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2901. Choose To Be Chosen

Mark 6:7-13

Sermon

George W. Hoyer

... warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" (Matthew 3:7). Let him who thinketh he can bat 300 take heed lest he striketh out. The rules are by God. And by God and only by God are we rated. So this matter of being chosen is of eternal concern to every man, woman, and child. Think seriously then about what a blessing it is to be chosen by this God with whom we have to do. Consider the twelve, the chosen twelve, fisher folk, a tax man, no one exceptional. What made them special was that they were chosen ...

2902. A Taste Of Life

Mark 14:12-26

Sermon

William G. Carter

... , "I'm not sure what you are asking." She clarified the question. "Christians are Easter People. We celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So why do we observe Maundy Thursday?" I asked, "Do you have a problem with the death of Jesus? Or do you have concerns about the trial and crucifixion and all of that?" "No," she said, "Good Friday is essential to the story. You can't celebrate the resurrection if nobody died. Jesus died; and his death holds great significance. No, what I want to know is why most ...

2903. When We Feel God Has Moved And Left No Forwarding Address

Job 23:1--24:25

Sermon

Zan W. Holmes

... acting very strangely. As he moved along a tree-lined sidewalk he was darting around and behind the trees as if he were hiding from someone. He would pause for a moment behind each tree or bush before quietly moving ahead. When I recognized him, I became curious and concerned, so I called his name. When he heard me calling his name he turned to face me and put his fingers over his lips signaling me to be quiet. He quickly rushed over to me and said, "I know you're wondering why I'm acting so strangely, but ...

2904. A Voice Crying In The Wilderness

John 1:1-18, John 1:19-28

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... the status-quo like the rest of the people. Strange in that they are not willing to overlook inconsistencies and injustices as most people are willing to do. Strange in the sense that they seem overly conscientious with a keen sense of compassion and concern. There is a tendency to ignore the prophets because they make us feel uncomfortable, and by ignoring them, we hope they will go away. At times, we have taken more drastic measures, by stoning the prophets, in hopes of silencing their voices. After the ...

2905. Pass It On

John 1:43-51

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... Messiah. But Nathanael was skeptical. He was probably skeptical for several reasons. William Barclay has pointed out that there was nothing in the Old Testament that suggested the Messiah would come from Nazareth (John, Vol. 1, p. 78). As far as Nathanael was concerned, Nazareth was not the kind of place where anything good was likely to be found. There is no doubt that Nazareth was quite an undistinguished place. But Philip did not agree with Nathanael. He merely said, "Come and see." Nathanael, because of ...

2906. With Our Heads In The Clouds

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... the clouds, enclosed in our own little world and losing sight of the larger world, and sleep through great events. How many times are we preoccupied with our own self-importance? We become the prisoners of our own little world of trivialities. We have little concern in caring for the environment because we have lost touch with nature. We find that our lives, for the most part, have little contact with nature, the soil, trees, and animals. We are not really aware of the larger world around us. How long has ...

2907. God Is Down To Earth

John 1:1-18

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... the people loved about Lincoln, was his down-to-earth nature. He identified with common people. He was approachable. Carl Sandburg, in his biography of Lincoln, tells how on certain days each month the people were invited to the White House to bring their concerns to the President. The people came because they were convinced that their president cared about them. It was Lincoln who said, "God must have loved the common people, because he made so many of them." Above all he was approachable and had time for ...

2908. The Highest In The Lowest

Luke 2:8-20, Luke 2:1-7

Sermon

John A. Stroman

... about that person. They are convinced that people from certain locations, races, cultures, or backgrounds are all alike and that no one of any importance can come from those kinds of roots. We have heard it all before, haven't we? As far as Jesus is concerned, they had the facts on him, but they did not really know him. That day in Nazareth they stumbled over the truth because it appeared so ordinary, so obvious and familiar. Fred Craddock tells how, upon the death of a saint, those who visited his home ...

2909. Easter Consecration

John 17:6-19

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... power to get us into difficulty with God and with one another. The devil aims to destroy our relationship with God by making us believe that God cannot be trusted. The devil does exactly the same thing with human relations. All reports and statistics concerning family life in our day relate over and over again how difficult human relations are in every area of life. One reason for failure in human relations is due to the fact that people are put in opposition to one another by indifference and distrust ...

