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2826. About Work

2 Thessalonians 3:1-5

Sermon

King Duncan

... called certain captains of industry, "the hit men." For example in early 1996 Robert Allen of AT&T laid off 40,000 people, while retaining his own salary of $3,362,000. While Edward Brennan was CEO at Sears, he drew a salary of $3,075,000 and was responsible for 50,000 layoffs in January of 1993. In August 1995 Walter Shipley at Chemical/Chase Manhattan laid off 12,000 people and that year took home a salary of $2,496,154. (1) There is something wrong with that picture. I'm not pretending that everything in ...

2827. Good Neighbors

Luke 10:25-37

Sermon

King Duncan

... a fellow Jew, badly beaten and nearly dead. If a Samaritan had been the victim of the robbers, they might have justified their negligence, since most Jews did not regard Samaritans as neighbors. Their only responsibility under some interpretations of the law was to love other Jews--just as some Christians only feel responsible for other Christians. But this man lying beside the road was their neighbor. And they knew it, but they still passed him by. These two religious men may have been real stars in the ...

2828. Standing Outside Graceland

Romans 3:21-31

Sermon

King Duncan

... test. They went through the review, most of it right on the study guide, but there were some things the teacher was reviewing that this student had never heard of. When questioned about it, the teacher said that this material was in the book and they were responsible for everything in the book. The class couldn't really argue with that. Finally it was time to take the test. The prof instructed the class to leave the exam booklets face down on the desk until everyone had one and then he would tell them to ...

2829. The Divine Family

Genesis 1:1-2:3

Sermon

King Duncan

... two young men who were toying with doing something wrong that would be disapproved of by their Dads. One of them finally decided he could not go along. The other young man asked sarcastically, "Are you afraid your dad will find out and hurt you?" Quietly the response came, "No, I'm afraid he will find out and it will hurt him." There is something healthy about that. Every young person needs to know that his or her parents are not perfect, but they also need to know that our lives are centered and grounded ...

2830. Yes, But How?

Romans 7:7-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... behind me, Satan?' asked the husband. "I did," was the answer, "and he told me that it looked great from back there, too." Satan gets blamed for a lot of things, but you and I have to take ultimate responsibility for our lives! When we yield control of our lives it does not mean that we give up responsibility. We are still accountable, even though we are only human. It is a glorious thing to be human. It means that God has placed all things under our feet. It means that God allows us control over our own ...

2831. Formula For A Glowing Face

Romans 12:9-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... An advisor once urged Abraham Lincoln to give a friend of his a post in the cabinet. But Lincoln refused. "Why?" asked the advisor. "Because I don't like the man's face," was the reply. "But the poor man isn't responsible for his face," said his friend. And the President said, "Every man over forty is responsible for his face." (1) You can tell a lot about a person from his or her face. I think we'd all rather be around a person who smiles all the time, rather than around one whose face is always drawn into ...

2832. Receiving Christ

Matthew 10:1-42

Sermon

King Duncan

... kind of emotional experience? Well, emotions are involved always. But it's more than a feeling. Feelings can be misleading. II. Receiving Jesus Begins with the Mind. Receiving Jesus begins with the mind. Do you have a philosophy of life that is satisfying and responsible? Some people, when it comes to religion, feel that they must park their brains at the door. And in this post-modern world the word philosophy has come into disfavor. But there are some issues you need to settle in your own mind and ...

2833. The Sower and the Seed

Matthew 13:1-23

Sermon

Brett Blair

... as though God is a very frugal farmer. After all, most of the seed that is strewn about never takes root. But this is not really a story about the sower or the seed. It is a story about different types of soil, or to put it another way, the responses of different types of people to the Kingdom. The question is really, what is the state of our hearts when the seeds are sown with us? With that in mind, let us examine the various conditions of the heart mentioned in this story. I. The Hardened Heart The first ...

