foods. "Natural" foods are big sellers right now, aren't they? So much so that one supermarket, probably selling foods with preservatives ...

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