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2901. The State Of The Church

Matthew 28:16-20

Sermon

Robert Allen

... and the life." We must not hesitate either! We must lead people into the life of faith. This is not only the preacher’s task, but it is the responsibility of every Christian. This is the "rent" that all Christians pay; this is the continuing work of everyone who claims a faith in Jesus Christ. If there is any area in which we have failed, it is in this area of accepting our responsibility to lead others into the life of faith. Once, I was having lunch with a man whom I was attempting to convince to make a ...

2902. I Believe In Heaven

John 14:1-4

Sermon

Robert Allen

... words of the blacksmith, "He’s gone home." Yes, I believe in heaven! 1. I believe in a heaven of continued growth. 2. I believe in a heaven where we will be reunited with our loved ones. 3. I believe in a heaven that is our eternal home. You can claim this heaven as your own when you give your heart and life to Jesus Christ.

2903. The More Excellent Way

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Robert Allen

... ceremony and ignore it throughout the week. We cannot permit people to think we have the spirit of Christ within our lives when jealousy, and hatred, and greed, and arrogance, and rudeness, and unkindness, seem to be the dominant influences in our lives. We cannot claim to be followers of the carpenter from Nazareth when we do not have an active concern for the good of another person. In that beautiful hymn of love in 1 Corinthians 13, the Apostle Paul speaks of the method of excellence for the Christian ...

2904. Five Minutes After Death

Revelation 21:1-27

Sermon

Robert Allen

... thoughts of what will happen to us in the world to come, said: ... The eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God has prepared for them that love him ... (1 Corinthians 2:9) Instead of trying to claim any personal insight into what will happen five minutes after death, I want to lift up some of the great images of our faith. I. Five minutes after death there will be no more pain or sorrow or hurting. There will be grieving in the hearts and lives of ...

2905. Hector’s Case Against Christmas

Luke 1:26-38

Sermon

Erskine White

... games, fashion tips and the weather report ... everything except a story on the birth of God’s Son! To be fair, there was a small article on the back page of the Bethlehem Banner, right beneath the horoscopes. The headline read, "Local Girl Claims Virgin Birth," but the article went on to say: "Authorities believe that given the public backlash against the current epidemic of teenaged pregnancies, this is a case of a young girl trying to explain herself to her parents and her boyfriend." Satisfied by ...

2906. Is There Life After Christmas?

Luke 2:21-40, Isaiah 12:1-6

Sermon

Erskine White

... ! "He was in the world ... yet the world knew Him not. He came to what was His own, and His own people received Him not" (John 1:10-11). He was rejected then, and we who are His own people reject Him even now, as we restrict His claim upon our lives, as we keep our faith within manageable and reasonable limits, as we remain beholden to the world, using almost all of our time, our talents and especially our money for ourselves and not for Him. Today, we look at newborn babies and wonder what the future ...

2907. Break Through

2 Samuel 7:1-17

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... .1 In six days Christmas is upon us once more. Christmas is God’s affirmation that there is something about humanity worth saving and giving a most precious gift. It is the gift we call Emmanuel - God immanent - "God with us." It is a gift we can claim for ourselves every day of our lives and in every situation of life. Inwardly we confess our sophisticated skepticism that God could or would do such a thing. Perhaps we question that the God who enlisted a shepherd boy to be king, and who enlisted a young ...

2908. Just A Whisper

Isaiah 9:1-7

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... about Christmas; that we can once again tune the receptors of the spirit to the love of God. It is the message of Christmas that we need to be able to hear in the midst of our tragedies and trials, our struggles and shattered hopes. And if we can claim the gift of God’s love in those difficult times, then we really know what Christmas is all about. Nevertheless it is important for us to remember that Jesus, the sign of God’s love, does not banish our problems, but he does illumine them. Christ came into ...

2909. We Know Jonah

Jonah 3:1-10

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... to avoid that venture saying, "Oh God, I don’t want to do that," or "Don’t send me there. Not to those people." So often our prejudices stand in the way of our doing what God calls and prods us to do. Our more probable reaction is to just claim to be too busy, or allow inertia to be the pocket veto against our doing anything. Still as we try to escape it the call of God pursues us, and offers us another chance to go and show forth the very God of forgiveness and reconciliation and compassion that we ...