2834. Witness to the Light

John 1:1-18

Sermon

King Duncan

... not the light; he came only as a witness to the light.” Light has come into our world in Jesus of Nazareth. The tenth man has come down into the pit of our darkness to deliver us from hopelessness and despair. What is the proper response to the coming of that light? First of all, it is to open ourselves and receive the light. Pastor Earl Palmer of the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley tells about Rembrandt’s painting called The Adoration of The Shepherds. “This is Rembrandt’s interpretation of ...

2835. I Say, Rejoice!

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... said that it is not what happens to us that matters in life, but how we react to what happens to us? For example, we say, “You make me so angry.” The truth is that you don’t have the power to make me angry. I make myself angry in response to what you have done. Paul is saying that we cannot allow our external environment to determine our internal joy. How do you rejoice when people are hurling insults at you and you are suffering physical abuse? To do that, you have to see the big picture. You have to ...

2836. To Care for the Earth

Leviticus 25:1-7

Sermon

Edward Inabinet

... . A better quality of life--which all of us desire--demands more and more of our earth. Is there any hope of achieving a balance between human need and environmental protection? The answer is yes, there are some things we as Christians can do as responsible stewards of God''s earth. One, we can help change the way people think about our world and its resources. People will not do things differently until they see things differently. We are God''s creatures. He made us all and loves us with an infinite ...

2837. Hope in the Shadows

Mark 13:1-31

Sermon

Darrick Acre

... He is the greater reality in life, not our shadows. His coming dispels shadows, picks up broken pieces, and makes things new. We watch with anticipation. We watch because our hope is in Him, and we know He won’t disappoint. We watch knowing all our responsibilities are taken care of in anticipation of His coming. We watch obeying and serving, stewarding and honoring. We watch excited and ready to burst out the door. We watch up on tippy toes looking out the window of the future. Jesus has come, is coming ...

2838. In the Meantime: Between the First and Second Comings

Isaiah 2:1-5

Sermon

David Busic

... day, but do we “sit” and wait? Or do we wait with hope, a hope that brings a bit of that new future into our here and now? What is our responsibility as persons who have already, but not yet participated in God’s Kingdom of peace and unity? The question is not, what is easier. The question is, what is our responsibility? The history of the Holiness Movement evidences a very different approach than disengagement. Holiness folk in the 19th and early 20th centuries were right in the middle of causes for ...

2839. Jesus: The Life of the Party

John 2:1-11

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... was in all of this. Another legend says that he had already died by this time, and that may be the reason why Jesus stayed at home so long - perhaps until He was thirty years of age or so - carrying on the family business, fulfilling the responsibility of the first-born Son. So it might have been the wedding of one of Jesus' brothers or sisters. The most radical suggestion about the wedding at Cana comes from a Presbyterian writer named William Phipps who asks us to consider the possibility that Jesus ...

2840. On Doing the Truth

John 3:14-21

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... a glass of milk.” “One hot dog, coming up,” said the waitress and sailed off toward the kitchen. The boy turned to his parents said, “Gee, Mom, she thinks I’m real!” Well, our children are real. Sometimes they are real headaches, but always a real responsibility, and always worth considering as real persons with real lives of their own. One reason that we are real is because God thinks we are real. He created all of us to be His children. We are made “in God’s image” as Genesis so quaintly ...

2841. The Devil Is a Liar

John 8:42-47

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , and at the same time to believe in the New Testament world of demons and spirits.” (“New Testament and Mythology” in Bartsch, Hans Werner, Ed., Kergyma and Myth: A Theological Debate, London: S.P.C.K., 1957, p.4) To which the only proper response is... “Oh???” ( One of the best recent critiques of Professor Bultmann’s rather naive world-view which allows no place for miracles, spirits, or demons is to be found in the book by John Meier I cited previously, especially pages 520-521) One need ...