2910. Clean House

John 2:12-25

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... popular book, The Man Nobody Knows, used the story to demonstrate how virile the Lord Jesus was. He surmised that the Lord Jesus was capable of herculean strength and prowess because of his outdoorsy lifestyle and vigorous walking missionary tours. However, others have been concerned that this public demonstration which had all the earmarks of a near riot was most unbecoming of the normal life style of Jesus. Also, if this were a pique of temper, could not someone accuse Jesus of being guilty of a sin which ...

2911. The Sponge And Wine

Mark 14:1--15:47

Sermon

Harry N. Huxhold

... of our approval of those efforts, we should be all the more sensitive to the manner in which the evangelists relate that attention that was given to sedate our Lord for his crucifixion. A Routine Courtesy While the evangelists give us some details concerning the passion of our Lord, more than any other portion of his mission and ministry, by today's standards we have sparse information. What we do have, then, is all the more important. The fact that each evangelist mentions something about the sedation ...

2912. Christ the King

Matthew 25:31-46

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes Whether "the least" of the "brethren" (vv. 40, 45) meant specifically the disciples who were to be received as envoys of Jesus or more generally the outcast and oppressed for whom Jesus consistently showed concern is a matter of dispute. In either case, however, it is clear that those who wind up on the eschatological "King's" right hand (or "good side," in today's parlance) and inherit the "Kingdom" are those who not only are righteous, but act righteously (i.e., compassionately) toward those ...

2913. The Inner Demands of God's Law

Matthew 5:33-37, Matthew 5:31-32, Matthew 5:27-30, Matthew 5:21-26

Bulletin Aid

Dennis Koch

Gospel Notes Here begins the section of Matthew's version of the Sermon on the Mount that contains the so-called "antitheses" of Jesus concerning the Law. Having asserted that he has come to fulfill rather than abolish the Law and the prophets, Jesus proceeds to quote the Law ("You have heard it said ...") and then to intensify it ("But I say ...") by extending its purview to cover inner motivation. The first antithesis, contained in ...

2914. The Bearable Lightness of Grace

Matthew 11:25-30, Matthew 11:1-19

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Dennis Koch

... more depressed we become. Oh, there are moments when we are free, when we experience peace and joy. Then we allow ourselves to slip back into the same old frame of mind. This happens over and over. Your invitation is clear: Come! Rest! Lord, lift us out of our self-concern and focus our attention upon your word of life. Help us to find rest for our souls. Amen.

2915. Christ the King

John 18:28-40

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RobertT D. Ingram

... to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice. Introduce the gospel lesson with this information about the context. Our gospel lesson this morning comes from a longer narrative in John's gospel where Pilate interrogates Jesus concerning the charges that the religious leaders have brought against him. Jesus has already been before the religious leaders who had sentenced Jesus to death, even before he had been arrested. Because they have no authority under Roman government to execute ...

2916. Joseph's Pit

Genesis 37:1-11

Sermon

Jerry Eckert

... turned my stomach. "How could you be so ungrateful," he cried. "I'll take the guilty one and make him my slave!" The brothers dissolved in frustration and anger. Their youngest brother, Ben, hadn't been released by Jacob, their father, except for dire concern: hunger. Judah, speaking for the brothers, offered himself in place of Benjamin. He told of how the death of another brother, Joseph, long ago had nearly killed their father. This would surely do it, if Benjamin were imprisoned in Egypt. As Judah spoke ...

2917. The Poor In Spirit

Matthew 5:1-12

Sermon

John A. Terry

... we are doing wrong, but inviting us into the kingdom. "How blessed are those who know their need of God." (NEB) "Fortunate are the humble in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven." (Anchor) "Happy are those who are humble, who are not over-concerned with their importance, for they have God's approval." "Happy are those who realize their spiritual poverty: they have already entered the kingdom of Reality." "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (RSV) 1. Dante, The Divine ...

