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2751. New Wine in New Wineskins

Mark 2:18-22

Sermon

Paul E. Flesner

... . In this event, God's powerful grace takes root in our life, even though it happens to most of us at a time when we do not realize what is going on around us. For those who are baptized at a later age, it is God's own Spirit who touches hearts and souls and calls repentant sinners who are tired of destructive living into a new way of living. Much has been made in our generation of our renewable natural resources. The wonder of our baptism is that it is a daily renewable resource. Every day is a new day ...

2752. Things That Make Jesus Angry

John 2:12-25

Drama

Angela Akers

... of coffee for personal assistant Spiritual dryness–measuring cup full of dirt Judgmental spirit–lemon, halved Selfishness and pride–squeeze bottles of mustard and ketchup Hypocrisy and hardheartedness–salt and pepper (Scene opens with makeup artist putting finishing touches on host’s face, producer scurrying around set yelling at people, personal assistant rushes over and gives cup of coffee to host.) Ivana: (yells at assistant) “I said ‘half-decaf,’ didn’t I? ‘Half-decaf’? How hard is ...

2753. Chosen

John 15:1-17

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... fishing buddies sitting around a campfire, "bonding" over their experience. One of the guys becomes quite emotional, moves close to another fellow seated around the fire, throws his arms around his friend, and chokes out the words: "I love you, man!" Instead of being touched, however, the friend is cautious. "That's great, man," he says, "but you still aren't getting my Budweiser!" Too often, love has been reduced to a device used to help us get what we want. The love for which Jesus has chosen us involves ...

2754. It's Happening!

Mark 4:30-34, Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... , but we always express thanks at home before we eat. The children continued it when we went to restaurants, so we just went along with it, and now it's our way." The woman who had come up to the table patted the little girl on the shoulder and, obviously touched, looked at the mother and said, "Don't ever stop. It means a lot to those around you." It seems like such a little thing, but it was a witness. The seeds of the kingdom are little, and we are called to scatter them. The seeds may be little acts ...

2755. Making Compassion a Verb

Mark 6:30-44

Sermon

David G. Rogne

... . The word "compassion" means to "suffer with." Throughout his ministry, Jesus involved himself in the sufferings of others. The passage we are considering reminds us that he fed the hungry, healed the sick, and taught the ignorant. He put his hand out and touched lepers. Even Sunday school children know the shortest verse in the Bible: "Jesus wept," which reminds us that Jesus not only saw, but entered into the sorrows of others. In his book The Human Comedy, William Saroyan noted: "Unless a man has pity ...

2756. A Landmark Event!

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Stephen M. Crotts

... , and present. It's been my experience that persons coming to the church have a problem in one of three areas. They've a struggle with the past and guilt, or a struggle with the future and fear, or a problem with the present and strength. The Gospel touches us in all three areas. Driving over here this morning, didn't you look into your rearview mirror? But did you not as well glance through the forward windshield? And I do so hope you enjoyed the view out the side windows. A safe driver looks all three ...

2757. The Dangerous Truth

John 18:28-40

Sermon

Cathy A. Ammlung

... :6). When the man gave excuses for why he'd never been healed by the pool's miraculous waters, Jesus healed him -- but promptly warned him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you" (v. 14). Touched by Jesus' truth, he then began to testify to Jesus' healing power. Nicodemus' encounter with Jesus was awkward: To an honest question, Jesus retorted, "Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?" (John 3:10). Pierced by that truth, and ...

2758. Bedlam or Bethleham?

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... -present reality, even at the manger scene! But salvation also implies "wholeness," a wholeness that includes our relationship with others as well as our affinity with God through Christ, our Lord. This emphasis is often either forgotten or unnoticed. A deeply suggestive touch has been given to the Christmas portrayal by a certain artist. He shows the shepherds on the hillside looking up into the heavens from which they hear the angelic chorus singing, "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good ...

