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2726. Quantum Leap

Acts 13:13-52

Sermon

Carl Jech

... Greek sophos, meaning "wise" and moros which means "fool." A sophomore is halfway between stupid and smart.) Almost every founder of a great world religion has been judged crazy at some point. In the Gospel of Mark we read that at times even Jesus' friends and family thought he was "beside himself," that is, off his rocker, and, of course, many of the sons of Abraham were sure that Yeshua (as they would have called Jesus) was indeed crazy. Those of us who have come to know the grace and love of God through ...

2727. Love Over Logic

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

Carl Jech

... assessing the final, absolute, end result. (The A-type personality is preoccupied with the final goal while the B-type personality thinks more in terms of never-ending processes.) In Hindu-Buddhist theology the doctrine of Karma is sometimes thought of as a strict law of reward and punishment, but Karma can also be thought of as having to do more with a learning process in which the goal is growth - a kind of "end that never ends." Many of the New Testament writers want us to see that the issues of life go ...

2728. Jesus, Mary, Gustav Mahler, Brother Martin, and the Magi

Luke 20:9-19

Sermon

Carl Jech

... been more leaders like Rabbi Peli at the time of Jesus, the Christian interpretation of what the "Messiah" was all about would have been better understood. Let us think along together about this parable of the tenants who thought that they could usurp the prerogatives of the owner of their land. They thought that they were "set" in their position and didn't have to listen to any new messages from the owner. Clearly, they represent the Jewish leaders who in the name of their tradition refused to listen to ...

2729. Throw Your Heart at the Sky

John 21:1-14

Sermon

Carl Jech

... world ... let every heart prepare him room ... He rules the world with Truth and Grace." Jesus is the symbol of Living Truth that warms our hearts with the personal assurance of God's all-encompassing Grace and Love. Many great thinkers, such as Spinoza, have thought of God as nothing more than an abstract, mathematical symbol of that system which is the universe. God becomes just another word for The Universe. But when John's Gospel has Jesus say "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life," the personal nature ...

2730. Jail House Joy

Acts 16:16-40

Sermon

Carl Hoefler

... though their legs and arms were in chains, their lips were free. They sang hymns of joy and praise to God. Their voices echoed and re-echoed through the halls of the Roman jailhouse. The prison guard, who was awakened from his sleep by the singing, thought to himself that they were making the very walls vibrate - and the floor and the doors. Suddenly he realized that it was not the singing that was causing the lantern above him to swing. It was an earthquake! The very foundation of the prison was shaken ...

2731. The Other Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... ’t forget the way the story began. It begins, “There was a man who had TWO sons.” It is interesting that Jesus then launches into this wonderfully redemptive story about the younger son who lost his way and came to himself. And, it seems to us an after thought for Jesus to suddenly shift the story to the older brother. Let’s take a look. As the elder brother is coming in from the fields after a hard days work, he hears a big celebration taking place and he’s puzzled. He stops a servant and asks ...

2732. The Prodigal Son

Luke 15:11-32

Sermon

Brett Blair

... did not listen, and Brady revealed that by the time he graduated from Lambuth, all of his parent’s money was gone. The prodigal thought that there would never be an end to the father’s money, but he found out differently. So now he ends up doing that ... that judgment is not real? No. One day there will be judgment. But for today there is grace. You know, when I was college age I thought that the worst thing that could happen to a person was to die. I have learned over the years that that is not so. There ...

2733. Make Way For Poets Of The Heart

Sermon

James Angell

... . One came for me on a fall afternoon in the 1960s when some members of my Lexington congregation and I visited a Trappist monastery to see what life is like as a monk. Coming out of the Reformed tradition which has no such orders, I never thought of life behind the walls as anything involving me personally. The silences. Rising at 2 a.m. to pray (after having gone to bed with the sun). A seeming disengagement from social suffering. Celibacy. For most of us, especially for non-Catholics, a strange world ...

