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2876. In The Beginning

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... what wasgoing on. The darkness fell away and God could see the mess now. It didn't go away! It kept on pummeling Him, but Hewas beginning to understand what was going on. "Hey, this is better. This is good." God was fascinated. In the dark, He was feeling lost,alone, almost out of it. In the light, He felt so muchbetter about what He was dealing with. He could begin topick out the currents and swells and eddies and tides in theswirling waters. "Just trying to get a hold of all this is wearing meout," God ...

2877. The Man Born Blind

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... speak in tongues become addicted because it is the only thing that they have going for them. And sometimes they make a big deal out of how much the Spirit gives them. And they can go on an ego trip. New Christians may come in looking for a place to feel important and so they buy into the ego trip. Do you follow me? Daughter: They can't make it at school or work so they try to become big in the church? Rabbi: The Church should always have room for strugglers, but the elders say the Spirit gives many gifts ...

2878. The Poor In Spirit

Sermon

John A. Terry

... ." The tragedy came not because he was wealthy. Wealth is ethically neutral. It was tragic because he was enslaved by the love of money. Instead of the way of the world which glorifies the lifestyles of the rich and famous, God singles out the ones who feel like losers, and showers grace upon them. Christ came to lift up the lowly, to claim them as God's beloved children and to transform them into God's faithful servants. The poor in spirit have a teachable spirit. They are receptive people who know they ...

2879. The Pure In Heart

Sermon

John A. Terry

... what to others was a horrible distortion. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. This is a wonderful promise, but it may also seem like the least accessible one of the beatitudes. We can be poor in spirit without wanting to be. We often mourn and feel meek. We can hunger and thirst for things to be right. We can act mercifully. But how do we go about being pure in heart? One pastor said that his reaction to this beatitude was not very positive. He said, "To tell me to be pure in heart seems ...

2880. The Peacemakers

Sermon

John A. Terry

... years ago when the war in Vietnam was raging, to talk about peace in the church inevitably led to conflict. In other days when we find our soldiers in battle, it will again be difficult for those in the church to work for peace. We often feel uncomfortable with the divisions peacemaking appears to cause. We are uncomfortable with charges of disloyalty to our nation as we try to speak on behalf of peace. The result is the cause of peace can suffer. We may become content with simply the absence of conflict ...

2881. Turning A Minus Into A Plus

Isaiah 40:1-31

Sermon

Harold Warlick

... people are still full of despair because joblessness is still here and they can't see a place waiting for them when they finish school. Quite often we tend to embellish our suffering condition and become more weary because we lose contact with our human history.[1] We feel cut off and separated. We can't pull back from life and reflect on the power of God. Our dreams become deferred through our failure to recognize the capacity of God to help us turn a minus into a plus. To regain a wholesome view of life ...

2882. Church As Redemptive Community

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... that. The problem is, of course, they were later to discover that although the Holy Spirit does bring a new dimension of sacrificial love, it doesn't immediately do away with selfishness and self-interest. Even the best of us are prone to feel the promptings of those lesser motivations. The Bible uses the word "sin" to describe this human characteristic. The time would come when a realistic appraisal of this well-intentioned style of life would necessitate a major adjustment to reality. In fact, we have ...

2883. Jesus: The Only Way To God?

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... when he frankly attributed his own changed life to the Holy Spirit. We can really intermingle several choices of words here: God's power, the Spirit of Jesus, the Holy Spirit. It comes from outside us as a gift. However self-sufficient any of us may feel in ordinary situations, we are not, ultimately, self-sufficient. We're not simply speaking about life after death when we speak of salvation. It refers to a quality of life here and now, something which begins as we accept its truth in our inner being. In ...

2884. Come Holy Ghost, Our Hearts Inspire

Acts 10:23b-48

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... play a part in that purpose. Until we discover our particular and individual role in that purpose, we are destined to live aimless lives, what Thoreau called "lives of quiet desperation." That's no way to live. It may bring passing pleasures but it cannot lead to a feeling of fulfillment. There are two dimensions to our lives in these terms. There's a general destiny of which each of us is to be a part. Saint Paul struggled with this. He wrote in Romans 8, "We know that all things work together for good for ...