2759. Who Can Ask for Anything More?

1 Corinthians 8:1-13

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... ? Do you have a Friend who walks beside you? Which one, close by you, needs a friend to stand with him/her in the storm? Can you conceive of the transformation that might occur in this congregation if each of us, including the one who speaks, were touched with the greatness of our need for one another? May the One who is both Friend and Brother of us all provide both inspiration and strength for us to demonstrate to all who observe us the same kind of compassion and brotherly affection that once prompted a ...

2760. What Are You Going to Do with My World?

1 Corinthians 9:1-27

Sermon

Fredrick R. Harm

... Jones tells how, when an epidemic swept though his district in India, he asked two Brahmin saints to leave their wayside meditations and join him in helping the diseased and dying. "We are holy men," they said, "we don't help anyone." Not so with one who is touched by the grace of Christ. He helps. He reaches out. He serves. He longs to share what he has found. Return to our text again. In the short space of five sentences, Paul repeats four words no less than five times: "That I may win." These four words ...

2761. What It Takes to Do the Job

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2

Sermon

Paul E. Robinson

... in our insides, in our relationship with God, that might have an impact on how we relate to the trials we face in the world? That could put a new spin on our Lenten journey, don't you think? Just a couple of days ago my wife and I were touched by a story in The Upper Room. It was written by John W. Warner from Texas. The scripture sentence he took as his text was 1 Timothy 4:12: "Set an example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith and in purity." This is what he ...

2762. Grace in the Midst of Weakness

2 Corinthians 4:1-18

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... home, if a ceremonially unclean animal like a lizard accidentally hopped into a clay pot -- even if it held every ounce of dinner -- there was no negotiating the next step. That pot itself was now ceremonially unclean, along with everything inside it. Everyone who touched it would become ceremonially unclean. Therefore it had to be broken -- never to be used again. It was unthinkable that a clay jar should be the container of anything worth keeping. Every time Christians gather to ordain a woman or a man to ...

2763. Grace in the Midst of Judgment

2 Corinthians 5:11--6:2, 2 Corinthians 5:1-10

Sermon

Glenn McDonald

... this file is empty. There is nothing written on it. Everything that was once recorded here has been erased." The digital age has introduced us to the amazing power of a tiny bit of real estate on the computer keyboard. It's the Delete key. With one touch of the keyboard we have the power to alter reality. For that matter someone else -- with a quick, mindless, and unintentional keystroke at the IRS or the county board of records, for instance -- has the power to alter my reality. It's as if the document or ...

2764. Lethal Weapon

James 3:1-12

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... weapon." We possess within ourselves a weapon against which there is little insurance others can take out. This weapon enables us to engage in moral hit-and-run tactics. With this weapon we can engage in the sabotage of helpless victims. Anyone we touch with this weapon is in great danger. It can kill spiritually, socially, and even physically. This weapon acts with deadly destructiveness. No age group is untouched, no character immune, and no life safe from it. This weapon is gossip. The little sing-song ...

2765. Come On Down

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... us and remind us that we are all sinners. Advent also answers the question, "How can we be saved?" The prophet reminds Israel and us that our own efforts to save ourselves leave us like a filthy rag, contaminated and impure, so awful that one dare not touch it. In our own strength we are like a fall leaf, faded and vulnerable, that will be blown away. How can we be saved? It is only through true confession and repentance, which are echoed in the Kyrie Elesion, "Lord have mercy upon us." From petition and ...

2766. First Light

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... ceased. Every day the baby was taken to the entrance of the mine so that all the miners could watch the baby's growth. The miners decided the entrance to the mine was ugly, so they planted a beautiful garden there. These hardened men loved to pet and touch the baby, but their hands were dirty. Soon the general store sold out of soap. Life in Roaring Camp had completely changed because of a baby. These hardened miners had given up their nasty, profane ways -- all for the love of a baby! The good news of ...

2767. How to Recognize a Prophet

Deuteronomy 18:14-22

Sermon

Curtis Lewis

... that he still owns a gold Nazi lapel pin. He tears it from his coat and cries painfully, "With this pin I could have ransomed two more Jewish lives." He stares at the pin in his hand and weeps! Itzhak Stern has observed this display of emotion. Stern touches Schindler and gives him a little piece of paper on which is written a Jewish proverb: "He who saves one life, saves the world in time!" The whole purpose of the message of the "ultimate prophet" was to save the world in time. The true prophet is Jesus ...