2842. Life Begins at Thirty-Eight

John 5:1-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... of ourselves, but in thinking too lowly. Our major sin is not pride, not in trying to become more than we were created to be; but rather sloth, the unwillingness to be all that we are capable of being. Humanity’s besetting sin is shrinking from responsibility. In his book with the provocative title, On Not Leaving it to the Snake, Harvard theologian Harvey Cox said, “the Gospel is first of all a call to leave the past behind and open ourselves to the promise of the future. I believe that a careful ...

2843. Only the Neighbors’ Kid

John 6:25-59

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... with a community of love and forgiveness, that they may grow in their trust of God, and be found faithful in their service to others. We will pray for them, that they may be true disciples who walk in the way that leads to life. That is the newer response in the United Methodist hymnal, and it is good as far as it goes. But I must confess that I still like the older form of the service which is in the newer hymnals as an option, and which requires the parents and sponsors of baptized children to pledge ...

2844. The Saint without a Name

Luke 6:12-16

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... That got my mind to thinking. God has a nick-name, too: “Abu Jesus” (or in the Arabic, “Abu Issa”). Our God is “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” That character which we see in Jesus is reflected in God. What a revelation! But what a responsibility, also, for we carry a royal name. We are children of that kind of God, and what we do and say reflects upon the God we claim to believe in and worship. In a mystical book written around the year A.D. 500, the ancient author attributes the ...

2845. Jesus and the Baptists

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... are two reasons, mainly: one is tradition. This is the way that the majority of Christians have done it for twenty centuries. That’s not a bad reason, but the second reason is better: it preserves the Gospel insistence that God’s grace comes prior to our response. The child has done absolutely nothing to merit the Sacrament. Thats just the point. The Good News of the Gospel is not that we have decided for God, but that God has made a prior decision for us. As William Willimon says, “At baptism we are ...

2846. Jesus Came Preaching

Mark 1:14-15

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... News, it allows us to hear from the historic community of faith, it introduces us to the Word become flesh, it tells us the way things are, it offers a doxology to God, and creates the church and sends it into the world. Whew! That is some responsibility to place on the shoulders of preaching! But they are able to bear it. And have done so. Herman Melville in his classic Moby Dick gave what is perhaps the highest estimate of preaching ever written.He said: “The pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part ...

2847. On Claiming One’s Inheritance

Mark 10:17-31

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... , “Yes, we do. Every Sunday. Only now we call them the Offertory!” I wasn’t being entirely facetious. It is a solemn and sacred moment when we lay on the altar our tithes and offerings as symbols of our very lives, laid on the altar of God’s love, in response to God’s love for us in Christ. And God is pleased to accept us, “Just as we are.” What was Miss Elliott’s hymn? You know it. It begins this way: “Just as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou ...

2848. Are We Able?

Mark 10:35-45

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... faith. Let us not point the finger unless and until we are willing to take the road they eventually took - the road of costly discipleship. David Read says: “The more I ponder it the more sure I am that these two disciples were right in their response and that our inclination to dismiss them as a couple of brash, boastful young men derives from our own unwillingness to commit ourselves, from the lack of nerve that has been paralyzing the Church today. Aren’t most of us so conscious of our shortcomings ...

2849. Opposite the Treasury

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... and left us a gift: Jesus Christ. He died to leave us the greatest gift we can possibly imagine: salvation and eternal life. The problem is: what are we doing with our lives in response to that gift?” That was the question he left with them, and I leave with you this morning. What are we doing in response to God’s greatest gift of Himself in Jesus Christ, our Lord? I conclude with a prayer which was published originally by Michael Patison in LUTHERAN STANDARD magazine. In it the writer prays: “Lord ...

2850. The Unfinished Story

Mark 16:1-20

Sermon

Donald B. Strobe

... professor who gave his students a chance to evaluate his course. A dangerous thing to do. One of them said, “I LIKE the course but I feel very strongly that the professor puts too much responsibility for learning on the STUDENTS.” The educators among us can appreciate that. Well, Jesus has placed the responsibility for carrying on His work squarely in the hands of His students...His disciples. There is an old story that has circulated for many years now. You may have heard it. It seems that after ...

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