2734. Welcoming The New Millennium

Sermon

James Angell

... solidarity. His mission accomplished, he met with a few local leaders the night before his scheduled return to the United States. They suggested a 5:30 a.m. "prayer meeting" as a send-off before catching his plane to fly out towards the morning sun. Blake thought it was a fine idea, though was surprised that the location for the gathering was an outdoor athletic stadium. He expected maybe two dozen to show up. That morning, as the sky began to change color, 9,000 Christians met to sing hymns and to express ...

2735. Benjamin: The Little Peoples Friend

Luke 19:28-38

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... a day it was. Benjamin would never forget what happened to him if he lived to be the only 100 year old donkey in history. From a place they called the Mount of Olives they went to the great city with the high wall surrounding it. This is Jerusalem. Benjamin thought. No doubt about it. And the people were so glad to see his rider. They threw their coats and scarves in his path so he hardly ever walked on a brick or a clod of dirt. They shouted "Hosanna, Hosanna, Blessed is the King who comes in the name of ...

2736. Confessional Services

1 Corinthians 11:17-34

Bulletin Aid

G. William Genszler

... Ten Commandments. Minister: In the Name of the Father, Sand of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Congregation: Amen. Minister: Let us pray. Almighty God, unto whom all hearts are open, all desires known, and from whom no secrets are hid: Cleanse the thoughts of our hearts by the inspiration of thy Holy Spirit, that we may perfectly love thee, and worthily magnify thy Holy Name; through Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen. Minister: Let us humbly kneel, and make confession unto God, imploring his forgiveness ...

2737. The Messiah For All

Ephesians 3:4-6

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... babies are now young adults or students. Today in every part of the world, those young adults are soundly rejecting the tired, old, stupid cliches of the tired, old, stupid, worn-out statesmen and militarists of the world, who haven't had an original thought in two thousand years. They no longer accept the inevitability of war. They no longer believe the scare warnings of the militarists. Thousands of them refused to take part in our last, stupid, illegal, immoral war in Vietnam that we got into by lies ...

2738. Whatever He Says - Do It!

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... is the other group that is hung up on the supernatural elements in the story. The account states flatly, of course, that this was the first of the miracles that Jesus performed. Oriented as he is in scientism, the mind of contemporary man revolts at the thought that God is making some unusual intervention into a lawful and an orderly universe. This they can't see as a possibility. They're perfectly willing to accept Jesus as a great prophet, as a great moral teacher, as a great leader in social reform, or ...

2739. Talk! Talk! Talk!

Jeremiah 1:1-19

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... some of them were from the Bible, and he seemed to enjoy showing how much Scripture he could quote at me, but I got sick of all of his talk. It was like he was reciting the Gettysburg Address in a classroom. He never really looked at me, like he thought I might have something to say in return. And, anyway, he doesn't act much like a Christian. I don't see much difference in him as I see him down here at the shop.' " I'm always suspicious of the magpie spiritual-life-expert who attempts to dissect the ...

2740. What Makes Us Human?

Isaiah 6:1-13

Sermon

Louis H. Valbracht

... that's the way he wants it to be. Hillary and his Nepalese guide, Tensing, were both asked how it felt to stand on the summit of Mount Everest. Said the westerner New Zealander, "Damn good!" But the Buddhist had a deeper insight. Said the Nepalese, Tensing, "I thought of God and of the greatness of His work. I have a feeling of making worship more close to Buddha god, not same feeling like English sahibs who say they want to conquer mountain. I feel like I make pilgrimage." And so the difference between two ...

2741. A Father Looks at His Son - Joseph and Jesus

Luke 2:21-40

Drama

Thomas Blowers

... at the side of his wife in a Bethlehem stable and helped her give him birth. It was I who watched as he grew from childhood into adulthood. When he laughed, I laughed too. When he cried, I cried with him. You must understand that for thirty-some years I thought about him night and day, as only a parent can think about his child. So whatever else history might say about him, whatever else might need to be said about him, I was his father and Jesus was my son. When he was little, I used to cradle him in ...