2768. Jesus Brings Us to New Life

Isaiah 25:1-12

Sermon

Richard Gribble

Pastor David Johnson was all prepared, he thought, for his Easter sermon. Having only graduated from the seminary three months prior to taking his present position at the MapleStreetCommunityChurch, he possessed all the latest and most interesting theology. He made the final touches to his sermon on Holy Saturday morning and outlined its content to his wife. He told her that his sermon was based on theology of Paul Tillich, who spoke of the resurrection as a symbol that the estrangement from our authentic ...

2769. The Reality of the Resurrection

Luke 24:36-49

Sermon

Brett Blair

... a reality. This is a plain story. Simple. To the point. Realistic. Not contrived to try and prove what happened. Look at some of the other realistic parts of the story. First they are startled and frightened. Then Jesus tries to calm them down. He invites them to touch him. You can put your hand through ghost but you can’t put your hand through flesh and blood. They examine the scars in his feet and hands. Secondly they still don’t believe. They are filled with too much amazement and joy. So he tries a ...

2770. Sowing Good Seed - Father's Day

Mark 4:26-29

Sermon

King Duncan

... of any parent is but a pale reflection of the love of God. God is the ultimate sower of good seed in our world. We would not even know how to love, if God had not first loved us. In his book, Disappointment with God, writer Philip Yancey relates a touching story from his own life. One time on a visit to his mother who had been widowed years earlier, in the month of Philip's first birthday they spent the afternoon together looking through a box of old photos. A certain picture of him as an eight-month-old ...

2771. A Forgiving Presence

John 7:45--8:11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... dried them with the hair of head, and anointed his feet with precious perfume that she had brought. Simon said to himself, “If this man Jesus knew who this was. If he was really a prophet, then he would know sort of person this is that is touching him. That she’s a sinner.” But Jesus knew what Simon was thinking, but he changed the focus from the woman to Simon himself. He confronted Simon with his own sin and then he announced unequivocally, “Therefore I tell you Simon, her sins which are many, are ...

2772. Servants Without Portfolio

Matthew 20:20-28

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... ’s healing hinges, but on Christ’s. And when he tells us to love our enemies, he gives along with the command the love itself.” You get the point. Shaped by the indwelling Christ, we’re given new eyes to see, new ears to hear, new hands to touch. This is ours, not because we try to imitate Jesus, but because we’re transformed. Literally transformed into living Christs by his spirit. Thus, we are given the will to be servants. The second signal we need to note in the call to be a servant is this ...

2773. Confession And Supplication

Philippians 1:1-11

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... said that the nuclear freeze issue centers in the fact that we may all be cremated equal. And a bumper sticker reminds us that if we see one nuclear war, we will have seen them all. Another serious issue that has been given a humorous touch is that of corporate scheduled prayer in public schools. Despite the defeat of the school prayer proposal in Congress recently, I’m told that some classrooms are sprouting this sign - In case of nuclear attack, the federal ruling against prayer in this building will be ...

2774. Christmas Is On Top Of A Steep Hill

Luke 2:21-40

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... far beyond my senseless struggles. A warm peace seemed to settle deep within me, filling the terrible emptiness of my life, driving out the self pity and self condemnation. My sins seemed to evaporate like moisture spots under a hot, bright sun. God was reaching down and touching me, a God who cared, a God who loved me, who was concerned for me despite my sins. Listen to this image now. Like a stricken child lost in a storm, I had suddenly stumbled into the warm arms of my father. Joy filled me, so intense ...

2775. A Star, A Stable, and A Song

Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

Maxie Dunnam

... answers. When we can’t pass on our feelings of patriotism, we sing a hymn, or we salute the flag and pledge our allegiance to it. When we’re unable to express in words our deepest devotion for the one we love must, we give a rose or we touch her hand, or in a simple glance of love, we communicate our devotion. So in talking about Christmas, we need to soar beyond the normal paths of human expression, but who is capable of it? The glorious narratives of the nativity cause us to think of wise men, angels ...

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