2885. On Not Being First

Acts 1:12-26

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... us when we fall short? Of course it does. I suspect if Jesus could speak directly to our success-oriented generations, he would tell us to press on in our efforts to be successful -- provided that we do so in totally ethical ways and with sensitivity to the feelings of others. But therein lies a problem: for me to win (in the traditional sense), you have to lose. I think Jesus would tell us that God simply doesn't care one way or the other what honors we receive, how successful we are as the world measures ...

2886. The Sadness Of God

Isaiah 51:17--52:12

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... all unrighteousness." C. S. Lewis in The Case For Christianity wrote: "Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing, as far as I know, to say to people who don't know they've done anything to repent of and who don't feel that they need any forgiveness. It's after you've realized that there is a real moral law and a power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself in wrong with that power, it's after all that that Christianity begins to ...

2887. Rules For A Happy Life

Exodus 20:1-21

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... bottom-level job are exceedingly slim without a diploma. This will mean inadequate income, little job satisfaction, lost opportunities, and feelings of failure later on. How much wiser to hang in there. What about the couple rushing into marriage? Scott Peck ... lead me to do because I knew that's how they would act. What about you? Is what you're about to do something you could feel good about if one of these people were to act the same way? Would that person be proud of you? This is an excellent question to ...

2888. Written On The Heart

Jeremiah 30:1--31:40

Sermon

E. Carver McGriff

... another chance. But reality is, we keep a close eye on such a person and his or her reputation is never the same. Family. How would it feel to know that one of your parents or one of your children had cheated? Of course, that should not in any way reflect on you. And yet ... proud that their dad was a judge without also remembering that he was a crook. What a tragedy. Remorse. Not everyone feels remorse, of course. One suspects that the "remorse" of many dishonest people is sorrow at being caught, not at having ...

2889. No Particular Place To Go

2 Samuel 11:1-27

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... also drug addicts. His brother was serving time in prison. Lupe also has served time for his crimes. The only place Lupe felt love while growing up was with a local gang. "I knew I would die with a needle in my arm," Lupe said of his experience, feeling doomed with no way out. It was while Lupe was living in the streets that some people from a nearby church reached out trying to help him. They shared their stories with Lupe, telling him that they too were once addicts but now had turned their lives around ...

2890. Lasting Impressions

Sermon

Timothy J. Smith

... home for boys. "I was in McDonalds," John explains, "when this guy pulled his boy by the ear and was hurting him." John felt he had to do something to help the young boy. So John went up to the man and said, "Mister, you want to see how that feels?" The man immediately let go of his son's ear. Since John was nineteen-years-old he was concerned for the well-being of young children. John met a boy from the streets of New Orleans whose mother was a prostitute. The little boy was his mother's cash collector ...

2891. A Taste Of Life

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... you don't know how evil I am, otherwise you wouldn't forgive me so much." When my colleague expressed a bold word about how we are justified with God by grace through faith, the man replied, "You don't understand, Reverend. I come to church so I can feel guilty about my sins." Perhaps the man wishes every day was Maundy Thursday. I believe we need to affirm what the woman at that workshop said. We are God's Easter people. We are gathered, not by a single sinister episode from the story of Jesus, but by a ...

2892. A Blessing Behind Locked Doors

John 20:19-23

Sermon

William G. Carter

... support. Our gestures announce, "In the Risen Christ, God has stood for us, so today we stand with one another." Some time ago, there was a newspaper story about Ian O'Gorman, an 11-year-old boy who was undergoing chemotherapy. Ian wasn't feeling well. Doctors discovered a tumor and removed it. They prescribed chemotherapy. He lost his hair. His classmates at Lake Elementary School wondered what they could do for Ian. They thought about making a large get-well card, and inviting people to sign their names ...