2742. Speak From Personal Experience

Matthew 6:25-34

Sermon

Robert V. Dodd

... for her, and when she returned, she asked, "Well, how did it go" "Just awful!" the coed replied, "I had to slap him six times!" "You had to slap him six times!" the roommate exclaimed, "What's the matter? Did he get fresh?" "No," the co-ed answered, "I thought he was dead." And I have preached in congregations like that, where I wanted to go around and slap a few faces - just to see if they were still alive. It is far easier to cast out the "demons" of negative opposition than to "resurrect the dead." After ...

2743. The Mote and the Beam

Matthew 7:3

Children's Sermon

Wesley T. Runk

... of those people who bugs us. You have to admit that splinter like this would make it pretty hard to see everything right, don't you? If that person made some mistakes with us it would be pretty easy to understand why, wouldn't it? I think so and Jesus thought so too. He said that people with splinters in their eyes were bound to make mistakes and they need help. But Jesus also said that before we can help the people with splinters we must first of all remove the board that is in our own eye. Wow, do you ...

2744. The Power Of God

Philippians 4:13

Illustration

Brett Blair

... the power of God at work in people's lives. She read Phil. 4:13, "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." While training, she listened for God. She thought as she was running in the dark at night: "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction about things not seen" (Heb. 11:1) She thought about her limited dreams, her inability to see beyond the obstacles of life. Faith, she said to herself, was running in spite of the insurmountable obstacles. As the NY Marathon began that ...

2745. The Role of the Father (Father's Day)

Matthew 7:7-12

Sermon

Brett Blair

... father cannot take the child to the mother. He must resolve the problem himself. If the child is given to the mother when it is crying, so the theory goes, that sends the signal that the one who gives the comfort and love is the mother. I have long thought that we have not given Joseph, Jesus’ father, his due in the church. There is so much of an effort to venerate Mary, and some of that is necessary. No one would deny that mothers are special but in the process of holding up Mary we almost ignore Joseph ...

2746. Building Barns, Postponing Life

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Brett Blair

... in life or we too might fall pray to the sin of thinking too highly of ourselves. III Third, this man was a fool because he forgot what his real business in life was really all about. This man thought that his business was about commodities and markets. Jesus thought in deeper terms. We are all familiar with Charles Dickens’s memorable novel “A Christmas Carol.” One scene particularly sticks out in my mind. Jacob Marley, Scrooge’s deceased business partner, visits him in a ghostly appearance one ...

2747. Historical Surprises

Luke 12:32-40

Illustration

William E. Keeney

... '60s. She was a rather inauspicious person to take such a critical action, but she was ready. Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life in prison. He was released to bring a shift in the politics of South Africa at a critical juncture when many thought either that change would never come or if it did, it would be accompanied by a vast bloodbath. The transition to a more just society came relatively peacefully under his leadership after he was unexpectedly released from prison. Prison had prepared him, made him ...

2748. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

... well doing. Fatigue can be faiths greatest enemy. The road for these Christians was turning out to be longer than they thought. There was a time when they ended up every one of their worship services with that marvelous word——Maranatha—Come ... robe as she said that. I’m hanging it up. What’s the matter with you, I asked. Well, she answered, this is my last Sunday. I thought that she was retiring from the choir. She had been in it about 30 years. No, she said, I’m not retiring I’m quitting. She ...

2749. Saving A Church

Hebrews 12:1-13

Sermon

2750. Full Barns and Empty Hearts

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Wallace H. Kirby

... could he want? What could possibly cause him any worry or anxiety? Edwin Arlington Robinson’s familiar Richard Cory is a latter-day portrait of our rich man: And he was rich - yes, richer than a king - And admirably schooled in every grace; In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. Having full barns alone doesn’t bring inward peace, nor does it fill the empty places of the heart. Do we ever really reach the point where we quit worrying about economic security ...

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