2918. The Righteous

Psalm 107:1-43

Sermon

John A. Terry

... thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. Jesus did not say, "Blessed are the righteous. They have all the virtue they need." That is like telling students they have learned all they need to know. They will stop studying. Jesus was concerned that we are personally righteous. Our behavior and attitudes are important. Righteous living is important just as righteous living is dangerous. Once the great British preacher Charles Spurgeon received a letter from a man who declared that if he did not ...

2919. Peter's Confession, Christ's Prediction

Mark 8:27-30

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... itself ... The resurrected Jesus, we shall see, never makes an appearance in the Gospel of Mark ... Discipleship is not derived from the glorified Jesus ... For Mark, to be a Christian means to follow Jesus on his way; to drink the cup of suffering; to be concerned with the salvation of others, and less -- if at all -- with one's own life and well-being.2 Homiletical Directions There are a great many preaching possibilities for these two Sundays. During Lent it would be well to put the emphasis on Jesus ...

2920. Feeding the 5000

Mark 6:30-44

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Richard A. Jensen

... become especially important in light of Jesus' conversation with his disbelieving disciples in 8:14-21. Story Three can be a telling of the institution of the Lord's Supper from Mark 14. An important link between these bread stories is the reality that Jesus is concerned with our whole being. The Lord's Supper stands among us as a symbol that Christ is a Shepherd who feeds us body and spirit. The physicality of the bread in the supper needs to be linked with our need for physical bread. The bread and ...

2921. The Servant of All's Second Prediction

Mark 9:14-32, Mark 9:33-37

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Richard A. Jensen

... (Mark 14:29-31, 66-72). Nevertheless! Nevertheless, the Risen Jesus sends word for Peter and the others to meet him in Galilee as he had promised. (See Mark 14:28; 16:7.) The concluding verses of today's text show Jesus in dialogue with the disciples concerning their "glory thinking," i.e., which one of them is the greatest. "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all" (Mark 9:35). Jesus goes on to say to them that the kingdom of God is about welcoming children. In ancient culture ...

2922. Outsiders and Insiders: A Gospel Surprise

Mark 9:38-41

Sermon Aid

Richard A. Jensen

... following Jesus' second "passion/resurrection" prediction it is noted that the disciples did not understand; they were afraid to ask (Mark 9:32). In the next verses the disciples are thinking about glory even while Jesus seeks to teach them about the cross. Their concern is only with themselves. "Who among us is the greatest?" is the best they can do after hearing Jesus' second "passion/resurrection" prediction (Mark 9:33-34). Today's text picks up at this point. The disciples have heard Jesus say that the ...

2923. Parables of Growing Seeds

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

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Richard A. Jensen

... proclamation and hope. That is how we shall treat them. Homiletical Directions Let's make this Sunday the time to begin to unfold the riches of the Parable of the Sower. You may wish to refer to the previous chapter to call some of these riches to mind. Of most concern is the overall context of the Markan story through Mark 4:34. Mark chapters 2 and 3 are filled with stories of the rejection of Jesus. That can be Story One for this week's sermon. We don't need to tell all the stories in these chapters. Tell ...

2924. Hearing the Difficult News

Mark 9:30-37

Bulletin Aid

Robert D. Ingram

... be substituted to fit the context.) Leader: Jesus said, "Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all." Congregation: Lord, teach us how to be servants. Greeting Leader: There were times that Jesus took his disciples aside, away from the concerns of the crowds, in order to teach them how to be his disciples. Congregation: Today is one of those times. Leader: Yes, Jesus has brought you here so that you can learn to be his disciples. Congregation: God, grant us ears that hear, hearts that ...

2925. Taking Christ's Side

Mark 9:38-41

Bulletin Aid

RobertT D. Ingram

... .) Drama and Movement Ask a few clowns in the congregation (the kind with greasepaint on their faces, not the jokers) to prepare a skit on verses 38-41. Clowns could have a lot of fun with the jealousy of the disciples. They become concerned that someone is working miracles in Christ's name but is not following their orders. The person performing the miracles might even be portrayed as a person from another denomination of the Christian church. Mimes could provide an interpretation to accompany the reading ...

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