2893. A Breeze In The Dark

John 3:1-21

Sermon

William G. Carter

... Divinity School for many years, once noted how instructive it is to realize how many of the men and women in the pews almost did not come to church that morning. "In all probability," he writes, "most of them feel that they are there under false pretenses, that everyone around them feels more confidently Christian, less restlessly rebellious than they do themselves."2 The story of Nicodemus is the story of someone who struggles to believe. If you met him on the street during the day, you probably wouldn't ...

2894. A Moment Of Decision

Mark 1:9-13

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... "Jesus was about thirty years old when he began his work" (3:23). Since life expectancy in the first century was barely forty, this was late in coming. Delays are difficult for us. We interpret God's delays as God's denials. There are those times when we feel that life has passed us by. Today, I simply want to indicate what this baptism meant to Jesus and what it implies for us who are committed to him. A Turning Point First, why was Jesus baptized? This moment was a turning point in Jesus' life. It ended ...

2895. The Power Of A Rumor

Mark 2:1-12

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... to death" when in fact you are being "rushed to life." Erroneously, the easy life has been characterized as one where you are never interrupted; you encounter no jostling crowds, no demands. If you land a job that requires little effort, you may be tempted to feel like you "have it made." A job that is not demanding, requiring little effort on your part, may be the worst thing that could happen to you. It would certainly be a detriment to your creativity and self-fulfillment. Wouldn't you hate to be the ...

2896. With Our Heads In The Clouds

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... the soil in your hands, planted a seed, or cared for a plant? I came across these specal words of Matthew Fox: From the first day I planted things in my front and backyard, I feel a kind of "hugging presence" when I go to bed at night, a mystery of embracing and of beauty and of "being loved" by a different species. I feel the same when I water them, a kind of reciprocal relationship. We are so far removed from the world of nature that people don't know the names of trees, plants, and birds anymore. They ...

2897. God's Disruptive Agenda

Matthew 1:18-25

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... Hymns Savior Of The Nations Come What Child Is This? Of The Father's Love Begotten Come O Precious Ransom The Bells Of Christmas Hail To The Lord's Anointed Advent 4 Decisions. Some face them.Others try to avoid them. Some feel better when decisions are made. Others feel best when options are kept open. Joseph faced a big decision. Full disclosure would result in divorce and possibly death for Mary. It would not keep. A decision had to be made. Joseph trusted you, Lord, and he believed Mary. His courage ...

2898. Passion Sunday

Matthew 26:57-68

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... the drama of Jesus' anguished quotation of Psalm 22 in v. 27:46 as his last word and the climax of the Passion account. Although some interpreters would argue that that Psalm, taken in its entirety, bespeaks faith rather than a feeling of abandonment, the single phrase "cried" from the cross clearly suggests otherwise, and underscores the paradoxical power of the whole event. Liturgical Color Red Suggested Hymns The Royal Banners Forward Go O Sacred Head, Now Wounded Sunday Of The Passion Lord, you ...

2899. The Creativity of Christ

John 1:1-18

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

... The Realms Of Glory It Came Upon The Midnight Clear Silent Night, Holy Night Angels We Have Heard On High Prayer for Christmas Day "Merry Christmas" just does not cover it, Lord. It is a good start, but it is not sufficient to express all of our feelings. How do you capture the essence of the story, the carols, the decorations, the joy of children, the broad smiles in one phrase? Holy Christmas? Wonderful Christmas? Blessed Christmas? It cannot be done! Let's allow the joy of this day to spill out over the ...

2900. I Want To Go South, Lord

Genesis 12:1-8

Drama

Jerry Eckert

... ! God: MAYBE SHE'S AFRAID ... LIKE YOU. (She's afraid? You've got to be kidding. What? Like me?) Abram: She's ... I'm not ... How did you know? I'm getting old. I feel so drab, so frumpy and lumpy. My friends all have nice houses and better stuff. Most of them don't speak to me and those that do always find ways to make me feel like I haven't done anything with myself compared to them. And I find it easy to agree with them! God: YOU'RE NOT A BLESSING. (Right. I'm not a blessing.) Abram ...

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