2910. Coming Down The Mountain

2 Kings 2:1-18

Sermon

Frederick C. Edwards

... own lives we come to a moment where we say, "Aha!" and realize that our spirit has been touched profoundly, perhaps by something we have read or heard, or a thought that suddenly becomes clear. Martin Luther King, Jr. underlined his impassioned message of civil rights claiming "I’ve been to the mountaintop." Wherever and whenever that high encounter with God took place in his life, it sent him back down into the cities and streets, into the ghettos and the poor rural areas. It sent him to city hall and to ...

2911. Judas

Luke 22:1-6

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... does not consist in the abundance of his possessions." I can remember those words now, but I did not follow them. Do you? Do you think that you are his faithful disciples because you go to church and rattle off a few prayers each day? When you claim to love Jesus, yet refuse to deny yourself any pleasure or comfort, while people around you are hungry or ill-clothed; when you keep giving only a fraction of the portion that God’s Word declares his people should offer, and the work of your church suffers ...

2912. Pontius Pilate - Adamant, But Acquiescent

Luke 22:66--23:25

Sermon

Carl E. Zahrte

... Creed that Jesus Christ, God’s only son, their Lord, suffered under Pontius Pilate. Yes, I am Pontius Pilate, the man who had the authority of Rome, and the armed might of a trained army, but the man who capitulated to an unruly mob in what some claim was the greatest miscarriage of justice the world has ever seen. Yes, I sent Jesus Christ to his death on the Cross, even though I knew that he was innocent of any crime deserving such inhumane treatment. Does that make me the worst scoundrel who ever lived ...

2913. Great Grace Was Upon Them!

Acts 4:32-37

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... to action. Now we really see the power of Easter, the presence of the Risen Christ. Hear again Luke’s description of life in that renewed congregation of believers: Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common. With great power the apostles gave their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them ... (vv ...

2914. Peter’s Second Sermon

Acts 3:11-26

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... of the Author of Life. But God reversed the evil act of the crucifixion by raising Jesus from the dead. And that brings us to the second point of Peter’s sermon. First this healing preacher makes the point that he is not the healer. Peter makes no claim for himself. He doesn’t ask for glory, not even for a contribution. The good preacher points people to Jesus Christ and to their own sickness. Now the blunt message of the second half of his sermon: "... I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also ...

2915. Christian Courage

Acts 4:1-22

Sermon

Durwood L. Buchheim

... sound louder in their ears than the voice of God." It was said of John Knox, the Scottish Martin Luther, "He feared God so much he never feared the face of any person." Peter, "full of the Spirit, full of courage," ends his bold sermon with this bold claim: "There is no salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among mortals by which we must be saved." (4:12) The well-known statement is worthy of a sermon in itself. The circumstances under which Peter gave it should clinch the ...

2916. Inspired Christian Life

1 Thessalonians 1:1-10

Bulletin Aid

James Wilson

... think we are out of touch if we have too much or too little, but what matters is we have Your Love. Thank You, Lord, and help us share Your Love. In Christ we pray. Amen. Prayer Of Confession Lord, too often we have let the daily matters of living claim so much of our attention we have neglected telling others about You. You help us cope with the good times and the hard times, but unless we share You how will others come to know. Forgive us, God, and help us to be more comfortable making it very clear that ...

2917. Dual Citizenship II - What Do We Owe To God?

Matthew 22:15-22

Sermon

Bill Bouknight

... need of MIFA is in their very attractive Exchange where people can purchase clothes and household goods at a very reduced price. Would you be willing to work a two-hour shift or a full day there, once a week or twice per month? Has the Lord nudged you to claim any of these ministries? If so, call our Missions office on Monday. If the Lord asks you what you are doing for the poor at our back door in Memphis, you should be able to give a specific answer. So, in conclusion, what do we owe to God? Our gratitude ...

2918. The King's Reception (What Are You Wearing to the Wedding?)

Matthew 22:1-14

Sermon

Brett Blair

... over for the higher things in life. And it is a mistaken notion to think that one must renounce business and family to follow God. Vows of poverty and celibacy for everyone is nowhere enjoined by Christ. All that is required is that we keep the claims of His Kingdom first in our lives. What is needed here is a right sense of value and a wise discernment. It was excessive preoccupation with business and family ties that kept these men out of the Kingdom. It was not the performance of necessary duties. Lets ...

2919. The Path of Maturity

Drama

William Grimbol

... too much ... way, way too much. You were such an idealist; I mean, You loved anybody and everybody, regardless of status or position ... regardless of role or rank ... regardless of color or religion ... regardless of sin or crime. As sensible religious folks, we claim to love these outcasts, but we are smart enough to not go near them, so we don’t get smudged or stained by their "loser" qualities, or by their flagrant flaws, or their massive mistakes. You, why You went right into their midst, right ...

2920. The Path of Dignity

Drama

William Grimbol

... and within the family, we must address the issues of pride - selfishness - the refusal to forgive, or be forgiven - the Demolition Derbies of jealousy and anger and hurt - our lack of awareness and attention to the wishes and needs and dreams of those we claim to love, and we must do so from the penetrating and piercing perspective of the Cross. Across the board, the Cross is the acid test of dignity, and the clear and ever-present reminder that dignity is earned only by those individuals ... families ...

2921. The Path of Creativity

Drama

William Grimbol

... in the healing powers of love ... to dream dreams that will build the Kingdom, and not dreams that construct an artificial Camelot ... to have a vision of a safer - a saner - a simpler world ... to reject bigotry ... to abhor idolatries ... to claim our failures and our flaws ... to embrace the evil of this world with a faith that believes that the Good will indeed emerge victorious ... to know that Death is ultimately defeated by lives that are lived with great strength ... focused priorities ... solid ...

2922. Seven Words to Us - A Good Friday Tenebrae Service

Drama

Douglas W. Orbaker

... me. Angry Thief: The Romans are the ones who are evil. Their evil justifies whatever we’ve done. Save yourself and us! Repentent Thief: The evil of the Romans doesn’t excuse my evil in stealing from them. Jesus, remember me. Angry Thief: And you claim to be the Messiah. This is some way to lead Israel. Save yourself and us! Repentent Thief: Maybe your kingdom really is different. Jesus, Remember me. Angry Thief: We trusted in you! You’re dashing our hopes, destroying our dreams. Save yourself and us ...

2923. Stewards and Our Gifts

1 Corinthians 12:12-31, 1 Corinthians 12:1-11

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... God gave the free gift of His son so we might have forgiveness and so we might have Him with us. He gave his son so that we might not be afraid to die and that we might be baptized and a part of this, his body, and family. Paul claims, first look at God’s grace toward us and then consider how graceful we ought to be toward each other. Iowa’s Music Man from Mason City, Meredith Willson, used to love to tell the story about a band whose music so pleased a king of long ago that he ...

2924. Stewards of Our Money

Mark 12:41-44

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... and accumulate wealth. In some demonic way, the more we get, the more we want. The more we get, the more we worry about keeping it. The more we get, the more we worship it rather than God. A June 11, 1984 article in The Des Moines Register claimed that a sixteen-year-old orphan had found a vinyl bag beside the railroad tracks near his home in Hollywood, Florida. It contained 116 pieces of jewelry valued at between $400,000 and $600,000. The Florida "finders keepers" law provides that if an owner of lost ...

2925. Stewards of Life, Death, and Beyond

Matthew 6:19-24

Sermon

Jerry L. Schmalemberger

... us the ability to conceive and bring into the world a new person. We have the privilege and stewardship of being able to plan safely when we conceive to bring a new human being into this creation. Christians ought take very seriously that stewardship of conception. We have claimed all along that every child born has a right to be a wanted child. Christ-like kindness for children means we must plan carefully for family and be sure of quality of life as well as quantity of life. I guess you could call me "pro ...

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